Guild Wars 2

I have 3 guardians. Two of them are level 2. I do this to switch builds faster. A lot of pvpers do this. Judging by your post, those “low levels” probably end up carrying you.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Drennon.7190:

Evan Lesh.3295:

More statistics is definitely something we’re interested in.

Why do you only cherry pick post take make the new system look good? It’s funny that you never show up in threads that logically describe how bad the change to solo queue is.

Fair question. It’s easy for me as a programmer to combat precise statements with some data to try and keep things from snowballing, but I’m not really the guy to comment about the game design choices behind solo and team queue. I just pop in where I can be useful. I’d love to try and get some global statistics for everyone though.

Well I appoiogize then. I miss understand what your job position was. I assumed you were part of the team that wanted solo queue removed. Ignorance on my part.

Evan Lesh.3295:

More statistics is definitely something we’re interested in.

Why do you only cherry pick post take make the new system look good? It’s funny that you never show up in threads that logically describe how bad the change to solo queue is.

Not really good

They used the same “well received” bs on the ele forum. “The concepts behind overloading an element were pretty well received”

I hate to be that guy, but for the most part, these changes are disappointing. No word on the virtues cast time or the inability for certain now skills to be fired backwards. These changes seem kitten by someone that doesn’t have an understanding of guardian or our concerns.

Thanks for posting this. Pretty much sums up the experience I had with it.

ronpierce.2760:

blah blah blah stealth too OP for my IQ

But seriously, thieves survival is too tied to stealth. Acro is trash now, we have low health, low toughness, 0 blocks, 0 invulns, etc etc.

If the balance team continues to hand out reveals like candy, then I would hope that thieves were given access to blocks or invulns. Kinda like how Mesmer can now out stealth, evade, invlun, and then camp stealth until all of their goodies are off cooldown again.

official.7362:

Yo cruuk here tired of solo q if you want a veteran thief I’ll play

Official.4658
Chairforce is my new thief name

Will you afk and chat rage when someone does something you don’t like?

Evan Lesh.3295:

It’s very possible that your MMR is SO high that the matchmaker doesn’t expand enough to grab people to play with.

I’m investigating some numbers and math and stuff.

This issue has been posted for how long? So if a non-esports player post, than its not an issue.. Guess pesents aren’t worth a response.

Kicker.8203:

D/P thieves and mesmers both stealth way too much. this playstyle is boring and also annoying to play against. They both can easily stealth from out of your sight walk to you and then burst u, when you havent seen a sign of them. especially with shadows rejuvenationa and bbons from stealth they are super sustainy too.

Stealths should be a lot shorter

How is this related?

OP doesn’t bother me. It’s the fact that they nerfed the evades of S/D and then gave the same thing to another class.

Energy sigils on each weapon and riposting shadows. You can evade almost forever. Kinda disgusted actually.

Deflecting Shot and Symbol of Energy really should be able to be shot behind. Deflecting Shot would be nice for kiting and avoiding a ranged attack.

A llama does not make me want to work hard.

Power roaming is great right now. There are so issues, like lack of disengage, but overall you will have fun. The only 1v1s I lose are against players that are just better players. I never really feel out classes. You can even 1v2 / 1v3 bad players.

Suggestions: hydromancy and rage on GS has lead to so many kills. I love it. I use radiance while solo. I do this for the on demand immobilize. In a group I use zeal for the shattered aegis burst. Also, this took me forever to except, but it seems that the best defense is a good offense with Medi. I used to mix in some toughness gear, but recently switched to full glass. The offensive pressure I can put out with huge auto attacks, is typically more beneficial than the extra toughness. Autos alone can bait dodges and leave them open for full burst.

Kenmei.7138:

I must yet see a dumb d/p user that would go SA.

Apparently you don’t watch tournaments at all. Most DP thieves are taking shadow arts. Including previous WTS winners. But what do they know? They should listen to random forum guy and stop being, “dumb.”

People seem to be confusing viable with optimal. It is viable in PvE, but not optimal.

Really? An ele coming to the guardian forums to complain that something is OP?

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

Who the heck plays D/p with SA still

Almost every thief in the recent ESLs.

DHawk.2687:

here is the reworked edition of my build
i changed the elite and the shield to focus
traded zeal for honor and replaced the zerker armor with cav to maintain since it only cuts me a few % crit rate instead of loosing a lot of health and crit damage if i had swithced the valk for cav

how does this second version look?
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR5dnkICVDhdDBmDB8Dhj4hKvivYMWDgGoev77kmDA-TlyHAB8pWBTKB7R5BhqqMwFAwHlYOoJQl9H8SHAAPBASBonOL-w

I think that looks a lot better! I’d still consider taking shelter, but this looks great.

Have fun out there!

Before I dive into this, know that i am really trying to help you. Im not just trying to grief you.

1 : What you did right!
-Your valor and virtues line looks good. I prefer strength in numbers over communal defense, but both are a decent option.
-Your armor and weapons stats look fine. I’d swap the valk pieces for cav, your toughness is a little low for someone trying to learn/relearn.

2 : Issues
-That shield has to go. Your gimping yourself by not taking focus. Focus offeres blind, regen, block, and burst.
-Signet of Courage. It is bad for many reasons. The passive ticks once every 10 seconds… that is way to long. The active is only a 300unit radius. To give an idea how small that is, think dagger ele auto attacks. Not only is it a small radius, but the cast time is 4.25 seconds. In a roaming situation, with this burst meta, your ally could go from 100% to downed, all during the duration of that cast. Renewed Focus, which you’re currently traited for, Heals you for ~2k, grats fury, recharges your virutes, and provides 2 seconds of invuln. That’s a lot of good stuff!
-Litany of Wrath: Some will argue that this is useable, but it just isn’t as good as shelter. If you really want to run Mace/GS. You are going to be very frustrated when you pop this heal and can’t make contact with someone. Not the mention that block on shelter is a life saver.
-Force of Will: It’s not as great as it looks. Since your running two symbol weapons, combined with empowering might; I would change that for Writ of Persistence. In an open area, the larger and longer symbols really help land some damage.

3: Things I personally would change.
-I would swap out the mace for either sword of scepter. Sword has very high auto attack damage as well as a nice gap closer. You can really “glue” yourself to targets when combining sword, gs, and JI. Scepter offers decent auto attacks, an immob, and that all important range damage. If you do decide to use either of these two, I would swap the honor line for either radiance of zeal.

IF you really do want to stay mace, I would suggest watch Stella’s videos. He makes great use of terrain, in order to land symbol damage. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Empowering-Wrath-14-Ascended-Stella-Alamarr/first

-Your runes. Swap for traveler or pack. Traveler is an amazing quality of life change, and pack helps keep you on targets.

I probably missed some stuff, but this should be good foundation for you. Most important things are to really get rid of that shield and elite.

Good luck!

Looks fun while solo. No entangle on a condi build?

@mysticjedi I wonder is EU is as onnoxious as NA

I’ve got this one a few times. Teammate dies in a giant AoE ball.

-“Thief WTF rezzzzzz”
You do realize that cleave/AoE would have downed me as well.. Right?
-“Yeah if you’re a noob!”

Same player respawns, doesn’t regroup, suicides into mid.
-“OMG ANET THX FOR MATCHING ME WITH COMPETE NUBS”

Kelly.5293:

Haven’t played in a while for the first time in 7 + years

Whoa. We develope time travel in the next 4 years? Advancements in modern technology always amaze me!

Great post! Very informative. Thanks for explaining why DP is so overpowered!

I really miss HiPS.

+1

I want an in-game goal to work towards.

This typically happens to me after a win streak. Guess that’s the system balancing things out.

Stop trying to reinvent the wheel please. Just bring back the old leaderboard and call it a day. Other than personal improvement; I don’t see the motivation to play.

creepmatic.9435:

I don’t know why you would call that terrible :/. Or you mean terrible as in a good way? Sorry if I didn’t picked up the sarcasm.

He probably didn’t look/try it. His comment was made on personal beef.

Arken.3725:

Terrible build, to be expected though.

Lol coming from the staff/hammer Medi guard.

Edited for politeness. Don’t need more suspensions.

Using this now

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAsdRlsAhqhY3QwcIwPEH+DVOCrwL0GAdbdeD3L4DA-TZBFABPcIAE4MAIeZA52fAgHAAA

I have the same issue. The game just exits. Similar to the “Exit Game” opinion. No crash log comes up for me. It just closes.

No
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I enjoyed your videos. Keep it up.

I like it on my human character, but my norn looks.. odd… like she’s about to face dive into the ground

Not that points matter all that much, but mesmer clones are counting as “Mercenary Kills” In stronghold. At the end of a match it said I killed 70+ mercenaries and gave me 2 points for each one. Most of this kills were actually mesmer clones .

i can only think of one MMORPG that has a large competitive/viewer based PvP scene. Every thing else is a completely different style game, like MOBAs. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but which MMORPGs, other than WoW, are really that much more successful than GW2?

Bloodyx.5946:

Drennon.7190:

Yeah, they should totally scrap a game mode and map that people enjoy. Maybe they can refund the man hours and purchases those super cool 2v2 and 3v3 maps. Seems legit.

Your first suggestion wasn’t bad though. Just want to point out how moronic your second one was. Cause you know? Why not?

Lmao I spy a fanboy.

How about they actually work on things pvpers want? Incredibly new idea, I know. He pointed out, through sarcasm, that Anet doesn’t seem to understand its pvp players, so it would seem that actually your post was moronic and unproductive – commenting on something you didn’t understand is pretty moronic and name calling is pretty unproductive.

I don’t think you understand sarcasm. How does saying, “scrap it and replace it with 2v2/3v3” qualify as sarcasm? Don’t think you know what you’re talking about. Fanboy? Not really. I just think it was kittening stupid to suggest deleted a game mode that many players, as a whole, appear to enjoy.

Also 2v2 / 3v3 with out the trinity wouldn’t be all that entertaining. It would turn into one of two things.
1: who ganks from stealth first
2: who can build the most unkillable build.

Yeah I’d totally wait in a queue for either a 1 minute burst off or a 15 minute bunk off.

Yeah, they should totally scrap a game mode and map that people enjoy. Maybe they can refund the man hours and purchases those super cool 2v2 and 3v3 maps. Seems legit.

Your first suggestion wasn’t bad though. Just want to point out how moronic your second one was. Cause you know? Why not?

Conaywea.5062:

Drennon.7190:

How I read this.

“Things are happening that I don’t comprehend! It must be hacker! Better cry on forums”

Better make fun of him/her than telling what’s going on

Because this topic has been beaten over and over. people would rather scream HACK!!! Instead of learning what’s really happening. His tone and attituded warrent negative responses.

How I read this.

“Things are happening that I don’t comprehend! It must be hacker! Better cry on forums”

From my experience, mobility and 1v1 potential are what matters. With everything that happens, you need to be able to kitten and git while being able to win 1v1s along the way. So cele ele and Mesmer seems to shine. Thief is great too, but 1v1s can be right if it’s an equally skilled opponent. Since it’s not conquest, you can just /lol and keep moving to your objective.

At least this is how it feels after solo queue.

Scambug.3502:

Drennon.7190:

Dirame.8521:

Drennon.7190:

Phineas Poe.3018:

The leaderboards aren’t active right now. Ranked is just a smaller map pool.

Exactly. As long as people keep voting for courtyard, I’ll keep queuing ranked. Even during this beta.

TDM is never fun on a conquest build. At least not for me.

That’s in unranked mate.

No kitten Sherlock. Did you even read what I said?
As long as courtyard is in the unranked rotation, I will continue to play ranked only.

I do not like courtyard:

Ranked has no courtyard.

I don’t think I can break it down more.

Congrats, you win the selfish kitten award for the day.

Oh? How am I anymore selfish than the guy telling people not to queue ranked? How is his playing experience anymore important than mine?

Dirame.8521:

Drennon.7190:

Phineas Poe.3018:

The leaderboards aren’t active right now. Ranked is just a smaller map pool.

Exactly. As long as people keep voting for courtyard, I’ll keep queuing ranked. Even during this beta.

TDM is never fun on a conquest build. At least not for me.

That’s in unranked mate.

No kitten Sherlock. Did you even read what I said?
As long as courtyard is in the unranked rotation, I will continue to play ranked only.

I do not like courtyard:

Ranked has no courtyard.

I don’t think I can break it down more.

Phineas Poe.3018:

The leaderboards aren’t active right now. Ranked is just a smaller map pool.

Exactly. As long as people keep voting for courtyard, I’ll keep queuing ranked. Even during this beta.

TDM is never fun on a conquest build. At least not for me.

Because ranked matters for what right now?

I get what you’re trying to say, but it really doesn’t matter in this state of the game.

Very Bad

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