Isn’t this just HGH being played in a meta 2x beyond it? If you want to see better videos of “your” build just look up ostricheggs vods almost a year ago.
Pretty sure the dude only ever had vids for power rifle HGH or P/P condi with explosive powder or IP+sigil of geomancy respectively.
I get the feeling Holtz has done the same as me. I started playing celestial rifle 6/4/4 but wasn’t 100% happy with the play style and after some tweeking here and some tweeking there, I was 1 trait away from HGH. A few games later and yeah… I’ve been using this build in PvP for about the last 3 months.
This is also my main problem with your p/p or p/s builds. Every build that is able to condibomb you wins. Necro is special because he hardcounter the condis in general. Also bleeding survival ranger with toons of condi removal are not easy to beat.
This simply is not correct. I played 29 games. Won 14 and lost 15. I played solo and I have 15 points on the leaderboards. I lost some games like 1xx:500 and some 2xx:500. In both cases I should get -1. Maybe I had 1 or 2 games where I won against a group with just solos. So I maybe got +2 twice. But I have 15 points. I misclicked once at cancel while the pop-up showed up, so this is also a loss I guess.
In EU the meta Rifle build also forced the most good engi player to play the rifle build. Zananan from 55HPMonkeys also plays it. I guess because the meta changed to have more control and with slik shoes and engi is able to 1on1 even a terrormancer.
yes but No.4 in the leaderboards and a guy with 78% in one match? And the No.4 is playing a lot of games during prime time. I asked if someone is pregrouped and the No.64 and No 384 were but not the 78% guy .
I am at 90% and on my first ranked Que match (at 9.p.m. CET in EU) yesterday I was matched against the No. 4 player from the leaderboards. I checked all names from my team (added them to friend list so it is easy to see the rating and checked the names from the opponent team at gw2 score) and the teams are ok. Our team was like: No 64+No. 384+No. 881+me at 91% at this time + Someone at 78%.
Opponents team was like : No.4+ No.122+No.683+x+x (the last two are not at the leaderboards and I did not added them to friend list so I do not know the rating)
It is ok for me to be matched with good players but I am not sure if the Top 100 player is so happy to play with me or my teammates.
The que time was <1min. I guess it is ok to wait an additional minute but to get players at the same level.
yes I understand. But looking at the guide it looks like a mesmer can kill everything but thief. And looking at the low and mid skill games where the rotations are mostly bad the mesmer is killing like a truck. Maybe on top tier games the teams are rotating to the mesmer so he is not that powerful. But the mesmer is the only char at the moment that kills someone < 5sec. Going healthpool from 100% to 10% after 1 shatter looks funny in top tier games.
how it is possible ? You can simply kill everyone in 1on1 but thief.
We see in top games like the finals in china that phanta fights rom for hours. A mesmer does not have to fight that long. Many teams playing cele engi and you wrote in your guide that this matchup is easy for you. So why do not isolate the engi vs mesmer and your team rotate to different points so that the mesmer can kill and cap one point.
In the current meta with ele, engi, warrior nobody can touch you in 1on1
I agree I like the changes too. And I love the way Anet is doing this. They take step by step into the right direction.
But some stuff is still open.
Look at the stream from hibify. He played over and over against the same person. Hibify played something like 18:3 games and the other guy is at 11:24. On Hibifys stream I can see him in 5 games and once with hibify and 4 times against him in a row. Looks like a lot of work still open for ANet.
I just want to discuss.
Pros:
- Can 1v1 almost any class except for Cele D/D
Do you think this is what pvp needs? A class that destroy everything in 1vs1?
A d/d cele ele can 1v1 almost any class. So why do we need a second build doing this?
You always get at least 1 point for winning, and lose 1 point for a loss.
Sorry if someone already mentioned this. This is incorrect. You will always get at least 1 point for a win, but you will not always lose 1 point for a loss.
The full range for a win is +1 to +3. The full range for a loss is -3 to +2.
if this is correct why Ostricheggs has 14 games won 1 lost and he has 9 points?
lets asume for every win +1 makes 14 points. For 1 loss -3 is 11 not 9
the problem with unranked queue is possible that you are matched to top teams .
I played with 2 colleagues that decided to give GW2 a shot. Both less then 50 games played. Unfortnately the new matchmaking made them go away again.
The problem was we lost 3 games in a row. All three games were fun. We lost 4xx to 500 and my colleagues were like ok go, lets win the next one. prefect we had fun even if we lost but the games were great.
After three good games we got a top guild and they roflstomped us 33:500. After this game we got a team with top 100 soloQ players (I know the names because I played often against them). 5:500. After this game the motivation was near to the bottom and we got a game vs a pug with the No.2 player from the ranked queue.
Now both are waiting until the beta is over because I promissed them that the matchmaking will be better. But I have only little hopes.
New player should not be matched to player with >3000 games expiriance. I know it is hard for ANet to match a group of 3 people (I played ~2000 games and my skill good enough for top 200 EU soloQ and 2 very new player ). But to match us vs a 5 people group with top players is not the answer.
You can go to your bank, and open the bank Wardrobe and preview every Medium headpiece in the game. You might find something you like, and can then purchase it or obtain it another way in-game.
Good luck.
Already did it many times. I wear the PvP Mist Walker Helm but this is not really what I am looking for.
Something is really bad in the new system. I play with two friends. Both have less then 50 games played. We play and we lose the first three games. Some games were fun and we lost like 4xx:500. Third game was 2xx:500 and after 3 lost games in a row we got a game vs a top team. I know the names from the soloQ ladder ( I played top 200 and all 5 are known players from the top 100). It was a 5 man group and we are bad and only 3. At the end of this evening we got a match vs a group with the current No 2 player from the ladder. I do not know if the was solo or in a group. But it looks like the games become worse if you play more games in a row.
How it is possible to lose some games and get top teams or top opponents instead of less skilled opponents?
If this happens to OP I can imagine why he lost 17 games in a row.
And we played from 8 p.m until 9 p.m. CET. This is prime time in EU.
Necros need a solid team to do well. Their damage needs time to ramp up, and without a team to slow down the enemy damage on you, it is tough.
Now, if you were playing in ranked arena, if the other team is known to be stronger, you would not have lost any rating for this loss.
Not to lose any rating is not a good argument.
I play with two new player and you know what? They do not care about a rating or premade. They want to play a game where they have a chance to win and have fun. If we play 5 games and lose all games 38:500 or something they will not return on the next day. They do not care about a rating. They want to have fun in PvP.
And I guess this is for the most player. I do not want to win 7 games in a row all 500:xx and look at a table and see how great my rating looks alike. I want to go into a game and have a good game.
Could you add the profession limit again to the matchmaking? Thief, thief, thief, mesmer and me as Engi vs Guard, warrior, ele, ele and thief on unranked queue. Based on the guild names all solo players.
Different match was mesmer, mesmer, mesmer, thief and me as engi vs Guard, Necro, necro, engi and mesmer.
Looks like the profession limit could be added again.
Yes he/she posted it a time ago and it works fine. With elixir S I use it vs warrior after they used the stunbreak during the fight. Sometimes a decap means to win and vs some classes you do not need the elite to win.
I played this build in the weeks before the new matchmaking:
In fact you have 6 stacks of might and the direct damage is really nice 3k damage with prybar or nades #2 possible. The condi damge is ok with 6 stacks of might and pistol/pistol is very good in 1vs1.
But I am not really happy. Necros are unkillable, warrior survive too long because of the lower condi damage.
I will try the veewee in the next days. It looks like the new ostricheggs build is very good but I guess it is really powerful with higher skill
I’ve never seen someone wear a scarf so well IRL, it was something to behold.
Hah, had to add the IRL part just to make sure everyone was on the same page.
You don’t understand how crazy it was. We all called each other in game names and hung out with each other like we were all best friends. We kittening bought each other random stuff, ate off the same plates, shared random food with each other, awkwardly played through technical difficulties…
The only words I kept telling people during the entire thing was “This is too real/surreal/esports/alive/crazy to me”, “this is too much… for me”.
To say it was a life changing experience for me is an understatement. I’m going to the next WTS in Boston and I am going to win. There isn’t anyone stopping me, I’m going esports
You are esports <3. Live your dream because you deserve it !
