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Flumek.9043:

So what role did you do with it? what were good and bad matchups you found?

Good Matchups were Warriors, Thieves (that aren’t staff), Rangers, Engies, Necros, Dragonhunters. Bad Match-ups were Mesmers, Revs, Staff Thieves but I need specific utilities to take care of those guys and sometimes you can’t take those utilities because you prefer to counter a different set of classes.

I mainly focused on 1v1s and +1s. Occasionally popping into teamfights to help burst down the Ele or to try to shutdown the Warriors/DHs.

Teepo.2435:

That’s really impressive. Congrats!

Can you share your build with us?

To walk this path, yea must be ready to bear on your shoulders the weight of every loss even if it clearly wasn’t your fault.

Yea must be ready, to not rage, to not curse at one’s teammates for sucking but rather to be unequivocally zen to the point where you can even win fights even if you’re at 10% health.

If yea, can handle the weight and responsibility of this great creed… then yea can have thine build.

Stand The Wall.6987:

my nipples are listening.
but really, if true, very good job.
/bow /kowtow

Don’t worry, eyewitness accounts say that I’m the reason for many lost games.

suffish.4150:

Congrats on legend! I know we have seen each other in games a lot and you do really well on core necro. You are just as useful as most reapers I see even though the spec itself isn’t as strong. Going against you forced me to learn what all the core skills do again because I had no idea what they even were before I started seeing you, lol.

Hopefully you can stay in legend!

Duuuude! Every time I see you on the other team I’m like “Oh snap! Not him again!” and when you’re on my team I’m like “YEA!!!!”

Starbreaker.6507:

Congrats!

How did you find the journey?

I’ve never delved too much into Necro myself (even though back in the day I was hardcore Necro in GW1) but I’ve seen a lot of people say that reaper fixes a lot of the core necro issues.

It’s harder to beat thieves as a Reaper. Because our attacks are slower. Instant fear from Core DS makes it easier to start combo chains or to interrupt other people, longer fear from DS makes downing 1 target pretty much guaranteed if used at the right time. I love it and no one can take it away!

It’s harder in team fights because 10,000 stuns will come your way and Reaper shroud deals with that, but I’ve found other ways too alleviate my lack of stab through directly countering certain classes’ abilities. And as long as your team has your back, you’ll win.

Woop Woop, got to Legend with Core Necro yesterday all solo. Thought I’d share.

Also kitykittymeowmeow said I have to be Legend to be a caster. Can I be a caster now?

steelheart.7386:

Enough with these dumb builds that allow you a little more success in 1v1 type situations but are actually much weaker over all then the typical reaper condi specs. Sorry no one reinvented the wheel.

“Weaker overall than the typical Reaper condi specs”

Yea, that’s why those people playing typical reaper condi specs are totally having a great time right now. Do tell.

Crinn.7864:

If you win the first match of the day, you will win all or nearly all of your matches that day.
If you lose the first match of the day, you will lose all or nearly all of your matches that day.

I loss streaked my entire placement and landed in bronze. I win streaked from bronze straight to gold 2. I then loss streaked back to silver 1. I then won streak back to gold. I then loss streaked back to low silver. I then win streaked back to gold 2. Today my loss streak has started again.

This isn’t something new either, it was like this in previous seasons, and it works like this in unranked too.

Anet there is something in your matchmaker that is streaky.

Nope. I have definitely not experienced this.

messiah.1908:

change the rune to nightmare anf get 100% fear duration which double your dmg
also deadshot amulet is better with more DS time and hp pool
and sigil of earth for faster bleed stacking

Deadshot is great for a character with high toughness. Sigmoid has covered my reasoning for not using Nightmare, and I’ve thought of using sigil of earth but I’m not chasing bleed stacks, rather I’m chasing faster auto-attack speed so I can land the corrupt a lot faster. But maybe having more bleed stacks is better… yea might as well give it a try.

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Kumouta.4985:

obviously when people see the name of this thread they think “o kitten someone made a build capable of wrecking that plague” and take a look, but when you’re just killing new players or people with their stuff on cooldown, it’s a bit disappointing.

It’s only the last guy who had his stuff on CD but it’s up to you if you want to believe in the build or not. Personally, my caring levels are quite low. It might be incredibly hard to see how I outplayed at least two of those guys because there’s a few things I’ve decided not to disclose about the build. But you know….. who cares?

Silv.9207:

Turn back with another video where you fight real DH with no cooldowns and that don’t play bad, please. I’m be really curious to see your build during a Real fight. Just to know if it’s really viable or not.

Bleh, don’t care enough to appease your sensibilities. I’m pretty sure your eyes will fall out if I show my montage of Warriors and Mesmers.

Obtena.7952:

Hey let’s be clear here. I don’t disagree that Eng isn’t in the best place but the argument that it needs love because ‘not popular’ and ‘not meta’ is just silly. It also doesn’t address any real deficiency with the class, since those things aren’t really issues.

Anyways, you’re a good example of what I’ve already stated … you need to find a class that works for you … there are 8 others you can choose from.

Are you asking us to list the things wrong with the Engie because…..

- Buff Medkit: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Buff-Med-Kit

- Explosive Line sucks: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/The-Explosive-Line-isn-t-good-Here-s-why/first

And this entire Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4vuhtj/the_changes_that_need_to_happen_for_the_engineer/

Soo…. yea….

narcx.3570:

I like the guy who used F3 and then immediately turned his back to you to run away.

That guy probably got feared.

Man you disrespecting my opponents. I can’t have that.

Silv.9207:

-The first one was like “ehy, I’m losing hp and there’s a large and visible well under my feets, can it be it that is killing me? Let’s do some bad burst combo don’t caring about my life, without using my elite because I’ve a Block skill!” and just died like a noob.

Just like I said earlier, sometimes you’re too busy thinking to yourself “I CAN DOWN HIM! I CAN DOWN HIM!” to care about whether or not there’s an eviscerate coming from your left side. I’ve been in that position several times and I understand how it feels to see someone who is low on HP and just stretching to take him out, only for you to be downed and stomped yourself.
That’s what happened to the first guy and it was unfortunate. It’s not that he wasn’t or isn’t good, he just thought he could win and found out the hard way, that he could not.

Silv.9207:

-The second one don’t pushed you out and in of his trap (probably he forgot to equip the LB? And where’s the F1 skill to push you in after the knock back? Was he so bad to don’t use this easy win combo?) that is his first error, losing 6k of damage, he activated his elite to recharge his virtues and protect himself from your skills just after you bursted him and to press F3 and run away showing you his back like a totally noob player. (also his equipmet was like a new dh made just to try it, but it also can be a personal choice of the player, we will never know)

The second guy started his combo but simply couldn’t finish it because; He used his F1 but I went into DS, got stability and tanked the pull, then my transfer trait procced, converting is stab to fear, he stun breaks out of it using Shield of courage but I dodge backward behind his Shield of courage so that I could land the Boon Conversion with plague signet, then I place poison cloud and Well of corruption on him. He drops his heal, I try not to step on it, I daze his F2 but I step on his heal whilst doing that but the poison I already have on him prevents him from getting the full benefit of the heal. He has no choice but to pop his Elite, and then I wait for him to come out of the invuln, wait for him to try to use his F2 and Pop my elite to land the fear from it. Then GG.

He was just outplayed.

Silv.9207:

-The third activated his pull+push combo Before using his trap…and that’s an error only a really distract, bad or noob player can do (come on, it’s the basic rotation of the dh, his best combo, and he totally missed it!). And who downed him was not you but your ally. Just to say, unless the DH had so low hp pool that a critical of 483 can steal 37% of his hp (I’m also wondering if your mark 4 hit or not the enemy, the game don’t showed it, but still you’ll not be able to inflict so much damage with these two hits to down a DH with 37%hp, expecially because your direct damage is really bad. Then, tecnically, is your ally that killed him, not you.)

Yea, he made a mistake. What kind of player would I be if I didn’t capitalize on a mistake? And he did pop his trap right after, only to get hit by my boon conversion proc though. And yea, I didn’t get the final blow the point of showing that clip was the fight and the tactics I used to wittle the guy down, not necessarily that I got the stomp.

Silv.9207:

-About the number four… there’s not so much to say unless: wat a noob!
Seriously, the speed he died without activate a single stun break in the right time, a virtue, elite or heal make me belive that he is seriously a noob. More than that, you can easy see that he had not his virtues ready, probably not even the elite, and that can explain how you killed him: he was a free target with all his skills in cooldown and with a defensive bunker build of support. To notice that there’s another time a bad equipped dh with probably a bad build (fragments of faith? not even a large amount of bunker dh use it and chose better skills instead, still if it’s a possible choice in the metabattle build. He used a bunker build no one use anymore). He was a mediocre player fighting without his virtues, elite and with wathever other skill on cooldown. Wow, that’s a really great win! Like shoot at the red cross…

About number four, he had no cooldowns I guess. But he thought he could hold me off till he got them. He didn’t know I had turned on my Teacher mode.

Obtena.7952:

You’re post confirms what I suspect … people that make the game about meta only care about meta. Engi is both functional, by itself and in groups. It’s only when you introduce meta into that equation that you lessen the value of the class. Again, if you only see a class for it’s meta-value, then of course your only going to kitten a class and it’s performance against how it stacks up in the meta. Unfortunately, the game is so much more than that. So Ok, for some people this is everything, so I won’t debate that but that leads to my next point.

There is nothing conditional about the folly of chasing meta as a game developer. YOu might think I’m being glib by saying there are other classes you can play if Eng falls out of favour, but that is the answer, especially for the people that only care about meta status. There is no reasonable approach for Anet to ensure that every class that ’isn’t meta’ is made meta every time the game changes, just so people can play the class they want and get the highest levels of performance. Ideally sure, we would have that but over 4 years later, we don’t. That’s not just GW2 either. It’s prevalent in lots of MMOs with a diverse range of classes. I will leave it to you to think about why that is.

You’re getting it completely wrong Obtena. The people complaining about how the Engie compares to the meta don’t necessarily want it to be meta. For instance, everyone says base necro is bad, and it currently isn’t meta in PvP. Yet, I’m currently playing it with great success beating everything currently in the meta. Then there’s the Engie, it is meta in PvP but it still can’t guaranteed-ly do anything substantially well (apart from rezzing i guess) which becomes a liability overtime.

Yes, “Meta or not meta” is not a good measurement for whether a class should be buffed or not, i agree with that but when even the non-meta builds suck…. you have a problem.

Kumouta.4985:

no good DH would stand still in your well + not pull through test of faith + not attack while trying to escape.

The question is whether or not they realized there was a well there, the brightness of traps and the blue hue of the Shield of Courage obscures the effect of the wells. People don’t realize it’s there.

Silv.9207:

A lot of bad DH, nothing more.
I seen a lot of videos like that one where a necro was able to wipe out tons of bad enemies. Also a funny one with a power necro using the GS against a large amount of insanely bad players in unranked screaming that the GS is OP.

Try to fight a real DH, then come back with a video showing you die all the time CCed, pulled, bursted down in few seconds without mercy from someone that is knowing hat he’s doing.

I love it when I show people getting bursted down and you guys think these people aren’t good. I’ve actually lost to those same people, it’s just that the build I’m using has the potential to just DESTROY so much and I’ve played against DHs so many times that, my win-loss ratio is literally dependent on whether or not I act a fool.

Scykosix.7836:

Divine.3279:

I got lucky, and got placed into Platinum 2.

Hope you are not one of those guys with 15-4 score in plat 2. Also previous seasons, doesnt matter what rank u were tbh because it was a grind.

You can calculate whether a player is good in how fast they get to Legend in the old system. Good players get to Legend in 60-80 matches in Season 1 through season 4, average players get there in 90-150 and so on and so forth.

Phineas Poe.3018:

So an update.

On Saturday I reached 1775 with my duo partner, with something like a 150-145 record. He stopped, and in my hubris I decided to keep playing. He’s decided that he wants to decay to solidly land in the top 100, so I’ve been left to solo queue on my own this week.

Long story short, I’m now now 1598 at this time on Friday afternoon, holding a sterling 177-182 record on the season.

I’d be angry about it, but after all the ups and downs I’ve dealt with this season, I’ve kinda reached a state of ambivalence, if not having become completely zen about it.

Having not seriously played this game in nearly a year, maybe I overestimated my aspirations of the top 150-250 range to start the season. I never did AGs or anything remotely serious, but I felt that I was a player that was somewhat on the edge of pushing “real” rating. I had no aspirations of winning most 1v1s vs. pro league players, but I felt like I had a genuinely good grasp of the game mode and, minus momentary situations of blindness, I do a pretty good job of “holding my own.”

I’ve kinda just resigned myself to this fate and like the PvE Pleb Lord I am, am just enjoying raking in the gold, dyes, and transmutation charges. I also just got an ascended armor box this morning, which is cool.

Sorry man. This is around the time when I start trying out new builds to see if I can fix the problem somehow. I would suggest doing that. You could figure some way of playing hammer Scrapper with bombs that no one has thought of yet.

Phineas Poe.3018:

Ivantreil.3092:

Sorry, but engi is fine in pvp, defenitely with no flexible builds but it is, whats our concern here? stay in the meta (in a meh level, but in), or shine at least in 1 patch even if it means getting hardly nerfed in the next one

You realize engi can be “fine” in PvP without being a meta profession? Nothing you said here really overturns my belief in that existence.

Engineers prior to the Celestial amulet being added brought raw damage with GK/TK condi, Static Discharge, and 100nade. After the Celestial amulet was added we transitioned into a more decap/bunker role with the rifle and with FT/TK, one that we held pretty firmly for two plus years. ArenaNet buffed and nerfed engi survivability for years based on the existence of the Celestial amulet, and when they finally removed it and put out the pre-HoT trait overhaul in 2015, they did little to address the big gaping hole that needed to be filled.

Phineas, the past few years have been crazy man. It hasn’t just been you who has seen the decline of the engie. I saw it from the very moment they did the trait revamp. People thought I was just jumping the gun because the trait revamp hadn’t arrived yet at the time but the fact remains I was right, the explosives line sucks, the fire-arms line is mediocre and with all the blocks, blinds and CC and condis in the game, an engie player is literally NOTHING without Alchemy.

Suggestion after suggestion, patch after patch, nothing after nothing. All we can do is hope and wait. If all they do is increase damage on jump shot again, imma lose my cool….

Prince Vingador.8067:

Dirame.8521:

Prince Vingador.8067:

This is not what happening when equal skill players face each other.
Those DH are VERY VERY bad, and u giving the wrong idea , this is really whats not happening.

Yea, sometimes you’ll get owned and that’s a fact, but sometimes you will also LITERALLY 100 to 0 them. Even when they have their cooldowns and even if they are just as skilled as you.

Trust me, there’s been plenty of DHs that I’ve fought who type “what the heck” when I was done with them.

Are u playing in bronze cause i dont see any of those dh instadying in a 1vs 1

Lol Prince come on, you know just because you’re not taking out DHs, that doesn’t mean other people can’t.

Prince Vingador.8067:

This is not what happening when equal skill players face each other.
Those DH are VERY VERY bad, and u giving the wrong idea , this is really whats not happening.

Yea, sometimes you’ll get owned and that’s a fact, but sometimes you will also LITERALLY 100 to 0 them. Even when they have their cooldowns and even if they are just as skilled as you.

Trust me, there’s been plenty of DHs that I’ve fought who type “what the heck” when I was done with them.

Pecar.1236:

lol you win againg incredible noob DHs no dodge/fighting in your aoe exp dh dodge your marks and when you use wells go back and cover behind object and then kill you.EXP dh use simple rule: dont fight where necro want and fight where you want fight so when you spamm your aoe go back drop traps and F1+pull and you are dead and using F3 1s before fight so almost all of your skill got miss and you cannot do nothing. 0:23 in video he almost kill you but when you use your aoe he standing and fighting in exp player dodge outside and swap for lb and with skill3 knock you and with rest of skill kill you.All of this DHs only stay and not move and no brain spam skills.

You’ve gotta understand that when people think that they can down you, they will sometimes take risks and that’s what happens to some of these Dragonhunters, they think they’re about to win and then I just turn it around with a bit of patience and not panicking just because I’m at 10% HP.

Vitali.5039:

What about dinner?
Nice video

Warriors….. obviously.

…on the odd occasion

I’ve made a case of not looking at my rating or caring whether I win or lose. I just want to play better and be in a fun match.

So far, I’ve won more than I’ve lost and I’m not quite sure where I’m at on the Leaderboard atm….

Next Specialization, Give them a shield and Insidious Parasite as one of the skills. GG.

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Prince Vingador.8067:

Kuya.6495:

I think d/p thf is fine. What needs a nerf is the d/d and vault evade spamming variants. Don’t know how though. I don’t think mesmer needs a nerf. It gets shut down by d/p thf and dh rather easily. What do people think about mesmer that is over performing right now?

As for war, i don’t think it’s op but i also don’t really know what class is supposed to counter it. I would imagine that necros counter warriors but my impression has been that necros hate facing stacked warrior teams, probably because of the cc spam and resistance uptime.

Necros counters wariors?

This is why devs should ever listen to players.

Its amazing u think that necros counter warriors.
And some of u ask me why i rage so much…….

Necros do counter Warrors Prince. It’s just a matter of what skills you’re using and when.

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Mesmer doesn’t need nerfing, Warrior doesn’t need nerfing.

If these characters were unequivocally carrying games, I’d say they need nerfs but they don’t so…. they don’t

I also dislike the Headshot spam but I think having a fast interrupt is crucial for PvP, maybe increase the ini requirement to 7 so they can only pop 2 headshots in a short span of time.

Actually another thing the devs can do is instead of increasing the base initiative requirement, they can add a caveat to taking the Pulmonary Impact trait that says; Increase Headshot initiative cost by 2 so that you’re only affecting the one build, not all the builds.

Shaogin.2679:

Corrosive poison cloud definitely seems useful, but doesn’t it give you issues always have to use a condi cleanse right after or suffer from your self-inflicted weakness?

Also, after dropping Soul Reaping and staff do you ever have issues with Life Force generation. It is something I’ve been considering, but I’m worried about a drop in sustain.

It’s funny but I actually never thought of the weakness affecting me /facepalm. Now that you mention it though, it is a bit of an issue but it’s only for a short time and the benefits of CPC far outweigh the short drop in damage.

And about LF generation, I’ve resigned myself to understanding that this build won’t generate as much life force as your average staff wielding condimancer but when you get a good roll going the Life force you have will just seem to have no end…. unless you waste it of course.

Prince is frustrated with these classes and I can get that. It’s tough fighting Thieves and warriors and mesmers.

Prince, you’re just going to have to figure out a new build that can beat these guys. If you want a few ideas, I can definitely help.

Hey guys, I recorded my version of the power reaper doing my thing in a full match. You can check it out below and take a look at the build. A Full guide will come later, if you’re at all interested in that.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYwZwHoNLw

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBhOD7kjGo5GsaTwzGg/GsgLYxXxuYYE6qFAaBTZhmwSA-TZBFQBA4KAEwyAvY/hFcQAewDAAA

KrHome.1920:

This is surely a viable build. But:

You have 4 condition transfers and clears on low cooldowns to mitigate condition damage. Direct damage bursts will be a bigger issue for your build. This is the reason why I would prefer Wanderer Amulet and Rune of the Undead.

He’s got Rise to mitigate direct damage but, just like you said Wanderer’s is still a better amulet for necros since we have large base health pool, Rune of the Undead is nice too.

Something like this might work for you: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNApeWl8Ah6hYnQwfHwPEHJEFeDeuU4usBwBknh/rEA-TpQWABOWGAg9HAA

Since Guardians have natively high toughness, going for high health may prove to be a good idea, especially with tons of blocks and ways to heal yourself when things get hairy. The amulet provides you with crit so that you can proc all the crit based traits that give boons to you and allies which will also heal you for the boons applied. Check it out, see if you like it, tweak as you desire.

Corrosive. Poison. Cloud.

Exedore.6320:

@OP

Your video is terrible. You don’t understand PvP or stronghold’s problems. Your video was just a facade for a GW1 GvG love-in. In fact, you never presented ANY real ideas on how to fix stronghold. You just said “make it like GW1 GvG”.

Let me help you with a real analysis…

You may be good at analyzing the problem with Stronghold (PS: I’ve already gone through a detailed review of the issues with stronghold in a different post last year) but you failed at analyzing the true intention of my video.

Many people are actually using my video to say that “Oh we need Fort Aspenwood back” or “We need Jade Quarry back” what my video is simply saying is, we need GOOD GAME DESIGN back. I guess I might have done a bad job of breaking it down at the end but yea, you got the point of my video wrong.

And I even wasn’t doing a straight comparison between Legacy and GvG, I was doing a comparison of game mechanics. How simple/complex the different game mechanics were between Conquest, Stronghold and GvG. Conquest and GvG have simple mechanics but players are able to express their creativity through their skills (in GvG especially) and through map awareness (Conquest especially). But Stronghold stretches too far in one direction, too many mechanics to juggle, not enough space to actually see player skill or creativity. <—- This totally should’ve been my conclusion in the video…. jeez.

You guys understand that I wasn’t saying they should go back to large teams but rather simpler rules that give players more room to explore and play.

VIDEO EDITION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yHWst8cV_c

Stronghold? Can we fix it? Yes we can! But first, we have to figure out what’s wrong with it! In the video above, I go through what might be wrong with stronghold and what arenanet needs to do going forward when making maps and new game modes.

My only advice is this, if you’re going to use Greatsword, don’t use staff. Having two slow weapons will ALWAYS get you killed by fast specs.

Zero Solstice.9754:

The process you’re talking about is known as “metagaming”, it’s a major component of performance in games such as Magic: The Gathering, and it exists in this game as well. At any given time a build will have good matchups and bad matchups. The objective is to create a build which has good matchups against the most common builds, and bad matchups against the least common ones. The problem with metagaming in Guild Wars PvP is that the metagame is different in smaller ecosystems. In MtG, a metagame in a single shop might be different from other shops or major tournaments, but it will be slow to evolve and estimatable at any given time in each of these locations. In Guild Wars, however, the metagame functions differently at most scales of play; in Bronze/Silver you might see any number of good/bad builds, in Gold you see a lot of Metabattle trash + random spatterings of outliers, in Platinum and Legend people frequently recognize each other, which skews the accuracy of what they might play from game to game. Then you have to take into account the ability of people to character swap at any time. In general, Guild Wars is too volatile to metagame consistently, at which point it’s best to play catch-all abilities with straightforward play paths. The irony is that these builds are usually the ones that end up as the consensus meta builds anyway, and now that they’re meta, they become the target of fresh metagaming, and the cycle goes on and on.

That’s the fun of it. But in GW2, players seem to get stuck just running into a wall rather than actually trying to “game the meta”.

Right now, Engies are rez bots and +1ers like David has alluded to.

That’s their special role. Get the rez even in the most difficult of circumstances.

That said though, I personally, don’t like that playstyle AT ALL. I absolutely hate the idea that the only way I can help is by being a rez bot or a tanky slow thief. And the problem with that as well is, being a rez bot, doesn’t necessarily guarantee or increase your chances of winning. You’re not countering anyone, you’re not the nemesis of anyone in particular (as you have articulated very well) and you’re definitely not downright blowing anyone to smithereens.

That’s why I play this build sometimes: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUlUUhqrYXWw+Kw6FLsFFYIuBBgYHNFPBdzf8PPA-TJBFABAcBAaf/hHeAA/XGAA

It doesn’t beat other Scrappers, it doesn’t always win against Necros and Warriors but it MOST definitely craps the hell on Mesmers, and Revs and Thieves and can put a dent in the armour of the Dragonhunter and even decap an Ele. But it can never beat a good Druid.. except with a well coordinated burst combo that’s incredibly hard to pull off.

And in team fights, it’s acts like a long range dot on the focus target, they can never get away from you cos you just keep poking at them for crazy amount of sustained pressure. (I’ve literally taken down mesmers in team fights by just spamming 1 with no one else doing damage to them).

So if you want a build with weaknesses and a role, then I’d recommend that. But Hammer Scrapper with Mender or Paladins, is still the best all rounder build for this meta.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

• 6) High rated players treated differently than mid/low tier players. This is unintentional on Anet’s part, but their matchmaking system protects the higher rated players. They never have to worry about their teammates not understanding strategy, rotations, etc. Mid to low tier players are grouped together with new players, and they’re trapped on these tiers because getting out depends on the luck of the draw for teammates. Anet should be fair to all players, and have a hard reset of MMR.

This last point is wrong. All you need to do is watch any Legendary players stream on twitch to know that it is wrong.

The rest of the stuff you’ve got should definitely be considered but that last one…. nope. Just wrong.

Last week I uploaded a brief discussion video about how to start thinking outside the box as a PvP player when it comes to playing your necro.

The idea can be applied to any other class. This thought process is how I come up with builds and tactics. By simply understanding what most players will do, you can easily make a build or tactic to beat 90% of the playerbase.

The games are harder but not impossible. If you’re on point with rotations and there aren’t any smart people who decide to give up because “we don’t have an ele” and “you’re playing necro” then you’ll probably win.

I don’t trust a lot of necros that use GS but I can vouch for myself in that, I’ve spent enough time with the weapon to know how to use it and you shouldn’t berate anyone if you haven’t seen them play with it yet.

GS is really good carry weapon if you can manage to down people and then cleave the body as people try to rez it. Many a match I have won just by doing that.

Oh and my current Power Necro build is one of the only builds that has a consistently high win rate against most mesmers.

Instead of complaining about your lack of viability why not figure out what you can do to stay alive. The meta necro build is cool and all but the skills you actually need to survive aren’t in there so think critically and test out different things.