Guild Wars 2

It is the mmr, it is bs at times (it works for some but not for me). Not balancing classing or player skill. last 10 matches where a nightmare. 1 win 9 loses. 2 Matches fun the rest a TOTAL waste of time.

Evan saying it working as plan just shows anet blind to the problem people been kittening about for years. It better that last season but still broken. Your mixing experienced pvp in with new pvper that are being carried. And posting his rating is kind of rude. Anet should have balance classes not a fav of the month.

And so what if he had a dense set of wins, so your saying the mmr failing players for winning in a row will let to pointless matches in a row that are unwinnable.

There little that can be done when u always putting a totally dead weight player on a team.

d/c is to hash, If u can log back in under a min their should be no dishonor. Right now you are better staying log off and not helping your team.

Is anet going to do anything about people running speed hacks. It the worst I have seem in pvp.

I see them in about 1 in 4 matches.

Here are the mastery points. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery_point_unlocks

But, for the hot I would just use Dulfy’s guide for each hot zone.

And you get them from doing the meta events in hot, the little mini silver and gold things, opening strong boxes, and killing some rare mobs.

Solo play or world boss or open world pve or wvw zerg it does not matter what build or weapon you use.

Your build low on the dps side and lacking support. If your grouping with others your main role is dps then support. GW2 is different from other mmo’s, evenyone can be support. But you should not be SO much support you do no dps. GW2 does a very poor job in getting people ready for grouping.

Getting in a few guilds will help you learn the game easier. And you get to meet so people 2. The HOT specs offer you a lot more dps and support skills. So getting into those zones is a good idea.

U can use your pvp points to unlock hero points at one of the vendors in pvp land.

But, I get into the new maps as fast as u can. AB mult gives crazy rewards.

Use the lfg to find hp trains for each map in hot. Most coms will be very helpful.

Get at least silver in those little mini activities. Gold better.

Find a good guild with good people.

1) No, but the best rewards and builds u have to hot

2) Eng and Neco do good condi range damage. Open world it does not matter what build or weapon u use. If your grouping with others you have to know when to melee stack. All classes do more dps when stacked. So, saying your just RANGE is very limiting if you want to pve in a group.

3) Culture armour really just for the skin unlocks. It good for a few lvls leveling. But you level so fast it not worth the cost. You want to pick something good for your dps, learn combos and your skill rotation. If your a f2p doing your story at level and just having greens is ok until your 80. Try and have the best dps weapon to your level helps the most. The only gear you need to grind is ascend and leg which are only for fotm and raids.

Logging in and doing your quick dailies will speed up leveling a lot.

Not having hot your kind of limited. The new meta are all hot. Dungeons are not totally dead but it harder harder to find people. And most of those are f2p or low ap players.

I would get hot. Hot zones are very active but u have to use lfg for many of the meta events.

But the world boss train is still rocking.

If your a solo wvw u have to have hot. Zerg wvw still fun with the old builds.

Pvp is super painful without hot.

Guild mission are done a little better.

Condition builds are just as good as power builds. Better in some cases. Mix builds coming more common outside of raids.

A lot of rocking skins.

Gold a lot easier to make.

Fotm is very active with out hot your limited to about 65 without a boat load of gold. But running much easier but for the daily fotm rewards u need hot.

There was a 1/2 sale last month. So, there should be another in the future. Plus if u log
a few times a month u should get story unlocks for when u buy hot.

Good Luck

The fastest way is to do the complete 4 the starting zones, your story at lvls 11 20 30 , your daily pvp, dailies that are easy to do, pick a pvp path that drops lvl boost, buy weapons at your lvl every 2-3 lvls, party with friends, guild missions, get in 5 different guilds, farm the 5 guild zones, get your guild exp bonus, get all the hero points u can, eat cheap food and pot that give exp bonus all the time, ask guildie for help, play with friends, have a speed boost for open world, play one of the more basic classes like ranger warrior guard.

It takes less than 30hours to get to 80.

Hearts from quests give good exp and just tagging events as your running by.

Learn to play your class is the best thing to leveling and have fun. Many do not.

Doing the 2 easy blood fen quests would speed it up but u need a teleport to friend, but will not learn how to play your class well.

Cooking is good for a few cheap levels.

Level all the crafts to 25 refining and sell the mats so no cost.

I think many fotms levels should have an ar check at the start. The ar check in the lab never worked correctly. It so easy and cheap now to get ar now there no reasons not to have it if you want to run the higher level fotm. I can not count the times we get to the last boss and have to 3 or 4 man it and someone gets a freeb.

But for the people hitting the 25 scale I do see them having a hard time seeing how to get the ar up. Like the need to make ascend armor or do guild missions or get other ascend gear. Maybe a quest to one of those vendors would help. Like the old daily.

And Fotm should not be gated for people with the bought the base game it old content.

Gim

Yes, please make more reasons to run them.

Engi my main and I had switch from power to condi build base how long you been away. Viper one of the newer armor sets I find a happy balance on power and condi. It all about skill rotation and fields. In raids I happier using my warrior which is more simple dps rotation but I am running PS warrior.

Flamethrower ok to be in the dps rotation but it only for the quick fire field or cc then back to dps. I know when I started playing engi I camped ft. But now the power of combos add so much dps, booms and healing.

Neco are getting A lot of love lately with good dps and being tankie as hell and super group condi removal. Once they where next to useless in groups but now a lot love. It even started to be elitist with neco only groups.

Ele great but after the last balance patch I find I am dps with a little off healing or healing with off dps. So you just need to pick your main role or have 2 armor sets. Great at giving booms which everyone loves. I agree it like engi but more forgiving if you miss your combo. But, sometimes you get 2 shot downed if you look away.

But general playing any class well takes time and a learning curve. Thief only the class I hate to see because it so hard to play well. So many of the bad players think they playing great and they are not. Note, I do not play well on my thief.

That’s just me 2 cents.

It to melee unfriendly and the flowers have to much hp. I generally do not run swamp because it to much or a pain at least at t4.

Gim

I like then, but it not just a skill spam. Most times just one light field will wipe the whole group. So, I had to stop using my hammer which I love. Plus, gs still the best at grouping the trash mobs up. Having a good range weapon is key. For gear, I use zerk for my main set but have both a healing and dps range weapon. About 1/2 the end bosses are not dps races but it just about staying up for the boss stages. But you still have to bring the dps.

I find a have to switch skills for each of the bosses. But, you should not be running soldiers with a bad dps rotation which I see many other guards doing. T4 not for learning this. Raids are the only place you need a tank. Everyone main job is dps not being carried. But a little off healing and condi removable helps. Just one person not dps means a simple 10-15min run turns into 30+min nightmare.

People love it say I play the way I want which is totally ok for open world, but playing badly with a bad build is uncalled for in a group after fotm 25 and many dungeons if your pugging. If your running with friends it cool to run the way you want.

I generally use meta build as the base but change it up based on how much condi removal I need.

Gim

General speaking I find people in 35-70 range are lacking the basics of fotm, running soldiers, lack dodging, just spam one weapon, can not even eat basic food or pots, or even listen. And why run that tier when u can do t4. Which keeps some of the bad players out. Just run 75 that’s a daily a lot.

Matchmaking has been bs since they made the solo and team q the same some 2 years ago.

I lucky to get 1 win in 8. There to many people farming the q, I say 70% of my matches there one person afk or active only for 1/2 of the fight. So in game I sound like an kitten because there looks to be no point in trying. After 3 loses in a row I rarely on my A game, then people report you for thier bad play. It rare if I do pvp for more that the daily.

Even if I was a bad player I should now be get 50% of my matches being TOTALLY HOPELESS or a unfun waste of time.

Plus 8min q times for bs matches. Give 20min q’s if u have just do not make me wait in the mists.

And conditions are way to op now. I get 5 ticks of 2 conditions and I can not even press condition removal. And if u like the pay to win traits we lose even more.

MM needed to be fixed and the current system to stop people from botting is not working and has never worked.

I been playing his game for a long while but it looks like many vets it time to move on. I never bought HOT but I do not see a reason to. $50 for so little content.

I love how ANET said multi times in live chat, that the new classes would not be OP in pvp. A clear bold face lie. Or it just your match maker so bad losing 10 matches in a row is fun. And it been that way for almost a year. I am still in shock that you removed solo q.

With dungeon running made not worth the time.

FOTM old content u have to pay for.

Following the SW zerg got boring the first few weeks it came out.

That being said if you new I did find the content fun and many hours of fun.

Good luck

OP pay to win. Yea it must damage for no skill.

It called failed matchmaking, it been broken since they removed solo q. I am use to losing 10 in a row for 1 win (makes the game real fun). Might have 2 close matches, but the others the team has two clueless noobs meaning the match is POINTLESS. When I team q it the other way we easily win like 5 matches in row with the team not even trying.

With the new class imbalances makes it worst.

I am glad I never bought the new expansion just for this reason, anet had many MONTHS to fix this. What makes it even worst I am raging at the new players for not knowing pvp or class basics when it ANET fault.

I play a game for fun not to rage.

Bad. Not the word for solo q. FAILED is anet.

Nothing good about the new system any means 5 man teams get to kitten the solo q.

IT ALOT worst. At least for ranked and unranked solo q.

Yes looks like anets love for guards and warrior. Why do I even play my engineer? No love.

Just lacks dps, but fun.

I like celestial, I use it in wvw all the time. In pve I sometimes use all celestial for healing weak puggers or in fights dps is not all that important. Most times I run 1/2 celestial with ramp/zerkers. But I do have full zerkers for those dps races.

I run 30/30/0/0/10. I use bombs and healing turret(learn combos) for might stacking a lot. But grenades do find a role went range is needed.

If your new to engi I would go 1/2 celestial 1/2 zerker. Zerkers is not very forgiving learning dungeons or fotm. But outside dungeons in pve any build works.

Lastly, flamethrower kit is not a dps kit(fun but no dps). It great for a fire field or tagging mobs in world events/wvw. In a dungeon you are doing no dps if it is your main kit and a big reason why so many hate engi in there group.