Guild Wars 2

How does the hotjoin/tournament server works?

Because I too sometime get aweful lag. Like 1 sec delay in every abilities I use.

If I go pve or WvW, I never this kind of lag.

It’s weird.

Wow great didn’t know most of those. Especvially the first and the second one (while packed stimulant overall is just a waste).

Here some from me, no as good but some thing that I should have known long time ago.

6) You can use kit while being mini-me (Potion S).

7) Elixir X Tornado will stun even if you are not using the #3 skill. #3 is only an additional stun. The #1 of tornado is a Static Discharge.

8) Elite Supplies and Potent Elixirs won’t stack in duration for Elixir X. Only one of them will be used.

9) Static Discharge activate when you destroy a turret. So you can use surprise shot, summon your turret, activate it, then at 6 sec destroy it and use surprise shot again for double DS.

10) Static Discharge is only reliable on single target ToolBelt skill. Any other toolbelt such as potion throw, grenade barrage or Incendiary ammo will ether throw them in your camera direction, in the ground, or at random place.

11) Acidic Elixirs is the worse trait.

12) On heal effect with the heal kit activate when you switch to the kit. Thing like Enhance Performance mights boon can be stacked each 10 seconde if you switch to healing kit.

13) Automated Response don’t remove the conditions you had before reaching 25% hp.

@Arheundel

What you are saying doesn’t have any sense.

You have to play others classes to know how they are balanced, how they feel in combat. You can’t only rely your opinion from external perspective of other class. I used to think necromancer were weak, until I played them to the fullest and did comparaison with other classes.

Don’t take it as an insulte, but you sound more like a fanboy then anything. Why should I listen to someone that only played one class about balance.

The way he express his opinion, using an elitism tone, braging about everything, not listening to anyone else argument. All those thing lead me to not listen to him. Should he be the best player in the world, it doesn’t change a thing.

I would trust Hiba, Hman, or others “pro”. I wouldn’t do it without a critic sense, but they deserve more respect then OP.

So I supose you are calling me a FoTM kid. Weird since my 3 mains are Engineer, Necro and Ranger. You are speculating about something you don’t know.

Everyone is entitled to his opinion, especially since the paid tournament are a dying place right now.

You are living in the same world as OP, in a world of Elitism were you think everybody should looks up to you.

Sorry, we don’t live in the same world.

Am I the only one here that caught something in the screenshot he provided on the first page?

He has 1526 hours played. (Which must be unhealthy in 4 month.)

He also has 1532 hours played across all character.

Does anyone see something weird here?

We have someone telling us how the game is balanced. That person as a lot of experience and is in a top team. So It make sense. But that person played 6 hours with something else then a mesmer? How the hell is he supose to know anything about balance?

He played 64 days worth of time in those last month, and only like 1/4 of a day have been on something else then a Mesmer.

Does anyone expect him to not be biased toward mesmer? For sure he will defend them. If I played a class that is on top in the pvp chain, and I wanted it to stay that way, expect me to say the game is balanced.

Balanced game = no nerf.

No nerf = Mesmer stay top.

And I’m won’t write about his elitism attitude.

Buffing is the same thing as Nerfing.

Example →

Nerfing Grenade for engineer : Every engineer cried.

Buffing Mesmer SS : Everybody else cry.

Buffing isn’t better then nerfing, the result is the same.

Bob and John are working at 10$/hour.

John get downgraded to 9$/hour. John is mad because Bob got a better salairy.

They both return to 10$/hour.

Bob get a raise to 11$/hour. John is mad because Bob got a raise.

See, same result.

Anet have to balance/buff/nerf around to keep the Meta Evolving. We can’t keep the current Meta for ever, people will get bored. We all know which class are the top dog, and which class are not. We won’t get a perfect balance, it’s impossible. But Anet can still try to make it as much even as they can.

Not to sound negative,

But Kaineng is no longer a low population server. Kaineng got 2 competitve team transfer (one of them being WM) lately. Just take your Vent numbers as an example, those aren’t low tier numbers.

Kaineng deserve to be in tier5. Mass transfer broke the match up system.

@TogoChubb

Report them, send us a message in game so we can stop the hackers.

Posting on the forum, like past experience told us, will only result in flamming and thread locking.

jkctmc was talking about TheFreshBrew, who is the prime example why posting hack screenshot is a bad thing. Since then he is threating AR server as a cheater server, insulting us and flamming. We don’t need that in a match up threads.

We got nerfed and we don’t even have a place in the tpvp meta. Be happy
that you are still a top dog.

Signed,
Engineer.

Anvil Pants.3426:

Kardiamond.6952:

I heard a rumour about AR alliance players being monkeys.

And I’m pretty kitten sure monkey can’t exploit.

Partly true, Kar. Even a monkey could exploit Hack Wars 2, and besides, we hooo aaah HOOHOOHAA HRAAAHA!! HAA! flings poo

Ahaha +1 for this reply.

@Ibankai

If only monkey could learn to hack and be a part of our hacking communty.

I heard a rumour about AR alliance players being monkeys.

And I’m pretty kitten sure monkey can’t exploit.

If you see someone in game hack from Anvil Rock, please report them, and if you can, whisper me in game. I love hunting hackers, and I will do everything to stop them from using the hack.

@TheFreshBrew

Where comes the hate? We love DH, stop hating us!

They buffed our toolkit, thats about it.

They nerfed our grenade twice, they nerfed our heal, they nerfed our smoke bomb.

Yet we are the least represented class in tpvp. Not saying we are bad, but each fotm build we had got nerfed. So pleasd don’t name us as “buffed”.

And please don’t nerf us anymore

Emote appears as “Rude Gesture”, can’t be sure tho.

That argument has no weight at all. (Edit : the “can’t in real life” argument, not yours :P)

Like I said, I have no problem with Anet deciding what to use from real life. But if they want to use it as an argument, they have to be consistant.

Me : “Why can’t I fly?”
Anet : “Because you can’t fly in real life.”
Me : “But my character can already teleport! he can throw lightning! he can even respawn from death!”
Anet : “You can’t fly!”

Just an example, to show that “you can’t in real life” argument has no weight at all, since it’s not a simulation.

:)

@NastyPiggy

About the AR vs GoM match up, I think it was more about you guys losing players then us gaining! :P

@Anvil Pants

With those massing transfer in DR, GoM doesn’t stand a chance, even if they fought with all they had.

I’m pretty sure we will get our kitten stomp also.

Kaineng were about our level before the transfer, now imagine what they did become

It will be an interresting match up !

@EnRohbi

Simply because two many factor are different.

Example :
In the real world, you don’t respawn. If someone kill you, it’s all over.

In this game, we are here to have fun. Real life, they are there to survive. It’s not the same thing at all. You can’t use everything from real war, like perma dead, as it would make it not fun.

I won’t give too many example as it would be repetitive, but I agree with that’s Anet choice to decide which part of reality they want to take.

But then, it’s not an argument anymore. They could just say “We don’t want name, that’s it”. They can’t say : “It’s like that in a real war” and have respawn. Because then why would we have respawn? Why not perma death? It’s like that in real world.

It’s ok to use this argument, but if you are, follow it 100%. You can’t use it just on some part of the game.

Not sure about the explanation of A.net.

First we can’t take a real world war example, this isn’t real world.

Second, it’s not logic that they don’t show the name of weak player so they don’t get focused by ennemies, but they show the upleveled arrow??? If I want an easy kill, I will go directly for the upleveled player! It’s a lot worse then name showing.

I agree with the part about being casual and not wanting to show your name. But please make it optional! It would add so much to the rivalry! It wouldn’t affect casual that wouldn’t use it.

Yeah I personnaly stay loyal even if I can’t trust the alliance anymore! :P (I’m keeping an eye on you)

And for our next match up with kaineng, I found a picture that illutraste the situation :

@Anvil Pants
@Brandon

Most guild on Anvil Rock should be loyal if they stayed with us. We have been losing all match up except one since release, if they stayed, then they are loyal in my book.

Rob.7624:

Anyone else been watching the score from the game below?

19. 2nd Gate of Madness – 17 274 +5
20. 1st Kaineng – 204 120 +690
21. 3rd Henge of Denravi – 12 542 +0

So..

Kain got mass transfer from SBI.

They got 2 massive guild (WM and DE or SE don’t remember) zerging out GoM and HoD.

They will also prolly outnumber us really bad when they come at this tier.

Those kitten transfer, breaking our good matchup since release.

But I’m happy that Anvil Rock doesn’t get that kind of transfer. Just check DR, they went up fast, but now PRO is leaving at the end of the week so they will prolly go back down. (theoricrafting)

Brace yourself, the zerg is coming!

How was it not impressive?

Each time I see a post of few vs many, it’s always exagerate and it’s more like 5 premade vs 10 pug.

This time it’s actually 5 players vs a bio mass. They might not be 30, but they are a looot of players.

It’s the first time I see a real few vs zerg that seems real. And if you check the combo field and the timing, they are very good togheter.

Yeah the zerg had upleveled and prolly laggy player, but that’s like that for every zerg.

The premade did an awesome job here, and I think it was really impressive. But I agree they got a bit lucky that no thief decided to pop invis and focus one of them down, since the Ele was glassy.

IGN : Zhyx
Server : Anvil Rock
Main : Engineer -> Multi spec (DS burst, Grenade Roamer, Support, Bunker)
Rank : R14
Details : I play between 21h00 and 00h30 all week long. Got TS,Vent,Skype ect. Looking for a competitive team for some tournament.

I used to think that traits was awesome.

Until I tried it and saw that pre-25% conditions stay there. So by the time they are over, you’ll be at 5-10% hp, and one auto attack will kill you.

There is a reason why nobody use it. Not because it’s bad. It’s not. But you can get a master traits to remove a condition on each elixir consumed. It’s better and not grand master.

@Rob

Next time you want to play togheter, restrict from calling us cheater.

And yes you took SM twice, but at what price? As we can see, you lost most of your others points just to hold SM.

Trying to take SM over and over prolly did cost you more then anything AR could have done.

I doubt AR really focused on NSP, I only voiced my personal opinion. AR are really random when attacking.

You are really bitter Rob, don’t know what happened to you. Now you are calling us Coward.

Just a game man.

I think the top sPvP server is Anvil Rock. We aren’t really good in WvW, but that’s because all our players are in sPvP

Aethelbert.1497:

Anymras.5729:

Aethelbert.1497:

Raideen.5973:

Yes engineers damage is pathetic compared to every class in game. Yes engineers pay a “hybrid” tax on their damage and healing because apparently engineers are the only hybrid in game. Yes the reason you see12325342 threads on engineers sucking is because compared to other classes they do. Yes if you time 37 keypresses in a specific order you can do as much damage as another class who presses 2 buttons.

Yes your survivability is less, yes elementalists can bring more utility then engineers, but are not taxed for it…and yes the engineer class design makes no sense as if it was thrown together just to get the game out in time.

Disagree. Guardian is hybrid profession as well. Engineer survivabilty is good enough, 3 seconds blocking, 3 seconds invulnerable, 3 sec invulnerable again with trait in elixirs, a lot of control.

His point with the hybrid remark was “Everyone in this game is a hybrid. Why are we the only ones getting reduced in damage for it?”

Disagree as well. In my humble opinion, only engineer and guardian can be considered hybrid profession. Maybe eles too.

Why can’t ranger be considered hybrid? or Warrior? or necro?

They all can be healer, support, damage dealer, roamer, what are they missing?

And why aren’t they taxed on their damage? (tho Necro got a damage taxe for having DS)

@Rob

I think we all knew that match up was NSP versus AR, DR was just there for the show.

There were no point in trying to play for the first place for AR, as we didn’t have the man power to destroy DR.

It’s my personal opinion, since I’m not with the alliance, nor did I WvW much during holidays.

Don’t look past Anvil Rock for the next match up, since you guys seems to have lost a bit of population, I think we can have a great fight!

So you want to nerf of Slick Shoes?

I knew it would be the next thing in line, such a strong ability.

But come on man! Who want 25 stack of fear when you can run TWICE AS FAST!

Rob.7624:

Don’t worry guys.
While you were all arguing NSP is now a tier 1 server and Arenanet deemed me King of all the realm.

…<Wakes up>
Oh.. so close.

If I were DR I’d be letting NSP take all my points so that their stay in this tier is secured and beat AR all next week. Since they couldn’t possibly lose or not move up a tier at this point
Because you guys know we will show the <insert previous conversations topic> how playing fairly will beat their tactics of under map walking.
And that secondly hiding in their bl is boring and uncool.

Man Rob,

you used to be so cool, now you accuse the whole server of cheating and you ask DR to help you secure your place.

You even went to anothe rmatch up thread to ask DH to help you after reset!

Come on Rob! :P NSP doesn’t need anyone to fight AR!

This gotta be one of the worse trait we have.

Does anyone actually use it? It does what, like 100 dammage?

Love the images

@Drednyte

It’s a shame that [PRO] as you as a representative on this forum. Every post that you did in this thread just conducted to flaming and more trouble.

Anvil Rock got cheater. Most server do. Do we have more then others? Maybe, maybe not. We used to be hack free before a some guy joined us in the BP match up and started hacking.

We saw some screen shot and we took action. In one of you post, you say we didn’t do anything about hacking. You are obviously wrong. Are you a part of our discussion on our server? Did you transfer to us? Because really how would you know we didn’t do anything about it? I went again a full guild just because they used a hack, and I will do it again and again.

I’m personally a hacker hunters. I will track and ban every hackers I encounter. I help to clean this server as much as I can. I have been there since day 1, and to see a little guy like you, that didn’t know Anvil Rock until 2 weeks ago, say anything about this server doesn’t have any weight. Anything you say is only speculation, as are yours friends opinions.

I once got into the invul spot near the camp. You know what happened? I stood there for 2-3 sec, wondering what the hell, then I just moved and died. That’s how you react when you find an exploit. You just stood here took advantage of it, as little as this advantage is. I knew it wouldn’t do much if I stayed, but you have to keep it clean.

Any exploit, be it great or not, are not accepted on Anvil Rock. We can’t catch them all, we aren’t Anet. Most of those hackers are guildless. So except if you contact us in game, we can’t do much.

And by the way, If I ever encounter yours players “testing” an exploit, be sure I will report it. Even if you are doing ti for “fun” like below, I will report and you’ll justify yourself with Anet.

No exploit, be it for fun or not. That’s how we play.

Now let’s end the hack call off. We have a report option in game, that what we should use. It’s again Anet policy to report hack on the forum.

I’m sure we can all agree on this and finish this match up with cleans posts.

Have a good day!

P.s : P.M me if you see any hacking!

Walorx I’m sure you can post a better video with people actually focusing on you.

(And you not dying to animal :P)

@KirinDave

I experienced it a lot. People that know this build, will focus you in sPvP. I had two guardian goign directly for me each fights. They know that when under pressure, our dps goes down a lot.

We are really fragile I agree, but we have some good defensive mecanism. With positionning I can delay and slow people down a lot. If you get hit, you are dead tho.

With this build, you have a good endurance regen, you have a 3 sec block, you have a slow (but useful) leap, you have a knockback/escape, you have net shot, you have AoE slow and perma swiftness.

You won’t tank anything, but you have to stay mobile, and you’ll survive longer.

Tho I agree, as soon as you hit a good team, you are dead. CC + focus = dead.

My mains are Necro and Engineer, both classe that have pretty bad downed state.

But I gotta say I prefer my necromancer downed state. Not sure why, both are about the same level. Both will die really fast if someone focus on them (1 sec intterupt and it’s done).

But at least with my necro, if I was left unatended, I could dish a lot of damage. The #1 of necro is a rapidly firing vampiric attack. And you can boost it for 50% with traits. If I survive long enought, I can cas my #3 and do a large amount of damage.

With my engineer, My #1 hit liek a wet noodle. When I get hit for 1.5k from mesmer #1, while I hit for 500 damage on mine, it’s sad. Random condition d’ont make up for it. #3 is equal to necro, tho less damaging but at least knock people down. And our downed state skill traits is really bad. Does anyone really use the flamethrower we drop?Why pick up a weapon to do less damage.

Overall, but are fairly weak downed state if you compare to top tier like Elem, thief and mesmer, 3 class that are in the top META team of tPvP.

@Clavic

We will prolly get this nerfed soon, like every decent build we have since beta.

True forgot to say it was instant. Making the double tap ever more BURSTY At first I ever wondered if it was even working, as both static discharge are casted at the same time.

I have run this build since release, and it’s an awesome build in WvW and sPvP.

In tPvP, it get a lot harder and you usually get outshined by other class. But it can still be efficient.

By the way, I disagree with your statement to never use turret. I used to think like that, then I started to use it.

How to use it : Use your toolbelt, it goes on a 7 sec cooldown. Cast your turret, and use the activate for something like 1k – 1.5k damage over 5 sec. As soon as you think your toolbet should be up, double tape your toolbelt macro for rifle turret. You get TWO static discharge. One for destroying the turret, one for the surprise shot.

That’s right, destroying your turret activate static shot But be warned, since it’s not a targeted ability, you’ll have to be careful and try to use it melee range. The Static Discharge won’t target your ennemy, it will go directly toward you. Also don’t forget that exploding your turret also does damage.

I used to run this build with exploding turret, giving me another CC.

Also, I think it’s a taste thing, but I prefer Sitting Duck over improving range on rifle. Siting duck now gives 5 vulnerability charge.

Since I always use my combo on ether CC’d or Immobilized player to not miss them, it’s really useful.

I open with some auto attack to remove shield/dodge. Then net shot + combo.

As I start with google, I get with netshot a good 15 vulnerable stack on them.

Other than that, I have the same exact build. Same rune in WvW, and same sigil. I use Ogre rune is sPvP, but I switch a lot. In sPvP I also tried Sigil of rage, can be useful if you are lucky and it activate during your combo.

So I will prolly have to hot join until higer level huh?

That’s what I didn’t want.

sPvP get boring very fast in hot join.

Will keep looking, thanks for the answers!

Hi All!

I have been playing since release, but never really focused on sPvP. I didn’t like the only game mode available, and it felt too static.

Now that I got bored of WvW(too much zerging, can’t find roamer)/PvE, I came back to sPvP. Now I kinda like it, I found what lacked in WvW : Skills without zerging.

I would like to find a team for tPvP, but I have been looking for one for 1-2 weeks and didn’t find anything.

Is there a place where you can apply or another forum?

I have 2 strike on me :

1- I’m only level 12.
2- I’m an engineer.

I’m bored of playing sPvP, as it’s just random and people only play for score. (I do too, since I need to up my ranking to have a chance to get a team).

And when I PUG for tPvP, I never get past the second game. I always end up versus a premade on TS that kick our kitten really bad.

Thanks for the tips!

Swap Engineer and Ranger around in your list.

Engineer : #1 attack is a weak direct attack with a random condition linked with it. Condition being random and weak, you can’t rely on it.

The #2 cancel is THE worse downedstate #2 in the game. It’s a pull/knockdown. The question is : Who want to pull someone when they are downed? You want them as far from you as ou can. This is a really situational skill. I’m sure most engin would agree that when you are downed and attacking someone, most of the time you don’t want to use #2 just to be sure not to attract them to you.

I know it’s prolly there to combo with #3, but we never get to use #3.

Talking about it, #3 booty traps is a really really strong ability. Nothing to change here. But I never get to use it! You can’t survive long enought to cast it.

If I ever down someone and they down me at the same time, I’m sure to lose. Damage is too low, except on booty trap who is only melee range.

Ranger : the #2 is average. It’s an AoE Daze, but the range is very limited. The number 3 isn’t bad on land, tho it can be buggy.

But you can’t judge Ranger only by downed state skill. They keep their PET while downed. If you have a wolf, you can have a knockdown and a fear when you are downed.

I think Ranger are good in downed state, but a lot of people forget to use the pet. Some pets can hit for a large amount of damage.

Also, don’t forget the new Ranger Death turret underwater. Ranger are just unkillable underwater. They can use their pet to heal them for more hp then two players can deal damage. Add to this that you can’t Execute people underwater.

Really another nerf to engineer? We are the least present class in tpvp. Grenade damage just got nerfed for 30 freaking percent!

Give us a break already!

Yeah that was very annoying witht he static build and using grenade barrage. It wouldn’t hit 90% of the time.

Speed kit,

each time you switch to a kit, you get 5 sec of swift.

If you use med kit, you get 5 sec of swift from traits and you can use the #5 for +10 sec of swiftness. You just keep switchign into kit for perma swiftness.

Hey NSP whats up on your side?

Been playing with the unmanned buff all day, is it better for you6 :P

Oxstar, I will let you do one thing : Go try tPvP.

Go try your OP engineer build in tPvP please

I also wonder where your “engineer are balanced” experience come from? sPvP? WvW?PvE?

Like I said, I kill a lot of people in WvW. I also kill a lot of mobs in PvE. Doesn’t mean the class is on par with others.

Static discharge build have been there since release. You wonder why it’s not FotM? Because it lacing any kind of defence. People at first are amazed how much burst they have. Then as soon as they fight a good player, they get stomped.

It’s still one of our best build, but you could make a thief, push 3 button, and do the same thing, without the lack of survivability.

See no offence intended in this reply. But I’m playing this class since release, and we have receive nerf after nerf after nerf. Now I have a hard time joining a premade tPvP team because of that. I have to switch to my necro. After that I go on the forum and I see someone who might be a new engineer (not knowing the static discharge build?) say that those nerf didn’t effect us? Not fun man

In spvp our bunker spec is the only viable spec we have. Even the its out matched by other fotm bunker class. Try your build vs a guardian.

Also, thevstatic discharge build have been public since release. We had a video on the forum and i used it since then. It was useful back then in wvw since you could burst down outgeated/outleveled player.

But in spvp and now more geared pkayer in wvw, its subpart

I tried it in spvp, and most other class dps build while outshine you. You sacrifice too much. And if you used grenade barrage, its not worth anymore.

Engineer is fun and can still be efficient in wvw and low level pvp. But like someone said, you have to play at 100% to kill a player at 80%.

When i do pug tpvp, I often get yelled at for being an engineer. Once we were 2 engi in the same team, others just gave up ahah.

Maybe in your experience its seems ok, but try every asset before saying that engi are fine.

Have a good day! Typed on my phonecsorry for mistype.

@Oozo

Elitism much?

You are the usual player, that every matchup thread have each week. The player that think that there server individual player skill is so much greater then the ennemies.

If you are running with a premade guild, for sure you’ll win most fights. 50% of WvW population is pug.

Premade vs pug = pug death.

Since Avil Rock have the best tPvP population in the NA servers, I doubt we are really lacking skill.

I think overall everyone is about equal, we have our bads, we have our pros.

The thing I think DR stand out of the much is the FOTM players. The PRO guild, each time I fight them, they are like 90% made of DD Thief/Shatter Mesmer/Guardian/DDElem. Seems like your roster I mostly made of the FOTM class/build, and man is it annoying lol.

Can’t I fight some necros? engis?

It the fights time I come to this conclusion, as I usually see every class represented.

Am I just unlucky?

Gotta be the worse Anvil Rock week for quit a long time.

Each time I log in WvW (can’t often with the holidays) We don’t have any commander online.

I think we will have a hard time until christmas is done

With my necro I didn’t have any issue.

But I started to play again with my engineer, and he has a lot of instant skills.

It was horrible. I thought I was lagging, but I tried in WvW and it wouldn’t happen.

I miss so many combo because of that, it’s unplayable for my engineer.