Guild Wars 2

any not heavy class wearing Balthazar’s outfit :X

Making us paying for something we should rationally have by default for free? It is not only wrong, it is offensive.

phys.7689:

Lurock Turoth.9085:

Aten.8046:

Necromancer’s signet of spite (Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness) aka one button to win, especially if u’re the victim and you’re outnumbered

I’m sorry I lol’d so hard at this…your freaking out about 2 stacks of bleed and a poison? GG man GG.

[sarcasm] So much dps AUTO WIN OP MLG!!!!!!! [/sarcasm]

the point is that it blocks effective condi removal by putting so many different conditions at once, just getting stacks is useless without filler condi to block removal

exactly! If at least the condi removal system were smart and gave priority to the most hurting condition, but no… I want to cleanse 8 stack of bleeding and instead it cleanses 1 of vulnerability…

Dee Jay.2460:

Aberrant.6749:

In a large groups conditions get removed very quickly. They usually wind up dealing quite a bit less damage than direct damage (as morrolan pointed out).

+40% duration food is countered with the -40% duration food

That’s a kittenty argument.

Since when is every food supposed to have a counter-food?

Is there a counter for any other counter-food out there?

Food is supposed to be a bonus, a buff according to your play-style. And as a bonus, the 40% Condition duration is overpowered compared to others.

Single Conditions aren’t really an issue imo, but Condition bombing is. And currently every skill in the game seems to add some sort of Condition, mostly more.

Agree. + Rare Veggie Pizza is around 8 silver nowadays, if u want to counter it with lemograss u have to spend almost 30 silver (1 silver /min, is the hotline of gw food!)
Ok u can use pultry and leek soup but is 36% reduction.

Meglobob.8620:

How can people say condition damage is out of control when direct crit damage does 5K -10K+ in a few secs?

Thiefs, Warriors and Mesmers can fairly easily lay down that kind of damage.

Direct crit damage kills you fast.
Condition damage kills you slow.

Well if the enemy hits u hard with crits is probably squishy so u can hurt him badly as well. The problem is when a tanky build can still deal extreme high dmg using conditions without sacrifying survivability.

I was actually talking about roaming/ small scale fights, situations where the balance between classes or the lack of it is clearear. If u hide inside a zerg all the time of course u don’t know about these problems.

Seriously I don’t think it needs a genious to realize that condition system need to be fixed and rebalanced:
1) some classes can apply way too many different conditions in such a short time without much effort: [ex 1]Necromancer’s signet of spite (Inflict bleeding, blindness, crippled, poison, vulnerability, and weakness) aka one button to win, especially if u’re the victim and you’re outnumbered
[ex 2] Thief p/d condi build (with venoms i think) stacks of bleeding, torment, poison, immobilize, weakness – stealth steal and repeat
2) condition cleansing priority is broken: I don’t know how it works exactly I only know it happens that I have one stack of torment and 8 stack of bleeding and if I use a condi removal skill it cleanse torment….or similar situations, it happens all the time
3) immobilize stacking is annoying, gank-friendly, stupid.
4) condition removals are not well distributed among classes: some of them like ele can cleanse easily without being forced to go deep on a determined trait line or occupying all the utility slots with condition removals, some classes have to do it.
5) Condition > Dps in sPVP/WVW. It bypass armor, u don’t need to boost different stats to make conditions effective like for dps build (power prec and crit dmg). You just need condition dmg. Precision for some builds/classes it’s useful for the condition on crit, but not necessary. Duration can be easily boosted with food/utility food. + thanks to the genial introduction of dire armor sets some classes can become godlike
The proof is that I see day by day more and more ppl with condition builds: d/p condi thieves, pu condi mesmers, sword/longbow condi warriors, condi engi ( crit engi is soo squishy/vulnerable/counterable compared to condi engi that almost no one use it anymore), condi rangers (not too many actually, most of them keep being owned using longbow/gs), condi necros (ok necros are made for conditions I don’t complain).
The only poor class that can not enroll a really effective condi build is Guardian I think (if i’m wrong correct me), for all the others choosing condition over dps it’s a win choice. The direct consequence is that the variety of builds and combat dynamics are reduced and shallowed —> less fun for everyone. What do you guys think?

I play only wvw for fun, no stupid farming or temp events camping (I already have a job in rl thank you). Until now I managed to craft only one weapon for one of my build of one of my 8 characters. When ascended gear will become overwhelming in wvw, since I won’t be able to afford gearing my character as I want and as I did for all of them during the exotic-gear-age, I will quit the game. I lost faith in you anet. Have fun breaking pinhatas

Like in every pvp game it depends also on matchups. Imo , even though is not so commonly used, p/d condition thief can be very tough in 1 vs 1. If you have to choose between warrior and guardian for both 1vs1 and zerging then choose warrior.

How does it work? It doesn’t! And Mists Merc Camp Vanquisher neither.

Shatter builds are good in pve (and more dynamic and fun than phantasmal imo), but maybe for leveling a phantasmal build is more solid and safe. Personally, as soon as I reached lv 80 I swtiched from a legion phantasmal build to a shatterbuild. I used a glass cannon shatter for low level fotm too (1-16, not actually interested in going further) with no problems and having fun. About the runes, well I don’t like Air too much. I have a full exotic set with Air runes which i use only for jp’s there are better options imo in pve and wvw if u already use focus for swiftness (Osi used those runes for builds without focus and cause he likes the lightning strikes as a counter to thief backstab mainly, problem that u don’t have in pve) My suggestion? ofc Divinity if u can afford them :P

Hi,

I just moved from Europe to Japan where I’m gonna stay for few months. Since I’m here I experienced some very annoying lag while playing, both in pve and wvw. So I’m wondering if this lag is structural and if it would go away if I move to a NA server, cause in this case I’ll gladly move for these few months and than come back to my beloved Aurora Glade.

RS need a zerg even to complete the ambient killer daily task lol.
These latest match up are so boring omg:
-I try to engage a single enemy, 99% of the times he flees away
-In a group of 3-4 we try to provoke like 20rs on a tower to come out and fight but they cowardly keep hiding inside the keep and shooting with those annoying mortars/cannon and kitten acs (that are ruining wvw imo)
-I finally realize rs are coming when I start to lag even before seeing them because they’re always blobbing in 40-50, devouring everything like locusts.
In a fair situation there’s no way our(AG) pug zerg would lose against rs zerg, NO WAY, as I witnessed different times.
Anyway, as a solo roamer (most of the time) I still had good fights and spotted good players (from tia, dw, keks, dsf etc), too bad for them, flowers in the mud…

Without food in wvw some build couldn’t be viable… for ex. as a shatter mesmer if I hadn’t melandru runes+lemongrass I wouldn’t have any chance to defeat any condition build. Anyway, I often like to check other people buffs and I rarely see using lemongrass, most of the players just use food to buff specific stats (power,preci,crit etc) so I don’t think it’s overused either.

I’m up for nerfing the downed state and player reviving (at least in wvw, in pve is ok). When u reach 0 hp u go in downed state, if u rally and reach 0hp again u DIE, with no exceptions and solutions, and u’re forced to respawn @wp. More fair in all the situations when u’re outmanned and the enemies keep ressing and reviving each others.

There are well known hacks like teleport hack, fov hack etc but nothing that can makes ur char stronger or invulnerable, it’s all server side they can’t change that.

I miss Gandara! cause they have good players, roamers, small groups. Here i see only brainless zergs and coward players with no skills (except very few rs)

I’d change Compounding Celerity and make it give 5% speed buff for every illusion u DON’T have active on the field. That means that if u’re just out of combat and running around u have 15% speed buff. But during the fight with 3 illusions up u don’t have any speed advantages, which is fair cause mesmer’s mobility during fight is already good.Oh and I’d move it from inspiration to another trait line like Illusions ^^

People that complain about thieves (especially now after all the nerf) and stealth probably never tried the class or are still noobs that don’t know how to deal with them. PERIOD.

Tribio.8531:

Aten.8046:

Don’t get me wrong, i’ve nothing against rangers. They’re good in pve but in wvw if u’re not shooting from a safe tower it’s better working on a different build than the usual bow-build

Hmmz, you have nothing against rangers but just decide to turn down the entire class, looking at it as though they all are unskilled zombies hitting 1?

I repeat, I really don’t look down on the ranger class. I’m talking about my personal experience in wvw. It’s not a matter of class actually, it’s a matter of how do u play the class. It’s like thieves that rely on basilisk-quickness backstab or warriors than rely on frenzy-hundred blades; if they fail that they’re scr**ed. If u play cheap u’re not going anywhere.

I used to roam a lot with my shatter mesmer even though I don’t use swiftness runes so I suffer a lot of the lack of speed buffs. I can use my focus when I know my destination, but if i’m just wandering around I prefer to keep my usual sword/pistol combo since if u’re in combat u can’t switch weapon anymore, so it’s always better be prepared and geared to fight…
Imo best roaming class is thief no doubt on it.
About rangers….maybe 95% of the rangers are lazy but I almost never found good challanges against rangers. I’ve met rarely some good traps/condition build rangers, the rest of them just use a bow-autoattack-ranger-build that works it this way:
1- shoots arrows
2- shoots more arrows
3- sends the annoying pet that can follows u miles away from its owner
I actually find rangers a good way to test ur build, if u have trouble soloing a ranger then ur build is not good.
Don’t get me wrong, i’ve nothing against rangers. They’re good in pve but in wvw if u’re not shooting from a safe tower it’s better working on a different build than the usual bow-build

Which recipe are u using to make profit with skill points? Cause I don’t see any real profitable recipe with crystals/philosopher stones

silverfire.2547:

XP utility infusion for the win.

More skill points = more superior siege, or more skill points to convert into gold.

Made about 20 gold this past weekend off of skill points from WvW alone. Not as good as if I spent the whole time playing Trade Post PvP or PvE, but at least I got to do something I enjoy doing.

I’d gladly pay gems to change my mesmer effects and clones color from the actual violet to something else. I bet a lot of mesmers like me would like it and would be willing to pay gems for it! Please Anet!!!

Please Anet can u fix the missing-off-hand-weapon on clones bug?!!! It’s ridicolous!My Ilya pistol is rustying in my bank due to this bug…I can’t use it in WvW!!! Using it would be like shouting “ooh look at me and at my glowing pistol, I am the real mesmer!”
Sometimes i’d like seeing arenanet focusing more on this elementary issues than updating the gem store with fancy hoodies….

only a wvw player knows what is Righteous indignation!