Please do something to address this lag or favoritism problem whereby a player has already finished the stomp without interruption but the opposing downed player is still alive and well.
well dont stomp with quickness if its not gonna last the whole duraiton lmao
as a guardian you should put up aegis + prot (stab if youre traited for it) and then sanctuary immediately. in some situations the sanctuary will completely destroy the lich’s attacks and he will just drop out of it since he isnt doing any dmg for 8 seconds. also, your shield bubble will block lich attacks which grants your team another 4 seconds with a much larger radius of projectile destruction.
It is possible that the class that you want, or could be very good at playing, is not in this game. I’ve had that happen before.
How do you like to play? Are you more comfortable with melee or range?
Two things: there will always be counters, no matter what class you play. And two, solo roaming you want to be able to vanish/run. The key is being able to get away. That’s why people are saying thief/Mesmer/warrior.
Small group is more forgiving.
And are you using PVT gear? Also, a one-size-fits-all set of gear may not be the correct choice for you. You may need to mix/match different gear sets to get the overall stats that work best with the build you’ve chosen, assuming it is not a cookie cutter spec.
It’s true, I’m really missing Dervish from GW1. I thought Guardian would be nice since I mained Paladin in WoW, but I can’t seem to get it to work right. Even with lots of condi cleanse, I can’t seem to get rid of them fast enough. Right now on Guard I have a Soldier/Zerk/Knight hybrid with a 0/6/6/2/0 Meditation build (all Meditations heal me, one cleanses a condition, and another cleanses all conditions and turns them into boons). On it, I run Sword+Torch/Scepter+Focus. Sword and Torch do amazing damage, but I can’t stay within range to use anything but Torch 5. Scepter and Focus is more ranged defensive, and deal insignificant damage outside of Scepter 2, which is avoided by not even trying.
As far as my playstyle, I like something with melee and ranged options (but like I said, I can’t seem to land melee hits and ranged does subpar damage). I’d be entirely okay with either one, though, as long as those two issues were not an issue (while maintaining a bit of bulk). While I don’t typically mind attrition battles, I don’t have much time vs a player because I usually end up getting ganked by an enemy zerg (which I’d prefer to defeat them or force them to flee rather then just run away myself, escape builds are more than easy to make, but I really like taking camps and gunning down other roamers). Ranged with damage seems like a more viable option for vs player, but vs camp, you can’t beat melee’s cleave without major AoE.
As an added note, I would really, really like to not play Warrior or Thief, as well as anything that can’t get a 25% movement boost without ruining the build (Rune of Speed/the Traveler is fine as long as another rune is not absolutely necessary). On the flip side, I enjoy Guardian, Necro, Ranger, and Engineer the most, which are the classes I’ve tried so hard to make work. But of course, I can’t find a good balance of offense/defense on any except Guardian, and for that there’s the problem melee range.
run condi engi. its super easy to play and wins against most players.
bumping. got skyham after first soloq in a couple weeks, went against 3 engis and a mesmer and decided im done with soloq for another couple weeks. why isnt this removed yet?
Actually dodge heals scale extremely well with healing power, almost a 1:1 ratio. With that you wanna maximize your dodges to heal up. That means vigor and energy sigils are really important
Except in PvP where it’s been nerfed by 50%
O_O
still very strong since overall dmg taken is lower in spvp
People keep comming up with buzz words “condition meta”“Gank meta”“Might meta”.
Really? Going to ignore the obvious one? Its a Guardian/Warrior meta and it has been for over a year now. Not just in spvp, but also in WvW and PvE.
These two professions are so ludicrously overpopulated and overly represented in every part of the game, it boggles my mind that no one at arenanet has even taken any steps about this.
Warriors were more then twice the representation of Mesmers, or Engineers, or Rangers. Same for Guardians who were even more prevalent with an average of more then 1 guardian per team.
And then ofcourse the vast majority of an already overly abundant Warrior population plays Hambow.
Out of all the possible professions and builds you could imagine and fit in a team, Hambow was almost guarenteed to be one of them.
Statistics dont lie, these two professions fill an important role that is seemingly vital, but no other profession can compete them for. And that needs to change, one way or another.
lol if youre running 2 guardians on the same team you’re doing it wrong
it’s not really guardians that are OP, they’re just necessary for the boons and some healing as well as bunkering ability
warriors are the thing that’s crazy… when my team is running without a warrior our chance of winning is cut by nearly 50%, compared to when he is with us. maybe he just carries.
Without the variable of a player: Very strong with stealth, but very weak without stealth.
With stealth + the traits of SA, thieves have a good “deffense” against dmg and the trait give you strong heals and condiremove, but without stealth your life will be very hard, because you must use then the acrobatic traitline and these traits (without feline grace) are 3 times weaker or more.
That the pvp – and every other game mode – are so unblanced, comes from the non-exist splitting between the 3 game modes and that they release the balance updates every few months and not 1 or 2 per weeks.
I always laugh when people like this who don’t know what theyre talking about think they do know.
its like no one runs points in firearms or takes the elixir B passive trait with 30s of fury hurrrrrr
Hurr Durr, because putting points into firearms or taking elixir B doesn’t count as crit chance/precision at all!
Oh no wait, it does. Running points into the firearms traitline is literally running points into precision. I don’t know what you’re thinking here. Good grief.
- Condition builds only take 2 offensive stats in accout to be strong where as power builds are affected by 4 stats (power, precision, ferocity, enemy toughness). This gives condition speccs a huge advantage as they can build more defensively why still dealing high damage.
I like how people that complain about conditions always pretend that condition duration is only a one way advantage for conditions and ignore the fact that duration can not only just be increased but decreased as well. Also, conditions have a disadvantage over power builds in that you can mitigate some or most of the damage AFTER getting hit by it. And I love that people pretend that precision is NEVER a factor in condition builds when there are condition builds/traits/runes/sigils that rely on critical chance (i.e. Incendiary Powder).
Yeah, try running an IP build with no precision at all, let’s see how far that miniscule base crit chance rate will get you burning. Way to be dishonest, people.
its like no one runs points in firearms or takes the elixir B passive trait with 30s of fury hurrrrrr
‘Stealing’ the Svanir kill as a condimancer (while it was taking a beating from 2 opposing team players) at the very end of an extremely even match (opp team was about 10 pts ahead), which won us the game.
Every time I’m forced to play this map I hate you a bit more ANET!
Then don’t play it. When ever your queue pops it tells you what map you are going in. If you see sky hammer just leave and queue up again. If enough people start doing this their collected data will show that this map isn’t what people want and then they might remove it.
For kitten’s sake why everytime community finds something good, that’s working well andeeffectively, a million people come hoarding to the forums to cry for a nerf…
Stop it. Everyone, stop trying to change the game over nonesense….
mostly because it put warriors over the top (again) despite more nerfs to them last patch
to the guy below me:
that’s funny coming from the guy who defends his claim by saying he got destroyed by a decent team while he was running triple warrior. it’s like you didn’t even watch ToL. oh and I have to admit the link in your signature is hilarious. maybe you should get good at the game before you just say Im wrong when clearly I know more of the balance of this game than you do.
Duo q’ing in teamq and beating a top 100 ranked team 500-500 by player score was amazing.
Oh and once on khylo we were down by a little, maybe 350-400, and we lost on mid. So I call out to my team that we need to play side points as they had too many kiting classes to win on clocktower. We get the decap the full cap on far before we engage in a 4v4 there, and I was about to go down as a bunker guard when the score was around 450-440 in our favor. Then, my power goes out.
2 minutes later i receive hate texts from my team… 10 minutes later I login and hear the story.
We pulled of on far despite my disconnection, keeping the point neuted momentarily before a team fight at mid commenced. We were up by 4 points when we neuted mid. But our engi was down. The score was 499-495, and they got the stomp. We lost 500-499 because of my power out.
I’m not bashing in anyway, but I believe it’s a waste of time really. In my opinion you get better based on how you play, and just that… Playing. Something like some big person is telling you isn’t going to help you anymore than what someone on YouTube or in-game hasn’t already told you. Rank, and leaderboard rank really doesn’t prove much as far as how you are in game. A rank 10 could have more pvp insight than a rank 60. I say this because all you have to do to get ranks is just play, the rank 60 has played more hot joins than that of a rank 10, but that rank 10 may have better tactics than that of a rank 60. Highly unusual, but plausible. Also, for someone who is in the top 100, they may have just scored a good team with an irl friend, so in return they may be teaching something wrong or bad to someone who is paying in game cash to become better.
Another thing I believe strongly in is that you need to practice with a team in a private room and or tpvp in order to get your own tactics to become the best, and not get tactics based on what other people tell you.
This is just my Two cents, if you don’t agree with them… Take it with a grain of salt
I have a pretty good team, top 125 and sometimes top 100 depending on how much we yoloq. But I’d gladly pay some gold for strategies top teams have in certain situations where we’re stumped and can’t figure out what to do. We’ve only played tpvp for a month so were still new and we learned very quickly by asking nice folks like Chaplan Acandis and some other guys who I’ve forgotten.
so ya I’m interested in paying for some more sofiaticated tips
Same here Jasher I found the node fights in NA really interesting and constant nail biter watching for who made the 1st mistake in the fights been Apex and kpz. It was fun seeing NA get the shake down it needed to move the meta forward. Hopefully more teams start popping up and interest rises to take down those at the top.
I just wish that players would complain less and try harder.
Oh and congratulations Team!
kpx actually completely outplayed them in terms of rotations if you didnt notice, as did lonely
people don’t realize just how strong the double warrior is.
Don’t forget that APeX beat 55HP 2-1 in a scrimm (on NA servers), including a game on legacy that was 70-500.
As you said, it was on NA. Not taking anything away from Apex’s performance ; we failed our opening on legacy and couldn’t come back after this. We said gg at 70-200 something and stopped playing at this point. You can ask them about that. On kyhlo, it was impossible to dodge treb because of latency. And as you pointed out, it was 2-1.
And to finish up, it was supposed to be PRIVATE practice scrims. If you made assumptions on who is better based on practice runs, in any game, you’re making a big mistake. You have no idea how the games went and what went wrong, so be a bro and use something else to make your point.
well they did say they messed up badly on the forest matchup , but yes I understand the latency which is why I mentioned the servers
people don’t realize just how strong the double warrior is.
Don’t forget that APeX beat 55HP 2-1 in a scrimm (on NA servers), including a game on legacy that was 70-500.
I thought everything could be done in PVP according to Devs in Ready Up? Why do we need to go to PVE? Why do we need to level up for cosmetics when PVP is completely seperate?
This is a migration issue, not a regular thing.
Ok, what about the levels? If I make a new character I am not going to level him up for hours just to put on a kittening shoulder piece.
I would like to thank Blu, not just for being one of the teams competing but because he’s been very passionate about bringing this kind of tournaments to GW2 and I’m glad to see that we’re slowly getting there, even with the unexpected amount of teams that signed for the tournament (nice surprise)
We might not be one of the top teams in NA or a team that has plenty of players on the first places of the ladders, but we do like PvP and we’ve been playing it since the start. Ever since the tournament announcement we’ve been practicing and we’ll continue to do so in order to provide some exciting fights for all to see…
Or die trying ;D Best of luck to all the teams, it would had been nice to raise the number of teams to 32 in order to have more people competing, but well hopefully we will see some changes on the next one.
I think the 5-6 weeks we were given by anet until the tournament starts is enough for a new team to finish at least in the top 8.
Did they make that announcement and I missed it? They said, “gaining top 8 would guarantee you a spot in the tournament of legends.” If they did I apologize for everything I wrote and will gladly step out of this conversation.
Dude I stopped reading your posts forever ago… everyone who blu picks will deserve to be in the tournament hands down no questions asked. I just don’t want my team to be screwed over so I’d really like if he either added more reserve spots or made it not randomized at all.
