Guild Wars 2

Eu or murica?

,……..

Its only worth taking and builds that use warhorn as that is the only big multihitter where u can stack some LF, otherwise it is on the weaker side of trait.

Most zerkers prefer the weakness shroud

akaCryptic.2389:

Brotip: You can abuse this mechanic if you have Spite grandmaster minir trait. Go into DS when below 25% and get all that might. Somewhat useful in wvw and pve.

A brotip would be: if your real hp is under 50% , the enemy like a thief or power necro will get the +20% dmg bonus so watch out.

Sorry but the spite minors are a joke, Anet could accidentaly delete them and none would notice.

This is for pvp purpose.
Id switch our land auto with underwater auto, BUT adjust dps to stay same.

Basicaly trading slower big hits for smaller faster hits.
Pros:
less OP underwater condi transfer
Less blind/dodge/interupt/walk-through-to-cancel-cast in pvp
Easier might stacking with trait
More reliable but small dmg, not those oneshot wombo combos of DS1+fire+air+chill

Cons:
none for us, maybe a few more hits from retal lol

Yes it heals back what condi damage u do, but it heals 0 if youre in DS.

I like it for easy peasy titty squezy PvE. Its far from optimal but everything works to some extent in pve.

WvW i only see ascii use it in his conditank for solo/small scale roaming. He streams so u can check it out if you like it.

Pvp its absolutely unviable. Its stupid to have your own mechanics work against you and like on any normal build where u put stuff and it works together.
Maybe when someday this trait, sihpons and own regen finaly work through deathshroud it could be a thing, granted the number are still low to stuff like 600hps eles.

Wow.

I have no idea how i didnt notice or ever come across this topic for 2 years. Thanks

Hello.

What does the tooltip of “blast radius 300” mean? it shows when u take greater marks trait..

NeXeD.3042:

I got yelled at and quit on far more in pve when I first started this game than pvp…. no one liked having a vamp knights necro for a dungeon party….. but the messages I received from speed running pvers were far worse than any thing anyone in pvp has sent me.

As you see here, PvEers can also be mean. They usualy arent cz gw2 is designed friendly while pvp is where poeple compete and win/lose against each other, there is not oprahs everyone gets loot in real pvp.
Now heres the catch: you shouldnt care about insults but only care if u had a fun pvp match. To me, a close back and forth match is fun, no matter if i lose it. Its the adrenaline during match.

So grow a hard skin and go and have fun, since pvp is more interesting than dpsing same dungeon boss same way for 2y.
Btw – dont forget reality check-

u may have a legendary, but u have 0 hours in pvp, while i have 2000+ hours of pvp. Untill u have 500-1000, you will lose simply due to inexperience.

I hope you are patient and prepared to learn, wish you good luck.

On skyham take soldier/celestial amu with all the spectral, staying in DS and DS heal trait. i think u can even take the longer fear trait.
Energy sigils, plague. Probably staff + dager/x (horn or dagger)

The goal is to have as much survival, giving you a chance to pull every 24s.

In eotm, you can go for a tanky dire condi build, where you focus on condi duration and fear duration. Remember if you want to fear off ledge, dont reflexly use ds#2 as everyone walks faster and further with swiftnes than with chill.
You can pass the nerfed nightmare runes but reapers protection is great on those close places, and its aoe.

Edit: check out choxie808 youtube chanel

1) Take a 2 year step back and reintroduce “qualifying points 2.0” as grinding points to force poeple to play more.

2) Hide MMR to protect the majority of casual baddies from the truth.

The designers are rubbing their hands in “muahahaha” over best pvp update probably.

Losing orientation of up/down in kyhlo mid point, then when teammates call for help – i run to wrong close/far node.

Engies are already either rabid for the IncendaryPowder proc, or celestial also gives good crit chance + they got lots of fast/mutlihit skills.

On necro I havent tested but i thik you must be rabid. Maybe on staff since its aoe, but necro in current meta sucks in teamfights and is meant for 2v2 and favorable 1v1s.

25% is the dueling standard in sanctum?

I always heard that (20% is the golden standard we all agree in pvp) and in wvw its 50% due to higher stats aka higher opening bursts.

Hello.

Map skyham, 1:45 am central europe. I just got paired in unranked with a lv3 warrior, 186 achievemnt point and he said "how to pvp? "

Can I please get my MMR checked?
Is it at least 90% in old terms?

I think my MMR is ok since i get paired with poeple in my guild often and sometimes more known poeple…
But a complete ZERO HOURS new player should never be matched with a “at least top1000” player in old terms.

We won easily so i wont ask what the other team had.

Justin ODell.9517:

Just dropping off some data.

Maps in order of mean difference between team scores in the last week of unranked arena.

1. Forest of Niflhel
2. Battle of Kyhlo +36
3. Spirit Watch +40
4. Temple of the Silent Storm +42
5. Skyhammer +44
6. Legacy of the Foefire +72
7. Courtyard +124

Sorry to bother, but can someone explain a bit simpler what those numbers mean? Ive hit the language barrier with math terms and would like to check if i understand it corectly:

-On total, the closest scores happen on forest.
-Example, the average is 350-500, meaning 150pts is the base value for the difference.
-Kylo is “2nd most balanced map”
-there the games end on average with a (150)+36=186 pts difference aka 314-500.
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-and so on till courtyard, where theres the biggest difference aka the map snowballs.

Or grinding points so its easier to understand for new casual poeple who we all worship.

A 2 year step backwards.

Absolutely will buy belindas katana next time its in store.
Maybe ill reach twilight (or new legy) ammount of money till then, im sitting on 1,6k gold.
Oh and the t3 sylvari one

I have one concern though.

If you check the animation video, marjory does a 360 spin on 3rd chain of autoatack. I really hope it wont lock you into place like the stupid ranger 1h sword.

The chain seems pretty fast which is great, just hope they wont make it sluggish and justify it with the chill.

Signets work for half a second when entering deathshroud.

If they stick to the current system, you can either buy them for a few gold and skill point or unlock them the regular PvE way.

The annoying thing is its character specific, it felt such a troll when i recently spammed my tomes on my 2nd thief and i had to buy every single trait.

I also understood that the new pvp gamemode is 5v5.

The guild stuff they said is several teams joining together.

Flumek.9043:

Same. I would join mordys side for a greatsword.

Guess I will have to hold true to my deal and fight against you all.

My top 2 genres for pvp. The first I absolutely recomend, 2nd is personal preference i like the genre

1) Anything “Touhou” music/cover/remix…. favorite themes: mokou, eirin, cirno, scarlet, bad apple, Bishamontenreturn is chanel with many covers

2) DareEcho and CUTLoveRx are chanels if you like nightcore remixes.

Atherakhia.4086:

As powerful as a power Necro can be aren’t they countered a bit too easily? Medi guard, Thief, and even Ranger do quite well against them. Warrior isn’t exactly an easy fight either.

Oh you just won a teamfight? here have huge 100% LF for next fight
Oh you just died and need a comeback? here, have 0% LF for next fight

(side note: its actually around -23% LF on death, yes minus)

We keep asking for the good stuff to actually fell like we a bit of control, and not a pingpong ball flying through space, but given that Radioactive is pretty successfull and probably lots of “poeple who cant counter” complain about the “111 LICH 111” i dont see them turning their back on the casuals.

The warhorn change is just a 0.5s DPS increase but the big counters remain.

You just said 1 daily class baddie and the game is ruined for all 9x poeple in match.

Well those 3 maps are even worse at throwing the balance around – even with all equal players —-->meaning its entirely the unbalanced maps fault. Just think about what games you have given that theres all good competitive players on both teams.

-Courtyard = 500-0 first blood zergfest
-Spirit watch= totally favors teleporting classes
-Trollhammer = no words needed i think

Please remove proffession dailes , the intent was good – but the result are very negative and outweight any reason.

Think the “random class for each person” instead of whole game ruining whole day idea was the best. Easy fix instead of telling boss something failed and needed to be removed.

Kirchhoff.5876:

the basic one, with no emote, it’s like “what ? there are finishers in this game ? wah cool”

This one could be higher on the troll list, but thing is the game randomly resets finishers, so you see poeple with this too often,

Oh came back to see here and nice that you read and liked tipps.

I dont want to discourage you, but i think its good to be honest. When you said mouse camera movement and keyboard turning….. wow it is actualy a joke among poeple to tell someone hes keyboard turning – as that would indicate he hes about 0-10 hours played…… if you want to get a grip about thief and pvp, be prepared for learning a few 100 hours , keep in mind most currently have more 1.000 h clocked

Youll need to get to a pure tehnical point of memoring the keyboard layout and that you can press them fast at anytime. then you can ask again on how to better understand the rythm of battle.

I see a bright light in you that youre prepared to take advice
Wish you best of luck

Kharr.5746:

I just want to point out that the trolling is a lot less effective if you’re wearing sparkly armor. You’ve got to put on that first level armor that’s totally mismatched and torn looking to really sell it.

So true.

I think it just adds salt to the “getting stomped by a beginner” thing.

And a small modest ammount of pink dyes for the finish.

hmm, ty for thought.
I was always 1 tier behind the leading group – so showing off a bear while top guys had cool shark was meh, therefore i always trolled with rabbit.

Since the patch ive been using llama, but ill give the trolling deer a try.

All changes are overall good.

For necro its most important set more reliabiltyy and lower MIN/MAX scenarios, so tahts its easier to balance.
I hope the new torment sigil doesnt bring upon another weird semi OP but zero sustain phase of condispam.
Also , the zero lifeforce on respawn problem could be solved soon hopefuly.

Turning auto targeting off for thief in pvp is a must. Hiting or even porting to wrong enemy is too big of a risk.

Tab target at least prioritzes players over pets,minion…. Just not mesmer clone. So if theres few enemys you can reliably use tab otherwise mouse is faster.

A lot of you skills dont need a target. Weapons with cleave will hit even multiple enemys in range, example swinging your sword will hit even stealthed enemys if theyre in range front of you.

This is real beginner stuff to be honest.
When you got called stay in practice i presume you were at least playing unranked. That mode already uses matchmaking so poeple expext to be matche dwith equally skilled players and when you a big beginner on your team you often can call the game lost.
I hope i explained you a bit and i strongly recommend you check out a few guides for both thief fighting gameplay as well as their role and map movement.

If you can talk about it, do you think the point scoring system itself is flawed, that it produces mostly + points , or that it was more the matchmakings fault, facing premades against pugs?

Guys, we are firstly trying to convince them,

that in case one of PARTY team members rejoins too late like 31seconds, or he DCes near end game, but you are WINNING due to a obvious big lead, YOU WONT GET PUNISHMENT FOR WHOLE TEAM or the WIN should simply COUNT.

Let us first get this sorted, as such scenarios are most common in 5x poeple partys playing on EU servers.
Then you can dream about the bonus you want to get those 2‰ of time you actualy win a 4v5 try to realise that the game shouldnt promote 4v5 play, its just a luck shot you get here and there and can be used as a brag story.

Archaon.9524:

infantrydiv.1620:

Justin ODell.9517:

Lux.7169:

But according to your theory, dishonor will deter this sort of behavior in and of itself, so then why implement a double punishment? Dishonor on a team-mate + a loss even though you won 4v5?

Multiple. Accounts.

Don’t think I’m following your train of thought, but:

Shouldn’t matter, if 4 players win vs 5, they always deserve a win, and in addition, the people on the 5 team deserve -3 leaderboard points for managing to lose 5v4.

if you win 4v5 you should actually get WAY MORE points than if you were 5…

ar at least this is how logic works…

Nope, youd sacriffice a teammate, or even one of your multi accounts if were including that, when score would be 490-300 with safe 2 cap to get bonus points

Please do, the “deserter but party still won” is a must.

It would be very demoralizing and it would destroy many guild bonds.

I would even take it a step further in terms of fairness:
-deserter gets -3 pts in ladder
-other party members get the regular -3, -2, -1, 0 pts that the matchmaking prophecy predicted.

Basically playing 4v5 is never a gain to your team and should never be. The party members should just recieve regular losing punishment not added. And deserter cant play for 15min now anyways so they need to find a new member

Aseity.9152:

Ahh, I see. Well, I hope to see good things come out of HoT for necromancers.

And Sylvari :P My main necromancer is a Sylvari so, heh.

Same. I would join mordys side for a greatsword.

A) Make it spawn a bit later, like we did on spirit with orb.

It should be so, that a non swiftness person can run by without the “25pt losing your game pinnada” spawns in his field of vision.

B) If you want to change the metagame, maybe making it give 100-stat points would make it worthy in high-tier play so youre set for the long mid fight.

Also just remembered:

How should we know if reconnected in time?

Do I just enter new que afterwards for 1 second to see if i have dishonor and cant play?

Old leaderboard – 99% skill 1% grind

• 0 reward
• ladder position = MMR = how good your matches were.

So for me only reasons to play good were fear of dropping MMR so i would not play with or against lower rated players
OR
trying to get close to the competitive players and trying my best to beat them. Its fun when i got lucky, but after a few games (offpeak hours, non optimal builds, simply being a medium player) i returned to my normal MMR range.

New leaderboard – 90% grind 9% team 1% skill

• test season is over, i admit most of us expected the real season and rewards to start coming
• we know that again means another month(s) of wait
• good work on all the disconnect issues

• new point scoring system is a failure

This makes any meanigfull upcoming rewards useless. It is bassically 2 unranked ques since you only want decent MMR to not play with baddies and nobody caring about actual ladder position.
Also the companys PR will probably not allow to remove a failed system as it would be admiting a mistake.

I think we all had something like 70/30 or 80/20 skill / grind ratios in mind. I do not know of any proposed idea that could fix this.

Id give it 40s… Or make it 30s US , 40s EU cz you know ….

Question about disconnect: When does DC time start?

1) screen freezes , 10-20s
2) char select + 2 load maps , 20s

so if dc starts when u leave map and ends right when u tehnicaly enter pvp map 30s should be ok

Also if you know you will DC, it seems faster to alt+f4 immediately and relog.

What is “blending” ?

Does it mean all my alts share same MMR with my main?

Or that my main is great, but my alt which i only played a few matches with and could be considered beginerish – but is “upleveled” because im obviously a great player with my main.

imaclown.1628:

You can keep writing this stuff all you want but ultimately the whole point of what your doing is mathematically trying to prove engi is op, while ignoring tons of other variables. It works for players because it’s ok for some players to be overpowered because they are just better.

Thats not the point.

The great idea here is , that the system is adapting its own metrics to current situation.

We said at start, oh 2x thief vs 2x ele stacking is vastly different and ofc they answered us back: “well we cant always rewrite the system every day the meta changes”

This would mean the devs dont need to care about current meta.
Is ele/engie 20% more OP ?
ok, then lets expect and demand from them to win 20% more often, if not they get the regular minus points.

The idea on interrupt isnt bad, but it would still mostly be bound together with DS.

Staff , warhorn and spectral pull are only non ds interupt and even they have quite the cast times compared to other classes, but hey were necro (s.wall excluded for unreliability)
So this could be even more of a nerf

Gotta admit youre very good at keeping your calm. I just have to went the frustration out a bit when i see something going wrong for the 100th time

• you should not have a “close afk” person – basicaly what their turret trash engie was doing. staying home and losing 4v5 is 2012 tactics
• a necro should not be the point defender, especialy power nec. with a support bunker in the other teamfight a ele/engie or warri is a good 1v1 holder. while tankier than lets say a thief, necros are way better at attacking and in process decaping a node rather than defending it
• i know it wasnt you but DONT. GO. FOR. SVANIR. AT. START……..EVER…. im not joking but you shouldve called the engie an idiot for that and tell him to never do it again. I cant sugar coat it – its a huge beginner mistake, meganoob move
• PRE-PLACE YOUR MARKS (at least 2 and 3, save 4 & 5, unless you feel youre safe for a good 20-30s…they last 30s on ground btw). it allerts you when someone is coming, it stall them, makes them waste a dodge… countless uses
• dont rush far after you wipe mid. as you saw, they will respawn
• wasting both dodges before fight – ehmm just dont do it ds2+3 is a good way to secure the gap closer on point
• even when you do a small wipe on close , you should again (mostly) not go for svanir – IF midfight is not safe.
• consider small build changes if you wanna go higher, the blind well is not worth it, long CD and not stunbreak… wurm migitates a lot more dmg or a dmging well or spectral always fits on power necro

Sidequestion to fivegauge or if u ask your teammate nos.

Are there any similiar cancels for necro?

If these are true, then Anet are biased NA only douchy baddie bags , getting fearchained and liched in a hotjoin

Like 1x nec is on top team and even that cz he has 2-4 other more OP classes supporting him..

cele amu… ok
carrion amu.. wtf?
rabid amu…. wtf?
nightmare runes nerf…. ok
balta and all power might stack runes …. no change, bravo
IP burn , ele burn ….ok
minor , i reapeat minor nerfs to most OP specs…. ok
major basicaly breaking mechanics for both power and condi nec specs… wtf?

Hello.
Just found this thread.

• THE PVP DAILY IS BIGCATKITTEN MESSED UP BLEEEEH. PLEASE REMOVE IT. NOW. NO FANCY WORDS, NOW !!

It does more harm than good. Few poeple try a new class while most already bad pvers in pvp now go on a class theyre not familiar with, while matchmaking still puts them quite high.
MY MESMER GUILDIE IS LAUGHING KILLING THIEVES ON THIEF DAILY DAYS FOR SAKE.

I apologize for the rudeness.

Afaik praying gives 0% LF , so with help of latest patch you can skip right to step 7 ty and you too