Guild Wars 2

Lordrosicky.5813:

Divinity.8041:

Do you want to be forced into one build and stay in mid for every battle? If not, choose necromancer.

If you are a guardian and stay mid then you almost certainly are bad. Bunker guardians should roam to all the team fights. It is actually a class where you see alot of action.

I am not as good as you, but I am pretty sure a guardians main role is mid, to debuff, and buff his allies. I don’t really tpvp, but I would assume once you have mid, then he can roam? Am I that wrong? I don’t play guardians, but I assume that is what they do, especially AH which IMO is the best spec to play ATM. AH doesn not work well when not with multiple peeps i.e. you stay on mid.

Straight up though, i do have a lot to learn about this game, but I don’t think im THAT wrong ^^

Do you want to be forced into one build and stay in mid for every battle? If not, choose necromancer.

Dirame.8521:

Divinity.8041:

Tell me again why it takes forever to fix simple things in this game?

If throwing money at things fixed them instantly, we’d be living in a different world.

Throwing money at simple things does fix them, clearly you are still a student and have never actually had money before.

swiftpaw.6397:

Dirame.8521:

Divinity.8041:

Tell me again why it takes forever to fix simple things in this game?

If throwing money at things fixed them instantly, we’d be living in a different world.

When my cat died I just bought a new one.

Laughed out loud IRL

Svarty.8019:

The rally mechanic appears to be broken/bugged. When I killed my enemy’s pet, I didn’t get a rally. Everywhere else in PvE Guild Wars this would rally me (off anything that’s not a critter).

lol go whine in pve land, getting rally off AI, do you know how silly that is in this game? people would never die…

All of this assumes 35% of the profit went somewhere else (development, etc.) These number could be, and most likely is probably close to double my calculations. These numbers are straight up profit, development and other things are already taken into consideration in the 35% figure.

link to average profit margins graph 1

link to another profit margins graph 2

We can assume they take home about 30% of the value of the game.

3.5mm units x $60 = $210,000,000.00

Below assumes they just take 30%, and the retailer still takes their 20%

$210,000,000 × 30% = $63 million dollars

Below assumes 50% of the retailer sales is given to publisher because of downloads eliminating their “middle man”

$210,000,000 × 40% = $84 million dollars

Tell me again why it takes forever to fix simple things in this game?

I have read your glassdoor reviews, and the pay is paltry at best, so it isn’t your operating budget. Maybe you are just squandering our resources away?

When is someone going to interview sens…or another mesmer? ^^

FyiNight.5784:

Hello guys,

Im having (semi-hard) time fighting theif, nercro,elem,
Im not saying Im a noob, I kill alot of people, but im not ‘owning’ them.

I would say im always 1K:2D kill ratio, I don’t know why

I tried all weapons and skills, i just don’t get why im not winning 1on1 with others

I kinda sound ridiculous but, really, i play to pwn.
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here is the problem, In my opinion other class has:

thief : MEGA DAMAGE + INFINITE INVISIBILITY
necromancer: MEGA HEALS, HP
elementalist: MEGA HEALS, MEGA DAMAGE
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Build:
20/20/20/0/10

Utilities:
Endure pain, Throw bolas,Frenzy

Here is My Stats:DS, GS,S/S
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/15/o9gz.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/33/5c32.jpg/

I just want to hear your side of opnion

most OP heal in game qqing about other classes heals, cute.

please? I want to to see what the fusss is about, and go to the dark side

Mine I think is shatter 20/20/30 or phantasm 20/25/0/25

PU can be cool. But I don’t like just running away.

When did this happen? I believe I still currently get glory as I get it…not at the end of a match.

what have people been using in spvp?

I am torn between baltahzar/lyssa/undead

sigils? do you guys actually use purity? I use things that produce bleeds on swap, and energy.

has anyone deviated from the 20/20/30?

Littlefeather.8623:

Sensotix.4106:

oh god do i really have to explain it again..i have been watching him playing via stream i saw him in several good tournaments i talked to other good/highranked players and i think after one year of pvp only i can tell if a player is good and is one of the top or not

As a player I respect your groud, but as a member of free society and consumer of a free market / economy, this is just like researching an article on a product from a website where the author is biased and promoting a certain product over others in the text.

Thats all im saying, Im sure there are a lot of readers who look at your posts in awe and amazement, but in order to appeal to the masses you should at least have some kind of unbiased approach to these things. I would agree with your opinion if you offered comparisons, made valid points to credit an aspect of PvP you want to communicate.

In LIBS 101, you learn this, you need to do a good amount of research to communicate to your target audience, whether it is unbiased or not is soley up to you, but these things can be picked up on.

what rank are you again? If you are not in top 100, please don’t ever respond to this thread, or even talk against sens, or anyone he interviews.

stop being “that guy” who just likes to annoy everyone and be like, well technically he isn’t x etc.

bads will be bad.

anyone care to chime in?

Please post builds of what you talk about…I have no idea!!

What kind of engineer were you playing?

I view mesmers as casters, but you are correct about the ranged DPS. I was thinking either arrow or bullet?

ISO ranger/engi/thief/warrior builds for this

This is for hotjoin btw, maybe some YOLOq.

But what about the sniper mentality? I could see engineer, but mesmer? ew

Darnis.4056:

Thief Shortbow does some pretty ridiculous damage…
You might also want to add engineer/mesmer to that list.

Yes, but as a main damage source though? I need more raw damage.

Can you explain about the engineer?

Ranger, warrior, thief, engineer.

What do you guys think? I want to say ranger, and when I say thief, I mean unload.

for SPVP, you guys show your rank (low) when you talk about Guardians being bad, or needing buffs?

Every team in every tournament since this game has started contained a guardian.

Guardians are borderline OP, the only reason people don’t complain is because they don’t deal huge damage, that is it. Done.

I don’t main a guardian…but am not bad enough to say they need a buff.

Who needs a buff? How about the class that had a 0% showing during the last tournament…ele.

no eles were harmed in this tournament

Seeing as no elementalists were harmed in the making of the last competitive tournament in GW2…I think devs are going to rethink the class.

This is just my opinion, but that was probably the boldest statement the class could make. Not that there was just one…there was just none.

/rhyme

Gandarel.5091:

Remove glorygain from hotjoin, add unrated tournament. Or only reward the winner team.

Last week in soloque i told my team that someone should take close back. Noone listened, so i went for it. Told them that I will win this, defend mid. At the moment when i managed to get the ranger downed, all 4 teammates arrived to stomp the ranger. Even our bunker guard.

This is so true…I cringe when this happens.

I laughed out loud when reading this. It is a shame this happened in YOLOq.

Littlefeather.8623:

Try not to use “Top”, which implies [Better than everyone else] in your threads, you done this with the Guardian section too lol.

There are alot of other good/great Thiefs in GW2. You are disregarding hundreds of thousands of other thieves.

“Best at 1v1?

- Best 1v1 against Necro’s
– Best 1v1 against Engi’s?
– Best 1v1 against Guard’s?
– Best 1v1 against Ele’s?
– Best 1v1 against other Thiefs?
– Best 1v1 against Warriors?
– Best 1v1 against Ranger’s?
– Best 1v1 against Mesmer’s?

Best at Bunkering?

- Best bunker against Necro’s
– Best bunker against Engi’s?
– Best bunker against other Guard’s?
– Best bunker against Ele’s?
– Best bunker against Thiefs?
– Best bunker against Warriors?
– Best bunker against Ranger’s?
– Best bunker against Mesmer’s?

Best Healing Spec?

- Best self healing Spec?
– Best group healing Spec?

Best DPS Spec?

Best Condi removal Spec?
– Best group condi removal?
– Best self condi removal?

With so many builds and play styles, when you place “Best” infront of any one, that just completly disregards all other builds and players out there.

Thanks for the support though.”

I just copied and pasted what I wrote in your thread “Interview with a top guardian (Azshene)” Which was renamed from “Interview with GW2 top guardian (Azshene)” or so because you made the mistake of using “Best” in your post.

You need to chill out, if sens says this is a top thief, he is a top thief.

You saying azshene is not a top guardian is blasphemy. If you are in high level tourneys, you are a top player in this game. Let’s not get all nerdy and try to be like, “well he is only top vs x class.”

Stop the h8.

don’t kill clones, and also use range

clones don’t do damage, just find the right mesmer, call target and call someone else in to help, or simply use your power elsewhere.

really hard to beat a good mesmer 1v1 with this spec

Nuka Cola.8520:

been saying this since game came out that gs/staff is extremely powerful for shatter or phantasms but some of you here need a person to play in mlg/being streamed to even consider the set. bunch of sheep following each other with sword/pistol/X on this forum.

Nothing against you Nuka, but nobody ever said it was bad. Top mesmers have not been running staff/gs at all in the tourney scene since this game came out.

I don’t know what you “main” but I can tell you as mesmer main, that this weapon combo is rare that is all. The below link backs up my statement to the T.

This link shows comps of every major team in every major tourney since game came out

leungclj.4915:

is it a rule that they are not allowed rune or something? I just check the link in the OP and most build said “No runes checked by casters”

No, they were using runes/sigils…the commentators simply didn’t show us them that is all. We can guess what they were using, but that is all it is…a guess.

Void.4239:

Teutos.8620:

Everytime in prepare of a new patch they are shutting down the spvp, to reduce possible errors.

This was used to be the same with WvW but got changed recently.

Out of experience , every patch brings errors , so closing spvp servers is not really helping.

I think a WvW patch spawned an anomaly sort of like Neo in the matrix called SPVP.

Major difference is that it is the anti-one.

Please see attached

Well out of the two builds seen in the latest tourney, both mesmers were using staff. Interesting.

talife.5927:

Im so happy my main class since launch isn’t even here… oh wait!

I see what you did there!

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

What should i invest in with the current market?

I would short #5

Click here to see the graph

Discuss!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:TahiriVeila/MLGInvite27Sep2013

The above link is a draft of what people used.

The winning team had a mesmer on it! He was GS/Staff phantasm.

I do not know if the halting strike was an error or not, but I am curious to see what Helseth used.

The only other mesmer in the tourney was a phantasm build, which is actually exactly the same build I am running at the moment.

Interesting…GS/Staff

I was thinking about this the other day, because they are both polar opposites.

Staff is so defensive, yet the GS is so offensive. It could be fun to try on a shatter build, but maybe not a phantasm, just due to the weakness of the staff phantasm?

Discuss!

any help on my initial question?

Where can we find the team comps, builds etc from last week’s tourney?

MyPuppy.8970:

Oh that’s just because of the new elementalist OP skill: perma invisibility (no one can see you, even the spectators)

LOL haha this is epic.

Any good builds?

I currently run the 100-0 build that is like 25/30/15 except traited for pistols.

I do ok with it, but was wondering if anyone has any other ideas. I feel helpless after I blow through my int. I usually hit w switch and sb them and wait for int to come back.

No lie though, I think this is the most fun thief build.

Ok…colox..I have watched your videos on thief tricks, and it is cool.

I basically want d/d or d/p because s/d is about to get a serious nerf, and I don’t want to start playing a class that will probably be kitten so bad it will fall out of meta.

How do I spectate someone? I literally don’t know how to do that haha.

Been running full glass and it is cool, I die a lot though..I think it is because my playstyle has me running into big fights.

Also tried P/P and think it is REALLY fun hehe.

I am loving these links guys, please keep them up!

Lux, please tell me how to do that!!! (or some other nice thief for that matter)

Can’t watch vids right now, because of work, but will watch them tonight

my biggest problem is how to play the thief I just feel like I am doing it wrong. I main mesmer up until this point, but got tired of it.

I like big numbers, and I love the theif so far. I think I found my new main!!!

<3

Love you guys!!! Halpz me ^^

I did something which I thought was pretty pro yesterday

Came up to two guys trying to stomp someone at farpoint on Khylo, shadowstepped to them to save time, ganked both, dropped a refuge, and invis stomped both guys, then rezed my teammate. All three were like…wow dude nice.

I felt SOOO good You really have no idea.

/noobmiracle

I know caed, but I can’t watch his twitch. Any good youtubers out there where I could watch some d/p/sb or even d/d /sb action?

I like the thief, and am alright on one, but I feel like I am playing it wrong. I watched countless on his mesmer, and learned a lot from him, any other cool thieves out here I could learn from?

This is just sad, if this doesn’t scream something to ANET, I don’t know what will.

RoRo.8270:

Arachnid.4062:

This is probably the worst testament to match making I’ve ever been a part of in this game.

How on earth does anet allow a match to start 0v5??

We Esports

truly an epic statement.

wow that helped alot!!

K U T M.4539:

Heal, heal, F1.

First heal is a small heal.

Second is a small heal that clears 2 condis and makes a water field.

F1 is a blast finisher that procs a heal when used while you’re standing inside the water field made by the second heal.

You have to double tap heal fast in order to have the field pop instantly, otherwise there’s a delay.

so heal for 2250 first time i hit heal

I heal for a 2250 second time I heal, then if I hit f1 while the water thingy spins, I get an AOE heal?

I figured it is like a 5k heal usually if you hit it twice?

Do I press heal twice for an overcharged heal? Or do I press healing turret, then f1 for the condi clear?

Or do I hit healing twice, then f1 for the condi clear?

/newb

this might sound stupid, but when I use healing turret, how do i get it to explode. Do I just hit f1? or do I have to hit the healing skill twice, then f1?

for the overcharged function

Where are some of these guides at? What does SD mean?

you can spectate gear and runes?

This is for SPVP

I come from a mesmeer main, and we pretty much have shatter or phantasm or tank

What are the top 3 builds people run on engineer?

I heard about HGH.

What is the role of a engineer in a team?

SPVP

This engineer would not die. He had 4 people on him, and had like perm boons on him. I spectated and found he used…

the supply crate, pistol/shield and FT a wrench, and Elixir Gun. He used the healing turret.

IT was unreal!

Knote.2904:

Spammable low risk dmg in general is a problem, not just condition necessarily.

so true.

Mathias.9657:

Allie Murdock.8152:

Alright, I wasn’t going to post here, but I want to stop you all in your tracks in thinking that this post was in any way made or prompted by ArenaNet. That is simply not true.

It looks like Caine here is trying to reiterate things we have already messaged, but go largely ignored, as well as sharing his/her experience in the community.

Thank you all for taking the time to share your concerns.

You guys seem to be really proud of doing absolutely nothing. You reply to a lot of threads, sure, maybe you even send that feedback to the pvp devs. But does anything actually change in the game? Nope… so you keep on trying to fill us with false hope, simply throwing a red ANet reply into a thread isn’t going to fix the game. You guys fixing the game is going to fix the game.

But yeah guys, let’s keep it constructive and informative so we can continue going ignored while ANet agree’s with people like OP and imagine in their own little world the game is completely fine and they’ll take our suggestions ‘into consideration’ LOL.

My question is, why don’t the pvp devs take a moment out of their day to read the pvp forums themselves and realize what a plague and letdown spvp is. I mean, they obviously have no clue what the hell is going on so that would be a start.

There are countless, COUNTLESS threads with very constructive suggestions and even solutions to the problems with the game but apparently those don’t exist. I guess we’re delusional, guys.

This sums of my views exactly. You couldn’t have said it any better. They are proud of their failure in their microcosm of a world they live in.

Excalibur.9748:

Recently I’ve noticed a disturbing trend.

People are not gonna be satisfied with just larcenous strike nerf. They want infiltrator strike nerf (good call, I would say that this skill is the bread and butter of S/D kit). And general evade nerf (an S/D thief can be built to evade many times in a row).

It’s getting to me because I don’t think they realize that it’s actually hard to play in sPvP and a regen bunker warrior is a lot easier to play in sPvP.

There is this misconception that you can’t hit the “perma-evade” thief…yet I can consistently hit them with GS auto attack (!) on my warrior. The rate that the thief loses health to my auto attack is practically the same as me losing HP. But considering that he is using all his evades/skills/initiatives and I’m just using auto attack chain and dealing the SAME damage…how does that make the S/D thief OP in any way?

Another funny story…one time I was 1v1ing this S/D thief who was just dancing cirlces around me, and then he withdrew to his doom , when he fell down one of those cracks on sky hammer. That was funny as hell! Withdraw is an okay heal, but can’t really touch healing signet in any way. It’s good if you want to get out since it propels you backwards, but what if you don’t want to? Well tough luck, it comes with withdraw.

The ONLY nerf to S/D kit I can advise is nerf to energy sigil, in the same way that paralization sigil is being nerfed to nerf warrior. A hit to energy sigil will hit S/D thief hardest. This will cut down on the evade spam “issue” which is really not that much of an issue since they can still be hit while they’re chaining evades.

How cute.. op talking about op

passively, it should block more than once every 40 seconds, maybe it applies the block ever 25-30 or so