Guild Wars 2

I think a lot of people still suffer from the delusion that gw1 was esports.
Gw1 was esports like Jai alai is a mainstream sport.

Truth is there’s more nostalgia then merit, but most people who played gw1 will always say it’s pvp system was better.

Hardly the same… Art should be new and exciting, not old over-used and boring.
If scarves/capes/mittens were submitted to me as an art director I’d probably say
“What is this, BoringRealLifewars 2? You’re fired”

As long as it can only be done once per game through a vote (3 to pause) and 3 minutes at max.. and only in Team Que

Anyone other then me think this is silly?..
Out of all the cool designs for back slot type items you want scarves and capes?

Arenanet artists must be kicking themselves in the head when they read this kind of thread “We gave you wings and jetpacks and frikken quaggans for christ’s sakes”

Do I actually have to watch MLG to find out what comps were used or is there a handy repository somewhere for me to look through ?

I seriously don’t understand this; Everyone complains about how the condi meta is no good, people start using automated defense, Threads like this one pop up full of tears..

Ahhh THAT build……………….
I was wondering when my favorite b-list celebrity engy friends would start running it..
Please don’t tell ostrich eggs ..

Extremely annoying in this meta.. Can’t run shatter because I fear warriors/necros.. can’t deal with this thing 1v1 and especially not with stun happy warriors around.

Can you believe your name is filtered?

Uhhh Der(p)(s) you’re wasting your time; Arehundel for one has been heavy into Forum class-warfare against any class that isn’t ele since even before d/d nerfs and global ele nerfs.
You can look through his post history if you don’t believe me….

Fortus here made atleast 3 of these threads this week…so I mean.. there’s no stopping him..

Lord earle/Lys have told me that Ele is fine.. I’d say that’s plenty of evidence…

Warrior may be overperforming a little right now….. and NOT the way most people think….

Keep Calm
Buff Warriors.

Your class forum is dead? Join the club.

Class forums are where PVP threads go to die, and I kind of like it that way..

Cant ban Afkers :/ feature not a bug.

He’s on MY friends list…

No see that’s going too far; you’re just killing the skill floor/ceiling of the game.
If that was the route they want to take I expect buffs to survivability.

You should not be tab targetting the mesmer. period..
Always mouse target :/ Better yet always Priority target.
The problem is tiny asuras really, 99% of mesmer population is tiny asura…
I would take buffs in exchange for fixing tab targetting,

Good players do not depend on it to fight me; so I don’t depend on deception anyway.

I play a tree.

Let’s clear things up; your post history still exists. YOU came into this forum and started OFF with your rating score.

Xom: in GVG thread which was removed from PVP forums.

You are arguing with people that are just not very good at the game. I doubt any of them are even on the top of the leader boards if they were they would know warrior is a powerhouse.

@ all the PvPers that think they are elite

GvGers are on your leader boards killing your dudes. Conquest mode promotes poor play and cheese gimmicks this is clear as you see how low the skill level is of the best pvper when put against the skill level of the best GvGers.

I challenged you To fight; You dodged and then challenged me to 8v8 hotjoin.

Oh and then Deleted that post; and a lot of other kittenposts; Cowardice at it’s finest.
You and your buddy wyrog should just stay in your pve forums if all you’re going to do is talk big and then shy away when challenged.

Xom.9264:

I climbed to top 100 solo queue as did a few of my GvG buddies, also around 200-300 range when I feel like doing tpvp, talking a game or two once a month. Bottom line is GvGers are busying having fun playing what was a good game mode before bloodlust.

Conquest is a boring game mode that good players never like, good players always gravitate towards deathmatch. Numbers back up my statement, this is pathetic.

Whats also pathetic is the Tpvper that got carried by a team and cant climb solo queue talking trash. There are good Tpvpers on the solo queue leaderboards they are the ones that carried people in their teams.

Deathmatch less room for poor players with over inflated egos. If you are high on the Tpvp leaders boards but cant climb solo queue you are bad…. end of story.

Offtopic; no one cares about your soloque rank, solo que rank means nothing
;Hint I’m Top58 NA.

What is funny though is that you’ve declined to scrim even baddies like me and pick up groups.

Please Don’t let me interrupt your condescending tirade I’m sure it has nothing to do with your overinflated ego.

Ele tears are delicious; I remember when the class was so strong that it could
1v1 Groupfight Teleport across the map

You remember that? Pepridge farm remembers.

I can tell you exactly what’s going on in this picture i 0.5 seconds : you’re losing lol.

IF anet fixes UW combat to even the balance we see on land combat it’d be good but that’s like a year of balance.

Skyhammer isn’t really esports the same way that Gw2 isn’t esports.

My team quit :/

Deceptive evasion for the mesmer and also the Vigor on crit trait…
Pretty much required for any good build…

While this is still on the frontpage ;
I take back what I said this build is ridiculously good… and not a product of hallucinogen induced inspiration.

Arheundel.6451:

Water combat would introduce that layer of utter kitten that this game so desperately needs to finally Kill off the remaining PVP population

Fix’d that for you.

I for one LOVE skyhammer…

I hate Capricorn though, ugh disgusting map Maybe if they remove the water and make the ship the new ruins and change the sharks to mutated seabass.

Comparing water balance to land balance is silly;
If land balance is off, water balance is completely broken.

I feel like if there were buffs given in exchange for being able to tab target through clones I would take the buffs.

Spoiler;protip; Devs don’t read joke posts.

Hilarious Yes please buff churning earth.

It’s very simple to fix this;
Make the ready button actually work as a ready button; you already have the code; all you need to do is move the lines that say :
Start countdown to match start to after the ready button is pressed by all teammates.
If nothing starts within 2minutes match resolves and that’s that.

Chaos storm.
15 chars.

S
Necro
Warrior

A
Guardian A+
Thief >A
Mesmer =A
Engineer <A

B-Peasant tier.
Ranger
Elementalist

….is this………. is this real? :/
Most of this is hotjoin as far as I can tell; some soloque thrown in too I think..
Does it work against strong players though? I didn’t really see any b-list guildwars2 celebrities…

L2P, Runes not OP.
YEA OKAY

30% Confusion Duration
+183 Condition Damage
20% chance to cause Confusion on hit (15 second cooldown).

Is utterly broken, you have absolutely no idea how hard a properly built mesmer/engi could dominate 2/3v1s with these.

kirito.4138:

Blood Lord.5687:

WHY DO DID ANET MAKE A MAP WHERE PEOPLE CAN FALL OFF TO THEIR DEATH

Because it is fun. Think of it as a different game mode.

Isn’t that hard to modify your build to have stab/knockbacks. Build templates would make it ezier.

TEMPLATES!!!
Can we have this already? Please?
Bids starting at 600 Gems Per.

Pvp is not the same as pve :/
Pvp rewards were supposed to be something that you could lord over the dirty pveer’s..

That stopped being the case 3 months after release though, since no one cares about rank.

Simple fix = Limit amount of glory per match to 200 ; remove /matchend.
or.. Add a penalty for dieing (lol I would not actually want this)

I’m neutral on this; and this is for sure in the wrong subforum….

This is one of those things that would add polish to the game imho, but at the same time take too long and not actually effect gameplay.

Conjure is a cool mechanic :/
1. Requires SOME teamwork ; hopefully with buffs they will tone down durations/uses
2. Adds interesting skills to other classes.
3. Looks cool.

Hopefully it’s not SUPERDUPERMEGAOP though…

I’ve tried all the amulets with this build also all weapons.

There’s very good reason why you play rampagers for 60% crit and fury; you want the 7-8 bleed stacks from the duelist.

No reason to shatter when my condition damage does my work.
In fact shattering is counter intuitive to the build, as sha(t)ter does not trigger clone death abilities.

The reason for sword/pistol is because sword is the only melee weapon mesmer has; i.e you want melee clones to go in and get killed and you can position the staff clones.
You also want the Invulnerability, and the extra CC x2
Scepter/torch does not hold a candle to it. I know having ran multiple versions multiple days to test which would work best.

Halting strike mesmer is really my favorite build out of all the mesmer builds, the idea of it anyway.. but as far as I can tell through massive testing…
It’s not as strong as Countless clone spam build..

I’ve tried a couple of builds mostly those listed in this thread and also my own varients.. and I can say that I don’t enjoy playing it as much nor do I feel as strong as I do in my variation of count’s build.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8alwzqpXUzgGbNJipCBHaGXn3RqQpVmBudhA-ToAg1CnIKSVkrITRyisFtQY/B

Well.. I ………
hum…. I don’t want to make a knee jerk reaction post……..Not sure what to say..

ENGIES GOT MASSIVE LOVE IMHO
Rangers got love/hate.. probably good changes overall
Thieves got love ? not sure if want..
Ele Got …..something ? :/
Mesmers got bug fixes always good..
Warriors/Necros got …….. really strange buffs? haha .. oh.. you’re serious..

Targeting system got love which is a good day in my book and they did say that this patch would not bring balance changes..

Conditions overall got normalized which is good I think..
(the burning/poison change in particular)
lots of bug fixes are always nice…

You’re talking about diminishing returns.. and no, with stun breaks, stability, cleanses you really don’t need a diminishing returns mechanic in this game.

I dunno clone murder build works too well in current meta :/
AoE condition rain :/ purty good.

CC immunity buff? that’d be great, we could give it to every class,…. Except necro, and when they cry about it we’ll add it to something they never take like well of power or something else that’s useless.

I dunno it feels like Aoe interrupts would be sweet :/
especially if you could might stack off it…

I’ve tried a few interrupt builds so far today so far Count’s just feels stronger.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8alwzKonRzmGb9IipH9mvJckUoamWJF42FC-TsAg0CnIKSVkrITRyisFN+Yhw+DA

Now THIS looks playable… maybe..
I can see it having a problem with necro/warrior though.. count’s build is probably the most viable at the moment..

LoL that build is …unrefined,
why not pick up bountiful interruption if you’re going 20 into chaos…
in an interrupt build..

Why greatsword and not Sword/pistol?..
Why Harmonios mantras if you’re only using 1 mantra? :/

Looks like you just put random traits in from my perspective

Anet revamps rewards!
Dyes now take 2 orbs 2 Slivers 2 consumable tokens and 20 powder to make
Enjoy plebs.

No seriously though… I have really big hopes for this..
but I’m ready to be disappointed yet again.

@LittleFeather; that is probably the most fallacious statement on these forums; Changes to the guardian in the past Month; I couldn’t copy paste everything from the next month because 5000 character limit.

Protector’s Strike: This skill will now trigger if an attack is blocked while the guardian is in midair.
Sword of Justice—Command: Fixed an issue that caused the Command skill to go on full recharge without activating properly when used without a target.
Healer’s Retribution: Fixed a bug that caused this trait to provide more retaliation than intended with Healing Breeze.
Virtue of Courage: Updated the aegis skill fact to display the proper duration.
Tome of Courage/Wrath: Using these elite skills will now drop the player’s currently equipped bundle instead of destroying it.
Leap of Faith: Fixed a bug that caused a longer than intended blind when hitting multiple targets.
Sword of Justice—Command: Removed the range indicator for this skill, as it was unnecessary.
Monk’s Focus: This trait now scales 40% with healing power, up from 10%.
Merciful Intervention: This skill’s recharge has been lowered from 80 seconds to 50 seconds. Base healing for this skill has been increased by 48%. Scaling with healing power has been increased to 60% effectiveness, up from 20%.
Symbol of Judgment: Increased the spell effect and AoE rings to match the actual radius of this skill for both the base and when traited with Writ of Exaltation.
Symbol of Wrath: When traited with Writ of Exaltation, this skill now applies retaliation to the correct radius. Increased the spell effect and AoE rings to match the actual radius of this skill for both the base and when traited with Writ of Exaltation.
Symbol of Protection: Increased the spell effect and AoE rings to match the actual radius of this skill for both the base and when traited with Writ of Exaltation.
Symbol of Faith: Fixed a bug that caused this skill to hit 3 targets instead of 5 when traited with Writ of Exaltation. Increased the base radius to 180 and a 240 radius when traited with Writ of Exaltation. Increased the spell effect and AoE rings to match the actual radius of this skill for both the base and when traited with Writ of Exaltation.
Symbol of Swiftness: Increased the base radius to 180 and a 240 radius when traited with Writ of Exaltation. Increased the spell effect and AoE rings to match the actual radius of this skill for both the base and when traited with Writ of Exaltation.
Writ of the Merciful: Fixed a bug so that the healing area provided from this trait will correctly scale its radius with the Writ of Exaltation trait.
Orb of Wrath: Increased the projectile speed of this skill by 30%.
Wrathful Strike: Increased the might duration from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
Signet of Judgment: This ability now breaks stuns. Increased the cooldown to 30 seconds.
Shield of the Avenger: Command: This ability now breaks stuns.
Chains of Light: This ability now deals a small amount of damage.
Signet of Mercy: Reduced the cooldown to 150 seconds.
Bane Signet: Reduced the cooldown to 40 seconds.
Refraction: Decreased the cast time from 1.3 seconds to .5 seconds.
Tome of Wrath: Smiter’s Boon: This trait now applies to the caster as well.
Sanctuary: Fixed an issue where Consecrated Ground was also reducing the cast time of this skill.
Virtue of Justice: Updated the skill fact to correctly display the actual burning duration when the skill is activated.
Tome of Courage: Protective Spirit: This trait now applies to the caster as well.
Tome of Courage: Pacifism: Daze duration has been increased to the 3 seconds listed in the tooltip.
Pure of Heart: This trait now heals for its base amount +25% benefit from healing power, up from 10%.
Blind Exposure: Vulnerability caused by this trait has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
Radiant Fire: This trait now grants a 20% bonus to burning duration, in addition to reducing the torch skill recharge by 20%. Fixed the description text to indicate the accurate recharge reduction.

Buffing the mesmer is a bad idea;

Unless you buff the Greatsword/Scepter/torch/focus
which at this point are pretty meh..

If mesmers lose sigil of Paralysis though that’ll be a nerf… pretty big one at that..
So maybe it will balance out?

Eh .. why ban people for this?.. PVP community is small enough and now you wanna ban the casuals that saw their chance to get some pretty skins?..

I have some good friends that did this for stupid reasons maybe even for an hour or two.. it’d be a shame if they were banned because of COMPLETELY USELESS rank/glory.