Guild Wars 2

One step further to taking away the kid’s crutches. Next up is skale venom and rocks

Lack of damage, clones spawning at range, and lack of cc is why I can’t deal with staff. Imo try both and figure out which one you like… I still use staff for condition build though

The more people use them the faster they’ll be nerfed so everyone reading this thread should buy them and use them as much as possible.

So funny to watch people defend it. I do 8-11k crits on GC mesmer with these things… they’re 1600 fn range, you can drop 1 a second with no cd…. oh no they cost 8c? 10g for 12500 attacks.

Are they useful in open field? Yes, but at least you can reflect them back to the user there. In defense they are probably the most broken aspect of wvw other than culling.

Kaineng shouldn’t have trouble, CD seems pretty much dead from xfers and I don’t see YB putting up much fight either.

Altie.4571:

Odaman.8359:

Magiofdeath.2745:

So why is CD known as the death star server?

Who knows, but they should probably merge with the leftovers of IOJ so they can compete in t8.

You mean like you merged with IoJ so you could compete in tier 3?

Don’t start nothing, we got too much amo!

Pretty much just like that. Although if you don’t merge you can always sit there and fight ioj on fairly even ground in t8… I’m sure there’s another dead server so I was wrong, you’ll be able to handle t8.

I’d rather FA stayed in t3, but w/e… t2 just means more people to farm even if we don’t do well in score.

Ranger could use some buffs, but honestly necro is an awesome class with someone who knows how to play it. Even rangers can hold their own with certain builds, but overall they do feel weaker than other classes.

iMage is trash. Retaliation is decent, but you can get that from other sources much more reliably and for a longer duration. High CD shatter fodder at best.

It’s true IP is a bit ridiculous in what it does for shatters…. I’d be afraid to see them touch it though… because I doubt they can get it right. Then again I have the same issue with deceptive evasion being 20pts in a line I wouldn’t go in a few builds if it weren’t for that trait being so strong for clone generation.

Magiofdeath.2745:

So why is CD known as the death star server?

Who knows, but they should probably merge with the leftovers of IOJ so they can compete in t8.

I like it. It should stay in, but if it doesnt I always have my guilds with my name so people will be able to send me tells.

Peetee.9406:

I have never played against WM but I can tell you that I have been reporting A LOT of people lately for botting since there is no option to report players for hacking.

The max run speed in this game is capped at 33% out of combat which my elementalist is at all the time. If a player can noticeably out run me that player has to be hacking and I report everybody.

Unless they’re a warrior or using leopard/bear form….. I have yet to see speed hacking in this game. Use of unintended items… sure all day. The occasional flying mesmer i’ve spotted, but not speed hacking.

On topic, I don’t know how they do botting bans. The gold transfer stuff is automatic, horribly implemented, and easily skirted around. I’d like to think they need proof before throwing out the ban, but who knows… maybe they didn’t. Either way this isn’t the place to bring it up.

CD lost terror to DB as well… which was probably one of their better guilds.

If that were the case we wouldn’t be asking for more people. Anyway we still need a larger pop outside of NA prime time.

Probably FA, although I wouldn’t mind it being kain in the end since maguuma was a good fight in the lower tiers before FA moved up.

I get a decent amount of small man fights in t3 on FA atm, but not during prime time. Granted I run with guild during prime time and solo during the day so it’s not an issue for me.

Many complaints about things that were worse in both games you played. The maps in this game are a bit on the meh side because they’re copied and there are some imbalances in both the borderland maps and EB(bay getting trebbed from garrison, and red’s overlook keep being trebbed from SMC), but other than that it’s a great START.

I’d kill for raid frames though.

The only class that needs any run speed buffing is mesmer atm. Warrior is insanely fast… only comparable to a d/d ele with the norn racial (leopard/bear form). Engi has easy access to 100% swiftness with 10 trait points, and guardian as mentioned above has retreat and staff, while many times getting boon duration anyways.

That said mesmer does get perma swiftness, you just need focus and keep your heal on cd…. which is a bit ridiculous tbh….

Pyroatheist.9031:

You are wrong with this. Illusion of life revives your allies for 15 seconds. If they kill something, they are fully revived, but if they do not, at the end of the 15 seconds, they completely die, they don’t go back to the downed state. It could be used in wvw, but you would be reviving a dead person, not a downed person.

In wvw (the only place I’ve used it) it puts the player back in downed state so it is indeed quite strong in certain situations. Also annoying when someone uses it when im on thief because it gives the enemy plenty of time to group up for a fast rez when im solo.

Pretty much means anyone going power/tough/vit is the person who should be in the golem. You can’t crit gates so prec/crt dmg is pointless.

I think it’s fine, much like engi turrets are fine. At the same time it’s annoying since they leave things like this and dragontooth while kitten mesmer for awhile to keep up from doing this.

Red will always treb SMC non-stop, just like whoever has smc should be trebbing overlook on a regular basis…. much like you already do to anz, durios, and ql. Blame Anet for kittenty map design when it comes to overlook keep and garrison→bay trebs.

I only ignored MoP and MoH because they can be useful in a healing build, but I personally don’t ever run any of them since they were nerfed in water.

For WvW I usually run
GS- Fire
Sword- Bloodlust and Fire after 25 stacks
Pistol,Focus,Torch- Rage

Torch is for surprise shatter bombs in melee, focus is for spread out groups, pistol is more of a 1v1 weapon for me.

PvE I just run GS/Sword+P with the same sigils.

Arcane Thievery – I don’t like how random it is. When it did all boons/conditions on a longer cd I loved it though.
Mantra of Concentration- Terrible stability skill… probably the worst in the game.
Mantra of Distraction- It’s ok, but most of our on interrupt traits are trash.
Mimic- It’s clunky, and I hate eating the first hit.
Phantasmal Defender – Dies way to fast to make much impact.
Phantasmal Disenchanter – Dies fast, and needs a target so it’s not a very useful cleanse. For boon strip it’s ok.
Signets, all of the passives seem subpar, and only domnation’s active is in a good place. The others are weak actives, or have long cast times.

Until mantras are uninterruptible nothing is overpowered about them. Any decent player will catch on the first time they see that nice little heal at the end of the channel and then start smacking you down with interrupts every time. That’s being generous and assuming they don’t think fast enough to figure it out while you channel the first time

Phantasm dps is ok with straight power, but it’s nothing compared to what a GC has. I thought this thread would be more about phase retreat, blink, decoy, blurred frenzy, distortion, and mass invis…. not a niche spec that I wouldn’t run without 2 guardians babysitting me with stand your ground.

That don’t revolve around shatter. I’ve tried doing phantasms and super gc mantra, but honestly I keep coming back to shatter builds because nothing else can come close… at the same time I find it boring as hell to have all my utilities gear toward my one trick. I guess it’s less a question and more of a complaint that we’ve been pigeonholed like many other classes in this game. Confusion builds are easily countered, and I can’t see myself spamming MoP for mediocre healing.

I’m talking about wvw for the most part, I don’t bother with pve other than daily fotm.

F2P before they add anything to keep the casuals will fail.

Shattered Concentration or Time Warp…. Idiots spout off about meta and learning to counter something and then whine about portal, time warp, and rez signets.

I think it’s time to stop nerfing and start buffing the bad traits and utilities across the board not just with mesmer.

I’d think the issue with this would be that in a low pop environment other than the established guilds transfering that recruitment would be a major issue until you get single bandwagoners. Then when the pve guilds see that you got all the nice little bonuses for stomping so hard the server will fill up with guilds that don’t have server loyalty because they don’t wvw. good luck filling up with pve guilds though

brogarn.8723:

A better thread would have highlighted a class that takes some actual skill to play well. Maybe “best ranger”, “best necro” or “best engineer”. At the very least a class you can actually see for any length of time. Not a class like this where, as a pistol/dagger thief you can just spam 1 and 5, stealth at will, escape at will, all with zero skill needed.

I’m sure faceroll static discharge insta gibbing people because you could hit your f keys in the right order takes a ton of skill. Well necro and skill shouldn’t go in the same sentence, and any ranger who understands how well they dodge/mitigate damage is great. Thief has a higher skill ceiling than anything else I’ve played just because they’re free to abuse many mechanics at the same time. No d/d insta gibbing someone isn’t skill, but for those in that build the real skill is shown when it fails or in some cases when they do other things first to ensure it does end quickly.

It’s sad we fell that far behind, oh well… there’s always next week… and the week after that…

Only useful in a siege….. granted it’s broken there. Thief = Mobile Ram that doesn’t need supply.

Please don’t give them the idea to make sigils work with phantasms. We’ll eat a huge damage nerf like engineers did for nothing.

Good vid… it’s insane they had no mesmer/thief… one good shatter bomb to end it all.

Being so anti fotm that you’d use terrible weapon sets isn’t well thought out. You do what is best for the situation even if that means being fotm. If it doesn’t fit your playstyle that’s one thing, but switching just to say “i’m not fotm” is idiotic.

Our fields are amazing. Chaos storm is a bit meh at times, but the others have little randomness to them. I’d kill for for blast finisher on something other than the prestige.

Shattered Concentration > all… then again I only pvp

Necro is actually pretty strong for zerg busting, much like shatter mesmer. I tried to watch the vid, but honestly d/d is boring as hell to watch.

GC mesmer is an exception to the rule since like other said it has good defense regardless when played well. Not only that, but shatter build is a hard counter to bunker ele and bunker guardian with shattered concentration. The only thing i’ve seen that mesmer is really weak against is a good p/d thief in wvw.

1. Shadowstep > kd, stun,chill, confusion, burn, poison, root, slow, and bleed
2. Hide in Shadows > bleed, burn, poison
3. Reflect only counters p/d, even then only idiots can’t see a majority of reflect fields in this game…. distortion grants reflect is probably the most subtle and even then…… only an idiot attacks someone immune to damage.
4. AOE… do you even play a thief? AoE rarely hurts a thief worth a kitten
5. Dodge > all and thief can do it far more than any other class in the game

You say you can kill a thief when really all you can kill is an idiot and you could do that on any class with nearly any spec.

Jinks.2057:

I suggest all the complainers about thieves actually roll thieves.

Can’t beat them…..Join em……..

Then you’ll realize you fail on a thief and go back to your other class

I did that, overpowered as hell, but has weaknesses… thankfully you can spec to close those gaps. Anyone failing on a thief needs to l2p. Granted not nearly as op’d in spvp imo. I don’t care how they balance though tbh… with 7 geared 80s I don’t have to get frustrated when something is opd or gets nerfed

You’re not killing a decent thief like this. You might not die, but you’re not killing him either. I’ve never seen this honestly, but on my thief I’d either walk away or wait to smack a few down when you get bored.

I’m not going through the post again for a quote, but whoever said mesmer is worse with 12s invuln you should try dodge roll spec with a thief with energy sigils and runes of the adventurer while tossing out the occassional sb or dd 3 just for the hell of it. It’s always fun to get 15+ dodges in a row and perma stealth with insane healing.

Down state is fine, rally need to be removed. I can cc people trying to rez, but I can’t help that some random bad decides to charge in and die to rally 10+.

I wouldn’t mind the ability to kill my own team either though

It’s imbalanced trash and should be left for pve. The lakes in the borderlands need to go, we want the real estate for something useful… not 300 fish men waiting for ranger bots to kill them.

The maps are a bit on the small side as it is. One of the main things daoc did right other than 3 factions was travel time could be short, or could be very long depending on how well you are doing. It gets old killing a zerg to have them back in your face within 2 minutes.

Capture the point gets old very quickly. That’s not to say wvw doesn’t get boring, but I have much more fun in an even wvw small man fight than any group fight in spvp.

The reason being that your group is built for point capture/holding in spvp while in wvw groups are more oriented to actually fighting people. I pvp to kill, not play in circles. Plus what the Amins said, no matter how good your opponent is in spvp you’ll almost always be more satisfied killing greater numbers than winning an even fight.

It’s annoying, but it won’t change much when they fix it. Sure you can kill the person, but they’ll be back in 30s. You can do the same in the SE supply camp btw.

Someone kitten FA off apparently… haven’t seen these numbers since our first t3 match.

FA has a fairly strong NA prime time, but could always use more. It’s hard to say whether we’re weak or decent in off times because it seems to vary honestly. While we do have a strong east coast population we don’t tend to have queues in more than 1 or 2 BLs and the ones that have queues tend to be short waits.