Guild Wars 2

Neither of both pulsates bleeds, meaning it will stay at 1 stack of bleeding for the entire duration.

Read the rules. If they realise you have your account upgraded to HoT by a non-official retailer they will set your account back to vanilla and you have to buy again from an official retailer.

gj m8 i r8 8/8 – greetings from kodash

I love them… I really, really love them… but the handles just look like freaking chopsticks, couldn’t you thicken them a bit? ._.

You ran into following traps:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Light's_Judgment
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Test_of_Faith
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Procession_of_Blades
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragon's_Maw

You triggered at least 4 traps of which 3 are dealing a lot of damage…

it’s caused by cleansing taunt.

It’s a bug that often gets caused by cleansing taunt.

Quick Draw + Avatar 3/4 is amazing additional heal/sustain – you just need to keep track of the cd.

Holl.3109:

Shirk.6421:

Enjoyed watching mate, the GS2 spammerino is real

Btw, if you need an overlay just /w me ingame.

Overlay? :o
For recording?

aye m8

Enjoyed watching mate, the GS2 spammerino is real

Btw, if you need an overlay just /w me ingame.

This guy is like the worst, literally the worst warrior I have ever seen. Holy Kitten.
This is the kind of player you can kill within 30 seconds as thief with only offhand pistol by just stacking pulmonary impacts. Totally makes thieves OP, kappa.

No honestly, the warrior is just really, really, REALLY kittening bad.

Just random dodge all over the place, don’t dodge obvious attacks like entangle and then get shrekt by Bristleback F2 because you’re out of energy and too stupid to sidestep.

So, I was interested how non-PvP-players actually do in the recent ranked games. I’ll take my gf as example. About 1k hours played, mostly on ranger/druid, mostly in WvW. She played some PvP-matches before but it was more for fun than anything else. Wanna know what’s funny? She managed to carry herself into sapphire within 24 hours with just one lost match. Mostly it was more of a farming-festival than an actual match. At this time, all the good players are already in higher tiers while the people sucking really hard are still in those lower divisions. If you consider yourself a good player, but you’re always matched with “stupid tards who can’t play” watch out… you will need math. You’re obviously always the fixed player in your team, that means you will get matched with 4 persons against 5 persons. If you are good and everyone sucks your team now has 1 good and 4 bad players while the enemy team has 5 bad players. That means the game should be in your favour, right? You say you are a decent PvP-player, why aren’t you able to carry yourself out of this bottomless hole if everyone else sucks so hard? Now imagine you take a friend who also knows how to play. Now you’re 2 good and 3 bad players against 5 bad players. How the hell could you lose that? Maybe… just maybe… you’re overestimating yourself? I’m gonna take a look how she will be doing getting to ruby and beyond.

Pretty much every single one of my games in the last tier of diamond looked like this, matching-wise. Still, legendary now. It’s doable, honestly. It takes effort – because it should take effort.

Yeah and now? What’s the big difference being matched with/against those players now or in 3 – 5 games. If you can’t win there to get into legendary you won’t do kitten in legendary and sit at 0 pips most of the time. Imo, being in the last tier of a division you should be matched into the next division you would reach. So if you don’t get there you simply shouldn’t be there.

Oh, thanks guys. Will do HotW P3 then, lets try it. I submitted a ticket via support website, got a mail that they recieved it, but no answer. Seems like we may went out of the fractal too early then :/

So I finish Honor of Waves path 2, don’t get the achievement, do it again, same problem, write a ticket, no response within a week. Now I just needed to finish the level 13 fractal to get the casual-fractal hero achievement – nope. Didn’t work. Seriously? Why the hell does that have to happen?

If you suck, you get matched with people who should suck as well. Now you’re 5 people who suck – perfectly fine.

You belong there. A tier system like the game has now isn’t there so everyone will hit legendary just by grinding. If you are “stuck” in a division where your games go 50/50 you belong there. The sense behind a tier system is that you should get into a division where you get matched against people your skill and win/lose 50% of your matches. You aren’t stuck in ruby – you belong in ruby. You aren’t stuck in sapphire – you belong in sapphire. I don’t understand how this can be so hard to understand.

bloodpyrope.8630:

Shirk.6421:

I get the generosity every ~10 seconds, with fury I actualy crit a lot more often than people think.

I guess 24% is about 1 in 4 hits, but I used to use purity for more consistency without needing to pop the elite.

Either way, I don’t think you’re particularly lacking in condi clears. At least, no more so than any other druid builds I see. We’re all vulnerable to getting condi bombed.

On my duelling build I use skirmishing instead of nature magic because my gear is tanky enough (Quickdraw best trait ever) so I can make use of the passive traits and in sPvP my mates often offer me enough fury so my critchance sits at around 25%.

Prophet.1584:

if it works for him then the build works, that’s why i rarely post my builds.

I mainly solo q ranger and the toughest to play against is 1v2 against two condi classes. even with all the cleanses we have right now it’s still pretty tough.

That’s the thing, It works very well for me, I just have to play smart with my avatar. What I see from most druids is that they make no use of CAF 2, which can deny so much condition pressure. My dueling setup is slightly different and A/D + LB.
I get the generosity every ~10 seconds, with fury I actualy crit a lot more often than people think. Most of the people want to copy my build and fail hard, because the playstyle is pretty weird, but I’m used to it and I love it. Beaten a lot of famous “dueling gods” with it. And I make my guild flame me 24/7 :^).

Sardath.8524:

@Shirk, mind posting your build? I’ve had no issues with my sword/warhorn staff druid in PvP, but I’ve bored myself to death with it

No issues at all, just the meta chronophantasma is a threat onpoint.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAnfWnUqA1Ci9CC+sActglOB7pFEqOcwr0Y6O1JwFAKcl8s0A-TJxHABzXGQsTBgO7PAwTAAA

As we germans would say, I’m now “giving my mustard” to this topic.

Ranger main since release, currently diamond, 3k hours, mostly solo/smallscale roaming and PvP so I hope I know what I’m talking about.

Even with S&R slotted, which is of course not optimal in 1v1 I can tell you that I can take on almost everything in a 1v1 and pretty much everything if not played very well. I currently run a mercenary axe/torch + staff build, full shouts + trooper runes (Hope they fix them soon).

There are some problematic builds/enemies I encountered and I’m just gonna give you my opinion and some “tricks” I got used to fighting them. I’m now talking about onpoint fights.

-Condi Reaper: Mostly you got 1-2 in the enemy team. You can take on them, but you have to be really careful about their CC of which mostly is pretty telegraphed. Playing with sound can also help a lot avoiding their elite shout. If you play with LB and ancient seeds your best bet is to kick them offpoint and rooting them, so you can freely decap/cap. If you play with beastly warden and they play plague signet let your smokescale attack/taunt them, thus their plague signet autoproc will often hit the smokescale which is then invulnerable due to standing in its F2 field. Also the active plague signet doesn’t have your longbows range and also won’t hit the smokescale in its F2. Knockback + ancient seeds proc and then step back to the other end of the point. Also, using S&R to proc the rune for the cleanse can save your life.

-Chronophantasma Mesmer: Pretty hard setup onpoint, not in your favour. Don’t even try decapping alone. You can hold the point for quite a while when you’re getting used to use avatar for condicleanse. If you realise you can’t kill him, just play defensively, make a lot of use of your CAF 2, you can pretty much clean all the condis for 15 seconds, just step out of the nullfield. What you can also do is destroying his illusions instead of attacking him, reducing his damage. But it’s only for stalling, works fine if you know a mate is gonna help you out.

-Thieves: Well, a well played thief can take you out pretty quickly, mostly if you’re squishy and your CAF isn’t up. I feel capping/decapping against a thief is pretty easy actually. Torch 4 + 5 will almost every time make them disengage. They have to choose between the condi cleanse on dodge and the pulmonary impact. If they chose the condi cleanse they mostly won’t have enough damage to kill you, if they choose the pulmonary impact they will lack condi cleanse. What’s important for every match that involves a thief is having an eye on your close point and that he could always show up and turn a 1v1 in a 1v2. Communicate and mark the thief, so people know when not to worry.

-Condi Revenant: It will be hard, due to their AoE-ish nature. Get used to know when to pop CAF, also make use of your CAF 2. If you play a hybrid setup like me, the way to go is normal dmg when they use Mallyx and condi dmg when they use Glint.

-Power Revenant: Sword 2 + legend swap + weapon swap with hydromanty + Staff 5 is a killcombo, even taking you out when you’re decently tanky – try to predict and get used to the cooldowns. Protection, weakness and guard! are tools to counter the enormous damage, but take care of your pet. For both power and condi revenant: Have an eye on their buffbar when they’re in Glint form and watch out for the heal. You can cut their sustain by a huge amount by not attacking them meanwhile and taking our pet back. Good revenants try to time their Glint heals in obvious attacks like the bristleback F2, you can always bite them into it and then cancel the cast.

-Eles and Engis: Most of them play bunker(ish). You won’t kill them, they won’t kill you. Don’t try to decap alone but you should be able to hold your point.

Hope this is going to help you guys a bit – just some of my personal experience against the classes you talked about.

Ah, and gratulations for your wings

I still don’t get how this utility is still untouched. It’s unblockable, undodgeable, unevadeable and can knock you down multiple times.

First question, what classes do you play?

The second thing: Entangle is just a kitten ultimate not being worth in this meta, immob is cleansed so easily on pretty much every class right now. Except maybe for core necro or reaper who can’t get into the shroud or not playing with the condi transfer signet.

Hepatolith.6389:

@Schmant,
how dare you to not call me by my title :O

I’m sorry my little princess :* <3

Justine.6351:

I still use carrion devourer and wolf in wvw ;-)

Devourer…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z9yK3sMDUU

nice one, brother

There are so many ways to “troll” mesmers with LB alone, it’s pretty hilarious.

Rules? On-point fights or beach for example? Banned traits, amulets, etc? And the most important… NA or EU?

Since 2-3 days, I will instantly disconnect after about 30 seconds into the game. My ping reaches from the normal 40 up to 4.000 in that time. I resetted my router, my IP, reinstalled the game, but nothing works. While connected to GW2, it seems that my whole internet breaks down. While patching the game, I had my usual 700kb/s download speed. While I’m logged into the game, my brower get’s a lot slower, the quality of skype calls sinks drastically, and I can’t even connect to teamspeak. What the hell is wrong right now? It feels like GW2 is killing my internet. I’m located in germany and the problem happens with all my characters. I don’t think it’s an “old map” problem, because the maps are pretty populated.

Yeah so, when I fight some buddies of mine they always complain that after a taunt (when the actual taunt is already gone) my pet hops into their focus again all of a sudden. We fight -> pet taunts somebody -> 5 seconds later their target automatically switches to my pet again. Anyone experiencing the same? It’s really annoying.

Since launch it shows our condition durations on our pet skills but it doesn’t work like this. it only takes the pets very own condition duration/damage.

Well I fought all of them (and some more Cake guys) im WvW and PvP and didn’t lose a single duel, except that I went 50/50 with Tramadex on his Warrior and Mesmer, but that was before HoT. Cake is the saltiest guild I have ever had contact with in my entire time of GW2.

had thise sometimes when fighting a buddy, he had it after being taunted by my smokescale only, not sure if it’s really the pet or just the taunt.

What about a more team-oriented diamond skin?

Periodically remove conditions from you and your allies.
While attuned to earth, the effect is increased

interval: every 12 seconds (10 seconds in earth)
numbers of conditions cured per target: 2 (3 in earth)
number of targets: 5 (8 in earth)
range: 700 (1000 in earth)

Video was 4:20 long… what did I expect lol, great job xD

Ranger gradmaster trait in wilderness survival – empathic bond: every 10 seconds, 3 conditions are transfered to your pet. (Doesn’t work if your pet is dead or out of range)

New diamond skin: every 10 seconds, 3 conditions are transfered to a nearby ally. (Doesn’t work if your only ally is dead or out of range)

Please make it happen <3

almost forgot…

/sarcasm off

fost.9167:

Interesting will have to give it a try.

What do you suggest if no trailblazer?

dire would be the best choices I guess.

keep sitting in your bubble (dat pun tho) – I’m gonna pop it :P

haha great KNEW there was trailblazer in it and not cele^^ I’m gonna duel you again in the future and I WILL find a way to make you cry, pal :P

Can confirm… it’s very much OUCH.

Hahaha Dahir, nice xD I just really don’t play often vs this setup so I have to get used to it, but i’ll find a way, lb with all those reflects is just sitting at range waiting to get obliterated^^

DominicB.4821:

uninstall…………………….

gr8 m8 ir8 8/8

We need a longbow buff. Not DMG-wise, but it pretty much doesn’t work right now. Revs and Guardians have a shield absorbing ranged attacks while they can attack from range on their own, Eles, of course projectile destruction and reflects, necros can get rid rid of projectiles pretty easily aswell. Mesmers just evade and block everything and sit in stealth, engis block and reflect a lot aswell. Our longbow isn’t feared anymore because he’s neglected so easily. Warriors Rifle hits hard – and sigil of might MAKES it hit. We should be feared at range but we are a joke right now if it’s about this.

Wolfric, thanks for the tips. DMG wise I actually think it’s not cele (too tanky, not enough direct damage). I got around most tempest with my longbow by playing smart, even against good eles (I duel a LOT) but my only reliable pressure really is my smokescale, so much reflect and missle destruction… it’s horrible.

Dahir, I don’t really know – are you a sylvari who fought 2 druids one by one, tried it 1v2 but it obviously didn’t work out?

You can’t really tell me you struggle vs a LB/SB core ranger without any food >.>

Okay so I main ranger/druid and sometimes come across a very… well… hurting build in WvW. It’s a burn tempest that (I think) uses either trailblazers, dire, wanderers or rabid gear, or a mix of it, running dagger/focus. I run around with -45% condition duration, sigil of generosity on both weapon sets and a full condi cleanse on celestial avatar but still, I can’t figure out to win against this kind of build. I play a cele beastmastery druid but I can’t build enough pressure to get him down and just have to play so defensively that I can’t go into offense. So my question is – for what attacks do I have to look out, when is a good time to pressure him and how do I play against this build? Thanks in advance.

You can spend the karma you get from leveling your char without hesitation. If you can get your hands on specific damage equipment, go for it. power, ferocity and precision go good with greatsword/sword and longbow, if you can get your hands on condition damage axe/torch and shortbow is the way to go. If you have random mixed stats you can always run something like greatsword and axe/torch. Use bears and drakes as pets. I think the best choice is a drake as 1st and a bear as 2nd pet to which you swap when you encounter for example veterans. Even with just mixed equipment traps deal nice AoE damage early on. I would recommend going at least skirmishing (trap-trait/spotter/quickdraw) and beastmastery or wilderness survival at first, depending on the heal skill you want to use. As for utilities try to unlock signet of the hunt (movement speed) and flame trap and vipers nest first, can’t go wrong with that and it’ll serve you well, even if your main stat is power. Hope that helps a bit.

Fluffball.8307:

Shirk.6421:

I run Skirmishing, BM, Druid. Quickdraw, Taunt, Druidic Clarity, Celestial Shadow and Ancient Seeds and it works great for me. The only problem I have right now are good condi-Revs but I just have to get used to their movement.

Ya I am settling on something similar, I could never fit WS in. Quickdraw is very powerful, especially paired with primal echoes. It’s very easy to get and hold decaps with so much CC. I tag with staff then swap to LB for the double PBS, then swap to staff for interrupt and double staff 4, or double up on staff 3 or 5 if things are going badly. I’m also really preferring wolf bristleback for that instead of SS bristleback.

It is SO much CC spam I hope anet doesn’t nerf it because bad players aren’t seeing the glaring weaknesses of that type of setup. If you let me kill you, I’m going to kill you. And I get obliterated by aware condi reapers.

Haha, yes. QD is just so nice for every situation, DMG or utility-wise. What I really love against Necros for example is the smokescales following rotation: I let it attack, it smoke assaults to the enemy, I hit my PBS, Rapidfire, enemy is rooted, Then smokescale F2, taunt and often it also uses the knockdown additionaly. And the necro can’t send the immob away because the smokescale stands in its smokefield an I’m simply too far away.

Fluffball.8307:

WS on a druid gets weird for me. You need BM for the swiftness and cool down on RaO, yet you’re also traited for TU and entangle. You could take natural stride, but then you’re looking at untraited glyphs, and those glyphs are very powerful.

You could make due with just the weapon movement and tail wind or something I suppose.

I run Skirmishing, BM, Druid. Quickdraw, Taunt, Druidic Clarity, Celestial Shadow and Ancient Seeds and it works great for me. The only problem I have right now are good condi-Revs but I just have to get used to their movement.

Anduriell… I spend 80% of my time dueling on 1v1 servers, also against GOOD thiefs and I can tell you one thing. We have the tools to really, really kitten them up. In the last 5 days, I didn’t lose a single duel against a thief (were about 120 duels against thiefs those last 5 days).

There are so many ways we can interrupt them in their playflow. Some examples: If someone uses shadow refugee hop in CAF, put a 3 into it, stand in the middle and pop 5. Taunt hits even if the enemy is stealthed, you can predict movement, mostly when they use the stolen item. Time important skills like LB 3 or 4 so that they hit at the end of a dodge/evade skill and don’t go into the void. Enable attacks to switch targets when you switch targets. You can lure them out of stealth by casting a rapid fire, when they come out of stealth simply target them and the rapid fire goes right into their face. Time your big CDs properly. Be aware where thieves port, pay attention from where they shadowstep – they can port back there. Move. Unless you know you can lure the thief into an attack, be on the move. Bristleback F2 + Taunt + RF or Hilt Bash and Maul downs almost every thief if done right, dont open up with it, wait for them to blow some of their defensive CDs. On GS for example, Quickdraw with GS4 is pretty much your best friend. Don’t fight thieves in melee inside of their blinding fields. I hope some of those tips help you out.