Guild Wars 2

The most highly anticipated video game action series has returned with yet another epic installment! The hero named Shadow finds himself fighting in yet another deadly conflict, this time in a desolate land. Previously, Shadow had been returned to the Void after becoming The Legend Myth of Tyria. After resting in the deep vortex, the hero now finds himself in the middle of a faction war between the greatest armies to ever grace the Multi-verse. Watch as the Legend himself is enthralled in thrilling, heart-pumping action against all odds. Many will face his sword and many will fall. Grip the edge of your seat as Shadow the Legend Myth claims glorious fortune in the Great War!

with these changes, you’re only making it much easier for the likes of rom/miaz and me to completely dominate any player (assuming we legends came back). If I get quick cd from skirm, open with maul, block, then maul again and hilt bash…and then ANOTHER MAUL? Oh my goodness, evan. pls nerf

and condi ranger gets a huge buff not to mention that the pets we supposedly hid behind since launch are finally becoming useful? bleed surv skill gets 10 stacks? do you guys really want me to remain the greatest player ever? this will detrimental for any other class. ranger has been the best class, but now its approaching mythic levels of viability. i’m not sure of the dev’s are just amicable towards my entertaining playstyle, but honestly you’re giving me too much here. I wouldn’t even know what build to use first….

Phineas Poe.3018:

Jekkt.6045:

Phineas Poe.3018:

Jekkt.6045:

gw2 is everything else than remarkably well balanced.

What did you feel was so egregiously overpowered last season?

the whole game is in a state of overpoweredness and spam.

So nothing, then.

Okay.

Good talk.

Yea had to plus 1 that. Quality kek right there my lad

HeadCrowned.6834:

shadowthejedi.3089:

I’ll say this once again: Dodge druid counters every single class. And it has no counter. Prove me wrong

Condi warrior.

Tell me what damage a condi warrior lands if all his main attacks are dodged, mace f2 being one of them?

Yannir.4132:

shadowthejedi.3089:

The developers simply do not care about PVP, it merely exists as a check mark for the game to include multiple features.

I simply can’t accept that as GW1 had the best PvP out of all games at the time. It was developed as a PvP game where PvE was just a slap-on. Wondering where it all got turned around…

Just compare the staff at launch to now. Everyone developer that had some type of direction for their respective area of work has now moved on. It shows in the living story and in the inconsistent direction that pvp is being led.

Yannir.4132:

Crinn.7864:

shadowthejedi.3089:

Anet is going all in on PVE content. With For Honor released, the PVP scene is as good as dead. Season 6 will be minuscule in comparison

I doubt it. For starters there has never been a case of 1 games release killing off another game. Second, For Honor is a nice game but it gets really repetitive gameplay wise.

That’s not exactly true. Overwatch totally killed all of it’s competition. I’m thinking of a specific one but I can’t remember its name for the life of me. However I believe you are right about For Honor, it’s a nice game but far too small and niche to attract large crowds for the long haul.

There has, however, been a series of games coming out in recent years that have been eating away at GW2 PvP by simply doing it better. The aforementioned 2 games, Overwatch and For Honor. ESO has been stepping up and massively improving their PvP. IMO, PvP needs variety at this point. Stronghold and Deathmatch failed because ANet didn’t make it appealing to go there, and didn’t follow up with more maps for the game mode. A single map barely qualifies as a mode altogether. Ofc it’s cheaper cutting your losses after one failed attempt but did they really give it a chance in the first place really?

Other games companies seem to be doing so much more in the same time period as ANet, and I keep wondering how that happens. Engine limitations maybe?

Lmao. This is a PVE game. And this game seems perfectly fine to people who are entertained fighting scripted robots. PVP was dead before season 5. We were promised mid season adjustments and didn’t get them until less than a week from the end of the season. We were promised plenty from this game, and we didn’t get much on the PVP side.

The developers simply do not care about PVP, it merely exists as a check mark for the game to include multiple features. I used to love the fighting in this game. It’s why I kept returning after 7 total permanent bans. But I guess I should’ve seen it as a sign: being un-permbanned. pvp truely died and descended to such low levels that one of the most notorious players is unleashed upon them. it’s almost poetic

Crinn.7864:

shadowthejedi.3089:

Anet is going all in on PVE content. With For Honor released, the PVP scene is as good as dead. Season 6 will be minuscule in comparison

I doubt it. For starters there has never been a case of 1 games release killing off another game. Second, For Honor is a nice game but it gets really repetitive gameplay wise.

It’s what this game is trying to be. The combat is fair where skill will trump button mashing every time. And it’s the same exact 3 cap game mode as GW2 and even has minions from overhyped mobas like LoL. It’s literally on its first launch day with no metas and there are already promises for updates. I’m sure other game modes will be considered as well, knowing how EA loves to do DLC’s. All in all, you’re left with a far superior PVP system that promises better graphics, game-play and pvp attention for the same exact price.

For PVP players, the choice is quite simple. I don’t predict many players will play this game as their main anymore.

Anet is going all in on PVE content. With For Honor released, the PVP scene is as good as dead. Season 6 will be minuscule in comparison

I’d like my team to go first. Since I am the entire team. I’ll be breezing through this 1v2 quite easily. Anyone that want’s to see the spectacle that is my skill better watch live. My image is, in fact, copy-written so no screenshots will be allowed during my duels.

lmao anyone who suspected this wasn’t a bug is hilarious. We all know anet is pushing classes into certain roles and somehow making the LB virtually useless is one of the things on the table. People complain about how ranger is a braindead class but what viable options do most rangers have but to be a sit on point beast master? try for damage and u get rolled. try for condi and yur just a thief with a more potent sb.

the fact that a bug is the only thing that makes the core ranger weapon viable is beyond comical for me. this game’s genre is a comedy.

I’ll say this once again: Dodge druid counters every single class. And it has no counter. Prove me wrong

The thing is, ranger gets dagger main hand. So even if you talk in theory, reality wins.

Dodge druid counters everything and cannot be countered

Ranger is is a nature based spec and always has been. Look at the sword skill anims. Hornet sting, serpent strike? Druid is hardly anything about nature, it’s more celestial. Just, again, look to the animations and name schemes as proof. It’s gonna be dagger

Ranger will never get any sort of pistol or rifle. The lore behind the class is nature based and you expect them to throw a random gadget in their? Why don’t we just add a robot pet as well, which would actually be interesting but it simply will not happen.

I’ve been saying it since before season 5, we get dagger main-hand as stealth ranger becomes even more normalized.

It’s for druids. Concentration gives you longer boon duration for regen and protection. Which is further elongated with Heal as One. The precision is for precision based procs to land: so obviously sigil of earth was intended. The healing power is obviously only useful to a druid. Adding 500 to classes with one heal skill usually means nothing in a wider context. But for druids, even a small bump of 500 to each heal can mean a significant difference, considering that at pure healer druid build could have up to 10 heal skills, excluding celestial form.

It could also be quite useful for condi engi’s, but I don’t have much expertise in statting an engi. I just recognize many similarities between their roles.

give it a few months

OGDeadHead.8326:

I don’t really like twitch, care to post some videos on youtube?

I plan to move some over. But my first video had the star wars ost and got removed.

And ryan, you’re talking pretty big about druid for someone who relies on Guardian to get ranked wins.

Fluffball.8307:

StickerHappy.8052:

Duel him for me

The people demand it, beat “Ryan” and we’ll listen to you.

You’re already listening. I don’t need to duel anyone for you to view this tutorial because it is the most extensive one to date. Everyone of you will watch it because if you don’t you’ll end up facing someone with the new meta build’s I’ve theorycrafted. You are far too conceited in your opinions. You think all this is for attention, when the crowd gathering is merely the byproduct. You laugh at the number 379 as if it’s nothing. But I didn’t duel randoms, I dueled top tier players that called out my “trolling”. 379 called me out, and not one has proven me wrong. As I said, you can search for videos proving me wrong and closest you’ll find is Miaz killing me when I had 600 ping

Ryan.9387:

You get carried by that build. Watch your video and you will see mistakes that will make you cringe. Double dodging nothing, staff 5ing a staff thief and not doing any finisher etc. Nobody is going to care about a tutorial when your play is that messy.

Congrats on beating someone on the leaderboard 1v1? Druid should beat everything and stalemate the rest. Doesn’t mean you are good. Show us some data and not some cherry picked screenshots and twitch clips.

6D44DCC7-16F5-654C-9E74-50FE8155AEE6E364B183-96F5-4672-B398-25115D988456

That’s my pvp api. Maybe post yours?

Ps – Get rid of the bandicam and record using real software (obs/shadowplay/etc).
Pps – This whole persona or whatever makes you come off as some young kid. Nobody takes you seriously (379 duels lol) and that is why nobody replies to you half the time.

Yawn. Mistakes? Staff 5 a staff theif so I can use sword 2 to heal if I chose? Oh that combination must’ve eluded you, apologies….You claim double dodging nothing a mistake? It’s a personal choice and the very fact that I have the luxury to waste a double dodge doesn’t mean well for my opponents, apologies. And no finisher, another personal choice: I like to speak to my victims. In some cases, I want them ressed. But again, apologies that my playstyle seems mistaken to you.

Now let’s address this data. What exactly can you show me besides how many teams could’ve carried you? That API is complete garbage. “Who cares you beat someone with in the top 10 lb spots. Check out MY win loss ratio! So good, it’s unlisted.” Yea, last time I checked you aren’t a top 10 player, you aren’t a world champion. So please inform me of your relevance beyond the angry pixels.

This is no persona. I don’t care for your perception, think of it as you will. But there’s a reason I’ve even battle the top ranks, and you’re here copying and pasting api codes so your win loss ratio can be observed. My goodness. And if I wanted to invest more than 5 seconds into recording software, I would. But it clearly didn’t bother the thousand who watched my videos. It’s just a low hanging fruit you grab at, any way to degrade my standing. But I will never be brought down to your level. You are unknown for a reason

Fluffball.8307:

This whole Conor McGregor/Trump ego type of thing for attention is pretty played out at this point, it’s been done to death lately. I watched a few seconds of your video, saw you were competent but unchallenged, and got bored out of my mind.

If you want anyone to take you seriously, stop posting videos of you saying how amazing you are for fighting in a rank 44(?!!) PvP match and post beating someone with a name. When you post a video of you beating toker, I’ll open my eyes to “the best player”.

First and foremost, I commend your spirit for putting forth your opinions, but they are ill founded. Allow me to address a few points:

I do nothing for attention, it’s merely a side-effect of the spectacle that is my performance. You really think I’m famous because of an old video? Lmao. Props to you, though, for adding 1 more view to my videos. I appreciate the support.

Lastly, you went on to mention beating someone of note, but I have a few reasons that suggest a more impressive option to serve as an example. You also assume that your perspective offers any direct value to me, thus I should seek your approval. It’s actually the opposite, which is why I’m offering my skill into the community.

I don’t need to name the names, but I’ve dueled a former world champion 1v2: didn’t lose. Just today I dueled a top 10 NA Leaderboard player: didn’t lose. You can ask around for videos, the only thing that exists is Miaz clipping himself killing me while I had 600 ping.

After adding yet another duel win to my consecutive 379, I feel obligated to pass on some of my skill to the lesser fortunate. What are some things you’d like to see in a tutorial on how to theorycraft and beat any player with druid?

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

class changes please? no? dull meta everywhere? more viable builds maybe? still no? ok.

lets do Living Story and then be off back to other worthwhile games.

at least provide us the players with some explanation why do you not touch balance for so long? current stat is satisfactory for you? mhm k, see you next patch

lmao no vaible builds? u sure my lad? i think a build can only be as viable as the skill of it’s user. how else would I have no problem theorycrafting op builds for the past 5 years

UmbraNoctis.1907:

Why would you need mechanical skill to theorycraft stuff? Knowledge about the game/class/gamemode is more important in this regard.
And most people seem to know, that spirits die super fast, so even if they would pose a threat somehow, it would be way to easy to counter. And giving up important defensive utilities for something that can be rendered useless for so easy, will never be a good idea.

Mechanical skill has to do with knowledge of execution and mechanics behind your build. Know how to execute a build with as much impact as possible allows the build that is theory crafted to be best implement. Anyone can shuffle around traits and “experiment”. It’s the execution that matters lad. Spirits do die super fast, but have you checked their range? They aren’t limited to 300 last time I checked. That should give you an idea….

Gwaihir.1745:

shadowthejedi.3089:

I don’t see one top 10 player here so I have to ask how many of these individuals offering advice have actually experimented with spirit druid in ranked? I’d prefer not to give away any of my self made builds. But what I will tell you is that Druid’s have the best healing in game. I’m not talking about just pure numbers either. Tactically coupling a variety of different strategies into one build may be more viable than it initially appears. Try not copy pasting sometime, you might actually learn a thing or seven.

You’re not top 10 either. Kinda the platinum joke would be closer.
OT plenty of high level players run at least 1 spirit on their bar for pvp.

When I say Top 10, I’m not referencing win/loss ratio aka the win rating LB. i\I’m talking about mechanical skill with a certain class. As far as druid goes, I’d be hard pressed to find 10 that are better than I am

Lmao. These threads all have OP’s that refuse to learn different builds or classes. You can’t use the same exact thing every single time and expect to win every game. You need to look at your comp and the team comp and adjust. My build is an exception because I experimented through hours of effort to get to it. My only problem with PVP is my ping in EU. And the fact that a significant amount of intramural tier EU players fail to acknowledge that this is a issue that impacts gameplay significantly. But I play to play, and I’ll play through a lag spike no crying.

I don’t see one top 10 player here so I have to ask how many of these individuals offering advice have actually experimented with spirit druid in ranked? I’d prefer not to give away any of my self made builds. But what I will tell you is that Druid’s have the best healing in game. I’m not talking about just pure numbers either. Tactically coupling a variety of different strategies into one build may be more viable than it initially appears. Try not copy pasting sometime, you might actually learn a thing or seven.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Because specs not outfitted to heal and lack the required stability to repeatedly stomp/res are meant to get ALL the stats.

As far as my spec is concerned, I get the top stat I’m meant to get in almost every game I play. 36 games (ik it isnt a lot) with a 77% winrate. I’m not good, but I’m nothing like the kids who literally waffle about home and mid as they’re being contested and then die to the thief 1v1 off point while they struggle to make a decision.

I’ve gotten top heals as condi thief and ive gotten top kills as a pure medic. If you belong in plat, it’s obvious in every game

SlayerSixx.5763:

Vicariuz.1605:

If ur talking about NA, quite literally, only the pro league players are good, EVERY other person is bad.

Idk about EU, but I can attest to how bad players are in NA.

I play the easiest class. Everyone look at me, and think I’m skilled.

I’f you don’t get every top stat every single game below plat, you aren’t good. And that’s NA and EU