Guild Wars 2

Well you mean Scrapper with Hammer tbh, not engineer in general

i find it kitten, but maybe this is due to the fact that i try to play with rifle.

Would also be thankful if anyone could share a Rifle Build he had success with 1v1 / roaming in Wvw.

I feel like i am in a huge disadvantage vs nearly every other profession that is running around.

The moment i switch to hammer or go condi-P/P i have much better chances.

I tried many different traitline combinations but it feels useless.
When you dont take FT eg, you do even have problems killing guards in camps in a reasonable time.

ok, if you run with bunker down and exlixer gun und pull them into a choke its quite fine, but somehow still feels very unrewarding compared to the effort and whan you can do with other builds / professions

i feel somehow sad about thtat, just finished the Legendary Rifle and now i feel like i kitten myself when playing a rifle build.

Nah, flat unblockable OS would be bad.

But they could add a “within the next 6sec all your attacks are unblockable” to some underused utility, like eg. utility googles .

JumpShot will still be only used to cleave downed and reposition . It goes off to slow and you can easily be CCed , but not sure if an evade would be too good ?

Perhaps add some additional effects to rifle if you trait for Skilled Marksman, that way ppl would also go for other traitlines .

Hmm, either i got the OC worng or you are talking about different stuff here.

Ofc Hammer/Scrapper was great on release , but thats not the fact now. We received a lot of nerfs !

Also , in raidsetting , backline / midline scrapper is fine ( imho ) but this topic was about a working solo build in comparison to / vs other professions, not ?

Hi mate,

i know what you are talking about, i am facing the exact same here.
Also trying to find a build that works in 1v1 but i guess the only useable thing atm would be a condition build.

If anyone out there has a working 1v1 hammer build it would be nice to see it in action.

Question to you:

Do you not think the game’s algos are absolutely kittenED UP when you get the same ppl over and over again, but end up in losing team 95% of the time ?

They are never but in the nmy team, they ALWAYS end up in your very own team.
Even though everyone in the match is solo-queued …..

and then ?, you get to play with ppl that don’t even understand the basics of the gamemode .
This cannot be the solution, seriously.
I want to play pvp with ppl that also like to play to win the game, i want close games , games where you know that your one failed or great action did matter .

Like it was with old soloq.

Am i really the only person who feels like this ?
Who actually cares about this whole league kitten, everyone gets the stuff anyways, its just a matter of time.

But the whole idea of pvp, playing against and with even opponents is screwed atm.

Seriously , how long do you think ppl will endure this situation ?
I know many who stopped playing pvp, and i myself am really frustrated as well.

Pvp is not fun andmor!
Having a winchance of 10% for the last 100 games or so, its just not fun.

And i really wonder how the game pushed me to the league i am currently in.

And to be honest i dont CARE about the kittening league , i just want to play PvP and have fun and close games.
And not games that are decided before they even start, end with 4vs5 or 500:<100 .

THIS IS SO BULLkitten.

Do you , Anet, really think you can leave it like this the whole s2 ??

I know namecalling is not allowed in here ( or any MMO ) but seriously , Anet PLEASE do something !!!

People will stop playing your Game because of others destroying it for them.
Having one (bad) person go AFK right from the start is GG.

What more do you ppl need until you react on the reports of many players you get for ppl like these ?
How long do we have to live with that?
Do you really want us to queue-dodge those ppl , or how should we deal with this situation.

I suspect the same, but how to solve it ?

I belive they could only solve it , if they would randomize the 10 ppl they just found with this algorithm .
At least i would be worth a try, can’t get worse that it is now.

Beeing in the same random team over and over again, with the same 4 random ppl that you lose every match 500:<300 isn’t fun.

The games are so often decided before the gates even open, only because of this genius algorithm.

i really feel like there is something wrong with my account, why do i get fullteams as nmys when i play solo, according to pvp-blog this should not happen at all ???

Also the games are not even close atm, is this evan guy around , can he check perhaps – i know he did that for other ppl in the past.
Much apreciated.

well perhaps my mmr is bugged, it would be soo cool if we could see it, but i doubt they will show their kitten system to public .

i mean seriously, what happend where are the even matches, where is your 50% chance, which showed that you fought even opponents ???

okay all you S2 matchmaking > S1 , how do you explain the situation in which you get if you lose 3 games in a row ?

You suddenly get mates that have absolutely no clue at all.
The games end 500:~200 many times.

Do you really feel like this is better than it was in s1 ??

Aside of the kittening mmr-tanking is S1 ( i play purely solo-q ) the games there seemed much more balanced.
In both ways.

But now, the moment you reach your MMR and you get into a losing streak its over.
You cannot ever get out there again.

Hi,

did they take it offline ?

I don’t know but for me the fix was awesome .

Huh – why would you specc Signets of power if you don run even one signet ??!?!?

The Next match shows up as usual, so between the last 2 games, there is one missing Match !

Gametime was around 01:10am – 01:20am GMT+1 ( Germay ) .

well at first i thought why THE kitten did i not gain a pip for this game ( we won 500:311 ) but thern i realized that the game did not show up at all in the history.

Could you please check ??

Map was Battle of Kyhlo .

Btw. can you check if mykitten#8230;.ng MMR is somehow flawed ???

for the same reason thief’s elite is the only one still only giving you 1 stack os stab on start and not like alle other elites that are pulsating.

for the same reason scorpion wire is still blockable and misses 50% of the time and NGs pull was fixed.

for the same reason thief’s underwater combat is still stupid and half of the traits are useless.

âs if this would change anything ….. mesmers are still are to important as bunkerz and connot be countered properly !!!

hi,

havin an issue here, i am getting perm. disconnected from the servers.
Not from the game itself but from the chat / trading and somehow pvp-queue servers ( or whatever you call it ).

I can play the game without any issues, no lag ( well sometimes, but most of the time everyone else lags at that moment too ).

The moment a game is finished, i have dishonor and cannot queue again.

What is the problem ??? Anyone else expirienced that ?

Noone else having these issues ??

Hi there,

anyone else having these issues ?
I get disconnected and reconnected every minute or so .
I am not kicked from the game, its only the chat / guild and blacklion functionality.

Right now i got 20min of dishonor because of this, ( got the win / lose rewards after the match ) but the game thinks i am disconnecting … however i was never disconnected from the game.

It’s not always but in the past couple of days this occured increasingly.

4/5 and then 2 games 0/5 .
2 Games that end 500:~100 cause i have 2 (second game 1) person in my team that refuse to play !

What is this kitten Anet serisously.
I am a long-term supporter of this game, always saw the positiv aspect but this kitten kills it for me really fast.

Hi,

how / where can we report ppl that dont play, stay in base get 0 pts and even write in chat that they don’t care.

Losing pips because of this kitten is really the worst thing ever, so how can we get rid of these ppl ?

Nerf certain idiotic util / traits / passives that OTHER professions have.
You cannot simply buff thiefs , they would break everything again.

Or, we could start over again, like it was done by for nearly EVERY other profession out there.

Everyone got vigor/endurance for doing x, or using a utilitly ….
Everyone got +25% runspeed, be it through an util or a trait.
Everyone got tons os stability, protection, regen.
Many professions got stealth.
Many professions got stuff to directly counter stealth .

You could do the same for thief, what does thief not have ?
Protection, Stability, Regen .

But i tell you, the moment you would give these buffs to thief it will become OP again.

Hi,

i remember there was this distinction about MMR , based on your profession and not your account as a whole.

Is this still the case ?

just lost 609:89 and got -1 !
How is that even possible !!??!?! A match that ends with that score and you get a -1 !!!

kittenANET !

MMR or Pip / league system ,. both together in that way is just so stupid…

What’s the use of MMR ? Right, to get even fights.
So if you are supposed to win 50% of your games ( MMR is working , right ) then you will NEVER get up.

Why should you get more points for winning than for your lose games, IF you are supposed to fight opponents on the same level ??

I guess it was only vault dmg showing up there but OP did forget to mention that it was more than one vault he was Hit by..

Imho thief is not as far behind as the forum represents it .

But ppl have to adapt and figure out working build combinations.
If you overbuff thief now the situation will be much worse .-

i think you missunderstand P2W ….

I also do not get ppl that QQ about the necessity to own HOT in order to compete.
What is wrong with these ppl ?
The game has no subscription fee.
The game allows you to reroll another profession to PVP with , without having to grind gear and stuff- that’s amazing.

PPl should really step out in the reality and rethink before making posts like this …

Same issue , on two characters now .. !!! blocking me since hours !
I finally started to master itzel poison – hoping this will solve the issue for me

This morning, after the patch one of my chars could get a little progress in the upper right on the 2nd spot – but then it stopped , iirc the moment i was engaged by one of those walking mushrooms .

On the other char i do not see moving progress at all.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

But with the Bow DH gets they have a weapon with1200 range. Which means Thief is the only class without a 1200 range weapon.

But therefore we are the only profession with stealth … oh wait .
And the only profession with passive 25% runspeed …. oh kitten , again everyone got this.

But we are the only profession that can 1shot others … hmm, okay nevermind we even cannot do this anymore but others can / QQ

Time to reroll i guess

Just add 20sec icd to trapper Rune and it would be fine.
But all the rangers would cry then

if they nerf trapper rune way more rangers than thiefs will QQ , thats for sure.!

Also, there were 2 moments when he was not rooted + he can still use skills – but he backpaddeled.
And he used his heal when there was no real need to use it … did you even see a full condi ranger in action , he would die in half the time .

The best would be to make conditions also affected by crit ( aand ofc. be balanced around this ).

That way ppl that decide to run condition builds are either forced to also lose the toughness / vitality or they do less dmg .

Right now the balance between defense and offense for condition builds is way off compared to power /zerker builds.-

yes it’S really not understandable why 1200y ranged attacks that instant kill any zerker build are still ingame . – same with ranger pets .

Either the QA is on vacation or ppl over at Anet have a plan behind all this, perhaaps every MMO must have unbalanced abilities / builds aka fotm ( in GW2 its more like foty ) .

Great play dude!

And for all the ppl that think thief is OP, they fail to understand how close many of these fights were .

One mistake and it would have been a loss !

It’s not a daredevil issue, but i feel like i MUST take trickery with every spec i play.
Without the 3 extra initiative thief feels so much more boring and useless .

I would love to see a dev playing thief without trickery , perhaps they will then notice how dependant we are from trickery.

The steal cooldown is nice, but we can live without , but +3 initiative is a gamebreaker for every spec out there , it’s like attument cooldown was for ele .

Still playing cause it was my main, and i noramlly stick to my main.

Also, i feels so much better to win uphill battles than ez modes .

it has nothing to do with the fact that this is mesmer video – thing is you are attacking out of stealth , clicking your skills and kill ppl that do not have any clue … gz -

Why do you think you should get upvotes for that ????

It’s a weak excuse, and the fact that the answer came 2 month after the patch, also no word in thief elite specc PoI, shows us how Anet thinks about thiefs . :sad:

I’ve also just checked all the traits in the CS line , or thief in general, compared to ALL other professions thiefs traits just see super weak.

Other traits have 5 lines of description what they are doing , and a really changin the way you can play the profession – but for thiefs its like ‘do 10% more crit dmg’ , ‘your crit’s have 50% chance of causing 1stack of vulnerability’ and so on … it’s just SAD !

Yeah, quite obvious how OP feels about certain profession(s)…

Once ppl played a bit they know exactly how to Deal with stealth + stealthopeners…

Flanking Strike was changed, so you can only remove a boon after you successfully Hit the first Part, which is hard enough against competen ppl, cause of blind, dodge, Cc, dmg that kills you before etc pp.

It would be a start to let it steal 2 boons again, but i doubt they will change anything for thieves at all.

S/d is only good for entering a fight and using c’n’d to get of a little stun with tacticle strice afterwards + of the Mini root from IS…

If they would change shadows embrace back as it was ( i would call this Bug fixing) then S/d would also Profit because it would remove a dmging condition for sure…. which would also make x/d builds better overall.

Thief is neglected since 2012 …
We have so many useless utilities, stupid / bugged or underpowered traits !
SoS is one of them – back in 2012 we were the only profession with 25% movement speed on a signet & but they changed it and now every profession got something like that.

It’s fine with me – but they fail to give or Signet ANYTHING else in addition !!

Look at our traits , they feel so weak – eg .http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sundering_Strikes – compare this ( which is not even a passive trait ) to other professions …. it really makes one sad !

Try it out, i does not cost you anything ….

But i think you will have a hard time coming from NG / Nec – current state of the thief requires a lot of proactiveness + knowledge what you can do and what not.

You have not even a second when you are in a bad spot .

thief is an unfinished profession, or they really do not know what to do with it …

So many traits / utils and utility descriptions look unfinished compared to other professiosn .

But the good thing is, we can just reroll something else, there is no single game out there were rerolling is easier than in guildwars 2 .