Signet is unreliable if you’re playing against people with high enough damage. The reason it works for Exala is that he has healing gear and he’s playing versus a bunch of idiots that he can kite endlessly.
If you intend to actually commit and fight strong opponents in 1v1 or 1v2 + wear more offensive gear, Ether (or Glyph) is far preferable.
Once you’ve tasted how amazing Ether can be in a D/D build it can be very hard to go back. It takes some getting used to, though.
My experience is that Air #1 will hit, but it requires 1-2 ‘swings’ before it’s calibrated and actually starts hitting. Basically, if you stay stationary it will start hitting (and not miss) if you wait a second or 2.
If you move it will start missing again (until you wait a bit and allow it to re-calibrate).
It’s better than it used to be, at least, but still pretty terrible.
Fairly sure it has always worked like this – each time you use Mist Form and you return to the downed state it counts as if you were downed once more when it comes to the downed penalty.
Honestly, it’s one of the strongest downed skills in the game and as such I feel it’s just a balancing factor.
There’s no rivalry, because even when by some fluke of the rendering system you can see your enemy, you often don’t even have a clue who you’re fighting against.
Sorry, but what? Are you blind? Do you not recognize guild names / tags? Many of the guilds we fight are people that our members have fought with or against time and time again in previous weeks / other games many years ago.
There is certainly much to be done to keep people interested/spark rivalry, but you cannot argue for the fact that you have ‘no clue who you’re fighting against’. Showing player names is certainly not a solution that is necessary.
With bunker SD you don’t need the extra heal from water dodge
Whaaat. You ALWAYS need heals. You can’t honestly claim you don’t “need” a heal as if any heal like that is ‘wasted’ then you are not fighting tough enough fights. 1v2, 1v3, 1v4 – branch out.
It is possible to do that combo, but the combo from Churning Earth does not trigger until you finish casting it (even though the tooltip may make you think so).
So it was wrong for the person to write “3 Blast Finishers in 2-3 seconds” when in reality you have to wait for Churning Earth to finish casting.
I`ve never had any dagger equip into off hand. Player since beta & this is first time.
I agree trying to sort bags to find that dagger is a pain in the kitten though.
It has worked like this for at least a few months.
Already had a lot of fun against RG. Really fun to fight such good battles on pretty even conditions. Can say they’re the best GW2 guild I’ve had the honor to meet on the battlefield. We have stood less chance against a select few other guilds but that’s only cause they half-fill a Borderland and run around in a huge blob, it’s not about quality then, only quantity and organization.
We had some crazy fights yesterday, thanks for that! During my time in RG, there’s no denying that you are one of the strongest we’ve fought from a purely GvG standpoint – would love to see others follow your lead.
You can get Glyph cooldown instead of Bolt to the Heart. You can use Arcane Wave / Cleansing Fire over Armor of Earth if you like to.
This is how I prefer S/D since you need to play off the strengths of Air with S/D which is very strong (although slightly nerfed with the RtL change that doesn’t allow you to use spells during RtL).
extra button pushing or clicking is not cool. With signet of air u get a speed buff 100% of the time without the hassle plus you can spend your trait points elsewhere now. No more need more air magic.
If you want to see what it done in a fight 20 Vs 20 (that is not what i call a massive epic fight …)
Look at the the begining of that video, enemy group just appear from nowhere, and when i look back, they just all passed by … i’m tank, how am i supposed to handle ppl that i can’t see before they are on my ranged fellows ? oO
Please, at least, render the names and a pre-calculated shape (a kind of “shadow”) to mark players positions !! it’s just unplayable and kill all the fun of the game.
Blocked by EMI in Denmark – should probably upload such things without music so people can actually watch it.
Thank you for your feedback everyone. Currently our plan is to continue this test for the remainder of this week’s matchup and then roll back to the original method for the next matchup.
If/When you experience issues with invisible players, etc. please let us know and include a screenshot (which includes your minimap), your basic system specs (processor, RAM, video card), and which server you are on. This info well help us to narrow down exactly which issues you are experiencing.
At the end of the week we’ll move back to the old system. At that time we’ll ask you to again give your feedback once you’ve played with the old system for a bit. That way we can get a better understanding of the impact of this trial.
Thanks again for your feedback on this issue and please rest assured that we’re hard at work on a more comprehensive solution for WvW.
Here’s some random video of how bad it can be when just playing solo:
Look at :20 and on at the bridge. I never had it that bad pre-patch when just running around solo and this isn’t even that extreme an example (a lot of them were preloaded since I was running around near them).
Also, why do players load in without name tags for such a long period of time?
it’s very, very stupid that I hit RTL with a wide open field in front of me, fly backwards into a wall because “stupid targeting” decided I wanted to attack some random yellow mob behind me, then sit on that wall for about 1 second because the wall broke LOS.
This is so much worse than pre-patch. This change is a complete and utter nightmare when it comes to WvW performance for organized groups.
Fighting large (50+) numbers with ~20 people becomes even harder than it already was in the first place (with the 5 target limit, severely nerfed heals and everything else you’ve thrown at us). It becomes extremely tough to coordinate on guild leaders when they disappear much more frequently than beforehand. The only ones who can coordinate properly at this point are the few people in the group with said leader.
Not to mention the fact that it severely benefits a zerg mentality when fighting smaller groups as they will have a much easier time loading the majority of the hostiles they are fighting while they have little care for friendly positioning as long as they can optimize their damage.
You have shown very little understanding of how to best balance WvW in the few months after launch – this trial is yet another example of that. I hope this changes severely before your planned February update to WvW as you are scaring off many organized WvW’ers from GW 2 with your current mentality.
From an As pov, this match-up is getting boring.
We never had and still don’t have the number to counter Vs or Bt. So every day we fight outnumbered by our opponents.
Who care.. since the 2 last week we can have some of the most interesting fight we having in gw2, and see some of the best EU team, it’s the only interesting point to take into consideration.
GW2 ladder is make for the serv with the most h24 coverage win, it’s all. For a long time it was VS and now it’s BT. Our pop isn’t enough for stay longer in D1, but very enough to stay in D2 and take the place of the 3nd of D1 sometime.
It’s not a problem if when we play we make all for the take the frist place, even if it’s not possible atm.
That’s a good attitude to have. I feel you get the best of both worlds, jumping in and out of Tier 1 you get to meet a lot of different opponents!
Although you miss out on playing versus SFR it seems, unless VS drops down instead.
