I saw a post here about 2 warriors roaming and I must say they hurt, once they focus you its not easy but still possible to outplay them. I like that.
On the other hand you will never see 2 warriors in a tourny. If they do play in tournies I see the warrior more like a burst class that helps you get through the tough times when you are solo defending a node, on the other hand thief can burst just as much en has the ability to move a lot faster between points, not to mention stealth.
except for the PvP which isnt even remotely finished , GW2 has nothing to offer, living world is a joke, hunting achievements is nothing for me and its the only thing you do, unique skins dont exist and everyone is walking around with them in a matter of weeks, walking in LA has never been for me like wow you LOOK awesome or have an awesome TITLE because they are easily to get, both gear and titles.
I have tried to get into PvE again, its Always the same bullkitten over and over again, with the reward of having a skin EVERYONE can get, where is that feeling of being the best, there is nothing
a link would be nice :P:P:P
GW2 is just turning out to be a MINDLESS GEAR FARM with the exception of other MMOs where you actually had something no one else would get.
there is no exception or any title for a casual or hardcore gamer, its both the same in PVE and PvP and btw after ascended there is still legendary armor in case you forgot.
PVE has no value as story is just forgotten along the way and the one thing you can do is hunting achievements which any casual player can get during time.
where is the part where you have you to work weeks for a part of gear which no one else can get unless you work with a team really hard for it, its a freaking MMORPG.
Gamers want to accomplish something in an MMO and the way I see it GW2 has nothing big to offer example is in P vP omg those wings look awesome, a week later everyone was walking around with them, its the same with thos achievement chest:
hey choose a reward, ANYONE can pick that reward, where are the titles the UNIQUE skins which you have to work for weeks and weeks for…there is just nothing
if someone lik kungentv responds to this and agrees Im sure its not that simple>
@Wolfheart: GW2 is nothing new, its except for the dodge still target based combat, TERA way better
@Lue: yes he is stating what some already concluded but I saw not any famous youtube caster say anything about is
@ simplified yes, but the point of that vid isnt to revolutionize something its to state something
kind regards
Darkdanjal
and please BUMP this and respond if you agree:P
I wont take credit for this at all but this vid is by far the best vid Ive eve seen about MMOs and its future:
I apoligize if its already on the forum but this vid is a must see for ANY MMO player
Gz
Darkdanjal
they will just remove it again like any other monthly content.
And I dont think its the best thing so far, Im sPvPer and honestly after a match of 20 I was already bored of it, normal PvP is way better then this, Map has a cool design and its fun just for a little while
what? mesmer can do what? blinks are different story, the thief already have the chance to do that, as every class with blinks does. The infiltrator strike is not supossed to be a blink but an attack.
let it be? because u enjoy bug xploiting? srry brah
How is the the blink different, as a mesmer who isnt nearly as squishi as a thief you just port instant to clocktower spot, a thief is squishi as hell while a mesmer can take damage and do a lot of damage while using the blink exploit, its the same to me, I think its fun and in tournies when I play with my guild we know something can come form a thief or mesmer…either you remove then both or just learn to live and play against it
It’s totally diferent. With a blink u come inside the fight with a cooldown cost, and you dont have the chance to instantly get off from it with an stun-breaker and repeat.
So get ur kitten right b4 calling l2p
Jezus dude a mesmer in phantasm does one hell of a lot more damage when he pops in, while a thief is probably using 33333333 and nothing more and escape, you get your own kitten right, just because a thief can escape again doesnt mean he can pop in and out every single time
The difference is a mesmer pops in and stays there where a thief needs to get out in team fights and in huge team fights probably needs to escape…get your own kitten right dude
what? mesmer can do what? blinks are different story, the thief already have the chance to do that, as every class with blinks does. The infiltrator strike is not supossed to be a blink but an attack.
let it be? because u enjoy bug xploiting? srry brah
How is the the blink different, as a mesmer who isnt nearly as squishi as a thief you just port instant to clocktower spot, a thief is squishi as hell while a mesmer can take damage and do a lot of damage while using the blink exploit, its the same to me, I think its fun and in tournies when I play with my guild we know something can come form a thief or mesmer…either you remove then both or just learn to live and play against it
Smite has to compete with DOTA 2, and from what Ive seen so far Dota 2 is also still in beta and has a lot more viewers then SMITE. dont compare GW2 to smite or dota2 as it doesnt make sense at all
I think its fun to have an infiltrators strike on on a marked target on clock tower and if you now your maps there are other places on other maps you can do just the same… if they fix that, might as well fix the mesmer who can just do the same. In team fights its nice to use and as a thief you are very very squishi when you pop in there, a mesmer ccan port through the clock tower…should they fix that also then?…nah I think its a fun mechanic which brings unexpected situations and more variaty in PvP, let it be
Decoy can be an opener yes because by the time you cast decoy and run through veil 2 times decoy is almost up again while you have your berserker en phantasm up, not to mention your leap and frenzy you can cast also all in invisble state, but Im referring to future battle that decoy needs to be used wisely and be considered a very good stunbreaker
Depending on the class, see above I did say to switch to mantra of resolve or arcane thievery. Decoy and veil is a constant in this build, the signet is not.
I am switching sometimes between MOA and mass invisible and yes I know of the huge CD on MOA that is why you have to watch there boons and cast it right, to put in simple never miss.
Mass invisible is also a very notable cast and can be interrupted, not saying MOA cant but see above I said to use pistol 5 then MOA in combination,
I do like the change of heal but its also very depended on condition based classes or pure burst classes. I just dont like sacrificing veil decoy as the whole point is to stay invisible in this build as long as you can while doing massive burst from the start.
I tried it with s/s s/p I prefer greatsword for the range in duels and while invisible you can keep your distance from your opponent en still hit normal attack, in a way with GS you are more defensive with double sword you are more agressive in close combat.
Nice build its like you were telling us how op the berserker and duelist are together. I believe you stated they alone give huge amounts of burst.
they do, basicly you should always have 2 phantams up, and they arent that easy to kill, even when they do focus on your phantasms, by the time they kill them it gives you the chance to get another 2 up.
Also I prefer the duellist as if you stand behind them its basicly a shield against some oppponents. The berserker is a good opener for the cripple you inflict aldow good opponents will evade the first berserker.
And yes I admit I feel a nerf coming on those phantasms :P:P
Hello,
My name is Darkdanjal and Im playing on EU desolation, since custom arenas are being introduced Ive been doing a lot of 1v1 2v2 and 3v3 and I wanted to put this build on my mesmer out there :P, I havent checked all topics and it might be already here but basicly in duels if you play it well you are almost immortal and sure of a win.
Ok here it goes.
WEAPONS, SIGILS AND RUNES [
Weapon set: GS ///// S/P
Runes: all rune of the forge
Sigils: on GS and Sword use a superior fire, on pistol you can choose but I tend to use Energy
utility skills: mainly I use Veil, Signet of Illusions and decoy
Elite: depends on the class you are fighting, Moa bird or mass invisiblity
TRAITS
Domination 10: 3
Duelling 30: 2/4/9
Inspiration 25: 5/4
Illusions 5
COMBO FIELDS and tricks to USE
Veil
- cast it in front of you and use Illusionary leap through it, swap and gain chaos armor
- if you use veil right you can go through it 2 times, this is very important
- summon a phantasm duellist when veil is up and shoot through it, it will give the opponent 9 stacks of confusion
Magic bullet and Moa
- cast magic bullet and immediatly after MOA this is almost a garanteed MOA unless your oppenent is using block, a stun breaker or any other evade, be very carefull not to waist MOA as it is very important
Decoy
- dont use decoy as a way to become just invisible, aldow it has a low CD, it is a STUNBREAKER
HOW TO PLAY IN DUELS
- Basicly your stongest attack dealers are phantasm Duellist and phantasm berserker, I usually open with berserker because it gives an immediate cripple and it has a 1200 range.
- swap weapons and use duellist, this already gives you a huge damage burst from the start
- after that you have to watch your opponent, NEVER waist a invisible skill when not needed
- leap has to be used wisely, make sure you have a garanteed cripple on your oppenent and swap for a burst of blurred frenzy, use veil to trigger a combo field
I can go on and on here but it depends on your opponent :P:P
WEAKNESS
basicly in this build you have no condition removel unless you swap your signet with mantra of resolve or arcane thievery, this can be strong against condition classes.
Always remember dow this build is depended on your phantasms and your invisibility
in closure, sorry to not put vids on but Im on a new PC and I dont have the programs here yet to upload my duels:P
anyways
Kind regards
Darkdanjal
PS: atm Im working on a shatter/invisible build, Ill post this later when I practise some more
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Hello,
Does anyone know some vids where you can see exacly where you can Phase Retreat through walls on all the different PvP maps? Ive been looking everywhere but all I can find are some from HelsethGW2.
Also the hotkey Face About (the 180 degree turn) seems to be bugged, for some reason I can use it sometimes 10 times in a row and on other occasions it just stops working, can anyone explain this?
Gz
Darkdanjal server desolation
Hello gamers,
Today I had the most fun ever in sPvP as some custom arenas were are 2v2 and 3v3 atm, it felt awesome,
What they did they made an arena 2v2 on spirit watch the goal was in 2v2 to get 30 points = 6 kills, you cant capture points only kills will give you points. This is of course as current maps are designed to capture points and nothing else.
Now my suggestion would be make a smaller map designed for arenas only, in the middle make a random buff orb or something that spawns every minute thatt gives you and extra dodge or extra speed whatever Im not a developper.:P:P.
Also it would be great to see a ranking system then and some specific reward to play these arenas.
Im giving a huge thumbs up from Anet for the creation of specator mode and customs, it is the first step in the right direction in sPvP>
Gz
Darkdanjal Desolation server
they should make instead of story dungeon other paths into this because this one is actually great…I didnt find this dungeon hard tbh as with guildies we got through 3 times now without a wipe
I hate it and it isn’t even fun.. I hate it when you make things so difficult it can’t be done. And the new thing with this you can’t waypoint after dying and have to wait til everyone is dead is ridiculous. Ok rant done.
I dont know if you are trolling or not but if you are not sorry LOL to hard?… dungeons are not for you then…yesterday we one shotted the dungeon and didnt die once, and I love how they consider this a story mode dungeon, cant wait to see other dungeons with harder parts in it also.
thumbs up for Anet
Dungeon was great but to easy, with my guildies we basicly one shotted the dungeon, didnt wipe on any of the 2 boss encounters.
I have to say I had a lot of fun in the boss encounters, and it was after all a story mode, but I have to agree with the OP this is how you make a dungeon and I hope in the future to have dragon encounters like this also.
Dont get me wrong I find this great progress towards sPvP but lets just say you do a 1v1 or 2v2, what will happen is people will first try to get a a descent spot to actually duel and I feel like the current design of the maps is way to big for duels like this.
It is normal as the current design of all maps is meant to capture the point, my question is are there any plans that you will make specific maps that are meant to 1v1 or 2v2….?
Gamers should take a step back and see what is truly going on, Anet is kinda smart in what there are doing…they are letting players have the ability to make there game an E sport.
Think about it, they will add spectator mode and custom arenas, not only will hardcore PvPers ( what is left from it ) show us how to truly play a class, they can go also to twitch tv and cast it while Anet developpers are looking from a sideline and hopefully truly see what needs a nerf and what not…..
I have faith it will eventually get into and E sport game but dont expect it for the next months to come…its the first big step towards it dow
Im my opinion what they truly need is a 2v2 3v3 arena game and I HOPE they learn from the spectator mode as they will look at other players how they play. I want Anet developpers themselves to create a map with no gimics at all, just plain old arena maybe with a respawn for a couple of times when you are dead and then full out deathmatch
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Mesmers are the tactitians on the battleground in WvW, so please learn to live with it, it feels like almost remove the mesmer portal…jezus every WvW group who tries to accomplish something has a mesmer around, you know what the first thing my grou kitten aying once we take a tower or keep or even castle check for mesmers so no please dont remove the portal or nerf it
sorry but I think as a leader or even a bit under that you should manage your stuff more wisely
Im talking about unique skins for long term efforts as a gamer, think it will drive people to actually have a goal in a more competitive way sPvP and WvW, as for PVE you got goals like legendaries but a new skin is Always nice
Ok, topic title might be a bit off but what Im suggesting is for example. Lets take a look at sPvP.
for now there are not really unique skins you can get. Lets just say you got the current leaderboards now and the top 3 teams who can stay there for a week, a month whatever get an unique skin (a very nice one0 for there efforts
Or in the future maybe in 2v2 and 3v3 make unique skins that will drive players to get that skin, I mean no RNG or no mystic forge skins just a reward for there long term efforts
Its the same in PvE, fractual levels for example, every 10 levels you get a new skin.
Im just suggesting this because there are a lot of people saying most goals are money based and since GW2 is a game about not having better gear make it more skin based and make that skin an actual goal.
kind regards
Darkdanjal
TO the OP, sorry to say this but the game has been out for 8 months, when are you going to get it into your head that we dont live in the times when WoW first came out.
Arenanet had done some really good things in the MMO genre but the truth is they lack content no matter how you look at it. Yes there is every month a new sort of content thingy but the fact is I rather see some permanent content en some open world focus then adding new stuff en removing it the next month.
The truth is Im really looking forward to wildstar at the moment, it will be buggy as hell but at least it will have all features an MMO truly needs
No not at all, Im playing Bloodline champions, best arena PvP Ive ever played….Dota 2 en darkfall unholy wars…
Reason I dont stay is that sPvP needs some more features, I would sign up immediatly for arenas 2v2, 3v3, but will probably never happen.
I just feel like there are better games out there, Im glad GW2 kept me for 6 months but thats the limit, I tried logging on yesterday but I just standed there in the city doing nothing, same which I had with WoW after 4 years, only logging on because of the friends you made.
There is not point in leader boards with all the cheese that goes on scaling of bunker stats, all stealth classes with free revives. Untill these problems are fixed there is no point in leader boards.
I agree with you, balance if far more important but adding features like leaderboards, spectator mode, and even new things like arenas is a good way to keep people actually in PvP
There are no ranks mate….
Glory is just a useless so called rank that gives you no comparisen and is even worse in rewarding players as the armor is exacly the same in PvE and PvP…..
As to why people dont communicate, dunno maybe because these are new players and dont understand what you mean, or they just dont care and do what they like…
I can understand that people dont really care about winning, honestly what is the point in winning, there is NOTHING or NO ONE to compare you with, it proves to me how casual this MMO is in PvP.
The PvP in this game needs a lot more and the way this is going its getting worse each patch with false promises…..
Im playing other PvP games now like bloodline champions, archeblade, that last one is in open beta and has more features then GW2 after 8 months, it makes you think…..
3vs3 arena with ranking would be awesome, I think Anet should expand on the whole conquest capture the point, its getting really boring even with the different mechanicqs on the map.
I would instantly go back to sPvP if there actually were arenas, and to balance them around ONLY 2vs2 and 3vs3, NOTHING MORE as that is for capture the point teams or even maybe future CTF.
Honestly, no its not and its the one thing that hasnt got the attention like PvE or WvW.
There is nothing that keeps me playing except for pure fun but its boring after a while.
Suggetions:
Make arenas and balance it just for 3vs3, add a map or 3 and make seperate rankings
UI needs to be better, I would love to see seperate movable boxes for both boons and conditions that you can move and resize freely on screen.
Spectator mode needs to be in there, its not only the first step to and E sport game, its also a great way to learn from hardcore PvP players
And finally and the most important thing, this game needs a lot of balancing
Gz
@Kreslin PvP is an Esport in Guild Wars 2…. seriously LOL, there is no spectator mode, no ranking, no leaderboard, not a single person who wants to cast is as it is totally messed up atm….and Im not talking about rewards, thats the least of my worries.
As for the OP there is tons of stuff to do in PVE as mentioned above and it is FUN!!!
but if you want to be competitive in GW2 there is virtually nothing as you cant compare how good or bad you are in sPvP and that is exacly what you need.
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I think this is a perfect change, I said it so many times in my guild, 1 rare from a chest and people will jump to events with chests, for months after the so called nothing happened to the loot table in november, is was boring in orr and there was no point in doing grenth or big events like dragons, now finally people are playing again.
And people who want to farm can finally do that to a certain extend. The only thing they need to give priority to fix now is the massive lag but thats another topic.
Gz
Because OP, its the most rediculous system ever, even when you salvage with mystic or black lion there is still no garenteed drop of ectos or more ectos….
Everything you would do in the mystic forge is the same, some are recipes that are constant, others like for example precursers are just a gamble, trust me I know….
It took GW1 a year to actually becoming a descent game and I say descent…. PvP isnt bad at all at all in GW2…its just that there isnt a ranking system at the moment, no spectator mode and so on. That is what all those teams want and it will be there….
The fact is that GW2 was released way to soon…I dont mind waiting longer, Ive been enjoying GW2 from the start,
Rankings, spectator mode, custum arenas and so on, if all of those will appear do you really think all those teams wont come back? it is understandable that they left, they can always pick it up again.
I hate it when people are actually quoting 2 words I putted in a response and are responding to it, you are actually making no sense and are not looking at the general picture, open your mind and see whats actually going to happen, then respond….
All this will lead to another loot nerf as small guilds want to participate for the same loot, as I know Anet by now they will make it accesable for smaller guilds but the loot will be totaly nothing.
we are talking about guild events here and in the future if you ever want to implement actually GUILD WARS as you title sais you have to STICK with your iniatial thoughts.
concerns will always be there….the amount of wine threads before Anet their actual release is just mindblowing.
I can only say Anet go with your initial thought,,,player base is important but not giving under pressure is important also.
already a dev is opening a topic to a so called improvement….I say stick with your thoughts and see how it goes.
Gz
Darkdanjal
A guild with an average of 5 people online is what I call a party group, Im sorry to say this but thats not a guild, why dont you fuse with another smaller guild….
And another thing, guild missions arent even out yet so we dont even know what to expect…relax en most important thing enjoy the game
recently I saw an increase in loot again in orr….
Whatever you did Arenanet for once be honest and say somthing like their was a flaw in the coding or we made a mistake….
I recently got 9 and more rares again in cursed shore for the last week…Ive been there from the beginning and I know something was wrong, now it almost seems to be liek before november… you obviously did something again….
please explain why the loot is better for the last month????
well I didnt know playing or working more hours into a game should get you less…. lets say Mystic forge didnt exist how would you feel if a friend who played even less then half of the time you did and got more rewards then you?
ok for once think… a guildy got 3 sparks on 200 daggers and I got nothing on 10000 dagggers, that same guildy played half the hours I did… how is that even fair. its like players who are playing a lot more hours are getting less……
its like saying hey you play to much just leave the game for a while and see what you get after a couple of months… no MMO is designed for that
All I ask is a way to actually farm the precurser and yeah to actually work for it…. I can hear the flaming already omg I cant get money anymore out of the TP as all the precursers are down in price….same with the one time Karka event….
and yes when precursers dropped in the karka event I bought several precursers that I sold for a much higher price….
what Im saying is a shout to casual players who cant even come close to a legendary because of the prices now on TP
So you decided to gamble on the forge…and it’s no surprise you lost.
Yet you want to complain? Don’t gamble to begin with and you won’t lose gold.
anyone who is actually saying it is a choice of the player has the gold already… seriously….and please dont tell me its easy to get…. it is at least 500 gold + to get the lowest precurser on the market….even with 2 000 daggers as rares it still wont get you to 2000 gold , Arenanet failed in this and to all the fanboys who actually got a precurser gratz but you all know it should be just as farmable as a total gamble
oh well I should bother then to get a bloody precurser with TP????
its not the way and please dont tell me its fine, its not…. anyone who got the precurser of his her legendary tells its fine…. its the most kitten system ever… RNG isnt the way to get a precurser, its supposed to be farmabale