Guild Wars 2

BnS uses the same stat graph distribution/strength thingy and has normalized pvp stats. Granted other games do too, BnS was just around which is why I said it. NM.

Basically playing one handed sucks, real life and all, I have my own disability. But yea, playing one handed means you aren’t going very far in the divisions with how it is currently set up. Up to anet if they want to keep it that way or not. But currently, I’m surprised you made it out of emerald. No offense.

Advice:

1. try a slower class like reaper. Its not really easier like most people claim (a good reaper is miles a part from a bad) but its easier in terms of APM (actions per minute and clicking.) Tempest maybe as well… (they can be medium APM, but you can also be very team effective by not casting all that much and only casting the important heals and OLs at the right time, I should know I played a bad tempest in diamond for the achieves and won most games)

2. mix in unranked for practice as well as (usually) more even matches so you don’t get so stressed

Hah, someone was inspired by BnS. Actually I somewhat agree, I think it might have been possible in beta to normalize stats (no amulets) and it would have made balance MUCH easier. Too late by now though.

Start off with cele stats (but lower), then favor certain stats depending on class.

Would be super easy to nerf or buff classes that way. Too much defense? take off 50 vitality and 50 toughness from X class.

You wouldn’t even need to make a trinity system per se. Warriors would just tend to have more toughness and vitality, whereas eles would tend to have more healing power.
etc

But yea, by now its way too late for a system like this.

Really well thought out feedback Tiff, much better than mine.

Chaith.8256:

And what if Necros and Mesmer just picked up Wanderers, and were in the exact same spot, just like Eles lost Celestial & then still are amazing with Clerics?

Also, lol @ deleting Clerics. Ele doesn’t get carried from having 13k HP so much, man.

Not sure about condi mesmer, but reaper is definitely more squishy and vulnerable with wanderers. Definitely adds more risk to playing such a condi bomber.

ele doesn’t so much get carried by the healing, its the sometimes absurd lengthening of the fights, because a team can get carried by the healing.

Its probably not as much a problem at your level, with just better players, more communication and such. But at the level 90% of gw2 players play, a tempest is just absurd how much support they bring. It knocks out other support specs such as guardian. And if SnR is nerfed it’ll prob knock out druid as well if clerics remains untouched.

I dunno, just my opinion.

I like it a lot, but it might be easiest to just remove it, and see where reapers and condi mesmers come out. (should also remove cleric as well prob)

Maybe a scrapper main can comment but the build does sound reasonable/good. Yeah, some calls weren’t too bad.

Respectable numbers are 500k-800k. Perfect/best I’ve seen is up to a million. But damage sort of matters and sort of doesn’t. You want to create fast rotations, favorable conditions, and snowball effects. That could easily mean you take a roll that doesn’t deal a lot of damage too.

If you are farming people 1v1 at far, you won’t have as much damage. Or if you are constantly stalling in 1v2 1v3ing people at far and letting your team get easy wins at mid, for instance.

(watching first one)

You could be a lot better mechanically. You misclick skills, you kind of stand around and do nothing during fights a lot. You should always be attacking, melee or range. You play one of the most durable classes in the game…get in there, draw there fire. You should be using thunderclap way more.

You stood around trying to stomp with multiple team mates… (when you have a gyro on top of this…)

You let them take your home for free and don’t pressure their far at all.

Not using LoS

Kind of kittening around with a rev off point, you kill him but you lose a team mate and lose mid. whereas you could have gotten that res (stealth gyro good)

That 2v1 (at beast)…took way too long, while home got decapped. Again, mechanical skills. Awareness.

Every fight you take you should ask yourself, is it a good fight? And why am I taking it?

fighting on mid, when they have it capped, and just not a good fight to take at that moment.. you just didn’t accomplish anything. No points, team mate died. Far was free to take (I think, its running while I type, I may miss a few details.)

Then at the end you go beast, when simple math will tell you that it will not give you a win. You let home get decaped on top of this.

Oh and the build looks questionable but I’m not a scrapper main.

Lot’s of mistakes, good luck!

what else could I say? An SS wouldn’t prove anything since downstates have a brief moment of invuln anyway.

It was on khylo. It was a mesmer. Bout all I can think of. I downed him and kept attacking, I could neither stomp nor cleave/dmg him at all. I was right on top of him. He healed up, took 0 dmg (no condis no nothing). Ported away. I literally couldn’t interact with his downed state body.

downstate body went invuln for 10-15 seconds and all the way up. It was 1v1 and no one else was around.

Nice post. Well thought out one finally.

Crimson Shi.5047:

Also if one of your team members was afk during that match but you still win, you don’t get the pip either.

UN-RANKED

I still should have gotten coin and had a score… and pretty sure you gain reward track progress for loss just not as much. And I should have had some rank points as well. You realize I’m talking about unranked?

Again, what I am saying is I literally received a score, while playing, like when it says +10 or whatever when you do something. But the scoreboard stayed 0. And I gained no credit what so ever, at the end.

Played the whole match, no dc or log out. I capped points, made killed, etc.

At the end of the game I did a double take when I noticed I had 0 points and no reward track progress or money or anything.

Is this a known bug? That was super irritating.

Well put @Astrat

I mean its a good skill and all, but it so rarely hits for full.

When top level pro esl players rarely (50-50, less?) get it to hit for full you know its a a tricky skill.

Maybe don’t stand still when fighting a rev.

There can be some really wonky off meta builds you run into every once in awhile, that while not great, can make you go “what the…”

I havn’t pvp’d a ton, but a decent bit since beta, and I haven’t ever personally met any hackers, only a handful of (suspected) botters.

When they do hack its usually speed hacks + teleport hacks. I’ve never heard of a stealth or heal hack.

Also sometimes (very very rarely) there are wonky bugs that have never been recreated. I was once invis to one enemy for half a match. Yet could attack (not stealth, could see my attacks but not target me). No idea how it happened.

I actually found BnS way more spammy than GW2… I mean you can spam in both, but even in high level play there isn’t much variation. It’s always the same combos. The only difference is mind games, when you use your get out of jail free card(s.)

BnS is an illusion of complexity. Proven by the fact that bots can be programmed to PvP as well as humans up to almost the master level.

Pure Heart.1456:

Wings and I’m outa here, back to PvE and WvW.

wvw still exists?!

Would be interesting. But I bet you’ll easily be able to climb out of it.

Also I’d bet with new MMR volitality even 20 games would be enough.

I totally support these ideas!

That’s why you cleave in team fights.

Can’t there be both? Sort of. Legendary (like pve legendarys) should be achieved by all with enough time. But legendary rank/div should only be achieved by the best. Can there be two separate tracks/elos?

Queued with him. Legit cool guy. I learned some stuff. There is a clear skill difference. Especially in rotations. I thought I had rotations down fairly well, welp, things move a lot faster and more decisively in legend.

ahh ya true. Especially with tempest. I used to play ele until tempest…

that is not the skill you should be using if you are under condi pressure.

Try not spamming skills. Condi rev is one of the last classes that should complain.

Alright alright, true true.

Bad players will be bad regardless.

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

I get what you say but at the same time it’s really frustrating to be stuck on 1 build per profession like that. This for me is more painful than loosing. I wish there was a better balance so more could be as viable.

not really though. For instance once you understand things you can change it up multiple ways.

(dont quote me on this not being super precise, not in game) It’d be a long post but reaper can go spite or curses. Sig build corruption or master of corruption or even a shout build is pretty decent. Personally I like the current meta build but there are quite a few variations even within it. Like you can take the 50% crit grandmaster and take the chill on crit or you can go the fire on 1/reduce shout cds, etc.

Was probably semi gibberish, but you can change heal skills, 2-3 utility skills, 1 entire trait line, several traits within it.

All varies depending on what I might be facing as well. Condi dmg vs power dmg. If I need more survival etc.

So yea..

Revs have at least two viable specs as well (ret vs innvocation) one more for bruiser one more for dmg.

Start with the meta. Understand why its good, strengths and weaknesses. Then find out the variations you can make to it.

Scrapper I don’t play but researched. Also has several variations depending on if its facing power dmg vs condi dmg. It even changes its amulet (pal vs mara)

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

Why do you avoid saying zilch about his team comp? Is it irrelevant to you?

Guy posts every day. You look at his history he has multiple screen shots. Its not the comp every single time for his huge loss streak. I was replying to him more in general.

umm you realize you have ret, which gives you stab on dodge…?

I agree. Its not that 2 teefs is actually THAT bad. Its the fact that both refused to switch which tends to be indicative of their lack of skill. Tends to mean they don’t care about winning and want to be carried.

I dunno man. Your past screen shots show you aren’t exactly running good builds.

And you’re jumping to what seem to be OP classes. You can’t just jump on a class and be good.

Not 100% sure though, I don’t play DH. Reaper tho is for sure an odd squishy build you have. Try the current meta build. If your running reaper you should be winning every team fight. Even 2v3s in emerald. And some 1v2s.

Early on I was stuck in emerald after having come back from a long break. But I stopped blaming my team mates, actually got decent with rev and reaper and started flying threw emerald and saphire.

Use the meta builds…watch the map…understand your class…understand the meta and why its the meta…and understand your bad match ups…and you’ll be worth 2 players and it won’t matter if you get these brain dead idiots.

Even though I was stuck in a losing streak my MMR must have changed quickly even though I’ve played since beta. Cause now I am being paired with pretty great team mates at least half or more of the time.

I’ll concede you have a point, like running full zerk thief in unranked. But my point is, well keep it in unranked (speaking generally, not specifically.) If you’re going to actually compete with a team in ranked, even if its soloq, its just not very honest not to give it your all. Which includes using the best build.

Nice! Haha and that music! My heart sunk a little when your winning streaks ended! It felt like my own bar.

You find out where he lives and…just kidding

I don’t know if I count. I am not a player that considers himself legendary. In fact this season has opened my eyes even more to how much more I can improve. I would just be curious to see what a legendary game is like.

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

I’ll speak for myself,

I’m loathed by nature to meta and that has zero to do with arrogance. I just do not like following others footsteps by nature and like getting results that are birthed of my experiences and personal thinking/gaming preferences. It is also a challenge I enjoy to do good vs build I know for a fact are better than mine. I like the feeling of having been handed a screw, an elastic and a bunch of plastic bottle and asked to survive with it. If you do survive with that you aren’t bad because your build is. There is a terrible difference between a good player and a good build.

We don’t purposefully break our own kneecaps in life to enjoy over coming the challenge. So why would you in a video game that is supposed to be fun?

PvP is an objective team based game of competition. If you won with a worse build it doesn’t really prove anything. Just that you had a large enough margin for error, and you’d win more games with a good build. I think deep down it is an ego thing.

Don’t get me started on not following foot steps and so called non conformists

stat changes naw

mesmer would be so op and that would in fact make an insane OP condi-bunker build even worse than now, and would not help power

necro wat? no

ranger and ele I guess I agree, ele scepter especially is such a joke and rangers could use more pet options

For how long that must have taken there is so much wrong and not helpful. Maybe get a few thousand hours in spvp before you offer such broad sweeping changes, and even then, probably only on what you’d actually know. There’s no way you are an expert on all those classes. Or let me put it another way, its very clear you are not.

Good for you for posting a video, hopefully you’ll learn from all your mistakes.

Start with the build. I don’t understand some folks aversion to using meta builds. People who play this game for a living, and have ~5000 hours (IN PVP) on a class are the people coming up with them. Don’t you think its just a tad arrogant to think you came up with something better?

Actually ya, you can keep the glass panels IF skyhammer goes on a 3-4 min timer AND it is the only thing that breaks them.

Not the best but, if it means simpler makes it more likely to get it done, then simpler it is.

The simplest fix, just keeping skyhammer from opening for the first 4-5 minutes or so. And don’t make glass break.

Any of those variations.

You might have carried, or that emerald might have carried you. SS proves nothing.

That you think there is such a gap between saphire and ruby… And that emerald could have been a legendary on his alt account for all we know.

Anyone can grind to ruby with enough games. There is literally no difference between emerald, ruby, or saphire.

That’s an interesting thought. Make it more like tranq buff, except it just shoots all three points in a couple pulses or something at once.

Make it only intermittenly available. Like every 3 mins.

If that change were made, since it’d be so much less needed to constantly fight over it (prob only worth sending 1 guy to try for it) you wouldn’t have to change anything except how the skyhammer works and remove the glass panels and jump pads. Wouldn’t have to redesign the level I mean (making platform bigger, etc.)

Even the jump pads aren’t THAT bad. Just remove the glass, change the skyhammer to a channeled aoe damage attack only available every 2-3 mins and its now MUCH better.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Nah, I just came from the generation who actually grew up playing platforming games.

and you also play one of the best classes suited to the map.

Everyone has CC but not everyone has KB or pulls. It’s pretty clear how biased a DH would be. Creative? Facepalm.

I’m with you. Similar backstory, played gw1. Played gw2 since beta.

So burned out, with this season especially. I want to play, but after one game I just want to facepalm. This season has gotten even more toxic than the last somehow. On top of just no competitive-close games. I feel punished for playing basically.

Really only need to make it so you don’t just random instant die (panels, knocked off, etc) and I think it’ll be plenty playable.

The damage from skyhammer itself isn’t too bad, just a slight nerf all around so its more in line with a treb. Platform needs to be bigger as classes with good knockbacks have way too much of an advantage. Or make it so it somehow knocks you off but you won’t die.

Is gliding possible? On this map only? Not sure if I want that in PvP but it might be worth the discussion.

Let’s make moa turn everyone in game into moa! Infinite range! Moa for all!

(that’d actually be halriously trolly)

delete clerics

I dislike S2 greatly. No competition. I do badly I win. I do well I lose. Makes no sense. Burned out already. No fun.

there’s very little difference between divs until diamond. Most rubys aren’t much different than a lot of emeralds.

We need a preseason, the beginning of which, MMR is reset for all. But no divisions start yet. Then you gain (some) kind of bonus for divisions when league starts. Either starting higher or gaining bonus pips or something else.

Give me a good player that knows what he’s doing but somehow propose the condition that he will lose all 1v1s, I’d rather take that guy into a game, than a guy who wins every 1v1 but is clueless about rotations or general strategies.

TBH I’d rather the game be balanced more around 1v1s but its just not.