Guild Wars 2

I think theres the minion active skills that werent mentioned. Though only bone minion exploding is the only one which will also hit instantly, since the immob/blind take time to charge up and hit.

It could have been lag, but im pretty sure I got corrupt boon interupted this week. But i think it didnt go on 5sec timer.

PvP duel server has a rule of 20%.
Its also the normal amount at the start of serious match, as 3 minions is pushing your luck with lag. and personaly, anything above 50% is my advantage.

However, for wvw id consider 50% to be the balance sweet spot:
1) higher stats , higher dmg
2) no objects, staff#1 multihits , pets dying to give you LF during fight
3) most time you encounter a necro roaming is with 100% LF anyway, due to criters at start

100th post yeey.

And yes, for the 1000x time, remove / fix wall stacking and other shananigans.

PvE would get actual respect that way.

Touhou.

Its pretty much the best gaming music and its got lots of remixes and arrangements.

Login.5102:

I almost just want to take lich form for a condi build so I ckittene #5 for Huge boon strip/condi cleanse real quick. still stomp and rez hmhmm….No I can’t people will make fun of me :C

You can lich-stomp and I youll generate more wtf and cheers than laughter if you pull it off

+the full CD has been fixed

Back on topic, Id say we cant afford plague anymore You got so many bad matchups as a necro that extra 2s CC is needed and it still mostly isnt enough.

Thief is OP in real coordinated teamQ, or top soloQ where all superpugs know what theyre doing. If youre a “bad” thief you may feel weak, but thats a l2p issue. But why learn your class, when you know theres a “black thiefy wall” upcoming, which you will never pass?

1) There is NO other counter than also play thief.
Never was and never….maybe….. but the mobility is just worth too much to give up strategically.

2) S/D evade is actualy good in most 1v1 matchups.
A mobile fortress? you get the idea how broken it sounds

3) Initiative = No CDs .
Old problem. It wont get fixed, just remember that it exists and hope that they keep it somewhat balanced. point 1&2 are bigger for pvp

I wont lie I didnt like the map the first 3 days. I actualy loved killing poeple with knockbacks.

But the second I hit it in tournys, when i was trying to win and not be on “headless hotjoin killspree mode”, it became very frustrating.

And its getting worse and worse the more you play it.

Its just that their “test group” is probably bad and new players or themselves which is casual 50hr playtime or rank13 in pvp (not personal offence )

Thats why you can call them hambot, axebot, greatswordbot

Rename character slots to “l33t asura alt slots” and give them to anyone who ever enetered a tourny.

Im not joking, as its only 50k players and it wont require some1 to set the scale to 2.0 or implement a default human, walk of shame look, which is as ugly as the asuras.

warior GS needs a better burst skill, thats all.

And a real nerf/redesign for passive healing signet so that the mobilty doesnt come with such regen.
Its not bad, its almost viable like many other zerker builds.

I hope the new rangers wont be too strong, but IT LOOKS GOOD.

Rangers were always the useless boring 1v1 BM pointholder or I dont ever wanna remeber the zoo. I find it always better to have viable zerker builds than bunkers who kill u with evade spam and passive damage.

NOW PLEASE MAKE SAME TO NECRO AXE.
Range, attack speed, damage, more preferable reliable life force, damage….. Anything (though i would prefer this order), just make the weapon a good non clunky more offensive adition to dager/x + staff.

Is it just a midget problem or will it also impale my head?

borrok.9267:

Nicely played. Surprising to see a thief team get shut down so easily.

Proffesion stacking has always been worse that the ideal dream team (some exceptions for tanky alrounders like ele and warior).

Its actualy pretty common knowledge to switch char if you have 2x thieves, like 2x bunker guards.Theyre very specialized roles and simply cancel each other out

Nerf THE DAMAGE !!!

The +4% from rock dog is worth waay less than the 7-10k deathlogs the birds AND rock dog SHOULD REWARD MORE since you actualy need to land the damage youself, not passive helper.

And if you want it bo a passive AI helper for bunker builds, give it healing power stat.

Thief 25s: each +10% dmg
Best damage modifiers by far, but that means thiefs only role is dmg, no supportive effects.

Most others: +3 to 5% dmg overall

Necro 25 Spite – Siphoned Power- useless and counter productive.
Id say its:
+1 to 3% dmg
good for 5% of the “clutch 1v1s”

0.03 * 0.05 = 0.0015 = +0.15% Damage increse…………………. IF you hit (with long cast times and bad mechanics on necro), IN WHICH CASE the you already hit target with a 2-4k lifeblast you already win. IF NOT youre dead cz its a low 25% hp clutch fight remember? and in all others “normal” fights, the gradnmaster minor does NOTHING.

Final verdict:
+0% dmg

BAlance it to something constant, 5% constant dmg wont be too strong on power necros, cz its a hit or miss style anyway, with the miss option entirely on the hands of skilled enemys.

flow, so you saying that, example: zerker 23k hp 18k DS. killshot will hit me for 10k hp or 5k in DS ?

Please edit title to hambot. or birdbow sounds even better insult, as most are familiar with its meaning. props for coming up with the name

Yes.

even in pvp warior are called hambot, axebot, greatswordbot ( ok nikebot but i get it ) most of pve is still drainbread so… yes

ah now i see. i though u made typo with 28% dmg reduction, u meant 2/7% is runes geting weaker.
Idk why you would interpret that way, as it simply sounds stupid, like “the runes gets its bonus damage halved.” that tells you nothing, as in this case, the rune still gives power main stat, a great might uptime, which deals far more condi dmg, and like you said, when you get hit by a bit hit, it basicaly over already. so its better to tell what end results will look like

For all others:
I am mocking the slow/abysmall balance changes.

Keksmuffin.1450:

You do realize that the nerf from 7% to 5% more damage is something arround a 28,5% nerf and you can’t even compare that to the 8% healing signet nerf?

Also you should prolly learn to dodge earthshaker.

ups forgot about that. so -2,85% means 4857.5 dmg now.

Thank god. I always ended up dying but with those 150 extra hp, i wont get kicked out of deathshroud

Happy the runes got nerfed. It was just insane everyone using them

Like, getting hit by a hambot for 5000. now it is 4900. Finaly i can win

A limit for theese invisible and unenjoyable to watch characters per team would be a good start. Is say 2 max

I think this will be the next big feature patch

exotic armor/weapons with good runes/sigils on them ?

Send a report or support mail to give them extra work. Im claiming a 500gem refund each time

5:25 – weaknes means -25% dmg taken on average, not half. 50% chance to cause 50% less dmg

where? screen or didnt happen

Probably not, theres other stuff that makes wariors hackers.

The endure pain is basicaly a 4s mistform/shrink elixer, which trades the invul against CC for +1sec duration and not locking user out of using skills, because its a stance.

Some dont even use it , because soldier amu+ healing signet are in a abviously good fine spot for the next year.

Also very dissapointed rushing through necro quick as possible as always, but if the stuff was good id have no problem. But it was just general philosophy talk, that should been done 2 years before not after launch.

way too brief stuff. I mean we should write concise stuff like engineers and they just answer with some vague air like a freelance artist.
I mean just LoS, hitbox or 0.2s aftercast can make or brake a skill and further a whole build, while they discuss in which general direction is north and if they should go there sometime in the future

TL,DR: my brief general impression is , that they design an ele/guard with lots of good and little bad stuff and necro with some good and lots of bad stuff to balance

a t s e.9614:

So much hate towards thieves just because of S/D…. Thieves would be underpowered in this meta without S/D.

A non S/D thief has no chance against several builds already > D/D ele , condi engi , Axe/sword/ LB warr etc…

Ofc they would still be viable just because of the mobility but they would have to forget about winning 1v1s

Thief is my 2nd so dont give me bias cz you are sooooo wrong.

Thief needs to totaly lose a 1v1 on against a soldier/rabidtank. Going far should be a risky move of NOT getting caught.
Best mobility + apex of all zerkers + that it can kill a necro on point?

Old d/p was balanced. You had just enough initiative to fight for some time on a decaped node, then make a decision:
-stealth and leave?
-or stay and kill / be killed

Nowadays teef be pushing far like a braindead warior -.-

Im mostly annoyed with the actual game mechanics: no cleave or Point-blank AoEs and only 1-instant abilty.

With all the cast times, animation delays, travel times, target requirements against all instant or -0.5s max abilities on enemys, i feel like a fortune teller.

azerte.4365:

Thief is neither buffed or nerfed, we’re still the same as we were before the big patch. The problem is the power creep the April 15th patch introduced. The fire/air sigils and strength runes allows otherwise low damage, bunker specs to now build up enough might or get sigil procs to compensate the otherwise lost damage.
Nerfing thieves is the wrong way to do it, you’re just gonna end up damaging a class for no reason.
Nerfing strenght runes and sigils is gonna force thieves to go back to DA or CS if they want damage, thus giving up Acrobatics or Trickery.

Agreed.
Also why is it ok for the evade spam to deal same damage as normal attacks? Would it be ok to reduce Flanking and increase (or leave as it is ) Larcenous strike?
I know a lot is not just 333333 but shorter animation from 3-1 or dodge-1 , but those are harder for them to fix than number tweaks (cough healsig 10months cough)

I will list for PVP ONLY , and for the 3x classes i have at least 100 hours on and comfortable to tourny with anytime. In order:

Necromancer
S) ATTRITON and AREA DENIAL
Condi should be aoe but not as strong dmg as engie, but it should have 1v1 and team TRANSFERS. Power necro should be more 1v1 centered with debufs/SIPHONS/LEECH/life force enemy to death. maybe buff siphons and cap them at 1x target?
W) NO BURST and MOBILITY
K) BURST by others

Thief
S) BURST and MOBILITY.
W) BURST when caught off cooldowns
K) SUSTAINED LONGER fights

Warior
S) MELEE DAMAGE and CC , “MAN MODE” aka Stances
W) man mode over , ranged pressure
K) CONDITIONS

STOP BEING BABIES AND LEARN TO TAKE SOME CRITICISM

When a “good player” makes mistakes, tests new weird build , trolls, or plays something stupidly overpowered, and u pm him a noob/why u do that? , he responds: “i know. sry for playing cheez. yeah this new stuff doesnt work. etc.”

Ignorant badies just bock ppl without listening them 1st.

Pretty accurate.

Id just give the 1st teef on team a +2 since in soloq theyre a must just for the mobility.

if both teams also had same total score, then its super rare, never seen or heard of one actualy. but if it could be you just didnt notice which team won :P

im giving the ones that are up to date/realistic/viable.

honestly didnt know that about stacks. though it only applies to might and stability is still prioritezed on both thief boonrips for whatever reason.

2x boons stolen on 20s vs. 5x boon corrupt on 40s CD

I will list pros for thief steal:
+STABILITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
+interupt on demand not depended on stabilty
+shorter CD allows for more mistakes
+damage , hey 2×2k = 4k fears everyones complaining about
+INSTANT as in can be done while casting something else
+LINE of SIGHT which idiot thought this was bug omg anet wtf
+facing as in works even if u look behind
+INSTANT again as in not fast projectile based which can be obstructed by a small
rock
+gap closer
0 – u get boons
0 – enemy gets conditions
- range. CB has 1200
-CB is unblockable

Disclaimer: i play necro,thief,ele,warr in that order. I was never good, more badish, at thief, but when trickery came i started doing decent. I also was never able to play s/d properly and even before needed the 15init trait.

Question:
Only thing and class definind thing for necros was corrupt boon, just like portal for mesmers. Now not only is it hanging on the edge of the meta, only relying on the “suprise – lich form” pony, but the sole role of
PREVENTING A STABILITY STOMP
is done better by another proff. or 2 actualy as a top necro sad, mesmer boonstrip+dmg > necro. Fair?

Temple. losing around 450-470. win altar, mid is their with temafight and bunker there, our thief 1v2 holding temple. So we need to hold the 2-1 cap, no deaths, and the guy i stomped will respawn and rush their home soon.
I ( necro) rush to far/temple, our thief just goes down, d/d ele and hambot warior stomping. now heres where the magic hapens:
- staff#5 interupt
- rezz a bit
- warhorn #4 interupt again
- rezz again
- warior stabilty → corrupt
-DS rezz → ds#3 interupt ele while finaly bringing thief up
We then win the 2v2 while holding point, thus winning the game by 5 or 10 points.

Before it was problem that when it found 10x players, it put nr.1-5 on one team and nr.6-10 on other team (in tearms of MMR rank aka skill). So it was esentialy good vs. bad team.

Now it evenly shufles them around. What class or build or whatever else, the system doesnt count, so things like 5x thieves vs dream team hambot+guard are just a unlucky circumstance.
It is entirely a meta problem, of some classes/build jut being better, not the MMR system.

thats those 35% of games poeple with 65% winrate lose

otherwise never stomp, just cleave & pray

Never thought of it, but thats a pretty good use for the blood grandmaster. It is a epic fail at the support role Anet designed it, but in zergs and gvg it may be the key to perma deathshroud.

Its my assumption, but it may work very well with the -condi duration if it gets reduced twice, 1st when aplied to your ally and then again when you pull it. 100% – 65% = 35% and then another 35% – 65% of 35 (22.75) = 12,25%
If its so its basicaly a free 5% LF every 3s.

For pvp power necro its dager > scepter > axe. imo axe isnt even viable

For wvw though you should definetly stick with axe. In zergs youll be spaming piercing ds#1 most time, but when thats not available, the axe#2 is good and #3 very good. +u can trait for a perma 10% dmg boost.
And in small scale axe is still better for range. I only prefer dagger for solo roaming cz ill be up against thieves 99% of time.

you would need to take a much bigger sample to get a good perspective. unless youve invested time learning other classes , youll probably be biased.

+most ppl watching arent the lower casual tier and theres nothing more annoying and hate producing than repeating to some1 for the 100th time how to counter like a MM necro or PU mesmer…

/signed.

No realy, key farmers do it in 20min , so there what difference do those 20ppl in pvp make even if they did get one here and then?

skyhamer should give you HONOR for leaving. like 500 gems.

Lotus.1682:

1. Equip Hammer
2. Equip Longbow
3. Call in friendly neighborhood thief to steal Lich Form’s stability
4. Proceed with the Hamboning.
5. xD

Gramaticaly correct would be “hambotting” hence you should refer to all wariors as “hambots”, like many of us already do.

Rym.1469:

If you’re running with either sword OH or a shield, make sure to pack “Reflect Missiles” trait. Three-four Lich’s reflected attacks can easily cause the Necro to panic. Too bad if he’s better than typical dropwell and uses something besides #1.

But in general, if you can’t strip his stability and CC him, LoS him or try to stay at range, applying conditions.

Player in Lich cannot cleanse conditions alone (unless he pre-casts Well of Power) so any better condition presure should force him out of Lich.

the lich #5 is a targetable aoe full condi cleanse + full boon rip + some dmg. takes 1,5-2s to cast though, and CD of 30s so you can only use it once

i always forget to, but when i watch them, theyre prety entertaining. Im talking about the weekly/monthly highlights on twitch.
Or if youre serious about making the series, i recomend you contact blu and other streamers, as they could provide you with lots of material gl

If he is forced to use his 180s CD elite in a 1v1 with you, then youre already won, since the point of a power necro is to have theyre whole team scared for a full wipe, not to win 1x 1v1 every 180s. And then lose 2x until elite is back

And heres how you can add some “skill” to youre skill-less condi warior disease: walk left-right left right to cause the projectiles to miss from range, walk and immbilize lich from behind if melee.

If its a teamfight, burst him down ASAP. If youre low, run behind an object, wait 5s for him to retarget another player, burst him down again. If you have a necro/thief/mesmer who can strip his stability, its over for him.