Guild Wars 2

As an engineer I can fight a druid opponent on a node they control the entire game getting top damage and top offense but do nothing to help my team win. Should I be rewarded for those top stats even though I’m contributing nothing to my teams win?

clearing up to 4 conditions with a passive elixir s proc would be fairly op I think. I mean getting passive s proc with a large condi on you is one of its only weaknesses I don’t think holosmith should circumvent that.

Power, precision, and ferocity are probably your best bet with that build. Basically berserker gear.

You can find good builds at the website metabattle.com it has builds for raids, spvp, wvw, and fractals. It will also tell you what gear is good for that build.

Exotic gear is good for the first tier of fractals, up to 25 or so.

People won’t like this answer but if your main goal is to climb the ladder just play condi thief. It will beat most people 1v1.

If teleporting through test of faith hurts you why doesn’t teleporting through a mirage mirror give you the dodge?

Elessaria.9142:

This was meant to be a beta weekend. By not telling anyone the specifics of your build and why you think its a good spec people are missing, you are both making your opinion a strawman and defeating the purpose of the beta by denying anet the data from the playerbase they are looking for. Its a pretty assinine road to take to be honest…

This isn’t a beta, this is a demo. If they were beta testing now PoF wouldn’t be releasing in a month.

seems to auto cast for me. you can test it for yourself pretty easily

Well the only power weapon you have as core engi is rifle so go with that. And really bomb kit is the best power kit so take that as well. I’d recommend getting the trait speedy kits so you can have permanent swiftness to level faster.

You press f5 to enter photon forge mode which is like a kit. You get 5 new abilities. While in the mode you gain 2 heat every second. You also gain heat depending on which skills you use. If you get to 100 heat you explode hurting your self. You can lose heat by leaving photon forge mode.

They didn’t win, why would they get the crown and other rewards?

Why would Arena Net not permanently ban people who are intentionally cheating/ breaking the ToS? Knowing those people will be back in a month or so is kind of disappointing

alemulet.8572:

but all classes are available, less engi.

What’s wrong with engi? or are you saying you don’t have an engineer?

Toss elixer X does not remove a condition when you have the alchemy trait alchemical tinctures.

I’m tired of getting in to matches with people who refuse to play. Reporting idle players doesn’t seem to do anything. Please let use choose who we play with.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

You know you can take how long the season lasts in weeks and multiply it by 10 right? There’s your answer.

March 7th to May 2nd is 8 weeks. 8*10=80. The current minimum games required is 105… Did you mean "multiply it by 15? That would be 120. I’m just asking if it has been confirmed that it will actually be 120.

Does anyone know what the final amount of games needed to be on the leaderboard will be? 120 seems like a good guess but has the number ever been confirmed?

warriors still have a ton of resistance and if you are running core engi they will kill you in a couple of seconds so I don’t think flamethrower engi is gonna be a problem for zerkers at all.

a gw2 dev in my match said they are working on it.

Would it be possible for the match to just end one someone disconnects from the game? 4v5 is never fun for either team. I know once in a blue moon the 4 man team wins but its really not worth everyones time to sit in a 4v5 match for those rare instances. Just end the game and give the 5 man team a win and the 4 man team a desertion or whatever the term they use in leagues is.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Warrior, thief and mesmer are too good currently.

All the other classes are fine.

So lets come up with some ideas how to nerf them in a fair way.

I will edit this with the best ideas in this thread and then we can contribute to the development of the game.

This is such a horrible attitude. Relying on Anet to make up for your struggles isn’t helping anything. If those classes do get nerfed you’ll just move on to complain about different classes.

Instead why don’t we come up with way for you to play better in those match ups. Like:
-being sure to avoid key skills
-watching for their bursts set ups and knowing how to avoid them (kiting).
-Understanding how to use your classes key abilities against those classes you listed
-I’m sure there are a lot of things you or anyone can do in a match to make those classes seem less dominant

Rickster.8752:

NA doesn’t count. Seriously, I rolled on NA during the last solo queue era and was shocked how bad the standard was. There are a few good players there no doubt. But in general its woeful. I would estimate that 100th best player on NA isn’t in the top 1000 on the EU.

So NA leaderboards are an irrelevance anyway.

Regardless of this being true or not placement matches should not put someone on the top of the entire leader board. Surely you can agree with that?

scrappers are strong but they almost no damage outside of acid bomb and lighting field(hammer 5) so if you can avoid those two things you should be able to fight them much more easily.

People used to just afk at the start if the other team was a premade. Since they have hidden that part this stopped happening.

The 6 piece from runes of surging (socking aura on elite skill use) doesn’t proc when and engineer uses Elixir X. It doesn’t proc for the rampage or the tornado and it doesn’t proc after the effects of elixir x either

Then it would just be more random based on who’s stomp actually finished the beast. Right now it’s generally pretty clear to the person who got the kill how they got it. With two teams trying to stomp I doubt anyone would be certain.

For solo queue Spvp these days it’s probably best to know two classes. One for damage and one for bunkering. If you generally play with friends (not solo queue) then one is better.

Stitch.1794:

That’s odd. I’ve completed this collection and I’m absolutely certain I did it by crafting rifle stocks. Perhaps you could post a screenshot of what you’ve crafted?

You were right. I had made oiled ancient stocks instead of normal ancient stocks. The master huntsmen accepted them despite the incorrect text.

I made the rifle stocks but the master huntsman wont accept them

When I ask the master huntsman about “Improve Rifle Stock Crafting” I get asked to make 5 of each Small Haft in stead of 5 of each rifle stock. I can’t make any small hafts because they are from weapon smithing not hunstman crafting line.

I’ve been a little bored playing hammer recently so I made this build based around juggernaut and applied force traits. It’s obviously not the best build but it is pretty fun (in unranked). I was hopping to get some feed back on how to improve it though.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUnUUBlXhFpC2aBEqil7iS8g+hcge1j9cHcBLgAA-TJBFABA8AAI4CAIeZg23fAA

The reason I don’t take self-regulating defenses is that it breaks my pressure, momentum and give the other player a chance to recover. While this build is really about getting a ton of damage inside of quickness.

It only has one stun break but pulsing stability from juggernaut is usually good enough to keep me safe. Anyways, thanks for your feedback.

Like the other person said, if you are winning a match by a large margin you can log on to a different character and if you get back in the match before it ends the match will count as a win on the new class.

Mitch.4781:

I am sick and tired of being put on the SAME kittening group with people that cannot play and constantly lose the match for us.

STOP putting us with people we have blocked. I DON’T want to be grouped with trash talkers, idiots and trolls.

Sort out your kittening game. You are making me really hate it.

If you don’t want to play with someone add them to your friends list and then wait to queue until they are in a match. Or queue with your friends.

Thanks I just tried it and it seems to be correct that not selecting the downed player changes it to a normal stomp. However, there are times when you move near a downed player or someone goes down in function gyro’s range and even if they are not targeted you get the function gyro prompt.

Is it possible to normal stomp a downed player and not use the function gyro while the gyro is off cooldown? Often times I would rather save the function gyro for later and just do a normal stomp but pressing “f” will always do a function gyro stomp before a normal stomp.

I think they did this so people would be less likely to give up before the game starts if they see a team on the other side.

While we are all here I have a question. If two combo fields are on top of each other and I do a blast finisher in the middle how can I know which field will be blasted? So if I put down a water field and a light field and I blast my healing turret inside both of them will I get a blast heal or aoe retaliation?

I think we should be happy for this guy. He’s having fun playing thief which is probably more than can be said for the most of this forum.