Guild Wars 2

of all my characters the one i seem to find best when facing decap is my full glass axe warrior,
you can deal colossal damage with reckless dodge+whirling axe (you can dodge while channelling it) and follow it up with an eviscerate.

in short the only way to beat a decap is to bury them in damage.

the zergfest of meta clones is bad enough in hotjoin,
could you imagine if win/lose meant nothing?

there would be no need for anyone to do anything except mindlessly zerg middle aoe tagging as many people as you can.

i’ve been asking for a skyhammer server, not because i like skyhammer I HATE IT
but they should remove it from all other rotations and have afew servers with just skyhammer so the trolls can spam knockbacks as much as they like while the rest of us play the real game

it would also mean that the rest of us don’t have to switch servers everytime the rotation gets back around to skyhammer.

just know that when you switch away from your SB you’ll lose the bloodlust stacks after the patch so all of those on kill sigils are pretty worthless to anyone who plans on switching weapons

switching the burn to deathshroud will give necros the new ability to spike with their condis without the RNG.
since deathshroud gives you an instant fear and you can now control when you cause burning, you can trigger both at the same time.

pop deathshroud 5 causing torment,
pop deathshroud 1+3 causing burning and terror at the same time.
thats pretty impressive damage.

yes it might not be as brainless as spamming auto attacks to cause burning, poison and bleed, but this change was needed, good condi necros will still like dhuumfire.

they need to do this.
it is ridiculous that some racial elites have 240 second recharge.

if you play WvW and ask anet why your racial skills are useless they will tell you “we don’t want race to be a factor”

so how exactly do they explain asuras? those midgets with poorly choreographed skills, asuras have a huge advantage in pvp scenarios, their hard to spot skill casts and small size is far greater than any racial skill.

Brigg.6189:

RIP in peace 2nd best warrior minor

my favourite is actually Reckless Dodge, i regularly crit for 4k with dodge rolls XD

but i’d guess you were talking about Adrenal Healing for the best?

are you high?
warriors have such an incredibly low risk/high reward ratio that if you can’t win duels with one you should probably stick to pve XD

when i play my obscenely OP warrior i like to stand there and dance while other classes attempt to break through the insane passive health regen.

don’t help people to become clones, meta clones are a cancer in pvp,
noone should help create another clone.

in Gw1 pvp every build had a counter so there was never an invincible meta,
if hammer warriors were annoying you you could play a blinding ele,
if blinding eles were annoying you you could play an anti spell devish,
if anti spell dervish were annoying you you could play a hammer warrior.

the game had infinitely more options than GW2 and yet was infinitely more balanced.
you could experiment with wack class combos and still be viable in pvp.

the game had rewarding pvp titles and rank emotes

and yes, multiple game modes.

GW2 has a great combat system, it just seems like such potential for the best pvp game is wasted, one game mode, aweful balance, meta builds that remain unbalanced after 6 months.
is this the same Anet that made quite possibly the best pvp MMO in history?

+1!
after 6 months hammer warriors can still crit for 6-7k
knock hammer damage down by atleast 30% on all hammer skills,
its a CC weapon with its traits in a tank set,
it shouldn’t be hitting for glass cannon damage.

p/p is just for fun, you won’t be winning any tournaments with it (yet)

but i’m rank 43 and love to play p/p thief in hotjoins, the spec i use is literally just spamming 3 for unload, its pretty fun for a mindless game or two

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-cRRV;1ZwV0-N5JOkd0;9;4JT;0J59-48A;439-5JV4;2sV2DsV2D5Ba

it literally is all out glass and just spams unload XD
deals pretty impressive damage, especially when it ricochets!

i think after the feature patch i’ll definitely be trying out the 5% healing on critical hits trait!

i love spamming unload ricochet with signet of malice in hotjoin,
130 hp for every hit, 8 hits per unload with a 50% chance per hit to bounce to another target and then a 50% chance to bounce again!

i can’t wait for the 5% of damage becomes healing trait to add on to that it’s going to be hilarious. :P

btw i’m not trolling either, i really do find ricochet unload is fun for hotjoins :P
(obviously its not a serious spec you’d use for tournaments)

Nova Stiker.8396:

The one thing power has that conditions does not is that power differs from skill is that the damage output differs from skill to skill. Allowing some skills like backstab and Hundred Blades to hit extremely hard in a small burst.

a single terrormancer popping burning and fear at the same time is no different to a warrior using 100b, the target will drop fast!
(and with the new patch a necro can cause burning and fear at the exact same time with a dhuum Lifeblast and instant cast Doom fear.)

i dont think anything is impossible to balance, just compare it to everything else,
its damage, its spammability and its bonus utility.
so you can balance the skills which cause the conditions.

if things were dying unnaturally fast to a necro spamming scepter auto attacks you could lower the condition durations which would in turn lower the damage.
this is no difference than directly lowering the damage of a direct damage auto attacks.

no counter play? how about you deal 2k damage?
thats what? a few auto attacks? or 1-2 hits from your flesh golem?

somehow can’t manage to deal 2k damage? (in some crazy alternate universe)
just slot lightning sigil, 3 second cooldown, around 1500 damage.

honestly 10% of an eles health is nothing.
i don’t like the trait because i feel it is too weak
the moment someone looks at an ele that ele loses 10% of their hp.

it was fun when it wasn’t so badly out of balance,
before hambow, when you could have decent group fights it was pretty fun.

my bet is on a team of warriors with the new aoe buff sharing, they could work some magic with perma 25 might stacks and greatswords lol

or a team of crit immune conjure eles all pulling out fiery greatswords and nuking things so fast you won’t even see down state!

but lets face it, it’ll probably just be hambows like normal.

i made all of my glory and mats into dye, i made all of my laurels into dye.
i sold all for those dyes for a few silver each, a week later the value of dyes rises 2000% XD

so you can’t take time out of auto attacking to cast 1 life blast?
besides, after the patch 5% of all of your condition damage will heal you,
think about that when using epidemic in team fights.

5% may seem small, 6 health per second per bleed stack, but you can quite easily keep up 10 or more bleed stacks (60hps) throw in poison, terror plus your burning and torment from deathshroud and you can quite easily get it up to almost healing signet values, but you still have your healing skill aswell.

indeed, defiant stance works just like Mark of Protection from GW1 which was a monk skill, and guardians have pretty much taken all of the old monk skills.
like smite condition, contemplation of purity, smiters boon, healing breeze etc.

it would have fitted guardian so well.
warriors will never use it aslong as healing signet remains godly.

perko.8309:

I guess it’s easier to make your point when you ignore the facts.
Hambow has been nerfed multiple times in the last 6 months.
Do us a favor and do your homework before you post.

ironically you ignored the part about me critting people for 5-6k with hammer just last night, and then you tell me that i should read before i post.

yes its been nerfed several times, but by unnoticable amounts, there is no excuse why i can still roll around 3 shotting people after six months.

its a CC weapon with its traits in a bunker tree, it should not be capable of glass cannon damage with all the benefits of a CCing weapon and a tanking traits.
the damage needs a huge nerf not unnoticable tickles over years of time.

i always wondered how you hambows, PW thieves and decap engis would attempt to justify ruining the game for everyone else with your low risk/high reward builds.

ignore the people telling you to play hammer warrior that build isn’t very good and is incredibly difficult to play!
you should play axe/axe ranger with a bear, thats the current meta!

this is still happening, i just googled to see if its just me but i guess not

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

wow that gold! you dont need to get it from drop you can buy any precursor with that gold.

you could buy every single legendary multiple times with that gold lol

as the title says!

for the past half a year whenever we’ve talked about OP builds getting nerfed we’ve been told that an all magical patch is coming along that will balance them.
but the balance changes covered in the ready up are incredibly underwhelming,

so the question is , will there be more balance changes in the patch?
i’m hoping the unnoticeably small nerfs to hambow isn’t all we can expect after the 6 month we’ve waited endured.

if you’ve learnt anything from the past half a year of hambow it should be that Anet will never balance warrior.
they don’t want to.
it wont happen.
sadly thats just how it is.

i’d like the “conjurer” trait to do more, perhaps grant an extra 20 seconds to the weapons duration or reduce their recharge by 20% (or both!)

also flame axe needs a huge boost, its just WEAK and it is intended to be the ranged dps conjure.

azuzephyr.7280:

Liewec.2896:

viola, you have the current cesspool of filthy builds that we call hotjoin.

The builds are exactly the same in ranked matches.

agreed that ranked also have the same issue,
but there are an extra 6 people thrown in to the hotjoin cesspool,
plus there is no structure so you won’t be fighting 1/2/3 of them at a time,
there will be a mindless zerg of meta clones rolling around the maps.

i like to play fun builds in hotjoin, i have done since release,
and while it has always put me at a disadvantage against the meta builds it has never been as bad as in this meta,

the current meta builds are just so low risk/high reward that it makes playing as anything else just not fun.

you do have the odd games were there are no meta clones and its really fun,
games full of people using different builds with different strengths and weaknesses,
but they usually end up getting ruined in the end by some idiot with his copy/paste god build joining the game.

hotjoin right now is in its worst state ever,
i feel its all down to the meta and the devs inability/unwillingness to balance their game.
every single match will have multiple hambow clones rolling their gormless faces across their keyboards, aswell as the usual PWthieves displaying their skills at smashing “3” repeatedly, throw in a condi warrior, terrormancer or MM, afew PU/shatter mesmers and ofcourse a decap engi and viola, you have the current cesspool of filthy builds that we call hotjoin.

as everyone said, the guild wars were an event in gw lore
also if you want war between guilds just go to WvW

you also forgot:
give us a different button for talking to NPC and Looting.
“hail stranger!” “what can i do for you?” “how can i help?” you can let me pick up my dam loot!

account UNLOCKED gemstore sickles/salvage kit etc,
sure they’re account bound but when you have 10 or more characters it really sucks hopping between characters to find out who has which and then put them all in the bank just because you want to have a little play on one of your characters!
they need to add it to an unlocks window like the hellfire/radiant gear and the zenith weapon skins so we can easily grab them on alts without the need for 5 minutes of relogging,
what is the point of a quality of life real money tool when it takes more time relogging and getting to the bank multiple times than simply buying ingame tools?

Rifky.9321:

Liewec.2896:

how much longer is the bobblehead thing gonna go on for?
i understand that some people like it,
i laughed for awhile but got bored and am looking forward to normal looks again.

Here (it’s 22:13) everything’s back to normal already (I did see big heads about one hour ago). I guess it depends on a time zone.

lucky, its 23:10 here and its still active, some people have said they’ve relogged and its gotten rid of it, but it won’t work for me >_<

“you WILL laugh at our joke, even if we have to force you too!”
its just gotten stale Anet.
was a little funny on first log in, but got boring real fast, hours later i just want it GONE.

how much longer is the bobblehead thing gonna go on for?
i understand that some people like it,
i laughed for awhile but got bored and am looking forward to normal looks again.

it was funny, but its been up for far too long,
traditionally you stop after mid day.
“april fools has been and gone and you’re the fool for carrying on”

though i agree with the guy above me, aslong as they remove it tomorrow and don’t break anything during the patching then there is no harm done,
just an overly elongated joke that started off funny :P

there are 2 armour sets that aren’t available in pve
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Masquerade_armor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Commando_armor

since you’re 40 there is also priory and vigil armour which you can only get if you do the personal story and pick their faction (people like the medium vigil leggings in particular because they’re super skimpy on female chars)

theres also the Paid tournament “super crits” (getting really really luck)
like Dwayna’s Longbow,
Magma’s Arm (which shares its skin with a legendary precursor)
Dwayna’s Shortbow (which also shares its skin with a legendary precursor)
and Lava Axe (same skin as ele conjure) etc.
(all of which worth hundreds of gold each)

if you have glory to burn and nothing to buy the make dyes, the prices have sky rocketed, you can start the new patch with plenty of gold to spend on unlocking traits and amulets :P

google.3709:

BUT BUT BUT….. what about my….

Perplexity PU mesmer
Perplexity Decap engi
Perplexity Condi warrior ( 9 confussion on interrupt lols)
Perplexity Terrormancer
*Perplexity Headshot spam teef! *
Perplexity Spirit Ranger

why spam headshot when mindless meta thieves can simply continue to spam pistol whip, the stun will trigger perplexity too,
so now pistol whip will stun, damage, evade and apply confusion.

Soinetwa.5193:

that skull bone staff (srry dont know its name in english >_<)
was my favourite skin in gw1 and id love to give it to my nek..

its a staff called Deathwish in pve and you can grab it for relatively cheap on the auction house, atleast i did, but that was before they announced the wardrobe, demand might have gone up.

bhagwad.4281:

….. recognition of time spent in PvP? The more time, the more recognition? Reaching r60, 65, or 70 requires a ton of dedication (please no skyhammer replies. It’s overblown).

why no skyhammer replies?
i’ve met shark skyhammer farmers and even one phoenix skyhammer farmer.

i understand your issue, people who have put in real effort should be able to display that effort, but rank is’nt it.
the moment skyhammer was introduced rank became worthless.

you can take a little bit of joy in knowing that all of those idiots who gained their fake ranks by jumping down a hole will now be stuck in matches with all of the actual rank 60s and 70s, they’ll be eaten alive.

isolatedchimp.2510:

I agree. If you’re going to use the shaving approach then do it more often. It’s freaking sad and infuriating that I took a year break from the game and there’s been maybe 3 balance patches

what this guy said^
things like hambow have been around for 6 months, and if i remember right they only had one single patch in which they were slightly nerfed.
this is a RIDICULOUS approach to balance, there should be big sweeping changes,
mix up the meta and do it often, keep things fresh.
the current cess pool has been allowed to settle for far to long, it wreaks with all of the vile builds that have festered ontop of the surface.
decap drones, PW scrubs and hambow clones,
nerf them to hell and let more interesting builds rise.

ah the pvp designer plays hambow, finally i understand now how the build has gone practically unchanged for SIX MONTHS despite the thousands of threads written against it,
i was beginning to think it was just sheer neglect, nice to find out it is just intended bias…

i’d love to join in making jokes if i could find something funny about the dire state of pvp balance and the sheer amount of time it has been this way.

i see nothing funny about every single match having atleast 3 of these mindless drones.
but i’m glad to see the devs find it amusing.

not gonna lie, before skyhammer showed us all what true “map hatred” is i thought i hated Capricorn.
a point underwater (noone likes water combat),
the sharks mean even more NPCs than you’re average MM,Clone,Spirit fest.
plus the cannon, i’m not a fan of cannons/trebs/skyhammers and all of those cheap “i killed you from half the map away” weapons.

but if they removed the water and sharks thats 2/3 of my dislikes sorted!

but like “everythingends” said, they won’t change it.
it takes 6 months for them to make unnoticeably small nerfs to overpowered builds,
and that is just tweaking some numbers,
can you imagine how long it would take them to rebuild a pvp map? lol

exii.8913:

So what you basicly want to say is that a palette of maps which playstyle is much more different to others should be restriced?

what i (and most other players want) is to simply have skyhammer removed from the queues and rotations, compared with every other map in the rotation it requires different classes, different builds, with entirely different playstyles, as the form of “combat” (i use that term loosely) is entirely different, based around simply spamming knockbacks until one of you falls down a hole.
it does not belong in the standard rotation.

let the trolls (and random masochists who enjoy getting stealth pulled/knocked to instant death) join custom arenas for skyhammer,
or add an entirely separate queue for afew servers that only run skyhammer.

i hope skyhammer enjoys some nice april showers

its odd to with the shear amount of negative feedback that the map has.
yet they seem to have removed Capricorn on a whim.
(come april 15th there will be no capricorn, but trollhammer will still remain.)

everyone hates the map, remove it from rotations already!
keep it in the game for custom arenas only, so the trolls can spam their knockbacks all they like without the rest of us having to join in.

if perplexity runes do make it to pvp i’d make a knockback condi guard now that they can make retaliation scale with condi damage, imagine multiple stacks of confusion plus high damage retaliation each time they hit you?
totally ridiculous lol plus 33% more damage from burns that guard are getting.

Lux.7169:

Honestly this update (terrible pvp ‘rewards’ and max lvl achieved instantly by 2,000+ players) will mean a mass exodus of good players.

terrible rewards? people rank 70 now will be getting tons of the max rank chests which can have legendary precursors and mats in them.

what reward would you want?

i think this new format is great with the unlocks as progression tracks, even pvp only back armour to work towards.

BurrTheKing.8571:

These runes are one of the few that have a really interesting effect that really changes how you build your character.

yes sure, lets look at meta:
Hambow, Decap, PWthief.

Hambow, based around spamming hammer attacks, which all CC…
which will apply confusion.

Decap engi, spams knockbacks…
which will apply confusion.

PW thief spams PW for stun, damage, evade…
which will apply confusion.

(dis)honourable mention to terrormancer too, which already deals ridiculously high condi damage based around spamming fear, they’re getting a trait which heals them for a percentage of their condi damage too, and now their fears will apply confusion too.

and mesmer interrupts are getting a massive buff so there will be alot of mesmers trying out interrupt specs, perplexity runes will be a no brainer for them.

basically the entire meta will gain a huge benefit from these,
it’ll be confusion meta.

i’d hope that in the upcomming 3 part “facilitating friendly play” that a report feature is included.

i agree with you that its ridiculous how some attention seeking kitten can freely waste our time, and we can’t do anything because if we leave we’ll be the ones with a temp ban.

they need a multi functional report feature.

phase 1.
atleast 2 minutes must pass before anyone can be reported.
this gives everyone enough time to load in and see who is active

phase 2.
3 people on the same team as the attention seeking kitten (ASW) click report.
3 people seems fair since in the odd occasion that you get 2 trolls or afkers or one person who doesn’t know how to report.

phase 3.
if the ASW hasn’t earned points yet then they’re kicked and get dishonourable as though they’d quit.
if they have earned points then the ASW gets a warning that they’ve been flagged,
they have 30 seconds to gain score points.
if they haven’t earned any points after 2 minutes and they’ve been reported they are more than likely a troll/afk, remember it still needs 3 people to report.
this also prevents afkers from simply helping to cap close and then afking the rest of the game.

phase 4.
if they do it then they’re unflagged, if they don’t they’re kicked and get the same penalty as though they’d quit. (dishonourable stacks)
the time could be changed but it shouldn’t be hard to jump in and earn points.
this is mostly for wrongly accused people anyway who will likely already be active.
trolls dancing in their underwear at spawn will be screwed.

that system will either force the ASW to participate or get kicked and also it will prevent people from kicking players that are participating.
seems fair?

also anet don’t need to waste staff investigating before any action is taken.

wait, is this actually happening? :S
if so brace yourself for the confusion meta!

hambow hammer stuns+knockback/down count as interrupts.
as do decap engi’s 100000 knockbacks.
terrormancer fears do too if i remember right.
and mesmer powerblock trait will see alot of mesmers focusing on interrupts.
pw thieves have an instant cast interrupt with no cooldown.

are there any meta builds that wouldn’t be massively buffed by this? XD

confusion is just a bad trait for pvp,
these runes (unless being massively changed) should never be accessible in pvp.