Guild Wars 2

Today on the Dragonhunter ready-up, Josh Davis made a hybrid build that was ticking burn for 4.5k and bleed for 2.5k at the same time. That’s 7k dps from condi ticks alone on a hybrid.

I understand that there will need to be balancing patches, but with Anets recent approach to to turret engi, I fear that guardian will go from OP to nerfed into the ground.

We’ve only saw Chronomancer and Dragonhunter so far, but if these two specialization are an indication of what’s to come, I fear for PvP.

I’m going to diagnose you with a clear case of L2P. This can be fatal, but I have good news! It is 100% treatable. With moderate effort and a small amount of dedication, you should have this cleared up in no time!

Vizardlorde.8243:

Shield only sees use in WvW zerging and some obscure bunker guard in pvp

wut

Google “red resign.” This is why it will never happen.

DarkSyze.8627:

Doggie.3184:

Permastealth is actually a myth. Not only does it not exist, but you can actually even see where a Thief is while he’s stealthed with your mind’s eye. Your perception is just confused and/or untrained.

From my investigation: you are not a new player so that mean: you are not telling the truth. Here is the truth: Perma-Stealth do exist: there is so many evidence everywhere: why not tell the truth?

" He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers "

" A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous "

" A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future "
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Darksyze,
Here is the truth: you’re terrible at this game and cry about everything. There is so many evidence everywhere: why not tell the truth?

Inb4 my infraction

I’d rather have MMR based titles than grind based.

My favorite part is how they don’t comment on it and dodge the issue.

Ben Delat.8415:

Did you leave off P/D on purpose??

I’m new to thief and am coming back to GW after a long while out – but I’m really enjoiyng that set up…

It’s a crutch

Celtus.8456:

Edit: Also, the “Wall of Champions” hasn’t been updated in nearly 2 years, gg.

This drives me kittening nuts.

Although he has fallen from grace, Sizer plays with about 250 ping. For a while he was top thief in my opinion. So with 300 ping you should be able to be competitive with enough patience.

MarkPhilips.5169:

+1

PvP extra activities, while in queue, would be amazing.

Ithilwen.1529:

“l2p?”

LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELF. Crying? Make a well thought out reply and stop parroting.

Increase your in game skill with self education.
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Learn to play

Extreme.8350:

if u kill turret with melee u would lose anyway noob tactic

Not at all correct. I can melee them down with multiple classes.

Cool down management and dodge rolls go a long way.

It’s purely ascetics for me. I really don’t enjoy the play style anymore, but it’s hard to walk away from something that I’ve already dedicated so much time to.

All I hear is, “wahh I want the game to play itself for me!”

Mooooobs, O-eggs, Hiba, Cruuk, and The Korean Knight.

Sit back and watch the show.

See attached screenshot from recent tentonhammer article.

Why don’t you want to weapon swap? I understand that you’re casual, but why would you want to intentionally kitten yourself?

robertul.3679:

You can get enough mobility with travelers and greatsword is just amazing to group up and kill the enemy npcs. Now if you wanna roleplay condi guard then that’s another story.

qft

This is a L2p issue. Grab Traveler runes / JI and you’re fine. I roam on GS / Sw:F, GS / Sc:F, Sc:T/Sw:F and my mobility is never an issue. Save your teles/imobs and if you really need to, toss a hydromancy sigil into your build somewhere.

Go play necro for a day if you want to feel slow.

manysongsgw.2931:

Drennon.7190:

If that’s the situation you’re in, then you’ve been outplayed up until this point and the enemy team should win. For them to be in, you’re team either didn’t defend properly at the start and/or they did not cause enough counter pressure. Increasing the reward for defending in the lords room, would cause stronghold to be too forgiving.

If defending rewards were “buffed,” then more often that not, teams would turtle at the end and matches would end up lasting until the timer ran out.

I suggested the opposite in that punishments would be given to the enemy team for dying in the lord’s room. So your team can come back into the game.

I support that idea, but then a situation like this can occur:
Both teams have 250 points. Team A has made it to the lords room and gained a lot of their points from killing NPCs. Team B is through one gate and had gained a lot of their points from ignoring the objective chasing players all game.
Team B: collapses back to their base and wipes a few enemy players and decides to turtle behind their NPCs for the rest of the game.

Team B is now in the lead and wins the game. Team A lost, but was closer to completing the objective.

Who deserves the win? The objective oriented team or the team ignoring the objective and playing “death match.”

I found that using a highly offensive build was more successful at defending than a bunker/cleric build. I could burst door breaks down and then the enemy team simply could not enter our base. Going bunker style allows them into the base and then you’re trying to support NPCs against other players/mobs. Healing in GW2 is just not strong enough to make going bunker a valuable choice in stronghold.

If that’s the situation you’re in, then you’ve been outplayed up until this point and the enemy team should win. For them to be in, you’re team either didn’t defend properly at the start and/or they did not cause enough counter pressure. Increasing the reward for defending in the lords room, would cause stronghold to be too forgiving.

If defending rewards were “buffed,” then more often that not, teams would turtle at the end and matches would end up lasting until the timer ran out.

lol look at you act hard in map chat.

Banishing bodies out of SR doesn’t reveal them. Nerf plz!

See look i can be bias too!

I’m pretty sure you need swiftness to make the jump.

They can’t get normal match making right. I hope they dont try that soon.

Go into the tent under those rocks. There are a few boxes in there. Use them to jump up the wall.

I just don’t understand how I go from a 60% win rate over a spree of 1500 matches. To not being able to win a single game.

Cele Ele, medi guard, and thief.

Apparently the longer I play this game, the worse I get. Last year I won most of my match ups and my teammates seemed to know where to be at the right time.

Now I cannot win a game… If I fight on point, I get ragged dolled around by turrets, 3 shot by a lich, or hit with 2k ranger auto attacks from a completely different map. My teammates are off fighting svanir 2v1 or chasing a shoutbow around off point. When I finally cap something and try to rotate to a different point, we get back capped. Then the turret engi on our team is raging in chat, “omg l2p. get carried”

I know my MMR can’t be high, since I’m losing 9/10 matches.

The only obvious answer is that I’ve become terrible at this game.

Any advice? Or should I just go ‘1 spam’ dragons / wvw blobs.

Edit: Can’t type words correctly.

Before trying this builds, I thought it would be a waste of time. After watching the video and trying it myself, I recommend that others do the same. It’s great in solo queue and is effective on point.

It looks like a couple people rated it based on bias and not on actually trying it. I’ve been playing it today and it’s impressive to say the least. It wrecks pugs. Not sure about team play though.

wow the dmg output of this build is stupidly high

Darksyze, I’ve already received one infraction for expressing my opinion of you. I will try to say this in a more appropriate way.

You are terrible: learn to play.

So what I’ve learned from this thread is, “my build is hard and yours is easy.”

I’ve seen every current meta / relevant build called “brainless,” OP, etc. So PvP forum, my question to you: which build so do you actually think is skilled?

I tried it out for gits and shiggles on my wife’s account and it’s nuts. I dropped turrets, run around in circles on point and win my 1v2s. Time to delete an unused toon on my account and my an engi to farm some points.

If you need a guardian / Ele, I’m interested.

I support OP. Being a solo player is a nightmare right now.

ITT: OP appears to have prioritized beasts over caps and then called someone bad.

Don’t worry forum! This should help.

irishrose.9580:

The “so called April fools joke” is a poorly timed, insensitive attempt at school yard humor. It doesn’t matter where the tragedy occured, or when, the development team made a huge mistake with this one. If you don’t understand why people were offended you probably fall with in the age of 12-19 and don’t care about anyone but yourself. Unfortunately that includes a lot of people who play MMO’s. There are thankfully a lot more who do understand why this update should never have gone live.
Again, bad move Dev’s.

Grow a pair.

tim.1280:

Drennon.7190:

Today I saw an engineer shoot at another player with a pistol. I am highly offended and my butt is hurt.

I think you are being insensitive. Obviously Anet had this planned for months and didn’t mean anything by it, but clearly you don’t understand that people have lost their friends and families in plane crashes (recently) and seeing this in game “joke” might take offence.

A plane crashed on the other side of the globe. Sorry, it doesn’t effect me in the least… and a character running around like a plane in a video game is completely unrelated. People need to put on their bigboy panties and sack up.

Any AI build.
/15turrets

Today I saw an engineer shoot at another player with a pistol. I am highly offended and my butt is hurt.

TexZero.7910:

Might be because you’re not as high up as you think you are.

Could be that what’s causing you to lose games is something as simple as lack of objective focus.

Try analyzing why you lost and fixing it if nothing else.

OP stated that he is playing against better players than he should.

As a whole, do most players agree that the old system was much much better than this new one? The elimination of solo queue and the “point system” seem to be the biggest flop that they have attempted.

/15-esports

Not a lot of people will agree with me, but I mix 4 pieces of cele, 2 soldier, and the rest zerker. It seems odd, but it works in every game mode for me.