Guild Wars 2

All I know is it was raining bags last night. It’s been awhile since I found such easy 1v3 fights. PPT is going to suffer this week because 7 has such better coverage but there will be plenty of fights.

I have the feeling that Anet will eventually implement the alliance/megazerger crap to “fix” WvW. Everything they have been doing since EotM came out seems to be prepping us for that. I’m just going to try and have as much fun as I can before they ruin the game completely.

On a side note it would be great if some of those adopt a devs could pop into the game this week. There have been several people flying, teleporting around, 1 shotting people without anything showing up in the damage log. It would be nice to see some action taken against them.

Has anyone done the math to figure out how much the damage shifts when fighting multiple opponents? That 5 man maul does some pretty decent damage.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Again, “those that can, do. Those that can’t, complain.”

I regularly use the sword in pvp, I am very familiar with how it works and I know how to use it effectively. I still think it is a broken weapon.

I personally found her post rather refreshing. I think if more dev’s dropped in to chat like she did this wouldn’t be a big deal. The problem is red posts are so rare (especially on the balance/WvW forums) that people latch on to what they say and twist things or search for hidden meanings.

It would be better to encourage more casual communication like this so that people become accustomed to it and don’t try to make it into something it’s not.

Anchoku.8142:

I am not a fan of skills that allow players to do spike damage and run away.

You are literally describing how every zerk build is played…

Eurantien.4632:

THIS JUST IN!!!!! ANET ADDED TERRAIN FOR PLAYERS TO STAND BEHIND TO OBSTRUCT THE INCOMING ARROWS!!!! BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!!! THEY ALSO ADDED A DODGE MECHANIC FOR EVERY GLASS SO THEY CAN DODGE IT IF THEY CAN’T GET BEHIND A WALL, TREE, GRAVESTONE, OR WHATEVER!!!

Unfortunately Anet was afraid LoS and dodge might confuse new players so you will have to wait until rank 50 to unlock them.

InB4 ”You just need to manage your pet better”

Fluffball.8307:

Jim Hunter.6821:

What would be the point of revealing them without the debuff? The problem with thief stealth is how spammable it is. If they would do away with initiative and give thief skills proper cool downs your idea might work but right now the debuff is necessary.

I meant no debuff on the 20s cooldown version. So basically you can use it as anti-stealth and/or use it as a reasonable pet buff. Right now it’s an unreasonable pet buff due to cooldown and the stealth thing is useless 99% of the time.

Yeah but then there is nothing stopping them from instantly restealthing. This is fine for mesmers, rangers and engi’s since they have cooldowns but thieves have too much access to stealth. Not having a debuff will make the skill completely useless against the only profession you really need it for.

You are on a guardian, just equip your loot stick and hop in the zerg. You’ll have your full stacks about 30 seconds into a fight.

Fluffball.8307:

I had a random thought last night. Sic ’em is quite weak against other players. What if the mechanics were this: Same pet buff, no stealth debuff for 20 seconds AND you can use it when someone is stealthed in the area to unstealth them, regular 40s cooldown.

Right now no one uses this skill because it’s ridiculously niche, but this would give it the BM buff on a reasonable CD, as well as the devs intended anti-trolling stealth mechanic.

No dev will ever read this, but I thought it was a neat idea.

What would be the point of revealing them without the debuff? The problem with thief stealth is how spammable it is. If they would do away with initiative and give thief skills proper cool downs your idea might work but right now the debuff is necessary.

Yup big boss nailed it. Technically they are putting out pve content but it is more of an advertisement for the gem store than anything else. Keep people grinding and stick something pretty in their face for them to buy.

If they were really focused on pve content they would increase the quality.

retsuya.4708:

I disagree that siege disablers gave more open-field fights.

It’s either defenders just sit inside the tower/keep and throw disablers or a prolonged long range siege battle with occasional yolo/stealth disabler runs till its 10 v 50

This has been my experience. People just keep disabling siege until they can get counter siege to take yours down or until they outnumber you by at least 3 to 1 before they will engage you.

If you are in a zerg of your own you will have enough people to run bubble rotations or even just PvD once you are disabled. There were already enough reasons to blob, this shouldn’t have been added.

I wouldn’t even say PvE players are their main focus. Think about it, at this point in GW1’s life we already had Factions, Nightfall, and EotN. That is new professions, skills, dungeons, friggin continents to explore. What have we gotten so far in this game? A couple of new maps and a bunch of temporary grindfests.

I think the real target audience are casuals players that get hooked on garbage like farmville and candy crush.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Not sure how many reports and videos it took but Anet just banned a hacker that was causing trouble in my current matchup. It’s nice to see them taking action, hopefully they will keep it up.

How do you know this person was banned?

They posted a screenshot on the matchup forums.

Domey.9804:

i never said it was their only defense, but its a big part. 1 utility vs a full traitline and all stealth attacks? good deal.
my ranger and my thief only use 1 stun break, thats enough.

maybe i should ask the guards if they where fine with such a venom.

i do not want to remove that skill, not even its funcionality. just change it to something that requires a brain

It’s a 6 second reveal that requires a target on a 40 sec cooldown against the most mobile class in the game. If u can’t handle that you really need to up your game a bit.

Not sure how many reports and videos it took but Anet just banned a hacker that was causing trouble in my current matchup. It’s nice to see them taking action, hopefully they will keep it up.

The only time I bother slotting it is if I run into a group of thieves that keep stealthing each other. 1v1 I don’t need it to kill a thief and there are a lot more useful traits to bring along.

Julie Yann.5379:

Jim Hunter.6821:

How far do you think you have to run? If it’s 1-2 people you just fight them. 3-4 you just have to make it back to the nearest camp you flipped and fight them there. Anything more than that you just wp, unless you recently flipped a tower that you can troll them from.

The maps are small, being a good marathon runner isn’t nearly as important as being a good sprinter.

I have never seen a Guard able to reach the camp before I kill him.

That is either a lie or you haven’t spent a lot of time roaming. It doesn’t happen often but I’ve had players of every profession escape me at one point or another. It’s not hard when all you have to do is make it out of combat for 1 second in order to wp.

I’ll counter with you should have a -33% speed debuff in stealth. If you are moving stealthily you would have to go slowly and quietly.

Any missed or blocked attack should reveal you.

Aoe attacks that knock down or immobilize should reveal you.

You should only be able to stealth out of combat. It doesn’t make sense that you can disappear in broad daylight right in front of the person you are fighting.

Julie Yann.5379:

Styles.7469:

Words .

Why would I need to grasp at straws? So far none of your arguments have disproved anything I have said.

My original claim was that Medi Guards would never be able to out run a group. Which is true due to the lack of swiftness and relatively lengthy CDs of our mobility skills. Sure you can JI, LoF, and FB away but you are only delaying the inevitable. Thieves, Warriors, and Rangers will catch up to you without breaking a sweat. Once you are in combat, the rest of the their group will too.

Then I claimed that our teleports required targets far enough away to use which slowed reaction time which is also true when compared to skills that don’t require a target at all or just ground targeting cause you have that extra motion to do (Even if it is just a fraction of a second more).

Then I mentioned the lack of CC to prevent being kited which is also true when you look at the type, duration, and CD of our CC skills. With the exception of hammer our CC options are quite limited when you compare to other classes like Ele which has an abundance of chills/cripples or warrior which has a abundance of cripples on top of knock backs, knock downs, stuns and immobilize all on shorter CDs.

Can you surprise and totally wreck someone with a guard? yes Can it be used for roaming? yes (I do it all the time.) Is it as good as other professions for roaming? no Anybody who has experience roaming and playing Guard understands that. Apparently you don’t.

How far do you think you have to run? If it’s 1-2 people you just fight them. 3-4 you just have to make it back to the nearest camp you flipped and fight them there. Anything more than that you just wp, unless you recently flipped a tower that you can troll them from.

The maps are small, being a good marathon runner isn’t nearly as important as being a good sprinter.

Xillllix.3485:

OGDeadHead.8326:

Xillllix.3485:

They need to increase the recharge on Rapid-Fire or lower the damage by 20%. That’s about it.

Oh really? Make it worse than what is was even before the reduced the casting time on it? That’s excellent, excellent balancing (not).
I’d rather take the old 4,5 second channel back then, but the skill is fine as it is now.

Rangers were find before. It’s was already a good WvW and PvP class. No class should have such burst damage skills at such long range. Right now Rapid Fire feels like the crit nerf never happen for that class.
Elementalists meteors were nerfed from 10k to 4k on full berserkers builds (60% nerf: crit nerf and meteornado nerf + aoe circle so you can dodge out). Backstab was nerfed from 12k to 7k with the crit nerf, yet rangers press 1 key and do 15k damage from a 1500 range.

It’s totally unneeded and unwanted, and another fail balance mistake to add to the list.

You might want to go test things out before throwing those numbers around

No I leave the bear at home. I find that most warriors are dumb enough to completely ignore my pet so I use a useful one like marsh drake to poison them and build might stacks for me.

Not an insult, a serious question. What is your experience playing as a guardian? How much time do you have on your guardian and how much of that was in pvp and WvW?

Julie Yann.5379:

Thou shall chase down, stomp, laugh at and ridicule every single Bearbow with 10 of your friends for they are laughing stock of WvW and deserve such a fate.

Thou shall destroy 3 perfectly good rams so you can build 3 more rams in the same location.

Thou shall spam laugh at warriors that constantly run away from fights.

Thou shall dance on their corpses after they couldn’t make it out of longbow range.

Gizmo.9178:

Send a support ticket

Or write the characters name on a piece of paper and throw it in the trash bin. Both of these options will lead to the same end result.

Sometimes for fun I run a moment of clarity build on my asuran ranger using fire and air sigils on the short bow. I bring along technobabble and the black moa to keep them dazed even longer. It’s a pretty mean build in a 1v1 and in a group fight you can completely shutdown a tough opponent for your team.

It isn’t great in a 1vX situation unless you are fighting some really bad players.

Kahrgan.7401:

Honestly, im just tired of doing some hotjoins for fun, and running into 2-4 rangers on the same team all using LB #2 on me. One ability shouldn’t have such range, such dmg, and such a short cd.

I was all for buffing ranger… but not enabling everyone to hit LB #2 to win.

Ummm everyone has moved on, ele’s are op this week. Try and keep up.

Prysin.8542:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

sminkiottone.6972:

Try to remove all the crap like auto target and auto attack (ctrl + right mouse) and it will not lock you, sword is a very interesting weapon, with some practice it can be really enjoyable.

interesting = broken

Broken = L2p

L2P calling = stupidity. Do you know how or how good I play? Do you know anything about me? So who are you to judge my skills? I can handle sword, I still say it’s broken.
It’s broken because it offers few advantages at the expense of many disadvantages.

i know you have less then 1400 achievement points and have been around this game for over 3/4th of a year by now (forum history).

We do know something about you indeed.

Aw snap, he dropped your achievement points! Cuz nothing says skill like achievement points. I bet yours aren’t high enough to run a dungeon with him….

Fluffball.8307:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

you’re totally out to lunch Fluffball

2 years of solo roaming with a necro and the one class I have zero worries about taking on one-on-one is rangers, everything else can be risky depending on player skill and build.. but rangers? free bag.

Mesmer is definitely my greatest bane and I usually avoid contact, everything else I can go toe-to-toe and hold my own.

I feel the same way about necros on my ranger; free bags. Both of us can’t be right!

Mesmers are a pain for every profession.

Sure you can, there are a ton of terrible roamers and zerglings out there. Most of the people I run into are free bags in a 1v1.

For the next WvW season how about just don’t have it? They are pointless and harmful to the community. Fix the population imbalance and coverage problems before having another kittening tournament.

Wish I was very high…

Switch up professions and builds. I recently went roaming on a no stealth pistol/pistol, short bow thief for a laugh. I actually racked up a bunch of kills and had no problem escaping large groups.

Other times I will grab a few friends, siege up sw tower and start trebbing bay. If small groups come to defend we jump out and kill them. If zergs come to defend we hold them off with siege and spend the next few hours screwing with them.

Justine.6351:

Khenzy.9348:

the ranger’s sword is the least mobile weapon in the game, in the sense that all of the attacks of the sword, besides the 1st on the AA chain, are locked in an animation, regardless whether it performs a dodge or not, you cannot move (with WASD!) or either strafe (absolutely key on pvp), it’s all animation queues.

ctrl+right click swords auto attack. you are welcome.

And while im at it, turn off auto targeting aswell…

That doesn’t change a single thing of what he just said…

briggah.7910:

Thou shall not chase after one guy with ten of your friends after stacking on the commander for supply count..

Thou shall not jump on 1 guy and spam laugh when it took 10 of your friends to help chase him down and kill him.

epidemic is great when flipping camps so it’s on the bar pretty regularly.
I switch between that and corrupt boon, which also works really well against a ranger because it turns their stability into an extra fear.

Like I said, I main a ranger. I’ve never had a necro use epidemic on my pet but I’ve done it plenty of times because I know when their condi’s are being cleansed and when they are being transfered to their pet.

Kellth.2146:

Thou shall not transfer to another server or you become a traitor for life.

That’s an odd stance to take considering all the transfers ET has recently received..

Fluffball.8307:

Jim Hunter.6821:

hit them with conditions, and laugh as they panic because they didn’t bring any condi removal.

Like I said, someone who actually plays ranger. :P

If anyone is on SoS or YB and thinks necro is a good roaming class, I’d love to be proven wrong. I don’t duel for egos, but if someone can show me how it’s possible to beat a LB ranger with a necro I’m down.

Not that I’m saying LB ranger is OP, we have all sorts of other horrific matchups and weaknesses.

Even Rangers that aren’t running the ridiculous noob build aren’t guaranteed to win against a necro. SotF isn’t enough to keep up with necro condi’s on it’s own. If they are using Empathic bond or signet of renewal you just epidemic their pet. Once they blow their cleanses you just lay on some more condi’s and then lock them down with CC’s or plague form’s blind spam.

It really comes down to the area you are fighting. There are very few areas that you can’t LoS rangers with the terrain or all the kitten npc’s that are littered across the map.

Fluffball.8307:

But it’s a sitting duck to a LB ranger. They literally have no answer at all, assuming it’s not a guy who just hopped on to ranger after last patch; somewho who actually plays ranger. I don’t think I’ve ever lost to a necro 1v1, and that’s a ridiculous statement.

Necros also struggle mightily with movement speed.

Edit: Hmm, after some thought I would list necros quite high in small group roaming, but zero in solo roaming.

I haven’t lost to a longbow ranger on my necro. Of course I main ranger so I know how to fight them. But against the majority of the longbow rangers running around all you have to do is get into 1200 range, hit them with conditions, and laugh as they panic because they didn’t bring any condi removal.

I’d say for me the top 3 are ranger, necro, and engi

I know I would! First, I’d smother them with brown mustard and relish. They’d be so delicious!

I wouldn’t say op. Roaming isn’t like pvp where you have to fight them on point. They are strong but beatable as long as you dodge their bursts. 9 out of 10 times they are free bags when I’m on my necro.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Honestly I find optimized group play boring as hell. In fact you kill thing so fast that most dungeon mechanic don’t come in to play. Stealth and porting can make a run faster but I feel it lets new and old player by pass skill development.

I’d agree with that if playing in a pug group with whatever random builds actually made the dungeons less boring. The problem is the brain dead AI and massive health pools means PvE will remain boring. Running random builds just means you are bored for a longer amount of time.

I hate it. I’ve adjusted to using it for certain builds but I will never enjoy it. I keep hoping that 1 day they will remove the leaps from the auto change and instead give the #2 skill on sword 2 forward leaps instead of hornet’s sting being a backwards leap. Maybe extend the time available to activate monarchs leap as well.

This would still make the sword “sticky” but would greatly improve the fluidity of combat. It would also improve the mobility of the weapon since you you wouldn’t have to rely on the buggy about face function.

Zefrost.3425:

. These skills should only be doing damage while the player is in the animation. The way they currently act is totally different from the rest of the game.

I know right? You don’t see necro’s dropping wells that pulse for 5-6 seconds, guardians dropping symbols, warriors dropping a huge fire field, etc.

I mean clearly no other professions can drop fields that do damage and use other skills at the same time. If they could they might be able to perform combos in their own fields! How broken would that be?!

Archon.6480:

I am confused about this petless option stuff… In what situation does the pet cause a problem? Running dungeons with beginners who don’t know how the game works? The pet only “gets in the way” when it is told to do something silly. The petless option is to equip a bird and put it on passive. Problem solved.

Ever fight an offhand dagger thief? Or a necro that has the intelligence to use epidemic on your pet since most of our “condition removal” is really just transferring the condi’s to our pet? The pet becomes a huge liability in quite a number of situations.

I would much rather the pets be fixed but if they are too lazy to do that then there should be a stow option with some kind of boost.

WvW bl’s. The bl that gives you a wp in the SE corner of the map has a ton right by the way point.

Why the hell are so many people against having more options when it comes to modifying the ui?

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Shadow.3475:

Scout mastery should se stealthed players to.

Jim Hunter no GVG in WvWvW maps!!!

Why exactly? Right now there isn’t a good spot to do GvG. If anet ever does implement some different pvp modes (which I fully support) it will just pull more people out of WvW.

PPT is a joke because the population and coverage is so far out of balance.So if the game mode is broken to the point where playing for PPT doesn’t make sense, why not give people a spot to WvW? There is a very good chance a lot of those people will stick around to help the server when they are done with their match.

Aeolus.3615:

OGDeadHead.8326:

coglin.1867:

There are tons of skills that have similar problems. Flame thrower has a 10 hit AoE auto attack. Retal can be brutal.

The issue is with retaliation, it should be a % of damage done dealt back with an upper limit, but I don’t think anet will ever change the mechanic of this boon.

The skill(s) were done right in gw1.

that would improve damage back, and retaliation was nerfed now its like 240-280 damage, big AOE hits needed theyr counterplay if not it would be more free bags than already is.

Big AoE hits already have counterplay. It’s people standing on top of each other with the crappy AoE limit. AoE skills like barrage and flamethrower end up doing more damage to the person casting because of it.

STRanger.5120:

First thing, why should warrior have better trait than the rest? Doesn’t make sense….

Because the op mains a warrior

Honestly depends on the mood I’m in. The only 2 that have stolen me away from ranger for an extended amount of time are my necro and engi. Both are completely different playstyles from the ranger but they are useful to have if I my group is lacking on AoE damage.