Guild Wars 2

bluri.2653:

Viable and optimal are two different things

Yeah, in terms of organized pvp team, as I said 99% of your time in GW2 you are not under those conditions therefore viable is enough.
Even tho I still believe someone would find out a comp with “optimal” DE in it

That is the problem with a lot of pvp-ers , you all are comparing DE to DrD like “DE wont be able to do what DrD is doing so it wont be viable”, ofc it wont, because those 2 are totally different in gamplay. I know it is hard to think about “what if meta changes and roaming backcapping / +1-ing DrD wont be needed that much”, but there is this possibility, DE is more of a skirmisher who can win 1v1 (not saing you will ahve to play rifle or will be playing it) and DrD is mobile +1 ganking tool.

I am 100% sure it wil be available again during halloween event, as it always was last 2 years at least or so

still waiting for glider skin of backpack from scarlet event in LA, that mechanical 8 “wing” thing

hugo.4705:

don’t know if it’s an meta event or a real World Boss. But if they take the same model as HoT, one of the map have a meta event like Tarir and another a gigantic fight like mordremoth head fight.

But that was the point, “we” want new world bosses like TT or Teq(back when it was hard), not JUST another HoT META event map, they are good there is nothing wrong with them, but there is something about good old world bosses from vanilla GW2 (if they are challenging ofc) which spawns at certain time and you go and kill them

Just a reminder, ATs are the only “5v5” gamemode in the game currently and even that isnt played by that many people, so who cares if DE is or is not viable there if 99% of time you are solo/duo queing ranked ? so with that in mind:
1) Will be DE viable in sPvP? – YES
2) will it be the best spec ? – probably NO , but who cares if you enjoy playing it
3) Will DE be viable in WvW? – Hell yes
4) Will DE be viable in PvE? – Yes, rifle probably wont be best choice mainly in raids, but that does not matter at all, everywhere else in PvE you will be able to play Rifle

So conclusion is: DE will be viable spec, period.

LOL you have to be doing something wrong, I literally was able to 2-3 shot people with rifle, p/p, d/d and s/d ….. did not even need to stack malice to full

ofc, it is porting you in the opposite direction of your target, it didnt state it will port you backwards but away from target

They should really increase speed of stealth shot on rifle, like really drastically and Mercy should not reset your malice as long as you are in combat, because now Mercy will help you with additional boon steal / daze but will f-up your entire dmg potential

Strange, I played every weapon setup possible with variety of traitlines combinations and did really well in sPvP and WvW …. DE has just different playstyle than core thief or daredevil and players arent used to both playing with it and against it ….

Deadeye =/= rifle , and also basically co one played the spec yet, but you go and say it is not viable even before that ? .. LOL what a joke

I am just laughing my ass of on all of you idiots, who cant read. They said they wont hold WvW and PvP updates for xpac but they will rather just release it when it is done…. Like with last WvW update, they could wait with it and reveal it as xpac content, but rather than that they shipped it right away as it was ready, so because you are blind and cant read and are too ignorant stop with your whining already and use a bit of brain please

Vicko.1204:

At siren’s landing,where the illusionary beast spawns at the portals,you can find npc phantasms using longbows.Probably some of you have seen them already but just in case I will post an image.

That looks more like a shortbow to me, and hopefully Axe being condi based is not true, since I hate condi in its curret state.

I absolutely do not know what Anet did with last patch, but until then matches in ranked were great, now it is complete kittenshow with total noobs who seems to be playing pvp first time in their lives.. .

Emdrix.6124:

Crowley.8761:

This is completely wrong, the rating system is entirely based on having luck with teams in placement matches and so ranks become pointless.

“Oh you can just fight your way to the top”.
No. You can’t. You can’t carry your teams for that many matches. And you will NEVER catch up to the people with good placement. Not ever. So long s5, better luck next time.

Yes you can carry . My placements matches were 4v5 and I lost the first 2. I ended up in a scrub division that I could easely win 1v2s and carry all the way to Plat. Now the matches are more even. If you get unlucky and get placed low you can easely win 1v2 or even 1v3

no you cant carry TEAM BASED GAME !!!!! …. there is no way in hell you 1 can basically win 1v9 , something like “carrying team” does not exist, either you get lucky with teammates and you will be able to win, or you will be on the opposite side of things

play what you enjoy the most playing , that is the bottom line …

“The game seems healthy enough, balanced enough, "
Did you actually play in the last month or so ? … how could yu think that this cancer meta is “balanced” ? where conditions for noobs burst more than power spike builds ?

yep yesterday I could not cap on my mesmer , did not try other characters gonna try today .

@Trooper yeah Thieves are indeed pain in the kitten while on GS so you jsut have to outdodge their burst

you can activate them for 2nd part of “spell” if you did not block anything right away after first cast … if you block you will summon clone .. there is nothing to fix those mechanics are great ..

Fay.2357:

Blackari.2051:

This itteration of the #3 is awesome in comparison to what it was before just be sure you are close enough

Press 3. Watch clone spawn next to you. Clone proceeds to take a moment to enjoy its surroundings. Clone notices that an enemy exists. Clone casually strolls to enemy.

yeap

This itteration of the #3 is awesome in comparison to what it was before just be sure you are close enough

I still love lockdown gs + s/s mesmer most ! even playing it from time to time, however it is not as effective as it used to be pre-spec patch, since some traits have been merged or divided and you no longer can accept them all since you have to run chrono …

Exciton.8942:

1v1 a condition chrono?
DH destroys them if you know how to play. Can survive easily as long as you spam traps, symbols and blocks since they cleave out clones in less than half a second.

Mender druid and scrapper can both play a sustain game against chrono. You will slowly wear them down.

Staff thief can also beat chrono in a 1v1 if they have a cap to worry about. You can cleave out clones very quickly by your constant dodging AOE attack.

You did not tell it straight but yeah, you can beat condi chronos, but only with another cancer cheese aka faceroll specs = DH traps, staff spam thief, scrapper spam …

the only thing I need in this “cancer condi meta” is viable condi cleanse, since running Malyx on power build is bullkitten and having only condi cleanse on legend swap is well … how to put it , useless ? O.o …. even on my necro where I can get 5 condi cleanses/transfers is not enough in this “meta”

rather than wondering why it was not done in time that would be “good” for both NA / EU , I wanna know what is the maintenance about

“It’s not overpowered”

So tell me then pls, why so many of players rage about fact that they slightly changed mechanic of the spell ? ….
I am laughing at so many of those who rage about this how 1 “nerf” “destroyed” reaper/necro …. all of them acting like if Anet nerfed every single ability ….

Sorin Noroku.5342:

1) don’t stand in traps, since dh came out people cried traps are too strong yet they STILL stand in them.

Do you realize that we are playing CONQUEST MODE ?!!! , you have to stain on point in able to get it capped in order to win … and since DH traps are as big as points are, then there is no win for you if you are going against DH, either you dont stand in traps and you will lose point or you will stand in them but then you will die and you will still lose the point …

me on my necro having 4-5 condi cleanses and it still is not enough …. problem is that condis are 1) op in damage 2) condis are dealing “passive” dmg, you just need them apply on someone and they are doing dmg meanwhile you can run in circles, as power build you cant do that, you always have to be on top of your opponent and try to hit all your attacks in order to kill your enemy…..
TL;DR – yes condi build are noob-friendly with low risk – always reward gameplay, every condi build on every class has so many ways to apply these condis that condi clearers are not enough so eventually enemy will run out of them and he will die to condis ….

problem with DH is that we are playing conquest….. They will be OP with their traps as long as we are in conquest mode, because either they will zone you out of point => enemy wins, or they will shred you to pieces while you trying to even survive on point => enemy wins … DH is “OP” thanks to game mode we are playing that is all

I am playing multiple classes in PvP for the sake of not burning out on my main Necro, but yeah I have been maining Necro since launch and only thing that is slowly putting me awy from it is that with power build (which I love) you are sub-par if not useless against all that condi-spam noskill-fullkill other classes that are out there …. but if it comes to the worst I still have my thief… oh wait

aaaha… NO legendary PVP backpack is not meant to be for casuals….. either you get good and you will complete achievement or you wont get it .. easy as that … PvE (except from raids atm) is casual already enough .. dont bring casualness into “high end” PVP as well … if you want it then earn it !

thief is great in premades of 3+ , but for soloQ dont even bother … you cannot fight at mid cuz you will be wiped almost instantly and if not you would be there just doing nothing, so you either will outrun enemy and will decap far + helping +1ing like before which is really hard since your burst is not what it used to be due to tanky meta … or you will reroll to class that can fight in fights.

very few ???? No it is not around 20 players on each region … it is wastly larger proportion on each region + flawed system like this should never be in any game … so it is good that they are finally fixing it ….. seriously .. you want to have fun and play with your buddy ? then go unranked, and if you wanna be somewhat serious about your “progression” then que ranked, still accessible with your buddy but depending on yours standings it will award you approprietly without a chance to abuse the system
PS: sorry if i misspelled something

Lordrosicky.5813:

Agemnon.4608:

Lordrosicky.5813:

So to stop pro teams exploiting by queuing with newbs….you basically ruin it for the huge majority of people who want to play with friends. You took a sledge hammer to crack a nut. Awful.

There’s always unranked.

People who play mmo games like progression.

you want to progress in PvP ? good, so get better and you will progress …. if you do not want to improve yourself in PvP area then unranked will satisfy you more than enough … + as they said you still be able to group with a lot lower division friends, but those will have to accept to play on your level playing field

kdaddy.5431:

Rap Tiger.1257:

You ArenaNet should allow both falls in the division as in tier starting in amber.
Thus only the best players come to catch legendary division and also would cause weaker skills of players fell short.
Because those who are more casual should go unranked or play RANKED only to play, I believe that the intention of the league is more for the hardcore
Only need to adjust himself is the MMR and balance patch.
since the league system division, tier and pips,I think very good this system.

this is not a good system because for anyone who isnt great the system would not be fun

if you are not great you should also not be able to get to diamond/legend …. “competetive” systems like this is not meant for casuals, yes they can participate but they cannot and should not hope to get to top if they are not good enough … simple as that.

finally we are moving somewhere, but if you trully want this game to be at least some kind of esports than something like paragraph “Shopping for Ambers” should be a freaking hotfix after first realization that it is abbusable as much as it is….. fixes like these do not break current ongoing season but rather it would help it! so please start HOT FIXING! even some class balance, when one class is obviously broken just HOT FIX it!

I wouldlike if they nerfed dmg by 25-30% but reducecast time to 0,7s .

Be sure to check updates for drivers (mainly for graphics card)

What about looking at Bahing Bauxite Alchemicals event ? which is needed fo precursor crafting ??? O.o No? .. gg

First of all I do not know whose “great” idea was including in precursor crafting event which is bugging almost everytime out since original BETA (and yeah many reports have been sent to Anet) 2nd of all HOW it is possible that event is bugged for over 3 years now ?

NPCs got stuck into wall in underwater corridor, and after that even if they somehow get out of the wall they get stucked in place and event is uncompletable…. This event is needed for collections for Spark and Storm. so this should be hotfixed ASAP or should be removed/replaced from collection till it is not fixed

“We’re taking a hard look at the ways players are experiencing content across the game”
if this was the truth, we would have at least 5 balance patches in since leagues started

i see 6k gold so you have to be PvE-er .. and now dont take me wrong but having top score is nothing, it does not say anything about how good you are + i dont get it how did you manage to get so many looses with ranger, i assume you are playing druid … cuz when i started to play druid for the first time i went on 10+ win streak ….

^ this…. Like yeah you can not go into match and therefor not to ruin game for others but still you made others wait a little bit longer to have normal match so we gonna punish you …. another thing for #Anetlogic folder

GS has the highest dps atm tho (in power builds ofc) …

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Yesterday I used my brand new sinister build 12-16k dps build on the vale. He still had 97% health after the timer hit 6 min.

So even if EVery player has this huge dps, we still can’t make it? what is this bullkitten. Unless he has some hidden ‘self heal’ mechanic, this is just so wrong.

i can assure you 100% you did not have 12-16k dps …. + if you brought boss only to 97% then you had to AFK whoel time i those 4 minutes(?) ….

maybe because you only need 250 fractals now

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Tone it down blackari. Not saying you’re wrong, you’re not, but there’s a better way to say it.

Saying it “raw” is the most “efficient” way to do it ….. it is just stupid that Those who are bad at the game are already complaining (only after 3 days!!!) and as we know Anet will (sadly) listen to these players and afterwards there will be again that “GW2 endgame is non existing cuz you only need to faceroll everywhere” ….. finally there is challenge but someone is not willing to put effort in it so he will just complain about how “bad” it is cause it is “too hard” which is total bullkitten ….

just STOP your QQ right here on this post …. We do not want another faceroll content and gettting it done without effort ….. SO many spoiled “kids” in this game geezus, you want to have everything accesible right away right ? ….. Hell NO! if you are bad then you do not deserve reward from raid, if you really want that reward then freaking practice and you will get it….. Finally GW2 has some challenging content and there it is in 3 days from release someone is QQing cuz he cant down first boss, guess what you suck…. It is not “ultra hard” to down first boss, you just need practice …. leave raids as they are do NOT nerf them.