Guild Wars 2

MandJ.8965:

If you are out, can i have your stuff?

I would rather delete it :>

uhohhotdog.3598:

How do you know who’s in a group or not? Maybe some of the 5 were teamed up?

• Enter Match > Press B > Right Click Enemy Name > Read: Invite in to party = Solo Player
• Enter Match > Press B > Right Click Enemy Name > Read: Join the Party = 2/3/4 men team (If you’re in party, you can’t queue up unless party goes with you)
• Enter Match > Press B > Right Click Enemy Name > Read: nothing about party = 5 men team aka Full Premade (cant join a 5 men party nor invite one of them)

This can also be done for your teammembers, to see who’s in party and who’s not

Search for my History info Devs, I only won 1 solo q game out of 2 full days (hours) of queue’ing.

Either I get all the beginners in my team, or afk’ers or leavers.

CAN U PLS stop screwing me over.

I can understand everyone has a bad day.
But kittening 2 full days of losing because I have all the beginners in my team, the afk’ers or the 4v5’s????

DO SOMETING, this is getting rly ridiculous, srsly!!!

This was unranked btw but it doesn’t matter.
It should work like Ranked does, leave beginners with beginners;
not with ppl who want to win the Conquest.

Also, if I want to solo q, I prefer not fighting full premades or small premades?!
I think this is only normal? No?

Fix steal and remove being bursted mid-dodge PLS! Srsly.

Rickster.8752:

Not only is celestial OP (because it gives you way more stats). But in addition, other things like fire and air sigils are very strong and should be nerfed probably.

What makes Cele OP is the might stacking that comes along mostly.
An Ele without might stacks ain’t worth anything even with Cele Amulet.

I wouldn’t really say Cele is OP, it’s more the sigils and might itself.

\o/

/15charsetc

I’m up for Stronghold in same queue IF…

*we get build templates
*+5 votes

While Im certainly no pro but a huge fan of new people coming to PvP, I want to try you to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQ6QYvAxQI

Hopefully it will help you.. If any specific questions, don’t hesitate to PM ingame to my accountname: Terrorsquad.2349
(send ingame mail if Im offline and I’ll answer it asap)

Cheers

AegisFLCL.7623:

So lemme get this straight.

According to some threads Emerald is cursed.

According to others Sapphire is cursed.

Now Ruby is cursed?

I see plenty of people progressing, better yet in my PvP lobby last night there were more Diamond players hanging around than Ruby players; most likely due to our longer queue times.

I had a lot closer matches throughout Ruby, Diamond matches are even closer. Average game time went from about 8 mins to 10-11 minutes. I believe the system is more accurately spreading out players by skill than we think, but without data from Anet no one can truly say and it’s all subjective.

Putting ppl new to the game or new to pvp, asking how to target putting with someone like me (not pro but experienced though) doesnt make any sense.

I literally had ppl who didnt know how to target ppl or didnt see the point in doing so. THIS HAPPENS IN kittenING RUBY

This game is making me rage so much just because Anet lets randoms/new pvp’ers with exp players. This is so kittened up I believe Anet matchmaking dev is just a sadastic human being.

choovanski.5462:

the problem is the average player just spams skills and doesn’t think about the fight. if you actually have a good knowledge of meta builds (ya should, it’s what the enemy will run) and think about the fight it’s easy. the rocket turret shoots rockets, it’s gotta die early. the thumper does aoe knockback so try not to stand by it. the engi has no stunbreak and weak condi clear, so those are your best weapons against him. it’s a logical solution.

also, cool fact a whole supply crate can be killed in seconds with aoe (like bomb kit). killing their sup crate as soon as it drops then dropping yours on them is top kek.

Ye, lets all run condi engi, lets all change class and builds around 1 single enemy. This is perfectly balanced!

Puck.1509:

well I just ask map chat for a party if I’m really concerned about anything PvP… that’s all you have to do, put a little work in to get a decent return.

That’s possible if you’re an average/mediocre player.
Good players won’t ask/invite ppl into their party from mapchat, trust me.

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Bump

Made a short as possible video today as I had low amount of time, quickly giving you guys a guide on how to be mechanically better with just one, neat little trick.

If you got questions, ask here, at the video or contact me ingame!

I also hope to see many new people joining Academy Gaming Cups with the nice prizing coming! Llama’s if you get into RO8 if +8 team signed up!

Cheers

Mechanical Advantage Trick

But 138 damage could mean the death of your opponent!

silvermember.8941:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Aaaaand another SoloQ vs Premades again!

Can I also please get ppl in my team who want to win?

You could always you know form a team, or maybe I am talking crazy.

Or maybe erm, Anet could erm, give us what they promised?

I made 4 video’s in the team arena maps where all the Phase Retreat spots are!
With this knowledge and guide, you’ll get much higher chance in winning fights, supporting your team and obviously, godly kiting!

NOTE: Also adding a video on how to Forward Phase Retreat!

Links:

- Temple of the Silent Stroms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLPi3ln30u0
- Legacy of the Foefire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NTS61vuQEA
- Battle of Kyhlo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zUJFF9poXI
- Forest of Niflhel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsC0BEx3Ok

- How To: Forward Phase Retreat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNIcOOfcN9c

Explaining in the guide WHY you SHOULD use Phase Retreat instead of Blink!

Please like and share around!

Cheers!

Nemis.6874:

Hellfire Armor [&AgGSqgAA] [&AgGAqgAA] [&AgGkqgAA]

Fix this helm on ASURA!! -> Its best of helm for asura who i saw!!! So its amazing, But you looked ASURA EAR?! LOL! This is ugly. Delete Asura Ear when u use helm!! You see TA Dungeon Heavy Helm on Asura? Great, we not see asura ear! So fixed this armor pls, because its very ugly and useless….. Thanks..

RIP English

Rolisteel.1375:

On necro i can fight scrappers okay. Yes they survive a lot. The fight takes very long but it feels like somewhat balanced as they don’t deal as high damage to me usually as warrior or guardians.

That’s because those 2 are the hardcounters for Necro, same for Thief.
Once a Thief mixes into a fight vs you on Necro, u won’t survive quite long either.

You can indeed defeat Scrappers because Necro overall counter Engineers due lack of cleanse.

This game is like Pokémon, which most ppl do not seem to get.
Fire beats grass, grass beats water and water beats fire.

It’s up to the players to figure this out in the 1 minute before the match-up starts (looking at comps and think about opening based on your calculation you made which counters which the most)

For instance, if I see 2 or more DH’s in an enemy team and I got a thief in my team, I’ll ask to split 2 close / 3 far.

This will make it so we do not need to face 2 DH’s on one point.
There’s also a higher chance they’ll split up so it’s easier to take them down.

You can do the same with Warriors, Scrappers,.. Have a Necro and Thief take out the Warrior in a few seconds (Yes, few seconds because Endure the Pain does NOT stop condition damage) while the thief takes care of the direct pressure and interrupts.

I really would like to have VOIP in the game, that would be like, for me personally, the best thing they could implent in PvP.

• You can mute your VOIP if u dont wanna listen
• You can actually teach/steer beginners/less experienced pvp in the matches without wasting time to type and die while doing so (which, eventually, kittenes you off even more if you cant talk through voip)
• Will enhance gameplay overall and a faster learning curve

Countered dozens of Eles in PvP who are exploiting the rush+ lightning flash bug.
This combo causes the enemy mob/boss/player to die instant.
This works in PvE/WvW and PvP. Why it hasnt been fixed yet, I dont know but I just want to be able to report such causes.
PvP should be around fair fights, and not rely on exploits.

I have some names of the eles written down since I do not know how to report them for Exploiting.

Tyvm

Here’s my guide regarding sword dagger thief for PvP!
Don’t forget to like and subscribe since I’ll be posting more various of viable tpvp builds!

Fix it already, please.
DC’ed twice while tPvP’ing and my connection was fine (was streaming and no lag or dc on stream).

This is getting insane. It’s been around for a month now. Look at ToG and ESL weekly cups, they’re having loads of lags + dc’s aswel and can turn the tide unbalanced even.

Please, take this as priority..
For the sake of EU PvP’ers Q_Q

Ancient.9175:

I honestly believe that nature of the system leads to a toxic community. People will be hyper-sensitive to the skill of their teammates when said teammates literally determine whether or not they get rewards for the effort they put in. New players are discouraged from joining sPvP because their presence on a team drastically affects the rewards their teammates receive.

^This. Before the major PvP changes (December, I think?) I barely saw any negative comments in a match.

This became worse with December patch, I believe.. (Solo/Team Arena being erased)
My blocklist is about to be max’ed lol…

Porkman.5173:

Terrorsquad.2349:

Porkman.5173:

Hi. Are you still recruting?
Im a new player. have rank 42.
mostly i play with hambow Warior and d/p thief. Right now im trying Terrormancer Necro.
Im active player. I`m playing almost everyday at evening ( 19 pm +).

Im looking for team to play with.

Hey Porkman, pls adress to our website and read the requirements before Applying

Thank you

i dont pass that thx anyway… Btw good videos!

Keep training, you’ll get there soon.

Thanks for the nice comment!

Bump meanwhile :p

I find it funny how ppl are still saying “l2p” while they don’t get the message at all.

I’m not even talking about 1v1. I’m talking about Conquest in 2014-2015 with it’s current PvP Community. Turret Engi is overused, too easy and braindead to be succesful in Conquest.

Who cares if u can kill it.
Ofc, u got braindead turret engi’s who I can auto attack to death.

But if even top teams are trying to proof how broken it is… I mean come on, open your eyes..

Looking at weekend’s matchmaking.. It’s even worse while in other good games weekends are the most played times.

After 1 match today I decided never again to play Ranked PvP in the weekends (aslong it remains like this) and I think that’s the snowball everyone sane is getting caught by in this game.

Matchmaking is horrible aslong the pool is low.

I think Devs are paying too much time on expac 2 than the game the players are playing right now.

Mutaatti.2789:

Allow teamqueue. End of discussion. Then there will form teams, PvP guilds and competitive gameplay on itself.

I agree on this one. Ever since SoloQ/DuoQ only my PvP guilds activity is dropping.
This is a shame considering we excist since 2014.

Ins.7139:

Like i said in previous matchup, i will blob, i will zerg and i will beat you :P Will be nice to see how Gandara do without the free points they gained from UW last week.

Looking forward to bumping into DYE, good fights i hope. To AM, learn to fight once in awhile, seeing a 40 man guild group WP is just lol. Grow some balls!

Free points we had from UW? Funny to hear this from a server with über nightcap team and had +600 ppt almost every night for few hours.
If every bl has a blob like we see now from both AM and Deso, they can go back to Gold League imo.

Scourge will sell so doesn’t matter. Same powercreep over and over.

SobeSoul.6910:

Terrorsquad.2349:

SobeSoul.6910:

You’re playing thief OP. You are relying on others holding caps. You’re just more vulnerable to lose streaks. In the screenshot you posted, you were up against a bulkier comp. And rangers are sketchy teammates. Those types of comps you were up against pop up often enough.

Yes, exactly. Sometimes I feel like I’m doing something wrong, while actually it’s mostly my teammates not able to hold a point in THEIR favor.

But anyway, doesn’t matter what class I play, the result remains the same :<

Didn’t start playing pvp yet today, cuz I’m afraid having the same issues..

Not saying play other classes. But just I notice if I play thief myself and get comps not balanced to a tankier comp sometimes there’s just much you can do.

However, I don’t like the queuing system where you can stack classes as a team, against randomized teams.

Ya, I’m against stacking classes in general, really

Caedmon.6798:

Tyr.1965:

Thanks for this post, Denied. I was just about to give up on my warrior in sPvP until checking out these videos.

HEY,YOURE NOT THE REAL TYR.THERE IS ONLY ONE TYR..
TELL EM DENIED !!!!!!!!!!

Other than that,nice post denied ;d

@Suns,Alot of stuff covered seems unimportant to some,but it can be important to newbies lerning basics of pvp,thats what denied is good in.His vids show alot of basic stuff to get the hang of pvp,how to rotate,how to use your skills properly etc.Most other channels are just promoting at how “Good” They are.

You get it, Tyr!

I do agree that “Skill Rating” is quite weird considering it solely bases on your team performance and not your own.

I’ve also noticed that point results (eg 499 – 500 loss or a 50 – 500 loss) still has same reduction in rating, which is something really weird for me aswel.
Both mostly give -13 rating while the first result should be much less, if you ask me.

That’s something you should put in your suggestion aswel: having Skill Rating based on Conquest Points as mentioned above.

It indeed always has been like that, the third boon in the line will get transfered to you with Bountiful Theft + Larc Strike

I decided to farm gold, work hard and get the 80g for this backpack!
Couldn’t wait to see my Engi ‘Research Gone Wrong’ with such backpack in PvP Match and having a funny bot speak!

Got the 82g let’s buy!

Oh wait..

IT DOESN’T TALK IN PVP? WHY?!
Bye 80g o/

Make it work in PvP match pls, so u can turn On/Off the sound. There are players who actually want to be heard like this. Ppl are disappointed..

Make it happen pls

Yup, I started Turret Engi yesterday and guess what.. moved from 37x to 22×. Which is over 150 spots on the Leaderboard in 15 games.

Won 13 out of 15 games passed two days. Ez.

While I’m sure I wouldve lost more if I were playing my main classes.

Pretty please?
I know it was on the March sales but just that one day the Rox’ Bow and Quiver was up, I had no internet for 2 days Q_Q I’m already waiting over a year (since Flame & Frost LS) to get those 2 items, my gems and gold are just lying waiting there :<..

Hope to see it soon back

Love y’all <3

Working on a project called “PvP Pro Tips”, which is a playlist on my youtube containing videos showing tips you need to be competitive and/or having a mechanical advantage in 1v1, teamfight and/or any other future PvP endeavors.

Currently in the Playlist:

• Stowing Weapon: to save CD’s on skills you would miss. This gives a mechanical advantage
• 180° of Danger: while running forward, be able to look behind, aim and land skills with one simple keybind/button
• Precast + Teleport: explaining/showing what precasting actually is + showing off some combo’s you can use with it (eg: precasting greatsword 2 on Mesmer and blink towards enemy before the precast is over to gain best DPS/surprise/result)
• Legacy Gravestone Kiting: Showing you how to kite when you do not have a teleport available on mid-point in Legacy.
• About Face + Combo’s: Showing you what About Face keybind is and what you can do with it!
• Making Leaps Smaller: Explaining step by step on how to force your leaps being smaller. Works with Heartseeker (Thief), Burning Speed (Ele), Savage Leap (Warrior) and more leaps! Helps you when trying to stack stealth with HS + BP to not hit targets around you as Thief, aiming your Burning Speed better as Ele and/or wont get you out of the point due long leap range as Warrior using Savage Leap on point.
• Teleport Spots Updated: Remade the Teleport spots for all 4 competitive maps, up to date with the March 2015 Teleport changes.

I’m here to ask if anyone would comment here with tips YOU would like to share to the community. Can be mechanically or something else, aslong it’s good for PvP and if you can explain it well/if its viable. Im also accepting class-specific pro-tips.

After collecting quite a few tips here and other sources, I’ll continue making 1 vid per tip, to make them as short as possible.

This should result in a nice bundle of pro-tips for everyone of the PvP community!

Your help is appreciated!

• Link to Playlist: HERE

Iris Ng.9845:

Terrorsquad.2349:

DeWolfe.2174:

jportell.2197:

I think we’re up to 5 turret complaint threads a day.

There’s only a handful of posters that are rabidly against this build.

So, if players are playing the build and having fun, then the Dev’s must have designed it pretty well. It can’t even be as “OP” as the complaints are since it’s not a Meta Build.

1. Wrong, most of the community is against this build, even top players. (they even stream to show how stupidly OP it is. One top player even used it in NA 2v2 cup, to show how broken it is. Not gonna call names )

2. Wrong, doesn’t mean its fun to play, the devs did a good job. Playing something OP is mostly fun because you get rewarded for it in this game. Rewards equals fun (Leaderboard).

3. It’s not meta in ESL because top players don’t want to be called noobs for playing something cheesy as that. (Cele meta already showing this) I think it you get 5 top players together, let them play 5 turret engi or 4 turret engi and a thief/ele/warr doesn’t matter, they can basically win any tournament. But they don’t. It’s lame.

1. HAHAHAHA … I watched that fight. Said person was farmed so hard so he switched to turret engi. Not sure if he was really salty or genuinely wanted to show how broken turret engi is.

3. Every tourneys I know ban stacking of turret engis. I agree it’s lame and exactly opposite of what GW2 is proud of: active combat.

Exactly, I think the fact ESL and other e-sports facilities banning Turret Engis is more than enough proof.

Finally after quite some tickets back and forth..
Let’s cross fingers BOIZ

Inb4 PvE’rs Ready Up and leave the match when it starts, rinse repeat.

I have to say I find it kittened you need a Mastery to gain entrace to one of them, after paying 100g. This was never mentioned on the stream nor blogs. I had to search 2 hours for the entrance after paying 100g and then being denied entrance cuz “Oh right, forgot to mention u need to farm another hour mindlessly before you can gain access. Oh and the rest of your guild aswel. But thanks for the 100g and your 3 hours of wasted time!”

Outrageous.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

They are called H-E-R-O points.

Sometimes Captain America needs a Thor.

Exactly, its called H-E-R-O points, and not HEROES

I dont even get why they put NA and EU together..
They should split NA and EU, and certainly PvP/WvW/PvE like before, was much better

- Shatter Mesmers are one the best in normal 1v1 (offpoint)
- Shatter Mesmers are the worst for 1v1 (on point)
- Shatter Mesmers have little to no condi cleanse (poison and one other damaging condi is enough; only need a bit of time)
- Shatter Mesmer mobility is not as strong (without frwd PR), therefore current meta forces them taking Rune of the Traveler.
- Shatter Mesmer has HUGE responsebility, both in using Elite (Moa or Mass Invis), calling out portals and burst coordination. (EG Thief/Mesmer comp)
- Shatter Mesmer has lowest error margin through all meta-builds.
- Shatter Mesmer is easily to be countered and focused upon.
- Shatter Mesmer can turn tide in teamfights.

Conclusion: Playing Shatter Mesmer decently demands skill. While some other meta builds only ask for little knowledge. I do not think Shatter Mesmer should be nerfed.

Points given above are thoughts and experiences from Team Arena.
I barely play Shatter Mesmer, but I do respect good Shatter Mesmers.

All in all, Shatter Mesmer in Team Arena is a high risk = high reward spec.

As a Guildleader of a PvP exclusive guild, I approve of this suggestion.

I have a song for thieves!
Run To The Hills, Run For Your Life

1. Scale Turret Damage with Amulet/trait (eg if u take bunker amulet, you shouldn’t be able to do equal amount of damage output from turrets as with Power Amulet)

2. Make a set amount of CC available per period set of time. (eg 1 pushback/knockdown every 5s) This would actually force the turret engi to think

3. Make turrets vulnearable to bleed/burn/blind and CC’s

Every other AI works like this, turrets should do too.

Thank you.

Also, after asking Jebro, players are not allowed using their own mouse/pad, which I find discriminating in this way:

I’ve always played mmo’s with a razer naga and before that excisted I was forced to click.. Why? Because my fingers are not long enough to reach the F buttons while also moving.
Also, keybinding to other buttons to keep it closer did not work for me due slow reaction in left hand (can’t even type blind due the positioning of my fingers aswel after sitting infront of pc for over 12years). That’s why I need my Naga (or any other gamemouse like G600). If I would be chosen to go Gamescom and arrive there, I would be disappointed and be in disadvantage due the restrictions I did not know off.. I was surprised Jebro said that. Now ofcourse, over 90% of the gw2 community uses keyboard like that but for people who have physcial disadvantages but are competing in top tpvp in GW2, I find this sad.. I really saw myself there maybe next year or so but after hearing this.. =/ is just my 2 cents though..

AsaPrime.2179:

hi,thanks for the video. i’m new to Ele D/D and i’m a little bit confused to your build. i dont understand why do you use sigil of battle for Ele, it’s on-swap sigil type and you can only use 1 set of weapon.

Hey there!

I’m terribly sorry that I did not mention this in the video, I’ll make a notation of it now so other people see it as text.

As the previous answer was saying, each time you switch attunements, it counts as a weapon switch. Unlike other classes, we only use 1 weaponset but we have more attacks since we can switch attunements. So each time you switch attunement (which also has a cooldown of 9s, same as other class wait-time to switch weapons) it counts as a weapon-switch.

Sorry again I did not mention this in the video!

Cheers

So as the price is quite ‘high’ for the expansion, our expectations are high aswel, ofcourse.

I am wondering if we would finally get the Build Templates we’ve been asking for about.. 3 years now?

It would make it more fun than having to change class all of a sudden and have another Class Wars 2 before the match even starts.

Thanks o/