Guild Wars 2

Thanks fornyour input aswell Ocosh! I figured that there’s loads to improve on my part, hence why I’m asking here and not raging in-game. And as it seems, my minfset for the class has been wrong aswell. Like I said earlier, I’m new to PvP, and map rotation and class roles (some atleast) have felt surprisingly random. There’s hardly anything said outloud, just people blinking the minimap, and the only 2 classes being pretty constant in their roles have been rogues and dh. Other classes haven’t been as consistant or clear in their respective roles, atleast when I’ve tried to observe them during matches. I admit, I didn’t watch any guide thingies prior to hopping into the PvP scene, I apologize for that for anyone who has been in my team. :P

Ps. One thing that’s often kept me from going to sidepoints, is that most of the time there’s a rogue in my team, or someone else already rushing out the side. So in a case where there’s already going for the homepoint, am I supposed to head to middle or bugger off somewhere else?

Thanks for the feedbak! I had a feeling that I wasn’t being mobile enough/ utilizing the class the way it was meant to. I’ll try to get a hold of using the portals and the sidepoint competion and get some studying done! I’ve kept thinking it the way wrong way; I thought with the condi/clone spam, I’d be useful keeping the pressure on, when smashing around is going on in the middle. Atleast in the start rush anyways. Good to know, so I don’t keep repeating the same mistake over and over! ^^

Thanks, I’ll check it out! I actually dropped out the portal and took decoy instead. Couldn’t use the portals efficiently enough, so I thought I’d get the basics and rotations to work before learning the use portals.

Hello fellow players!

First of, I know there’s already alot of topics about the current PvP season, so I apologize if this is considered spam.

I’m a returning gw2 player, and I’ve only delved into PvP during this season, so I’m not sure if I’m missing some key element of the gameplay, so please tell me if that’s the case.

So, the problem I’m having is climbing the ladder and sometimes frustratingly constant losing streaks, and I’m wondering if theres something wrong in my contribution and if there’s something I should do differently.

I currently play the chronophantasma-meta build, with some slight changes to improve my survivabiliy through stealth skills. I usually start off by going to the middle and start building up the clone/condi spam, and I usually stick there for a good while in the beginning, as I feel I can build some decent pressure and havoc, and atleast keep the the spot contested if I’m outnumbered. Usually I can pull of atleast 3-4 times all the shatters. I know the damage output is not optimal, as I don’t usually get close to my targets myself to ensure, I don’t die as I’m still learning and not the quickest of reflexes, and if I die, that’s just more points to the opposing team. More often than not, I’m left alone in the middle as my teammates have died, or haven’t showed up in the first place. And usually when I’m there, it feels like people don’t even bother to come back, instead they go on 3/2v1s on the side points and seem to be engaged there for a good while. Another thing I see are these desperate attacks 1v3 attacks to the middle point where my teammate rushes in, does a spike, maybe getting either one down or not even that, and ends up dying. Again, feeding points to the opposing team.

Whe PvPed more with my druid, I usually went after the map specific object in between capping (forest ceeatures, the laser cannon, the temple thingies), but now as a chrono, I usually seek out the the enemy teams geoup and apply pressure and keep them occupied through the shatter/condi spam, and hope someone else is taking care of the map objective. I’m not sure if there’s any sense in that, but the way I see it, if people actually stay and try to clear the clone spam, the enemy has 1-3 people who aren’t going for the objective at that time.

Too often my matches end up my team losing by 100-250 pts. Sometimes even more. I don’t know if the personal stats reflect anything, but usually I reach k/d ratio of around 12-14 with 0-2 deaths. Damage output being around 22-25 of team dmg.

Am I doing sonething personally wrong, and how should I change the way I do my role? It’s frustrating when i feel like I’m constantly doing sonething other than dying, but at the and still losing. And my goal is to get out of the bronze league, but the losing streaks keep bringing my rating down.

Sorry for the long post, any input is appreciated, as I hope to improve!

Thanks for all the replies and help! I haven’t tried out the condi before, I’ve mostly done lb and x/wh. lb for the dmg, and wh for the CotW sustaining and vulnerability spamming. I’m new to the game, so I have alot to learn about the combos, and how traited abilities work together. I think I’ll get more exotics first, and give some more thought for the ascended armor, and whether I’ll go for the magi or marauder.

Oh, seems interesting! I’ll give it a go! I have to say it feels kind of underwhelming that healing power seems to be of so little importance. When I got started again, I blindly went for cleric gear, ’cos I thought the hp would matter more. After that I realizd to check the general view of the builds onlyntonfind that it mostly seems to berserker and what not. So as for crafting ascended armor, I take it that the suggested berserker/assassin combo would be best to start with?

Hello!

I played gw2 for a while when it was first released, but drifted to other games after a few months. Now, I got back into the game about a week ago, and having a blast with it. I used to play with mesmer and engi, but now I went with ranger, because the druid spec sounded something I might enjoy. Healing is something I often go for in MMOs.

I mostly do PvE content, such as world events/bosses, fractals (still t1). I also do/did some WvW, mostly for the reward tracking and skill points. PvP arena is something I mostly do for dailies./reward tracking. I like PvP, but PvE is nore the content I do. I’m hoping to utilize a healing based build, aiming for the PvE content, anything I can do with pugs. High end fractals and raiding seems interesting, but I don’t know if those are doable without a dedicated group/guild.

Now my main problem is choosing the gear to compliment my playstyle. I don’t mind going all the way into healing, but from what I’ve read, that’s for raiding only? So far, I’ve crafted the minstrel ascendant staff (might’ve been a waste, dunno. Looks sweet, though :P).

Now I’m looking into getting the rest of my ascendant gear, but I have no idea, what prefixes or stats I should go for. The healing power-heavy items seem to be a no-no for other than raiding. So, is there any good all around trinkets and armor, that would let me do the fancy healing I want, and the (atleast moderate) dps that seems to be what favored and expected from me? What are the general tresholds that I should aim for in healing power, cond/powerwise?

And if it is possible to combine these two in a single set, should the dps be condition or power-based? And if it’s not possible to get both healing/average dps for the desired all-around-PvE content, should I craft my ascendandt gear for the dps or healing?

Sorry for the long and jibberish post and thank you for reading!