Guild Wars 2

Its still in bank, they just updated the icon. Yeah and it has % chance of getting it and % to get something else.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/How-to-get-Infinite-Light/first#post3428617

Little ago, same question with answer.

This games allows to many lame play styles but sadly those are usually the most viable. And so often some moves/spells look like bug but working as intended. I also agree the thief needs tone down on that area, but i also agree it needs buff somewhere else. Dont forget also that larcenous strike can hit you trough block (boon stealing), my engineer already lost 20% hp while blocking from 1 strike.

HPLT.7132:

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

Take Diamond-Skin, Berserker-Stance and the rest of hard-counters with it.

I agree or at least berserker stance should work like shield block, so that the warrior cannot attack during this time. This traits are gamechangers, a total noob can win against experienced players just due to that.

Or just reduce dmg they do by x% for each stance active. I propose 10% for start. And yeah those perma condi immunity must go.

Completely agree with Rickster on all points. Tho would just add some points:

7. Move Mug (Thieves) higher on tier. Its just too powerful skill to be so easily accessible.

8. Condition immunity trait on ele and engi must go away (as he said later in post).

9. something about MM necro (but i think the new patch will fix that, will see).

10. Nerf guardian team support or survival, or make them decide between support and survival, so other bunkers get a chance. Realy, no one complaining about guards, while there is not a single good competitive game without them. (bunker guards ofc)

2. Yup happens to me too at least 50% time or more.
3. Happening just now :p.

If you focus to much on bugs in this game than you will just rage all the time :p. Probably 90% of those buggs arent bugs but “working as intended” (in anet logic :P)

As i plated 500+ rank the bad behaviour and language is very rare, at least in my experience, much more sportmanship. So yeah conclusion: ppl with bad behaviour arent that good players they think they are.

Also personally i never saw in my team that anyone was bashing specific player build or profession (aka staff ele, and i have met quite some of them).

How one player skill or build is good will tell rating, not your bad language. Everyone is there where they belong.

They could move siphion on crit to that traitline and make it stronger, since its 30 points trait. While blood traitline gives (aoe?) protection while entering ds or going out of ds.

Yup also happened to me once just few days ago. I had 90% of health than poped the ds. When ds ended or jsut before it did i only got 30% hp left. It was so anoying, it happened in pvp tourney and died cuz of it. Sadly no proof.

Funny, i dont see spirit rangers or mm necros so often and when i do its not that hard to beat them/no overpowered advantage. On the other hand i see too much warriors, everyone hammbow and sometimes swordbow. Ofc speaking in area 900-400.

ens.9854:

I used 2 slivers and got flamberge and etched, used 4 crystals and got wolfborn, wolfborn, etched, runic.

I used 0 orbs

You look lucky :p, hmmm hope i also get runic on my 4th try :p. Will use the remaining gear on my character and see ……

Edit: Yes, i only got 2 armour pieces left and got 1 phoenix token out of it. Than sadly i created wolfborn sword. After salvaging it i got phoenix token back and next try i got runic :p. <3 to all ppl that provided info.

Ok thanks for those info, was just going to log in and try. I so want that sword :p. Lets see if i can confirm it.

Edit: Out of 8 items that i was able to buy (human tier 2 cultural) i got 3 phoenix tokens. And with those 3 and the ingredients Mash Hog said i got 3 Wolfborn swords.
How many tries you need to get it? If thats the correct path ofc :p. Now i must collect 25k more glory for next try x.x . Silly me used all on winter gifts :p.

If i am right, those tier 1 cultural armour is also phoenix … and cheaper.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_reward

Here says it should be phoenix. And judgin by other weapons i would make a wild guess that materials are 1 silver/orb/crystal, 1 phoenix token, 1 sword token, 5 powder. But seeing silver is usualy used for “better” looking stuff i vote for that :p. But there are also weapons that requires same ingrediants, so you could also havehere x% chance to get runic and x% to get something else.

Thisis just me wildly guessing. Am planing to try as soon as i get some time and think about cheapest way to get phoenix token. You can get it by salvaging specific new vendor gear right?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation

Also here says you cant transmutefrom pvp to pve or vice versa.

Yeah same here, i always say to myself that i will consume one when i enter the match but in the end always forget :p. But am trying … am trying….

It just happened again. Both cmd options didnt work :/, nothing happened when i pressed those buttons. But i could change the loudness of sound trough keyboard :p.

Oraith.1732:

Anytime people start playing the blame game/biotching at the end of a soloQ, I giggle a little. Because instead of communicating/being productive during the match they start talking at the end.

My is similar :p. I tried to comunicate tactics at start of the game and coordinate while the game was runing and only 1 guy did respond back/wrote in chat. Than we lost and at the end one guy, who didnt say anything whole match, said in map chat: “This team…”.

Ok thanks, will try that cmd next time it happens.
Yeah its not that good graphic card and i am having “best preformence” from the start. And i dont think its cpu or gpu related (in a way that they would strugle). I was playing also some wvw zergs where i never got disconected, it was always huge delay and lag but never disconect or screen freeze. But It happened also while we were just standing and waiting for pvp match to begin. And when it was around 30 sec to beginning it freezed out of noewhere. Other freezes are also prety random, while fighting 1v1 or other teamfights or while just standing in mists waiting for match to begin.
And also i dont notice any lag or delay before it freezes. I also had the comp at mainainance check, before winter, to see if its ok and they didnt find anything.

Hello, for a long time i was running this game on boot camp and it ran fine. Now i have it installed on mac and i always get (sometimes sooner, sometimes latter) screen freeze. Its GW2 related since i dont get freeze outside of that game. Sometimes its really anoying since i lost so many winning pvp games because of it. It happens randomly and it freezes the screen and most of the time i hear the falling voice of character and thats it, i have to force shut down the mac. But i can hear the music just fine.

Any solution for this or is known problem?

Passive: Your skills generate x% more life force and you get x% life force every x sec.

Active: Chaneling spell, over 3 sec, you siphion x amount of health from a target (which means he will loose hp while you will gain hp). Maybe also that it works trough block/imunity to give necor little edge.

“X” is left for balancing purposes.

Thanks for a great review.

But just something to add, about dumbfire. You cant just look the damage (or passive-active). One of the focus of cond builds before that was to apply bleeds from different sources, because the duration didnt matter much if was cleansed. The buff dumbfire also brought was to actualy have 1 more condition (with relatively short cooldown) and making ppl cleans condition overall harder. Ofc if you play class with spells like transform ALL conditions into boons and have lots of smaller condition remover the fight would be more or less balanced (speaking in a very broad way). But if you fight a build or class that doesnt have acess to strong condition remover/immunity you would completely destroy him.

And this thing also makes the big gap between builds and harder to balance. At old necro you just had to use your cleansing wisely (if you were a class with little acess to that) and necro himself had hard time against those who could cleans realy fast and often or could burst you down fast enaugh while you could hardly apply conditions to them (aka specific thief build).
The terror damage was in my opinion too high, or at least it should be moved higher up the traitline (i dont say the “necro damage” was too high).

In my opinion the bigest mistake anet made was to give us fire dmg and not balanced us with what we had before. And also as nemesis said in video about spliting spells to pve and pvp. So confusing :p.

I dont play team arena (since dont have team) after we got solo arena and i am not top 100 player either. I dont play condition necro since little after dumbifre and i dont play minion master either (i did try it tho). I was playing around chill hybrid build for some time until i discovered this build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAW3djMaV6Zaab07JEoH5St4MRFQGqHuD78hA-TsAA2CnIqRVjrGTNyas1MoYRxuAA

With this build you do good damage and you are not so squishy. Just today i survived focus fire with around 60-70% life force from 3-4 ppl while was immobilized and they could barely break it (after they used all their usefull damaging skills). With this build you should stay also in where the fight is thickest since when you activate 2 wells -> ds -> ds 4 you do so much aoe damage while you regenerare lots of life force from crits and ds 4. So in one way necro is atrition class, just not in condition build (or at least you have to sacrifice lot of damage for lf generating spells/traits).
Only thing bug me too much as it should is that life siphion doesnt work while in ds.

Also i think i didnt hear in video about 1 more nerf (or i missed it?). The nerf of corrupt boons to 5 max. Now its completely useles :p, never removes stability or the thing you need the most :p. Or was that before dumbfire? Also dont know why they didnt also change spells that convert all conditions into boons to 5 max :o.

Just my opinion. And sorry to hear you are taking break from necro pvp, i also like to theorycraft builds by myself so am sad to see that, since i enjoy your guides specialy about necro, my fav class.

edit: oh and dont forget ppl of damage increase due to added torment.

Looks interesting. In pvp i run gs/hammer cc but your build also look interesting. Those fights were only in hotjoin right? How does your build do in tourneys? And plz can you share your build?:) Am eager to try it.

Still dissapointed they didnt add whole grenth armour but just hood for 500gems x.x . And the back part of hood is looking silly. Ofc its necro.

Thx for tip to person bellow me.

Why dont they remove the back part, anf keep just the hood with that bone sticking out? I tried in pvp mists to find perfect mix of gear with that hood for my human necro and couldnt find 1 that would actualy look cool. Any idea for that?

I think the biggest issue is the back part, making it look strange. When i looked the pictures it might be because its so in the lore …. but they could merge it with shoulders or chest part if they ever make it and not head.

Heya, i was just wtf when i saw today i was rank 20 on leaderboards :p. Ok, telling my story……

Around half year ago i was almost top 100 (solo) when i quit gw2 until lately. Till now the decay sistem droped me to 20%. Than yesterday i tried again one tourney game again (keep in mind my rank is 20%) and was put against 50+ glory rank ppl, seeing on their skills they should be at least around 500 leaderboards. So how did i get with that low rank paired vs them? Sadly we lost but when i came today to look my rank it was 20 (not 20%!) o.O, like wtf :p.

They will just increase rank limit to 90-99 and put those rewards there :p. “Reward patch”

You could also try hgh engi, good aoe dps. It is also good if you make immortal bunker (i used engi) to cap far point and watch 2-3 or more enemies trying to kill you there while your ally cap other points, but it varies on different maps.

Just dont forget if you play at times when not many ppl plays, you would get same ppl in match. In my case at around 1.00am same ppl were on my team/enemies for 3 games in a row, maybe some ppl also more but dont remember. So not everyone that you see often together could be syncers.

And this game now became pay to win, since ppl who buy gems can buy more character slots and have more chances to swap character to perfect type for that map/team/or enemies. Thats why they need to lock character when you enter.

Arheundel.6451:

Only top 20 seems to enjoy this, personally I lose 20-30 positions every day or so, if I don’t play…still I played 4x more than the first place

Yeah same here, duno how top ranked ppl managed to stay there without loosing rank.

Only top 1000 gets rank numbers, other gets %. % means that you are better than x % of ppl, but not enaugh to be top 1000. Before patch the top 1000 started after 97 %.

Going for 3 caps is actually sometimes very rewarding, i did it in many wins.

I was running away with engi in wvw from few ppl, which i was doing great, than suddenly puff, dead. I have little over 2700 armour and 18k hp and he crited me for 14,5k damage with kill shot, couldnt avoid since didnt saw that coming.

Actually also in my opinion thats great idea. Why should someone who defends 1 point receive less points for doing better job for team. But not just hide it, everyone would receive the same points, the difference would be just between losers and winners. This would also eliminate 5 ppl staying on capture nod at start of the game just to get those points of capture but rather think how to win and capture points for the team. Why should you receive 10 points less because you played better tactics and left that nod where you were not needed.

My opinion would be to reduce condition removal to 3 and remove stability and aegis from boons.

garethh.3518:

runes of Lyssa are the only thing holding a number of builds together.

That alone makes those runes too strong compared to others.

Will leaderboard decay also be included?:)

Last two days i have 7-8 wins in a row as soloQ. Coming from 96% to 700ish. And yeah 1000+ as axis says is pretty enjoyable if you arent against good premade ofc, but most of them were last 2 days on tournament or at least watching it so yeah, was fun/fun.

Well it also happen to me when i try to stomp war and try to evade his down knock skill he still knocks me while i am in dodge. But probably is similar as engi supply elite, meaning that animation starts before the effect take place and it only interupt the start of animation.

Actualy thats confusion :p

Yeah thats the suggestion, that anet makes fixed cost of gems bought with gold and also fixed cost of gold bought by gems. And that they remove player factor by directly trading always with anet and not between players.

In my opinion gem cost, if you want to buy it with gold, is too high. I barely can afford buying anything with it, actualy i never could buy anything there with gold. Just the additional bank slot would cost me more than 26g, not to mention server transfer over 60g. So my suggestion is make static gem cost more like for 1,5-2g you get 100 gems. And reduce the cost of server transfer to like 1200 gems or something … 1800 is just silly.

Just interesting
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/GEMS-TOO-EXPENSIVE
ppl back than complained they had too expensive.

Oh noes crybabies have won :/ . Only change that could be done is make canon dodgeable. Anything else will destroy map and will make it not so fun anymore.

Got me thinking why cant they react so fast with split solo/premade queue, where the action is truly needed …..

Its best map ever. The most fun, the most dynamic. And cc rarely instagib me, since you know you can mitigrate it with stability, dodges, counter cc …. more often i dodge roll or jump myself into abyss rather than someone cc me into it. Only bad thing i have to say about it is that premades are more stronger vs randoms than any other map. So yeah after they separate those its win/win. Oh yeah and they could make canon dodgable.

And yeah all ppl here that whine thinks they are so pro 1v1, knowing their class blabla. But the true skill beside that is knowing your environment and using it to your advantage (and ofc adapting your build). I also play many classes and cant say any of those doesnt have a role in this map. So yeah, just l2p and cry less.

Please dont remove the best pvp map ever created!

As i learned in pvp, well timed dodge or invulnerability (aka renewed focus and shelter) are much more important than any heals we have or defensive spell, you can still eat 8k+ backstabs or warrior axe f1 with 3k toughtnes. And its pretty logical if 2 glass canon enemies come that they will kill you if you are alone, you are not superman after all and this game tends to be quite balanced. If they killed you in sec than you are doing something wrong :p …. we usualy have invulnerability on shelter, renewed focus, at least 2 dodges …. that alone could let you live at least some time.

Guards have quite some viable builds and i cycle around and many times come topish on stats … so class is not a problem, you just need to play more to get used to it.

Or veteran player gets another account and wins all matches but its still at glory rank 1 but scales up on leaderboards. Glory ranks dont tell anything (except that you played that account for x amount of time).

Someone would say that bunker guardians are little op, the best bunkers…. Did you try 0/0/10/30/30? With this one you have quite many condition removals, good heals and survivability … just look on guards subforum for silvens post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Silven-s-PvP-Guardian-Build-Guide . Most of those builds are pretty much viable in certain situation.

I usualy run 20/0/30/0/20 with hammer spirit weapon and its quite nice with soldier amulet, berserker upgrade, lyssa runes, hidromancy sigils and gs/hammrer weapons (tho havent played guard since new patch).

I am pretty much good in last build (ofc sometimes in little changed variations) 1v1 and great uility in teamfights so …. if you know how to play guardian properly those builds work just fine. But dont expect to solo kill good bunkers (in prety much any guardian build, except maybe full dps ones).

I would say if you are with premade than the rank with numbers (not % ) is where the good ones are or at least better than 800. For solo queue i would say 90%/94% up. Also you must take in consideration what Jonwar said :p.
Personaly i always solo que and i cant ever get past 97% (after the leaderboards change, before i could easily get to 500 rank) since at that or after or even before it, you get prety much well organised premades who roflstomp any soloqueuer. Even if you are lucky and win against 1 premade team thats not so good you wont rank up cuz for that you need at least 2 or 3 wins.

1. Slower attack speed of bazooka bow
2. Less survival (regeneration, avoidance, condition cleanse)
3. Change downed spell 3 to only regen 50% of downed hp and make longer/more visible casting of 2 and unable to use pet spells when downed
4. Lower duration of immobilize and bleed elite
5. You need to be chanelling all the time longbow 5 or the spell brake/stops
6. Better punish system if pet dies in pvp and if you change pets in pvp it doesnt go full hp and without conditions back in but comes the way it was stowed (unless if it is away fir more than 5 min), oh yea and 1-2 sec cast time on swap

So yeah thats my wishes for next patch.

I knew it! I tried to use torch in my burning build but the dmg was sort of lower than remembered …. :p so useless now.