Guild Wars 2

Captain Obvious.6951:

I’m so tired of this millennial generation where they think they should get a trophy just for showing up.

I have never met a millennial that thought like this. Besides, your baby boomer generation is who gave said millennials those trophies.

Some people PvP ONLY for the rewards, regardless of win/loss. That reward is for time investment, the top 250 rewards are the skill reward that rewards winning.

Why do I feel like I am the only person in existence that likes Necro the way it is? The only change I was sad about was Signets of Suffering. That was my headlining trait in PvP that got me to Platinum for the first time.

I genuinely feel that Necro is in a good spot. I never have trouble in any LFG group I’ve ever joined.

What’s the record, of one has been set, for 100 cm? Just completed it last night with a necro in party in 16 minutes 45 seconds. They can do what they want with their guild, but to exclude them for such a reason seems odd.

Hooglese.4860:

Scourge
I don’t think anyone thinks this is good in PvP at the moment. I can see it being a Raid meta for the insane condi dmg output but it’s so squishy and easy to avoid in PvP there’s little chance it will be used at high levels. At low levels its a hoot though, because the damage is so friggen high.

I do.

This is insanely strong. I handled a 1v2 vs two people playing Mirage and Firebrand, then again after they swapped to things they are VERY familiar with and did it again.

Maybe it’s just me, but Scourge knows how to survive a lot better than you’d think despite the life force not being an extra health mechanic.

Feanor.2358:

SmirkDog.3160:

Just…. play how you want…………..

Right, because it is totally fair to my teammates to fill a dps slot and deal half the damage another dps spec would?

If the content gets beaten, why does it matter?

In any content I have cleared, I have never compared damage. Who does the most, least, etc. Because it doesn’t matter. There will always be someone dealing the least amount in a party.

I did fine as a necro. I did die sure, but for the most part 1v1s went in my favor this season.

Checkbox would have been a solution BEFORE the invisible skin existed. They chose this option.

People trying to push the envelope a little further and further.

I tell everyone I know that uses one to use at their own risk and not to expect sympathy for an account ban due to third party program.

I have a friend be banned permanently just recently, claiming the only thing he had was arcDPS.

I disagree with the points about how they will be OP as a selling point. I think thats blatantly wrong. If it were true, Mirage would out DPS Chrono and provide as much party support. It does one of those things, sacrificing the other.

Soulbeast will never have party the support of Druid.

Spellbreaker will be inferior to Berserker.

Herald will out perform Renegade

These are all for end game pve content and NOT discussing PvP.

Take the Scourge trait that replaces Deathly Chill. It has a 3 second cool down for a reason. It will be strong, but not game breaking strong like Deathly Chill currently is.

In the open world thats different, since it doesn’t matter what you are running.

It was changed to bring condi in line with power.

Before you say “just make power food better”. That’s power creep. We don’t need power creep.

Weaver and Scourge look to be the best two for end game content. The rest may not replace the HoT counterparts. Holosmith may I guess.

I use power necro in T4s and challenge motes and condi while raiding and dont have any issues.

But i appreciate the “dead” weight pun

I do.

Back when Itzel Poison Lore was needed it really felt like my character grew and matured after finally obtaining it.

The only thing I would change is showing the mastery rank of others.

Signets of Suffering – the main reason for my success in PvP since Season 5, has been changed. Not a nerf or a buff, or rather too soon to say, but I am sad that it no longer does what it does and now I need to come up with something else to succeed with

Caeledh.5437:

Warcry.1596:

Assuming each skill behaves like shroud skills, shroud 1 will also apply Dhuumfire.

Scourge not-shroud skill 1 is Manifest Sand Shade. Unlike shroud skill 1s, it doesn’t seem to be a cooldown-free basic attack which you can spam.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Manifest_Sand_Shade

Max count 3. Count recharge 15s.

Maybe Dhuumfire will apply when sand shades attack on casting another shade ability?

Makes sense!

nekretaal.6485:

What nobody else has talked about yet is that the Scorge F1 is basically a turret and pvpers in this game hate hate hate turrets. I expect that all abilities tied to turret like activation will be nerfed into uselessness. Don’t count on them.

Assuming each skill behaves like shroud skills, shroud 1 will also apply Dhuumfire.

Ending season at 1555. I got as high as 16— something but hit a small losing streak and fluctuated around 1540-1580 the rest of the way. I also only played 56 games this season due to laziness and lack of interest in a title.

As for my build, I strip a lot of boons (but don’t use Corrupt Boon), it’s best for 1v1 fights against Guardians Elementalists and Engineers.

Consider this:

Guardian’s Dragonhunter and Firebrand have their virtues modified in different ways. Choosing both – how would that work? Which would take priority? You can’t have both of these.

Or any profession that has its profession mechanic modified in any particular way.

Shaogin.2679:

Dropdown.7460:

Yup. One less customer and one less PvP player in an already shallow pool.

Pretty sure Anet could lose every PvP player and not care due to the much much larger PvE playerbase. PvP is just a side mode. This is a PvE game.

Ithilwen.1529:

TDM and defending have both been tried, with poor results.

There are non-meta things that work. I play a vanilla PU Mesmer with some success. I think it’s partly because people have trained themselves to respond to specific builds and “rotations”.

My PU build doesn’t do what a Mesmer is “supposed to” do. No one streams it. Hence… many players don’t know how to respond.

That’s one of the dangers of having such a defined “meta.”

To be fair, don’t you play in Bronze or Silver? I suspect the success of your build has more to do with the quality of your opponents rather than the element of surprise.

Yeah, don’t make it sound like Legendary is some prestigious thing. Or like Bronze is terrible. The skill floor between these is probably quite small.

I’m in Platinum for example, and I don’t think I deserve to be. Especially since my duo partner is a Silver tier player and she is a bigger reason for the success than I am.

Aside from Nos i have not heard of any of these people and i have been playing actively since launch

Deathly Chill change to: “Deal more damage to chilled foes”

Maybe we’ll revisit the Tomb of the Primeval Kings :O

Did they say what the change will be? I can’t watch the video right now. Or will it just change to be power oriented like “Deal 10% more damage to chilled foes” or something.

Andromeda.8293:

Warcry.1596:

I didn’t know they paid others to use their accounts. I never heard of such a claim.

You never heard of such a claim because it’s completely false, we didn’t pay anyone to play our accounts.

Vallun streamed all our matches with coms if anyone wants to look.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/161241168

We all played our mains, coms are there for all the matches

I didn’t think so.

I guess that guy just thinks all good players are cheaters.

I didn’t know they paid others to use their accounts. I never heard of such a claim.

Azukas.1426:

They should get perm dishonored as well is all that they deserve

Why do you say this?

narcx.3570:

While I get why they were banned… And I understand the ToS, I can also understand why they thought this would be okay to do—given anet’s long history of being fine with people selling raid clears and achievements.

The difference here is this is done in game, selling in game currency for in game services. They were punished for RMT and account sharing.

Nos.9803:

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

Being apart of something like this takes away any heroic accomplishment you may have had. =(

TexZero.7910:

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/List_of_paragon_skills

Lets just go through this together then

Brace yourselves – Sounds and functions oddly familiar to Stand Your Ground
Fall Back – Sounds and functions oddly familiar to Retreat
Find their Weakness – Sounds and functions oddly familiar to On My Mark

I could continue on here but its painfully obvious that they bundled some paragon skills together and shipped them as shouts for both Warrior and Guardian.

The more you know

Stand Your Ground is a Paragon skill in GW1.

Retreat is a Warrior skill in GW1.

While you are correct in your assessment, I read your post as If those skills didn’t exist.

Then buy two different bloodstone amulets, or however many you’ll need for your builds. Bitterfrost Frontier can get you enough Berries for one item everyday, assuming you have at least 6 characters. It will take 12 days to get you two sets of all items.

If you arent willing to do that to solve your problem, then the problem is you.

The expansion, according to leaks, will have mounts that will do that. Provide temporary transport across gaps, up cliffs, across other terrain.

SkyShroud.2865:

I have zero idea on NSP geodemographic.

So why did you bother saying anything in this thread? :p

Doubt it. There is less than 25 Fractals so in each tier for now one that is duplicated is being removed.

Reaper Alim.4176:

You’ve answered your question your self. You have to duo queue, or be able to 1v5 the enemy team and win. In order to climb out of silver.

Solo queuing in this game and Paragon, is a highly punishable offence.

I actually have done better overall playing solo than with a partner. The only exception is when my partner was a silver tier (I’m Platinum) and we have won about 70% of our matches. But I started this season in Plat after going 7-3 on my placements, all solo

AllNightPlayer.1286:

Why is there no /gg command in the PvP?
In 90% of the cases you know after the first 3 minutes, if your team is going to win or not. Going /gg would be faster and easier, than to go afk and wait for a quick end.

Having been down 140-5 or so in the first 3 minutes. Sometimes even larger deficits, only to comeback and win, i have never ever given up on a match.

I’m around low-mid Platinum using my own build that basically relies on boon corrupting and condi transfer. I don’t run Consume Conditions so if my transfers miss or are blocked it is a major weakness. But it works and I have had major success with it considering I haven’t been anywhere near Platinum before.

Sarrs.4831:

80 second cooldown. You should practically never take Plaguelands without Master of Corruption.

I don’t use it in PvP. I use Path of Corruption. Only because it synergizes better with my build and the only Corruption skill I use is Plaguelands.

This is why:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Haste

Usually losses happen when the opposing team is better than you. Thats how my losses have been.

Devilman.1532:

We deal with the same cheaters and match manipulation garbage in NA. ANet does nothing at all. Never has never will.

They actually just did just over a week ago. And seeing people with1 or 2 losses doesnt mean they are cheating.

I’ve been having a great season. Middle of Platinum, still climbing. I have never been this high up before.

Just play your game and do your best every time.

I made it to Platinum with my Necromancer… But I don’t use either axe or dagger.

Just did placements recently and went 7/3. Placed into the first tier of Platinum as a result which was an entire division higher than I’ve ever been.

I enjoy it, Vipers/Sinister is tricky to survive team fights but if you can you win the game for your team.

I need two more to complete the collection, but yes, a new system may be a good idea. At least some way to work towards them rather than rely on drops.

Non participating people do scale events, dead or not. However, I have never, in nearly 5 years of GW2, seen that because someone is defeated, and 5 people to to revive, as that causing an event to fail.

I’m not defending the action of not waypointing, but really, 6 people not dealing damage for 5-10 seconds is hardly anything based on the fight scaled to probably 60+ people.

Oh its based on total war score, not combined Skirmish score! Okay then. Can still theoretically be tied.

My issue is a hypothetical situation but one that is realistically possible.

84 skirmishes in a week. What happens if one server wins 30 of them. Another wins 28, and the third wins 26. Assuming 2nd and third are similarly distributed and points are razor close. I don’t think any server deserves to climb up another tier nor do I think a server deserves to drop a tier in such a match up. I think they are do evenly matched that it shouldn’t separate them.

Put another rune in another piece of armor

Iron Marches is my least favorite because there is absolutely nothing there. Its so bland :|

On the other end, Harathi Hinterlands and Mount Maelstrom are my favs.

It’s a courtesy, but generally I’ve always allowed for the person who is furthest away to grab first. Once that person does then we’re all set.