Guild Wars 2

Sarpan.9074:

Is the consensus that without the Counter Magic special skill this fight is unwinnable?

It can be done without it. Caud’s skill is only a knockback, so with proper positioning you can weather it easily. You’ll probably still end up taking otherwise avoidable damage from the second phase, but it’s manageable.

I really don’t understand the issue people are having with this. I wasn’t joking when I said my mother killed it without dying, and I killed it pre-nerf without dying.

Lahmia.2193:

While I’ll always love and play necro, it does kitten me off that they’re supposed to be the selfish dps class yet they have the 2nd lowest dps in the game and very little party support

The 2nd lowest DPS number is done on a assumption of every class having 25 might and 25 vuln, with 100% fury uptime.

If you parse classes with only their own native boons, necros jump way up the DPS rankings due to being able to self-stack might and vuln on top of crit enhancing traits.

Necro is the selfish DPS class. The problem is that all relevant content is group content where PS warriors exist.

Poelala.2830:

As a fresh air elementalist who frequents power necro, I’m confused as to what you’re referring to.

I’m pretty sure that he means FA the server not FA the trait. It makes more sense contextually and the WvW in his sig gives it away.

Zenith.7301:

Stupid argument. This is not a solo game, and ele self generates might and vulnerability, as does PS greatsword warrior.

Sword revenant generates 10+ might, permafury, and stacks vulnerability with sword auto and deals 30k DPS easy.

Necro self generates 25 stacks of both without needing special foods/runes and sigils, compared to inconsistent might & vuln gen on other classes. Necro also provides vamp aura, and last rites.

Necro in PvE is the most self-sufficient class in the game. That’s why the dps is low. Is it too low even considering that? Probably. But to expect necro to be anywhere near the top dps is unrealistic.

Lahmia.2193:

The lowest should be the ones that provide the most party support. As stated many times, Necros have very low party support. And yes we have benchmark dps. Necro power isn’t even listed as it is that bad.

Power necro self generates might, and self generates vuln. That’s why the DPS is lower.

Tried a 5 man in unranked, got “queue abandoned” every time. Trying 4 man now.

EDIT: 4 man unranked also gets “queue abandoned”

My mother killed it post-nerf on her condi ranger without dying once, and that was with her missing half the special action keys.

I killed it on a viper’s necro pre-nerf with only one death. (would have been 0 if shroud hadn’t bugged)

Mother aside the general consensus in my guild is that the post-nerf fight is a total joke now on any class.

My mother killed the post nerf boss without dying once. It ain’t hard, and it ain’t “elite content”

Is it just me, or is that video more of a compilation of necros getting tunneled.

Cynz.9437:

The biggest joke is that after 4 years they still didn’t bother to address no valid path bugs around/on nodes (e.g. in Foefire) but roof deemed to be broken and needing attention /tableflip

You do realize that they intentionally put NVP points around nodes on every map, as kiting options? It’s not a bug.
Why do you think they put in those NVP pillboxes around Coliseum’s mid point? It’s standard design.

Vornollo.5182:

I have never had any camera issues on the mid point, even when using the torches/sconces to kite on… To be fair, I can also not remember ever seeing anyone make any sort of remark about camera issues on Khylo’s mid point.

I’ve been killed a dozen times over by the roof. The most recent being the day before the patch where the camera clipped through a rafter when I was trying to 1v1 a warrior. I was shieldbash combo’ed before I could fix the camera.

It’s simply one of those things that you deal with, I reckon. Maybe it’s due to a difference in camera setting (collision etc.), but that’s up to the player to fix and should not ever warrant a ridiculous dumbing down of a map accompanied by indirect nerfs to mobility classes/buffs to (ranged) bunker players.

It’s completely unreasonable design to have a functionality that works consistently in every part of the game, but then make it unreliable in one specific section of one specific map.

Vornollo.5182:

Roof issue got fixed by a treb shot,

The broken roof causes more camera issues than the unbroken roof. The issue was always the rafters, and breaking the roof left the center rafters + bits of raggled debris. than play havoc with the camera.

Cynz.9437:

Crinn.7864:

Ithilwen.1529:

That’s more-or-less the point I was trying to make. I’m calling it a “terrain nerf” to Mesmer and Thief.

Given that Mesmer and thieves had a absurd advantage on old Kyhlo, I’d say the change was justified.

Why should roamers that can’t hold points not have any mobility advantage? Give a one good reason.

They already have a mobility advantage. Giving a mobility advantage to the classes that already have the highest mobility in the game is silly.

Sismis.5390:

Then about the 18 times win,yes no prob but still MM did not provide equal skilled people on my team to have a decent match.Was a snowball match ended up with people rage in team and going afk.

Matches can snowball even at relativity equal skill. Look at the ESL tournaments where 200+ point deficits are common.

AFK’ers, and rage quitters have nothing to do with the matchmaker. Matchmaker cannot control how a player behaves.

Leader boards of NA – EU are separate but MM paired players from EU with NA.Cause i saw that way while friend played ( EU ) vs Helseth ( NA ) and his toxic behavior ingame.

Helseth is a EU player not a NA player.

So by your perspective players have to be given matches.No matter rank or skill just that nobody waits…LOL…

There are not enough concurrently queuing legendary players for the MM to make legendary only matches. They would have a infinite queue.

The matchmaker has to give matches. Infinite queue time is not a design option.

About the players who do not use any range protection.Sorry to break it to you those where even platinum ranked and even legendary.

Perhaps their build didn’t have it. Perhaps it was on cooldown. Perhaps they where saving it, anticipating a greater need for it.

I’m sick and tired of players hyper focusing on some perceived mistake of a fellow pug and using that to declare said pugs bad/worthless/pve’er. You don’t know what they see on their screen, and moreover you are probably ignoring all of your mistakes.

You have false image that you purchased the game you entitled MM should provide matches.And by seeing you have perception even you purchased game and your acc ingame stuff is your property.Sorry to break you bubble but all that you think you own is property of Arena net.They can terminate accs anytime for violation of user agreement.

I never said I owned anything. I said that reasonable queue times for all players is a paramount concern. Never getting matches is infinitely worse than mildy unbalanced ones.

maddoctor.2738:

If they bundle 4 LS episodes in one big package and market it as an expansion how much different is it from Heart of Thorns in terms of content? Heart of Thorns was considered bad by many players for the price tag, what if we got Heart of Thorns for free? Would people still call it a failure?

HoT was more than just map zones. It brought Masteries. It brought gliding. It brought new traitlines and skills. It brought raids. It brought new gear types and legendries.

HoT massively changed the game. LS is not even on the same level.

Was the response underwhelming because those “digital expansions” lacked content or because of the term they used? There are expansions and there EXPANSIONS.

They where underwhelming because they where not real expacs, and everyone knew it. Gaming sites gave those digi expacs no more coverage than any other random content patch. Doing the same with LS would net the same result.

As far as I can tell they work correctly. What problems are you having with them?

dmndbcK.3425:

Those jumps were obnoxiously easy to make and the port spots were even easier.

The problem was that one side’s JP could be completed faster with much less risk of failing.

It was changed to balance the sides.

Ithilwen.1529:

That’s more-or-less the point I was trying to make. I’m calling it a “terrain nerf” to Mesmer and Thief.

Given that Mesmer and thieves had a absurd advantage on old Kyhlo, I’d say the change was justified.

Sismis.5390:

No Sorry Can’t agree with you we had previous even this season example that MM algorithms cant work.Why cause you have people who get ingame Carried or lucky to be in a team that gets them win.Then they get higher rating then they are.Just as example like few persons i know who got around this season 1600+ and down.While in reality their rating should be lower but hey thx to win its different story.You get a number assigned its all about numbers.Then you got RNG in place if you get lucky.

So you are saying the algorithm doesn’t work because it doesn’t align with your perceptions of people skill? Humans are not capable of accurately assessing skill.

Played this season on friends acc from personal taste player skill quality THIS season was poor compared to season 4 where i played over 550 matches. Season 4 was enjoying it but every time in season 4 i hit 13-18 straight wins in row i got as solo paired against Adjured 3 times in row with randoms and lost.What i found very disappointing then players in team toxicity and witch hunt.While found personally very regretting that always players put blame on team and start witch hunt.

If you are winning 18 times in a row then yes you should be getting matches against high level players. The entire point of a skill ranking system is to put you against better and better opponents until you reach the level where your opponents are better.

This last Season 5 was a joke was watching most of time saw that few things that i disliked.
1.Removal of region restriction due to lack of players.

What? EU and NA are still separate.

2.After a while when players are not in same skill range MM paired top ranked leg players with mid and low ranked just to provide matches.

Obviously that is not ideal, but it’s necessary.

Players have to be given matches, Players bought this game to play it, not sit in queue. The game has to give players matches within a reasonable timeframe. This is a constraint that cannot be ignored.

3.Player quality very poor,players not swapping skills out or classes to counterplay. Majority did not even use skill that prevent dmg from range ( arrows ) attack.

And those bad players have a nice comfy spot in bronze.

4.We still have no ingame VOIP but with the current system of duo and solo quene
toxicity is high cause it.
5.AFK – Match-manipulators who even threw games for gold was higher then previous seasons.

These two points have absolutely nothing to do with the matchmaking algorithm at all. The matchmaker is for matchmaking not policing player behavior.

Sismis.5390:

Going to repeat my self from last year.Even if the population is low their biggest mistake is using a automated written program to scrap people for match.There will be never equal teams its just RNG. They even removed Region lock on MM system leting EU and USA and other region players pair up together and vs each other!Only for teh sake to provide a match.No one push button program or script will ever work!The only system that worked without flaw is to make website like this : http://iccup.com/en/ or the ESL webpage. And let players challenge between them self and build a proper pvp scene. And Anet should stop to meddle in PVP and push Esports what is not their job! Should be like in GW1 when they used to update change skills up on weekly basis! And focus on developing a proper Skill set. And not the other way around see where we ended up cause it.

Algorithms are necessary. There are too many players to be using anything less than a automated system.

Moreover algorithms do work. Matchmaking isn’t witchcraft, there has been tons of work and discussion done on it, by both the gaming industry and academia. Glicko2 has it’s flaws and it’s not the optimal algorithm, but it works well.

Players have this weird idea that good matchmaking means that every match is 500-490. The problem is that even among perfectly equal teams this doesn’t happen consistently. Human performance is not deterministic. Conquest is a sensitive gamemode and something a simple as a single lost 1v1 can easily snowball a match.

maddoctor.2738:

I meant to release them for free just like other LS episodes but Instead of one episode, bundle up 4 of them and call it an “expansion” to reach the headlines of news sites and gaming forums.

SW:TOR (EA Bioware) experimented with that during that game’s 2.x patch cycle. They called them “digital expansions.” The term was dropped after underwhelming response to the first two “digital expacs”

DuncanSteele.4801:

Even in the real world, there are landmarks, maps, GPS, locals, something to help you along the way. In HoT the map is always above or below you and there is no friggin way to tell. Landmarks are covered by acres of forest.

Navigation is easy in the real world because humans have spent centuries building infrastructure to make it easy.

In the real world if you leave civilization and go out into a deep forest you will find that navigation becomes much more difficult than HoT is. Maguuma is a untamed jungle. There are no roads, there are no signposts.

While intuitiveness of level design is a interesting discussion, bringing realism arguments into it is not a productive argument.

Why are you doing ranked in the offseason? Unranked has always had better offseason matchmaking than ranked, because very few people do ranked in the offseason.

I always thought it was a general understanding that everyone does unranked in offseason.

Spears are not polearms. (although some polearms may also double as a spear)

That seraph’s weapon looks more like a Halberd than a spear anyways. Halberd would make more sense with how he is using it too. You don’t chop with a spear, that ain’t how spears work.

What? Warriors, and DH haven’t been buffed in forever. Thieves haven’t been touched in ages.

maddoctor.2738:

A bundle of multiple LS releases can also be marketed as an expansion.

No they can’t. A bundle would get as good of a reception as EA’s season passes do. Which is to say scathing criticism from every quarter.

People aren’t stupid, playing them for stupid will always blow up in your face.

Healix.5819:

Expansions are really the only thing that’ll bring people in. People simply don’t care about some patch an MMO gets, whereas expansions are much more visible.

This.

Regular patches only help with retention. Unfortunately 100% retention rate never happens, which means games invariably have to start appealing to new players. And to do that a game needs something that will get headlines. Expansions bring headlines. Expansions bring attention. Expansions bring players.

Dariya.9380:

Honestly, I never saw the Khylo roof as a visibility problem or as a camera issue. If anything, it removed advantages to classes with porting abilities. I’d like to see some side point camera/layout rework on Skyhammer, because it’s still horrible – not sure who’s idea it was it to make ranked.

It definitely was a camera issue once the roof was destroyed. I had a case just the other week where the camera bugged through a rafter right when a warrior went for his headbutt combo, resulting in my death during the 0.5sec I couldn’t see.

I’ll go back through some of my recordings see if I can find a good example of the camera issue.

Did it on a viper’s necro. Died once due to mismanagement of abilities.

I did find the jade constructs excessive. Otherwise the fight seemed monotonous and fairly easy. Wish it was shorter though.

The roof changes where necessary. The camera obstructions from the broken roof caused way too many avoidable downs.

The JP change is also good, the side favoritism was real on the old ones.

The teleport obstruction on the new kyhlo needs to be standardized though.

Disappointed that it was a comic legendary for the least used weapon. I was hoping for a serious themed scepter.

OriOri.8724:

so that you can have 3 or 4 fingers all pressing the keys for those skills at the exact same time, while still moving.

Although it does depend on which keys are being pressed. Some 3-4 key combinations can’t be done, because of weird hardware shenanigans.

https://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/AntiGhostingExplained.aspx

Zenith.7301

Revenant defenses are: damage absorb heal from glint, 4 second shield block that makes you immobile (aka you die because you are separated from your melee train).

No Revenant defenses are:
Sw/Sh: #3 evade, #5 healing block, #4 prot
Staff: #3 block+blind, #5 evade, #4 heal + cleanse
Hammer: #3 evade, #4 projectile destruct

Glint: infuse light, prot access
Mallyx: Stunbreak, on demand resistance
Shiro: Evades

Additional passive defensives available in traitlines.

Rangerdeity.5847:

shouldnt be that big of a deal if i want to place it on a wall i should be allowed to do so.

The problem with this is that if the player can place the wurm regardless of pathing, then the player cannot know if his teleport will work until he tries to use it.

This would lead to a lot of deaths from necros trying to use the wurm to escape only to belatedly discover that they can’t teleport.

Sky.7610:

Capitalism is enriching oneself by enriching others first.

No Capitalism is the freedom to enrich yourself. Enriching others is not a requirement, and if you knew your world history, you’d know that self-enrichment often involves preventing the enrichment of others.

I actually favor capitalism as a economic model, but I don’t delude myself about what happens when people start “winning” at capitalism.

yanniell.1236:

Until everybody starts at 600 bronze and climb to the top, the leaderboards will mean absolute nothing. 40-1 is the perfect exemple of how placements matches ruined the principle of a fair competition to the top.

Start rating is arbitrary though. Lowering it to 600 will just mean that everyone’s rating is lower that what it would have been.

The value of a given rating is relative. The start point is meaningless.

Anchoku.8142:

If not for shroud and shouts, even power builds would have a hard time with Reaper.

BB does wonders for power necro’s LF generation, and chill is a excellent anti-kite. Reaper would be used in power builds regardless of shroud. Condi would never take it.

I’m just salty that in this meta condi necro’s viability is exclusively penned on scepter auto corrupt. The cracks in condi necro have been showing since the deathly chill nerf, and they are getting worse and worse with every patch.

Tongku.5326:

I feel like the reaper shroud falls very short in condi builds. Its great for power builds but kinda sucks with condi. I think it was designed back when chill was doing a ton of damage and its condi components were balanced with that in mind, but then chill damage got nerfed a huge amount, while the shroud application of it remained the same.

So 1st and foremost, I would give reaper shroud, or any shroud, equal footing regardless if the player runs power or condi builds, perhaps via traits, or shroud skills themselves.

The entire reaper traitline was never designed with condi in mind. cNecro just takes reaper because the shroud is better (core shroud is a joke) and shouts. If it wasn’t for reaper’s shroud and shouts no condi necro would ever touch the spec.

Cynz.9437:

Meanwhile gw2 dev team balances classes around no class stacking but allows class stacking in pvp

There is no evidence that Anet balances anymore around ESL than they do around anything else.

Player’s came up with that myth because they are salty over not having the game balanced to their personal tastes, so they invent wild conspiracy theories instead.

reikken.4961:

Justine.6351:

shortening its duration so 100% uptime requires landing more than 1 burst every lol15seconds.

I like this solution.

That would nerf core warrior really hard, while doing little to Berserker. The entire reason AH is 15sec is so that both Core and Berserker can maintain 100% uptime.

If AH’s duration is cut to where berserker no longer has 100% uptime, then Core Warrior won’t be able to maintain any uptime at all.

Bruno.3812:

Crinn.7864:

Trenchcoats make a lot of sense. They are practical garments that protect the wearer from weather exposure.

The only reason we don’t use trenchcoats today is because of modern synthetic materials and modern sewing equipment allowing for more form fitting outdoor attire.

The reason gw1 had form fitting, was because the gw1 engine couldn’t handle cloth simulation well.

Try moving quietly through the woods wearing an loose ankle length coat or a long flowing cape attached to your posterior parts. Let’s see if they don’t get hung up on every thorn and bush in your path. There’s a reason why soldiers and hunters don’t wear bulky outfits with long lengths of hanging cloth while moving across the landscape.

Pre cold war soldiers would wear trenches when traveling in foul/cold weather. (assuming they where properly equipped)

Also proper trenchcoats are heavy treated fabric, they should not get caught on shrubs.

Skullgrinder always seems to hit earlier than it’s animation would imply.

Trenchcoats make a lot of sense. They are practical garments that protect the wearer from weather exposure.

The only reason we don’t use trenchcoats today is because of modern synthetic materials and modern sewing equipment allowing for more form fitting outdoor attire.

The reason gw1 had form fitting, was because the gw1 engine couldn’t handle cloth simulation well.

Luciferior.4802:

1 pip at a time the progress while slow is enough to get you there over the season ofc the dedication to such laziness is beyond imagination

What’s the point of “afking” a match only to sit at the keyboard telling everyone on your team why you are “afk.”

If somebody is telling you why they are “afk” they aren’t there to afk, they are there to troll. They are telling you they are there for rewards to get a emotional rise out of you.

If people say they are afk’ing for ascended I’m pretty sure they are lying, You don’t get winning pips for losing and you don’t get top stats pips for being afk. Basic math says that tryharding will get ascended gear significantly faster than afk’ing.

The “I’m afk’ing for ascended” people sound like trolls playing on stereotypes.

Ajax of Telamona.6974:

Plz explain me how is this fair ? I tired to play my percentage is better and others are higher than me with worst percentage and amount of wins

its not about how much you win. It’s about who you win against. Winning less against high ranked players will get you better rating than winning lots against low ranked players

Dirame.8521:

Experience has proven my choices right so, it’s not even a question.

That’s a cop out answer.

Rage sure has a 30s cooldown but when it procs….. it’s definitely worth it #L’oreal.

Rage is uncontrollable, if it was deterministic it would be good, but it’s not.

Ithilwen.1529:

80 was the stated number for end of season

Gaile Gray.6029:

The current minimum is 40 games.

Dirame.8521:

…. TERRORMANCER!

Yea, it works. And I got to Legend with it.

Core Necro might need a buff… who knows. But what I do know is, I can still kick kitten with it and so can you, if you play smart and know your limits.
In any case, the guide is in the link below and the build as well. I go through, the skills, traits, and fights with 3 prominent classes in the solo q meta. Dragonhunter, Mesmer and Warrior.

GUIDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKjLe2dukPE

I ran a nearly identical during offseason. Was definitely fun.

I disagree with your rune choice. The only advantage sunless has over nightmare is the 6pc. But with 180sec elite that isn’t much of a trade. The transfer on Nightmare has good synergy with plague’s self-bleed, and is even better if you have other condi on you.
Outside of elite usage nightmare is just plain better.

I think you are overvaluing sigil of rage too.

Dawnbreaker.6215:

It’s ok to go to dungeons or fractals with builds and classes that are what you enjoy playing first, and “optimal” second.

If those builds get your party killed it’s not ok.

Please remember that your rights end where someone’s else’s begins. Please don’t be a kitten.

Ithilwen.1529:

This has not been completed. The current leader board shows a player in the #4 slot with only 39 games.

Forfeits (losses where a teammate not in your party DCs) count towards your #game played despite not incrementing your loss count.

He has played 40 games but only 39 of them are effecting his rating.