“one of the dots used on dice and dominoes to indicate numerical value”
“a diamond-shaped insignia of rank worn by a second lieutenant, lieutenant, or captain in the British army”
I don’t really see how the meaning has been “perverted”.
how do any of these definitions fit to the purpose of word “pip” in guild wars 2
Uhm, is it really that hard to figure out? In both of the examples, “pip” means a symbol used to imply numerical value. In Guild Wars 2, a pip is a symbol used to imply numerical value. It’s not quantum physics.
well, in some armies they use stars to define officer and/or soldier ranks, would it be correct if everyone started calling points you get for winning matches “stars”?
2.
informal
an excellent or very attractive person or thing.
i suppose you could use that definition of word “pip” to describe a legendary level player who got there without abusing amber duoq or ganking solo players in a full premade, but thats about it
It’s true, you didn’t outright say that you thought the word was made up, but it’s at least implied. And here are two of the definitions for “pip” from Merriam-Webster:
“one of the dots used on dice and dominoes to indicate numerical value”
“a diamond-shaped insignia of rank worn by a second lieutenant, lieutenant, or captain in the British army”
I don’t really see how the meaning has been “perverted”.
how do any of these definitions fit to the purpose of word “pip” in guild wars 2?
here they say “pip” to describe a point you earn for winning a match, lol
And I have been playing LoL for 5 years where clowns devs were making up some new dumb buzz words almost every day so I know my kitten.
What? They switched it because players were using pip, and players were using pip because pip isn’t some made up word, it is used for the symbols that indicate rank in the military, police, etc, so seemed appropriate to use for the symbols used to indicate rank in PvP leagues.
Maybe if you spent less time playing LoL and more time studying / reading then you would have a vocabulary larger than that of a lemon.
pardon me good sir but english is not my native language and here’s what i get from searching “pip” on google
If I farm Stronghold, you farm Stronghold, and they farm Stronghold, then Stronghold becomes not so easy to farm any longer does it? Just food for thought….
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
Sounds like somebody has no idea how to fight a condie mesmer, refuses to learn, and as a result ends up eating dirt every time he sees one.
Might I offer the advice of….l2p?
what a pathetic attempt of a personal attack, most definitely i dont lose to them
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
if salty mesmer mains cant accept they are unable to play the class without the unkillable chronobunker build they can always reroll to scrapper or rev
If salty thief mains can’t accept that they have no functional reason to ever lose to a mesmer unless they’re bad, they can always uninstall the game.
never said i lose to mesmers, my build excels in 1v1
Sure, whatever you say.
If you actually never lost to mesmers, you wouldn’t be here whining about them. Obviously there’s a little bit of defensive fabrication going on.
im here because im worried for the state of game’s health
Because Mesmers are definitely the linchpin with the state of the game’s health.
And not Eles, Revenants, or Scrappers.
None of those 3 classes need their forums trolled or anything.
No no. The deciding factor in this new meta is mesmer.
well if anet nerfed terrible mechanics in mesmer’s class they could probably buff something else which has counterplay and is not so unfun to play against
Yeah because portal, condis, stealth, and block HAVE NO COUNTER PLAY.
Those 2 seconds of stealth we have from that 1 kittening stealth skill we actually carry on our bar are SO UNBELIEVABLY UNBALANCED!
THAT ONE IMMOBILE BLUR WE HAVE IS SO UNBALANCED.
sigh
Baka
you forgot also shield and portal and invul from F4 and then you press F5 and can rotate all those again while having alacrity for reduced cooldowns in case if F5 is unavailable
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
Sounds like somebody has no idea how to fight a condie mesmer, refuses to learn, and as a result ends up eating dirt every time he sees one.
Might I offer the advice of….l2p?
what a pathetic attempt of a personal attack, most definitely i dont lose to them
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
if salty mesmer mains cant accept they are unable to play the class without the unkillable chronobunker build they can always reroll to scrapper or rev
If salty thief mains can’t accept that they have no functional reason to ever lose to a mesmer unless they’re bad, they can always uninstall the game.
never said i lose to mesmers, my build excels in 1v1
Sure, whatever you say.
If you actually never lost to mesmers, you wouldn’t be here whining about them. Obviously there’s a little bit of defensive fabrication going on.
im here because im worried for the state of game’s health
Because Mesmers are definitely the linchpin with the state of the game’s health.
And not Eles, Revenants, or Scrappers.
None of those 3 classes need their forums trolled or anything.
No no. The deciding factor in this new meta is mesmer.
well if anet nerfed terrible mechanics in mesmer’s class they could probably buff something else which has counterplay and is not so unfun to play against
dont know i’d say mesmers need something done about their portals and the endless spam of defensive cds
Personally, I have to question why we even have thieves in this game.
Isn’t being killed by a class that has perma-stealth far too cheap? I mean, what is the counter?
Hope that you know the thief is close enough, and then play one of the classes that can actually reveal the thief?
We wouldn’t even need reveals if thief didn’t exist. It’s a half-baked counter to a class with no other counter.
See, I can be salty too.
stealth is a fine mechanic, just kittened 5-2 spamming d/p thieves make it look bad and give the bad reputation to the entire thief class
as opposed to mesmers where every single build is annoying and gives the class its bad reputation
5-2 spamming, shadow refuge, D/D, smoke + shortbow 2, do I really need to continue?
Every single thief build is annoying.
Pistol/Dagger used to actually be my favorite set, because it was one of the most hilarious never-dying troll setups in this entire game.
when im speaking of annoying i dont mean simply “lel cant kill me” builds, i mean builds that also make a strong impact on the game as well
So that means literally 0 mesmer builds.
Look mate, you’re playing a thief.
Your entire job is roaming around decapping, +1’ing, and preventing the enemy roamer from doing anything.
The mesmer’s entire job is roaming around,decapping, +1ing, and placing meaningful portals for its team.
Do you see the conflict of interest here?
Do you?
Just go kill the mesmer, it’ll never do ANYTHING beneficial for its team, ever again.
Even if a mesmer burns moa on you, and manages to either kill you/get away, GUESS WHAT! You just wasted a LONG VALUABLE COOLDOWN of the mesmers.
You just did your job, by preventing the mesmer from doing his job.
It’s not a hard concept mate.
funny, often enough there are matches when i never encounter enemy thief roamers because they are mostly busy with our mid/close while im holding their close
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
Sounds like somebody has no idea how to fight a condie mesmer, refuses to learn, and as a result ends up eating dirt every time he sees one.
Might I offer the advice of….l2p?
what a pathetic attempt of a personal attack, most definitely i dont lose to them
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
if salty mesmer mains cant accept they are unable to play the class without the unkillable chronobunker build they can always reroll to scrapper or rev
If salty thief mains can’t accept that they have no functional reason to ever lose to a mesmer unless they’re bad, they can always uninstall the game.
never said i lose to mesmers, my build excels in 1v1
Sure, whatever you say.
If you actually never lost to mesmers, you wouldn’t be here whining about them. Obviously there’s a little bit of defensive fabrication going on.
im here because im worried for the state of game’s health
dont know i’d say mesmers need something done about their portals and the endless spam of defensive cds
Personally, I have to question why we even have thieves in this game.
Isn’t being killed by a class that has perma-stealth far too cheap? I mean, what is the counter?
Hope that you know the thief is close enough, and then play one of the classes that can actually reveal the thief?
We wouldn’t even need reveals if thief didn’t exist. It’s a half-baked counter to a class with no other counter.
See, I can be salty too.
stealth is a fine mechanic, just kittened 5-2 spamming d/p thieves make it look bad and give the bad reputation to the entire thief class
as opposed to mesmers where every single build is annoying and gives the class its bad reputation
5-2 spamming, shadow refuge, D/D, smoke + shortbow 2, do I really need to continue?
Every single thief build is annoying.
Pistol/Dagger used to actually be my favorite set, because it was one of the most hilarious never-dying troll setups in this entire game.
when im speaking of annoying i dont mean simply “lel cant kill me” builds, i mean builds that also make a strong impact on the game as well
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
Sounds like somebody has no idea how to fight a condie mesmer, refuses to learn, and as a result ends up eating dirt every time he sees one.
Might I offer the advice of….l2p?
what a pathetic attempt of a personal attack, most definitely i dont lose to them
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
if salty mesmer mains cant accept they are unable to play the class without the unkillable chronobunker build they can always reroll to scrapper or rev
If salty thief mains can’t accept that they have no functional reason to ever lose to a mesmer unless they’re bad, they can always uninstall the game.
never said i lose to mesmers, my build excels in 1v1
You mean your class excels at 1v1. Do you know how easy it is to kite literally any other class in this game as a thief?
Nah, who am I kidding, ofc you don’t.
You’re too busy on the mesmer forums complaining about condis on a class that cleanses that 1 condi we throw out in any quantity, with a kittening dodge roll.
And you have 3 of them.
Give us a break, and go to your own forum.
sheep build d/p thieves cant 1v1 and they never will if they are trying to win at least
dont know i’d say mesmers need something done about their portals and the endless spam of defensive cds
Personally, I have to question why we even have thieves in this game.
Isn’t being killed by a class that has perma-stealth far too cheap? I mean, what is the counter?
Hope that you know the thief is close enough, and then play one of the classes that can actually reveal the thief?
We wouldn’t even need reveals if thief didn’t exist. It’s a half-baked counter to a class with no other counter.
See, I can be salty too.
stealth is a fine mechanic, just kittened 5-2 spamming d/p thieves make it look bad and give the bad reputation to the entire thief class
as opposed to mesmers where every single build is annoying and gives the class its bad reputation
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
Sounds like somebody has no idea how to fight a condie mesmer, refuses to learn, and as a result ends up eating dirt every time he sees one.
Might I offer the advice of….l2p?
what a pathetic attempt of a personal attack, most definitely i dont lose to them
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
if salty mesmer mains cant accept they are unable to play the class without the unkillable chronobunker build they can always reroll to scrapper or rev
If salty thief mains can’t accept that they have no functional reason to ever lose to a mesmer unless they’re bad, they can always uninstall the game.
never said i lose to mesmers, my build excels in 1v1
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
Sounds like somebody has no idea how to fight a condie mesmer, refuses to learn, and as a result ends up eating dirt every time he sees one.
Might I offer the advice of….l2p?
what a pathetic attempt of a personal attack, most definitely i dont lose to them
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
if salty mesmer mains cant accept they are unable to play the class without the unkillable chronobunker build they can always reroll to scrapper or rev
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
Sounds like somebody has no idea how to fight a condie mesmer, refuses to learn, and as a result ends up eating dirt every time he sees one.
Might I offer the advice of….l2p?
what a pathetic attempt of a personal attack, most definitely i dont lose to them since i run 3 ways of condi removal in my build but the fight with them is a kittening clown circus with them spamming block, invulnerability frames, stealth and teleporting around, usually lasting until they get exhausted and make a mistake where i take them down
this combined with great mesmer portal utility actually makes them into a serious threat, especially for builds not centered around condi removals
because mesmer has easy access to the most damaging conditions – torment and confusion
and after they apply 5 stacks of confusion and 7 stacks of torment while hiding in stealth or spamming blind preventing counter-attack they just spam their endless defensive cds while you take 1.5k damage per second
you kids dont know kitten, there’s always been bullkitten professions and bullkitten builds that would kitten all over the fun for everyone
actually having only 1 scrapper build and 1 rev build ruining the fun for everyone is one of the best results Anet could ever achieve as opposed to a crapton of dumb and annoying builds we’ve used to have before
if you’re losing to a DH that’s using 3 or 4 traps on his bar, it really is a L2P issue.
yeah, how are people having trouble counterplaying invisible traps waiting to deal 100%-dead unblockable dmg in 2 seconds combined with daze, slow, immobilize and knockdown?
its so easy to counterplay!
All the traps can actually be blocked.
test of faith is unblockable, and healing trap, well even if its dodged or blocked it still heals the guardian so thats as good as undodgeable and unblockable, especially considering that in total it heals for a 8.6k whooping bullkitten HP + 1.3k regeneration
that makes 2 most used traps pretty much uncounterable and goes to show how much dhs themselves know about their class lol
its beyond me how bad people had to be to actually think that elementalist, a class with bullkitten amount of utility could be considered unviable
even if the current elem gets nerfed even further they have a crapton amount of sub-builds to which they can reroll and still dominate teamfights with their utility/support abilities
So what you’re saying is as long as ele can be just support anyone who doesn’t like playing that way is just bad?
apart of completely kittened up 12345 spammer d/d cele build (RIP in pepperoni, good riddance) elem has always been in a support/bunker role so its not like you ever had other options lol
Ah ya got spanked by bruiser ele I see now. Enough said
bruiser implies being able to kill something while not getting insta-bursted from a single rotation or proper focus, elem has never been able to have both, work on your game knowledge and taunts son
people who call staff thieves “vault spammer” are usually scrappers/reapers thinking they are pro E$L gaimers with their mad 2-3-4 skillz and 240 radius AoE
its beyond me how bad people had to be to actually think that elementalist, a class with bullkitten amount of utility could be considered unviable
even if the current elem gets nerfed even further they have a crapton amount of sub-builds to which they can reroll and still dominate teamfights with their utility/support abilities
So what you’re saying is as long as ele can be just support anyone who doesn’t like playing that way is just bad?
apart of completely kittened up 12345 spammer d/d cele build (RIP in pepperoni, good riddance) elem has always been in a support/bunker role so its not like you ever had other options lol
its beyond me how bad people had to be to actually think that elementalist, a class with bullkitten amount of utility could be considered unviable
even if the current elem gets nerfed even further they have a crapton amount of sub-builds to which they can reroll and still dominate teamfights with their utility/support abilities
5 vs 2-1-1-1 is still allowed. The cutoff for roster size differences is configurable, but it is entirely possible that match quality and queue times would not be acceptable at all ladder positions if the acceptable spread were smaller.
you cant allow full premades stomp solo players just because every other e$ports game does that, gw2 is not a moba or shooter game
shortbow skills present a good combination of damage and utility for a melee-focused class, of course all other classes have access to better ranged weapons but i’d rather see some new long-range weapon introduced to thief rather than rework shortbow
also whenever i want to do some chill pve shortbow auto attack does awesome job tagging as many mobs as possible for me :]
would be better if they eliminated the ability to use them offensively by adding about 0.5 sec arm time on every pile of crap engi leaves from slick shoes
i cant recall any guild wars lore event where some people would arrive to a newly found land and begin slaughtering its natives in horrifying numbers so i suppose that means thanksgiving doesnt exist in guild wars
wot do? depends on your class lol you can put a trap if you are DH and watch how they melt or if you are thief you just sb 5 away from them
simply walking away from condi bot thief in any direction works too since they have no way to damage you while you move even if you are crippled since d/d 3 has a laughable speed and damage radius
