Guild Wars 2

I was lucky enough to buy a lot of the giant wintersday gifts when they spewed out charged quartz crystals, enough to finish my celestial set, and have had some pretty good success in WvW using it. Relatively high condition damage and power stats allow me to be effective against most builds, condi clear builds are still hurt by direct damage and toughness builds get smacked by my conditions. You really are setup to fight almost any other build.

Stats – Full bloodlust stacks and food
2999 Attack
43% Crit chance
61% Crit damage
1056 Condition damage
2695 Armour
19622 HP
654 Healing power
20% condition duration.

Build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqae3zSfF17ISIFS49B6helXj4HFyFbB-jUCBoeBkgAkqAI5rIas12FRjVVTIV3LyqkYeeRWGA91A-w

Gear
Armour: Full celestial with 6x superior rune of antitoxin.
Trinkets: Full celestial
Weapons: Pistol- Superior sigil of earth, Shield- Superior sigil of bloodlust

Traits
20: III, IX
30: IV, VI, XI
20: V, VIII
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0

Utilities
Healing turret: Provides some condi clear and can blast a second time with shield
Slick shoes: IMHO one of the best skills engineer has. Can stop rush zerkers dead in their tracks, ruins thief bursts etc.
Bomb kit: Works best for this build, 2k+ crits and a lot of condition application synchronises well.
Elixir S: Stealth allows for surprise attack, good for stopping bursts
Supply Crate: all others are useless

Poison dart volley on pistol can hit around 2-3K+ depending on crits, Explosive shot hits for around 400-700, same for static shot. Combining this raw direct damage with condition damage results in some pretty high sustained dps. The hardest fights are with PU mesmers and I generally lose due to attrition.
If you’re an engineer looking for a new WvW build that utilises all the damage then you have to give this a try, you won’t be disappointed.

Anarchy.9703:

Arius.7031:

I gave the example of a 3v3 against BS which won in AR bl just a couple days back. Another example would be numerous roaming fights we’ve had over the last few days with a particular human warrior, who runs EVERY TIME he starts to die. He’s out, no matter what. That occurred earlier today, though he didn’t escape.

Another point to bring up is that “fair” doesn’t directly equate to = in number. We may outnumber you, but that only means it’s unfair numerically. Tell me, is a guild zerg of 30 outmatched by a pug zerg of 40? Is that an unfair fight? Numerically, yes, but overall, no (the opposite, it’s unfair to pugs).

I don’t think there’s a single BS warrior that would lose in a fair fight. Fight night kinda showed that. Nice try though. Perhaps you might be mixing things up as you have in the past?

I’m flattered you think that our skill balances out the numerical factor of being outnumbered 2-3x our size, though.

I’ve killed multiple BS warriors, Might’ve been the same one over and over but it definitely was more than 1 time.

Jorek I think what we should take from BS’s crying is that they are scared of our pug zergs. I find that hilarious, a whole co-ordinated guild zerg vs random pugs who don’t even listen to /say chat commands and they claim skill when they win or run.

To add to jorek’s post above: BS you cry for ages about an ANBU thief being a coward and then one of yours goes and backstabs people during duels. Absolutely pathetic.

Slick shoes. Ultimate win. Thieves love to attack from behind so dropping an aoe knockdown behind you ruins them.

Ezrael.6859:

Who’s the Darkhaven General, an Engineer wearing purple from [SotG].

The one that stands within range of 5 guards, or with 9 allies right behind him and won’t come forward for a 1v1. Just stands and /laughs.

The one that /laughs when he’s 10m from his own gate and castle and won’t come to 1v1 a solo Guardian with 300 ping, no allies behind, no guard or gate within 1000m.

I dare you to come 1v1, that means just you, no allies and no running back in range of guards during the fight.

I dare you to come and actually see a 1v1 through.

It’s a video game, dying means nothing. Stop running away, stop /laughing, you embarrass yourself as you don’t have the courage to even 1v1 in a game.

You can ask your mum to contact the doctor and get you a prescription for some testosterone injections if you really don’t have the stones for it.

You’re that berserker guardian right? The one who would bait people back to the sentry guard? The one who I beat atleast twice in a 1v1? The one who stood on the wall of anz and /laughed himself? The one who ran back into the tower when it was a fair 6v6? Seriously, don’t talk kitten when you ain’t perfect. PM me anytime for another duel

Warjin how many hours have you racked up on an engineer? What kinds of gameplay are you doing? Just saying it’s bad without giving context isn’t constructive at all. The engineer class has a high skill cap but what you can do once you reach that point is amazing. No other class besides elementalist (and maybe guardian) compares to the ability an engi has to support his/her team and apply strong control/dps at the same time. Thats the exact reason I recently fully geared my engi in celestial, best idea I ever had. You try to say that engineer has no direction but you fail to see that the direction is entirely within the players control. You can literally play every type of build using an engineer, and you will be effective in doing so. Engineer gives rise to so many varying and interesting builds and that makes it so fun. Try to play an engineer using only one style of play and you will fail.

+1 for the lovely response. I’m still a nub to gw2 forums… Don’t know where to post anything

So was just wandering around Hoelbrak when I entered the Bear building. I proceeded upstairs and came upon some occupied beds, occupied by the ‘Locals" npc. These Locals apparently never learnt how to sleep lying down and they are just standing on top of these beds. I think there could’ve been some effort to make them lie down?

pedrst.3127:

Make it meaningful with 10 points / stomp… because right now you gain more points from killing dolyaks or taking empty supply camps for a couple mins.

Why should killing one uplevel give more points than choking supply to a tower/keep or wiping an enemy camp rendering it invulnerable for 5 minutes?

I’m just gonna put this right here……

pedrst.3127:

I honestly still can’t understand why/how people play for ppt.. its a disguise/lame excuse for PvE in a supposedly PvP area, let alone the people that get mad for losing in ppt or feel like it is unfair.. its obvious that the people who fight the least win the most in ppt, since taking empty stuff is far more rewarding in this system.. at least in sPvP kills also give a small amount of points (it should give more tbh). Kills should also reflect the “overall score” in WvW, forcing people to actually PvP.

People go for PPT because thats the objective of WvW. You’re allowed to play however you want but if you aren’t getting high PPT then you’re doing it wrong. This isn’t just a large SPvP fight, it includes towers for the sole purpose of taking them for points. If you still can’t realise WvW is different to just normal PvP then you silly.

No the reason given was “Selling gold”, and since there is 0 proof of him selling gold there should be no reason why he is banned.

Guys I think I need to clarify. He wasn’t joking about gold selling, he is a commander and ran out of money for siege so we said in mapchat “www.deltakeyourgold.com” even that address has nothing to do with selling gold. Again incase you misread: www.del TAKE yourgold.com

So my friend was banned ‘selling gold’ for linking a supposed gold selling website on mapchat. He jokingly said in mapchat “www.deltakeyourgold.com”, his name is del and this website does not even exist. You can type it in and check for yourself. How can he be banned for something that doesn’t exist? I think this is over-policing by Anet and obviously no research was done before banning.

Dovgan.8605:

@totalpwnage.6534 That fight could have potentially gone on all night, but unfortunately the turkey required carving. We’ll have to do it again sometime. On a side note, I really should play my mesmer more, it’s a fun class.

Agreed. You got the evading skillz that ruined all my bursts.

Dovgan.8605:

To the DH that said “It’s AR, wipe them and move on”, you seem to think that it’s easy to beat an AR player. Come at me bro.

That was me. Gimme a time and place and we can duel.

EDIT:

Although I do understand why DH isn’t in first for the Bronze League, and it has nothing to do with players or coverage.

We are terrible with organisation. We have a teamspeak server that people don’t want to use and then people don’t listen in game chat. If we could actually organise our numbers we could potentially be first.

Neither of these guilds [VC] or [DHE] were mentioned last matchup so I hope it’s an isolated incident. [VC] I haven’t seen much of so they must be new/small. I’ll try and talk to both and make them realise that their immature actions affect our reputation..

We had problems last matchup with one of our guilds doing emotes spamming, if you have a guild tag you can put forth for this then please go ahead.

Arius.7031:

Assassin X.8573:

AR get your observers in line.

AR [TWIN] guardian. why you being a kittennozzle?

Yeah lol, Dh kept to its side until people repeatedly came and knocked our players off of the wooden platform. It has been going on for 45 minutes now while we’ve just been trying to watch the GvG…

Edit: To be clear, we’re talking many people here. I’ve seen around 10 separate people do this, and when we try to fight them off other AR come to their aid and it ends in a brawl.

It’s AR. Wipe them and move on :/

Arius.7031:

I just wanna say, really poor behavior by tons of AR folks in obsidian sanctum. Camping a spawn when people are going to get ready to watch a GvG, that is not cool.

just take it as punishment for not being in the real wvw ._.

Hey DR I know you guys don’t have huge coverage but still…. come on :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T0a2vYM0VY&feature=youtu.be

Arius.7031:

ChuckNorris.9413:

Solstice.1097:

sounds pretty even I wonder if a lot of that is roamers or what because the most I’ve seen them take is the 10 minutes that they had 2 keeps once.

anyway good fights so far! (except sadly our EB has been consistently commanded by, shall we say, a ‘learning’ commander that has proven terrifically ineffective this week).

I’m guessing you’re talking about the commander that never leaves golems and that commander is the greatest thing that has ever happened to our opponents. I can’t even play in the EB when he/she commands because whoever follows is led to slaughter (usually trying to cap SM with one golem and a dozen or so pugs).

I do have one request: FC doesn’t like the double penetration. So please be gentle and take turns.

Wait… what? Are you talking about a Dh commander? You just described someone perfectly who commands in Dh… I’m not even kidding/exaggerating…

Beginning with an ‘L’ right?

oZeppy.9028:

totalpwnage.6534:

oZeppy.9028:

totalpwnage.6534:

Im going to assume you all ignored my previous post since [Fun] is still playing the victim and others are lapping it up. Dont get me wrong, we are very grateful for their work in WvW, the problem comes outside of WvW and the way they interact with the rest of the server. Simply put they are annoying trolls and have earned themselves the reputation they have, and now Darkhaven is calling them out and they cant handle it and ‘threaten’ to move servers. [Fun] is not like Abys, Abys left because they were tired of carrying the server and not because they were hated on. Hope this clears it up…

If we trolled in the past, it was before we were even into WvW. Either way, any “trolls” we might have done were harmless. Our reputation was practically unknown before we got into WvW, now that we’re one of the main guilds we’ve been getting hated on. We’re not playing the victim, because we don’t really care about the comments in terms of being personally affected. We’re just looking for a calm place to play WvW and get better as a guild, and by doing so we help out whatever given server we’re on. Right now we happen to be on Darkhaven. If Darkhaven doesn’t want us here, we don’t have to be. That’s all we’re saying.

I hope you understand that if you’re able to be disliked on one server then chances are its gonna end up the same on another server.

Not everyone dislikes us. The WvW group that stays on TS does, though. Considering those are the people we’re SUPPOSED to be working with, that’s a problem.

We’ve talked to to other servers. I’ve scouted around. This issue is largely DH more than an issue pertaining to [Fun], we’re just calling it out. Not sure why you’re talking though, I’ve never seen you run near/with us in WvW anyways so it’s not like you have any reason to judge us.

Ofc the teamspeak group doesn’t like you, you abused your TS powers and pulled them just for the purpose of trolling, disrupting us trying to communicate in WvW.

oZeppy.9028:

totalpwnage.6534:

Im going to assume you all ignored my previous post since [Fun] is still playing the victim and others are lapping it up. Dont get me wrong, we are very grateful for their work in WvW, the problem comes outside of WvW and the way they interact with the rest of the server. Simply put they are annoying trolls and have earned themselves the reputation they have, and now Darkhaven is calling them out and they cant handle it and ‘threaten’ to move servers. [Fun] is not like Abys, Abys left because they were tired of carrying the server and not because they were hated on. Hope this clears it up…

If we trolled in the past, it was before we were even into WvW. Either way, any “trolls” we might have done were harmless. Our reputation was practically unknown before we got into WvW, now that we’re one of the main guilds we’ve been getting hated on. We’re not playing the victim, because we don’t really care about the comments in terms of being personally affected. We’re just looking for a calm place to play WvW and get better as a guild, and by doing so we help out whatever given server we’re on. Right now we happen to be on Darkhaven. If Darkhaven doesn’t want us here, we don’t have to be. That’s all we’re saying.

I hope you understand that if you’re able to be disliked on one server then chances are its gonna end up the same on another server.

Im going to assume you all ignored my previous post since [Fun] is still playing the victim and others are lapping it up. Dont get me wrong, we are very grateful for their work in WvW, the problem comes outside of WvW and the way they interact with the rest of the server. Simply put they are annoying trolls and have earned themselves the reputation they have, and now Darkhaven is calling them out and they cant handle it and ‘threaten’ to move servers. [Fun] is not like Abys, Abys left because they were tired of carrying the server and not because they were hated on. Hope this clears it up…

oZeppy.9028:

I told Zephy to join us to help stop the hate. She joined for a day and left. It’s clear that you guys don’t value us yet, and if we’re not supported like previous big guilds were, then we’ll find some server that will support us that way.

Really, all we’ve been asking for is support and all I’ve gotten thus far (or at least for 90% of you) is hate.

You brought every bit of ‘hate’ onto yourself. You often troll players and disrupt teamspeak. You have a general smell of arrogance and THAT is the reason you’re not respected. Try changing your image before playing the victim.

Arius.7031:

totalpwnage.6534:

Ynot.8397:

I love the advanced darkhaven turtling tactics. The emote spam from the fun guild after sitting in a tower with superiors siege(balliastas and acs!) and more numbers is impressive. Glad you are using your numbers so well!

Ha, don’t think [Fun] limits their behaviour to other servers.. We deal with it constantly too so I feel ya bro.

Weren’t you in fun? Also, ur face is funny.

dats a srs accusation der :O but no I’ve never joined them and everyone knows my face is absolutely beautiful

Ynot.8397:

I love the advanced darkhaven turtling tactics. The emote spam from the fun guild after sitting in a tower with superiors siege(balliastas and acs!) and more numbers is impressive. Glad you are using your numbers so well!

Ha, don’t think [Fun] limits their behaviour to other servers.. We deal with it constantly too so I feel ya bro.

Hmmm, just experienced Kaineng’s interesting arrowcart abilities in Greenlake… Pathetic that you guys need to resort to that.

I think you can see the theme I’m going for here…

Bump – still looking for highly active people!

Quick Load is a medium sized guild with 200 members and an average active member size of ~20. We are hoping to grow this member base so that large scale guild events and more frequent dungeons runs are possible.

Requirements:
- We have virtually no requirements, you can be any level, ability or age to join, we do prefer to have more mature players and nearly all of our members are 18+
- We have a guild mumble server and it is optional if you want to join in but a lot of dungeon groups are formed there or ideas made there that are not seen in guild chat
- The ability to understand instructions or strategies and an openness to learning them and practicing them is required. We don’t want people dragging down other members because they weren’t listening or paying attention. (Dying or wiping is perfectly fine but consistently doing it due to silly mistakes isn’t cool)

Guild info:
- As I stated we have 200 members currently and around 20 people constantly active. Most members are American so that during Oceanic times our guild population does drop then.
- Our guild is fully upgraded with 300k influence, ~250 merits and guild missions run weekly at a convenient time for all timezones.
- Own personal mumble server and guild enjin website. Both are used frequently to provide members with a lot of information about upcoming events and such. Our mumble server is where a lot of our dungeons runs begin at so by not joining in you could miss out on some things that aren’t advertised in guild chat.

We are a PvX guild and we do spread out over all gameplay types and our members are highly knowledgable on each type as a lot have been playing since release/beta. We are very sociable and friendly and there is no pressure on members to be active everyday/allday or to perform at a professional level. We love to joke around and often engage in fun activities as a guild. We even have a video of an Australian guild member eating an entire spoonful of vegemite if thats what you’re into.

Guild Contacts
Guild Leader: ThePedroKid.2580
Officers: Nybras.1623 Micro.3684 syrencere.9358
Commanders: totalpwnage.6534 BladeX.5098

PM any of these guys for an invite, at least one of them should always be online.

I made my engineer a big ol’ norn male. Wielding a wrench and being the ‘mechanic’ class seemed to fit norn the most for me.

Like others have said its either an all or nothing idea. You are relying on dropping players before they can burst you (no heal) or remove your might. This reminds me of the thief build using Signets of Power and Power of Inertia to gain ~instant 25 stacks of might. A berserker thief with 25 stacks of might sounds extremely op but ends up gimping themselves by wasting utility slots before a fight.

Been looking for a new ele build so I’ll try it out, looks interesting. I’ll get back to you after a few days maybe.

Ok so every time I’m fighting a ranger and we both get downed I know I am 100% going to lose. There is 0% chance of me winning unless I can rez myself from an NPC first. I have not found any counter to the ranger downed pet heal. I have pulled the pet, killed the pet, knocked back both pet and player and nothing will stop that heal (this is while downed so I can’t just stomp them). Is there anyway at all I can interrupt that heal?

Solo defended GoM BL Bay against a group of 20-30 GoM for ~40 minutes. You ended up having to treb from the outer plateau, so ha. Anyways, was a good long siege so congratulations on finally capping it

I think a big question here is: What skills would you REMOVE in order to accommodate these signets? You can’t give one class 3 more utilities skills than every other class.

Ok so I posted a screenshot on this thread earlier, but changed it up after getting the sovereign skins and now he looks a lot more ‘guardian-esque’.
Using Flare dye and Celestial dye.

Ok turns out my graphics card was set on performance settings, rather than appearance. Thanks for the help!

Thanks for the reply I’ll check out the settings on the HP and get back to you.

So I was thinking of making a P/D condition build for a change and I can’t decide between Rabid or Carrion for stats.

Rabid: Condition damage (main), toughness, precision
Carrion: Condition damage (main), power, vitality

I’m just not sure if whether toughness or vitality would be better for a thief. This is for WvW btw.

Ok so I have two laptops, one is an HP pavilion g6 and the other is a macbook running windows through bootcamp (I know macs are useless but this was through school funding). Now on the macbook when I play I get clear sharp detail but with the same game settings on my HP I get this weird foggy appearance. Some of it is from LOD but the graphics seem to be more blurry on the HP. If anyone can help me figure out what this is or how to fix this that would be great.

First three are the HP and the last three are the Macbook for comparison.

I got Jormag’s Breath and Ilya from Guantlet farming this week since I’m S/P on my thief and it looks quite sexy:

TheGuy.3568:

totalpwnage.6534:

@Excaliber: You are a thief asking for Warrior nerfs. Seriously, kitten off and learn to play.

You are just a little kid who cries when he loses and makes up random kittened up statistics about a build you have never played, have never played against for a significant amount and nor have you tried to counter it because you are not posting anything about testing out the HUNDREDS of suggestion given to you.
STOP PLAYING GW2 COS YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T UNDERSTAND EVEN THE SIMPLEST OF GW2 PVP ASPECTS.

Sigh….. You have an 80 thief also I could use the same argument against you. Learn something (see Ad hominem ie impeaching the witness). It is a logic fail btw. I am a warrior asking for warrior balance guess that makes me a traitor.

Ofc it is a bloody personal attack on him since he is currently the biggest nub on these forums. He has been told countless times by everyone on the forums how to counter and yet he continues to rage and cry.

If you are a warrior and you are asking for a balance on this then you mustn’t have been playing for the last, what?, year?? In which warrior was extremely underpowered for WvW and roaming. This build forces people to learn to change their build to adapt to a constantly shifting battlefield.

@Kjeldoran I read the kittening post you idiot. Re-read my post and it makes perfect sense. It explains how this 3 second stun is not truly as OP as described since everyone is claiming it is OP but only seem to be posting off statistics from a PERFECT SITUATION where the warrior using it has 30 in Tactics + stun sigils + condition duration stacking + berzerker damage + is able to stun you 100% without being interrupted/dodged/blind/block etc. etc. etc. You also are saying that warriors are able to fully regen their whole adrenaline bar in 7 seconds. All these requirements are extremely difficult to meet and if you are dying to a warrior who actually can do this whole list of requirements then you must suck kitten kitten at pvp and you should quit the kittening game.

@Excaliber: You are a thief asking for Warrior nerfs. Seriously, kitten off and learn to play.

You are just a little kid who cries when he loses and makes up random kittened up statistics about a build you have never played, have never played against for a significant amount and nor have you tried to counter it because you are not posting anything about testing out the HUNDREDS of suggestion given to you.
STOP PLAYING GW2 COS YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T UNDERSTAND EVEN THE SIMPLEST OF GW2 PVP ASPECTS.

Update: I needed more Condition removal so I removed Vigorous Shouts and Lung Capacity and replaced with Quick Breathing and Shrug it Off

I also now use Sword/Warhorn instead of Sword/Axe just for better condition removal.

Ofc 4k armour isn’t the solution for everyone but it proves that thieves aren’t the “almighty-mega-op-kill-all build”, if you have trouble with thieves or glasscannons in general then invest in more defensive traits.