Guild Wars 2

Well, being on a loss streak half the last season, just to climb back at the same place I started. Looks like I’m getting bombed now again (reached platinum for the first time, had a few nice matches then it went down straightforward – constant blowouts like 50-500 or 200-500). So I just came back to farm gold in chests and doing dailies fast. Ranked sPvP is just not worth anyone nerves. My advice is – stop caring about rank and just farm. Call me toxic kitten but at this point in game I even encourage faster loose if we are 50-300 after first few minutes so I can go back and have that last tiny tiny tiny bit of hope for a good match. And I heard it all “git gut”, “just practice more”, “learn to carry” etc. Guess what – I don’t care anymore.

i plan on swapping out one of the trait lines with Firebrand when it releases, but i’m undecided on which. opinions?

You can put FB only in last slot so whatever you put in there will be changed for FB.

Hi, I just got to the platinum for the first time in all seasons and I am wondering what are other platinum players playing – burn guard or do you go full traps? One match burn seems OP and by the next – the traps.

Yeah, but I just thought it weird. You charge mantras for some time, go underwater, go out and you have to charge them up again, taking time again.

I’m not sure if it was designed that way or was it overlooked.

InsaneQR.7412:

I need some clarification on mantras. I understand that correctly that mantras refill the charges over time if you do nout use the last charge?

Yes.

Well, as far as I liked it at first, you guys convinced me. I mained guard for the most part of my playtime in 4 years I have played the game but after raids I had to swich to druid cause guardian felt lacking a lot. Now it seems FB needs a deep rework and it’s only a month before release.

Eh, my hopes for maining guard again are still dead I presume. ;/

Aza.2105:

Firebrand lacks focus.

Tbh I got the same feeling as I was trying to find some build synergy with core trailines.

Saiyan.1704:

YuiRS.8129:

I can’t not go Radiance on Firebrand. All that juicy damage plusTome of Justice recharge on enemy death. If you go cancer, go full cancer, I say.

Chose Valor over Radiance because I’m not convinced that FB will self sustain itself very well. Partly because of all the high CD’s making FB skills very succeptible to getting interrupted. That and Smiter’s Boon’s 2k extra heal on Mantra Heal + additional Cleanses is just too good. I chose Mantra Elite because of the lack of stunbreakers, stability and safestomps but we’ll see how efficient the new F1’s are for a Renewed Focus.

Now, if you went full Quickness built then that’s when I’d probably go Radiance maybe. But we still need to see how FB will self-sustain itself without going into Healing power (sage) to set asside Valor.

So I’m not the only one who went this way

Quickness should be a benefit, not something you need. Every other class, quickness is 100% a buff but for Firebrand quickness is mandatory so it is extremely kittenty without it. Since this is the case, they should just have a minor that makes the Firebrand have quickness 100% of the time without trying to go for it because it’s a nerf not having it.

Well didn’t see that this way but I can agree with it. About that expertise – after a short time of playing today the stat combo I mentioned just felt as and “ideal” one, not the usefull one.

It feels sluggish and clunky until you learn to spam quickness at some constant rate. Cast times of mantras and weapon skills are made for quickness. Using Mantra of Potence helps a lot. What needs to be changed are tomes CD – that’s for sure. U spam them fast while you have quickness but after that u have to camp weapons basically and wait for recharge or use elite already.

EDIT: In my opinion FB will be great in PvE (raids for example) when they give some stat combo with concentration and expertise. In PvP it lacks defense (I am used to condi clear on F3 in DH) and you can be killed quickly if you dont time skills well. Or maybe I’m just not used to it yet. Oh, and it spams conditions pretty well.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Pathing-issues-need-to-be-fixed/first#post6672816

You don’t. I was placed in almost Gold3 and now dropped to Silver3 cause I guess condi is love, condi is life (powercreep), and I am just constantly loosing matches. Even if I win some I loose more. Gonna finish last chest and drop this season for good, maybe even next one if they don’t fix this kitten.

Maybe duo with someone will help, I don’t have ppl for that.

Tbh it’s not the only place in the game that has this issiue for me. Anyway, good luck playing this game mode.

Loop.8106:

You really think FPS will be higher in WvW than in sPvP?

Belive me or not I have less problems in zerg than in that map.

After playing another match in placements and dealing with same kitten that has been last season I am not gonna play that mode again. EC map is unplayable for me, because I’m constantly loosing fps on the mid point (even on LOWEST settings) – thus I can’t aim properly and usually I’m killed instantly.

This time I’m not even gonna bother with placements. WvW looks much better now and more fun to play.

Hi,

I want to join condi cancer on ranger and mettabattle is down. Anyone to share their build so I can spam conditions too?

Crinn.7864:

I honestly felt most of my matches where pretty competitive.

Thread sounds like bronze problems.

Actually I started in silver 3, like last season, almost in gold. So?

I’m giving up on this mode entirely now, constant loosing by either lack of teamplay, communication from others, no map awarness or just getting knocked into mud in first 2 min of match, finishing with score <100 – 500.

No, thanks. I prefer my sanity and time.

Played placement, same place as last season. After loosing 500 to 21 at one match I see no point in playing pvp. I’m loosing interest in this game overall.

Entenkommando.5208:

There have always been trolls.
You have some spots where you can obtain stealth for some minutes I think. This should make it possible to pass them unless they are camping the arena.

Yeah, we tried that but they were camping at well part as hell.

Synosius.9876:

is this a recruiting thread for your guild?

No, it’s not my guild.

Hello all!

This is my first post here. Today, we were trying to do Obsidian Sanctum JP but there was one guild called “Killing You In Obsidian Sanctum” just trolling and pushing people around, kittening everyone.

Why is this JP a PvP area?!