Guild Wars 2

Balance Predictions and How you would you like to see the Meta change? or think it will change to?
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The first week or so was really fun. Going through ruby and diamond i got to play with and against a bunch of esl players. I had a lot of competitive matches in diamond which is where i lost some of my games this season.

Win rate to legend i believe was: 74%
Win rate at end of season: 88.6%

I played Necro up until i lost my biggest win streak.
Then i played some herald and engi for fun.

Biggest win streak: 89
how did i lose it?
cant blame anyone in particular but
had some non " meta " builds
Fresh Air Ele
Shatter mes
But honestly it was bad rotations that lost us that game.
http://imgur.com/w8F18ix

I played a total of 422 games this season
i won 374 games this season
http://imgur.com/qYVfcWX

im currently on a 24 game win streak and 1 pip away from Prestige 23
Legend queue died last night, it went up until 1hours 25minutes before i decided to stop. but ofc it did it was 6am est.

Queue times:
Early Days/Weeks of legend sucked could wait anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours… yes 4 hours …
i was in queue and it popped at the 45 minutes mark and someone didn’t accept and then it hit 2 hours and dropped queue so i had to reque and it didnt pop for another 1 hour and 58 minutes later… my team won that game 500-11
After a couple weeks or so when more people started getting legend the queues during prime time and even late into the night weren’t too bad most of the time maybe 5-15min

season 1 i pvp’d the last 2 days of the season and got to sapphire
season 2 i got to legend and stopped
throughout those 2 season i didnt really focus on the achievements at all that much and i had to go hard core this season to finish them. not realizing how close i actually was until the last 15 days or so which i then realized i cant miss one day of participator if i want the wings this season. So i stuck to it and finished part 4 league participator today…. which i was able to get my wings

http://imgur.com/a/2ZpXf

Anet pls gib incentive

O and after watching the video i realized the warrior and thief had guard stacks of 4 and 5 haha they would of been dead at some point QQ :P

So i talked a little bit about the Traits as for the utilities u could run
Corrupt boon:
although it seems that its not working on stab—>fear ? maybe bug? dunno.
Spec walk:
for Mobility Jukes:
Plague signet:
Taking condis from allies and xfering, also if ur are getting condi bombed in plague and u have a ton of condis on you but ur surviving cause ur at 25k/50k hp LOL u can send them to someone and pretty much mess up their day, also it is a stun break
Spec Armor:
Might be better for dueling, i use to run it alot a couple month back.
Epidemic:
Hmmm Aoe Condis Whats not to like and if u get a plague sig/epi off uhhhh GG?
Well of Corruption and Well of Power could also be taken
Wurm:
More Juking
Signet of Spite:
Condi bomb + epi potential
Spec Wall:
Simialar to Spec Armor maybe better for dueling

I dont think i never not used corrupt boon, there are some cases in 1v1s where it would have little to no impact. but i would almost always take this.

Now that ive gone over the utilities that i like i can explain what you could do
A Safe but good group Build would be Corrupt boon/Spec Walk/Epi or
Corruptboon/PlagueSig/Epi or change out plague sig for one of the two mentioned wells. and if u dont feel like using epi u can obviously take it off for something else
Things to Note:
Now that we have a built in stun break when taking foot in the grave you could opt out of running a stun break utilitiy and play a little more aggressive and run something like CorruptBoon/Spite/Epi or CorruptBoon/WellOfCorrupt/Epi like mentioned above
Another Good Build for some 5v5s you could something like double well and plague signet or 1 well plague signet and spec walk for the group corruption and condi—> boons for allies

Now For sigils i didnt put them in the Build But U would run Geomancy, Energy, Generocity. Our Crit chacne is only 9 with this build but u could add rabid into the mix if you want to up it for more on crit procs Sigils if u ran them like earth or torment, and on top of that more precision would work with the target the weak minor giving us a little more condi damage. So im pretty sure you could drop 3-4k health and still be at 22k to get to around 30% crit chance if thats what u want to do or even settle somewhere in between. We also have a 5 second fury trait when going into shroud thats always a little helpful and also if ur running in a group u might be getting fury from someone.
So all and all i find this build to be very strong when you are posistioning your self correctly and also just supporting your teammates with extra healing and some siphon damage with the ability to rezz well, and also Peeling with fear/condi bombs is also nice to do for friends lol

sorry for the wall of text and sorry if its hard to read i might just be rambling at some parts haha

Since the patch i have ran this build with great success in wvw roaming. It is very good in small group roaming and 1v1s even with group traits that dont affect 1v1s.

Somethings in my build can be changed for different play styles or just different situations and i will go into them a little bit.

Here is a video i took of a 1v3ish situation that happened a little bit after i started to type up this post, dont judge too hard, it is jsut to show what the build can do.
Please watch in 1080p if u can

Here is a Build for Group play and also can be used in 1v1’s, some traits can be changed:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-30;3kHFC0A4RIkJ0;9;47A9;0157156058;9;1LPd_LPd_q-kC4-eiE2;1vcv7wcw7xcx7DFWFF2m;9;9;9;9;9;9;0V6s5J

So for the first trait line i chose:
Curses: for the obvious reason in that its the condi trait line lol. So u get things like terror, on crit bleed, plague sending . As for the grand master i have been running parasitic contagion but either of the other two could be used as well.

Second trait line:
Soul reaping: This one because Soul marks is very nice with some sustain lifeforce + unblockable marks, last gasp cause more life force and prot is always nice, and foot in the grave, which works nice with the other traitline that i will explain next. also i tried dhuumfire its mehhhh i guesss but other classes seem to stack burn just a little bit better… =/ ele..guard…warrior…. but feel free to try it it does add a littlle more condi burst. O and almost forgot You can get the longer Fear Duration. But can be changed to your liking to the spec trait or the vital persistence trait.
With the 36% duration food in WvW
Fears with trait:
Staff 5: 2 seconds
Ds withing 600: 3 Seconds
Ds 600+: 2 Seconds

Fears with out trait:
Staff 5: 1 1/2 seconds
Ds withing 600: 2 1/4 Seconds
Ds 600+: 1 1/2 Seconds

and lastly:
Blood magic: Now this trait line i love for group roaming of say like 5 people or even solo, u could just change a couple traits if need be for more omptimal solo play. so the first trait i pick is ritual of life, this puts the healing well down when u go to rezz someone so 5k plus the pulsing for your allies this works well with the last trait that i take which is transfusion which makes ur ds 4 pull downed allies to you while rezzing and aoe healing others for up to 4k or so. so u can pull them to u then rezz and proc the well heal very nice combo. on top of these u get traits like the minor vampiric, and the master trait vampiric aura which might not seem like a lot of heals and damage for your team but it does add up. so if u were solo u could run blood bond instead of ritual of life and you could run maybe the well trait over transfusion if u are using a well or just run deathmagic or spite instead of blood.

So all and all i feel that even with out the spite traitline i can still 1 burst ppl with condis and that i believe blood is a good choice for support and defence. so when u go into ds u get stab and not only this it can allow u to use ur ds 4 for a couple channels without getting interupted, and if you are hitting alot of people you will get healed alot from the two siphon traits . not only that but if you are aoe conding people your parasitic contagion will be healing you 10% of that…not in deathshroud but still… a terror alone is over 1200 damage or so.. so thats 120 hp but we know that you will most likely have bleeding and posion. and on top of that each hit is siphoning and u can get regen with staff 2 and the dodge roll staff 2 minor trait in blood.

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So i Decided to Make a Youtube Channel For Games that i play. I just Recently Started Commentating an making videos. As of right now i have all Forge videos but will be trying to get guild wars 2 footage and also some Swtor footage.
if you don’t know what forge is its like a Fps but with like Mmo moves
so if your looking for something to play if u ever get bored of gw2 you can try it its on steam an is pretty cheap.
This is the website:
http://www.playforgewar.com/
My youtube channel is:
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im looking under edit options i cant seem to figure it out

i know some of those song is used are in like 50% of pvp videos lol, but literaly i made this video in a couple hours so i just through them in haha

Im in the process of making another one and i will mix up my music i dont just like “metal” maybe ill try to put some rock, some good rap, techno, dubstep i dunno ill find something lol

alanis.6094:

20 SR vs 20 Blood is an interesting decision, and there really isn’t a ‘best choice’ there. Personal preference I guess.

yes i know imo i like the extra 20% crit damage and 20% life force(not sure if this is bugged) vs the vit and healing.
Also i like to use deathsroud alot for life blast hence why i got the two traits for it, but i am missing out on cool down reduction to wells

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.5.4.7.21.0.0.0.0.0.106.108.111.109.130.0.0.0.306.305.312.318.324.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.362.366.0.30.20.0.0.20

there can be some traits to change based on personal preference and how you want to play.

Once i get the rest of my gear im gonna try lich again i want to see how hard it can hit

Yeah sorry this my first vid i was just trying to show damage my others i make will have alot of info

I can tell u the numbers tho its 30 in power tree 20 precision tree and 20 in the crit damage tree

Im on my phone right now Ill post it tomorrow im laying down and my cat is kinda on me so i cant realy get up and im about to sleep its 3am

i personally like after around the 5 minute mark if your curious the begining imo was kinda weak meh just what i think lol i didnt realy take time on it like i said one night really lol.

Sorry the music is kinda messed up at some points i hate windows movie maker its so buggy.

Alright firstly i made this video mostly out of fun.

Note to all: This was made in one night and a half of a day in WvW, in the future i will have more than just one day of footage, and i will be fully geared
and i will work on a condition set as well cause i think that would be very fun too.

Take note that i just hit lvl 80 a couple days ago this is actually my seconds lvl 80
and i am not fully geared in this video but i have more trinkets in the cotton candy looking gear than the red and green dye one. the green and red dye gear is footage from the other night. i was also a different spec as you will see i used lich form. That is with my old traits and skills and gear, i now use different ones.

i also noticed when i went to buy a item i clicked ok and it popped up with connection error thingy, so than i went to the pick up tab to get my money from items that i had sold and thats when one of the times it basically ate my money.

Today and yesterday i just started noticing that when i go to click take all from the pick up section my money disappears which its supposed to but than its not giving me my money… this has happened on two several occasions that i have noticed…

Not sure if this has happened to anyone else but this is kind of ridiculous…. expecially if u put money into the game not saying i do but i’m just saying.

p.s please fix