Guild Wars 2

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welcome to the new age of 1Shot Wars 2

a fractal reward track would be nice tbh

mistsim.2748:

condi rangers are probably their best counters. I don’t think ive ever lost a 1v1 to a non-esport engie.

condi ranger is my least favourite thing to fight on my engineers. anything condi with a bit off cc should do the trick. condi bomb after healing turret and gg.

hunter/ condi necro/ bunker engi nades/ wow

Novuake.2691:

This post hurt my brain.
If you think having no cast time on traps that CC and are unblockable and essentially allow you to spam, you REALLY need to rethink how logical you really are.

only test of faith is unblockable (and you have to walk thru the ring of swords). daze doesn’t stop you from dodgerolling.

glaphen.5230:

LucosTheDutch.4819:

I main warrior not guard so try again Mr. Bad Thief Player Who Doesn’t Understand How PvP Works.

My advice totally works as I have zero issues with killing burn guards.

Even in coordinated team matches there will be emty points.

Guardian is the hard counter against thief, even before burning got buffed. Just accept that your main class is not all-powerful and has counters and move on. Either play a different class or accept that as a thief you’re gonna have to run from guardians in 1v1 siuations.

L2P and git gut scrub.

while in BWE2 I had difficulty killing veterans on my main profession (Guardian) using Berserkers gear?
Yes I’m still sour about the Dragonhunter, I hate it in every single way, the name sucks, the new virtues suck, the utility skills suck, the traits suck and the longbow skills are “meh” at best. As someone who mains Guardian this really stings.
I actually main guardian and use a Sunrise (has more particle effects than Cobalt). I never had the issue Lord Trejgon or the OP describes.
My males:
- human guardian (main)

wait… you have trouble killing veterans on guardian

i think we now know what the real problem is here

glaphen.5230:

choovanski.5462:

http://youtu.be/EedZ5kFAvSw

watch this. you’ll feel a bit silly when you realise how easy the traps are to avoid.

This video is a load of bullkitten. 1, none of this is on points, you can avoid the traps all you want but the traps are still there besides Fragments which is still there giving him 5 stacks of Aegis. He says the daze is an identifier but never actually shows it once in the entire video. He only dodges the maw because he knows it’s coming, he doesn’t dodge the maw animation, he dodges any trap animation, good thing the DH wasn’t hitting him with his weapons at the same time or any allies at all on the map. He says melee pressure but hurrpy durrpy durrp the only problem is the weak kitten traps and daze spam and knockbacks at melee range. You go ranged and his weapon is better than the rest of the range weapons since True Shot has low cooldown compared to volleys, a projectile destroying attack every 10 seconds and more basic attack damage the rest of weapons besides 1k plus range Ranger LB that does around the same.

i feel like I understand why you complain on the forums all the time.

you’re not observant & your problem solving skills & defeatist attitude will take you nowhere.

Crackers.9628:

2 things:

I never said condi kills me.
I never said I play a warrior in pvp apart from those few test games.

“Ergo” your entire post is irrelevant.

Condition damage in this game is way out of line and people know it, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that all these condi cheesers come crawling out of their corners desperately trying to defend it.

ah, young spring onion. you provide a most perplexing post, with a nice little insult for spice. i like that. very cheeky.

young child. if condi does not kill you, then why are you writing a QQ post about condi damage. seems perplexing doesn’t it?
even more so when we see you calling condi damage ‘way out of line’. what a strange thing to call a damage type that isn’t killing you. if you aren’t dying to it, then pray tell- how is it so OP?

methinks there is something afoot here. i sense a snake in the boot. there’s something else going on here. ah, could it being you are spreading tales of fancy to cover up your wounded ego? could be, might be. but, could it be you have no reasoning skills? ah, it could be, it might very be. mmmm, but even could it be you just want nerfs & will say anything to get them? ah, it seems it could be, it may be.

ah, well if you are feeling charitable. young spring onion, maybe you could reveal it to me?

mmm, & our last line. where you implicitly call me a condi cheeser. very confident, also very wrong. i stick to menders on my engineer, & power and greatsword for my warrior or guardian these days. so mayhap recycle that egg dripping down your face, could make for a nice snack?

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to the others, engaged in constructive discussion. i do have something to add.

please remember condi skills & cleanses in pvp are balanced around a team setting. it’s why we have builds like power shiro in the meta. because while some builds may be a free kill against condi builds, with a support backing them up they can become juggernauts.

having one – two players playing support is game changing when one has to fight condi builds. a support tempest combined with purge gyro, wings, & other group condi clears that common non support builds have is a tremendous amount of condi clear. it can oft make condi builds completely neutered in a teamfight setting. it’s why condi chrono prefers to 1v1, & it’s main utility in a teamfight is cc not a condi spike.

so, yes condi damage is dang high right now. but so is power damage. 10k+ hits are no strangers these days. heck, the new thief can hit for 30k+ with a single skill. damage is too high currently. but anets poor balancing decisions have snowballed leaving both damage & sustain far too overtuned. i feel the only way to return to a good equilibrium would be to have a full across the board rebalance. which ah, knowing anet, i doubt will ever happen.

dps/support escort for npcs, and 1 or 2 dps players on defense is all you need. with a healing shout warrior and good play you should be able to get through both doors with one of your first waves of doorbreakers, probably the first one. then just kill the lord. wvw builds are really good for the escort team.

also, you have the option of taking a mesmer so the team can channel 10 supply then portal back to make a 10 bomb dude wave faster than the other team. you wont want to bother with supply apart for the first 10, as you only need more npcs if your escort fails. game should be over before heroes spawn.

give me my snow leopard egg!

sad to see.

but who could be surprised. no 5v5 que, ridiculous time between balance patches, poor community support. devs drop the ball so hard.

although, i would say Paragon is much better than Smite.

nah dude. it creates far to many awesome plays.

Master Ketsu.4569:

As has been stated numerous times, the people who desire 5 man are an extremely vocal minority. 5 man would benefit a microscopic group of players at the expense of legit everyone else.

The only way 5 man can ever be OK is if it was 100% impossible to be matched against anything other than other 5 mans. The moment 5 man is allowed to go up against solo queue is the moment matchmaking becomes completely broken.

idk dude. I feel like 5 man queue would be a solution to the tears in the constant ‘Match Making QQ My Team Is Bad’ threads that pop up.

if everyone complaining about their teammates actually formed teams instead of just whining, I’m betting we would have a ton of teams. however they do seem to prefer to cry and lose, so I do see your population issue.

lead a horse to water, but you can’t stop him QQing about people throwing his placement games XD

it must be terrible to be so bad at the game that you think it’s hard to fight condi builds on warrior.

CI+BR+Zerk stance+Healsig/Mending+Clense Sigils= how could you have a hard time vs condi. like how you manage it?

Stand The Wall.6987:

Really big hits should have animation priority in big fights so you always see them coming, and all ranged one shots like this should have tells on the actual projectile as well imo (actually I think it does).

the dude glows like a lightbulb then shoots a huge fireball

it’s pretty dang obvious if you’re paying attention to the rifle warrior, which you should be.

I can’t believe y’all thought they wouldn’t fail

you can turn off team colours in settings if you want to remove the whole Red vs Blue vibe, i did.

in regard to what you call ‘basic pvp’, which is i assume hotjoin (practice) i have two things to say.
firstly if you are in a party with your friend and he joins a game you can right click on their name to join them.
secondly, i would actually not recommend you play much hotjoin. it’s nice for warming up and build testing, but players swap sides all the time and often play for kills only (i will sit at spawn changing my build in hotjoin etc). unranked is a much better place to get real pvp practice, as opposed to soley mechanical practice.

good luck.

EDIT
if you are talking about Edge of the Mists, or EotM for short you need to be on wvw servers that are the same colour in wvw, then join a party to enter the same instance. if you are not in the same instance you can right click on your friends name in party to change to theirs. however if you are not the same colour you will be on opposing sides. the only way to solve that issue is to transfer to the same server, or to wait untill Saturday when the servers reset and colours change.

you could always be a crazy guy and make friends and have Fun

I’m enjoying BDO more. this game is getting old, and PvP and wvw are just getting worse.

the lustre has gone. pve is awful. combat is fun when playing PvP some of the time, but really is just AOE spam most of the time. pve combat and adventuring are terrible.

BDO is grand. in look and feel. combat is excellent.
here, have a photo of my giant showing his grin

Sun Lian.4075:

I don’t know, maybe I thought people weren’t childish af when it concerns the class they always “pwn nuubz with”, sorry for my mistake.

like honestly, honest to god you are coming here complaining that you can’t counter a 60 second cooldown utility skill with an auto attack. just think about what you’re complaining about. tell me how it’s not asking for an easy win.

every other boon Warrior has is corruptible, noone uses balanced stance at all so that doesn’t matter. so it’s just zerker stance you can’t corrupt with your auto attacks. wow dude. you might have to kite. you might have to dodge. wow dude you might have to do more than spam auto for corrupt. perish the thought. there are buffs you have to play around, you can’t just corrupt everything with auto attacks.

your class is firmly in tournament meta. firmly. it’s almost a must pick.

you are on a must pick class complaining about a class that is not worth having in your team.

if you don’t understand how we find that hard to sympathize with then I don’t know what to tell you dude.

Photinous.4628:

choovanski.5462:

Vague Memory.2817:

No those were the skills in order from the combatlog. If they have other skills that can hit that hard, then that seems pretty over the top.

that’s what the warrior’s elite skill rampage feels like when they run full dps. he doesn’t hit as hard out of rampage, but it’s close. 100b will be doing 10k+ etc. the elite is very telegraphed and the warrior has both a noticeable (and interruptible) animation when they transform and for the duration of the transformation. however the whole form is melee apart from one ranged attack (that is super telegraphed), so if you dodge the gap closers you can kite the form with ease.

i assume you are running something squishy yourself. currently damage is very high and eating combos from dps builds will get you killed very fast. either change your build or use your dodges better.

in regard to rampage, if im on engi ill moa it, stealth, invun, dodge, leap away, stack 9 burning (lol), or just dodge. on warrior ill block and kite, or counter rampage a teamate to even the fight.

You cannot interrupt rampage because of pulsing stab. Most of the time you cannot outrun rampage and you can only dodge 2 skills until the next one CC’s you. Eventually they will get their quickness proc and you will be permanently stunned. Basically if you’re a class without several invulns or blinks/ports, you have no counter play.

you can interrupt the cast of rampage. you only have to dodge the gap closers, not every attack. if your build has no mobility and no invuns or blocks then a change to your build seems in order. even necro has ports. outrunning rampage is not something i have a problem with on warr on engi. after the first use of skill 5 it cant be used again until the end of the transformation. rush has a big animation, you should be able to dodge that if you can dodge bulls charge (and if you cant then bullscharge quickness 100b will own you. the dude doesnt even need to use rampage). boulder has a huge windup and a slow projectile, its perhaps the easiest skill to dodge in the game. if you screw up and eat these skills without an invun or stunbreak, homes it’s over you goofed it.

but dude, you have to accept that sometimes you are out of cooldowns and will die.

FrownyClown.8402:

Everyone would run cele if it was reintroduced. Have fun fighting cele warrior or cele reaper

would not run cele on warrior, it’s not worth. still other professions would use it.

TheGuy.3568:

Stop being newbs. I mean seriously l2p. DH are traps. Range them down and they die. Blow the traps with a pet or clone and don’t stand in it and they die. Rev built for DPS CAN NOT take a condi burst. They simply do not have the clearing for it. Not by a long shot. Hammer 1 is slow, clunky, and usually its the might stack that kills you. Think of Pew Pew ranger how do you counter them?

There will always be some build you all think is OP. How OP it is is not based on how hard it is for you to handle it but based on the skills you and your team have available to do so. DD ele was such a pain because it could handle most things that should counter it. The ones you mention now are susceptible to some hard counters. So it becomes the same old thing. Are you willing to counter it or wait for a nerf and a new target to complain about?

Often you guys get advice in these threads. Ignore it and continue the moan train all the while someone else went into the game applied it and started winning. The pattern is the same over and over yet most of you are still in the same spot doing the same thing and still can’t adapt. You have played enough pvp to get the title but truth is most of you are the same kitten guys you were 3 years ago with 0 growth. There will always be a meta start learning to adapt to it because the next nerf will not be the last. The game is constantly changing and you will never be satisfied because you never learn. go on beg for your nerfs and watch a new meta pop and another reason to type angrily into the key board.

scrubs will be scrubs

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

warrior is looking terribly simple and lacklustre in the face of these elite specs, and rev. it’s just so limited and basic.

i would hug this man if i could

Boggs.6482:

Honestly, though, what do we expect from a game where people can win a 50k pvp tournament by being lucky enough to be the last hit on an npc?

^ that is literally video games though.

I’d like to have more runes of the exclusive PvE/WvW runes available in pvp. defender runes and trapper runes would do big things for ranger and engineer. perplex would make berserk actually good in pvp.

I know a lot of them sound strong and BS, bit think about vamp runes, runes of the solder, holebrak etc. there are already a lot of strong runes, why not have a larger variety?

I’m in favor of more amulets, more runes and more sigils. I want to see huge build variety in the competitive scene, which requires multiple strong choices.

Thoughts?

Terrorsquad.2349:

Results of a small poll I did concerning Season 6 Ranked matches showed that only 29% of the players want SoloQ only for Season 6.

Whereas 67% of the people want SoloQ AND TeamQ in Season 6.

Eventhough the poll has only 300 votes, with this big of a % difference, I think it’s quite clear what the majority of the community wants..

Results: http://www.strawpoll.me/12343163/r

why it would surprise anyone that people want to play a 5 v 5 team game as a team is beyond me.

scrubs will always be easy to wreck. turret engi just let’s a scrub become more powerful than his fellow scrubs, because it’s the only AI Sentinel build that works. anyone loosing to turrets deserves it. ya’ ate the cc, played badly and lost. sure, the engi might have played badly too but that sentinel lets him make more mistakes. most players i see are running zerk builds that they can’t play very well, it’s no surprise they are qqing about a build with cc you have to dodge.

why do people think DH is tanky? it’s a medi Guardian with less medis and less invuns.

warrior needs baseline fast hands to make zerker an acceptable choice. zerking could use some tweaks too. no CD, or no duration, better burst skills just something. some kind of edge.

server merge so its not a deadland unless you transfer to t1

-Librarian-

Duel Focus

Tomes as Kits

Loss of Weapon Swap

Buffed Virtues

seems pretty straightforward tbh. guardian becomes a caster with the books, and gets main hand focus as a medium range weapon. I would play the kitten out of it.

Loboling.5293:

Should look more like this.

idk about kills. I had a game awhile back where i killed like 23 people and never died, but they were bad and i was stoned and playing like trash. so like, stats don’t mean much in a vacuum. like cool work on 20+ kills, but like ultimately it’s hard to judge without a video.

like, here is the second half of that game. it’s not great gameplay at all, but it’s a pretty crazy KD.
https://youtu.be/TVerdvzfIpo

well, it’s a worse elite skill so you can kitten yourself I guess.

Dr Hashbrown.7104:

I’m so sick of fighting D/D eles when they randomly drop a ring of fire, before I even realise, I have 10 stacks of burning and im dead, just revert it already, atleast in pvp, its freaking stupid

Dr Hashbrown.7104:

before I even realise

pay more attention the ring of fire and your condis and you might find you die less. literally one condi cleanse and a dodge roll will get you out of this mess.

Vakrir.4829:

Alright, so I’ve tried to just deal with this change without complaining, and I’ve done 65 skill challenges on 4 of my alts so far (of 12 characters minus my two 100%‘s), but if I still need 60 more skill points to get the new elite specialization on those 4 and 125 skill points on my other 6 characters, I think I’m going to be sick.

So far I’ve done 260 skill points out of 1250 needed to be back to where I was, and I’m completely exhausted. I’ve been doing this for about 5-6 hours, and the thought of putting 20-25 more hours (especially with classes I don’t like as much) of raw map completion grinding just to be back to where I started before this makes me shudder, not only for me but for everyone else who hasn’t even attempted this yet and especially for newer players who hardly know the maps, much less can map complete 10-15 of the areas without traits.

This should definitely be redone or removed. I’d even prefer the “go read a book” method that’s currently in place to having to continue this mind-melting work, and would further prefer the original system. My condolences to WvW’ers, this is much worse for you.

^ forcing this suffering on all players just so they can get their builds back will make people quit. It’s a long time to earn back what you just had pre patch. I have 10+ hours of skill challenges waiting for me, and u gotta say it’s making me question if gw2 is worth it.

guess it’s time to complain about how vipers gunflame doesn’t get me wins

oh wait, im not an idiot

Browrain.7346:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

you forgot thief can perma blind with black powder.

quit complaining about stealth being under powered.

it is not.

Is this for real? Please explain how anyone can be perma blinded by black powder without standing still inside of it.

there are actually a few ways you can do it.

ah, and like DIVA I support the removal of stealth from the game. it’s too strong tactically.

Broski.6209:

Not trying to downplay your advice Xyonon, but he asked for a build that would make his Axe/Axe effective. He’s playing Axe/Axe because it’s what he enjoys and brings fun to the game for him. The advice you gave goes against what he asked, since you suggested to not use Axe offhand.

Xyonon was just pointing out, rightly that Axe/Axe will never be effective, as skill #5 does less damage than just auto attacking. It’s always going to be suboptimal unless it’s patched.

if its solo, or small group- sword/sword LB is great for a condition or hybrid build. gear just depends on how tanky/hybrid you want to be. maces, shield, and hammer could be cool if you decide to go into the strength line. you can go into tactics for the longbow burning and shoutheals while running apothecary gear. there are a huge amount of options here.

the last time i played condi warr in wvw i ran s/s lb, full dire gear and krait runes. it’s very tanky, but just does condi. for hybrid sinister or rampagers gear with carrion or celestial accessories could be nice. i very much enjoy rampagers + celestial on my engineer.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAT8cjMdQXI24BGeAnIGmCKMBigC4OiAYk1go27BA-T1AHAAwRAQeIAxFAQUAwE-w
that with Krait runes and a mix of sinister and carrion gear should work very well. high condi pressure and lots of crit chance from traits.

I dream of a retro server with no specialisations where i can play rifle engineer, but dude its a pipe dream. No hope

with a 30s cooldown & the ability to be cc’d & killed i cant see much use for it in teamfights. traiting stab for it is a waste of a trait, so that means you have to blind of stealth to secure it’s stomp. if it has like 5k HP classes like necro will just 1shot it from downstate. seems so worthless with that CD. we really should have been limited to one at a time tbh.

Jim Hunter.6821:

choovanski.5462:

yeah, nice ‘balance’ will we see the gold cost of ascended reduced to make it available to new players too? you know, to make sure noobs don’t have lower stats.

Ascended armor and weapons were a much worse addition to WvW than stacks were. You earned your stacks through playing WvW, that’s why they belong there. Being able to craft higher stats is stupid.

^ boom. probably should have elaborated more, but that was my point. so, it’s fine to have higher stats in wvw through gold grind, but not from ranking up? yeah, we all know it’s because only one of those you can buy through gems.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJATRn8cCVdiVDBedC8DhlEiSe5n+s/aZDgEIb/6vAE-TpRHQBL8BAAgDBwAvAAZrMQ62fAgHBAA

here i give you, the Xzibit Guardian because i heard you like to spin. now you can spin to win while you spin to win. spinception.

seriously tho. GS is for AoE cleave that’s all. use the boon rip & pull when a downed happens. get those interrupts. then spin while you spin. spin away. the cleave is insane. it’s my go to build for DH. strong 1v1, strong teamfight. good build. thumbs up.

for the rest of the game, you know how it goes. use LB most of the time, GS for occasional mobility. both of your pulls work really well w the traps, which i should mention fill you full of might.
as far as variations go, swap Virtuous Solace for more condi clear if you feel you need it. i use both traits, but dang that bubble gives people a surprise. can be very funny. also, can totally push people out of your traps. so like, be careful dude.

philheat.3956:

Elementalist reached another SSS god level after this nerf.

It’s good nerf but u really need to do something with ele.

those who complain about d/d godmode must be the biggest scrubs. i see d/d ele go down in teamfights all the time, ah but maybe that’s because I’m an awful person who queues on TS and focuses targets. sure it’s pretty wild in a 1v1 if the ele is skilled, but ro- ro- rotate into a 2v1 and splat him down.

the nerf is good. these sigils were hitting for far too much.

Ardid.7203:

Chaith proposed this idea on the red thread, I think it could be gold.

Function Gyro needs to be pillar for the identity of the Scrapper, what really sets apart a Scrapper from an Engineer. This is the class mechanic we get from the first minor trait, a parallel to Reaper’s Shroud, Celestial Avatar, Overload Attunement, Continuum Split, Dragonhunter Virtues, Legendary Dragon Stance, Primal Bursts.

Other than the Engineer, only the Thief’s third dodge bar doesn’t really alter the playstyle significantly.

Currently, the Scrapper defining minor trait reads this: “You gain access to the Function Gyro, which can finish a foe or revive an ally at range.”

What I would suggest is:

Function Gyro: Gain access to up to 3 non-combative Function Gyros which encircle you. Periodically construct a function Gyro every 60 seconds. Command a Function Gyro to join the fray to finish foes or revive allies. (20s CD).

Reworking Impact Savant, the last Minor, as well:

Impact Savant: Deal 4% more damage, and reduce the duration of incoming stuns by 10% for each encircling Function Gyro.

What this accomplishes is creates a system of Gyro management that Scrappers in all game modes would be able to manipulate to their benefit. PvE Scrappers would enjoy great uptime of a 4-12% damage modifier. Non PvE Scrappers would get help from a Function Gyro every 20 seconds if they managed production well, and didn’t deplete resources.

Best of all, it’d be a constantly present theme that adds a bit more substance to the Scrapper’s core class mechanic, keeping it closer to the same feel players had when watching the Scrapper in the HoT trailer.

I think this is the good one.

It makes the F-Gyros useful in all the game modes, adds a real new mechanic to play with, gives the Scrapper a truly distinctive aesthetic component, and can be implemented without Irenio’s team having to start from scratch.

Of course it should be tweaked and adjusted, but I think the core idea nails it: to accumulate automatically created, not-AI gyros, that the Scrapper needs to administrate correctly to gain passive bonus or to execute remote functions.

this is 100% creamy. anet come on

https://youtu.be/EedZ5kFAvSw

this video has great tips.

my personal advice is don’t play warrior, the class is pants right now.

People work 9-5 in a job they hate until they die. Who’s to say what’s wasted time anyhow? Is is what you do or what you get out of it?

Ultimately it’s all just chemicals and electricity in the grey matter.

condi necro in wvw with access to dire gear +condi food looses to condi theif… asks fror reduced damage, which means with both builds using conditions they are actually asking for their own damage to be nerfed. OP wants to be nerfed.

wonder if he ever thinks about all those condition transfers he has.. wonder if he’s ever used them?