Guild Wars 2

Amityel.5324:

BLU you are an average player……and as you said in your topic you are sacrificing your personal life and time to a game….TO A GAME!!! I mean dont be so stupid as I was 5 years back and invest it to sports/girls/parties/traveling you live only once man……games are for fun but they shouldnt be a job.

This.

Forgot to throw in “We lost to Brain Dead 0-3 tonight”.

Mindtrick.5190:

GW2 such esport such high level.

4reals. Freaking nerds.

Waffler.1257:

This is the same reason why the Special Olympics were created, maybe lobby Anet to create a Special ToL where people who are deaf/blind/have no arms can compete with each other. Other than that, there is nothing that says that teams in this game are not allowed to discriminate in who they accept.

The level of stupidity in this post alone makes me giggle. You do realize that I’ve already mentioned that I played college division 1 tennis? Being deaf has nothing to do with my athletic abilities so that comparison to the special olympics was in very fact, however ironic, kittened. The special olympics were mainly created for those with physical disabilities, not deafness lol. What the actual kitten? You do know there’s a deaf football player for the Seahawks now? Everyone said that football is too much of a team sport and requires a lot of communication but…they managed to make it work somehow and look, he’s laughing his kitten off at the people who said he couldn’t do it. That’s why the ignorance of the people not exposed to this kind of thing really doesn’t cease to amaze me.

And this is a video game. I’m pretty sure a lot more work is required for actual ATHLETICS than a video game. Training and all. And no, team queueing every day as a training regime does not compare to working out in the gym, running, actual sports practice, drills, etc…So with all due respect, those of you who take this game too seriously to not even give someone the benefit of the doubt…Go outside kittens. Get off your kitten and actually play or take part in a physical activity. E sports. Lawl sauce. Don’t make me laugh. I just want the entertainment of participating in an online tourney, nothing beyond that.

Thanks to those who came to my defense. But it’s no use arguing with ignorant and naive people. As someone mentioned, you might be passing up a chance to find a diamond in the rough. You just never know. The fact I was not even given a chance to try out (what do you have to lose with this tryout?) was pretty hilarious to me to be honest. I personally don’t think I’m stupid to not figure out what’s the right thing to do in the situation. It’s not so hard to just simply look at the map, timer, team scores, team positionings and team line up hp bar and figure out the proper course of action to take from there. I’ve watched enough mistpedia and the entire ToL to study team strategies to know some common sense when it comes to this kind of thing. Just because you can’t tell me the fastest way possible doesn’t mean I can’t understand what needs to be done. And what I find amusing is that when people peel away or someone goes far to bunker or such…The team communicating in TS could tell the person that’s moving towards a certain cap or location (they are just running or sb 5ing there…surely they can find the time to type shorthands in the chat for me for the rest of the team that wants to pass a message along to me). It’s funny to assume that everyone’s fighting nonstop. Teammate dies? Relay message to me while respawn time counter ticks. As for battle strategies like removing conditions or stealthing the team, reviving downed teammates, and such…might stacking, etc…I’m sure I know when to do that…And how to properly do it…

But it’s fine. I’ll just make a name for myself and work my way up the ladder and you’ll see how stupid your ignorance was down the road.

That wasn’t even the point of my thread. Most of you failed to get it. I wasn’t even given a chance to try out just because I’m deaf. That fact alone was ignorance at its finest. Who knows? I could surprise the kitten out of you with my map awareness and situational awareness and guess what? Since I’m a very visual person, I actually do see a lot more than most people do aka I do pay attention to my party’s condition stats, map locations, timer for certain spawns, animations, and such all at once. I do not need to be told much during a match if given a chance. You’ll see it’s very minimal typing with me but oh well, keep the ignorance going stronk. If anyone was wondering, I main d/d ele. Also can play phalanx warrior and cele rifle engi with trip kits.

@The guy who talked about a half deaf dude

Well that’s great. But that’s something that was an accident that made him go deaf. So he’s still adjusting. I was born that way. I’m not adjusting. It doesn’t take any focus for me at all lol. I pvp reactively and I feel like I have a good gauge on what to do. In fact, I’ve played 3 other mmorpgs before and have been the leader of all of the guilds on those games that dominated the server. Dominated.

I have enough common sense and map awareness to be able to judge what’s needed and all. I really do not need to be told much anyways in the first place. But thanks for judging prematurely.

It would take the same amount of time to type F = Go far, H = go home, and such to say what you just mentioned. P for peel. It’s not hard. To not even be given a chance was ridiculous in my eyes.

It’s amazing to me how ignorant people are when it comes to certain things. Let me tell you a short story. A few guilds were hosting ToL team tryouts and regular tPvP teams tryouts. So I whispered that I was interested in joining the tryout process and see where it goes. They all were ready to begin the tryouts and told me to go on teamspeak. But there’s a certain thing that prevents me from doing so. The fact that I was born deaf. So when I informed them of the situation, they just simply told me that teamspeak was a requirement in order to participate. That made me sad that they wouldn’t even give me a chance just because of that. It’s not really hard to remedy that. Just set up numbers that’s a shorthand of what to do. Like 1 = bunker far, 2 = cap mid with team, or such. Not hard. So that was disappointing to hear.

Now a little backstory about me. I was told that I couldn’t play sports growing up because of my deafness (Not as well as those who could hear, at least). I played varsity soccer and tennis all 4 years of high school and made the division 1 college tennis team despite being told that I would not make it during my junior year in high school. So that kind of level of ignorance never ceases to amaze me. It does not impair my playing skills or style at all. It does not mean I’m kittened and don’t have map awareness or knowing where to go in the specific situation.

My engi is called Hop Off My Nades.

Yup. Since esports for pvp is hard to take off, let’s do this instead? trollface

This seems like a legit esports for guild wars 2. Asuraball hype?

I still use it in wvw/pve contents. But for sPvP, I use pirates. It’s funnier and the bird is OP.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

I feel bad for all the sylvari with branch-heads.

Lmao. Made my day.

Minor tweaks to runes = balance achieved. It’s a good day.

Yeah some might stacking issues. Also I noticed a lot of wasteful dodges in the beginning along with wasteful use of armor of earth and actually…lack of using cleansing fire. Not to mention the premature use of air number 3 (shocking aura). Sometimes you use it in inappropriate situations. Save those for outnumbered fights or thieves or classes that relies on melee. You tend to use it like 5-10 seconds before entering the actual fight itself. And remember…all skills heals you. So fire 2 will heal you too, so use it more.

rpfohr.7048:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNBhYD7kRF6XxWWwVQ4aBBAC1yA4eZ+AZwvp1X/exVH5A-TZBEABScRAsZ/hqLDAwRAggHAAA

Use this,
Your power and pet hits like a beast. Sickem will help you against theif.

So…Longbow and short bow cool down decrease traits…But you don’t even use longbow or short bow? You win the internet today, sir.

Well, not a guard. But would like to try out as maybe a substitute or replacement if someone can’t make it. I main d/d ele.

7/10.

I have three Asuras.

Engi: Hop Off My Nades
Mesmer: I Shatt Myself
Ele: What The Quaggan

None. Have a good day.

Lol dude. Rewatch your own video. Count how many times you’ve spammed 1. Do it for me please. It’s either 1 or 5 (for stomp finish or mini escape) on p/d, or 2 and 5 on short bow. So skillful man. Teach me please. trollface

So top warriors don’t even use GS? I’m pretty sure I saw Tarcis streaming GS in solo queue the other day. He did extremely well. Just because you have more hours doesn’t mean you can dictate what builds people roll. Hell, I doubt you could beat 1/2 of the people with less hours or not even on the ranks. Ranks don’t count for kitten today.

The 1 spam and utility spam is skillful. Teach me.

All the pointless nerd raging in this thread. Patience is a virtue. Thanks for the update Mark.

I’ve seen a lot of top tier warriors in the top 50’s who use GS from time to time. So the fact that you, the OP, nerd raged at this guy for using a GS just because it was a legendary …You don’t think your actions weren’t toxic in the least? It’s funny that you even wonder why he blocked you. You were just so rude. I would block you on the spot if you did that to me because that was so dumb. Maybe he might not have as many hours as you, but everyone started somewhere. I’m quite sure you were a failure the first couple hundred hours you played. GS actually works with certain weapon swaps and utilities.

Now I just added another person to my list of pvp kittens.

Know what I find funny? If you just simply go to the description of elementalists on this website or wiki…You’ll see it basically states that Elementalists are jacks of all trades. And they have to spec into specific trait lines to enhance that particular attunement. Is elementalist a jack of all trades now? Yes. Why does Elementalists generally have good sustain? Because a majority of them spec into water (which is condi removal and heals)/arcane. Does this accurately reflect the description of what Elementalist is supposed to be and its role? Yes. Is it balanced? Yes.

The first time in a long time that Ele’s becomes viable, people cry about it because it’s “on par” with ham bow. Well, I’m sorry. But it’s not the elementalist, it’s the rune set. I’ve experimented with other rune sets…And I can say Eles still do fine but not as great as Strength runes. If they spec into water/earth…Then they are MEANT to be bunker set up. Therefore, they have good sustain. Duh much? Jeez.

D/D ele is fine the way it is now. I really do think it’s balanced perfectly now. And your math’s wrong about the auto attacks. Just saying. It’s not 1/2 seconds per cast. It’s 1 ish. I would say that ele has gone up from lower tier classes to the middle. And testing this with cleric amulet was just kittened. Have you tried to kill a bunker warrior? Bunker guard? I remember 1 v 1ing a bunker warrior with shout heals…It wasn’t even funny. It was like watching paint dry.

While I think it’s cute that most people are upset about ANET devs not getting this resolved over the weekend (Which by the way…Is when most people are off from working), I just don’t really understand why the vendor is disabled now for those that already have the tickets. I do think, on the other hand, that it’s hilarious that most of the guys in this thread are throwing a hissy fit over a weapon skin. I mean, it’s a weapon skin. You can live for a few days/week without it. It’s not even that great looking either.

I’ve played games that are a lot more far worse in terms of customer services and bug fixes…And trust me…Guild Wars 2 definitely does the job better than 90% of the companies out there. Why can’t you guys be more appreciative that they are giving you updates each day they are in the office…

Hoelbrak dude. Hoelbrak.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

blitzkrieg.2451:

Warriors and d/d eles are broken in PVP at the moment because of this runeset (for warriors moreso intelligence sigil on PTV amulet coupled with runes). It’s only a matter of time before it’s nerfed.

That is my point. Ele is not viable because the class is strong. They are viable because of an unbalanced runeset and once that gets nerfed and it will. They will just be back down where they were.

Lol, I really bet you wouldn’t be complaining if Perplexity runes got added in sPvP. So you think Rune of the Strength is the problem? So there’s like…No other possible solution to replacing rune of strength? :P. None at all!? I’m sure I could think of a few other possible solution if they decided to nerf that particular rune set. I’ve seen plenty of bad eles with Strength runes. Sounds like a l2p issue to me.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Lettuce.2945:

facepalms Dude, please actually try it before you whine about it. That trait actually made me a lot stronger. It’s definitely worlds apart from taking something like soothing disruption or whatever. My survivability has gone through the roof just from that ONE “kitten” trait. It’s a free burn/chill removal every 10 seconds which is USEFUL. Seriously, the serious top eles are using it right now.

The simple fact is. We should NOT need a trait to fix the game designers mistake. With it having a 10 second cool down as well. It is nothing that amazing either. Sure, its decent but we should need a decent trait to begin with.

The “top eles” – if they went and all quit…would you? What does it matter what others use? You should be running what you want. Unless you only run other peoples builds and never really understand why they use specific things. I run a build i made myself. I don’t have the trait.

That being said, this SHOULD be fixed. However, we are ele when was the last time an actual PROBLEM with the class was actually fixed?

Just try it. You can thank me later and swallow your pride and I hope you apologize here after you’ve tried it. Have a good day.

Edit: Oh, and if I recall, you are a condi ele right? Condi Ele complaining about condis when his only condi application lies in fire attunement and some utilities and refuses to take stop drop and roll…Lol. Yeah, I can understand why you get annoyed by chill when you sit in one attunement for your damage. Funny guy.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Lettuce.2945:

I wasn’t joking. Stop, drop, and roll trait. You are welcome.

So to remove the unfair disadvantage ONE class has to a condition we should make ourselves WEAKER by taking such a trait. We should NOT need it. NO class should be affected by it for weapon/attunement swaps.

facepalms Dude, please actually try it before you whine about it. That trait actually made me a lot stronger. It’s definitely worlds apart from taking something like soothing disruption or whatever. My survivability has gone through the roof just from that ONE “kitten” trait. It’s a free burn/chill removal every 10 seconds which is USEFUL. Seriously, the serious top eles are using it right now.

scerevisiae.1972:

Lettuce.2945:

I wasn’t joking. Stop, drop, and roll trait. You are welcome.

Artificially making 1 class more susceptible to a condition in order to justify a total crap trait like SD&R is terrible game design. Not to mention, dogged march (warrior adept) is twice as good yet costs half the points.

Crap trait? Why don’t you actually try running it? It’s unbelievably good. And it’s not only chilled, but burning as well. Great against other eles, warriors, condi engis, etc. And it works outside of water attunement. Try it before knocking it.

I wasn’t joking. Stop, drop, and roll trait. You are welcome.

Stop, drop, and roll trait. You are welcome.

Thieves also have another way besides invisibility…Start finisher, shadow step away, shadow step back when almost done. Good against guards, warriors, engis, etc.

Anet needs to stop adding patches until this issue is resolved. It’s ridiculous having to repatch every time every day now.

Betatwix.1524:

Hi everyone,

I’ve been having a issue with downloading the new updates for guildwars 2. When the client is open it starts downloading a little, but after a few minutes or so it completely stops and then I get a Connection Error. This is quite strange to me because I have been able to get on, but there are times when it doesn’t download. Can someone tell me how this can be fixed? I have all the specs required to run this game smoothly. So, I don’t understand why this is happening.

Thank you

It’s a problem on anet’s end. Just wait for it to be fixed I guess or try downloading the patch in off hours. I’m having the same problems as well and my internet is insanely fast and I’m able to run other games.

I was just online with Verizon chat support. It’s an issue on ANET’s end. Think about it, why am I able to play other games but not guild wars 2? I think it’s an issue with the latest expansion and the recent release in China. The servers might be overloaded and not responding to the DNS servers quickly enough. This needs to be remedied quickly.

Yup same here. Doesn’t work at all. I’m honestly getting very annoyed especially since you guys keep adding more and more patches.

Sheppy.9306:

Lettuce.2945:

Sheppy.9306:

So you would rather run into a zerker with access to stability passive heal and all amounts of invulnerabilities, blocks and dodges that runs strength runes and sigil of intelligence (amounting to a 200% increase to dps on weapon swap on 3 attacks) compared to classes with conditions that run no stun breakers, no stability, and no passive heals? Don’t make me lol hard please. I didn’t think anybody considered condition classes to be along the meta anymore.

Are you a PvEr? It’s starting to show through a lot. You seem to think that necros are the only condition spammers lol. No passive heals? Oh, so there’s no condition warriors either? There’s a lot of cheese condi builds across all classes (not ele in spvp, rare to see a condi ele) especially engi, warriors, mesmer, guards, necros, etc. And most of them have a lot of stun breakers, stability….Are you just trolling for the sake of trolling? I would rather run into a wall of zerkers. I main an ele. I have a lot of cleanse but all the cleanse in the world can’t save me against a wall of condis. Only thing I can do is run.

As I already mentioned before and you seemed to tip toe around that. A zerker build misses his burst, it’s a problem. A condi misses his condi skill, it’s not a problem. He has more up his sleeves. Thusly answering the question, which is more skilled and which is cheese.

In my experience i find conditions on an ele exceptionally easy to take and there’s rarely a condition build that can counter you well. If i miss my fire grab i don’t care, if i miss my updraft its not a biggy, burning speed, well its only a 15s cd so i can use it next time.

Necro, signet of spite, if i miss that, it’s all good, the fight may go on some time but i will win every single time provided the player is as incompetent with their class as i am.

Mesmers, miss that 5 stacks of torment and you are dead. Necro and engi are the main condition classes in my opinion and both have to use their utility slots extensively to deal heavy damage and provide uses to their team mates. I don’t think there is a single dps class out there that needs to do this. like covered above dps classes are free to have these slots free for whatever escapes they care for.

I am done now as i have expressed my view on the strength runes and attempted to convince you why i feel they are overpowered in pvp but these posts have really strayed away from that. Post patch power>condition and pre patch its power>>>>>condition.

Fixed.

Sheppy.9306:

So you would rather run into a zerker with access to stability passive heal and all amounts of invulnerabilities, blocks and dodges that runs strength runes and sigil of intelligence (amounting to a 200% increase to dps on weapon swap on 3 attacks) compared to classes with conditions that run no stun breakers, no stability, and no passive heals? Don’t make me lol hard please. I didn’t think anybody considered condition classes to be along the meta anymore.

Are you a PvEr? It’s starting to show through a lot. You seem to think that necros are the only condition spammers lol. No passive heals? Oh, so there’s no condition warriors either? There’s a lot of cheese condi builds across all classes (not ele in spvp, rare to see a condi ele) especially engi, warriors, mesmer, guards, necros, etc. And most of them have a lot of stun breakers, stability….Are you just trolling for the sake of trolling? I would rather run into a wall of zerkers. I main an ele. I have a lot of cleanse but all the cleanse in the world can’t save me against a wall of condis. Only thing I can do is run.

As I already mentioned before and you seemed to tip toe around that. A zerker build misses his burst, it’s a problem. A condi misses his condi skill, it’s not a problem. He has more up his sleeves. Thusly answering the question, which is more skilled and which is cheese.

Sheppy.9306:

Lettuce.2945:

Rofl, this is probably posted by a condi scrub. I’m tired of those guys trying to cry nerf rune of strength because DPS builds can actually fight back against condi spamming face roll classes. I’m not even kidding, lately in spvp and tpvp…I’m seeing a TON of condi spec classes just slapping like 40-50 conditions on a target in like 20 seconds or less. It’s not even funny. Nerf condis before you even consider nerfing strength runes. And I kitten you not (i typed kitten manually), a few solo queue matches in a row…I pvped a whole team of condis. Not kidding at all. We won because our team was more balanced but still…Cleansing all of those conditions were a pain and it’s not even fun when you run into a condi wall zerg.

News flash, if you play condition build, you are NOT SKILLED. Get it? NOT SKILLED. Go kitten yourselves if you think you are. It’s to compensate for your lack of skills. -_-

What the hell? Condi build not skilled? Tis a bit of a exaggeration to state that, and by your opinionated response and hate for conditions would i be correct in assuming you are a warrior? And to state that condi “spammers” are not skilled is a sad thing indeed as i assure you there is a very big difference between a spamming necro and a skilled one. Theres personally nothing wrong with condis, as every condi class is easily countered and very squishy, check out the necro forums. And there is a serious problem with strength runes considering that it is exceptionally easy for say a warrior to get full might stacks and hit as much as they could before the patch but now they aren’t running berserker. No they are running soldiers amulet with a sigil of intelligence. In fact i have a sneaky suspicion that 25 stacks of might with a soldiers amulet would actually hit harder than a full berserker before the patch. Before you used to go berserkers for the 50% extra dps on crit, now you go rune of strength to get a permanent 50% extra dps + 150% dps on a crit. Its completely stupid and only reinforced this ridiculously boring bunker meta. Not only that i can tell you that if you do run the strength runes you are just as guilty of condition “spamming” as any condition based class as at 25 stacks of might your conditions do about 80% of the damage of a dedicated condition class.

The reality is in this cc spamming bunker meta, conditions are currently the worst off due to their (generally) lower health pools and lack of stability (necro, engi). yet conversely due to this might stacking soldiers bunker crap, conditions are the only real counter to eat through that 25k HP with near 3K armour.

Finally power builds have always been able to fight back against condis i really don’t know where you are coming from with that statement, i mean a necros strongest counter is a bloody zerker thief and in no way at all are engineers considered meta.

But i stray from the point, i agree strength runes are supremely overpowered and simply have not balanced this game but rather unbalanced it in the completely wrong direction. if it wasn’t for the lack of any other game with a combat system like this i would have abandoned this game months ago. Oh and one more thing if you guys are over rank 300 or so try something more interesting please instead of this crappy meta. Man i am sick to death of hitting this bunker crap at these high ranks.

just like to get that off my chest ty :p

You just proved you don’t know much about the meta and ironically enough, you must be a necro and like the poster who replied to you…It’s funny that you think necros have the lowest hp pool. They have one of the largest and that’s not even including death shroud lol. I rather run into a team of full zerkers than a team of full condi spams that just slap 50+ condis on you within 10 seconds and you are just left to die while trying your hardest to fight back. Condis are NOT skilled. Everyone knows that. Only condi users would argue otherwise because they want to defend their cheese mechanisms. But I’m willing to bet good money that you fail on any build that’s not condi related. DPS builds are about timing your bursts precisely while condis just spams condi’s. That does not require skills. If a dps misses their burst, it’s a problem. If a condi misses their condi’s, oh well, they have more. eyeroll

Wyrden.4713:

i repeat, u guys dont have humor, and behave the same way as the op , kind of.

Guess my humor was lost on you winks

Condi’s = the least skilled build to play with one of the highest rewards. When will people actually understand that? Seriously, I lol in the face of anyone who plays condis and actually think they are legit.

What’s up with all the build recycling lately? Same posts over and over with ONE MINOR change to a build.

You wouldn’t mind 1 v 1ing this lowly and inexperienced ele with that build then? I most likely will get rekt but what does it say about you if you get rekt? Do I attain God status in that very moment?

Lol. What I hate is when people 3 v 1 or 4 v 1 you then call you a noob. It’s like really? I want to see how you do in that situation. kkthxbai.

Rofl, this is probably posted by a condi scrub. I’m tired of those guys trying to cry nerf rune of strength because DPS builds can actually fight back against condi spamming face roll classes. I’m not even kidding, lately in spvp and tpvp…I’m seeing a TON of condi spec classes just slapping like 40-50 conditions on a target in like 20 seconds or less. It’s not even funny. Nerf condis before you even consider nerfing strength runes. And I kitten you not (i typed kitten manually), a few solo queue matches in a row…I pvped a whole team of condis. Not kidding at all. We won because our team was more balanced but still…Cleansing all of those conditions were a pain and it’s not even fun when you run into a condi wall zerg.

News flash, if you play condition build, you are NOT SKILLED. Get it? NOT SKILLED. Go kitten yourselves if you think you are. It’s to compensate for your lack of skills. -_-

johnpoc.8732:

Lettuce.2945:

oZii.2864:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fen.gw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FfFAQJAoYhcMqcW4wzBf0APAC5fD3JKQ5qJfC-TlTBAB0s%2FQYKF4SZAf6AGVVF0UCelSkuUS0xJAoS1CKTJEiaBwUFCAeAABAQAuZbGADdoDdoDdoVnD9m38mlC4plRA-w

Is a shell build that works doesn’t have to be exact to this just hit close to 2.6k armor, close to 2k power if you can, 30% crit chance (pre fury), and 16k hp. Fill in your gear for what you like but those are the usual marks to hit for d/d roaming.

Yes it is viable to roam you won’t be 1vXing to many good players but that goes for any class.

Wouldn’t this be a better option though? Slightly more power, condition dmg, ferocity, and hp. Little less healing power and toughness.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoIIwCQIGL0oHiCU+4ugA-TVDHABA8AA6Y/BhUywoKF9pGwTKBBSpkBnAA/URwJlBxpHIMNEBqKSAgDg5LfAs8yLv8yL3yLv8yLvcpAiYZE-w

Those numbers look really good, have you tried it solo/group?

That’s a build I made for myself to set a goal in terms of which gears I’m going for. I did a lot of experimenting with the build editor. I’m pretty close to finishing so I’ll keep you posted but I’m sure it’s a solid build across solo/group roaming. You could use condition food instead of power if you want but keep the sharpening stone. So it rounds out both condition and power. Bowl of Orrian Truffle soup. Brings up your Condition dmg to around 430. And gives you a hp boost. Depends on what type of fights you get into.