Guild Wars 2

Why? Well ofcourse it wasnt intended. I work as photographer, and sometimes when i make a serie of pictures they are not all as perfect, and one is better then the other. It isnt different in gamedevelopment, especially when you consider different teams working on different " pictures". Besides once you down the road and put in many hours of development/money you cant go back. Maybe a developer wants to, but management wont let you.

so warrior is just not the best designed, it happens, people tend to make mistakes and warrior elite looks like one

didnt see it in the patch notes, but it was mentioned by devs in this thread :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/New-Runes-Sigils-Amulets-in-sPvP-and-info-on-Vampirism

When someone blows every single utility and elite its not 1 shotting someone. They are very vulnerable after that, so when you used your dodges, invul, stab or learn to avoid there traps they will be brought down pretty easy.

Also your post is full of wrong statements, not every trap guard spams or has all traps, not everyone wants these nerfs. Trapper guards have to be dangerous and lethal, cause there survivability is not as good as other guardian builds. If you take away there power you have nothing left. Right now they dangerous but can be out played by ppl who think and know what they doing.

Love how ppl talk about druid as if it is one build. There so many druid builds out there, bunker/support, condi, zerk, melee, trapper, all kind of flavours. And not all countered in the same way and certainly not all with 0 damage. Maybe not all as efficient in certain roles, but they are all out there

Best thing always to do is make a druid and play around with it. I did the same with DH and ill eat them alive now.

Played in pvp without staff or glyphs and still got to use f5 often. Felt really good.

Lol leaderboards, i rather have them not working so can keep pretending im good

Excactly, chasing endlessly is nerved. So wannabe heavy armor thiefs lost a bit of there fun.

So funny how many ppl willing to drop whole class or even game over a 5 sec cooldown on 1 utility skill. If this was so essential to your ability to play or have fun with revenant you are going to have a bad time with guildwars. Better start enjoying a wider range of your class, and dont focus on that 1 ability

I am happy with ranger and now the fixed the degen off af out of combat so i am happy with druid. Kicking DH butt, so its fine for me. Maybe thats because most DH very bad at kiting and standing in there traps lol. Hell i even was told by one that kiting is “no fun” . And other one said its for kitten’s.

Trap longbow can be done for ranger aswell, but you’d be giving up a lot of survivability. But to be honest a full DH trapper has to give that up too.

In short im a happy ranger

Its depressing to see everything that works getting nerved so quick. I dont understand why we life with bugs for years without a fix, but everything that seems to work good gets nerved within days.

This is despressing

Not if it is a nerf, im not asuming it yet, but it certainly bumped me out alot. been waiting for this moment of release so long, and what do i get, a druid that i cant on day 1. hoping it can get fixed soon. If it was intented i wont be using druid traitline for sure

Because everyone hates rangers and no one will ress them but there pets. But serieusly “why”? Probably because its designed to work like that. Fair? Probably not but, but i wish we didnt have downstate in the first place

i cant use them either, this is in pvp

Its not a bug, you need to select your healing skill.
You can do so in the hero’s panel, training or build tab. you can unlock or select your healskill there.

It would be great to review after a match and it would even help with another issue, queue time. If after a match i could spend some time looking at stats from previous match it would give me something to do while waiting for next.

Compilers will tell you where syntax is wrong, but when you have a fault in logic with perfect syntax it can compile perfect but still crash when a certain situations are occuring

1 error/mistake, in syntax or logic, in a line of code can make a client crash

Yea i had the same on my revenant. I guess its a bug which happend to me after transferring/copying condis back to pet/ranger. I got stuck for 15 seconds in taunt without the taunt condi boon on me, just as in your screenshot. Needless to say i did not survive

I can kill an ele wih my cele ranger, i can stack alot of might and via boon sharing with my pet can hit them pretty hard. My bird can hit with taunt for 10k, just have to time it right and try to make them mess up there rotations. The problem is that it takes too long. And a good ele will not die but just reset.

Noticed that, since new patch(25-08), in sPvP a target sticks on a mesmer or thief.
So if you put target on mesmer, mesmer stealths comes visible again the target is still there.

Dont mind fighting mesmers this way, but i dont think its intended.

Probably works with other classes that stealth too, but didnt check.

Hi,

I just started playing guard since 2 weeks now, really in love with the class.
I play a medi dps guard in wvw and have been kicking a whole lot of butts.

I am facing some problems in 1v1 situations vs condi engineer, in particulair perplexity condi engineers. (also vs condi pu mesmer, but well i just laugh and walk away from them)
When fighting those engineers it seems i can keep up for while, but in the end i will go down before i get them down. Can anyone give me some advice on fighting them?

thanks

well thank you for telling us, can i have your stuff

these days things have changed alot in development, remember the good old days before internet, or atleast internet not as common as now. If you release a game it was a hard copy and you’d better make it “perfect” cause no patch to download like now.
Offcourse we didnt have mmo’s back then.
But i think the marketing pressure is high and makes for sloppy development not just with Anet but with all game company’s.
I work as photographer and the time pressure is high, were you used to be very carefull to make a perfect image because retouching was a pain in the kitten , nowadays we have to do it fast because it’s easier to fix after creation.

I spvp with a melee build, which means i fight at close range and be very carefull in my rotations and managing cooldowns. Funny enough i never experience any instakills from guards, thiefs, ele’s. The key to not get killed is movement, always be moving around and reposition. I can imagine this is even more important when you are playing sniper, and also have some defence in your build

I wish ppl would put a little more thought/research into a post, instead of just calling things broken before you get a grip on the context and facts

Godmode warrior? Superman ele? What color is the sky in your world?
Nothing is godmode in this game, i have no trouble with any classes. I loose fights sure, but thats just skill difference in most cases. And i run mostly a ranger, considered a weak class. But if you dont wanna log in, then dont. You should play something you like.

Yet im having a very good time since patch, sure i had to adapt and even change how i played. But enjoying it even more then before.

I dont think its broken at all, nor do we know they broke everything.
That all depends on the result they wanted, for all you know they wanted the game excactly like it is now. It just means they broke your perception of what the game should be like.

Calm down and adept, take some time to get used to everything before making a topic “anet i hate you”.
I mean i understand the feeling, my old build is not working well too and i was kinda sad, but i enjoyed tweaking and coming up with a new and maybe better one. So take a look at what you have available instead of what you lost and it might make you feel better.

Good luck

I have to agree with Tragic that its a pet management issue and its good to point this out to TS. Lets not confuse honesty and straightforwardness with rudeness.

I see a lot of rangers in pvp running around with dead pets, or with pets on wrong targets. Its good to remind ourselfs and fellow rangers to use our pets well.

Agree with Tragic here. You have almost no defence in you build. If you want to use traps i would use trapper runes. The stealth can save you if you are this squizy.
Also with that much crit potential you are better off getting some " on crit hit " sigils.

I would loose the traps/trap traits and go with Moment of Clarity for sure with this weapon setup. I also would pick a bird as pet. Greatsword 5 (gives you and pet extra damage + MoC for extra) + pet (bird) F2 burst + greatsword 2 is a nice combo to use.

Also i would advice you to create a build in pvp and try it out first for free

Maybe a hint to some kind of merge with pet spec.

I ran this in pvp the last 2 weeks :

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAsXRjMqUxaDL+rw1aA/AZZjAtvFrmzqBLY1B-TJBBwAAOFA12focZAIPBAA

its a melee build, i had a lot of fun with it. The main combo i used was this :
pop signet of the wild(25% damage boost plus might), axe 4 to pull enemy, greatsword 5 to daze and give pet extra damage boost, Pet(bird) F2 and Greatsword 2 skill.

Ppl didnt seem to expect this combo, so i got some very funny moments with this.
THe mobility makes you very survivable aswell.
I didnt do any math and i dont know its really any good, but i had fun with it.

small tip for when you play ranger vs mesmer. Put your pet on passive mode, use f1 to attack the real mesmer, after that it will always track and attack the real one. Makes it easy to spot the real mesmer.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNBMhNakRlKW7XxmFqWD0HELXCa/vezcK7kV8lHA-TJBBwAAeCA+3fIypAQcZAA

its a version of a bleedinghearts build.

stacks a lot of bleeds with combi sharpening stone and warhorn 4.
mad king runes give a similair effect when using a elite. you can stack alot of bleeds in seconds. rapid fire also stacks pretty well.
Its really fun because ppl dont expect to die to bleeds on a lb build.

i run sometimes a bleed on crit build. I uselly use a sword/warhorn and longbow. which is really nice for some suprise bursts.

What i do is using sharpening stone and warhorn 4 skill as opening. it stacks a lot of bleeds in a few seconds because of the multiple hits in a short time.

What is also fun to try out is using a different rune set, i use rune of the mad king.
This set has a warhorn 4 like effect when u use elite and stacks alot of bleeds incombination with entanglement elite. Its also usefull because even if they dodge entanglement the effect will still take place and you still can stack a lot of bleeds.

Anyway just sharing what i like in a bleed on crit build.
I personaly would go with a 4/4/6/0/0 trait setup like this:
keen edge/ piercing arrows
sharpening edges/quick draw
wilderness knowledge/hide in plain side/empatic bond

and would loose the traps and go for atleast SoR and Sharpening stone
and use entanglement as elite

Give it a try and have fun

Having a place to fight other noobs wont help you improve. What it does is it gives you a false sense of skill and improvement. Which still can be enjoyable ofcourse.

But trust me, i was overwhelmed by pvp and was smashing buttons, but after some time you will improve, especially if you play unranked. I only join the hot-join/practice mode for testing builds or because my kid is still awake and i wanna be able to afk or leave any second.

so to sum up, just play unranked, it will be a challange but it will make you improve

For me its the combat, i absolutely love the combat system. Also im not the kind of person who makes a big deal out of bugs, imballance or bad design, so that doesnt rob me of my pleasure. For me everything in life is not perfectly designed to my personal whishes so.

So after reading some of the verbal abuse topic i realized i have been a complete @$$.
I have been raging, calling names and verbal abusing alot the last month in pvp.
I have been irrational, stupid, childish and so on.

I can sum up all kind of reasons for my behavior but none of it will do justice, so i will state here that i am going to try and do better and will try not to engage in that behavior again, and if needed ill just turn off my chat.

My apologies goes out to all the ppl now blocking me, because i have been a jerk.

ps. no im not trolling, i really feel bad about this.

Put your pet on passive, once you have pressed f1 it keeps going after the real mesmer even after stealth. It helps alot, also asume they burst out of stealth so keep moving and try and anticipate there burst and dodge. I hated mesmers until i played one, and understoud them better, so that helps aswell, though if i fight 2 mesmers ill just cry in acorner.

I play condi-ranger alot and i dont have trouble with moving around at all, i mean using sword and dagger i dance around 3 enemy’s and evade so much it drives them crazy.
Thats why i absolutly love ranger.

I know heavy armor builds are heavy and realisticly should be slower, but if you are consistant in asking for realism, then how many freaking arrows do you carry around, and how slow will you be if you carry that much arrows

i think our movement and repositioning is not only in our movement but also our control of the target, fears, immob. Or you could even use trapper runes for repositioning if you like stealth and speed.

I dont see anyone asking for nerfs, only warriors crying like baby’s( the real warrior mentality as it seems) on this forum.

Getting leg specialist in there would be nice aswell for a imob on the rifle 2 skill, will be trying this for lolz.

Not really into gvg myself but this old clip from ogro came to mind.

There is no such hack. Cooldowns, just like gold and health, are stored on the server. Unlikr speed and location of your character, they are stored in the memory of your own computer. If someone hacks cooldown it would be easy to trace and he would go to prison for it.

Maybe the fight took longer then you think, or it was the grove runes aswell, but like you said you saw the animation 4 times. What you could have done is che k your combat log and see how much time there was between the entangle trick