Guild Wars 2

So, as of recent I’ve had these never ending battles which end up by me getting annoyed or a zerg crashing in, meaning escape.

Before LS it was against guardians. Now they’re just like…cheese.

But now it’s against rangers. Even when getting them low they pop back up, no trouble. They can fight in a blackpowder like silly and make a million mistakes and just pop back up. Seems pretty silly to me. I felt like I was playing much better than these guys but they keep doing same rotation and never dying. I didn’t have much trouble staying alive but it was to the point that I could call a friend, wait 15 mins for him to arrive and then gank him down. LS doesn’t seem to work because they pop short duration buffs that can be easily refreshed.

Also phantasm mesmers. This build seems silly too. The mesmer barely does anything but to pop the illusions and run in circles to avoid damage. The moment stealth goes off is like a medium damage spike every 4 seconds. The battle could have ended since these guys are KINDA squishy (sometimes BS goes for 1k no crit, for no reason- buff, actual back, ect.) but since the spikes were so often playing defensive is the only way since clones know exactly where you are so they just spam at you at almost any given time.

I’m not complaining about these builds but it seems silly that a bad player is able to keep up just with build and known rotation. Heck, my build seems silly too since it is very forgiving, durable and has good damage.

TLDR
What have been your endless encounters? Care to share?
What do you do? Bow and call it even? Suicide? Escape/WP? Call friends?

Rangers. I’m not very familiar with the class, but they seem to have insane toughness and healing, even when I strip their boons regularly. Guardians and Ele’s aren’t nearly as much trouble as a well played bunker ranger.

Mine are vs Rangers. Good ones I must admit. Built to survive, while having decent damage via traps (which dont work on me) so I become their mini pet. They block and evade everything, their pets miss me, I avoid the traps. Looks like a conga line lol

my endless battles are against those players that are reaaaaaaaally good at thieves….eventually some make a mistake and can be capitalized on…but good ones the fight lasts literally until one of us quits. i usually end up inviting and offering a draw and a good laugh. 2 good thieves should never have an end fight. :P

The buff to signets made some rangers very sturdy. Along with that, the popularization of a regen bunker build going into WvW… Just take care with their pets, the ranger might not do a lot of dmg, but their cats…

I’m having never-ending battles against some d/d eles that run the anti-cond runes/food. You cant hold them with anything, so the fight is all about you to zaping all over the place. Had 2 fights against one ele using this setup last week that took more than 20min each.
Same with a bunker engi. He puts all conditions on me, I cleanse, he pops all his buffs, I steal them, I burst him to near death, he pops his elite and burst me, we both retreat… rinse and repeat for about 15-20min until someone else arrives and one of us stealth and run away…

But, I see all this as a great change!
Before I could not engage any of those specs and expect to have a good fight.

I actually had a fun fight in WvW the other day. We were three thieves from opposing servers (all three servers represented) that just ran into each other in one of the borderlands. It felt like a hilarious game of hide and seek, and the first one to pop out of stealth was the one getting attacked by the two other thieves. The funny thing was that all three of us were running a P/D + S/D set up with tons of survivability and nice damage.

I think we fought for about 10 minutes before some other people showed up. All just ended up sitting around, watching us fight each other. After about 15-20 minutes I left stealth and did a quick /bow, as did they. We had a small dance-off before an enemy zerg dropped by and we slipped off into the shadows, never to see each other again.

I’ve been searching endlessly on YouTube and Twitch to see if I could find someone who may have recorded the entire thing.

As for now I just hope to meet one of these thieves again and just wait until one of us would screw up and die. I’m usually at the same spot we met each day at the exact same time, so if one of you are reading this; I’ll be waiting. (Seafarer’s Rest, Vizunah Square and Desolation match up)