Guild Wars 2

Tired of seeing the same 3 classes in solo Q. Game really starts to feel boring cause of it

Thief damage isn’t even that great. Mobility is good but I don’t think that thief is required in the new meta. Before HoT it could be played as decapper and ress bot but scrapper is much better at ressing and is actually useful in team fights and mesmer/chronomancer has way more burst damage. It’s not bad but it could really need some small buffs

Mork vom Ork.2598:

Most of the ‘wah’ is because we lack the “feel” of a elite mechanic. Function gyro is nowhere near what e.g. druid or necro got.

Play some PvP matches and you will feel it

Better than expected

Turamarth.3248:

Yes
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/check-out-the-daredevil-on-points-of-interest/

Thanks didn’t see that!

Will there be a livestream for the Daredevil spec tomorrow? Didn’t see it mentioned in the blog post so i was wondering

Use your shortbow poison field on downed people and spam cluster bomb, better than spamming auto attacks for cleave

I hope it stays instant cast and doesn’t become as bad as the Dragonhunter virtues. It would make the class irrelevant in PvP

It’s good but the new virtues are worse than the old ones except the spear (imo). Would be nice if we could choose if we wanted the new or old virtues

The Warhorn fire field CD is a bit too long imo. 25s would be better.

Hexalot.8194:

It’s invisible to the target(s) once laid. Reveals stealth, and adds 25 stacks of vulnerability.

RIP Thieves ?

No, the trait revamp is already looking good for thieves and we don’t know our elite specialization yet, calm down…

I don’t want a 5th attunement, would be kinda boring. I mean we would get new skills and stuff for every weapon but that would most likely make Tempest a must have because they would just have 5 more skills for every weapon set. I hope for something like a transformation or an attack

It should always be on a 20s CD out of combat, I don’t see how that’s OP

Bring them back with HoT please.

Siphaed.9235:

I’m going to call bullarky on this case. My last match of Stronghold was against 2 Engineers -1 defended, 1 attacked- and we wiped the floor with them. How, you ask? Well for one I was a Staff Ele that just AOE nuked the clustered turrets with easy. The other was my teammates, one being a Shatter Mesmer that kept doing the clone thing with Feedback too (self destroying turrets, classic). Our thief kept using the “come here!” Scorpion ability to pull the Engi away from the turrets to do the stabby stab out of harms way.

It is once again an overused complaint against a class that you personally have issues with. But by no means does everyone in the community have issues with this class or build. The choice of going outside your personal build comfort zone to instead find a more creative approach to tackling obstacles is the reason why we have so many utility skills, weapon swaps, and the trait trees.

I don’t see a lot of staff eles or scorpion wire thieves and scorpion wire is bugged and just does knockdown sometimes lol

Turret engis are ruining PvP, not only stronghold. Braindead builds like that shouldn’t be rewarded

So today I heard that we will be able to play the new mode even without buying the expansion. Is that true?

Another question that bugs me, will specializations be unlocked in sPvP from the start or do we have to level first (would blow)?

What’s the main selling point for sPvP only players? Specializations and the revenant? If so will a player who doesn’t have HoT be at a big disadvantage compared to HoT owners?

Axyl.9408:

Keep in mind, I don’t WvW, I mostly PvP with my thief, but for me, the answer is always berserker. S/D accro gets so much vigor and so many dodges, you don’t need toughness when you’re completely negating so much damage from dodges.

Also, instead of using pack runes, I use Air runes. I love forward withdraw+swiftness at the start of a match, and for getting aroudn the map quickly. The damage proc on the runes will stun the enemy if you have Basilisk venom up too. This is really useful if someone catches you unaware. They hit you while you have Bask venom up, the proc goes off for ~2.5k and they get stunned from the Venom! That gives me enough time to either get out, or re-position to a better spot. It also disrupts their rotation a lot.

I tried air runes a while ago but the proc can take you out of stealth which is annoying

Okay guess the ascended assasin weap hits harder, just tried it.

I got an ascended weapon with Assasin stats from Tequatl, should I use it over a zerker exotic? I do mostly WvW

silvermember.8941:

iKeostuKen.2738:

Elementalist might just need a rework or some major tweaking. This class doesnt do the most damage yet it has to deal with the lowest base hp combined with the lowest armor. Meaning you need to spec for living ontop of anything else which already throws you into being a bunker to compensate for the classes ability to survive without certain traits and amulets.

If there is one thing I truly hate about this game is the way elementalist currently are. THeir low damage, low armor and hp is one of the most insane things about this game To me. There is no logic that I see, other than cuz they have a lot of skills.

I hate having to go into water to make a decent survivable build.

So you have to put points in a defensive trait line to play a defensive build? Don’t see what’s wrong with it.

We should get the option to show the chest part or not, would be cool to run around shirtless

Agreed, those builds are just annoying and ruin solo q

When are we going to get more informations on them? So far only Druid is officially confirmed or is there any new information that I somehow missed?

Edit: Not sure if I should have posted in HoT section or here…

Try both races in hotjoin or unranked and play a bit. You will see all animations and you can decide better then

Thanks for the tips, I’ll try it tomorrow with low settings.

Anyone else crashing a lot there lately? It’s really hard to do the event because I crash every single time and end up in an empty map…Never had a single crash before all the small patches lately

WTFast helped me a lot, you should try it

I saw a Thief teleporting on a bridge in Stronghold in the GW2 HoT livestream, so I’m confused now…

Well I know my ping is higher than usually too, from 150 to like 190 and lag spikes

Well I started having lag recently too,hope it will be better after next reset ._.

Anyone else started having bad lag spikes 2 days ago? I’m from EU(Germany) and playing on Anvil Rock and my ping is around ~150ms but I get huge lag spikes every 30 seconds or so. Wondering if there’s anyone else from EU playing on NA servers and having problems since 2 days ago. Used to be perfectly fine before