Guild Wars 2

Title says it all. Pls don’t delete this thread
In relation to Spvp forums -Spvpers are lying and this is proof & Solo Arena is being SYNC’d.

pic 715 6:56 PM “Ok in this screenshot you will see that it is 6:56 or so and we fought that team” -Sis O Dhuum
pic 722 9:11 PM “In this one the ele is saying he fought the same team 4 times in a row”-Sis O Dhuum

“You don’t just have the same team over and over, and then 3 hours
later get the same team again, that just doesn’t happen that is
obvious syncing.” -Sis O Dhuum

4+ games while in the same group 3 hours later? Its a joke

Also;
ArcTheFallen is much more offened at the liars “I’m much more offended about people saying they aren’t syncing, when they really are.” -ATF

@tichorum
Well when you said “My team started practice.” That just sounded bad and then saying “call it sync but I didn’t communicate anything.” sounded even worse.

I’m practicing with my team but were not communicating anything.
My mistake tho.
Awesome 11-0

tichorum.2415:

:)

My team started practice.. but if you call that a month, then.. okay. Call it sync if you want, but I didn’t communicate anything.

Don’t be so bitter.

Team practice in solo Q? Why would you?

And no communication?

Call it sync if you want? (did you Sync your Q or not?)

Title says it all.

I agree simply add smart matchmaking. That makes teams of no more than 2 of any prof. They don’t need to lock chars.

If you all really want switch to necros and run 5 necros then do it..

Most people who Q stick to that prof so this would be fine.

Not gonna happen. When players called this out saying it was going to happen days before hand, Anet replied that it wouldn’t. So they think nothing is wrong.

Funny I saw him synced. He must missed 1 then. Ive seen up to 4 synced at a time!!!! OUTRAGEOUS!

10 or even 20 people who join solo get put in a pool of 10 then it randomly splits. Compared to hey 5 people Q on a team then then next 5 are on a team. 2 much syncing is going on.

Ya its sad player call this out to devs before it even happens. You’d think that they would have thought of this…. All my losses are from syncs. :/ well ESO is next year hope someone gets it right.

They already said it wouldn’t happen so prolly nothing they can do about it.

Solo, duo, and team. 12 is a big stretch but I get it your mad. Maybe more people would Q if they didn’t have this (OP) happen to them. But nooooooo…. you keep it your way.

5 player teams should always face teams of 5. Its a waste of the pugs time getting beat down. And its also a waste of the teams time for having no challenge. But no it seems you like it.

omg your so right nikkle, Ghostcrawller loved that kitten!

Ah man this keeps going on over and over. I get 3 thiefs and 2 necros and none of us can change prof in the solo arena. Then we get steam rolled by priest mage rogue every game.

If its not thakittens 4 necros 1 huntard etc. I dont mind the not changing prof but 3 or 4 of the same prof is so broken.

The thief isnt gonna sit and bunker, when 1 of you team members die they can just walk to close and cap then go help mid. you basically losing because your team cant 4v5.

Responsible player? Sitting at home while your team gets 4v5ed bad strat. You need to be pushing far point and that will help you get points.

@arheundel Lol bro I already said what I wanted (noone reads omg) Team balancer, read the OP read OR the last sentence of the the quote you just did.

@alcopaul
Thanks for reading this time. Thanks for your opinion. Mine is that dishonor doesnt work because people still leave. Where a team balance’er would actually fix the problem.

ahuba.6430:

so because you had a bad experience in TEAM QUEUE solo queue is a joke? Logic? :S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S

No solo Q is full of leavers and so is team arena. Guess you dont Tourny and just troll in forums.

@kirito
@alcopaul
last 2 posters didn’t understand. I joined Team Arena with my friend. So thats 2 of us. Then we got 3 people who were all Solo who Qed up for team arena as well because you can do that. (not sure you guys knew that could happen) Then they all left.

So I kinda saw this coming. I Q’d up with my friend and I get 3 solos from kids trying to enter team games by themselves thinking theyd gain in both leader board ranks.

So 2+1+1+1 vs 5 PM with teamspeak.
All 3 of them leave. GG

Can we add a dual Q only please?

Also can we have a team balance’er?

When one team only has 4 players can the game make it so the other team only allows 4 of them to play? and the 5th person on their team gets rotated in each time someone on their team dies?

Edit;
Solo Q is hotjoin but with 5, still full of leavers and zergers.
So when I play by myself I will prolly soloQ in Team Arena and hope its a team of 4+me vs 5 (teamspeakers)

Special Field;
Why not overlap all 9 fields and create a permanent ultimate field that instant kills players! I think thats what everyone wants.

@sorrow
-Stability never broke stun.
-DS is used for CC’s Taking big burst and just any dmg in general.
-When I use LT my LF usally goes up 10% and does a bit of aoe damage. Its nice on shadow refuges. So it heals 10% life force, its basically a heal.
-If your in DS and your fear is on CD its called hop out lol (you really don’t play necro)
-What Boz said.
-If your saying evades count (dodges?) then necros have 3?

Its like your not reading my posts or never played a necro.

PS Life transfer is an aoe heal when specced transfusion. Not sure If you knew that.

The Boz.2038:

The guardian has a LOT more sustain due to blocks, heals, regeneration, etc.

The Necro has alot more Dmg mitigation/sustain due to weakness, life force gains and cc (fear, chill, poison, cripple) + transfusion trait is a nice heal. A 2nd hp bar etc.

sorrow.2364:

For a lot of reasons LF isn’t HP.

When you are in DS:

• You don’t have access to your stunbreakers
• You have a constant health degeneration, approximately 5 to 10 stacks of bleed from a condition build depending on your HP pool.
• You don’t have access to healing
• You don’t have access to any utility
• You don’t have access to your elite
• You don’t have on-demand access to it (10s cooldown)

For those reasons, calling LF as HP is a nonsense.

Thats right you dont have a few of those.
Stunbreaker? You have stability so hmm
hp degen ya its pretty slow lol but doesn’t really matter when you use it right when they burst.
Healing. Life transfer is a heal if you think about it.
No utilities? Hmmm I forgot it give you a whole new set of skill. What do they do. I dont know alot of cc. Chill, Fear, aoe immobilize.
Elite umm Ya im poping my elite every 30 seconds, Plague is 3min cd When I need acess I just take DS off and use it. Its not like you can use your other skills during it so whats it matter?
7sec cd when traited and if you say in it for 7 seconds their is no CD.

And the only reason I need to say thakittens similar to HP is that when I take a hit in DS my HP doesn’t drop.

@ kiriakulos when your lifeforce runs out your DS is not put back on 7sec cd.
Just curious lets compare a guardian. The only difference is armor mitigation! Its maybe 15% less because of heavy armor but necros have atleast that in extra health?
Are you not using a toughness amulet is that why your so squishy?

Even a guardian can get killed if 3 people focus and land every single burst skill they have. (If you see 3 people inc you better tell your team and have someone on the way)

Your either not dodging or using your spectral amror in the right ways which I’ve described.
What do guardians have, good healing? Can they heal 75% with 1 skill? When they start bursting use spectral armor DS. Now they used alot of burst. What your telling me nothing is on CD and you drop out of DS and they use all their skills again at the same time. Well at 50% hp spectral armor again/DS. It runs out….. What all their burst skill dont have cds and they all 3 can continuously do 10kdps. Plague elite.

Your either not dodging. Not using a toughness amulet. Not having a decent build. Not using spectral armor as a protection boon when they start bursting. Not using spectral walk and teleporting away. Not using your heal right before you go in deathshroud and having the cd ready after about 2-3 DS’s. Have you tried necro bunker in Tpvp?

I mean I guess If you sit there your going to die as a necro. But come on I don’t need to spell it out. Your staff has an aoe chill. You can combo that with weakness. You can trait weakening shroud which is weakness on a 7sec cd when entering DS. You can use Dag oh what for?> You guessed it another weakness. DS chill/fear, Staff fear, etc. How many guardians have 3 weakness condis?

It just seems your not using any of your skills to prevent them from doing 10k dps a second and unable to figure out how to gain lifeforce or your just facing 3 players who are better than you and your not playing with a team. :/

Necro bunkers can take more damage then Guardians. Guardians just have more ways to give boons to allies. Where Necros focus on throwing out aoe weakness/chills/fears to prevent that 30% damage instead of giving your allies 30% dmg reduction boon.

Im actually trying out a bunker well build right now so I can also give protection boons out to allies and transfusion which heals allies.

90% lifeforce is 10% smaller than hp pool?

Kiriakulos.1690:

Krayiss.4926:

@Kiriakulos
We are talking in a necro bunker topic, with 27k hp and a toughness amulet and traits spent in the toughness tree line that means an elementalist cant even burst half my hp out of DS. And If you read any of my other posts you can go from 0-75.9% ds only using 1 skill spectral armor and its a stun breaker also triggers at 50% and both grant protection.

So if your you get caught out of stability with a cc. pop spectral armor then DS instantly and just watch it rise. Even spectral armor will soak up 31.9% DS with all that toughness the eles 1 shot wont even hurt. Plague elite never hurt lol u actually cant do any damage to it if you cripple/weaken an ele which is pretty op.

Oh, if it’s a bunker then you should have to survive a 1vX, which is where actual damage mitigation and health renewal is most important.
You can have a big bag of HP, but every single hit is getting in it and that will kill alot faster than a class with half you HP and actual mitigation tools.

Yup thats exactly right. Thats where the the health renewal or in our case getting to 75% lifeforce in 1 skill is very handy. When your 1vX thowing out 1 necrotic grasp can easily be 20-30 lifeforce if you use it right. What other bunker can heal 20% with 1 attack from its #1? you get 2 spectral armors before you die. Thats 150% life force +27k hp + if your really by urself plague elite will keep you up another 20 seconds while waiting for your 2 spectral armors to come back up. That should give you enough time for your team to capture the other 2 points kill lord and make it back in time to kill the 3 people attacking you.

The Boz.2038:

I always try to pick stuff apart, it’s how I make my own builds.
OK, so…
27812 HP is one of the 569 Vitality amulets + 30 points into Blood Magic. How do you get both Foot in the Grave and Spectral Attunement with 40 points remaining?
Ghastly claws hits eight times. Each hit gives you 1.5% LF. Pray the enemy doesn’t interrupt you with a stun, daze, immobilize, or that he doesn’t dodge, evade, block, etc. A single barrel roll cuts that skill’s number of hits in half. Using it on an NPC instead of the enemy player doesn’t really buy you a lot of time as you’re not creating any extra pressure.

ummm 20points into blood magic 20 in curses + 5 runes for 90 vit and a 1 divinity rune its not hard. If your having a hard time getting life force try swapping weapons and positioning yourself so you hit more than 1 target with necrotic grasp, if u hit 2 people thats 9 lifeforce 4 people thats 18%. When a mesmer has 3 clones out + himself and a ranger has 4 spirit pets+pet or a necro has his 5 pets out you always have a stupid amount of life force…

ps someone dodging ghastly claws isn’t the best use of their dodge so that means your teammate can burst them down now

Post me back when you have more questions!

@Kiriakulos
We are talking in a necro bunker topic, with 27k hp and a toughness amulet and traits spent in the toughness tree line that means an elementalist cant even burst half my hp out of DS. And If you read any of my other posts you can go from 0-75.9% ds only using 1 skill spectral armor and its a stun breaker also triggers at 50% and both grant protection.

So if your you get caught out of stability with a cc. pop spectral armor then DS instantly and just watch it rise. Even spectral armor will soak up 31.9% DS with all that toughness the eles 1 shot wont even hurt. Plague elite never hurt lol u actually cant do any damage to it if you cripple/weaken an ele which is pretty op.

Kiriakulos.1690:

Another thing, 50% stability uptime is a very misleading argument.
We gain stability on entering DS, DS goes on a 10 second(7 traited) cooldown on exiting it.

If we maintained that 50% stability uptime we are never in DS that means that every direct dmg atk goes straight into our health pool.

What we can actually get with our stability trait is 3 seconds of stability for 1 single important action, a heal, a stomp…
This means that what we do have is the constant choice of an uninterrupted action or mitigating damage, we literally can’t have both.

In a real fight I don’t expect Necros keep more than 10% time with stability and can still be easily chain-stunned if the opponent waits 3 seconds to begin.

Foot in the grave =3 sec stability with 30% boon duration + (2) water runes 10% + (4)monk runes 10% and heals on hit thats 50% boon duration 4.5sec stability on 7cd?

Now thats a bit of a joke but heres the tip so your not wasting a grand manster trait while only having it up 10% of the time you say.

Your first point was correct going in and out of DS is dangerous but If you know they just used a burst cd or if your only trying to use stability to prevent a cc then just avoiding that cc is going to reduce alot of incoming damage because most of the time they are waiting to lock you down so they don’t miss their burst when you dodge.

2nd which is really important is managing your DS. In most cases I use it at 13% and let it run out because It will not reset the cd to 7 seconds. So then I can go right back into it after using ghastly claws 13% lf and/or reapers touch 16% with 2 skills you can be at 29% thats alot of healing if you think about it.

@The Boz
Im sorry I rounded down on almost everything trying not to exaggerate.
Spetral armor 8% a hit for 8 seconds=64% + 5% Spectral attunement + 10% gluttony for a total of 75.9% sure if you’d like take off 8%.

Thank you for the DS correction. Its not stated on the wiki.
As for hp Im at 27812 + 60% + 30 is 49.5k so ok 7k less.

I didn’t know you were interrupted every 2 seconds (sounds like you don’t know what your doing or don’t have stability) With all the spirit rangers/minion necros/mesmer clones I normally hit 10+ (Its capped at 10 right?)

When your a mid bunker its easy to have 10 conditions on you when its 1v3 last few points in the match! (your forgetting this is a condi meta?)

You really tried to pick that apart well tho, Thanks ; ) (And don’t say it was bad math because only my Deathshroud information was misinformed, Its not my fault the tooltip doesn’t say it.)

If you need any tips you can just ask

Also to the OP well utilities are a good option as along with siphon to keep your main hp up when ur waiting the 6secs for DS to be back up. There are some really great mid necro bunker builds out there.

edit
ps Spectral walk is 2% for 12sec + 5% + 10%=31.9% :p

Pretty sure warriors have the best regen right now. Sigenet regen + adrenal health + regeneration boon. 3 types that all stack+ heavy armor meaning they can have the most toughness if Im not mistaken.

wtb graphics options to visually disable nonplayers! Thanks. I am only getting like 15 fps in the first place with all the particles on this $2000 mac then pets just make it worse!

lol I doubt the leaver penalty is over an hour. Anet would never do something that drastic.

If I choose to play with 1 of my friends I am forced to find 3 more for a group.

There would be no need for punishment if they just made it a 4v4. Everyone would be happy that each team would atleast have some sort of equal footing
or to throw someone from the Q in as the match started if one of your teammates didn’t check ready.
Simple fixes that noone understands :/ and ya the rating loss sucks

Necros have Spectral armor which can last 8 secs=over 75% life force on a 48 sec cd and a 2nd spectral armor at 50% hp. When this is paired with 25k hp and 30% larger life force pool thats 57.5k hp.

With all the life force gains its very easy to go 0-100% life force. Ghastly claws 12% 6 sec cd, reapers touch 15% 14 sec cd. Spectal walk 24% life force 48sec cd. spectral wall 38sec cd=2 protection boons. Life transfer is 3% life force which is great for aoe when hitting many targets.

The main traits to look for with a bunker necro are;
Curses; (10 weakening shrould=weakness on DS) (20 Spectral attunement=longer spectrals)
Soul Reaping; (5 10% lifeforce gain) (10 spectral mastery 20% lower cd)(15 Spectral armor at 50% hp)
Others to look at in Soul reaping tree are;

1. Vital Persistence, 25% slower Lforce drain
2. Near to death, Death shroud recharges 30% faster
3. Foot in grave 3sec stab when entering deathshroud (With 30% boon duration thats almost 4 sec on a 7 sec cd with Near to death. thats like 60% uptime.

3 stun breakers and all the life force heals you can easily use;
Consume conditions 25 sec cd 5.3k heal with 0 healing power and 735 hp per condition and having 12 conditions in the game=8.8k which Im pretty sure that 14.1k is the biggest heal in the game with 0 healing power

Eh maybe I just think this would make things better since we are without any real group finder in game for pvp

Yes they do well with 2 hp bars and use atleast spectral armor as a utility, try 30/10/0/0/30 power bunker or 10/30/0/0/30 condi bunker. 15 points in soul reaping gets you last gasp which is another spectral armor!

Necros have great cc, self replenishment, and can spectral walk back on point or gets stability from soul reapingtrait line xi foot in grave+plague elite!

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Few tips from me!

Basic Tips:

• Defend the capture points you have!
• Use the map ping and drawing feature to better communicate with your team
• Type out in /team when you have incoming and if you might need help

I am usually dead by the time I finished typing my message!

“Hello my team I am inquiring that I receive help at the waterfall because it seems that a thief & mesmer are in stealth and coming at me (I just know it) How do I know it you ask? I just get the eerie feeling that I will be pounce’d on in the near future! con. And I am hoping that either the guardian and/or the rest of my team sjfhsjkdfhjeh oh kitten jesus what half my hp why aren’t my skills working oh I am still typing on no Im downed whered they go, oh stealth stomp my fear missed! ok I am just letting my team “blue” know that I failed at the waterfall and that a thief & mesmer killed me and would like to know where I should go next? … No answer ok I’ll zerg mid with the rest!"

Sadly I have yet to see my teammates respond to my plan because well, since noone seems to like typing!

Any shot at getting voice chat like WoW has?

Thedenofsin.7340:

Deserter penalty will solve things. It’s been proven to work in other games and it will work here as well.

Is the debuff account-wide or only character? How will it work with private arenas and the like?

What games and who did the tests to prove it?
-Your still going to find people who leave and that means you’ll still have 4v5s! Blizzard games had people leave matches all the time cause it didn’t matter/or afk’d/ or botted.
-Simply turning it into a 4v4 solves everything until the player clicks ready.

2nd It would have to be account wide just like your ratings are.
And I don’t see this being in hotjoin or private arenas too many specific types; dueling games and such and I doubt they will add penalty to the options when creating an arena.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Solo Arena, map randomization and the leaver penalty are all coming at the same time.

Now this may be to soon! However I do not believe punishment is going to solve the 4v5 problem at hand. When did punishment ever solve anything?

The fix we are all looking for when a 4v5 happens is for the team with (5) to have 1 member autoequalizer’d (I call it anyway) to the bench and so that player doesn’t get bored rotate them in as a teammate dies (also allowing them to spectate).
I wouldn’t mind a 4v4 every once in awhile.

Ok so I don’t know what the penalty may be again speaking to soon probably but I’ve been afk once for half a match because my keyboard broke at the time so I had to going raging through my place to find another one!
I was in the game but afk up to about 250pts and was unable to click the ready button.
My team having to 4v5 did Ok. Then when I returned, we almost won getting to 400 pts but there is a way to fix this!

Solution: If someone doesn’t click ready Autoequalizer them! Making it a 4v4
So Now you have 1 AFK (who didn’t check ready) and 1 who is ready to get rotated in when a teammate dies.
Now this could be where the penalty may come back in to place to prevent some odd team that favors 4 teams and having your own 5th player afk.
I mean thats how it should have been in the 1st place.
Or If someone doesn’t check ready throw someone from the Q in their place.

The Qs can be long (having people forget when they are watching cat videos tabbed out on youtube [I don’t know why everyone afks]) and very rarely ever even place you in any sort of bracket or equal ranking.
-So now Q’s could be longer with 3 different Q’s. (hotjoin, solo, team)
-Ranks will spread out more because less teams will be playing. Addition of solo Qs to teams.
-Anyone with a friend will have to wait and spam for 3 more people and then wait in the Q because the lfg isn’t great.

But somehow this will draw more people back to PvP? Maybe who knows….

Why hasn’t this been added yet?

Im having a hard time in Spvp when I have to mouse over the condi icon when I get stunned to see how long it is to determine if I should stun breaker and by that time its already to late!.

I would like the recharge timer number the same size as your 1-5 skills numbers which is very small (The ones below your skills). I would like it this size but above the confi/buff icon so its still very visible!

Xeph.4513:

Had you expressed that the situation wasn’t fair I am sure everyone would’ve been on your side including myself.

Grats on win btw hope Teldo makes it all the way.

I am confused tho why would you be on their side if you aren’t now. You like going along with people? Whether or not they contested it shouldn’t change your position. You either way would have said BO3 or BO5 and I’m guessing would have leaned on BO5 with that showing more raw data except they’ve been running all day?

@xeph Correct me if I’m wrong but TP won semi yesterday and CC 2day? Do you think that gave them the edge because they were playing all today or you had the edge being refreshed.
I’m just gonna say bad hosting with rule changes prior last match, etc but who am I. It could have been the other way around.

@xeph ah true I guess Im glad one of you guys made it. Correct me if I’m wrong but TP won semi yesterday and CC 2day? Do you think that gave them the edge because they were playing all today or you had the edge being refreshed.
I’m just gonna say bad hosting with rule changes prior last match, etc but who am I. It could have been the other way around.

Xeph.4513:

I am just going to clear a few things up.
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Firstly people claiming that we forced Arena-net / dev’s to change necro; are clearly not thinking straight, firstly if we had the power to do something like that, we surely wouldn’t post on the forums regarding the matter, its sad but posting on these forums and being exposed to how toxic people is becoming more unappealing day by day.

Regarding the tournament, if team CC felt like they were being cheated; could’ve simply refused to play the bo5 and gone to the forums and made a thread about it, instead they chose to continue playing, had they won I doubt that there would be a thread regarding this matter on the forums right now.
The tournament admins made it clear that it was going to be a bo5 prior to the match starting, CC did not protest this and neither did we; had CC refused and asked for bo3 or made any case on the spot, then I would sympathise with them regarding this matter.

There was a lot of ways this could’ve been resolved, but to loose and then make a forum post about it, not only that but bringing in all sorts of unfound and unsupported nonsense isn’t only unprofessional, but frankly childish behaviour.
This whole situation could’ve been remedied earlier, but the poor choice of waiting until the matches are over, to complain seems rather shortsighted.

We also had no warning this was going to be a bo5, but adhered to what the tournament admins wanted.

Stop feeding the trolls, stick to the OP about the BO3 rules being changed for the last match. If CC disputed that then they prolly woulda just kicked them out.

Defektive.7283:

For those interested in what he’s referring to. Picture below.

I’d be interested in hearing an official mention from ML on this (and possibly AN).

Personally, I thought we set a precedence back when Hemo switched characters and everyone threw a fit. That rules were meant to be extremely important.

Agreed rules says BO3…..

Its got a 5sec cd so life steal sigil is good if u have low crit cause it doesn’t proc back to back and have high healing which ima guess he had alot with toughness of course and the signet heal which isn’t a bad regen heal. Thats all I know tho cause I haven’t face a war who lasted 2 DS rotations from me yet in Tpvp

@Zenith Power necros still need alot of help in the sustained department have you seen my build. Life blast is piercing for 3k crit 90% x2 vul +might. It comes with a 28 sec invulnerability. Link in OP
Fear is a dot and condi should synergy with it preventing u power and min necros going for it. Dmg might be high.
Terror should be maybe 20% more with 1 cond, 40% with 2

@seed oh ya I agree that necros have 1 source of a 3 sec stability in a form you cant rez or finish someone where the other 2 can be called glitches and the other point is DS is a 10sec cd check the tooltip. And 30 points for something that only has half a functionality? +DS is buggy :/
It shouldn’t be a grandmaster like dhummfire when engineers get the same 4 sec burn on incendiary powder for an adept trait 10 points like omg LOL

Ya also the Death Shroud bug gets me every once in awhile when I enter DS to low, not being able to use heal/utilies 1-2 seconds sucks when u enter DS at like 1% hp …. oh well dodge out of it reapers mark heal