Gaile says otherwise…
My snowball snipes said otherwise to her in snowball mayhem yesterday.
They may be redoing the f1 animation to be more visible since people have complained about it. Id be fine with a jedi light tether.
what?
the change was in pvp only
and traps that aren’t named Dragon’s Maw never did much break bar damage to begin with, 0.25 secs of daze is lol to a break bar.
Wrong. Change was game wide.
I had a PM response from devs telling me, “they review forum threads based on merit”. I figure if we give them enough screenshots they won’t able to deny this is an issue.
You have no metrics to measure against, how many matches were played before seeing a stack. Therefore no merit.
The f1 gs is fine, the mace f1 could use a change since it does too much. I think the biggest offender is whirlwind cut if I have the name right. It’s a short range leap but also can hit for 6k on 3k armour. This coefficient needs tuning.
Simply put, condi wars dont have enough conditions. Burn guard suffer the same flaw. The burst may have extreme potential but unless you meet someone that has no condi cleanse or nothing on cd, it does very little. Winning condi classes completely overload the enemy with 6+ condis instead, not necessarily high stacks. The only reason a condi war even stays up long enough to make a dent is because they are being carried by healing signet+adrenal health as usual. Having more power damage and the same carry will pretty much always be better.
Actually their condition access is pretty good. Huge variety and can be bursts again when cleared. Also only someone running a full clear will be able to get it off.
What I’ve suggested in the past is that ww slowdown be removed and in turn hb on warrior gs gets ww style slowdown. I don’t see many situations in pvp where I think gee gs would work well here. Also it’s a dps-low utility weapon but has lower dos than hammer for raids.
And yeah landing bb is a crapshoot at best.
Leaderboard needs to consider top stats whereby losing a game yet earning all the top stats would atleast lessen the amount of mmr loss.
And people keep posting this “IT’S ABOUT WHO YOU BEAT” meme, while failing to even consider administering a bit of rational conjecture prior to emitting such nonsense.
1) You play with people in your MMR threshold. Outside of literally the first 5 minutes of this season, the meme has no validity lmao. There are no win streaks. Just a slow gain of mmr, increasing both ends of your mmr threshold by about 10 or so points.
2) Stop claiming you should be able to carry out of bronze until you’ve done it 3 times. Please just stop. 90% of you posting that meme can’t do it and are afraid to even test out having to carry 4 npcs. Players like me and Helseth are obviously capable of it. But then again we are the top skilled players in our respective regions.
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Having qued with you how can you still think going far and dieing is a good tactic? Your skill needs worked on bud.
Also pulls should be able to be evaded as otherwise they allow the snaring player to set up a spike and pull a player into it when he chooses ignoring most defenses such as block and evade which are canceled.
Yep, that’s the point. And pull doesn’t ignore stability or a well-placed stun-break (aka, the counterplay). Think for a moment about what you’re arguing: What is essentially a single-target pull on a 40s cd will become completely useless just because someone without adequate skill playing one class (thief) can’t counterplay well enough.
Stun break can’t be used while being pulled because for the game you are in the air thus not allowed to use spells. Happens 90% of the time due to uneven terrain. Same goes for spells that give stability, you would need to activate stab before the pull.
Bugs in the code are not a reason to nerf or buff a skill. If you are pulled by any pull skill on relatively flat ground, you can stunbreak it. I’ve seen thieves do this many times. In fact, one thief I was chasing in wvw did this 3 times over the course of two minutes. Literally every time I pulled, he didn’t even get pulled into my symbol/trap range since he’d have a stunbreak or shadowstep ready.
Have done exactly same thing as you described about this thief – except it landed me in the map terrain/pillars etc. so i was forced to relog or was launched high in the air and instantly died to fall dmg (and it was on flat terrain of graveyard point of Foefire map, couldn’t get more flat). It happens A LOT, especially if you consider that there is little flat terrain in pvp on first place (i don’t even want to start on infamous no valid path bug plaguing half of the surface of pvp maps).
My point is, this spell has been extremely buggy for over year now giving DHs way too much of advantage and nothing has been done about it (and yes, i have made threads about it before – 0 reaction). Some DHs actually intentionally exploit it – there are spots where you are guaranteed to pull someone into terrain and force them to relog.Idc what they do to the spell as long as it fixes all the unintended features that heavily favors DHs.
That’s funny after a year of pulling people make once I’ve stuck someone. And they thought it was funny. Launches? Have you not played skyrim? Giant launches are the best.
You act like this skill is a lone offender when almost any push, pull or teleport can cause these effects. Yeah I’ve popped people in the air but it’s still a rare occurrence. Like 1 in 1000. Imo not something that screams drop everything and fix me. Especially when it has great comic value for both sides.
3-2-1 is better if you wanna focus the top server though.
Right now across 2 skirmish with 2-1-1 if you focus top and trade the win both of you get 3, the ‘first’ gets last place for both = 2.
In a 3-2-1 you can both trade win and end up with 5 while forcing the ‘first’ to get last for both = 2.
You can see that 3-2-1 actually incentivizes 2v1 harder and lets you trade wins with the 2nd/3rd server to gang up on the first better since you can achieve 2.5 the points in a 3-2-1 rather than a 1.5 in 2-1-1 across 2 skirmishes.
This is well said. You can push the first server into last for the skirmish and gain more ground. People argue scores are closer with 211, but really that’s because there are less points to go around. A sort of placebo illusion.
From the wiki:
“Unblockable is a property of attack skills which prevents the attack from being blocked, and in case of ranged attacks, reflected or otherwise destroyed by effects of skills. Unblockable is also an effect, currently only available from Signet of Might, “Nothing Can Save You!”, and Phase Traversal, making attacks for the duration unblockable. Skills that block will be ignored and effects that trigger on blocking will not trigger against unblockable attacks. Unblockable skills can be evaded by dodging or other effects, aside from the ones that cannot be evaded by any means."
I have hot but played a core guardian soloq to platinum rank. To say it can be done. And besides needing some kitten good kiting skills it’s a viable build.
Class stacking wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t for the attrocious excuse for balance. This “we want to create distinct meta’s” experiment has gone on long enough. Please do a massive nerf to all elite specs so they’re not the defacto choice to play and balance the game so we don’t have these faceroll builds that require disproportionate amount of skill to counter.
It still would be. Some classes just don’t stack well and other do it too well. Nerfing it would only slightly reduce the chance of it occurring.
Marauders armour, durability or defenders runes.
Run honor/valor/DH with scepter/shield and gs. Force sigils each set, accuracy sigils are good on paper but actually not that great. Plenty of sustained damage and burst if you take test of faith.
Really? I solod up to plat. Then I duo qued for the first time this season and started getting massive rating losses when losing and dropped 2 tiers. Went back to soloq and moved right back. Do note the guy I qued with is skilled I’ve ran alongside him
In wvw for years. He is however 2 tiers below me since he hasn’t played many games this season.
Play the wintersday snowball pvp. Snipe people with the slingshot and you’ll find out quickly that tab targeting isn’t reliable. (You can change target while the snipe charges in case they stealth or reflect.) I just keep my mouse dpi at around 5k and it allows me to click select fast and accurately.
Why should you be given a second chance when you failed to evade it the first time?
1/4sec cast time is not reasonably avoidable. The only way to avoid it is to guess at when it will be used. It’s unblockable, so you can’t stop it that way either.
Then maybe Anet thinks it’s unreasonable to avoid it …
The bold part is where you went wrong.
Really? Enlighten me … how do you know what Anet thinks should be happening here? Seems to me that this makes plenty of sense. There is counterplay to the pull … so I don’t really get what the problem here is. People don’t want to counterplay? In PvP, you don’t have much choice do you.
They seem to want an ‘I win’ level counter to it. Sure it’s op but as far as op skills go it’s fr from being the biggest offender.
Anet has inconsistencies like this all over. Doubt any of them ever get fixed or created since they seem to be struggling with content creation.
Not assuming because I know they mostly wont. But if you can pair off an ele/necro it’s enough to change your win rate and get you moving forward.
Have you ever seen a dog dodge it’s way out of a leash?
Have you ever seen a charr shooting fireballs from the air?
Realistic has nothing to do with balance in a fantasy game. But fyi you might want to check out binding blades before repeating your words here.
Or maby give some proper feedback
OT but charr shooting fireballs from the air is pretty common xd.
Your way through gold is to coordinate your team pre match. Go in assuming they’re scrubs and they probably will be.
Not sharing places but you can avoid being marked in areas of each keep.
Pvp if you play like 20-30 games will get you 3-4 pieces depending on win rate.
Find all the cats of gw2 and bring them home. Only pve worth playing.
K not going to sit here and whine because you can’t understand how quite literally direct my answer was. If you can’t understand it that’s your problem. Good day.
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Well duh that line speaks pretty kitten well for itself.
It’s your own problem that you associate the word with only it’s obvious connotation. Do they need to add an ‘unreflective’ tooltip to all unblockable skills just for you? Well duh of course they can’t be reflected if it’s unblockable. You’re the one who asked. You were given an answer. So I say again. Unblockable goes through reflects.
Inb4 someone qqing about DH stacking being op.
My biggest problem with rev is how you need to stay in a certain legend. If it were possible to allocate the legends skills of your 2 chosen between each swap it would be better. Against the class concept? Yes. However I can counterplay any rev since I know exactly what skills they have.
Unblockable goes through reflects.
Why are I heres
NA doesn’t count. Seriously, I rolled on NA during the last solo queue era and was shocked how bad the standard was. There are a few good players there no doubt. But in general its woeful. I would estimate that 100th best player on NA isn’t in the top 1000 on the EU.
So NA leaderboards are an irrelevance anyway.
All I’m seeing here is your own metrics. Now to claim outrageous metrics like that you need something to back it up.
Swapping utilities based on enemy comp is a fairly core part of build diversity. Sure I can just take all my strongest utilities or I can take them because they counter the enemy team. I see no problem here.
They said ab farm would be nerfed long ago and it never happened.
No because win streaks are mainly luck on where the losses are placed.
Make applying damage conditions reveal and problem solved.
1. No. How many games you played has no correlation to skill.
2. See #1.That’s bullkitten. Game experience = game knowledge. Game knowledge is crucial in PvP.
But I roamed and did small scale things in wvw for most of my time in gw2. This is my first season that I’ve actually participated in, and I only have 600 games played. (Ranked+unranked.) I’m rank 212 right now (1,762 rating) with about 200 ranked games played this season. What does that tell you?
(I’ll answer that for you. Game experience can be earned in places outside of spvp, therefore improving someones rating because of time spent in spvp will make ratings more in-accurate!)
Tell me, how do you practice 5v5 Conquest in WvW?
Game Knowledge means you understand the nuances of the game mode, not just the basics.
That means:
• common build’s, their strengths/weaknesses, and how to prioritize them as a threat
• common team compositions, their strengths/weaknesses, and how to counter them
• map mechanics, strategies, and how to prioritize movements
• the ability to read the map and make a tactical choice even when you’re in the middle of a fightIt’s basically all the stuff your teammates are yelling at you about when you start making huge mistakes and throwing the match.
You can’t win the game without these things. You don’t learn them anywhere else.
This games fairly static. The rules of conquest here are simpler than many other games. You already know the threat level of classes mostly if you play wvw.
But still game exp is not equivalent to game knowledge. I was inactive for 2 years, I return and the same people have been there the entire time making the same mistakes.
What?? Why are we talking about builds lol… I asked which server will be best for finding fights..
You asked for zerg-busting, not zerging. Those are two very different things, and the former depends heavily on the meta. Right now, there is no countering the existing meta with fewer players pretty much regardless of how good you actually are. The professions have been changed in ways where zerg-busting (a build-dependent area of the game) no longer exists, because there’s currently no way to shut down larger groups of players without just having more numbers, because the dominant builds do not have any means of getting shut down.
That still was never requested nor brought up. And self supportive teams can still take down larger groups, ZEN on eu I think has some good vids up. Heck me and 2 of my friends mesing around contested an ebg keep and sat on the spawn killing them as they rolled in until around 12-14 guys had showed up. Was fun, messing around in completely off the meta builds but people who know how to play together are still stronger.
Remove auto attack condis, limit skills applying 5+ condis to 3.
If you don’t know the builds yourself you are by no mean ready to do something like that, even more so since HOT release.
Sry man, but this is the truth.
Don’t think lack of builds was ever mentioned.
Regarding DG’s suggestions,
Making staff AA be a projectile finisher 100% of the time sounds good. Projectile speed should be equivalent to other staff AAs. Rather than making it unique, I would add a 20% chance to corrupt a boon.
Staff 2, MoB, put back the original bleed stack. Condition clearing is much more prevalent than it was after game release and any fool who camps staff for bleeds deserves the result.
I would, however, still want regeneration to generate LF while in shroud.
Every 5th attack. Don’t bring rng into the game. Otherwise youll eventually get a 8x streak of boon rips and destroy someone you didn’t deserve to kill. And get killed by someone who didn’t deserve to kill you.
30 seconds isn’t much of a delay.
But both sides can so 1 min. Then theres setup time, and the gameplay doesn’t promote pausing. Your team is down? Call it and all the lingering aoe effects are gone. I would want to be the guy in charge of making a save state for every single effect in play on the field at the same time. The database structure to do that would be absurd.
The standard shiro/glint setups I eat for breakfast now. But a good power mallyx? I probably wouldn’t even engage him without someone else there. That said he has to be pretty kitten good to meet that criteria, I don’t meet a lot of people who can use mallyxs skills well on a power build.
I cant speak from exp since ive stayed on my original server in lower tiers, but I hear TC is good and youll be vs large servers a lot so plenty of guys to kill.
Have you ever seen a dog dodge out of a leash?
Just going to repost this.
You never had a dog? I saw that multiple times with multiple dogs. Most of the time when there was a bath, doctor or kitten* in heat involved
*why does it show the corect english word for female dog as ‘kitten’?
Sensitive censorship.
I don’t see anything wrong with the reaction time. If you do not react fast, you can still cancel out the pull or go ranged. Or you start your invul (on war) overload (on ele) reaper form (on necro) etc. Stability might block it too I suppose.
This. People here are throwing out random ideas when they don’t even know the cd of the skill nor ingame ranges. They aren’t high level players who know the cds and know when an attack is likely to occur again. Even being hit by it isn’t that bad. If he hit you in point blank range hes not exactly pulling you across traps. Invuln, stab, range break, timed stun breaks all still work. 4 options to counterplay a burst? That’s forgiving considering you already had the opportunity to evade the first strike.
This would just be abused to delay games.
Anet can’t finish legendary armour over a year past due. They would have to reskin all existing items to fix a new race. As well as lore and maps. New voice actors hired etc. Gw2 will be lucky to see a second espec.
This 211 system is terrible. Hello wintersday.
When you duo que isn’t the lower player bumped to your rating for matching purposes? Otherwise it could make sense if I was queuing against more silver tier players.