Guild Wars 2

I hate it when it happens, and I rarely manage to steal the kill myself, but it’s part of the map dynamic. It should stay.

sephiroth.4217:

Maladiktion.1498:

Any pointers for a tweaked boonstrip necro that might help me win a few more matches would be appreciated

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/My-PvP-builds/first#post6477631

Top 3 builds are Necro builds, hope it helps. The top one is probably up your alley, focuses on boon corruption, 2900 power and 1700 condi. High spike damage.

Thanks for the links to the builds. I was more interested in general tips on what I should be doing in each game (other than the really general view of capping points, defending them, and helping out on team fights where possible). I’ve listened to team chat when appropriate, watched some videos, and read up on the qqmore site. The videos I’ve not found very helpful as it’s just listening to peoples “differing” taste in music whilst not understanding what I’m really seeing. I guess I would just like a some more guides. Especially on how to survive bronze tier without losing my will to live

This was a really interesting thread to read being as this was my first pvp season (played enough to get to dolyak before seasons began) and I am currently languishing at around 750 points, having clawed my way up from a low point of 520 (I dropped pretty quickly from my placement score of 680 before I realised I really couldn’t play mesmer in pvp). This I realise puts me firmly in the “learning to play” camp, but I would also agree with the OP that success in a game does seem to be very much decided by the luck of the draw with your team mates. Ah well. I’ll plug on.

Any pointers for a tweaked boonstrip necro that might help me win a few more matches would be appreciated

I kind of agree with the OP, but that’s mainly because I get about 5 hours a week game time, and I really would rather not spend that limited time running around in a karma train which is nearly the most tedious form of game play there is (second only to champion farming – at least with wvw trains there is a chance you will run into another zerg). I haven’t given up hope yet though, I’m currently on 4/10, but 2 of those are the JP ones. I guess I’ll keep “playing how I want to play”, and jump on the train closer to the end of the season if I have to. But nobody should have to!

I haven’t investigated the situation to much as I only had 10 minutes to login and check out the changes this morning before work, but I didn’t get any transmutation charges for my pvp rank – do I have to talk to an npc or something?

I get really bad lag on my pc at work. In LA main (Gandara) today, I had 5 minute (yes, minute) skill lag. I quit out of the game and couldn’t log in with the character that was in LA, so went to tPvP with another character and had the same issue.

This hasn’t been a problem for me on my work network until the last LS update, and does seem to be getting worse.

It seems to be fine on my home PC, but I think I’ve only ever been in overflows on that one.

It would be nice to know if this is a GW server side issue, even though work allow me to play games at lunchtime, I don’t think they will like it if I have to ask them to sort their network out :/