Guild Wars 2

REMINDS ME OF THE GOOD TIMES

Honestly if the assassin stun break didn’t give the rev a whole dodge when used, it would be much more balanced.

For pvp RR is really good because the slick shoes stun break is 4s super speed on a low cd. That’s basically a 2k heal every 25s which is nice. It’s even better when you run final salvo with 2 gyros (bulwark, and sneak). Overall I’d suggest taking it in pvp, your role honestly isn’t damage most of the time, you’re there for your sustain, gyro Rez, cc, and support.

Yea it’s the revenants passive taunt that causes the stuck bug. Been happening for a long time, you’re noticing it more now because more people are running the taunt lately.

Sunshine.5014:

Bitty.1409:

Axialbloom.8109:

Sceptre, not fresh air.

Scepter is nothing without fresh air, imo.

That’s the thing. We need to make Scepter viable without Fresh Air. If we tie the weapon to a trait line, then it kills so much build variety.

I suppose I’m biased towards fresh air, I just think it fits so perfectly with scepter.

Axialbloom.8109:

Sceptre, not fresh air.

Scepter is nothing without fresh air, imo.

Fresh air doesn’t need added damage to auto attacks… Why do you guys even want that? The reason I enjoyed fresh air was how fast you could rotate and combo your skills. Also it doesn’t need more sustain.. You throw on water and arcane and you have more then enough, the problem with fresh air is a few things. First, they took all the damage out of air, you literally gain 0 damage from that trait line. Second, there are a lot of skills that are just unfortunately useless. And as someone said earlier they really don’t offer anything to a team, other than the ability to one shot, and reflects I guess. Oh and also zerker eles low hp pool is really hard to deal with, I know that’s a tough one too address though. Oh and lack of mobility

As far as I know is that 2 teams in the pro league from NA will qualify for LAN and play each other. The winner of that match will play the winner of the EU pro league LAN., and then rinse and repeat. I don’t believe China will be included until the next World Tournament. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

+1, literally the reason I don’t stream anymore and rarely queue.

I guess it ‘s reportable but I wouldn’t go around accusing people; I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been accused of macroing my scepter ele burst combo. It’s flattering but it gets kinda old after awhile. Always keep in mind that just because you can’t perform a certain “combo” consistently, that doesn’t mean that it’s impossible for others too.

Let me tell you this, your complaints only cater to those at a very low level of play that don’t know how to count stealth or simply understand a thieves weaknesses. This is basically a debate on whether Anet should balance around a low lvl of play or a high lvl of play because at a high lvl of play thieves are really not much of a problem in terms of stealth. It’s just their class m8, instead of complaining and thinking it’s impossible to counter, actually play it for a bit and realize that it’s really not that OP. Then again, judging by this complain you clearly play at a low level that consists of players complaining about the stealth mechanic so maybe you just might do good for once there bud.

If you are good at zerker ele it will be as good as it ever was…. + you get evasive arcane + cleansing water w/o losing any damage, not to mention the super speed you get from attuning to air. Also with marauder amulet you will have about 17.2k hp which is pretty good.

Ugh, just because y’all don’t know how to fight them, that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Okay so it really depends on the class you play but I can at least tell you when they are vulnerable. After a flanking strike(the one they evade to the side with sword) there’s a window where they are vulnerable right at the end of the animation. Well now thinking about it, the rest REALLY depends on you class, what do you play?

Good initiative!

Okay in terms of your gripes about the matchmaking, balance(although some is a bit outdated) marketing of the game, and overall lack of incentive to play the game I agree with you; but the thing you always seem to not consider is that a majority of the people that play this game competively actually really like the mechanics of conquest. A fairly straight foward game mode at its core, Conquest at a high level of play is actually incredibly strategic with a lot of ways to outplother team. The problem I think is the lack of balance patches makes the game mode stale because of one meta staying the same for so long.

Okay in terms of your gripes about the matchmaking, balance(although some is a bit outdated) marketing of the game, and overall lack of incentive to play the game I agree with you; but the thing you always seem to not consider is that a majority of the people that play this game competively actually really like the mechanics of conquest. Although a fairly straight foward game mode at its core, and the lack of balance can make it very stale. Conquest at a high level of play is actually incredibly strategic with a lot of ways to outplay the other team .

Stayin late for the community, what a guy.

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Probably the better way to put it, I just get kitten when I see people say they get farmed by thieves and have no impact in team fights.

Who are you lol? And no, I have no idea where you got that from. Not sure what your problem is.

Farmed by ak? Lol what

Playing s/f ele is revolved around the concept of counter pressure, when an opponent makes you waste(or just use) one of your crucial CDs you better punish the hell out of him with that cd. For example, you are forced to invuln, so during that invuln duration you better be pressuring the hell out of your target, and if you do it efficiently you will heal up while doing so.

God all you guys have no idea what you are talking about, fresh air ele is very viable in competitive play, and I know this because I play it competitively. A good fresh air ele will be a thieves worst nightmare, most of the top thieves hate playing against me. Yes, atm I’m the only one that plays it competitively (zoose no longer plays) but you just need the right composition for it to shine. Yes, the sustain dps isn’t great compared to other zerkers, but the survivabilty is actually pretty kitten good as long as you get peels. You have no disengage(such as stealth, and the blink I often use offensively) but you have some really clutch CDs that if you use wisely will always be ready to go when needed. Also you don’t have to cast a heal, so if you are fast with your skill rotations the healing you get makes u super tanky. Not to mention you also have a 6 second protection potentially ever 10 seconds… It just requires a high amount of experience and mechanical skill to effectively play and not many people have put in the hours that zoose or I have to the build.

Personally, I play mortal combat while I wait… But I have to nag the poor soul I’m queuing with to tell me when it pops.

Can y’all shut the hell up about him doing this to favor his team. God you guys are so kittening annoying, just disagree with his opinion don’t attach a motive to it.

I was just showing what aspects of dd ele actually take skill, obviously you shouldn’t chase a teammate off point for a water swap. Anyone can do the normal rotations but making use of every skill for the sake of your team is what separates good players. I mean solo q realistically should be a place where your teammates would understand mechanics such as this.. Obviously that’s not always the case but using your CDs unselfishly is always important, solo q or team q

The people who say cele is brain dead are referring to the ability to just pick up the build and do fine, but when it comes to a team environment and having to use everyone of those skills to benefit your team is where the skill cap is revealed. Whether it’s water swapping on a teammate whenever it’s off cd, ccing an enemy off one of your allies to peel for them, using your shock aura and standing on your teammate to reduce the amount of pressure, etc. The amount of utility a dd ele can provide to a team is crazy but very few dd eles utilize such capabilities. Don’t be one of those dd eles that just spam their skills to survive (although that may be necessary sometimes) be the type of dd ele that uses every single of his 20 weapon skills to its maximum TEAM potential. Amen

I’m about to drop that mixtape on all yo kitten

the consistent number is 3 times, but yea i have no idea how to consistently get 5 lmao

S/F ele is 100% viable in a PvP setting.. you just gotta be good at it.
I also said someone say that thieves completely counter it? Not the case at ALL.
But yea S/F ele definitely has it’s niche role for a team, you just gotta know how to exploit it and use it to its max potential.

1. Lack of consistent balance patches
2. Conquest is boring and almost impossible for casters to commentate on
3. Not F2p
4. Only one game mode
5. Lack balance patches on the reg
6. 3 years have gone by and you can count on one hand the amount of changes to maps/gamemode
7. Viewers would have no clue wtf is happening mostly due to lack of clear objective
8. The amazing combat system is really only appreciated by the players playing the game i feel like, not the people watching.
9. Another huge reason is because of the queue problems making this game boring to watch on Twitch. Twitch is EXTREMELY crucial to a game going esports.
10. LACK OF TENDER AND CARE GW2 NEEDS.
11. Lack of balance of the patches being balanced and stuff

Can I rap, i go by the name yung shnick

Honestly, how you go about learning to play S/F ele is by just playing it and learning from your mistakes. As you mess up you will start to see what you can get away with, like maybe I couldve saved my Obsidian flesh right there rather than waste it and have it on cd. I’ve been playing Fresh air for a loooong time now and i’m still learning no combos and what skills to use in certain situations. That being said, there is a couple of things that can be taught to a new S/F or S/D ele that maybe you wouldnt notice through playing and i’d be more than happy to help you out. Just message me anytime @Bitty.1409 and i’d be more than willing to help you out.
I also just noticed that S/F was not an option, i’d highly suggest running that but obviously you dont have too.

if they stealth before you successfully cast a skill then they outplayed you to be honest. There is not any insta cast stealths in this game besides maybe blinding powder. What you are saying would allow us eles to just mash are keys with no care in the world… I’m sorry but I really think this is just a patience/L2p issue.

The tournament system that was originally in the game was great, it basically gets all the good players playing at a specific time.

Yea, you are trying to join the wrong guilds if thats the case.

1. More consistent class balance
2. Better custom servers
3. A queue system like LoL’s, a queue for Duo and Solo, and a 5-man queue.

YourFriendMarvin.4127:

December.3946:

No one gives a poop about MMR or leaderboards, but unranked queues are SIGNIFICANTLY quicker than ranked queues. And most of us play troll classes/builds in unranked anyway -/smileyface-

Pretty much this.
Ranked doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll run into more good players. I always solo into Ranked now, but sometimes I queue unranked because the queues are faster. Sometimes I queue unranked if theres a bunch of premades in ranked that I know I could beat with a real group, but I get PuGs that don’t have a clue what they’re doing. I don’t mind being smashed by a good team, but against subpar teams that I know I can beat it’s just not fun. So thats a reason to queue in unranked sometimes. We need Divisions with incentive.

Well the point i’m getting at, if more people queued in Ranked we wouldn’t get those bad pugs because the queue would have more options.

And my point is is that good players belong in Ranked Queues and separating them makes the queues terrible

Yea but wouldn’t that be more fun against good players? Hmm, maybe i’m not considering that everyone doesn’t like good competition all the time.

I really don’t understand why so many of you decide to queue for unranked rather than ranked queues. All you do is go against players that are much worse than you, and separate the player base even more. I really hope it’s not that you are worried about effecting your win ratio on the leader boards because come on… we all know that means next too nothing. Splitting the player base is the last thing we need right now in PvP. Hell, even if i’m Solo Q’d, I still queue for Ranked because at least i’m going against equally skilled players but because of the lack of equally skilled players actually queuing for Ranked the matches are usually filled with players that clearly have no business playing in said match.

I’m not writing this to make fun of or hate on y’alls decision to queue for Unranked, i’m more just trying to figure out why you guys do. The more people that queue for ranked the more fun and balanced the matches will be.

How hard would it be to implement something. It’s been a month since this topic has been posted I can’t believe Anet STILL has no update on this… It’s a serious problem with to me seems to be a rather easy solution. The only reason that i’ve seen for not allowing us to leave HOTM is because sometimes load times are longer than the time it gives you to accept the queue. First off, to me that sounds like a really weak excuse to find a solution, and if that’s really the case then only allow people to map during the first minute of entering the queue? The average wait time as we know is probably between 4-8 minutes so whats wrong with allowing a small threshold where people can actually do something? Of course my solution probably has flaws but this isn’t my job, I just cant imagine there isn’t a team that works on these small quality of life issues. There are soo many small issues such as this in the game that I can’t imagine being that hard of a change to make. Some of them have been in the game for years, it drives me mad. Just an update giving us a legitimate reason why this is such a complicated issue, or why you are ignoring it would ease a lot of GW2 players anger. RANTS OVER

Not a bad idea to use while roaming. In PvP I even went through a phase of running it, but for the role I play, Bolt to the Heart is just to good :/. I love the trait though.

Well yea of course its still useful, was just explaining the reasoning behind it.

Guys calm down… It’s a test season. Why would they offer good prizes for a kitten test season?

Supcutie.2538:

Thief is better than Mesmer in most cases

Yea, I’m in the same boat as you too, Scepter Ele is great and all but it just simply can’t be played without a thief alongside with me.

Yea, it was once a stunbreak but due to the amount of viable stunbreaks eles already have access too, they removed it. I can’t complain though, it would be quite OP tbh. Imagine a D/D ele with ANOTHER stunbreak… makes me shiver just thinkin about it.

Okay let’s stop comparing scepter ele to d/d else’s, they serve completely different roles for a team. I along with zoose are the only two right now that play scepter focus in the competitive scene and I think it’s one of the most underused weapons in the game. Once you get really good at scepter ele you really start to realize that it is impossible for the enemy to avoid your damage. This is only if you are quick enough to make all of it land at nearly the same time, and patient enough to wait out dodges. Another advantage to an sf ele is that it can win almost any matchup in a 1v1 scenario (shout warriors you won’t kill but won’t die too) except for its hard counter which is d/d ele but if you find yourself 1v1ing a dd ele that’s just a bad rotation. Honestly the key to s/f ele is learning your combos/smooth rotations and learning how to save your valuable CDs. Every skill you use better have a reason for going on cd, because part of the advantage of having so many skills is utilizing every one of those skills to its full potential.

Same here, and i’ve been asking around and found that a majority of the problems are people with Verizon ISP

BlackBeard.2873:

Bitty.1409:

Sorel.4870:

Hello, SD thief main here. It’s not too difficult a match-up, if you think about it. If you want to beat us, you must:

- Not play berserker. No Fresh Air S/D,S/F eles. You’ll lose every time.

Not true at all, I main S/F ele and really have no problem with most S/D thieves.

Then those thieves are not being patient. All they have to do is force you to blow your invulns (on a long CD), then you are dead meat. Luckily man people playing S/D use it as a starting point (because it is more forgiving), and don’t learn all the nuances. Or maybe they just get used to following a rotation and rely on the evades to keep them safe 80% of the time. Regardless, the advantage if certainly in the S/D thief’s side by FAR if they know how to play it.

I’m not referring to bad S/D thieves… I’m referring to the top players of that spec. I can definitely see a less experienced S/F ele having trouble, but once you are able to land on air procs in between flanking strikes, it’s really not that bad. The reason why its tough is because you have to totally change your playstyle, you have to really slow down and make sure you are timing your skills correctly.

Sorel.4870:

Hello, SD thief main here. It’s not too difficult a match-up, if you think about it. If you want to beat us, you must:

- Not play berserker. No Fresh Air S/D,S/F eles. You’ll lose every time.

Not true at all, I main S/F ele and really have no problem with most S/D thieves.