Guild Wars 2

Harbinger.8637:

This will just get merged into the giant Skyhammer thread.

Skyhammer is love, Skyhammer is life.

Skyhammer is….forevaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Rank = experience, experience = more creditability, akin to a resume, thus you’re likely to know what you are talking about. Low rank lacks experience, higher ranks comments does not invalidate other low ranks comments, I think it filters out baseless comments and trolls that this forum has, if any comes up with a logical sound argument I don’t think it would invalidate it at all…over all rank shows experience.

Dardamaniac.1295:

I’m a S/D thief so much harder to fight a 1v1 a ranger now.

We are deeply sorry our king for making you have such a hard time fighting disgusting rangers. It is widely known that thieves SHOULD easily kill any ranger at all. That goes also to every class out there. We made a mistake by making rangers able to kill you.

I find trap rangers a very tough fight, I do not kill them easily at all. Your sarcasm isn’t welcome and comments is not objective to the new ridiculous 9k+ Rapid fire. Stop being baseless.

Zenith.7301:

SerratedOcean.7398:

Mandor.1284:

I’ve always found funny that the Thiefs are the first ones to complain when they can’t kill another class when they’re the ones who have everything easy in the first place.

10/10 got me to reply.

You must be a Ranger then, the influx of rangers in Solo queue is a good sign, this damage seems to be clearly out of balance.

Its repulsive when you say we’re the class who have everything easy. I played this game (sPVP) from day 1, theives been nerfed many time in damage, from back stab to stun duration. Hell S/D got nerfed again, hell even black powder. Easy..please

And despite all those nerfs you’re still OP as hell, that’s why WvW is full of your scum class and spvp hotjoin was polluted by you and warriors.

Now somebody isn’t a free kill anymore and you throw a tantrum.

We are still OP? Really do you play sPVP? really you mention WvW? Are you lost? you must be…you apparently have a personal grudge against thieves, you say nothing objective at all. You call thieves and warriors scum wow, just wow.

Mandor.1284:

I’ve always found funny that the Thiefs are the first ones to complain when they can’t kill another class when they’re the ones who have everything easy in the first place.

10/10 got me to reply.

You must be a Ranger then, the influx of rangers in Solo queue is a good sign, this damage seems to be clearly out of balance.

Its repulsive when you say we’re the class who have everything easy. I played this game (sPVP) from day 1, theives been nerfed many time in damage, from back stab to stun duration. Hell S/D got nerfed again, hell even black powder. Easy..please

This burst damage with rapid fire and all the CCs is just too much…I 1v1 or 2v1, a Range pops in the fight I’m dead. I’m a S/D thief so much harder to fight a 1v1 a ranger now.

This doesn’t seem right…

Zerker ranger have fun with it.

I agree with you, I see ranger now its scary! Ridiculous quick damage and CC, why Anet? do you guys even test these new tweaks?

yes delete this POS map.

I’ve been a long time PvPer, I main Thief Rank 45 Champion Shadow. My rank would of been higher but I took about 5 months break and started to casually PVP again a few months ago. I’m also proficient with Warriors.

I’m looking for a competitive team yet chilled and flexible when I can’t make team queue at times. I’m on Central Standard Time and I usually play a couple hours day during the evening and weekends I’m on more through out the days.

IGN: Crimzane/Rendevez

My Thief over the years.

Sword and Dagger from olden days, and the new purple with Nightmare set:

Edward.7362:

THIS was an attempt to play some low level PvP. … then you are either a showoff or you lost touch to what is appropriate response time.

Well I usually stop responding at this point, but “attempt to play some low level PvP” So you expect to be in a low level PvP jumping into a game? Yup LTP/Practice your twitch I’ll just stop right here.

So basically you haven’t played for a while, wanted to try a new weapon combo, and then got owned by a Thief and got scared off by high damages.

/facepalm

“Having some freaking 1v1 1-second ttk predators is not cool at all.”

/lol

Make sure to practice up if you ever come back, we all get a bit rusty coming back. Other than that you’re just making a fool of yourself.

@kirito I’m not seeing anything on the page.

@shimmerless Just read the description on nVidia Shadowplay seems pretty cool with <10% performance hit. I’ll have to try it. I currently use MSI Afterburner, performance hit about -10-20 fps, huge file size about 2.5 Gigs of data after one Match. Its manageable but I have a decent PC for this game.

Capturing the actions/movements data sounds interesting.

I don’t know if this was brought up, but sure I can setup a 3rd party app to do this but I think to capture most of the audiences wouldn’t be nice if GW2 had a native video capturing system?

1. Ease of usage makes it more accessible ppl to post videos of their game play
2. Post of vids helps the audience understand their skills
3. Let the audience evaluate their arguments , i.e your claims can be more objective if you post a video.

Thoughts?

Thief since the beginning now Warrior because I’m bored with my Thief. I was always the melee type of player so those are the two of my favorite classes.

Not the funniest thing but the most I recently had was a 1v1 in a Solo Queue. Ambushed this War with my Bow/Ham War. Spanked him through out the fight, downed him and stomped. Then he called me a CC Noob. I replied /m “said the dead warrior”.

Arganthium.5638:

1. Withdraw (which is, technically speaking, our best heal) heals for +100 less health per second than warr’s Healing Signet does. In fact, compared to the healing abilities of many other classes, the thief’s healing abilities are absolutely horrid.

2. Protection and Retal, two of the most powerful boons, only last 5 seconds each as opposed to 10.

3. You’re just as likely to get something like vigor as you are likely to get something like a single stack of might.

4. Not sure I’ve ever seen stability pop up as a result of this rune.

5. If you think that getting Aegis after using Withdraw is going to change the tide of the battle (assuming that the other player isn’t unlucky enough to use some really powerful, long CD skill on you just at that moment, which tends not to happen), you probably have never used the rune or even used Aegis before.

6. Your suggestion implies that we should only use Withdraw for the rune, not for the, y’know, healing.

7. Basi Venom is an absolutely terrible elite that gives a relatively short stun on a relatively long CD (compare with the warr’s mace, for example). The only reason to run it is for Lyssa, really, or if you’re some kind of D/X BS gimmick build where you’re running Basi Venom anyways, in which case you probably won’t really want Lyssa runes for a myriad of other reasons anyhow.

8. Lyssa Rune’s #6 ability is definitely not better than Consume Plasma, and Consume Plasma is okay at best, particularly given its cast time (BTW Basi Venom has a painfully long cast as well).

9. If you’re still not convinced of how wrong you are, I would finish by stating that the +165 precision and +10% condition duration, compared to other runes/stats, is awful. We don’t need that additional condi duration, and given that 165 precision is less than a 4% damage bonus at base levels (compared to Ogre Runes’ 18.1% damage bonus just from the power increase), we can pretty much surmise that, apart from the 4 and 6 abilities, Lyssa Runes are terrible.

If none of this is convincing enough to you, then I’m not sure that any amount of reason will sway you.

1. Withdraw is our best heal I agree, but I’m not arguing which heals is better…you obviously use it for the up time every 15 seconds compliment Lyssa #4.

2. Still 5 seconds doesn’t make it insignificant.

3. Don’t forget to mention the rest the boon.

4. Agreed

5. Your statement here contradicts, “which tends not to happen” in other words it does happen, i.e a block Backstab/Eviscerate, could turn the tide.

6. See number one.

7. Basi is awesome, I never use it as an opener, I use it as my Ace card for that clutch win. With Lyssa I use it for Conditions removal if I’m stacked.

8. Removing all conditions makes it all better.

9. +10% condition duration is great, for Serpents Touch and Lotus Poison. Precision isn’t great but its there and the powerful stats of 4 and 6 more than makes up for it. I’d use Lyssa Runes over Orgre Runes any day.

Removing this rune wouldn’t necessary be nerfing Thieves, perhaps nerfing all classes. Here is proof I main Thief.

I feel like Lyssa rune is OP on a Thief. Now I main Thief and I didn’t realize it until I started PVPing with my Alts. The constant 15 seconds heal (Withdraw) + random Boon for 10 seconds has many advantages to winning a close fight like Aegis. This randomness takes skills away. Finally using the Elite skill gives All Boons + Remove of all conditions. This is way OP, Thieves can do this using Basilisk venom at every 45 seconds, even lower if Speced for it.

This is better than the item stolen from a Mesmer. The Mesmer item should do this instead since because its not often you get this Boon and it has many conditions to obtaining it. i.e. it has to be a Mesmer, Steal has longer cool down, and if the Mesmer dodge, not item.

This is my HMO.

Oxygen.5918:

1) Don’t display player names.

2) Prevent games from starting as anything but 5v5/limit.

3) Prevent players under glory rank 20 from queueing for tpvp.

4) Normalize player models to humans.

There could be room for options, but I agree with you:

1) There’s an option to turn this off in the settings.

2) As I suggested b4 I think a 4v4 would be ok, don’t start if not 4v4 else if 4v5, reward a player to volunteers to drop. i.e 15 silver. No volunteer, randomly drop one and award anways.

3) I think Anet could offer a Tier Queue, says rank 10-20, 20-30, 30+, etc. You can only queue in those tiers depending on your rank.

4) This should be a user setting.

Good post.

I actually don’t mind it at all. Its actually a refreshing map, makes you think about your positioning and tactics, and most importantly be wary of your opponents skills that can knock you off the ledge.

That’s really all there is too it, figure out which class has CC abilities that can knock you off and anticipate a dodge/stability wild in return giving them the same medicine. When I go in as Warrior I change one of my utility for knock back as for Thief I go with Scorpion Wire. Figure it out it can be really fun.

I’ve must of missed a precursor to the OP’s post.

The Gear changes are nice, I always wanted to see my PVP skins outside of sPVP. As a PvPer I jump on some PVE instances every now and then so being able to level while PVPing is nice especially for PVPing with a secondary character. How are you going to resolve PVP skins stats moving into PVE environment?

Do not take away the PVP rank finisher, I still think this a good reward and achievement satisfaction.

Ranking system should be kept, but there should now be PVP exclusive skins available for every rank. PVE is much easier to get i.e Flame Legion and you have to be Rank 50 in PVP to access those…

I would only complain if GW2 Builds were a complex thing, but its really not…so I don’t care if they see my build. Skills takes precedent over builds. Plus the beauty of it all even if they see your build/gears/runges/sigils they have to figure out the rationale behind it, which will be a mystery until they figure it out how it synergizes with the play style. Once they figure that out they have to put into practice which translate to skills.

Thanks for sharing. I totally agree with you on everything, limited use, but it is a good way to get a back stab in from fleeing opponent.

sPVP doesn’t generate income = last priority. Still on the priority list though right?

I totally agree with you, love this game for its PVP. It is not perfect in my book, but I love the “twicthness” that’s allowed. You have to be attentive to zergers, be vigilent to burts, have you’re cool down up. Don’t get to greedy or you’ll be met with your demise. I loved how the combat system so far, any pace slower would be a deal breaker for me.

Yes I vouch for this 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, hell 2v2v2 or 3v3v3 just like the other poster said. I have chose not tPVP since I can’t commit that kind of time nor I can find a team that just does it casually. I’ve Been there and done that with another game it isn’t viable with my 8 hours work day schedule. I like to able to play my games and able to jump in and jump out yet feel like I have a bit of progress.