Guild Wars 2

oh snap i was going to buy at least 2 more character slot expansions, well no biggie i guess i will spend my money elsewhere.

warriorjrd.8695:

Traps do direct damage, which will just end up revealing you almost right after you throw it

except for freeze trap
the underestimated trap will now make a comeback as a reliable source of stealth !

edit: and disengage, freeze + superspeed is pretty brutal

Really looking forward gadget engis, now that personal healing unit removes 2 conditions before healing it’s going to be a very fun healing skill to use.

GoogleBrandon.5073:

manveruppd.7601:

Oh, interesting, I hadn’t realised he was so high-ranked. Clearly this guy is not as ignorant and stupid as he pretends to be, he’s just blatantly and shamelessly trolling, and you should all STOP FEEDING HIM.

Yea sorry, I tend to get aggittated by people like those too easily when I am sober >.>

i see a problem and a solution, get drunk

Dead Muppet.9718:

7 months later…

reported for resurrecting a thread, necromancy is not allowed.

6 0 4 0 4 reaper protection on skyhammer
4 and1/2 seconds of automatic fear are so much fun, everytime you get pulled into a hole by someone you fear him off a ledge.

pull me down fear u down [FËÄR]

(new guild name/tag i use on skyham)

1. is my cool guardian, i think the armor/color combination helps with the cool factor and the sunglasses just complete the style
2. is my warhammer 40k themed warrior
3. pls note the thunder hammer, the storm shield and the kitten y face lol

you guys sound like a fun team, i wish my team was more like yours lol

I don’t know if this is related to desyncs but recently whenever i try to pull someone over a gap he doesn’t move to me, he moves up.
I didn’t fraps this but i pulled one thief on skyhammer and he went so high that after landing he almost died to fall damage, it could be something related to the issue you are discuting.

I will start with mine: “don’t even bother”.
What’s your suggestion ?

Lordrosicky.5813:

I would swap any weapon skill on any other class in the game for this skill.

how about infiltrator strike ? #kappa

Cynz.9437:

they buff turrets next patch too lol

this is definitely something devs can be really proud of, just like skyhammer

since they don’t plan on removing skyhammer or the overabundance of AI might as well rub it in and spread the word.

haha where is your cleave now ?

pff, if you think that self repairing turrets are bad you have never seen self replicating turrets.

Gorni.1764:

I don’t play this game for winning but for fun. Leaderboard is broken as hell and there are no rewards or downsides from losing anyways – why even bother about it?
So I don’t care about winning/losing as long as it was a good game. That’s why I usually keep playing 4v5s or when there aren’t any real chances to win anymore (like 150-400 score). I think too many people take these pvp-games too serious. It’s still a game after all which should entertain you. And what could be more entertaining than a really balanced and close match?

Be it a football game, be it a bike race, winning gives you that “ahh, nice” vibe and losing gives you the “well, this is annoying” feeling.
Of course it may be more or less intense depending on how much you care but gw2 is no exception, at least for me :P

Hello everyone, yesterday we had a little discussion on our guild teamspeak about losing a game and now i am curious to know what the forum thinks.
Are you more annoyed when you lose by a tiny bit (like 1 point for example) or when you get a blown out match where your team hardly scores any points ?

To get things started I’ll provide my opinion: it gets on my nerves when we almost win then lose, I start heating up about all the mistakes I did without which we could have won and it takes me a couple of minutes to cool down.
Yeah blown out games aren’t good either but if you are outplayed fair and square you don’t need to blame it on yourself, the other guys were simply out of your league.

So that’s my point of view, let’s hear yours now

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Linking them to a site with biased admins with very little knowledge about PvP and wacky builds under the guise of meta builds won’t help new players! Vee Wee isn’t trying to shoo them away! Vee Wee is just trying to direct them to a site with real builds! Like so!
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/New-PvP-Streamer-Thread/

A list of all the top streamers with their actual builds! You can even watch them play it and ask them questions! It’s great!

And if you could just point out where Vee Wee lied that would be thuper!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Are you dumb or what ? You have already been told that sigil of earth is only included as a possible variation and that your build does not fall into the meta category because it is not widely used by engineers.
You have also been told what you did wrong but no, “vee vee just wants to help and the evil admins troll him”.
And now you act all kitten and engage in a silly crusade against metabattle.

I think all this forum roleplaying stuff is starting to take over your common sense.

Black Box.9312:

But then there’s healing signet,

And http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Withdraw
And http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shelter
And http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Merciful_Intervention

But hey, this skill lets you heal for 2k if you do 10k damage in 6 seconds so it is totally OP and needs a cast time to let thieves and necromancers interrupt it.
In facts it is even more OP than shelter as shelter apparently doesn’t need to let thieves and necromancers interrupt it.

Lich no longer grants you increased power so things like sigils/chill of death/wells no longer do 200% damage after you enter lich form.
However they are also increasing the dmg coefficients of lich form abilities, how is that going to work out when you add 25 might stacks to the mix ?

For example right now my lich autoattack shows 1900 flat damage on the tooltip and i have 4100 power, after the patch that will still be 1900 but my power will be 2050 (no more buff).
This means that the 700 extra power from 25 might stacks will increase my damage output considerably as the dmg coefficients will be doubled.

Do you think you will end up doing more damage or less damage ?

I don’t mean this as an offense or an accusation but out guild team also met ReVo and we also experienced huge lagspikes and 2 dcs.
Not that this means anything but some of my more hot headed guild mates might have reported you.

Thank you very much, I have a logitech too and I was still trying to figure out the most convenient keybindings.
I’ll make sure to try out your setup

Anticipating the new longbow ranger meta I played Skullface’s build for quite some time and one thing that really ticked me off is how unreliable the block can be at times.

The counterattack has a really long aftercast that leaves you rooted for like 1 second, if the enemy has stability or dodges it you are pretty much guaranteed to take his next hit, not to mention teamfights where the root is a death sentence.

I am tempted to play sword/dagger instead of greatsword just because of team fights and the ever so frequent 1v1’s with warriors.

Maul + moment of clarity can be devastating though, power rangers are still rare so even some experienced players won’t see that coming, if you time your pet switch right after hilt bash your pet will add his crippling leap to your maul and the combination of those 2 attacks hits for more than 9k even on soldier amulet warriors.

There are a few matchups that you just can’t win without maul, like celestial amulet elementalists and engineers, but there are also some other matchups that would be much easier with sword/dagger. (I’m looking at you hambow)

LegionLord.5392:

Would perplexity runes be the best for dire?

It’s a 50% 50% split between perplexity and krait (45% bleeding duration), it depends if you take daze or torment on stealing,

First thing i will do will be running 5 zerker rangers in low ranked team queue.
As long as people fail to exit line of sight it should be fun.

Assassin X.8573:

it can be done just as easily in GW2.

i beg to differ

Cynz.9437:

Just because some ppl don’t focus only on one aspect of the game doesn’t mean they are “scrubs”, in fact they probably have more experience with game mechanics and teamplay than players who focus purely on pvp.

You could very well be right but you could also be wrong and they might just be scrubs. I guess only time will tell.

AtlasSi.9130:

Make fun of me pleasee. D;

points finger and laughs

there.

spirit weapon guardian

Milferd.3780:

Well I never get a llama as I can not sign up with Twich as the demand that I enter a captcha code that does not show up on sign up screen at least using Safari keeps me from signing up unless I give them my friends list on Facebook sign up.
I told Twich weeks ago and posted a thread here about the problem but it was never fixed and I am mad about it.

You might consider going to the mountain instead of demanding the mountain to move to you.
AKA change your browser.

I like the pseudo pause proposed by manveruppd, it seems the less problematic solution to implement.

Josh Davis.6015:

I think we’re all a little sad that TCG can’t play today. In light of this, I think this puts Cheese Mode in a pretty good spot to win. Will be interesting to see if anyone can take them out.

I didn’t know this, is it known why they won’t play ?

tanztante.6532:

i am utterly confused.

Please allow me to state the obvious: you are standing on the outside of an inside joke.

Imo depends on the map, good range + good mobility on khylo and legacy so you can join the teamfight on mid and go back close if you see someone going there.
Tanky classes with 1v1 killing potential on temple or forest because you need to be able to kill the occasional romer (so no 2x guardian) but you also need to be able to hold 1vX if your team is slow to rotate after a won team fight on another point.

A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people or valued materials from falling bombs or other attacks.
Picture for reference: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/PanoBunker.jpg

happened twice to me yesterday around 4pm gmt+1.
It’s a weird kind of lag where everything is fine than suddenly you are left behind for like 5 seconds then the damage catch up and it looks like you just got one shotted.
First time i was on my guardian and i thought someone bursted me but the damage recap just showed people wailing on me, took me a while to realize that it was a lagspike.
Second time the client lost its connection to the server after around 5 seconds of lagging behind (people running against wall, skills not firing, this sort of stuff means you are experiencing a lag spike).

if there is one thing we should learn from dcuo is that threads like this need at least 33 pages before they are taken seriously.
#dualwieldingneverforget

I’d say clever use of in game mechanics.
Someone may disagree and call for exploits though, not sure.

I have a question for helseth: what is your favourite brand of breakfast cereals ?

we are cute in our own unique way >_<

Tiny is sort of a double edged sword, you will be hit by attacks that are inside your hitbox but that are graphically far from you.
Of course this also means that your enemies will feel safe while they are still within reach, very situational imo.
I agree that argeting can be a problem, however by expertly tweaking the targeting options it is possible to bypass it.
I don’t really remember what to check and what to uncheck but with optimal settings you only see player names (this way pets don’t have names) and you can cycle through player targets with tab.
As a side note also disable meele assist because it will pick up targets when you are leaping away from a fight and it will cause you to jump back in instead of leaping out.

This sounds so cool, i really want t otry it now XD

Rate our adorableness in a scale from 5 to 10 (no 0-4 you meanie :P)
Also we play guardian, engi, engi, warrior, thief, (double engi chinese meta) can you guess who is who ?

Aomine.5012:

I’m talking about staff ele here

BAM magnetic aura ranger kills himself by mistake.
On a more serious note i ve been wondering how rangers will fare burst wise compared to mesmers.
Let’s say bouncing blade + illusionary berserker + mind wrack vs rapid fire.
More ? less ? about the same ?

You can play the leaderboard or the game, not both.
To play the leaderboard you stop playing as soon as you lose 1 match and try again the next day (win streaks are what will make you go up, 1win 1ldefeat 1win 1ldefeat will get you nowhere).
To play the game you keep going at it regardless of your win ratio.
Make your choice.

nah shutting down the chat takes away all the fun, go invisibile to block off whispers and then join the party and go crazy on map chat.
You may also consider filling up your in-game mail for those prolonged yolo queue sessions where people start sending you mails instead of whispers.

I agree with what lux said.

Specific tip for battle of khylo: while you are capping home you will see enemy necromancers/elementalists/aoeclasses positioning themselves on clocktower, this is the best time to call target on them as you have the best view of all your teammates.

Another tip for those situations where you can see the enemies as they approach you 2v1: don’t disengage immediatly , consider the situation before you take action.
Classic example: you get invaded by thief + someone else, if you run away immediatly chances are you won’t make it to the teamfight because the thief will intercept you on the way while the other guy will cap.
If no backup is on the way and you realize you won’t be able to escape it’s best to just buy time and die on point, your teammates should rotate far in the meantime and when you respawn check if the other guy is still on close, if he is move mid, if he isn’t get close back.

At least for me the answer is no aoe cap.
An organized small team could wipe out a random zerg on daoc, in gw2 that’s simply not possible and fights end up being numbers vs numbers.

Yeah i know it’s still possible to roam effectively but you mostly strafe away from the main enemy zerg and pick off other roamers or small groups.

@Prysin
there’s a problem with piercing arrow though, you can’t have 1500 range + faster bow + piercing arrow at the same time, 2 master traits and 1 grandmaster don’t fit toghether.

i just had an idea.
leave hotjoin in as a game mode to play with friends
insert a soft solo queue with the features requested in this thread

should be a good idea

Chinese pro players are renown for their ability to see hidden sinergies that no one else can see, what are you thoughts on this unusual class composition ?

You can view some footage over here http://arena.kongzhong.com/videos/pvp/20140611/4214.html

edit: ideograms don’t show up in the title, can anyone replace “team ????2?” with “strong chinese team” ? thanks a lot