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Ahh I’m the druid from this post.
Eremite didn’t mention the part I fought his necro build a few times before we started to duel and pretty much almost lost (with the condi thief randomly jumping in).
I personally think it’s not about being a good druid in general. I think its more about knowing what you’re fighting against. Like every condi necro I fought before required me to keep my distance (aside from using staff on thief). The dps from condi necro in melee range is too much.
HP is quite low for a hybrid build. Anyone decent can pressure you enough to run away from a fight or down you.
If you’re going to be somewhat more condi hybrid. This build may suit you more.
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Yeah Ive stated a million times, Im not discussing the 1v1 between a thief and a guardian. Yeah its rare I have a problem with a 1v1 against a power thief, unless Im ambushed by two of which I never saw coming and at that point am in perm immob, dazed and obliterated fairly quickly.
Of which having an ability to reveal that stealth would have changed those fights to likely me still losing, but not without a good fight.
But once again power thief vs medi guard is a very isolated conversation to a bigger picture where stealth is abused heavily in the thief class.
There are alot of condi classes out there, engineers I dont get enough fight time with them, but regardless, I keep seeing what I could have done better in that fight.
P/D there is no answer other than the capability of revealing stealth.
Or condi’s get pushed down to the point that they cant overtake power.
Or complete armor sets get changed drastically that would mess up so much more than just a P/D thief.
What Im saying is, stealth counters will not make power thieves unplayable and would fix the obviously broken P/D thief and not affect the rest of the condi classes in game.
Yeah if you isolate this to power thief vs medi guard, there is no problem other than two power thieves are ridiculously overpowered. But thats a hard argument to sell and I dont bother with it.
While many power classes argue that condi uses a different mechanic that lacks skill, I dont partake in that myself and consider them valid. Therefore some drastic changes to condi will affect far more than a p/d thief.
It affects engi’s mesmers, rangers, warriors and so on. So I dont argue the condi problem, I argue the obvious difference between those condi classes and theif condi classes, stealth, no cd, no cd penalties, all of which make the p/d build so overpowered.
And while a nerf to plex, dire or anything that builds a condi class will eat all other condi classes, a counter (not a nerf) to stealth will not.
I mean for real come on, stealth cant deal with out a counter to it. Really?
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I don’t really see a problem, if a thief wants to stealth all day instead of engaging you. Then you pretty much win and he has no way of defeating multiple people. I am just convinced you just want to kill something that isn’t even fighting back. As for P/D thief, you’re clearly just bad. P/D thiefs have no easy way of stealthing other than coming up close and personal, and they can kite you with P/D #3 skill, which is easily dodged if you have experienced against a thief. Hard pressure on a p/d thief will force him to use his utility skills.
From how I see it, you just want to be able to kill thieves without them running away? Well tough luck, if you can’t lay a stealth removal trap on them, it is situational. I believe running away and stealthing is a main core class of a thief, just as blocks are how guardians get by when fighting people. You say two thieves are ridiciously overpowered, yet two medi guardians, or 2 celes engi’s and two shatter mesmer’s arent powerful against one class. If you’re expecting to be able to easily beat two stealth classes in 2 v 1, then you’re obviously going by it wrong. Even a good thief will have trouble killing people in 2 v 1 if they are any decent in their classes. And if you have a problem with conditions, run generosity sigils and condi removal sigils. You can’t based everything on one class just because there is one OP build.
Guardians can go 1800 distance with judge’s intervention which has 45 second cd (36 if traited) along with flashing blade with 10 second cooldown. In most fights, thieves will use shadowstep aka their 50 second 1200 range stunbreaker if you put enough pressure to them, unless they have an short bow, sword and dagger thieves won’t have significant range to chase you.
From how I see it, you want a chance to be able to kill two thieves in a 2 v 1? That will probably depend on the skill lvl of the thieves your fighting. If it’s a condi p/d thief, you’re suppose to have a difficult time. Power Medi guards are vulnerable to conditions, that’s how your build works. As for counters for stealth, As I’ve said it on top, you lay a stealth trap, which may or may not work, and bait the thieves to it. Most likely, the good ones will try to run away by covering distance to wait out their reveal debuff of 20 seconds, or the bad ones will try to put down a Shadow Refuge, which wouldn’t work.
If you want guardians to have a reveal debuff skill to use against stealth classes, anet will have to reduce the dps on power builds to compensate for that.
I have to say, I keep hearing that the thief class will be unplayable if there is significant counter to stealth or any thing it does for that matter.
I play a mediguard.
Were squishy as can be. I run at best 2.6K AC and Ive even reduced my health back down to at best 15K.
Slow as molasses. If we take speed from traveler runes we give up a ton of power that we get from other runes.
Our skills are probably the most telegraphed in game. You can see agies.
Our teleports are not half as able as thieves.
We have no stealth at all.
We actually have cooldowns on our weapons and we are affected by chill and interrupts.
Two protection’s in any given fight.
One invul for a few seconds that we cant do anything else but run through stuff with.
We dont have half the CC’s available to thieves.
We cant do half the damage in a single hit that thieves are capable of.
Have no where close to the evasion skills thieves have.
Our best defense are blocks and blinds and well this is the number of counters to our defenses.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unblockable
From every single class.
Yet, I still find a way to be significant in this game, kill more than get killed, and play the heck out of it.
I keep hearing how if one of these things are changed on a thief it will be unplayable, yet we manage to play without half of it every single day.
I don’t see whats the problem. Medi guards should be able to kill thieves easily without even trying (only if they play power) because guards can do damage output with smite condition along with greatsword and air/fire sigil procs, easily taking out over 50% of a thiefs hp with one burst (applies to non dire thieves).
As for the complaint of the lack of protection and invul… that’s just you being bad. I know some guardian from Jade Quarry who can fight conditions builds with power medi zerker build with ease. First you need to know what spec the thief is running, thats how you decide what method of fighting you’ll use. If the thief is running sword dagger, you need to use your blocks carefully and predict when is he going to daze you. It’s how thieves fight other thieves after all, experience to evade their hits and do burst damage. Same idea when you vs other classes, you need to play different tactics depending on their build and spec.
Of course, the good thieves would take a while to kill, if not be unable to kill them at all (run away). However, thats the thief’s mechanic though, they are build advantageously for 1 v 1, where experience matters the most. I’m pretty sure you should know that all bad thiefs will die easily to everything else, while a good thief can manage 1 v 1 easily. If you can’t win with medi guard (a hard counter to thief) then it’s an issue of your experience in playing a thief. If a thief is playing d/d, and he stealths with full hp, you can assume hes going to try to backstab you instantly, if he’s not in good shape with his health bar, he’ll likely wait for 3 seconds then backstab you to regen hp.
And yes, based on the good guardian’s I know, and from what I’ve summed up, Guardians are the strongest in 1 v 1 when it comes to power vs power. You just need to time your blocks and kite depending on what you vs and then apply pressure to them with high dps. You should go to Tier 1 servers and learn how to run away because the guardians I know can outrun thieves.
They aren’t the best in that setting even if they do have their strength. They excel at putting a lot of pressure on the squishy…
In a zerg? This is the only place a thief can’t put a lot of pressure on a squishy. You walk into the enemy backline’s wells in zerker gear (esp. as thief with the lowest native health pool) and you will literally die before you can dagger 1. Thieves do not play a melee role in zergs. Ever. Period.
Wait, what?!!! I think it’s more a case of l2p here… that or the troll-o-meter just exploded…
Wait for it…
Or, maybe it’s you who sux at it. If it’s me who ins’t good as a staff using ele, I can tell you that a boatload of ppl are sucking hard by your standards… Ask people who know me, or better yet, duel me…
Yes, I’m zerker geared, but most all other professions are perfectly fine for me to fight and hope to win. I do defeat thieve with my staff (beginner or an occasional good one who stopped being cautious and made a mistake) but I can assure you they don’t tell anyone about it because it’s quite hard to loose to a zerker staff ele when you are a d/d or p/d thief. It’s your fight to loose seriously…
staff using ele…
zerker geared
So you’re roaming as a staff ele with zerker gear.
Let me explain something to you, when GW2 launched thieves were unstoppably dominant because everyone was wearing zerker gear, and in a meta where everyone is designed to kill fast and die fast the thief always wins because they are FASTER. They don’t burst harder, they burst first.
Steal with mug is not dodgeable, it’s instant, has no animation and with b. venom prepped your backstab can’t be stopped and neither can the hasted dagger chain. This isn’t a problem any more because thief burst has been nerfed and also the classes that are still running glass power builds are the ones that can beat thieves. zerker staff elementalist is not one of them.
I would expect you to lose 100% of all fights against thieves as a zerker staff ele and my guess is that you don’t have a problem in sPvP because they don’t even let you kittenhouse your gear as hard as you want to because the zerker ammy has vitality on it.
The real imbalance that thieves pose towards squishies could have been solved by bringing stats more in-line for all amulets and raising the ttk across the board instead of trying to lower thief ttk because what we have at this point is a thief that was nerfed to be balanced with everyone wearing zerk ammys and everyone running cele bunkers, condi bunkers, etc. and the thief is mathematically outmatched.
Edit: And just to clarify, steal is dodgeable in the sense that it can be evaded but it’s not dodgeable in the sense that you can see it coming and react and dodge it. If you dodge it, it was pure guess work.
Steal is quite easy to dodge, 90% of the time, thieves use it at the start of a fight. Only time you wouldn’t be able to dodge is if you dont know there’s a thief lurking around. As for thief being OP, it’s all experience of the player. Any inexperience player would mostly likely die to a thief 1 vs 1. Whereas for a player who’ve dealt with thieves before regardless of their build, they will be able to immediately identify their build based on their weapon set and decide if their build can counter it or not. Any class should be able to beat a thief. The ease of doing so depends on the thiefs skills on dealing with each specific class and build. If you think the thief is going to burst, you use evades/invuls or blocks. Infact, you can pressure the thief to blow his utility skills so he have to make a choice between running away or fight. If he runs, you’re the victor, it means he thinks he has no chance of beating you. If he stays, you just make him regret.
Also I main thief, but I can defeat them with other classes since their actions are predictable. They usually start with steal early, if you get stunned, you know they are running trickery. If they stealth and heal a decent amount, they are running sa and have less burst and probably base hp. If they are running condi, well if you can win, do it, if not, run.
Rip thieves having a chance to go up against rangers in open field wvw. Rangers can soon be able to sic em and run away from thieves without the need to kite them. They better increase the range of teleports if they are going to add this. I want my infiltration signet to increase to 1200 at minimum xD. Same with sword.
It is horrible. Especially when Im doing wvw where i need my current position and players around me to reaction to my surroundings
It’s a L2P issue. I main thief, so even if i play other classes, I can identify thief tactics based on their weapon set. You need to play thief to understand and predict their actions. Aside from the infamous dire p/d thief, most thieves can’t deal with pressure, even with their on-demand stealth (d/p).
I don’t pvp much at all, most of my experiences are from actual fights in wvw; roaming/ duels, and outnumbered fights. Thieves can seem op but actually there’s alot of builds that can counter them. For instance, most thieves can’t take multiple mace stuns from warriors. Infact, even when I don’t use berserker, I find myself at an immense disadvantage.
The only thieves you need to worry about are the ones that use their shadow refuge when they aren’t low, because they are likely more skilled and try to finish you quickly (PvP oriented thieves). Aside from that, you can always switch to a more overpowered build to run them over. On my elementalist, i try to burst thieves down quickly and make them use their utility skills quickly. At that point, they’ll either use SR (Shadow refuge), which you use skills on your class to pull them out or drop heavy aoe load. Majority of the thieves, will either try to reengage after their health recovers, run away, or perhaps in their downed state.
It’s up to you to really know how to vs a thief, if you played once and vs’d other players and if they happen to be any decent, you’ll know they aren’t op even with their near 100% stealth uptime in combat.
Your fps are higher than mines in max settings in zergs and I run an i5-4670k at 4.2 ghz and gtx 760 o.o
You will still have lag with that laptop because its a dual core mobile Ulv cpu. Ulv cpu’s use less voltage then regular i7 mobile cpu’s and thus its weaker as the game is cpu based in player crowded area’s
Second the GT 740m is is a rebranding of 640m with higher clock speeds and etc. You would probably run on medium settings with shaders and etc on low.
You’ll get more performance if you use that budget for a desktop. Also even 1500+ usd laptops dont run as well as budget gaming desktops.
Nope it is not a good processor, A i3-3120m processor is a dual-core mobile processor. I don’t think i3 mobile processors have turbo boost. You’re still going to have lag at zerg area’s or wvw area’s even being at best performance. Also intel graphics are no good, even at best performance, you would want at least an i5 but preferably i7 with at least a gt 640m to play smoothly on best performance in non crowded area’s as this game is cpu based.
This probably only applies if you have more than 4 cores right? Such as an i7 with virtual cores
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These guys really need to learn to make their gold without preventing players like us from completing the events. Also the tone, the language is really unnecessary. Players like those really need to take breaks from time to time.
I dont really understand the method of how this farming works but I heard its been revived.
These people who come to Cursed Shore demanding that we dont finish events. If by chance the event is completed like it was suppose to to be done, people who are involved get barraged with offensive language.
Now as for me, I didn’t do anything but suggest that people should finish the event so you could use the waypoint to get closer to the ori node spot.
I played gw2 on my laptop, for no reason, sometimes it will send me back into desktop and when I do get sent back, I alt + tab and my keys get stuck in-game. When I try to click on my mf food, it does ctrl + mouse click
Its been an issue for me often even before my main account got banned.
Looking at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros
Does it mean Im allowed to bind my 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, skills onto each the buttons on my razer naga for aoe skills that requires you to select an area to cast?
Also you should buy from authorized retailers just to be on the safe side
“As previously mentioned, the decision to terminate the account is final. The account will remain permanently closed and is not eligible for reactivation under any circumstances.”
“This account has been closed for using an illegal third-party program. I want you to know that we take great care when analyzing accounts prior to termination. We are both diligent and conservative in determining which accounts are using these programs, and we only terminate an account after we are certain that such use has occurred. "
I do afk often when I have to answer the phones sometimes while doing champ farming and I have the patience to do anything boring as long as I have something I want from it but I would like to see other people’s opinions on this. I’m not going to give up my account seeing as I haven’t done anything wrong.
Have to hope support is merciful enough to refund you but it is very unlikely but you can try with support
Thanks dude, I hope I can get it resolved :p
Thanks astral, I hope I can get my account back.
My main account got banned and on sunday happened to be 40% off so I decided to get another account so I can do something.
Forgot to add that my tickets been denied several times. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Ticket number: 131019-000089
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Okay I’ll post the ticket on there I guess even though it hasnt been for 3 days, its just that I feel so demotivated like Im getting trolled by anet.
I got denied 3x in less than one day though, and now they arent even replying back.
I dont want to give up but I forwarded a private message to galie gray hoping my situation can be resolved but thanks for the support, I seriously think If Im considered a bot, then everyone at the champ train would be a bot as well.
I should do that but my final appeal is already denied, they have a choice to not response to my tickets.
No i’ve heard from them and they seem to be tight on the fact that I was cheating in some way. My issue is that I havent cheated and the people whom I farmed with at frostgorge also agreed that I’m not a bot. I’m not sure why anet is stubborn on the fact that I broke their rules. For essence of luck, all I did was spam click the item in my inventory. So I’m not sure why they are doing this to me.
My main guild wars 2 account got accused of botting and I had 3 appeals denied. I want to give up appealing but at the same time, I dont want to give up the time I’ve spent grinding for my 3 legendary’s. Since gw2 has 40% off, I just bought another account to work on while hoping my main account will be unblocked. Its really sadden how I get called a botter while farming with a zerg and doing my dailies everyday. Support has blocked me in error 9 months ago twice within 2 days but this time, they are absolute this time. Alot of people farmed more than I did at frostgorge yet I get the banhammer. After my final appeal, my case looks a bit dire and seems to be on the edge of falling off a cliff.