Guild Wars 2

Sorry dude, I don’t have a problem getting burst immediately I drop the turret. I guess you just need to learn to click or press buttons faster or something.

Nope.

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Probably stood in the poison field longer than needed. The thing that usually kills me is burning but if poison kills you, it’s your bad positioning that caused it.

ryston.7640:

LOL underwater was one of their big things, but it was kitten, since beta. 8More later still not fixed?o

I’m pretty sure if they spent any time trying to improve underwater combat, someone will say “why aren’t they spending time improving something people actually play?”

Regardless of that, from the way underwater combat was talked about before release, it seemed like they had it down pat but apparently not.

I think it’s because, a 100nader could just immob someone and walk into them to drop the 100nades and that would be hard to counter if you didn’t have any escape skills. Kinda like how thieves are hard to counter if you don’t have any escape skills….. yea…. nevermind.

I think organised tournaments would do this job a lot better. Resetting the rankings doesn’t really seem like it would serve any purpose than to make everyone groan.

And with the way the rankings work, a really good new team will get to fight the top teams relatively quickly.

Apolo.5942:

I think it would actually be more useful if Anet acknowledged the dreadful state of pvp in general and why it failed so hard. Then made a compromise and moved from there. I dont think this kind of reactions are of much use. In my opinion they need to scrap the current model (as far as pvp is concerned) and move back to the GW1 model with the standard trinity. Just because it is a different idea, it does not mean it is a good idea, and i think the spvp numbers speak for them selves about this.

Err… no. Whilst I agree that they do need to go back to the GW1 structure of SPvP, they definitely don’t need the standard trinity.

http://youtu.be/c5-ef0a7pwE

Some gameplay of the BoBomber in action.

Dream on OP, dream on. GW1 had quite a few more skills than GW2 and none of the classes had 15 viable builds.

But really, if I don’t take you literally, I understand what you mean. Classes need more viable builds. The truth is, there are a few builds that would be viable, it just needs people to give them a chance.

All I know is, a turret kit would be too overpowered.

Access to all turrets at once…just doesn’t seem like a good idea UNLESS, the amount of turrets you can deploy are limited to 3. So it becomes of a game of “what do I need for this situation?” And even then I still think it would be too OP and annoying to fight against.

Dadi.1870:

1. not that easy to determine if leave was intentional or smth just happened and that player god dced. -give it time
2. -give it time
3. in my experience – really rare to see 3 ppl rally of a single kill, actually i dont think i’ve ever seen it in tpvp :S its not a fail, noone can predict the outcome of a battle…

its so easy to complain about little things that u dont like without thinking of the million other players and their opinions, but apparently its really hard to give constructive criticism instead of pointing out what should be done about it… classic

This is exactly what I was about to say. The OP should please elaborate on how things are “useless” and how they can be improved. Complaining about things without suggesting a solution isn’t helping anyone but your airvents.

Kwll.1468:

Vitu.3580:

…..on when Eles will be balanced?

They won’t be balancing them instead ways to deal with them better will be put into the game so basically you will be forced to run a class/build just to deal with op ele specs. Got to love Build Bores 2 the game that said you could play how you like and be competitive and totally lied.

I don’t know if they ever said “you can play how you like and be competitive” but if they did say that and you believed it…. yea… that’s something else entirely.

Build Wars was always going to happen, bunkers are killed by conditions build, conditions are countered by cleansing builds, cleansing is countered by constant reapplication builds, burst builds kill anyone remotely squishy and bunkers counter burst builds.

Complaining about Build Wars is like complaining that the sun comes up in the morning. It’s in pretty much every game.

Fubar.4389:

Nunganok.4590:

Fubar.4389:

I took a look at the leaderboards and have stopped playing GW2. Totally useless.

Yes the leaderboards are useless. Is that a reason to quit GW2? No. If you are quitting GW2 because of the leaderboards, you weren’t pvp’ing for the right reasons.

Meh I tried to quit but PvP is too addictive. I hope I’m not the first person to have said something they didn’t mean on the interwebz?!

Haha, you flipping troll.

Anyway, yea playing at nightime will definitely get you top stats. I solo queue a lot but I also play with a few friends at nightime and sometimes we go on quite a win streak even against some good team comps. In fact, I had quite a good match against a few Curse guys on EU with a solo queue pug late at night. It was funny because I expected to be wiped on the floor but totally the opposite.

If he doesn’t have Rampage as one up, just ask a staff ele to drop a Static Field, and chain that with a 5 sec freeze from Ice bow, that should let you guys kill him.

Acandis.3250:

Jax.5261:

Acandis.3250:

Quick write-up on how this build should be played:

The shield can be taken down very fast by melee or AoE attacks so you don’t want to use it at the beginning of a fight or if there’s a lot of AoE around. You want to use this when a teamfight is hectic and it will typically be ignored.

Some pointers:

1. Great for 1v1 against engies or other classes that rely on projectile damage.
2. Great for teamfights against engies that are free-casting on your allies, rangers, or any other sort of projectile spammers.

As to why this is a great skill despite it’s obvious weaknesses, I’ll leave it up to you guys to come to the same conclusion I did, on your own time.

Enjoy the build, and say no to grenades!

Wouldn’t WoR work better? Shorter recharge and longer duration.

I played with WoR for a while, but it’s very easy for a good player to ignore it. You can throw grenades right in front of it and the explosion will still hit anyone right behind it, or if you’re in a good position you can even throw grenades right above it to hit people behind it.

For all you ignorant kittens: because SotA creates a shield of absorption, which is a pretty large sphere, which absorbs ALL projectiles, this is the much safer way to go. I simply said condis in the title because condi engineers hurt more than power engis in most teamfights. However, all your grenades and the like will also get absorbed.

Now you can keep typing all your stupid comments, but I’ve tested this in multiple scenarios, I assure you, you are the only ones that are embarrassing yourselves.

Edit: The shield will be out for 30s, with an uptime of up to 24s. This is long enough for any teamfight. After that it will go in a 48s recharge. Which is enough to wait for the next teamfight, generally.

The thing is, if I was fighting you with my Engie, your shield would die within the first few seconds because everything I use, goes through bubbles. But most engies don’t play like me so, I guess it works.

Jax.5261:

Dirame.8521:

Grenades goes through your bubbles, flamethrower goes through your bubbles, Fumigate goes through your bubbles… yea…

Grenades don’t go through SoA/Sanct, etc. They can land before the bubble and their AoE will hit the players inside, but if they hit the bubble themselves they are absorbed. The rest you are correct about.

I see, I always get hit by them is why I thought they go through bubbles.

Grackleflint.4956:

Hey Dirame, (or do you prefer CeiMash?)

Oh and I don’t mind either way. Would’ve liked to have just one name but circumstances didn’t allow.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlIq6Znry2F1LJxoCdGkC76XRKqMl/oQutF;TkAg0Cno4ywlgLbNOukcNsA

I think this build was the prelude to my BoBomber build. It was just made to troll people by immobilizing them repeatedly as they watch the Big Ol Bomb sit right next to them ready to blow up in their face.

Needless to say, it gave me the funnies.

I’m currently using my most recent build, the BoBomber in tournies as a high damage roamer and it works great because of my ability to stealth, avoid damage (seriously, this stuff is underestimated) and even get behind enemy lines to spike someone.

It’s officially rank 2 on my favourite build list.

My suggestion is this; when a person queues solo, they don’t get any rating up or down but when they get into groups higher than 3, they start getting ranked up and down depending on win or loss. If organised teams fight these groups of 3 or 2, they do not move in rank either.

I feel this would alleviate the current “pressure” everyone feels to keep forming teams in order to see their names on the leaderboards.

Yea, thanks for that. It has occurred to me to take it before but I never followed through with that. Also you just gave me the answer to my stability problem. Good stuff.

danbuter.2314:

Does anyone have it on gw2 build or something. I REFUSE to watch YouTube videos on class specs, especially when they can just be printed in a list.

Lol, youtube videos usually have the link to the builds posted in the shownotes.

Grenades goes through your bubbles, flamethrower goes through your bubbles, Fumigate goes through your bubbles… yea…

Seras.5702:

Yes.

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Ok, I can’t leave it at that. It’s the most fun I’ve had playing any profession in GW2. We’re versatile, dynamic, and under-appreciated. Sometimes underestimated to. I’ve read many a post about Engis rolling others in PvP because they weren’t taken seriously until it was too late.

Funny thing about me playing engie is, I underestimate everyone else.

Grackleflint.4956:

That (Evasioneer) guy was me. Thanks for another good build video. Your explanations are straight to the point, and your demonstrations are easy to follow.

I’m looking forward to more.

Lol, thanks. I’ll definitely try to do more but good builds are hard to come by these days heh.

http://youtu.be/ldIyZS_KR50

Should have posted that a long time ago but that’s a video of a full match of me playing the Evasioneer.

To me, I don’t think there’s a “best class”. There’s just, “I know how to play this class like a boss and I enjoy doing it”.

There’s definitely something wrong with the way the “Pull” code registers. Another thing to notice is, I’ve never see it affect Mesmers, I’d have to ask around though.

Funny thing, Grenades are still used in the HGH builds and if you don’t have one, you’re not playing it right. So yea, have fun with that.

Just bombs, mines and grenades.

1) Crit definitely allows you to add quite a bit of damage to your build. Without it you can hit hard but not as hard as you would if you had some form of crit.

2) Stealth isn’t necessary. In fact, all you need to do is run in, drop BoB and immob the target right after. Whilst they are immobed you can then hit them with Blunderbuss and Jumpshot.

IT’S FINALLY HERE, the new engineer burst build. The build I promised the guys that liked my Dodgemaster (or Evasioneer, which is a way cooler name btw). The video is 17mins long so there’s lots of explaining and talking but if you’re like “too long, can’t be bothered to listen”, just skip to 12.49 in the video and if you find yourself asking “How the hell did he pull all that off in the same second” just come back and watch the video from the beginning. There’s definitely some nice tidbits in there about the uses of Kit Refinement in this build so watching the full vid is definitely rewarding.

Just to clarify, I haven’t seen any 13k crits from Big Ol Bomb. It’s probably one of those 1 in a million type things that requires your target to also be quite squishy and for you to have some level of might stacking (which I don’t focus on in the build). So far, my highest has been 7k on a squishy mesmer, so in WvW it will probably be higher.

Rozbuska.5263:

Well imo PvP leaderboards are crap. For example:
75 Vitek.9418 Vitezslav 13 3 81.25% Aurora Glade

Dont tell me this newbie what barely played is better than for example Teldo.

Lol, maybe he wins a lot of solo queues. Personally, I guess I have to stop solo queuing so much…. at least until they split the ratings.

Personally, I think we need those monthly tournies to become a real thing and while they are at it, JADE QUARRY REMASTERED PLOX!!!

But seriously, I’ve really been thinking about how Jade Quarry would work in GW2 and I can see a good mix of all professions playing a large role in defending and assaulting. Of course, Eles and Rangers would be amazing at running the wood needed to fix the doors but thieves and Mesmers should be able to deal with them.

I really and truly think. Jade Quarry could make a comeback.

One thing I know about this map. A well played engie can influence the outcome of a match and a well played Staff Ele can do the same.

I made top 1000… does that count? :P

No, they need to setup monthly and yearly tournies. All this running around with leaderboards and ratings doesn’t seem to be working.

WyldKat.4712:

I just wonder why 3/8 would ditch a hot-join in the last 10 seconds. Whieeeee? It’s HOT JOIN. Why were you even there if you weren’t just there for fun?

Lol, from my experience people always did that regardless of whether the leaderboards were there or not.

The bigger problem is people losing ranked matches and leaving.

I think right now Anet needs that split queue for teams and solos/duos and a bloody freaking tourney with real prizes! So that we can actually use the Wall of Champions.

Yea, they would.

Ostricheggs.3742:

yes it’s easier to be good, because necros are bad. Good necros playing near the skill cap CAN wipe teams so quick that you’ll kitten yourself, but no where near the rate someone like me can with an engi. The objective differences are clear, the major one being burning. The differences in skillcap are subjective but also, in my opinion, clear because of grenades being the hardest skillshot in the game as well as the larger variety and single-application condis. Death shroud management is hardly “management” in any real sense and marks are kitten easy to land in comparison to something like grenades. They also have notably less impact outside of putrid mark in comparison to grenades.

Jugglign might stacks with elixirs is a double edged sword and requires an experienced player. Knowing when to move in and out of a fight is something almost unheard of on a necro because their abilities are hardly range dependent in the slightest. Understanding when to be, and when not to be, in kits, understanding how to kit swap properly and understanding how to react to every single class and spec is the bare MINIMUM for playing an HGH engi. Calling a necro harder is kinda crazy IMO and I object greatly >:(

It’s subjective. You believe they are harder because you have more to think about, he believes Necros are harder because they have more to WORRY about. Subjective discussion is subjective.

But in my opinion, I think you overstate the difficulty of playing the HGH Engie. Most of the things you speak of about entering or exiting a fight is what most classes with a damage oriented role have to think about too. An HGH engie could sit on the sidelines chucking grenades and not have to worry about getting into the centre fight because he’s still relatively effective chucking grenades than jumping in the middle.

And I’ve seen you play your Engie. You play it with some next level camera spin that I don’t think anyone else playing the build would attempt. Not even Teldo has that level of camera movement and he plays a similar build.

The truth is, the HGH engie has the same things to worry about as any other class, just with some slight differences. Landing grenades on a moving target is hard but chucking grenades on an ongoing fight on a point? So easy I could do it blind.

If only they added that NPC in GW1 that would tell you how fast you killed him and your DPS per second. That was so freaking helpful.

All it would take to kill all the tornadoes is one mesmer confusion shatter.

Kline.9561:

personally i think HGH engi is fine strong but not overpowered no reason to over think it or explain it people know. what makes them a problem in tpvp is the game mode we call conquest, it hard holding points with 2 HGH engis spamming grenades on point

recently lost to a team running 2 bunker guards and 2 HGH engis and a mesmer running repair kit on portal

cheesy and annoying but i wouldn’t say op we held our own

now where the real problem with engis does not come from the HGH build it comes from there overwhelming amount of useless utilities. why bring battering ram? when i get more cc using kits! turrents? pshhhhhh please.. too many skills not finding a place anywhere for the engi.

Was the problem the Engies or the Mesmer running the kit? Because, the HGH engies I’ve faced were easily dealt with by me just spamming auto attack on my Elixir Gun (backed up by Incendiary Ammo from FT of course).

HGH engies can easily be countered. To me they are not OP, they are just a nuisance if left alive. Just like Bomb Engies or Mesmers or Necros.

You’re not going to please everyone. They are following their vision for what they have outlined for the classes and if something seems wrong, it is still in their power to change it.
What can they do better? Nothing. If they are not constantly iterating and JUDGING FOR THEMSELVES whether they are right or wrong, then that is what they need to start doing.

Seriously, if I want to do a dungeon, I just go stand in front of it in a populated server. Someone is USUALLY looking for one extra person.

PhelanDisturbed.1650:

Wuffles… I’ll hold you to that! I’ll add you when I log on.

Sep, same for me. In gw1 it was assassin… can’t get in to the thief to save my life though.

Assassins were way more complex than the thief is anyway so I can see how you wouldn’t get into it. I think we can sum the thief up in one word; spam.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

We need classes listed so I can see how many of these guys play ele

HA!

ZING!

It doesn’t make any sense! HEAD SPLOSION

I think if people heard that these types of tournies were being set-up in GW2, they’d come back just to see how things are.

I think once Anet gets out there and says “Hey, everyone! We’re having a PvP tourney on this date, sign up with your team here. We are only taking 16 teams by said date so be there of be square!” There would be quite a few people who would rush back into the game to see what’s up and if they continue to do it consistently every quarter, demand for more space to be involved in the tournies would rise.

Even if no old members come back, at the very least, new teams would form to participate in such an event.

Fuzion.7613:

Very few people would come back for a weapon skin.

Serious tourny events are not for weapon skins.

Few people would come back for weapon skins but everyone loves the prestige that comes with winning a tourney against the best of the best.

The perfect Lightning hammer build; Give it to a Warrior.

I kid. :P