Guild Wars 2

In my day we put in 12-hour days in WvW, dumped our scarce gold into upgrades, all without ANY rewards —- AND WE LIKED IT!

Good day!

Unity Gaming Org is launching its first Guild Wars 2 NA & EU 5v5 Monthly Tournaments this June. The aim is to provide a monthly avenue for players to compete for cash prizes. We are working in partnership with matcherino.com. This is a crowd funding website which gives the community a chance to donate directly to the prize pool fund.

Tournament Information:

EU Tournament – 11th June – 2pm BST/3pm CEST Start Time
NA Tournament – 18th June – 2pm EDT/11am PDT Start Time

Signups:
EU – https://goo.gl/6xBqj3
NA – https://goo.gl/Tggplg

Prizing
1st Place: Cash prizing will be available for a Total of 65% share of the total prizepool raised. (Should the prizepool remain at $50 they receive the total amount)

2nd Place: Cash prizing will be available for a total of 35% of the total prizepool (Subject to over $50 being raised, otherwise in game currency will be issued)

3rd Place: 500 Gold (100 Gold per player, subject to community goals reached for 2nd place prizing)

Please visit our Matcherino Page for NA & EU below. Please note that most funding happens during the tournament livestream, but you can begin to donate now. Timings of streams will be announced closer to the event. You can donate your FREE dollar (50 free codes per Tournament) to both NA & EU tournaments. Just click DONATE at the top right of the regions matcherino page to donate or enter that free dollar!

NA Matcherino Donation Page: https://matcherino.com/b/tournaments/6248/description
Free $ Code – UGONA

EU Matcherino Donation Page: https://matcherino.com/b/tournaments/5804/description
Free $ Code UGOEU

All donations go straight to the players themselves. If you purchase a reward, a % of that purchase goes towards the overall prize pool for that region.
You may also donate Gold to the tournament, as we want to supply 3rd place prizing with a 500 gold prize per tournament. Any gold raised over this figure will rollover to the next tournament and also given away in chat during the tournament streams.

NOTE: Gold donations can be sent to jebb.6819 & jebro.6370 (we may add accounts if amounts exceed the weekly mail total).

Teams that wish to take part in the Tournament must also join our discord: https://discord.gg/yxUgDVW . This is to make communication easier and to solve any issues leading up to or on the day of the tournament.

We are so happy to bring you this tournament! If the first tournament is successful, we’ll continue with regional tournaments once per month. We are also looking into in-game rewards for other events such as 1v1s, 2v2s AND 5v5s so stay tuned for news on those.

STAFF: We are still looking for Admins and casters for both regions. Please join the discord here to enquire about joining our staff and to join the tournament/community:
https://discord.gg/yxUgDVW

As always, if you have ANY questions or comments please do not hesitate to leave them below.

Many thanks

Unity Gaming Org Team.

Toughness tanks work as intended, though; lots of mitigation with little damage or inconsistent damage.

The irony is that toughness tanks already are the unquestionable gods of survival: It’s called Dire and Trailblazer gear which have main-stat condition damage. Even zergs despite having huge cleansing are running these kits now because condition builds just apply too many conditions too quickly for even the massive cleansing to keep up.

A majority of the mitigation at this point in the game comes from % damage reduction effects which hit power builds instead of condition builds.

For example, I can run take a build with almost 4k power and 241 crit damage with another +70% in additional bonus damage on a high-scaling coefficient and hit a condi scrapper or druid for 1k, which if glass would be 6k, which if not running the defensive bonuses would be well over 20k.

They’ve already removed stats from the game before, and have given out compensatory-select-stat item replacements. They actually did this when Dire gear was added to the game because Magic Find was removed. So everyone just rerolled into their preference. I don’t see why this couldn’t happen again. Not to mention dire/tb gear only dominate WvW; they’re deemed too overpowered for sPvP options and because they don’t pump optimal damage, aren’t used in PvE. It’s just bloat that makes WvW less-balanced for little to no justified reason.

Cleanses aren’t distributed well enough across build options for how accessible conditions currently are. If so many professions couldn’t unload 15+ stacks of varying conditions every few seconds, the notion has merit. The problem is when you have so many builds inflicting several different types of conditions very quickly over and over while still demanding things like stunbreaks and other utility from the opponent, all the while being inherently tanky.

And while I think just making power-based DoTs would have been a smarter solution earlier, it’d be a huge task to undo at this point. That much I’ll give you.

I wouldn’t mind conditions as much if they required a build to be a bit less durable to deal damage (I can engage with 6-8k poison ticks + 2k confusion + weakness on a thief or 8-12k burning ticks on a guard), but Dire/TB is really excessive in terms of its raw durability.

Wonder Woman in honor of her movie coming out soon

Pretty big thread just to kill a bunch of npcs lol.

Goats are like mushrooms. If you shoot a duck, I’m scared of toasters.

i dont hate thief just wish there was more good ones

PvP is still PvP.

Passives vs Passives.

Why can’t it give out cake and ice cream so we can all just get along?

This goes back to the bigger issue of passive abilities in general. There are too many fail safe abilities in the game and I’m relatively sure they’re there to keep the average player from getting frustrated with the game. Get stunned? No need to have any reaction time and use an ability the game will do it for you. Almost dead? Don’t need to worry about using an invulnerability, block, or heal the game will do it for you. All of that needs to be fixed, not just one trait.

Looks like the Thief forums finally broke Vincent for good.

Ladiez and Gentlemenz.

I present to you.

GW2.

Where players will whine to nerf your class into oblivion because they cannot play, and then whine when you still play it in its crippled state because now it negatively effects them by crippling their team instead of being hard to fight.

10/10 rating.
Guild wars 2: “Lol you thought you can eat the cake and still have it?”

Horrible warrior & thief — absolutely braindead and shameful build. As a thief main anyone who plays or supports this build should just uninstall and play Minesweeper.

Can’t wait until condi application reveal is implemented.

PS: I don’t know why people STILL don’t know that staying inside Black Powder (the red rings…. hello??) prevent thieves from stacking stealth. Its been 3 years guys…

Valarius.9437:

BobbyT.7192:

this is pretty big guys, the first thief op thread in a long time….i predict a 25% nerf to pistols in the future.

Thieves can no longer attack somebody who is already fighting another player.

Runescape PTSD memories lol…

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Vornollo.5182:

With our survivability? I’d say Nomads gear and you’re a goner.

I’ve been so concerned about maintaining a balancing act, but…yeah. Nobody else on the dev team seems to care about it. Karl either needs to talk some sense in to them or needs to let go like the rest of them.

Screw it. Give BD a full 2-second block with a 10s CD, allow a dodge toggle with proper GM traits, make EA baseline with DF, make Vault a full evade with 5 ini, give Dust Strike a Smoke Field.

I don’t care anymore.

I’ve been playing thief since beta of gw2 and dd ele as 2nd class since release of gw2.
I got tons of duel exp vs dd eles, as Lord Asura, Intigo and other top dd eles.
Like previous posts says. The fight are in heavy favor to dd ele, but you can still win if he do a mistake and you play perfectly.

This is from a d/p pov. (both from spvp and wvw)
You have to hit every steal, if you miss one to blind or whatever, stealth and reset the fight until steal is up. (unless the ele is on low hp).
When you know he have Armor of Earth off cd, save your steal until he use it, you can bait him to use it with basi venoms. You also wanna time your steal if possible so you steal armor of earth when he swap to earth attunement. So you take all of his protection. That’s the time you wanna play really aggressive, he wont have protection but you do.
Save Ice Shard until he have done all his condi clears in water attunement (water 5 and water dodge). And it’s really important that you hit all your Ice Shards and don’t do 2 Ice Shards in a row (in case he condi clear it with traits or cleansing fire)
Always when he swap to fire, be very careful to not get hit by anything. And be ready to dodge burning speed + lightning flash.
Try to daze his water 2 and water 5, to give him less sustain and kitten up his rotation.
Keep blinding the ele with Shadow Shot, (in a smart way, you don’t want to spam) so he misses most of his stuff.
You want to save Shadowstep for updraft, because you can’t dodge updraft unless you know it’s coming.

Try to think a step ahead also, so you can predict what the ele will do. Most eles, are doing the same rotation all the time, so it’s easy to read what they will do. But you also have to notice when they are camping an attunement. That’s when they are up to something tricky. For example Earthquake + Lightning Flash into Fire burst.

In my opinion it’s always fun to 1v1 a dd ele as thief. Because then you get the chance to show that you can outplay someone that is playing a class with heavy favor to them.

To everyone who actually thought we were getting rifle GIVEN the data mined image before hand:

condi thieves are scrubs anyway

Why one might run this setup in my opinion:

• People think youre condi p/d and waste condi cleanse while its actually the power killing them, giving you an advantage
• You like to play ranged power + stealth capabilities
• You like this set in general
• You are in a situation where you have to fight heavy condi counters
• You want to run something different than meta
• This list can go on

I can imagine this build being fun and usefull to play in some situations, where I think condi is better in other situations.
After all this is just a “PHIW”-discussion and there is no right or wrong here. It doesn’t matter if this setup is designed for one or another, its how you play it that makes it one or another. Even if x setup be better y setup, there is still no reason not to run anything other.
If running one thing makes you enjoy the game more than running anything else, doesnt that make it the most “effective” thing for you?

To be honest, I think meta makes you predictable.

My 2 cents

Every new nerf to thieves makes me stronger tbh consider it a new challenge if u r a really good thief u will prevail

King Noob IV.3560:

even if i had a tiny imagination i would still rip off a character like ezio than look like a class that isn’t the one i’m playing

But then you’re currently doing it wrong. :/ You’d need to rip off Garrett.

bring a necro with you.

Weapons. Runes. Sigils. Skills. Traits.

Rotations. Strategy. Role.

Capital letters at the start of a sentence.

sasoriaka.6348:

I want perma stealth, no reveal and 1,200 range backstabs. Otherwise, I don’t feel like playing a real rogue. Anyone knows how? Thanks.

Living Story, play as Caithe.

-nod nod-