Guild Wars 2

Hi Voidwalker, since Ranger is weak in melee and AOE combat, thus you should strive to complement that. (But Ranger can actually do leveling wayyyy much easier because of the Bear tank, don’t be sad if her Bear/Polar Bear is more reliable than you xD)

I would advise you to use Greatsword, it is a great cleaving weapon;
Scepter due for its Smite which gives Might and an offhand Shield for its aoe push.
Utilities skill wise, use “Stand Your Ground”, as Stability is our forte. Press it when you got knockdown , cc etc to breakstun. Others are really just up to your preference.

Combo between Guard and Ranger is fun.
When she used Healing Spring (Water Field), you can equip with Hammer and use MIghty Blow (Blast) to create AOE healing. Try to explore more with combos.

Have fun~~

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Vaelis.7035:

yLoon.5289:

My human Guardian…

That’s incredibly awesome. What are the pieces?

Armor : Legendary Heavy (Celestial/Illuminary dye),
Backpiece :The Ascension
Weapon : Eternity
Location : Fractal Laboratory

Thank~~

My human Guardian…

Arhaaks xD nice guns you got there xD

Anyway, we are getting lightsabers in PoF, can’t complain much then xD

https://imgur.com/r/Guildwars2/KWV1I

PvE: Huh? Condi Engi is quite sort after in a Raid as to compare with..Revenant? xD
PvP: Yeah, only one viable build at the moment at high tier matches.
WvW: Yeah, sadly not the required meta in Blob fight xD same goes with Rangers.

For now I’m enjoying the burst superman boot @ 2400 distance within 3 secs xD

I’m still very skeptical on the Holosmith though… was hoping to have rifle at off-hand a.k.a Rambo Build xD

GW2 PvP is sadly beyond redemption.

When it first started, there wasn’t any reward in it, only prestige through PvP armor/ weapon skins. I find it more enjoyable that time, it was purely skill sparring with genuine pvp players.

Then something changed, these PvP players demanded rewards, for instance “i want to get legendary weapons through my favorite PvP game mode, i want to farm gold to get PvE items.” Thats when hell break loose; Arena decided to give in.

The matches are now composed of 90% reward farmers and 10% genuine PvP players, which ultimately ruined the gaming experience. That is why you got blowout matches 500-20. The process of getting Wing of Ascension is so excruciating, eventually i got it, and like most of my veteran pvp friends, will never ever enter pvp again, other than a quick teleport to restock my mining tools and banking.

IMO, providing rewards to PvP seems like dooming the competitive gaming experience. Arena shouldnt listen to the players sometimes.

Hi Andross,

1. You can play any weapons you love in PVE environment. Just play however you enjoy the most! When I was a newcomer like you, I’ve always have melee and range weapons during world exploration. For faster travelling, use Greatsword (3) and Sword (2).
Every weapon has it own use in GW2, specially in Fractal Dungeons. For instance, Snowblind – Longbow (3) traited with Knockback is great against initial Ice Elemental to stop them from melting the firebon. Or using Shield (5) at the precise timing to prevent boss’s aoe attack on firebon. Even in Swampland, use Shield (5) at boss’s aoe projectile attacks. etc etc. Too much to mention here. Just pm me in game if you need help in fractals =D.

2. Stats wise if you are aiming for end game content such as Raid, you will need Full Berserker stats. But if you found yourself dying a lot, try change a few trinkets to Soldier stats before going full Berserk.

3. Ascended Armor – there are 2 ways. Farming mats & leveling crafting professions or the rngjesus way by completing Fractal Dungeons. Level 50 above fractal box above starts to drop ascended box if im not mistaken. For my case, i hate farming, so i chose the latter xD.

I disagree, this will screw up my reflective impulse since I had already get used to it, Meaning i would ensure no condition when there is 12 stack of burn/ 30 stack bleed on me when im using RF.

Furthermore, the longer time u can invulnerable, is even the better!
You can even do tactical RF, luring enemy’s fire to you etc

I will agree it provided that if u can repress it to end it quick. But reduce the invulnerable period, is a big NO for me =D

Why are you suggesting a nerf to us? xD

Out of these 3 builds you guys are discussing,
Naru’s build is more versatile and provide more adaptive to various situation. Good for high rank matches.

Symbolic Power build is extremely strong in smaller cap point, but serve limited purpose in large capping point such as mid of Foefires. If there is more than 2 Eles on opposite team, I would swap to this build.

Burn Guard on the other hand is extremely weak against a well-played GS/Mace Warrior, due to limited break-stun skill. I would swap class/build if there is 3 Warriors in opposite team. Also, Diamond Skin Eles is your nemesis. The firepower of this build in group fight is the best though.

All builds are good, it depends on how you can foreseen and adapt to your opponent’s team composition in order to win the match!

The only thing that is legitimately making your ears bleed is the Legendary unicorn Shortbow.

Taimi is fine, we all love her. Full-stop.

i can feel you bro, it is the same when 2 of your team mates are bronze…..in a gold ranked match….

I had tried it, its a very solid build. You can sustain quite well compare to the Core Burn Build. In fact, better than the Core Burn Build. Nonetheless, I got into T3 Plat with Core Burn Build on last season. On this season im focusing on completing Ascension, didn’t care much bout rank as im not good with alternate class. xD

I will swap CoP to PoF, Focus to Shield, if there isn’t much perma-daze in opposite team. PoF is more like a tactical nuke, trolling while people are chasing me in and out, and combine with Shield5 for the push.

Aww sorry to hear that OP. I had that too!
These AFK players just join ranked match for the reward =/. I also notice that these AFK players are mostly newcomers. Can’t blame them, I would do that too if I were in their shoes 4 years ago (there was NO Gold reward at all that time, only karma and skins). Why work so hard since there is so many veteran players to trash me? Might as well just AFK and get free gold. Oh yeah and also ascended gears! Yay~~ =D
Lol, so what is the actual problem?

Arena needs to segregate the newcomers and veteran players based on the previous Rank System; meaning to have a platform of Rank 0 to Rank 15 players learn to play among themselves, learn the game and improve, not being trashed by the veteran players. Like wise, same goes with the reward system. The higher rank you are, the better reward, This would prevent alternate account veteran holders to engage in ranked match manipulation.

Sadly, due to this fundamental problem when it first launched, both newcomers and veteran players got so fed up with the pvp system.
(No new players likes to be killed within 2 seconds, and no veteran players like to spar with newcomers) which ultimately resulting in the low pvp population now. Sigh.

I understand your frustration, I too hate to swap class, but trust me this helps you to understand team composition better, get out from your comfort zone and try to learn to play just one more class. What if your current primary class build is counter by 3 enemies of the opposition team? For sure you need to swap or you are gonna have a higher chance to lose.

At the end of the day, swapping is just to complement / fill in the role which lacks in your team in oppose to enemies.

Hi scorekeeper.6524, thanks for sharing your experience!
No wonder i got downed so fast when vs a Necro & Condi Mesmer ><
Playing Engr makes me felt like Tom & Jerry xD, got chased and somehow just survive at the end.
Yes it is completely different from playing a Guard, that’s why I love it.
Will pm you in game then =p.

Hi guys, thank you sooo much for the tips, really appreciate it!
The reason i said that its difficult to defend a point was due to Elixir Gun skill 4. Quite often i failed at swapping back to Hammer and kinda jump away from point. xD
Guess I need more practice to swap at the right time.

Lost almost every placement match while using my Engr. Then i realized, most of the team mate I ressed, were newbies and died shortly after rally! Either the Teef teleport away or they are furiously tapping 1 and broke stealth lol. Nevertheless, manage to get into Gold tier 2, matches are not as volatile now, at least these teammates are worth the ress xD. So I think i wouldn’t recommend anyone using engineer for placement matches.

Just one more question, how do I avoid using gyro stomp? Because i want to save it for ressing. Was it from the setting key or something?

My playing style of Burn Guard still conform me within the core build, main reason is due to countless times of DH’s unsuccessful F2 xD, and also bad habit of using F2 at the final second, usually I would only pop out F2 before or during Renewed Focus.

My build are quite the same except replacing DH with Radiance.
I’ve been testing Sigil of Torment and Sigil of Doom, it seems poison reign supreme for me. The torment damage is too negligible and short. Second sigil that I used is Sigil of Geomancy with the guarantee aoe bleed. Basically my tactic is to inflict as much condis with long period, so their cleanse wont reach to cleanse the Burn xD

Purging Flame is a must for me and it supports and dps in team fight. A lot of tactical ways to fully utilize this skill if were to combine with movement CC skills. Thus, instead of focus, i use shield.

Nonetheless, I’ll try your DH burn build and see how it goes xD

Dear Veteran Engineer Players,
Guardian was my main for pvp, and now i have chosen Engineer as my second pvp class and I’m loving it.
I’ve been using the Power Hammer Paladin build from Metabattle. After numerous of matches, here’s my conceptions of playing an engineer on that build:

1) High sustain and easily disengage from fight, but difficult to defend a point.
2) Which class are we good and bad against?
3) Are we just good in capping huge point? I find it hard to defend in a small point.
4) Our roles are mainly on ressing and sustain? I find it hard to down a player without anyone’s help.
5) I felt that Engineer can’t carry a bad team ;(

Please correct me if I am wrong.
Any comments will be appreciated. =D

Greatsword5 is good in
1) Volcanic boss, Lava spawns phase
2) Cliffside boss, hammer phase
3) Urban Battleground, city battle
4) Aetherblade, cannon phase
5) Thaumanova, starting phase (but ppl mostly skip it nowadays xD) Subject 6 boss
6) Solid Ocean, upon reaching final boss, mobs clearing
7) Chaos Island, Mewmew robot phase
8) Nightmare, final boss, final phase for the cleaves (so you could rally xD)

Location : Raid Wing (3) Keep Construct door entrance.
Boss : Keep Construct
What Happened : All players (except the first that got though) died at door entrance instantly upon entering.

Please investigate unto this.
Thank you.

See here, choosing Engineer over Guardian is fine, but you mustn’t overlook what class this competent player is playing, and also you must consider how many opposing members are countering your build. Hence comes with my comment on “balance of team composition”.sPvP is a teamwork game, your view in all while however encourage on solo way of playing.

For instance, Engr can’t hold point against Ele, but Guard’s symbol build are able to.
Question is, are you still gonna choose Engr IF there are two Eles on opposing team?
There is too many possibilities in choosing classes in a match.
The discussion should be on how to harmonize your build with team mate and countering opposing team’s build, not on how to define the role of a class. Overlooking the overall view of team composition is the first step in losing a match.

There is no class that is useless; only useless players. Any class if played properly by a pro is lethal. And you need a balance of team composition to win any match. Try look at things from eagle view. =x

Aww you guys are so cute, cursing each other.
Competition indeed brings out the worse in people xD hahahaha

A whining post eh? Why don’t you try to explain your situation, and perhaps we can share some insight on how to counter a Burn Guard?

To tell you the truth, yes, with my Burn Guard build, Necro is my food in pvp matches =D

PW works great in Condi Guard, specially in PvP when you Scepter2+Torch5 at ressing opponents xD. Only perform the best IF you are able to hit multiple targets.

But yeah, as what everyone commented, choose either BGH or PW, both cannot coexist together or it will be counterproductive.

In WvW, commander value Guard the most for the stability/stun break at F3 at Virtue Indormitable Courage.

Remorseless should rephrase to only works for Greatsword Maul or any other particular skills, so it wont be wasted on any stupid AA. ><

Failed at Molten Boss numerous time yesterday due to some pugs which failed to understand the mechanics. Frustrating, when telling them how, they refuse to learn and adapt.

Whats killing us in that fractal is because the AOE bouncing fire field stopping us from stacking at the Bull.
The solutions? Bring projectile absorb, deflec, to give you time to burn the Bull down.

In this case, Shield of Avenger and Wall of Deflection is a MUST for guard in this fractal. Or not you bring nothing to the group at all.
Here’s the annoying part, when i linked the utility skill, the other Guard (10k AP) in group says “Er, im a meditrapper, i dont use shield”.
From that moment you knew that you are kitten.
Whatever sets of weapon you are using is fine, but not knowing the mechanics and refuse to learn, anger me the most.

For a starter, you could join Silverwaste (SW) map event, if you were to follow up throughout the event with a capable Commander, you will net yourself 8-10 or even more rare gear for you to salvage into ecto. Also salvage all of the whites and greens.

So now you got some gold, try leveling one of the crafting class to 500, in order to craft the timegate daily ascended materials such as Deldrimor Steel, Spiritwood Plank etc. Selling this 2 materials will earn you 15 gold on a daily basis.
Another way of getting Ascended Gear is through Fractal of the Mist, however, it subjects to RNGjesus.

Happy Farming~~

As a Guard in fractal, there is no specific weapon to be used, it only subjects to the situation you are in. For instance,
Uncategorized: Ramp electrify stage, a shield is very helpful in absorbing the projectiles.
Volcano: Longbow with knockdown is nice at sacrificial stage.
Bloomy : Scepter + Shield is the best combination as you can guard your friends from the constant AOE projectile. Shield of Avenger works marvelous too during the stage on horde of animals.

I would advise you to learn the mechanic of the stage and utilize your available weapons and utilities, not sticking into a certain set.

Swamp is the best Fractal map.
If you have trouble with Bloomy, try using a Guard with Shield =D

Your point

1) Cant keep up 25 might.
True but Warrior doesnt support with Deflect, projectile absorb, FYI Guard do have something similiar with Phalanx Strength, i think its called Empowering MIght. You might say Revenant could too, but that would sacrifice much dps with the Ventari. If all heavy classes being able to stack 25 might, it will be boring and not fun anymore, dont you think? Seems to me you just want everything in a package which is kinda…..you know impossible.

2) Retaliation is garbage in PvE- Agree with you on this. However, bear in mind that Reta is good for the long forgotten Healway guard, wishful thinking but hope they bring it back xD.

3) Stability – Yes it only works on certain situation, but then again, you can also stealth skip on that fractal, isnt thats much better? Does that make other class “not good” enough then? You dont even need these Deflect wall & Feedback. Yes it is just personal preference, good for you! But you cant always find Mesmer, Thief or Engineer all the time. Adapt to what you have in your party, not about what you cant do, its about utilizing available skill as maximum as possible.

4) Every class can dodge and every class has defensive options, some of which are far better then a guard. – This statement is just too vague. AI path prob, but Shield of Avenger still is the best projectile absorb in certain situation.

6) Mobility – arena wants guard to be a slowpoke =/ sigh.

As I’ve always said, there is no terrible class, only terrible players. Adapting is the key.

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Burn Build?
Purging Flame is a must, pawned Svanir within 10 secs, works marvelous at mid fights
PM me in game I’ll show you how =D

Diamond Skin Ele counter this build =/

I won because:
1) Read enemy’s class composition at waiting time, I don’t pick a fight or waste time with classes that counter my build.
2) I fight with classes which are weak against my build
3) I constantly aim & owned at their weaker teammate. Free Frag.
4) Be there when your team mate needs you in home and mid.
5) No one go to far unless we are 300 points leading, only thief can go far and decap.

I noticed that i do not need to communicate that much since i reached Ruby tier 3.
Everyone knows their own role.

Losing?
1)When there is one Amber make in into a all Ruby match
2)Opposite players is just so much better and experienced than me & my teammate

Solely by justifying DCED player as deserting the game without taking considerations on their contributions to the team is a flaw in the system, for me this is just being lazy.

You cant control or blame the people who decided to AFK as it is not rewarded to continue playing in it anymore. Imagine you DCED on Arah boss part, yet you do not obtained the reward from it despite helped a lot in clearing the trash mobs, mini boss etc, how would you feel?

On top of that, what about Raid? 20 seconds missing in action in a pvp match is not as severed as you dced in Sabertha, Vale Guardian, Gorseval, are you gonna penalized these DCED raiders of not getting the loot?

I would suggest Arena to enable a grace period before labeling DCED players as deserting the match or abolished losing pip if you are indeed helped the team despite being DCED, no progression & regression.

Aww, therefore, if you dc, just afk, no point in continue playing. The end, final solution. Good pip system.

Erm, lets say, an afker, he never dced, contribute zero to team, when his team won, he got the pips because he never dced. By your logic, this is a good pip system. L O L

In a ranked match, i disconnected at 100-150
Reconnected at 190-220, killed beast and steal their svanir all the time, won the match 480-500, I’m second in scores.
I lost a pip due to “deserting” the match.

Arena, WTF is your logic saying that i deserted the match despite of me trying my best to let my team win??

Burn Guard all the way~~

1) Yes, shield5 could be buff with 1 aegis when used.

Since all these unblockable skills are flying around on these patch, it would be only fair for Shield5 to be unblockable as well =D
On top of that, just merge Stalwart Defender and Strength in Numbers together xD

Burst Burn them, and use a shield 5 to interrupt their wings of resolve (works on other class too)
OR
Burst Burn them, withdraw from fight to avoid triggering their healing trap, back down swap to range, use Purge Flame and see them bbq.

“Zealot’s Embrance → JI → Test of Faith → Banish → Spear of Justice → Pull →Ring of Warding → Change Weapon → True Shot…”

Dude, there is some flaws in this combo:
1) Why swap to LB before using Mighty Blow? Lost of DPS.
2) True Shot will “help” your opponent escape Ring of Warding due to Heavy Light. Defeat the purpose of trapping.

Hunter’s Ward → Dragons Maw → JI → Mighty blow → Ring of Warding → Test of Faith → Banish → Auto Attack

I dont get this
1) Assuming you had trapped your opponent with Dragon Maw, why use JI? Waste of skill.
2) I’m not sure if Arena fix that but your Banish will “help” your opponent to escape Ring of Ward.

Not sure what you want to achieve, such combo dont really deal much DPS.

lol, that player giving DH a bad name now XD
Anyway, not surprised, this has been the source of PROBLEM since the first year of GW2 launched.

Arena failed to segregate new players and veteran players.
Arena basically throwing kittens (yes i mean kittens) into a cage filled with raging lions and hoping more kittens will join spvp, which proven a failed concept. Just look at pvp populations.

Meanwhile, please do not join unranked, go to hotjoin and have fun seeing Dragon & Pheonix roasting Rabbit till a solution is out.

Photoshop all of my toons for a family photos!

What BS is this OP talking about.

What about thief Vault and Bounding Dodger?
Dodge while in the same time doing one hit KO?

Imagine Brian = arena staffs
Stewie = Guardian players
Replace money to “Guardian changes”
Best describe my feelings towards arena.

Yes this is absolutely the worst patch for pvp ever released by arena.
Lots of frustated players gonna leave game.

Not sure bout attuned rings.
Yes Infused ring had higher yield, i got 20 Stabilizing Matrixes from it if im lucky.

Thaddeus.4891:

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Can guardian work ? Yes.

However

1: Its damage is lower then a rev or engineer & even ele in many cases.

2: Rev, ele & engineer all provide better boon support.

3: Rev, ele & engineer all provide better defense against conditions.

4: Rev, ele and engineer all provide more CC

5: Rev, ele & engineer all provide more damage reduction & healing for the group.

6: Rev, ele & engineer all provide just as good or better defense against projectiles.

So you have to ask, why play a guardian when something else can do everything it can do better while doing more damage.

That’s misinformation because most of those can’t be done at the same time. We’ll talk about meta build here because who care if a elementalist can bring more boons on a non meta build.

1) It’s dmg is less than all of those 3 you are right. Don’t know you said sometime worst than Ele. Elementalist is the best of the 3 in term of dps (even if the rating will change a lot depending on the alacrity and the size of the boss).

2) Staff Elementalist won’t bring more boons support. D/X yes, but they are mostly not the same type of boons. They bring fury and might, they can also bring around 50% perma protection but by reducing their dps. Revenant is better at boons, but you have to choose. Either you bring fury/might/regen/swiftness or you bring fury/protection. Engineer isn’t really good at boons support so I don’t know why you put him here. They can give boons pretty much only by combo field outside of their normal rotation. Guardian on the other hand will bring quickness, vigor and aegis that the other 3 can’t.

3) Engineer is bad with condition removal, especially removing to their friend. Revenant have Staff 4 but you need to stay 10second in staff for 2 condition. You have other option, but not really good ones and each of them will cost you energy and dps. For elementalist you have option to remove a lot of condition on your with slight modif to the meta that doesn’t change much your dps, but team wide condi removal? Staff 4 and Elemental in water are pretty much your only option. So that’s just totally false. Guardian is the best at condition removal for the team and is one of the best at self condition removal for PvE. Remember here we are not comparing a Guardian to a D/D PvP elementalist.

4) Revenant have more powerful cc and engineer have more option that’s for sure. Elementalist on the other hand? D/F, D/W or Staff all have only 1 hard cc. Guardian is way better than Elementalist on that front with Bane Signet, Binding Blades and 1 trap daze.

5) Revenant only have regen from herald which is 130 HP/sec. Guardian can reach that with Wings of Resolve alone with are 129.6 HP/sec. So at best they are equal at worst Guardian take Receive de Light at very little dps cost. Engineer and Elementalist heal more. For damage reduction? Herald can bring equal protection uptime as a Hammer Guardian (which is only 5% less dps than a GS+Lonbow guardian). In that setup a Guardian will outheal the engineer, but i’m not sure compare to the Ele. Engineer just bring zero damage reduction so that’s easy. The Elementalist on the other hand is trickier. A staff tempest can’t put much protection and only a bit of frost aura. D/W freash air can give around 50% of protection (with 100% boon duration and right rotation), which is around 20% more efficient that normal protection and he can give some frost aura on top on that. Which dmg protection is better? Perma protection or more protection for shorter period of time? Hard to tell to be honest. I guess it depend on the situation.

6) That’s just not true. Elementalist have a bad projectile defense. You get a couple of magnetic auras, but you can only share them if you have powerful aura in water, which is a great dps lost. Even there you will have like 60% Aura uptime and for that you need to stay in earth so at that point you are doing pitifull dps. Other than that you have Focus 4 which is good but don’t last long. Engineer is also very bad. We won’t talk about turret projectile defense because that would destroy your dps. That leave use with Revenant. You have the hammer which can grant you 50% projectile defense, but will drop your dps AND you boons support AND your CC. You can also take Centaur Legend but again you drop your dps (but less) and boons support by a lot, but you can still keep your cc. Guardian is the only one that can bring perma projectile defense at little expense to his dps. The Guardian can bring 25% projectile reflect with zero dps drop. Bring 45% projectile defense at the expense of 5% of his dps. And 56% projectile defense at the expense of another 5% of his dps. So yes Revenant can bring more projectile defense since he can bring perma. But he does it by destroying everything else he can bring to the table. While the guardian can bring 56% projectile defense at the expense of only 10% of his dps.

People just look at what each of these projectile can bring the best in a bubble and then shout that guardian is worst than all of them in all category. First of all half of those are just wrong like elementalist and engineer having better projectile defense. Or engineer having more boons support. But most of them need to profession to specialize and lost all of his best aspect to reach it.

None of those profession can bring perma protection, aegis, quickness, heal, reflect projectile and still bring around 80-85% of his max dps. None. If you gonna need projectile protection in raids, you won’t gonna bring a Centaur Revenant or a Turret Engineer or a Magnetic Auramancer.

Guardian is in a bad place because ya. Herald and Tempest kind of took part of his job. But it’s really mostly because, just like thief, you don’t need any of the strenght of those profession in raid. Guardian are still as good as before in fractal, dungeon, open world, wvw and pvp.

So much wins in this to whiners

Lithany of Wrath is indeed good for Burn Guard. Help me to sustain much longer fight.

However, still would choose Indomitable Courage over Permeating Wrath, it works great against Mesmer Gravity Well. Im too used to burn burst=/, Radiance still over Honor trait line.

Often i find myself in mid. I’ve been thinking of using Shield (Stalwart Defender over Strength in Number) + Scepter instead of Focus, its good for gang fight specially mid in Khylo, some CC to avoid team mate being stomp. Go try it and tell me what you think.

huh ?

“Completely useless in PVE” <—-Top Whiner Award goes to this you know who.
My GS = 5k+5k+7k how is that call weak? lol It is much stronger than Warrior GS AA, dont argue this, i have a warrior same gear with my guard and tested countless time.

There is no OP classes, only OP players.
Likewise there is no USELESS classes, only USELESS whiners and players.