Guild Wars 2

How will people be chosen for this?!?

Darnis.4056:

You and another player both get to a node that’s uncontested and owned by the enemy You ;
A) Leave the Point
B) Start typing for the other Player to leave so you can get the points.
C)Acquire double the Points by double capping

Uh the correct answer is D) both leave the point uncapped to go kill more people

Amateurs…

Until ele can give AoE stability and instant condi clear not reliant on being in water, I’m not sure they will ever replace a guardian despite the great healing potential.

No guard build can easily take on three decent players so don’t hype up a “god build” for the OP…

As to your answer, there are many builds for a guard. Bunker, glass burst meditations x/6/6/x/x, glass meditations with better sustain 2/1/6/1/4, and many celestial variations that optimize sustain and outpu. If you tinker the celestial setup you can find a nice middle ground to suit your play style with a nice stat balance.

I can play if u 5v4 the qualifiers then I’ll be available for the main stage (on my clinical until august). Otherwise I can be a “sub.” Let me know.

masskillerxploit.2165:

Are the good teams going to be spread out again?

One would hope but then there will be rage posts from the unheard of teams going “wth we could’ve beaten those guys so easy. Anet blew it!11!!1”, “omg this team basically got a free pass to finals and us others got screwed Q_Q” etc. basically the rage over the reserved spots from last time where team X was better than this reserved team and all that talk.

@squishy
Thanks for those links, I hadn’t run across them.

@Avelos
Thanks, I’m leaning towards the laptop I linked in my OP after seeing the fps jump is only 25 —> 29 and I’d rather not fork out the extra money for the 860 if it really isn’t a “huge” upgrade or anything.

Hadn’t thought about a laptop cooling pad, thanks for that suggestion. Is the 850 vs 860 really that much of a difference though? The jump in price passes my price range so is that extra ~$70 worth it?

Hey everyone, so I’m going to be moving around a lot for various clinicals and such for school and don’t want to be tied down to my desktop in order to play. I’ve been researching some laptop options and I’m not too familiar on the laptop side of things. I’m trying to keep the price under $1000 if possible yet still run at least 30fps on med-high graphics when I pvp (not wvw, just tpvp/spvp).

So far, I’m leaning towards the Sager 6658 (http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6658-clevo-w650sj-p-6994.html) but I’d like to hear if this is a good laptop or just anyone who knows laptop parts/specs better than I do for what I’m looking for. If you have any alternatives in my price range it is greatly appreciated.

Again, doesn’t need to be running ultra settings but I want it to be 1920×1080 res, 30fps with med-high settings. Thanks!

Funny because GS can be deadly given a skilled player but I digress. Maybe he’s just trying it out so whatever. No need to flame him for the next 10 minutes. If you really want to “help pvp noobs” maybe try some better wording so you don’t come across as a kitten.

I play ele as well so I’ll drop my stream here.
http://www.twitch.tv/cmm5bx

I will vouch saying it’s not a scam and you get your gold.

As to the bans, the server says everything is fine as long as both parties agree. Don’t want to fight turrets? Say so. Lich form banned? Ask for it. Someone will match your terms then and you fight for the gold.

MMis not OP for the love of god… Seriously this is a l2p issue.

I can solo MM with many builds/classes…

It’s threads like these that promote hate and try to stir up controversy. Sure bunkers don’t die fast but they won’t be killing as fast either. As for MM, learn to dodge golem charge and it shouldnt be too difficult assuming you aoe his pets, blind, stun, etc. Keep in mind he has 0 stunbreak – use that to your advantage. This is just one tip there are many other tactics to take in order to beat a MM. If you’re a ranger, you should be kiting his dumb AI pets. They hate terrain so be sure to use it if its around.

If you refuse to play stop being the kitten who sits in base and ruins it for his 4 teammates. Either adapt/practice/work on improving or stop soloQ’ing and ruining it for 4 other people. You can be mad but at least play it out and better yourself rather than sit in base and write a QQ post about how things are so broken when in fact you should be able to handle them if you put in the time/effort.

Rentapest.6503:

By “bunker” I mean one of these OP “tanky” builds that can tank 5 players while ripping your head off.=]

Tell me of these legendary bunker vs 5 builds. I would love to run it.

@utmastuh
Think you only get emailed if you have choices of what you want.

Side note to the devs/anet, am I the only one who thinks this system is rediculous? If one captain doesn’t respond, how long must we ALL wait before you give up waiting and send prizes out? Is it really that hard to make a spreadsheet of team names and cross them off the list once you send out their prizes? Maybe even put a fancy big red X by teams that haven’t responded and, oh I don’t know, leave them in limbo alone until you get contact. Many of us are anticipating our prizes I’m sure of it. Seriously, this is basically the easiest thing in the world yet you can’t assign one person in charge this task? You hype the llama finisher reward yet none of the ToL participants entitled to it have it. Priorities Anet…get them in line please.

Press only one or two buttons? I think you may be a bit delusional… All of these builds are countered by many things. Sure it might require “more effort” but who cares? Unless you are a bunker spec yourself the builds mentioned will die if you play the matchup well. If you don’t like it though, just stop playing.

You’ve got a couple of choices to go for depending on how you feel about them. You can go 0/1/6/6/1 AH build or you can go for the 0/0/2/6/6 as you stated. I would suggest you work on being comfortable with clerics as that is what is generally run and will help your team most. Rune wise go for Soldiers for extra condi clear on shouts. Weaponset is fine unless you’d like to run a focus – your call both work fine.

LightningBlaze.4913:

After a year of not spvping I have come back. The bunker builds are out of control. Every “experienced” player found in solo and team spvp/tpvp are all bunkers just to hold on the capture points as long as possible. Even on tournaments the majority run high bunker builds. How is this environment considered to be fun?. These bunkers don’t even need to dodge right because how forgiving their builds are within this setting.

I’m “experienced” and I’ve been running dps glass guard in soloQ and tpvp. Kinda seems like you may be blowing this out of proportion with your claims of every player.

Short and simple people lean towards more bunker builds but at the price of killing. A smart glassy player can handle everything just fine. They do it though because it allows for greater error but still be somewhat successful.

Here’s my Guardian’s mix

I find spvp enjoyable…

Go with this in my personal opinion: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNArdRlsApaolDxbI8DVR8QlZd8i2UVAgz1/QQkDA-TZBFwACOBAOeCAl2foaZAAHCAA

That’s what I run in duels, hotjoin, soloQ, and teamQ (when they don’t make me bunker) and it works all around if you put some time into learning the balance between surviving and damaging them. You need to learn when you have an opening and take it quickly before the window closes and you jump in to your death. If you want more survival, try a celestial amulet or even soldiers if you absolutely are having trouble jumping right in with this build until you learn it.

Such egos in this thread. Kids need to simmer down some.

Bhawb.7408:

What happened to Team Lonely? Did Necitor decide to just not play Necro despite 2-0ing their opponents yesterday with him on Necro?

I am Necitor… Blu/Sireph just don’t know my account name apparently just my character name haha.

While everyone is flaming GF, keep in mind this – what’s the point of playing another set when you get the same prize regardless of win/loss? People live in different time zones so why sit around for hours waiting for the 3rd/4th place game that ultimately doesn’t earn you anything? Ultimately, it probably came down to that fact and that people have lives outside this game. Waiting/playing for hours this weekend for matches gets old so why not end it earlier and enjoy whats left of the weekend.

runeblade.7514:

Chaotic.9742:

Easy to master??? Not quite sure that is a valid statement about ele (at least when it comes to pvp). I mean, maybe vs three average players you can 1v3 but one good let alone 2 good players will take you down easy.

I haven’t played Elementalist for a very very very very very long time.

Yet, I can still take down 3 players on my very first fight. In other words, I am a below average player fighting 3 average player.

Ok that’s fine. But to make the claim that it’s “easy to master” is far from truth and a very broad statement given the context. I just don’t want ppl seeing this and qq’ing for nerfs and everything since it finally has a spot in tpvp which I feel is pretty balanced. Not obscenely strong at something but not nonexistent like they used to be.

Lux.7169:

BLUna.7928:

NA Brackets Finalized

Is this it: http://mp.challonge.com/ToLNA ?

My question is that based on your EU seeding and NA seeding all of 8 you chose have 1 team in different bracket groups except for 1.

On the NA side bracket group E-H has two of your top 8 hand-picked teams seeded in the same group. Whereas bracket-group AC-AF have none of the seeded teams of the top 8.

My point being, any team in the E-H cluster has a much harder time getting into the top 8 than a team in the AC-AF cluster. Was this intentional? It seems odd that you’d only stack that one bracket group with more than one top-pick.

AC-AF has a 6 seed…so idk if this was changed since when you saw or maybe you overlooked it?

Neko.9021:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

Tupi.2967:

That Elementalist never died! NERF

That’s only because elementalists tend to be better players since they’ve had to deal with being the underdog and still deal with complicated mechanics and rotations. All that a necro, warrior or thief ever does 80% of the time is auto attack and dodge…. or run away.

Lol. The Celestial Cantrip Bunker Ele that people have been running is indeed quite faceroll and easy to play. There’s honestly no more skill to playing it than any other average build.

Easy to play? Yea vs bads maybe. High caliber play requires a lot more thought and skill. Try to faceroll ele vs a good team and I guarantee you won’t have a fun time.

Easy to master??? Not quite sure that is a valid statement about ele (at least when it comes to pvp). I mean, maybe vs three average players you can 1v3 but one good let alone 2 good players will take you down easy.

Sorry to say but working as intended… I’m pretty sure one game doesn’t earn the dishonorable buff either unless I’m mistaken.

Go with something like this and you’ll never look back (assuming you put the time into learning rotations and practicing):
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhcM6c24wyBd0APAC5fv2JKQ5qJfC-TJxHwADeAAa2fAwJAoYZAA

Note, you can sub out mistform for armor of earth, I just run it most of the time for mist stomps/rezzing.

Just keep in mind the classes/builds listed may have fallen out of meta. This should get a touch up before sticky consideration since the new patch shook a lot of this up (namely the absence of ele in the post).

Stop it with these threads/ posts already. You’re a delicate little flower? Toughen up. The internet isn’t always puppies, rainbows, and unicorns. They have this cool feature called block for people who are meanies to you. Use it and get on with it. Or grow some thicker skin. If us pvp players went into dungeons we get kicked when we aren’t up to quality of the groups opinion most of the time. God forbid we come in with a hated class or build (ranger, “unoptimal” weapon set, etc). It’s a game with tons of people. Ignore the jerks and move on with your life.
/thread…

Terrahero.9358:

Chaotic.9742:

While it sucks that you died, I’m assuming this thief is a tissue and would die quite easily as well.

This is actually a wrong assumption.

Thieves can build incredibly glassy, go all out damage and zero defensive. But thanks to Stealth, Blinds, Evades and Teleports they will still actually be one of the hardest to kill.

I never undestood why Arenanet descided to put the burst on an Stealth skill. Rather then making it an opener. Say, give cripple, stack vulnerability, something to give you an edge as you start the fight.
Not taking down half or more of someones health.

Sorry but I still stand by what I said. If he can hit those numbers he’s likely running might on signets or has a buddy buffing him those might stacks so his build is literally hit you or he’s screwed. Whatever the class may be, it has options to counter his burst and put him on the defensive.

Try celestial d/d 0/10/0/30/30 runes of strength and energy/battle sigils. Triple can trips with signet of restoration. Absolutely devastating in good hands.

Pyriall.5027:

Chaotic.9742:

@pyriall
No I don’t have videos as my i5 can barely handle the game let alone recording. And as I said vs him he definitely had the upper hand as I’m getting back into ele but I did win some of em. It was probably winning about 3-4/10. If you know of any low requirement (free) video capture programs PM me n I can see if they work – assuming this was serious. Can’t tell if sarcasm haha.

@fortus
I sure as heck don’t fall into that “self proclaimed pro” category if you even knew me haha. I’m pretty humble and just play to get good and enjoy the game. Sure I think I’m decent/above average, but I don’t think I’m “pro” especially when it comes to ele since I play bunker guard as my main. And I’m not saying you don’t know your class or anything either. You said it’s a toxic skill, I don’t think it is for the reasons I gave as ways to counter the burst/deal with it. And if you can handle thieves too that’s great, it just sounds like map awareness of seeing that thief come +1 your fight and gib you then. Not sure why people post rage threads then rage at constructive criticism…

Wasn’t sarcasm. I really want to see how you play against thieves.

Alright, I’ll see what I can manage when I’m done with classes for the day.

Yep, that happens to be what I’m running except I’m using travelers since I like to move faster and I put on force instead of energy for bigger numbers. Given a good team it’s completely viable in tpvp as well.

@pyriall
No I don’t have videos as my i5 can barely handle the game let alone recording. And as I said vs him he definitely had the upper hand as I’m getting back into ele but I did win some of em. It was probably winning about 3-4/10. If you know of any low requirement (free) video capture programs PM me n I can see if they work – assuming this was serious. Can’t tell if sarcasm haha.

@fortus
I sure as heck don’t fall into that “self proclaimed pro” category if you even knew me haha. I’m pretty humble and just play to get good and enjoy the game. Sure I think I’m decent/above average, but I don’t think I’m “pro” especially when it comes to ele since I play bunker guard as my main. And I’m not saying you don’t know your class or anything either. You said it’s a toxic skill, I don’t think it is for the reasons I gave as ways to counter the burst/deal with it. And if you can handle thieves too that’s great, it just sounds like map awareness of seeing that thief come +1 your fight and gib you then. Not sure why people post rage threads then rage at constructive criticism…

No offense OP but I’ve been running ele and destroying thieves (except the good ones it’s about 50/50 unless they are like Caed level good which makes it closer to 40/60) so I honestly do think it’s a l2p here. I run d/d and if you know the attacks coming dodge (count seconds in stealth to time it), shocking aura, earth 4, etc. heck, I can eat the backstab then swap to water and top myself off. This is likely a gimmick thief build with might stacking and all you need to do is dodge it then drop him in seconds. Working as intended IMO…

Your build/class? Vulnerability stacked on you? Might stacks on thief? Thief build? While it sucks that you died, I’m assuming this thief is a tissue and would die quite easily as well. This was probably just a rare perfect situation for the thief. As far as counter play – it does exist. Map awareness, blind, block, invulnerability, protection, etc.

Rezz.8019:

fishball.7204:

Why don’t you guys just seed the teams like GF, Ngi etc and ensure they don’t fight each other in prelims until the top 16 or w/e.

Then you can have prelims where everyone gets a chance.

Why would they not fight each other? Who is to say that GF or Ngi are better than SW or June? I doubt they are. In fact, it would be most fair if they would fight each other as early in the tournament as possible instead of easily winning against all the newbies and get to finals easily. Why would they have a special treatment?

It’s like march madness. Teams are given a seeding based on their perceived rank/skill/etc. The (few) known pvp teams that have already proven they have skill should have a higher seed over unknown players. This way known pvp teams will start off facing pve/wvw people and if they upset them – that’d be an entertaining match. Plus being the “underdog” takes away some pressure to perform for the lower seeds. It’s not fair for top pvp teams to play each other right at the start because that means some possibly “lower” skilled players will coast on to prizes when in reality it was just a lucky randomized bracket. Idk how to determine rankings other than player comments or past knowledge of players/teams so that’s to be decided.

Ban the top pvp teams from a tournament has been a long time coming for them and something to legitimize the time they’ve invested in pvp?? Good joke…

“All I know is, is that i’m a noob, playing a supposedly hard class, getting destroyed in pvp.” —- that right there is why you find it frustrating and think the games crap. You already identified the problem so learn the class better, proper builds, tactics, etc rather than post useless rage threads. If you’d rather not put effort into learning ele, reroll to something easier or quit. Simple as that…

All characters get the mail with the banker attached.

Edit: the mini, tome, etc are all one time things.

Don’t go Alienware IMO. You pay for the name more than anything. If you get computer specs that you are aiming for, go to ibuypower.com and see how much it’d cost you there. Most things you can get cheaper there especially if you catch a good deal running. It’s also very customizable so you can tweak lots of things to fit your price range. Not to mention some deals they offer will be free upgrades on a certain part.

saVdoom.2067:

Allie Murdock.8152:

Malediktus.9250:

Really? A legendary for winning a single tournament while others have to farm 100s of hours for one? Disgusting. Guess Anet only knows extremes with rewards, either almost nothing or precursors/legendaries lol.

The players who will win this tournament SURELY have spent 100s of hours perfecting their craft and strategies, without earning legendaries for it in the process.

We are tipping our hats to those that have put the time and dedication into PvP, and have earned this as a reward.

We’re not just handing them out.

Or they have 5 bads playing hambows/spirit rangers/decap engineers and pistol whip thiefs. So hard. Much Skill. Wow.

Show me a tourney where five “bads” playing those specs or any combination have won. Oh wait…there haven’t been any… Funny how that scenario never works out vs a top tier pvp team.

Long story short I’m glad for these rewards. It makes me happy to see us finally get some love and attention (whether positive or negative qq’ing) because we all know pvp is the last place to get content. For all the pve/wvw players who are upset, go ahead and sign up to play us pvp’rs. Run 5 hambows for all I care or whatever you think is the broken spec. I guarantee a top pvp team will show you it’s not about what’s the most “OP” but rather the time invested as a team and individual which will win matches.

Just because we chose not to go pve killing AI all day for hours on end doesn’t mean we don’t deserve it. We are just as entitled to a legendary as anyone. Many of us also pve/wvw from time to time but we don’t put in the countless hours farming champs. We didn’t see it necessary because for a time we did not know pve/pvp skins would be shared one day. There was no point for us to pve for a legendary when we wouldn’t even see it when we do what we bought the game for – pvp. Now they will be shared and we are at a severe disadvantage compared to the pve’rs who will be able to strut into pvp with their gear. Now that to me seems unfair that something we put a lot of effort into and time and we have nothing flashy to show for it (except finishers if you consider that comparable to legendaries which I don’t personally).

Jut let pvp have it’s day for once – it’s 10 legendaries total. Hardly going to ruin value or anything like that… If you think it’s stupid easy to obtain, feel free to enter the team pool. I look forward to seeing you there.

If you’re so worried about being known as an experienced player or to stand out maybe make a name for yourself in your respective class? Be that person who people seek out for help, be friendly, don’t troll, etc. Also rank doesn’t really mean experience/skill – same with titles. It just shows the amount of time invested in the game and people assume this is an indicator of skill (which, yes, is true for SOME) but not a true indicator.

Now I agree with some of your anger but after seeing thread after thread of things like this I’m sick of it. I’m rank 49 and while I was ticked about the sky hammer farming I said to myself would I really have wanted to be one of those people who did it? No. I was happier playing the game as intended and working on skills to help make a name for myself and find a group of like minded people to play with. Being salty over someone being a higher rank or having “cooler” gear is kind of childish. Some people play 8 hrs a day others can’t so should I be mad that I’m lower rank compared to people I believe to be lower skilled? No. After all, ranks are just a number to be farmed in all actuality – sorry to burst your bubble. There is some prestige if you get there first or something but come on, everyone can reach a rank given time regardless of low or high skill level in pvp.

These types of posts are childless and unproductive to this community and furthers the toxicity people attach to us. Stop beating the dead horse over these things. Rank doesn’t mean everything.

Sigh people take things so literally… If you eat one pistol whip retal heal it off, no biggie I don’t consider this spamming. If u pistol whip multiple times, and cry about retal damage then you deserve to die to it if you aren’t watching boons. Also boons can be stripped or corrupted. Retal isn’t that terrible – honestly it isn’t whether you want to believe it or not. It helps keep in check specs/classes that are able to mindlessly AoE your team to death or yourself if 1v1. If it wasn’t in pvp, I’d be scared to face teams with any combo of engi lobbing grenades from range, pistol whip thieves jumping in to pistol whip you to death, fresh air or zerker ele, and power necros blowing their load on you in a small time window. This meta would be much more volatile and team fights would be just roll through your dps cooldowns as fast as possible on the called target/people trying to rez a teammate with no consequences.

Retal only lasts seconds – switch target till it’s off, kite, remove the boon and proceed to do whatever you want. If they have multiple retal procs make them blow them then carry on. They will have retal downtime, sorry if this means your fight will last longer since you can’t drop everything you have without thinking first. Or just attack through it when you can heal off what you take.

Just because confusion is a condi doesn’t mean it’s not much different. It’s on the same premise of attack and you’ll kill yourself. Sure you can condi clear given your class/spec has sufficient clear and it hasn’t been covered too much. It lasts seconds (like retal) right? Just wait it out (oh, kind of like you can with retal).

All I’m trying to say is removing this mechanic will leave some classes unchecked and free to do whatever they want with little to no consequences. I think it’s pretty balanced in all honesty.

Dagins.5163:

Chaotic.9742:

Retal working as intended. Perfect counter to oblivious skill spammers. All you have to do is watch the for the boon and not kill yourself like a fool. If you die to retal, it’s your own fault.

Please define ,,skill spam".

I can heartseeker 5 times in a row, receiving 5 retailation ticks, or pistol whip only once and receive 9-27 ticks.

Both cases. Also (not saying you do) pistol whip thieves will generally mash 3 about 2-3 cycles then realize oh crap he had retal up. It’s their own fault. Sorry that pistol whip has a counter and that counter is called retal? You can cancel the pistol whip so you don’t kill yourself… It’s no different then me on my guard trying to buff might with staff – if I have confusion I’ll take massive dmg for only hitting 4 once so I cancel it lest I want to kill myself.

Retal working as intended. Perfect counter to oblivious skill spammers. All you have to do is watch the for the boon and not kill yourself like a fool. If you die to retal, it’s your own fault.

Btw, where’s your remove confusion thread? You can kill yourself with that too – surely that’s promoting passive play as well…..