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its one button for a stun, an evade and huge damage, with 0 cooldown.
it might not be OP at the top tier pvp, but for everyday players its a one-button-for-everything skill that is obviously going to get abused.

style.6173:

The problem in general is that the new maps by ANET are gimmicky and not balanced. Give us good maps for fights in the spirit of forest, forefire, and khylo.

agreed, imho they tried too hard to make skyhammer unique.
sorry Anet but we don’t want unique, we want more maps like foefire,
3 bases, nice and simple and perhaps a secondary objective like the lord thrown in.
screw your cannons and death falls, we want a simple, balanced pvp arena.

with the exceptions of water combat and NPCs, skyhammer is everything we don’t want in a pvp map.

i guess i should pick my one reason XD
i’ll go for the fact that it requires a whole other class and build setup,
this means it should NOT be in the same queue as the other maps

in the gw2 version of rock>paper>scissors we can just select warrior and tear up your paper, smash your scissors and pummel your rock to dust.

krippler.9826:

You guys just aren’t representative of the masses that don’t use the forums and love Skyhammer.

the only people who love skyhammer are trolls, sadists and masochists.
forum or not, you could take a vote in the mists for who would like skyhammer to be removed (either entirely or atleast put in a skyhammer only queue).
i’d bet the majority will voice the same hatred for suckhammer as you see on the forums

totally agree, glory works, the rewards need changing, not the currency.

personally the idea of moving over to gold scares me, you see PVEers running around with THOUSANDS of gold in their wallets, while us pvp commoners are scrounging for pennies,

the idea that a dedicated PVEer can come in and purchase far more pvp rewards than a dedicated pvper can is frankly insulting!

Justin ODell.9517:

We will have more news soon™

and there it is XD

since 2012 everything has been “exciting new features, coming soon.™
“balance patch we’ll really enjoy, coming soon.™
“we’re really excited about what we have in the works! coming soon.™
after a year of "soon"™, very little has changed.

lets say that an ele has 20k hp (which is reeeeaaaally generous for an ele)
10% is only 2000,

what the hell are you doing if you can’t even manage 2k damage…
throw a fire sigil in to your set or something.

even bunkers can do 2k damage.

yiishing.9057:

nerf rock, paper is fine
greets, scissors

paper>rock
rock>scissors
scissors>paper
warrior>rock
warrior>paper
warrior>scissors

Wintel.4873:

Liewec.2896:

ele is a very high risk, very high reward class, the problem is that other classes can get the same reward with very little effort or risk.

Umm so why on earth would you say Ele is a “very high risk, very high reward” class? In what context, compared to what? If others can get the exact same reward, why would you even use the words “very high”?
English/logic fail or am I missing something here…

i run my ele full glass, and if you play it right you can get your aoes on the point before the enemy know where you are, within seconds they are all either downed or off the point, but like you said, other times you can get focused and you’re extremely squishy.

i’ve played both as, and against glass eles and if we can get our aoes on point,
things melt.
high risk, high reward.

like i said before, ele isn’t the problem, the problem is that a class like warrior have low risk/high reward which just totally screws over any class that is high risk/high reward.

ele should be the template that Anet use for balancing classes like warrior.

i too was extremely disappointed with the trait, i was hoping that it would allow the guardian to be sort of a crusader/paladin build (especially with the also underwhelming Litany of Wrath)
i agree that the healing needs an increase, but i think it should keep its current function of healing per target hit, just healing for alot more than it currently does. (perhaps 150 per target?)

in tournament games a glass staff ele can be the difference betweena win or a loss,
if played right you can dish out a colossal amount of damage on a large area.

also i hear support bunker eles at the higher skill levels are pretty darn incredible in team fights (though i don’t play bunker ele)

and scepter ele can put out ridiculously insane burst with the right combos.

ele is a very high risk, very high reward class, the problem is that other classes can get the same reward with very little effort or risk.

Simon.3794:

Liewec.2896:

axe war is my fave zerker, i would say that it eats thieves for breakfast,
but thieves are just the appetizer!

oh you went in to stealth? excuse me while i do a 12k cyclone with 2×3k dodge rolls

offhand isnt even close to viable

as people keep saying, because they don’t play it,
how is 10-12k damage combined with 6k damage and evading all incoming damage not viable to you? (you can dodge while channelling it).

i’ve been using axe/axe in tournaments and melt bunkers with ease,
so when the sheep keep calling it “not viable”.
ask those bunkers if it is viable, or the glass cannons i hit with 11k executes

but lets not derail this thread, this is about tasty zerker thieves

and the best part is, with glory gone, gold will be the currency, so PVEers win again.

kokiman.2364:

Buy those coffers for 200glory. If you are lucky you can salvage some phoenix/dragon tokens from them.

you also get loads of dyes, i got a midnight fire dye (7g) just yesterday

axe war is my fave zerker, i would say that it eats thieves for breakfast,
but thieves are just the appetizer!

oh you went in to stealth? excuse me while i do a 12k cyclone with 2×3k dodge rolls

Chaith.8256:

- #4: Detailed match end statistics that matter. Kills(sending enemy into downed state)/Deaths/Assists – Damage, Healing, Boons Removed, Conditions removed, Revives, Stomps, Neutralizes, Captures. (Possibly even display the amulet/enhancements/trait distribution at the match-end scoreboard)

yes so we can see the warriors topping everything except boon removal XD

on a more serious note, i definitely agree with adding templates, for both armour and specs just like in GW1, i have something like 8 chars and use multiple specs across all professions, its such a pain having to remember what gear and trait setup i use for which spec.

Meta Lica
Noskills Nelly
Hambow Henry
Borderline Exploits
E Z Mode Mary
;)

c’mon devs,
come march 18th you’re actually taking a large part of pvp away from us with the removal of glory and the vendors,
and all you’re leaving us with is a vague hint that we “might” enjoy something in the feature build that “might” be released in afew months time…

why all the cloak & dagger? we’re in dire need of reasons to not move on to other games, so if you have something that you think we “might” enjoy, you should probably tell us before there are very few of us left to “maybe” enjoy it.

you can’t expect us to linger around for half a year with one game mode and no content on nothing but a vague answer that we might enjoy something…

for the Sheldons out there…

i made a huge fat half naked norn mesmer dude with the giant moustache,
(complete with pink slippers) just for teh lulz.

for a start they could listen,
a good example of this would be skyhammer,
there has been an outcry for that god-awful map to be removed from the queues since it was first added and it is still in the solo and hotjoin rotations.

secondly they could give us a little more communication,
they tell us that the “leaked” patch notes are fake, sure, but why not give us a preview of the real patch notes so we can give them a heads up before-hand on if they’re about to ruin pvp and then make us wait another 1/4 year for a patch that “might” balance it.

events, advertised events!
recently they gave us a “bonus rank points on wins” weekend, but it was very poorly advertised unlike pve events which are on the patcher, on the webpage and pop up in game.

more pvp events for bonus gold/rank etc would be a great carrot on a rather empty stick.

hotjoin is a zergfest of lame builds.
tournaments is a fuster cluck of hambow warriors and decap engis rolling their faces across the keyboard, and also afew other EZmode meta builds thrown in.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

[enter class here] are getting some nice stuff.

Stay tuned.

someone really needs to make a Tshirt of all of these Anet responses XD

i dont think anyone is really a fan of RNG in any aspect of pvp.
it should be about using the skills for what you want,
not hope and pray for something good to determine if you win the fight.

i don’t play engi much but i know that feels when you’re getting bombarded with projectiles and throw down what you hope is a guardian barrier and it ends up being a shadow field…so you die.
the fight should not depend on random chance.

neko beat me too it, but yeah, nade engis can keep up 20-25 stacks of vulnerable for pretty much ever without any cooldowns or careful planning needed, just grenade 1-5 skills

also warriors can get quite afew stacks off, and the last thing we need is giving warriors 5-10% extra damage :P

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Hey guys, just wanted to pop in here and state that come the release of the feature build players will no longer be able to carry the orb while in a transform..

“finally! those Rampage warriors won’t be able to carry the orb!”
said noone ever. XD

i think what everyone wants is for ALL skills to be disable while orb carrying, so certain professions don’t get unfair advantages because they lucked out in the map rotation.

it should be up to the team to cover the carrier as they try to run the orb.
it shouldn’t simply be team A has a greatsword warrior, so they win.

i’d say bow though i mostly pvp (where it is a thousand times better)
when i was levelling i just loved the aoe of the bow

i used to really hate this map,
but then skyhammer was added to show me what real hate is.

though crapricorn comes in 2nd (for NPCs and water)
Khylo comes in 3rd (for the trebs)

Human’s Avatar of Melandru has a nice aoe root whiche applies bleeds,
Norns Snow Leopard is the ultimate WvW zerg escape button (though FGS is great)
Asuras are good in pvp just because they’re so dam small, but they’re also annoying.
Charr can summon some NPCs
Sylvari are just…boring.

Mister Fluffkin.7358:

Pretty obvious that your opponents are quite new to this game

well this video was uploaded only 3 months after release,
so everyone was new to the game XD

thats way too sensible!
i prefer Anets idea of making people use 200-300 hours worth of boosters within the next 2 weeks.
totally makes sense!

i’m not sure if i even started playing skyhammer, one round was enough,
NEVER AGAIN.

ah good ole’ EoE!
could you imagine the hate that the devs would get for adding that? XD

Seryi.7936:

tl;dr – Warriors are extremely powerful in their current state. In other news, triangles have three sides.

Also, learn what a paragraph is. Nobody’s going to read a massive block of text.

agreed, i just clicked the picture and that was enough to know what the giant wall of text was about XD

Razor.6392:

Even if they deleted every other class but mesmer and thief, I would still NEVER put 30 points in fire.

i dunno, personally i love having 10 stacks of might on my glass staff

thats 2.8k per life blast, thats not anything amazing.
other classes can do that with auto attacks.
the last hit of my warriors auto chain has crit for over 6k before in pvp, with all of the other fast hits in the chain doing 2-3k, my dodge rolls also crit 3k.

supposedly something huge and amazing that they’ve decided not to tell us about so we can’t give them feedback before hand.
so if you hate it, sorry you’re stuck with it (think skyhammer)

in seriousness though i think they’re planning on letting you use your pvp appearance in pve and vice/versa

personally i love playing glass staff ele!
if you can get a nice position to rain death down on the point without getting noticed you WILL melt everything.

and the most hilarious times are when the enemy try to revive eachother and all end up going down too!

but yes, if you get targeted, you’re pretty much dead.

its high risk/high reward, which would seem so worth it if there wasn’t classes like warrior with low risk/high reward…

as has been said before, the problem isn’t ele being bad,
its other classes having everything far too easy.

i think he means that skills like rocket boots which propel you will propel you further with swiftness

while i in no way think it is OP there is a super secret (that works with both thief and warrior versions) that makes them really great.
and i’ve noticed noone has mentioned it yet,
you can dodge while channelling!

for warriors this means that you also get around 6k damage from the damaging dodge trait (as a glass warrior in pvp)

and for a thief with endurance return trait it means you can get 3 dodge rolls off in the middle of a group without worrying about CC and dying

its weird that in GW1 Mending was a heal over time that was regarded as being pretty crappy, and healing signet was a burst heal with the highest healing per second of any healing skill

and now mending is a relatively lackluster heal and healing signet is a HoT thats regarded as being incredibly OP.

perhaps they could make mending just a big heal kinda like GW1 healing signet (except obviously without a 4 second cooldown lol)

judging by AI builds getting buffed, warriors avoiding an actual nerf and the reliability of previous leaked notes i’d still say that many of these notes are probably accurate even if some were changed/removed.

actually a little disappointed! atleast with the ele and thief changes not being real.
would have loved extra might on my glass staff ele and trying out new builds on an improvisation thief!

fake or not, the bar has been set Anet, it’d be embarrassing if some guy making fake notes makes a better patch than the one you’ve had us waiting 4 months for

edit: though there was alot of AI buffing, which would have sucked! (turrets and spirit weapons) that’d make warrior thief and ele the only profs that aren’t spamming AI (though thieves and eles can still get AI, its not a center of their build)

Fenrir.3609:

Heezdedjim.8902:

Liewec.2896:

most warrior builds can work with little to no effort.
i made a post afew weeks ago about my zerker axe warrior that hits like a truck,
and the key thing about the build is that you don’t weapon swap or activate any of your utilities, its literally just your 5 skills and dodge roll (and swapping weapons if you need to leave the fight to recover), its a very causal build that anyone can play
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/AXEZERKER-very-fun-impractical-build-D/

but if you want really really casual play, become a hambow clone, but beware,
you’ll get all of the hate that users of that build deserve XD

I like it. It’s so lame that it somehow manages to go all the way around and become awesome again.

It also leaves you with nothing to do except try to hit stuff and not get hit back. Seems like it could be very useful as a basic training build.

Try whatever you fancy and I mean no offense whatsoever to the guy who posted that build but why would you attempt to learn/improve upon your pvp abilities using a build which doesn’t promote any active utility use at all, which uses a god awful off hand weapon and doesn’t demonstrate the importance of condi clear and stability?

It just looks like it would get you in the wrong mindset and make you pick up bad habits from the start. Things which are hard to get out of sometimes.

the guy asked for a simple build, and thats about the most simple build i have (and its fun and hits like a truck) XD

currently solo queue has no purpose, everyone just solo queues for team, solo queue is just team queue with less rewards.
as silvermember pointed out, no skyhammer, better rewards XD

i’d imagine the skins will be like the achievement unlocks, so you can make as many as you like once you’ve unlocked them, but thats just what i think they’d do XD

i hear equipt items won’t be deleted, so make sure you equip all of your duplicate weapons just incase :P

most warrior builds can work with little to no effort.
i made a post afew weeks ago about my zerker axe warrior that hits like a truck,
and the key thing about the build is that you don’t weapon swap or activate any of your utilities, its literally just your 5 skills and dodge roll (and swapping weapons if you need to leave the fight to recover), its a very causal build that anyone can play
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/AXEZERKER-very-fun-impractical-build-D/

but if you want really really casual play, become a hambow clone, but beware,
you’ll get all of the hate that users of that build deserve XD

biggest thing i noticed was that you have 2373g :S

i honestly don’t know what to do with glory boosters,

on one hand they’ve told us that our hard earned (or purchased) boosters are going to be deleted, so we should try to use them.

on the other hand a part of me is hoping they will see peoples outcry about simply deleting something we’ve paid for, so i feel i might want to save them incase of that.

i’d say for now you should just keep using them a couple at a time, incase they do decide to compensate us for our remaining boosters.

happened to me hitting 39 a month or 2 back too.