Guild Wars 2

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=Vxs-o;1NK-Q0f4cL-60;9;4dfh;0236137158;4SkW6W;1CoF2CoF26N

Changed from Tactics to Strength and it works much better,

Lost the immob on crip and needs a slightly different playstyle

Don’t know about runes and amulets, but with soldier hoelbrak you get 28k hp, still got cleansing ire.

Cleansing ire still there.

If you could improve plz post.

Can’t play hambow without Burstmastery, need to CC them when they’re in the fire field so they take more Burn ticks and sometimes the whole CC chain to take their health away.

I think HAMBOW is unviable now..

The build just gets farmed by guardians and Mesmers.

It works,

For Hambow note:

Merciless Hammer and Burst Mastery are both Grandmaster which sucks

I swear burst mastery isn’t proccing for me with the new adrenaline change on burst,

I use bow f1 and then switch to hammer and have no adrenaline.

Burst Mastery: Burst skills deal 7% more damage. Regain 3/7/10 adrenaline when using a burst skill based on the amount of adrenaline spent.

Good point,

15 char

Please be on point tomorrow with the new builds,

love the site, love your work keep it up please

I appreciate your work probably goes on in your spare time

www.metabattle.com

Thanks and the name of the new skins was??

I saw in PoI the new skins they showed off, the gs looked nice I was thinking there was a hammer of the same set?

Does anyone know the name so I could look it up on wiki, thanks

My tip, very simple but very effective—

Use combustive shot and then wait for them to kite a bit after the damage, then make sure you have a full F1 bow then switch to melee weapon and chop them whilst they’re tanking your perfectly placed fire field

Didn’t read the thread,

But IMO the pricing will lead to more people playing the game and will give us more competition in WvW and PvP and more people to connect with and slay dragons in PvE

160gold, last I paid for a character slot is a bit steep, but money comes to you in this game if you play, you have a lot of LVL 80’s and you PvE a lot chances are you know how to make a buck. I PvP and have no idea how to make money but I made at least 600g in a few months

Looks like WTS winner’s space

1st 2nd 3rd

No, the circle on the ground

The red circle around your enemy, very very basic, look out for this so you know when you have targeted your enemy to prevent you from shooting blank air and tabbing fast when you targeted a pet or a turret onto the right target.

These type of competitions boost number of people that play PvP

Which one of the footies, or is it the Guild Lord that applies poison?

The poison made mince meat of my shoutbow and then the damage on top of that killed me,

Would like to avoid it in the future.

Why doesn’t the LORD rally from a player kill?

Would make it sense if it did

The record is 1 minute and 13 seconds, I have a screenshot but I’m not on the PC atm

metabattle.com my friend

My ideas to make PvP more popular:

Big prize money (with your sales people could almost play this game for free and take part in it)
Crowd-funded PvP tournies, you chip in, you want to play.
PvP armor to grind for (like FoW armor, would encourage alot of players to come and to stay around)
Grind titles like in GW1 would encourage more pugs to form
More balance patches (Although I actually think the game is pretty bala atm)
More giveaways on Twitch
PvP mode!! (as mentioned above)
Cash prizes for stronghold ladder winners (not Llama)
Cash everywhere!
A TV/viral video of PvP footage(WTS Footage) instead of the few GW2 PvE adverts I’ve seen
Pay SodaPoppin to play the game once a week at least (PvP)
Make the streaming-client the default option!
Make it cool! Bring out cool stuff in the gem-store so the West loses it’s images that MMORPG are for the nerdy ones, let me dress like Lil’ Wayne, or like a hipster in Jeans trainers!!
Continue the support for amateur cups
Just target us better ArenaNet!! If i didn’t know anyone who plays video games online PC then I would never have gotten into gw2 and I’m sure they’re a lot of kids out there like that

Maybe add a small radius visible one, for rally but large so you still have to stomp.

I really support this thread

Maybe if the shot had a longer animation it would be a lot nicer because the way things are it is impossible to dodge it and when you get hit by it you are a goner, you have to make up the lost ground and you get hit by the pet with might stacking and it really hurts and you are down to 50% health and then there is the Rapid Fire to dodge and it counters any pressure you have to put on the target

Yeah / \ e e t 0 I fully agree with the changes, it would make the plays more interesting, maybe the designers can have more of a look, this would certainly reduce build wars.

Please fix,

anyone else have the Network error???

Can’t queue in a stack

Asura
Female
Engineer

The problem is I can’t “invite to party” and sometimes others can’t invite me which makes it a hassle to team up.

I get the error message: the member is already part of a party.

What if their MMR algorithm sucks??

Anyone have any idea what would go into making such a thing??

Thanks, you guys made it better,

I am so happy with you ANET

Did you have a fiddle with my settings?

Got a thief following me on Twitter!

I ain’t giving in!!

Very funny! Good to see your spirits are high.

Maybe you will see it as the motivation to become good like them.

Top players find them difficult to 1v1 also.

I watched Helseth today lose it because he kept dying and getting chased around the map.

What profession do you play StickerHappy.8052?

Fair enough there are some builds that could take them down like HAMBOW for example. (Balanced Stance and Earthshaker leap) but for Engi it is difficult let alone Mes or Necro. Thief has some plays vs it. He can stealth and he has a lot of dodge rolls.

It’s a difficult debate but sometimes they are just too op. I don’t think the game is designed so that if you’re playing a certain class you should avoid the Power Ranger all together??

Turk.5460:

Genoshock.2104:

…Every time I 1v1 them I have a 50% win ratio vs them….

Doesn’t sound too broken to me. :x

Because I’m very talented, make it more like 35%.

Rapid Fire, 10 stacks of vulnerability, 9k DMG, sometimes more, every 10 seconds.

Come on ANET, why did you do this to us?

Ranger unviable??

Give him some crip and immob stacks and make him an off-point fighter to snare opponents from getting to points (a throwback from gw1).

What do you guys think?

Every time I 1v1 them I have a 35% win ratio (edited) vs them and sometimes during clutch times in the match they beat me so fast with 1 button. And I feel like quitting.

Thank you

Totally agree with you Tarcis,

I think we need to be able to 1v1, so we are more practised and it’s a lot of fun and we get some rewards for winning a 1v1 so other player doesn’t go afk.

Change the lore too, I don’t know all the info, but it sounds ridiculous that metal can take poison damage and confusion damage.

Maybe say they have the essence of the asura inside them which makes them part alive.

Maybe I am just doing it wrong,

but Healing Turret for me doesn’t always activate

Checked if I have poison on me, it’s not there.

Get no heal, and all I’m doing is double spamming 6.

I’ve seen people streaming and they don’t get this problem

There were a lot of hard gimmicky builds to beat too in GW1: ranger spike; VIMWAY; IWAY; etc etc, it’s nothing new for GW2 meta

Don’t practice 1v1 in conquest, if you are losing 1v1 when the point is being contested. i.e it is white just run away don’t get crippled just disengage, and try to make up the advantage/disadvantage somewhere else.

Yeah I get this

But then why all these guilds recruit through the 1v1 process??

Maybe play a few games see if you win.

I admit I am bad at 1v1 and I could be better but to practice in conquest no no, I’d rather just run away if I am losing. I never engage on a point being defended because it wastes too much time and they get more points; that’s one of my tips for you guys. Go to outnumber somewhere else.

Been posted many times but here is my take on it

For me 1v1 KOTH Arena is too boring, obsing firstly and not getting better ( just getting older) and then when the guy dies you never get it in and never get to play

Maybe make an official 1v1 duel area where we can practice

Most guilds recruit through a 1v1 selection process so we have to go to KOTH to get better, 1v1ing in Conquest often results in lost games and lots of grief..

Their is a gap here to help improve the community and make many more guilds.

I like the sound of a gambling arena, say if you’re starting off you can compete for 1 obsidian shard per match, and it goes all the way up to 10g if you’re really good and confident. I know there is a guild that does this too. Maybe I should join there.

pm me in game next time we are on, i play both
i have 1.8k games

I haven’t face a 5man same guild team in a month and a half

Running into walls sounds like lag

Any news whether or not it is included?

All the pvpers were hyped for some Stronghold action on Twitch

I heard that we will have a guild ladder for Stronghold, but know I’ve read this I am terribly confused

There is plenty of land in the Mists which hasn’t been developed, please give us our own zone to queue for Stronghold.

At least you can improve your skill in the first game and see how many plays a minute a top player makes! Kappa

What is it exactly?

He said some stuff about destroying loot and then killing their base??

Builds??

you should take a screenshot and post here so we know who you are

it could be cos of dc bro

MOBA or no MOBA we need to get paid!

We don’t need to be the highest up there on the list, but GW has a good model to crowd-fund the thing. In my opinion alot of the MOBAs are missing key elements that GW excels in.

What is the theory in MOBA, you play one class and you get really good at it? Or are top players good in more than one class?

This is like Microsoft and why Bill Gates doesn’t sleep at night, you make one slip-up and you’re gone just like all his competition.

Let’s break it down and do an analysis.

WTS money, where does that come from. Probably from NCSoft or Anet’s revenues.
A crowd funded tourney where they maybe take a 10% cut to host the thing and maybe more to be in line with their business model, this is perfectly acceptable.

Now to encourage a crowd-funded tournament let’s analyse the type of people that buy stuff in the gem-store.

I’d break them down into 3 categories.

1. I use my mum’s credit card to buy all the fancy armor and weapons.
2. I earn money in my job which means it’s faster for me to buy junk in the gemstore than save up in game for it.
3. PvP players who win them as awards.

So, why not add a fourth end-user who currently isn’t even their target market because some believe not to spend money in the video-game and crowd fund the thing!

That could be true but we got PvErs to support the cause!! Oh a fancy new skin! How else does this game make money anyway and encourage them into the PvP arena! I go as a perfect template, eh the PvE in Gw1 is awesome, let’s try the PvP see if it is my thing? Oh herro sheet this is awesome the mechanics which I see in PvE all come together and some people are really good, Herro sheet let’s also get really good.

So PvE’rs don’t get mad or anything, there is some sort of rift in these sort of game between the two factions, we don’t need to have the most money, let’s just try it and see how much we can raise.

It would encourage way more people to start playing! HOLY SMOKES GW2 has 5mill prize pool, let’s buy that game! Raise the competition. The top 200 players play all their free time as it is judging by leaderboards; China, EU, NA. 300 games as of now is very very manly, why not reward these players in the best way you can.