Guild Wars 2

This might feel unfair to some people with very slow pc and unstable connection, but if you can’t guarantee yourself a fast enough pc and stable connection, you are ruining the game for 4 other people, so this is an easy decision to punish just one. Sometimes unexpected things happens to everyone, but that’s just the randomness of life…

My main was mesmer norn male for 3 years, thanks to anet fashion designers I had it enough and just swapped to female. Rocking tits for 2 years now

After more than 5 years playing mesmer, I’m disappointed, deeply disappointed with anet. Any build you want is better if you don’t use new elite spec. We got worst of both worlds, low dps with glass cannon survivability

Bought expansion on friday and I’m already kittened

I’m really happy to see so many people have got their wish come true. kitten I love this community <3

Here goes nothing :P I’m an old player, with some big pauses made here and there. I started as very casual player and so for long I never even considered legendary weapons. Tonight I came to conclusion that I really want to craft Bolt for my main mesmer
I’m currently doing my daily fractals and and slowly gathering gold to buy precursor, but I hear that this is only fraction of the cost of the final item =/
I would gladly accept any donation that would help me craft my first legendary weapon – Bolt. Thanks in advance!
I’ll keep this comment updated when some progress is made
I’m from Gandara EU.

I’m english speaking with teamspeak. I’m friendly and patient person

Main raid char: Full Meta Chronobunker (druid and rev for backup)

Main pvp: Condi chrono & Supp Dragonhunter (druid, rev when I’m bored)

Had a lot of training on VG with pugs, but never got a kill. Got to diamond under 100 matches. Total matches are close to 1700.

Mail me Weerus.3701 or send a private message.

Very good for pve and good for pvp too! When playing ranked pvp I used to sometimes go in with lb/gs ranger. Dominated pretty much every duel with gs. Had a specific build for it wich I don’t know from my head at the moment – would have to sit down and make it again

If it’s not in metabattle, it does not mean it is not good or usefull. Guides there are usually a bit short sighted and ment for strict group of 5ppl, where we know that most ppl soloq and ppl NEED to be carried a lot of times.

It’s not the hardest class to master, tho its not easiest to play too. I’d say the roles that chrono must take in group content are the hardest, thus making this class a bit harder to play than others.

I think proper guardian build can compete and frankly out heal druid. One of the chars I play in ranked pvp is supp dragon hunter. This week I managed twice to get to 600k healing

You missed something here, more crap loot requires more inventory space = people are buying inventory slots from tp = profit for anet. So, your suggestion is invalid. I feel your pain tho, in no game have I been getting so much crap loot :P

Sure at first glance that would solve the problem….for ppl that get easily offended, and I can’t stand ppl like that. You have the power to create party for whatever content you like yourself.

With that being said, I always took everyone to any content even T4 fracs with below recommended AR and carried them if needed. Ppl are all different, so expect to be treated differently.

I love how you would break the merchants legs for your mistake hahah XD

Nice video, cleared some doubts

Nokaru.7831:

Healing druids are really nice for Mai Trin scale 100.

For raiding I think Druid is going to be something that people will have different opinions about depending on their team, but it’s generally safer to go more healing flavored than damage flavored to be more useful to your team. If you need to lower your toughness without losing healing, you can use Magi accessories. The ascended ones are a pain to get (Need to complete Honor of the Waves and Twilight Arbor collections), but it’s a nice thing to work towards while you’re not raiding. You can always use the exotic ones, they only cost a little bit of Karma. The Tiger and Electric Wyvern are pretty good choices for most fights in raids.

If you have any more doubts, you can watch this video about druids: (Link) It’s pretty comprehensive.

Thank you, will check that video I use current build for fractals. It was build with raiding in mind

Warhorn 4 skill procs everytime I swap pets, combined with tiger it gives nice fury uptime and electric wyvern is there because I heard its strongest cc for ranger. Axe provides a cc and reflect which combos nice with fields, thats why I went for it. I have fernhound ready if more heals needed.

It was a challenge but I got it after 20 tries or so..

I went with Magi armor with Monk runes, Cleric jewelry and Zerk back piece – I have Zerk jewelry as a 2nd set in case I need to lower my toughness. Weapons are Staff and Sword/Axe Zerk stats with water and blood sigil – blood sigil to help me fill avatar bar. Pets are electro wyvern for cc and tiger for fury on demand. With that I took precision utility and heal power food.

This imho give me enough personal dps, utility as well as survivability and healing power.

Your opinion on this build?

Gudradain.3892:

fishball.7204:

Weerus.3701:

Hello

I have raid ready chrono and revenant so far. Now I want to make heal spec druid. I heard they are very usefull for raids as well as dungeons and fractals.

I have ascended gear ready and and enough currency to buy jewlery I need. So wich stats should I focus for armor/weapon/jewlery? Any other things I need to be aware of?

p.s. looking for raid group

Thanks

The guys that replied above me are skilled raiders with guild groups that are trying to min max their damage.

In general if you aren’t going for record runs or in a guild group then you need to realize that the tradeoff for a little DPS gain (zealots) is not worth the cost or the risk associated with it.

Most pug or semi casual groups tend to be ok with magi/clerics mix for healing druid since your main job is to heal and not be top tier DPS. Top tier DPS is managed by you keeping scholars bonus and GOTL up for your allies.

The only thing to consider really when you build your druid, is to have multiple sets of trinkets (Magi, Clerics) so you can swap out in case you have more toughness than the tank (Aim for 1100-1500 toughness). The tank needs to aggro the boss by having highest toughness so you have to be lower than them on your druid.

Also, zealots is extremely expensive in price and that money imo is far better spent just gearing up another character instead in addition to gearing a Magi/Clerics druid.

This is the best answer.

So magi stats for armors/weapons and cleric stats for jewelry? About weapons, do you have 2 staffs? Or is 1 weapon of your choosing?

Edit: Suggested sigils runes to go with the set? I guess monk runes? For weapon Sigil of Water and Transferance?

are you saying that healing build is not good enough?

Hello

I have raid ready chrono and revenant so far. Now I want to make heal spec druid. I heard they are very usefull for raids as well as dungeons and fractals.

I have ascended gear ready and and enough currency to buy jewlery I need. So wich stats should I focus for armor/weapon/jewlery? Any other things I need to be aware of?

p.s. looking for raid group

Thanks

Please, we talk about fractal avengers? Really? Any cc skill (or invisible skill when they finish stomp) would deny them. If you know how to lower bosses break bar, you know how to save your self. Also I suggest being more selective with pugs, in my day to day games, downed ppl get ressed pretty much instantly.

Reaper Alim.4176:

Weerus.3701:

You are getting offtopic here, we are not talking about how to maximize pip gain, but rather how to punis toxic/afk ppl. We need sanctions for low honor ppl not more pips.

Hahaha you are really dull in the head aren’t you. Try to work a 8 hour shift in real and earn nothing no worse loss money from it because you was was not luckier then Sam that got the easy mode project to do. If you truly want GW2’s pvp to die then yes lets punish everyone of afking in matches that are already decided. Didn’t need those extra cattle to feed to the pre mades or one who deserve to win by divine right. Right? GW2’s pvp don’t need more players to decrease already long queues. GW2 pvp needs less players around to make queues longer because having to wait 3 hours plus for a match that’s already stacked, that will take 2 to 4 mins to win or loss is much more fun, right?

Ask your self these one…. Why is this game the only one in the whole of competitive eSports with this problem. AHH, yes now you get it right, I at least hope you get it. If not then if people like you are who ANet’s listening to, then GW2 atleast in the pvp theme has no future what so ever. I’ve seen many PvP games die because of reasons as such with a broken stacked MMS.

Dude, I needed 200 games to reach diamond, so I’m not a guy with fancy mmr. I am working 8 hours/day and guess what, I’m not getting paid, because I’m on practice education – you point fails miserably at this point.

I did have the problem with 50% win/loss ratio, and what did I do? I stopped looking at current meta and wen’t for a build I had most success before divisions got introduced. And I didn’t afk on a single game during my 1500 matches!

Being a good necro/rev got me nowhere if people would not focus and safe stomp/ress my dps and cc would go to waste – I suggest you run auramancer or bunker guard, because now days you seem to carry soloq teams by safe stomping/ressing. Now I hardly die and can hold a points for a longer periods of time – effectively giving my team time to focus on other things. Reaching diamond made game even easier, because it’s a rare sight to see unskilled people.

End of the point is, you can do many things about bad matches, but afking/leaving a game should be punishable big time! And just for the reference, we strted with 10:120 and won, we were at 320/460 and won, so stop f@king afking/leaving and play at your best. In case you are not willing to improve on that aspect, I hope they introduce a tier loss in emerald so you never even touch my games.

You are getting offtopic here, we are not talking about how to maximize pip gain, but rather how to punis toxic/afk ppl. We need sanctions for low honor ppl not more pips.

Silmar Alech.4305:

OBS is very lightweight, if it is able to use some hardware encoder. For me it has approx. 8-10% CPU usage recording a 1080×1200 video at 30 fps. Quicksync for Intel CPUs (even if you use an extra graphics card), NVENC for Nvidia GPUs. It is available, if you can choose it in the encoder dropdown box.

Ramp up the bitrate for local recordings to get a good quality, or better use a quality-based encoding method instead of bitrate-based.

Ok, I will try OBS when I home from work. I use resolution of 1600×900, but I can probably make it look normal on 1366×768 too. Beside nVidia 840M this laptop has na integrated Intel HD graphic card.
I have no idea what are you talking about bitrate, probably I will understand when I install the program?

If you need any help or just want to hang around and play together hit me up Weerus.3701

Edit: I’m on EU Gandara if you are wondering WvW wise, I could also ask for you to be invited in our guild, its one of the biggest around.

Is there any decent lightweight program that I could use to record some pvp matches? I never attempted anything like that so I would appreciate all the help.

I’m using 1,5 year old laptop:
i7 4th gen
840m
8gb ram
240gb ssd 540 r&w

I think ice ele on snowblind is annoying :<

geez, and I tought my w/l ratio was low :O

How about a better report with an actual functionality?

If a player would accumulate enough reports in certain time frame, he should get a a temporary ban via automated system. Because this functions could maybe be abused, there should be dedicated support, that would review tickets considering this matter and resolve them quickly by log checks etc.

Reality would be, that almost 100% of bans would be in place and should fix the toxicity. More report options could be added for staff to get a clearer picture of reports (assisting enemy team, verbal abuse, toxic behavior, etc. – I heard about pvp botting so maybe report for that too).

Someone explain me this.

Few days ago I climbed to diamond after quite a hell. Now games are as fun as they could be. Only played few and I’m filling 2nd stack. If I happen to loose a game it’s very close and I can tell everyone put in their max effort, so I don’t even feel bad or have the need to blame.

I’d also like to say that during month of pvping trough sapphire and ruby my win ratio dropped significantly and I still wonder how many matches will I have to make to get it back, because my game pool is quite big.

Acandis.3250:

Weerus.3701:

Your solution doesn’t fix the problem of joining a season late, when everything you would end up being teamed up with is..

I don’t think you finished your first sentence so I’m not sure what issue you’re referring to.
Personally, I don’t see any issues with joining a season late. If anything, the later in the season you play, the easier the games in lower division will be—in the current system.

Weerus.3701:

And with no bonus pips after loose streaks you would effective be trapped in certain division being forced to grind trough xxx matches to cross that division. Nothing left for you in ranked till the end of the season.

I don’t understand your issue here. Evan has explained there is no MMR skip when crossing division thresholds; your games aren’t getting any harder to win once you cross to the new division.

The only reason people think they’re losing a lot more when they get to Ruby, is because suddenly people that could safely advance a tier by getting a few lucky games in a row and then tanking a bunch of games without dropping a tier, can actually drop to a lower tier, now. So naturally, Ruby 1 & 2 becomes the mystical “MMR Hell”.

Breaking your lose-streak won’t make it any easier for you to get out of this artificial Ruby black hole, but I could see how it might help you in Emerald and Sapphire.

Either way, it is a bad mechanic seeing as someone who loses 3 in a row, and then wins 3 in a row should be at a 0 net pips, but in actuality ends up with +2 net pips.

This seems all well and good for helping players slowly advance out of Emerald and Sapphire, where there is that 4 & 5 pip safety net every tier, but it is creating artificially horrible matches for 99% of players that make it to Ruby.

However, it is important to understand that spoonfeeding people out of lower divisions doesn’t prepare them for the quality of matches they’ll be placed in in higher divisions.

It is much better to create a system in which players are placed and held at their proper division until they have improved enough to advance. That way, every division will have mostly even matches—instead of what we see now, which is mostly uneven matches, across every division.

I thought it’s easy to understand. When you join late in the season, only the “thrash” is left in lower divisions. That doesn’t make your games particularly easy. Sure it makes you win 1v1 and possibly 2v1 easily, but thats now how you win a match, remember? Imho it even increases stomp rates (100:500 or even worst), because not everyone is equally kittened.

Considering pips, the game should do fine if they would increase ranked requirements. Devs are more likely to lock players out of ranked untill 200 games on character done, than reconfigure whole system. Think of bad matches as a symptom, and for complete cure you should focus at the root of the problem. People started massively playing pvp for the wings and thus bringing their pve or achivement kitten skills. Increasing requirements for participation in ranked would fix everything.

What I don’t like as a chrono is the part of high lvl fractals where mobs steal buffs on hit. It’s not a fun mechanic because it’s hard to keep some quickness on teammates. The content doesn’t get more challenging, it just adds some mins to the timer because of lower dps.

Lexander.4579:

sorry babe but pvp players are like cream, good ones rise to the top

lol :’D

Aenaos.8160:

Tiefsee.3647:

Great! I hope they add some farming places on all PvP matches – then i can go farming in pvp! =D

Gathering nodes in PvP maps.
You can only gather if your team controls the point.
Your team earns 10 points per node fully gathered.
New amulet.
Gatherer’s.
20 Vitality
+10% Gathering speed
20 Healing Power
+15% Gathering Speed
20 Ferocity -Whenever you fully gather a node you call down an air strike for 10 sec.
Damage (10x)30.000 ,Burn(10 sec),Bleed(12sec),Chill(10sec),Poison(30 sec)
Radius 3000
100 Condition Damage 15% Gathering Speed

ahahaha :’D

is ghostly a raid infusion?

valheru.7891:

you can combine +1 agony infusions yourself if you have a character that has artifician.. And don’t worry about the +1 agony infusions. Just buy the +5 at the vendor for starter. You only need the +1 or more if you have infuse asc rings/backpack

What he said. You want however get there to swap standard +5 agony infusions to +7
Good luck farming Tyria exp and masteries ^^

Crafting will not bring you profit or save you money however. Just buy ++ infusions directly from trading post. If you are serious about fractals target +12 infusions. This will leave you with enough room to swap amulet for 20% magic find for example.

With amount of gold and ascended chests daily fractals are spewing today, I think they are overboosted. Hell I don’t do anything else for profit than daily fractals.

Previously you got 1 chests with chance of asc drop, now you get 12. Whats there to complain?!

In less then one month I got 8 asc chests, some golden weapons and a min of 10g per full daly run. They are in as good position as ever, fear the nerf if anything…

Edit: they are however deeply neglected in form of a new instances, tho they have announced new ones. Better late then never eh?

queing from pve maps would be awesome)

lmao, Imagine rich ori ore spawning in pvp maps every minute :P hahahaha

Your solution doesn’t fix the problem of joining a season late, when everything you would end up being teamed up with is..

And with no bonus pips after loose streaks you would effective be trapped in certain division being forced to grind trough xxx matches to cross that division. Nothing left for you in ranked till the end of the season.

Mister Fluffkin.7358:

You guys are paranoid! And you completly overestimate MMR´s. Look at any other game that displays the rating, a player with rating 1500 for example won´t loose every match against a player with a rating of 1600 per default. There´s much more important things like a good teamcomp, no raging/afk kids in your team or your daily constitution. Just play the freaking game and do your best…

It´s also laughable how people talk about “carried by premade” or brag about getting legendary by soloq like this would be extremly skillfull. All those guys have propably never queued as a premade, otherwise they would know that 80% of your matchups will be against other premades.
It´s by far more difficult to farm pips in a 5 man premade than in soloq, since you will fight good teamcomps all day instead of pure bunker/damage comps every 2nd match. Soloq is much more about luck for a good teamcomp. Queing as a premade is much more about skill/teamplay instead. Comments like this just shows the pve heroes who swarmed pvp since theres a backpack to farm…

Ofc he won’t loose every game, you are just stating the obvious. It is more like loose 5 and win 1. And comparing 1500 to 1600 is like comparing 80% win streak to 90% win streak, a bit silly isn’kitten
How about a ruined mmr of 600 vs 1600? Still, low chance would have it that on xx match a good player with high mmr gets bad player with high mmr (obviously carried guy) in match and thus giving a chance to 600mmr ppl that got stuck there by missfortune.

I agree to some extend that soloq is easier. I played few matches – we were 3 premades and got matches against a guild team. Guess what? 2 in 3 chance is they suck. If your team is at least medicore at fighting and applies map mechanic to a match, its a sure win. While in soloq, a lot of time 3/4 ppl are a good fighters, but lack the knowledge to win the game. Winning the fight != winning a match and spvp != deathmatch.

I mean how could I not complain about some players that are obviously trying to fly without the wings, but suddenly they appeared in space and have no way of manuvering (in matter of speach). They are just way out of their league!

I WILL SAY THIS AGAIN: I think that problem is joining on the last month of the seaon and nothing else, if they would make ranked requirements way higher, even last week of ranked would be enjoyable. You have to admit it that its flawed currently as it is too easy to join ranked.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

I only started actually playing this season around 2 weeks ago.
Last season I made from amber to diamond in the last 3 weeks of the season.

Sorry but starting late and blaming bad teams that low is a really weak excuse.

I made it diamond in 2 weeks aswell. Point still stands, if you are going to join at the end of the season, you are going to have a bad time…
I just didn’t realize this and was wondering why am I being teamed with ppl clearly out of the league.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Weerus.3701:

I’m not 100% sure about MMR, but every game uses something like that on ranked matches. So if first few games were in your favor, you should be set up for easy ride. That is a fact..

I can win 1v1 match and also hold the point 2v1 for a while. If I had proper bunker class I could hold point 2v1 all day. I’m talking from my own experience and I have plenty. I struggled CROSSING ruby, not wining fights. kitten sometimes our team had around 200-300pts while enemies were all under 200 and we still lost. When I hold a point and I see ppl fighting between points and totaly and ingoring map mechanics I just want to ..arrgh :@

Also did you play sapphire and ruby this season? Or were you set already from previous one? Because there is a clusterkitten in ruby division.

The highest you could be pre-started at was the beginning of sapphire…

Also that sounds to me like your rotations between points might be hindering your team if you’re just camping one point. You may also want to use team chat to get some coordination between your team. that helps a lot..

I did not know that highest you start was sapphire. But if ppl joined late in season, all good players would be diamond and higher, so good luck getting out of ruby last month, if you catch my point. I guess that was exactly my problem, because I started this season less then month ago. Thanks for giving me this info, next season I will start sooner! :P

Please, I don’t camp the points with dps build lol, I rotate from close to mid and far if we got firs two. I mostly dps with revenant and I’m there to burst players down.

What I was trying to say is, when enemy is invading mid or close, it’s usually just me +1 defending, while rest randomly fight over the map. Teamchat works to some extent, I have burned in my memmory 2 premade guardians – one diamond and one ruby or lower. I got matched with them 2 times and they both refused to swap chars and ignored rest of what was in the teamchat thus giving me two losses.

I’m in no way perfect, but at least I’m aware of the map and the character I choose to play. Also my mentality is not to give up and get better, so far I havent afk a single loosing game out of 1400. Ppl be playing spvp like deathmatch… smh

EDIT:

On a side note, I once went duo with person from legend. div. I warned him matches are bad, but he said don’t worry, I haven’t lost for xxx matches.

First game one disconnected and returned at the end of the game. He said bad luck.
Second game was so bad, he was done with it.

Guess on the end of the season ruby literally gets hell in every aspect.

I’m not 100% sure about MMR, but every game uses something like that on ranked matches. So if first few games were in your favor, you should be set up for easy ride. That is a fact..

I can win 1v1 match and also hold the point 2v1 for a while. If I had proper bunker class I could hold point 2v1 all day. I’m talking from my own experience and I have plenty. I struggled CROSSING ruby, not wining fights. kitten sometimes our team had around 200-300pts while enemies were all under 200 and we still lost. When I hold a point and I see ppl fighting between points and totaly and ingoring map mechanics I just want to ..arrgh :@

Also did you play sapphire and ruby this season? Or were you set already from previous one? Because there is a clusterkitten in ruby division.

The OP has a valid point! Those who don’t recognize it are the ones that premade it or got MM carried to Diamond. PERIOD.

I play since prestart, but have taken interest ti PvP only 2nd year of the game. Counting till today, that gave me enough of PvP experience.

I needed around 200 games to get my soloq kitten to Diamond, with around 50% loose/win ratio (there were lucky time with 10+ win streak but thats irelevant).

Now this is my first serious pvp season since divisions got introduced and I will tell you my ratio was high above the sky, only to drop down this season. Ruby was living hell. At least 60% of ppl are total newbies (not insulting, they just seem to be too fresh!), that imho got carried there by premade and got left behind. The amount of ppl that knows little to no map mechanic or profession they play is ridiculous.

Ever since I made it to diamond games have got back to normal. Got some win streaks, then lost a game or 2, but everything was close games and it was fun and not frustrating, because I didn’t feel the need to yell or give orders as we simply got outrotated or outclassed by counters.

I pvped a lot before divisions and I have accumulated around 1400 games till today so take my comment with all seriousness.

For everyone that are stuck in ruby hell: there is salvation when you reach diamons – granted you know how to play and are not just crying.

For anet: for the love of god, split premade and soloq ranked, it should prevent newbies from beeing carried beyond their limits.

this guild is dead, no one checks and noone replies. And I can be sure of that, because I don’t see why would they ignore/reject oldest mesmer on server

This sounds like a dream come true!
I will check the details and probably apply as soon as I get home from work

I would like to form an sPvP team. I’m looking for players that know the mechanic of maps (buff timers, no off cap fighting, rotations etc.) and most importantly, know how to play their class and are able to win 1v1 fights.

Other requirements:
- at least minimum lvl of speaking/understanding english language
- use teamspeak
- able to swap character if needed

I’m currently one tier away from diamond, wich is my goal this season.

I mainly play 3 classes:
- power revenant (insane single target dmg)
- condi necro (insane aoe condi dmg/pressure)
- power shatter mesmer (with portal for map control)
No build is just meta copy. I do always check meta builds, test them and improve them to maximize effectiveness for my play style, so I’m not clueless. I win most of the 1v1 fights, especially on revenant.

I can play other classes too if needed, such as auramancer, bunker guard etc.

I’m not looking for perfect players, I’m not perfect either. What I’m looking for is a friendly group of people that are willing to learn and improve themselves and of course have fun

You can contact me here, personal message or ingame mail: Weerus.3701

Fay.2357:

Weerus.3701:

Making is shareble with Signet of Inspiration would fix it a little bit

On a scale of 1 to celery elery, that would be celery elery broken.

How about using shatter skills grants same (maybe halved)alacrity to allies on range?

Currently top lvl fractals are in favour of condi dmg so necro, also conditions are boosted too much in spvp imho, so necro there too. check metabattle.com for build ideas

edit: tho chronomancer combined with herald is must for quickness upkeep in fractals

To make fractals easymode make this team:
- condi necro (high condi dmg for higl lvl fracs)
- assasin+zerk chrono with boon duration food/sigil/trinkets (combined with revenant facet of nature for max quickness uptime)
- revenant (glint + X for consta fury, boon duration facet to complement chrono quickness buff is a must)
- ele for dps
last is situational:
-warrior (can help with boon duration and mightstacks if ps)
or
- guardian(can help mesmer with reflecting in specfic fractals, I’d still prefer warrior on my team)

Still if ppl don’t understand their classes mechanic and dont use food and specific fractal utility you might have hard time.