Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I haven’t played GuildWars in a while, I was hoping I could get a brief update on the state of pretty much everything that matters that surrounds PvP.

Hoping for good news!

/Tokyo

The meta has been mostly the same for 2 years now, however ele skills got changed a bit and exhaustion works a bit different. Some guys even run Flare in their builds. Crazy. Dervishes are still in good position but not as OP as they used to be.

Weekend events are now 1 week long events, Heroes’ Ascent is usually filled durning these weeks. There are still 30 teams in GvG tournaments. RA still has some population, Codex is a bit dead.

Maze.5283:

Hello,

I haven’t played GuildWars in a while, I was hoping I could get a brief update on the state of pretty much everything that matters that surrounds PvP.

Hoping for good news!

/Tokyo

If you main Necro Warrior Spirit Ranger or Guardian GREAT
If you main Thief and STILL enjoy spamming one or two buttons
in rapid succession GREAT

If you main Mesmer Engi or that class who hasn’t been seen since the last patch,
Not so great, maybe wait a month to come back.

Conditions everywhere.
Warriors gained sustain and are good at 1v1.
Thieves migrated from d/p shadow arts to s/d acrobatics.
Elementalists lost their place at the top of the food chain.
Condition mesmers became viable and are totally broken for 1v1.
Conditionmancers gained sustain, damage and control (8s fearchain anyone ?).
Engineers lost their breakstun on elixir r (ninjanerf to the knee).
Rangers’ spirits are back to what they were pre release (strong).
Guardians are more or less in the same state they have always been (not as unkillable as in the early days ofc but still very tanky).

Condition mesmers?.. w..what?.. You mean countless’s build?…

Mesmers are not broken, stop crying.

?
join a king of the hill room and watch as a stealth based phantasm mesmer has 80% stealth uptime and the bleedings from his illusionary duelists make up for at least 50% of his damage output.
Call them “Just slightly over the top” if you don’ t like the word broken, it doesn’ t change things.

Eh .. what works in hotjoin usually doesn’t work on anyone who’s even slightly good….

Mesmer is fine. It’s even UP in some aspects.

Why the complaint about ele? They dish out pretty nasty, constant damage with fresh air.

Granted they couldn’t be tanky, damaging and fast at the same time, but 2/3 is not bad at all – is about par as the other classes imo.

Darnis.4056:

Eh .. what works in hotjoin usually doesn’t work on anyone who’s even slightly good….

king of the hill isn’ t hotjoin, it’ s the most popular 1v1 room EU ruled by lxl super lxl himself which is part of the EU team that made it to the finals of the invitational tournament.

eh well I took your advice and drafted a tankier condi mesmer..
and it does surprisingly well I think…..

I don’t know about anything from the EU… as I’m NA.. :o

Lachanche.6859:

Thieves migrated from p/d shadow arts to s/d acrobatics.

What?

Lachanche.6859:

Darnis.4056:

I don’t know about anything from the EU… as I’m NA.. :o

Allow me to introduce you to EU awsomness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9OO7vuxAPI

what.. what did I just watch?

But yea.. 0/20/20/0/30 bro… Shatter master 2.0

if only hardcore players stay with the pvp in this game, the pvp will die more and more

so many things about GW2 pvp that could be changed to attract more casual players

Mesmer 80% stealth time?

Impossible.

I can achieve pretty ridiculous amount of stealth.. build is very strong…..

Mesmers have a few seconds of stealth every 30 seconds. 80% would be 24 seconds of stealth every 30 seconds. In a 15 min game they would be in stealth for 12 minutes.

This is a good example of why it is so hard to find accurate information on the PvP forums.

LOL what?
The Prestige (3s every 30)
Decoy(3s every 32)
Veil(2s every 90)
Mass Invis(4s every 90)

If you really wanted to; also you can get +1 sec invis trait..
Still you were the one who mentioned 80% stealth.. I never said it was 80% stealth..

Darnis, what made me think I was referring to you? Lachance claimed 80%.

From what you posted, that’s a little over 10% stealth.

It’s too much stealth for me :/ waaaay too much

Darnis.4056:

It’s too much stealth for me :/ waaaay too much

Well, how about 90% no stealth?

@ensoriki that p/d was supposed to be d/p lol, most theives were playing that before the patch that introduced larcenous strike.

@otherpplz i’ ll start doing field research to bring to you the correct percentage of stealth uptime accurate to the decimal.

Its still the same game…
The same bad matchmaking, the same gameplay, same map style for every insance…

Just go to a different game if you didn’t like GW2 before, the devs seem happy with where GW2 is, and was at a year ago, short of balancing tweaks.