Guild Wars 2

Qaelyn.7612:

The problem is that in many cases you can’t do anything about being killed even if you do have a reasonable amount of skill and experience on the map.

I remember one time I was trying to take the hammer from the other team, who had a thief running it. We ran in and danced around, I got her half down. Then poof, she disappears. I go to near the entrance which seems like the safest place while I wait for the decloak.

She reappears, casts scorpion wire, I get yanked onto glass and down I go. The whole thing took less than a second, and there’s literally nothing I could have done unless I had been able to instinctively cast one of my very few, very short duration stability mantras.

This is the problem with Skyhammer: there are too many ways to get instant kills that cannot be avoided, and those ways depend too much on what class you are running.

ahhhhh yes. the ninja vanish and pull you to the glass trick. ive fallen prey to that a couple of times. i think this goes back to know who are fightin up there. for a thief, for a class that doesnt have much in the way of cc or stability, is fighting for dat hammer he has the confidence to do so. And if he doesnt have any tricks up his sleeve then its like bring a knife to a gun fight (bwa actually thieves do..i just made a funny teehe!). you have to assume hes gonna scorpion wire at some point when the situation presents its self.

im no uber pvper and i dont pretend to know the ins and outs of classes…but scorpion wire has a 20sec cd and most thieves wont be spec into to tricks. so u got 20secs to do what u gotta do to him for him to potentially use scorpion wire and win da hammer for your team. And when you do out think, out wit and out survive him with your skillful play you will savor the stomp……errr..you can try to savor the stompS on the thief..until his friend Bubba the Hambow warrior decides to check on da hammer just for kicks and giggles and seeing you about do the peoples elbow on his boy runs over and launches you over. ..ahhh kitten, FML.

fyi…one of the worst places to stand when a thief vanishes while fighting for the hammer is your back against the wall. cuz Scrp Wire doesnt knock back…it pulls. IT PULLS!!! you’ll be playing right into his hands if u do that.

i actually read through all the pages thus far., and after playing skyhammer numerous times now, winning some and losing some, i must say..this map is growing on me. i like how it is different. its not like any of the other maps..maybe thats why ppl are hating on it. maybe its not what they are used to and it can turn ppl off from it.

In a perfect world..we would all get the stomp on that thief the first time…..ok maybe the 2nd time….nvm the 3rd time ..yea the 3rd time is the charm….Okitten here comes his teammate and i barely have any life left after fighting this dam thief. couple of secs later the camera is panning around my lifeless body and the thief (insert your annoying class here) and his buddy dancing around my corpse.

ppl say this map its cheap..and it doesnt require skill, i would say its the exact opposite. this map forces you to know where you are at, what your surrounds are and whos entered and left the fight and what weapon and build they are using. you cannot be ignorant on this map like soo many other maps. you got a ham warrior coming at you bro!?!?! and your back isnt against a wall. Its safe to assume that hes got form of stability trait or skill and hes gonna try this best to make you kiss the sky. and if you both know what you’re doing then its business as usual and then what are ppl QQ about?

i like this because its a different way to play, its a diff way to think. you can play perfectly and u make a innocent mistake and boom..you’re falling with style down to the wurms. To know at any moment you can come back from a fight..and lost a fight just as quick..(i’ve been at both ends) adds a level of uncertainty and danger to any fight. Fights on the skyhammer has been some of my most memorable fights. if you both know what you’re doing, one might try to out damage and one may try to out position the other. its a game of risk up there. One is gonna fall or get stomp. And thats how the cookie crumbles on this map.

props to the devs for making a map that isnt a plain ole jane map.
need more unique ideas like this.
+1

i hardly post..but i gots to voice my opinion here. the influx of new ppl to pvp can b frustrating at times..we’ve all had our games of wtf??!?!. but the influx of these new ppl just means that theres new blood to pvp…and that is VERY GOOD for pvp in the long run.

I would have to agree with ludus rex and his post more than the OP. at some pt or another you must b held accountable as much as your teammates. you got 2 ppl at treb with u..ask them to go cap something..if they dont..you leave treb and you go cap something and hope for the best.

i just got rank 30 a few days ago and i dont consider myself a great pvp or even a decent one. im still learning the game. i often ask myself when i lose to a another player….“what could i have done to beat that guy. what build is he running..how come i couldnt knock that necro down..or how the fvck is that ranger killing me sooo fast!?!? if i could have beated that guy..or just hold him off long enough till someone else came and help we coulda still had that cap. now im looking at my corpse and watch that mofo cap my spot.”

instead of saying “fvcking noobs, you all suck!, quit the game, i got the most pts on this dumb fvck team therefore im the ONLY reason why we are in the position that we are in” instead of b!tching at them at the end of the match on how much they suck….talk to them in the beginning. Anet does allow like a minute or so to prepare and talk to each other. Use that time to discuss where everyone is going, what kind of build everyone is running and synergizes as best as you can with the ppl u got. but how often do ppl actually spend that time to do that…hardly none at all. maybe 2/10 will actually talk and form some sort of plan. Most of the time i will get one person that says…“plan is to win and kill” while the rest is dead silent.

i find that the teams talk to eachother in the beginning will talk during the matches too…example…“hey we got 2inc at home”. or “there 4 at mid..avoid it” i find that those types of matches are much more enjoyable and more successful. try that a couple of times and see what happens…if u dont want to try then well….keep on doing what your used to and let the dice roll and land where fate decides.

btw i do like the idea of keeping the same team if you win and move on to the next matches that would b soo neat…kinda like gw1. ..and we need REPLAYS…we need a lot of things..but replays would b nice too.

gl c ya in the mist.

lately ive been thinking about this too. i too am surprised that not more ppl want this feature. it would be awesome to see what you dd wrong and what you did right. learn from your mistakes and glory in your victories. and not just watch your point of view..but every ones point of view. can switch from player to player to see what they see…..

PocketMafia.9314:

I have spent 20+ hours re-rolling another class and leveling up and changing it. I finally thought I was good with Thief’s until I realized you need to actually have skill to PVE with Thief. (Never played GW). So, my question is, what class is for me?

I want

-Easy PvE.
-FUN

PocketMafia.9314:

Things I consider fun:

Not repetitive.
Not dying over and over to a group of 5 mobs. (Thief)
Challenge, to keep things fresh.

i mean no offensive..but i chuckled a bit here. you dont want to die over n over to a grp of 5 mobs..then dont take on a group of five mobs. seems like ur contradicting yourself. you want easy pve yet a challenge. anyways..feels to me like u want a god mode. looks like u want a warrior. straight forward bullies. but anything in front of a warrior and WARRIOR SMASH!!!

warriors are too OP. they wear too much armor and i can’t get around that. OMG! they have a shield! even more armor!! way too OP!!

does your illusions benefit from your power, precision, and crit rate?

my mes is my first an still my main toon in pve n pvp. i think if anyone coming from a warrior-ish or theif-ish background these types of professions can b a lilo bit harder to play. Im playing an ele right now and i do agree that eles are easier to play n survive with. and i never understood the pre-lvl 30 or pre lvl40 play vs post. i had fun at all the lvls. i spent a lot of my time and money( when it was ur fist toon and and no money that was a big deal) retraiting playing around with skills. i had a ranger friend who laughed at me n said that doing that is a waste of time. i didn’t think so. the game was so new, how can one just go down one trait line and be satisfied with it. he just wanted to pepper mobs with arrows while his pet did all the tanking. ez mode i told him.

after playing around with all the weapons i setting on sword/sword n scepter/focus while lvling and went sword/focus and staff in dungeons. the GS looked great! on a light armor..but after a while the look wore off and it didnt sync with my play style while lvling. Sword does aoe on reg attacks and provide a good burst with the #2 skill. Blocks on sword n scepter skill provides good damage and iwarden on focus is still KING. f1-f4 are ur friends. learn to use them.

there some sound advice on this thread. heed them…i didnt start to play around with deceptive evasion until i was lvl 65-70ish, but in the end..it will come down to you and ur play style. hope u didnt come here to ez mode.

Namica.2951:

I really hate the severe lack of armors that don’t have skirts or coats to them. I almost didn’t keep at my Thief because of it: Only three armors out of the -entire medium armor selection- lack a skirt or coat (Duelist, Human T3, Krytan gem shop).

I’m not a cowboy, I’m not a pirate, I’m a dang Thief. Coats are detrimental.

i agree…this goes for light armor too. btw..where can i find the leggings ur theif is wearing?

Hi Gaile I’m responding on behalf of my friend that he is still having login issue with the email authenticator and awaiting his ticket # to get a reply so I’m writing on here to let you know. He is just asking that the Email authenticator be removed from his account…here is his ticket #

[Incident: 120906-000288]?