Guild Wars 2

As a person who plays both classes, I find that a good Lockdown mesmer can beat an engie 80% of the time. It’s all about the right interrupts.

As a Burst Engie, I know this when coming up to fighting a mesmer with Mantra of Distraction because I know how the build works. My tactic is to put my worst foot forward first so they spam their interrupts on that and then try to hit them hard during MoD’s cooldown.

Sword/Sword is too obvious when it comes to interrupt speed. Sword/Pistol has a better chance of winning. That being said, the Offhand Sword Phant can really be a jerk, but then again, the Offhand Pistol Phanta has the advantage of not needing to in close to do a lot of damage. Which means it avoids grenades and bombs unless I purposefully target it, which smart engies will always do.

If the mesmer is using GS, the first thing I want to do is get out of Line of Sight so he has to come closer. If he doesn’t I’ll just stealth up and charge head on towards him/her. Hit them with a prybar which puts the mesmer in panic mode and they spam skills leading to damage ticks from confusion brought on by the prybar. If the mesmer doesn’t pop his invul in that second, I follow that up with an Overcharged Shot at which point the mesmer will either Blink or Decoy their way out of that to get better positioning on me.

After that it’s a matter of making sure I dodge into his/her clones during shatters and put on a brave face, not being afraid to risk taking damage when dealing with the mesmer. That posture usually leaves the mesmer feeling like their pressure isn’t enough and that they are the ones getting pressured. Then they’d try to get away from you, which also serves you because you didn’t want the mesmer close to you anyway.

As a mesmer the best way to handle all this is to wait for the moments when the Engie thinks it’s safe to get close and just make them regret trying it. Dodge through them and shatter (dodging through ranged characters really messes with the effectiveness of the ranged weapon, sometimes putting things on cooldown way before they’ve activated or finished activating). When you do the “dodge-through”, make sure it’s a daze shatter then follow it up with a burst shatter, some engies will decide this is the best time to pop that stun break, be ready with that interrupt because immediately they come out they are going to heal and you don’t want that. If they do manage to heal, don’t worry about it though, put some phants on them and interrupt the big skills and you’ll be fine, they are on the retreat now.

FOR CONDI MESMERS

Playing a condi mesmer myself. I found my chances of winning to be 50/50. Landing a burst of condis on the engie on the outset can put you on the lead against them. I find the slow “let my clones do the damage” thing doesn’t work against good engies. They’ll just out-sustain it and cleanse the big condis as soon as they land.
The best course of action is to burst them with condis and THEN use your close to try to cover them. This means, confusion shatter, then use staff to spawn more clones and make sure you land chaos storm.

As an Engie, I know all mesmers want to play the slow methodical game of PeeUuuu! So I just throw all I can at them and when I hit their Scepter 2, I dodge to avoid the torment or I immediately cleanse if I can’t dodge. It’s even worse if I use Elixir gun. The cleanse speed is real because the speed of application is slow.

I’m going to assume fewer and fewer people are queuing up leading to these situations. If we are going to have to wait till the expansion for anything to change then…. well…. someone get me on the phone to the cryogenics lab.

BrunoBRS.5178:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Evans.6347:

At any rate, the last bit of the trailer which has the ‘Mursaat’ firing an energy beam shows a long, serpentine body. I don’t remember the Mursaat being serpentine. Perhaps they are ascended Forgotten?

The angle does make it look like that but if you look closely you can see two legs. It’s just that as it fires the beam the legs bend.

Fun fact: those energy beings use the same frames as Lich Form. I recognized the positioning for the beam attack instantly as the skill #1 for Lich Form.

ANet is actually pretty good at recycling animations without making it seem too obvious. another example in that trailer is the engineer’s hammer attack, which is a mix of warrior hammer 4 and hammer F1, just chained together in a single skill, with different particles over it, and with movement added to it. and there’s the druid using ele air staff 2 too.

The animation is just Warrior GS with a F1 Hammer stun on the end. The Hammer Champion from Queen’s Jubilee has a similar ability.

Both their names start with R…….. Your minds have been relatively blown.

Jokes aside, I find it curious that Rytlock dives into the mists, gets reborn and comes out with a power seemingly close to that of the Ritualist. Compare that to Razah who is born of the mists and it comes out as a Ritualist in GW1 as well.
The resemblance is a bit weird. They both are wearing blindfolds and whilst this can be chucked up to Ritualists being what they were in GW1, the question would be; why is Rytlock wearing a blindfold then? And seemingly every Revenant we’ve seen. Just look at the art for the Revenant on the GW2 page, he’s also wearing a blindfold AND bears a striking resemblance to Razah (only someone forgot the chin tattoos). Coincidence? Possibly.
You could also change Razah’s Primary profession (not on the fly but you can do it after completing a quest for him), Rytlock can seemingly change his Primary skills to that of any profession (seemingly on the fly) based off of Tyria’s heroes/villains.

Now, this comparison comes with the theory that if Razah was born in GW2, he’d be a Revenant. Simply due to the facts stated above as well as Anet’s willingness to change everything so that they downplay the role of the gods and the role of human ancestors, just so that each profession fits every race.

The only major difference I find is that, Rytlock is spat out of the mists with a mission, while Razah is like a winnowing child still looking for what he wants.
I think maybe, just maybe, understanding Rytlock will allow us to understand Razah and how he came to be and vice versa.

What are your thoughts on the comparisons?

I think the Necro specialization will be called Reaver. I reach this crazy conclusion due to the Greatsword.

Corax.7381:

While HoT will only have one Spec for each Prof, and it looks like Engi’s getting the “Demolisher” – explosion-hammer + flying drones, which is awesome – they can add Specs with content updates or future expansions, so here’s what would be cool for Spec #2.

Demolitionist, rather?

They said it would be a new set of skills so I’m going to assume, just like Elixirs, Turrets, Gadgets and Kits, we may get a new group.

I’m going to guess; Bots.

Diamond skin Eles and Warriors. You should definitely beat 9 times out of 10. The only exception to that rule would be Shout Warriors.

Keksmuffin.1450:

“Counters

Well played condition engineer/necro
Well played S/D thieves"

I can kill engis with this build without mainhand weapons and you call it a counter to this build? wat

Also I think it’s pretty ridicolous that Greatsword is the default choice in this build, especially now that torch got buffed.

I think the build is still really niche and deserves a spot right next to condi mesmer, condi ele and other stupid 1v1 specs.

I don’t want to discredit your abilities but, there are some really good engies who, this build will not work on.

Funny, it may be that the tooltip hasn’t picked it up but the latest update does nothing for Mine field or Bunkerdown so….. /sadface

Apparently there’s only one specialization for each class. Gotten from here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1TDKrjhnI#t=915

So I’m guessing Magitechnician.

BurrTheKing.8571:

So, I wanted to see if I could make the build even sillier….I came up with this.

Literally CC hell.

You’ve got all the protection in the world but… WHAT ABOUT THE CONDIS???!!!

And yes, that is CC hell.

unlucky.9285:

you know whats even more fun? when a guard drops it directly ontop of you and you dont have a teleport and no matter what you do it keeps knocking you down over and over and over even if you do nothing………. but when you drop your spectral wall directly ontop of someone they can leisurely walk out of it no harm done

Tell me about, it’s the same thing with stupid Engie oil slicks. It says, “if you move” but the bloody thing still knocks you down even when you don’t.

manveruppd.7601:

Last night I got trapped in a guardian’s Hammer 5 bubble. I activated Necrotic Traversal to get out (he was trying to stall me so his teammate could deccap our point), but instead of teleporting to my Flesh Wurm, I only went as far as the edge of the bubble and then got knocked down!

I knew that Flesh Wurm was a very limited teleport compared to some of the thief and mesmer ones, and I’m OK with the fact that necros are deliberately designed to have less mobility than such classes, but a teleport skill that doesn’t even let you escape situations like that… Surely, SURELY that has to be unintentional? It’s the entire point of the skill, it CANNOT be working as intended!

One thing I’ve noticed since the beginning of the game is that Teleports are like running really fast. If you can’t run there, you can’t go there. And this theory usually applies but on the rare occasion you can bypass it.

Buran.3796:

Just stop calling it “GvG”, because it sint. Is a PvP mode.

Sorry but, in order to explain this game mode to people, GvG is going to come out of a lot of people’s mouths. Especially if they are GW1 vets. If you are not a GW1 vet, you can scream and shout all you want but you won’t stop them from calling it GvG.

Basaltface.2786:

Dirame.8521:

Tinkerer and Alchemist?

alchemist huh…howd that be in your opinion?

Reduces all cooldowns on Elixirs/Toss Elixir and Elixir guns skills by 30%. When you toss an elixir you create an Explosion and an Acid pool (30s CD)?

/shrug I really do not know

Basaltface.2786:

Knighthonor.4061:

Basaltface.2786:

Dondagora.9645:

coglin.1867:

From the video, the engineer with the drones, struck me as a minion mancer necro with robots.

The drones weren’t shooting things[nor seemed to have guns attached], so I think it might either be a skill or a mechanic. In the case of a skill, the drones would likely have a specific purpose to perform, acting as a buff to the engi or something on those lines, like maybe flying mines to crash into people. If they’re a mechanic connected to the special, they might be multipurpose resources, which is less likely.

they “smell” to me like something along the lines of what turrets do…just different if that makes sence.

Basically if you deploy them they follow you they follow you (obviosly) and give you buffs and if you nuke em they do stuff like blast finishers, short time shield bubble or heck maybe even combo fields. Imagine how usefull that would be

but was there 4 of them?

I guess maybe Healing Turret would become a drone as well.

maybe its like with these necro minions that you can detonate. Ya get 2 of those if ya summon them. Well lets see what they brewed together over at a-net when they go into details

I analyze the engie drones at around 3:50 of this video. It seems they might just be mines that hover around and wait to approach their targets. Or they each give special buffs just based of the fact that they all have different coloured blinky lights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xv5WRgEvHk#t=230

Tinkerer and Alchemist?

Hey guys! So after the amazing presentation yesterday I went through the trailer and kinda did a not so brief analysis of the skills they showcased for each of the classes in the trailer. I also discuss the new gamemode and give my thoughts on the new class. Check it out;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xv5WRgEvHk

Terrahero.9358:

Dirame.8521:

Riiiiight. And you know that because..?

Ahem…

Terrahero.9358:

The following is complete paranoid rambling.

Touche.

Terrahero.9358:

The following is complete paranoid rambling

The Engineers are going to get pushed towards using (temporary) AI as their gimmick, because Revenants are going to take over the “look at me pull out all these different weapon abilities”-gimmick called Channeling, which is basically Kits but better.

Riiiiight. And you know that because..?

Derigar.7810:

Do you have any idea how new players will react to this?

I think the real question is, do YOU have any idea how new players have reacted to it?

Fact is, new players don’t know any better and will see it as a way to progress one’s character. You as a veteran are used to the convenience of having all your traits so obviously you’re going to complain but new players, nope. They’ll just roll with it.

BurrTheKing.8571:

Dirame.8521:

BurrTheKing.8571:

This is pretty similar to what I have in my sig. I replace the Goggles with Elixir S and get rid of SD depending on the situation. I should try out adding 409 to see how much it helps with condis. Between the Healing Turret, Hidden Flask and the toolbelt throw it would certainly be useful. This would give you more solo sustain, my version is more damage based.

The problem these builds always have is how random Mine Field is. Sometimes you get all of them on your target and then other times it goes all over and only a couple hit when you do the Magnet + MF combo.

That’s true. It’s really saddening when that happens. That’s why I think they are increasing the hit radii/trigger radii of all the mines.

Oh btw, something you may want to test out is whether the bomb from the Runes of the Citadel are affected by explosives traits. I like using Citadel with my bursty setup (which is pretty reliant on having a support with you. You can do crazy damage to melee enemies just by dodging away.

Already tested it. The only thing wrong with it is that it creates the bombs at your location whilst Rune of Air strikes targets no matter where they are and the Parrot is an extra body that some could mistakenly target, inadvertently missing their burst.

FrozenFlame.5163:

Dirame.8521:

FrozenFlame.5163:

Barret.4095:

what makes the best guild then, how much better they zerg another guild? at least in these types of game modes you can see how well each member of a team contributes to the game instead of a mess of 20 players in which half of them probably just get carried.

You obviously never even watched a GvG, or are being sarcastic.

What you’re saying is absolute rubish. You talk about people being carried yet in this gamemode only 5 people are playing… how does that make a WHOLE GUILD the best?
You need at least a large portion of the guild to participate in the gamemode to mark it as the best guild.

Lol, this is like saying “Germany may have won the world cup but because they didn’t use the players on the bench, they can’t be considered winners.”
Who gives a crap about the players on the bench? They bloody won the world cup mate! Even the players on the bench don’t give a crap.

You make a valid point.

The difference is though, what keeps the 5 players who won for the top guild from changing guilds and making another guild #1 and some other guild after that and so on…

What’s stopping the 20 people from just upping and forming their own guild though? “Less likely” as it may be, the risk is still there. Your argument sounds like you’re just moving a rock an inch and calling it a stone throw. There’s very little difference between what could happen with a small team and a large one. The amount of fickle World v World guilds that split up all the time is a testament to that.
People value their pride, their gold cape, their win streaks, their name. The only reason why anyone would leave their guild with a system and a game mode like this is because of drama. Whose to say this is just a 5v5 map that isn’t scalable.? Seems very scalable to me from the datamined maps that I’ve looked that.

And even if it isn’t, there’s always custom arenas. You guys can now have your 8v8 GvGs. Unless for some reason they say “Err… sorry guys …err no custom arenas for Stronghold at Launch.” and in that case they should be ready for a storm of poop.

FrozenFlame.5163:

Barret.4095:

what makes the best guild then, how much better they zerg another guild? at least in these types of game modes you can see how well each member of a team contributes to the game instead of a mess of 20 players in which half of them probably just get carried.

You obviously never even watched a GvG, or are being sarcastic.

What you’re saying is absolute rubish. You talk about people being carried yet in this gamemode only 5 people are playing… how does that make a WHOLE GUILD the best?
You need at least a large portion of the guild to participate in the gamemode to mark it as the best guild.

Lol, this is like saying “Germany may have won the world cup but because they didn’t use the players on the bench, they can’t be considered winners.”
Who gives a crap about the players on the bench? They bloody won the world cup mate! Even the players on the bench don’t give a crap.

Probably already unlocked for PvP.

STRONGHOLD. And new guild Leaderboards.

It’s pretty much GvG from GW1 but as the WvW guys have taken that name, it’s now called Stronghold.

BurrTheKing.8571:

This is pretty similar to what I have in my sig. I replace the Goggles with Elixir S and get rid of SD depending on the situation. I should try out adding 409 to see how much it helps with condis. Between the Healing Turret, Hidden Flask and the toolbelt throw it would certainly be useful. This would give you more solo sustain, my version is more damage based.

The problem these builds always have is how random Mine Field is. Sometimes you get all of them on your target and then other times it goes all over and only a couple hit when you do the Magnet + MF combo.

That’s true. It’s really saddening when that happens. That’s why I think they are increasing the hit radii/trigger radii of all the mines.

So after watching the new trailer I found that there’s a possibility that Rytlock met Glint in the mists.

I theorize this because of the powers he uses when taking on a particular boss. The powers look like he’s calling upon a dragon.

I’ll update this topic as I get pictures.

EDIT: Nevermind he’s just a new profesion. He calls upon the power of the mists so that includes dead dragons apparently.

Just saw it on the GW2 stream. I’m so excited right now!

#ANTIPUSH

More info on how to play the build and some general tips and tricks for pretty much all professions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQbW_2zaaU

This is what I run; http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAsdRlsApZoVCxcI8DNR8QZ1HUdAkAP61zwOkDA-TZRHwAG3fowDAIwRAAZZAAnCAA

Lordrosicky.5813:

Seriously its TERRIBLE.

95% of 4vs5 games were caused by people raging IN GAME and then dcing/afking.

Now you have to sit at your pc waiting for a pop. Cant go toilet. Cant get a drink. Cant make a sandwich. It is a complete and utter JOKE.

I hate it so much. please get rid of it. It is literally the bane of my life as far as this game is concerned currently.

Seriously, Anet is kitten ed if they do and kitten ed if they don’t. “We want a ready-up button because it will cut down on 4v5s!!!” and I’m sure you’re one of the people who asked for it as you LOOOVE to complain about EVERYTHING and yet, here you are asking for it to be removed.

Dimes.6024:

mine mine mine
what to do with pew-pew? with condi bunkers? with stun-lock?

You can kill anyone with a bit of ingenuity and spit shine.

Justin ODell.9517:

Solstice.1097:

methinks math should not allow 1 team to have both extremely high and extremely low MMR players.

Well, Laserbolt.6731’s example is pretty extreme. The matchmaker shouldn’t ever produce the example in this thread with all solos.

The reason for the original example (in another) thread was because it was a pre-made team that contained 4 higher MMR players, and 1 player with an artificially low MMR (due to desertions).

Is getting Solo and Team Que back still an option? You guys are trying your hardest to find the perfect balance but man, a lot of us can see the benefits of the old system compared to the new one.
Teams will get their close to even match-ups and solos won’t complain about pre-mades (just that their teams suck or some such).

As the saying goes, you only know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

florence.1674:

20 per boss is not a zerg? That requires 80 for 4 camps, or 60 for 3 champions. Can you count those numbers in any of the other maps around the world? When the living story moves on, do you think you can muster those numbers in the Silverwastes?

Lol, he meant 5 players per boss not 20 per boss.

It’s ALL MINE!!!!…..zzz

Hey guys, Ceimash here with another crazy build that probably should never be played unless you’ve lost the screw holding your head to your neck. This week I put together a build that uses Bunker Down and Throw Mine as a way to deal sustained damage at points and even burst damage should you so desire. Check out the guide below for more details on the build, try out the build and let me know what you think.

Guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC5AoJFewPo

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkrdZx+KseRicBNqrA6IkhRLyHWkPFAA-TJhFwAAuAAGeAATLDEf/BA

Bran.7425:

REGGADO.1237:

Bran.7425:

Saiyan.1704:

Mesmer clones are also visible for no reason.

Mesmer clones are there to keep people from using the mini-map to quickly locate the real mesmer, asking to remove them would be like asking for the thief icon to remain on the map while stealth is active.

Im pretty sure he ment team mesmer clones visible for other teammates.

I doubt they could remove one without out effecting the other, or somehow breaking someother profession’s skill in the process.

Don’t you think that’s a question we should leave to the experts? ‘Cos unless you work for Anet you can’t really say what they can and can’t do.

teh persun.6517:

Malyck is a sylvari not born of our pale tree. Now that we know that sylvari are… dragon minions (vomits), how is it he isn’t shouting the greatness of Mordy and killing everyone? The playable sylvari are protected by the pale tree, which must have been purified of its corruption by a series of unlikely events. His tree is also pretty darn close to Mordy, so why haven’t we seen sylvari from his tree that are controlled by the elder dragon?

Because they haven’t shown them. Think about it, the only time we saw any Sylvari that wasn’t Scarlet or Aurin was during the Tower of Nightmares and apparently those guys were mind-bent by mordy but then they just up and poofed away never to be seen.

It seems Anet was holding that card close to their chest for this big reveal and from now on we’ll start to see who and what is affected by Mordy. Including Malyck. Malyck is probably the duel wielding axe warrior that leaped at the Eir in that cinematic .

I would give them more CC.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

To those saying “Elder Dragons function differently, maybe Mordremoth minions aren’t like others!”
Or other variations.

The fact of the matter is that, if you actually pay in-depth attention to the details, all attributes and knowledge about both the Elder Dragons and their minions can fall into two categories:

1. Things that are common across all dragons
2. Things that are unique unto a specific dragon

And when I said that the sylvari are nothing like dragon minions, I speak of the first category. This includes things like hive mind mentality (despite common misbelieve, sylvari do not have a hive mind; to quote Killeen in Ghosts of Ascalon, page 120 (first line of chapter 10): “It isn’t mind reading,” said Killeen, “and we aren’t all connected into one big mass mind. However, before we come into the world, the sylvari are united in the Dream of Dreams.”). Another case is the lack of free will. And how about consuming magic? Sylvari eat food not magic – dragon minions do not eat food, they drain the ambient magic in the world (see Field Test ).

So yes, there are differences between all of the dragon minions. But there are also similarities. And it is these similarities that sylvari lack – completely. Even, as mentioned, appearance (but not Mawdrey!).

Hey, Jormag and Zhaitan corrupt Fleshy things but Primo creates beings from stone. There’s a similarity between two and there’s a difference in one. So it’s not so farfetched that Mordy would have a tick of his own. Heck, bubbles probably only creates Giant Wurms.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

We haven’t even learned why the egg is important yet. But we’re spending all this time going after it. Apparently every NPC knows, but not the players. That is poor storytelling.

We do know why the egg is important. I’m pretty sure you’ve played the chapter but I believe it’s the chapters between Glint’s layer and finding the Master of Peace where we talk to Ogden and he tells us the magic has to go somewhere when a Dragon is killed or it will be bad for Tyria.

If that isn’t self explanatory, then I don’t know what is.

The only thing we don’t know is where the magical city is that we should take the egg to.

lordkrall.7241:

Funny how people seems to have an issue with everything (which is not even the case) being about the Dragons and yet the same people usually praise how good Guild Wars 1 was. Despite everything (and that was basically actually everything) was about Abaddon.

It’s funny because if you don’t pay attention you won’t know that everything is about Abaddon.

Every expansion felt isolated. The only time I actually noticed was when my sister told me and then I went to read the wiki.

Sebastian.4610:

Current leaderboard is just grinding games, anybody and i mean ANYBODY could grind enough to be top 25

Depends on your luck really or if you join a team of good players.

I don’t see the problem with him asking what Noscoc is running. He could’ve been running something that isn’t the meta so…. you guys are just being jerks.

I’m pretty sure they are working on it. If the reception on the first week of Teq is any indication, them revamping all the fights could really put some life into guilds.

All they need to do is make Guild Achievements that direct them to these bosses and boom, you give guilds something other than Guild events to do.

Yes, Red Circles everywhere.

Actually, I believe there has been a LB reset. But can’t be sure about that.

Saiyan.1704:

Yasha.5963:

I practice in unranked, “practice” mode seems broken in many ways whenever I play it making it virtually impossible to test new builds/ideas.

Technically, it’s working as intended. Teams are able to join this unranked mode and test their team composition, against others who may also have a strong team composition.

If you’re wanting to test new build and ideas, I recommend hotjoin and dueling.

Practice mode IS hot join.

I personally use practice mode as a warm-up. Go into a map that’s tipped to the other side and see if you can tip it all the way back. When you’re successful, it’s absolutely funny to see people start leaving because they are losing or getting 2v1ed when they themselves were doing the same thing.