Guild Wars 1 7 Hero Firestorm-Way

[@Crypto_Keys]

The skill synergy is why I loved GW1 :) and unfortunately never got into GW2 as much :(

[@Wyrser]

This is not skill synergy, it's team synergy. GW1 lets you pick a team of 8 and instead of building a character build, you are building a team comp. At its core, this is no different than giving your allies quickness to cast faster, alacrity to reduce their cooldowns, and damage buffs in GW2, only difference is you only do that in the context of group content, instead of solo.

[@Icewolfnector]

One big advantage you have in Gw1 when it comes to builds, is that you can customise a whole party. Which really creates a whole new level of build crafting compared to Gw2 or other games.

[@broomemike1]

Check out some of Boots Bad Builds! They really push skill synergy to ludicrous levels.

[@christianlandgrave6960]

@@Wyrser It's both still

[@christianlandgrave6960]

Did you ever play Codex Arena? It was one of my favorite things to do in GW1. Build crafter's paradise. I played it as much as I could as a 11-12 year old and actually did really well.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

I do want to add this was done BEFORE the anniversary patch!

[@gotenksjr]

Speaking of the Anniversary patch, I was thinking, couldn't you combine Master of Magic with the Anniversary Axe and Prismatic insignias to setup a proper frontline, with each elementalist running 13/14 in each element and not being effected as much by weakness (assuming you put 0 points into anything other than Energy Storage and your req9 shield stat). Just a concept idea if I'm honest.

[@ploik21]

Pretty sure that the Agony and Rejuvenation spirits are bugged with toolbox's dps meter and end up counting the damage the spirits do to themselves. Adding Rejuvenation to my healer's bar caused his dps to go from 0.1% to something like 10% of the team's dps.

[@TheIronDrapery]

MORE GUILD WARS CONTENT! MORE!

[@Sientir]

This was fun. :) I love the visual of Fire Storm so much! A powerful memory I have of Guild Wars 1 was playing Alliance Battles during the preview weekend and seeing a Fire Storm way off in the distance. It was a really cool visual.

[@Sangria713]

WP talks about firestorm for 45 minutes. Nice. I'm glad I'm not the only one who got hooked on GW1 again after the anniversary. Also, I can't deny that firestorm spam looks really cool.

[@Wolfiette99]

Cool team build WP! Love all the detail and thought you put into this video.

[@bre_me]

GW1 build craft is a HUGE part of what makes GW1 fun and a HUGE part of what makes GW2 not nearly as fun

[@FerrelWarden]

Loving all this gw1 content.

[@lolalucxyz]

Consider including churning earth somewhere for hard mode. Everything has IMS, so scatter leads to free knock-downs in your firestorms.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Ohoho...

[@SentecaMorvan]

Great Team. I recently did something similar, utilizing eles as damage dealer: a comp around the idea of searing flames, but utilizing it to the most by adding a paragorn with 'they are burning' and the ranger spirit that transforms all physical damage to fire damage, which comes in handy if you get mesmer second class for elemental resistance. Instead of meteor I use the ritualists hex that slows down by 90 percent on ao for 3 sec. Thunderstrike ele and feaver dreams mesmer amplify the damage. Tbh UA monk and soul twisting rit are probably overkill, but it makes us super safe against hardmode aoe spam. Myself RoJ Caller. Love trying off meta hero teams. Stolen Speed looks awesome for your team comp and the Standart is much stronger than I knew for AoE over time. Worth looking into, thanks for sharing

[@ImmortalityV]

Was half expecting a video on the rollback, but this is better xD

[@zuphix1802]

Rollback?

[@ImmortalityV]

@@zuphix1802 yeah, the gw2 rollback on EU. It's been all over the place

[@zuphix1802]

Ah, I've not played GW2 since the mid of LS4, i wasn't aware

[@ImmortalityV]

@@zuphix1802 that's alright :)

[@zuphix1802]

The point at the start about cancel-casting when your target dies is part of why I played Necro as my first GWAMM, Defile/Desecrate Enchantments go off in an AoE even if the main target dies, I love those 2 skills.

[@zuphix1802]

Everyone always underestimates the potential of scatter as a CC tool, I often run a triple RoJ comp on my Monk with Chaos Storm, I really loved this idea once you got into all the synergies. It makes me want to make a comp with Ranger Primary, using Ebon Standard of honor in a similar way, to see if I can get some use out of the new Elite. For the N/Rt, Recuperation is expensive but Recovery is extremely useful too. Mend Body and Soul does clear tons of conditions but there are some short conditions that will just drop off naturally with Recovery, meaning your healer doesn't need to cast on full-hp targets just to remove conditions.

[@zuphix1802]

Also Toolbox counts Agony's damage to itself, so it looks like its damage is being doubled, however it is not affected by Standard of Honor (because Honor only affects Non-Spirit Allies)

[@follymetric]

sweet I just rerolled a fresh Elementalist to go through the Cantha campaign, I might use this

[@TheDziNeIT]

Hey WP, did you consider using Earthbind on your Soul Twister? It's a Communing spirit so no extra attribute investment required, and it would increase all knockdown durations from your Meteors to 3 (!) seconds. I'm going to try myself but I don't have any mercenary eles so only running four copies of Meteor. Earthbind also suffers from a nice bug where Armor of Unfeeling reduces the spirit's health loss when its effect triggers, so you can get quite a few procs out of it before the spirit dies. Apologies if you already mentioned this in the video at any point, I watched a week ago but am only just getting around to playing with it myself! I'm also going to mess around with Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support on the player bar over Snow Storm, to use on engage which should keep mobs more balled up at the start if there are melee enemies. Gives me an opener of Assassin -> Stolen Speed -> Meteor (3 sec KD) -> Fire Storm. My other thought is to drop Shell Shock for some spammable damage (considering Lava Arrows) because as I can only use three eles I've put a Curses necro in who has Weaken Armor. I've subbed the other ele for a fairly standard E-Surge mesmer, with Chaos Storm to continue the AoEs on top of the usual Domination shutdown stuff. Would be cool to hear your thoughts!

[@WoodenPotatoes]

This was a great idea! EVASS too!

[@Matthias_meh]

This and the cantha series got me to go back to gw1. after 13k hours, getting hacked and losing everything then rebuilding for another 5k hours and now coming back after 6 years i am really enjoying this game again. thank you for this. this setup is fun though i don't have 5 ele heroes available on my main and my mesmer is too far behind to set it up properly so i filled the group with a minion mancer and a keystone minion bomber at it still works great.

[@angels2online]

We've noticed your resurged interest in gw in your video feed )))) Sick build though, I wanna run it, but getting gear and especially weapons is such a pain though.

[@progames70]

Ele runes and weapons are dirt cheap atm so it wouldn't be too much of a hassle

[@angels2online]

@@progames70 That's true, but Insignias and vigor not so much. Also, I'm not very good at getting 40/40.

[@SentecaMorvan]

@@angels2online there is 20/20 stuff at collector if you can deal with 2 less energy than max

[@brenna5536]

Yes! More GW1 content

[@AmbianceOfLife]

i love this hero team build!

[@MaximillianGreil]

For GW1, Esurge/Panic was the vanquisher for me, I'd run Imbagon while my heroes ran e-surge panic, and pretty much everything in the game would die.

[@gotenksjr]

Really enjoyed this WP, have also been really enjoying GW1 recently got a LOT of my alts through all the campaigns with just Mesmer and Ele to take through them. Been partially looking at the anniversary stuff on the side and after trying Scythe Necro, Masochism + Soul Taker + Dark Aura + Some relevant Flash Enchantments has blown me away with how it performs. Do beware of sacrifcing yourself to death ofc :P WHile I was looking at the Anniversary Axe to see what I can do on Ele I may instead opt to see how something like this would feel :P

[@ash0787]

this type of strategy is what I was trying to run about 10 years ago, but I found it to be ineffective at that time. can confirm lava font is now OP. theres also time warp and ebon battle standard of wisdom to consider for your build. I'm disappointed that you didn't use meteor shower.

[@chaosgyro]

Damn I wish GW1 had a sequel.

[@revendisio]

Seems like you missed the last 8 years. ;)

[@chaosgyro]

@@revendisio GW2 is a fun, quality game, that I stopped playing for a variety of reasons, but one thing it is NOT is a sequel to GW1. They are fundamentally wildly different games.

[@thirion1850]

Petition to rename this to Charrway because obvious puns and lore.

[@MagicalMike2]

Looks fun seeing all the fire aoe everywhere. Thanks for taking the time to put the templates in too, always appreciated that from build vids. Couple of suggestions: mark of rodgort for all the burning in the world and could you please show a few hero bars in the gameplay to show how they manage themselves? I keep finding my bip necro runs out of energy with ashes in his hands and recuperation being such a drain.

[@moenbase1]

WP doing GW 1, ofcourse that's a like!

[@labdG]

The idea of playing as a group of mages that rain so much fire upon their enemies that the enemies don't dare to fight back and attempt to flee instead is so cool! :D In how many games can you really do that? Scaring people as a necro in GW2 is cool but that is like some magic mind manipulation. This is scaring through pure force and intimidation! xD

[@korpse3893]

Just fired up gw1 for the first time in years, earlier. I'm a bit torn though, since it's a free to play weekend for stellaris

[@astralaris8712]

Check the weekend out first if you want, gw1 wont run away :D

[@GuntherCloneC]

Speaking of Hard Mode, How would you run variants for this team in 4 or 6 man maps?

[@robertburns4429]

Churning Earth + Sandstorm Eles turn hardmode into easy mode. All foes move faster than normal in HM and Churning Earth cause repeated knockdown to foes moving faster than normal.

[@LettucePlate]

For those running melee professions, consider the Dervish skills Shield of Force and Reaper's Sweep for really reliable knockdown!

[@JoshSweetvale]

/lifts Hammer Can both knockdown and exploit knockdown.

[@progames70]

Idk if you have an imbagon, but you could replace the mesmers with searing flames eles and get the most out of they are on fire. I've been theorizing this with a friend, the damage output is significantly less but the sustain seems to insane. For the rest just run a soul twister and BIP healer

[@Kalarchis]

Yeah I ran that setup for a long time, works great.

[@davesobani9565]

Used to have loads of builds then i lost the build template file, i do remember using spiritway with 3 ritualist for hardmode vanquishing. This intriges me thoug

[@sypharorigin]

I used to run a similar hero build before I switched to using earth magic which works really well, but for me the best choice for nm and hm is 4 necros and 3 monks ^^

[@herrburgermeister8756]

It's wonderful to see you posting content for GW1 as well as 2. Knowing that you look at these games from a PvP player point-of-view has many advantages for us, the viewers, so we can pick up some tipsNtricks. Thank you. And thank you for posting the build templates for this particular team group. Just one problem - the build templates are half the need-to-know. What runes and insignia did you place on the heroes armour? I didn't catch the info if it was in the vid. And if it is in the vid, many apologies for the question.

[@_Banjo_]

I like when you talk about the elly update, cracked armour and various mechanics because i would aruge theyve been in the game longer than not ;)

[@dungeonplaysguildwars]

Searing Flame heroes are fun

[@NikeDnT]

No Hamstring? Unplayable.

[@sorrymybadxd]

Only true boomers will understand

[@tracephage]

I always wanted to see a viable team of Dervishes each with a different god avatar elite skill Never could pull it off though, maybe an idea to brainstorm over ^^

[@MehrumesDagon]

I've found on pvx some time ago very... awkward in theme build for dwayna dervish... Dervish necro, with stats into mysticism, blood magic and wind prayers, avatar of dwayna, order of pain dark fury, blood bond, and a mixture of wind prayes spells/flash spells and stuff I don't remember by the name..... if you search on pvx for "dwayna orders" dervish you should find it in one of hero comps :) (I've given it a try and it's quite fun one once you realize that you don't use scythe on that build xD) the hero team comp had more offensive alternative for that dervish if memory serves so if it had balthazar's avatar as offensive you would have some steps towards the goal ;) myself I am tinkering with some sort of "the sunspear" team atm. the builds for that I have assembled myself would be paragon/warrior, warrior/paragon and ranger/ritualist, but I am on the fence about that last one if it still fits the theme in her /rit form

[@qwertyuiop65478]

They have quite a few short conditions like 3 sec burning and disease, plus others from flash enchants, works pretty well with a Fevered Dreams / Fragility mes. AOE heals from Dwanya and AOE condition removal on Melandru both provide decent anti-pressure. Main healing on the team could literally just be all 5 dervs taking Infuse Health. Throw in a ST and some other support, seems like it could be fun. Lyss is honestly the least useful, for actual practicality on the team I would say double Dwanya for more heals, or just only 4 dervs with an extra support.

[@ThisNameIsBanned]

Dwaynas works as a healer quite well (having 3 of them is massive healing for the entire team and all allies too, which works for minions). Totally viable even in lots of hard mode, but it sacrifices a lot of damage, so the rest of the team has to deliver that. The others avatars are more a pvp thing, they are fairly weak.

[@sypharorigin]

I used to have a teambuild using dervishes that worked like a charm, if I still have it on my old hdd maybe I can put the builds up here. :)

[@lMrJackl]

Run with a D/Me running fevered dreams, some sort of cripple, and heart of holy flame or balths rage for lots of burning. then take theyre on fire on the P for party wide damage reduction

[@lolololalala8225]

Things like this makes this game so good..🙂

[@fisherinfocus]

The evil potato thumbnail will give me nightmares

[@Colathan]

I'm enjoying this as a Ray of Judgement/Deep Freeze smiting monk

[@Fawstah]

Churning earth is one of the strongest aoe ele skills. If you’ve ever done hardmode kurzick zone vanquishing, whoo boy. Also one of the silliest simplest comps I’ve ever run, put ranger as secondary profession on everyone, and have them charm a pet, then equip comfort animal. It’s one skill but it’s so useful to have a wall of 8 pets that tank all the damage while outputting a fair about of damage. Combine that with a minion master, and a SoS rit, you have walls and walls and walls. Lol. Also great for leveling up pets if that’s important to you

[@valgrian]

For a bit I was wondering why you didn't bother to add Mark of Rodgort, with all the fire flying around, but then I figured at the rate stuff dies anyway the burning probably doesn't add much.

[@AparatorulPoporului]

Best mmo ever made.

[@The_Conundrum_Crew]

I like how in GW2 you don't need targets to use skills. GW1 would have been so nice with that mechanic.

[@BVRDMUSIC]

More of this content please!

[@bre_me]

Who says necro damage being typeless was a mistake? Mesmers have plenty of typeless damage, so why can't necros also

[@NightTiger26]

Just a thought. Stolen Speed is a Hex and thus may be stripped by a mob. Have you considered the new Elite Time Ward for the Mesmer? Could be off

[@MrVeaka]

You can get adrenaline with scepters. For the mystic sandstorm.

[@Remi-gm4fx]

it will not work in hm cause foes moove fast and scatter way faster, its a : meh, okay tier nm

[@NovaBushido]

Wards don't work for spirits, so your agony spirit won't get the dmg boost from your dmg ward.

[@LettucePlate]

I think its mostly so Spirit Light doesnt sac health.

[@machinimaaquinix3178]

Jeez I can't believe I'm sitting here watching Gw1 build-craft in 2020. I miss that game, esp after a-nerfs feb competetive mode flops. In all the years GW1 was in its prime, anet had never driven me from the game with balance changes.

[@Hans2241]

Agony with burning is a good combination because the hp degeneration is limited by 10 arrows So it’s like to have burning twice 😏

[@milago53]

Did this work for wind of change quests NM/HM? Or only NM? :) nice video, this inspires me 👍

[@Auriorium]

Maybe this will help me with my problems with normal.

[@gorannisevic148]

Just 1 thing to explain me pls... maybe i miss something but how this can be a 7 hero builds when you have 2 mercs in your setup? always great to see new stuff from gw1 thank you so much for it! keep up the great job!!!

[@chaosgyro]

Mercenaries are heroes you pay for that can copy the look/class of one of your characters. It lets you have extra heroes of a certain profession above what the game naturally gives you. The guys you party with in town are called Henchmen.

[@ELT90]

Eleway FTW

[@mildlyacidic]

I think you should name this team Toaster Way

[@Chris-qq2cu]

i may have missed it if you said it, but would this work on an ele/mes or do you need to be on a mes/ele

[@Chris-qq2cu]

nvm, this is why you always watch the whole video before asking questions lol

[@broomemike1]

Wow, could you imagine GW2 with teams under your control? Weapon swapping, pet swapping, 15 abilities at a minimum... Not even going into the builds, that would be mental!

[@The_Conundrum_Crew]

People would play it for 15 years!

[@davidgustavsson4000]

I played a fire AoEDOT ele in gw1. Never knew it was bad :p

[@AlvosTiger]

Make another video of GW1 but with BBB xD

[@RPGCrash]

so basically a walking searing

[@ash0787]

shame you can't fast cast lava font

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Yeah that would be so good right!

[@MichaelS5400]

I did something like this with RoJ monk

[@rkauka240]

more gw 1 content.... yes!!

[@BlackSmithWolves]

Can someone tell me what does more damage generally in terms of conditions between burning and bleeding? I'm reading online that people are saying that you should go with either burning or bleeding but I'm not really sure which one is better than the other, if at all. I've been reading the formulas on the wiki and that don't make a ton of sense to me, burning and poison both look like they do WAY more than bleeding per stack but people say you should get bleeding before poison so I'm just confused all around. If I understand right, burning is more burst and bleeding is more sustain damage over time. With the small added benefit that while some enemies are immune to burning, no one is immune to bleeds. I'm playing a variation of Wooden Potatoes scrapper build with hammer flame thrower and with all the theory crafting and replacing skills that aren't in the game anymore from his build, I'm down between going all out on bleeding and getting superior rune of the mad king (also because the crows will proc on the same cool down as the stealth gyro which is really nice) OR going with the superior rune of infiltration which would allow me to hit a little harder when enemies are at 50% HP (which can complement decently with glass cannon in explosives). If I took mad king then I would take short fuse and the blast gyro with flame thrower I am having more than guaranteed crit to get the bleed crit rolling from firearms. What do you guys think? My full build is below as of right now Explosives --- Short Fuses --- blast shield --- shrapnel Firearms--- High Caliber ---No Scope---Juggernaut Scrapper---Mass Momentum---Object in Motion---Applied Force Runes undecided as explained above. Sigils on Hammer Superior Sigil of Peril and Sigil or air. I like the sigil of peril because it increases that vulnerability duration you do with the hammer which in turn will make all of this bleeding do more damage as well. And the sigil of fire is just a nice little extra hit in an aoe. As far as armor goes I'm just doing what I can to get the best exotics, I plan on getting better gear far down the road.

[@ThisNameIsBanned]

Fk GW2 , what we really need is a REMASTER of GW1 , modern graphics, much more content, GW1 gets never old, GW2 looks great, but its gameplay is just awful.

[@Capslocks27]

just to comment.. for how old this game is, it looks and plays WAY better than most MMOs these days. *looking at you "cash grab" games*

[@Le_beaubrun]

hand drawn textures, also why FF12 still looks good

[@MehrumesDagon]

the funny part in that is that when you look at gw1's animation it often feels running much smoother than it's fps count would indicate. 13fps in gw1 feels much smoother and less jumpy than 40 fps in gw2 to name a closest example. (I did run gw1 on some.... debatable hardware not so long time ago xD)

[@Le_beaubrun]

​@@MehrumesDagon Maybe cause not many players can fight at the same time in an instance? I remember that GW1 could get super laggy in towns during festivals.

[@MehrumesDagon]

@@Le_beaubrun well but in theory the things you mention should affect fps itself, not the "feel" of fluidity regardless of the fps count. maybe it's just something as trivial as - game was made long time ago with technical specs in mind that are no longer fit to even run modern OS, and therefore animations and stuff may have been made in the first place with ~20 frames per second as "optimal". still feels awkward every time when I look at fps count in gw1 when running it on netbook/laptop and seeing it running about 15 fps xD

[@tommyvercetti9434]

The Searing 2

[@GuriGashi_]

Next the impossible - Melee hero composition Get Koss out of his retirement lmao

[@felixmikolai7375]

imagine crossing guild wars 1 with path of exile lol would be awesome..

[@BenLubar]

I remember when you did this in GW2 WvW

[@tims7174]

so basically you broke the game? ;D

[@peterkojdiak8807]

Its not even Hard mode omg :D

[@greendog456]

"May-Lay"....not "Ma-Lay"

[@Phantom_comet]

Early