Guild Wars 2

Just curious what everyone is playing to get past the ruby grind. Currently been using Reaper and DH in pugs and having some success.

I’m sure organized groups/guilds would be better, but thought why not ask what op builds people are running especially any solid pugable ones. Looked at metabattle and saw several good metas, just not sure which would be best for pugs trying to get to diamond.

ps: pretty sure would be diamond+ already but started late in the season.

Thanks.

Play bunker mes while you can and also druid if you want to be the 1 v 1 hero your team needs.

25 pips into diamond now. I’d probably be in legendary if I hadn’t stopped with pvp since Wintersday dropped.

I play a non-meta Mesmer. No portal or blink either. Mantra, shatter, lockdown and condi removal + staff for support.

I’ve mixed with SoloQ runs and team runs via guildies.

It helps a lot when you talk in team (SoloQ that is). Know rotations and you’re good.

Other than that, losses usually are because of poor team comps.

tier 4 diamond, played pretty much exclusively a DH build that runs only 1 trap.

I played DH up until around Sapphire, realized it has no place in the current meta so I switch to Rev and got to Legendary using that. Honestly, I’m glad I did. Despite the fact that it is over performing in some areas, it’s still fun to play and I’ll probably stick with it even after the balance patch.

I am tier 3 diamond and i solo queued all the way to it. I also do not own HoT so did it without the elite specializations. Apart from a couple of games at the start of the league (which i played with my thief) i exclusively played ranger.

This is my build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAsXTjEqQLL2wCmsAXLGYEqec78Q4b9hN15w9oDgKm6B-TZRBQBA4QAEvyAa4EAMhnAgB3fAA

Exclusively played Thief and got to legendary.

tier 4 diamond, played warrior 80% of games and necro rest of the time. SoloQ only.

Don’t have expansion, played vanilla power necro SoloQ to diamond. Decided to not even try for legendary since this game has become pay-to-win garbage.

Here’s my ruby run into diamond.

I played a glass Rev (which is not really glassy)

Just got legendary from only soloq’ing. Played about 50% sd thief, 20% dp thief and 30% reaper cele signets.

dps mesmer to t5 ruby and bunkered it to diamond

old vashioned da/sa/tr dp thief :>

soloq 99% obviously, since nobody in their right mind would play with me right now~
1% were… rather strange exceptions~

clerics druid all the way (except like 7 matches on thief in sapphire to get the two profession achievement).

90% of the time i went far at the start and just held a 2v1 for the entire game /s

Bunker ele, Bunker mesmer and power rev to legend

Solo queue only; marauder staff tempest.

Pushed ruby with scrapper, thief and tempest. Got final tier on tempest.

Did most of Diamond with Condi Rev and Thief. Did final push to legend with condi rev.

Marauder Druid, mostly solo q and occasionally duo when my friend was on.

Halfway to legendary, but just don’t have the time unfortunately.

Zerk Chrono Shatter with Scholar Runes, only way to burst through a bunker. I only went through Diamond recently though so the playerbase was of much poorer quality than the people who went for it at the beginning (there is a massive difference between a Diamond in the last 2 weeks compared to a Diamond from the first 2 weeks of a league).

Used thief and scrapper (about 5 times when i had another thief on team) so proud of myself Q_Q was so hard to get up here on thief, especially since i only soloq xD

Full zerker reaper with GS :^)

i’ve always been the bunker type and since they removed bunker guardian from the game i had to switch to bunker mes and tempest.
So thats what i played in team and for solo q i used viper reaper

Ranked to Ruby with stronghold only, playing DH, Condi Reaper, Tempest and Druid, up until stronghold was turned off, than played Tempest/Druid bunkers in Conquest until Ruby T5, than stronghold came back and I finished out to diamond with Condi Reaper.

I took pointers from Leet0’s post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Soloq-Legend-achieved

Basically played tempest to hold points. Would have played mesmer, but already had champion illusionist.

Like Leet0’s post, I wouldn’t recommend soloq to legendary, its just not worth it.

power ranger,medi guardian and shout hybrid reaper.
solo/duo q.

switched beteween cele tempest cele druid cele/carrion reaper, basically anything ur good at and pref something that can carry

I played thief almost to ruby, then used druid a little bit, switched to condi reaper in ruby but ended up playing cele ele and got to diamond

got diamond on thief/DH
soloQ

D/D celestial tempest to legendary:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYn0XCdOg9XCWYCcYilNAzdv+XPsErgUwIY4BEAKgA-TJBGABMVGIhTAA67PAwDAAA

And now in anticipation of the new patch, S/F Fresh Air Tempest to Legend X2:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJArdn0XCdOg9XCWYCcYilHAzdyeZ/sDngMQHUIAcA2gA-TJBGABBt/QCnAAvLDAwDAAA

Fresh Air works great in the current meta, but you need enough support. D/D Tempest is simply one of the best allrounders in the game and perfect for Solo-Q’s (which are like 95% of my games)

Played scrapper (without stealth gyro) in solo que reached legend about a week ago only to see players in legendary be just as kittenome in emerald

cele spirit DH with only one trap (elite)

Tier 7 diamond atm, hoping to reach legendary. I played almost exclusively bunker tempest since getting to diamond and before then I played tempest and also Druid and scrapper. I played DH to get through low divisions but it just became useless to me after that due to getting focus down and not having the skill to survive that.

Reaper with Celestial signet (modified) build. Not problem for me playing soloQ.

tempest = when opposite team has 2-3 necro.
reaper (condi) = when they have mostly DH, Rev.
Rev (power) = forest map when opposite are mostly bunkers, u go around and kill npc when they spawn coz bunker team will not touch npc.
druid = when u have 1 ele in your team

Got to legend with 100% solo q. Played all classes to get ascenc. achievements.

Reached legendary with condition reaper.
I have recorded some fights if you are interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHgTdpJ6jk

99% solo queue to legend using d/p thief and sometimes celestial/crusader druid. As a thief, diamond tier was a breeze and ruby plain hell. I blame the afkers “defending nodes” forcing thieves to 4v4 rather than decap or +1.

- condition reaper / signet corruption; rune of aristocracy + carrion amulet with scepter+warhorn and staff. This carried me the most. Had problems with Ele’s but which condition class engages them anyway.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBLhZ6kGRozGsyGwcTgeTsgLYxVxu4YE6qFAWAUph2wXA-TZxFABut/QCnCgdfAAAcEAcqMAA

SoloQ diamond

SoloQ into Legendary with my Rev, ez pz

Solo Queued to Diamond as D/P thief. If there was another thief on the team, I swapped to druid.

Up till diamond as pistol pistol thief…

After that the harassments got to bad and i switched to whatever my team needed.

Druid, scrapper, tempest reaper and some thief games in between up till legendary.

Majority of the time I used Elementalist and Ranger to reach Diamond. 99% solo Queue. Guardian was my 3rd Class for the evil “Win Games on Three Different Classes” achievements.

Although I played Revenant and Thief a good lot in early divisions mid Sapphire and below till I realized how much easier life is solo queuing on a class like Celestial Ele that almost never dies, keeps allies alive and still does tons of damage. Ele was also a class I almost never played aside from dailies before league. Ranger sustain, decent dmg and cc spam was better in some situations but avoided using him against Necro stacking grps.

Also went though the whole thing mostly off daily 3 game wins cuz I get burnt out of Spvp easily. It’s not really very enjoyable regardless of if you win/lose to me.

Got to diamond begin january on warri 100%,havent bothered to get to legendary,got bored.

Started January and got to t4/t5 diamond as a thief via solo-queue conquest.

Would like to see if I could get to legend but I don’t think I’ll be able to before the season ends.

I get paired with kittenty teammates so I cant get out of ruby

40% Gs/H warrior
60% DD/staff necro
without HOT

Daredevil, mostly, and always when my team lacks sufficient direct damage. Reaper a fair amount, usually when there is another thief, my comp lacks support, or the other team has 2 bunker mesmers, and the other team doesn’t have too many eles and or mine doesn’t lack sufficient offensive pressure to deal with Diamond Skill. Lastly, a few using shatter mesmer for those cases where my team has some support and the other team has 2+ tempests.

Not because reaper and shatter mesmer are the most effective alts, but because they are what I can play.

Pyriall.1683:

Play bunker mes while you can and also druid if you want to be the 1 v 100 hero your team needs.

Fixed.

Was out of town for most of the season, but got to legendary using mostly shatter mes/thief.
I ended up spending some time with all of the different elite specs just to learn them, though. (Except for warrior, which I never felt comfortable taking out of unranked). And sometimes I’d go bunker tempest/mes when I got stuck with teammates who all played DPS classes.