Guild Wars 2

let evasion not contribute to point capture

boom, chronomancers fixed.

Guild Wars 1

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#HoneyState is a real thing now

ouch that 500-0

DH isn’t just countered by teams, its countered by literally every other meta build played by a halfway decent player.

add in a tempest and no one in the group really even needs to worry about a DH much

dank.3680:

Darknicrofia.2604:

Vague Memory.2817:

I wish people would stop with referring to top esport teams when they are trying to make a point, most people are not playing at that level even if they think they are.

why? when the professions are played correctly and skillfully, it clearly shows that DH is irrelevant, literally the ESL has proven that if you’re struggling with DH, the answer is l2p and get better, because its not a broken mechanic that is making DHs powerful, its your lack of skill.

D/D cele saying l2p is completely different when teams with 4 D/D comps are winning ESLs vs DH saying l2p when 90% of the ESL teams don’t even run a single DH.

Meh I’d rather balance around the general population instead of the elite. The top players will find what works and/or make it work regardless. If DH is over the top in the general population then it should be toned down.

when something is literally l2p, it doesn’t need balancing…

rock doesn’t need balancing because the scissor users don’t know how to fully extend out all 5 fingers to make a paper.

Vague Memory.2817:

I wish people would stop with referring to top esport teams when they are trying to make a point, most people are not playing at that level even if they think they are.

why? when the professions are played correctly and skillfully, it clearly shows that DH is irrelevant, literally the ESL has proven that if you’re struggling with DH, the answer is l2p and get better, because its not a broken mechanic that is making DHs powerful, its your lack of skill.

D/D cele saying l2p is completely different when teams with 4 D/D comps are winning ESLs vs DH saying l2p when 90% of the ESL teams don’t even run a single DH.

harsh but true reality of traps/DH:

they literally only farm bads.

naphack.9346:

…To play with your weaker classes when you are at the beginning of a tier/div and then swap to a better class once you catch on?
I just feel like taking my warrior for a spin with a greathammer marauder build.

MMR is already separated by classes, all you’re doing is lowering your already horrible MMR on your weak classes then hopping back on your stronger MMR class

to balance out MMR punishing you with harsher matches.

like in GW1, you get more fame the more matches you win in HA, with it being capped out at 40 after x amount of consecutive wins/holding halls.

this would force the premade ESL teams into their rightfully deserved place in diamond or legendary tier and give the solo/duo que peeps actual motivation to do well and get rid of the MMR tanking.

hint: if your teammates always seem awful, maybe its because you’re the awful teammate

ok, then give all other classes no CDs to their weapon skills too.

only fair imo

sinject.4607:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

would there be one?

i know its definitely patch day, since ranked arena, or the seasonal leagues are starting on 1st december 2015.

but would there be a balance patch as well?

what do you all think?

nope. i haven’t seen this kind of blatant disrespect towards customers in ages and i doubt that company policy is going to change.

Darknicrofia.2604:

Xillllix.3485:

Hopefully Revenant hammer and guardian traps nerfs.
That seems to be the most unbalanced stuff atm.

It’s better to not post at all and let people merely assume you’re a hot join tier player than post and remove all doubt.

it’s better to hide your signature openly displaying your blatant biases while wrongly acting in a condescending manner.

i’m mostly talking about his rev hammer point, but I guess I spotted another hot join player getting farmed by traps

Xillllix.3485:

Hopefully Revenant hammer and guardian traps nerfs.
That seems to be the most unbalanced stuff atm.

It’s better to not post at all and let people merely assume you’re a hot join tier player than post and remove all doubt.

Morwath.9817:

Cogbyrn.7283:

@Jourdelune: Sorry, but you purchased an MMO with a structured PvP aspect. You see the effect of them having to try to balance around all game modes all the time.

Just because you want to be blind to the fact that you’re playing an MMO because you put your PvP up on a pedestal, doesn’t mean you aren’t still playing an MMO like the rest of us.

If you want a MOBA game, there are plenty to choose from. GW2 isn’t one.

I disagree with you here, GW1 had its some of MMO and MOBA aspects separated a bit (e.g. some skills was working differently and went different balance routes for PvE and sPvP).

…and I believe GW1 was much better balanced, no idea why then try to balance both completly different modes together in GW2 =/

GW1 was much better balanced simply because GW1 was solely designed as a PvP game, Anet originally intentionally left out pretty much any meaningful PvE content (low level cap, max gear readily available) as PvE was only meant to teach you the mechanics before you hop into PvP.

It had defined roles in the classes and established positional play (backline, midline frontline) and a game engine that wasn’t as fast paced as GW2’s combat (that is a good thing) which allowed for a more spectator friendly game and easier for players to notice the tells and not being distracted by all the particle effects.

GW1 was a game that was MADE for esports and twitch, sadly it was simply too ahead of its time. I have no doubt in my mind that if GW1 was launched at the same time as LoL and Dota 2, it’d be crushing both of those games in esports popularity.

Shelter getting interrupted at the beginning is likely you getting shock aura’d when traited with Smite Condi.

if you’re having trouble playing rev it really is a l2p issue. swap from hammer to staff and get better at it

problem solved.

the mitigation from staff and shiro is borderline asinine, 10 sec CD channel block on staff, dodge/evade+gain endurance/dodge againx2 on shiro, KD on staff 5 and block skill back off CD again… rinse repeat.

oh and in case that isn’t enough, swap over to glint for 3 secs of immunity+heal of all damage, not to mention sprinkling in a couple of shield 5 skills from trait and the actual skill.

you can’t build a tank like you would a traditional mmo, you still need to be able to pump out respectable damage.

the role of a tank in GW2 raids is simply positioning the boss to favorable spots, your high toughness isn’t needed because you’re face tanking the damage, its needed to maintain aggro.

there’s really only room in the group for 1 pure healing build in a raid, the rest need to be damage dealers.

mitigation > healing.

as soon as enemy team finds out you aren’t running shelter, you’ll get targeted and dropped faster than a necro.

oh man that game

DH/guard contributes pretty kitten dps to vale guardian with the amount of mandatory dodging/moving the fight requires.

the zerk guard meta requires you going through your rotations on a stationary target, raid fights don’t give you that luxury.

Morwath.9817:

…anyway it doesn’t change two facts:
1) DH traps > Ranger traps
2) DH LB > Ranger LB
Yet, Druid gets nerf and core Ranger is untouched (won’t even comment on Beastly Warden range nerf made in same manner, so it’s rarely useful).

no, the only fact that changes is you have no clue what you’re talking about

DrDivine.5378:

Ragnarox.9601:

Roy Dreadstorm.2093:

yep … because of this type of guy we got nerfed x) incredible
dude just lemme tell u something , if u die against a druid support dat goes condi with sword/torch , u’r just a very bad player , this spec is not meant to kill , it’s meant to assist

zinkz.7045:

Are these 3 guys imbeciles by any chance and unaware of concepts like CC, because if not, 3 players > 1 druid.

There are 2 druid build that are god mode 1 on 1 and 1 vs many. Why are you not familiar with it? Well those ppl wont give you their builds ( I know I wont) couse it would be nerfhammered

DH is easy to counter : put some condi pressure and he’s down.
cele reaper
cele scrapper
cele tempest
???
counter DH easily.

Go fight a good DH and let me know how that goes, even condition pressure, which is the most viable option, is still difficult to deal with.

-they still have a decent condi clear that heals them a fair amount for being marauder, that’s not even counting blocks. A guardian’s usual weakness is that they’re slow, but that is migitated with the longbow and it’s many features including an unblockable shot at 1200 range that does 4-6k with only a 4 second cd. They will kill you before your conditions even make an impact.

-Dragonhunter rewards passive play way too much, I’m alright with setting traps to do damage and stuff that’s cool, but it’s entirely too faceroll. I gave the meta build to my friend who doesn’t even really pvp and she was destroying people in team matches multiple times. It shows just how easy to pick up it is, which wouldn’t be a bad thing if it wasn’t an apex predator.

true shot is not unblockable and has never been unblockable.

deflecting shot is the unblockable one and that’s on a 10 sec cooldown and has an awkward ground target function.

scrappers rarely lose to DH 1v1 unless it was camped on a point

only the projectiles that has a natural curve.

true shot and deflecting shot travels in a flat non curve so 1200 range IS the max they can hit.

EvilSardine.9635:

True shot needs a nerf. Don’t even try to defend it. All of my guildies who main guardian completely agree that this ability is kittened.

I’m being hit in WvW for 8-10k and I’m on a warrior with 1800 toughness. The actual skill animation is BARELY noticeable and it’s on such a short cool down it’s absurd. It’s a kill shot on a ridiculously short cool down that doesn’t need to build adrenaline.

If you’ve got 2-3 DH’s in an enemy group it’s impossible to avoid these true shots because they don’t have an obvious kneeling animation and long casting time.

except they DO have a kneeling animation and a bit of a wind up cast time.

soloed it on my Rev, back when the Glint heal was 4 secs long, the heal itself could pretty tank you through nearly the entire enrage/rock phase without even gliding.

do these traits overlap or does one take precedent over the there and stacking them can give you back to back aegis on the first 2 CCs you receive?

Shadowstep.6049:

go play dp thief vs DH, tell me how it went… oh and don’t forget to record your experience so we can all spam l2p~

go play mediguard vs cele d/d ele, tell me how it goes.

some classes/specs have built in advantages over others, that’s just how the game works.

tbh its an extremely uphill battle for thieves vs DH, but guards have mostly always had ridiculous advantages over thieves forever.

just like how mediguards had to avoid cele D/D, thieves mostly have to avoid guards.

the auto attack has a curve, therefore can travel further.

true shot animation kneels you down and the shot is flat, therefore can ONLY travel 1200.

you currently don’t get map completion rewards on characters that have 100% tyria completion.

known bug, needed to be fixed like a week ago.

The final weapon requires a map completion reward for completing a HoT map…well that’s a problem, seeing as how characters with prior 100% map completion do not receive map completion rewards.

Am I suppose to remake another char of the same class as the elite spec I’m currently using, rush it to 80, get it to the jungle and complete a map that way to finish my specialization weapon?

description says simply train/master stealth gliding, well I’ve got that and tried gliding in every map and still haven’t gotten the gift yet.

known glitch or just me?

Don’t hit them while they’re in Glint heal, you’ve just effectively countered half of what makes Revs good.

Are they not a thing anymore? just fully completed verdant brink, got nothing in terms of rewards.

you don’t need to use all Zerk gear, with invocation and glint, you have by default almost 80% crit chance with just a couple of +prec trinkets.

Focus on getting more power/ferocity/vita/toughness. I use a mix of Valk and Knights armor, with zerk only coming from my weapons and my rings.

Azure.8670:

so far im about to finish herald, and while rev supposedly has more dps, I dont feel it. Rev has no burst attack, its all auto attack. I dunno, I like rev a lot, but besides hammer I dont feel that powerful

no burst attack? are you high? unrelenting assault is a 10k damage spike while in evasion, what more do you want from a burst skill?

dual wield means wielding 2 of the same weapon.

change your interface size to normal, it fixed mine and also fixed it for anyone i know of that had this problem.

Try changing your interface size from large to normal size. I did that and immediately fixed the issue for me and was able to get my reward chests w/o crashing.

Finished crafting Flameseeker Prophecies, full ascended armor, full trinkets, Zerker ascended aammer and sword.

Just twiddling my thumbs now.

Zoltreez.6435:

Sword off hand = Guardian shield before buff. no one takes it because all the other off hand offers more and better stuff.

NOTHING is as bad as guardian shield pre buff.

Depends on what you need it for. Best for farming/tagging, nothing beats guardian staff auto. Best for long range dps, mesmer GS auto is better.

Hunter.4783:

The one to Rule.2593:

seems like all guards are switching lol

Oh yeah. Just to give you some idea, I have over 4k hours on my guard, and if a guy like me is switching over, things are REALLY bad.

i have 3450 out of 3500 hrs on a guardian

I will be swapping to rev.

I may switch back to guard if the next elite spec isn’t complete kitten

Vogel.9613:

Switching from Guard:
- Wall of Reflection
- Easy access to stability and condi cleanse

you can trait to gain 2 stacks of stab per dodge, pretty sure that’s even easier access than guards.

E = GS Ball

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true shot roots you and is the only longbow skill that is decent.

nerf the damage on that and you might as well scrap or rework the entire longbow

No, what we need is an actual CC on the longbow that isn’t a 5 sec self root that hits exactly 0 non AI things or a 10 sec CD RNG knockback.

Oh and instant activation virtues.

It now removes immob, great first step. But this being interrupted/knocked back etc and you end up with no heal, no condi removal and no damage/immob and putting it in full cooldown is pretty lame.

Its bad enough that we can’t activate the DH virtues while stunned (no matter how much you shorten the activation times by, this issue will always exist), but being interrupted WHILE activating them? DH virtues = worst class mechanic skill ever.

Its like if I can interrupt an ele from attunement swapping or preventing a necro from entering shroud.