Guild Wars 2

sephiroth.4217:

People have offered very simple and basic counters that a 10 year old could follow and achieve but apparently it’s still too hard.

im sorry whats the counter again?
running away is a counter? (not to mention it wont work in many cases)
cleaning condis and not being able to hit him is a counter?
revealing him and then what? you can watch him run away and wait it out, some wont even care as they got 3k armor and 20k hp

again, this build is op af
i actually decided to play it to make more people complain after you all told me its “balanced”

1. its not easy to run away from, if people start running i just swap to shortbow and chase easily, dont even care about stealth at that point

2. reveals, yea i get revealed from time to time, but that doesnt mean i die, again if im getting low i just swap shortbow and get away, stealth again after reveal is gone

3. yes some builds have enough condi cleanse, still doesnt mean they can do anything to me

if you die using this build, you must do some terrible mistakes
on the other hand theres plenty of people you can easily kill without them being able to fight back at all

sometimes i feel like anet intentionally kittens something up so they can spend next few months “fixing” with minor changes like this

William Bradley Knight.2609:

This guy seems to be able to fight trap thieves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s0AJgsdeZY

yea man that rev is great, too bad it was 1v2, that thief got caught by guards, didnt use shortbow properly and rev has reveal like all other classes (oh wait)

in the end the thief just died for overextending while outnumbered…

idk where you got those numbers but thats obviously without condi dmg gear

build i just made on gw2skills (never played or tested) look at the difference just on the needle trap:
5 vulnerability, 12 seconds
5 might, 10 s
immobilize 3,5 s
1 poison, 3,500 dmg, 15 s
3 bleeding, 5,900 dmg, 12 s

this is one skill… and you wont ever see it coming

trait gives bleeds on dodge so thats the pumping condis while dodging reference

ok so thief with 3k armor and 20k hp cant get close to me when i put wells and marks under my feet?
he totally cant dodge it while also pumping more condis on me

so many experts here id really like to see videos of you fighting decent player on that build

yea man walk away from someone with +50% speed in stealth, cripple and immob on traps and chill on elite, dont forget to dodge his invisible burst!

sephiroth.4217:

I tried out trapper thief last night after all the rage posts… It’s horrible.

The only people I managed to kill were the ones who wanted to chase, I was able to troll a group really well with heals and stealth (shaman/apoth gear) but I never came close to killing any of them, it was purely a game of cat and mouse.

so because youre bad with it, everyone else is too, i see…

as a necro all my cleanses have cast time and can be interrupted by thief or even completely avoided (staff 4)

i dont understand how people keep defending this build

thanks everyone for the answers

is it still viable to do daily fractals for ascended?

Hi, I need to get geared for WvW and as the “new” stat combinations are generally more effective, I want to know how to get them. Currently Im looking for Marauder, Wanderer and maybe Crusader stats. Obviously I prefer ascended but if getting exotic is very cheap, easy and fast then Id make exotic first and later tried for the ascended.

1) Whats the fastest way?
2) Whats the cheapest way?
3) Whats the easiest way?
4) What way would you suggest to someone who hates crafting?

So you feel that 3 people should be able to defend a keep or whatever vs 50+ people? Thats just stupid not to mention siege is here for that purpose.

Its proven that people want the big fights. Thats also why the servers are linked now.

You are small minority, youre the ones who need to adapt.

i love it when i meet one on my power necro, the only cleanses i have are heal and staff 4. so yea im pretty much dead every time cuz heal gets interrupted and the mark avoided

this kitten is broken and should be fixed

Hellbound.5610:

Jon Olson.8439:

Can you verify that the game is using your discrete graphics card, not the integrated one?

Hi Jon

I run an i5 4670 with a GTX970 and have been noticing severe FPS drops recently while mainly playing WvW when I come close to blobs, significantly more than what have been experienced in before.

I usually run High settings but even after changing the Character Model settings to Medium it does still appear much worse than what it use to be.

It is also not a case of my CPU bottoming out, usage are around 60-80% when this happens.

Cheers,

HB

80% in task manager? because that could pretty much be cpu bottleneck. afaik that number is average of all cores but it only takes 1 core thats 100% to cause bottleneck

to the OP, what other games did you try to run to verify its not HW problem?

Hexinx.1872:

To each their own.

The poll was voted that way to support potential future development

Getting rid of a map completely would inevitably lead to never getting another map again. At least having it on 1 BL … would give some hope for the future of WvW …

DBL wasn’t voted best map, there was large support to support WvW development. Recognising effort put in. Nothing more.

When DBL comes back, you will again see EBG queued, and DBL never queued. I’ve literally never seen it queued. Even when a dbl keep was about to get flipped, and they pulled in EBG raid to support it. Only a quarter of the raid map hopped to support, and went back to ebg a few moments later.

This will continue this way. I voted to keep it, because I’m not an ignorant fool – I voted to keep it because some others may want to play it. Not me personally, but i want more players to play … on the maps they enjoy. If i were forced to play a map I didn’t enjoy, I would without question … not queue up. This way everyone gets a chance, and maybe if some people can get there heads out the ground, maybe we can slowly grow wvw activity over time – cohesively.

exactly this, and i feel thats why theres 60% votes for dbl now

personally, im most likely not gonna play on dbl map, but whats there to lose if they just add the map without removing alpine?

See I Nix Ten.2501:

https://www.twitch.tv/peternotpeter/v/73261857

Not sure if this is a thief bug, culling, or intended, either way it’s pretty ridiculous.

nope, this is just broken thief build, its been like that for a while now, i agree its kittened up

was this fixed in the last patch?

yes CU has 3 factions, but its not cross server so pretty much the same problem with low pop can arise there
in CU 1 faction from 1 server loses population, the other 2 will steamroll it and theres no way to recover unless other factions transfer to the loser for “incentives”

in GW2 you lose population on your server, your ranking goes slowly down and you more likely face similar servers (when they fix scoring)/get merged with other server

what will you do if 1 faction is stacked so much that they can open 3 more campaigns than the other 2? you wont let them play? you make them transfer? yea so in order to keep playing i need to throw away my faction pride, might as well keep server merging

basically you fight for nothing, with people changing every time, so what you achieved last week says nothing because this week is totally different

RvR games being based on matches like these?
CU doesnt seem to be the case
ESO with campaigns is similar but still different than this suggestion

how would the matchmaking work with so many separate campaigns that change all the time?

Riddle me this, if i dont make it to the same campaign as the rest of my guild, im not gonna play with them for a week?
if someone selects a campaign and doesnt play the game all week, noone can take his spot leaving the rest of his campaign at disadvantage?
even when im not in a guild atm i like to see the people i know from the server and know what to expect from them
so nah your concept isnt good enough

I agree recruiting in pve might a problem with megaservers, thats about it

btw if you followed the recent news about wow and nostalrius, you might notice that people care about community and breaking server communities isnt a good idea imo

Mike O Brien.4613:

our job is to delight you with what we ship, not with talk and promises

In other words you’re unable to deliver what you promise and unable to react to feedback given before release.

I’m really excited by possible changes to things released 7 months ago that shouldn’t even be there in the first place.

I didnt expect the huge queues and PPT contest on something called stress test. PPT competition is very far from stressing the servers. It should have been 3-way fights with as many people as possible.

My experience: I was in 150+ queue for the red border (the only one with at least some action). I was on blue border with few commanders running around, having hard time navigating through the map and I dont blame them – the detours you have to take to get somewhere are annoying and confusing. When we saw swords anywhere, it was usually over when we got there. We found enemy like 3 times in 2 hours and the rest was running around capping stuff and killing NPCs on a “PvP” map. Then I got to the red border for last 40 minutes and the only fight I got was arranged by the streamers and couldnt even finish it because the PPT event ended and we got kicked (Im not 100% sure on the reason we got kicked).

I imagine the red border players had a bit better experience but considering the state the WvW is in now, I dont think there will be enough players to populate 3 of these maps to make them look even remotely alive. So in the end it will most likely be closer to my experience when the maps are released.

Chicago Jack.5647:

It says esports right on the stage boys

also says Oct*B*ober, not trustworthy source

anyway, im not saying its players fault but they should really start to protect their IPs

Ok guys, I know you want to argue with that guy. But feeding the troll wont do mesmers any favor. The more the thread grows the more attention of ANet it will get. And the more attention it gets, the bigger chance of screwing up on their side is.

Shatter mesmer is not OP atm. The end

TyPin.9860:

How are Arcane Thievery, Null Field and 2 conditions cleansed on heal weak condition cleanse options (and those are simply the options on top of my head and doesn’t include Shattered Conditions or condition cleanse via torch). There are many rumors on those forums about certain professions (in this case Mesmer), that I personally have never observed…

Make a viable build using these utilities and traits. Sure you can cleanse a lot but youll not kill a thing. Not even talking about your usefulness to group.

No thanks, keep PvE out of WvW please

outnumbered? you mean you outnumbered them right?

They cant make GvG because guilds wouldnt play WvW anymore causing it to be ghost town.

If you take commanding seriously, take guardian or warrior.

Remove AoE cap? Youre probably necro who wants more lootbags.

Carpboy.7145:

The main point tho is with 30 illusions you share it with up to 5 people around you. The reflection would just be a bonus (but i also found out it only works on your f4 ability) you could have a full glass frontline that is still impossible to kill because of this trait

Wait, how do you share shatter skill with your group? Did I miss something or youre wrong?

Bertrand.3057:

Good. Give the innovative players a chance to shine, rather than letting cookie-cutter masses have all the say. I’d rather this than have to wait for the end of the Tournament, which I couldn’t care all that much about anyways.

Whats going to happen instead:
1) Bugged traits
2) OP traits

Instead of this, they should fix already existing bugs (I hope thats something that the feature pack will mainly include)

This would be great along with the account WXP.

This matters a lot in WvW, releasing something what is not tested in the middle of competitive event is going to be a disaster. Enjoy all the leaving players Anet.

1. Mesmer
2. Ranger
3. Engineer

Didn’t even read it all but I can say one thing, it’s really really bad idea.

Ok, rerolling my kittening mesmer, I want this kitten too. Take 3 dps and 2 support eles, wrap them with melee train to get enemys attention and shower them, gg.

Now seriously, do you think it’s ok to have one class to be that versatile in builds and so powerfull in all of them? Good 1v1, good 1vX, great group support, great DPS. I don’t think eles should be that good.

Prince do you know we are talking about fights 25+ vs 25+? If we go range with GS we cant just focus one target to take it down (phantasms die in seconds + our target gets healed). So if we want to do something we need to focus dmg in one place. So the only way to do that is jump in melee BF + shatter and then get away before we get killed. Thats why the immune vs evade hurts like hell.

@Bazzoong Do you play raid mesmer in some organised WvW guild? You cant just say its all ok when you have no experience with it. If you do, maybe you can upload some vid to show us your impact in these fights…

Im playing mesmer since summer so I didnt have the chance to play the great confusion glamour mesmer. But back then I was using the retaliation/reflection build and it worked because the meta was different.

Now there are no projectiles and I changed to shatter. Im ok with getting veil, null field and time warp for my guild but thats pretty much all I can do for them. Without taking these utilities I think Id make my mesmer even more useless. Illusions die so fast that I can usually shatter 1 illusion + myself with trait. And to be able to do so and not die, I need tank equip so my damage output is just too low.

Hi,
how exactly works granting boon to someone? Does the mechanic prefer members of my group?

Hi,
can you make video of some bigger fight (50+ players)? I’d like to try shatter cat heavy 3.0 but I’m not sure if it is “heavy” enough.