Guild Wars 2

If your looking for tips on how to be decent at thief even if you are new or a casual comes down to a few things.
1. Pick a Build and weapon set you like. For me I run power D/P -SB power build.
2. Practice in Spvp zone. Use the Golems and other practice dummies for stealth combos, stacking stealth..ect.
3. After you feel comfortable with the build and combos go into Spvp and practice. Don’t worry about dieing and such just practice jumping in and out of fights.
4. After your Spvp runs try and roam around in WvW getting those 1v1’s when you can and flip camps and such.
5. As with any skill it takes time to get good. You don’t have to no life the game to be good just stick with one class and practice, you will get there.

To the op. I am a professional artist and I have had people love my art and hate my art. It doesn’t matter to me one way or the other if people like or dislike my own art. I would do it regardless. Being an artist requires strong skin.

If Anet or it’s employee’s can not handle criticism/rage and only want the love then they are in the wrong business. Choosing to be in a creative profession is not for people who can’t take harsh words.

There are flaws in WvW via 1v1 imbalance but beyond that there is a flaw with WvW. What is this flaw? That’s simple, there is ZERO incentive to play the mode.

In most cases people use WvW to level up alt’s or just to waste time. There are groups of people that like to set up GvG’s or 5v5’s to see who’s havoc team is better. Their is also a small group of people who jump into WvW solo an roam to put their micro skills to the test. The final group of people are just those that like to clump up as a big ball and take towers.

The 1 major flaw with all of these is there is ZERO incentive to play the mode at all. There is zero in-game reward for getting 1st place in your matchup or even 1st place against all the servers.

In general WvW is more like a FPS. You log in to kill lower skilled people for an hour or two and then log off. The problem? This is an mmo where the whole point of the game is to never be finished building your character and you get rewards for being good/skilled.

In fact, there are more rewards for being good in a modern FPS game than there are for being good in WvW.

They gave us WvW Ranks but these ranks mean absolutely nothing. It only shows how much time you’ve logged into WvW. The ranks do not show how skilled you are and give little to no benefit to your character.

I understand that this game was built as a F2P game and that they must make money via Instant Gratification with the Gem Store. However I will list some simple incentives they could put into the game that at least give us a carrot to chase.

1. WvW finishers. They put SPvP finishers into the game based on Rank. I see no reason why they can’t do the same for WvW. It’s simple and these finishers could be WvW themed, example “A Finisher that summons a Tower Cannon that blasts the Opponent into the ground”

2. Weapons Skins. Since this game is all about looking cool why not give us WvW weapon skins that look just as good as legendaries once you hit a certain rank or as super rare drops.

3. Armor Skins. Read point 2.

4. Put in WvW Legendaries. This is the really kittene as I believe to earn a legendary in WvW should be Skill based so ranks would have to be reworked to show skill instead of time sink.

I will go one step forward and say that this game lacks incentive to log in as a whole. Their is no carrot to follow/chase. Here is what I’m talking about.
1. Buy Game
2. Level First Character to Max
3. Dungeon/Buy Exotic Armor/Wep/Trink
4. Grind Daylie Quest for Ascended Trinks
5. Repeat for Alt’s

If you are not going to give us a new Tier of armor or weapon this game just slowly loses the reason to log in. Yes Ascended Armor is a higher tier but when the increase is only 1 or 2 points of a certain stat with a month of farming its not an upgrade its a joke.

At the very least if it takes the same time to craft a full set of Ascended Armor as it takes to Farm a legendary then Give the Ascended Armor the same property as Legendaries ie. Can change the stat type at any time, Or do the right thing and give it significant stat increases.

If you agree or disagree with the statements above all I ask is we keep it classy.

Wow that matchup looks very boring for Green. As for the other colors looks like they will be EoTM’s for that week.

Just remember when it come’s down to points it comes down to one thing, population. If Anet wanted to do some thing meaningful to WvW they would simply merge the servers into say 9 servers and close down the rest.

That or Anet could give a reason to even go into WvW outside of killing low skilled players.

Some tips on this.
1. Make sure none of your attacks are set to auto attack.
2. Swap Weapon will cancel most Attacks.
3. EG 4 (Leap Backwards) CAN be canceled by hitting Swap Weapon while in the air. Yes a error code will pop but you will no longer jump back.
4. You can rebind Weapon Swap or the ESC button to other buttons.
5. You can make a macro the will stop all attacks ie. /stopattack however in this game you would have to make a script to stop all attacks you do. This does not break TOS as it only does one function ie. Stop attacking.

As for channel skill’s you either need to drop kit,wep swap, or hit esc to cancel the channel. That is unless you make a macro that can stop it with a click.

Either way good luck.

Gloam Drifter.9158:

Barquiel.5610:

I love posts like these here are mine.
1-5 Skill
Shift 1-5 Utility

Function keys Changed to
6, Shift 6, 9, Shift 9

Movement
A,D Strafe
W Forward
Shift F Dodge roll
Space Bar jump
` Weapon Swap

I use a Razor Naga. It’s not the size of a football unless you have very small hands

Hey, a fellow shifter. How the heck do you 9/shift 9 though?

Look up the Razor Naga and you’ll instantly know how I hit 9/S9.

I love posts like these here are mine.
1-5 Skill
Shift 1-5 Utility

Function keys Changed to
6, Shift 6, 9, Shift 9

Movement
A,D Strafe
W Forward
Shift F Dodge roll
Space Bar jump
` Weapon Swap

I use a Razor Naga. It’s not the size of a football unless you have very small hands

PvE: Warrior
PvP: Warrior
WvW: Warrior

If you want a class that’s easy to learn hard to master take the Warrior. It’s a super easy class with 1 F Function key. Most of the warrior tools are passive and when you need to click on some thing you’ll know. If easy is what you want than warrior is want you want.

Conditions are in were they are. The only issue I could see with conditions is the food buff that brings the duration up 40%. However you can counter that food with -40% food and runes.

In general the only people that complain about condition builds are from people who build pure glass. These people don’t take the -40% food or runes that also help with duration. They are generally kited to their death.

If we took your changes right now and put them in the game these same people who complain will still be complaining about something new ie. Regen Tank builds. The would scream high into the air about how they can’t burst down a class thats build with tons of healing power and regen.

Your changes would destroy 90% of all build’s for 2 classes and would actually hurt builds from other classes. Some one said earlier that if your going to make a post about nerfing condi’s then you need to nerf boons which is correct.

Also I think what you really want is DR in the game (Diminishing Returns). Just know that how this game works if condi’s had DR they would also need to put in DR on Boons.

In either case condi’s are fine and are far from broken.

If your looking for “timers” I’m sure you could find say a addon of some kind that you could overlay on the game that you could use. However if they ever found out you were using it, you would get banned. I’m pretty sure with some google skills you could find somthing.

Kontrolle.3514:

Engineer is a free kill and he is very easy to spot due the backpacks. We target engineers first because they usally die pretty fast compared to necros with 3 healthbars and permablinds, PU-Mesmers and thiefs with permastealth or eles with 3 cantrips or warriors or anything.

Throw Elixir B is a joke, a pretty bad one. But i already said that when they patched it.
Stability on a skill with casttime, traveltime and without any stunbreake effect is just useless. Dont get me wrong, engineer is a very strong class, but not in group fights with assist.

Engi is most def not a free kill. I guess I should said or made it more clear that I am very capable at kiting. I’ve kited 7 players to their deaths with nades as my team focuses each one down.

While I will agree that engi’s have some bad setups with low stability and condi clears. We can put down a lot of pressure. I’m not complaining about a lack of skill as I said we go up agaisnt uneven fights all day and win.

What I’m asking is how often do other engi’s get auto targeted and have to go into kite mode when in a havok group.

As for my kite ability the 7 years of Hunter pvp in another game at high lvl play brings me lots of hate mail/msg in wvw and spvp.

As the title says, How often are you focused targeted down when your in a WvW havok group?

For the last month I have noticed that when I’m with my friends rocking a 2 to 5 man havok group I’m always the immediate target. Doesn’t matter which classes are being used I always seem to draw the straw that requires me to kite us to victory.

My group constantly goes up against outnumbered fights and 90% of the time I have to go into kite mode because I’ll have 4-7 people trying to lock me down. Granted the build I use can usually kite said 4-7 people long enough for us to win the fights but lets be honest, It gets old always drawing the short straw.

So the question is how many of engi’s also draw this short straw? Is it just me with the “bad luck” or is it the current theme to take down the engi in groups first.

As reference the group make up is usually this
Engi
Ele-staff
Necro-terror
Thief
Memer

and some nights the thief is swapped out for a warrior.

It’s not new at all, really. Thieves have been running groups since the beginning of WvW. I have noticed that they group up a lot more often. I assume it’s due to the condi meta as most thieves simply are a free kill if your running a condi set up. The answer to that is more thieves.

When I’m on my thief I usually just solo roam waiting for friends to get online but every now and again I’ll get invited to a group made up of thieves.

While it may not be fun for the other person it is fairly fun for the others.

Repairs are free so armor not breaking is very useless right now. Magic find is a joke and so is the exp buff. All in all the only thing out maned buff is for is to see if its even worth zoning in. Generally if your a roamer and the OM buff is up it’s a good sign where ever you go its going to be a 1v3 or 1v5.

That all said the real solution is to simply merge the bottom 3 servers. In terms of the true bottom ET,Kain these 2 servers should simply be merged as neither has a population to make one full zerg at any given time.

I don’t pvp often as I generally prefer wvw roaming. However I have noticed that in most games it’s pretty much a screaming match. I wish it would change but I highly doubt it will.

90% of all hot joins I go into I have combat log on just so I can’t read all the screaming. When I get in a good 1v2 I just say good fight. If I lose a good 1v2 I still say good fight. I think it’s all about how you talk to some one. If you want to give tips then do it politely but if it comes of rude then yes your going to open your self up to hate whispers.

All in All I think the spvp community as a whole is very toxic and really needs to change. Lets do more helping and less screaming.

I’ve played warrior since release and while I will say that cele armor is not bad I think there are better ways to go.

Granted you have high toughness and a solid amount of healing power you lack damage. For instance with my build my auto atk on GS can swing for 2.8k, 23k health, and 1.4k toughness. This I feel gives better balance in that I’m tough enough to take hits while still dealing burst.

In your vid’s you use a lot of GS/LB which show the low skill lvl of your enemies as in open world combat LB is a horrible weapon. Coni’s will still rip you apart even with food with your build as you generally have no way to keep your enemy in place making you way to easy to kite.

Looking to get a little help with my new necro. I’ve been on an engi for awhile and wanted to try some thing different. I mostly solo roam or run in a small 3 man team.

I’ve been using this build here
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNArYWjc0UebvNG3wfbigBRyVfi+QgIUuNKA-TlyCABOoEEgjAAOq/owJA44HBgBm+Ma/hU0DklygjU6FAABgZGIEwi1A-w

While this build is a lot of fun, I’m having some issues with it. For instance stacking condi’s and putting real dmg on people. In general I keep people cc’d for so long that they eventually die and if I run into a small havok group it using takes a long time for them to kill me.

My question is how can I up the dmg to put real pressure on people?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So who else will not set foot in WvW for season 3 due to not getting chest?
Personally I went out of my way to finish the meta and stopped roaming for 3 days to get the achievements. After those 3 days of boring achievement hunting and not getting the chest I see no point in jumping in WvW during a season.

I’m not even all that upset about it but if your going to put a carrot in front of season the least they could do is give up the carrot when you finish the meta.

Still no chest, hopefully at some point we will get the chest. If not then I guess next season I will only do Spvp and Tpvp and wont jump in WvW until the season is done.

I don’t know why some one would ask for less loot in WvW.
I only solo roam and it takes me hours to fill up all slots. When this happens I just salvage and send everything to the bank. It takes less than a minute to do this. Even when I do jump in a zerg which is very rare it still takes hours.

A lot of people in WvW have no interest in pve content. They don’t farm mats or any of the other things to collect gold. My gold income, comes from 2 days of salvage and then post mats on the TP so I can keep buying food buffs.

From the looks of your post you don’t want to pick up loot bags anyway. So for you just stop hitting “F” and you wont have to spend the 1.2 minutes selling or salvaging anymore.

I have never really seen engi’s out side of spvp. Some times I will see 1 or 2 in WvW after 3-4 hours of straight play.

That being said I switched to Engi because I needed some thing new. I lvl’d him up and actually had so much fun with the class that it is currently my main. I play spvp and solo roam. My reasons for the change based on my other characters.
1. Warrior – Just to easy to play
2. Guard – Same as above
3. Thief – Fun but perma stealth gets boring.

Personally I love roaming on my Engi. Those people who say we can’t roam or were pushed out of roaming, I don’t see it. Yes, there are havok groups of multi thieves groups and other set ups. However in most 1v1,1v2 or even 1v3 we hold our own.

In PvE we are fine regardless of spec mostly due to the mob’s low lvl AI (no dodge)
In WvW we are fine if we are in a group since everything is snared.

Where the class falls apart is 1v1 and high level play. Personally I feel there needs to be some serious reworks to the class to keep up with others.
1. % dmg as health. We need a passive life leech minor trait.
2. 100b we are stuck in GS and 100b should either be 1 hit massive dmg same CD or should act as Ele GS ie. We can run with it channeling.
3. Spike Armor. This needs a serious buff for it to be useful. Every other class in the game knows if we are kited we will die.
4. Burst skills. I believe every weapon should have 2 burst skills ie. Melee, Gap Closer..both of these abilities should hit hard.

The biggest problem in High level play is are spells are telegraphed, weak to kite, and our burst dmg is easy to dodge. No other class that I know of has this many problems. If we are to survive in High level play then the dev’s need to fix our class.

And if the dev’s do not see a problem with war’s then war’s need a big buff in dmg. Granted no one will want any other class in pve but that’s the fault of the AI not being able to dodge.

I love wvw but I really wish they would put in better incentives to do wvw. Just a thought but how about 1st,2nd,3rd place personal rewards and have the rewards be amazing but you have to put in atleast 10 hours of game play a week to get the award.

Remove repairs from wvw, and put in ascended gear already. I think if they put in just those 3 things it would become a hit or at the very least bring in more players.

All trolling aside, Its a new week lets have a good fight this week. Also lets all hope the wvw servers are stable. Duno about you guys but before reset the servers were lagging pretty hard.

GoM Winning in Game and In the Forums 0.o
FLAWLESS VICTORY

I’m so bored in all the wvw lands seriously I want you scrubs to get in eb so I can take your loot. COME AT ME BRO

NSP and DR please start 2xteaming cause I’m so freaking bored. Seriously I want a fight but all I see are scrubs that run away. Some out there stand in fight. Come at Me BRO

dunnberry.2964:

You mean like burried in the ground on center island while our BL is almost completely red? Ya gj there you guys are pro…first thing I did tonight was that wiping you thanks for making my night so quick

lol you didn’t bury me I guarantee that. I did see a engi ausra with your guild tag early in the day. If that was you all I saw you do is run for the hills. See while you talk big in the forums I’m doing work.

BTW if you think all we/I do is afk in SM then I guess I’ll be afk’ing in your OL. Please keep feeding me those bags. Come at me Bro

Hmm our doors seem to be treating us fine. I was concerned about your doors so I went ahead and took your BL and Garrison to make sure your doors were up to code. Sadly NSP doors where weak and useless so I made my self at home.

dunnberry.2964:

Holes? We don’t do holes we do gigantic pits of unescapabale death! And well WvW seems to always be in SM so won’t be seeing you much and I’m an engi bro you seem to be talking to me like I’m a thief or d/d ele…and zerker isn’t as bad as everyone seems to think, all depends on how ya play…worked pretty well last night everytime I lead a group into GOM

All I heard from this post is I’m scared. Hold up still taking all your bases.

irishhaf.1692:

Not cool… fricking 40 person zerg in DR bl and people showing up inside a tower before the door down… I hope it was just a bug.

Yea apparently 2 guys some how got inside. However we told the people not to hit anything and to report the bug themselves.

BTW thanks NSP and DR I left 2 bags of chips in your garrison and really needed them back so I brought some friends. Been in WvW all day.

Come at me Bro

dunnberry.2964:

WvW is kidding themselves if they think that they aren’t one of the biggest guilds in this tier who fields the most numbers…NSP is lucky to get guild groups of 15-20 besides reset…and yes WvW(GOM) are quite squishy! DR ones you guys seem pretty solid! Ps ASH I still love you!

I guess we are huge then didn’t know having 28 peeps in wvw on reset was so big. I guess we don’t care about what tier we are in we grab good peeps and rip you apart. We do have some peeps in zerker which we are trying to regear. As far as my main Potenkon you can try and burst me down if you want tho it wont happen. Tell ya what you burst me down in wvw i’ll give you a cookie.

Come at me bro

SolarWind.5693:

Barquiel.5610:

Just want to it clear [WvW] is only in GoM. Yes there is another guild that uses that tag. Yes when ever we see them we destroy them as there should only be one guild with that tag and that’s us.

Claim all the 2xTeam you want if you lose you lose. All I can say is we don’t fight for 2nd and we don’t ask for help we just get our people take our zerg and take all your stuff.

We love trolling and love causing drama because it makes us laugh so nsp please keep feeding us more bags.

Just a quick side note please keep talking about [WvW] I love seeing you guys cry and spread false info.

LOL

Just. LOL. You don’t destroy us. You outnumber us. And I kill you lame copycats with extreme prejudice. You have the absolute tastiest loot bags.

“And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee. "

Awesome the feeling is mutual :P
Also I’m pretty sure my team of 4 not to long ago beat you guys down pretty hard. If memory serves it was 4v8 with several of your guys in the 8. But hey it’s ok we both can has some internet cookies

BTW I love that everyone thinks we are a huge guild. I wish that was true but honestly we only have like 28 peeps on reset the rest of time its more like 8 but if I got pwn’d all the time I’d say there were more to :P

Just want to it clear [WvW] is only in GoM. Yes there is another guild that uses that tag. Yes when ever we see them we destroy them as there should only be one guild with that tag and that’s us.

Claim all the 2xTeam you want if you lose you lose. All I can say is we don’t fight for 2nd and we don’t ask for help we just get our people take our zerg and take all your stuff.

We love trolling and love causing drama because it makes us laugh so nsp please keep feeding us more bags.

Just a quick side note please keep talking about [WvW] I love seeing you guys cry and spread false info.

Just fyi farming isn’t nerfed. All you have to do is farm in one spot for 45 mins, zone to another farm spot for 45 mins, go back to the orginal.
BAM no DR on loot, your welcome now you can farm for hours and hours. Yes I have done this made 40g in 2 days.

I use a tank build in WvW and have a blast with it every time.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAS3encOk8YLESBxEZAB9QDzitwUoISPEjBMNA-jUyAocBZyBAFCihDnzLiGbltIasKdioa1DmHvIa1A-w

Now I’m usually in a small group of 3 in WvW and this build has great synergy. In 1v1 its a power house as I can take burst and heal back up with no problems. With the health pool and def as high as it is I can stand in the opposing teams zerg and stun. This build will take a bit to get used to because you have to constantly switch weps.

In 1v1 fights I usually let the other person open and have him/her attempt to burst and then I stun with shield, axe spin, go to hammer 3, Hammer 2, hammer 5, Hammer F1, back to shield repeat.

If your in a group you peel with stuns, removes con’s, and buff the team.

Loving this match up and all the servers have great teams. Its been a neck and neck race and has been insane fun. Lets try and keep it classy.

I’m in Zombieland and I just want to say I love this server and I’ve met so many cool people in pve/wvw the most fun I’ve had sence I started playing this game and I know the rest of the guild shares this as well.

Just wanted to say I had fun last night running on my little thief ganking and picking off SF….Never really cared about if my server wins or loses I just like to gank (HoD player)

My highlight of the night was running straight threw a zerg ball of at least 40 people and not dying but stealthing all the way to safety lol.