Guild Wars 2

Zewad.6138:

Been playing quite a few matches with the meta ele.
Its not that good.
What is it ? 2 , 3 power hits and the grandmaster trait is gone. You cant expect to down the ele just from random aoe when you know most of them run this trait.

Edit: On the rework.

I dont like it. Current trait forces you to save condibombs for when you know they are going to be effective. With that rework, condi builds only need to spam and stack the dmg while they wait for the power dmg to go through.

ah, tahnsk for the feedback!

well, the applied conditions will expire though, and can be cleansed as well.
but what if the health threshold is lowered?

Diamond Skin
“Conditions currently on you are ineffective when your health is above the threshold.”
Health Threshold: 75%

would 75% too low?
that would become a buff instead?

take random arena maps from gw1 and put them in gw2.

hey everyone please discuss about what i proposed thanks !

Diamond Skin
“Conditions currently on you are ineffective when your health is above the threshold.”
Health Threshold: 90%

that is working as intended, not an exploit.

no.
im discussing opening split with my pugs

ah so you’re saying both match making & match prediction should use MMR only and not divisions ?

i still think match making should be MMR only

while

match predictions should use divisions only.

because, if you are in higher divisions, you should win against lower divisions, or suffer massive pip loses.

what if,

for match making purposes, only MMR is used.
as in,

new match making = 100% MMR
current match making = 50% MMR 50% divisions

and for match prediction, only divisions (total pips) is used.
i am not sure if the current match prediction takes MMR into account as well.

this might solve the problem of diamond, legendary players having queues that goes on for hours and never pops.

discuss ?

Agemnon.4608:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Agemnon.4608:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

whats wrong with temple map

Primarily the team that channels tranquility steals all three points, but also all the ways you can fall and its verticality. I notice pretty much everyone voting for Legacy or Forest so it’s apparently hated by most.

stealing all 3 points does no good if they cannot hold any 2 of the 3 stolen points.
teams with weaker builds, mechanical skills, rotations will still get outplayed.
holding 2 points and securing stillness is more important.

I’ve had temple games where they’d get tranquility and we’d immediately recap and win but still too many where we’re ahead, they get tranquility, they catch up and we can’t recover again. There also doesn’t seem to be a lot of coordination in general with it.

“they’d get tranquility and we’d immediately recap and win”
- them are weaker team

“too many where we’re ahead, they get tranquility, they catch up and we can’t recover again.”
- equal team or slightly weaker or slightly stronger

“doesn’t seem to be a lot of coordination in general with it.”
- well that’s solo q for us XD

Agemnon.4608:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

whats wrong with temple map

Primarily the team that channels tranquility steals all three points, but also all the ways you can fall and its verticality. I notice pretty much everyone voting for Legacy or Forest so it’s apparently hated by most.

stealing all 3 points does no good if they cannot hold any 2 of the 3 stolen points.
teams with weaker builds, mechanical skills, rotations will still get outplayed.
holding 2 points and securing stillness is more important.

Storms Fury.9307:

It should be whichever player did most damage, not who has last hit.

Players who are proactive who are more mindful of point rotation and spawn timings are more likely to gain points for their team from NPCs.

As it is now there is more emphasis on luck. Any game that has more emphasis on luck rather than intended choice tends to have a lower skill requirement.

Gameplay that rewards proactive players generally requires more skill than gameplay that rewards luck.

errrm no. forest beasts rewards proactive players and not really luck.

it is not luck that you know you wiped the few opponents nearby any beasts.
it is not luck that you know the wiped opponents have not yet respawned.
it is not luck that you know which opponent are at which part of the map fighting your other team mates.

whats wrong with temple map

how do you all play a marauder staff ele ?

what runes? traits?
tahnks!

meow one twenty.4376:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

he is complaining about match prediction % not match making.
match making is doing a great job, but match prediction is not.

well match prediction is still kittened because as long as match prediction thinks you have at least 40% to win, you will lose 1 pip regardless of what score you get.

Which is reasonable.

not really.

would be more reasonable if it is at least 50% and not at least 40%

Ara.4569:

If you stick to that pip system, when a game ends at like 170-250 (happens a lot in stronghold), scores should be upscaled. So, pip-wise, the score would be treated as 340-500.

well that table is for conquest mode.
i have no idea how stronghold points work when it comes to pips gains and losses.

Supreme.3164:

Terrorsquad.4802:

Supreme.3164:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Supreme.3164:

pfff..whatever ..like I care anyway

but you cared enough to post a reply here !

Everything is a matter of personal skill….who lose now…will lose later still

Ah man, gave me a good laugh!
Saying everything is currently about skill.. In this meta..

You just lost your last credibility.

Everything always comes down to personal level of skill, who lose now…will lose later

It’s a rather simple concept really, a nerf there and there won’t magically allow you to beat any player on the nerfed profession and that’s obvious I believe

The trait got clear weaknesses that requires some active thinking out of you, coming here to complain only shows that you( generally speaking) lack that ability to adapt to the situation.

The nerf to this trait, won’t make so that you will be able to beat those eles who murder you already without even using that trait in the first place.

In the end of the day meta auramancer is just a support build not a duellist build and that’s where lots of arguments fall flat against.

Nerfing that trait won’t stop the people who whine now to come once again on the forum asking for more nerfs because they lost yet another 1vs1 against an ele

But guess what, no matter how much you whine on the forum….no game will ever be balanced around you, so get out there…and learn to adapt

Many reapers and other players did that, you can follow them..or you can keep ranting frustration on the forum.

P.S = for “You” I mean generally speaking

you still have not explained why what i proposed is a nerf.

i said rework.

now please explain.

i dun understand why some people are being defensive.

how is this a nerf?
i said rework.

Diamond Skin
“Conditions currently on you are ineffective when your health is above the threshold.”
Health Threshold: 90%

plus, the health threshold of 90% is open for discussion.
what if it is 85% ? or 80% ? or 75% ?

or 90% is just fine ?

what i am proposing is basically making diamond skin a permanent resistance as long as the elementalist have 90% health and above.

ah this is mainly a big problem over in EU pvp?

in NA i did not run into such a problem.

well, they either speak english or are just silent.

can we make some changes to the match prediction thing?

change the winning % threshold of
20-39% into
20-49%

so as long as our winning % is not at least 50% we still can be motivated to try to score at least 400 team score.

………………………………… Final Score …………………………………
Win % | 0-199 | 200-299 .. | 300-399 .. | .. 400-499 | 500
0-19% | … -1 … | ….. 0 ….. | … +1 ….. | …. +2 …. | +3
20-49% | . -1 … | ….. -1 ….. | …… 0 ….. | … +1 …. | +2
50-59% | . -1 … | ….. -1 ….. | ….. -1 ….. | … -1 …… | +1
60-79% | . -2 … | ….. -2 ….. | ….. -1 ….. | … -1 …… | +1
80-100% | -3 … | ….. -2 ….. | ….. -1 ….. | … -1 …… | +1

he is complaining about match prediction % not match making.
match making is doing a great job, but match prediction is not.

well match prediction is still kittened because as long as match prediction thinks you have at least 40% to win, you will lose 1 pip regardless of what score you get.

if he’s a student he has A LOT of time to play.

i’m a stay at home dad taking care of our 11 months daughter.
i only play 1 or 3 ranked games per day.

i’m finally 0/25 sapphire today.

lepewpwn.4726:

So you’re saying, eles should have a permanent resistance buff until hp falls below 90%?

ya ya.
what do you think?

alain.1659:

Everything is a matter of personal skill?
Lol

Play the game without HoT. That takes personal skill. Patience mostly.

yeah. its very hard to play core specs nowadays.
i try that on my warrior and get put down very quickly.

Xillllix.3485:

Advice for the current meta: don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. I run Viper necro and I have no problems with tempests.

viper reaper or viper necro?
how you sustain without additional toughness and vitality ?

Supreme.3164:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Supreme.3164:

pfff..whatever ..like I care anyway

but you cared enough to post a reply here !

Honestly I’m amazed at such level of tenacity…like 50% of the threads for the last month were about diamond skin.

Whatever you guys are even hoping to achieve by constantly asking for nerfs?
Everything is a matter of personal skill….who lose now…will lose later still

so you are saying what i am proposing is a nerf?

Supreme.3164:

pfff..whatever ..like I care anyway

but you cared enough to post a reply here !

well, i’m in gmt +8:00 time zone so its 4:25 pm over here.
late afternoon.

and i have more time to browse and post on these forums than actually play gw2 spvp so here i am!

Supreme.3164:

god….I come back from work and…do you guys even sleep? No matter the time I always find the same people ranting on the forums..I wish I had your time + my money xd

what i wrote above is considered to be ranting? : \

well at least i finally got to sapphire!

had 9 loses in a row when i was 20/25 emerald, then i got lucky i guess.
22/25
23/25
24/25
25/25

got another 4 wins in a row. well, over 2 days.

hopefully i can make it to ruby too!

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Diamond_Skin

Diamond Skin
“Conditions cannot be applied to you when your health is above the threshold.”
Health Threshold: 90%

currently we have the above.
what if,

Diamond Skin
“Conditions currently on you are ineffective when your health is above the threshold.”
Health Threshold: 90%

well, the health threshold value of 90% could be modified if 90% is too high. since now we can apply lots of conditions … we just need to chip away 11% health for those conditions to work ! at least necromancer traits that rely on applying conditions will still work to some extend.

discuss!

edit:
there should be a trait icon on the ele when it is active. just like the many other trait icons we have now.

diamond skin should have its own trait icon in the buff bar.

Shala.8352:

to be honest, adrenaline is the warrior’s last problem… i’m actualy having no problems at all in building adrenaline.
Lack of decent active healings capacity and lack of condi counter is much more important to fix.

did you actually read up what i wrote up there?

rune of durability is balanced.

it does not make you invulnerable.

SlayerSixx.5763:

At this point, something this nuts sounds necessary for warrior, but I can’t help but ask if this means you can basically just ignore your burst skills and spam EP or bulls rush endlessly.

fatigue

bud, Firebird
thanks for the feedback!

Silv.9207:

And with increasing adrenaline to 30 you mean that the F1 ability will still consume only 30 points, maximum? Or that you need to consume all that 100 points to active a full powered skill?
In the first case you make adrenaline really OP, like a Tempest that can active the Overcharge 3 times without cooldown or a necromancer with 3 times the LF he can charge. You will be able to constantly active your skills at max power and effects, making your F1 skill OP.
In the second one you make it really really week.

2nd one of course, i dun propose week stuff for warrior. :p

Kayberz.5346:

You do know that all burst skills while in berserk mode already count as lvl 3 adrenaline right?

yes, of course i know that.
however, with this, warrior is able to keep on using primal burst because he will never run out of adrenaline and not limited by stupid 10 max adrenaline.

primal burst on 2 seconds recharge time? just burn some adrenal to use it again!

aye, thanks for the feedback!

i know this will not be implemented, but it would be nice to hear some feedback from fellow warrior players.

who knows, perhaps they might take this idea and spin it into a new elite spec in the future.

major warrior and berserker rework:

- max adrenaline increase from 30 to 100
(this will allow adrenal health to benefit from level 3 healing more often)
(allow the warrior to use burst skills more often)

- max adrenaline is removed while warrior enters berserk mode. warrior’s max adrenaline is NOT set to 10 while in berserk mode.
(this will allow warrior to use burst skill more often while in berserk mode)

- adrenaline decays 1 adrenaline per second when not in combat
(this will allow warrior to carry some adrenaline into the next battle)

- trying to activate recharging skills will burn adrenaline to reduce remaining recharge time and suffer fatigue, fatigue reduces maximum adrenaline.
(say if endure pain has 30 seconds recharge time remaining and warrior has 80 adrenaline, attempting to use endure pain will burn away 30 adrenaline to remove the 30 seconds charge time)
(weapon swap, burst skills, weapon skills, utility skills, elite skill all can be burned. however if warrior burn 100 adrenaline then the warrior will be not able to use burst skills in combat for quite some time)

- warrior only burn half adrenaline in berserk mode, for example, attempting to use endure pain when it has 30 seconds remaining, in berserk mode, will only burn 15 adrenaline instead of 30 seconds.
(warriors in berserk mode will be able to burn adrenal more often)

- fatigue decreases by 1 per second while in combat and 10 per second while not in combat. imagine elementalist’s exhaustion from guild wars 1.
(if warrior burned away 30 adrenaline to activate endure pain while it still has 30 seconds recharge time, maximum adrenaline will be reduced to 70 due to fatigue)

- in berserk mode, fatigue decreases by 2 per second while in combat and 20 per second while not in combat.
(warrior in berserk mode will recover from fatigue much faster)

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could these drastic changes may actually make warrior viable again?

discuss!

Xanctus The Dragonslayer.2318:

foste.3098:

+1050 power
+1050 precision
+560 ferocity
+560 toughness

I know there were discussions about new amulets before, but i reaaally would like for this stat combination to be in pvp.
I realise that all stat combinations in pvp are available in pve and that this would break that rule, but the thing is in pve you can mix & mach gear to get something like this. However in pvp we are stuck with just the one slot (which is a bad design imo) and this combination would be a desirable choice for classes with medium and high hp.

I’d make it

900 power
900 precision
560 toughness
560 ferocity

thats not inline with 4 stats amulet numbers.

yes this would be nice.

and a slightly tankier version would be nice as well.
+1050 power
+1050 precision
+560 vitality
+560 toughness

underwater skills are still in pvp

i volunteered while on a hotjoin skyhammer map.
then when i respawned in the opposing team, i got tossed into the water.

laquito.5269:

The game is already easy enough it doesn’t need to be dumbed down any further.

this is not dumbing down you kitten

Rym.1469:

Nope. Save these for future updates/Elite Specs.

If anything, we have space above utility icons – put small indicators there if you want.

yes, small numbers above the padlocks would suffice.

more feedback please thanks!

reaper is fine.

ask your friends to immobilize your victims for you.

players already solved this problem themselves.
just queue with friends in amber or emerald.

ah thanks for sharing!

no wonder my 2 fresh ruby friends are eager to bring me along.
i was in 19/25 emerald.

we played 3 games yesterday morning gmt+8
(i’m very casual and do not have time for many games per day)

loss – 19/25 emerald
loss – 19/25 emerald
win – 20/25 emerald

we didn’t lose any pips for the 1st 2 losses.
nice.

my friend, he said, “lets carry unker (me) to sapphire” well i was thrilled of course.
but many house hold chores await so my ranked arena hours are really very limited.

i shelved my warrior.

been playing a 5 shouts soldiers rune reaper.
reminds me of my shout warrior.

ah, nostalgic.

eldenbri.1059:

I only have about 125 ranked games, but there are a couple things I still haven’t figured out that I really think I should know.

- How are the names chosen at the start of the fight (e.g. Sue vs Bob)?

- What are the exact mechanics for capping/decapping? Is a check made every second and as long as one team has the only characters in the circle (who are not stealthed or otherwise under some kind of no-cap condition) then 1/8 of the circle is filled/emptied?

- What information (beyond professions) should you be able to determine about the opposing team before the start of the fight?

Thx much for any help!

the first person to load into the map in that team will have the team named after that person. for example, if sue is the first person to load into blue team while bob is the first person to load into red team, then we get sue vs bob.

you take 10 full seconds to capture a neutral point if it is not contested (no opponents in the point you are capturing) if at least one opponent enters the point, then the capture progress stops. you take 5 full seconds to neutralize a captured point, provided that there are no opponents sitting in it.

press b to access the scoreboard during the 2 minutes pre match getting ready time to check your opponents professions. as for what kind of information beyond professions, well, that, i dunno. usually by seeing their professions, you will know what they are running. there are not really many viable builds for each profession.

some are map specific though. for example, in the forest of animals map, if the opposing team have thieves, then they might steal your beasts if you are attempting to kill the beast.

nah it is working as intended.

2 of my friends have more time to play ranked arena so they are in ruby now. i think just fresh rubies. one is 3/30 ruby, the other 2/30 ruby i think.
i was in 19/25 emerald. i only play 1 or 3 ranked games per day. sometimes i do not play much during weekends.

then the 3 of us, we tri-queued and played 3 games togerher.

loss – 19/25
loss – 19/25
won – 20/25 .

finally +1 pip and a win on our 3rd game.

we’re a 3 man group with my friends revenant, dragon hunter and myself a reaper, our 2 pugs assigned by the match making system.,are a gun flame berserker warrior and a mesmer (who happens to be a friend of our dragon hunter)

as for the other team, well, they got 2 thieves, 2 dragon hunters, and the 5th one, was it a scrapper? i think it is a scrapper.

its both.

it is negated by conditions immunity or stability.

what if we introduce the deep wound condition back into the game?

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Deep_Wound

Condition. While suffering from this injury, your maximum Health is reduced by 20% and you receive less benefit from healing.

Concise description: Your maximum Health is reduced by 20% and you receive 20% less benefit from healing.

for gw2 format, it could be:
Deep Wound
“Maximum Health is reduced by 20%; heal potency decreased by 20% ; stacks duration.”

combo this together with poison and we get -53% healing received.

just buy the drinks off the trading post in stacks of 250 and right click, select consume all.

Serious Thought.5394:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

i call it a day after playing 3 ranked games per day !

happy horridays!

Thank god, I’m not alone. Do you pve after or just peace out? Bunkers ruining my pvp experience, but its k- esports?

well, it depends if i am tired or not.
if i’m not, i go do the silverwastes nasty flower event to farm some shovels.
the pve event chain there is very casual, relaxing, profiting too!

but nowadays i’m quite tired after 9pm so i just peace out.

my ranked routine goes like this.

morning
afternoon
evening

3 ranked games!

yes, i’m that casual.