Guild Wars 2

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This thread is basically a mix of two dominant problems that ice heard often and sewn often on engi forums.

First is a huge lack of viable kit for power engi in spvp and wvw. Someone mentioned before that as a power scrapper using hammer, only viable kit is elixir gun, which isn’t even supposed to be a power kit. Bomb kit is a joke/not viable at all when compared go other options, even in spvp where enemy has to fight on point.

Second is the rifle. Rifle is absolute dog trash, without a DOUBT the worst weapon in the game out of any class. It needs a serious overhaul. So does shield, but that doesn’t relate to the power engi problem so ill leave it alone. Again, someone mentioned that thief may get rifle next expax which is a further insult to engi players, especially if engi rifle is untouched until or even after then.

The lack of viable/fluid power weapon/kit is really sad to see. Yes condo engi piano is “strong”, but engi should have more viable power toolkits/weapon. Rifle MUST be fixed ASAP if you don’t want to see every scrapper being a bunker type bruiser.

Ty

Oh! Also a special request from this nobody…

PLEASE Anet, give us a new 2v2 arena forums thread. Don’t force us to post in pvp game mode thread. Pleaseeee. Even something as small as this will help the community take this custom map further.

Okay so we all know the new 2v2 mode will not have its own queue, just it’s own map. As BAFFLING as this decision is, there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it, so for the meantime, I have several other questions.

1) Is it just the one “new 2v2” map? E.g in wow, there are like 8 or so arena maps. Is it likely a net will design/add more?

2) arena type pvp in other mmos are veeeeeeerry popular. I played wow 3v3 arena ONLY for 7 years+. Anet doesn’t seem to realize that having a ladder for 2v2 (and maybe even in the future, 3v3) arenas would offer something different from the “battle ground” + “hold a point” style that is spvp, or the zerg/blob/roaming play that is wvw.

Anyway, do you guys think the community will organize their own 2v2 tournaments? I certainly think the 2v2 map could be the starting point of something greater, but the fact that it’s a custom arena kind of saddens me… usually custom arenas are not touched, especially with so much to do in the amazing wvw patch and tye new season approaching. Has anybody thought about organizing 2v2 tournaments? I’d love to help.

3) Is the new 2v2 arena just “to the death”? How exactly do you win?

4) Same stats as spvp?

More discussion and questions are welcome. And answers

saerni.2584:

Sword is slow so it may benefit from quickness more so than other weapons.

The main thing with S/P is to know exactly how much of a window you have before you need to retreat. In both S/P and S/D you also need to have a plan to get back into stealth to set up another round of attacks.

It may have been possible to burst using S/X in the past but there is more get out of jail free cards. You usually can’t over rely on one shotting people these days.

That said, you do want to build enough damage to make hit and run effective. What build are you using?

Thanks alot man, this helps alot, especially the part about how sword/x has a certain window. I may have been trying to fight more head on while using sword/x because it seemed less… stealthy backstabby, but I guess not. Maybe when I learn to juggle dodge with sword dagger #3 I will be able to stay inside and fight longer while keeping the offensive, but for now your tip is extremely helpful; I’ll pull back and reset and look for more opportunities to go back in at the right time.

Hmm… for sword/dagger and sword/pistol, can you recommend any good combos? I have been doing a tonne of research, and got a really useful tip for sword/pistol tricks;

1) Sword/pistol = Pre cast #3 (pistol whip foe, then slash repeatedly), and steal in for a near unavoidable stun + damage chain.

2) Same thing as above, but with blinding powder, to force them to fight inside the powder field so you are more “tankier”.

However, I am still looking for more “damage combo” type stuff… I know that it is all situational and depends on my build XD but stuff like the above would really help a noobie like me.

Thanks!
-a slowly learning teef

Hmm maybe I can be a bit more specific.

I feel like I am struggling to do multiple things at once. For example, a typical 1v1 fight on my teef atm using sword dagger will look something similar to this; I will pop assassins signet (basilisk venom if using it), infiltrator’s strike in (from behind line of sight as metabattle suggests for the good escape), attack a couple of times, and steal for daze and attack more etc.

But I’m not fully COMFORTABLE with how to do good damage/burst damage. We only have 5 skills, but it feels like I’m spending a lot of time auto attacking, and end up tunneling that. Or I get into the “noob trap” of spamming sword/dagger #3, or sword/pistol 3. I try my best to work in pistol 4 headshots to get pulmonary impacts, but then I end up using it too much and dumping too much energy. Feels like its spam it to hope to interrupt something, when it could be aimed and effecient. All while auto attack spamming, I’m forgetting to dodge XD and my health is suddenly at 0. In very specific cases where I fight a class/build I am slightly familiar with, I will dodge a set up, but most times it feels like “oh.. i died really hard really fast really suddenly”.

So hard :/. I was a very high end wow pvper, so its really frustrating to come to a new game and suck at pvp XD although I must admit, using different builds and weapons and playstyles is AMAZINGLY fun. My main problem that depresses me is not doing well, and not knowing why im not doing well T_T

Any tutors that could help a newbie? I will be a quick learner I promise

Hi guys!

I have been a lurker on the forums, and this is my first post. I have been forced to create a topic asking for help, because currently, even on metabattle builds, I just… get blown up or die instantly in pvp (both wvw and spvp, its not a nice feeling). Sometimes I do well, but it seems like there is more I could be doing.

Mainly, are there any thief tutors that could teach me how to play sword/dagger or sword/pistol? wvw or pvp, id like to get better. Dagger pistol is mind numbingly boring for me :/ and sword mainhand looks so amaze!! I need builds/in game tutoring of how to blow some1 up with sword, I saw a video a while back of a teef using sword just DESTROYING some1 on battle of Kylo from 100-0% in 0.5 sec.

Thanks!