Guild Wars 2

And I went at it solo because nobody was on. Well the que took a bit but I can accept that. Except then you know what?

Before the game started, all four people on my team dropped. ALL FOUR.

I STARTED 5V1.

What the kitten is wrong with this godkitten community. Battlefield 4 is out in two days and I’m going back to that because even though I LOVE GUILD WARS, this is beyond disappointing. It’s not just sad anymore, it’s more like that cool game that was great. Until it died because of lack of love.

Sorry to the Devs who try. Sorry to Justin who posts here and is a good guy. It’s just depressing how FUN this game was and now it’s just not.

Justin ODell.9517:

This should be fixed in the next PvP drop, which may be next month, not sure.

We’ve got even more substantial matchmaking improvements on the radar, but those won’t make it in until sometime next year.

Sometime next YEAR? Well hell until I’ll find a premade. Or just go play something else. BUT ANYWAYS.

Since you’re online atm, wanna duel? I won’t give up until you say yes and I test your abilities.

Incentives or rewards, whatever you want to call it. A reason to want to play PVP.

Secondly, NEW GAME MODES.

They’re moving to improve the ‘support’ class. Something tells me DPS guards won’t be looked at for quite a bit.

Xyonon.3987:

colesy.8490:

Xyonon.3987:

Well, glad I anyway didn’t use the pistol much, nor the trait. Sword offhand seems to be better now.

Duelist does still stack bleeds though.

Swordsman – 144
Duelist – 98

like 50% more damage? I don’t think the bleeding will come up to this or at last it will come to the same damage as the swordsman. However the swordsman has a better presicion and has that neat block.

-> situational <-

but in general i like the sword more.

Except offhand sword has a block where the pistol has magic bullet. Pistol is more offensive and makes it easier to kite with since IDuelist will not rush your enemy. Spreading out your phantasms can make it very difficult for someone to kill them or you.

I do like offhand sword though precisely because of the block and the trait that lowers CD’s on your entire set.

Justin ODell.9517:

kirito.4138:

Justin ODell.9517:

I’m usually up for solo arena if anyone cares to join me.

Sure. Are we “Queue Syncing” into solo arena?

;)

You play Mesmer? What build? Wanna duel?

Andrew.4506:

ITT: A lot of players mad about a pointless number that has never indicated anything except for how much time you spend in hotjoins.

A constructive post by a genius! God why don’t you just post in EVERY thread? Your clever use of ITT: had me in bouts of giggles. Giggles!

2014 around the corner and you plebians still believe every word lol

Kaizer.7135:

Delete the accounts of players that have joined a server with “Glory Farm” in the server name and earned points from it.

KThxBai

Let’s delete your account too.

Both sides of this argument are correct. People do ruin the game more by using/abusing cheese builds.

That does not mean it’s entirely the playerbase at fault here. ANet’s responsibility is to fix the broken things in PVP. Namely traits that don’t work, runes that don’t work, sigils that are broken, builds that require 0 skill, etc.

Prime example? Stunlock warriors. Second example? Spirit Ranger. Both of those require zero skill to play effectively at a tournament level. Sure I could go for a more skill-based build, but why is anybody going to hamper their team by trying something different? People don’t want to be ‘THAT GUY’ and they don’t want to be the reason a team loses a match. So they take the easy way out.

Dirame.8521:

You guys can has your doom and gloom. I’m excited for the new builds I’ll get to create whilst also inadvertently predicting the meta.

Doom and gloom? You must be new here.

Pyriall.5027:

Iplaytokill.1674:

In your opinion, will it change enough to make GW2 a serious PVP game again?

Will it be the answer to months of waiting? Finally heading in the right direction?

Or will it be another failure?

It’s going to be the LARGEST and most game changing pvp patch to date! I mean, it has to be. Look at how few pvp changes there has been, so they were obviously waiting to make a LARGE and IMPACTFUL pvp patch.

And that’s exactly what I mean. People losing hope with every passing patch.

Malediktus.9250:

I dont get the fuss about this. [No I didnt glory farm in skyhammer]. Glory ranks advance slower than levels in an asia grinder, so anything which speeds it up a bit is good.

Well that’s cool. Hell why not speed up every PVE grind as well? Let’s just give everybody a legendary after a few hours of grinding. I mean it took me so long to get my Sunrise. By this time next week I want to have every legendary!

In your opinion, will it change enough to make GW2 a serious PVP game again?

Will it be the answer to months of waiting? Finally heading in the right direction?

Or will it be another failure?

Might as well drop the argument now. ANet doesn’t give a kitten or they would have fixed it already. They’ve made ‘adjustments’ so that it’s harder to farm it. But they haven’t fixed it.

And at this point the only real fix would be to just throw the rank system out completely and re-do the entire rewards system for PVP.

Oct. 15 will be the day. If nothing good comes from that patch, PVP will take a huge hit because so many people are giving it their last chance after so many months of waiting.

First Anet lies, now you lie.

Good thing I don’t need pictures for proof! I’ve seen 15+minute que times on soloque.

THEN I QUIT ^^

What’s your point?

They’re gonna tone down the community by removing the ability to post in the forums and all you’ll see is #ESPORTS, #ESPORTS, #ESPORTS.

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—> Error Logs <—
VerifyAccess failed or denied access with 0×80070716 – 1
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00ecaf

—> DirectX Device Info <—
VendorId = 0×10de
DeviceId = 0×0fc6
Version = 9.18.0013.2723
Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
Compat = 0×00100800
VidMem = 4043 MB

edx-16 1C54E748 44faeda0 44705c04 c40e5338 43e4bec0
edx 0 1C54E758 c4b3434f 459f51aa 3f800000 3f800000
edx16 1C54E768 00000100 1c54e708 00000000 00000000
edx+32 1C54E778 1c54f2c0 3f800308 1c54e798 1c550030
edx+48 1C54E788 1c54d144 1c54d135 1c54f2c0 3f800307
esi-32 1C54E6A0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
esi-16 1C54E6B0 00000000 00000000 00000050 1c54e388
esi 0 1C54E6C0 0159862c c4b3434f c4df4dfb c54010c0
esi16 1C54E6D0 468006a9 4649e39f 45476de6 0000000d
esi+32 1C54E6E0 1c54e710 0000000a 0000000a 00000020
esi+48 1C54E6F0 c54010c0 45476de6 00000000 44a07915
edi-32 1C54E6F0 c54010c0 45476de6 00000000 44a07915
edi-16 1C54E700 3f800000 00000000 00000060 1c54e6b8
edi 0 1C54E710 4573afe4 4623def2 45eed128 463fe162
edi16 1C54E720 46464901 4649e39f 4679c6da 462766bd
edi+32 1C54E730 468006a9 45eb5737 4631a378 c4dcff48
edi+48 1C54E740 45b93738 c4df4dfb 44faeda0 44705c04

—> Code <—
00D3AEB3 dee2d9ee d8d2dfe0 dddaf6c4 417a04d9 …………Az..
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00D3AEF3 d94508d9 c0d945f8 d9c0deea d9c9d8db .E….E………
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—> Stack <—
3B53FAD0 1c54f2c0 1c54a7a0 c3a1c790 44c43cb6 ..T…T……<.D
3B53FAE0 4b50c66e 4841b522 00000009 448442f6 n.PK".AH…..B.D
3B53FAF0 3b53fc5c 00840040 3df67c7a 3b53fc54 \.S;@…z|.=T.S;
3B53FB00 1c54f2c0 3b53fd98 1a0422f0 00000000 ..T…S;."……
3B53FB10 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
3B53FB20 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
3B53FB30 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 …………….
3B53FB40 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000006 …………….
3B53FB50 00000006 00000007 00000007 54442d18 ………….-DT

This just started 2-3 days ago, out of nowhere. I’ve not downloaded or done anything that would break GW2. Unless I did? Maybe the new NVIDIA driver I dl’d?

Anyways here’s the crash info- I’ve sent the report 5-6 times now hoping it helps ANet figure out what’s up.

—> Crash <—
Exception: c000008e
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 26148
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 23822
When: 2013-09-26T10:59:25Z 2013-09-26T03:59:25-07:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:03:20
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: RELIC
IpAddr: 192.168.1.52
Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:10:9]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 3670MB/ 8157MB 44%
Paged: 11083MB/16313MB 67%
Virtual: 2273MB/ 4095MB 55%
Load: 55%
CommitTotal: 5229MB
CommitLimit: 16313MB
CommitPeak: 7065MB
SystemCache: 3369MB
HandleCount: 38153
ProcessCount: 93
ThreadCount: 1228

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1219MB
WorkingSet: 804MB
PeakWorkingSet: 822MB
PageFaults: 417224

—> Game Context <—
MapId: 350
Flags: 0×241
ElapsedTime: 00:00:17

—> World State <—
<WorldState BufferCapacity=“40747008” BufferUsed=“17634060” DrawCalls=“724” Fps=“73” EffectLights=“0” Lights=“66” Materials=“274” Particles=“1332” Submodels=“723” TextureLoadsPending=“0” TextureMemory=“199446340” Triangles=“758939” VerticesSoftwareTransformed=“0” VideoMemoryTotal=“97242012” CameraPos=“-185.869, 1351.98, -2083.26” CameraFwd=“-0.51634, 0.817176, 0.256158” MapName=“wZY+N.l0zgm” MapNamespace=“KFafF” MapSector=“IJwR+.FhYT9” MapType=“Public” MapFloor=“1” MapId=“350” MapTimeOfDay=“0.000000” PlayerFacing=“0.402897, -0.915245, 0” PlayerPos=“-323.57, 1569.91, -1962.33” PlayerVelocity=“0, 0, -0” />

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> Thread 0×6548 <—

—> Trace <—
Pc:00d3aed3 Fr:3b53faf0 Rt:00840040 Arg:3df67c7a 3b53fc54 1c54f2c0 3b53fd98
Pc:00840040 Fr:3b53fc5c Rt:0080ab0f Arg:3c6559af 3b53fd98 3b53fd10 3b53fd04
Pc:0080ab0f Fr:3b53fd48 Rt:0080af7a Arg:3c6559af 4644c4d6 3b53fda4 3b53fdb0
Pc:0080af7a Fr:3b53fd64 Rt:0042ead5 Arg:3c6559af 3b53fd98 3b53fda4 3b53fdb0
Pc:0042ead5 Fr:3b53fdc8 Rt:0041d0ac Arg:3c6559af 00000000 00000001 03e3d800
Pc:0041d0ac Fr:3b53fde4 Rt:0041650d Arg:3c6559af 00000000 0000000f 00000008
Pc:0041650d Fr:3b53fe18 Rt:00413197 Arg:072c279c 3b53fe74 0000000c 3c6559af
Pc:00413197 Fr:3b53fe38 Rt:0041687f Arg:3c6559af 00b4de7f 03e3e5f8 03e3e1d0
Pc:0041687f Fr:3b53fe80 Rt:00b4a27f Arg:03e3e1d0 03e3e224 072c2790 00000008
Pc:00b4a27f Fr:3b53feec Rt:00b4a5d9 Arg:3e94fe66 00000001 14f2f62d 036d6198
Pc:00b4a5d9 Fr:3b53ff24 Rt:00b4a6af Arg:00000000 040424d0 006e1f3f 00000000
Pc:00b4a6af Fr:3b53ff44 Rt:0094e8fd Arg:040424d0 3e94fe3e 00000000 036d6198
Pc:0094e8fd Fr:3b53ff7c Rt:0094e9a5 Arg:00000000 3b53ff94 7716336a 036d6198
Pc:0094e9a5 Fr:3b53ff88 Rt:7716336a Arg:036d6198 3b53ffd4 77a39f72 036d6198
Pc:7716336a Fr:3b53ff94 Rt:77a39f72 Arg:036d6198 580c3725 00000000 00000000
Pc:77a39f72 Fr:3b53ffd4 Rt:77a39f45 Arg:0094e923 036d6198 00000000 00000000
Pc:77a39f45 Fr:3b53ffec Rt:00000000 Arg:0094e923 036d6198 00000000 00000000

—> Thread registers <—
eax=1c542132 ebx=1daed5c0 ecx=3b53fad8 edx=1c54e758 esi=1c54e6c0 edi=1c54e710
eip=00d3aed3 esp=3b53fad0 ebp=3b53faf0
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00210202

eax-32 1C542110 013f2870 013f2860 00000009 00000002
eax-16 1C542120 23782585 1c5420d4 1c542160 0e6e38e4
eax 0 1C542130 0e6e38c9 300f12e2 1c534000 00000004
eax16 1C542140 00000000 00000000 00000004 00000000
eax+32 1C542150 00000000 00000000 00000050 1c542108
eax+48 1C542160 013f2870 013f2860 0000000a 00000002
ebx-32 1DAED5A0 00000040 0000000c 00000006 41400000
ebx-16 1DAED5B0 40c00000 01c00000 00000010 1daed588
ebx 0 1DAED5C0 1c54f2c0 00000000 00000040 1daed5b8
ebx16 1DAED5D0 0000000d 1db8a200 00000003 00000003
ebx+32 1DAED5E0 00000002 1c54a7a0 1c54f2c0 00000001
ebx+48 1DAED5F0 0f37d444 3f4f1bbd 00000000 3f167918
ecx-32 3B53FAB8 448ad16b c55c84f9 3b53faf0 00d3ae83
ecx-16 3B53FAC8 4b50c66e 1daed5c0 1c54f2c0 1c54a7a0
ecx 0 3B53FAD8 c3a1c790 44c43cb6 4b50c66e 4841b522
ecx16 3B53FAE8 00000009 448442f6 3b53fc5c 00840040
ecx+32 3B53FAF8 3df67c7a 3b53fc54 1c54f2c0 3b53fd98
ecx+48 3B53FB08 1a0422f0 00000000 00000000 00000000
edx-32 1C54E738 4631a378 c4dcff48 45b93738 c4df4dfb

I play a human male mesmer.

Romek.4201:

They care and they will stop it – they already said

lol they said.

They didn’t fail, they just need to fine-tune it. The core of the combat is amazing imo. The problem lies with the way certain builds are cheese and how anybody can line up the correct traits+runes+utilities and suddenly their ‘skill’ is amplified beyond those players who don’t run cheese builds and have to play twice or three times better to win against a cheese build.

There’s a few other issues as well. Namely the lack of Dev support. We also lack very basic features that are so standard, it’s almost depressing that we don’t have them after over a year of the game being out.

Would help to know what class you’re playing. If you’re Mesmer for example, using Moa will insta-wipe his entire minion party.

It’s like adding insult to injury. I feel it too, and it seems imo, what every other loyal PVP’er is feeling. First we get ignored and sidelined, and now we get insulted as well by taking away the only thing we had over the pve crowd.

It’s really not an argument of whether or not the rewards suck, or whether or not it’s even WORTH farming the glory. It’s the principle. This was the ONLY thing we had and now that’s gone. What if all of a sudden, PVE karma got taken out of the game and given to PVP players only? What then? It’s unfair, it’s bs.

I love writing, but I usually do it late at night when my gf is sleeping and so I can’t bug her about my ideas, my stories, etc.

I do like logging onto GW2 and just going to a nice serene place where the beauty of the game helps me concentrate.

I also like chatting with my guildmates. But I know it gets annoying for them after a while of listening to me go on about my writing stuff.

So here’s my proposal; GW2 players who also make a hobby of writing, willing to come into GW2 and join the guild with the sole purpose of discussing anything to do with writing. Even books, plots, character ideas, etc.

Would there be enough interest for this? If so, I’ll start tossing out invites.

It’s been suggested. Tons of ideas have been suggested. And you know what we get every time?

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Hey guys,

We agree with you. This has been something that has been greatly discussed and is definitely on our radar. There isn’t a time frame set yet, but I just just wanted to let you know it is something we are looking to change for the future. Sorry I can’t give more details at this time.

That is the basic ANet reply to every suggestion we’ve given them.

Caine.8204:

Iplaytokill.1674:

Caine.8204:

Lastly, there are several different teams in Anet regarding different kinds of content. PVP development team, Event development team… Just because a patch came out that you don’t like because it’s PVE doesn’t mean they just ignored you and stopped working on PVP. It just means that the PVE team hit their mark, while the PVP team is still working on changes.

A patch? As in, ONE SINGLE, patch? Do you not realize that PVE gets new content every fourteen days? PVP is a side note, an after-thought. If they cared about PVP they would do fast small patches, fixing the extremely broken things like stunlock warrior support builds and Necro’s. Remember before PAX? How they were waiting for THAT to finish before ‘patching’ the game? Oh that’s funny. Only thing they nerf’d was the petting zoo.

They have an entire separate team for PvP. Did you not even read the post? Whining about PvE content is pointless, because it’s a separate team.

FlamingForce.6389:

Not this high-horse idiocy again.

Very constructive of you.

Knote.2904:

It ain’t built in a year either by the looks of it.

And that’s cute, whipping out the high horse to berate people for being cynical and bitter, despite the fact that people have given tons of feedback, but when the game has stagnated for so long you can only be so hopeful…. so..

Really? For a year, they haven’t done anything?

I can give you the list of changes they have made to PvP in the past year, if that helps. The Meta changes. It keeps changing. They make changes based on how the meta changes.

Whining? It’s not whining. It’s simple fact. PVE is the main focus of GW2. It makes the most money. PVP makes no money on gem sales bar the finishers, which are the ONLY thing PVP’ers would be interested in buying.

The game is stale because unlike PVE, we get no refresh. We’re stuck with the same meta for months now. Petting zoo got nerf. Great! Ele’s still suck, Mesmer’s are low-tier support and Warriors, Necro, Thief, Guards and Engi’s are what make up most teams now. It’s overly common to meet teams composed of

2-3 wars or necro’s
1-2 thief or guard
sometimes an engi.

Taking a Mesmer/Ele is a handicap.

What does this have to do with PVE? Well it gets all the attention. Major updates every two weeks. PVP gets what? A side note. An after thought. A single ‘here you go, some fixes, now run along and let us make money off gems.’

Caine.8204:

Lastly, there are several different teams in Anet regarding different kinds of content. PVP development team, Event development team… Just because a patch came out that you don’t like because it’s PVE doesn’t mean they just ignored you and stopped working on PVP. It just means that the PVE team hit their mark, while the PVP team is still working on changes.

A patch? As in, ONE SINGLE, patch? Do you not realize that PVE gets new content every fourteen days? PVP is a side note, an after-thought. If they cared about PVP they would do fast small patches, fixing the extremely broken things like stunlock warrior support builds and Necro’s. Remember before PAX? How they were waiting for THAT to finish before ‘patching’ the game? Oh that’s funny. Only thing they nerf’d was the petting zoo.

Wanze.8410:

Shemsu.8721:

Wanze.8410:

Iplaytokill.1674:

Vol.5241:

You really shouldn’t convert laurels to gold. You can get gold at any rate but laurels are 1 per day and 10 per month.

Unless you spend most of your time in the Mists. Then that becomes the only way.

If you only play spvp, you dont need gold.

And you can still make money on the trading post.

If you only play spvp all you earn is glory and laurels. You can’t sell spvp gear on the tp. Since you claim you don’t need gold I must have missed the patch when they added a way to convert glory/laurels to gems. Ohhhh wait….

You also get achievement points in Spvp, dont you?
Then i mean the patch that introduced the achievement chests that also award gold and gems.

LOL.

Vol.5241:

You really shouldn’t convert laurels to gold. You can get gold at any rate but laurels are 1 per day and 10 per month.

Unless you spend most of your time in the Mists. Then that becomes the only way.

It’s really not that hard. Clones are just shatter food, the real damage coming from Phantasms which are purple mist. Clones don’t last long enough to matter, unless they’re the staff equipped ones because then the staff 1 is actually useful. But they’re such low HP they won’t last regardless.

Dirame.8521:

jportell.2197:

• Wait come to think of it noone is taking mesmers on the team anyways.

Team Pugging uses a mesmer.

Well golly, I guess as long as the ratio of Necro’s and War’s are 20-1 against Mesmers, EVERYTHING IS ALRIIIIGHT.

I’ve stopped playing Mesmer and taken up my Guardian instead because I’m sick of the stupid balance in this game. I might even go buy GTA V for my gaming hours because GW2 is almost dead to me with this crap balance. It’s a $60 I’ll gladly spend that would otherwise have been spent on GW2.

jportell.2197:

Iplaytokill.1674:

I like how Arcane Thievery keeps coming up. Like it still isn’t buggy as all kitten.

Range of 900 and works 2/10 times arcane theivery is the worst condition clear in game

To be honest, you’d be better off doing Mender’s Purity with Mirror.

I like how Arcane Thievery keeps coming up. Like it still isn’t buggy as all kitten.

Because it’s fun for a few hours until you get fed up with the same old bullkitten that’s been around forever with no sense of balance from ANet. kitten like permastun warrior or Thief just being able to stealth, heal, come back fresh for another engagement. Stealth in general is just kittened but hey,

“We’re working on it, can’t give you exact details but we agree with you guys and are gonna release a blah blah blah”.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Iplaytokill.1674:

Sampo.9678:

Iplaytokill.1674:

It’s not skill to knock somebody off the map. Or to roll into a hole while fighting at points. Especially the rolling.

Are you saying you don’t like the map because you roll into holes?
That’s not very skilled indeed.
I’d say it’s skill if you wouldn’t be knocked off and rolling into holes.

Positioning, stunbreaker, stability.. ever heard of that?
And also try to not roll into holes

Stability on a Mesmer? Thanks bro I’ll use that one boon I don’t have access to. Positioning varies, and I don’t see how stunbreaker is supposed to help.. at all.

The advice on trying not to roll into holes is laughable at best. The home points are so tight and confined, it’s almost impossible not to fall in a hole or get pushed off. Or let’s not forget Necro chain fear.

Another big problem with the way the map is made is points, and contesting them. I play GS Mesmer so I NEED to stay at range, that’s fine, I’ll go above the points so I don’t fall into the holes, w/e. But because of the lame mechanics in this game, I won’t be contesting the point. So if I’m going up against a bunker guardian, I might as well run away because I will not win easily, if at all.

Secondly, the map has massive imbalances depending on what class you play. Mesmer has no stability, and our in-combat mobility is actually bad for us in this map because fighting on home points is hard thanks to the stupid holes we have to avoid constantly.

Necro and sometimes Warrior with FM! can be OP. Bunker Guards with their stability have absolutely no problems. Ranger, Ele and Thief I don’t play enough, so I won’t comment on them as much.

Ever consider that you might not be able to use the exact same build for every single map? Mesmers can absolutely excel at skyhammer. Just take the time to put more than 2 seconds of thought into how you play this game and you should do just fine.

Nice constructive post you’ve got there. I learned a great deal.

Warrior was never used because other classes were better suited for the roles a Warrior could fill. Until they slowly nerfed them one at a time, and now finally War’s have a spot in the meta.

Sampo.9678:

Iplaytokill.1674:

It’s not skill to knock somebody off the map. Or to roll into a hole while fighting at points. Especially the rolling.

Are you saying you don’t like the map because you roll into holes?
That’s not very skilled indeed.
I’d say it’s skill if you wouldn’t be knocked off and rolling into holes.

Positioning, stunbreaker, stability.. ever heard of that?
And also try to not roll into holes

Stability on a Mesmer? Thanks bro I’ll use that one boon I don’t have access to. Positioning varies, and I don’t see how stunbreaker is supposed to help.. at all.

The advice on trying not to roll into holes is laughable at best. The home points are so tight and confined, it’s almost impossible not to fall in a hole or get pushed off. Or let’s not forget Necro chain fear.

Another big problem with the way the map is made is points, and contesting them. I play GS Mesmer so I NEED to stay at range, that’s fine, I’ll go above the points so I don’t fall into the holes, w/e. But because of the lame mechanics in this game, I won’t be contesting the point. So if I’m going up against a bunker guardian, I might as well run away because I will not win easily, if at all.

Secondly, the map has massive imbalances depending on what class you play. Mesmer has no stability, and our in-combat mobility is actually bad for us in this map because fighting on home points is hard thanks to the stupid holes we have to avoid constantly.

Necro and sometimes Warrior with FM! can be OP. Bunker Guards with their stability have absolutely no problems. Ranger, Ele and Thief I don’t play enough, so I won’t comment on them as much.

akallou.9704:

Iplaytokill.1674:

Chopps.5047:

Mesmer has lost to ranger on simultaneous downed state since the beginning of the game. You new here?

Edit: you lost the 1v1! Lol you didn’t win. Downing someone is not winning, that’s stomp or kill.

Stomp or kill in SPVP is not always a win. If you down him outside the point, it’s a win. But because he has the stun when you try to stomp him, you need stability, which Mesmer’s dont have, or Decoy, which he still stuns through, or to shatter, which is the longest CD and you NEED a clone up for it.

NO i dont agree! mesmer has a stab mantra, up to 3 use with a trait, mesmer can go into stealth with torcch or utility skill/elite he can use the distortion, so my point is that boy need to learn the proffesion he plays!!!!!!!! instead of complaining about this and that, you just a weak complainer

MANTRA LOL. TORCH?

kitten man I need to start running MANTRA and TORCH. I know the kitten class well enough. Problem being the downed state is broken. Ranger’s pets can just switch out if the first one dies. The healing should be reduced because atm it’s basically a free res in 5 seconds of channeling.

Chopps.5047:

Mesmer has lost to ranger on simultaneous downed state since the beginning of the game. You new here?

Edit: you lost the 1v1! Lol you didn’t win. Downing someone is not winning, that’s stomp or kill.

Stomp or kill in SPVP is not always a win. If you down him outside the point, it’s a win. But because he has the stun when you try to stomp him, you need stability, which Mesmer’s dont have, or Decoy, which he still stuns through, or to shatter, which is the longest CD and you NEED a clone up for it.

Chopps.5047:

You have like, what, 8s to get off a stomp before “lick wounds” becomes active. Ressurection/stomp; downed is only half the battle. When you down a ranger, blind that player. Poison the ranger on the ground. Knock the healing pet back. Work with your friends to stealth stomp. Chill the ranger. Use stability. There’s any number of things you could do to win the fight.

If you’re alone and down the ranger at the same exact time you go down…good luck, but, hey, that’s one tiny perk that the pet actually gives back and works and helps.

Blind the player? Poison? Knock back? As a Mesmer, I ask you, HOW? I beat him straight up in a 1v1, but the mix of conditions+his stupid pet healing him, made me go down and him get back up because I couldn’t go stomp him with constant degen on me.

Sami.7923:

You see your skill on mesmer is just an illusion, its not really there and never will be.

According to my CHAMPION ILLUSIONIST TITLE;

My dominance is no illusion.

Zoutsha.1093:

dodge the phantasmal rogue and everything is fine

He was already downed. The rogue did decent dmg but the stupid pet healing is just total BS.

And if you DO manage to kill the pet, HE CAN SWITCH TO ANOTHER ONE? Really?

Spirits.

Dirame.8521:

Iplaytokill.1674:

Mesmer running around spamming illusions…? That works for you? Really?

Have you ever fought a PU mesmer? It’s literally all they do. Run around in circles, hitting stealth and creating clones to spam condis.

Have you ever fought a spirit ranger? It’s all they do, run around spamming spirits and auto-attacking with shortbow.

Oh no wait, lemme try again.

Have you ever fought a Necro? It’s all they do, spam minions and run around spamming conds.

Why does Mesmer always get picked as top op class.

Is bullkitten. Hands down the dumbest thing you can possibly go up against. Engineer self-res and Guardian self-res are manageable, but how the hell do you outheal damage from IBerzerker, an Illusion, the IRouge, and a Mesmer in downed state? And still consider it FAIR?

It’s not skill to knock somebody off the map. Or to roll into a hole while fighting at points. Especially the rolling.

It’s a fun map for hotjoin where you can mess around with it, but it’s not FUN.

Mesmer running around spamming illusions…? That works for you? Really?