Guild Wars 2

Morwath.9817:

Burtnik.5218:

And making soloq even more of a hell.

Don’t blame players, blame horrible system and people who designed it.

That’s who deserves the blame for this. Players just use the system forced upon them. We deserve better.

Teutos.8620:

Loosing streaks are happening because of the match making system. It has nothing to do with the broken league system.

Wrong. Before it was just mmr for the sake of mmr. But now people have reasons to wait to queue with a premade to farm or the other side with people purposely losing so they can lower their mmr, which will them make it easier to farm their league rank.

This league is the reason all this crap is happening.

This whole league implementation reeks of pure dumpster league planning.

They didn’t want to have to figure out how to make LFG and squads work.

The current state of PvP is making me want to keep all of my GW2 activity to just reading people bash this horrible system. I feel dumb because I was actually excited for this…
I literally did 3 things in GW2. PvP ,arah and fractals. They’ve killed all 3!!!

Sheobix.8796:

yeah, there is a tell but my god if you get caught in it, its pretty much death sentence.

It’s a L2P issue. Just keep practicing. Guards hate condi pressure.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

According to his stream he “removed his video/rant bc he meant it to be constructive criticisms for the devs, but ppl were turning it into a hate on anet thread.”

I really believe that <insert relevant meme>

Ragnarox.9601:

How do you deal with carrion meta reaper? I have lots of problems with them and their conditions.

Using slight modified meta scrapper build. (elixir s instead of elixir b)

You have to pounce once they are out of reaper or before they go in. Use slick boots to get a big CC combo and put them on the ropes then wear them down. Otherwise you get rekt. Have to take advantage of their lack of stability out of Shroud.

LordOtto.2650:

So there is a DH meta?! Don’t make me laugh! Somebody just pings out a build/video, and becomes meta?! And to write down this…“If you are really bad I suggest DH”, then why is that with my DH I am the first every time in my group…?! I think you never played Guardian/DH, you just experimented with it … it is a big difference!
You are a winnie..?!, because some ppl join your arena ranked team and loose?! I think that’s why you wrote this garbage…
Everyone says “meta”, ping that kitten meta build out, because there is no DH meta. ( You have to be specific with sigils, runes, traits, weapons, skills. Yes, some are copying from inside battles, but it is not the same, I can still beat a DH, who thinks he has a meta, because he doesn’t know really anything, only copy/paste, like you?!

I think I understand what you are trying to say…

The only problem I see is actually wanting those ugly wings.

Jobu.7241:

I see the Elixir Kit on this build a lot but haven’t found too much use for it during battles other than the blast finisher from 4. What am I missing that makes it important enough to take up that spot?

Quick note on this point. Without the elixir gun you are lacking any point and quick shoot pressure ability. The elixir gun has given me the needed range to finish off a lot revs who would have otherwise gotten away because my thunder clap was on cooldown.

Stick to unranked and you will be fine. Most good players have high unranked mmr now so you should only get new players in Unranked. Have fun learning so you can then get dumpster league teammates in ranked

What build are you running with clerics?

IsilZha.3608:

I noticed last night that when you’re just jumping into it, going in to ranked solo you will run into a lot of guild/premade teams right now since everyone is basically starting at the ground level. On the flip side, it’s filled with truly awful solo queuers, so you’re likely to get really horrendously bad teammates. Did a stronghold where none of my teammates even know how to play Stronghold at all.

Not sure why so many people are jumping into ranked while clearly having no earthly clue about the basic game objectives/mechanics.

This!! I feel like everyone was trying it out yesterday even though they have no idea what they are doing.

I went in day from queueing with top players from pro league, to being partnered with people who may have been trying pvp for the first time.

Gabriell.4856:

Narkodx.1472:

It really is that simple

All this crying about balance yet you have these options just pick one of the meta builds- Rev/Reaper/Tempest/Scrapper/Druid/DH – If you are really bad I suggest DH

Don’t like the meta builds because they are “lame” or “cheesy” better get used to losing

OR

Make a team and coordinate so that you can play your special snowflake Necro Minion Healer build and have a chance at winning with superior rotations and coordination

Don’t wanna make a team? Don’t wanna use a meta build? Stick to unranked and let the big boys who care about winning play in ranked

It is really that simple

Maybe that is true for hardcore PvPers but what about folks that play all 3 game modes; WvW, PvE, and PvP? I created a thief at launch, leveled it to 80, got nice gears/skins, did the personal and living story, etc…and I have an attachment to that character because this is an MMORPG not Counterstrike….

I want my character (whatever class he/she may be) to be effective in all game modes.

So no…it’s not that simple.

Thief still does work if you are really good. Caed put on a kitten show this week, and toker was beating down revs 1v1. So you can play a thief if you are extremely good.

nearlight.3064:

Hello engi community,

I’ve noticed that a hammer based marauder scrapper build with inventions/alchemy and durability runes and egun is being used a lot in EU’s comp scene. I’m not all that well versed with engineer (only a little) and I had some questions about the strengths, weaknesses, role, and feel of the build, in the interest of trying to adapt a similar kind of build on necromancer.

So how does this build feel? Is it fun, or arduous to play?

What it’s purpose? Is it teamfight based or does it want to focus on 1v1s? What are some good and bad 1v1 match ups for it?

What team compositions is it most or least synergistic with?

How good is the damage? I notice a lot of mightstacking with a lot of base tankiness, protection, and healing. What are some particular highlights of high damage moments that you usually get?

And finally, is it better or worse than a similar celestial build for most situations, and why?

Thanks for any information you can give!

So many questions. But I run that euro build and it has so much versatility.

The sneak gyro offers you some amazing support. Preventing a stomp from stealthing your teammates used in conjunction with your gyro to rez quicker. Then you can also reveal enemies with that which counters the method I just described.

This build is amazing in 1v1. I’ve had pretty good success vs our cancerous rivals the reaper with it. You have sustain for days through all the regen and blocks/evades.

It is also a nice teamfight build as well. It’s tanky enough to go into the thick of things and use your slick boots to CC a necro so your team can do an EZ burst.

That’s all I will say on my phone for now. Way too many good things to type at work.

Play the scrapper marauder hammer that the Euros are using in the pro league. It’s amazing.

My patern yesterday:
Yolo queue: L L L
2 friends join me: W W W then time for bed

I need to farm with friends to get into the 4th division ASAP. I’ve had a horrible experience with yolo queueing yesterday. I could have sworn my teammates were trolling with their lack of game sense. And don’t even get me started on the thief on my team who hid behind mid on Forest the whole time for no reason…

Up to date guide. Use it! https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/page/1

Morwath.9817:

Sunshine.5014:

Thanks god I’ve been playing a glass staff Ele to reduce my MMR before League come xD

Ranked and Unranked got separated MMR…

Also, MMR should’ve decayed for everyone, since we couldn’t play Ranked for sometime.

There also should’ve been a balance patch. I wonder how many should’ves we can come up with.

I agree about the reduction of visual clutter was a buff to dragons maw. Now it looks like a symbol on the floor after the jaws shut close.

We will be forged in steel and fire. Men of war fear none.

Engineer 15char

meow one twenty.4376:

I’ll mention something that I haven’t seen mentioned so I don’t know how others feel.

So often with a 1v1 on a point you don’t see a finish to it. Someone gets low and they run away. There is obviously a huge significance to this fight, but there’s no climax, no real resolution to the conflict. Yes, the point is what matters since it is conquest, but that doesn’t make me more entertained. In situations where a Mesmer is losing, and then ports out while their team goes through the port and destroys the guy, that is entertaining. A close 1v1 that instantly ends when a +1 comes, less entertaining but it has a resolution.

Basically, I feel like we most often have big fights with off-putting animations covering the screen or 1v1, 2v2’s with almost no resolution. Or we don’t see them because the camera switches from fight to fight before things are finished (not the announcers casters faults, really).

To add to that!

Yesterday the camera was showing Toker fighting a Rev 1v1 at Mine point. It looked like toker had the upper hand to kill the Rev sitting on his own point. THEN they cut to mid point for a fight that clearly wasn’t going to end quick, forcing me to look at health bars to see Toker finish off that Rev in a great 1v1 upset for a thief…

That was lame…

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Thieves arent playing
There’s a whole lot of Dragonhunters
Eles are unkillable
Warriors if there are any are running zerker gunflame
Druid healz

You must have missed the Caed show where he won 3 1v1 in a row as a thief. And you must have also missed there only being 2 dragon hunters across both regions. And warriors lol, RIP Crysis 2015. Also druids were a minor character as well. What you should have said were the Revenant dominance.

Manimarco Devil.1790:

Is this intentionally supposed to be affected by cripple/swiftness/chill on top of having a cast time?

The distance being shortened is a bug. As far as the speed of it happening, I think that’s intended.

Conquest bunker down gameplay will not bring in viewers who are trying to see through all the colorful array of effects filling up the screen.

This game mode blows for viewer participation. Who wants to watch 4 guys fighting on 1 point for a few minutes with seemingly little things changing except maybe a +1.

After watching Zoose from the NA side, I can definately see the potential for DH to make big plays. It may have a lot lacking but if it can stay alive it can still put good AOE damage.

He straight turned around Forest to take a map from abjured with his double kill.

Zoose #1 guard NA confirmed?

Azukas.1426:

So team with most revs win.

Ok thats definitely going to boost HoT sales

Cha Ching! Just in time for Ranked Ladders.

Hey boys check out the numbers from EU week 2. We really are mediocre in this sustain meta.

Revenant 10 [8 Shiro/Malyx, 2 Shiro/Glynt]
Ele 7
Engi 7
Mesmer 7
Necromancer 5
Ranger 4

Thanks for the data Morwath

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/EU-Pro-League-Meta-Week-2

Ramoth.9064:

ahahahhahahaha guardians got the cut. Which class is next?

NA will have a few.

People still think DH is top tier? Did people not watch the 1st week of pro league?

2 things came out of it.

1. Warriors are #1 Svanir killers
2. DH’s are mediocre with all the tanky classes and auramancers

apharma.3741:

Candiru.5279:

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

Candiru.5279:

big disadvantage? how is the Balance?

Elites take a huge Mr.Hanky all over the old specs. With exception of berserker because it is awful atm.

You can still make some work, but you will be playing with a limited deck of cards.

What class you play?

oh thats bad thx for the info

engi and ele

I’d say you’ll be fine, they weren’t exactly weak before HoT.

Yup I agree. Soldier rifle and Cele DD still are serviceable. So you can definately get your feet wet again just fine.

Candiru.5279:

big disadvantage? how is the Balance?

Elites take a huge Mr.Hanky all over the old specs. With exception of berserker because it is awful atm.

You can still make some work, but you will be playing with a limited deck of cards.

What class you play?

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Scrapper_-_Marauder_Hammer

This is the Euro competitive pvp hotness. You need the elixir gun because it is your only ranged option as well as giving you a leap finisher.

Thiefz.3695:

You can’t play the new elites, you can’t get the new heroes for stronghold, and you can’t play revenant (new class). That’s about it.

Yeah other than that. Everything is exactly the same lol

I have to agree with this build being awful. I don’t even understand what it is trying to accomplish. It’s like a bunker guard without the healing power or ability to remove two conditons per shout.

And the damage would indeed be underwhelming. Might as well try a Cele build and try to keep up might to give you decent damage while getting heals through dodge rolls and weapons.

Soldier rifle still works. Altough rifle scrapper is a bit better.

DH is the third worst elite spec for a reason. And a big one is how tempest can erase a DH with all those auras since DH spike is very minimal if you can’t force someone on a trap.

Mefiq.7039:

Zenith.7301:

Whine away on your warrior, though. Given how much attention you consistently get on patches, it’s a matter of time before warriors get to have full uptime while keeping thief burst levels of damage on plate armor and about 6-7k more health.

At least thief dagger is single target.

Thief burst, LOL, i bet thief burst on golem, cuz if your thief and u try to burst warrior he will simply “endure” it roll gs3 on you and if all 3 hits crits thief will have to run away instead of “bursting” LOL

Quoting a dude from 2 years ago… just stick on topic and make jokes at warriors expense.

Drayos.8759:

caerulean.4837:

This is really sad to hear!! I suppose all I can do is ditch my guard for an elementalist until we get some buffs or something.

with the current pvp QQ going… Guardians most likely going to see a nerf not a buff :P but i suspose we’ll wait and see what really happens… i mean it shouldnt be nerfed.. in PvP its Not really that good, its just good for average MMR Solo queues and nothing realistically more ESL even proved that.

but as we see with the thief again and again… Anet have thrown Nerf hammers down based on General QQ threads, so the Guardian could be seeing the same treatment due to Dragonhunter.

I doubt its impossible to get into raids as a DPS Guardian, but its likely from the sounds of it hard to do without being in a guild, but i’d say stick around and see what happens in the end of it before u consider rerolling, it cant be long now for the Ranked PvP and big Balancing patch to realistically take place.

I doubt any nerf will come. People are finally realizing DH is mediocre in high level play. This bunker meta is killing DH’s.

Furthermore. Once ranked comes back you can set the players to look like default males so it’s even easier. I still can’t believe people have a problem with DH’s

I prefer the rabbit finisher myself.

Jaxom.7310:

Kharr.5746:

It doesn’t take long to get the dragon finisher anymore. You can do it in 1-2 weeks of playing, if not less. It is not an indication of skill. Most of the skilled players don’t even use it because of this (they prefer to troll with Llama, Cow, Bunny, etc).

thats a serious 1-2 weeks of playing

That’s a full time job of playing right there. Prolly take a little over a thousand games right?

posthumecaver.6473:

Aomine.5012:

posthumecaver.6473:

The thing is Rev in not Team Fighter but it can win any 1vs1 in the game.

Go away from the main fight you will be much happier….

Not a team fighter when Hammer 2 can easily hit 5 people around 8k?
Not a team fighter when the cleave damage is insanely high?
Ik the lack of high stability skill may hurt, but it still have on deamand stun-break, evade, and block. There’re multiple ways for Rev to negate burst. It’d be perfect if someone else cover up Revenant’s condition weakness by bringing AOE cleanse.

Ne Hammer is to slow for my taste for PVP….

Even in PVE, mobs walk away from the hit zone, forget about hitting human players…

Except that ya know in pvp, players tend to stand in a small circle to keep the point. So an off point hammer rev assisting a teammate can land those hits vs non pro players.

They could just be crappy dragon ranks or they took a long break so their mmr decayed. Or they are hot Join heroes.

Also yes, this pvp community is tiny for really good match making.

Just go rev. Power Herald using the same armor trinkets and runes as a DH. So it’s easy to swap your ascended stuff around between the 2. Heralds are also highly loved in groups and are quite fun in PVE.

Spartacus.3192:

Proving that all the QQ’ers were really just scrubs that needed to L2P

Yup. Any real guard already knew this l, but all those fools called us white knights because it was evident the huge short comings DH has.

And what is even more enjoyable was all the hate Tempest received for being crappy and now they are tied for the most used elite spec.

I’m glad Anet didn’t do any balancing because now it’s obvious where their attention should be focused.

And for the record, all these tempest rose to popularity to combat that OP perma chill Reaper BS. That crap needs some serous down tuning.

Oh my god…. I’d never thought I’d see the day when someone is saying a Rev is weak i. pvp. If you are getting face rolled by DH’s then it’s definately a L2P issue.