Guild Wars 2

Thank you for the response, witcher!

Hello everyone,

I am “new” in the sense that I haven’t played since 2 months after release (playing in all beta weekends and stopping in October of 2012). When I stopped playing D/D heartseeker spam was the big thing if that helps create a timeline. As far as PvP/PvE/WvW is concerned, what are the “preferred” setups? I had played and was comfortable with any style and I understand some comes down to personal playstyle. I’m looking for any good up to date information ! Whether it be about rune sets, weapon setups, “rotations”, thief specific strats, or whatever have you. Thank you so much for the responses! <3

So, let me get this straight…

WvW is for casual PvP’ers. You do not see us “hardcore” or “pro” guys crying all over the place because we do not get the chance to really play.

SPvP is for casual PvP’ers. You do not see “hardcore” premade groups stomping all over the place. Why? Because ANet wants a place for the “casual” PvP’ers to play and not QQ.

TPvP is for the hardcore PvP’ers. You see gasps premade groups of serious guild groups/pug groups. Now you want people to give you a bone and allow you to be casual all over the game.

Sigh*

I’m going to repeat what Navzar said… This is a well done guide. People will pinprick everything you say and anything that is wrong will be called out but don’t take it to heart. I didn’t learn much from this guide but it is nice to have some of my thoughts repeated by someone else. Well done! Now keep it updated

link to notes please? I cannot see them

The sole problem with this thread, and many like it, is that you call for changes to the Thief yet provide no facts supported by proof. You can say that Ele’s rotation will pull less damage in 15s than a Thief can do in 5s but you provide no numbers, no facts, just quite litterally opinions. Almost nobody here provides solid facts or numbers and that translates into one of two things:
1. A bad balance choice which will either nerf HS (or utilities that help it) to the point of uselessness
2. It won’t get changed

You have to hope for the best, plan for the worst. I absolutely believe that everyone here is just trying to make the game more balanced by inputting their own opinion and that is outstanding, but is there anyway we could get solid numbers on this? Spec comparison, videos, and more importantly solid numbers. These will help ANet (and the forum community) get to the right solution to fix things like HS, PW, 100b, guardian bunker, ele’s super boon kite, and similar “op” builds/abilities.

It is just a UI bug, you still only get the chest pertaining to your current level (only got deer for lvl 19). Same thing will happen when you hit 29 if it isn’t fixed by then. Haven’t hit level 39 yet but I would assume the same.

Please. Stop. Crying. If GW2 is balanced using the ideas from these forums you will create the imbalance beyond belief. There is very little wrong with the balance of this game. There is no build or profession that is imbalanced. Sorry, there isn’t. If you are dying to a profession, increase your mentality towards that. It sounds cheesy but if you think you can win on equal skill levels then you will absolutely win more. Now, if you have problems please stop making unproductive posts that mindlessly babble about “a thief stunned me and did 10k backstabs” (oh wait you can’t backstab using s/p) or that mesmers sword illusion takes no skill or that guardians never die. When you make these stupid posts you are making this community boring and look just like WoW.

Sorry, held this post off for as long as I could but I just read a post that unleashed the rage

CC Eva.6742:

Hi both of you.

It will arrive when it is ready but unfortunately we cannot make an exact estimation of when this will happen. We ask for your patience in the meantime. Thanks!

I thank you very much for the quick response. Honestly, I am very angry at how great this game can be in the SPvP/TPvP area but it is not there yet. What I do not understand is why this game was put out to be a great PvP game involving potential e-sports yet we are getting dungeon patches? I just do not understand… You have a PvP community that are asking for a few things that were said to be here on release. We love this game and all we want are a spectator mode, custom games, paid tournaments, and a ladder. That is what I have seen in a lot of posts that want improvements. We were said to have a blog post “very soon” and now it has been delayed 16 days. I will be patient and at the end of the day ANet is not a group of idiots. They know what they are doing (and possibly using market strategies knowing PvE will generate more revenue) but lets hope for the SPvP/TPvP that it is soon.

What is going on? I have been in que for Yaks Bend borderlands for almost 2 1/2 hours… Many guild mates of mine have qued and gotten into Yaks Bend in ~20minutes. I have relogged three times and requed to try to fix it and nothing… I then tried to que for Maguuma’s Borderlands which guild mates of mine had gotten into in ~5 minutes and I have been in que for <30minutes. Is anyone else having these problems?

If you think warriors have little support you haven’t seen a good hammer warrior with shouts…

Eles are only good at support? Lol… Have you seen the tanky staff aoe eles? How about the glass cannon fire grasp ones…

Necros are great, may I say fantastic, group supports mid. They have 2 lifes, rip and applies conditions/boons, and have good defence via minion master builds.

All and all this is an mmo. People will QQ that their prof is UP and the hardest to play with less return then other profs. ANet has a good setup right now and should not mess with balance right now. Especially to these kinds of posts.

Ehmry Bay: 529.841
Ferguson’s Crossing: 58.877
Borlis Pass: 55.742

Us on Ehmry Bay destroyed this week…

Negative, they changed the stolen abilities to only 1 per profession.

And thank you Meta, doing that while working retail was a bad convo. I’ll edit

Sorry, on my phone at work so this is not my most beautiful post.

Thief: A 3 second stealth (throw tuff or something like that)
Warrior: Whirling Axe, spin around evading attacks and doing dmg for a few Seconds
Elementalist: Ice shard, small duration chill w/ some low dmg
Engineer: throw gunk, poisons, bleeds, and creates an ethernal field
Guardian: Forget what It’s called but is a small daze
Ranger: Plants a tree which gives regen, cures conditions, and creates a regen field.
Mesmer: Gives you all the boons for 10? Seconds
Necro: 3 second aoe fear.

Hope this helps, the times on all of those may be wrong but that’s the general abilities. Hope this helps!

faileon.4381:

Downed state should be nerfed to oblivion in sPVP anyway. Only one interrupt skill should be available for all classes and then the #4 heal. No damage or more teleports or clones or other kittene….

Agreed. Downed state shouldn’t even be allowed in TPvP. SPvP I don’t care as much but meh.

You were right… this is your typical QQ. Mesmers and Thieves don’t take 20+seconds to down…

Mesmers: 1 stealth + port which is easily noticeable because the 2nd mesmer to pop out of stealth is the one and also has a red arrow over his head.

Thieves: Port, run over and kill him. The initial cooldown on his stealth ability is made that if you find the thief quickly then you can flag him before he can stealth.

Honestly, if you down a mesmer or thief on something like a ranger, warrior, gaurdian, or most profs you can beat them in a downed to downed fight. Warriors can reincarnate, rangers pets can heal themselves… etc. Stop QQ’ing.