Guild Wars 2

Donari.5237:

I don’t think the added stats are cumulative, though. So at five equipped runes you’d have +65 Power and +100 Condition Damage. (I could be wrong).

they are cumulative

can’t say I have an issue with them on either cele or marauders hammer.

I just use defensive CDs appropriately, CC and deliver my sick own.

it floats above you when its off cd

https://youtu.be/90L5Rw1YdwQ?t=200

gw2 will never be this good again. i would drop current gw2 for a retro server in a heartbeat.

why is anyone surprised that team composition is really important?

if ‘unbalanced’ team compositions are frustrating you there is only one solution, que up with a team.

alemfi.5107:

Aomine.5012:

Actually this is a nerf to movement skill too.
Now their traveling distance is not affected by swiftness as well, meaning a Warrior or a Ranger will travel a much shorter distance with their movement skill. It used to work both ways, that chill and swiftness all affect the distance.

And what is wrong with that? Removing counter play and pro active play is removing decision making that can allow for the player to improve and differentiate themselves.

^ exactly. removing the interaction between movement skills and boons means shallower combat.

also, pretty mean that you want a weapon (one that people are excited for) removed just because you don’t like know it might look. just don’t play it if it bothers you that much, you don’t have to ruin it for everyone.

the game has a ranged greatsword, and will soon also have a ranged hammer. melee staff is significantly less ridiculous than either of those.

maybe it’s time to evolve your gameplay beyond pressing 3?

or don’t, because this is seriously funny

If this is forreal, then its an utter disgrace that anet doesnt have a practice mode with bots.

Good post OP, real or not.

warrior is the worst class currently. your build is not doing you any favours. also, your soldiers gear has no effect- you need to use an amulet.

i recommend one of the two old meta builds. only changes i would make is swapping the mace for axe on the greatsword build, perhaps signet of might for outrage too, & maybe taking mending if you like it.

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Berserker_-_GS/Mace_Burst
https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Berserker_-_Macebow

personally, i’m still playing gunflame- but thats a gimmick build, these two are much better. the bow build has more sustain, but less mobility. both are fun are do good damage. both pages have useful how to play tip too, but feel free to ask for tips.

are you joking?

if the channeled ability is started before the opponent stealths it tracks. this has always been this way. it is intended for balance.

I don’t think all of the specialisations were built for raids. scrapper seems like a spvp focused specialisation to me, as does DH.

I have no issue with still playing regular engineer, and I don’t mind if it’s better than scrapper for pve DPS. scrapper is focused on personal sustain and brings that to pve builds that want it. the extra block and evades/tripple leap finisher make hammer worthwhile for any game mode.

something seriously needs to be done about Rev

Centaur, Dwarf and Demon are all trash. I think a major energy cost reduction is needed, perhaps rev needs to start with 100 energy also. a rework could be good too, but reducing costs and cast times would be a good initial move i think. also, un-nerfing the stability on dodge would be excellent.

I’ve had ventari almost working, but it’s not there.
with a little adjustment we could have a strong support and a strong condi build for Rev, which I would celebrate.

warrior has no way to regain health. I cannot come back after spikes. every other meta class can do so easily, or is a necromancer with a second health bar.

my engi and Guardian can heal their health bars multiple times, my warrior can’t even do it once.

warrior is not a viable class at all. only works vs people you eat your combo like an idiot, and honestly anyone who eats combos (especially highly telegraphed warrior combos) will be easy food.

re roll. it’s your only hope.
I done it, an I may miss warrior like hell but at least I get success.

Supreme.3164:

choovanski.5462:

Khalisto.5780:

I like courtyard, no buffs, its more about your composition and individual skill, and the kitten zerk builds are fun to watch there, they just die everywhere, best map 10/10

i’ve had games with no deaths on my team. loads of clutch saves on teammates. peeling, interrupting stomps, and good use of support skills are so important for success. it’s just one long midfight for the whole game. it forces people to help their teammates in fights which is something most pvp players i see need to work on a lot. all my guildies from the WvW guild i’m in enjoy it deeply.

not to be snarky, but if you think it’s a faceroll zergfest you probaly can’t play all that well.

Lol…I don’t mean disrespect but…engi and war are in your signature, it’s common knowledge that shoutwar and engi holding hands is what you will see the most in PvP..especially courtyard, if by “force people to help their teammates” you mean warriors spamming shout, holding hands with engies, spamming node, supply crate off CD….yeah I can see why you like this map

dont worry bud, all my pals who multi class like it too. ele, necro, mesmer, guard, ranger all of these classes rock in courtyard. only class that fails is thief. had some of my best games queued with a pal on zerk necro and another on cele staff ele.

yeah, i play engi and warrior and i run tough builds with loads off cc. it’s just what i like, been playing both of classes since beta. i like rifles, hammers, leaps, explosions, healing my allies, and stunlocking people. i would play them regardless of if they were meta or not, not that i even run the meta builds (i learnt them, but prefer my own).

using group heals and condition clear on cooldown because your team needs it is a good idea bud. yeah, so maybe i do ‘spam’, maybe i am constantly using skills, but i’m not doing it mindlessly. guildwars 2 is a fast active game, especially the engineer class which needs constant skill use to be the most effective. i don’t know why you would expect me not to use shouts on cd if my team has condis and are not all full health. lets use throw mine as an example: it has an 18sec cd and AOE knockbacks and rips one boon. i often use this skill on cooldown, or almost on cooldown because i can get good use out of it every 18 or so seconds. if i can get good use out of a skill i’m gonna use it, plus the faster i use it the faster i can use it again.

as for supcrate on cooldown, nah dude only scrubs do that. it’s a big AOE stun with area denial. amazing for securing stomps, interrupting them, securing ground in a fight, and many other things. you wanna get use out of that 180sec cd.

Ithilwen.1529:

choovanski.5462:

Ithilwen.1529:

That’s not correct. There used to be team queue and solo queue. They were combined because those who wanted to choose there teams had a hard time getting games.

Solution? Let the teams farm solos. We can all see how well that worked out in S1-S4.

There are a lot of ways to encourage the community to embrace a team queue. I think it could be really successful. Because most of the community hates solo queue, they hate bad teammates, bad comps, no one listening, having duos stacked against them, having a bad comp, & so many other things. team queue solves so many of people’s frustrations with pvp, i think it’s got a chance. hey, all you gotta do is be social in an mmo.

also, do you not know what the word ‘separate’ means? do you read my posts? i dont want a mixed queue.

Clipped for brevity and clarity. The emphasis is mine.

There’s a large part of the problem in a nutshell. What is a “bad” player? They don’t listen and obey YOU and are therefore bad?

This isn’t The Army.. where I obeyed reflexively. It’s a game for recreation. By the way, what makes you qualified to give orders? I didn’t raise my right hand and swear to obey here in Tyria. Here, you need to lead by merit.

However it is explained and justified… 5 man groups are by there nature exclusionary. They give an obvious advantage in mixed queue and they divide the community.

It’s been shown that population doesn’t support separate queues which is why we have a mixed queue now.

im sorry i just can’t deal with you. you’ve got a lot of hang ups, & terrible reading comprehension, & i just don’t have the patience.

i wrote a comprehensive reply, you didn’t understand it, & have instead become really defensive & emotional. you’re acting like a child.

im done.

turn a game with no 1v1 balance into a 1v1 game.

yeah, excellent idea dude, may i suggest another equally clever idea- have you ever considered drinking tea out of a toaster?

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as an fyi to anyone who thinks a 1v1 gamemode would work w current gw2, you do realise you can run perma stealth thief & just hide permanently so the 1v1 will go on eternally.

http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub

“In reality, the “scrub” has many more mental obstacles to overcome than anything actually going on during the game. The scrub has lost the game even before it starts. He’s lost the game even before deciding which game to play. His problem? He does not play to win.

The scrub would take great issue with this statement for he usually believes that he is playing to win, but he is bound up by an intricate construct of fictitious rules that prevents him from ever truly competing. These made-up rules vary from game to game, of course, but their character remains constant."

worth a read. might open your mind.

anet balance team is either deeply incompetent, or deeply cynical

take your pick

Malediktus.3740:

Again that does not work with random people. You cannot expect random people (pugs) to move as a unity as soon as the leader is dead. It just turns instantly into a cloud formation and most people will try to get ooc to waypoint. The rest will die helplessly.
To profit from the 5 people aoe cap you have to stick together or are you heavily disadvantaged.

additional commanders are also no solution (not to mention very few people are good enough to start commanding on the fly) since you will not see their tags if you joined the squad of the 1st commander.

^ that is exactly why they are killing your commanders.

Spoichiche.1290:

Man, a /spit would be so good. Anet, please, make this a thing !

pssstt… you’re not asking for it right. try something like this

ahem

I would pay 400 gems for a /spit emote

so free stunbreaks and free stability basically?

i’ll miss sigil of generosity for sure, but otherwise yeah they look pretty good.

nice to see this level of interaction again.

DrDivine.5378:

Kuya.6495:

DrDivine.5378:

If you want to bring ranks into it I’m legendary so knock yourself out lol

Oops youre a 1400 low gold rating. That’s a blatant lie. Ouch public ratings telling it like it is.

Obviously his alt account is in Legendary, duh :P

Oh yeah totally not legendary :o, these back pieces come from bronze

You’re Joking, right?

Actually no, I’m not lol feel free to correct me, these wings must be from bronze but what do I know right?

wings = everything i say is correct

Yasha.5963:

choovanski.5462:

it’s f1 to leash, and f1 again to pull the leashed person. very similar to GS5

Seriously? It doesn’t say that in the skill descriptions.

A 1200 range unblockable pull on a class that that one shot even high toughness builds? Sounds good, I guess I better buy HoT.

engi has a 1200 range unlockable pull. it’s nothing new.

if you’re getting 1shot by DH then you have bigger problems than not owning HoT.

Malediktus.3740:

choovanski.5462:

I’m surprised it’s taken people this long to start doing this. cut the head off the snake, it’s an age old tactic and a really good one.

killshot warriors with piercing are becoming cool on my sever (CD) should be seeing a lot more dead commanders with those around.

Yes, keep using cheesy tactics to make WvW die even faster.

just because you don’t use tactics or your brain doesn’t mean it’s cheesy. it’s not even that smart, it’s actually basic.

Reaper Alim.4176:

Lol I love how you decided to try to come at me like a kid would. Then had the comical sense to say I’m salty. LOL. But since you don’t understand, I’ll spell it out for you in “For Dummies” terms.

No I don’t hate the top players never did. They was part of the reason I played PvP hardcore up until Season 3. This is a pure case of “I hate the system that punishes decent players for mistakes of the system.”

I mean what I hate about the system is that. More nowadays I can still go 1v2 and 1v3 at home and defend on a druid or scrapper. Load up on the top defense, top kills, and top revives, and still 5 out of 5 matches still not only get hit with the loss. But always with enoth rating deduction that it’ll take me 2 or 3 games to make it up. Then on top of it having players who’ve I’ve constantly get the better of in matches when, things are even. Telling me to Get Gud Scrub, or Learn to sit on 2 points at the same time BS.

Oh and something me and other players that used to play PvP in GW2 noticed. That the more you lose regardless of your personal merits during matches. The more progressively worst your team mates get. That mixed with 2/2/2/5/8 all solos going up against 10/10 duo’ed with 8/8 duo’ed and 5. Just makes people want to sell their GW2 account, if they are PvP oriented players. As now most PvP orented playes know. GW2 is now one of the worst games to play for players in the category. GW2 offers very little in terms of value, compared to other PvP games on the market.

TL/DR

For crying out loud I should get a tangible stat boost, enoth to become progressively powerful enoth to carry the match.
Instead of being God Almighty in a match with not only nothing to show for it.

You want a stat boost so you can win games? oh, God Almighty do tell us more

the initial learning curve is really steep, but it gets a lot better when you’re over the first hump.

qqmore.net has excellent resources for improving your play.

Vermagus.7804:

you guys need to take a look at the thief board, what you think is crap for pvp is giving us a headache at the moment. the reveal stealth alone counters two classes and your gyro doesn’t have to be out -_-

it’s not like engineer had problems vs thieves anyhow.

HP on gyros… can’t wait to see them die after flying thru ring of fire.

Straylight.7529:

Menadena.7482:

Existing users can not use the included base game. So it only makes sense to make up for it and the prevailing ask is for a character slot to actually play with the new profession.

Existing users don’t get a base game. The phrase “included base game” is aimed to inform new players that they don’t have to purchase the base game on top of HoT. You pay $50 for HoT and only for HoT. If you are a new player you also pay $50 for HoT and only for HoT but you get the base game thrown after you for free.
If you don’t like the fact that new players get the base game for free… I suggest you simply stop caring about what other people get.

riddle me this: if it says ‘includes base game’ but I don’t get it does it?

scrapper traits & the function gyro rock. a very viable line for engineer imo.

try traiting stab for the gyro if you can’t feel the love. it’s clutch in pvp.

I’m running hamshout with 00662 currently, and will be switching to 00666 when specialisations arrive. I don’t like builds without cc, and as such I will take fun (hammer) over meta. hammer is still a brutal cc machine and really works. still, I have no hate for shoutbow, and can’t see what’s so lame about setting people on fire and impaling them on your blade.

condition ranger when im playing engineer (because all the smart ones entangle after ht. ugh fml)

longbow ranger on the ledges at forest when im on full melee warrior (i have to hide behind the statue and hope they come down to decap so i can kill them)

ah, but those aren’t OP they just counter what i’m running. here’s what’s really OP: midair immobilise. no counter play. nearly always results in death.

:-/

learn to dodge traps and your whole life will change.

server merges were needed a long time ago. this game has too many servers and too few players. it’s been a problem that has only been exacerbated over time, and the huge new BLs have made it so much more apparent.

if you are on NA you can add me. whisper me if i’m online, i have a build and can explain how to play it. currently engineer doesn’t really have a ‘meta build’. flamethrower is cool right now, and there is a soldiers build over on , but most people are trying new things trying to find the next big thing.

otherwise, http://www.wolfineer.com/ is an excellent resorce. as is http://qqmore.net/ for gw2 pvp (the downsate and stomping knowledge is invaluable).

serenke.4806:

The only thing i’m wondering now is what the next community project will be.
Remove which spec?

community wants zerk amulets only so they can measure their kitten

(fighting non zerkers too hard all players must die in 2 hits pls)

ele sounds perfect for you. great for roaming, great for zerging, great damage, dream support.

take a hammer. shoutbow only has one stunbreak. give him a sit down.

Dawdler.8521:

xeonage.1253:

Because they can’t survive less than 10 sec.

Wait doesnt that mean they can survive more than 10 sec?

yes, the blocks etc would mean you can survive for much longer than 10sec, but don’t bother with xeonage. i’m actually convinced he’s a bot at this point. it’s really not worth getting into it w him.

to everyone else, why bother offering these suggestions? honestly, knowing anet its going to be as impactful as sacrificing a live goat & arranging candles in a circle.

save yourself & find another game. m only on on occasion to play some gunflame w pals. for actual pvp, i’d go to Paragon or For Honor. for everything else an mmo brings, BDO. but hey, go out & look there is better pvp than gw2 in so many places.

gw2 pvp is over.

Entenkommando.5208:

Most hate? Stunlock rampage

im not even sorry lol

tfw your bunker looses a 1v1 with burn guard. for shame

playing a team game solo is always going to be a deeply frustrating experience

rapid fire is still going to own you even if it gets a nerf because you just eat it like a hungry hungry hippo

Shadelang nailed it.

PvP needs the downstate diminishing health that pve & wvw have.

wow. all of y’all pretending to be so clever, but missing something so obvious.

all cele builds rely on might stacking for damage, & other boons too.

so riddle me this: considering how much boonrip spellbreaker & scourge have (as well as boonrip sigils etc). do you really think cele is going to be as strong as it once was?

like really you guys. we have so much boon hate in the new expansion & the new sigils. you would have to have the brainpower of a matchbox car to think might stacking builds can be as good as they were in the cele meta.

Wolfineer, a highly skilled roamer who writes great guides recently transferred to Gandara with his guild. he is enjoying it immensely and he gets great fights for his videos. I would go there.

I’m on Crystal Desert, but that’s NA- and regardless me and my pals roam in edge most of the time. knocking foes to their deaths, angry whispers, endless people to kill, and those funny little uplvls make for a good time.

wow another thread of good suggestions on how to fix warrior that anet will ignore.

good post bud, but you’re wasting your time.