Guild Wars 2

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BlackDevil.9268:

Yeah well here’s the deal: You dont stack immobilizes. Why? Because:
1. You have no way of removing boons
2. People will run stability

Stability does not prevent immobilize.

3. You have interrupts on a really long cooldown.

Pistol is 25s, Chaos 35s and Mantra 30s, but you can cast twice. How’s that for a really long CD? I don’t get it.

What are you gonna do if you used all your interrupts?

Well… stomp.

5. You’re not even stacking condition duration with this build I can probably immobilize more with +40% condition duration and (if picked) lower sword cooldown.

Because you don’t have to. That is exactly my point. By knowing what you’re doing, you are able to keep people rooted for long enough to land everything or disengage.

6. People can cleanse. It’s not like, at least if, they gonna stand in 6 seconds immobilize. Cause that’s kinda what you’re saying right now. 2 seconds immobilze isn’t gonna do the job.

Yup. And since your only condition removal is on a 20s CD, moreover it’s a HEAL, I just can’t wait to land mantra and finish the job, while you can’t move.

Because you don’t. You’re implying a build without PU, without greatsword in a power build is the best roaming build out there. This is far from true. Probably this roaming troll build is even better of osicat.

You’re tanky, you can build up power, you have tons of blinks and defensive utilities, you have direct control over your enemy and you can outlast anyone in a fight, while your build is literally getting eaten alive by condition specs and you can’t do anything about that for 20 seconds.

But hey, sure that 600 damage on interrupt is sure much better than them lower GS cooldowns.

If you don’t like it, then you can swap it out and get Crippling Dissipation, giving you more room to disengage or just create distance. Or guess what… you can swap Staff to GS, pick up the trait and get even more interrupts, mights and vulnerabilities.

PU is what makes mesmer superior in roaming.

PU is for people who want to play with one hand and click their skills. In other words. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you go PU. If you know what you’re doing, you pick CI.

BlackDevil.9268:

Anyone running with my build could steamroll the build you’re running. And if they don’t kill you, well no problem because you can’t chase, you can’t deal enough damage to even kill.

Maybe you realise now why its far from usefull. PU are the best roaming builds, period. And if you can’t handle them conditions? Well run off? It’s no shame to reset fights in WvW if you can. WvW is far from balanced anyway, so why not?

p.s.: didnt even see you are using chaotic interruption. You, sir, will never escape 1v2’s. And yes, you will need to escape 1v2’s sometimes cause you are not gonna survive with this build against 2 skilled players.

I was wondering, why are you talking about chasing or getting away from fights, since the build is a self buffing tank in essence. You don’t have to chase or get away. People will always come to you. As soon as they realise that being perma immobilized with 3 phantasms hitting them with 15 vulnerability and 15 might (on mesmer), it is already too late.

Secondly, I was wondering why all of the above (chaotic immobilizes on interrupts, just to make sure) is making you unable to escape fights, since apart from people being rooted, you are rewarded with pretty much the same boons as PU (being hit while Chaos Armor is on, or standing inside Chaos Storm, or even throwing Chaos Storm on the enemy, which proccs interrupts, giving you boons all the time).

Thirdly, why on earth are you implying, that I don’t know what I’m talking about, since you haven’t even tried what I suggested. What’s the GS #4 crit on a 3k armor enemy with protection on… 1k? Congratulations.

Fourthly, PU just makes me wanna hug you with tears in my eyes. It’s like I’m looking at a poor orphan, who needs to walk the streets and look for food. My heart is broken. It makes me wanna fly all the way, meet you in person and tell you I’m sorry for everything that I haven’t done to you and then suicide.

Fiftly, please… PLEASE! Be humble. This game’s community is so not promoting acting like a piece of monkey’s kitten, so PLEASE. Just a little bit of humility. It doesn’t hurt.

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I don’t understand where’s the lack of power you’re talking about. 2.1k base with might stacking on weapon swap and interrupts. You can throw sigils of purity away too and put strength instead for even more power, because conditions won’t last long enough to deal significant damage on you.

BlackDevil.9268:

Showing the worst fight in weeks wow. I played bad there, so yes it’s a l2p issue.
That build has no way of even escaping with no speed. Also, that build would lack lots of power. It wouldnt even come close to killing tanky specs.
Halting strike? Really? Over 15% phantasm damage which is your main source of damage? Do yourself a favour and stop talking cause you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Actually BF evades pretty much all skills besides shocking aura and ‘’when hit’’ effects. As you can clearly see I failed to evade the blind+confusion projectile there and got caught by the pry bar.

So that’s how you act, when someone puts a burning sword up your butt :-) 2/10, for you didn’t read it was 4 4 6 0 0 I was talking about, which uses +15% AND halting.

20s 2cond removal still gets you self-killed and not only with help from engies. Especially if someone’s just smart enough to re-apply confusion AFTER you have used your heal.

Again.

4 4 6 0 0 full knight’s w/ Melandru, valk weaps w/ purity and might on swap (s/p + staff), cav trinkets, lemongrass. (II, III) (II, X) (V VIII XI). Did that go through your shield of arrogance +5 or shall I try different approach?

BlackDevil.9268:

Lol but really? PU power still strongest solo roaming build. If you die vs conditions then its a l2p issue. I fight with 2 cond removal on a 20 seconds healing, aka menders purity with ether feast and I don’t have that much problems with them conditions.

Couldn’t agree more. Proof @ 1:57:25 http://www.twitch.tv/doiidrg/b/521774600

PU makes everyone look good. Apart from when they look bad.

The strongest solo roaming build is 7mirror lockdown. Knight’s gear with Melandru, -cond duration food, Valk weaps with might sigils, Cav’s trinkets, 4 4 6 0 0 Chaotic Interruption and Halting. No one can possibly kill you, unless you’re outnumbered 5v1.

BTW, blurred frenzy doesn’t save from confusion :-D

Dedicated scouts’ rewards should be based on the utility they provide to commanders. Which in this case, means that commanders should be allowed to choose how to reward ’em.

Of course that can cause too many people willing to scout to get the neat stuff. BUT, if you give the option to pick specific people to scout for a period of time, then it’d be OK IMO.

Scouting = roaming, not sitting on Anza walls for the whole day, telling people about a bunch of PvD’ers that want to take a tower. You need to provide info beforehand, to shut down the enemy, not to clean up the mess they have made.

Sieging rewards are fine as they are. Of course it takes time to down a wall or remove enemy trebs and stuff… BUT, 90% of the time it looks like this:

Bunch of people sitting at a tower get trolled to finally get out if it and actually fight. After 10 seconds they realize, that they can’t beat you 10v5, so they run away and get back in the tower, only to build ACs/trebs/catas and use them on you, because they simply suck. Why on earth should such behavior be rewarded? There’s absolutely ZERO risk in sieging and endless rewards for just tagging zergs (12390147 lootbags suddenly appear at your feet). Isn’t it enough?

Sieging helps the idea of blobbing, kills the idea of fighting. Period. Thank you for upvotes.

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@Maska

At least as an engie you have enough utility to cripple or catch people that want to run away from you.

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Other than that, solo roaming is pretty much dead IMO. I was running around 3 different BLs and EB for the last weekend, encountering only players, who respawn at garrison and run to rejoin with the blob either at hills or bay. Last night I stood literally on the way between AG garrison and bay. There was a big fight inside and AG just ran past me, no one even pressed auto-attack to put me in combat to prevent from fast disengage… amazing.

75% of encounters are with thieves, 15% with warriors and 10% with PU condition mesmers. Group fights are different. Necros in the back line will Spite you and if you cleanse or convert to boons – you’ll eventually get corrupted shortly after.

No one wants to fight :-(

DO NOT remove Skyhammer from SoloQ! I love this map playing any class! ANet should make more maps like this one.

You’re right. A true high skill gameplay involves going full zerker, ogres, 10 30 0 0 30 sleight of hand. Engage in 1v2, get randomly hit by fresh air ele for 5k flash, burning speed… respawn.

Good stuff Laela, keep them coming.

I’d like to thank all the people at Obsidian Sanctum for the duels – especially Elemelentalist – and appologise for some of Gandara players’ behavior during this evening.

Good duels everyone. Keep the good fights coming!

Shouts to Jinzeama for putting up good fights @ GBL in the evening :-)

kitten … Laela Blackbird is here and since he’s running with 50 different guild tags (I’d expect CE), I wouldn’t even know that he’s lurking around :-P

Good thing is, that I can actually get into WvW at midnight :-D Well… in a very optimistic scenario.

BTW, who is this Magnetron guy, whom we managed to hit for 500k in 2 seconds? Thread got deleted, I didn’t even have a chance to respond.

@Laela

Hey bud, I really love your videos, but please with all the fast forward and music, I feel like i put my head in a washing machine for 10 minutes :-) Just make some fade aways instead with a “x minutes later” or something…

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Speaking on D/P controversy… For me it’s easy mode, cheap stuff, except I don’t feel guilty when fighting against other cheesy builds. I love to perma blind guardians and warriors, who are pain in the neck to fight when running D/D or P/D with current skill lag. There isn’t any room for mistake, even one.

Thanks to Ando Skyfire from [FOI] for the duels in EB this evening.

Also, shouts to Ele [Riot] and Engie [oO] for making a hard to kill sustained healing duo! Great synergy guys!

I’m watching DiVa stream on Kami’s channel and not only that I see gankz along with Terrorsquad roaming, but I hear Fight The Fire by Stoneface And Terminal coming from my speakers :-D

Perplexity isn’t broken. Just think of it just like of playing a staff guardian, which requires you to run in circles and press 1 only, or a hammer warrior, where you press AA 5 times and go for earthshaker.

Ok, maybe that was an exaggeration. Think of perplexity as of playing a zerker longbow ranger, running behind frontline specced heavy armor classes with CC capabilities and gibbing people from 1500 with Rapid Fire.

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Being completely serious. Someone posted a good answer earlier on. Running P/P Perplex is very good in 1v1 situations, but 1v2 is completely harmless.

I almost forgot how fun it is to fight Miller’s.

We’re hitting a tower with 5 people. MS commander appears along with 10-12 pugs, of which we kill 5. The rest (5-7) run into tower and… start building a treb to kill our cata.

Many thanks to VM guild again for putting up great fights

Shout out to the Virtual Masters guild for 4v4s and 5v5s tonight :-) Keep up the good work and see you tomorrow @ windmill :-)