Guild Wars 2

You spend nearly every waking moment of your life in Q or playing GW and you don’t stop to think that the first 2 season leaders got nothing?
gz on being speedy juice 2.0 though

kyo.7390:

Guardian(Drangonhunter) – They set a lot of traps and all they do is stand on it and shoot arrows and they think they are skilled.

dam shots fired

Zelulose.8695:

I doubt Anet wants to sell kids and teens a game with gambling as a supported aspect of the game.

mystic forge
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tell them to get off the zerker/assassin amulet build that specs for maximum dps straight out of PVE land. that’ll basically solve all their problems.

Josh Davis.6015:

Trigr.6481:

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Balancing SPvP individually——-

- This is probably the single most important change that the SPvP community needs whether you realize it or not. Not only does this make sense, but since SPvP is already isolated, not one change you make here effects the rest of the game. The way it currently works the devs expect us as players to think about the rest of the game before giving changes to a specific game type, however this way of thinking will never create good balance and the reason why is the majority of changes people suggest are obviously only made and will work for Spvp. WvW and PvE are very different in terms of balance and changes for one often conflict with the other two making the change almost meaningless to begin with.

The Lesh Prince recently developed some tech that makes skill-splitting more feasible than it was previously – you’ll see some PvP (and PvE) splits in the next balance update. It’s important to understand that changes will still need to be global, but we’ll definitely have a bit more flexibility moving forward.

Keeping parity between modes when possible is important to us – but when it’s not feasible we’ll look at splits.

edit: that clickbait though

pls my love grouch let there be a hunter’s ward split it needs to happen sosososososossosososososososososo bad

Ryan.9387:

The good necros I have dueled in the past always start between 20-30%.

At 0%, the necro probably wouldn’t actually engage in a real match. At high shroud, the necro isn’t going to be challenged much.

So generally, if you want to get better, handicap yourself and start with less.

Ye, around 20% ish is standard. It was based around how much you could get by skill-swapping 3 or so minions for shroud.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Dragonhunter_-_Meditrapper
this with gen sigil on bow 94% winrate

invite me to party for ez carry any rank darek.1836
limited time offer

Pyriall.1683:

You lost because you had Cruuk on your team.

Absurdo.8309:

countytime.8134:

A guardian can kill a warrior from full health instantly, yet my Scrapper had to ber nerfed into uselessness. Why is this ok?

Is this in pvp? Guardians are arguably in the worst state there. If you are serious, here’s some suggestions:

- Bring the trait that triggers endure pain (it’s in the meta build). And bring endure pain too. Now you won’t get bursted.
- The meta build also has shield master, which reflects projectiles while blocking.
- The meta build also has stability in enrage, so you won’t get cc’ed as often.

Good luck.

not arguably, they are

altruistic healing while using a shout?

Ellie.5913:

fishball.7204:

Nobody said close competitive matches are bad. Unranked doesn’t offer competitive matches though, you could be teamed with ESL players or total newbs because of the way the matchmaking system works.

For some people it’s like fighting 4 NPCs and 1 player while having 4 NPCs yourself. That’s not fun or competitive. The quality of team mates and enemies vary far too greatly to be of any fun.

Season 2 ranked had its own share of problems but so does unranked.

I agree that SOME matches are bad in unranked but as you can see from my screen shot you also get some matches that are VERY close. And personally I find way more close and competitive matches in unranked than in the current ranked. That’s why I probably won’t ever play ranked again. But I sure can’t wait until they put ranked back so people can finally stop begging for it, and so I can remove my pvp tag thing it’s really annoying me and doesn’t match my outfits at all.

i dont think you understand. I have matches where I can easily win 1v2’s while my team loses 2v1’s to the same players. Literally if you got the average skill of the other 4 on my team, put that skilled player as a 5th instead of me, my team would get 500-0’d undoubtedly. Instead we win 500-400 because I can farm the extremely horrible players on the other team while my team loses fights.
Just because it’s clsoe doesn’t make it even close to fun. They don’t even understand what to do when you TELL them what to do. Like it’s actually so frustrating it kittenes me off. I’ve only done less than 10 unranked qs since offseason started but its by far the most annoying thing I’ve had to do in a while. I don’t mind being blown out 500-100 if it means I’m vs pro league players with at least tier 3 players on my team.

Flumek.9043:

Definetly aiming gun in right direction. Too bad they shoot rev with their softest rubberband to not affect HOT sales too much.

MOA – changes nothing that you die to a condi bomb without your utilities, and you die so every 70s. No 20s invulnerabilty uptime or condi nerf followed with ele healbot nerfs.

REV STAFF 5 – instead of 6k you get hit for 5k on a unavoidable evading gap closer. No sustain or evade nerfs to a zerker class that lves longer than old soldiers builds. NO 5s port nerf or sword 2 or sword 3.

RESULTS -
Mesmer moa will be only cheesed in smaller fights or 1v1s and teamfights will last longer.

FEEDBACK
Thank you for 2 or 3 weeks of work.

yup for 2/3 weeks of working, this is what I expected from the “balance team”. I wonder if there even is a balance team or if they just pull some random dude from the pve land devs for 3 minutes, tell him to look on the forums and make a change that should help but doesnt influence anything with the actual balance cuz u probably dont know what youre doing.

Mesmer
Signet of Humility: Reduced the moa transform duration of this skill from 10 seconds to 6 seconds. The defiance-bar damage has not been changed.
Revenant
Rite of the Great Dwarf: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to reduce damage additively rather than multiplicatively while under the effects of a trait.
Surge of the Mists: Reduced the damage of this skill by 15%.
Thief
Unload: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to apply 5 seconds of might instead of the intended 8 seconds of might.

Step in the right direction I guess..
I’m also going to assume bristleback x20 hits was fixed to x15 as well as the unblockable cc on the other pet

im literally crying right now that none of the 0 basis nerfs to dh were reverted

cant wait for this tourney to happen. looking forward to seeing the different comp and builds both Eu and Na are running

Darknicrofia.2604:

I mean, if you’re talking about comparing a mouthbreathing raging pro league tier player that has way too short of a fuse and way too loose with the profanities or the nice skill clicking soccer mom of 3 kids that just plays GW2 to wind down from a busy day, I’ll take the mouthbreather all day as a teammate.

tyvm

Mightybird.6034:

I mean revs (HERALDS actually) are really good, yes. But I would put them bottom of the really good pack so to speak.

There are several more carrying, more game changing classes ahead of herald that need a tuning more quickly IMO.

necros are maybe better than rev, probably not. nothing else comes close.

Burtnik.5218:

BeepBoopBop.5403:

I think it needs a shave. But don’t completely revert the changes. This skill was useless before other than using in a combo field for burning or something.

Maybe for you.. it was great at slowing down people that tried to kite you.
Thing is they nerfed UA and autoattack and moved damage from these abilities to #2 which created this issue. Op skill 1v1 but trash 1vX. I hope they change sword this patch bc its pathetic in current state.

Oh btw, lets also not forget that damage on sword skills is bugged and deals less than intended

yeah 10k damage on a skill that causes people to double dodge and is an evade itself needs a buff.
as does the highest dps auto attacks in the game when used with quickness.
definitely need to buff harder

Yup that’s actually what anet is going to do. They think that will fix this broken short cd skill that does 5-8k damage.
Who here thinks that this will balance the single skill that makes revenant by far the strongest class in the game?
Just freaking revert the change and make it a 3s cd kitten . This change is stupid and will never ever ever ever work.
I don’t care if PZ and abjured tell you that they NEED precision strike or else the meta will be bad. Freaking nerf the kitten out of this skill its so kittenING kittenED

foste.3098:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATRnUqA1CiNsA+sActgBGhiD3vNA6xdDyg/JKhU/ij9kC-TpRBABA8AACa/h4LD8wFAgvDBAHHBAA

I also do not have HoT and i got to diamond (last season as well) with the build. I can probably hit legend if i play more.

Also metabattle is a terrible place to look for non hot facerole builds that play themselves. There are allot of perfectly functional HoT and core builds that, although not meta, can still work well enough to win games and not be a liability.
Metabattle mostly post builds that show up in tournaments and pople fail to realize that some of them are not very good in solo queue with randoms that do not rotate properly or support you.

no they’re pretty much all god mode in soloq. if you can’t carry with these builds (the meta ones, not really “great” ones) then you’re basically just bad at the game.

Krysard.1364:

Booms.2594:

Krysard.1364:

Booms.2594:

Crinn.7864:

Judging by the proleague streams spamming tends to occur less and less at higher levels of play.

This game has an obnoxious habit of being enormously complex and extremely fast paced to the point that only the high level players seem to know wtf is going on.

yup if you talk to high level players they all agree in 4v4 and sometimes even 5v5 every player knows exactly what’s going on with each member and 80% of the skills used are noticed.

Kappa

found the bad player

Dont try to deny the clusterkitten lmao

Im sure it looks like a clusterkitten that doesn’t mean it is one

never has been an issue

Krysard.1364:

Booms.2594:

Crinn.7864:

Judging by the proleague streams spamming tends to occur less and less at higher levels of play.

This game has an obnoxious habit of being enormously complex and extremely fast paced to the point that only the high level players seem to know wtf is going on.

yup if you talk to high level players they all agree in 4v4 and sometimes even 5v5 every player knows exactly what’s going on with each member and 80% of the skills used are noticed.

Kappa

found the bad player

Crinn.7864:

Judging by the proleague streams spamming tends to occur less and less at higher levels of play.

This game has an obnoxious habit of being enormously complex and extremely fast paced to the point that only the high level players seem to know wtf is going on.

yup if you talk to high level players they all agree in 4v4 and sometimes even 5v5 every player knows exactly what’s going on with each member and 80% of the skills used are noticed.

Maybe they should change wvw from zerging with as many people as possible so you don’t have to think before nerfing

Necros are still really tough bUT yeah fighting them is pretty figured out by now. My biggest tip is if they get low hp but pop a huge ds just run away and instant ji onto them when they drop it. Usually the best way to win

Just saying to make a team!

pls make a team it’ll be fun if theres actually another team that does AG, it gets kinda boring

well im in legendary 8 in NA which is 4th highest rank (Darek) and played every single game on dh so yes i think ppl understand you can use dh in ranked q… doesnt mean its even top 6

a few tricks i do:
flashing blade when theyre expected to staff 5 will juke the skill and theyll only hit 1/2 instead of like 6+.
deflecting shot and zealots defense when you expect precision strike.. really important to save dodges
gotta land every true shot so be careful about that kitten
i like to use wings at proper times like when theyre in glint or after an unrelenting so the following precisions trike will be out of range

Miles Smiles.8951:

MadVisions.4529:

1. Gua feels ok overall. Considering the list got numerous nerf to other classes, this makes gua actually comparatively better if untouched.

I think that the problem of the Guardian/DH viability partly lies in the excessive amounts of the projectile hate. Mb some nerfs to those would be fair?

a nerf to precision strike would result in the same thing. its freaking broken and THATS the reason everyone runs projectilehate.

im p sure naru got to legend too rather quickly, i think more quickly than me. idk if he only played dh though.
my suggestion is to just take 1v1 vs a comp thats total aids (like 2rev 2scrapper 1 ele l0l) and just outplay them cuz most people in this game are utter garbage.

and i think qing with a revenant is the best duo for us since they win every 1v1 we don’t (scrapper usually, ele, druid[though we win that too]) and also they have kittening huge broken dmg so its so easy to win every fight

only m[]obola can save you now

“Players will no longer have blue and brown highlights in PvP if they are in your party or guild”

I use pack runes and air generosity on lb and air blood on sword and meta otherwise

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tacs2JDP1-w
I uploaded this cuz of the funny rage at the start but it’s a pretty decent game to watch anyway

Crimson Shi.5047:

DH doesn’t really stop a mesmer.

Hahahahaha

Malediktus.9250:

Booms.2594:

Step 1 roll dh
Step 2 laugh at anyone who thinks mes is op

nah, dh is free kill for any class unless the guard is way more skillful than the opponent

not even m8 unless I’m just way more skillful than every player in the game
not surpirsed

Step 1 roll dh
Step 2 laugh at anyone who thinks mes is op

Saiyan.1704:

Guardians have been OP vs Thieves for a very long time… no surprise that DH performs just as good vs them.

I’ll tell you what though, nerf Thieve’s incredibly hi mobility and/or burst damages and maybe I’ll support a dh nerf.

For the record, a good thief can beat a DH. I know a couple thieves who has a legitimate 50% chance of 1v1ing me. And bunker thieves are bad builds never use them.

tl;dr
Although dh doesn’t have to try nearly as much as thieves, it can be an even matchup between the two classes but there are way more bad thieves than guardians.

shouldn’t really ever happen where a thief beats a DH unless they start with little cds.

I can’t rly stream because of my internet but I could upload some youtube videos of gameplay if you want
-m[]obs

Honestly we should have gone through. We were better than every team in challenger cup but had a last minute roster pickup and a couple players were having a bad day.
We’ve reviewed the vods and DH carried more than hindered

Save your virtue for down if you need to stomp lol.
But usually you can just cc the rezzer and work with your teammate

Freeelancer.2860:

I don’t know about the player base, but being in those same queues and not seeing anything close to the times you mention tells me somebody or some people is/are lying through their teeth.

Nah legend gets qs from 10-60min qs. On average probably 25 depending on the amount of Legends on.

march 21st

Either necro or engineer. Little did I know that these 2 classes would be OP for years to come and literally never didnt have spot in the meta. ofc you can thank 5g and noscoc for that since anet loves their abjured butt buddies

InsidiousWaffle.7086:

I agree with the idea of guardian buffs, and im glad that these changes seem agreeable. Its just incredibly frustrating that a guardian can just sit on point and kill me over and over, regardless of my own skill, simply because im playing a thief.

Same when I as a dh fight a scrapper or druid or retribution revenant or even some good necros and will never kill tempest

Nor any nerf to reapers chills or to bristleback dps.

gg nice tweaks*

*tooltip fixes

DH is the 7th best class atm. It needs buffs.

I like these changes. There’s a 100% chance guardian would still not be top 3 class but there’s a CHANCE for it to be a real meta build which is what we’ve been lacking since glacial heart nerf.