Guild Wars 2

I truly miss the days before HoT, like riiiight before it’s launch. The balance team reworked all the trait lines for every single class and it feel MUCH better than it is now. Much more stable and some more builds were viable.

Comes the Elite spec and suddenly you NEED to use them or you’ll get outperformed by the sheer amount of bullkitten the classes can throw at you. Conditions on almost every single skills, even by clearing them all you’re always going to struggle staying alive because of the amount of conditions certain skills apply in one hit. It’s crazy how the second HoT dropped, the balance shifted dramatically and now everything feels like kitten.

So I was just playing tonight and suddenly everything got extremely laggy. To the point I couldn’t see anything in chat, general delay and disconnection.

After looking around for a while, I’ve noticed it’s only on Guild wars, the game is just extremely laggy. It’s not related to FPS either, just in case someone asks. I don’t understand, it already happened once, in the middle of the night like right now. That time I brushed it off like it was just an issue that would pass but a few days later, it’s happening again.

Getting to Ruby is just too easy. I think player should start losing tiers in sapphire for like the last two tiers.

There’s a kittenton of Ruby players now just because getting there is mostly grinding and getting lucky, not through skills.

You only truly get out of amber when you hit Diamond.

1- Tone down the amount of CC in the game
2- Make PvE and PvP version of the class skills
3- Do the same kind of balance/rework they did just before HoT where they changed each classes at the same time, including elites
4- Put a mystic forge in HoTM
5- Do balances patch each 2 weeks or at least each month

Fay.2357:

Since no balance will happen for another 1.5 months minimum, I’m expecting folks up top to eventually realize that counters to bunker Mesmer exist, they just have to play them.

They’ll catch on eventually, they generally do. It just usually takes them a while.

You speak of counters, yet you do not list them to try to get your point accross.

The question is pretty much in the title. I’ve ran into this issue many times now, how do you deal with armies of shambling horrors, mesmer illusions and rangers with their pets? I struggle getting even close to them and aoes just never seem to hit any of them because of the targets limits.

Never had any problem against a DH with P/P

Mhhh… I can’t seem to understand how to have any success with this build. It feels clunky and easy to play against

Wait until balance patch comes in. It’s too early to say that HoT makes you win more games considering the Elite specs are still subject to changes and even maybe the base classes.

I have HoT and I still use base classes on some of my character and my overall experience hasn’t changed that much. The only thing that bothered me were the DH. But now that I found a way to deal with them it made me realized how weak the class really is.

Today we reclaimed our guild halls and for some reasons I could see some other members go through walls of stone (Namely behind the crystal) and I couldn’t follow them. They also mentioned there were no walls.

It’s very good when you’re capping mid with your team, with Facet of Strenght up you and your allies are permanently gaining might. Mace 2 + mace 3 can stack might even further.

Shield 4 should be thrown as often as possible for applications of protection and a burst of healing. Shield 5 is a good panic button.

Like any Herald the glint’s heal makes mistakes much more forgiving. Elites is good when you need to pushe backs stompers that don’t have stability or just general cc mid fight.

Damage wise, it’s good. With the fact you’re going to have might permanently, your conditions deals a good deal of damage and you have access to many different conditions. Try to land your mace 2 on groups of people, the burn is really good. Facet of Element’s flame breath is also very strong for AOE condition pressure.

Jalis form is good when you’re under lots of condi pressure, and want to apply stability for your allies that are stomping. The taunt is also nice and the Elite almost wins every group fight by itself.

Hammer is mostly for a long range option and dealing with pesky rangers/dragonhunters

This is what I’m rolling with:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNApein3gWNSuQrJRbo/ksP0gS4I6QJ4EdrklZlhNma+RNgEewO6r/G-TphHwACOEADOCAb2fAwDAIwJAwYZAA

Could probably still use some tweak but Im having a lot of fun with it

Gaaroth.2567:

Kharne.8613:

Mace + shield / Hammer Jalix/Glint

Invocation/Retribution/Herald

Good hybrid build for mid point fighting

No corruption? I feel it necessary for some good condi gameplay

I don’t feel it’s necessary at all, invocation is too good to pass up and I think you don’t need condi damage to run a condi build, you just need to outlast your opponent which Retribution helps with.

Like I said this is a Mid point fighter so you have to take everything that can keep you and allies alive.

Also Facet of Strenght boost yoru damage quite a bit and you should never turn it off IMO

Mace + shield / Hammer Jalix/Glint Cele amulet/Settler Strenght rune

Invocation/Retribution/Herald

Good hybrid bunkerish build for mid point fighting