Guild Wars 2

Solution: Get a better mmr

Seriously, this is all avoidable if your mmr isn’t crap

And all the bad players gives you a statistical advantage, so if you’re any good, you should be able to get yourself a good mmr easily

Subdue.5479:

@Rigel:

Have you ever missed a daily? I’d be very surprised if your answer is no, you’ve gotten every single daily every single day since launch. There’s nothing wrong with that, just like there’s nothing wrong with you opting not to do the pvp dailies. You and these other completionists aren’t really complaining that there’s more to do. You’re complaining that you don’t want to do it AND – this is the key – you don’t want other people to be able to do it either. Why shouldn’t someone who is willing to spend an extra 4 hours a day for a few extra AP be able to do so?

Like I said before, what you completionists need isn’t less stuff to do, it’s more. There should be so much stuff to do that it is impossible to do all of it every single day. That way it becomes less about filling a quota and more about strategically approaching dailies as efficiently as possible.

Also, you talk about player skill in a previous post. Even though there is some luck involved in the pvp dailies, skill plays a far bigger role in those than it does in the gather 20 items daily, or the use mystic forge 5 times daily. I don’t see anyone complaining about those though.

They aren’t mad that there’s “no skill” involved – they’re mad that there IS skill involved, skill which they do not possess.

This entire thread is nothing but “I’m pvp illiterate, but I want to win, kitten it!”

If you guys are having trouble with solo queue, such as 12 losses for 5 wins, then the queue isn’t the problem. It’s you.

Mathematically, you have a huge advantage over the other team if you’re any good. You’re assured one player who won’t quit and will play well. The other team has 5 potential slots for pvp illiterate droolers. Yours only has 4.

You could get a bad luck streak and lose 3ish in a row. But with a sample size of 17 rounds, if you lose 12 and only win 5, then YOU are the constant in failure. Stop blaming your team and learn to accept that you are the problem.

I used to be like you. I blamed my team for sucking when I was the one sucking. The solution? I learned to stop blaming others for my own shortcomings. I stopped making excuses for myself. I stopped sucking. I learned to play.

Maybe doing this will help you guys out.

John Corpening.9847:

Regarding exclusivity of skins. Since skins will be shared across the game PvP will be getting exclusive skins that require participation in PvP to obtain. These will be able to be carried over into all other areas of the game. I think this was a little unclear in the blog post.

There was some confusion about the achievement rebalancing. We split up some of the pools of points into additional tiers and we added more tiers on top of that. This is to allow players to get more regular achievement rewards. Your total achievement points may go up, they won’t go down and you should hit tiers more frequently than before.

Would you keep rank acquisition the same as it is now?

If not, what would you do to improve rank acquisition?

Skins: I don’t think people are upset that all PvE/PvP skins are going to be changed. Because unlocking PvP skins is far more difficult than achieving it through PvE, the items will lose their status because of it. Of course, new skins are nice, but the fact that players have already worked so hard to get those skins is kind of a bummer, because once anybody who speedruns CoF a few times they can look the same as a rank 50 PvPer.

Rank: Of course, if you keep the current rank system, (which I personally think is one of the things done right with PvP, it’s very rewarding and takes a LONG time to rank up, so the ranks are accurately representative of the player’s “level” as opposed to everybody being 80 in PvE), you can gate the new skins to ranks. Which I personally think is the best way to go about doing this.

Kahrgan.7401:

2) Overcharged Shot This should not be a self CC knockback. It should be a jump back, like Hidden Pistol for Charrs Why are we getting punished for using our own abilities? Charr engineering isn’t mad science, I dont consider a 450 launch to be over the top to punish myself for using it. Guardians get a 0 negative effect launch that hits just as hard, and launches farther, also a #4.

Traited, it’s 12 seconds. Also, very very little telegraph. Have you seen Banish’s animation? It’s like firing lasers from space to write “dodge” on the ground for your opponent to see, so you have to combo it with other skills to land on a good opponent.

Also, Banish doesn’t remove cripple, chill, or immobilise. Also, you have more range leniency with it.

Kodiak.3281:

What’s up with people lately necroing old jokes and complaints?

Eles were very good for a bit before the condition meta. Now, they’re worthless and these complaints are relevant again.

Looking for a team c:

Have TS, Ventrilo, Mumble

Entropy.4732:

Awful. Just awful. By nerfing confusion they destroyed the only real counter to the Zerg balls ruining WvW and weakened our class by a ton. Not to mention wasted my time. After all that grinding to get carrion armor and rabid trinkets… That’s like 80g down the drain. Now I gotta respec entirely. And ZERO changes to the traits? So glam traits are basically useless? Great. Very disappointing.

80g O_o geez, you got some really bad deals.

No, this makes it all the better.

Let’s say you’re fighting a frog, a cat, and a wolf. You target the cat, and use grasping dead and enfeebling blood. All three enemies have 5 stacks of bleeding now. You then immediately use epidemic, with the cat targeted. The cat’s conditions travel to the frog and the wolf – not overwriting them, but copying and pasting them. That means the frog and wolf will have 10 stacks, though the cat will still have 5 stacks.

Hope that makes sense. Keep it on your bar, it’s the bread and butter skill of any condition necromancer.

Do the +bleed durations of these runes stack properly now?

Sort of Zerker war here – I just got kicked out of a group because I have a knight’s chest and legs because I’m incompetent and having a little bit of defense makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Everything else on me is exotic zerker. Groups usually don’t mind, but I was kind of kitten so I went to join a normal group. After waiting two minutes camping on gw2lfg, I found a non-speed run group.

I joined it, did p1, was a bit slower but I didn’t care. We did p2 – it was meh, but when we got to the final boss, it was kittening uncoordinated as hell. Every time I’d call “kill”, I’d kill my acolyte and somebody else would kill theirs. Then the other two would just stay up for a minute before dying, and then our acolytes respawn. I kitten you not, in ten minutes it was barely below half health.

For the entire dungeon, I was silent. I decided then to crack a joke, “Geez, are you guys all pvt or something”, somebody else responded “Stfu, you can leave”, and I said “Woah, touchy much”, said person responded again with “Yes, I’m in a kitteny mood” and I was kicked.

I’m kind of kitten . The kick function needs refinement and people are kitten. Okay, I’m done.

I’ve got over 2k hours played, but most of it was spent leveling alts.

5 80s wee

About 3 exotic drops, never used mf

One from wvw, one from the mad king dungeon, and one from Orr.

^That

Ele spellswords yespls kthxbai

Once they give eles swords, people in the future will be like “Why didn’t they think of that at release?”

Look at it from a game design standpoint. Sylvari Turrets use the same mechanics as Engineer Turrets, hence the benefit. Hidden Pistols is a racial skill that has nothing to do with Engineer Pistols.

All things have a right to be nerfed.

This Engineer has Nerfs, and here they are!

I could outrun a Nerf!

Urge to Nerf rising!

Ruby Orbs or Runes of the Scholar. Runes of the Scholar are better if you’re spamming Killshot in wvw or something.

Beefcake.9032:

Here’s how I spend my time at 80: Run 3 paths AC (for cash). Do Daily quest (for jokes, pretty much just have to gather. The rest happens automatically). If I can, buy mats to craft a new item (armor, weapon, jewlery) or buy some runes/sigils. Spend rest of time in WvW. If you haven’t gone yet, do give it a try. Once you get the hang of things it’s alot of fun fighting together with your server against other players, capturing and holding objectives

Obviously if you’re into PvE you can run other dungeons or FotM for ascended rings etc.

Some people also spend their time farming open-world PvE (mostly in Cursed Shore I believe) or gathering T6 mats.

Cursed shore is kitten now since they nerfed the event chain. Any dungeon > cursed shore

Low learning curve, medium reward

I doubt a warrior will be able to pull it off versus opponents with IQs higher than 80

>Wrench Mace
>Engis can’t use mace
??? Anet

11. 1v1 Dueling PvP
In a map, two players fight eachother three times, first to two kills wins.

I absolutely hate being zerged to death or having to double team somebody to kill them, but I love PvP.

A mesmer with a whip seems kind of fetish-y…

Dolores.5471:

MarzAttakz.9608:

I swear thanks to KFC and Excala I can’t go more than two feet without bumping into a D/D leveler, hope this doesn’t spell the beginning of the end for those of us who’ve been around since day one.

I wouldn’t call this the beginning of the end, really. It looks powerful in the vids, but I’ve seen this live and all I had to do was warn my zerg about it, once people knew they started dodging, interrupting and stuff.. We could even kill the eles trying it because we knew they’d be throwing themselves on us. It’s a moderate risk tactic that pays off when you’re fighting unaware people.

On the other hand, if they had a mesmer among them to cast mass invisibility or a thief to use BP or Shadow Refuge…

BAM you guys are kittened

Though on the other hand, it would have to be coordinated and the “reward” is appropriate for the amount of coordination put in.

Of course, we have seen nerfs for lesser reasons before coughevasivearcanacough but yeah, while it’s not really an “op” tactic, expect the anet response. After all, they did say themselves that they only had like 2 people working on this stuff and none of them played an Ele.

Yespls, why does this not exist already?

Lol’d I don’t even

Windborne dagger is useless

SkeeLd.2164:

It actually makes perfect sense to me. I see it this way: ground-targetted skills like Meteor Shower require a certain amount of “power” from the caster to be cast. This amount goes up the farther one wants to cast it from oneself. Imagine a huge sphere around your character: this is the range for the spell you want to cast. If the location you’re aiming for is outside that sphere, you cannot cast it, as it requires more energy or power or whatever than what your character possesses. So, even when elevated, whatever you want to cast needs your energy to travel the distance between you and the desired location, whether it be vertical, horizontal, or anything in between, and if this is outside your boundaries of how much distance said energy can travel, then you can’t cast it.

Instead, projectiles (like every 1 staff ele’s have, except wind) simply need the energy to throw them, and keep going until slamming into something (the ground usually, and due to gravity) so it makes sense that they have a much longer range when thrown from higher ground.

LoS on walls is a different matter I think. Haven’t had problems with that so far ._.

I’m pretty sure gravity does most of the work if you’re dropping something. In fact, if you want to talk “realism”, it should do more damage because it would pick up speed.

That would be wayyyyyy OP

Nobody likes the Seraph Hammer?

“good job with armor diversity”

“there is nothing excessively skimpy”

??? If it’s lacking something that many people want, self inclusive, then they didn’t do a “good job with armor diversity”

If you were able to kill a moa on any other class

You are ready to play the warrior to its full potential

Try switching your offhand axe with a sword, mace, warhorn, or shield. Hell, use a toaster or a cat, or nothing at all. Offhand axe is worthless. Any build that can use the fury from axe 4 effectively should already have achieved 100% or be near to 100% fury uptime, and axe 5 does petty damage. It’s also redundant as an adrenaline booster, signet of precision and adrenaline surge are what you should use to boost adrenaline if you really need it. Offhand axe is redundant and useless. Use a mace. Vulnerability as well as knockdown.

Zet.9130:

Mine seems unable to take an Emerald Orb – I wonder if it’s filled w/ broken toys?

Emerald orb is level 80

The bag is level 10

You can try transmuting the skin of the bag to a level 80 back item

Ele sucks at lower levels. Power through, though (or craft) the levels, and you’ll find how awesome it is at level 80. Ele has a high learning curve, but once you ele-arn (get it? ele + learn hohoho it’s funny) how to play it, it’s very rewarding and fun to play.

Tim.9850:

Mobott.5908:

You’re playing a multiplayer game and you’re asking for new content to be singleplayer. Why?

“Multiplayer game” doesn’t mean forced grouping. Many multiplayer games require no groups whatsoever.

How is it forced? You can easily solo the dungeon.

Stridix.4260:

Sometimes I getting on my ele and sometimes I dont.
But I saw a guardian with aegis…

This gives me an idea of how the jp works…

See, when you enter the queue, you lose all your abilities/traits, but not your boons. Virtue of Courage applies 10 hours of aegis every 40 seconds. So Guardians are easily able to maintain Aegis in the JP.

Somebody should try stacking a bunch of swift then entering to see if it helps.

Wait, what? Last time I tried the JP, all skills were disabled…

I remember my first ventaris…it took me 3 tries with my elementalist to manage to kill them.

JCorcoran.4081:

I actually prefer my racial elites to the ele class elites. Probably not worth switching at this point, but try out your racials. As an asura, the 7 series golem does a ton more (single target) damage than the elite fire elemental.

Fire and earth elemental are worthless and should not be compared to anything. Ice is a tank and provides control and healing. Air has great aoe and stuns.

Navzar.2938:

So then an elementalist should be a sylvari, because a plant is closer to nature?

Well, if you choose a sylvari, better stay away from fire attunement.

Title says most of it. My max zoom out distance for some reason still makes my character take up at least 25% of my screen…I’ve tried logging in/out and looked in my settings to see if I accidentally changed something, but found zip.

HALP

A friend and I found a random pug group in less than a minute. Our first run took ~15 minutes.

???

ur doin it rong

Yeah, I was hoping for maybe a pwetty backpiece.

I don’t know, my group is having another go at it. Need dem cogs!

Just did it again. Rerun rewards are just gifts.

Spear of Light and Ink shot are underwater skills

How often are you fighting underwater?

Warlord.9074:

I don’t like hammer in Wvw becasue there is too many ranged classes that will kite you. I think its decent in Spvp though. And can be a good situational weapon in WvW i just wouldn’t use it in open field combat.

How…how do you get kited while using a hammer? Spec 10 in tactics for leg specialist, and hammer shock is an immobilize, which is even better now that you can use it while running. Use bull rush to knock them down. Then use a backbreaker on them. Follow up with Hammer 4, knocking them back and down again. If you’re getting kited, you’re playing the hammer wrong.

Since when is Guardian Staff bad?

It’s basically a full heal for them with a 2k heal and 12 stacks of might for everybody around them

Eles can easily run perma swiftness…no good elementalists would use a slot for signet of air JUST for the 25% swiftness boost.

Also, are you idiots not paying attention to the patch notes or do you just want to complain about everything? You have a kittening 50% increase in speed while stealthed.

You guys make me ashamed to play a thief.

I could probably do the jumping puzzle. I did the clocktower, though it was difficult. The difference is, the clocktower allowed you to try again MUCH faster. I got the “flow” of the jumping puzzle. If you fail this jumping puzzle, however, have fun waiting a minute to try again. You’ll just be bored doing this JP. I had fun with the clocktower. Not with this. See you, jumping puzzle, I’ll be over at the snowball fight if you need me.

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Nerdrager

Poopstick

Three last names that sound good