Guild Wars 2

Condi Necromancer is a burst build and their burst is already absolutely insane even without burning! It’s like you guys didn’t play Guild Warts 2 when Dhuumfire was a thing and Necromancers were 100-0’ing literally everybody! 700 damage burn ticks is a lot different when in a 1000 damage/tick fear chain post nerf + 1000 damage/tick bleeds as opposed to 600 damage burn ticks with a few bleeds and confusion from a condi Engi or (lol) 2000 damage/10 seconds from a cele Engi! I didn’t think that needed explaining but I guess I was wrong!

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Booms.3952:

ArrDee.2573:

• Ray of Judgement renamed to something else because RoJ was a thuper awesome attack in Guild Warts 1 and now it’s a little pipsqueak poop in Guild Warts 2! Perhaps a new Guardian elite can be introduced later called Ray of Judgement and it will do the old skill justice! Maybe we can rename this one to Ray of Poopers!

ray of judgement is awesome

Ray of Judgement in Guild Warts 1 was the greatest! Ray of Judgement in Guild Warts 2 is just poopers in comparison! 2bad there’s no good video of it on Youtube! I like you Booms but not enough to install Guild Warts 1 to show you!

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Because burning from a Necromancer is much different than burning from an Engineer!

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Every class can deal with it! It’s just that a Warrior can deal with it by equipping Healing Signet and standing there! 2000 damage over 5 seconds every 10 seconds is pretty godawful in comparison to something like an Air Sigil 1200 instant damage every 3 seconds!

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Cele Rifle’s IP does ~2000 removable damage every 10 seconds! A warrior could literally stand there and outheal that damage! Warriors can also remove 8 million conditions every minute from their entire party!

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LOL

“Permanent vigor is too strong!”
“BOLD WORDS CAPS LOCK INSULTS INCREASE ELE HEALTH BY 5000!”

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Jekkt.6045:

because, as was stated multiple times before, ele is a light armor class with the lowest hp-pool.

increase the hp-pool and you can reduce my vigour uptime to 50%. simple as that.

So lowest hp light armor class that can also build to be one of the strongest and tankiest builds in the entire game, and you want to increase its health pool! Wowzerz! I don’t think you understand the concept of balance! When something is really, really, really strong and it gets nerfed, you don’t get to ask for anything in return!

Also Renewing Stamina cooldown being raised to 10 seconds isn’t 50% vigor uptime. It’s 60% with only 20 into the Arcane trait line, which every single Elementalist build will get! Most of them get 30 point which raises it to 65%! Combined with Soothing Disruption and maybe Energy Sigil, well that’s still dodges for DAYS and you guys are acting like that would be the end of the world! Just jokes!

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When they nerfed vigor for Engis, Mesmers, and Guardians, they didn’t just nerf the meta builds! They nerfed all builds! Gadget Engi obviously isn’t at the top of the food chain and yet it was nerfed! Spirit Weapon Guardian, condi Mesmer.. These are not top tier builds and yet they were nerfed! This is because permanent vigor is absolutely insane in a game that values dodging as a core defensive mechanic across all classes! Why do you think Elementalists should be the only exception to the rule!

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So because of something that someone said way back in 2013, you think that lowering the vigor uptime from permanent to ~70% uptime on one of the tankiest builds in the meta (which can also deal decent damage) is such a terrible nerf that you equate it to deleting the entire class completely! #RationalThought!

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Lol you can literally use any build in open world PvE because it’s all just a group of 50 people auto attacking as much as they can for loot including the champions! I’d recommend just finding an aspect of the class you like, be it Flamethrower or turrets or whatever, and make a build off that!

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Supreme.3164:

@Arken ( med guardian ), @Arrdee (engi)

Your posts are so ridiculously biased, they will never be taken seriously by any person capable of rational thought, just stop with your non-sense, rather save time and ask to delete elementalist as class, directly…..

it’s worth mention your shared hatred for shoutwarrior, this is the second build you want to see deleted apparently…and @Arrdee,, your “nerf” proposal for engi are hilarious, why do you even bother writing them? A 10% dmg reduction? A 0.5 casting animation? Are you freaking kidding me or what?

Such posts should be deleted for trolling, that’s what they are

I guess bringing Elementalist and Warrior vigor in line with every other class is so nerfed that we may as well delete them! #Logic!

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Immobilize cap removed! Player cannot be immobilized for over 4 seconds! If player receives immobilize duration greater than 4 seconds, it will be capped at 4 seconds! Player will be immune to subsequent immobilize effects until the current one wears off!

Engineer!

• Super Speed cooldown increased to 45 seconds!
• Slick Shoes oil puddles capped at 4!
• Overcharge Shot 0.5 second cast time! Adds sound effect while casting!
• Prybar damage reduced by 10%!
• Elixir Infused Bombs now grandmaster Alchemy trait! Experimental Turrets now grandmaster Inventions trait!

Necromancer!

• Starts match with 13% life force!
• Necrotic Grasp life force gain increased to 6%!

Warrior!

• Call to Arms vigor duration reduced to 6 seconds!
• Quick Breathing no longer converts conditions into boons! Removes 1 condition instead!

Ranger!

• Entangle root immobilizes now blockable! Initial hit remains unblockable!
• Sword auto attack chain no longer roots you in place!
• Add sound effect while casting Point Blank Shot!

Elementalist!

• Renewing Stamina cooldown increased to 10 seconds!
• Soothing Disruption vigor duration reduced to 3 seconds!
• Stone Shards cast time reduced to 1 second!

Guardian!

• Ring of Warding duration decreased to 4 seconds!
• Flashing Blade now grants 5 seconds of swiftness!
• Shield of Judgement cooldown decreased to 20 seconds! Protection duration increased to 5 seconds!
• Shield of Absorption grants aegis to all allies in the radius!
• Ray of Judgement renamed to something else because RoJ was a thuper awesome attack in Guild Warts 1 and now it’s a little pipsqueak poop in Guild Warts 2! Perhaps a new Guardian elite can be introduced later called Ray of Judgement and it will do the old skill justice! Maybe we can rename this one to Ray of Poopers!

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Whenever I don’t feel like running Grenade Kit, I use my Flamethrower build! Fury and might for everybody! I usually run Strength Runes but Scholar would work fine! It’s PvE! You can run anything! I play random builds all the time while pugging Fractals 50, the supposed end game PvE content, and it’s just a cakewalk every time regardless of my build! It’s sad really how much of a jokeskis PvE is! Anywhere here it is!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpmqtbxWLseNSdBNqoA6AUguK6EGjQD-ThRBABXt/o8DPdAAcBAy7BAQp6PmpEEA-e

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Swap Elixir Infused Bombs with Experimental Turrets! Brings out a potentially nice trait in healing bombs into an actual good trait line and forces turret Engineers to choose between turret damage and boons! Namely that huge protection/vigor uptime from Thumper/Healing Turrets! Plus it just makes sense! ELIXIR Infused Bombs can go into the trait line that deals with elixirs, and Experimental Turrets can go into the line that deals with turrets!

As for making turrets more skillful, it’s just impossible! AI builds are by nature super easy and not skillful! Let the AI do the work for you! The issue is that in the case of the Engineer, he can just build super tank and the turrets will still do the same damage!

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Shrapnel only works for explosive attacks! Grenade Kit, Bomb Kit, Throw Mine, and all their toolbelt abilities will proc Shrapnel! Detonating turrets will proc Shrapnel! The Evasive Powder Keg, Reserve Mines, and Bunker Down traits will also proc Shrapnel! If you’re using Bomb Kit, it will probably be better if you run Forceful Explosives! I think coglin is talking about Sharpshooter! They are two different traits!

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What a shame I won’t be able to participate! Killing Floor 2 beta doesn’t end until the 16th!

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It’s Engi day today!

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Blame the terrible dailies!

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Comparing Healing Bombs to Signet of Restoration is silly! The signet is the Elementalist’s heal and they cannot burst heal at all unlike Engineers and Healing Turret! The trait is actually not too bad if you were to spam bombs! The healing combined with Backpack Regenerator and the regeneration boon amounts to a nice bit of sustain! But here are the issues! You’d have to dedicate 30 points into the Inventions tree! The Inventions tree is by far the worst trait line that the Engineer has! Putting even a single point into that tree weakens any offensive build that you try to make! Alchemy is a way better defensive tree! And if you try to get Healing Bombs AND Backpack Regenerator, you’re left with a mere 4 points to craft some offense and only 2 points if you decide to get the Speedy Kits/Invigorating Speed combo (which you’d be crazy not to in such a defense oriented build like Healing Bombs)!

Plus the Bomb Kit requires you to be in melee range! Engineers should never be anywhere near the point because you’ll just eat a million damage in cleave! Positioning is pretty key for an Engineer! That sustain won’t help you against focus fire because you’re out of position trying to place a Fire Bomb at the bad guy’s feet! Also in order for your teammates to receive any kind of AoE healing, they’d have to be near you! That’s just more cleave damage that the bad guys can do to you!

Well you might be asking, “Well why don’t you just make a purely defensive bunker build with healing bombs that can contest the point!” I wish that were a possibility! Unfortunately the Engineer is too weak to conditions and with the insane popularity of celestial hybrid condition builds out there, well it’s a bad decision to try to bunk as an Engi! The lack of stability also doesn’t help things much!

A cool change I’d like to see is to swap the Elixir Infused Bombs and Experimental Turrets traits! I think healing bombs would see play if it was a grandmaster Alchemy trait! It removes the negative aspects of going deep into a useless tree like Inventions and since basically every good Engi build will run some points into Alchemy, it wouldn’t be a big deal to commit some extra points in there to get healing bombs! And it makes sense for ELIXIR infused bombs to be in the tree that deals with elixirs and for a turret trait to be in the tree with the other turret traits! It would also nerf the cancerous turret Engi builds that plague us so!

Anyway, that’s my 2 cents! Wahoo! Bye frands!

My frands! Instead of just rattling off reasons why this game is stinky, maybe we can all offer reasonable suggestions for improvement! After all don’t we all want to see the game get better! Aren’t we all one in this my frands! I’ll just use my previous post as an example!

ArrDee.2573:

Terrible game mode! The only esports MMO game mode is arenas but they refuse to implement it!

Well that’s easy! Regardless of your stance on how esports arenas actually are, you cannot deny that it’s easily the most popular form of MMO PvP! The objectives are simple, the maps are small and easy to make, and there’s a huge playerbase just waiting to combine arena PvP with Guild Warts 2 combat! Plus it’s esportz!

ArrDee.2573:

Tiny population with zero growth!

More free trials! Guild Warts 2 is a good looking game with nice combat! I’d wager most people who played the previous free trials went on to buy the game because of these things! Plus no subscription fee for a once super hyped MMO game doesn’t hurt the cause!

ArrDee.2573:

Tiny competitive scene with zero growth!

Incentivize players to get better! What reasons do players have to get good at this game when they can just play easy, braindead builds like shoutbow and turret Engi and power Ranger and farm their dailies and the leaderboards which doesn’t reward player skill at all! Put in a better leaderboard and institute a rank system based on MMR! Players who advance ranks can be rewarded with PvP only armors, weapons, titles, etc! Plus you can make tournaments separated by rank! This way new bronze teams don’t have to face world champion teams and become disheartened and quit playing competitively! You don’t match a high school basketball team with the New York Knicks and then reward the Knicks for winning the game! That’s just silly!

ArrDee.2573:

Awful to watch!

Put in a slider in the options menu that tones down all the useless flashy animations and effects! Casters can tone them down a bit to make things easier to see for the viewers! Maybe add in a free camera mode when spectating! Also conquest is just annoying and boring to watch in general!

ArrDee.2573:

Bad balance with 6 months in between patches!

Self explanatory! Maybe create test servers where a select few players can play on and test new changes! That way we can avoid Anet releasing something just awful like Skyhammer and subsequently take over a freakin year to make minor changes! Also Skyhammer is still terrible! “Oh guys! You’ll love Skyhammer! We tested it internally and you’ll love it guys! You’ll just love it!”

Don’t take 6 months to shave! Don’t be afraid to revert changes if they’re bad!

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Terrible game mode! The only esports MMO game mode is arenas but they refuse to implement it!
Tiny population with zero growth!
Tiny competitive scene with zero growth!
Awful to watch!
Bad balance with 6 months in between patches!

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Would rather have bunkers that deal no damage than bunkers that deal a lot of damage and are super mobile between points! Just sayin!

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SobeSoul.6910:

MadVisions.4529:

play ‘ranked’ —> problem solved

This is the correct answer.

There’s virtually no difference between the two except three maps people don’t like.

No difference except ~10 minutes in queue times! You can literally queue unranked, find a Skyhammer/Spirit Watch/Courtyard game, AFK the match, leave the game, queue again, and find another game on a real map all before one ranked queue pops! I think I’ll take that option!

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Lol that build is silly! Metabattle strikes again! There’s no point in taking 3 in tools because there’s nothing worth recharging! Plus all Engi WvW builds should run either Elixir Gun or Rocket Boots for the huge mobility boost! Mobility is king in open world PvP! Try this build!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpvr9ZxELseNCbBNqxI6N2xq85GEgkC-T1hHABFp8jn9HaTPAAPAgFV/B4TAAUKBJFAMrBA-w

In my opinion, Adventurer is one of the best runes for condi Engi and they are cheap! But if you can’t afford condi duration food, you’re better off running Balthazar Runes! They are cheap as well!

As for your playstyle, at longer ranges you should be using your pistol auto attacks instead of throwing grenades! This is because grenades are easily dodged at long range! Pistol auto, while weak, is a reliable way to proc Incendiary Powder and for a condi Engi, burning is your main source of damage!

Learn your combo fields too! If you use Rocket Boots inside your Smoke Bomb, it’s a good way to disengage since you’ll leap away and give yourself stealth at the same time! The same thing applies to Shield 4! Also you can blast your water fields from your Healing Turret toolbelt and overcharge for extra healing with those skills!

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Vee Wee encourages all to log off/afk Skyhammer/Courtyard/Spirit Watch!

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Just log off! I log off all the time with 0 penalty! That way you don’t have to actually play the game as you tank your MMR! In fact, I logged off just now! I come home from work with nobody to play CSGO with so I’m like OK I guess I’ll log into Guild Warts 2 and play terrible conquest! Then it’s a 4v5! Welp what a waste of time! Guess I’ll just log off!

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They should start with 10%! This is coming from a condi Engi main! Correct this injustice!

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Don’t worry Olrun I am still your frand!

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Gosh one might think that you’d be dominating the game with 4 overpowdered cancer passive burning turret Engis and an Ele!

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I seriously doubt confusion will ever reach more than 10 stacks!

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Backpack slithered his way back onto the 4ums I see! Five different WHODABEST threads since I left for work!

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Yes look at all the banned folks who did 100k Chaos Storms when that was bugged, who played Ranger and used Pirate Runes for the huge pet damage increase, who spammed stow weapon with Lightning Whip! Bannable offense lol! So silly!

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P/P is already very viable unless you’re talking about PvEsports in which case it wouldn’t really make a difference since the only intensity stacked condition that it applies is bleeds and is very terrible at doing so!

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If it’s there and it gives you an advantage, why wouldn’t you use it! The real blame is on Anet for releasing meaningful patches once every blue moon!

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It’s generally unwise to throw grenades at far ranges! Even if you were to 100% predict the correct trajectory, lobbed grenades are extremely visible and easily sidestepped! You are better off using pistol/rifle/Elixir Gun auto attacks to proc Incendiary Powder or Air/Fire Sigils!

But yes if you want to get better at aiming grenades, you just need to practice!

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Why would I play ranked and wait 10 minutes in queue! That’s just silly!

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…So you want to encourage more build diversity by making everyone switch from Alchemy to Inventions! Interesting proposal!

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Are you suggesting I stick around and play Skyhammer/Spirit Watch/Courtyard! The nerve!

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But then how will I be able to log out when Skyhammer/Spirit Watch/Courtyard pops!

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I can think of bigger problems in PvP than this! Namely that the game mode is even more boring than waiting in queue for it! Also the mostest popularest and the mostest esportz games like legendary league and counter strikes don’t let you do anything while queuing either! Yes it sux we can’t play pvesportz or duel in some custom arenas and yes Anet logic is just awful, as usual, in this scenario but mountains out of molehills!

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StarNightz.8496:

Oh and rampagers amulet

There’s your problem right there!

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Phineas Poe.3018:

…why have points in the first place?

Ahhhh! The million dollar question!

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kitten this threadz is hilarioso! All the bm and unfrandliness on the NA scene!

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So understanding that burning is one of the strongest conditions in the game and is the strongest condition that the Engineer has and is a condition where you build and gear around… you want to add permanent burning on a kit that already has a lot of burning, including long duration burst from the toolbelt… and you want all of this to function even without any kind of condition duration increase! Interesting!

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Because burning is the strongest condition Engineers have and one of the strongest conditions in the game and you’re talking about permanent burning + low CD knockback in one kit!

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Of course! Being mechanically proficient at the game, more so than your opponent, is much more casual than looking at the minimap for where you need to go and spamming your skills on a marked area against multiple people with incredible sustain-y builds!

Though I will agree with you Courtyard needs its own separate queue but not because it’s more casual, but because it’s just a terrible map and it needs to go away! There should be a separate unranked queue that’s just Spirit Watch/Skyhammer/Courtyard!

Also we are getting off topic! Ontopic: Aren’t we all tired of the boohoo babies crying about someone on the internet saying mean things! Especially when there’s a block feature! You can’t block a rood dood irl and not hear anything they say, and crying is way more embarassing IRL! Be grateful!

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Conquest was designed for casuals by casuals!

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You’ll want vigor in a bunker build! Energy Sigil just isn’t enough! You’ll want some form of protection too! Protection is such a powerful defensive trait! You’ll also want Backpack Regenerator or you’ll, and I quote ostricheggs on this, “die like a little bicth!”

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2 days ago I fought an invisible person and won the 1v1! Clearly this is a feature and not a bug!

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Well of course I have negative things to say about the FT! It’s pretty terrible as your primary source of damage in comparison to other kits! But that doesn’t stop Vee Wee! Vee Wee will make every aspect of Engineer work in casual games, whether it be gadgets, or 1 spam, or Tool Kit melee (still working on that one)!

As for Bunker Down, I’m just not a fan of the Firearms tree! I really dislike putting more than 10 points into that tree! I suppose if I were to run the 30 Firearms variant with Bunker Down, I’d replace Juggernaut over Rifle Mods! I don’t hold Juggernaut in very high esteem as you can see!

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