Guild Wars 2

It’s immature, but that’s to be expected from a game. Some people get their kicks from giving others a hard time.

If they’re trying to block you from getting your loot after an event (like at vinewrath) try clicking on the box to target it before pressing F, that might prevent you from accidentally using the portal instead.

Idk if I interpretted your post right or not, but do you mean that the charging time for the stomp goes away as soon as they hit mist form and it just instantly stomps you? Because if so then that would be a bug.

I only did one match yesterday and didn’t see it happen so I can’t confirm it or not, but that’s what it sounds like from what I read in your post. Even in mist form the charge should continue for the length of time that a regular stomp would take, unless the ele has haste.

Edit: The second time I read it sounded more like a regular mist form stomp, which is a legitimate way to secure a stomp. Mist form has a 75 second cooldown when not traited for cooldown reduction, and it’s only one of many skills that can secure a stomp, which is actually an important thing to be able to do in team fights.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong though. :P

Lol, I had something similar happen recently only it wasn’t harassment, just someone randomly pming me during a match about what he was doing and why he did what he did, and he seemed to carry on a conversation with himself without me replying at all.

Later I thought he might be pming the wrong person because he was talking to me as if I had replied to him, but I’m really not sure. He could have just been crazy, too. xD

In regards to harassment, it’s best to just not reply though. Trolls and ragers feed off the attention you give them. :P

Lol, well it has happened in every single one of my matches since making this post so it’s not like it’s a rare thing for me. X_x

And after seeing it enough times I can confirm that it says “Not enough health.”

I’ve noticed that in a few of my matches when I’m in the downed state and try to use my 2nd downed skill (on both my warrior and my necromancer) I get an error message that says “Not enough health to use that skill” or something like that, and my skill doesn’t activate.

Is this a bug, or some sort of a new feature? And has anyone else noticed this happening on other professions besides warrior and necromancer?

Tao.1234:

Working as intended.

If it didn’t work better than separate SoloQ and TeamQ then Anet would revert this change for sure.

Since they didn’t, it means that majority approve of it, love it and enjoy it.

^Lol.

There’s a reason hardly any eles use diamond skin…

And I don’t think too many eles would complain if the trait was replaced/redesigned, either. Just be careful what you wish for.

This seems like a troll post to me. This guy thinks condi auto attacks are OP and even admitted that most of his own damage comes from auto attacks. He also thinks RANGERS are OP, but says he has experience pvping…

._.;;;

Is anyone taking this seriously?

it was diamond skin. That’s a bad matchup for a condi ranger, but if you go celestial or carrion and focus on your direct damage skills until he gets below 90% health then start your condi burst then you might be able to beat him.

That’s a duel I wouldn’t engage in if I were you unless you were defending your own point either way, though.

Choxie. So fun to watch. <3

runeblade.7514:

Kako.1930:

Yes, the rampage nerf was devastating for warriors because it’s like taking the trick away from a one trick pony. Outside of using Rampage, warriors have to work much harder to get anything done and so now they are much less appealing than most other professions in pvp. Granted, there are still SOME rampage warriors running around, but they’re much less useful than they were before.

Wrong, Rampage is the final nail in the coffin.

Warriors has always been terrible after the patch. Shouts got a nerf. Celestial got weaker, everyone else got way stronger. Rampage alone has been holding them up for all this time.

That’s kind of exactly what I said lol. Warriors were a one-trick pony profession, using Rampage as their only trick, and after it got nerfed they had nothing left. There are still people trying to use it, but it doesn’t work like it used to anymore. Sort of like when turrets got nerfed and there were still people desperately trying to make it work until they finally realized their turrets weren’t capable of carrying them anymore.

The only problem with this nerf is that warriors have no other decent builds to fall back on now.

Yes, the rampage nerf was devastating for warriors because it’s like taking the trick away from a one trick pony. Outside of using Rampage, warriors have to work much harder to get anything done and so now they are much less appealing than most other professions in pvp. Granted, there are still SOME rampage warriors running around, but they’re much less useful than they were before.

If I had to guess, I’d say either PU Mesmer or D/D cele ele, but I’m leaning more toward PU mesmer.

Minion master gets a lot of hate too since people don’t like being killed by AI, but I wouldn’t say it’s the most hated spec, lol.

Every build generates at least some form of hate if the player is good and can kill people with it though. People just don’t like losing, and even if they know they were outplayed they won’t admit it most of the time. If you’re asking this because you want to avoid hateful whispers and such, I would say don’t worry about it because it happens to everybody at some point in time no matter what class or build you’re using.

I think rampage would be more balanced if it was either:

A.) Returned to a Transformation skill to lose the damage boost from Physical Training. It was already very strong before.

or,

B.) Made so all stance effects are lost upon transforming.

And that’s assuming that mesmers and eles will be equally nerfed. With things the way they are right now, rampage is the only thing keeping warriors from being at the bottom of the food chain, and it’s really not even a problem when you compare it to how OP mesmers and eles are in general lol.

And my main is an ele. (\(^-^)/)

Lately I mostly get called “noob” for one of these reasons:

1. Being on a certain profession. (I play on all the professions and get this on all of them lol. It’s usually an enemy teammate that says it.)

2. Winning a fight. (The enemy rages by calling me “noob”)

3. Scoreboard scores.

All of which only serve to reflect badly on the one saying it lol.

I want what he’s having.

I was thinking the same thing. I don’t remember there being this many instant or passive skills and traits in the game when I first started playing 2 years ago. _;;

It really has made things quite hectic. I miss being able to watch my opponent and react accordingly. Now I just have to assume they’re going to rush in for a burst from the start and then change my tactic if I see that they’re rather tanky. Although even tanky builds are benefiting from a lot of the insta-cast and passive skills. (regen, shouts, pets, AI, boons, teleports, sigil procs, etc.)

There really isn’t much heal interruption anymore because all the heals are either passive, instant, block while healing, or evade while healing, so there goes that tactic too. :c

That’s why I said elementalist. Or ranger. Both can be INCREDIBLY hard to kill while still managing to remain offensive. (Nothing bursty like zerkers but it’s not non-existent like cleric).

Celestial elementalist with a staff, or d/d, or d/f would all work well. Trait into water, arcana, and whatever other trait line you like. I use earth for the added stability and Diamond Skin trait, but you could also go with fire for more burning or air for more direct damage.

Bunker condi ranger (settler or celestial amulet) is also pretty strong. Especially with beastmatery and your pet F2 skill inflicting taunt. Even with stability or diamond skin or condi removal or evades/immunities taunt will make your character attack the pet instead of the ranger and so it’s incredibly strong atm. Every time you press F2 your enemy will be interrupted for 2 seconds and then have to re-target you.

Those would be my top 2 choices, but minion master necromancers are pretty decent atm too.

My vote is for elementalist. They have a lot going for them in the attrition field. :P

Amir.1570:

There are a few things balancing Hundred Nades atm

1.) Rampage Warrior
2.) Mesmer having 10 million evades on top of similar burst
3.) Thief

You nerf Hundred nades, people will just flock over those three classes. Hundred nades should be bug fixed in a shaved manner, it shouldn’t be completely out of the meta.

I’d rather deal with Engi atm than a class such as Mesmer which spams evades while bursting you for so much damage or a Warrior who just carries games with Rampage and double EP.

Like, if you people are saying “Hundred Nades promotes unskillful gameplay atm” then you can defintely say the same about Rampage and Mesmer in general.

You’re right, but I don’t think anyone is saying that grenades are the only thing wrong with this patch lol. There is a LOT that needs to be fixed, even more than what you just listed. :P

Exile.8160:

Any other class it would have been fix the second it happend, but yet again anets lovechild the engi gets the special treatment. GG anet.

1. It’s the weekend.
2. It took them a few days to fix the bug where Chaos Storm auto-killed (and I mean without even giving a downed state, capable of instagibbing even Lupicus) people in one of the patches in the past, so I don’t really see this as special treatment toward engis.

My guess is it will be fixed tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest. We just need to be patient. (Crazy, I know.)

The thing is that the game isn’t balanced around 1 v 1 fights. There are SEVERAL hard counter builds in the game when it comes to 1 v 1. Since pvp is balanced around 5 v 5, however, this trait which only makes them immune to conditions if they can stay above 90% health (which isn’t much for eles) isn’t as good if you consider that in most teams there are 1 or 2 berserker characters that usually have high mobility on top of their high bursts.

You’re supposed to coordinate with your team to secure kills in pvp, not expect to win against everyone 1 v 1. Besides, 1 v 1s don’t happen that often in actual matches anyways because people are constantly +1ing fights and moving around.

Of course, if they were to implement an official dueling arena of some kind then all of the builds that completely hard-counter other builds would have to be tweaked.

I wouldn’t buy it, but if it makes other people happy, then why not? :P

It’s not that bad. I don’t feel like getting flamed for my build not being perfect, but I’m running a FT build that I’m happy with atm and I’ve seen some people doing well with condi builds that didn’t abuse the grenades bug too. It’s just going to take a little while for everyone to find a build they like and settle into things, and that goes for all professions really.

(Chances are high that engis won’t be the only class that’s nerfed, too, so we’ll also have to keep that in mind. :P )

I bet they’ll make tail back pieces to go with cat ear skins or something lol. x)

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Well , I used backpack regen before then I dropped it as I found it useless. As for incendiary powder , I didn’t take it ( flamethrower isn’t equipped ). I told you that I use elixir gun just for its healing ( toolbelt/5th skill and the escape 4th skill ) so it’s more useful that tool kit as I will use grenade as my main damage skill. I won’t pull any one as I will be in melee range anyways in order to get the maximum critical chance. Just to know , dual pistols deal more damage than rifle even with zerker gear.

LameFox.6349:

Dashingsteel.3410:

I agree Anet has a right to post what they want. The op has a right to disagree with them doing it. The forums are partially to let anet know what you feel they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. Anet then decides whether they want to do something about it…… All the hate, insults, and abuse heaped on OP by all of the "openminded " posters just make me laugh

And all these other players are letting a-net (and the OP) know how they feel about it. So essentially everything here is working as intended.

Why is openminded in quotation marks?

To claim that the posters are hypocrites for being open-minded but then being abusive. He seems to think that disagreeing with someone and voicing your own opinion is the same as showering them with hatred, insults, and abuse lol.

I disagree with him though. For once, it’s nice to not see everyone in a thread so angry that every other word is censored with the word “kitten.”

Phyxius Animus.7356:

For the record, I am absolutely pro gay marriage. Love who you want to love!

That being said, the only people that sound hateful are all of you chewing this guy out for having an opinion that differs from yours. What about his right to voice his opinion? You’re all being hypocritical. Your stance is, “equal rights for everyone unless they disagree with us.”

Also, to respond to the initial poster… no. All forums degrade to politics eventually. We all need to deal with it or avoid the interwebs. :-P

Not really. The OP was essentially asking for the community team to shut up about their views because he disagrees with them, and everyone else was saying there’s nothing wrong with them making a post like this.

No one’s saying he can’t voice his opinion, just that he can’t tell others that they can’t voice theirs. You’re a little confused. :P

Looks like Hundred Nades is back! : D : D : D : D : D : D

(But not for long)

inb4 nerf.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Berserker offers better crit damage. Assassin offers more crits. Marauder is the old zerker. You’ll opt for berserker most of the time when you run burst classes because anet has handed out fury like candy.

Lol that’s a good point. I’ve only been running with berserker’s amulet on my engi and tearing it up with my FT build. I like to go with an “if it’s not broken, why fix it?” mentality so I haven’t tested the others. That, and I’m too lazy to. x)

From what I’ve been reading, though, the extra vitality of the marauder amulet doesn’t make up for the loss of damage. I haven’t heard anything about assassin’s yet.

Ashen.2907:

Celtic Lady.3729:

Ashen.2907:

Faereilos.5106:

There are more npc hetero relationships in this game than there are homosexual.

Honest question here:

How many main (starring role) NPCs are engaged in hetero relationships compared to same sex relationships ?

Well, currently none, since the only relationship among the main characters that is detailed at all is Kasmeer and Marjory.

I would consider Faolain a major NPC (starring role), albeit a villain. So four characters engaged in same sex relationships while none engaged in opposite sex relationships.

I don’t have a problem with this (or wouldn’t if Marjory/Kasmeer’s were better written), am glad to see diversity, but it does stand in contrast to the claim I was responding to.

I don’t follow the whole story that much, but from what I remember there were several heterosexual relationships in the game so far:

Logan and Queen Jenna. (human)

Kazz and Doxa (asura).

Eir and Borje. (norn)

Snarl and Galina. (charr)

(Hinted) Rox and Braham. (charr + norn)

Zott and Elli. (asura)

Canach and Anise. (sylvari and human)

and there are probably more, too. It’s not like Anet only endorses same-sex relationships (or even hinted at it).

coso.9173:

that’s the problem with these people, they say they are not accepted because there are a few non straight npc’s in the game or that the devs support marriage for everyone. If in the game there were NO straight npcs and the devs ONLY supported gay marriage and not straight marriage, THEN they could claim they are not supportive of them.
but how it appears their beliefs consist in taking away the rights of others, the moment these rights are granted, they believe they are being attacked.

It’s kind of sad really. It’s like when little kids throw a tantrum because you gave their brother the same treat you gave them and they wanted it all for themselves so they could be special. So many people want to be the best most special snowflake and for anyone who isn’t like them to be put down to make themselves feel better. So many people believe there’s only one god and he’s on their side, and anyone who disagrees should be punished.

The people who endorse oppressing and harassing homosexuals and members of other religious groups are pretty much hypocrites, too, because they preach “love everyone as you love yourself” and “treat others the way you want to be treated” then say “You can’t marry the one you love because I (a complete stranger unaffiliated with you in any way) don’t like it.”

Yeah, after this last patch it got REALLY bad. My internet is fine, but I keep having long delays as if I’m being disconnected briefly. And the skill delays are pretty bad too. On my engi I’ve had multiple times already where I try to use Elixir S to ensure a stomp but die to downed damage from the enemy because it didn’t activate. X_x

My guild mates are also getting extreme lag in WVW too.

Speak for yourself. If so many people are still obsessed with keeping anyone different from themselves oppressed then we would be hearing a bigger outcry for Anet to delete these characters and pretend that heterosexual, same-race marriages are all that exist and anything else should be burned to the ground. :P

I just hope they don’t break anything too terribly, but I’m pretty sure they will lol. Like that one update where they accidentally made Chaos Storm so strong a team of 5 mesmers could instakill lupicus with it, or any mesmer in pvp could autokill anyone else in pvp without even giving them a downed state. :P

It really doesn’t matter what you play, every profession and build gets rage whispers if you can manage to be good with it. I’ve played so many different builds on all the professions, especially a lot of my own builds, and gotten rage messages in map chat, mail, or pms on all of them. Don’t let it get to you, some people just have anger management issues lol.

I always tell myself at least these people are taking it out in a video game and not by beating their wives or something like that though, am I right?

Somehow I always knew engineers were aliens.

Sweet, that should help combat spamming random dodges a bit.

My condolences.

I’m more worried about if it’ll be worth spending the money on than how much it costs. If it’s just basically another Dry Top or Silverwastes with a few added weapon skills then idk lol.

Mysticjedi.6053:

I never show my rank emote finisher. It either a special or the the standard spike. When I started doing that I got a lot less hate whispers. No one knows if I’m noob or a veteran based on my finisher then. It is also helpful because I have an inconsistent play style so sometimes I do play like a noob and other times I rock the field so it keeps people guessing. Those could all be reasons or it could be that I just log on during times when vicious people who take a virtual game way to seriously are playing something else.

Lol, this guy has a good point. Although, I find that the llama finisher still gets a lot of hate, so I’ve been using my skritt one instead. (I think since it’s less flashy and noisy it’s less annoying to get spiked with)

If you’re spiking someone with a Deer finisher, they might think that you’re really a higher ranked player and you’re just doing that to troll though. I know a lot of veteran players put on their dolyak/rabbit finishers just to be trolls so it’s not your fault. If you don’t have any fancy christmas/halloween/gem store finishers then don’t feel like you have to change your finisher though. Just be aware that the problem is them and not you.

Well, it’s not a terrible build, but it looks a lot like Diva’s condi signet build lol.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Diva-s-Condi-Signet-Build-Video-Added-1/first#post4430208

Since celestial is regarded as being “OP” atm until the stats are nerfed down in the future, it could be just that particular server’s way of excluding OP builds. Although, they’d probably allow it on a mesmer if you ask. I’m sure they were more referring to cele ele/engi/warrior when they said no celestial amulet. I’d just ask if I were you.

I get your point, but this thread seems a little hypocritical to me…

inb4: l2p

(Message body length must at least be 15.)

Yeah, I used to pvp more often but lately I’ve been trying to find things to do in wvw and pve instead. It’s not just pug vs. premade, it’s also having to wait in HOTM to queue, long queues, sometimes 4 v 5s, sometimes totally new players vs veterans, combined with the toxicity from elitists and ragers. I agree that getting stomped by a premade that act full of themselves for beating pugs is annoying, too.

Really, I would still be pvping a lot if the old system was still in place, with the old leaderboard, solo queue and team queue separated, and being able to queue outside HOTM. The changes didn’t do anything positive for the pvp community in my opinion. :/

This thread in a nutshell: Every profession except the one I play is brain dead easy and overpowered, low risk high reward.

I think it would be nice if we could individually have different ranks based on which profession we’re on, as well. For example, I play a lot better when I’m on my elementalist or thief than I do when I’m on my guardian or ranger, so my elementalist ‘rank’ would be higher than my ranger ‘rank’ and when I’m on my ranger I would be put against lower ranked people until I improve enough to rank up.

Maybe have an overall account rank to display on the leaderboards but then for matchmaking purposes have it based on whichever profession you’re playing on. Idk, I just find it really hard to motivate myself to play on professions I’m not that great at. XD

Puppet.8139:

I am glad you are applauding the ban of hackers, but that is not necessarily why you went up the leader boards. You do realize that you can get negative rank points right? Most likely 1 or 2 people went down, forcing you up…..

Example: You are rank 2 with 100 rank points. Rank 1 has 101 rank points. The guy at rank 1 plays a match that he is set to win by 80%. Someone in his party disconnects from the match. He now receives -3 rank points for his deserter buddy. You are now rank 1 with 100 points and he is rank 2 with 98 points. Moved up, but not due to a hacker being banned…..

But how is that possible when the leaderboards aren’t even functional at all right now? _;;

I haven’t seen anyone on my friend’s list change in points, and my points haven’t changed either even though I’ve been playing in ranked lol. Unless this was posted before they stopped updating the leaderboards and my post is invalid. :P

Just remember that this sort of thing happens all the time and it’s really nothing personal. It’s not like they were going to remember you anyways, but now they might only remember you as a drama queen lol.