Guild Wars 2

This is complete BS Anet. All other elites AND even normal skills get multiple stacks (3 average) of stability. You give Lich 1? WTF?! Why do you hate us so much. You did fix a lot of downstate traits…95% of those are for MM’s and don’t matter….but thanks.

Ya, he is right. You can’t comprise you team of unorthodox builds and expect to “be competitive with higher skilled teams”. You will get steam rolled. If you are going to run a non meta build, honestly you can probably only do that with 1 player and be competitive.

Here is the main issue with playing a different build. You can be really good at it, but if your teammates have no idea how to play and coordinate with a build like that, you will do badly. This will take a little time for them to get used to your build and know what you need and when for help/ peels etc. This is why running even 2 odd builds get you in trouble.

I would grab meta classes and a zerker. As you are playing ranger, I would say maybe theif/mesmer + double ele + engi or sub one of the eles out for a shoutbow.

Haha, This map was awesome but at the same time OP for some. Underwater ranger, necro, guardian…kitten . Or 1 man holding off 5 people with the cannon lol.

LOL. You were thinking the same thing everyone else was. Camera movement was not that great. We definitely were looking at an an empty point when a 4 man wipe happened. Also, when he ‘sent him flying’ if I remember right the player was going to get rezed, which would in turn help them towards winning the fight. He got throw far away from any rez potential and therefore the fight was lost due to being outnumbered. Pretty sure that is what happened.

someone.7485:

Turret engi’s are only really OP against bad team play.

And that is why 2 of this class got banned. The tournament is focused on amateurs and people that may not have the best teamplay. Also focuses on unknowns that want to get on a team, to have their shot. Can’t expect amateur teams to want to play if they know they have no chance at winning. That is why there are not many teams in the Go4 cup. What build murders amateurs? Turret engi’s. That is why it is banned from the amateur tournament. Also banned is any player deemed too advanced. This basically means that if The Abjured don’t play Sunday, so technically they won nothing, they still can’t play in the tournament. Tournament excludes top teams in the past 2 tournaments but also anyone or any team deemed to be more advanced than the audience they are trying to bring in.

What are you asking? Which ones at THAT moment do you want to stick the most, cover those. Just because 1 guy doesn’t have condi cleanse it doesn’t mean the guy next to him doesn’t and isn’t splashing him with it. Same rules applies for these 2 as they do for every other condi. Protect the ones you want on there the most. Situationally different at all times.

Don’t get all hyped just because they payed a bunch of people to go out there. you will be sorely disappointed.

Battlefield did this a while back when Battlefield: Hardline was announced. They flew youtubers from around the world into their headquarters for a first look. You know what they got? Fancy 5 star hotel and food and 1 hour of gameplay before the beta launched. Ya, thats right. Popular You-tubers from USA, Europe and Russia etc.. were flown to the USA for a sneak peak and all they got was 1 hour of gameplay. They were allowed to record that gameplay for the 1 hour and post it with the companies watermark; BUT not until the beta was released. Morning OPEN beta launched all the vids were uploaded by the famous Battlefield youtubers. (I would love to watch you play, but I would rather play it myself). No questions about anything answered and just some footage on a single map that people had already seen previously.

All it does is hype people up, like what is happening now. So many getting hyped about big secrets that they must know, because why else would they fly them there? Hype train will be derailed but hey, it is keeping you interested and that is what they want.

Slininstien.7546:

I have some troll characters for my PvP as a mesmer, I have an asuran (smallest there is), a charr (max sized), and a sylvari just normal, so when i want to actually try in pvp I can still wear them on my asuran/sylvari, but the fact that when I’m on my charr and I have the wings on and the enemy simply cannot see 2 feet in front of them, I think i’ll run charr for now

I will burn your wings with fire lol.
Edit: I have dubbed today throwback Tuesday.
Me and my friends will be playing Duck Hunt and hunting birds in the fields. I don’t care what class we should be killing first. You wearing the wings, it will be you. High score duck hunt inc.

You are asking them to do so much extra work. This will never happen. Look at all the useless buffs they add in during ‘balance’ patches. People say ‘Why the hell did they just buff that, not one single person uses it for any build’. Well that is because people use it in PvE. Most of the buffs they list as ‘PvP balances’ were never even used in any builds at all. Horrible skills to place on your bar.

You can’t just buff non existent utilities etc and expect people to start using them because they got buffed. You have to consider, would anyone in their right mind find the utilities in this classes builds less useful than this newly buffed skill. The answer 95% of the time is no.

There are a couple things, and only a couple that are balanced on different levels in the game. 1 of which being confusion. Confusion in PvE and PvP are completely different. They want you to play the whole game. I know, silly no matter what side you are on; if that isn’t what you are into. To do this would also split the game even more than it is; which is fine by anyone on either side of the spectrum, but not in their interests.

That works in Ranked only, not even in tournaments. Besides, minimal players use it, so your chances are still high for being a fly on the front of their wings.

Roger that. How to counter silly cow character who thinks he can fly: Make Asura so he can’t tell what you are doing directly in front of him.

Rebull Anet gives you wings!

No but seriously. I am wondering if you can even see wtf is going on directly in front of you with those on. Especially if you are a massive Norn or a massive kittening cow character…

This is a serious question because besides a small human or an Asura, I don’t see how anyone can see anything with those things on. They are so big.

P.S. Please don’t lock my thread because you think this will bring your RP Raven Attachment sales down. Thanks

WOW. Thanks for logging me out mid reply (was long).

Moral of the ENTIRE thing I wrote was. If people are not constantly directly dying from something, they will not complain about it.

They are both great conditions and when used in the right situations and can be game changing. IE: Shutting down a high burster with some weakness and chill. You will not hear the complaints because it would just sound silly. (“I am TIRED of someone putting weakness on me right before my big hits. Then some of my attacks only do 50% damage!?!! SO OP!!!!”) Lolz<<

It came out yesterday is all we know. Honestly I think the finisher was too simplistic and boring. Way better ones to spend the money on. Now we got wings, which the first time I saw them I had to have. Now that I see an infestation, I will pass. BUT give me that kittening Golden Pig mini. I don’t care how many people buy it; <—This guy will be ‘filthy (Pig) rich (Golden)’ .

It is working as intended….They are making adjustments though. This LB has been out for a few months now and you are just noticing it? Have been many complaints that the grinders are the ones at the top. Who cares, it’s just a list of names that means nothing.

Sorel.4870:

They should make the button a big bigger imo. But next time, try to discuss strategy with your team in the mean time. That’s a good way to get ahead early in the game.

Exactly. Not every team is a 5 Q. People talk strategy (at least a little). I probably would be pretty accurate if I said 50% of people use that 2 minutes to run to the bathroom or the fridge. They didn’t want to leave computer during long Q and miss it so they rush during that time.

Haha, they probably are OE. They are in unranked most of the night so that may be the case. Or maybe after they get 200 pm’s about people asking them to go to ranked they switch. At least 1 person on my team seems to always say something in M chat about that before the match starts. Some matches go good (over 400), some not so much lol. Depends on whether or not I can hype my team up to actually try. Some give up before it starts Shoot me an invite, we can conquer them together OE!

Blu does work harder than he gets credit for from Anet, BUT he did cast WTS China and now it is EU’s turn to cast. I just want a caster from China to cast EU’s and that will be glorious. Hopefully who ever did this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4fsZi7cop4 lol.

Lol, I have seen some improvement in him in the past week as well. I see you guys a lot lately (almost every night). Still not sure why you have been bombarding unranked with your team but hey, whatever floats your boat. I seem to only get you guys when I am solo though, kind of weird but true non the less. I hope Hugh gets mid air imob bug and notices how broken that is too; or maybe the entangle that keeps you imob’ed even after it goes away (with no roots or imob condi) and you still can’t move. I am sure you know what I am talking about lol. Definitly seems to be a lot of imob bugs out there that have been plaguing us for a while now.

Exactly that too. No matter what is taunted at you, you can move. Lich doesn’t put you in cement and they will be running in a straight line.

They don’t attack you…..they run towards their target with the ABILITY to only use their AA. It doesn’t make every players character automatically start spamming kitten at you. When you go lich everyone attacks you anyway… Forcing AA only is much better result.

And just to clarify, here is the actual definition.
“Taunt is an effect that will force the taunted player to run at their target with their skill bar locked, minus stunbreakers, and only use their autoattack skill to attack”

This doesn’t force them to attack you. It makes them run at THEIR target. If they didn’t have you targeted, then they won’t be running at you….. Even if they were, it would be better than before….

Just because it has the same skill name as other MMO’s, it doesn’t mean it works the same and forces everything to attack you.

Proof of what I said, people are confused on what it does. Not a bad thing. Hopefully this clarifies it up for some.

Unless the tooltip is wrong. This is the way it works. No where does it say they involuntarily run at YOU (or ‘The caster’) when cast.

jportell.2197:

GhOst.4019:

Worst class confirmed. Bunker Mesmer. Have fun!
You want to play the “worst” thing. Just think of something totally absurd and roll with that. Examples:
1: Bunker Mesmer
2: Bunker thief (This one may be the true winner)
3: Power minion mancer (all pets out, don’t slack)
4: Power Ranger beast master (same, all pets out)
5: You get the idea. Have fun and hope to see you on the other team!

You clearly can’t read. I don’t play that garbage spec anymore. I play double ranged shatter.

Did I say you did, after you clearly explained yourself? NO. I said it is one of the worst builds. Stop inserting words into people posts that are not actually there.

Worst class confirmed. Bunker Mesmer. Have fun!
You want to play the “worst” thing. Just think of something totally absurd and roll with that. Examples:
1: Bunker Mesmer
2: Bunker thief (This one may be the true winner)
3: Power minion mancer (all pets out, don’t slack)
4: Power Ranger beast master (same, all pets out)
5: You get the idea. Have fun and hope to see you on the other team!

jportell.2197:

NeXeD.3042:

Any class that isn’t cele ele, cele engi, or Shoutbow warrior. Those 3 are the top… everything else seems pretty close to me. Maybe throw theif in there too.

So your answer is going to be different for every person, different for every match, and different in every situation.

Worst class, there are two or three tied for that, Mesmers, and Necros are definitely down there. Worst spec IDK it depends on the class.

^ Reasoning coming from a ‘bunker Mesmer’ that Mesmers are one of the worst classes. UGH. There is no worst class necesarrily. Every class is great against some and hard countered against others. The question is more like, which class has the most hard counters against it. That would be the class most likely to not succeed in a series of matchups against random players.

Rangers are deemed the worst right now but that is only because 99% of the people playing it have no idea what they are doing. They just spam skills. Therefore it’s more of that the actual player itself is bad and not the class. There are just currently more clueless players playing ranger and mesmer than any other class at the moment.

So with all that said, maybe you can solely raise the stigma on rangers by actually playing it good yourself; but 1 man can’t make a difference. There are 3 top classes and the rest are under them in their own way. Nothing necessarily the ‘worst’.

95% of people complaining, it’s your issue not theirs. Full on zerg fights/ boss fights and you DC, that is a YOU issue. Not them. Your computer and or ISP cannot handle it. Want to fix Dc issues? Get a better computer, play on lower settings if need and/ or get a better ISP.

What class do you play by chance. Also if you want to test your mechanical skills (not map rotations etc) you can go into a dueling server and see how you do against different people and classes. Yes some of them in there suck but some are also good. If you are familiar with the competitive scene, look for familiar names and ask them to duel. A lot of great players hang around in dueling arenas (not all of course). Send me mail in game, maybe I can take a look and give you some additional pointers or something. Again, depending on what class you are. A lot of people overlook simple mistakes that are huge game changers to increasing their skill. They are just set in the way that they have been doing it for a long time. Doesn’t matter either way but if you are looking for pointers I might be able to help a little.

AOE taunt would be awesome on Lich. Apparently people here do not understand how it works. It sends the enemy at their targeted player with only AA available. If it pulsed right away, they don’t all run at you…..they run at who they are attacking. Second, it’s auto attacks. Would you rather have nothing and let them just turn and attack you with everything they got. This would only benefit and is in no way a bad thing.

Well, none of the above replies really helped since he asked for power necros. Someone that plays full time terror are terrible at power. Asking them to play it you will learn bad habits and what not to do at most. It is a completely different game.

To answer the OP’s question. No. Sorry there are none that stream or post vids that are good. The few that are, do not do either of those things.

But hey, if you got any questions, hit me up and I can always answer them for you.

Zietlogik.6208:

And am still seeing players coming into matches with the default traits/amulet/sigils

….come on guys

You can see these things? Leave hotjoin.

Since they are going to rotate WvW maps each week (so they don’t go stagnant) why don’t they just implement a ‘Wheel of Fortune’ at reset that will pop up for everyone that isn’t in a dungeon. Let the WvW players have the wheel of doom for choosing the weekly map too. Stronghold with Conquest merged Q. Absolutely absurd.

nekretaal.6485:

Hotjoin at release was competitive because you had to pay to play real matches. Everybody played Hotjoin instead.

Hotjoin also was 8v8 and had Capricorn which was a great map for 8v8.

Once paywalls on team play were removed, and solo Q came, decent players left. Once spectator mode was introduced, winning became more about manipulating auto balance and skill became less relevant.

You never had to pay…………. I never payed for my 2k+ ‘Paid’ Tournaments. You just needed a ‘Paid Tournament Ticket’…the price to get in, was the ticket lol. Did they sell them on gem store? Yes. Could you win them? Yes (=free).

1 Unranked tournament 1st place = 1 Paid ticket
Paid tournament:
1st = 3 tickets
2nd = 2 tickets
3rd = Your 1 ticket returned
= Infinite Tickets once you got the 1st one

That’s it…who is the daily hero that voted no….

SobeSoul.6910:

…I need more reasons to buy an expansion than Stronghold, a new class, and new weapons to use on classes.

Agree/Disagree

Lucky for you! You do not need to buy the expansion to play Stronghold!! Yippie! The day is saved!

Secondly, There is basically 10 new classes. That isn’t enough for you? Class specializations can wield new weapons (which yield all new weapon skills and utilities) and have a whole NEW set of traits! That is basically a new class….. All new utilities, new weapons and skills and completely new sets of traits….. Your characters look will be the only thing that is the same if you go that route.

silvermember.8941:

I mean I am going to buy it because 60 bucks isnt that much money.

Lucky for you too, the expansion will only be $39.99!!

Sorry your 6 word post with an additional symbol of sarcasm was a bit to lengthy for us to understand. We got confused on what you meant because it was so long and definitive, that the actual meaning of the post was buried in your deep thought process.

Maybe more words next time (7?) to explain what you are actually trying to convey to your hopeful readers. Your ‘thread’ is more of a read over comment, that would have fit nicely inside some other thread; that was already made on this subject.

silvermember.8941:

Josh.5839:

must be true since everyone i met said so

Reading your other topics, it seems you got issues, lots of them.

Like this nice little gem. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/what-are-the-chances-that

LOL. Thanks for sharing this gem.

#ShotsFIRED

GrandmaFunk.3052:

then you’re not talking about wins, but rather ladder ranks.

Exactly. You still get the win. It will be a win in your stats and on the leaderboards. What you don’t get, is the + points on the leaderboard for winning or an increase in MMR. You still get the win though.

Depending on when you left, there is way to much to discuss. Did you leave before Cele meta? If so. No one is going to type a 30 page essay on changes. If you left after, nothing has changed.

Now obviously there are slight changes and balance patches….again just look at the patch notes. To much info. Not exactly sure what you want here…or maybe just troll on the game mode post. The forums/ main page of GW2 are flooded with info on the new game mode (coming with expansion), so there is no way in hell you made it this far and didn’t see it.

It would take you WAY longer to read every little snip on here as someone posts 1 or 2 things..Faster to just go to GW2 news/ updates and read it for yourself.

Just give it a few months..Then the forums will be 9 posts by noon on how OP Cele Reve is. People will forget about turrets, just like they forget how to learn to counter them.

1: You can leave, but you receive a loss on the leader boards and dishonor (debuff that doesn’t let you Q for set amount of time). This time punishment will also stack as you do it more often. There is a 60 second grace period for disconnects or character swapping.

There is a chance you go against soloers but it is pretty small. The matchmaking will try to push even amount of teams together. For instance 5v5 or 4-1v 4-1 or 2-3 vs 4-1. The issue with this though is if there are no equal teams in Q, eventually it will just put the closest thing it can find and result in slightly unfair matches. This is compensated for the points you receive or loose on leader boards. If you end up getting pitted against a full Q as full soloers, your chance of winning is less than 20% and therefore you only have to reach 200 points in match before you start gaining leader board points; even if you loose. If you were to win, you would gain the max amount of +3. Kind of complicated and there is wikis that explain everything better.

MarkPhilips.5169:

Btw it seems a mix of many conquest map mechanics

supply = Orb (spirit watch)
Lord and guards = Foefire
Trebuchet = Khylo
Heroes (chance to come back) = Temple buffs

Luckily no skyhammer mechanic (i hope)

Duel hammers over the supply depo. Well named as “Strong hammers”.

A OK.8276:

Can someone show me a situation where a cape is cool?

Butt capes are always cool m8….also cool on cats

We already have capes……butt capes…And a lot of them.

Thiefz.3695:

I disagree with the OP and several others about direction. I played since beta. I played PvE for a year and then did WvW and PvP. Unless you played PvP all the time, it was difficult to grasp the rewards vs PvE. It happened to me. WvW was easier to understand in terms of reward. So they change PvP reward to something that casual PvPers could understand. That’s not a bad thing. They put in eSports to provide a path for truly competitive gamers. That is also not a bad thing. The problem from this rant and from others is that the person in the middle, the person who is not going eSports and is more than casual has nothing for them. What you had was rank but then rank was farmed. Now you have leaderboards which is also farmed. Both have to do with how much you played.

I think that if the matches are bad due to MMR, or stale due to Conquest, or annoying due to mismatched teams vs solo then those people will complain about rewards. Simply put, if playing the game is not fun or the rewards for winning are not worthwhile then the game suffers for those players. People could be ok with one or the other being really great.

But at the end of the day, if you quit a game because your grind is not equal to another person’s grind, then you have an issue. My sense is that most people leave because they no longer find the PvP enjoyable. However if you say, “Well I like the PvP but I didn’t like the implemented change because it diminished the value of my accomplishments.” Then they hurt your pride and you need to get over yourself.

Well said. The changes overall helped more then it hurt. People with pride issues left, but PvP gained more people. Win for Anet.

A lot of the questions on here have been answered in the past already. So let me answer a couple for you so they don’t waste time during the cast; double stating what they have already told us.

1: Yes, you can solo Q into the game mode.
2: Yes it will have its own Q’s
3: Yes it will have its own leader board
4: When time runs out, if both lords are up, the team with the most points wins. This is how it already works in the event of a tie and how it will continue to work.
5: No, this is not GvG so stop saying that. It is sPvP.

I won’t say anything but there is only 1 and slightly another that benefits from using both sigils. Rest of the zerkers, if using, are doing it wrong. I am not going to help anyone be more op so you will just have to figure that out on your own. So many on the air + fire bandwagon when there is actually better options for most classes.

Just my 2 cents, have fun with air/ fire, they are fine the way they are.

Ya, instant 5 Reve teams that are reading their tooltips as the rush the midpoint will be funny and inevitable. I don’t plan on making a Reve for maybe a week. Want to check out my mains specialization and try to roll with that in PvP and see how it fairs. Going to be a LOT of confusion in PvP with 10 new sets of weapon/ utility skills in the game (Reve + 9 specializations). Going to be a lot of skills people have no idea what they do and to counter them right away. Should be very interesting and frustrating at the same time for a bit I think it will be a blast! Will be interesting to see which specializations hold up strong and which ones fall due to being to weak. My guess is necro reaches the bottom of the viable scale in its specialization. Anet seems to not like Necro’s lol.

Wow, this turned into a troll fest. Guess it will get shut down soon. I myself will see how Zerker Reve holds up first. Then I will trying out the never failing Cele. Mainly interested in my new class specialization first and foremost though. Something tells me zerker Reve is going to be OP and werf the time of day to try. Who knows what else the expansion with bring, maybe we will get new amulets and runes too. Might be some new nasty combos.

Removing dungeons and rank grind is the worst analogy I have ever heard…

Secondly, no game creator/ developer can make 100% of people happy. I guarantee their reasoning was to get more people into PvP because some outside of it thought that rank mattered when technically, (playing wise) it does not. Then more people came in because it was more on par with getting to lvl 80 in PvE in time spent terms.

I lost all my games played in tournaments when the switch happened. 1700 tournaments played just disappeared off my stats and didn’t merge with games played. Some players it merged and some were somehow forgotten. I was a little peeved but got over it in a week. Why? Because rank & games played doesn’t prove you are a good player. Put the person in a match and then you can SEE how good they are.

It may have mattered to you and some others more than some. In the big picture, it means nothing. Look at all the people at the beginning of the game exploited and got to rank 80 in a couple weeks. Most were banned, some were missed. Then you see people in chat saying R70 lfg and the game has only been out a few weeks. Those players got ignored and no one wanted them because of their rank; knowing they hadn’t played a single match that would have contributed to them being even semi skilled.

Shieldbash.5304:

ronpierce.2760:

If you ask me annoying =/= op, and low skill floor isn’t a reason to hurt build diversity. Everyone is going to have some build they hate and if everyone got their way we’d all be fighting with sticks. And eventually those would get nerfed too. Honestly, its a real problem when a community complain about lack of diversity then attacks every build they can, even if they know they’re already not a highly competitive build, they just “don’t like it” or its “too easy”. Just my two cents… Its a bit pathetic.

~ Don’t play turret engy.

I haven’t seen anyone attack the build! They / we complain the Turrets are to good!

They should do less damage or

They need to have less damage mitigation or

They need to be effected by Conditions and cc like other pets.

Right now they are really effective, hard to kill, and uneffected by Conditions and CC. Its a bit to much meanwhile the Engy doesn’t just stand there watching hes good too!

You mean Condi’s and crits right? You want to CC a turret? I don’t even…. If you could fear/ stun/ daze/ knockdown something on point, you would choose the turret over the Engi?

Let’s just keep it at crits. Personally don’t have a prob with turret Engi’s and was just here reading the QQ when I saw this wild CC request.

Well then it sounds like you just got disconnected for some reason. Possible the map crashed….Only explanation I can think of… I am pretty sure the Practice button (probably what you clicked) could have also accidentally shoved you into a custom arena instead of an Anet owned hotjoin…. seems like a glitch is all.. Just move past it