Guild Wars 2

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVI-oSTteVw

Discuss

(spirit ranger)

After I got some requests to do a video like this I talked to Ventari to play some duels vs a good thief and after some wins and losses I uploaded these duels to show you guys how you can win against a S/D thief as a condi necro
Big respect to Sizer who managed to kill Ventari quite often as well (we don’t want to show that Ventari always wins against Sizer because that’s just not the case we just want to show how you can win when you are a little bit lucky and use your skills right)

- Leave a like and subscribe for more videos like that!
- Tell me in the comments which class match-ups you wanna see next!

Build used: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW7YjMax7Fbib87JEoH9CuAiRKOmghSB8kOA-TsAAzCpIKS9l7LTRyvsfN+Ytw+DA

Link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3o2fB_ADjc

Its as simple as that get 4 spirit rangers and one guardian and you cant loose (at least in solo q) what does that say about ranger? i guess that it is too strong.

I have been playing guild wars 2 since the beta and rank 11 was my best team q leaderboard place so far therefore i think i got enough experience to talk about it

if i were you i would choose a class that makes me happy everytime i logg in to play it no matter if its “good” in the current meta or not.. i for example play mesmer which is not that viable atm

if you cant decide you can watch some twitch streams

-teldo – engineer
-azshene – guardian
- ventari – Necromancer
-my stream actually cause i dont know if helseth still plays mesmer in his stream – mesmer
phantaram – elementalist
caed – thief
dont know about ranger and warrior

Once you decided what you want to play.. try go spvp and not tournaments for the beginning because there you learn how to react to certain circumstances and learn how to play your class

after like 300 games i would try your first team or solo q have fun and see you ingame

i am actually really looking forward to the next patch and i am curious what they will change

Slim.3024:

Sensotix.4106:

are you serious man? whats wrong with my torment suggestion? do you agree with punishing players for moving lolz

You are looking at it the wrong way. Torment is not punishing you for moving, it is rewarding you for standing still. The decision is on you to understand when taking advantage of it is actually going to be “advantageous”.

The condition is meant as a deterrent for people who decide to run away from you. Its purpose is for the aggressor to stick to their target more easily, which is exactly what it does. If Torment did less damage for targets who moved, this purpose would be voided.

you just can’t stand still in this game it’s your instant death man…the way torment works is just wrong

Conjures should work like engis kits is an awesome idea!

hooma.9642:

Knote.2904:

hooma.9642:

Knote.2904:

hooma.9642:

Sensotix.4106:

hooma.9642:

Sensotix.4106:

Sarrs.4831:

Sensotix.4106:

i agree with what you said and yes you don’t have to be a top player to say new game modes etc

but then i see others doing videos and posting it on the forums saying stuff like make mesmers gs close ranged ..and something like that … it just seems like some people don’t have enough knowledge of pvp and the problem is people agree with them because they know as little as they do and then the devs will start thinking about it since a lot of people agree..

Even if they did end up with “make mesmer gs short-ranged”, which is a ludicrously tight avenue to actually gain any real support as this seems to be a vote as to which topics to discuss, there’s nothing to imply that they’ll actually think about acting on the request. This is just starting discussions, not actually deciding what to do. It’s stage two in a four/five stage procedure.

yea this was one example of what i read or see on the forums and i just couldn’t watch it and say nothing so i will also make a video and see if people agree

actual u are just 1 of the 90% who thinks only his suggestions are the right one and all others are wrong. thx for the showcase!

have you ever played one single team q?
how can you judge me and my knowledge about pvp when you don’t even play it

lol.. just lol.. so i cant judge anything, but you? funny.

can a mod please step in and close this bullkitten?

edit: i reported that clearly insulting thread. u can post your suggestion and discuss it. but claiming to be the only who has a plan and start to insult others to be stupid has to be closed.

Please stop, this is just derailing the thread which could otherwise have good discussion. I should report you if anything, but I won’t. Just stop.

no problem. he just needs to remove the part where he judge others in his opening thread.

Or you could keep giving him power by not getting over it.

It’s just his opinion, he doesn’t have to censor himself to appeal to someone who willingly joined the thread, that’s not how it works. Just move on.

u realize that he indirekt censors all other opinions by claiming its wrong and he is the only one who has the right to suggest something? at some point u move above the point of freedom of expression.

i don’t say that i am the only one….
i say that it brings the game forward if we listen to those who have a knowledge about whats going on..which should be common sense i guess

+1 to this but please also dont forget to buff mesmer and ele with some of the tipps u get from the community

Amir.1570:

Should Thieves and Warriors get nerfed without being careful, Mesmer will become a cancer class again. Would be great if Mesmers had higher risk in attacking because before things such as zerker stance even came into existence, EVERYONE knew that Mesmer was the most tanky class without investing in toughness or soldier amulet.

But w/e, people who think being able to have Zerk Stance, Balanced Stance, Endure Pain while attacking is fair ruined this game anyways. Don’t even get me started on Mesmer Phase Retreat, people who think that’s a balanced skill most likely fail on games that don’t have “nine-lives mechanics.”

Cancer class will remain cancer. Instead of buffs a re-work would be better. Or keep them nerfed to the ground DPS-wise.

nerfing them to the ground dps wise is not a good ideas since mesmer is the class with the lowest dps of all roamer classes in the current game therefore i would rather suggest reworking it since i am also not a big fan of relying so much on phantasm damage and only being able to play one build

this is actually the biggest problem of guild wars 2

+1 for this
/15 chars

Hey guys I have recently uploaded this video to show why I think *S/D thief is too strong atm.
I am aware that other classes need some things changed as well but now I will start off with the thief
It would be awesome if you could tell me what you think in the comment section on youtube or here on the forum thread.

Looking forward to a nice discussion!

Link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUk9QvJ8bE

Rules:
- Please don’t insult anybody and try to provide constructive feedback so others don’t feel offended and know what you mean.
- I don’t say they should kill the last viable build a thief has I just want to know what you guys would change (maybe you are even saying that thief is fine as it is )

Hey guys!
I want to share with u my latest videos in which u can see me fighting different classes on a duel server i found
My plan is to make this a weekly series where i will also provide you with some tipps to duel certain classes!

The build link is in the description

Hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions feel free to ask them here or on youtube

I also love getting positive feedback and subscriptions on youtube (>^-^)>

Link to the videos:
(#1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLbPvZs2VKc
(#2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz0USW8kK9k
(#3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-a1DoG1uo

its not only the sustain….most of the times people get killed by condition from the new warrior build even tho this build runs zerker or soldier..so sad

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

MarzAttakz.9608:

The Starks also said Winter was coming, look where it got them.

’Balance is coming…. ’

…probably around the time ESO is released…

already? O:

Added:
Episode 4 – “Sneaky Sensotix!” (Thief)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0U_wtcpB34

style.6173:

Sensotix.4106:

Mesmer will be in a really bad spot after the patch so please keep that in mind when you do your balancing anet

No one will take your comments seriously if they are this broad. You need to be more specific.

1v1: Mesmer is currently the best class for this. I don’t see that changing with the patch. At EQUAL skill levels, the mesmer will win.

Team Fights: Pretty useless. They are good for some burst (depending on their spec), but after the next patch, I’d much rather have an ele handle the AOE burst.

mesmer is probably the only class that cant duel any of the current meta classes on a point (which is the goal in conquest mode)

Azukas.1426:

Mesmers > Thieves 1v1

If you are losing to thieves 1v1 on a mesmer than you need to reevaluate your gameplay

and you should start playing this game thx
trust me when i say thief > mesmer
my experience > yours

yes warrior is just a joke how it is atm…

one gotta love grouch!

I feel so bad for that mesmer he gets like no assist dmg whatsoever
how is he supposed to kill a dd ele alone while he gets chased by 2 guys

edit: mesmer is like necro he can put huge pressure on the enemy team alone if he can freecast to a certain point but he cant really kill 3 people alone so dont just focus on protecting the mesmer rather do this AND focus the targets the mesmer is focusing

and saying that you were 2vs4 on point is not really true since the damage dealers were chasing your mesmer so there wasnt any dmg on point just let one stand on point and rest supports mesmer when they overextend its perfect for you

Added:
Episode 12 -“Tripple Warrior Op!” (Warrior)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IglIDTI3rOU

s: Warrior Necro Guardian Thief
a: mesmer ranger engineer
c: ele

“c: thief” LOOOOL NEVER thief is still so broken in tpvp

Fix this seriously how are we supposed to play
impossible to stomp impossible to play

gg

laggs/crashes/stomp bugs on any map in team q with and without standard models turned on…
do you even test your stuff seriously 5 months for such a tiny patch and now its not even possible to play the game…dota 2 is free to play some things should be considered in guild wars 2 that are already implemented in dota 2 ..

Hey guys I really don’t want to spam the pvp section this is just a friendly reminder that there are new things in the sticky: “Sensotix Solo/Team Q Tactical Guides (HD)”
What I have made there are videos where i play solo q with different classes and builds and explain what I am doing so people can learn a little bit about movement and team support in solo q…this is especially made for new players

The second thing that you can find in this sticky are videos recorded from the ESL tournaments or team Qs with my shoutcasting feature where you can see top teams playing against each other… I recorded those matches and provide a tactical breakdown of their splits tactics etc etc so this is also very good for a little bit more experienced players that want to learn more about tactics and movement in team q and tournaments!

The reason I am writing this thread is because I got the feedback from some of my subscribers saying that they never check the stickies and once they found it they were really happy about the videos so they thought it would be better if I wrote such a thread to help some new players find the videos in the sticky

Cheers, Sensotix

Sticky:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Sensotix-Solo-Team-Q-Tactical-Guides-HD/page/2#post3291512

or diamond skin being implemented even tho you got some constructive feedback on it why it was not a good game mechanic…also you asked for that feedback

hooma.9642:

Sensotix.4106:

I feel like the devs are really listening to what people on the forums say but the big problem with this is that there are 90% or people that know little or nothing about pvp, 6 % people that have a decent knowledge and then 4% that are top tier pvp players

The problem i want to adress is that most of the time you see suggestions from the 90% and the other 10% can’t really say something against it since the mass of players kinda rules how the game developes..
To my mind it would be important to listen to the 4% (or the 10%) because then we might see good changes that 90% of the people wont understand at first but those changes would be much better for the game than the changes the 90% suggest…

I really liked some of the changes in the last patches but we are still missing a lot of things that can be implemented really easily because they are not that big

I play with a lot of the 10 % players and then we end up talking about the game between the matches and i hear so many great ideas …

Cheers
Sensotix

who tells u that u are among the 10% with good suggestions? honestly leave that attitude outside the forums and stay with your friends believing your are god among mortals.

I can’t believe you just said that
I am in the 10% because i have been playing this game since the beta (Pvp only) have been playing with and against the best pvp players in this game and also am in the top of the lb since it came out that’s why i count myself to the 10%
i am getting so tired of people asking me the same stuff over and over again like when i did the interview with azshene and i used the term “top guardian” and people argued about it..are you kidding me?!

tichorum.2415:

+1 to Sen

thanks a lot finally someone

i think the devs should have a look at this thread here since i can see some very nice ideas!

bumping this to save the game

Mythoryk.7984:

Sensotix.4106:

style.6173:

Sensotix.4106:

Mesmer will be in a really bad spot after the patch so please keep that in mind when you do your balancing anet

No one will take your comments seriously if they are this broad. You need to be more specific.

1v1: Mesmer is currently the best class for this. I don’t see that changing with the patch. At EQUAL skill levels, the mesmer will win.

Team Fights: Pretty useless. They are good for some burst (depending on their spec), but after the next patch, I’d much rather have an ele handle the AOE burst.

mesmer is probably the only class that cant duel any of the current meta classes on a point (which is the goal in conquest mode)

You must be bad at mesmer, then.

i politely ask you to never visit my forums posts again since you obviously have no understanding of the current meta and or know who the good players atm are
maybe you are from na and thats fine..its a different meta there but you obviously have never stepped a foot into the top 100 pvp competetive scene in eu

Ostricheggs.3742:

I gotta say you people are insane. If you believe that engis are so incredibly easy for how effective they are then I beg of you to go make one and play it right now. Then go make a hammer longbow warrior. Then go make a necro. It is NOT easy to be good on engi. I’m NOT biased, I play other classes extensively and have an incredible knowledge of how this game works. There is a kitten good reason why there are so few GOOD condi engis.

For the record, engis nearing the skill cap are too strong. The nerfs to vigor is a good first step albeit a bit misguided considering that the insane efficacy of engis that came about recently is from the fire bomb radius increase. Bomb nade is a kittening monster build and NEEDS to be toned down. Engis that actually kill things aren’t in need of a nerf to survivability in any way.

i agree here..
and again it looks like only pve people comment in these threads about classes being op.. an engineer can get oneshotted by warrior (if he hits the first stun ofc)

Allie Murdock.8152:

Sensotix.4106:

Reesha.7901:

Allie Murdock.8152:

The patch has been out for 2 days. There were so many changes that we really need to let things settle and let people find their way. Big balance changes like this shake things up a lot, and nobody can know how the community will adapt to the change until they adapt to the change, which usually takes longer than a couple days.

Maybe this is a bad place to post a suggestion, as I am not an experienced tournament player. ^^

I think it would be rather awesome if the top teams could test balance changes. A custom arena maybe, where those teams could play matches against one another, before the changes went live.

That way, feedback from experienced players could be handed directly to the developers. Balance would be tested by experienced players, and the rest of us would still have the option to voice our opinions afterwards to cower anything not discovered through testing.

I am sure I am not the first to think of this

i agree 100% !

If you reference my first post, you will see that I have a bit in there:

“All of this doesn’t matter though, if the 4%-10% spends little to no time giving us feedback for one reason or another (inactive, don’t care, think we don’t listen even if that’s wrong, etc.).”

Most of the 10% has direct access to the developers already. Some take advantage of it, most do not. We can’t control whether or not they give us feedback, but we definitely give them ample opportunity to do so.

I did that tho
I provided you guys with so much feedback everytime a new patch hit ..i made discussion threads with summaries i made lists of things that people want to have in this game…it’s not like i didn’t try but all these posts were forgotten after some days

This is my last try..i already talked to helseth phantaram denshee and gruntled and more will follow…during the next week i will collect thoughts infos and everything that people who play this game or stopped playing this game have to tell me and then i will do a summary video

Lighter.5631:

yes, over 70% of the comments in the forums are hilariously unbelievable.

i don’t know either they are exaggerating or really believe so.

normally i don’t comment on some categories which i dont know about. but that’s not the case for a lot of people here. they just assume they know it because they countered it once or twice or just by reading random tool tips.

+1 to this
/15 chars

So guys i have been playing in this condition meta for quite a long time now and there is one thing i realized..the way torment works is just wrong:

Why?:
- u have to move around all the time in this game so why would you be punished for it?
- necro’s ds #5 skill immobilises ..so here is the question: if it does damage when the enemy moves why would you want to have an immobilise there?
- atm torment is like a stronger bleeding stack and another condition that will be cleansed instead of bleeding because everybody has to move

Suggestion:
- change torment: the target gets x dmg every second and + x dmg every second the target is standing still
So why do this?:
- In this game you should be punished for standing still all the time and just spamming your skills like i see some classes doing
- Also if it is changed like that people can set up combos like “i got torment on him immoblise him! awesome!”

Thats my idea so far just tell me what you think of it

ryan.6217:

didnt read through any of the comments really, but this is a bad post. For startes, if a thief spams 3 for evade, kill him. just blatantly kill him. he is out of attacks, and his shortbow is out. secondly, that is one glassy thief is his 1 skill is killing all your clones. i bet you could out glass him if you were good at the game. third. one immobilize is getting you killed? this is clearly a l2p issue. looks like you got pwnt by a bad thief and now you are crying about it.

can you read? the immobilise if obviously a bug that needs to be fixed and shouldnt be killed
also better check the leaderboards before you complain about my skill
next please read more carefully as i said these are several things that are a bad design and having ALL OF THEM TOGETHER can kill a mesmer easily…not JUST the immobilise or JUST how stealth works…sometimes i even wonder if people take the time reading more than the headline…

The only reason mesmer got nerfed so often is that (i will call them “noobs” for now"..that noobs cried about mesmer being op the whole time..
So please stop that from now on..
I actually cant believe that there are people out there saying that mesmer is still op

having one stream talking about the topic with some players like we had with grouch some time ago would be nice so we can ask you questions directly and you respond on stream while having 2 guys from na and 2 guys from eu

and you actually did promise changes that didnt happen so far

also we send you feedback and nothing was changed
I see that you care about the game and i actually do feel sorry for you for being the punching bag of the community but you have to admit several things are not going the right way and part of the problem is that most of the experienced players are being ignored

welcome back now save the game

sorry but we did a nice job as a community when the december patch preview was on the forums and the whole year before but you have to understand that after a long time of no changes to the current annoying meta people get mad…

This thread aims to summarize all the problems and solutions atm and represents not only mine but also the opinion of other top players in this game
Some suggestions:

Video Link too: http://de.twitch.tv/sensotix/c/2749616
- nerf all classes except for mesmer elementalist and guardian
- reduce the number of pets on the battlefield

so why do that?:
- if they buff mesmer and ele every class is kinda “op” so to stay “op” we have to stick to certain builds..if you nerf the “op” classes you have a better chance to create build diversity
- if there are less pets you have better overview and it depends on the skill of every player to kill an enemy instead of letting your pets do the work (i am mesmer and i think phantasm mesmer is ridiculous)

Some more suggestions:
- give players the opportunity to display their leaderboard ranking in pvp if they wish to do so (motivation for the players)

- solo q: let players decide which map they want to play.. if two maps reach the same amount of votes it will be decided by chance
- team q: let players decide which map they want to play…it will obviously be 5:5 everytime so it will decided by chance

- implement legendary weapons for pvp if you reach a certain win/loss ratio (just an example but i think its good because it shows the best how good a player/his team is….i dont really like the idea of getting them by playing a certain amount of matches etc)

- implement titles for players in the top 100 (you can keep the title even if you drop out of the top 100)

- improve the skill animations to give the possibility to react to certain skills better

- solo q: if someone leaves the game early or is afk only he looses leaderboard ranks and his group mates dont

- add professionally organized tournaments once a month so people can practise with their team for them (= therefore add special rewards for winning such a tournament)

- seperate pvp and pve skills like you did in guild wars 1

- implement a guy standing around in the heart of the mists where you can check the leaderboard because what player really want is to see it ingame and not on a website)

-implement a trading post guy in the heart of the mists

-make tutorials on how to play tournaments etc for beginners (simple tipps and tricks) so that 4 people dont cap a single point

- being able to buy pvp skins with glory instead of diamonds

-reduce spammable aoe (=give every class certain powerful aoes with a good animation but not spammable ones)

IF you have any ideas or suggestions feel free to post them so i can add good ones to the current post to make it easier for anet to see the summary

Pixels.6532:

This is great, thanks. I like the thief vids… If I could request a few more… :o)

of course more thief gameplays will follow i love playing thief

Currently a lot of players experience a network error which kicks them out and doesnt let them reconnect for no reason
please fix this

this was the most constructive feedback i have ever had

if we want it to be fixed i guess we need a number of views and comments so please try to bump this topic as often as possible to make the devs see it
for the sake of our mesmer community <3

Syndarin Eledhwen.6513:

yea anet pls fix balancing so we can continue the only one game mode after 1.5 year with the ~20 remaining peoples..

ps. esports

why cant i give more ++ to this

silentnight warrior.2714:

So mesmer got problems with thiefs.

Solution:
Nerf ALL classes

not only with thief..i really have to ask you if you play this game :/

Stand The Wall.6987:

Romek.4201:

i made the suggestion the first day tome of knowledge…
to sell this in sPvp for glory – and look they did it^^

if you actually are that person then i thank you.

it seems more for me like it was they idea and then they try to find a forum post that suggested it or suggested something close to that and then they are like: oh hey thanks for the feedback only because of your feedback we implement it

kubetz.3058:

Sensotix.4106:

i will maybe do that in the videos in the future but it will be hard for me since i got little time beside university but i promise i will try my best!

Great!

Maybe as a trial run to get feedback how people like it you can take some fights from your 1v1 videos, slow them down a bit and provide a commentary. That should save some time. Those 1v1 videos have plenty of interesting stuff going on there for sure.

Good luck with the uni.

Ventari and I are trying to get a good gameplay today and then i will do my best to make it slow motion at times so maybe the video will be uploaded tomorrow and not today depending on how much time i need

Thanks a lot!