Guild Wars 2

// As the title says... just wondering how pvp is...
// I was a necro if i remember correctly (played several games since i quit) and i also somewhat remember people saying necros were weak and couldnt kill anyone. (assuming i was a necro) I found the not being able to own someone like shatter build back then yes... but i was kitten near unkillable... are they still like this?
//Willing to relevel up a character if someone back in the day played any of the following and could tell me what they think i would enjoy the most given the following -
/* a monk on Everquest 2 (original release) or
a necro on DAOC (original release) or
a Shaman on Everquest (original release),
also had a blast playing my shaman on WoW in arenas */
// Thanks for the help for all the future posters

Everquest1 Monk Players represent! Morrel-thule

Necros are pretty tanky but right now it’s faceroll crit&condi&Fear meta..

Depending where you are on the solo que ranking you’ll see different metas,
Like; below 500 everybody just runs random things like elementalists..
400-300 Balanced teams no more randoms or atleast rarely..(Funnest imho)
After around 200-300 You start getting Necro/warrior/ranger teams only with a thief or two littered inbetween.. and of course an anomoly once in a while like a mesmer. (Ultrarare)

Rankings are completely random! Lose a few games and you can go from 200 to 672

Now might actually be the worst time to return to the game, maybe not if you are a necro. The way current state of the game is, is passive play, and being overly rewarded for passive play, and attrition based play. As well as a lot of spam.

I would wait about a week, or maybe 10 days to return to PvP, because currently, I think you just would not be impressed with how the game might have changed when you last quit.

// Thanks for heads up on my timing.
// I just quit playing WoW due to the demand it needed of me to keep my arena rating over 2500.
// Maybe i will just put the keyboard down from game playing and see what i can do on the elevation of Telsa’s earth conductor for free energy, haha.

Play some and judge yourself. If you have fun then its all good.

Worse than when I quit in December….

How did they manage to make it worse in all that time, I don’t know.

Worse yet they’re putting off changes so 10 people can play a very bad pvp game with no audience.

Well… we can boycott PAX by not watching it to show the devs that puttng off balance for their tournaments is sillyness.

Darnis.4056:

Well… we can boycott PAX by not watching it to show the devs that puttng off balance for their tournaments is sillyness.

I thought that was going to happen automatically, who would want to watch that? =p

i’ve been playing this game since may, mostly pvp and enjoyed up until now. currently with ranger/necro imba pvp is unplayable.

If you are playing a necro, you will probably have fun considering they are on the stronger side of things right now and have a hand in shifting the meta to the condi festival it currently is.

I came back to check out solo queue. Thieves everywhere heartseeker spamming, still viable since day 1 launch. And rest ranger/necro. Not fun, not balanced. Game is back on shelf again for me. Playing dota 2 instead, will probably log back after 3-4 months and check how things are again… maybe something happen. However, they really seem to have a hard time balancing those thieves, I think it’s mission impossible, if not done in a year… will it be easier in 2?

pinkglow.3429:

I came back to check out solo queue. Thieves everywhere heartseeker spamming, still viable since day 1 launch. And rest ranger/necro. Not fun, not balanced. Game is back on shelf again for me. Playing dota 2 instead, will probably log back after 3-4 months and check how things are again… maybe something happen. However, they really seem to have a hard time balancing those thieves, I think it’s mission impossible, if not done in a year… will it be easier in 2?

Heartseeker spamming…viable? Either troll or really awful.

Heizero.9183:

pinkglow.3429:

I came back to check out solo queue. Thieves everywhere heartseeker spamming, still viable since day 1 launch. And rest ranger/necro. Not fun, not balanced. Game is back on shelf again for me. Playing dota 2 instead, will probably log back after 3-4 months and check how things are again… maybe something happen. However, they really seem to have a hard time balancing those thieves, I think it’s mission impossible, if not done in a year… will it be easier in 2?

Heartseeker spamming…viable? Either troll or really awful.

Just play it, at least 2-3 thieves in every team every game… like they say “the truth is out there”

What games are you playing…? In tournament games? you only see 1 thief on each team at the most. and they are usually S/D… Heartseeker spam is easily countered and a horrendous waste of initiative on the thieves part making them an extremely easy target afterwards…

Heizero.9183:

What games are you playing…? In tournament games? you only see 1 thief on each team at the most. and they are usually S/D… Heartseeker spam is easily countered and a horrendous waste of initiative on the thieves part making them an extremely easy target afterwards…

In solo queues. Well they zerg and stealth all together, the 2-3 of them each team each game. Sure, it’s better than the backstab-oneshot combo that lasted way long. But still, the class is never balanced right, it’s always too much damage and too much escape. Stealth is an issue, I would like to have it removed from game, would probably make my mesmer a bit more interesting as well.

pinkglow.3429:

Heizero.9183:

What games are you playing…? In tournament games? you only see 1 thief on each team at the most. and they are usually S/D… Heartseeker spam is easily countered and a horrendous waste of initiative on the thieves part making them an extremely easy target afterwards…

In solo queues. Well they zerg and stealth all together, the 2-3 of them each team each game. Sure, it’s better than the backstab-oneshot combo that lasted way long. But still, the class is never balanced right, it’s always too much damage and too much escape. Stealth is an issue, I would like to have it removed from game, would probably make my mesmer a bit more interesting as well.

You must be low rating or something, because i can assure you higher up the tier, or even mid-tier you hardly see them. stealthing hurts the team considering it can’t contest a node, which is why 80% of thieves these days just run S/D evade builds.

lol his posts are comments

Heizero.9183:

pinkglow.3429:

Heizero.9183:

What games are you playing…? In tournament games? you only see 1 thief on each team at the most. and they are usually S/D… Heartseeker spam is easily countered and a horrendous waste of initiative on the thieves part making them an extremely easy target afterwards…

In solo queues. Well they zerg and stealth all together, the 2-3 of them each team each game. Sure, it’s better than the backstab-oneshot combo that lasted way long. But still, the class is never balanced right, it’s always too much damage and too much escape. Stealth is an issue, I would like to have it removed from game, would probably make my mesmer a bit more interesting as well.

You must be low rating or something, because i can assure you higher up the tier, or even mid-tier you hardly see them. stealthing hurts the team considering it can’t contest a node, which is why 80% of thieves these days just run S/D evade builds.

Maybe so, I just played 4 games so probably got no rating at all, not playing game regulary so checking in every now and then to see how the game is doing. 2-3 thieves in each team each game… I dont know how long I need to play to get rid of them… but too much of a buzzkiller to even try. Rather just wait and see if they will ever manage to sort that class out right. Even noticed my favourite mesmer in team paradigm rerolled thief, and they probably play as endgame as one could. The horror, the horror, and enough to put game back on shelf for a couple of more months.