Guild Wars 2

Its not really fun doing the same thing over and over and over and over again and again and again and again and again.
Been playing Smite lately. Don’t even care about the new fluff or map which is a shame because I like the action in this game. Just doesn’t feel like pvp is being handled very well.

Bomb Kit is far from bad.
Maybe bad against ranged classes but awesome against melee and mesmer clones.

Passive movement isn’t the problem; its the amount of escape skills. [teleports, stealth and (leaps & charges while not targetting someone)]
Would be more fun if it wasn’t so easy for anyone to disengage rather than some classes be the kings of escape; leaving others with none.

Some people will say: “But thieves are so squishy; they need escape to survive”
I would say: “Your offense is your best defense combined with your evades and dodges.”

On that same note; some classes would be OP if they made this change because they can become invulnerable during a fight while other classes can’t.
Mesmers can go invulnerable and still attack when using one of their shatters. They can reset this shatter using a signet. It will reset again at 50% health if traited.

ANet has huge disparities between their classes and there’s no way to scale those back without making people upset. Question is “Who exactly are they making happy right now?” and “How many people will they make happy in the long run?”.

The best part about competing is doing it your own way.
Only 5 pre-made builds sounds horrible. Like watching a game of football where they can only run 5 different plays the entire game no matter what.

SD builds just got a lot more varied and deadly <3
Can’t wait to log in and test the new cooldowns.

IGN: Poquito
Main Profession: Engineer
Alternate Professions:
Account name: Brinson.7289
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The people that want to stop and say good fight do say it. Making everyone invulnerable is not going to turn people into knights in shining armor.
If they don’t say it now; they probably dont care to say it.
If someone is in a heated fight, they shouldn’t be forced to stop. It should be a choice.

Instead they should let you waypoint back to spawn by clicking a button in the right hand corner of the screen.

1. Only 1 out of the 3 grenades will crit
2. Only 1 target gets burned
3. All 3 grenades will miss if you are blinded

Can’t count how many times all the grenades from Grenade Barrage miss because I got blinded during the animation Q_Q

Our grenades are treated as 1 attack when blinded but counted as 3 separate attacks when hitting a target with retaliation Q_Q

Greetings and good day!
As you may have guessed from the title; I am currently looking for a team.
I play an Asura so I like to experiment and be unpredictable. I have good team presence [DPS!] and positioning and am very aware of the battlefield. [I’m the guy that always spots the thief sneaking around!] I am dedicated and want to find a dedicated crew to esport with.
If anyone out there is looking for some DPS feel free to send me a message and see how well I do.
Regards~

I never said GS is garbage in any situation.
I read what the OP described and replied to that with my advice.
Obviously if someone is away from keyboard in a corner you are going to melt their face with the GS. Not so much against a good ranger.

My apologies, I should have mentioned i’m no warrior expert. My advice comes from fighting against warriors and rangers.
As an engineer:
I’ve never been threatened in any way shape or form when fighting a warrior with a bow in hand.
The only dangerous warriors i’ve ever had the pleasure of fighting were using a mainhand axe and hit like trucks with eviserate.

I dont think GS is going to be your most effective weapon because the most damage comes from #2. You might want to use a axe or something. Longbow isn’t much better DPS unless you have heavy condition damage which I doubt because your using GS. You may also want to get a sigil that provides poison on weaponswap to lower the ranger’s heals. [though it will be removed in less than 10s so it might not be worth it in the end.]
I don’t think warrior is a very good matchup against ranger because ranger is the most solid 1v1 class between heals and pet dps. I’m tempted to say no warrior ever has a chance 1v1 but i’ve seen some good warriors out there recently.

Kwll.1468:

Brinson.7289:

Don’t let an HGH Engineer sit on a ledge.
Focus fire the engineer.
Dont burst when he pops Elixir S
Launch him out of Toss Elixir R when he gets downed
When using knockbacks: Knock him into your team; not into his.
If someone goes down; dont stomp\rez without blocking projectiles\invulnerable.
Pull; immobilize and knockdown are great against them; they need to move to stay out of danger because they are really squishy.
When in doubt; bring a good engi to counter. [or a s/d thief]

None of these counters addresses the fact that it is bad game design to have powerful ranged attacks that hit multiple people. Based on your logic it would be ok to have a class that had a 1 shot ability because you could always focus him down or avoid it potentially.

I am simply going to say: yes. I think it is fair for someone to die if they don’t avoid AoE or kill the player AoE-ing.
I am an engineer. I have played HGH but I prefer not to because of its lack of defense and my desire to be up close in the fray. They are easier to kill than thieves and don’t have any escape skills. Obviously some classes are best against them than others but in a 5 man team you should have the tools to dispose of them. If not then you’re in hotjoin\soloQ or need more practice as a premade.

I smell a new FoTM build coming soon to a warrior near you! [Major buffs coming in 2014]
Pretty sure this guy is from the future.

Don’t let an HGH Engineer sit on a ledge.
Focus fire the engineer.
Dont burst when he pops Elixir S
Launch him out of Toss Elixir R when he gets downed
When using knockbacks: Knock him into your team; not into his.
If someone goes down; dont stomp\rez without blocking projectiles\invulnerable.
Pull; immobilize and knockdown are great against them; they need to move to stay out of danger because they are really squishy.
When in doubt; bring a good engi to counter. [or a s/d thief]

I’ve seen this happening to various people in and outside the mists lately. Something odd happened between these last two patches.

Neare.9703:

ANET doesn’t create builds, you do. Go play with traits and who knows what you might come up with. That’s how every single build prior has been created. Stop waiting for someone else to tell you how to play your class

Boldly go where no man has gone before.

Can’t wait to see how the EU engineers fair in this tourney.
Kinda bummed though; thought this was round 2 for NA. :-)

<Team looking for a player(es)>
Team Name: Not Sure If Serious [Bznz]
Region: N\A
Amount of members: 2
Practice Times: ballpark of 8pm EST
Classes Looking for: all
Other:
I am looking for people that are interested in joining up and learning the ins and outs of teamwork in GW2. I am currently looking for people that can dedicate the time to practice and really want a shot at competing in some of the tournaments that are coming out. I know there are a lot of people out there looking for a team so this is my attempt at giving a portion of those players a chance to shine.
I’m looking for 5-6 people to round out the team but not worried about the classes as of this post.

Focus fire the engineer = no more ‘nades.
If there is a ’nade engineer on the other team and your teammate goes down; do not rez unless you can block projectiles. The engineer’s entire job is to wait for someone to be CC’d or downed so he can shower you with a blanket of grenades while you sit there trying to stomp\rez.
The hgh build most people run hardly has any defense aside from the 3s elixir S.

Looks really polished for a game thats only in beta.
I don’t think it will hurt gw2 much. I assume people that play this game like its style.
gw2 is far from moba.

Static Discharge is high burst; high sustain. If played properly SD’s burst will lay down any glass cannon very quickly.
http://www.twitch.tv/poquito2/b/405305730 (Forward to 18:27)
[apologies for the bad quality; was my first time attempting to stream without any kind of guidance lol. Figuring this stuff out as I go.]

I also have no trouble solo killing bunkers. Rangers are a tad harder than others with the build i’m using because I dont have the ability to stack poison. [rangers have too much healing Anet!]
The build is not perfect by any means but if you position yourself wisely and be aware of the enemy’s mesmers & thieves you will be deadly.

There is indeed something amist here with us taking retaliation damage out of nowhere.
I was playing a few tournaments last night and ended up dying. Once I revived I ran out the gate [2s after revive] and took two hits of retal damage out of nowhere.
This was the only time i’ve ever experienced this so not sure why it happened.

I didn’t know single celled organisms had the capability of writing forums posts let alone access the internet. Anet; where did you find this guy!?
@Shimzor; not all homosexuals wear dresses. And there are a certain group of men called cross dressers. For some reason they like to wear dresses but aren’t actually into having sexual intercourse with other men.
Can someone serve this guy a ban just for the sake of humanity? doggy

Our guild is steadily growing our tPVP population.
If you enjoy PVP and getting stronger as a team; think about signing up with Cynical!

IGN: Poquito
Main Profession: Engineer
Alternate Professions: reenigne
Account name: Brinson.7289
Practice Availablity: 7-12 EST
Current PvP rank (Not Leaderboard): 29
Level of Desire: Active Tournament play
NA or EU: NA

They shouldn’t be making the game in the other regions if its too hard to correct a tooltip. Just stick to english and worry about 1 set of tooltips.
If any 1 thing in the game should be polished; it should be the little notes that tell you what your character is capable of.
Buuuut this is anet we’re talking about. So we’ll just have to deal with broken notes and traits until they get done finding new ways to Nerf us.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

I think “professional team” matches would not be as fun because glaring profession mechanics would show face and some teams would be at extreme disadvantage.

cough Engineers against Mesmers using Feedback & Reflect on Distortion. cough cough

LoL my Asuras aren’t ugly either. [OMG there are some reeaaally ugly faces]
I run male Asurans and customize the head to make it look less weird\ugly.

For the love of god; don’t talk about engineers beating rangers. Engineers can only beat warriors. Shhhhhhhh
#BuffEngineers

If you don’t know what someone is doing you just need to play more.
Each class has 5 skills per weaponset. Once you find out what weapons they are using; you should know what skills will be used.
Mesmer with a sword? Expect the dumb clone that rushes towards you > root > Sword#2.
I play an Asura because I like the race more than the others. I don’t find them hard to fight at all because I’m not actually fighting against an Asura. I’m fighting against a warrior\mesmer\thief\guard\engineer\elementalist\ranger or necromancer.
I used to find norn mesmers to be a PITA because they are huge and block field of vision in a team fight. Lucky for me they all re-rolled Asura.

highly annoying bug.
You go to assault a tower with people lined up at the top raining down projectiles but grenades seem to get sucked into a void on destructible walls.
Normal walls are no problem; they’ll explode once they make contact.

Most versatile elite skill in the game! sad face
I’ve learned how to very effectively use it in my build due to me feeling like supply crate was always on CD when I needed it.
The RNG is a drawback but its best to use it purely to knock foes over rather than a crutch when you feel you are losing. IMO the removal of the coin toss would make this a lot more useful.
Its current form is alot more useful than mortar. Without the RNG it would be on par with supply crate [even though it doesn’t suite everyone’s playstyle].

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I’d like to join the engineer event. Do we sign up just by replying to this thread?

I wouldn’t want them to remove it; my build thoroughly enjoys creating chaos on the battle field by toss bodies all around the place in torado and brute is good single target cc [usually good for stopping someone from healing when they get low on health].
I don’t think any one skill is as awesome for decapping a point than Elixir X.
2m [96s traited] CD means its always up when you want to cause trouble.

I do however like the idea you proposed of us turning into IronMan. They should remove the mortar for it. That way we have two transforms like the necros!

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a lack of RNG in our elite skill?
Proposal: Make the skill random the first use and then it switches to the opposite form when it comes off CD.

Example:
Match starts and you use Elixir X for a random form. You get Brute Form.
120s pass and you use Elixir X again for a guaranteed Tornado Form.
120s pass and you use Elixir X again for a guaranteed Brute Form.
et cetera.

Or if it is too hard to make it random only the first time; the devs can choose whichever it starts with by default and just make it so it alternates.
Thoughts?

E: Step over him and keep the deeps flowing
“Ain’t nobody got time fa dat”

And people still blindly thank the devs for a job well done. Nevermind that we have traits that don’t work because they don’t test anything. They are devs so they are by default smarter than the lot of us.

Many thanks for testing this trait! You just made my build a helluva lot stronger!

What happens if someone blocks and then starts attacking you?
As an Engineer, I love seeing other engineers trying to burst me down with high offense and low\no defense. Low health; the weakest stunbreak; no condition removal; no protection & no toughness.
What happens if you attack someone who has vit\tough + protection?

Thieves are horrible one trick ponies because the people that play them are scared to die.
Give them hell.

Sounds more rewarding than tourneys are right now but if they made a separate system; what would they do with tournaments moving forward?
They have a hard enough time making tournaments into something substantial as it is.

In groups Rangers are subpar but effective. Solo they are gods walking amongst us with their shiny weapons and armor and pets with magnificent skin & fur; teasing us endlessly about how awesome they are at killing us without even trying because they were handed all these godly abilities that we have no way to deal with because we are mere mortals that die horribly every time we oppose them.
Will you all sit idly by while they mock our existence?
nerf nerf nerf Nerf Nerf Nerf NERF NERF NERF NERF NERF NERF
[:-P]

Amaterasu,
Old thief shortbow attacks would travel in a straight line and then completely hook at a very stupid angle not possible in any universe and hit its target….AND THEN hit two other people. The change to remove that was warranted.
Currently the projectile is too slow. They will increase it like they have for every other weapon. Chillax a little.
More whining in this one post [about one weapon] than I’ve seen in the entire engi forums since beta :-P

It doesn’t give swiftness.
It makes you run at +100% and ignores frost\cripple.
Outside of combat this isn’t very noticeable. Once you start fighting something; use it to run away to get a really big lead before activating swiftness or use it to catch up to a kiter.

Clip.6845:

Brinson.7289:

We just got a 5s water field on a 15s CD.
I’ve yet to check the numbers vs medkit yet but I bet this is going to make my bunker a helluva lot harder to kill.
[nurf rangers!!!!]

Although it doesn’t seem to last 5s :p I got to 1 Mississippi yesterday before it expired

Easy test would be to deploy it in a PVP match and watch the timer. [Thats how I keep track of kit refinement]
I’ll try it out when I get home.

The following traits work wonders on crit Thieves:
Inventions [I]: Protective Shield – 3s protection upon crit [20s CD]
Alchemy [VI]: Protection Injection – 3s protection when diabled [5s CD]

Stealth hopping condition pistol thieves though are a PITA.

Bomb kit imo was the biggest improvement.
The range could be higher but its awesome when you time it right to prevent a guardian from doing his blocking heal or catching someone right before they try to run away.
Bomb Kit > Fire Bomb > Glue Bomb > Profit

You either:
Have never fought a good ranger over a node.
Are a bad ranger who thinks the class is hardmode

Good Rangers have dominated and will continue until the next patch when it comes to defending\assaulting a node.
The kittens will come in due time. Dun worry.

We just got a 5s water field on a 15s CD.
I’ve yet to check the numbers vs medkit yet but I bet this is going to make my bunker a helluva lot harder to kill.
[nurf rangers!!!!]