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Quadox.7834:

Fluffball.8307:

So you have a video of you 1v1ing Nos, right? Just spam to win.

He is right, and this is a weak argument.

Do you mean I’m right? Or OP is right and you can 1v1 even moderately competent players while just spamming? I assume you mean I’m right because I clearly am.

So you have a video of you 1v1ing Nos, right? Just spam to win.

Lexander.4579:

Fluffball.8307:

Lexander.4579:

nice i suppose ill just stand still and do nothing while another guy is hitting me because a headshot-spamming thief decided to gank me

Yes, sounds like a good way to kill the thief. He won’t have any initiative for anything else.

shouldnt be a big deal for him since i will be dead anyway

HS does like half as much damage (edit: probably more like a quarter as much damage?) as autoattacking and costs 1/3rd of their entire initiative pool. You’re not going to die to HS. You might die to some efficient, well-timed uses of it, but not to it by itself.

Lexander.4579:

nice i suppose ill just stand still and do nothing while another guy is hitting me because a headshot-spamming thief decided to gank me

Yes, sounds like a good way to kill the thief. He won’t have any initiative for anything else.

I strongly disagree with your entire post. Some things need tweaked, but you’re just asking for everyone to be running the same beige-neutral-profession.

With a competent team you rarely see chatter. My wins = close to 0 communication because the plan is obvious. Losses = tons of map chat raging.

And the people that most often use public voice comms are preteens and trolls. Don’t want.

katniss.6735:

How often do you get 1v1s in any game mode without organizing it with everyone around you? This isn’t based on 1v1s. PvE is the entirety of PvE.

Brain is invalid.

Um, usually every single day. In both WvW and PvP.

Too general. Is a 1v1 in WvW that much different than a 1v1 in PvP? I guess I’d lean towards WvW because you have a lot more choices to make. But a WvW karma train is very different than a PvP team fight and very similar to just decapping empty points. Is PvE raiding or Queensdale.

Poll is invalid.

Not really. You can get an ascended drop, but generally you craft them.

Also, PvP weapons and armor are totally separate from the stuff in your hero panel. PvP uses amulets for stats (no celestial.) I’m sure you know that, but just making sure.

If you have multiple people focusing you, you’re supposed to be in a bad position. While they’re CCing you, your team is free casting on them.

Also you are a necro I assume? Edit: Looks like guardian, another good focus target.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Just slap boobs on everything, let’s get rid of diversity.

I’ve said it once I’ll say it again: Rytlock has always needed boobs. 4 friggen years and still no boobs on Rytlock….. thanks Obama.

Welcome to all PvP games. Every ranked game I’m in is 8 or 9 necros.

Speed sigil? I have 4 skills that give me swiftness and 2 movement skills.

When I leveled my rev I spammed phase traversal on enemies out of range or on ambient creatures (for axe offhand), and about-face riposting shadows. Doing that, swiftness was never a concern.

Squee.7829:

I mean, can you tell a female hamster from a male hamster without flipping the little guy/girl over?

Can you tell with flipping them over?

First of all, that’s hysterical random weird guy. Second, I bet they just looked at the data and saw ~0% communing on experienced players and ~100% communing on new players = easy decision for them. I know every time I watch a video some new player has uploaded someone is channeling ferocity…

I have to imagine anet is considering an easy mode for raids. The art, lore, mechanics and what not all look amazing, but with a new baby I just don’t have time to get in there and see it. I know a lot of people feel the same way. I’d be perfectly happy going in for nothing but a dungeon reward, like 25 silver, just so I could see this stuff.

If I didn’t have vomit and poop all over me, I’d definitely be in there raiding, but it’s not practical for me to spend 9 hours with a guild learning the mechanics.

It’s not actually a legendary? If you can’t swap stats at will that sounds like a bug.

Crinn.7864:

Fluffball.8307:

but it would be beyond amazing if anet could somehow quantify profession mixes into MMR.

Impractical

I think I agree… maybe. Anything with as many numbers as GW2 PvP games can be quantified. If you look at 1,000,000 games and utterly ignore everything but compositions, you can start to pick out optimal team setups for solo q.

We can all name situations where 5 thieves would win, but we just ignore that and see if they would usually win. And against what comps do they win and lose. I’m sure you could weight it in the MMR.

I am not sure I’m ok with that. Right now I just slam the LR button and I’m out of a bad situation, I don’t want to take half a second to aim it.

I think it would dramatically increases the time it takes to use the skills. And I’d probably have to download a new mouse cursor to even use them.

QS does suck though, as does the SB in general. LR-distance is a little extreme (I wonder if any melee classes could ever catch you at all?), but further than just walking backwards would be nice.

Lettuce.2945:

…I can tell you don’t pvp at a high level of play. Ranger has an amazing cc chain combo if you count dodges/stun breaks. For example…I tend to chain in the following way after counting. Prep protect me, taunt procs on target, hit with longbow auto, procs ancient seeds, go in cele state 3, daze, cele state 5 channel while swapping to bristleback’s f2 next to target, taunt procs from BM and BB burst starts, dodge roll into player to go behind them, longbow knockback halfway through bb’s burst, ancient seeds procs again, rapid fire. By this time, CA is refilled usually and you can do another CA combo. That’s honestly a lethal CC chain that I’ve done a lot on my opponents who often times says, “WTF is that stun combo? Couldn’t do anything”. Hence Fluffball’s statement on druid being a “cc” monster. And no, CA doesn’t suck. You obviously don’t know how to use it offensively.

That’s a great combo, and there are a million other varieties that druids can pull off. We’ve always been the undisputed immob masters, and now we are the hard CC masters as well, to make up for no burst damage.

I recently switched back to BW instead of quickness because I found myself doing more damage with CC than with “damage”. I also use wolf. So it just utterly overwhelm’s people’s character control; even if you don’t do daredevil-level damage… eventually… they go down.

Laserbolt.6731:

There is the mix of classes in the match, and it matters how they work to effect a win, or a loss. Class interactions matter.

Obviously skill is overwhelming more important than professions (55 dragons on 5 thieves will beat 5 newbies on any profession), but it would be beyond amazing if anet could somehow quantify profession mixes into MMR. I.e. if you win with 5 thieves on your team it moves you up more, and if you lose with 5 thieves it moves you down less or even not at all.

Allison The Strange.4519:

More than half my opinions are actually facts but okay

You stated some facts, but you’ve stated them in a biased way, brushing off the counterpoint facts as effectively not existing. So you can see why I don’t really feel like discussing what you’ve said. We just have different views and apparently experiences.

Allison The Strange.4519:

Kidding right? Scrapper, revenant, and elementalist are much better at the 1v1 situation.

I don’t feel like arguing your points, since we both have our opinions, but this one in particular… I very much favor my odds on druid against those professions. Especially ele since there is no way in hell it’s going to kill me. Scrapper and ele will take a looooong time, but druid should win those 2. Eles don’t even take a stun breaker often times… ya gg against a CC monster like druid.

Rev, condi revs will wreck a druid, but that’s 1 build. Revs of any variety get wrecked by necros, and so on and son on. Condi revs are also rare since the resistance change.

I assume it’s gone because it was so irrelevant. You were either in a low tier and it popped immediately, or a high tier and it goes way over the average.

The metabattle raid builds were thought up and used by people on these forums. You won’t find anybody telling you to not take spotter and frost/sun spirit. If you want an original build, you’ll have to be original.

Now that every single match has 9 reapers or mesmers, I have started default slotting SoR in place of GoE (as well as soldier runes and 4 shouts.)

That gives me 2 complete condi wipes plus a large amount of slow and steady condi clear. I sort of don’t even see how it’s possible to run anything but massive condi clear in this garbage “meta”. And yes I am salty, I need 1 more play session to make it to diamond and I don’t know if I can even bother with that a single time over the next 2 months.

Eponet.4829:

Fluffball.8307:

Oh did they finally fix that? For a while spirits had priority.

That was fixed months ago.

Makes sense, I do PvE like once every two months, ha.

Oh did they finally fix that? For a while spirits had priority.

StickerHappy.8052:

I want something you know,, like Spirit support kinda thing, something kinda unique you know. haha. It’s hard to explain, I play pve With close friends so basically we can run whatever we want, We aren’t those types that are maximum efficiency elitist people either.

I’ll post an example later.

Spirit support is fine, you can take frost and sun, even nature, and still have a totally reasonable build. The problem is the spirits put their boons on each other so it becomes insanely wasteful to take more than 2ish. E.g., frost spirit has 5 targets and 3 of them are other spirits… not good.

Taking support is “meta” though.

PvE builds are very straight forward though. There isn’t much room for creativity because you just take a bunch of offensive support, heal people, and take either the best utility or the best damage pets. I don’t even know what else you would want to do other than use weird weapons like axe/axe or something.

Those are already incorporated into raid builds. Why do you want to start completely from scratch?

It adds to your condi damage, I’m not sure where you’re confused. All of your conditions work off of the same condi damage stat, so yes it affects all your conditions.

Heart of Thrones: Summer is coming.

Although GoT is pretty much my favorite skill, I take S&R in place of it. It just changes fights completely in solo q. 2 out of 3 times the team that takes mid at the start wins the game.

I also use it when I 1v1 if I need condi clear or even the boons.

Buddy, you’re not fooling anyone with your passive aggressive responses. Just STOP and we can actually give you advice.

You already had a post deleted by the mods, get your stuff together. These forums are pretty together.

Justine.6351:

I didn’t realize people roam in eotm.

I didn’t watch the video, I just can’t watch another “look I can kill people” video. But EotM is actually a really good place to do 1v5+ or whatever if your build can handle that. Mainly engi.

What dungeon do you need a light source in? Only 2 places I can think of of the top of my head are the LA JP and the WvW JP.

This really made me stop when completing my daily. A rat, hawk, and warg all hanging out together. Come on anet, it’s been 4 years, get it together.

Big deal? Undefeated in amber isn’t exactly exciting (I know you’ve gone further than that.)

You’re moving to your proper division. I doubt you’re going to go 40-0 your first 40 games if you make it to legendary.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

When people wanted group support, I can guarantee you that “lol you’re the healer now” isn’t what they were talking about.

That was some straight-up monkey’s paw kitten.

In PvE, maybe not. In PvE, ya it was. Druid is kind of equivalent to the old d/d ele in that it can 1v1 indefinitely and is really good at small scale fights… group condi removal, group heals, AoE protection, protective CC, and so on. The old core ranger could do basically nothing for allies in PvP.

I mean just compare it, would you rather PvP 2v2 with a core ranger or a druid? It’s not even a debate. It’s like 0% ranger, 100% druid.

Cele Any engi, shoutbow war, cele ele, spirit ranger, 4 of the top 10 PvP builds of all time* were all group heal supporters.

*Edit: Adusting for relative power of course. I mean a current day trap dragon hunter could probably 1v5 a team of the time of spirit rangers, and DH isn’t a good PvP profession.

He is unquestionably responsible for most of his wins with those kind of statistics.

Justine.6351:

Last night I “ganked” a diamond reaper and a gold reaper who had ring up in a camp. Needless to say, they tower hugged for the next 30min until I logged off. That huge aoe bleed from barrage/entangle/Madking runes is crazy.

Ya I’ve had many similar experiences throughout the years on power LB. Even way back, several years ago before LB was “viable”. And the old entangle was just a 2 minute long death sentence for necros. They are just utterly helpless against rangers in WvW, I could beat Nos in an open field.

Crapgame.6519:

I’m not sure if I agree with the “we asked for this” and thus the Druid was born.

For years the overwhelming majority of complaints about rangers were that we had little group support in competitive modes. After spirits were killed, that’s a main reason why you never saw rangers in PvP. Now we have some really amazing support, especially with S&R. I don’t think druid gets enough credit for answering the complaints.

Well to be fair you are using a 100% power weapon as a condi weapon. You can look at is an interesting quirk ranger can do that at all.

RoseofGilead.8907:

If it’s a F2P account they can’t enter LA until level 35.

Oh interesting. Is LA completely locked out, both from asura gates as well as foot travel?

No they don’t, you can go to LA and enter the portal at level 2.

It’s ‘locked’ for new players, but you can still access pvp via the portal to HotM.

shadow.6174:

Fluffball.8307:

This could use a post in the regular forums or something. I wouldn’t have noticed this if not for the “dev tracker”, and I’m sure a lot of people would like to know about it.

Well, it’s a stick thread, it will be always easily visible (if you came here through Dev Tracker then you possibly didn’t notice that indeed).

Ya, but the stickied threads usually don’t change so I ignore them. Based on how few people have responded to this thread, I bet a lot of people haven’t seen it.