god forbid an elite kit should do damage
while you’re at it cap direct damage at ~1k per second. it’s been killing me a lot lately.
maybe they should just delete achievement points all together, so a certain somone can have a long hard think about what they are spending their precious hours on this earth doing.
Matchmaking has been an improvement; I personally prefer duo-Q over the full on premade curb stomping blowout matches that happened prior.
All solo-Q except for 1-2 games. Highest I got to was low platinum (which is surprising since 300+ aussie ping is awful in pvp/wvw) … now I’m forever stuck in T3 gold. I’ll get 3-4 wins away from platinum again but RNGesus will ALWAYS pit me up against impossible odds and it’s hard to control what/where your team mates go. Lose streak happens, rinse, repeat haha.
same here minus the reaching platinum part. I’m always stuck around 2-3 games away from platinum, or down to 1560 tanking a lose streak. it doesn’t seem to matter how you perform, how many people you can fight in 1vx, how much ‘top stats’ you earn, etc.
how can they honestly call it ‘skill rating’ if the rating goes down from losses? if other players, aka your team mates, can impact your score through loss, it is not a true ‘skill’ rating. personal skill simply cannot by measured by the actions of your team mates…
conversely, how can it be a ‘skill rating’ if your rating goes up from wins? if other players, aka your team mates, can impact your score through wins, it is not a true ‘skill’ rating. personal skill simply cannot by measured by the actions of your team mates.
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i can’t fathom how people can blame all their losses on teamates, yet take credit for all the wins. as if matchmaking is only bad when you lose. honestly, it just speaks of a monstrous ego.
like, seriously. how can you say that it’s unfair your rating suffers when you lose because it’s a team game. yet, not realise the same argument applies to your wins also.
people expecting MMR for a 5v5 game to function like MMR for a 1v1 game need to sit down & have a good think, because it’s just foolish to expect this.
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“i don’t want to run condi clear but i also don’t want die to condi”
sounds pretty similar to
“i don’want to use blocks or dodges but i also don’t want to die to power damage”
just run solder runes and shouts, or cleansing ire you should be good (over 1 year of only warrior played).
also buddy, if you want high risk high reward Schwahrheit has some builds for ya’ http://www.twitch.tv/blacktruth009/b/616807838 (if you can’t make his builds work you are just not good enough and need to practice more).
:-/
learn to dodge traps and your whole life will change.
Isn’t dodging the answer for everything? right?
Play versus DH with brains and sPvP, you will see that you can’t have 10 dodges in 2 seconds.
And yes, I was expecting the answer of “L2P” kind of thing.You know what? just L2dodge and your life would be better….. how about that for an answer?
good thing DH doesn’t have 10 traps in two seconds homes. not that you would need ten dodges, as just one would get you out of the AOE.
being emotional about not wanting to dodge traps is hardly becoming of you. quite frankly it just makes it look like you need to L2P even more.
Seriously, it’s like some sort of sick joke. Anet goes & designs a 5 v 5 team game based around objectives that requires teamwork. Then they remove teams.
Wow.
10/10
Can you name any other competitive team games that forbid teams? Overwatch, LoL, DotA, Paragon, the list goes on- all of these games let people form teams & queue vs teams.
Anet, & some of the community have decided that the best way for a team game to be played is solo, or with one friend. Excellent idea. It’s just teammate, & teamcomp russian roulette now. Roll that dice & hope you don’t get tripple thief, or an afker, or a guardian using signet of courage. Then come to the forum & get told you need to carry in a team game.
A team game that forbids teams & real teamwork is an utter joke. What’s the point to it?
Guess what makes it even funnier? Oh, it’s that nearly all of the PvE content in this game requires a 5 man team, & the playerbase has no issue getting into teams for that. Which is no surprise really, considering we have an LFG tool & uh… the game is called GUILD Wars. So it seems pretty dumb that in a game called GUILD Wars (which has guild teams i might add) in a gamemode designed around two teams fighting over objectives, you can’t play as a team.
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I’m betting it would take a week for them to introduce a 5v5 queue with no class stacking. I doubt that it’s that hard at all. Hey, & off-season is the perfect time to test to see if the playerbase can fill the queue.
But will they? I’m not so sure. I’d like to hope the complaints about teammates and class stacking would give them some indication that this game doesn’t work all that well in a purely solo/duo environment.
Also, they are the only game studio forbidding teams in a team game. Surely they must be able to see this is counterintuitive.
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‘balance around gold’
my god. no wonder this community is in the state it’s in.
Kdaddy & Umbra have nailed it.
powercreep has given classes so much more damage & utility, & on much lower cooldowns. you no longer have to play smart anymore. you have defensive skills that do massive damage.
look at the abomination that is engineer hammer. what the heck kind of a weapon is that. why on earth does it have that much damage when it has that utility. it’s blatantly better than anything else the engineer (& tbh most classes) can use. it’s a must pick.
that’s the issue w HoT, it’s a whole tier above vanilla. it’s serious powercreep.
Reducing particle effects would do a lot more for the game than you might think.
wow. can’t wait to que up for a nice game of conquest and get skyhammer, courtyard & stronghold as the choices.
bwahhahahahahaha
it’s one of the most mobile classes in the game!
plus you have a ton of CC!
my whole guild left FC over a year ago because of how dead the server was. i play Pacific time and there would be hours with less than five FC players on the map. I’m not joking or exaggerating, it was just miserable.
anet needs to merge or delete the bottom servers. the conditions are just too poor, and everyone in their right mind is transferring off making them even more dead.
spvp balanced game guys. Because 13-20k hp pets with no AoE immunity/avoidance worked so well for necro/ranger/guardian/mesmer, they had to repeat the same mistake again.
love how they took notice of all the ‘please no ai’ threads too. they literally gave us what we asked not to have.
Negative . DH is trash tier. Weakest class by far. If anything they need all traps to be insta cast and they still would remain trash tier.
Your suggestion is flawed
Nah, its typical mmo balancing. Previous season such and such class is op, they get nerfed hard. Probably to hard, other classes get nice buffs, such and such class now sucks.
Next season maybe scrapper, condi necro, and ele will see more nerfs and warriors.
Personally I would prefer they buff other things to make more builds viable. Like buff power necro to = condi necro and give choices.
the funny thing is DH was never tournament viable. it got a sequence of nerfs due to scrubs QQing on the forums.
guard has been out of meta a long while.
nerf hammer, not core engi. core engi is actually playable for wvw roaming right now, I can hold my own vs elites. having it nerfed would force engi to run scrapper which would blow.
furthermore, as hammer is the weapon that needs no kits to supplement it, and rifle and pistols need kits its obvious that it is too strong. hammer is too good currently, and that is the main issue.
engineer is hardcounterd by condition builds, particularly necro. however, it should be noted that these hard counters only come up at an equal skill level, so you can still out play.
that is what i am unhappy about actually.
two equally skilled players, but unfair fight because one happens to be using a class that is hardcountered by another.
Game is not balanced 1v1, and it’s inevitable that it won’t be. See, when a build is crafted it makes sacrifices and those usually become a weakness. When you encounter a build where the focus is on your weakness you will probably lose.
That’s why 2v2 tournaments/arena are much nicer than 1v1, because you can build as a team. Few good duos have obvious hardcounters, as you can build to fill in each others weaknesses.
I am glad it’s gone now they can work on making pvp actually balanced and not just making do to meet the next esl deadline.
But it has already done some damage by putting off quite a few potential pvpers so hopefully they can recover.
honestly, i would love to know why you think anet abandoning competitive PvP means they are going to actually balance the game. like, if they were unable to balance when they were trying to create an esports, why do you think they will be able/want to balance now?
But I think I know what’s going on, I just probably face more talented warriors in PvP than the people in this thread. I understand you have such big issues with losing your rerolled faceroll class when you’re only mediocre.
ah yes the humility, no ego, no salt.
I won’t bother to mention how wrong you are, that I’ve played warrior since day 1, and can kindly beat it on both guardian and engineer. won’t mention that I know necro’s who can beat warrior easily too.
because just as you know, you’re the best player in the game and your losses are always down to OP builds. of course! seems so true.
@everyone
if you think that you can accurately determine personal skill w solo queue, you can’t. definitely not in the current gw2 ranked queue. there is too much exploiting & afking for that. low pop doesn’t help either. furthermore w each player only being 1/5 of the team, & low pop causing a wide skill disparity, the accuracy only gets worse.
i can win a game because Chaith carried me. no reflection on my gunflame spam at all.
Chaith can lose his next game due to a salty necro who afks after he dies in the opening midfight.
that salty necro can win his next game because a player on his side payed 50g for a member of the opposing team to throw.
see. look at these examples. what do these have to do w personal skill at all? like honestly, it’s hardly even a factor in these games.
a team of 5 fixes: afks, shoddy team composition, frustrating skill disparities, & discourages match manipulation. it also improves rotational skill, teamwork, & fosters positive social bonds.
sure, you can still get ‘carried by your team’ but that happens in solo queue too.
like humour me.
say i grab a pal of mine, Steve. he’s a really meh player. he likes bunker druid & fluctuates between silver & gold. not a great.
now say he gets teamed up w Chaith. Chaith is a great player, & if you’ve seen his streams you know he can carry hard. lets say he does. he wins 1v2s, rotates like a god, & shoves his function gyro so hard down the enemies throat it comes out the other side.
they win the game.
awesome. you still with me? this is when it gets interesting.
see, we can all agree that this win is a reflection of Chaith’s skill, he carried he deserves it. but what about Steve, he didn’t carry, so does he deserve the win? is this a reflection of his skill?
you, pro solo queue players, please answer?
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to rebut preemptively:
i am aware that there is another argument. that in solo queue Steve can’t make sure he’s with Chaith, he can’t ensure a carry. but in team queue he would be able to always play w Chaith. ergo solo queue is better.
to reply:
we must take into account a few things. firstly bad matchmaking & afks. these both cause you to ‘unjustly’ lose rating. & going off the rebuttal, if you are carried then you don’t deserve the win, & it’s an unjust inflation.
take into account skill disparity, which means a lot of players will carry or be the weak link that throws the game. consider also how common afk players are.
this means, being carried, weak links, & afk players make up a sizeable amount of a lot of players games. so by our previous logic a large portion of solo queue games don’t actually reflect personal skill, more your luck of the draw w teams.
so with a lot of games invalid for the purpose of determining skill solo queue isn’t looking too great.
two points in favour of team queue as far as skill representation goes:
lets suppose Chaith & Steve are on a team. one could say Chaith is carrying Steve, just as one could say Chaith is playing with a handicap. there are good arguments for both. but i would ask, seeing as carrying weak links happen in solo queue too, are these actually negative points for team queue, or are they just features of a 5v5 team game? i would think the latter.
now, the second & important point. Steve is going to get better. he is going to improve. why? well, because he’s playing a helpful high skill player, Chaith. they will talk in discord. in there they will discuss builds, plan rotations, & co-ordinate spikes & resses. Steve is going to learn a lot. he is going to improve at a much faster rate than he would in solo queue. soon Steve will be weaving around on his s/d bunker looking all frosty. he’s gonna become less of a liability to the team. Chaith will have to carry him less & less.
so, you can see due to the faster pace of improvement in a team queue. the issue of carrying, & weak links is less pronounced. it actually creates a more skilled community & all but eliminates afk. seems ah, pretty a ok to me.
i feel the community just needs to be a little less lazy for 5v5 queue to work. only time can tell if that can be done. but to all those crying about their teams, dude team queue fixes that. don’t be such a child. take control.
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if anyone answers me rebutting with a post about mixed queues you are a moron & i will bite your head off. i haven’t mentioned them once in my arguments. don’t pull that kitten.
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if they don’t grandfather my 7 geared 80s i will just quit the game. i hate pve, and only wvw and pvp. previously i was able to gear and build my characters from doing just those. if all my progress is removed and i have to do awful boring pve to get my builds back I’ll just quit. it’s a lot of wasted time, and it’s anet basically spitting in my face.
NPR was awful, but at least i could use all the skill point scrolls from wvw and pvp to unlock traits. being forced to pve, wow so fun.
idk why you think a third of the wvw community can fit into one teamspeak, let alone organise itself over multiple instances. i doubt you are even a part of your server community.
burst stealth classes make burst classes without stealth a real mission to play, so it’s no surprise most no stealth classes run bruiser or bunker builds tbh.
your title says you have a problem with meta builds… then you mention dd thief (a wvw meta build, and a non meta build for pvp). it’s obvious by the builds you are complaining about (most of which are not meta) that you are not good at the game. guild wars 2 is actually quite difficult to start with contrary to what many forum posters say. the initial learning curve is very steep, and its going to take you a few 100 games to get even ‘meh’.
furthermore, when specialisations are introduced all the current meta builds will be gone. so, just wait.
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who cares. all my 80s have enough points unlock everything. you get full specialisations while leveling, not just a few traits that you have to hunt for. ots much better imo.
you really want to play hammer scrapper tbh. you can play other builds for giggles, but you’ll be gimping yourself.
without explosives nades arnt that great, and that’s just not a trait-line we have room for anymore. it’s a very boring time to be an engineer in pvp, hence why im playing Gunflame 90% of the time.
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i learnt guardian in pvp then leveled it instantly to 80 with tomes so i could roam with it. having to play it in pve would have ruined the experience for me. 0% map completion is how i like it.
wow the same condi build complaints.
it’s been 3+ years. anet obviously doesn’t care.
get over it or quit the game. you’re just wasting your time.
come on y’all
why are you all so salty about this? can’t you see the funny side?
doesn’t it make you laugh that some fools paid the abjured real human money to play for them?
how pathetic can you get. paying people to play for you in a dying game. where the community is so small & shrivelled that everyone will know you didn’t actually play the tournament you got your pathetic rewards from. lol. what an absolute waste of time & money.
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also, gotdang. i hold nothing against toker & the boys. i would challenge you to imagine how you would answer the offer they received. $400 for playing for someone in a gw2 tournament is an absolute no brainier.
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it’s still great.
nerf was deserved. it had too high uptime for pvp.
you can hit 10sec stun on engi. my carrion build stacks 8burns on you, that last for 8secs & do 20k damage. to make sure you die i would moa you (3 sec), magnet pull, over charged shot, then air blast. if you start the cc after moa the enemy is locked down for ~8 sec, & if you can get some power dame in too they take about 30k damage & die.
for 10sec youd want slick shoes, & bomb kit, mine, or ram. i used to run bombs & mine way back & the ping pong was excellent. however you can still blind, evade, block & stunbreak. it’s awful if you run into someone like me who runs stunlock builds & you cant do any of those, but ya gotta adjust your build or your play. maybe start learning engi stun animations so you can dodge them better idk.
warrior can achieve a far longer stun than 10 sec, far longer. i know because i love stunlocking people so i play the two classes with the most cc, & run super cc heavy builds. shield bash, skull crack, headbut with the 30% to stuns is over 10 sec & no hammer skills even need to be used.
is this your first time on an arenanet forum?
i had completely forgotten stronghold even existed.
well, you obviously vote no because you’d rather not play games with 3 thieves on your team if you don’t have to.
vote yes because of rose tinted glasses & enormous faith in anets perfect matchmaking, or just paranoid delusions.
2v2 Annihilation, best of three.
it’s a game mode asked for by numerous people, in numerous threads. it provides a good alternative to 1v1, which does not work with current balance and class design. it’s a popular requested feature, and would have short queues and it would be easy for players to find teams. the maps would be small, and there needs to be only one. no map mechanics, just a simple arena. from where I sit as a guild wars 2 pvp combat enthusiast it seems a no brainer to add it.
so I ask, why not? are there any reasons anet should not add 2v2 Annihilation?
This whole thread makes me sad for the future of our entire world.
No one in this game should have 30k AP and still be considered alive.
30k is not the problem. You can have 33k AP with half of my playtime, but it takes exponentially more effort to progress the closer you are to having 100% of the achievements.
The last 40 AP will literally take me another ~3500 hours.
why are you even building AP? like, whats the point?
I remember when ANET nerfed Surge of the Mists (nr5 skill of Revenants staff) saying the skill provides too much at once: evade, CC and dmg. Well …. the burst skills of warrior provide just as much or even more: dmg, condi cleanse, adrenal healt and eventually also CC. It also can be basically spammed unlike Surge of the Mists.
dude…. you do know warriors f1 is the class mechanic?
why compare a heavily traited class mechanic to a weapon skill? makes no sense at all.
rather, compare it to traited steal, or DH virtues, or mesmer f1-f5, or dang even engineers f1-f5 + function gyro. does it seem so OP then? not really homes.
this forum, wow.
there is a helmet icon at the top middle pf the screen. that lets you edit your build.
you can use any weapons & armour, stats don’t matter.
for more info i’d check out the new to PvP forum sticky (it’s got roles, build links etc etc)
> https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/New-to-PvP-Start-here/first#post4767198
for general tips
> http://qqmore.net/
still needs baseline fast hands and embrace the pain
are you new here?
engineer is hardcounterd by condition builds, particularly necro. however, it should be noted that these hard counters only come up at an equal skill level, so you can still out play.
such an easy game
log on
open daily rewards
log off
I thought you already quit?
may as well just play the menders build with marauders amulet if you want more damage. menders can take quite a few 1v1s if you know how to play it, & works well with marauders. it just loses some healing power. hammer engi is great. condi p/p is really fun to play, but it’s not a good build. it’s a joke.
you’ve tried to make something in between menders & p/p. it loses a ton of sustain & synergy for ‘meh’ condi pressure. considering menders, & paladin are good bruiser builds, i fail to see why a hybrid bruiser build that’s worse would be needed. why you took explosives at all is completely beyond me too. especially with p/p too, it’s a very confusing choice.
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Complains about everything being OP.
Wants to add an OP amulet to PvP.
Its not at all OP. How can anything be OP compared to the last 18 months of celestial. Really….
And its not OP because it has no direct damage. Conditions have massive counter play as you can just remove them (unlike direct damage). If condition builds become decent then the meta evolves to combat them. And that is IF. Unfortunately there is no way to combat celestial or zerker amulet in the same way.
It also opens up a ton of new builds which PvP is in desperate need of.
Dire perplex is hated in wvw roaming and small group for a good reason. now, i’m not saying don’t add it- but prepare yourself for full dire premades. all five will be bunker tough and their condi spam will drop anything. it’s not something i would enjoy fighting, feel like you would need at least 2 shout classes with soldier runes on your team to fight it.
Soldier – wuot for so tank?
Mesmers.
It’s also more of a Hambow-like role with a bigger focus on CC since you don’t have to disengage or pop a defensive cooldown everything someone looks at you.
BigZan played a great soldiers engi in the last EU monthly. it’s a valuable build. just watch the games to see.
ele could still run d/f for might stacking, but they wouldnt be able to reach such a high number. there bam some build diversity. im betting cele staff would come back too.
removal of ring of fire fixes the problem of d/d being able to stack crazy burns and the problem of d/d being able to maintain 20+ might. d/d stays tough, it just looses damage. sure the build is gutted, but remember what happened to cele engi? yeah.
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give me my snow leopard egg!
That…….that doesn’t even make sense. Lol
makes perfect sense
Wurm eggs and Owl eggs make perfect sense, sure. Pretty sure though that, even in Tyria, snow leopards don’t lay eggs.
with consistency comes sacrifice
If Conquest is dead then… 2v2 Arena WHEN
i’m in the home of beelzebub, constantly checking the thermostat, hoping it gets low enough.
thief has to be good at something, or else what’s the point of thief?
sure, perhaps stealth needs some tweaks, but the only big problems I see with thief are in the new SA line.
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