Posts by Gentleman Xander

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Can anyone help a fashion noob with a very important question?

How would you dress your female warrior so that the whole outfit matches perfectly her War Axe? I'm interested in both armour and shield. Thank you 😀

My advice would be to already decide on a shield before finding armor. Finding a shield will help rule out armors. Depending on the shield, the dye and colour scheme are already set (or depend on dye used). Once that is done, I’d start toolbox and eliminate armors while holding both weapons. If using a shield that can’t be dyed, Aegis for example, the colours are set to silver and yellow/gold. You’d ideally want to find something that works with that if that’ll be your pick^^. Just trying to give you a process so you can do it yourself. Trust me, that gives more sense of accomplishment 😜.

Fashion isn’t about the goal, it’s about the journey. That tells more of a story.
- Xander, 2025

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Hi Gentleman Xander I dont know if you are still doing builds here but I'll ask anyway. I would love a Hero team comp (No mercs) using the heroes of my same primary profession maintaining there core role. Example: If im a warrior, I want Jora, Koss and Goren on my team with a sword/axe/hammer. No daggers or spears or other martial weapons. Razah can be whatever. I want to use this team comps for general HM vanquish, but if they can do UW and DOA on NM would be awesome. Right now im only looking for Ranger and Ele comps, but if you can do more that would be amazing. Let's give those non meta Heroes a chance. Thank you!

Heyo!

I’m still here;) just very busy IRL. Could you be more concrete about what you want? From what I understand, you want a team for your Ranger (using mainly ranger heroes) and Elementalist (using mainly elementalist heroes). The other heroes are fillers. Is that correct?:p

I've never played more clean than this:

Mr. Clean(-Value) approved?

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These route have been really useful, thanks so much.

Will there be more?

Hey, I’m quite inactive at the moment. I am trying to build up my playtime again but this might be a while.

Drago’s flatbow? 👀 also chrysocolla staff (or whatever the spelling is xd)

Who knew you could break the game with just auto attacks xD

Since I have yet to die, I was considering swapping the Me/R to Me/Mo and add live vigorously and/or vigorous spirit atleast (trust me, this will give the most healing... if anyone's curious to see what the team damage is, here is a little snap. Note: this damage does not reflect the whole build as the N/R putrid bile+explosion don't get to shine really at the master of damage, same goes for the mesmer)

Okay, so I think I accidentally made my own version of petway :o

Still working on getting through campaigns atm so dont mind my build too much :3 I simply cant use dagger attack skills Made it a Deathless (atleast try to.. the setup isnt really that meta, so far been trial and error but it worked really well so far) Auto Attack Only GWAMM because... why not :p

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I call them "wtf wands"

It can happen on any wand that drops for multiple professions attributes, like jade, amber, zodiac, cele, etc

Doesnt the new skins also drop mixed attris, even if they only drop single profession requirement

They do, the new skins OS can drop all professions, so they will also have the mods of all professions on them;)

Check this link out:

Krschkr

Guild Wars videos.

youtube.com

It’s a GW player that has used A/R Crit Barrage with different setups for WoC missions to give you an idea of what is more meta nowadays:) Including a lot of different player builds too for other professions

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Ended up running something different. Worked great, prob highest dps build besides Soul Taker dagger + Dark Aura. Can post builds and templates tomorrow

Hi, I tried to replicate, but i dont know if i got everything correctly, can you post codes?

Hey sorry, I’ll try to get it done for you tomorrow

Expertise might be useful for ritualists as Expertise decreases the energy cost of rituals (including rit ones). However, in that sense using a staff would be better; staff has 20hsr general and a 40/40 set would only have 20hsr for one specific attribute

1a q9 20/10 blood zodiac staff.

Just hit me up ig or pm if that isnt enough

You can calculate it yourself. Just check the wiki for total amount of mobs + check bosses (they give more factions). Then x10 for normal mobs and 100 or 250 per boss. Cant recall from the top of my head.

As for efficiency, these zones will be the fastest way to get factions (even with heroes they take less time, even more so with a good hero setup).

Price-wise depends fully on profession. Mesmer for example will be the most expensive to gear (since everyone wants mesmer mercs:p)

Latest thought of my brain:

I noticed my brain did an oopsie on the mesmer attributes. But was thinking of changing it up a bit anyways

An auto attack machine (esp with 33% IAS) combined with a fun hero setup:

Sw3 15

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Vers good times!! Are you using Cons and heroe Group?

Yes I use cons and pcons. Some of the vqs I have posted screens of the builds I used.

10a plat blade

Tyvm:p I like to call myself a build master 😜 some will agree, some will disagree haha. I enjoy the theorycrafting and thinking about what would work with what. If you need help or anything just hit me up^^

Or.... Should I run this for the Ranger... It adds either heals, energy management or holy damage. Plus the other benefits from the Avatar skills (armor, heal etc). And since the new mods exist, this is now actually doable Idk if BU also reduces the set cd time for the Avatar skills (if anyone knows, otherwise I'll find out myself)

Or more something like this:

If you want to do it without getting armor infused, you’ll need to bring heroes and flag them to fight and stay at a distance:p (I have done it this way once xd)

Ended up running something different. Worked great, prob highest dps build besides Soul Taker dagger + Dark Aura. Can post builds and templates tomorrow

I'm mostly leaning towards the sin tbh, it seems to do amazing damage; with pcons/cons and Shadow Theft you will hit 20 Critical Strikes and 20 Dagger Mastery (21 actually, but it's either this or CS with 1 too much xd) and 20 Air Magic.... Doesn't that just sound amazing?

Alrighty, back to the drawing board.

So: I have been playing a setup of R (player) 1xR 6xP (heroes).

Conclusion is that I can't handle the slowness of the playstyle once you fight something with a good block/blind/anti-physical. Just something that never bothered me before (after 10 GWAMMs and even a GWAMM paraway, I did try to use as many new mods as I could so maybe that's why it wasn't as great xd). So I have come up with a few new player builds (some old ones returning just for the sake that I can't improve them xd).

The ideas:

Warrior: just smack shit and it will die. ezpz

Ranger: Apply Poison (+ Withering Aura) for Reap Impurities

Necromancer: Sacrifice health with AoE damage on top for big deepers (note; might require more healing from heroes:P)

Elementalist: build idea from Krschkr (dropped Elemental Lord for Air of Superiority)

Assassin: Big time crit dagger boii or gurll (with +5 Expertise for less energy pressure from Unsuspecting Strike)

Dervish: Avatar of Lyssa for big time ench spam combined with Aura of Holy Might

And I wonder why I don't chestrun anymore.... QQ and ofc all had trash runes/insig

Alright, so for the cons version I would run these attributes. I tried getting their main attributes to 15 (+4 HR +1 Conset = 20).

I have done the calcs below, so check it out and enjoy the madness

Will get that to you tomorrow. In bed now and brain wont cooperate:p

That and extra damage. If you want more variation such as “only one build once” just let me know.

Cons-version:

Non-cons version:

Alright, thanks for the reply^^

Let me know if you plan to use atleast a BU or not (will impact skill decisions etc^^). Can also make a cons and non-cons version and u can decide:p

Alright, what’s your playstyle? Do you use cons/pcons? As little heal as possible or just want it safe enough? Resses or ress scrolls?

I’ll make you a setup or a few different options somewhere next week. About to head to a bday:)

With HR you can literally do whatever you want. Esurge+bone minions, Signet of Illu with /Mo with smiting or /N with minions/death nova/curses hexes. Fully depends on what u want. Looking for more damage, more variation?

I guess new skins should be added to this aswell, most likely the OS variants, glacial blade and glacial blades will prob still be worth something down the line too

Perfect focus drop :p

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Came to play some sin in Codex Arena just to notice 2 skills (Moebius and Impale) can't be played bc there are no dual attacks this week. Also, deadly haste (lower cast&recharge on half ranged spells) has no half ranged spell to apply to.
Never knew skill rotations could include skills that couldn't be played.

Yup, Codex can be whack sometimes, it is a fun place to make "good" builds but sometimes stuff like this limits it... well completely xD

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todays a good day. Only Ancient Scythe left for the complete Ancient-Collection

Nice set! Scythe has to be 300g though 😜

Any chance we can now have HCT20 SR on an OS Staff?

small QQ (it's the flame skin, not just a random fiery mod)

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One more: paraway using new mods !

Get ready to snipe because things will blow up

Player can take any mod, either +5Str or +5SR, not sure how energy will be. Probably good enough xd

PI Paras need +5FC, all others I'd give +5SR since all builds are quite energy heavy

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Someting about unid prenerfs is so exciting, bought this for xx arms few years back, wonder what it beholds xD Dual vamp blue maybe?? some prenerf mods? who knows :p

Dv or dz you could test since the fiery mod is set:D maybe even +1-3 energy? Xd