Ya, I have put my warrior the shelf and just play my Druid and Thief. Warriors I am facing this season are fairly easy kills 1v1 and go down fast if focused. Of course there are still good warriors out there, but there’s another class that is going to bring whatever you are bringing to the match better right now.
That pretty much,i can do pretty much fine overall with a low to none deathrate in pvp but i do feel that about everything is able to counter me pretty easily atm besides necs.1on1 its going alright so far besides mesmers ( condi ) seem to be a hard counter or im just doing bad vs em.
I got stuck as a warri on Foefire near the keep right side,edge of stairs..Somehow during a headbutt i got a pull from a dh who stood up the stairs..And it ported me straight in,atleast they were kind enough to finish me off.
I don’t actually care what somebody else gets over me. However, how many of you up in your ivory towers laying into the OP farmed your “hard earned rank” in EoTM? Ask yourself that…
I “Farmed” it since 2012 playing on the same server all these years.
Wont that just mean that all these new pvers will just go to eotm again ? I mean most people will like it,i don’t.I like to see these new faces and hoping lotta of them will actively keep on playing wvw and dont move off when they have the reward they wanted.
Its strange, as the only map I see skill lag in is, EBG, that map is just horrible for it, this last week there have been massive open battles on the home boarderlands and they have been playable even with 3 zergs smashing into each other, but as soon as you get onto EBG and 2 zergs meet its game over, you better hope that your skills cast before the enemies,
I don’t know why EBG is so badly optimized for the battles compared to the other maps.
Thats not true,the bl’s are lagging just as hard.Its just more noticable in Eb cus these comms like to go 3 way in sm all day long eventhough they know it lags the entire server out..hurhur.
Did you play wvw since 2012 ? If no,than why are you complaining ? Anet stated they wanted to reward players keeping wvw alive all this time while it was in a steady decline.
Amazing how everything is Discrimination these days and everyone want the same that everyone else has eventhough not having put in the same effort as those..oh my.
Then stop joining/supporting that specific comm.its prob a tryhard that fails often anyway,only want the easymode zerg classes that can spamm aoe’s and press 1111111.Just make your own partys and do your own stuff,you can still follow the tag along anyway,dont let any dipshit tell you what to do or not to do.
Start off with healsig as your first resist option,play it defensively and dont keep chasing him around..let him come to you.Taking more distance while you wait till adren has filled trying to ignore his biggest bombs.When you do pop into berserk do not insta gunflame him,autoattack a bit untill he starts wasting evades or closing in where you will gunflame and try to land a rifle or headbutt which he will either dodge,if he stays in your face at this point while dodging and applying blind,pop berserk util and switch to gs and start bursting,if he takes distance again…you turn around and get more distance with rush,switch back to rifle..and if youre not rdy for berserk yet dont hold back with using normal killsjhots either.It either lands or he start wasting more evades.Just try to play it smart and dont go tunnelvision chasing on him cus thats whats gonna kill you.During the fight pop healsig whenever needed to resist right away.
Same issue here,on gs/axe they will just bomb you and kite you out as you said,but gs rifle seems to work if you time your gunflame.Other than that a good one will just toy with you on double melee unless hes bad or if you get a lucky cc burst on him.
Yes, there were not enough trenchcoats, we needed an outfit with one.
FANTASTIC design there Anet, much imagination/variety in your designs. It’s either giant shoulderpieces or trenchcoats.
There was no skin like this available for heavys to use,so i am glad with this one.I just wish it were seperate pieces so i could mix match some up.I think the design is really well done,even on a maxed out norn it doesnt look oversized and it doesnt turn you into a fat blob either.Think it looks really slick.
@ all people who gave me support:
Thank you. I’m glad, there are still players who understand my situation.
@ all saying it’s my fault because of my build:
You are surely one of those players having such a Mesmer character, looking around in WvW for single players and run after them to kill them to get your hand full of XP. Great job done, really.
My PvP rank is 6, my WvW rank is 47. You know why? Because I don’t care for PvP or WvW, I’m a PvE player. But more often it seems to be much easier to do one of the WvW dailys to complete three daily quests to get the gold. This is the only reason my WvW rank is 47 (this and once completing a reward track for the final chest).
You know what I do, when I see an enemy who is close to the spot where e.g. I’m waiting for the Veteran creature? Nothing, as long as he also doesn’t do anything. More often I had moments, where I waited for a Veteran with an enemy close by and when the creature appeared, we killed it together and parted ways afterwards without killing each other (or in this case probably only me), even so we hit each other some during the fight.
So yes, there are players who aren’t killing a WvW noob like me on sight. Thanks to those players. To all others: Have fun at your life which consists of making the game bad for the few players who aren’t spending dozens of hours a day of optimizing their build.
Ive been roaming in wvw since 2012.Still to this day whenever i see a Low rank as you describe i simply skip him,unless he engages me first.There is no goodfeel to it for killing from what you know is probably a pver just doing his daily.What i do not like on the other hand,is that same pver who i just skipped and did not engage me either..Will join in when he sees im being chased by 5 – 10 others.
Condi warr has been strong in pvp since the start of Hot.
Strong yes.. for pvp? hell no, it had to go through life surgery to even be remotely playable in pvp if anyone even remembers how that went.
As far as i know, on sw/torch/mace/shield ( Since i Played it right off the bat in first season making it to diamond before i got bored of how Easy to play it was ), it was very playable in pvp.
Just…How people make claims about headbutt had no tell and it was impossible to dodge it..and now its sorta doable ? My god,all the l2p issues here while pretending to be any good,hurdur.
Haha, right? Power Warrior mains just need to l2p like the rest of the professions already. Enough with the QQ over this. The profession still performs wonderfully, and still seems overtuned in terms of damage and survivability.
Did you even read my comment ? It was aimed at the people that said headbutt had no tell..It was not aimed at warri’s.
In other words, slow motion wasn’t enough, it now needs to miss 1/3 times
Wars seem to be the only ones that don’t get that headbutt needed a good balance of some sort.Its now able to be dodged/evaded, albeit still not easy but it’s now doable (esp as a squishy class). There are worse things anet could have done to it and this was probably the least they could have done (don’t know if this was just a lazy easy way out kind of change but it was a change). Try being an outsider looking in and maybe you will truly understand what i really mean.
Just…How people make claims about headbutt had no tell and it was impossible to dodge it..and now its sorta doable ? My god,all the l2p issues here while pretending to be any good,hurdur.
The thing is that if you’re looking to beat a condi built class meta, you have to find a way to remove condi, so the way I work around it is by using 2 traits, savage instinct, and Brawler’s recovery. The added way I deal with them is using berserker stance, and popping healing signet when it gets too tough. For cc’s i just escape using greatsword… most of the time.
So what do you do on a teamfight on point lets say 3 or straight up 5 on 5 with some dhs in there aswell and retal being thrown around like crazy and stabi ripped before you know it ? How will whirl even be effective in those situations ? You cant so much rely on popping ep at 100%hp before whirling in either,thats bad decision making.
Most of all imo,the way to make axe offhand viable is to give a reflect effect on it so its still usable vs kiters aswell.Atm its damage might be fine but theres too much counter against it going on.
pop your invuln and make sure your health never gets close to 0. Oh and remember to keep switching weapons and use your f1 skill when the bar is full because that’s where adrenal health keeps you alive.
I dont think you see the issue i mentioned.And again using invuln to make sure whirl doesnt kill yourself on retal is not a good thing to be doing.
Works so far , in the longrun ie plat division shield might be better suited for off hand but axe is wonderful.
Props for you if it works,i don’t see this becoming meta any day though.
The thing is that if you’re looking to beat a condi built class meta, you have to find a way to remove condi, so the way I work around it is by using 2 traits, savage instinct, and Brawler’s recovery. The added way I deal with them is using berserker stance, and popping healing signet when it gets too tough. For cc’s i just escape using greatsword… most of the time.
So what do you do on a teamfight on point lets say 3 or straight up 5 on 5 with some dhs in there aswell and retal being thrown around like crazy and stabi ripped before you know it ? How will whirl even be effective in those situations ? You cant so much rely on popping ep at 100%hp before whirling in either,thats bad decision making.
Most of all imo,the way to make axe offhand viable is to give a reflect effect on it so its still usable vs kiters aswell.Atm its damage might be fine but theres too much counter against it going on.
pop your invuln and make sure your health never gets close to 0. Oh and remember to keep switching weapons and use your f1 skill when the bar is full because that’s where adrenal health keeps you alive.
I dont think you see the issue i mentioned.And again using invuln to make sure whirl doesnt kill yourself on retal is not a good thing to be doing.
The thing is that if you’re looking to beat a condi built class meta, you have to find a way to remove condi, so the way I work around it is by using 2 traits, savage instinct, and Brawler’s recovery. The added way I deal with them is using berserker stance, and popping healing signet when it gets too tough. For cc’s i just escape using greatsword… most of the time.
So what do you do on a teamfight on point lets say 3 or straight up 5 on 5 with some dhs in there aswell and retal being thrown around like crazy and stabi ripped before you know it ? How will whirl even be effective in those situations ? You cant so much rely on popping ep at 100%hp before whirling in either,thats bad decision making.
Most of all imo,the way to make axe offhand viable is to give a reflect effect on it so its still usable vs kiters aswell.Atm its damage might be fine but theres too much counter against it going on.
I’ve won every fight I’ve had with axe tho. But I can’t stop q.qers.
Stop playing vs the golems in heart of the mist,those golems need some rest,try to do it vs an actual player..Fight a dh and please go crazy with the whirl espec when he has retal up..Show me the results !
well since you asked this isn’t one of my best matches but a pretty okay one.
Damage output is fine but my point still stands..Only from experience not because im guessing.Theres a reason people dont run axe offhand and the reason is the one i mentioned above.
Also now especially with our pulsing stabi nerf on eternal it will be easily interrupted.Takes one thief to get rid of your stabi and p4 you after,espec with the boon steal sigils around now aswell.
I’ve won every fight I’ve had with axe tho. But I can’t stop q.qers.
Stop playing vs the golems in heart of the mist,those golems need some rest,try to do it vs an actual player..Fight a dh and please go crazy with the whirl espec when he has retal up..Show me the results !
Or a mesmer.. I’d love to see him chase one down with a good stack of Torment
Torment not so much..its just how fast the whirl hits coupled with a boon like retal or..
Whirl + Confusion + retal = Dead.
Talk about overreacting to an extremely minor nerf.
Do you even play Warrior?
Yes i do. It’s a trivial nerf. It’s so insignificant that it’s comical to see the people here being devastated over such a minor thing.
It is minor,but its an unwanted nerf.I rather see a nerf on damage or aoe radius.Think any proper thief will ever get hit by your headbutt again ? And no i dont mean that random thief that spamms 1.They need to atleast allow quickness to have effect on headbutt/arc.
ANET your developers went out of their way to make sure the tells for the warrior skills were so obvious that you would have to be ignoring them not to see…
3/4 cast time on head butt is too much. 1/2 second was already reasonable, same goes for shield bash.
The game is 5 years old at no point was shield bash in 5 years considered too strong, so that is the reasoning that the changes are nonsensical.
ANET if you can argue logic that it took you 5 years to think shield bash needed a nerf than go for it. Until then Stop caving to bad players who complain that they get rekt by a warrior becasue they are bad at the game. And dumpstering a class just becasue it looks politically correct to do so
Do you think Warrior did not need any sort of nerf whatsoever?
id be fine with some damage shave here and there.But compared to other classes that can spamm skills without any tell,i dont see why we need to be more obvious as we already are.Headbutt had a obvious tell already ( yes..it did ),same for shield bash and both were to be easily avoided if the enemy pays attention.I only played yesterday a bit but it does feel sluggish atm to either set it up for a combo or to gain burst acces.I’d rather have a gs burst aoe radius or damage nerf,and a damage nerf on headbutt than a nerf to make me sluggish.
PvP
I’m just a DH scrub but I will say Axe Whirl Pooper did 6k on me the other day. GS may have mobility but Axe damages on point is no joke.
Just thought I’d poke in and give my 2 copper.
Retaliation ?
I did it last night on my buddy,it took off half of my hp.Gotta remember that,cus it will happen.Thats about doing 10k damage to yourself.And you know how easily boons like retal are being pooped around.
I’ve won every fight I’ve had with axe tho. But I can’t stop q.qers.
Stop playing vs the golems in heart of the mist,those golems need some rest,try to do it vs an actual player..Fight a dh and please go crazy with the whirl espec when he has retal up..Show me the results !
since when had Headbutt had any real tell aside from “knowing” a warrior is going to do it? no, sorry but headbutt was op, and as a side note Berserker (and Elite Specializations as a whole" are OP as hell)
I have never been a fan of the way elite Specs work with the core mechanics of a class (which is part of the reason I have cut back on GW2 and started playing Overwatch. At least these changes lessen the impact of Berserker by cutting down on the insane power creep. The other Elites also too a hit while the Core mechanics of the classes got some decent buffs.
Watch this till 0:05 seconds..If you do not see headbutt having a tell than youre either lying to yourself or you’re plain blind.
Ive had dozens of situations (vs Proper players that is..) That know how to press their dodge button when they see headbutt starting.Pop a block,leap away,or break free when it does hit and staying out of range and kiting untill berserk has ended.Some people on the other hand just eat it all and then complain on the forum to nerf this and that cus its so op when i cant find my dodge button.
how was shield bash and headbutt OP? both with 20+ sec cd,extremly ez to miss with MEGA OBVIOUS animation, even arc was hard to land vs competent players….,now with 1 sec precast and EP for 2 sec.. nerf heal again … season 1 warrior comming to pvp.
A half second cast time on a skill with that much stun, that much damage, a stun break , and full adrenaline gain on a 20s CD was stupidly broken. It’s still stronk.
Very stronk against total new players who can’t see the already telegraphed move now being telegraphed in slow-motion. :P
Next balance patch we will be given a huge exclamation mark above our heads before we use skills like headbut or a burst,i think we aren’t telegraphed enough yet.
I don’t mind the nerfs to Arc Divider and Headbutt all that much (Arc Divider has a cool wind-up, and Arcing Slice is no longer strictly inferior to it), though it cemented GS warrior as dead in high-end content. The shield bash nerf is what ticks me off the most. It had plenty of telegraph before the nerf, due to the nature of Shield (IF they have a big chunk of metal on one arm, it means they’re either going to bunker behind it, or bash you with it), and the reactive, strong CC has always been a defining and critical part of that weapon.
Agreed,shield bash had a pretty easy telepgraphed tell already and its mainly there to set up for a burst,i think its too easy to see this coming now.Tried it a bit last night and it does feel very sluggish to set up a combo.Im sure ill get used to it but it doesnt feel right atm.I dont really care about the ep nerfs or arc cast delay..But i dont see the reason to take on shieldbash aswell.
Really now ? You realize we have to choose between cleansing ire or rousing ? Dropping cleansing ire in this meta is a deadwish and means you have no condi clear ready.It only serves well vs pure power where one condi bomb and no berserk util left will destroy you easily.
I dont see how rifle and rousing will help you vs a condi bomb.
Imagine,you commanding..Stuck in a condi bomb on rifle,unable to swap no utilities left.Youre kittened.
Grab sw/shield instead of rifle and use cleansing ire.You need to be able to move out of condi bombs on both weap sets you got while commanding.kitten will happen and when it does happen you need to be able to outlive it to keep on going.
Well it feels like a lot generally i thought i was lagging at 1st!!
I can understand,im not liking an increase in casting time either but just saying,add some agility sigil perhaps on gs now they removed hydro or throw in heightend focus trait etc.
I think Arc Divider’s radius is the biggest issue on the Berserker, particularly given it’s lack of windup or big tell as to when specifically it’s coming and how it reaches beyond the radius of dodges.
Increased cooldown on HB would also go a long way. The condi build/damage mitigation uptime is a little excessive as well, though. I don’t really like the existence of any passive damage immunity effects, but that’s just me.
All of this i can agree with Arc Divider’s radius. It seems rather wide and even when im more than the 450 units away, it still connects (in my experience anyway).
Amazing how you can tell youre exactly 450 units away from someone,calculating the movement of yourself + him while he’s bursting. Clap clap.
If enemies manage to build multiple rams and shield generators on your gate, they deserve that kind of power. It cost them huge amounts of supply and should be difficult to deal with. Rather than making that sort of thing impossible, I want to make supply more meaningful so that they can’t pull those sort of shenanigans on every gate unless they take pains to do so.[/quote]
You do realize im talking about less vs 2 – 3x more numbers right ?
For everyone who is attempting to re-install their graphics driver: Do a clean uninstall first using Display Driver Uninstaller. It is the only program to ensure everything gets removed properly and that there are no remains of the former installation, neither in your files nor in the registry.
I wont recommend to ever use this program,it has bricked my pc a long time ago where after the driver uninstall i got greeted with blue screens everytime i rebooted. had to reinstall windows from scratch.
Manually uninstall it,CCleaner after to clean the registry.
I am sorry you had that experience, but millions of other users, including myself, will vouch for the quality of this program.
Either you did not configure the tool properly, or you didn’t install the latest version before using it (as with each new driver update there is a new version that is suited for the latest driver uninstalls).
CCleaner does not always delete everything in the registry if the system falsely believes it to be a required entry, and it certainly does not delete obsolete folders on your disk. There is no better graphics driver “cleaner” than DDU.
Tbh theres no need of it if you clean with ccleaner anyway,im not an idiot when it comes to pc’s and yes it was configuered properly.it had removed other drivers that i did not select to be removed.
For everyone who is attempting to re-install their graphics driver: Do a clean uninstall first using Display Driver Uninstaller. It is the only program to ensure everything gets removed properly and that there are no remains of the former installation, neither in your files nor in the registry.
I wont recommend to ever use this program,it has bricked my pc a long time ago where after the driver uninstall i got greeted with blue screens everytime i rebooted.had to reinstall windows from scratch.
Manually uninstall it,CCleaner after to clean the registry.
Berserker – shield bash, head butt, lb F1, collect bag.
Really, nearly all thieves are predictable. Once you get familiar with how they play, its pretty simple to take them out. The smarter ones realize what is happening and run away. The few exceptional thieves are going to be a problem no matter what class you’re playing against them.
Shield bash will be broken/blinded or dodged..headbutt can be easily dodged by em since a good thief waits for you to move and not the other way around,I mean in theory ive done the same vs bad thieves,but that combo will rarely work on a good one unless you had them use all their breaks and dodges somehow and can magically tell if improv has recharged one of those.
as someone who gets the occasional salty whisper i dont know how its done. I have some friends on other servers and when we are both in WvW i cant whisper them via my friends list. How do you actually do it?
Block him,than look into your block list..click on him to whisper and click unblock again.
, in the longrun ie plat division shield might be better suited for off hand but axe is wonderful.
both with 20+ sec cd,extremly ez to miss with MEGA OBVIOUS animation, even arc was hard to land vs competent players….,now with 1 sec precast and EP for 2 sec.. nerf heal again … season 1 warrior comming to pvp.