Guild Wars 2

Chaith.8256:

Mercurias.1826:

Agreed. Holosmith skips out on Reaper’s massive health pool in exchange for truly ridiculous mobility. It’s a very fair trade off, and still extremely powerful to boot.

Holosmith is pretty slow. Core Engineer with rocket boots is ridiculously mobile.

Holosmith Holo Leap is not any significant swiftness, about as much in combat mobility as a spammable skull grinder.

holosmith with rocket boots

Arantheal.7396:

A.I.

No more A.I.!

This is why i hated scrapper the most and i could not believe they gave us an ai spec after turret. So all of hot i played very little of my old engi and i moved on to rev. Fell in love with rev. And now they give rev ai too. Guess i am returning to engi very soon haha

Apolo.5942:

saerni.2584:

Apolo.5942:

Savvy.3258:

First off, I’ve made condi burst builds that can stack 4-5k ticks worth of burning within seconds. Most players will drop before they even know what hit em, especially if they are otherwise engaged which is what you want with this builds. Condition builds shouldn’t be able to burst. If we are to differentiate them, lets.

This says it all. In fact, if condi runners were not being shamelessly defending their opness they would acknowledge the blatant and simple fact that everywhere where condition is viable, its always worth it to run it over power.

Warrior. check
Thief. check
Mesmer. check
Necromancer. check
Elementalist. Check
kitten even Dragon hunters run burning builds.

If Thief Warrior and Dragon hunter dont run power, which are the quintessential power icon classes, who the kitten is supposed to run power?.

Lol. Power thief is considered better and most run power. Necro and Mesmer are condi but not always. Warrior it’s about 50/50. Elementalist mostly power. Most DH are still power.

Like more than 50% are running power but condi needs to be nerfed? Lol.

Keep telling your self that.

Reality on the other hand shows that the only classes running power are Scraper and SOME Dragon Hunters. Thats it.

if 5v5 required 5 man parties i think there would be very low amount of condi builds if any. but the way it is we some some here and there and definetly there is more power builds in the meta than condi, dont embarrasses yourself by disputing that.

Renegade felt really bad. Shortbow is cool but buggy and missing a mobility move.

Leggend utilities are boring and bad for pvp. Also too much energy use. Cant use most skills ever. It crushed my spirits to even try the other specs.

I guess i will be playing power herald in pvp for another year. Really regret pre buying

But if they were just wells instead or even movable it would not have an effect on pve but would be much better for pvp.

Why cant it be a pvp and pve elite like most are?

Yea they are really just spirits. Sucks a lot. I wish they would change them but they will not. The engi is a perfect example. They revealed gyros and we all said please god no more ai. And we still got em.

Are they still in the gem store? And if yes anyone know for how long. I may have to wait till end of month to buy them

I didnt get that impression at all. Looks like a cooler mesmer.

The helm looks alright. The bow looks cool

Meta battle is good. Switch staff to hammer of you under t3 gold. It eats people alive in the lower ranks. Not so much the higher you go.

And yes power rev is hard to play

Very cool editing. Would have liked more gameplay but it was good. Keep em coming

Power and condi has nothing to do with “skill”.

This is a problem with that build.

Are you getting stomped by condi ele??

Anyways condi is still minority.

My 2 cents.

Sword main hand is a for sure and i think this is good. Not sure if the new spec will be condi or power but its possible both can work. Sword pistol for condi and sword shield for power. I dont mind shield i think its quite good but in a condi build pistol is so much better.

The thing that worries me most is that its gonna be like druid or crono. From a pvp point of view i dont want to play another tanky or supoort build i want some hard hitting stuff. Maybe it will be support in pve but a dps in pvp. Thats my best hope.

And if its something to do with ai, i am done with engi.

Bheowulf.4572:

Hi stupid question: how did u craft ur viper s armor/weapons?

I didnt craft a thing. Legendary back from pvp. Rings amulet and accesorrys all from pvp. And did stat converting on armors

Hellow fellow revenants.

I mostly play spvp in this game. Takes probably 80% of my time. Then i play wvw for about 15% and the rest open world and fractals.

I got a full set of ascended zerker gear including jewlery and all. Also very close to finishing a full viper set. I was using the zerker set for fractals which now have strength runes but plan to use the viper set for fractals and use the zerker set for wvw roaming.

When i pvp i usually use runes of surging. So i am wondong what you guys sugest for power roaming rev.

Go surging or leadership or maybe durability.

Thank you for your time

my last 2 games had me each once in a wall, both times i reloged right away. first time was fast and got into spawn and ran back into a action(completely unbalanced game) the second time it happen in the next game i did the same thing but had a 30 sec ress timer, ensuring that the enemy team got a big lead and then the rest of our team akitten(completely understandable).

this patch had a lot of useless tweaks to the class that made no change to any class but it sure made the combat a lot more frustrating.

i think next patch anet should make it like a challenge for themselves to see how many patch things they can change that will have 0 effect on players. ex. rocket boots get 5% increase damage on initial hit.

The problem is not really timing. I understand how to get 100% results. The probpem ia its too slow. Before i could quickly hit the buttons to get it off faster now doing the same speed does not get you the blast finisher.

Maybe they should have reduced the cast time with this change i dont know. But for now i switched to gyro.

This is mostly my pvp and wvw view as far for pve i have no problem there.

Gw2 is a pve game? Lol ok there busy. Gw2 is a pvp wvw and pve game thats what made it stand out. But for you its a pve game. Have at it i dont care.

Silv.9207:

Revenant condi is good now, but they’re still not the best class in this meta.
Necromancers got a huge nerf with Plagueland. That skill don’t grant any good advantage, unless in 4v4 and only if the full enemy team don’t see your pulsing elite for at last 5 seconds (when it finally start to become dangerous). in 1v1-2v2 is pure garbage.

The meta is still direct damage and more or less nothing changed. only warriors got a nerf and maybe guardians. But they’re still good.
The only change in this meta will be the revenant finally useful. And maybe it will take the place of the necromancer in tournament teams as a boon remover and condition spammer.

power rev is still better than condi aand power is not in meta so condi has no chance .

if you do it slow enough the new system works but i play engi i am used to my piano.

in the heat of pvp i press it very fast. and i think i get it to work maybe 1 out of 10 times.

i think i will switch to something else for now.

fix it anet.

….i have a real strong feeling that this change is somehow related to holosmith and thats not good, i see phantasams or spirit weapons. if that is true i dont know what to say….. someone there at anet thinks that engis love ai stuff like turrets and gyros. makes me cry…

Yea i am still at work but it looks very promising.

A question. I got all power gear and 2 statless armor pieces what stat combo you recomend for condi? Always viper?

I thought the name and weapon is well confirmed now.

I welcome the renagade

thanks for all the info all.

i also realized that they are used for the legendary currency. i was thinking to make bolt for my rev but i think i will wait and see what the next legendary will be.

Yea i think thats what i will do. Gamble it away.

Are you sure those baga pay off. I purchased about 5 of them and each one cost more than what i got out of it

Hi just wanted to know what i can do with unbound magic and all the other map currency stuff.

I have purchased all the skins that i wanted. So what do i do with the rest of my currency. Mostly would like gold whats a good way to go a out converting that.

the class runs berserks amulet in pvp, let that sink in. its meta.

i really need to play something else this game is killing me inside.

not my end, a lot of people are having it right now.

if i knew i would have not played rank.

give me back my 12 pips plz

please remove this feature.

or explain why this is in pvp and rated especially

why is this still a thing? such a stupid idea. please remove it. its bad for pvp, or make it not work in ranked.

i would love to hear a response from a dev on this daily.

Zenith.7301:

Knighthonor.4061:

I believe there wont be any major changes due to the developers working on the next Expansion. So all major changes will be on that Xpac update and will pretty much ignore the base class till then.

they did this with Necromancer and Ranger up to the release of the first expansion.

So just bite on something for now. I believe we getting something good.

Did necromancers get anything good?

They got a garbage greatsword nobody uses outside open world PvE because it’s so terrible, and the reaper traitline is a PvP traitline. Reaper shouts are worthless in raids and reaper got no % damage increase traits, reaper shroud is a DPS loss to just camping autoattack on greatsword which is already bad DPS.

Don’t think for a second an expansion will mean good changes.

Rangers wanted a viable DPS spec, and instead they forced them to be healbots.

Did hey say good changes? He said major changes. So calm down and i think he is 100% right. Necro and druid got huge changes.

Definetly keep em coming i watch them all and sub.

show our full record of games and how much we won and lost, why is so much information hidden.

this season started fun with the climb but once i hit mid gold i felt like i went back to the previous seasons. random win streaks where i feel if i afk i would still win. or a great lose streaks where i drop to mid silver and i try so hard but nope -16 …..

gonna go play something else this is not good for my blood preasure

lol did anyone get one that they didnt have? also dont want to waste shard.

I would also like to know this. Anyone buy it yet to see uf it counts?

just lost 15 and before that plus 11

can we see how much points we lost and won like we can see our wins and loses?

i swear to god i lose 14 and gain 12 all the time its like i am slowing moving backwards

simple request.

redcomyn.4651:

You say that the flamethrower is a mid-range weapon. That is only true for a fraction of a second. That is all it takes for the enemy to close in and start whaling on you.

Sorry but thats just…… ughh i dont want to be mean.

Ok thats true for any ranged weapon in this game no matter the range.

very stupid question.

are you telling me the dps of a full dps condi is same or greater than a full power dps?

This video is not available.

Not sure why i am getting that message. On my cell phone at work maybe…..

Anyways i feel same as you.

I play a lot of p/p and wish for the old days. I am also working on getting HOPE but its so slow and expensive.

Also get discouraged when i lose to someone who is clearly bad but with op build and then just relog on my rev and put them in the ground in 5 sec. Just to let myself know it wasnt my fault….:(

You already posted this in my thread……. hehe i love it. I think we need to fill the whole first page with this kind of stuff. Maybe they will tell us something.

Lol good stuff guys.

Funny thing is these buff and nerfs dont change engi that much. Its just a question of why.

So i ask again why anet, why?

Samug.6512:

I’d be more happy to see Rocket Boots damage removed completely.

Thats true too. I mean if they said rocket boots damage lowered by 25%. It would make the same amount of sense as increasing it. Its suck a pointless thing to change.

They must have needed something to buff to not affect anything.

Looking over the patch notes completly baffled me today.

Some things are great, some things are bad.

Losing daze on gyros is good for the game.

Gear shield nerf sucks but i guess they were thinking that now people would use weapon shield too so it would be too much blocking. But i dont see people taking shield over pistol so that dont even matter. Anyways it dont matter its not a huge deal.

I think the BIG issue here is why was rocket kick buffed 25%damage.

It makes no sense. This is the one we need them to explain to us. What drove them to do this.

Its like a April fools patch note.

I cant let this go……

Remember those good old days. Its what made me fall in love with engi. So much different moves for so many different situations. Tool kit for cc and defence, elixergun for condi and condi cleanse, and grenades for offence and control.

Now that build feels so weak because you need like 5 trait lines to make it work but we only get 3.

I was wondering if anyone has tryed some variations to get that old engi feeling back. Was thinking something like explosives, firearma and scrapper with travel rune and maybe rabit.

P/p build still works and i definetly play that but its not the same.

I also do play the meta scrapper but i cant for long. I play mostly power rev now cause its just more fun. Scrapper feels like warrior. Not at all like an engi

Agreed with all that was said. Bring us more of everything

Lucred.1802:

JDjitsu.7895:

TheDevice.2751:

Every person who defends condi this season plays a condi build. Durrr

There is no sufficient condi cleanse on any class to survive multiple condition bombs.

You shouldn’t survive multiple Power Creep bombs either, and you usually don’t.

I think the main problems are that people don’t know how to manage incoming condi very well. They clear too early or too late, don’t dodge or block the skills that are applying the condi bombs in the first place or are in a bad position you shouldn’t be. If you’re QQing on the forums for a nerf, I really hope you’ve exhausted all your options, studied all the builds/skills that are making your bum hurt, added Purity, Generosity, Cleansing sigils or more clears on your util bar first. Use Hoelbrak or runes like it. Or just know what your “counters” are and pick your battles correctly. BTW, I main power Scrapper. If condi was better, I’d use it. But it’s just not. It’s viable in lower tiers though…Or for a few games here and there. Condi has more ways to counter. Preventing it from being applied/stacked and clearing it if it does get applied to you. Instead of saying Get Gud, L2P ect, I’m saying Practice More.

If you watch ESL, really only Chrono and Berserker are the pro “meta” builds/professions. Though Power Berserker is in a pretty good spot. And Yes, Condi Necro is stronger than Power in Conquest, but Necro isn’t seen even close to as much as last couple seasons. I think a lot of ppl judge what they see in lower tiers is being the “meta”. That’s really not the case.

So much of the condi is unblockable though.
-b-but just dodge it!
With my 2 dodge rolls and maybe 2 movement abilities that provide an evade? That will, more often than not, carry me straight into someone else’s ground-targeted AoE condi (such as necro marks) or direct damage (such as scrapper shock field or mesmer bubble or guard trap or guard sigil)?

99% of power-based attacks are blockable. Only about 20% of condi-based attacks are. And many of them have both a power and a condi element, often not even requiring the power part to hit in order to apply the condi part.

And as to it being “easy enough to remove”, let’s put it this way:
-Take a DH. If you build it entirely around condi clear, you can remove:
-1 condition every 10 seconds (passively) with Signet of Resolve
-3 conditions every 16 seconds with Smite Condition+trait
-6 conditions every 26 seconds with Wings of Resolve+Renewed Focus
So that’s basically 15 conditions you can remove every 30 seconds. And the DH is the undisputed champion of condi clearing.

And that’s a scant fraction of how many condi’s just a necro, who applies a condition (and frequently more than one) with literally everything he does, can put on a person 1v1 who’s actively playing against him. And half of a necro’s attacks (both power-based and condi-based aren’t blockable with a quarter of them not even being dodgeable.

79.5% of all power attacks are unblockable.

Sound stupid does it not? Cause it is just like everything you wrote.
Do you play a different game or something? You want all classes to have enough cleanse so a condi spec never gets one tick of damage on you?

Condi attacka are unblockable?? Name one!!! Name one pure condi attack that is unblockable.

Jesus. I maybe see one condi class in most matches an you call it op.

Jourdelune.7456:

Mr Godlike.6098:

So we got new ranked…patch…AND BIG WE DON’T care from any balance/pvp team for ele…who care’s on our feedback any way…

You know… what is the most infuriating thing?

It’s not just ELE who got shaft. All bunker support players did.

Now… the last bunker support of the game either convert to bruisers or find a game that let them play their play style.

The most ironic of all, is most games “support” is not fun for the majority and so it’s need everywhere. All PVP games need their Healer or Tank and they are the hardest to play well… so the hardest to find to play.

Here, they simply said to the rarest players of their game, go away, support is not need here.

Thank the gods!!

All pvp games need tanks and healers wtf. Go play wow. I love gw2 because it doesn’t have them.

Also gonna say that healers and tanks are easier to play then dps.

Removing support ele was the best thing ever in a long time for ele. Now lets work on getting them a proper zerker setup.

Most of the same some stuff you said about thief applies to rev. Trow in energy management. But really its same for all classes the great player lands his moves and avoids the enemy moves like all classes.

I really like that bunker/support ele was nerfed bad but the fact that there is no real dps build makes me rage. I still try to play so scepter fresh air but it brings a lot of hate.

Wtf is this? Is this like a joke thread?

TalkingTalking about rocket turret lol and how op condi engi is right now lol.