Guild Wars 2

I think probably about the same number of teams yeah. Some old ones will not be there because of poor, disappointing organisation and unfair treatment of teams and players from ToL 1. However, there will be new teams that will want to try and compete.

I will give you a real spirit ranger build.

10 (3) 0 30(3, 8, 11) 30(4, 7, 11)
undead rune, settler amulet, sword/wh + axe/dagger (both sets geomancy+energy)
3 spirits (no storm spirit) + elite spirit + healing spring
snow owl + lynx pets

reason for 3 spirits = all 3 have awesome active effects, they make more clutter so its harder to target and kill, frost spirit doesn’t really have the internal cooldown even though it says it does.

You are welcome.

Josh Davis.6015:

Right as the stomp was about to complete, the enemy engineer uses his downstate #3, knocking me out of the stomp. I WAS HYPE!

He just wanted to be as good as you!

Anyway, few days ago I was in a solo arena game on Skyhammer map with my power necro. 3 people attacked me on skycannon, 2 of them were warriors, and I think third was ele. I got lucky and staff 5 feared one of them off the edge and skill 3 DS feared another one, then I managed to immob the last warrior with my dagger 3 on glass and he fell down too. It made me feel like I was a decent player, but they were probably just bad.

Yes, that bug has been there for ages, I doubt they will ever fix it. It happens most of the time while spirit is moving and you use the skill. Most annoying thing is the full cooldown.

Valentin.2073:

when it comes to 1v1, it really depends on the player’s skill. the profession is insignificant.

Warriors.

Flash.6912:

I still kill any ranger 1v1 fine

Challenge accepted!

I suggest getting your alts ready. Different achievements will probably require different builds

If they are at least half decent then you can’t win. Some of your squishes have to reroll since hambow wars are just op.

My only expectation is SAB.

I don’t like this idea. The whole poitn is that they only use one weapon set, as they have attunements/kits. Getting out of combat is too easy, and it could give them huge advantage in all areas of the game.

You should never, ever lose home point. You should also never lose mid when you capture it. It’s all about counting, if you see that their home point guy is moving somewhere, then you should move too.

However, to carry you have to be a bit better than an average player, and win teamfights with equal numbers. So if you are 5v5 at mid then you should win that. If you think your team can hold a little bit 5v4 (still in case their home point guy moves) then you just capture far and help mid. If their home point guy is pushing to your home, just kill him, because you want to carry, meaning you should be stronger than him.

Very easy, I hope this helped.

I have absolutely no interest in actual story line, but I have to say that the new achievement system sounds awesome. It’s about time they we will actually have to put some effort and achieve them. I just hope that they will make sure there are no cheap ways or exploits that can be used to get them (like liadri lifesteal or activity farm on reset).

I only wish for SAB world 3…

If they cast moa on you, all your minions will be destroyed instantly.

I never spent any real money and I never will. I want that what I have in game actually match my in game effort, rather than being one of those credit card legendary users.

That is awesome that they are harder. But they also have to prevent all “cheap” ways and exploits of doing them. And if someone does them in that way they should not get banned, but they should get punished by simply not getting any achievement points from those achievements. That would work.

Seifer Thalaen.7869:

Who cares, you still get nothing for being top 100 or into % oblivion, just tque pug all day…noone gives a kitten about ladder anyway.

This is very true. There is no benefit at all for being top 100. You can’t even show it in game, but just on the online website that only few now off anyway. And no one ever clicks “go to leaderboards” link in game anyway.

Most people seem to really like my ranger in PvP. I have never experienced any problems like OP

You’re supposed to start your letter with “Dear Anet”, and end it with “Best Regards”

Anyway, I think Anet understands the balance and they know what has to be changed. They just have very limited manpower to do it.

I like Skyhammer. It is different map and requires different tactics and style of thinking. If you play well then you will never ever get pushed or feared off the edge. I think this map can teach players positioning.
I want Skyhammer added to team arena, it is my second favourite map after the temple.

I think they will add proper ladder and seasons in a year or two. And maybe in 3-4 years they even add automated tournaments. That’s not too bad.

You should have no problem with phantasm mesmer. Use decoy and blink for your advantage and just kill them with phantasms. You should use s/p + gs!!

1. GWAMM
2. Legendary Champion
3. Blazing Light
4. Emissary of the Mad King
5. Wurm’s Bane

I only want capture points. I do not want any other game mode ever. It would not work in GW2.

At least he is honest about it, unlike many other internet knights who will be fake and sneaky. I believe that one day he will find his true love and happiness!

Standard spirit ranger is better than this thing.

Muchacho.2390:

And warriors can man fight a lich. All you have to go is go melee in such a way that you clip in the lich. The castpoint of the lich aa is a little before the lich, so if you are behind/directly under, it it will miss.

No, it does not miss in that situation, as he actually doesn’t have to face the enemy to attack it.

My friend wants to remove the email authentication but he can’t do it. He wrote an email and the support answered that they can’t do that for him. Why is this the case? Let’s be honest, in most cases this authentication is just annoying and useless. In Europe most people have IP change every ~24h and they have to authenticate each time. Why are they not allowed to remove that annoying feature?

I personally feel very lucky that I managed to remove it before I needed to contact support or whoever for it. I never got in any danger of getting hacked.

XGhoul.7426:

Rezz.8019:

XGhoul.7426:

You could say it is skill (I don’t consider it) but you need to strafe their bodies or be close enough to lich form so that you can run behind them and their auto’s will miss.

Actually: Lich form can hit while they are facing any direction. They can be running away and keep hitting the targets behind them.

I will reserve judgement until I can test this for myself, but from my experience as long as a 180 degree change is performed after* cast it won’t hit. I’ll edit the response accordingly.

It will hit from any direction any time, go test it!

Abazigal.3679:

The meta is however partly a problem in that, since it’s hard for beginners to handle builds such as hambow, turret engi, mm necro ,etc…

Those are extremely rare on EU soloq. Meta there is very different and healthier for the game. Maybe if they would find a way to merge EU and NA the overall meta would change and games would be way more enjoyable for everyone.

XGhoul.7426:

You could say it is skill (I don’t consider it) but you need to strafe their bodies or be close enough to lich form so that you can run behind them and their auto’s will miss.

Actually: Lich form can hit while they are facing any direction. They can be running away and keep hitting the targets behind them.

When you see lich form: run until its gone, unless you have many evades. each hit will hurt a lot. When the lich form is gone, just go back and kill him.

I spent few hours on the meta, and few more hours on the other achievements, and never really bothered to WvW again except for quick camp/land claimer/tower daily.
I feel like I deserve those 450 reward tickets the most!

I agree with this. It is not enjoyable at all as a top player to be matched against beginners. It feels really bad, and our only goal in those matches is to make sure that they all get some points so they get the match reward… It is quite a sad situation.

Dayra.7405:

Dhampyr.2104:

The devs don’t have an answer for this yet. They were debating it this afternoon with no conclusion reached.

The one who programmed it left the company in the meantime, so they are as curious as we are what will happen

Who left?? Is it Devon?

Also: tie servers share place. If 2 servers have second place then the next server will have fourth place, there will be no third.

It is fast! I hope it will stay that way, even though it’s very unlikely

I never had any problem with tequatl. I did it without any problem before the megaservers (I guested to BG), and I’m doing it just as easy now on any megaserver map (without TTS or whatever big guild). It is an epic boss encounter, you are supposed to show up earlier for it. As long as you are there about half an hour or more before the start it will succeed on any map at least 9 out of 10 times.

The whole point of GW2 is to be open world rather than instanced. You can go play WoW or any other generic MMO game if you wanted it to be instanced. GW2 is supposed to be different.

Also, only content that’s only for TTS/Att guilds (on NA) is wurm.
Tequatl is very easy on any megaserver map really, as long as you are there half an hour or so before the start. And you should be there earlier, it is an epic fight and not something where you should show up last minute and grab the reward.

I have some legendaries and some living story items and I don’t think they are prestigious at all.

Only item that I got and I felt like I actually had to be skilled and work hard for it is my yellow SAB sword.

Just have a swiss system but with all servers in one league. That will work perfectly.

bhagwad.4281:

For the first time in 1 1/2 years, I have gone a few days without PvP’ing even though I had the time and opportunity. And you know what? It doesn’t matter! Because I’ve reached the “peak” progression offered by this game and even if I sit out for a month I still have the same titles, weapons, rank etc as those who’ve played in that time.

This isn’t a “I quit” thread – more like a “Wake me up when I get some more benefits out of PvP’ing exclusively. When there’s something more to achieve. A new milestone, new heights to scale”.

That 10,000 PvP wins champ brawler title is too kitten far away for it to figure into my calculations. What we need is something that’s just out of reach all the time.

But there is progression. You work towards your legendary weapon. You get massive amounts of t6 materials, and you get precursors and lodestones from champ boxes. In no time you can make a legendary, just the way they advertised it!

Problem is the scaling system. They don’t take into account that the more people there are, the more underlevels/semi-afk/afk people there are as well. So with 5 completely useful dedicated people it is a lot easier than with a zerg. That is fine, but the scaling should really take all those other factors in the consideration. Sadly, it doesn’t, and that leads to broken events like this one.

I think it is viable. It is not extra strong and there are probably better power options, but it’s not too bad. It won’t hurt the team.

I personally wouldn’t want something like that in my team just because there are better options, but still it’s not bad!

Eurantien.4632:

Go play a ranger in top tier team queue. Proceed to be not as useful as any other class.

I did.. and I was useful. It was on NA though, does that count?

Anyway, if they would fix all the bugs with spirits the rangers would be fine. Now they are just a little bit weaker but still useful enough. Power rangers are not too bad either.

Being higher ranked and more leet than almighty grouch, the Anet’s top PvPer is also very motivating and it keeps me playing!

Condi engi is the best 1v1 build.

I play pvp for fun. I enjoy close matches when I get them. Of course it’s in a very bad state right now and there are so many easy but good improvements that can be done to make it way more fun, but that doesn’t change the fact that I still enjoy the pvp now.

MassDelusion.9130:

Wish that title was tied to the 8 orb achievement, and the mini pet was just for a regular Liadri kill. Make that title a little more prestigious, and give incentive to do the hardest Guantlet achievement.

I agree with this. Or they could just have another achievement for 8 orbs, like they have 2 achievements for Wurm

That is the point of it. You are supposed to play better and actually target and hit your skills.

longbawl.5072:

i dunno. its not perfect, but its still quite fun with balanced skilled teams and equal builds. Is there not a way to get matchmaking to account for build type/predominance? i think most balanced teams skill and build wise can adjust to the meta at their respective competency. They just need to be brought together better imo.

I agree with this, but problem is that there are so few players in PvP these days, especially on NA. They need a better infrastructure to attract players who will actually stay. These rewards are not good enough to bring a proper number of people.