Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m having an issue during vale guardian where a nuisance dialog box will constantly pop up while VG is being battled in the first phase near the pillar (usually blue pillar).

I get a dialog box that says something similar to “the pillar pulses with energy”, forcing me to take a second to hit my escape key. If VG gets pulled away from the pillar a little bit, it doesn’t happen, it’s only when it’s being tanked right in front of the pillar.

I’m guessing it has something to do with my key bindings but I can’t figure out what it is and no one else seems to be having the problem. The only thing I can think of is that I constantly hold down my right mouse button most of the time while fighting so I can pan my view around to look for green circles, etc, but don’t know why that would be triggering dialog about the pillar.

Thanks in advance.

Didn’t know you could Dodge agony waves/pulses. The damage from the suit/elemental isn’t the issue, it’s that you take full agony regardless of AR.

op is correct. I was running the bucket switches in 53 facility and the agony waves were taking 50-60% of my HP down. There was nothing else I was getting hit by, unavoidable damage. I’m at 150 AR. It’s not a huge deal except we were doing the challenge mote and it made it very difficult since we couldn’t heal up after the agony waves and eventually would just get downed by them even though we weren’t getting hit by the dredge suit.

Hi,

Playing the rifle warrior metabuild with Rifle/GS and usually Healing Signet/Endure Pain/Berserker’s Stance/Signet of Might/Signet of Rage with some swapping to signet of fury/shake it off/balanced stance/headbutt depending on enemy team comp.

Anyway,

So a good friend of mine is a chrono and I can’t even come close to damaging them in any meaningful way. If I try to keep distance with with rifle I just get rooted/slowed and bombed by shattering clones. Can’t have enough stun breaks to get out of this. If I try to melee with greatsword they just end up getting behind me at some point, I lose target on them after rush (GS 5), it takes me a second to retarget the real one, and boom, dead.

I try to set up a gun flame or a hundred blades with a headbutt or a “fear me”, but they have more than enough stun breaks, blinks, whatever to make it not work. Basically they dodge all my big hits way too easily and I’m left with just some autoattacks while I get withered down over 10-15 seconds. Also they are hitting me with confusion and blinds.

Is there anything I can do against a mesmer in PVP 1v1 situations? The chrono’s only advice was to “dodge clones” but I’m usually out of dodges by the time they hit me, trying not to get rooted/stunned in the first place.

Thanks, I will try some of these modifcations to the meta builds out. Point taken on rotation and basic map awareness/knowledge making more of a difference than class. I’m trying to get better at that and at least warrior greatsword is pretty good at moving around the map fast.

So I’m trying to learn pvp. In ranked I have 11 wins and 38 losses. In unranked 92 wins and 117 losses. I got out of amber mostly on breaking 5-8 game losing streaks a couple of times. I’ve played about 5 games in emerald and haven’t won any.

I started using the gs/hammer rampage build on metabattle, and found that I could usually win 1 v1 fights with certain classes like rangers at my skill level as long as Rampage wasn’t on cooldown (and it seems to have a reaaaaly long cooldown). The main problems with the build was that hammer seems useless and rampage was on cooldown too long. Really long wind up/cast times on the hammer and then most classes seem to have stability up 50-75% of the time so it doesn’t apply the cc it’s designed to. People either just dodge away during the 1 second cast time on hammer skills or have stability. Plus the build seemed really bad against reapers and you see 2 of those in most matches, I couldn’t do enough damage to outsustain their shrouds, again especially if rampage was on cooldown. It’s also very confusing to be in team melee fight with 5 necro pets, 4 mesmer clones, ranger pets, and 3 enemies.

Then I tried gunflame. Teammates often criticize me for using this build, but I find it a little bit more fun than the rampage hammer/gs. At least it’s a little easier to pick an appropriate target at range. While I can kite reapers pretty well, I have to be cautious about reflects and “bunker” druids, elementalists or guardians who I can’t kill fast enough in 1 v 1 before it turns into a 1 v 2. Obviously I can’t fight anyone on point either, which is a problem since pvp is all about fighting on point.

So as you can see I’m pretty bad and pvp is not very fun when I only when about 35% of my games. Should I just hang it up if warrior is the class I want to play or should I stick with it and try to get better? Does anyone else have win rates this low when they are starting out? Sure I get a disconnecter or quitter about 10-20% of the time but I’m pretty sure a lot of the losses are due to me being no good.

Is there another build I should be trying? Should I just stick to unranked to try to improve?

Thanks.