Guild Wars 2

Chokolata.1870:

Elementalists and Engineers are fine. They are just a bit too much with might stacking and celestial ammy.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

You are absolutely right! With the Rifle, Grenade Kit, Tool Kit, and Elixir Gun/Elixir S, the Engineer has loads of fire fields and blast finishers for insane might stacks!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Because bad players come onto these forums or sit in the heart of the mists map chat and whine and moan and complain and cry and weep about how overpowdered some builds are when they’re not and that makes other players want to try it out! Example: Power Ranger! Vee Wee has been playing the same build for over a year and in that time period there have been nothing but nerfs to the build and nobody complained about it! All of a sudden many terrible turret Engi players come out of the woodwork and now Vee Wee is overpowdered! Give Vee Wee a break!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

PS: Get good!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Nice post frand! The issue is very simple! The community is TINY! There’s just not enough people near your rating to match you up with! Or maybe they’re just playing hotjoins! Enticing PvE players over with rewards isn’t going to help either! PvE players don’t enjoy playing PvP! If they did, then they wouldn’t need an incentive to play! If you enjoy doing something then doing it is its own reward! Don’t get Vee Wee wrong, the extra rewards from PvP have been long overdue for PvP players! But right now it’s just a bunch of PvE players grinding out achievements or the glorious armor reward track! Vee Wee was asked recently why Vee Wee continues to play Engineer when Vee Wee already has the Champion Genius title! That’s the kind of people that the reward tracks brought into PvP!

The problems have already been discussed thousands of time on these forums! Vee Wee made a thread that a dev replied to but no changes! Skyhammer! Leavers! Balance patches are few and far between! No pause feature! Wonky camera! Stagnant game mode! Lack of communication between teammates! So many things! But this thread will just be ignored like all the others and you’ll just have to hope and pray for good things to come in the next patch in spring 2015!

Bye frands! No wahoo this time! Typing this out made Vee Wee sad! ):

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Diamond Skin is only useful in 1v1! So it’s not very useful at all anywhere except maybe 1v1 tournaments!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee thinks there are many reasons why queues are so long!

• The community is TINY!
• People are bored of conquest! 2 years same game mode! It gets old!
• Not many people play this game!
• The population is small!
• Conquest is boring!
• Boring!
• Small!
• Tiny!

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GoogleBrandon.5073:

On topic now; what is actually the biggest culprit for Celestial?
I see many here pointing out mightstacks, but is this really true in reality? Or is it a mix between the stacking of might and having enough self-sustain to run it?

For example, Necromancer’s have some ways of getting might, and can get up to ~15 stacks rather quickly, but you would not see them running (and dominating) with Celestial – why is this? Is it because their builds do not lend for it? Or is it because unlike the other classes which profit from Celestial have great ways and mean of self-sustain?

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Heavy might stacking classes like Warriors and Elementalists have innate fire fields and blast finishers! A Necromancer has to sacrifice a utility for many might stacks!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

We have been asking this question for YEARS! Anet’s response is always the same! Silence! Or they tell us, “Listen playerbase! We put out custom arenas! You can create your own game mode! Ho ho haw hee ho!” All Vee Wee wants is arenas as an official game mode! Vee Wee even helped Arenanet in designing a map! It’s really easy! There’s only 3 steps in designing an arena map!

1. Pick a shape! This is the map!
2. Pick smaller shapes! These are objects you can hide behind!
3. Add trees and flowers to make the map look pretty!

And that’s just one issue! The other is balance! Ever play WvW! It’s just awful! Vee Wee thinks that any form of arenas will be the same! Trolly builds run by bad players will be the new meta! A real shame! The same thing applies to other kinds of game modes! Immob stacking in CTF! No thanks! The whole thing is just disappointing to think about!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

So you want one of the most underplayed and least effective classes to have one of their strongest attacks evaded even when the target isn’t evading! Very interesting!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

So you want to shorten the channel time of Rapid Fire even more! Or you want to extend the dodge duration for all classes! Interesting!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Desyncs don’t just apply to Magnet! Anet plz explain this!

http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/5137072

Anet plz!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

3 wouldn’t extinguish the flame! Maybe if it was a candle! But fire feeds on air! That’s why it makes sense for Air Blast to extend burning!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Actually PvP is about being tanky which you just demonstrated! If you took 50,000 damage from burning and burning only does like 600 damage with a full condi build, and you probably took like a lot of power damage, poison, bleeds, etc., that means you must have survived for like at least 3-5 minutes! Nerf tanky sustain please! It’s why everyone is running freaking Doom Sigil!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee is the best Asura name!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Sorry Backpack! But Beefcheeser is the greatest Warrior player known to man! The most mechanically proficient, strategically sound, and situationally aware player ever to grace Guild Warts 2!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

If we can’t swap classes, how will Vee Wee be able to rage swap to Engineer after condi ele fails!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

We’ve seen these maps previewed like a year ago! They were leaked and then Anet streamed how they make maps and showed screenshots of these maps! So long ago!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Better to wait 8-12 minutes in queue and have same classes than 20-30 minutes and be different!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

No I’m Vee Wee!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Is Annihilation Arenas? If so then maps should be relatively easy to design! Vee Wee will give a sample!

1. Pick shape! This is the map!
2. Pick smaller shapes! These are objects you can hide behind!
3. Add trees and flowers to make it look nice!

That’s it! Here’s a sample image! Feel free to hire Vee Wee! Vee Wee will work for cheap!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

The devs should only balance the game based off the highest levels of play! If lower skilled players dictated the balance direction then Heartseeker would probably do no damage and cost 8 initiative, useless turret builds will be even more useless, and probably other horrible things that Vee Wee does not even want to think about!

Oh yeah! Welcome to PvP! Hope to see you in a tourney soon!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Shoot into the field vertically! It’s much, much easier to blast that way than horizontally!

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Hello my frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Anybody use a projectile class! Ever have a focus Elementalist on your team and on the other team! Do you ever get confused by which Swirling Winds belongs to your team! Speak up my frands!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Yes plz!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Running Grenade Kit without the Grenadier trait is very unwise!

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Thanks ShadowPuppet for correcting a thilly error!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

My frands you guys are taking things way too seriously! First Guild Warts 2 is a video game! Nothing should be taken seriously! It’s for fun! Vee Wee runs 5 elixir Engi or gadget Engi! Vee Wee doesn’t care about leaderboards! They don’t matter! Solo Q has Skyhammer! That’s plenty reason to not place any faith in that mode! Team Q leaderboards are so inflated it’s thilly! It’s literally the best players in the game tryhard teamspeak stomping rabbit ranks on a daily basis! It’s not their fault though! The community is so tiny that there is little to no competition!

If you want to be known as da bestest Guild Warts 2 players, do well in the tournaments! Even if your team loses, people will notice good individual play! That is all! Taking information from the loleaderboards is just thilly!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

• Add a game mode that is truly esports! 2v2 / 3v3 Arenas! 5v5 anything is too cluttered with all of the particle effects! But the game is balanced to 5v5 conquest so RIP arenas!
• Spectating the game is awful! Camera angles and particle effects make for a very poor spectacle to watch!
• Cash prizes! Money will draw all the little nerds out of hiding to compete for irl loot! The $50k cash prize is a good start but it needs to be consistent!
• Anet needs to find ways to get more people to play the game and stop making people quit! The same team wins every single tournament! They are good players no doubt, but it’s also because there is hardly any competition!
• Balance! The game balances VERY EXTREMELY THUPER slowly! Guild Warts will never be esports with a patch every 6 months! Overpowdered classes remain overpowdered for YEARS! Literally years!
• Pause! Pausing a match is esports! There isn’t a single esports game without a pause feature because technical difficulties exist! Vee Wee just witnessed a 4v5 match in ToG! This cannot happen! At least this time the admins didn’t ask someone to idle in spawn LOL!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Generally you use Pistol/Shield in a condi build that has multiple forms of burning because burning is by far our strongest condition! Bomb Kit is the usual choice because it’s the best condition kit that has innate burning! Grenade/Bomb imo is the strongest setup for this!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUp+q9ZxELseRCbBNqxAqNIyNWlP3gAkUA-TJhHwAU2fgwDAAwJAAZZAA

or you can go more defensive!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUp+q9ZxELseNCbBNqxI6NWlO+5GEgkC-TJhHwAU2fgwDAAwJAAZZAA

Or you can run Vee Wee’s preferred rune/sigil setup which is taking Adventurer Runes with Sigil of Energy so you can have Hair Trigger, Protection Injection, and Backpack Regenerator!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUp+q9ZxELseRCbBNqxAqNIyOWlP3gAkUA-TJhHwA82fAwJAAZZgAPAAA

You can also run a purely Bomb Kit damage focused build!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpdrlcxPLseRSaBNq0AqQIyQulPPhDEAA-TJRHwAV2fIwJAIZZAAPAAA

For WvW, you can try Ostrich Egg’s WvW build as it uses Pistol/Shield! If you watch some of his WvW gameplay, he straight up poops on the WvW baddies! Vee Wee is pretty sure this is his build or close to it!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpvr9ZxELseNCbBNqxI6NWlO+5GEgkC-T1hHABFp8jn9HA4EA0megFV/B4HAAUKBJFAMTjA-w

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee never derails threads! Vee Wee only replies to people who actually derail them by attacking poor Vee Wee! And you’ll have to find that quote about Vee Wee saying turret Engis are bad people! Bad players maybe! But people! No way! Unless they actually are! Then yes way!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee’s List of Tubby McLardos!

1. Olrun
2. Plumpskin McBlubber
3. Pork McWhale
4. Ostrich Eggs
5. Obese McGrease
6. Gut Cassidy and the Sundance Cheeseburger

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee would like to see the 1 skill be a blast finisher! Vee Wee doesn’t think Mortar will ever be a damaging ability! So make it a utility ability! Frost Aura! Might stacks! etc!
Vee Wee would also like to see the healing mortar actually heal something!
Vee Wee would like to see faster projectiles!

Also Mortar does use your condition damage and condi duration! THe tooltips show power scaling but in actuality it does not scale with power! The healing mortar tooltip shows healing power scaling but Vee Wee did not test! It probably doesn’t! Goshdarn it Anet! Why are your tooltips so shoddy!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Thanks for your advice frands but Ranger and PvEsports don’t go well together for Vee Wee! It has nothing to do with the Ranger’s supposed lack of DPS or whatever PvE nerds like to say about Ranger! Vee Wee just can’t handle the root! Vee Wee will stick to trolling arenas and maybe WvW when the season starts with longbow and play easy Elementalist for PvEsports! Seriously it’s so easy! You press 1 and 2 and 5 every once in a while! That’s it!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

chungiee.8764:

ArrDee.2573:

chungiee.8764:

As an Engineer, Entangle is pretty much a instant win button if it hits.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

One Grenade Barrage destroys the roots! Even on condi builds! Or use Overcharged Shot to remove it!

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Sure…just never use those skills for the off chance you get Entangled…

Even then, youve wasted your burst or cc.

Lastly given the aoe clutter… You wont always see that youre entangled. Chances are you get killed before you get out given how engies rely on kiting to live.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Yeah it really stinks to use your abilities to counter other abilities! Goshdarn it Anet! You did it again!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee usually never has auto attack on! Vee Wee did PvE with sword! Auto attacked off a cliff! Why can’t Ranger sword be like other swords! Anet please!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee always sees people say that Rapid Fire can do 15k damage! How does it do 15k damage! Vee Wee must know the secret! Vee Wee pelted a Fresh Air Ele and did not do 15k damage even counting the air/fire sigils!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Terrible! Simply terrible! There’s my feedback! Time and time again Anet has shown that they think us players are morans! Complete and utter illiterate morans! When they released the new grandmaster skills, they locked them out of PvP (you know that place where everything is supposed to be on equal footing and unlocked for you) because they thought the players would be too overwhelmed by the additional choices! They did the same thing with the new runes! And the new amulets! And the new sigils!

“Well our playerbase can’t possibly know how to read! That’s preposterous! Ho ho haw haw ho!” -Anet

And now they think our skills and utilities are too confusing! Here’s an idea! Maybe some people thought certain abilities were confusing because the tooltips are always wrong/misleading/poorly worded! Fast forward over 2 years and countless “patches” later, these godawful tooltips still exist! For example, when you trait Illusionists Celerity and take a weapon cooldown trait, an illusion summoning skill will not display the correct cooldown! It’s been OVER TWO YEARS!

We are not illiterate! We are not morans! We are not dumb! Please, for the love of christ, stop treating us like we were dropped on our heads as babies! Reverse these gated changes aimed towards the mentally handicapped because I can assure you the vaaaaaaaaaast majority of your playerbase aren’t so! Thanks for reading!

-Disgruntled veteran Vee Wee, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80

Wahoo! Bye frands!

chungiee.8764:

As an Engineer, Entangle is pretty much a instant win button if it hits.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

One Grenade Barrage destroys the roots! Even on condi builds! Or use Overcharged Shot to remove it!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee recently used a Scroll of Experience and 60 Tomes of Knowledge to max a Ranger! Vee Wee has been PvPing and it’s pretty troll! But then Vee Wee decided to PvE! Wow! Sword auto attacks! Why so bad! Please Anet fix!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee is pretty sure the entire Engineer community has asked for turret buffs since launch! Extremely useless is an understatement for how they functioned before April 15!

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Helo frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Basically this is a suggestion from me! Vee Wee! Ever have a bunker Guardian on your team and a bunker Guardian on the other team! Maybe they both run Sanctuary and you just get confused as to which Sanctuary belongs to your team and which Sanctuary belongs to the enemy team! Vee Wee has been in this situation and it is not fun sometimes! This also happens with the Elementalist’s Swirling Winds ability and it really affects Vee Wee’s projectile lifespan!

Vee Wee’s suggestion is to put a red aoe indicator outline on enemy Sanctuaries and enemy Swirling Winds and other abilities that are similar! What do you guys think!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee used an instant level 20 scroll + 60 Tomes of Knowledge to instantly hit 80. Then Vee Wee had to manually click away each level up screen! The items you get from those aren’t even salvageable! Then Vee Wee had to spend much money purchasing traits! More money than Vee Wee would have spent buying trait books! Vee Wee skipped the leveling process entirely and it was still a nightmare! Vee Wee feels sorry for the people who actually level!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

These changes are terrible! New player =/ mentally handicapped person. That is all!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Elixir S does not remove any conditions! Elixir C does! And taking Elixir C over Elixir S will just cripple you defensively! Sorry to say but HGH builds just aren’t that good! They are extremely prone to boonsteal and you need to take elixir traits over the super amazing defensive traits that Alchemy gives you! Not to mention using utility slots on multiple single use long cooldown abilities already poops on your defensive capabilities!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

You should probably get some condition removal!

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hey man thanks for responding. idk what vee wee is but i tried playing turret spec on my engi but i read that it’s a bad build and man they were right. the only people i could beat were people as new or as bad as me.

hey guys. my name is arrdee.2573 and i am a new player. well i just got the game yesterday and boy oh boy pvp is just confusing! i keep joining solo and team arenas trying for glorious armor and i feel like all i do is cause my team to lose. i noticed you guys put some helpful restrictions in pve and maybe it might be a good idea to place these helpful restrictions in pvp too.

for example i have no idea how to play this game. i have no idea what it means when people say rotations. i can’t even spell rotations. i think it might be a good idea to restrict me to only hotjoins until i reach a certain rank in pvp so i can learn this game.i also think that i should get matched up with people that have a similar rating as me. why am i getting matched up with the most skilled players in this game as a new player? it’s crazy.

anyway that’s just the perspective of me, arrdee.2573, a new player. thanks for reading

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Well Vee Wee tried condishatter and it was just terrible! But Vee Wee created a new condi build and test it in PvP and it seems to be working well in both duels and team queues! But then again the queues are flooded with clueless PvE and WvW people so who knows! Vee Wee would like some opinions from experienced high level PvP Mesmers since Vee Wee does not play Mesmer!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAraWlknpUtlpxGNcrNitxY6LKJDUO0RlMghB-TZRHwABeAAJLDI4QAA4MAEa/BA

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

All you need to decap is a rifle! There is no point in creating entire builds just to decap a point! Just bring a rifle!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

ANET PLZZZZZZ
http://www.twitch.tv/veewee/c/5093808
PLZ

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Deep Freeze has an obvious animation and long cast time, so you should learn to dodge it! It also has a really obvious sound! As a turret Engi, you are really weak to focus fire, among other things, since all you can do is auto attack and hope the other guy is dumb enough to die to your turrets!! Consider grabbing Tool Kit to alleviate pressure! Elixir S works wonders too!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee was not in this tournament! Obviously had Vee Wee been in here, Vee Wee’s gadget/mortar meta or Vee Wee’s 5 elixir meta would have overwhelmed this Kronos guy!

Wahoo! Bye frands!