Guild Wars 2

Interesting idea, sounds like fun. Something like this would be my best educated guess.

2 medi guards (x-sceptor/focus)
1 or 2 support/DPS Staff/Hammer 0-x-6-x-4 (probably celestial+runes of pirate, strength, or even pack)
1 or 2 of the following 0-1-6-6-1 support bunker, 1 x-x-x-6-6 control bunker.

Aeolus.3615:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

killahmayne.9518:

dancingmonkey.4902:

I am all for something such as healing on actions, perhaps even similar to ele’s healing signet. The fact that it heals, with poison applied, as strong as many professions heals with a 25s, that do not have poison applied, in a passive manner, is problematic.

I’m still waiting for your math. I never claimed at Healing Signet under poison healed for more than any other heal skill under poison, so go ahead, please.

The sad thing is, it does heal for more under poison than most other healing skills do without poison. Not all of them, sure. Troll Unguent and Ether Renewal both have higher HP/second than poisoned healing signet (but less than non-poisoned healing signet). All of a Guardian’s and Necro’s heals, for example, have lower HP/second than poisoned healing signet (bar Consume Conditions eating 2+ conditions).

Do the math yourself. It really isn’t difficult.

Healing signet passive heal > Virtue of resolve passive healing :P

Virtue of resolve is not a heal skill.

Chapell.1346:

I love how they improvise skyham rather than delete this map, with this upcoming changes they shud feature skyham in tpvp map rotation.
i mean, finally i can play skyham competitively!.

We still don’t want it in teamQ. TeamQ is the place that is skyhammer/spirit watch free. Please keep it that way.

Orb is great for decapping points. I hardly ever take it home. I grab it and take it to the point my teammates are trying to take.

glock.6590:

You can see your rank here
http://www.gw2score.com/PvP

Rank has nothing to do with MMR and how the match making works. Quite frankly it doesn’t mean a kitten it.

SaintSnow.6593:

Honestly spirit watch is fine. Just fix how lunges and super speed is unaffected by the orbs “slowness”.

Yeah, GS, sword/WH warrior is the most OP Orb runner.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

the point is Maros are banned , even if they are hard to spot, they shouldn’t be use , it creates unfair advantages and talking about them why?

a banned action is a banned action so people should not even be disscussing this in the first place.

they can do the same combos with just more buttons , use T,G,H,V,C,R,Y press button > aim > mouse click activate ground targeting , so its 1 to 1.5secs slower than a 0.5 macro , its game breaking and anyone that atempts to use it or seen using it should report them instantly.

whos going to stop them We are the community thats who not anet they are too busy making content to GM the game!

also Archaon if you know the guy using macros report him , its up to us to see the macro cheats not Anet to gm us.

it messes up the tols and the Pvp rankings using macros for fake skill, its insulting to those that want and are trying Esports for a living.

my rant is done Disscussing marcos shouldn’t even be a thing, just report the sods.

I have been reporting cheaters, botters, and gold sellers everyday since launch and guess what I see everytime I play, cheaters, botters and gold sellers. All we can do is point the finger. Anet is the one with the power to ban. If they can’t prove it, they probably won’t swing the ban hammer.

I agree, enough with the off topic discussion.

Would it be possible to give us the ability to track our own MMR? It would be nice to know what the kitten it is doing. It started with a 10 game losing streak. Then I won a couple of games, next thing you know I am get pair with some of the worse hotjoin heroes (there is bad and the is them.) ever and get owned. The following match I am fighting against HF (Ostrich Eggs and friends). What gives?

I main a Warrior and I find HSignet to be pretty well balance. The problem is that it is really lame to play and our alternatives a kind of suck for the most part.

I would be in of having it reworked as long as it isn’t a hack job like they did to our adrenalin. They should look at making our other heals viable while they are at it.

PurebladeProductions.4875:

*
Rune of the Rune
1) Gain the (1) bonus from your target’s rune.
2) Gain the (2) bonus from your target’s rune.
3) Gain the (3) bonus from your target’s rune.
4) Gain the (4) bonus from your target’s rune.
5) Gain the (5) bonus from your target’s rune.
6) Gain the (6) bonus from your target’s rune.

You should call this one the Rune of Plagiarism or Rune of the Copycat.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

Julie Yann.5379:

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

key binding is the term your looking for not macros.

No, macros is the term. Complex combos requiring specific timing programed into 1 key. It’s more common than you think and virtually undetectable.

you know Macroing isn’t allowed in gw2 ps i know what macro’ing is .

key bind one skill to a key is key binding..look it up.

Well duh… The post above yours was talking about how eles macro their combos and you said that key binding was the term he was looking for. I just corrected you by stating that it was indeed macros he was talking about.

Just because it isn’t allowed doesn’t mean it isn’t being done. Since there is no way to prove it, who’s going to stop them?

Dondagora.9645:

Pewpew-Rangers should be paired with some kind of bunker or something. If you’re a bunker, you should stay on point when you can, though a LB-Ranger can’t be expected to be trying to fight on points because that will ultimately fail. Their whole purpose is different. Bunkers job to bunk, Ranger’s job to range, y’know?

Then they are useless. Even bunkers can’t hold long when being focused by 3 people.

If I am on point taking all the heat from 3 enemies while you pew pew from 1500 range. What right do you have to tell to stay and fight on the point?

I think only nubs and skill clickers would keep the original keybinds. I don’t I have any of the original keybinds except jump on my mouse/keyboard

We are still playing because despite it’s obvious flaws this game is still pretty awesome and fun too play.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Julie Yann.5379:

199 exocitic and 1 precursors (or other top value drop)

3. It keeps decaying until it you drop an exotic or other top teir loot and then it resets

from (lets say) 199 exotics there are precursors for every weapon, so it would feel quite bad if get a underwater-weapon precursor right before it resets… and you’ll have to wait for another thousands of drops to see your desired precursor.

Wouldn’t it feel odd if you have played enough / seen enough drops so that you have all the junk-items gone and keep getting good drops finally… and then it resets and you’re back at mostly junk again?

I don’t see the future of precursors in rng, if you ask me. It would just feel grindy and not interesting at all, I hope that Anet hasn’t given up on the precursor hunt yet. They’ve proven with Mawdrey II and GW1’s moa chicken that they can create interesting scavenger hunts,… and now with collections this feature could be a great part of the hunt.

The idea is not to improve drop rates of precursors specifically but to even out the drastic differences between the lucky people and unlucky ones.

Precursors would get a higher tier value than regular exotics so they would all be in a separate slot.

What about a system of diminishing RNG.

Lets say the loot table for a specific mob or chest consists of 10000 possible drops. 8000 of those would be junk, 1000 would be blues, 500 greens 300 rares, 199 exocitic and 1 precursors (or other top value drop)

1: You drop a piece of junk
2: The next time you loot that same mob or chest you now have 9999 with 7999 chance of dropping junk.
3. It keeps decaying until it you drop an exotic or other top teir loot and then it resets

What I find fun is all the QQ I get when I wreck someone.

Napo.1230:

I’ve been tempted by celestial but something in my head always says no with it. Don’t suppose you have a build link to check out?

This is what I am using at the moment. I focus a lot on stacking might, a pretty effective combo is combustive shot – arcing arrow- savage leap (fire shield). I use pin down for setting up final thrust.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAscTjMd0FaVIOewJaghgC9rXCxgpAQdYUGVPA-TlCHABkpPAgTAAjq/8kSwgUiZwDAwJlHCcIAC4IAUy+DkCYRpRA-w

Obsidian Sanctum has a dueling area which most people respect. PvP also has dueling servers which most people respect. That’s where WvW dueling should be done.

If you are dueling in the open field of your BL don’t cry cause someone interrupted you fight and stomped you. Anywhere other than the 2 places mentioned above is fair game.

I just moved to JQ and it is true that roaming is more of a challenge. You just have to learn which camps are safe for flipping, how to pick your fights, and also how to play peripheral to larger encounters. Catching a BG ppt tryhard zergling away from his main group is so satisfying.

I hope the devs are looking at this thread. There are some pretty awesome rune ideas. Would be great if some of them actually made it into the game.

S/S Bow celestial is even better than dire for wvw roaming.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

key binding is the term your looking for not macros.

No, macros is the term. Complex combos requiring specific timing programed into 1 key. It’s more common than you think and virtually undetectable.

Every class is OP cause I can’t kill them with my support guard 1v1! Nerf all classes so that my guard can win some duels.

NO!!!! Just NO!!! You should be banned from teamQ just for suggesting it. Begone with you troll!

Yes, if you build for dueling. An AH support guard will lose almost every time but a medi or spirit weapon will do much better.

Windsagio.1340:

Julie Yann.5379:

Windsagio.1340:

Tiny bit of bitterness.

“Engi’s have some skills that nobody uses (and one skill they use anyways). Better buff them!”

“Rangers are mostly using longbow to the lack of other weapons. We all know sword/dagger is too string, so we’d better scale back longbow some!”

Doesn’t help that this (depending on the time) makes point blank shot essentially impossible to hit with at the range it’s named after. We can compromise on them making projecitle attacks work better at PB range I guess ><

It’s no worse than pin down and we don’t have too many issues landing it at point blank range.

I wouldn’t mind if the other options were better ><

True, despite having an OP rapid fire LB ranger are still useless.

Windsagio.1340:

Tiny bit of bitterness.

“Engi’s have some skills that nobody uses (and one skill they use anyways). Better buff them!”

“Rangers are mostly using longbow to the lack of other weapons. We all know sword/dagger is too string, so we’d better scale back longbow some!”

Doesn’t help that this (depending on the time) makes point blank shot essentially impossible to hit with at the range it’s named after. We can compromise on them making projecitle attacks work better at PB range I guess ><

It’s no worse than pin down and we don’t have too many issues landing it at point blank range.

Ynot.8397:

Julie Yann.5379:

Holland.9351:

Julie Yann.5379:

Holland.9351:

Rune of the Mists
1) +25 Power
2) +10% Poison duration
3) +50 Power
4) +15% Poison duration
5) +100 Power
6) +20% Poison Duration;
10s poison, 10s immobilize on hit of a downed target. (30s cooldown)

So, is that you get immobilized if you get hit by downed target, or hit a downed target ,or you immobilize the target if you hit him while he is down? It’s a little unclear.

The downed target would get immobilized and poisoned. Immobilizing and poisoning yourself wouldn’t even make sense.

lol… that went woosh!!! but I don’t know if it’s over my head or yours. Just to clear things up. Immobilizing a downed target makes sense? think about it. I like the idea of the rune but that 6th bonus is really lolz.

It actually does make sense to immobilize a downed ele.

I guess it does f you want a rune set just for stomping eles.

juno.1840:

Julie Yann.5379:

I don’t get what the problem is. So what if someone outbid by 1 copper, just wait it out or cancel and rebid. If you want your stuff now and don’t want anyone to out bid you just buy it instantly and save your self the trouble of a few extra clicks and a dose of patience. If you want something at a cheaper you have to accept the risk that someone will bid higher, even if it is 1 copper.

Read the ANet posts in this topic. The issue is the system is easily bot’d and ANet (J.Smith) is open to suggestions.

We’ll chalk you up for “couldn’t think of any suggestions”.

Then the issue is not the cooper 1 up but the cheaters exploiting the game with 3rd party software. Maybe they should work on better bot detection but if that is not feasible then how about just setting a limit to how many times you can replace a buy order for a certain item within a time frame. Example, you can 1 up an order of ectos 3 times in 60 mins.

Ehecatl.9172:

Exile.8160:

Does not change the fact that players can grief their teamates by just killing them self which I seen and done before( when I get a 4v5 of other team is more spec for craphammer and my team gives up)

You can commit suicide on any map. Just run directly into the enemy team and don’t fight back.

Jumping off the edge is just another way to do it. One that doesn’t give the enemy team points, if I’m not mistaken.

Or they can just dance a jig at spawn and not do anything. For the 4v5s,I don’t blame them, you could almost say that the ones fighting back delaying the end of the match to be the ones griefing. What is the point of trying when you know it is a lost cause? You don’t get rewarded for trying. Just give them everything and end it quick so everyone can go play a real match.

Holland.9351:

Julie Yann.5379:

Holland.9351:

Rune of the Mists
1) +25 Power
2) +10% Poison duration
3) +50 Power
4) +15% Poison duration
5) +100 Power
6) +20% Poison Duration;
10s poison, 10s immobilize on hit of a downed target. (30s cooldown)

So, is that you get immobilized if you get hit by downed target, or hit a downed target ,or you immobilize the target if you hit him while he is down? It’s a little unclear.

The downed target would get immobilized and poisoned. Immobilizing and poisoning yourself wouldn’t even make sense.

lol… that went woosh!!! but I don’t know if it’s over my head or yours. Just to clear things up. Immobilizing a downed target makes sense? think about it. I like the idea of the rune but that 6th bonus is really lolz.

I am looking forward to the new retreat. Now I can get rid of the speed runes on my roaming build and replace them with something more useful.

Holland.9351:

Rune of the Mists
1) +25 Power
2) +10% Poison duration
3) +50 Power
4) +15% Poison duration
5) +100 Power
6) +20% Poison Duration;
10s poison, 10s immobilize on hit of a downed target. (30s cooldown)

So, is that you get immobilized if you get hit by downed target, or hit a downed target ,or you immobilize the target if you hit him while he is down? It’s a little unclear.

nicknamenick.2437:

Did any warr used offhand mace?? lol @ crushing blow with a 3/4 casttime.. haha waste of weapon skill slot.

I think that was the point of buffing it. It has never been used outside of PvE. Maybe the 10 stacks of vulnerability will now make it worth using in pvp.

Overall I like this upcomming balance patch. Smaller and more frequent changes is what I have been asking for since I launch. Nothing is earthshattering and that is the way it should be. A few tweaks here and there, what a couple months to see how it affects the game, make a few other tweaks and repeat. I hope they keep going with this philosophy instead of the bi-yearly wack-a-mole approach they have been using until now.

Defektive.7283:

adozu.6398:

from dulfy report of latest ready up:

“Warrior – Some changes coming to Mace which doesn’t see a lot of use
Crushing Blow – increase vulnerability from 4 to 10 stacks
Tremor – velocity increased by 12%.

excuse me? offhand mace has been THE meta offhand weapon since… forever?

proof the devs don’t really know much about their own product anymore.

It’s never used in PvP, I’m pretty sure that was the point of the change.

=\

I could see an Axe/Sword-Mace power build making good use of this for some nice burst damage.

and how can our leaderboards ranks mean anything when those matches still count in your ratings and they do nothing to fix it.

xvalkyrie.6742:

OK so from today’s ready up that just ended…

The glass takes “longer” to break
You can’t break it while stealthed
You can dodge the hammer

And part of the balance stuff that would also affect this map is the ranger’s knock back lb attack is getting a tell added to it, white lines like warrior’s pin down on drawback, and the actual shot will be purple.

It’s a small step. I’ll try it. But it still doesn’t account for the high profit low cost of being a push/pull/fear bot.

I think it will probably have more effect than we think. Especially the dodgeable hammer and not breaking glass while stealth. No more getting surprised pulled into a hole from stealth while you are busy defending point against someone else. All these changes will reduce the effectiveness of the Skyhammer cheese builds by giving everyone more time to react. Mesmers/Engis will still have the advantage in the hammer room but at least now we can avoid some of the hammers attacks. You are still at a disadvantage fighting in the hammer AoE since you are wasting precious evades to avoid it the team that controls the hammer still has the upper hand.

It might actually work.

Rune of the Brute

1) +25 Power
2) +35 Toughness
3) +50 Power
4) 25% chance to cause weakness for 5 seconds when hit (15 sec CD)
5) +100 Power
6) +125 Toughness, 10% damage against weakened foes

I don’t get what the problem is. So what if someone outbid by 1 copper, just wait it out or cancel and rebid. If you want your stuff now and don’t want anyone to out bid you just buy it instantly and save your self the trouble of a few extra clicks and a dose of patience. If you want something at a cheaper you have to accept the risk that someone will bid higher, even if it is 1 copper.

Warrior was overnerfed for everything outside of sPvP. We are still very viable, we just had the number of viable builds decimated. Change you build to something that is still viable and you will thrive. With the right build even DD eles and terrormancers will run from you.

Those that warrior skillcap is too low have know idea what it is to play the class properly.

adozu.6398:

i dunno, i still play my warrior the most in wvw and pve, but spvp? the man just can’t measure up to… pretty much any other class i play from time to time anymore.

it is already depressing.

What is your build? I main a warrior and it is pretty solid in spvp. I even get the same “Warrior so OP noob class” trash talk when I wreck someone.

I’ve been asking for this since I leveled my first 80. Now that I have moved to PvP every other toon I make will be insta level with tomes. Leveling in this game is nothing but boring grind. Even more so since they revamped the trait acquisition. I would gladly pay up to 1800 gems for an insta lvl 80 kit.

Penguin.7906:

Why are you beeing so sore about warriors using longbow? It’s just a very effective weapon at what it does.

The problem is we are pigeonholed into using it. Any build needs it to be viable in PvP unless you have a very organized group with a specific comp.

For PvP they are still in a good spot. For WvW zergs they are still fine. WvW roaming they took a pretty big hit but is still manageable. For PvE, well, let’s just say Anet kittened us over big time so that we could be balanced in PvP. We are still good but warrior is no fun in PvE anymore since we have a class mechanic that we don’t get to use 90% of the time.

Flitzie.6082:

Julie Yann.5379:

Penguin.7906:

@Flitzie.6082

You know which ammy everyone is moaning about beeing op?
You know what kind of weapons are good with celestial?

sword/sword is plenty viable, making it a pure direct damage weapon won’t make it any better in spvp. In wvw I guess it would be good.

^^this

It won’t make it any better in WvW either and by removing all conditions from the sword you have greatly reduce our build diversity. Further enforcing the meta by limiting the number of possible viable builds.

Obviously you’d make another weapon set more condition focused then to even it out. Why must something like this always be mentioned…
Kind of swap the role of the GS with the one of the sword for example.

That means you would have to change all the traits and their location. Sword traits are in our precision/condi damage line. It makes sense that it be a hybrid. weapon.

Even as it is now, main hand sword is a very good power weapon. There is a thread somewhere with some math to prove it.

Penguin.7906:

@Flitzie.6082

You know which ammy everyone is moaning about beeing op?
You know what kind of weapons are good with celestial?

sword/sword is plenty viable, making it a pure direct damage weapon won’t make it any better in spvp. In wvw I guess it would be good.

^^this

It won’t make it any better in WvW either and by removing all conditions from the sword you have greatly reduce our build diversity. Further enforcing the meta by limiting the number of possible viable builds.

I’ve been playing around with this balanced DPS AH HamStaff (quite tanky but has enough dps to kill on it’s own) and I am really liking it so far but am always looking for ways to improve. I was wondering if you could take a look at it and tell me what you think.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWlsApVo1CxZI8DNBDRkVL2ZbjXXEFA-TJxHwADOCA62fAwhAoYZAA

EDIT: After some more playing around I have finally settle on this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWlsApVo1CxZI8DNxCRk1L2bdlXHMNA-TJxHwADeCAq2fAwlAoYZAA

I’ve been placing this AH celestial Hamstaff build in soloq over the past couple of days and I having quite a bit of success with it. Still very tanky, provides a good amount of CC, and the amount of might you can stack is phenomenal so it deals enough damage to kill with needing help from your teammates. I’m still on the fence between retributive armor and strength in numbers for soloq. I know for teamq it is a definite SiN but I tend to want to more selfish in soloq.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWlsApVo1CxZI8DNBDRkVL2ZbjXXEFA-TJxHwADOCA62fAwhAoYZAA

EDIT: After some more playing around I have finally settled of this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWlsApVo1CxZI8DNxCRk1L2bdlXHMNA-TJxHwADeCAq2fAwlAoYZAA