Guild Wars 2

Karka.

F2 – Delete all characters on the server.

Welp. If I can’t play my only 80, I hate to say it, I REALLY hate to say it. But I’ll be done. Long have I supported Anet, but this is the line.

What about Mesmers? I undisputed kings of faceroll? PvE, PvP, WvW, them dominate it all.
Guardians? Block.. block.. block.. cleanse… Smush you’re dead.
Eles are still broken as hell. Fire – Insane Damage, Water – Hard counter for Conditions still, Earth – Hard counter for Power builds.
Thief…. 2.. 2.. 2.. built in “I win” button.

“Lets nerf Rangers.”
What….

3DH team. 5DHs when.
/15 char

At least let them follow us again!

PvE and PvP require mobility. And because the spirits have HP bars unlike Spirit weapons and banners, they just die in all content.

Spirit Druid would put Ranger inline with Ele in terms of support. But it really doesn’t work Raid bosses with constant AoE damage. In PvP they are trash, I’ve seen a few Druids try but moving them point to point is really clunky and the AoE fest just mows them down like every rolled a Lumberjack.

Please, Anet, bring back spirits! They’ve been nerfed quite heavily from when they were FotM. They should be fine now!

Finally played enough to get a good understanding.

+Tide and flow of battle here is BIG something Fantastic and nonexistent Conquest.
+The map is beautiful and the NPCs talking makes it feel like a warfeild. Makes me miss the beta days. “You got the keep, keep it!”
+Had amazing success kittenter Mes on Defense. Not sure why, however.
+I can see this game mode being crazy in high level play, with rotations and plays. No surprise seeing its based on a “moba map”. “Siege” no less, my favorite mode outside of “Arena” in Smite.
+Decent to Good balance.

Bad things
-A bit more complex, after two years of Conquest many players were confused, a guidlie explained it several times and we won those games. A TUTORIAL FOR THIS MAP, WOULD IMPROVE PLAYER EXPERIENCE. AND MAKE IT MORE INCLUSIVE
-Archers should do a little bit more damage.
-Heroes need a buff, I feel they should be able to damage players and be a threat to take out.
-Needs a death punishment.

Suggestions
=Tutorial added where the water tutorial was.
=Buff Heroes or..
=Less Heroes. Perhaps where the second set would spawn, instead add a “Planar Anomaly” that summons a Meteor Storm, or grants a buff similar to Ferocity, points on kill. It will add to the tide and flow of the battle to whoever gets it.

In an attempt to counteract the tides of salt.

Thank you for HoT.
Thank you for the free stuff today.
And thank you for making such a great game.

Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone!

Thief really needs a spamable daze with no cost and Mesmer needs another stun and I think the game will be perfect.

Yes, please nerf it. Nerf it so hard. I dont need a GM trait.

Better yet, delete Druid and Ranger and let another class get nerfed for once.

But you cant run, they are everywhere. Far point? It was the Chronomancer all along. Your own weapon? Chronomancer. Lords? Chronomancer. That tree? Also a Chronomancer. That troll in map chat? May or may not be Colin.

“Rev is fine”

No, its not. Half the class is useless and the other half is borderline broken. The Sword 2 is insane if you are alone. There is so much crap to dodge on Rev you just CANT avoid every crucial skill or CC. On top of that you have to watch the buff bar at all times. Once tiny screw up vs a good Rev and its instantly GG.

If everything else is nerfed, and Rev is unchanged, Rev will be walking death.

I’d point out everything else wrong in the OP but even so I can guarantee this post will be ignored anyway. Doesn’t matter what anyone or I say. What is argued or how good an argument you make. Everyone thinks they are right and are entitled.

Going to drop my mentality that I am any sort of good here and ask, are there any proper rotational guides I should be looking for as a support Druid?

SarahGobbi.2319:

Aylpse.6280:

You clearly haven’t played many games then. Yes, there is a bit much CC but it’s no where near as bad as other games. At least you can dodge and stunbreak, I can list several other MMOs where the meta is “stun and done”.

You clearly cant read…. I said in an earlier comment that I couldnt dodge, because I was being CC’ed, while CC’ed. Not much I can do…. Yes I can stun break, but there are very few of those compared to the amount of CC and how fast you die.

You can’t dodge the CC because your CC’d? Try dodging the first CC. As for your stunbreaks get good at using them. Using them to bait big bursts or CDs can be a tide tuner, many times have I baited warriors into thinking I have no stun breaks only to slip away as they go berserk.

You cannot dodge while Immobilized or “Stunned” (Just for simplicity ie; Knockdown, Blowout ect) . In this event, you should be looking to see what your enemy is going to do, trying to set up or if they are going for a kill, Know your enemy before you know yourself. Many CC combos into burts (bar Mesmer atm) can be predicted. Most stunbreaks have a secondary defensive effect, use it to regain control of the battle. You can jump dodge while crippled, chilled ect to ignore the slow effect and get some distance. Immobilize and Fear can be condi-cleansed.

If you haven’t, please take a look at http://qqmore.net/page/3/ it’s going to help you more then any balance patch or person on the forums will.

Rapid Fire isnt supposed to be used for damage anyway.
Rapid Fire
*Tracks Stealth
*Applies vulnerability
*Mitigates Longbow’s awful close range AA damage.

Ideally, it would be above the min range AA damage, perhaps “decent” dps at best. However the real use would be to set up for melee attacks, to use the Vuln. Or perhaps as an opener to do more max range AA damage.

I feel Rapid Fire is in a strange place where its simultaneously broken and underpowered. Ever try fighting a Mediguard as a Ranger? When a Thief is on you in melee range it only pressures a dodgeroll. Bad examples as they are the two “anti zerk” classes.

What MW has over RF is unpredictability. Mindgames are Memser’s strongest point (and rightfully so.)

I know I complain a lot, there was a time I tried to pour some positive feedback here, in fact I was enjoying HoT until Leagues. Losing progress is something incredibly rage inducing especially seeing players I walk all over in higher divisions then me.

I know I am not the best, I know I am not going to hit legendary. But I want something to show that I am not to be trifled with. I wanted to know where I stood in PvP as a whole. But exploits, people paying for carries, MMR Tankers, Premades vs Pugs and any sort of “status” I could obtain mean nothing. And the PvE crowed or new players wont know any difference.

In fact, my whole backing behind pvp was to find respect and hopefully a friend or two. I have mostly made enemies.

Supreme.3164:

And the universal law of MMO doesn’t change and never will :
What beats me is OP and what I play is balanced or UP always, when I lose I go on the forum asking for nerfs

So your going to hide behind your signature and ignore that classes are broken?Where is Thief? Crying in Shadow Refuge because the DH stole his lunch money and made fun of him for liking anime.

Where is Chronobunker, Rev and Ele? On point in the cool kidz club hanging out and telling everyone else they aren’t invited. Literally its high school all over….

“Rangers are a Jack of all trades master of none.”
So is every class, Gw2 was designed so “everything is possible”, however Ranger/Druid has short comings and is sub optimal in some places. On the flip side, Ranger is the master of Ranged Damage and Burst Healing. And in Viper’s Gear our damage is amazing, comparable to Sinister Engie (Slightly lower)

“..an opportunistic class..”
As ia any good rogue archtype. Would Robin Hood storm some rich dude’s castle in broad daylight? Would a predator not go for the weakened or sick prey as opposed to healthy that is going to put up a fight? Yes, Ranger is opportunistic, but more of a “by any means necessary” type of opportunistic. And we can still fight on “fair terms” but use what is given to you.

As a long kitten time ranger player with my original Ranger from headstart. We are first and foremost the pet class. In PvP you must use the pet to its advantages and cover its disadvantages. And that is where our skillcap is. Druid is useful, and your pet can peel for you at the cost of Might/Quickness if you go BM.

If your dont wanna play Ranger just jump on the Ele bandwagon like everyone else for past three years. It isnt leaving the meta any time soon and it makes me wonder a lot if what I had played Ele instead of Ranger? Where would I be?

Gravity Well – Make a kittening black hole.

Engies you can have my moa, I dont care anymore.

Edit: New dev working on Mesmer? Doin’ a kitten fine job. <3

So recently, about two to three months ago, I rolled a Thief for the first time because I wanted to learn all the classes better. From day one its been an absolute blast. I’ve always been a sucker for rogues but I feel like Kirby with Steal. And Steal as a mechanic, as basic as it seems, has been a LOT of fun for me. Almost moreso then Mesmer. (Almost). So I wanted to know, what makes a Thief a good one? I win a good amount of games and fights. (Not all though.) but I always seem to be aimlessly wandering around, or camping far.

TL;DR What is my job exactly as a Thief? I know Im supposed to be a “Roamer” but the term’s meaning isn’t very clear to me.

Remove Cele and Condi will reign as god.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Mesmer and thief have been vastly OP for almost the entire life of the game.

Hi Welcome to the Gw2 forums, I regret to inform you that criticism of these classes isn’t allowed here on the forums. Instead, please opt to complain about the classes that counter these classes as they are truly the OP ones. Mes and Teef should have zero counters.

Sarcasm aside, both Thief and Mesmer had periods they were trash. On the flip side, You have seen nothing… OG PU Memser, Permastealth Thief were virtually unkillable or straight up unkillable , and Launch Thief and Launch Mesmer were capable of oneshots from stealth all under a second. And confusion was so broken back then you may as well /sit if you see a Mesmer gracious enough not to oneshot you from stealth. That said, I can live with what we have now…. literally.
But heyYour right at the moment, at least for Mantra Mesmer and SB 4... I can't be the only one irritated by the daze, poison and PI?

Everyone is mad. I cant add anything to the thread that hasn’t been addressed, the trash talk is a cycle of suffering and the mentality of “its just banter pvp tradition xD” isn’t right. Yeah calling your friend profanities is one thing, but purposefully instigating already kittened off people isn’t doing anyone any favors. It’s spreading the fire.

draxynnic.3719:

a raptor – how about it?

Make it a pocket raptor and give me a dozen.

That the music in this Xpac is incredible?

It has absolutely zero counter play.

And dont tell me power reaper counters it, it doesn’t.

Bring back SoloQ. There is a start.

Replace Quickening Zephyr with Signet Of Stone. You’ll need it as an ohkitten button.

You’ll want to engage form max range, if you cant and they dont see you, LoS and send your pet in to eat Aegis. If a Mediguard starts the fight on his terms you are at a sever disadvantage. To prevent this…
*Keep look out, you’re a ranger, you should be scouting lore wise.
*Flashing blade ignores LoS, walls, ect. If you get targeted they can teleport to you from 600 range. 1200 if Judge’s Intervention follows the same rules, I believe it does but dont quote me on that.

Your damage will be mitigated by a few things.
*Heal – 30 sec CD, any MediGaurd without Shelter is already dead.
*Blacks and Blinds – You have the perfect tool to deal with this, Rapid Fire. Call me a fool for wasting my “burst” on burning active defense, but that’s the name of the MediGuard’s game. Without it they can choose die like a man or we’ll find out why Virtue Of Courage is on such a long cool down. VoC (50s) Shield of Wrath (45s) vs RF (10s)
*Meditations – Heals, You can bait these with your pets. Save the Wolf’s fear, stack immobs, easy with Dog and Mud. The average medi will have one on Resolve, one on Smite Condis, and one on Contemplation of Purity, the biggest one you want to bait.

Your wolf’s fear is a valuable CC, Entangle as well. Save them after you’ve burnt out the active defenses or if in a pinch. Activating either before Contemplation of Purity is a waste, however if a Medi is forced to use Smite Condis to break one, thats one less threat to deal with.

They have the advantage in sustain, but its very possible. Play smart, watch the blinds that you can, and dont panic.

Because If my Mesmer/Thief/Guardian/DDele cant beat it, its OP.

Well Engies, get ready because we’ll be Trees in no time.

My rage has subsided, my curse has been lifted.

The salt that had eclipsed my vision has finally been washed away.

I have hope again…

Curunen.8729:

But, if they give us TWO shields – one main, one offhand… well that would be cool. ;D

Related.

Oh looks its a FOTM reaper!

Better not use any skills so I dont get boon corrupt’d.

Oh whoops Im loaded with condis anyway.

SotP so I dont get stunned in CAF! -runs into wall feared for an hour-

Whoops I am dead.

Zenith.7301:

When somebody leaked patch notes, and they were all about underwater changes, nobody believed them. And then we got that joke of an underwater patch.

Whats funny is I see similar changes in these leaked notes, Shark got buffed, and some of the already-great underwater skills got buffed, Jellyfish were kinda buffed/nerfed. hmmm….

Leads me to believe Aquaman balances our class.

As long as your “tank” runs Knights or Toughness primary You should be fine.

If you get aggro? You’re not going to die. From the looks of it, only Nomad’s is bulkier. Even so, that may not be the case with some classes that have high protection uptime…

Anet, can Mesmers get a longbow in HoT please? Rather then summon & shatter it should just shoot clones across that map. I mean, they can have wings now right? I want to see them fly.

Please this needs to be implemented asap. There are games where teams are so imbalanced you get spawn camped in SoloQ/TeamQ. This is as bs as it gets, in situations like these there is NOTHING you can do, the game is IMPOSSIBLE to turn around and the ONLY option is to be FORCED to stay in your base or get CAMPED.

Please add an option for your team to surrender. Im getting sick of games like this.

The only title that implies skill is Crabgrabber.

I know I am in for a fight if someone is using Crabgrabber…

I hate tiers but here we go.

Transcendent God Tier
Dragon Hunter – I am a firm believer in l2p, and while DH is beatable 1v1, they are INSANE in conquest. Total point denial. There is no counterplay to Dragon’s Maw in Conquest. Your only choice is to fight them off point. And that scoreboard is ticking.

Chronomancer – _Madman you say! This post is garbage! Chronomancer isn’t OP its just shatter 2.0! _ Well, sure. Your average Chronomancer is Shatter 2.0. But in theory, Chronomancer has the highest skill cap in the game. A cap no one has reached yet. Mastery of Continuum Shift will bring about the ruin of everyone except for this theoretical Temporal God. Bow down, beg for mercy, for our time is running out. And only he shall stand in the wake of his deeds.

God Tier?

Herald – Okay so, aside Sword 3, Rev actually kinda gets demolished. However, Herald is where things get nasty. Pre-fight Might stacking is the work of the Devil. (Sadly, Maylax wishes he was the Devil.) This really is pretty OP. But Rev itself isn’t nearly as OP as made out to be. We just need counterplay to Sw3.

Druid Chris Pratt – We have Dinosaurs, you dont. Everyone seems to think Druid is OP. It really isn’t. Reapers demolish us, Condis melt us, we have little stability and Boon strips demolish us. We are tanky bar a few damage druids, we bunker and support team fights. They are God tier because lower tiers cant kill them. And Druid is still a fair margin stronger then the old meta. Reminiscent of old BM Bunk. Thye are still able to demolish many power builds, including DH.

Reaper – OH MY GOD MOM LOOK AT ME I AM LITERALLY SATAN. HAHAHAHAHAHA DIE NERD, DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Scrapper – Imagine, John Cena fused with a robot that had little robots and stole King DDD’s hammer. That is Scrapper.

Tempest – Auras, its 3:21 AM and I have collage as soon as I wake up. So this post is going to keep degrading in quality. Do you guys like anime?

Old Meta Tier

Daredevil – Teef what happen? Did your mouth daggers get removed?

Old Meta Stuff – hi

Poopy butt tier

Berserker – They are all dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13TOx7MviGc

I was Trying out Tempest(half drunk) for study reasons yesterday, keeping the reflect aura up for 15s reflecting a DH, have them around half hp, keeping my distance. Out of dodges out of tricks and then they pull me into all four traps and start Trash talking like no kitten tomorrow.

This spec carries bads and garbage. My friend and I agree its literally just like old PU. I know there has to be easier classes to carry bad players into skilled pvp but people actually thinking DH is skillful or think they are good playing this class need to get out.

+1 for mad boys

Edit:

Ranger is arguably easier to play than DH.

Nominating this for dumbest comment of the year.

Okay, I am going to make this as short as possible, but I have tested extensively. I feel others have gone over this but I am not wasting time reading all nine pages of this thread. So I apologize ahead of time if I am repeating anything.

Healing In General
I am addressing this first because I feel it is the most important. Healing power scaling is ~1%, this is a huge issue. Anet said Druid would bring about the end of the Zerker Meta, with such low healing power scaling I found clerics useless. On paper, Clerics hops on Druid and they dance around in the forest being the class I have always wanted. The “I heal you with nature also I have a godkitten dragon” class.

However, with the low healing power scaling Druid might as well go Zerk or a Zerk/Knight or Zerk/Valk set. This is not right, my solution is to greatly increase the heal scaling and nerf the base healing power of Celestial avatar.

The Staff on the other hand, needs its base heal to match or surpasses Water Staff Ele’s, I am not even able to get a 100hp heal off the AA, Wisp is nice but a little more heals on it would go a long way. Three is fine, its actually really good. Four needs a larger radius or stronger effect, It is difficult to land and has minimal payoff. A 2sec Root would be nice. As for the Five… It either needs a bigger heal or a rework in general.

In short, No reason to take Healing Power. Most will go DPS.

Conditions or Stuns
This is next on my list. Even traited, Druid cannot handle any conditions. Considering its a healer it should be able to cleanse better. I feel this makes more sense then my secondary suggestion as nature has many ways to cure sickness. I’m not saying Druid needs to be unkillable via condi, but it has no tools to deal with it, especially with Glyphs. In PvP, this is what will make Druid unplayable.

My second suggestion is keep Druid weak to conditions and give it Stability in CA. Being weak to both in PvP is going to make it unplayable outside an organized team. (Where it current shines) Solo players should not be punished for wanting to play healer.

Glyphs
Range is very short, they are very wonky and almost useless. The only one I see used is the daze. I do not know what will fix the others, the lack of stunbreak or condiclears makes them almost unwanted. I know about the Seed trait but they take so long to pop and end up being mediocre. The Elite is interesting, but I feel it should give Retail on top of its current effect and have a longer CD. (40s?) It could punish Thief/Mesmer/FT Engie and buy the Druid some time.

Celestial Avatar
It is very difficult to heal people, because they are constantly running away and seem to think the AoE heals are hostile. Making the heals easier to land would be amazing, but this may be a git-gud situation. Hence why it is last.

High damage is fine, yes. But support is a role that is also key in these “high damage games” you speak of. Mobas right?

Mobas run off a snowball effect where Support keeps the ADC alive and gets them kills so that they can win teamfights with damage.

Other MMOs run support/control in one, along with a bulky dps and an assassin-like dps in an arena setting.

Gw2 has is own meta. A single support on each team is usually enough to make things interesting. Running to support for cover or to +1 a fight is skillful play. Map awareness, rotations, teamwork. Having a dude hold a point while you go dunk kids elsewhere is key. Bunkers and Support allow high-risk high reward specs to be effective. They turn the tide, and Outrotating a Bunker or Support (usually they are slow, Guard/Some Druids but Ele is an exception) and holding two caps is what makes teams good, out communicating one another and organizing attacks. A tide and flow to battle, Defense and Offense. I feel Support/Bunkers have a place in high level play and should stay in balance with the rest of the classes and specs personally.

Minsterals was removed for unkillable bunkers but that’s another story apparently.

Had my friend help me out a LOT with this one. Chronomancer hype.

Take this opportunity to become a Kamen rider.

I was 1 win from Diamond last week, lost it all, had a meltdown. I am 6 pips now from Diamond. I am too scared to Q and I have no Guild to roll a cheese comp with.

I’ve been kicked out of t6 at least twice, once down to t3, and I’ve been locked in a flux between 3pips in t4 and 2 in t5. Just broke out and I know, Matchmaking is standing there waiting to knock me back down. I dont want to say anything or jinx myself but I am literally scared to Q.

I have a bearded dragon is that close enough to a Drake? I just need to get an axe now and I can start the intro right?

It’s quite literally the easiest legendary to get, picking up more classes will make you a better player in the long run. Not trying to be mean but tough it out.

Crinn.7864:

Here is the actual skill rankings of the classes.

Listed from most skill requiring to least skill requiring.
1. the class I main
2. my second favorite class
3. the class that sucks against my favorite classes
4. the class that is meh against my favorite classes
5. non-viable class
6. non-meta class.
7. class that is ok against my second favorite class
8. class that is ok against my main
9. class that counters my main.

This post is gold.

Keadron.9570:

Actually it isn’t balanced for an ele. The low health and Def make an on hit trait for removal almost useless. As exactly how many hits does it take to take an ele down? If you’re going to compare it to Guardian you also have to take in how much health and armor the guard has

Let me just call you out on some BS right there. Guard and Ele share the same hp pool. The only difference is armor. Something condis ignore.

The real chaos to enjoy is the fourms.

I wanted to take solace in the fact I dropped Gw2, I wanted to come laugh, but wew lad.
I’m not even playing anymore and I’m angry.

Holy… o.o The Sylvari hairs.. leaves… pinecones..

Getting more Black Lion chests then Gear on my alts ;;

Im sure this has been said to death but we haven’t had a thread for it. Plus, I want Anet to see it.

Let me admit it, I am completely biased to the Wyverns, they are the most adorable pet and have great potential in all game modes. They look amazing and have amazing F2s. They are like winged little dinosaurs but enough about this let me get to the point.

THEY CANT LAND ANY ATTACKS.

I realize this means changing the animations. But I dont want to see them go to waste. On paper, the DPS is there. The F2 Utility is there, and some decent CC is there. (I dont think Wing Buffet needs changes but if you wanna make it faster as a PvPer I wont complain.) However, the fact that after seeing a video and watching the Wyvern chase the Golem, then do it myself for well over five minutes before it killed it, raises one question.

Will this ever be fixed?