Guild Wars 2

I was t6 diamond doing well initially, then the system teamed me back to back with the same guy throwing matches non stop. I got a lose streak and now I cannot recover because I am getting newbies non stop.

You can look at my game history and you will understand how crappy the system is. Last season at least I get different teammates to perform with. This season is same teammates consecutively for multiple matches?

Another issue is I got teamed up with people who has zero pips and they were clearing class achievements and dailies in ranked games. To these people losing is nothing, so they just troll the game with nothing to lose.

Well I played some matches today and got grped with the same guy 4 matches back to back. He just rush into enemy group and die over n over.

Well guess its Division or Camelot Unchained for me then.

Ty. Its quite depressing at such a state and anet not doing squat abt it

Stuck in the mmr hell and dropped from t6 to t1. Keep matching same newbie teammates vs pros. Wth?

Yes mesmer shld be nerfed till they only have auto attack and nothing else. Free food. Lets nerf the mesmer to accomodate someone’s lack of skill. Moa already have a cast time and long cd and can be blocked, just make it uncastable.

My team runs a reaper and after doing some testing, highly likely that the minions from lich form is causing the problems. Minions from ability like rise seems to be ok

If Anet is going to buff Thieves and Necros to such extent, why do you remove bunker in the first place? The damage dealt by thieves and boon corruption by necros currently can easily break any bunker class pre patch. So now you remove bunkers and over buff the 2 classes with thieves dealing 1 shot damage and necro doing ridiculous amount of boon corruption, this is the state of PVP you want?

Go play unranked and see for yourself what kind of rubbish this current balance patch is. Extremely sloppy work.

Keep getting matched with complete newbies or thief thief warrior combo. What kind of improvement did the freaking patch give? Its getting frustrating.

Apologies if the suggestion offended you in anyway. I suggested based on the exchange rate and no way in hell i am paying 3000g to flippers on the tp and rather buy it from gemstore. Ultimately, it is up to anet to price it and i am merely suggesting.

Now that the shared slot is out, how about letting players buy the permanent bank access for 8000 gems each for convenience sake? It will be a good “quality of life” upgrade.

My wife and I are supporters of black lion store. I am stuck in a plight where I have 5 account bound mining picks, 3 axe and 3 sickles as well as 2 copper o matics. Still we bought this account wide slots rendering our account bound stuff useless. Praying hard anet allow us to trade or swap for something else to use. We dont ask for refund, just a exchange for similar value items such as copper o matic to silver o matic or something like that

Ok let me quote an example. The hearts and minds story, you had to talk to trahearne, get into mordremoth mind not able to skip it. You went through it once. Doing the achievements you watch again. The challenge mode failed or someone dced, you redo and watch again. Its like a broken radio over and over and over…its driving me nuts. To access certain parts of Auric Basin you need to clear story on that specific toon. Omigawd….

Its pretty irritating that after mordremoth kill or some of the HOT stories that require us to watch an extremely long cinematics before we can go to next stage. Especially for HOT stories that require us to do achievements and we have to watch again and again for reset. Also if you want to run the story on different toons, you have to watch again. Just make us watch once I think that is enough.

I just choked on my coffee after I read to the middle

Doesnt work 99% of the time. Especially when people are flying down and need to avoid flame wall half way.

Hi guys, I was looking through the forum however I did ot find any information with regard to this. Any guardians running nomad for raid tanking? If yes, what build are you running?

Im trying to make a nomad dh with tanking and raid support but still trying to find best combo. Any thoughts and inputs will be great. I am currently running full nomads, zerker backpiece and monk runes.

I just had a horrible losing streak. Keep getting matched with clueless people and crappy team comp. Hate this crap.

Alot of my team comps are like 2 thieves, engi, mesmer and ele. Opponents will have at least 2 heavies. Then you get matched into courtyard which makes it worse. I don’t understand, I am sure the devs know the class specific dailies causes team composition problems, they don’t want to try fixing it. It is equivalent to HOTM affecting WvW. Its interlinked. Why don’t you just remove those class specific dailies for just 3 days and you can see the results for yourselves. I am sure many pvpers agree.

Been playing on my thief and had the worst matchmaking streak for the whole kitten day. My god when the heck will this stop! I got grped up with lvl 1 thiefs clearing dailies? For gods sake, listen to the players, make this stop and remove the class specific dailies. Its irritating you know, for pvp.

My eyes glittered when I saw the work. It transformed the dull ui to something exciting! Would be nice to have a new crafting ui too…

So you are saying not to contest a point in pvp and let ur opponent freecap…can you go do other dailies instead? Theres gathering, vista, lumbering…etc.. you are cancer to pvp

So this clearly shows why we always group up with pvers in unranked match sometimes causing blow out matches.. pvp is to fight like a team. As much as standing on point is important, such mindset shld not exist. You made it sound like only one person can stand on a point at any one time. What if 3 enemies rush your point? Theres a practice mode button beside the middle button. Press that.

I noticed that bifrost now has a rainbow trail and kudzu projectiles pop flowers…
Is that old or just ninja added? Whatever it is, updates are always welcomed and deserve praise!

Hi guys
I want to craft ascended armour for engi. Currently I have zerker rifle and full zerker ascended trinkets. Should I go celestial armour or zerker for pve as well as wvw? Cant really afford two sets.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for taking the time to write the explanation. It does help me understand how to fight scepter ele alot. Because I did tried to do magnet and hit him but didnt land, the fight went downhill there with him ranging me and that god kitten rock dropped on my head when I ran out of dodges and block.

Will bear these valuable advice in mind when I play next time. Thank you again.

A million thanks I read every word of it. Very informative and useful. Although I know basic skill combos I still do not know what is the most effective way to play it and the main role. What you posted helped me alot. Thank you again. If anyone have more tips to add in, feel free to.

Also, dealing with scepter/dagger ele will be helpful too, thanks.

I went through backpack’s video twice, it shows how to do skill rotation and how to deal with certain classes. The role is in the aspect of point holding or assaulting a point and whether it is necessary to pair up with another class or solo?

infantrydiv.1620:

Clearly, turrets need wheels.

U made my day, hahahaha! New tool kit, trolley. You can pack up and transfer all your turrets to a new location with no cooldown.

Hi I am learning how to play a celest rifle engineer. I could not really find a guide stating what the role is and how to help the team more. Are you supposed to pressure a point or hold a point or skirmish? Any tips will be appreciated. So far I am liking it as I follow some combos from the youtube videos. Thank you.

Aussi: mind posting ur build out? Looks very interestng and uses sword on both sides.

Wow thx for the replies, imma go try those out and see!

I saw alot of the hybrid burn medi builds using carrion for pvp. I tried it but it is kinda squishy. Would rabid or dire stats work?

Also I had a hard time deciding between flame legion runes, balthazar and traveller, any views?

Which rune better?
Flame legion
Balthazar
Traveller?

One side is axe/dagger, the other side is sword and torch I think. He is pretty darn tanky.

So I fought a dual wield ranger, he didnt use a greatsword or any range weapon. He is tough, hits hard and use trap as close combat spike. I wanna learn how to play one like that. Anyone knows the setup? He sends a wolf on me all the time so it is hard to contest a point.

I couldnt ask that ranger myself since he doesnt speak english. His guild name is a jumble of alphabets though.

Benjamin.8237:

Today’s matchmaking has been awful. I’ve had multiple 4v5s / afks and I’ve been paired with people who clearly cannot play at all. Examples include getting triple capped while my team was 2v4 defending lord. I don’t actually understand why today has been so bad but it feels unbearable.

Same happened to me earlier. Lost 12 unranked games in a row.

I played pvp unranked queue for the past 2 days for about 8 hrs each day and completed 2 reward tracks. Of all the games I played in, I only encountered premade like 5 times (you can tell as it announces guild name at start), the rest are pretty ok except you might get whiners who decided to afk when things do not go their way, low lvls who pvp naked, players who die in 2 hits, trolls, 4v5, list goes on….
But hey, this is unranked you know. No adverse effect to your ratings, if things not going your way maybe do something out of the box and take it as practice. You cant expect to get stomped in unranked and qq on forums it is not fun.

Of course losing is not fun, winning is fun. I doubt even if Anet make changes to the matchmaking the problem will be solved, since even pros get bad games. You can expect more new and inexperienced players doing unranked for the water breather this winterday, so such situation will be more often.

Ps: I do rage sometimes in front of my computer. But now I think back, I did learn alot when getting stomped. So yea, good trade off.

Just want to ask if the aura of eternity can be seen on a full sized norn? I heard rumours that it cant be seen and i need to resize my norn using makeover kit..

And thieves need toughness so they die in 2 secs instead of 1 sec while revealed 6s is counting down. Not to mention every thief mainhand must be a pistol. Well known pvper?

How does thief have fastest condition cleansing speed? Then ele must be god speed. If reveal is increased to 6 seconds, then thief will not be thief anymore since they are visible 80% of the time. You are just pushing thief to be played like a heavy class just because you cant beat them? I seen warriors, especially hambow and condis ones eat thieves alive.

Yeah! To that effect but in a pvp map!!

Thx so much. I’ve been practicing and improved a little. Latest gripe I have is skyhammer map where rangers knocked you off the cliff. No way to get stability.

Not trying to be disrespectful, but thank you OP for the hilarious video. In my mind, I was thinking how nice would it be for a condi necro to be around. Nice empower, Gs3 + gs2 ombo, very sync!

Ps: maybe try taking video of you 1 v many, since Abjured individuals can take on a few enemies at the same time.

Thank you guys for all the superb advice!! Will definitely bear all the tips in mind while practice, practice and practice. Really grateful.

For engis, eles and warriors normally I will try to 2 v 1 them coz I know 1 v 1 s futile. It is just that mesmers, thiefs and rangers are the ones i need to pick out first for the team.

Thx for the great advice! Mesmer greatsword AA hits hard so if I avoided the shatter, can the auto attk be avoided? Many times I dodged but I get AA + illu berseker down. Also, infiltrator return actually has a cast time and can be interrupted, is there a way to use it more effectively?

Thanks

Hi guys, first of all, I am not a super pro pvp player. I play a S/D thief now. I love thief, the pace, the game play, the reflex required for fast decision. But till date, I have not been able to hold my own in pvp, so I would like to seek tips and advice from fellow thieves out there. I have problems mainly fighting mesmers, rangers and d/p thief. Let me be abit more specific with my problem,
Mesmers
When I use sword 2 to immo, maybe I get 2 AA off, I get swarmed by illusions while the mesmer stealthed. Then I follow up with steal, the mesmer will disappear again and then do a insta gib shatter on me.

Rangers
I get knocked back, then I tried to dodge a few times from the rapid fire, I got close, the ranger immune to dmg, by the time he takes dmg I am almost dead and his pet can finish me off.

D/p thief
1 v 1 been hell for me. You cant hit anything you cannot see. Normally upon engagement, d/p stealth, steal and backstab, I withdraw and he hs me. I use SR and he kills me with AA.

I am running 20066 and although I die alot, I dont want to give up and want to get good on this class. Its so bad to the point a mesmer called me noob. I know alot of good thieves are out there, may I trouble you guys for some tips and advice pls?

Ps: I been reading whatever advice is in this forum and try to apply, but maybe I could not see what i did wrong. I tried d/p but I didnt like it.
Thanks in advance.

The only good thing about TESO is the graphics. The economy actually caused grief to other players playing the game because people were spamming WTS/WTB on the map chat. Moreover the guild bank had to rely on add on to stack items together so time spent for that is a lousy 10mins and you have to do it a few times per day. Crafting is ok but if you compare the skins of armour for both games, GW2 designers spent more time thinking of cool skins and they give you a wardrobe. I love this feature. I do agree about the jolly cooperation in GW2 compared to the other and that was what made DAOC successful. Look at tequatl and look at TESO world boss, see what I mean. But gamebreaking bugs like duping and spawn camp home base took too long to fix in TESO that was why their wvw state is worse than GW2. And I do like the economy of GW2, its like stock market. Anyway the main focus for this post is not to compare both games, it is more to appreciating the good work of Anet Dev Team as I am impressed when I came back.

I don’t see what you mean little content, the living story had a whole lists and yea the new zones, new traits and far more rewarding to pvp now with rewards line. Getting tons of tome of knowledges, scrolls from pvp, superb commanders leading world bosses, events…ppl rezzing each other when down during world bosses fight. LFG tool is very impressive too…

Just saying the dev team here is doing better than creators of Skyrim, thats all.

I wanted to try the so called revolutionary mmorpg made by the creators of skyrim, did my wvw there and gotten emperorship. Gamebreaking exploit destroyed ny interest, came back and I am impressed. And yes I was kinda burnt out after making a few legendaries last time. See you around in game.