Guild Wars 2

1 turret engi, ok, OP, but stationary.

More and more teams are actually using 2 turret engi’s to make up for their bad rotational and mechanical aspect, which shouldn’t be rewarded at all.

Clips, streams, videos.. All show how even top players are trolling around with 4 turret engi’s and/or others with 2 turret engi’s and easily win a game.

Do something about this.

Quite obvious if u look at the leaderboard aswel.
The higher you go, the more turret engi’s. Fact.

It makes also 0 sense how they can remain the same Turret Pressure while using more tank amulet (From Soldier/cleric to Sentinel’s).

Turret should scale with amulet; bunker amulet? = no turret damage.

FYI: Lazyness and lack of experience should NOT be rewarded

FYI2: fix the kitten “No Valid Path to Spot” bug where I still waste initiative aswel.

Decided to quickly make this guide as I found this is necessary with all the returning and new players!

Enjoy PvP’ers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQ6QYvAxQI

Made a new guide for (beginner) thiefs to get an understanding what your team expects from you in Ranked Arenas! (for Solo and Team Arena both)

Cheers

Hey all!

Giving you a list with the builds used in tPvP (Solo/Team Arena).
People who are easily lost in builds, just can check my channel!

Check the whole vids for detailed info or just click the link in the description for the updated build (February)

- Worker Shout S/W (meta): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9sDujlfWX0
- HamBow (meta): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZkmJ0GGUVc
- Axe/Bow DPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67xzOWNMzQ
- Condi Mace/Sword burst (pre-meta): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRLow4oJZvs
- Skull Crack DPS (tweaked): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMzsYnVylts
- Condi Sword/Sword Bleed Burst (tweaked): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIN9dfl1RLw

Don’t forget to like and share peeps!
Everyone has the right to run good builds! ^-^

Subscribe for more soon!

Cheers

Have it alot (and not only me) that while in furious combat, we lose our Cursor on the screen..
Sometimes it’s not visible enough midst all the AoE going around and is hard to land an AoE yourself if you don’t see your cursor.

Suggestion: Make it so we could choose what Cursor we want, so we can pick one that is more visible and obvious to see mid combat

Cheers

Hi all,

Just wanted to point out that connection to my client seems to be unstable last couple of weeks.

Info:

• normal ping: 25 – 35ms
• ping last 2 weeks: 35 – 4900ms (mostly about 35ms but very long times it is between 500 – 4900ms)
• Location: Europe, Belgium
• Timezone: GMT+1
• Playtime: 20:00 – 23:00 GMT+1

Ping screenshot in attachment.
I also noticed the startup client had some delay this evening.

I can also confirm my connection/ping in other games are fine, aswel as pinging to 8.8.8.8 (22ms) on a steady basis (ping 8.8.8.8 -t)

Anything I should know about?
Anything that could be done? Can’t really play this way, obviously.

And yes, already restarted my router.

Kind regards

Gaile Gray.6029:

fellyn.5083:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey there,

Here are a few tidbits from the team:

• A lot of newer players had trouble with the interface. That doesn’t apply to you, you’re veterans who have been around the conversion block a time or two. But newer players will benefit from the updated system.
• The goal was to make the Gem Store more like other shopping experiences, and if you think about it, there is more of that feel to it now.
• You may be surprised to know this (I know I was) but very few people bought gems at smaller denominations than the first one offered in the new system. That’s not to say they never did, nor that there wouldn’t be the desire to do so. But overall, the current options were selected based on player purchases in the past.
• The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

So please keep your thoughts coming on the new system. Feel free to make suggestions but please, keeping them constructive would be very much appreciated.

And yet in the history of this forum there has never been a post saying “the gem exchange interface is confusing me as a new player” or anything similar.

Really? You’re 100% certain there’s never been such a post? Good for you, then!

Concerns of this nature come in via tickets, when someone takes the wrong step, buys too many times, isn’t able to process the acquistion or exchange, etc. By the time someone’s on the forums, they’re usually comfortable with the systems.

So next time we should send tickets instead of making forum posts?
I’ll send you a ticket, I want 50/100/200/gems converting ingame now.
I’ll send you a ticket, I want more precusor drops and more gold in PvP. Because this ‘minimum 400gems’ is insane, pvp players can’t afford this.

Well, since I send tickets, it should be dealt with swiftly I hope..

Edit: Made for new players? New players dont have 76g.. This is also another problem with the ‘Fixed Trading Prices’.

[EU]Academy Gaming Cup, a 5v5 Tournament made by and for the Community!

We started this tournament with the intention of bringing more teams into the competitive scene within Guild Wars 2. We look to offer teams a place to practice as a group, while experiencing a legitimate tournament environment. Our goal is that teams will use us as a stepping stone to improve and move on to genuine ESL weeklies

• Tutorial how to sign up + what to do after
• Next: Monday 13th of January @ 18:30GMT+1 (19:30CEST)
• Check-ins: 6:00pm BST / 7:00pm CEST / 5:00pm UTC
• Check-ins closes: 6:15pm BST / 7:15pm CEST / 5:15pm UTC
• Free to enter + Prize Pool with gems + Mini Llama’s if you got into RO8! (1 mini per week)
• Best of 3 (BO3) through whole Tournament
• Max Teams able to Play: 16

Next Tournament’s Sign Up: [EU]Academy Gaming: EU Cup #44

Shoutcast:

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Prizes:

• 1st Place: 2 000 Gems per Player (if 8 or more teams signed up)
• 2nd Place: 800 Gems per Player (if 8 or more teams signed up)
• 3rd – 8th Place: 1 Mini Llama per Player

Spots:

• 16 spots left

The decay happens too soon and is going too fast. I play all 8 classes equally last cpl of months (in PvP only) and the difference is way too big now. Kinda disappointed in the balancing since they put PvE and PvP balance together, which gives utterly useless balances in PvP. We have to literally suicide to get some adrenline off in PvP now.

We will see different builds now in this coming meta, but the trait-tree will quite stay the same for the Adrenaline.. Basically, as Caedmon said, you’re pushing every warrior going the same way. Exactly where Rangers were before to go spirit/condi. You buffed (too much imo) longbow so it becomes viable in PvP for the rangers. Warriors will just sit there watching and take the place where Rangers first were.

Either increase the adrenaline gained from attacking/attacks or make the decay less severe.

Obvious troll is obvious

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Why are good engineers so hard to find? I’ve always struggled to find decent engineers to queue with as a team as well as play in tournaments with.

People seem to complain a lot about engineers, with a fair share of forum posts calling them OP, yet if they’re so OP then why aren’t more of them around?

Because even bad engineers are being carried by slick shoes and passive procs..
It’s the same as Shoutbow; 99% of the shoutbows are bad but look good, while it’s their build carrying them. You can take out bad shoutbows if u look at the use of Banners.
I think you can do the same with Engineers; picking out useage of some skills to see if they’re good and if they poison the downed + healing turret allies

Was there 1 class you didn’t play?
Multi-classing too broad won’t get you anywhere, been there myself.

Try playing few games on Scrapper and see how that turns out.

Same here, I’m very disappointed by the lack of information provided on the map about each Hero Point. Some require Masteries (which you don’t know untill you find your way to the Hero point location) or you need to fight an OP Champion which can’t be done with 2 players.

It should be noted on the map if its a champion hero point or if the hero point requires a mastery to unlock it.

Deeply disappointed and really turning me off to play further..

Fixing matchmaking would be a very nice step!

PS: Skyhammer is fine as it is.

Previous LB (pre 16Dec) was so much better as it more reflected skill on top rather than amount of games you’ve farmed, as we have now.

Bring back MMR LB!

TonyDiMeglio.5461:

Eles Mist form should be way nerfed in their downed state… but Vengeance is just a time for me to laugh while they squirm until they just defeat themselves for me.

Downed Mist Form from Ele’s can be stopped easily.. Learn it

Broken, bugged, idk.
No1 in EU HoTM can Team Q. (EU) gives message GW2 client is down and cant connect)
Solo Q’ing still works.

First lag, now this ;<
Dark day for EU!
- Engrish stream got DDoS’s (WTS Stream)
- EU team lost
- EU server lag/delay more then ever
- EU PvP Team Q not working

RIP, EU broken 2morrow due lakc of DISCIRPINE!
NO honor to your famiry!

I’m seriously upset by this change.
400 gems = 76gold. That’s the minimum. No new player can’t afford this yet they made the change for new players? I don’t see the logic.

Give us atleast minimum of 50/100 and 200gems.

Aaaaand another SoloQ vs Premades again!

Can I also please get ppl in my team who want to win?

They should implent something like “when no buttons pressed and moved from base for 15s”= kick and replace instantly.

To be very honest with you, I’m pressing “O” (Black Lion TP button) every single day and hoping I see Rox’ Backpack and Bow there

I saw a thief today with that Rox’s Quiver backpack which was limited edition event item which u could only buy in gemstore..
I did not had the gold to buy so,. So I would like to have it back in the gemstore now that I have gold enough! NAOW!

Cheers

+1 for scale in PvP. Asura’s broken in PvP when it goes for fair fights.

It also takes half a second longer untill conditions are transfered into boons.
I don’t think Lyssa runes are really viable anymore..

choovanski.5462:

ya’ll crack me up. all a’ you know that condi counters the build so hard it becomes your whipping boy, and ya’ll still QQ. ya’ll know rocket turret first then dps engi, but i never see ya’ll do it ingame.

Had to laugh here a bit :> Condi build taking out rocket turret.. hue

Poelala.2830:

I’m not saying ele is terrible at everything and brings nothing to the team, and don’t pretend I’ve ever said that.

If you go bunk, you’ll choose earth/water/tempest. You do no damage, no condi damage, and you have very few CC’s (unless you’re running aura share shocking aura).

Why would a bunker deal damage?
You trait to go bunker to bunk, which is not DPS.

Feirlista Xv.1425:

For those of you that don’t understand how internet security works high ping and packet loss at the NCSoft servers are the servers rejecting the ping request for security reason not because The game is having an issue. It’s there Firewall, ping request are not normal game data so it gets rejected and you get high packet loss! As others have pointed out most all of you that posted ping plots have issues elsewhere!

Their servers do allow pinging otherwise we would not see the Ping in Options..
If they would reject ICMP in their Firewall, would not see any Ping ingame. Think about it.

Anet has also confirmed/acknowledged to me they are investigating this issue.

I know you’re trying to be the White Knight with basic network knowledge but from my experience in the IT for years, I kind of know (sarcasm) where the issue is located.

Best solutions in the short AND long run:
Either make PvP Free to Play as whole, including HoT and any other specs coming out
OR have ppl unlock all expac-specs with 1 gem price ingame.

I think first options is going to be more useful.
This will eventually convince more F2P players to buy the full game to get awesome skins etc in the long run, so it’s nothing bad anyway.

Everyone can see Season 6 is dead and it’s only going to get worse from here.
Make this happen and we’ll all benefit.

- lack of diversity in builds
- lack of Team Queue
- lack of Solo Queue (as in, 100% Solo only)
- lack of balance patches
- lack of events (Seasons are not really events to me)
- lack of Build-Templates per character (up to 3 or 4 slots per character would be nice)

I don’t mind Ascended Gear.
However, as an active PvP and WvW player, it’s kinda hard getting the gold and mats.
I’m playing for over a year now, have 1 Legendary on my Ele and my other 4 chars are fully exotic equipped (for all the different builds).
Though, I have 0 asc weps nor armor.

I know WvW/PvP ain’t PvE and shouldn’t be rewarded as such, but the 10th dec patch already made a great step towards a balance between them I somewhat wanna see grow a bit more.

All game-modes should be almost equally rewarded since it’s still GW2 we’re playing.
I have this feeling as beeing a failure since I do not own any Asc weapons, while other teammates who do PvE, have some Weps and maybe some Armor already.
And this for all playing the same game..

Edit: I do not get this “vertical and horizontal progression”.. Do not know what they literally stand for..

silvermember.8941:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Iris Ng.9845:

Terrorsquad.2349:

DeWolfe.2174:

jportell.2197:

I think we’re up to 5 turret complaint threads a day.

There’s only a handful of posters that are rabidly against this build.

So, if players are playing the build and having fun, then the Dev’s must have designed it pretty well. It can’t even be as “OP” as the complaints are since it’s not a Meta Build.

1. Wrong, most of the community is against this build, even top players. (they even stream to show how stupidly OP it is. One top player even used it in NA 2v2 cup, to show how broken it is. Not gonna call names )

2. Wrong, doesn’t mean its fun to play, the devs did a good job. Playing something OP is mostly fun because you get rewarded for it in this game. Rewards equals fun (Leaderboard).

3. It’s not meta in ESL because top players don’t want to be called noobs for playing something cheesy as that. (Cele meta already showing this) I think it you get 5 top players together, let them play 5 turret engi or 4 turret engi and a thief/ele/warr doesn’t matter, they can basically win any tournament. But they don’t. It’s lame.

1. HAHAHAHA … I watched that fight. Said person was farmed so hard so he switched to turret engi. Not sure if he was really salty or genuinely wanted to show how broken turret engi is.

3. Every tourneys I know ban stacking of turret engis. I agree it’s lame and exactly opposite of what GW2 is proud of: active combat.

Exactly, I think the fact ESL and other e-sports facilities banning Turret Engis is more than enough proof.

Proof that what? That the organizers don’t like turrets?

Un/fortunately, it is their tournament they can make whatever rules they want. A more logical reason is that a lot of the so called “higher” skill players usually make 5 or 6 threads a day whining about Turrets so to save themselves the QQ and whining, ESL made rules about the turrets Engineer. Less drama and QQ.

Isn’t it obvious when even pro players are calling it OP, it might actually be OP?

Eyia Hellhide.7320:

^^^ What he said

Also guys, there is a new-created site, where you can advertise your EU guilds: http://euguilds.com/

Yup, made use of it, I was the first! :p

Not only SM fights getting skill-lag now, also random tower fights.. I don’t get this, instead of making new environment for PvE, please fix the skill-lag which happens to be here since the beginning…

Stop ignoring this..
We finally have a perfect balanced match-up, but noooooo, let’s put some skill-lag in it!…

It’s simple and I just told facebook GW2 group aswel. Since more and more ppl ARE buying gold, they can just buy w/e they want for w/e the price. This way they fart into HONEST ppl faces. The proof is there; more and more Goldsellers have the financial resources to buy Spambots in each server/map and more. Noticed how few months back the precursors were still normal price and we had no single goldsell spam on mapchat whatsoever?

1600g might not be hard to get. 2months for utterly no life hardcore farming 24/7. 4 months for the more casual daily dungeon runners. 4 months for a single exotic you need for a weapon which already costs that much outside of the precursor???
1000G would be the very max I would pay for a one handed Precursor, yet I still find this price ridiculious.

Economy going to be for the very riches and goldbuyers soon if this proceeds.
Give us the ability to craft Precursors like you promised us back in 2013!

90% of the original ones still work and there r some new ones, soon I’ll make a new vid with the updated spots!

It’s all about making fun in WvW! Thank you Gandara warriors for the short, nice meeting^-^

Glyph.7805:

For the record turrets are absolutely poppykitten and ruin my otherwise fun pvp experience. If i wanted to face an overpowered opponent or multiple opponents i would play PvE…

Terrorsquad.2349:

3. It’s not meta in ESL because top players don’t want to be called noobs for playing something cheesy as that. (Cele meta already showing this) I think it you get 5 top players together, let them play 5 turret engi or 4 turret engi and a thief/ele/warr doesn’t matter, they can basically win any tournament. But they don’t. It’s lame.

I honestly believe highly organized teams steamroll turret engis. but anything short of decent organization it’ll shine and wreck teams.

Funny, I saw top players lose vs Turret Engi team just a few days ago on stream..

Lol, problem much BB guys?:p
Happens to me alot when they lose or run in a 1v1: They die or run, calling u bad names in weird-to-alien English..

I really love Courtyard and it’s Team Deathmatch scene.
As a vavid WvW Roamer, I’m used to fight small scale and this is just the thing to amuse myself.

I’ve played over 20 ranked games so far and won all of them (solo).

• 4-5 of them were Courtyard with PUG’s aswel *

Alot of ppl here are complaining, but don’t be fooled.
The majority of the community actually likes the map.
Proof? Go into Ranked games and await the ‘Map Vote’. There you see mostly 60-70% actually chooses Courtyard. And I bet Anet can see it too in their logs.

The people complaining here have either:

a) No idea what to do in small scale teamfights, due it differs from Conquest
b) No team/premade and queue solo; then rage at Anet for that (lol?)
c) Play at unbelievable times when most ppl go work/school and get mad for facing a tougher team
d) Have an afk’er in their midst.
e) They need to crawl out of their “Meta-Cave”, making them feel insecure.

This is just like Skyhammer (which I don’t like) and this SHOULD stay in the Map Rotation. The Map Voting is just too obvious; most of the majority actually prefers it.

Face it, some ppl won’t like it while others do.
Others like Skyhammer when I don’t.
Personal Preference.

Make a team!

Fix it asap.. Been facing top players in parties the last matches I’ve been in while queue’ing solo.. This is insane and not fun.

Also, the class dividing is just lol, we get 2 thieves while opponents gets 3 dps medi guards (were all solo queue’ing)
You can imagine how hard we lost that one.

trunks.5249:

lol man first ranger pet is op now warrior? ever hear of waiting for warriors skill to end and go on cd. dodge kite dodge kite some more then go in and fight ranger op in one thread now warrior i think its your build or skill more then likely a little of both. i have trouble with some builds but i look around see how they work and get tips. hell i get tips from a pvp forum from the very classes i have trouble with. try asking for advice and help

The OP is a troll, been for years on this forum.
Click his name and check all his posts/threads.

You’ll see what I mean.

And the classes ofcourse, all solo q’ing

Someone else already used this build before to troll around in one of the first ESL’s.. So no, not yours :p

Or facing top ESL teams while solo q’ing…

Or facing another very good team while solo q’ing…

Or turn the tables and roflstomp others while having a team…

Or facing another top team with 55hp… While solo q’ing ofcourse..

I think the right way to say is more “AP shows how important the game is to the player OR to feel like an elitist”
I have only 9k AP yet, I have 5k played hours (when most of 12-16k AP don’t even have half of my hours). Also belong in the PvP leaderboards for quite amount of time, 3 Legendaries.

I did Arah speedruns when I had 600AP already :p

Need any more? Got hundreds of screenshots really…

This has been going on for atleast a month and demotivates alot of players.
Rather want to be 5mins longer in queue, than having this kind of matches

/rantoff