Guild Wars 2

sigil of battle, + might/boon duration runes. also you shouldn’t toss all elixirs before going in anymore, toss b and toss s work better if saved for the right time.

you can check my might stacks on my vids, even tho Im not using hgh-nades nor truly focusing on building might.

FrouFrou.4958:

I don’t think they need excuses. the old Gandara doesn’t exist anymore, Gandara has turned into a silly PPT monster server with no soul.

sadly, this.

NvN.4321:

Please consider pvp duel 1 on 1. Using lame excuses as solo roaming to pump your ego defeating people with ruin buff, ascended gear etc.

sounds better than zerging the crap out of doors and be proud of it.

NvN.4321:

Ah , lovely morning…

please consider a transfer, you ruin my morning roaming :\

-whisper me for duels since with this +515 ppt its impossible to find enemies not getting zerged to death by gandara karma train.

“Maskaganda here though it will be better to not flat increases pistols/rifle, but to do it through traits, because nades/bombs are already strong enough.”

I stand by it, the devs have stated they want to avoid a power creep and I’m pretty sure I read somewhere they want to tone down autoattack play.

so a flat damage increase would go against both of that and not only benefit weaker builds, but buff already strong builds, however slight that buff would be.

apart from traits, adding a skill chain (think necro scepter but with something else instead of poison) would work as well.

no point dwelling on it tho, this is my view on it, I understand yours :p

someone less lazy then myself should make a non biased summary of the concerns needs and expectations expressed here :p

Aberrant.6749:

What about moving IP into master of the firearms tree (since it is an on crit proc)? It would make it harder to obtain without causing the clusterkitten what do I take now in the explosives master slot (as well as adding more love to firearms).

I’d like that, could actually go 30 in firearms that way and it would synergize well with napalm specialist. Not sure if the negative impact on some builds wouldn’t be too much.

That and swapping reserve mines around with empowering adrenaline, do it :p

-I really dislike reserve mines, the way they reveal me when I’m stealthed, a minor trait shouldn’t punish you :<

shinta.8906:

saw u tchu guys not once the whole week. thats the saddest possible hing could happen. greetings to the tekno viking from the Little asura guard (ex vm), put my tears on his chainsaw (best oil ever), may it never rust

aw, sorry man! too many gandara around, we get bored more easily :p

Ision.3207:

But Pistol #1 is in a very bad place. This skill desperately needs either 1 more second of bleed, or a good 5% to 7% increase to its direct damage.

both are bad options in my opinion.
plainly buffing autoattacks and increasing the power of skills overall is a bad move when the general consensus is that some toning down is necessary.
besides, by giving just a flat increase like this you’d be buffing already strong builds like bomb/nades along with it.

like I said before, I think a solution would be to buff or remake coated bullets. make it work better over all pistol skills, add another effect.. something.

an alternative would be to add a skill chain to p1. bomb/nade kit users wouldnt be affected much coz they dont have to rely on autoattacks and condi builds using toolkit or eg could get some use out of p1 when everything else is on cooldown.

@jon

we all know IP was strong, but you didn’t word it that way, you said it was a change to promote build diversity which is simply not true. With the avoided power creep I can agree.

the problem with shrapnel is that it only works with bombs and grenades. not all condition builds go bomb+nades, but after this changes it might be the only way to go.
furthermore, not all of us play tpvp where the fact that you only have a small area control point to hit with the mentioned kits empowers them greatly.

a related issue that many of us stated is that our mainhand pistol skills are subpar. thats why we take stuff like IP.

I know it’s not really fair to make cross class comparisons, but take a moment to look at necro scepter auto attack. 1 skill chain does the same as our pistol 1+2. Not only that.. it kinda does it better at stacking bleeds.

I know you guys are working towards making autoattacks not as significant and I know that from a class design point of view our equiped weapons are supposed to be weaker but something needs to be done about it. the 3 mainhand pistol skills could use a buff and since you’d want to avoid having way too much condi pressure from a nade/bombs condi build buffing coated bullets slightly would be a decent way to go about it.

cheers

Sceinna.3561:

Maskaganda.2043:

Sceinna.3561:

Hollywood.3490:

Shouts to Jinzeama for putting up good fights @ GBL in the evening :-)

kitten … Laela Blackbird is here and since he’s running with 50 different guild tags (I’d expect CE), I wouldn’t even know that he’s lurking around :-P

Haha I ran into TCHU multiple times though.. I play with [RAGE] tag.. fought you guys in previous matchups too and it was always great fun, obviously good roaming players.. I was a bit annoyed with the perplexity engi tho. =.= That guy almost instant kills me, it’s unfunny. Kinda hope perplexity gets a well deserved nerf in the future, but I <3 TCHU and you’ll defo see me around more, hopefully I’ll have my partner in crime with me.. because 1vX vs TCHU, not really do-able. :P

When I run with VVRL it’s me kitten ing around or scouting.. probably shouldn’t mention it tho. ;D" It can be both!

we don’t have a perplexity engie. it’s just me with good old prybar to the face or speller with a healing build.

and I’m sorry when we gank solo players, we dont really avoid it (need muh corruption stacks!) but I know it can be annoying :p

if it’s any consolation, you made a bunch of randoms cry about thief on the map chat. I’m pretty sure one quit wvw completely because of you. (I’m assuming you are that rage thief we encountered a few times).

cheers!

One of you has perplexity 100% and I’m pretty sure it was an asuran engi. :P

Ran into you today (with 10+ people on my side, kinda felt bad for ganking you guys.. but hey, it was 1v5 the other day too ;P) and you didn’t run with perplexity I think, but one of your guys defo running perplexity, the 5-10 stacks is just not do-able every 5s.. :/

we only have 6 members, I know very well what each one of us runs :p
it could have been the charr mesmer if he was there, but definitely not one of the engies.

Sceinna.3561:

Hollywood.3490:

Shouts to Jinzeama for putting up good fights @ GBL in the evening :-)

kitten … Laela Blackbird is here and since he’s running with 50 different guild tags (I’d expect CE), I wouldn’t even know that he’s lurking around :-P

Haha I ran into TCHU multiple times though.. I play with [RAGE] tag.. fought you guys in previous matchups too and it was always great fun, obviously good roaming players.. I was a bit annoyed with the perplexity engi tho. =.= That guy almost instant kills me, it’s unfunny. Kinda hope perplexity gets a well deserved nerf in the future, but I <3 TCHU and you’ll defo see me around more, hopefully I’ll have my partner in crime with me.. because 1vX vs TCHU, not really do-able. :P

When I run with VVRL it’s me kitten ing around or scouting.. probably shouldn’t mention it tho. ;D" It can be both!

we don’t have a perplexity engie. it’s just me with good old prybar to the face or speller with a healing build.

and I’m sorry when we gank solo players, we dont really avoid it (need muh corruption stacks!) but I know it can be annoying :p

if it’s any consolation, you made a bunch of randoms cry about thief on the map chat. I’m pretty sure one quit wvw completely because of you. (I’m assuming you are that rage thief we encountered a few times).

cheers!

for wvw carrion + rabid/dire works great. celestial is a good choice too.

please remove reserve mines completely :p

love is in the air!
http://postimg.org/image/xnu9znj13/full/

<3

@jon

regarding IP:

I can see how this change should promote build diversity, but it’s doing it wrong and will end up doing the opposite. There are some decent condition builds that don’t got 30 points into explosives atm. With this change you will just force all condition builds to go bomb/nades and 30 in explosives.

The alternatives, like going 10 more into firearms, just don’t compete in terms of raw dps IP brings. I could go for modified ammo, but even with my carrion build it’s hard to justify those extra 60~ dmg per skill when IP brings 800 per second. don’t even get me started on coated bullets.
going extra 10 in explosives without bombs/nades isn’t much worth it although the change to exploit weakness might be decent enough to go 20 for both e.w. and i.p.

regarding some master tier traits:

-I consider enhanced performance a decent trait. it will be worthless now because it has to compete with IP.

-Potent elixirs is not a bad trait by itself. the problem is it has to compete with either fast acting elixirs (cooldown reduction is much better than longer duration), 409 (the only good source of condition removal) or HGH/AR.
There’s some ways you devs could go around this. A buff to elixir C (especially the toss) could remove the need for 409, maybe even removing the conversion aspect of the elixir and just buffing the removal part (reducing cooldown/buffing toss). Maybe making the elixir toss no longer a toss but an aoe multiple condi cleanse and/or a stunbreak.
Another way you could go is making potent elixirs give an extra effect on each elixir toss, provided the extra effect is not a boon (unless that boon is aegis, that could work) and not something that requires the toss to be aimed at an enemy.. which seriously limits the possibilities to little more than combo fields (I honestly dont see what else).
I have another idea but not sure if it would still justify using the trait: in addition to the 20% duration, make potent elixirs turn all elixir tosses into instant pbaoe centered on the player. would add some value to it as you could prevent chain cc locks by using toss B or toss S, would add great value to R again, etc.

Coated bullets:

I know you didn’t mention this one but I’m one of the few players that uses it and I find myself removing it for something else all the time. It needs a buff. It’s hard to justify it working for just 2 skills. It should, at the very least, add one or two bounces to static shot and/or do something with the offhand skills. Turning pdv or static shot into projectile combo finishers with this trait wouldn’t be too op either, just look at warriors longbow or thieves shortbow.

cheers, and keep up the good work, in general I really like the changes to every class and the avoided power creep.

The change to IP will hurt. Not sure if what I’ll roll now, might go 30 points into firearms or back to 20 in inventions.
What bothers me most is losing those 10% condition duration from explosives. Two options here, givers weapon or the new toxic consumables.

Transmute change is nice tho.

duels at mill in fsp bl if anyone interested

Fun week, cheers to everyone we fought against.
cya next time!

thanks :p

apothecary wouldn’t realy work with this, not enough healing skills.
dire does work, you gain alot of survivability, you will just lack the direct damage.

yesterday we had a few 4v5 fights against a very good group of 3 guardians, 1 ele and 1 mesmer. the condition removal they had was so insanely high and trivial the last fight must have taken around 15-20 mins with a number of random adds on both sides arriving and dieing meanwhile. if I had dire there I’d be totally useless and have close to 0 damage.

there are, ofc, situations where dire is better, in the very same fight if I had dire I wouldn’t feel as much pressure from their damage as I was feeling.

the best thing would be always have protection on elixir H and always have vigor on toss H while giving another boon randomly. the problem is, if the devs follow the same logic of toss b, they will increase the cooldown, which can hurt alot.

Now since we’re on the subject of normalizing, what about the toss radius? right now H is 240 while B and S are 180. That doesn’t seem to follow any logic.

Furthermore, supporting allies is extremely hard when you have to toss stuff at a friendly moving target (which you can’t immobilize, cripple or chill to hit easier!). I find myself saying on TS alot of times “don’t move, giving you stability/stealth” which is absurd in a pvp/wvw enviroment.

Unless ofc, tossed elixirs were never meant as a full support thing, which then again could also justify changing the way they are delivered. something like elixir gun toolbelt would be preferable, to me at least.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/elixir-wvw-roaming-videos-and-gear-guide

fun stuff at AG bl just now against that mixed group with the dawn guardians and mesm, the unity guardian and the ele from w/e guild I cant recall now, best fights we had in a long time, cheers.
too bad about adds on both sides, but they all melted fast anyway :p

that healing and condition removal was almost impossible to fight against, I’m exhausted, requiring urgent hydration.

cheers <3

reserved for some answers, if questions happen to appear. :p

Hello all

I recently restarted recording and I got a couple of vids done.

first one is mostly solo stuff, 1v2s and so on with a couple of engie/engie duo vs many fights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGfULPLpnwI

second one is small group stuff, including a couple of 3vs8+. our trio was engie/engie/mesm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncVqJbfDTn8

each video was recorded on a single separate morning, in something like a 1h window, so don’t expect anything spectacular and flawless gameplay, there’s plenty of mistakes on my part and less than skillful opponents, but should still fun to watch.

this is my current updated build and gear:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.1|a.5h.h5.a.5h.h1h.d14.0.d14|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1h.71m.1h.71m.1h.71g.1h.71g.1o.71h.1h.71h|3w.d1a.2u.d14.2w.d12.2w.d12.2x.d1d.2w.d12|a5.k67.a6.u2ab.0|30.d|2b.2g.2j.2x.0|e

spin offs:
duels:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.1|a.5h.h5.a.5h.h1h.d14.0.d14|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1h.71m.1h.71m.1h.71g.1h.71g.1o.71h.1h.71h|3w.d1a.2u.d14.2w.d12.2w.d12.2x.d1d.2w.d12|k5a.a6.a1.u2ab.0|30.d|2b.2g.2j.2x.0|e

vs condition overload:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.1|a.5h.h5.a.5h.h1h.d14.0.d14|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1h.71m.1h.71m.1h.71g.1h.71g.1o.71h.1h.71h|3w.d1a.2u.d14.2w.d12.2w.d12.2x.d1d.2w.d12|k5a.a6.a6.u2ac.0|30.d|2b.2g.2h.2x.30|e

vs stunlock:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.1|a.5h.h5.a.5h.h1h.d14.0.d14|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1h.71m.1h.71m.1h.71g.1h.71g.1o.71h.1h.71h|3w.d1a.2u.d14.2w.d12.2w.d12.2x.d1d.2w.d12|k5a.a6.a4.u2a6.0|30.d|2b.2x.2g.2j.30|e

bombkit:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.1|a.5h.h5.a.5h.h1h.d14.0.d14|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1h.71m.1h.71m.1h.71g.1h.71g.1o.71h.1h.71h|3w.d1a.2u.d14.2w.d12.2w.d12.2x.d1d.2w.d12|a3.k67.a6.u2ab.0|30.d|2b.2e.2g.2j.30|e

there’s more variants, the gear and trait choice is what I found worked better for me and for what I like to do in wvw. other gear and trait set ups work just as well, they all have their pros and cons.

previous stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9NnXVfY4vRU1F-X7b1Oorw/videos

-on these 2 new vids there’s a couple of engies with me. one is mirifrost and his build is alot of fun. he checks the forum so you can ask him for his build, its something like rifle, medkit, toolkit, rocket boots, slick shoes, elixir X , with both protection traits and automated response.
the other engie is dangerdoom (speller) and he is using a modified version of carpboys medic engineer ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Medic-Engineer-solo-roaming-WvW)

there might be some mistakes on the builds I posted, let me know so I can fix it.

cheers

Pastafarian.1642:

Maskaganda.2043:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncVqJbfDTn8

some of tchuu’s monday morning roaming, a 2 vs4+2 and a couple of 3vs8-10. fun stuff, cheers to our opponents for coming back a second and a third time :p

Sry for the poor opposition from my fellow fsp’s they had a hard time targeting one. was the lvl 80 ele (bonemask pR tag) and then lvl80 warrior at end where you actually managed to kill me after all the fights (you did not put all of them!)

Thx for the great fun.

no need to apologize for them, I’m sure they did the best they could and the numbers kept stuff interesting enough for us. we also had a moderate ammount of stealth, might have made it hard for them to focus.

and I couldn’t put all the fights in the vid, I forgot to record some and was running out of ideas for songs for the ones I did record :p

cheers!

some of tchuu’s monday morning roaming, a 2 vs4+2 and a couple of 3vs8-10. fun stuff, cheers to our opponents for coming back a second and a third time :p

I tried flamethrower hgh before and I couldn’t make it work. it’s the only kit I have trouble making it work in a carrion hgh build and I suspect it’s even worse with rabid.

also, while noble gives u 40% might duration, 2xtravelers, 2x water, 2x monk gives you 45% boon duration. you do lose that extra power and cd but you get alot longer durations on fury, swiftness, retal, etc.
the might on heal from runes is redundant, with hgh and enhanced performance you should be at 20-25 everytime anyway.

Im surprised people care about scores this much.

LampGhost.9658:

Semi-Offtopic; i really hope some forum mod would do some moderating and not ban magnetron permanently of the forums for pointing out an exploit, while they do allow an entire matchup thread to be ruined by some people that have to take their GvG experiences to the matchup thread.

as far as I know (it got deleted before I could read) he wasn’t pointing out an exploit , he was falsely accusing someone of cheating.

they didn’t change HGH trait recently.

you basically need to prepare for fights by using elixir B and toss H. depending on what classes you are facing you might want to toss B or not.
magnet is great to pull people into your range and prybaring but the best choice of opener is static shot if the target is close enough not to have time to dogde. with some luck, an opening static shot will give 4 conditions (blind, confusion, burn, bleed) and give you some time to apply other stuff like a good prybar or pdv.

also, new vid, nothing special tho:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGfULPLpnwI

some tuesday morning roaming, mainly 1v2s and a duo engie team fighting 6 and 8.
vid will most likely be blocked in germanialand, deal with it!

would say “great fights this week!!11” but the lag ruined it for me.

its unplayable past this hour. frustrating :\

Draygo.9473:

Zumy.6318:

How come Warhammer in its late state did not lagg in 200+ battles? It also had better combatlogs, more skills, more cooldowns, higher aoe caps and is from 2008.

LOLOLOL

Ever hear of the brightwizard lagstorm?

Yeah…

Every single keep fight was a lagfest until the game became unpopular enough.

oh yea, I remember those first fortress sieges. entire zones would crash. eventually they cut lowbie players out of it, then put a cap on how many people could be there, then they removed most npcs, before completely removing fortresses.

it did handle larger fights without the lag we have in gw2 tho, but at the same time there was no active dodging/blocking, no “real” projectiles and something like a 2 seconds global cooldown on skills which probably played a huge part in reducing lag.

anyway, lag needs to be fixed by any means possible, we need at least some new information on whats being done to remedy the situation.

you can get runes of the noble by running Caudecus Manor dungeon. for my build however, I use 2x traveller, 2 monk, 2x water.

while dire would work with this build I think u’d be betting too much on conditions to do the job alone. and while re-applying the conditions is fairly easy that extra direct damage helps alot. I sugest you mix carrion, rabid and dire till you find numbers that are suited for you.

regarding the lack of swiftness/vigor in my build, if you notice my vids swiftness is permanent while in combat. vigor is an issue tho.

I’ve tried alot of variations of my build. the one from that particular vid is optimized for solo roaming. atm I swich between that one and one with coated bullets when solo. always coated bullets when in a group.
with a well supported group I use bomb kit, droping toolkit and incendiary powder for larger bomb radius. in organized 5v5s (which I know are a rare thing but still..!) I often drop elixir B as well for bombs, going H, S, bombs, toolkit. the reason for this is mainly the added pressure on downed bodies.
for most duels I go enhanced performance and prot on crit, dropping coated bullets and cloaking device.
against perma stun warriors I sometimes go stabilized armor and prot on cc (dropping hgh)

I’ll have a new vid sometime during the following week, stay tuned :p

cheers

the lag makes this unplayable atm. hopefully it will get better during the week, right now it’s just too horrible to be enjoyable, which is a shame because now there’s actual fights to be had.

it takes 1-2 seconds to hit at melee range, coupled with an immobilize and a jumpshot I think it could have some decent burst potential. I’ll experiment some.

this match up was very boring for us most times, way too many gandara around and a serious lack of opponents. it did have some fun moments here and there tho.

cheers to all those we fought <3

Lelith.2916:

put yourselves in our position, would you really want to fight servers with more WvW poulation than you for 7 weeks.. i

yes, please.

nice fights today at deso bl, mainly between godslore and woodhaven (or w/e the names are in that map).

cheers.

it always bugged me as well. people mean paradigm and say meta, no clue why.

crafted one, got 2 drops in wvw. I’ll craft another when I get enough materials. I’m not farming those mats tho so it might take time :p

Bloodwort MacFangho.4638:

Maskaganda.2043:

looks like it’s going to be a boring week again. come back vizunah, all is forgiven.

Be careful what you wish for, Fella!

9. Kodash 1 701.055 -7.897 9
10. Gandara 1 652.504 16.081 12

bring it on.

sounds better than going around for hours without finding a single decent fight as borderlands are painted green and we tick at 400+.

and then the easy mode pve karma train arrives and scares any possible fights away while making sure we have queues starting at 7pm.

we need some more vizunah.

looks like it’s going to be a boring week again. come back vizunah, all is forgiven.

Dirame.8521:

Run these two traits; Protection Injection and Stabilized Armour and laugh when they hit you.

this, a thousand times this.

oh yea, that elona guy explaining ranks and points after his sarcasm detector malfunctioned was a highlight that week :p

Ended up being a very fun week for us at tchuu, we always had someone to fight against and it was easy to find those outmanned fights we enjoy so much.

fun times this morning at MS garrison as well, I made a sport out of pulling MS players into the rooftop pit. name pending.

I found vizunah to be alot more fun to fight against than desolation and elona.

either runes of infiltration or flesh wurm. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Flesh_Wurm

VM are a small guild with very talented players, I doubt they need hacks to beat someone who doesn’t even know such skills exist.

meh. looks like apart from a couple of servers, most other match ups will be too boring with no one to fight against except at peak hours. When winning the usual bandwagon will come along and ruin the fun for everyone else.
I hope I’m wrong.

it should be a fun week !

tchuu is looking for some duels , 5v5s and anything in between to break the daily routine. don’t be shy ,we’re fun!