Guild Wars 2

I keep kittening casting RTL with 5 second cooldown >.< it sucks lol

Hey Symbolic

I don’t know about you, but on spirit Watch…I love warhorn like a lot.

I also like it on temple, but I don’t think Necro is very good on temple so I don’t run it, but having the daze on the ball communer/carrier, having the swiftness and cripple….

I honestly think it’s awesome. Insane even

Aw I’m gonna miss this

Search and Destroy. kitten that is fun

Power necro viable

Almost 6k Axe 2

Stay tuned for a build. Workin on one right now

Wait Java Is on the PTR?

Is PZ on the PTR? Cuz Powerr posted thatch read pretty early

Who IS on the PTR. Don’t we have a right to know?

And, as an ele, it’s sad that I’m actually happy there are more nerfs coming, as this wasn’t enough.

Is there a leaderboard comin soon?

Is necro and warrior allowing people to rally yet?

Something has to give a net

D/D it hurts us but doesn’t kill us. It hurts the bunker builds.

DEVS KEEP THIS

It’s so much fun

Lol I kinda figured as much I was just being a smart kitten img src="/include/images/smilies/wink.png" />

Speaking o which can someone test when traps cooldowns are triggered?

Hooooo Powerr is testing a new build!

Quick, how many points in arcana does it take to go from 8 to 5 seconds

Wait what? /15char

Where is the leaderboard?

If matchmaking is in and good to go, an your taking QP’s, where is the leaderboard

Jumper is that sarcasm or sincere..?

Oh and Necros and Warriors still don’t rally.

At least temple got fixed

And wtf is portal….dead?!

It’s under news and announcements people

Evasive Arcana is nerfed so it’s Half the heal (prob should’ve increased timer to 15 sec too…but if the heal is that bad ill just run elemental surge)

Frost Aura…buffed? We take 10% less damage now….

Ride the lightning timer increased

I’m surprised soothing disruption or regen or….something else wasn’t fixed

I think it brings us down a bit but…not insane that’s for sure.

100nades Engi is dead, thief burst not reduced rangers nerfed (but they didn’t fix the traps thing….huh), and looks like Necros got buffed.

Interesting….

Wrong notes dude….

New map
Solo Que Implemented (question in a sec)
Ele’s minorly nerfed…?
Necro’s Buffed
100nades is dead
Frees instead of paids

But….that’s it….

We actually just wanted to talk….and find out if we get an achievement

that 2 engi meta. they so dope

….

seriously tho they play 2 engis.

We played them last week had a tonne of fun. They no talk in map chat tho it sucked….

I don’t get it.

Devs? Anyone? Why would you not wait to do this till tomorrow

This isn’t transparency this is an early Christmas present that we need the other gifts to even enjoy it.

….this is a step BACKWARDS without the info that we’re getting tomorrow. Why even say this now? Why not wait till tomorrow?

….something is missing here

I think warrior and necro should move up, necro for sure. Definitely not UP.

I’m also unsure if ele is on it’s own tier….I mean it’s strong. But is it really that much stronger?

Guardian is good where it is

Engi should get a +

Agreed, so allow me to further what I believe gw2 to be at the moment

Tier 1: On every teams, sometimes 2
Ele
Ranger
Guard

On most teams
Mesmer
Thief

Still used, but not as much or successful
Necro
Warrior
Engi

As an ele/necro, here is how I would rate it.

Based on 1v1 based, Ele, ranger and mesmer are at the top obviously. Thieves have good burst however you have to be quite good to be effective, but once you are….it’s difficult to play when the other team has a good thief. If there are two that are very good and well synchronised, well you just lose. Crazy, but true.

Warriors and Engis both have strong builds, and Necro has incredible team fight capabilities, but don’t excel at multiple aspects of the game. They are lower on the tier list, however are still good classes and IMO are close to balanced. Engis burst is a little strong, however can be easily balanced if out of hand.

So, IMO.

1) Ele
2) Ranger
3) Guardian
4) Mesmer
5) Thief
5) Engi
6) Necro
6) Warrior

And necro and warrior are definitely not weak classes. Which just goes to show…balance is really close O.o

If the burst is toned down a bit and ele sustain is brought down a bit…hopefully then anet can focus on making more builds viable without disrupting what appears to be a balanced meta!

They’ve done it on Tuesday for 2 weeks. It’s tomorrow

Allow me to explain

I don’t mean it’s AoE. However when we’re fighting together giving AoE might, we’re also stacking might. So when without the Sigil we would have like a total of say 16-18, we have 22-25 stacks because of Sigil.

And sure, it’s a 10 sec cooldown. However we’re swapping attunements constantly. Guardians swap constantly for superior energy, but other than that what class is swapping weapons every 10 seconds? Engis and eles are the main ones

Hey guys, I’m Jace Edge. I play for Amara Gaming [AG] and occasionally with Spicy Asuran [QZ]. Although many of you may not have heard of me, I assure you I’m a decent player. Not amazing at like Powerr, Vain, Zoose levels but I am good.

Lately there have been a lot of ragers about Ele’s. I get that, we’re powerful. But there are a couple things that make us powerful that a lot of you just dont talk about in the forums. You jut outright say we’re OP and you can’t deal with us.

I’m here to tell you how, and how we can be balanced to reduce the ragers while not being the next bottom feeder class.

HOW TO BEAT AN ELE

First step is take a look at your comp right now. How many of you guys are actually running Condition compositions right now. I’m gonna guess not many of you, as I see a lot of thieves and a lot of warrior. Yes burst is strong, but ele’s can heal through burst, chill you, stun you, and then burst you back.

Now what are the 4 things I hate seeing?

1) Confusion Mesmers.kitten/p>

These guys….omg. All they do is turn me into a suicide bomber. See our heal is strongest when we can cast spells. And if we’re out of water, we have no other heal. So its either spam cast to heal ourselves or cast signet…which is a pretty weak heal. You start spamming confusion on us and all I can say is….wtf im dead.

Confusion is probably our number one enemy. We hate it. More than anything. Mesmers, start using it more. (I realise you have the shatters that do such, but we just dodge shatters or Lightning flash away from it. Not all the time, granted, but I’ve practiced against Mesmers enough that I know what to expect now. I’ve seen some decent Condi mesmer builds. Try those ones)

2) Trap Rangers. sigh….

I kittening hate trap rangers. seriously. If your a good trap ranger, I can’t beat you 1v1…easily. Its hard as hell. I can, but only if i dont screw up…AT ALL. One little mess up or miss an attack or anything, balls in your court bro.

3) Corrupt Boon

If a Necro knows what the hell he’s doing, im screwed. In the middle of a team fight, even If im not the target, once I’m out of water and there is a good necro somewhere, I’m probably toast if i let my guard down.

Between fury, vigor, swiftness, might, and w/e the hell else I have on me, that necro corrupts me when I switch out of water I’m going down if I dont recover quickly. If i’m at like 33% or less, I’m just toast.

4) Condi engineers

these are a bit less common, and a little bit easier, but a good one (kitten Hiba) is gonna kill me.

ARE YOU GUYS SEEING A PATTERN HERE

Conditions. And lots of em. No i’m not talking those dinky little bleed thieves. I dodge roll in water and your 16 stack of bleed is gone.

No. I’m talking burning, confusion, bleeding, vulnerability, poison, chill, etc etc. Get these on us and fast, and watch us flop around like a fish out of water.

Second. BOON REMOVAL. Bountiful Power is our best trait. 2% more damage per boon on us. Plus we rely on our boons. My crit chance without fury sucks. Vigor is my best friend. Might? dont even get me started about this one. If i have no might on me, im not in combat. Seriously. I ALWAYS have might. Its my main source of damage. TAKE IT OFF.

So now, for ANet.

HOW SHOULD ELE’S BE BALANCED?

Well for one, reduce the amount of vigor we get from Renewing Stamina, and take it off of soothing disuption. Seriously. As bunker ele, these 2 traits give me perma vigor, and as a d/d ele its pretty kitten close. I left a team fight once with 40 seconds of vigor left. WTF.

2nd, increase RTL cooldown. Its how we are so kitten good. This trait makes me never wanna play another class. Ever. I love it. But its on a really short cooldown for what it does. 20 seconds, maybe 25. But 15 is i think a bit too short.

3rd, reduce the healing somehow. I dont mean a hard nerf. Just a little bit so we can’t go to full every 10 or so seconds. If it means reducing regen amount, or nerfing cleansing wave a little bit, or if healing power needs to be scaled a bit better.

4th, add more boon removal in the game. Right now its just mesmers and necros. Not a LOT, just a bit.

5th, Nerf Sigil of Superior Battle. Make it 2 stacks of might. 3 for switching an attunement every 10 seconds is dumb. Through a simple rotation, I have 16 stacks of might on me, 6 of which is from the sigil. If there are two eles fighting together, we have 25 stacks of might…a lot of the time. Just reduce the stacks to 2. 1 is a little to weak, 3 is i think too strong.

Hopefully you guys read all that, and hopefully ANet does too.

Thanks guys

Teams of 2, 3 don’t work in a game designed for 5 players.

A duo queue could help this so people could play with their friends, but for now I think the main thing is a solo queue.

I agree with everyone here and I hope the debs have a big meeting today

I think the key thing to take away from this anet is this:

You have private servers. They are hot joins. They’re the only thing that’s useful about them.

People want a solo queue. You don’t want I split the community. The simple solution is replace the modes you have that don’t work, not add 3 more.

Is this not a good idea guys?

I think the unranked solo queue replaces the hot joins and the ranked solo queue replaces frees, with MAYBE a team frees as well if it doesn’t split teams too much. Paids should not have a solo queue as that is for teams.

It makes perfect sense. You replace the stupid zergfest with a mode friendly to new players. You have a new free system that brings more casual players and you keep and improve the current paid system.

It just makes sense to do it this way

I’m gonna be honest, so here goes

Yes, this will split the community we understand that. However this might actually increase the amount of people showing up and allow people to meet similar players. I know most of the people I play with on a regular basis now came about meeting people in pugging. LFG for X is something that happens more and more, so people are “solo queing” are still getting matched against teams.

Solo queue needs to be implemented at the free level. It has to happen for the strength of the game and at this point most of the players see the most positives from this system. If anet sees differently that’s fine, however they need to tell us why they think having a solo queue will hurt th game, as I just don’t see it.

People love this game. Everyone who leaves says they love it. Why they leave is a matter of structure and a matter of rewards. Without either, it doesn’t matter how perfect the combat and rewards is. The game will die.

I just hope anet realizes lthis and at least talks to us about it

and to think if i got 6 more I’d be right there with you :p

Good we don’t want you anyway. If your that quick to leave then leave.

I think frees should have a solo queue. I mean they changed their tune when we asked
For the current paid system over and over.

We can hope I guess

Well I can happily say I fit into the top 30 as I made 37 QP’s on relatively small playing time.

Obviously I wouldn’t actually as some people may have jumped ahead of me on the lost, but still. Cool

Then watch streams. Seriously. That is your best option.

People the answer to all your questions is at your beck and call, and yet only me and at most 300 other people are watching them. Streams are invaluable.

Powerr’s for instance. He has previous broadcasts. Watch them. Watch how he maneuvers, then rewatch his skill bar. Seriously. It’s how I got better. You need to understand both, not just watch the fighting as he makes it look easy.

Good Mesmers are hard to beat with else’s, but if your a good ele you can beat them, else for sure a standoff with you neuting the point.

If I remember correctly Caed told me as follows:

Pop signet, Venom.
Black Powder
Heartseeker, and while in the air steal. Then backstab.

The reason you must be in air is you gain stealth when you hit/touch the ground. So steal damage, then Heartseeker damage, then stealth, then backstab

Dude your spinning in circles. Stfu.

It is difficult…if you don’t know the signs. Once you do, AND YOU DON’T RELY ON TAB, it becomes easier unless the mesmer is good at realizing when to drop target, etc.

If they and went to “target nearest player” Mesmers would lose the ability to drop target easily. So just drop it already

I don’t either but this sounds cool…

I, too, am a spy representing the lands of Chrystal desset. Upon hearing of the underground gladiator fighting grounds amidst the Forest of Niflhel, I approached Java of joining the ranks, hoping to aid in learning of their ways while also growing stronger to aid in defeating these monsters.

After joining the ranks of a group named after a delicacy that I will never be found of (Spicy Asuran) I slowly gained my strength, culminating in approaching Java with horrible news: it’s too late.

Anvil Rock! We lay siege to you! How will you defend yourself!

(Hope that works…)

….what?!

God what the hell is wrong with you people. 10% MAYBE and an AoE nerf. But a flast 20%?!

Wow I’m sorry but….that is post worthy.

No.

Excuse me?

Ok look I don’t know what crawled up your kitten but the fact your calling out me and the OP says something about you.

I’m out. Thanks op. play against you later probably. Khyras fix your attitude and before calling people scrubs maybe realize how kitten works.

A) tab targetin doesn’t work with clones out. If it did Mesmers would be hella easier to kill.

B) in team fights, if the mesmer is targeted and stealthed, targeting nearest enemy ends up with you targeting something else like an ele or guardian, people who SHOULDN’T be initial targets. Therefore, sometimes you need to kittening click. Only way it works sometimes. It sucks but you have to do it and it works when you need it to.

However, apparently my guilds and teams need to find a new ele/necro as I need to get a clue. My apologies

I’m out

Right because it NEVER targets clones or turrets right?

Right? Oh wait….

…lol what?

I’ve seen some of your posts on here let me tell you, I’m thinking your on thin ice…

Let me go through this again.

No, I’m not too shallow to learn things on my own, however if I miss something that I haven’t picked up before its nice to know I can learn it from someone else relatively easy…

And I did create a mesmer and testing it to learn to beat it….

And yes, it’s sometimes easier than having to spam tab to cycle through kitten, and sometimes it doesn’t even work! If the mesmer is running around anyway it’s easy as hell to click while your casting spells and press t. Doesn’t take long man. Sometimes it’s necessary.

Poor excuse for pvper? Turning with your keys it the only way TO do it. Strafing is for n00bz… (yes I strafe….)

Did that last line help make you feel better or something? Wasn’t constructive at all…

Hey Caed, been watching your stream and your video by manvil rock and I just have some questions hopefully you can answer so I can get better

1) When initiating fights, do you normally want to do your “combo” or start off in stealth first?

2) If you initiate a fight in stealth, do you precast backstab and then steal?

3) why fire Sigil over air?

4) when do you start to realize “I’m gonna lose this” and Gtfo?

5) when your doing team fights, what prompts you to stay in the back with short bow or burst down a target?

6) when backstabbing do you just cast it or should you always be behind?beside it?

7) If I’m starting thief, should I learn D/D first or go straight to D/P?

Thanks man and I hope you find a team soon

Question for them grouch:

Can you ask them two things about the new map.

1) is this a test to see if capture the flag can work in this game?

2) does portal work with the orbs?

And about the “rated” team v team. Will this include a leader board

Also can someone post a TL;DR of this later I’m at work and can’t see it

@Khyras As someone who tPVP’s regularly even I found some of the advice helpful so the fact that you say it’s useless is bs and please keep that to yourself. It’s not condescending at all. He said it in a civilized tone, he made great points and it IS coming from a good mesmer (I THINK we’ve played together not sure…)

And actually yes, sometimes it is easier to just click the kittener. If he moves faster than the illusions, click and ctrl t (I just use T) and your good to go. Reapply target when necessary.

Tell tale signs also include player only buffs, such as glory boost and finishers. Some buffs are also can’t be on clones

@nerva no, Mesmers don’t abuse culling in tPvp. They have one stealth that isn’t even used all the time. ALL classes are too strong 1v1. As an ele it’s my job to try to kill these things and jf he’s good I have to call for help. But if I’m equally as good and neut it, he has to call for help too and we’re at an advantage as we neuted the point. It that simple.

The best thing on Mesmers are burns and bleeds. Poison is only effective as they try to heal, but burn and bleeds are so hard to get rid of on a mesmer it’s key to get those on.

If mind wrack gets a nerf, it’ll be due to AoE damage ring reduced after first target. That’s it.

And Mesmers ain’t scrubs. It takes a lot o skill to be a good mesmer. I’m not one, however trying to learn one as I have to face a lot of these on ele lol (these and kittening trap rangers…)

Saital.4819:

chikinhok.3645:

deckard cain voice pack FTW, he actually did a GPS voice pack for Garmin, it was awesome lol

The one thing keeping me from tournaments is required premade teams, you can PUG ranked games in LOL, why not here? especially for free tournies.

but yeah the unreal tournament voice-packs i would also buy

You can solo queue if you want for free tournaments

Ya but a dedicated Solo Queue would be better. Duo Queue wouldnt work too well to start with, so just do Solo for now and it’d be fine.

Announcer voices seems cool to add to the gem store, good idea guys!

Keep the ideas flowing, I want ANEt to see this

Calae.1738:

Ride the Lightning has spoiled me. The mesmer isn’t mobile enough for me. Although you can argue that you really don’t need it with all the clones but, it’s just not my playstyle.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to play any other class when you get good with an Ele?

Seriously. Anytime I play my necro and I have to walk to points to help I’m just like “arghhh so slow…kitten that was a mark not ride the lightning >.>”

I love my Ele to bits. So good. Mesmer is too glassy for me and I cant get used to playing them

But on top of that we DID play a lot of the same ranks later last night. I’m just saying its a little fishy and seems like it is being tested…

I dunno. Based on the fact Anet hasn’t closed this…something’s up

Ok, so PVP is stepping in the right direction. 1v1 tournaments is the best thing to happen to this game so far. Decreasing it to 1 ticket was a welcome suppose when I logged on. Now, we need to change something else.

Monetization.

If we’re gonna make this an esport, then first it needs to be proven to anet that this can and will make money. To do this is rather simple. Have a PVP section for BLTC.

What would this include? Skins, Gear, Slivers, Powder, Glory boosts, weapons, cosmetic mounts like the broom stick, etc. make it so people want to spend money to get that cool stuff.

Next step, layout change. When I first played, I didn’t even know hot join existed. I jut naturally went to the tournament area as see was easier to see.

Until about 3 days ago I didn’t even know svanir and chieftain were on the map. 1 month Into playing I realized there were class dummies as well.

The last two are probably my fault, but we have no way to explore. No reason to. And it’s simple isn’t it? Make a quest! Make us explore. Have us kill 10 training dummies. Have us kill a character class. Have us kill a boss.

Next, have a label for the vendors. When we look at the map, say “Gear Vendors” on it.

Finally, take all the advice out there for pvp. Make free tournaments with the one map style solo/duo que that contributes to your matchmaking score. Also include free tournaments like now so we can test the maps in preparation for weekly/monthly. Include a matchmaking system for as many tournaments as possible.

Have the 5v5 hot joins at the top, rather than 8v8. This lets players automatically choose 5v5 since they don’t need to scroll, and gets players used to the tourney style play.

Implement a new game mode. People are getting bored. Yes I understand its on its way, I just want to include as much as possible. Capture the flag style would be sweet. Make it a quaggan flag too please

Keep the 1v1, and add the 3 map tourney style for weekly/monthly tourneys. You can only enter these If you’ve done X paids or something. Hopefully you can implement a minor matchmaking but if it makes queues too long for the good teams don’t bother.

Have better things for glory. Let us buy dyes. Let us do something. I’m not sure what else to be honest but if its something really cool you’ll have more people wanting to buy glory boosters from the gem store.

This is for you anet. I love this game. Lets make it’s place as the best mmo.

Anyone else who wants to leave suggestions post here. I want anet to read this and hopefully change comes for the better. I have faith always have

Or you buy the gems. With money. Which is what people would do to get year skins…

hm. go figure…

my mistake continue :p

…phoenix doesnt cleanse conditions anymore…

The fact that 6 tickets go in and a total of 200 gems coming out seems a little…ludacris.

It costs 60 (?) Gems to get 5 tickets right. 6 tickets are going in the pot. That means about 60 gems are going to be the total purse.

THey even SAID the prize pool was being decreased. expect something along this lines.

Use common sense…

I could see trying those. I just enjoyed the percent chance to gain health when hit, or the entire augmentation of my stats.

Ill def try those tonight tho.

Anyone else?