Guild Wars 2

Sup guys, thought i might chuck in my experience from amber to legendary. Amber to diamond happened quickly. At 18 pips into diamond i went on a losing streak, tried very hard and managed to stay in tier 2 (7 pips). My trouble came from the opposing teams primarily having the ele, engie and necro composition. So i made an Aoe condi build to apply huge pressure in team fights. This build does not win 1v1 fights but it is awesome at plus 1 and downed state battles. I would not advise this build unless you are naturally good at disengaging. I then would win the majority of these match ups and pushed to legendary. here is the build, http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJARTnkIClDhVDBGdC8DhlEi6aZDgEQu6b+rPb/6vBE-TZhFABGcEAU4CAwfZAO2fAgHBAA . To be clear, i run meditrapper and change to this build only against the bunkier team setups. gl guys, kick some butt

I have the same mouse. Unbind your mouse click, it interferes with your mouse wheel left and right clicks. I have 123qe as my 5 weapon skills. Then i have shift 123 as my utilities as it coincides with weapon skills. heal and elite is the same as you, left and right mouse wheel click. 10-12 are virtues, f change weapon, shift f for stow, r and t call and take target. I don’t use either buttons behind the wheel, i have dodge as space bar, c is interact and v,b is jump. I use dodge more then jump hence the change. I suggest you use a shift key (ctrl/shift, whatever) and set it how it feels comfortable.

If somebody runs in first and is first to die, they are doing the wrong thing. As soon as someone is being focused, they need to get out of that situation. Be patient at mid, there is no need to go and sit on a neutral point to die. If i get focused hard at mid, i get back behind my team, around walls and such (Los them) until i know i am good to go again. You can get kills this way as well, they follow you to there death. GL with your team.

1) Started on day 1, have had about 4 days off.
2) Ruby
3) Approx 40 wins with about 5 losses.
4) Still advancing nps.
5) Not at all
6) Yes.
I have been on the leaderboards every season. I found last season was a bit difficult for me to climb the league (approx 50/50) due to my mmr. This season is refreshing because i don’t like the grind fest and i feel i am being pushed up to the appropriate level. Ranked all day, To the people having trouble, stick with it, you will get better and increase your mmr, then next season you will have an easier run at the start as well.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Only way I would ever consider using a DH as my 5th over a druid is if the DH were using menders with this build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJgeTn8cCVDhdDBWdC8DhlGiSe4T+n/aY3yAAbCiguE-TZBFABAcEA6vMQbnAABOEA6s/AA

Its extremely hard to kill, has a ton of self healing and condi cleanse, can put out some decent healing to allies & can swap to bow to easily get 5k crits with true shot.

Sadly however the Ele can still do all that it does better.

Although this build is interesting, it has low team support and is more of a solo build. I think guard will make a good 5th atm( prob not the best), assuming they have some mobility, they can preform very well. Being trained is a weakness of the DH so if you can kite well in those situations, you can have success. Team comp and opposing team comp is very important to take note of, we have a couple builds to choose from and some minor changes you can make to each build that will help you deal with extra condi/burst. Wings of Resolve is my best kiting tool atm. To give one of many examples, at graveyard, you can sit on top of the stairs and shoot down onto the gy, when focused, wings of resolve to the platform to the left where the tombstone jump is. Good luck guys.

How are you guys going this season? Anything you are finding difficult to deal with?

Asmodal.6489:

Shelter really is no option anymore however heal trap is far superior anyways imo.
Fat heal, interrupt, blind, regeneration plus you can pre-place it getting a 6k+ hp advantage when defending points.

I chose the same path as Dman. If the enemy loads up on unblockable I overload on blocks. I will only be removed from point via heavy and well timed focus from 2+ with my current pvp build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW5en8cCtChVdCmCBEEhFGi6qYbgAArCmgRQu4X+oH-TJBEQBxb/hAWG4BPBAAcRAAA

Due to menders amulet I am very well capable of winning 1on1 against non bunkers.
Test of faith is also no joke in this – or any – build since it can also pre-placed and layed down for 15secs of protection. add in shield #4 twice and you are close to another test of faith trap for long protection uptime. add in a condition free 10% reduction to damage and you can withstand a lot of hurt. FMW is basically a absolute resoultion that will heal you for a bit as well.

its not superb but hard to crack.

10 points for creativity, i like it.

Wolfric.9380:

I use scrapper or leadership rune. Both work well with paladin amulet.

I did come up with a DH like this as nice variant which is tougher.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJATSn8cCVDhlDBWdCEEhlEi6aZDgEAbDeuyUe5j+rH-TpBFABtv/AAPAg/LD02FAggjAwDHCAA

My daughter currently plays it with dragons maw + scraper rune instead of feel my wrath + leadership rune.

They sound like fun builds and the leadership runes are nice. I will have to give it a go

Sup guys, thought i would add this to make things easy. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAT8dn8cClDhVdCWDB8Dhl6BTe+l/CgXBgUQMILEdiSRA-TZBFABCcBAa7gAAwTAQ8yAns/AA

Sup guys. I suggested a build on another post that involved Earth Runes and Focus Mastery while using the old Meditrapper build. I was a bit toxic and so was the post but the unblockable/reflect is why i made the build. does not solve the problem but it works well for me. I have had multiple comments on how tanky the build is while still being Marauders. Huge protection uptime and the reflect on earth runes has saved my kitten a couple of times.

My bad. I was being a stooge. Thanks for the input guys

Its all good Miles, you clearly don’t get what i am saying. I am not prolonging from 24 to 28 secs for a start, i have stated i have no problems with condition atm. So if i have 0 problems with condition then i have a small issue with burst, this change fixes that issue. Please don’t comment further unless u try it. You talk about the current meta like there is one, it is still settling. TRY THE BUILD PLEASE (anyone), i think you will be surprised.

The protection duration is longer due to earth runes, you also get Protection from the earth runes and TOF. When you use your focus abilities, TOF and one use of shield of courage, it works out to be 24and a half secs or so of protection, then the added 4 secs from the earth rune proc, 28.75 secs of protection. My thinking is this, Smiter’s boon gives 2 condi removal, fury, a bit of damage and a 2 k heal in 24 or 30 secs. If i take 9k damage in 10 secs to make it easy, that is a reduction of 3k damage which already out preforms the heal from smiter’s boon. 20 secs is 3x better as in u reduce physical damage by 6k assuming you recieved 18k physical damage. i often take more then 18k damage in that amount of time. Since i am not having problems against condi atm, this is working wonders. Anyway, if someone would try it and get back to me that would be awesome.

I understand these things. You also get protection from TOF and the passive proc. Like you said, Meditrapper has low armor and people are changing to paladins amulet. I have found that this is better for me because you keep the higher damage while also getting better survivability. 33% reduced physical damage is no joke atm and i have not been having any problems with condition classes. Try the build and post your thoughts plz.

Sup guys, been trying this out, had some success. Still Changing things up but wanted some input. It is the old meditrapper build but with earth runes and focus mastery. This build gives good uptime on protection. Also i dropped contemplation of purity (cop) for smite condition, if i come across a double necro team i change back to cop. I beat necros 4 out of 5 times, the only other class i have had a problem with so far was a druid, it was a stale mate but hard fought.

I have tried permeating wrath and i find atm the drop of both stab and condi removal is what kills me. I am working on a slower dps burn guard with good survivabillity, so far 1v1 is solid, will be a solo q point holder. To defend dh a bit, i own on the dh meditrapper build. I can win 1v1’s against most classes and only lose tough fights to good players. Its team fighting is also very good (with or without test of faith).

DEAD.
Tried many builds, all good but not great. If u build for burst burn u can have some success with 1v1’s but it falls short in team burst. There is no i in team. kitten u anet! Any build suggestions that don’t just win 1v1’s and also have good survivability, Pls post and i will try.

This build is old. Played it on Supahotfire for quite some time but with balth runes. Is nice but does not stand up atm. We will see what happens after changes. Bring the burn back.

Can u please change this so that new players can tell where they should be. I have been having the worst teams and when i speak to the players, they don’t realize they are in ranked. They tell me they just open the pvp tab and click compete. This is incredibly FRUSTRATING!!!! My win/loss is through the floor and i feel like ripping my hair out. seriously.

Can you please make it so if you get a client dc but join the match again before it starts on the same character there is no penalty. i have had issues with dc’ing and getting back in with 10secs before match start (same character) but i believe i am still losing points.

If i join a match and dc but then re-enter before the match starts, am i getting a penalty? If so, can you make it so that if someone dc’s and re-enters before the match starts on the same character there is no penalty.

Also i would like to suggest putting an option to save up to say 3 builds per class, so that you can swap builds easily rather then scrambling to do so before the match starts. I run a guardian primarily and if there is a bunker already i would like to swap to dps without hassles.

Sometimes at the beginning of the match i will get disconnected from client but am able to get back in before the match starts. Am i losing points for this? To be clear, i am not switching characters, i get dc’d from the gw2 client but then rejoin before the match has started.

I am suggesting an option so you can save some builds u have made into a quick selection menu. I play guard and have different builds i like to use depending on the team setups. For example, if i get on a team that has a bunker already, it would be awesome to be able to select a previously saved damage build to change to. I scramble to change builds prior to the match but sometimes forget or run out of time to change a heal or weapon etc.

If u could save up to say 5 builds in a menu for quick selection that would be nice. Just to be clear, it should allow for weapons, traits, amulet, rune sets, sigils and utilities.

My bad, every class can do something. I can own on skyhammer without knocking people off because i know the stage. Once again get a Skyhammer build, learn the map and stop QQing.

Just gonna say this one time. If you don’t have a quick setup Skyhammer build then you need to stop QQing. The stage is Skyhammer, learn to play it. almost every class can knock people off, fear them down, pull them down etc. Stability also stops this, u can los the knock offs and pull downs. Please get a Skyhammer build and start playing the map the way it should be played. A couple examples are, Guardian take gs or hammer, Thief can pull them down stealth, Mesmers can change to focus for the stage, engies can do alot, rangers can take a knock back. Its not hard to quickly change something to make you better at the stage. Play to your strengths, learn from your deaths and PLEASE get a Skyhammer build.

Awesome changes guys. I have always run my own builds, not the typical builds. These changes are buffing all of my builds and i don’t run medi heals or renewed focus. Come at me kittens.