Guild Wars 2

Aedrion.6483:

Ghotistyx.6942:

This class is great at protesting. It’s forces on tank allow it to for support and dps role at the same time. Hammer allow for most force on tank while dps role.

I am so going to hell for laughing at this.

Carpboy.7145:

How about this.

Passive: 25% move speed always on

Active: teleport to your target and chill (4s) (60 sec CD)

The catch is you would only get this virtue by going 4 in virtues and selecting it as your master trait. That way every guardian doesn’t have 25% move speed automatically with no investment, but its still there for those who want it

But the virtue trait line is there to enhance already existing virtues. I feel that even 4% speed increase per boon might be much for an untouched virtue, perhaps 3% and a maximum of 15% would be proper. If traited into it could become 5% speed increase per boon, up to a maximum of 25% and perhaps increase the range on teleport to 1200 and decrease its CD by 20% or something along those lines. As for the chill on tele, that would be awesome! If this trait was available it would make GS/Hammer builds much more interesting.

Passive: Increases movement speed by 4% for every boon. Maximum 20% increase.
Active: Teleport to enemy. 900 Range. 40-50 second cooldown.

What do you think?

I read this in a Russian accent. Are you Russian?

You must be sitting there with popcorn

I use generosity on my condi necro and I like it very much

If you use hammer you will have to time your burst, while sword allows more versatility. I like all sets though I dont think there is anything that comes close to the sheer burst of a hammer/gs combo as Moleless mentioned. Having -20% recharge in traits allows for 4 second Mighty Blows which is an enormous amount of pressure on the enemy. Useful for fighting on points, I dont recommend it for wvw.
Also, if you use intelligence on the hammer you will not regret it.

It’s my 2nd favorite weapon for pvp and I use a zerk dps symbol build. I don’t think there is anything that comes close to it when running full writs!

Avitori.6093:

Yea i’m slowly losing more incentive to play each day and I am ever so slowly creeping towards a new game. Suggestions that might make me want to invest more time into pvp and keep me from quitting?

Suggestions

Incentives – Real Rewards exclusive to pvp that arn’t on tracks and reward player skill (titles skins)

- 2v2 3v3 Arenas -with their own leaderboards and rewards.

- New game modes CTF, deathmath etc, lots of possitibilies (community can help you guys here)

- A reason/incentive to create a team and play with them consistently. Right now the only real team that ques seriously and practices every week with their full roster on NA is good fights and probably TCG and 55 HP monks for EU

Give us a reason to play with our teammates and continue to improve as a team. Right now mostly everyone just creates pug groups or super pug groups and there is just no team vs. team competition in team q arena.

Tournament of Legends was perfect for this, as there were hundreds of teams that signed up. However, after that they had no reason to continue, give them a reason or host Tournament of Legends more frequently (2x a month?). I don’t really consider the weekly Mispedia or ESL tourneys as enough of an incentive.

I could go on, but I feel like I waste my time here. If a dev posts i’ll consider expanding this list.

Unfortunately you are wasting your time!

The combat system and the graphics. Everything else is fairly sub-par IMO.

It’s not as strong as hambow or bow/x but you can definitely get it to work with the right traits, no question about that. I know little about warriors, so perhaps someone else can help you out here?

In terms of Runes, pick strength because they hit the hardest by a pretty good margin. Runes of the Pirate are also good if you want to keep a distance with rifle. For weapon sigils, I’d recommend using Battle and then whatever else you choose (air/fire are strong for DPS).

It works just fine for me so, yes, I will say L2P. The only complaint I have is that it lacks in the mobility department, but I doubt this will be addressed any time soon.

Celtus.8456:

I think they plan to address this with ladders/seasons eventually. But nobody knows when that will actually happen.

I think 2016 sounds like a reasonable year for it to be implemented

Junkpile.7439:

a t s e.9614:

So is wvw and PvE. Despite the fact that spvp is horrible , it’s better than the zerg fest in wvw or the “stack” fest in PvE.

If sPvP would be even half as fun as killing risens in orr i actually would play it sometimes. Now they removed 8 vs 8 and can’t even put jewel in amulet so it’s totally unplayable.

…how in the world can killing scripted NPCs be better than PvP?

Cool – thanks for the heads up!

Mace #3 on Guardian will trigger on ranged attacks, even if the enemy is not in melee range. It isn’t like Ranger GS #4 that counterattacks only once an enemy is in range.

They did remove the map that everyone hated – Raid of the Capricorn! The cannon was too op in that map. And the sharks.

One time I killed someone at home and let him bleed off point, then our bunker guard proceeded to take home and rotate with me. I spammed the minimap and drew lines to show him where the downed person was but he ignored it completely. He got kittened at me for trying to signal to him that someone was downed (how can you not see that?) and proceeded to hold still in between points for about a minute. Then he rushed far and lost us the game.

someone.7485:

I do not get how you people are having difficulties playing against engi. Try playing one for a while, then come back and complain if you think they have anything overpowered.

wat

Josh Davis.6015:

Here’s my 2c:

I’d assume the main time you’d face off against a turret decap engineer is if they push into your home point and you’re stuck defending against it. Your best bet in this situation is to engage the engineer as far away from the node as possible and to deal damage to them as you chase them to the point. Their strength comes from having their turrets down in a confined area, and they’re not going to waste them by dropping them in roads somewhere. Just make sure you don’t get CC’d in roads and then decapped for free.

If you’re solo pushing far and trying to get a node from a decap engineer who is playing backpoint…well, you’re both doing it wrong.

I’m afraid that the engi updates of April 15 gave decap engi another way to be annoying. If you stay away from his turrets, you are outside of the point. That will let him decap, and possibly even cap the point. Plus, most decap engis are really tanky so it’ll take a while to kill them anyways.

Decap is too strong and frustrating for anyone to face 1v1, or even 2v1 if the player is good enough.

dis is engerful

The sad thing is that Lich Form can hit much harder than that

dank.3680:

Volrath.1473:

Nabbo.2845:

Volrath.1473:

I don’t think it is a build problem, the profession feels week and very little (viable) options.

I am rank 52 atm and consider myself to be fairly skilled.

Well, have you tried watching streamers who play with your same/similar build?

there arent many steamers but yeah i watch them but they, like myself are not being very successful with this profession and often switch not other professions wile streaming.

actually that was the “trigger” to make me whant to have a “new main” for sPvP

Necro? It’s the only one I can think of people complaining about not being effective..

edit- I did some snooping to find out you play thief.. Thief is an effective class.. But I wouldn’t run p/d or d/p save those for wvw.

I see you posting a lot in thief forum, especially defending your thief p/d power build.. Now I am not surprised to see this topic.. It’s not the class.

I knew it was some sort of build like that

Volrath.1473:

I don’t think it is a build problem, the profession feels week and very little (viable) options.

I am rank 52 atm and consider myself to be fairly skilled.

Well, have you tried watching streamers who play with your same/similar build?

Engineers are really strong in team fights IMO. Though in general I think every class has a good place in PvP – perhaps you aren’t using an adequate build?

Sars.8792:

Can you fix the bug where you get stuck in place and have to use an emote to get out as well?

For the love of God please

to make balancing easier they got rid of it

Edit: Name is Raid of the Capricorn

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

The true counter to Apex is team Carried By Vee Wee [JK]. Unfortunately certain people refused us entry into the tournament and so congratulations Apex for winning NA ToL! Hopefully the next ToL won’t be shoddily run!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Wahoo! Farewell!

Josh Davis.6015:

My bad! Let’s use this as the official thread.

Grats to the fathers Hman, Morfeus, Nnight, Chubbz, and Tarcis – aka ApeX Prime.

Well played to KPz for giving them a tough fight in the finals!

So sloppy. Do you guys drink in the office?

Oakwind.6187:

So, in this thread the concern seems to be that Engineers – being one of the most AoE-happy professions – are now overpowered because of the preconception that one must stand and take it like a champ. I am rather puzzled by this, given that every single one of the successful engineer builds I’ve used, and seen used revolve around withstanding burst and overloading the opposition with CC/conditions. After countless threads defending power/crit burst in this game, people are surprised that this playstyle is successful. It’s just hilarious to defend close point with a PVT bomb/turrets engineer and watch a thief try to figure out why they couldn’t kill me while standing in a smoke field.

Engineers excel at area denial against uncoordinated players.

Players are more likely to stand in points because it’s what you have to do to win games.I don’t think they’d be OP anywhere else.

Which is exactly why we need different game modes. I’m certain we’ll have a chance to see a more varied meta if that happens.

I play Medi and with the right traits you can also bring survivability and some support to the team. Try 1/0/6/6/1 with mace/focus and greatsword, for example. Or 0/0/6/4/4 with GS/Hammer.

Message me in game if you want to test out other builds!

I haven’t had any sort of announcer/warning voice in a really long time and I can’t seem to find the option to turn it off/on. Anyone else?

Taci.8125:

Simon.3794:

you can’t know whos the top 1 player, because score doesn’t mean anything, usually a top player in a losing team arent highest scored, some times yes, but mostly no.

Yeah, I know score isnt accurate on saying who’s done better but it would be an incentive for people to do things.

No semi afkers players on points will do better on score than someone really trying to win the game though.

Even more people would leave home – or any point for that matter – to get points elsewhere, which doesn’t promote conquest. That’s why personal score -> rank was removed from hotjoins.

infantrydiv.1620:

hihey.1075:

infantrydiv.1620:

Pyroathiest.4168:

infantrydiv.1620:

Pyroathiest.4168:

gesho.9468:

will this take another 8 month to fix?

Probably longer, seeing as it isn’t broken, there’s just a high quantity of fools that think it is.

Yknow what I did when pets started dealing twice as much damage as normal? I reported it. I didn’t come on the forums claiming it had always been like that. Grow up.

And neither did I. I hopped ingame and tested out the iWarlock thoroughly. It has precisely the same damage coefficient and scaling as pre-patch. People are just having fits because of the strength runes and battle sigil combo boosting damage.

Good testing bro.

HAHAHAHHAHA!

On a side note:
Fixed a bug that caused NPCs and player-summoned creatures to hit for excessive damage in sPvP.

Yea, it’s amazing the rabid class fanboyism this game inspires :/

Eh. The playerbase is similar in all games

Amir.1570:

I’ll say it again and I’ll keep saying it.

Mesmer will always be zero skill cancer class. This class is just flat-out EVIL and should just be deleted and re-worked from scratch. Why? Because distortion is Berserker Stance, Endure Pain, and Balanced Stance in one package. It boggles me that people think Warrior is brain dead with it’s invulnerabilities but Mesmer isn’t. Like seriously Mesmer takes skill? It’s so easy to count dodges while spamming dodges on this brain-dead excuse of a class. Even worse now that they enabled Knights amulet in sPVP. Add to the fact that that Mesmers can attack while spamming endurance dodge or any form of cheese for that matter, something will go wrong if they aren’t kept “UP”.

I guess balancing will always be pathetic when ANET is in charge of GW2.

Mesmer is the perfect example of EVIL in video games. Never a fun class to play against and people literally think they’re good when they play this brainless class just because “I have to time my evades on a Mesmer” when this cancer class has so much more evades than any other class in the game.

Don’t even bring Thief into the discussion, Sword Dagger is balanced now and Thieves don’t deal DPS if they spam short bow 3.

I usually stop reading these posts but this one was amusing

Evan Lesh.3295:

Popping in to say we’re still looking into summon damage.

Please do something about this. Also, check into all AI damage. Svanir and Chieftain hurt like never before. Spirit Weapons are dealing damage that was unheard of pre-patch.

Etc, Etc..

bhagwad.4281:

kirito.4138:

Some people just need or want a carrot to chase after.

Precisely my point. The amazing thing is that creating a carrot takes so little effort and costs no one anything and doesn’t take away any enjoyment from anywhere else. We already had a nice juicy carrot called ranks and Anet took that away without giving us any other carrot in return.

This attitude baffles me. Why not give carrots when it doesn’t cost anyone anything to create them?

Exactly. We’re out of carrots. We had carrots pre-patch. Now all we get is a load of salvageable crap.

I used to notice this a lot with Hydromancy sigil. 3/10 times it did not trigger on my Guardian.

Silvanus.5821:

This is normal. There were many threads like this one and various tests determined that the damage did not change whatsoever. It has always been there. Oh so you got hit with a 13k critical strike by a super slow-moving projectile which was thrown by a phantasm who can be killed with two hits and who attacks once every red moon and deals that much damage when you are a glass cannon filled with conditions? Stop the QQing really. This is a l2p issue.

Nothing in this game – let alone a random clone casting – should hit this hard in one hit. With everything that goes on versus staff mesmers you think it’s that easy to avoid it?

Just to add to this AI madness: Hammer of Wisdom hits for over 10k on zerker builds

Romek.4201:

jportell.2197:

Urejt.5648:

mesmer clones deal 15k dmg in one hit to me, thief. Also warriors and guardians hit me harder than before patch. Something must be wrong. Maybe armor formula

Everyone has been doing more damage in pvp. I personally like it it keeps the matches more lively and is actually giving bursty classes a chance against the condi bunker cheese. Also I started running my old shatter build. And I am really not noticing that much more of a difference between now and before the patch. If the mesmer is using runes that give +dmg% or they are taking the increased damage traits for illusions.

No, its not just everyone do more dmg – Its just the AI do insane dmg. And on Mesmer clones its most insane.
Its simply broken and need to be fixed.

This I agree with! I have been hitting extremely hard with my DPS Guardian and, while it may be unfair for light-armored classes (Hammer’s mighty blow can hit up to 7k), I feel like I stand a much better chance versus bunkers and the cancerous bunker condition classes.

Though Lich Form’s Deathly Claws hitting mesmers and ele’s for 9k+ (yes, it’s over 9,000) is just a LITTLE bit insane.

SPESHAL.9106:

Xaylin.1860:

SPESHAL.9106:

No matter how ridiculous the damage or bug in the game…you still have a handful of people who will try to defend it.

The only ridiculous thing is complaining about the damage as long as you can’t even tell in what kind of scenario it happened. iWarlock is known for dealing an insane amount of damage in PvE on bosses so I’m not surprised seeing it happen in PvP. Instead of instantly assuming a bug people should at least try to figure out what is going on.

Maybe renegade ran the en vogue Runes of Strength and had 25 stacks of Might? Did renegade run any Phantasm modifiers? The Thief most likely had a whole bunch of conditions on him since he just came out of a Chaos Storm. If he got dazed he also might have had 5 stacks of Vulnerability. If he got interrupted you can add 3 more stacks ontop of that. He also had 2 stacks of Vulnerability due to Leap. He still might have been under the effect of Immobilize from Leap. We don’t even have a clue how many other conditions he might have had.

I’m actually more suspicious about the Swordsman hits than the Warlock hits.

Lol…exactly what I said.

NO MATTER WHAT…this is insane damage…and we aren’t even talking about something with a 180 second cooldown.

Yet..people are trying to rationalize it and think it’s explainable and balanced.

It’s amazing how many people defend this type of damage.. While it may not be 12k all the time, I have seen Warlocks hit for about 11k (on zerk) without any bloodlust stacks and no significant amount of might either.

can i join it plz

erm this isn’t pve

it’s coming
sometime
maybe
soon™

i r hez no need fir post gerd is berst

Jasher.6580:

Exedore.6320:

D/D elementalist provides decent group support and has okay damage and survivability. It’s still a bit too early to tell if they’ll see play at high levels. But they’re clearly a support role, not a damage role.

I’ve yet to see a meditation DPS guardian be effective in a tPvP match. Their damage is too easy to avoid, they lack CC so it’s easy to get away, they provide little or no group support, they lack defenses and melt in a team fight, and they have no escape mechanism or mobility outside of fights.

Support-DPS hybrids with shouts have the same damage and CC issues of meditation guardian, but they at least provide group support. However, with the currently available stat combinations, either their damage is laughable and you may as well go bunker, or they still die easily.

I know myself, Acandis and Itty Bitty bunker have had varying success with meditation builds. Also, the damage is decent.

I concur. It may not be the best DPS class but it definitely has its pros.

Zuik.7158:

Eviscera.9703:

Phaeton.9582:

If any ele beats me on a dps guard I will uninstall my game.

Hope this helps!

Bring it.

Send him my way if you don’t beat him.

I shall back him up you stinky eles

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

i wanted to sell mine but i used it instead 70g profit gone.

psst you can still sell it!