Guild Wars 2

You get the backpack skins or llamas, gold and other goodies as you go through tiers and divisions. Everyone will be able to at least reach ruby since you cant drop tiers before that. You cant see solo MMR but you can see your Team Rating (ELO). Your last question’s gonna have to be answered by yourself.

WuGzaGenius.5684:

Someone who just got into the game has an easier time climbing the leagues than anyone with high mmr, because i have to vs 5 man premades against the abjured and they have to beat random nobodies

Why wasn’t the MMR reset for this HUGE pvp change?

Dont worry, your MMR will tank as you keep losing. The reason a big reset isnt a good idea is to allow new players to avoid getting stomped by veterans the first few days/weeks.

Tamasan.6457:

Your assumptions are incorrect. You do not need wins in a row.

Even a 51% win rate over a large enough number of matches will advance you.

And some tiers/divisions allow you to keep your points/division even if you lose. So anyone at 51%+ can reach legendary, just slower than someone at 60%. People with >50% win rate will also be able to reach at least ruby since you cannot get demoted after reaching a division.

Nova Stiker.8396:

Jekkt.6045:

fyi mmr is still the same one from before. my team keeps getting pro league teams because we have a fairly high mmr, so it’s impossible to farm randoms. of course sometimes it happens that you get a random enemy team but usually that’s not the case.

Usually is the key word.

We were in 5th place and still fought against a non-premades, hell, in 7th place we fought against the same guild team 3 times in a row. How the hell is that any fair to them?

Combine that with the insane amount of games you have to play, it just serves to kitten people off.

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It’s bad enough to have bad match making, but this is rubbing salt on PvP’s open wounds.

My team was in 3rd, now in 5th and we fought premades all night last night. Even faced abjured at one point. It’s still the first day. Give the game time to calculate everyone’s mmr. There’s a huge influx of new players.

trap DH to defend, cele druid to offense and you’re guaranteed a win.

You’re going to see less and less premades as you keep doing sPvP, since premades in teams are going to be queued against other teams that currently have a rating on the guild team leaderboards.

TheShyGuyTheory.2849:

Ive already established my builds are not at fault as I’m far from inexperienced, I play a chronomancer, tempest, dragonhunter, herald, reaper and I do fine, 100% win rate right now actually. But when I go and play my best class… negative win ratio. PvP is unbalanced atm and you cannot argue that.

PvP has to be the most balanced i’ve seen for a really long time. There are two classes that are having issues, but at least PvP is not dominated by 2-3 builds anymore. Metabattle used to have what, 3-4 builds considered meta, while there is 7 right now and I wouldn’t be suprised to see more coming. It’s like everyone forgot when sPvP was dominated by D/D eles or Hambow Warriors.

A third of your points are l2p issues, the other third is you ranting because your old builds dont work anymore, the last 3rd doesnt even make sense. Reaper poison application? changing the burning formula?

Also, personnal score is irrelevant, wins are. And Stronghold is a PvP map for casuals, it shouldnt even be considered in any serious pvp conversation.

It’s still day 1…

This is the meta in which i’ve had the most fun. You get to see a lot of different things and all fights are based on players reactions, skills, and capacity to know where and when to go.

Its the first day, give it some time…I can tell you that late night teams on the leaderboards were actually fighting against each other. My team met a few pugs early on and then it mostly was premade vs premade. And they even try to match you with teams close to your ratings. Give it time for everyone to actually get placed properly.

Hambow hands down in the top 5

I wouldn’t mind being stuck in HotM if I could at least Hotjoin while in queue. Also it really sucks if you have 20 minute queues. Longest i’ve seen is about 7 minutes while I average 3-4 min queues.

Unranked MMR used to be different from Ranked MMR and since Ranked hasnt been active for a while im pretty sure people will start around the same MMR. Unless Anet decides to place people using old data.

Oh come on, Warrior has been part of every meta since the game came out. For the first month in 3 years its not overpowered and you complain. It’s still early, a lot of the builds haven’t been discovered yet and the meta isnt solidified.

The leaderboards have not been updated for at least 6 months to maybe a year (not sure exactly). They’ll start being updated when leagues come out in december.

Tempest has one of the 5 builds that are considered meta on Metabattle. I dont think they need buffs.

I wouldnt mind the traps if I could see them more than half the time. It kind of sucks getting CC’ed, using a stunbreaker dodging and getting CC’ed again without seeing what is hitting me.

There used to be a solo queue a long time ago, it was removed for a reason. I’ve had more issues with duos and trios than 5man premades. 5 man premades get such an MMR boost that they usually end up being a group of baddies.

Try not to move when you trigger the traps and try to use a block or stab until they run out. Afterwards the DH is just an easy kill. The only exception is if they’re running procession of blades, then try to trigger the traps and run out, most classes can proc the traps with pets/minions/gyros, etc.

Either wait for them to reactivate ranked or just play more unranked and increase your MMR

1. Still mostly conquest. There is a TDM map and a mix between conquest and capture the flag in Unranked.
2. Yes, but the way the ladder works is that people with most games played appear at the top of the list.
3. Yes and no. They changed it but it’s now available through all gametypes (pvp, pve, wvw)
4. Its not bad depending on your MMR
5. There’s a LFG tool, though i cant say how many people use it.
6. Celestial D/D ele is probably the one of the best build on every skill lvl.

Ranked is usually fine. Unranked is really toxic. Just send the ragers some bags of salt and on to the next game. Dont let yourself get turned off of sPvP because of ragers.

applecup.3047:

http://www.guildmag.com/guild-wars-2-interview-part-1-general-game-living-world/

there is an interview here which seems to imply SAB will not be coming back.

That means you can officially say goodbye to any form of challenging content for GW2.

1.Engineer
2.Ranger
3.Necro

Valar Morghulis.7049:

I am going with Knight’s… BUT I’m the only engineer in GW2 that likes this profession more than any other while also hating their condition and static discharge specs :p

I used to run a cleric build, then a power build. Once I got celestial i went a p/p SD hybrid build and kitten … I was impressed.

If you go full celestial you better have a build that goes with it or you’re gonna feel like you dont do as much damage on full cond or full power builds. I’ve been using celestial armor and trinkets for a couple months now and I wouldn’t go back to an other stat combo.

As for dragonites you can get a few in WvW depending on how well your server is doing and from wintersday gifts.

Scarlet during wintersday would actually make sense if she had a grinch-like role and actually felt like being mean. I’d enjoy it way more since it wouldnt be lore without lore.

I preinfused my two rings a day or two ago and when it came out of the MF i had lost the infusion i already had on it and got an other empty slot. So I put two versatile infusion on them and all it did was overwrite the first infusion with the next, so I’m stuck with two rings with two slots but I’m only able to put 1 infusion in each of them.
The unusable slot is named : Unused Agony Infusion Slot.

I talked about it with a guildy and he told me when his ring came out he already had the +5 infusion filled from the preinfused. So the bug might’ve been introduced recently and might be with the MF recipe since i think it’s supposed to come out with an infusion in it already.

Chaith.8256:

I’m really worried that this heal will be often useless. In PvE, I can see myself needing Med Kit for fury/might stacking or Healing Turret for support. In PvP, there needs to be a certain level of condition removal. With a non-elixir heal, how are you supposed to get any condition damage? Can’t rely on Elixirs/Cleansing Elixir 409 that won’t fit in the build, and you can’t run Healing Turret as well.

If you equip this thing, you basically have a Mesmer level of Condition Removal, but none of the avoidance. Yikes.. it had better be really powerful.

The point of this heal is to let whoever’s attacking you get you down to 1% for the extra healing, so you’d only need condition removal if they target isnt dead after that 4 seconds (assuming you dont trigger it early) if not you could always carry Elixir C or trait for automated response.

inb4 Engi OP QQ threads

Engineer
A.E.D.: Gadget. Activate your A.E.D., enabling the system to heal you after a brief period of time. If your health drops below 1%, you are healed for a massive amount and your A.E.D. is deactivated. Static Shock: Use your A.E.D. to stun an enemy.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/23613-a-e-d
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/23615-static-shock

edited for links

Your choice dont affect your game in any way other than making you experience different ’’storylines’’. If you want to play any of the story that you didnt get the chance to play you can do them on alts.

Perplexity has a 8sec CD on the 6th rune now

Crovax.7854:

Kaon.7192:

Pizz.3698:

Well, Mai Trin in lvl 33 has undodgeable teleport shots which procs twice for extra damage if on the side or back.

Wait that attack is STILL undodgeable?
That’s just horrible design. Why should our most important means of damage mitigation be disabled arbitrarily on this one attack?

Literally just did it with 2x war ele guard and ranger.
not being able to dodge thos is horrible design but you can reflect and block them.
Also skills that grant immunity and damage set to 0 (endure pain etc.) work.

I’d say the worst part of doing it at 33 was the increased damage on the cannon shots at each 1/4 of mai trin’s hp, because some of them were ‘’hitting you from the side or the back’’

Well, Mai Trin in lvl 33 has undodgeable teleport shots which procs twice for extra damage if on the side or back.

So I had the lucky chance to roll uncategorized, cliffside and dredge in the same fractal on lvl 33, so we got ’’Outflanked’’. So everyone knows, the fire on the middle seals in Cliffside will hit you from behind or the side for increased damage, same goes for the lava in Dredge and im sure there’s more.. So plz, could this be fixed?

It’s already annoying enough to get hit by 3 novice for 10k backstabs and 10k lotus, you get increased damage from the fire.

Wait til you try cliffside with Outflanked

Feandro.5264:

lets see… Sylvari were born 25 years before the start of the game and Thaumanova blew up within a year of the start of the game.

So yeah, its reasonable that she’s there, but people arent happy about it.

So she blew up Thaumanova then hid for a year and a half to show up after Zhaitan was defeated?

coglin.1867:

dusanyu.4057:

•Explosives V – Incendiary Powder. Moved to Master tier.

Juggernaut Tank build nerfed. Engineer deleted

What does a burning condition trait have to do with nerfing a almost purely power based kit? I don’t get it.

10-20% increased damage on burning targets with FT equipped

Gemini K.8529:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Shall we give Kits to all other professions so they can properly utilize Rune of the Engineer?

Responses like these make me wonder why I even support this game.

Maybe he meant should we give Shouts to engineers so they can use Superior Rune of the Soldier ? And unconsciously swapped them?

ratche.6204:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Shall we give Kits to all other professions so they can properly utilize Rune of the Engineer?

Wow, as if the treatment of Engineers wasn’t enough of a kitten at least you made your feelings clear. How about this? you give every other class bundles, then give us engi’s a way to change weapons without wasting a slot skill? You know like everyone else? (eles have attunement, everyone else can change weapons)

Technically, the slot skill we waste, we get it back as a toolbelt skill, whereas eles dont have any skills on their F1-F4.

Still doesnt justify the lame answer we got from a Red…

GOSU.9574:

Gonna ask in this thread instead of starting a new one, since it’s in the same topic range.

What do you consider the best overall armor set for running with a large group/zerg? I recently tried Apothecary, but unlike the bunker ranger that has constant regen and a pet doing the majority of damage while you put out condi, it just didn’t seem worth the gold.

I am seeing mention of PVT but I would think Dire would be a more optimum choice if using condi, unless you are might stacking all the time. Any thoughts?

I’ve gone celestial and never went back.

Myrix.6347:

EvilSardine.9635:

My tactic is to dump everything you can on them from the get go then CC them with supply drop, shield stun and knock back along with a tool kit magnet pull. What that does is gives to conditions time to eat away at the necro. If you’re really good, you can time these interrupts whenever you see the necro raise his hand signaling that he’s going to pop his heal which cures all conditions.

If you make sure he’s blinded with grenade, static shot, or the bomb blind, his transfer conditions (plague signet if you spot him with it) should miss you.

If that fails. I gotta run like crazy because my only form of condition removal is from heal turret. Luckily most necros are slow and with my rocket boots chills, cripples, and swiftness I can kite until my CC is back.

Yup! I used to die to them ALL the time until I abused their main weakness. CC. Sometimes I go over to their sub-forum to look for a thread about how they lack stability despite being slow and tanky and feed on their tears.

Its funny because necros can trait for the easiest access to stability (5 sec every 9 sec without boon duration).

As for how to kill necros, try to burst them down and force them to go in deathshroud. Do not waste your burst when they switch to DS, slowly damage them down (condi necros dont do any damage in DS other than #5) as soon as you see them leave start chaining your CCs and interrupt that heal.

You could always use dungeon tokens (3 runs and some extra tokens) to get the cheapest lvl 80 exotic and salvage it. Most dungeon(except CoF obviously) weapons also drops Orichalcum imbued inscriptions when salvaged, which help a ton to lvl up 400-500 crafting or you can sell them from 4g to 6g a piece iirc.

Seeing as how there’s no difference between even or odd fractals now, I’d say we all got bumped to the equivalent of lvl 60 next patch. Seeing how the only way to get past 60 -was- through and ’’exploit’’ and cant be done anymore because it was patched i’d say we mostly all got bumped up, some more than others.

It depends on what part of the game you’re referring to. In PvE, imo, there’s no point to bring an engi in a party when 4 war and a mes or 3 war 1 guard 1 mes have all the reflects necessary an upkeep of at least 15 to 20 stacks of vuln, 25 stacks of might on at least all the warriors and a good 20 stacks on guard and mesmer. While engi is ok at pre-stacking might (i’d say ele is better at it though) it offers nothing in term of damage(litteraly has no damage compared to most of the classes) and offensive party boons.

WvW: engis are decent but require a lot of skill and good theorycrafting to succeed if you’re roaming. If you’re fighting in zerg vs zerg i’d say you’re gonna end up dead from retaliation if you use anything else but bomb kit and then you need to be super tanky in melee range to make it hit (we’re not even talking about doing damage here).

Then again, that’s my opinion. Though, to people saying engis are ’’viable’’ in PvE, i’d answer: Every class is, hell even cleric eles are. Viable just does not mean optimal which is what the meta is, min/maxing to a certain point.

If any devs sees this, if possible, I’d like to send my thank you to whoever made the Hidden Garden JP. Its amazingly beautiful. Thanky you.

GW2 is B2P. If a player leaves, unless he was a good gem buyer, it wont make a difference. He still bought the game and even becomes more profitable when he’s not playing since he’s not using any ressources. Empty threats like this one have no value.

Dont get me wrong though, i’ll be the first to say that, presently, GW2 is on easy mode and keeps recieving more and more easy content. As an example, my guild created a contest where players had to clear dungeons naked (only exotic weapons, nothing else) and we’ve completed a bunch of them easily.

Im going offtrack here though. As mentionned earlier, they wont fix the engi hobo-sacks any time soon, sadly. Equip your popgun and wait patiently.

If you think thief has a learning curve, I dont think you’ve played your engi enough. Engis are more than able to hold their own in 1v1s, but picking targets off a group is harder because you dont have a non-counterable mechanic like stealth to escape easily.

You can achieve pretty much the same thing with a thief and an engi depending on your build. If you want to go the easy way, roll a thief.

That’s my opinion though. Honestly, play which you have the most fun with and create your own build fitting to your playstyle.

I run a power build and I have yet to be beaten in 1v1s, including bunkers. Mesmers are usually the hardest to kill but they’re still easy to kill. I wreck those HGH engis any day. I think you should play a build you enjoy and not let others dictate what you should use.

Hell, you should make your own build to fit your playstyle.