Guild Wars 2

Okay so then it is possible to play through the story together. Thank you guys for the clarification. He is very new and may have done just that @ok i did it.

So i bought my friend HoT so we can play together. But we were on the exact same story step and finished it. And only i got credit. He did not. And we were both on the same step. So you cant progress in HoT together? We have to do every story step separate or god forbid twice?

Edarkness.7543:

Gaaroth.2567:

Well apparently Mallyx is pretty much meta in high tiers, so i guess yes.
But since the mid tiers are kinda strange, this might vary.
If you feel confortable with it, it should be totally possible.

Do you have any good videos to learn well? ive played it for a while but i think im doing it wrong

Check out Phantarams stream. He tends to explain what he is doing and why. He is a revanant on The Abjured. http://www.twitch.tv/phantaram

Anything glass cannon in the current meta is suicide. In my humble opinion.

I Like the condi rev. I have been within 2 pips of diamond only solo queuing 3 times now. The last 2 pips are the bane of my existence lol. I prefer it over glint/shiro. I say try them both out and see which one fits your play style best. Mace/axe & Sword/shield.

raven.9870:

Mallyx plus dragon stance instead of shiro..nice sustain and average boonshare viper amulet plus durability runes..you are hard to kill and counter lots of builds currently played right now. Sword shield and mace axe, 4 axe gives to you the gap closer you need and the break stun plus blindbess and invisibility reveal from dragon stance it’s quite usefull..and the elite helps you push out the point dowen player so you can stomp and cap

There is so much LESS gained from Mallyx/glint. I think its a bad set up. And anyone with 400+ games on Rev could tell you that. First Mallyx/Glint, that elite is on a 44 second cooldown. Second you lose most of your mobility. You lose your ability to quick cap communes. ( Were you aware you could do that?) You also lose your ability to stomp with quickness. Rez with quickness. That is absolutely huge and game breaking. Getting those super fast stomps and rezs are invaluable to your team.
You lose shiros’ riposting shadows which is great for breaking cc and getting out of hairy situations. You lose Phase traversal. And amazing gap closer. (which also allows you to go through walls.) On Battle of khylo it is amazing for getting into the clock tower from the ground outside and immediately putting you on point. Same with Silent storm. The AOE elite on Shiro is another amazing tool. a full 3 second CC to 5 players! I cant tell you how many times that has saved my self or my teammates. Friendly down i run in stun everyone and quick rez. Thats just one of many examples that has changed team fights. There is more but i think you get the idea. Thats why you go Shiro/Glint or Mallyx/Shiro. Shiro is just too good to not use in any build. And you are absolutely wrong about the stability trait over Crystal hibernation. I cant believe you even suggested that. I can get to full health with dual hibernation. You just need to L2P i think. You use those when you throw regen on yourself. Also its a lifesaver. A big one. That extra stack of stability isnt that great. TBH i dont have an issue breaking CC on my rev. Against druids/anything. OP please dont listen to this guy. Im thinking he doesnt have much time or knowledge with Rev.

I find Mallyx to be very good. The resist, chill,movement, boon stripping tempest/whatever, and more. Its has a lot of uses.

Shiro is just to good honestly to take anything else. That quickness buff has more than a few good uses. Escape, stomping, communing, rez. The list continues. All those have a major effect on your team.

KraunK.2319:

Is it possible to maintain two games in one? I’m playing this game since beta and with the release of HoT it’s became to me impossible to play everything at medium-high competitive levels. Even if I have 4 years experience in my backpack, it’s almost impossible to play on equal fights.. Gw2 Core builds have totally different mechanics and are ridiculous underpowered compared to Gw2 HoT. I don’t really get the point why I shouldn’t be offended by such thing. Do you (arenanet) have this in account for people not interested in buy the expansion?

Yes , Yes you did.

Magicarp.5640:

Hi guys, recently I met this guy who is legendary saying that he got from ruby to legendary in a week soloq without ever partying with anyone , and he says hes a student so he doesn’t have a lot of time to play.

What I want to ask is:

1. Is it possible to reach legenday from ruby within a week by soloq?

2. How long does it take the average Esports player to reach legendary Soloq.

I just want to burst his bubble of lies if he’s lying.

Thanks all.

Is it possible? Yes! Is it probable? No. But if he played 8+ hours a day and had some good RNG id say sure its possible. And some ESL players are still ruby and diamond. But they are not try harding. I honestly dont care either. Matchmaking is so broken. They didnt reset MMR at the beginning of the season. Etc Etc Etc. But seriously why would you be so intent on bashing someone else? Are you trying to say you cant get to legend solo queuing? Bc you can. And ive watched someone who is almost there. Leet0, was 3 pips from legend only solo queuing. He’s a twitch streamer. He isnt doing it in a week of course. Also legend Que times can be 20+ minutes. The week thing may be embellished a bit i think.

I’d be interested in giving you a try. Add me in game when you want a trial run

The jump puzzle is all about speed. If Camera moving from the keyboard is slow. Then there is Nothing you can do but use your mouse. You cant buff health etc. You just have to be fast.

Chaba.5410:

Yea…

I just got dishonor myself for no real reason. Duo-queued with a friend and when the queue popped a message immediately said “Removed from match-making queue” and now it shows dishonor.

You may want to bug report that. They just patched that issue a few days ago. If it didnt work they need to know.

I’ve never put a thief on block before. Nor do i know anyone else who has. I used to main thief pre HoT. But switched to better benefit my team and my pips. I miss my thief. But i also know im not toker and i know this meta wrecks thieves. B/c i wreck them all day long.

Terrible Idea. -1

I like it very much. I dont want to see it go.

ItIsFinished.9462:

I honestly think there’s a bug in pip loss. Everytime I go against a full 5 man premade that is on the top 10 guild list, I always lose 2 pips. According to the chart posted on Reddit, the losers should only lose 1 pip at most.

A dev posted saying that the reddit chart is not accurate. And he would be updating the official wiki. Its somehwere on the pvp forums here. Im just to lazy to look for you

laokoko.7403:

Duke Nukem.6783:

laokoko.7403:

Maybe because Anet make more money if they keep pumping out black lion weapons?

Maybe after the expansion is over, Anet have many artists that have more free time to create black lion weapon skins?

Maybe if Anet make more money, they can pay salaries, keep people from management happy, keep NCSoft happy, and keep stock holder happy so they bother to keep players happy?

If you stop seeing in your own perspective you can understand why things are the way things they are.

Maybe people actually understand, but they only care about themselves, and never give a kitten about other people.

its not our job to worry if anet employees can feed their families or not, the level of anti consumerism you are displaying is uncomfortable……and do you not think that the over saturation of the market in lion skins is actually adversely affecting their profits?

Most likely Anet make more money from spaming us with black lion weapon.

And the only reason we kept getting update and expansion is Anet is actually making money.

MMORPG that isn’t doing well financially get less update or even shutdown.

Hows more than 100 million dollars a year. I’d say thats enough to do all that. http://i.imgur.com/Tu3G4R2.png

Ahahahahahaahahahahaahahahaha… Thats a good one. Nice troll thread.

Honestly i likes the holiday things more the first year. Now its just the same thing over and over again. Not much entertainment for me anymore. They can do better.

I wish they would quite trying to milk the cow. How about they release some skins FREE!!!!! Put them in world boss chests etc. And stop with all the fem skins.

It is. Its a lot of fun still. And HoT added a lot of great content.

Is anyone else having this issue? I cant get into the kitten instance bc its always full. Been trying for the last hour. Watching dbl load screens over and over again.

twhite.9310:

Death Aggro.9602:

Just curious what your saying here. Your team looks like it was trying to lower their ELO by bringing in low level plebs. It didnt work and you got wrecked. What were you expecting?

Might wanna take a better look next time LOL

Perhaps you should,. Where in his post did he specify Solo que for everyone?

Just curious what your saying here. Your team looks like it was trying to lower their ELO by bringing in low level plebs. It didnt work and you got wrecked. What were you expecting?

Polismassa.6740:

nearlight.3064:

It honestly depends on your class and your build. I play a condi reaper build that’s very different from the meta build and I think I do just as well as the meta build, if not better in certain match ups.

Meanwhile if I try to play some off meta burn dragonhunter build, I’ll be completely useless and lose if I try to do anything with it.

So it all depends, sometimes the meta isn’t the one true God of the game

I can’t really say for sure, but i’m of the opinion that Condi reaper will be more meta because of the balance patch. To me, Mallyx rev and tempest were the two classes that basically checked condi reaper, and with mallyx rev resistance being nerfed quite hard, reaper can now do a lot more against them.

Tempests are still a pain, but a condi reaper should be able to kill most any class in the game other than a diamond skin ele or a scrapper (which is debatable).

Remember that Spoookie actually ran double condi reaper before chronobunker and mallyx rev became basically mandatory, and were pretty successful with it too

It wasnt nerfed that hard. All you have to do is hit pain absorption a little more. Thats it. I hardly noticed the change. And watching phantarams stream after patch he pretty much said the same thing. Mayllx is pretty much good to go still. I dont think we’ll see much of a change in the meta. But i guess we will find out next month.

I was speaking of equally skilled players. EQUALLY SKILLED. Of course in reality no players are equal. But as an example. Meta wins that match up VS Non Meta.

If your EU playing on NA servers that would make sense. I get terrible lag on EU servers. Even though all my friends are on EU im stuck in NA.

I thought the same thing. But i made ruby. And im betting it will be around forever.

Bladicus.9078:

Tanetris.3461:

Bladicus.9078:

Is it really cheating though? You can’t blame a player for wanting the highest league. If that player then looks how he can reach the highest league in the easiest way he’ll see it’s by losing matches to bunk his MMR. Is that the fault of the player?

You can’t blame a student for wanting the highest grade. If that student then looks how they can reach the highest grade in the easiest way, they’ll see it’s by copying off the smart kid next to them. Is that the fault of the student? Is that cheating?

BLOODY WELL YES.

That comparison doesn’t make sense, because you’re comparing leagues now with an actual working system. To make a comparison with the student though… If a student will get the highest possible grade by failing a test, then it’s not cheating to fail it. That just means it’s a flawed design, which is not the fault of the student.

I mean come on. Nobody is training emeralds get real mate. Maybe someone somewhere is. But thats not whats going on here. I mean really?

Loboling.5293:

Hey everyone,

Firstly, THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT FOR ANY TEAMS SUCCESS IS NOT META BUILDS, BUT PROPER ROTATIONS AND POSITIONING.

You play a meta team that does all that stuff properly. You lose. Unless you play meta. Plain and simple.

No its a full year. 4 per year. A FULL YEAR. Not sure where your getting that time of 5.

Chaba.5410:

Death Aggro.9602:

But by running straight into 4v1 over and over and over like a kitten bot. or leaving base and standing around until they see another teammate.

These two statements seem contradictory. Do you have suggestions for these players? If a player is standing around waiting for a teammate to respawn, isn’t that because the rest of the team is all spread out and dying and it makes no sense for that single guy to go 4v1 a point?

Sigh its intentional. Ive seen several people with an open home point just standing around. Nobody there. Easily capable and standing right around the corner. Im not talking about people waiting for back up obviously. Isnt that common sense for you? Why on earth would i complain about someone doing something right? Some people….

Tinfoil hat on.

I dont think they will seperate Team and solo ques. There just isnt the player base for it. Remember TPvP? They killed it bc there just wasnt enough players to fill it. The problem i believe anet is having is how to populate games. If you start separating everything there will be players that cant get matches without going down a division to find them. 20 minute diamond ques anyone? It will only get worse. Not better. And ive come to discover that the divisions are screwy as all get out. How some players make it into ruby makes no sense to me. They dont know squat. Dont communicate, dont know it only takes 1 person to cap a point. Dont know that running into a 3v1 is bad etc. There is ZERO skill involved right now in leagues. Its all RnG on your teammates. Thats it . Period. End of discussion. I dont care how good you are. If you get bad teammates the game is over. Ive even watched pro players struggling to climb the ladders due to awful teammates.

You would think having a higher MMR would put you with better players. Not worse. Ive been fighting my last tier of sapphire for 3 days now. Up to 4 pips. Down to none. Its crazy frustrating. Ive had 3 games just today where players were tanking my games. And not by standing in base to be reported. But by running straight into 4v1 over and over and over like a kitten bot. or leaving base and standing around until they see another teammate. Then they act like they are gonna do something. I have to be honest. Ive been playing SPvP since launch. And this is the first time i dont want to play it anymore. Half the time players dont even respond in chat prior to match start to attempt to organize.

SoPP.7034:

Novuake.2691:

The other alternatives are dishonest and literally is something I (and im sure many others) are unwilling to do.

Isn’t that the irony of the position that ANet has put us into. That were punished for playing the game honestly.

I ended up in MMR Hell for awhile around mid Emerald. At this time I saw Helseth also stuck in MMR Hell, in the exact same tier. Finally he lost 2 pips because he WON a 4v5 AGAINST before calling it a day.

At that point I questioned literally the entire League system. I mean if Helseth can’t progress past Emerald, what chance do I have? A lot has happened since then, but its pretty clear that if your a veteran playing Leagues honestly, your doing something wrong and that’s something you NEVER want to encourage from your player base.

Anet really dropped the ball.

Helseth is diamond now

Bladicus.9078:

StacyX.4831:

Yep. I’ve refused to participate in this league as soon as I found out about the cheating/people tanking their MMR and purposefully losing the matches. This is absolutely disgusting behavior and what’s more unsettling is the amount of people defending it on Reddit. If you dare speak out about it you get downvoted.

As I said there: This is exactly why I’ve stayed away from PvP over the past couple weeks. I LOVE PvP and I really want the legendary back item, but I refuse to participate in this joke of a league until they fix this. It makes me angry that this crap is keeping me from not only a game mode that I really enjoy but a in-game goal that I otherwise would be spending a lot of time working toward. Knowing that I’m going to be a season behind in earning my back piece is infuriating, but I refuse to participate in such a broken system. Hopefully they will have this cheating and exploitation fixed before next season.

Is it really cheating though? You can’t blame a player for wanting the highest league. If that player then looks how he can reach the highest league in the easiest way he’ll see it’s by losing matches to bunk his MMR. Is that the fault of the player? Not really. It’s rather the fault of a design flaw which was to be honest really forseeable and therefore preventable. It might be too late for this league, but in the next league they should stop having a seperate MMR system and League system as they’re too contradictive (which is also brought up already by the OP).

Wait. What?

Kayberz.5346:

If you get ruby twice you will have enough tickets for all 4 backpacks with 10 tickets left over so getting emerald in the 3rd season will earn you enough tickets for the other material

So in a year and a half you can have it…

Espire.9723:

Death Aggro.9602:

Espire.9723:

1. Are the personalized gifts you get from the Wintersday PvP track affected by magic find?

2. Is the Wintersday track the most profitable reward track atm?

Yes to your first question. And im not sure about profitable. Its kind of a slow starting reward track. The only real reward is the final one in the track. Which with a booster takes a little over an hr to complete. Unless you tend to lose a bunch.

I have 1,5k PvP potions^^ Started using them now for the track, gifts are on high demand atm so it looks like you can make a pretty good amount of gold

Thats brilliant. I have around 55 of them. Was saving them for guild. But now…..

Espire.9723:

1. Are the personalized gifts you get from the Wintersday PvP track affected by magic find?

2. Is the Wintersday track the most profitable reward track atm?

Yes to your first question. And im not sure about profitable. Its kind of a slow starting reward track. The only real reward is the final one in the track. Which with a booster takes a little over an hr to complete. Unless you tend to lose a bunch.

Agrotera.1254:

Yes, I can go throw snowballs at other players. Yes I can build snowmen out of magic snow. I can open presents and follow a dolyak carrying presents as many times as my heart desires.

The problem is that everything that we can do this year we could do last year. We have the same annoying JP, the same game ringing the bells, everything is the same.

The biggest disappointment of all. Because I did the “get the ornaments back for the orphans” event last year there is nothing new for me to do this year. I find it really sad that Anet couldn’t come up with something new for those of us that already have the tree. After all, think about it, we are long time loyal players but this is what we get for Wintersday?

Thank you Anet for ruining Wintersday for me by just recycling the same thing we had last year.

Hahaha your complaining about having the same stuff from last year? Its been the same stuff since this game launched in every holiday. The same stuff. Wouldn’t it be nice to have exclusive titles, items, etc from every years events to show how long you’ve been playing? And guess what. Next year will be the same again. Enjoy

If you think its hard try being a PvP only player. We get nothing in comparison to PvE. I don’t have enough time in my life to do PvE and PvP. I found PvE to be boring. But i will admit. For a game thts not supposed to be about grind. Does it not feel like EVERYTHING is becoming a grind? Basically they want you to complete every event once per day to get everything. That is a huge time investment.

LastHope.8127:

So I just had 5 games in a row were I got 2 pips (won all 5). Usualy they were 5 man teams and Im solo queuing. Ive won a fair share of the games with 500 to 100-300 and they were all 2 pips. So what qualifies as a 3 pip win?

Beating the Abjured full team kappa

Im not sure if this is legit. But it seems warrior is rallying people on death? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpWXzJJwZug

Windows 7 ultimate. 32 bit client. Happens every time i log off and back in.

warbignime.4610:

You do realize that 2 main bunker build are getting nerfed in like 2 hours right?

Its going to make very little difference. Very little.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Avelione.6075:

Welp, I don’t know how much I can rely on GW2 timer but it has changed 50 minutes ago and now shows that Wintersday comes in a bit less than 2 weeks… :/

And it’s a late evening where I am. I’ll see what happens around 1a.m. my time, usually something happens then. But I don’t like how there’s no info on the event.

I wouldn’t use gw2timer as a news source. And yeah, it’s around 1am your time, but it’s only 9am at Anet’s offices right now. So, yeah. Just gotta wait.

Its 10 am Pacific time right now.

Do a speedtest on your internet when you have the crazy ping. Then you’ll know.