Guild Wars 2

Hello again,

Bumping this thread because it’s a shame not to takes the opportunity to ask and learn from one of the best.

I want to ask to see if I could improve my decision making.
Here’s the scenario:
Map: Foefire
Comp: Me (wanderer condi warr), aurashare ele, bunker druid, zerker axe necro, DH
vs
core bunker guard, bunker engi, GS/rifle warr and 2 other DH.

I capped home and rest of team challenged mid. We wiped them and had a 100 point lead.

Here’s where things went a bit downhill though.

Our ele decided to solo cap far and was held by 1 respawn; 3 of my teammates overrotated home to 1 enemy. I was left 3v1 mid and died to 2 DH and rifle warr. Teammates cleaned up home and regrouped with ele in mid which they had capped.

On respawn I saw my team 4v5 in mid and they were surviving so I made the decision to go far. Unfortunately while I was capping, enemy managed to down some teammates and cap mid. Then they came to outnumber me. We slowly gained advantage because my team managed to win mid while I was outnumbered.

At the final 100 points or so enemy changed their tactics and left the bunker guard to stalemate/kite me on my point. Through our early lead we eventually won.

My questions are:
1. In the 1v3 mid should I have just left it immediately and gone to far to the ele? I couldn’t decide between holding the node a bit longer and was afraid I would get chased down by double DH.
2. Was it better for me to decap far or help my team in mid?
3. Towards the end where the 1 bunker guard kept kiting me, should I have left the node and help the team (we were losing the teamfights oddly enough) or just hold the node?

Thanks in advance.

Hello again nothelseth,

Went on a huge losing streak and dropped back to G3 and having a see-saw w/l. My winrate is almost 50% now.

Say I am a druid/DH vs an engi, how do I successfully survive or win after a thief ambushes me? 1v1 I can hold my own and even win but the general scenario is I get spiked and am forced to retreat. But in the end thief chases me down with dash and I either get auto-ed to death or risk a heal and get head-shot.

This has been happening often on the side nodes of temple and legacy.

As power/condi warrior how do I beat (kill) condi mesmer? (I use signet of might, endure pain and the resistance stance I forgot the name of)
As power I find myself kited while they slowly whittle me down with condi shatters.
As condi I found the most success in not trying to burst (stack) all the condis at once but slowly applying them and interrupting when they’re using shield 4.
Is rabid or wanderer better against condi mesmer?

Thank you in advance for the help.

NA server player recently crossed into plat. I’ve been hovering between this and Gold 3 with very close game scores (4xx-500) and ~55% winrate so I feel this is my current skill level and hope to improve.

1. At higher level, is there a difference between druid and engi in terms of roles? I think these 2 profession suit my temperament because even as a necro I frequently end up with top stats for revives and I’ve been thinking of maining one or the other.

2. How do you win if your team comp has no support vs a normal team comp? Today, I had condi engi, double necro (one was me) and double DH vs meta ele, engi, necro, thief and DH on temple. Outside of situations where we managed to get an outnumber we never managed to kill (stomp) anything. Thief was freely decapping and farming us (necros) when we tried to rotate and trying to teamfight into ele, engi and necro didn’t end well.

I would like to ask if PVP Ranked Servers and Unranked Servers are the same.

I remember during off-season I regularly queued unranked and had quite stable pings.

Now S5 begins and everytime I queue rank there’s always some spikes (sometimes as high as 2k ping).

Is it because they are using different servers or server reaching capacity due to all the players returning? If the latter, can Anet look into them to improve player experience globally?