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I think the intent is to make this available in some fashion, but I have no timetable.
You could you know, show people’s ratings! Literally every other game does this! Literally every game that has matchmaking will show people’s ratings! If not the exact number, then they’ll lump people into MMR tiers! Like CSGO! Like LoL! Like Dota2! Like Starcraft! Like every other goshdarn esportiest games out there right now! Literally every game! If people start harassing other people about their rating, oh look a block function! A report function! What’s the issue here!
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Anet plz help reunite me with a good frand that I lost contact with because of this game
Vee Wee did like half the job already! Vee Wee designed the map layout!
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Why does ANet continue to push PVE when most of us PVP?
Just imagine how all of that PVE development money could have spent on the content that matters to most of us.
If by “us” you mean GW2 players as a whole, then most of “us” don’t actually PvP! PvP is TINY! And in that tiny, tiny playerbase, a large chunk is just bad PvE/WvW players who just PvP for their daily!
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6 months bro! No balance until March or April! Get used to it because it’s always been this way and it’s here to stay! #slowpatch!
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Backpack how many accounts do you have! Geez louise! You could single-handedly fund a new game mode! Don’t be selfish! We want real esports and not poopy butt conquest!
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Thanks for taking the time to test out the build further Nov!
I agree with most things, except with you VeeWee -.-All the things you said were true, and I do consider this the more bursty/challenging cele engi build but you aren’t as aquishy as you say. Condi clear, hoelbrak, immob, invuln, stealth, rifle 4, grenade 3/4 are USUALLY more than enough to survive most encounters. You also have ~2.3k toughness if i’m right and 23k k hp so you don’t ‘If someone looks at you, u ded!’ :P
thanks again everyone!
Stats don’t matter! You can have all the toughness and health in the world! If you can’t dodge and have no sustian, you are not tanky! No Backpack Regen, no vigor, no defensive utilities except S, fragile!
Hey Veewee, for someone whos so easy to try and shut down a well established and still quite strong build you sure do push your fairly bad and quite alot more ineffectitive “Gadget meta” builds so much.
All I was doing is answering someone’s question, not putting down the build! It’s a suboptimal build but Vee Wee has always advocated playing how you like and even posted that if you enjoy the build you should play it! Also the gadgetmeta is great if you know how to play it! Check out some of Vee Wee’s vods! Vee Wee beats even higher skilled players with it!
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I just answered your question of “giving up what exactly”! The whole point of playing HGH is to play a build that isn’t meta and if it works for you and you enjoy it then keep playing it!
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I agree , saying that medi guard and shatter mesmer is C tier is dumb. A good mesmer can kill anything 1v1 except thieves and medi guards. And medi guards destroy any class with zerker ammy equipped. I remember in the king of the hill servers people almost banned medi guard from there .
Because Medi Guards have 0 mobility, are mostly zerk melee with no disengages like Thief, and get melted by condis! Tiers aren’t based on 1v1s bro!
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The real tier list according to the #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!
S DD Ele
A+ Cele Engi
A Condi Engi, SD Thief
A- Condi Necro, Shoutbow, DP Panic Strike Thief
B Bunker Guardian, Shatter Mesmer, Condi Ranger, DP Crit Strikes Thief
C Medi Guard, Power Ranger, Power Necro, Hambow, Condi Warrior
D Fresh Air Ele, Power Engi, Bunker Warrior, Berserker Warrior
F Condi Thief, Condi Mesmer
F- Condi Ele, Condi Guard, and anything else
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Perfectly right. But you can not argue the potential is there.
Well of course the potential is there! What makes Vee Wee so mad is that this game could be so much more! What a waste!
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Giving up what exactly?
A block and 5 stacks of confusion?
Seems like little to me.
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http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/5837506
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Can’t really say because we don’t know how Anet is going to change the class! Anet could nerf cele builds really hard that it carries over into condi builds! They could take the Engineer out of the meta completely like they did with Elementalists a while back! Or Anet could just make tiny changes which won’t affect anything at all! Hopefully Anet can buff power builds! Burst Engis are fun to play and unlike most other power builds, (medi Guardian, shatter Mesmer, longbow Ranger) Engis have the mobility to be good roamers! And they don’t get absolutely destroyed by Thieves like all other power builds because of the Slick Shoes buff!
But we won’t have to worry about any of this for another few months because Anet is SLOOOOOOOW with patches!
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Hmm, nice info here as I’m doing a little pvp (yay profession dailies! Don’t kill me!)
Just some Qs:
— The way I understand, I really shouldn’t be defending a point because engis don’t really have stab and all that jazz. So what should happen if I’m the only one near a point and some d/d ele comes and starts crapping up the point with that fire field while chasing me with drake’s breath? My first idea would be to knock/pull them away but it’s not always successful.—Elixir S is a great skill, but I note that it will not contribute to point defense/captures; is this actually an issue?
— Is jump shot a legit gap closer? I guess I could use it to jump across various ledges.
— How do you not instantly die when a necro shows up? Every time a necro is on the other team, my chances of winning go down into the toilet. Everything else I can at least buy time for my team, but the necro just renders me ineffective. I get that necros beat engis 1v1, but they just fear me and my health just plummets even in a team situation. And as for power necros, they are easy to fight, but they will resort to lich form which seems to warrant me running away.
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Yes. I have fixed this bug and the fix will be LIVE on Tuesday.
Is there a reason that for a glaring bug you say has already been fixed, you wait until patch day to release it!
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Nobody thinks you should be banned for this except salty people who aren’t even good enough to perform well in tournaments anyway! Anyways Grouch said it’s being fixed soon which is gr8! What more is there to talk about! If it’s not fixed on Tuesday, keep the QQ goin then! We can talk about how slow Anet is at patching on Tuesday! Vee Wee will lead the charge for that topic!
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Why would I wait 15 minutes for a game!
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http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/5837506
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SD burst isn’t that good! And you trade a lot of survivability to take SD traits and utilities! Throw Mine/Minefield is a one trick pony build and isn’t that good either! Maybe you can use the tried and true 30/0/0/20/20 berserker build! Grenade TK Elixir S/Slick Shoes! Grenade Barrage is pretty huge burst! You can even build cele for almost the same damage with much higher sustain!
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http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/5837506
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Condi Engi will not crit for over 1k lol! The damage on Fragmentation Shot is just terrible! The only use it has is to proc Incendiary Powder from range! If you are taking about Cele Engi, then yes Hip Shot will do over 1k crits, but Incendiary Powder damage is pretty much halved because of the reduced damage and duration! Incendiary Powder is strong, but it’s not so broken like everyone seems to think! The problem with Cele Engi isn’t Incendiary Powder! 2000-2500 cleansable damage every 10 seconds is not that great when you compare it to Air Sigil’s 1500 damage procs every 3 seconds!
But this is getting offtopic!
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Example 1: I am fighting an engineer. We are trading blows back and forth and each of us is dodging the appropriately telegraphed skills. Eventually, we are out of skills and have to auto-attack each other. I get a crit and hit the engineer for 1,500 damage. The engineer also gets a crit and procs incendiary powder giving him a damage total of 1,000 damage + 4,000 damage making a whopping 5,000 damage. Sure, Guild Wars provides some counter play in terms of condi clear, but that means I have to waste my condi clear on an auto-attack that has 0 counterplay since it cannot be dodged, blinded, or blocked. When a crit lands, so does incendiary powder.
The only way Incendiary Powder is doing 4000 damage is if a condi Engi with Balthazar Runes hits you with it! And the damage is over a 7 second period! Engi autos are hilariously bad and no condi Engi will be even close to 1000 damage per auto! Meanwhile Ranger autos are insane, will do way more damage than Engi autos + Incendiary Powder, and also proc uncounterable Air/Fire runes! Two sides to a story and all that!
Look at these CSGO patch notes! http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/category/updates/
They recently reverted an overnerf that was released a month before! Please stop this 6 month patch period and balance the game more frequently! And if something doesn’t work out, freakin own up to it and stop taking years to find a perfect solution! Look at Skyhammer! Took you over a year to make a SINGLE change and the map is still terrible! Anet plz!
Also lol @ disabling Incendiary Powder in tournaments! You are comparing two different things! The only thing that’s disabled in DotA are new changes! Engis and Eles have been in the game since launch! If they introduced a new class, then it could be reasonable to ban them in tournaments!
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Nice build my frand! It looks very similar to Vee Wee’s #Gadgetmeta build! https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Vee-Wee-s-Gadgetmeta-Build-UPDATED/
I don’t think Hoelbrak is the best rune choice! You don’t stack might at all so there’s a lot of stats wasted! Maybe try Pack Runes! Pack and Ogre are the best non-might stacking power runes! Pack is better for this build because of your low crit chance! Exploit Weakness is also a pretty poopy trait! Try Accelerant Packed Turrets!
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Basically the same as yours but tweaked a tad.
On a different note, why is pistol shield engi removed from the meta website and replaced with the classic celestial rifle build as of recent?
Because PS is outclassed by PP condi and cele rifle!
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It affects both! It also affects the turrets in Supply Crate!
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The best way to use healing turret is to place > overcharge immediately > then either pick it up for a shorter cooldown, or detonate it to blast your water field for a bigger heal! Healing Turret is waaaay better than Med Kit! Healing Turret is easily the best heal the Engineer has and one of the best heals in the game!
You don’t need the swiftness from Med Kit! You already have permanent swiftness with Speedy Kits! Choosing Med Kit over Healing Turret just gimps your healing output and your condition removal!
The Healing Turret toolbelt helps with sustain when combined with Backpack Regenerator and the small healing power boost that comes with celestial gear! You can also use it and immediately use Acid Bomb for a disengage that heals you!
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So you just want world peace! Should be easy!
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Yes we all know Skyhammer is an awful map! But Vee Wee has figured out a way to extract maximum enjoyment from this map! Just follow these easy steps!
http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/5837533
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The daily profession is a terrible idea! You have people playing classes they don’t know how to play, and then end up with 3 Ranger teams or 4 Engi teams! So bad! Anet plz!
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So let me get this straight…
You had difficulty decapping a node that was completely unguarded because of a few AI turrets from a worthless build! And then you come onto the 4ums to complain how OP this worthless build is and ask for nerfs! Very interesting!
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My frand! You say you can read, but if you actually read the other posts that I made, you’ll find that nobody said anything about 1v1’s! The best arenas are 2v2/3v3 on a small map! Not Courtyard! Courtyard is poorly implemented deathmatch! Arenas are different! Arenas are 2v2/3v3 on a small map with the objective being to slay the other team! It require way more skillz than conquest! If you die, that’s it! Courtyard is too large of a map and 5v5 is too many people! It just ends up an aoe spamfest! Gosh it stinks to repeat yourself over and over!
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I don’t see how bunkers would be very useful in arenas! Yes the conquest maps have LoS but I am talking about arenas! Can you even read my frand!
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Enhanced Performance isn’t necessary because you have so much might already from Battle Sigil and Juggernaut and Hoelbrak Runes! You’ll have over 20 stacks of might from those alone plus your Napalm fire field and Elixir Gun Acid Bomb blast finisher! You should also definitely use both EG and TK! The combos are real!
But yeah Enhance Performance will grant you 3 stacks of might every time you swap to Med Kit with a 10 second cooldown! Unfortunately Med Kit is absolute balls!
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Anet, I have been playing this game since June/July 2012 during beta! I am the #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! Inventor of the #gadgetmeta and Veecap, and pioneer of Adventurer Runes Engi! Why does this happen to meeeeeeeee!
http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/5837506
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Actually if a teammate attempts to revive you, I consider that a blessing! Unless he’s like a D/P Thief attempting to res me through Engi grenade cleave! That’s just silly! Bad players never revive!
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Well for a hybrid build, you can go 20 into the Explosives line for Incendiary Powder! It’s one of the strongest traits the Engineer has! The Flamethrower doesn’t actually have a lot of burning! You get a lot of burst burn from Incendiary Ammo but it has a long cooldown! Sustained burning will improve your damage by a lot! Plus it gives you extra power and condition duration which coupled with food buffs, will improve your Incendiary Powder burn time to 6 seconds!
Automated Response doesn’t really help against conditions! First it doesn’t apply to existing conditions, and like you said the Engineer doesn’t have many forms of condi clear! So even if conditions get applied to you while it’s active, the duration decrease won’t really help much because you won’t be able to cleanse it! Plus condi classes will run lots of condi duration so it all just cancels out anyway!
Tool Kit has Gear Shield, one of the best blocking skills in the game! You can also combo Magnet > Prybar > Overcharge Shot > Throw Wrench > Net Shot > Bunderbuss > Air Blast > Flame Blast for loads of undodgeable damage if you land your Magnet!
Maybe something like this!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpdrlcxWLseRCbBNqxAyJcBRuxq8xIEAA-T1RHABF8AAaS5Hc6AAU9n6UCCwFAgk9HIFAMDjA-w
Doom Sigil is great because unfortunately you won’t be dealing a lot of damage which is just the price you pay for playing FT as your main kit! Lots of people run very tanky, sustain regen builds and Doom will lower that by 1/3! Also it can be used as a cover condition so they don’t cleanse your burns! You’ll want to keep your burns on because you’re a hybrid build and with this setup, burning is your only real damaging condition!
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No… No they are not! Get good son!
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I don’t see how if you wait 2-15 minutes for a 5v5, you’d have to wait 45 minutes for a 2v2/3v3! Also arenas require more skillz than conquest! First and foremost, the objective is to PvP unlike conquest where the objective is to stand on point! Second, there are less teammates to rely on if you missplay! Third, arenas are espoooooorts! Fourth, arena maps are easy to design! Vee Wee even supplied Anet with a sample arena map! There are only a few steps to making an arena map!
You can even combine 2 and 3! Trees could be LoS objects! Geez louise creating arena maps can be just a 2 step process! Anet plz!
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You just made a thread about Mesmers being OP! Apparently everything is OP! Even Engis when you are a Necro player! Seems like a son is in need of getting good! These changes are awful!
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lol all these “QQ people are mean” threads! How long have you been on the internet!
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PS Also blame Anet for having just THE WORST matchmaking in the history of games with matchmaking! If they’re going to put beginners and veterans on the same team… No vet wants to play with/against beginners and vice versa! Also blame Anet for not trying to get new players to play their game! One of the reasons why matchmaking is so bad is because of the lack of players!
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Flamethrower is bad for your main kit because it does poopy damage! Even if you are full zerk with 25 might stacks, Flame Jet does terrible damage and cone shaped attacks are very buggy! They’ll often miss even if you see the cone hit your target! You will always be able to do more damage with Grenades/Bombs! Also FT traits are bad! The damage boost trait is in Alchemy where there are MUCH better traits to take! Vigor, Prot Injection, Backpack Regen! Other FT traits are in the Firearms tree where investing over 2 points is usually very bad because it takes away from other, more important trees like Explosives or Tools or Alchemy!
But if you want to use it as a support kit, it’s an ok choice! Have something like Grenades be the focus of your build with FT for the decent burst, knockback, and toolbelt!
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PS: Also retal!
People are just saying that. They’ll leave again after playing a week or even less.
Courtyard has a lot of LOS, you already got your map, and what happend after it was included in unranked and prior the test season start in ranked? Everyone qqed about it.
In EU people still prefer to 1vs1 on Nifhels beach, where there are less pillars to hide behind.
Courtyard is too big, has huge camera issues, and does not have arena gameplay in unranked queue! It’s poorly implemented deathmatch! What I am talking about is a tiny map with a few LoS boxes for 2v2/3v3 arenas! The beach in forest is a nice example of a good sized arena map!
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This game desperately needs new game modes! 2+ years of conquest is soooooo stale! Arenas are esports and the maps are easy to design! Courtyard is not a good arena map! A good arena map is small with boxes or pillars to hide behind and LoS! So easy to make! Also if you release arenas, you will be reuniting me with my frand that I used to play video games with that I haven’t played with in over 2 years! We used to be best frands! But he quit Guild Warts 2 because it’s so goshdarn boring while I stayed hoping for good changes! But those never came! Plz help grant this wish for a 2.5+ year disgruntled veteran!
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PS My frand left this game to be esports at League of Legends and won lots of money! Basically if you create 2v2/3v3 arenas, you will get players who play the most esports game in the world to play your game instead! Plz!
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This thread makes me sad!
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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!
Don’t be so offtopic my frand! This is a thread about someone incapable of playing this class, not about Vee Wee!
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Because there aren’t enough people playing the game! Matchmaking will always be bad if there are no players queueing up! Anet needs to find a way to get more people to play! The first step is to introduce a new game mode! It’s been about 2 and a half years and there’s only one game mode! Conquest should be relegated to hotjoins and the esports aspect of the game should be arenas! You know the game mode where the focus of PvP is actually to PvP and not stand on points all game!
The game is confusing to watch! Anet is pumping out all these ridiculous prize money tournaments for the same team to win over and over again because there is absolutely zero competition in the competitive scene! There are zero upcoming teams who are able to even remotely challenge the top teams, of which there are like only two or three across multiple continents! And then when these tournaments happen, nobody knows what the heck is going on on Twitch.tv! Camera angles aren’t that great and there’s too many effects going on, especially when many people run lots of sustain builds so fights draw on for a long time! This is assuming people even hear about the tournaments! There is very little advertising going on at all!
And then balance patches come out twice per year! That is so bad! So bad! Anet takes so long to do anything! How long have the public been crying out for Skyhammer changes! Over a year! In CS:GO, players had a problem with a map called de_overpass! It was changed within TWO WEEKS! Anet please patch the darn game more often! It is very obvious Celestial Elementalists are too strong! When will they be nerfed! Oh well if you go by the 6 month patch period, we have to wait another 2-3 months! Woop dee freakin doo!
Oh sorry Vee Wee started ranting again! Because there’s nobody playing! That’s your answer! Nobody is playing!
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