Step 1….kill any good build existing before new release
Step 2… create crazzy lazzu opp new spec available in the expansion (mediocre game design perfectly works)
If you have no idea about opp stuff think about uncounterable instant attacks providing high frame if invulnerability with instant gap closer.
Step 3…sell
Karl is class designer now for years… and if it is Karl… it is bad:)
Don’t expect any good reasoning in guardian changes…
Worst and least used skills were traps before hot and guardian got plenty of them.
What is least played skills now ? (if you remove spirit weapons guard already have)
Yes mantra.. you are correct
At least this time class is supposed to have a spec aligned with what it is supposed to do: support.
Karl is class designer now for years… and if it is Karl… it is bad:)
Don’t expect any good reasoning in guardian changes…
Worst and least used skills were traps before hot and guardian got plenty of them.
What is least played skills now ? (if you remove spirit weapons guard already have)
Yes mantra.. you are correct
Well, now I know why WP didn’t bother.
Karl McLain needs to go.
No!!!
Don’t tell me firebrand la designed by Karl…
Guardian has been butchered already once and the only thing guardian is good at now is vanilla guard on wvw.
You see the only class that keeps being meta only on one game mode….and in vanilla
If it is confirmed it is him I will not pay the expansion
Stronghold rework….this game mode is not played at all.
They are working with the few devs remaining on next unballanced specialisations.
I doubt they will do anything.
Lol…don’t expect any professional communication from anet’s dev.
It is not because sometimes they communicate that you will benefit from consistent one.
Simple fact is that means for the game are at such a low level that they cannot communicate without making people running away.
Is there someone here dumb enough not to understand that they are nerfing current elites just to make next one more appealing ?
Is there still someone that did not catch Anet’s marketing policy even after having seen what was hot.
Is there someone that did not take note that new expansion is about to come ?
Surprise from people is so …. surprising for me…
The question I have is why are they still not communicating?
It frustrates players and let the feeling that there is no leadership and vision.
All we get are information on match making algorithms, khylo changes and afkers.
Is this all what they can communicate on? Top team leaving…no reaction.
Anet failed hard…
They betrayed their philosophy…it became more and more grindy and P2W.
They did not announce their decision to let esport die. They let players on a pending situation waiting for a signal. Such a disrespect is bad.
Pvp is now dead…so sad…time to switch game I guess.
The more I lead stats the more I loose as if I have to carry whole team.
Losing streak always comes after winning streak for me this season.
8/10 wins – 8/10 losses
Worst experience in season so far….but maybe I am at my right place….but what is is ?
Gold 2 / Silver 2 ? It seems I have a large skill level ..or that matchmaking is failing hard.
Yes, I know, when you belong to best team in the world you manage to reach legend…lol what a demonstration helseth.
Having challenges lots of builds (medi trap / bunker dh / bunker vanilla / burn vanilla / burn dh), having carrefully looked at esl tournaments and latest tournaments managed by helseth and sid) I came to the conclusion that dh brings nothing worth.
It is by far the weakest prof…yes far behind revenants who still have an important role in teamfights.
Donc waste tour time with this prof…Karl designed it in à lazzy way…ranger vanilla 2.0.
I switched to ele thief mesmer engi and ranger. This is à blast how things suddenly get managable.
I run this. Swap menders amulet for marauders when you have a dedicated support ranger/ele. Stow your weapon/ cancel cast purification entering combat to get 10 stacks of might for free. Sigils just take some leeching ones I didn’t fill them in.
Fucj this change…as if guards were top level Dominator.Meanwhile ranger remain with their stupid sustain and ele get buffs…holy kitten. Karl please stop making change please.
DH and War both needs some serious nerfs somewhere. As it stands currently both heavies put out too much damage, are basically immune to condi (remember when War was “Weak to condi”?…lol great design ANet), have absurd uptime on invuln to regular damage AND have multiple gap closers.
ANet has really screwed the pooch with these two classes, everyone else feels pretty good right now. I wish some of the other classes had multiple builds (Engi) but everyone else can at least compete.
Here is a crazy thought, design a weakness into DH or Warriors… I know, thats crazy talk but I think it will make the game better for everyone.
Both guards and Wars are not op.
They are underpowered to say the least. But this is true only at high level.
All people crying about them demonstrate only one thing: they do not belong to this scope.
What is funny to see is to watch them coming over and over again on this topic without wondering if they are not responsible from having issues with these two professions.
Me 10 first match 8 wins. Often very hard matches and close score.
Now 33 matches…11 wins.
I went from Platinum to silver on full loose streak.
All my teamates are falling like flies and I am always outnumbered everywhere I go.
I win my duels I +1 and carry on kills and revive…but nothing seems sufficient.
I heard some of them telling they were on their third match…wtf
I play with guys with not even a rank….
This Season is the most horrible and frustrating experience I had…and by far. Worst season ever so far.
So you mean you’ll have to talk to teammates…. and play as a team… in a team game?
Yes…you are correct…a team game where you cannot talk (no ts inside gw2 as far as I know) and cannot team anymore.
Is there someone serious enough here saying writting “3 comin mid need support….thief coming on close please protect the point” while 1 v 2 ing is the way to go ?
Hope you are clever enough to see the problem.
This “no more team” means two thing:
-no more good communication possible in a theoricaly team game
-no way to prevent from being teamed in kitten kitten composition
And to be clear…Anet is really mediocre at team composition in matchmaking. It is so bad I am wondering if it is not intended sometimes. 80% of the cases there is 1 or 2 support class on one side with none on the other. 30% of the cases i am teamed with 2 thieves with no support bunky prof.
I am solo player..I know what happen when you are solo and I accept the consequences. But I know that it is up to me to have a better experience (going in a team).
It will be no more the case.
Again … bad move Anet.
Only way to go now is to go on a build that can carry the game selfishly. Be prepared for class stacking.
there’s always the gw2 community TS. I know a lot of pvpers use that to find groups then form up with it as their voice.
won’t be possible anymore…you will not commit on finding common ts during waiting phase before match starts
Core guardian virtues were buffed, the DH ones remain the same, with the added bonus that traps do not daze anymore and apply slow instead.
That said, slow is so deadly on this meta that anyone not running diamond skin or mallyx might as well give up on teamfights, the spam is too much to channel anything.
The change from daze to cripple is a huge nerf dont kid yourself.
It is not criplle it is slow. Slow is slowering your casts and not tour movements.
I dont think they are done with balance patches. They said they’d be toning some sort of base utility down on guard and all they did was remove the silence. Meta guard only uses 1-2 traps.
Wrong…2 or 3 with the trap trait. So the change is a hudge nerf.
Buffing the ridiculous signet unusable and the virtues that are useless as vanilla guards are not viable will not change anything.
So you mean you’ll have to talk to teammates…. and play as a team… in a team game?
Yes…you are correct…a team game where you cannot talk (no ts inside gw2 as far as I know) and cannot team anymore.
Is there someone serious enough here saying writting “3 comin mid need support….thief coming on close please protect the point” while 1 v 2 ing is the way to go ?
Hope you are clever enough to see the problem.
This “no more team” means two thing:
-no more good communication possible in a theoricaly team game
-no way to prevent from being teamed in kitten kitten composition
And to be clear…Anet is really mediocre at team composition in matchmaking. It is so bad I am wondering if it is not intended sometimes. 80% of the cases there is 1 or 2 support class on one side with none on the other. 30% of the cases i am teamed with 2 thieves with no support bunky prof.
I am solo player..I know what happen when you are solo and I accept the consequences. But I know that it is up to me to have a better experience (going in a team).
It will be no more the case.
Again … bad move Anet.
Only way to go now is to go on a build that can carry the game selfishly. Be prepared for class stacking.
OMFG Yess what a nice idea….let’s continue…breaking bar on stab ? (erf already exist).
What about a breaking bar on evade also and a breaking bar on invulnerabilities.
And what about a breaking bar on heal and one on damage ?
And please for love of god…more ICD everywhere..you know the one put to try desesperatly to balance completely low minded skills and provide some random “i kittening don’t know what happen” gameplay.
Can we have also more passive traits that refuels breaking bar….with icd ?
A message from the PvP Team: Elementalist
Support elementalist has long reigned supreme, but we’d like to see elementalist bring a bit more damage to the table.
I have no words….this prof has reigned supreme but we want them to put more on the table..shall we all play ele ?
Do you regret the 5 man ele teams and the supreme cele ele overlord that has reigned for more than one year ?
Please tell me because if it is what you want…I’d better go delete this game.
Now guards have to play condi with the same weakness they always had:only one type of condi apply too easily cleansed. Ridiculously strong against low cleaner prof and ridiculously weak against others. All in all never pleasant to play.
The only thing that was possible to do against ele with all the projectile hate they provide and all the absurd amount of heal they give was to cc them. This option is dead now. In top of that the burn guard will also be erased with the condi clean of ele.
And for those who say slow is a nice trade-off I defenitely do not leave on the same planet.
This slow will last half a sec maxin teamfights and will remain laughably unoticed.
Now guard can just switch class when ele will come.
Meanwhile support effectiveness of ele seen as overlords by Anet themselves is kept unchanged…with slight other buffs. This is absurd.
Then…why does the non-stacking rule still exists in ESL? If the game should be balanced around ESL, then why use different set of rules?
If the balance at “average” level doesn’t matter as people here say…let’s remove no stacking rules and let’s see if the ESL team keep the same “balanced” composition as now.
Lol…are seriously asking why ?
Because anet has broken balance with hot and they are kitten kitten at fixing it.
The non stacking rule is the most lazzy and negative way to simply hide the evidence of unbalance.
This is why you are right…rules should be the same: stacking possible everywhere and team q also possible.
Then balance should be applied based on what is seing strong and weak at top level only.
All the rest is a matter of skill / good willing of players to be in a team.
If I am destroyed because I play bad…I am ok…I just have to improve.
If I am destroyed because usually against a medium or low player my prof is strong but against a good opponent I have no chance…then I am not ok.
Same for teams ..
Anet is slowly but surely taking all decisions that will destroy the pvp:
-op elite specialization for marketing
-class stacking rule in esl for low cost balance management
-team q removal because easiest way to hide the population problem
Seems some rangers have sometimes difficulties on 1v2…please buff.
Not enough regen / evade…need more dps and their pet may be killed when 5 player burst on it.
The group fight support is a bit low also… possible to double invulnerabilities uptime and make it passive proc ?
Please help Anet.
I agree with nighthawk in terms of trying to kill their pet. Bunk druids are hard to kill but a 2v1 should be able to do it unless you are getting kited around and actually not hitting him. What build do you run?
Hi I was 2 vs 1 ing a ranger today with my DH on PvP ranked.
We could not put his life bellow 33% and he was recovering 100% very easily while I was trying to control him.
The fight took 5 minutes easy. While he was easily surviving us his pet was putting me on very difficult situation.
I decided to try to kill the pet, but 2 minutes later the pet was still 100%. It was recovering so easily…I became mad.
What can I do ?
Thanks for the tip
Can someone explain the shield 4 + jump thing…I really don’t get it…
If someone dodge the end of my shield 4 he will avoid my clone generation..but if I jump i generate it? why?
and if i jump and he does not evade then no clone ? why ?
if you just use shield and your enemy attacks you and you block you create a phantasm
but if you blind, evaded than no phantasm like any other skill
because the shield create the phantasm after the end of the blocking its easy for some ppl to anticipate it and dodge it, blind it, evade, block it
thus if you jump you create another action which delay the phantasm creation a little bit so if the evade, block ends before the action your phantasm will spawns (unless you blind)
so now the enemy had to think when to evade/dodge. does he waits for you to jump or not….
more useable in 1v1 as in team fights its easy to block
ty missiah..i understand that jumpingbcreates a delay…more clear for me….but then if i jump and thebennemy does not evade at all…i still create a phantzsm …right ?
Look at helseth vid (aftercast … in the title)…maximizing mesmer can become tricky…
You have the kite knowledge with phase retreat.
You have the 2 button in a micro sec to get an additional shatter(phase retreat + shatter)
You have the blink forward with phase retreat: turn back phase retreat turn back
You have all the maximized combo with cs
Can someone explain the shield 4 + jump thing…I really don’t get it…
If someone dodge the end of my shield 4 he will avoid my clone generation..but if I jump i generate it? why?
and if i jump and he does not evade then no clone ? why ?
Thief still under performs in one of its main purposes which is duels and 1v1 fights. In sPvP it is still mostly relegated to +1 and mobility.
Do good players even sweat a power thief in a straight up fight any more?
Main purpose of thief is mobility and +1
It must never be a beast in 1v1 with its current superiority in mobility.
I can understand lots of thieves would appreciate…but this would create an imbalanced situation.
