I Played ONLY Willbender for 29 Days; Here’s What I learned
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- As a Warrior main since Pre-Launch days, it's time to branch out...Welcome to Month 1 of my challenge series this year, where I'll be forcing myself to play only one class for an entire MONTH of my time in Guild Wars 2. By community poll, Guardian was the first up, and I had a great time playing Willbender, and doing some serious introspection at myself as a gamer and content creator, and the status of the Guild Wars 2, MMORPG, and TH-cam Meta.
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Intro 00:00
Why the challenge? 00:42
The Class & Build 01:26
Lesson 1 02:21
Adventure! 03:05
The Retrospective 04:55
The BIG Lesson 05:55 - เกม
Willbender is absolutely my favourite Guard spec, while I play a power double sword variant which is pretty off meta, outside of PvP, having so much mobility is also fun as hell.
I'll have to check out double power sword! And yeah, having a lot of movement skills makes it feel so fun and dynamic compared to a lot of builds.
I wanted to try double sword for a long time, that’s literally how I imagine the willbender
Funnily I recently started a Guardian Willbender to eventually jump into WvW. Coming from a Power Reaper I was also feeling the change in lack of upfront damage. And actually hitting my utilities? Madness! 😆
The Build: Hit keys 6-10
Me: We haven't been there...since the before times....
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got the same issue here 😂, 320h in the game and 300 of those hours are on power reaper, so now i tried willbender and damn do i gotta learn more about classes hahah
One thing I learned about meta builds is that sometimes they don't fit the play style one likes to play. Often, from my experience, I would kind of tweak it to fit the way I like to play and get similar results. For instance, I would pick marauder's armor instead of 'zerker's for the extra hp. Even have celestial trinkets to at a little bit of support. Optimal? No, but keeps me alive.
Very true! Even small tweaks can help a build feel a lot better for you. Sometimes even if it's "Less Optimized" if it fits your playstyle, you can even get better results than if you forced yourself to have certain things you dislike
Yo solid video dude! I just came back from a ten year break and your video was recommended and I loved it, Good stuff!
Welcome back to Tyria! I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thank you for the kind words!
!:00 "i can never grow more if i just do the same thing every day"
so your answer was to do the same thing every day, but with a different thing XD
but i fully agree with your summary about ignoring the meta and trying new things :)
Thanx for the video, i enjoyed it and agry on meny points on metta state of gameplay. Chears🔝💪🔝
Glad you enjoyed it!
Celestial all the way bros.
Yeah I'm rocking out Celestial right now on my Revenant for the next month long video and it's been doing real well. Think it might be my new go to for my less played Alts, so I can just use whatever I feel like and have it be solid.
Thanks for the video, your channel deserve more subs! By the way correct me if Im wrong but from the looks of it, you were using a condi willbender build with maximizing dps for group instanced content. That build would be very squishy in open world. Adding some celestial or trailblazer would make you much more strong and damage will still be nice for casual gameplay.
Thank you for watching & for saying that! I do agree swapping some Celestial/Trailblazer in would definitely help with survival and still be great as far as casual content damage output goes! I think I'll probably be changing my couple of legendary pieces to that and upgrading the Jade Bot Core whenever I play it next to get it into a little bit better of a spot.
Excited to see the thief video!
RIP core guard btw
I’m gonna do this thank you ❗️
This was really nice to watch. I've been struggling to stay properly interested when playing GW2 lately, but I want to push myself to try out builds I've never really played before, and this is just the motivation I needed.
PS. How do you play Guardian well? I've been finding it so difficult!
I'm glad the video was inspiring for you!
I'm certainly no expert on Guardian, but I can explain my process. For Willbender, the key was to understand what skills are my critical skills to use, what skills are used after critical skills for damage, and then what skills are used last and/or for utility. Once you start to cement that idea in your head and get a tier list of activations, it got easier for me anyway. Berserker warrior is very constant button pressing and Willbender condi felt a bit like that, so I can see it being difficult to pick up for some.
In WoW I used to have actual full rotations memorized like 1-1-1-1-3-2-5 repeat, but with GW2 I tend to use this 3 tier list for most classes and with enough practice you'll slowly feel out a rotation, and when you're not in perfect rotation you'll begin to instinctively know what to press next based on which buttons are blacked out.
Really share you feelings with the meta and what you think about it
Well, I'll never argue that the meta isn't effective, for sure. There's people much better at math and theory-crafting than myself who can mathematically destroy me for trying to do that, and I'm not that crazy. But I do have some thoughts on it outside of effectiveness. This also isn't just from a Guild Wars 2 perspective, but an overall gaming perspective.
For starters, I think one trap a lot of newer players fall into is copying meta builds without understanding what actually makes it work that way which can lead to performance loss when things happen to upset that. For example if we look at Helldivers 2, where a small section of the community was so hyperfocused on the meta weapons and strategems that they would kick players for using anything but that, even over marginal loss of 'optimal' numbers, even when not on the highest difficulty settings. Like kicking someone not using a Snowcrows benchmark build when you're running T1 Fractals kinda stuff.
The other is just a general siphoning of that creative feeling of throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what works. Or just having the freedom to do things you want to do for fun. As I said in the video, maybe don't show up to your weekly raid night with some duct-taped together scrapmetal build, but the amount of WvW PUG commander's I've seen trash people for not using a meta build when they're just hanging out in WvW for fun is wild to me. I think there's absolutely a time and place for optimal, Meta builds. I think there's absolutely a time and place to let your friend play some awful condi build he made while you're doing T1 Fractals, because he wants to try it and it'll cost you maybe 2 more minutes at the end of the day, and everyone's having fun.
Obviously there are also some people who find min-maxing and meta building *fun* and love to break things and just have stupidly strong builds and super-high numbers. That's perfectly okay too! My issue with the meta is the smaller minority of people who force the meta in as some sort of fun police, in situations where it is absolutely not necessary. A worship of the meta, I suppose, rather than a use of the meta.
Welldone
Title should be: "Warrior player realises there is more to games *SHOCK*".
Jokes and stereotypes confirmed aside, nice video ;)
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Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@syzxgamingx Perfect
This might be far too late- but remember with Duncan in WvW you can get all stat selectable gear cheap if you have some wvw currency laying around!
Definitely not too late, appreciate the tip! New challenge starts this weekend for me so I'll have to take a look! At this point I think I have enough ascended chests lying around for a full medium set but this'll definitely help for the light classes/ any gaps
@@syzxgamingx Glad to have helped! Think each pc is like 1g-ish and ave of 75 badges of honor. These can be attained through Skirmish Chests, 20 each too!
Maybe more gameplay if you’re playing one build? Strengths and weaknesses of the spec you played.
More varied different builds could be fun to watch but expensive to prep.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm actually in the midst of working on the final touches for the next one of these so it's veey helpful!
Jade cores will fix your health issues
Definitely would, I just decided to stop spending money on his gear at that point LOL
I get all my builds from meta battle. I am very inexperienced with making my own so I will keep doing this for a while to come
Nothing wrong with that at all! The more builds and classes you play, the more you'll start to realize what makes builds good & fun for youand eventually be able to make your own!
I like the video idea, but a bit disappointed after none of the takeaways being about the Willbender, besides the dashing around part. Would have loved to hear what it's about and how it felt in general for someone who has only played one other thing for the most part. Still great video I liked!
Hey thank you so much for that feedback! I'm in the middle of my next one of these videos and will definitely keep that in mind. Thanks for taking the time to watch & respond!
I recommend trying condi geomancer elementalist build essentially a ele that bounces back and forth between fire and stone and focuses on bleeding, ritualist gear my bleed ticks hit like 6k
That sounds really fun! Thanks for the recommend, I have played like zero ELE so I'll keep it in mind!
Mesmer and chrono is like 60% of my play time.
I've always loved the idea of mesmer but it's never really felt right to me when I was playing core. I'm looking forward to experimenting during my Mesmer month to see if I can find a niche in it!
Same, I’m a chrono main seconded by virtuoso and firebrand and surprisingly willbender really clicked with me!
warrior beeg pp class
the blue thief is good tho
Loved to hear there are others who are not at all on the Meta train. It makes my teeth ache that so much of the media about GW2 is utterly focussed on min/maxing the fun out of the game.
Do Eng Scrapper next!
I'm actually running a poll right now to see which class I should do next! I'm already doing Revenant in April, and who knows for May? Scrapper is a strong contender for when I do Engineer!
Not to be rude but....With 2400 hours in the game, with over 60% on warrior....shouldn't you have legendaries for the main armor slots at least? Or do I not understand how legendary armory works? (That being that if you have it unlocked any character on your account can use it.)
A bulk of my playtime was from far before legendary armor existed, and a lot of WvW time before the current ranking system existed. I played mostly Vanilla, came back for a little bit after HoT and PoF and didnt recently start playing a lot until EoD/SoTO. If i played 2400 hours since PoF then yes, I'd probably be much, much further along in terms of legendary progression. The game didnt exist forever in its current state. Just the ability to craft precursors for legendaries rather than mystic forge gamble them was something that didnt even exist.
@@syzxgamingx Fair play man, and thanks for the reply. That makes a lot more sense for sure. If it makes you feel any better I have almost 1100 hours played and am just now getting into legendaries because I always pictured them as something far outside my reach that only "super dedicated" players could get.
If it helps you out, BlishHUD has a super helpful module for tracking progress on every legendary in the game and it has made my progress on the 6 I've made so far SO much easier.
@@syzxgamingx So true. I've got over 3600 hours in the game and not one single legendary, because most of that time was pre HoT. And legendaries were definitly not the norm back than.
I literally play every game I have, and especially GW2, never following the meta. Anyone who follows meta honestly has one of those small brains I think "they" often speak about. It's worth trying new things and feeling out your own way to play, and feel that the character is YOUR character, not a shadow of someone else who created the build you used. You know what I mean?
Yeah meta builds get old fast. Play for the gimmick builds 💪💪💪