Guild Wars 2

SB + QZ was only good against bad players. Rangers has pretty much NO “oh kitten I need to dodge this ability” abilities, while others classes has a decent number of attacks worth dodging. This means you could just save your best defensive ability or your endurance for when the ranger pops QZ, and suddenly there’s no longer anything to fear.

This is why I’ve completely stopped using QZ in pvp, it’s gotten to the point where most people have learned what the big hitters other classes has in their arsenal.

I run with sword dagger most of the time for PvP, sometimes torch. I can use the warhorn right before a fight starts and have the buff for a bit, while still wielding a dagger.
The hawks you call in with horn is also easily avoidable, which in my opinion makes the warhorn one of the worst off-hands, atleast for my playstyle.

Shoo, back to reddit you go

Mine sure is, big lead, orbs, insane numbers and will have all supplies and upgraded keeps within a day. Also just transferred to the winning server, sure is nice here.

Feels pretty good outplaying my opponents by sheer numbers, actually there are no opponents, funny that. Thanks for the balanced endgame pvp arenanet, keep it up!

Just out of curiosity, what utility skills do you run with? I noticed you called the protect me shout horrible, while I find this one of the best skills we have.
If you run a signet build with signet of stone and protect me alongside a brown bear there to take the damage, you’re looking at 10-12 seconds of complete immunity to direct damage.

A couple of days ago the “Play” button started getting grayed out for me aswell, but I have been able to get around it by clicking cancel on the validate your e-mail thingamajig.
I don’t know if your login menu is exactly the same as mine since I haven’t bothered with the e-mail validation yet, but the order I go through in the login menu is:
Log in
“Validate your e-mail address” → Cancel (Play button is grayed out here)
Then the window changes to “Welcome, insertnamehere!” with updates, and a clickable Play button

So I’ve been playing thief in sPVP the last couple of days and I’ve come across a potential bug with shadowstep.
When fighting an enemy thief and managing to get him/her to a downed state, I noticed that you can use shadowstep WHILE channeling your execute. This means that you can just walk up to the thief, execute, keep shadowstep ready, and immediately shadowstep to where he uses the downed state #2 skill shadow escape.

Using this while fighting thieves seemed kind of unintended so I completely stopped doing it once I confirmed it wasn’t some weird lag issue or anything like that. Is it, or is it a strength of having shadowstep up after a fight against a thief?