Guild Wars 2

elementalists are better now for the fact that anet unnerfed signet of restoration and celestial amulet. I play ele and eng ( for making a parallel ) and also eng celestial build hase become really popular and effective …. before the unnerfed of celestial amulet the builds strong for eng were quite only based on rabid amulet … in my opinion it is not the elementalist who got buffed … but only the runes he uses. And we wil lsee after the little nerf on might and on sigil of battle if something will change

if you don’t play pvp at higher level , i think s/f fresh air is very viable in pvp . it is a lot more difficult to use than celestial d/d : combos requests much more timing abilities ( so making it a mechanic is hard ) and you have to be much more tactic. You have to go on your target from a direction that let you execute your burst combo’s effectly . In some maps like home point on forest , i sometime find difficult to land the burst.
On the other end it is really fun to wreck down an enemy in a really short time . The only problem is that it is a build really good only for 1 vs 1 … so the best way to play it is to roam around looking for alone people to take down….but it is really not easy to use. . For wvw it works quite well for roaming

for condi bunkering is not better to use settler ?

I am not so sure …. celestial has less armour than rabid and in any case you are not a bunker …. celestial rifle has much more direct damage and much more control … but you loose pistol 3 that for me is really really strong … you have less access to confusion and blind … i prefer pistol pistol or pistol shield sometime but probably it is a metter of tastes

I tried to kill a golem in hearth of the mists but the little one killed me so many time …

In my opinion rabid 2kit condi builds are still better than celestial rifle based builds, especially for soloing without a team. Obviously it is a personal taste so don’t kill me

turret engs are strong in 1 vs 1 but you can manage them . I play usually condi eng and , for example , i usually do in this way. I go to see where they are and where turrets are. . If i can find a spot far enough to stay out of rocket turret i condi spam the engi with my nades, usually classic 4, 5,2 … and barriage .. .after that i usually stealth , magnet and finish it . I can ensure you that sometime i die but many time i kil lthem . The real problem is the time you need to kill them , but it is the same as you need in 1 vs 1 as any other bunker becouse usually they are soldier or settler …

In my simple opinion you don’t need all the ascended set. Coat and leggins are the pieces where the difference is bigger… so you could make only them … and if you have time ad a piece one by one

I love toolkit really much ( prybar, magnet , pull), i would like to have one for myself in real life . After playing for a long time with nades and toolkit ( usually with elixir S and sometimes with EG) with pistol pistol or pistol shield ( rabid ) I tried to take bomb instead of toolkit , take a shield and so to play the old bomb nades build . I am really really impressed how this build is strong, i have a great improvements of damage even in 1 vs 1 . Why did it go out of meta ? just a curiosity. For which fight is it weaker than classic toolkit naddes build ?

why not trade geomancy for energy and take Protection Injection ? you lose in damage but Protection Injection is quite strong …

In my opinion , i am playing some wvw too , for roaming and killing people ( i am not interested in opening gates or pressing 1 in a zerg) rabid 2 kits or 3 kits are really really strong … i use pistol pistol with rabid and i enjoy myself a lot … ( i know many will say it does not works … but i find i really effective … and i play with no food .. .)

it is only for pve i suppose becouse in pvp weapons have always the same stats

In my opinion there are 3 important things on turrets :
– i find that build terribly boring to play … i like to win but i am not satisfied when i play it . Pherhaps becouse i am used to kit based build , it seems to me so low interactive to play .
– I have problem against turret engi when i go against them with celestial rifle , instead i usually have not much problem with rabid becose i try to condi spam engineer from far with nades. Sometimes i have to escape with elixir S … it happens when i don’t see where rocket turret is but it is not so frequent. In any case spamming them to death with conditions from far usually works against turret engi
-there are points /maps where turrets are really strong… other in my opinion where they are far less effective ,for example battle of khilo …

but it will be nerfed with next balance patch … as might nerf..

how do you play that build ? You have no block … it seems hard. I played something like that but with toolkit , or as wolfineer ( if i remember correctly ) with shield and nades . How can you handle a medi guardian or a warrior ? Just too curious

i remember a good hgh build based on elixirs and nades from wolfineer, i don’t find the link now , but it was with pistol shield .
With pistol pistol you can try the classic hgh build with toolkit, elixir B and elixir S or C or U or whatever but now i don’t find hgh based build really good , i prefer classic meta builds look at this old post :https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Dual-Pistol-DoT-Engineer-Build or otherwise i played somehting like 4,4,0,6,0 with rune of strenght and rabid for playing hgh with toolkit. Consider that from the next balance patch migth will be nerfed from 35 to 30 of stats so in my opinion classic non hgh build are far better. Playing with hgh without any kit for me is really hard .

for what ? pvp or pve or wvw ?
for pvp you can look at chaithh build which is really strong : i link his twitch profile becouse from work i can not link his build directly http://www.twitch.tv/chaithh .
It is really strong and fun

i agree with you. I played a variation with 10 in firearm for rifle barrels , no granadeer and toolkit instead of nades so knight worked well but i did not find it optimal

have you consider swapping celestial for knight ? ( i played that some time ago )

with celestial rifle for the direct dps , with rabid i prefer pistol pistol

i play eng and after more than 5k pvp tournaments i find berserker ranger not so difficult to manage . They are strong but if you avoid their first burst and interrupt them at the right moment you can have them . In wvw in my opinion it is different. In pvp you fight for a small point sto a ranger who fight out of the point is useless.
In wvw instead with lb ranger can move much more . What i see as annoying is when you fight in a group and a ranger arrive from far and kills you .. but it is the role for that profession. Probably in wvw , where there is no need to fight “on point” rangers are stronger becouse they can use wisely the space around them and the npc .

yes, i would say it is not op in any case for his cd

yes but magnet has a right cd

for solo players. .. play unranked and have fun ( so that if you lose … you don’t get angry )

For engineer i see the thing a little different . celestial engineer is strong but not as dd ele celestial or celestial warrior and on the other side , rabid condi engineer is still really strong too and viable . I play both of them and in some cases i prefer celestial .. other time rabid … usually i choose based on map , teams composition and … weather

sitting on a tower in wvw and spamming aoe brainless down …

if you want this for ranked queue , i think it can be asked but for unranked queue i don’t see why i have to wait so long. If i play with 5 pugs against a 5 team and i lose , in unranked , it is not a disease … it will be better next time …waiting 5 minutes for 15 minutes match is really a too long time for unranked . I don’t bother to lose in unranked … i bother to have fun

yes but elixir S let you stomp even under heavy damage …. i find it really usefull in team fights

Personal score , in my opinion is meaningless when you win. I can cap a point and stay there making low points for me but good points for my team. Instead it can have some form of meaning when you lose . For example when you lose and see that you have 2 players on the losing team with some points and other 3 near to 0 ( it happens to me sometimes to see this ) it is a proof that they could not kill anyone and a sign of l2p issue . (it is only an example )

and for stomping ?

i am not so sure if d/d is the best weapon set for roaming in wvw … i prefer usually s/f for having more range ….

In my opinion celestial is more balanced than zerk . If you take nades or bombs condi damage is an important way of damage and celestial maximize the mix of direct/condi damage. On the other side traditional rabid,condition builds are really strong becouse you are more tank, you can have shield and you have a good damage also. I would put celestial and rabid builds on the same level ( it depends on your opponent setup , in some case i prefer celestial , in other rabid ) and after them i would put zerk builds . With nades i use celestial in zerg too , you have to stay out of the core of the damage but you can do quite well . With rabid you can stay in zerg too playing smarty… with zerg in my opinion you can only roam. Celestial or rabid are much more versatile

is it not too much 6 pt in arcana when you already have focus ?

In my opinion , without toolkit a pistol shield build based, with hgh is much better. I’d trade nades for toolkit taking rifled barrels for having more range, otherwise i ’d go pistol shield condi with hgh . With your build you have only elixir S as block and it has a long cd .

with condi necro i agree with you , it is really hard to take it down with condition …. with ranger, at least with berserker longbow ranger, i find usually not impossible to win with PP , magnet and nades .

is not better going S/F rather than D/F for tpvp (with fresh air berserker)

Ele has more direct damage … eng has condi damage and direct damage in celestial … they bring in different ways damage … but also celestial eng can bring good damage …

@ArrDee, yes it is viable but if you have to fight on point, in my opinion , shield is better, especially now with all rangers …

This game is heavily based on conquest. Sometimes it seems to me that “fighting is not so important”… i was able to win some match loosing teamfights… only with a smarter rotation or to lose them winning many teamfights for the opposite reason. what do you think about rising up the killing score from 5 pt to 10 pt or so making “killing” more important and rebalancing the score ?

i would recomend you to use shield over pistol . I am a huge fan of pistol pistol but i find it more effective with nades ( glueshot and nades synergies really well for me ) . Instead with bomb shield is unvaluable for the combo’s you can setup . (fire field, smoke field ..) . I’d use something like Vee Wee suggested to you but with a really important ( for me ) change : i would trade hair trigger for rifle barrels : having a longer range on pistol and eg, without nades for me is almost mandatory in wvw

but wvw is pvp also … if you don’t want to fight … go pve or watch television …

scepter focus is really good in pvp and in my opinion in roaming wvw . Obviously i use it with freshair 06044 … you are squishy but it is fun and viable

I also play P/P with a build similar to chaith or veewee . I tried also celestial rifle but i find pistol pistol condi better ( a personal opinion perhaps wrong) . I obviously tried p/s also but i find that pistol pistol has 2 big advantages :
– lower cd ( trait 6 in fire arms lower all the pistol kills )
– pistol 5 is really handy for throwing nades, rifle is really good too but pistol 5 blocks more than one player and it is an AOE .
Shield is great but it has really long cd
Obviously i miss rifle 4 really much

If you lose becouse your oppenent is stronger you lose also in a conquest map , having a different kind of game for me is better, it is in any case a bigger opportunity to have fun. I really don’ understand which is the problem in maintaining it also in ranked queue. It is something different …

i find cool also the fact that i don’t know if i wll have a DM match or a contest match … it make the game different and i think it creates space for more different builds and gameplays

Hvaran.6327:

PierPiero.9142:

PVP and WvW are different and quite often it is different the player base . I am not so sure that in tpvp you will have great success … Another thing that is not consider is that our pvp is a conquer game …. so you have to take a point and stand on it . And often on a point you have more than one opponent …

i totally agree with you on the point of difference wvw and pvp, but for ex-le if i go to pvp, i’m ussually running my wvw roaming builds etc to fight people and not focusing that kitten points (not ignoring them and team play either) and i imagine myself in ranked arena with SD aswell, just haven’t played it there for a while.

So there is something i did not understood from OP. Using SD for wvw roaming is viable, i am not saying that , i am not so sure in Structured PVP. It is good for hotjoin or for “having fun” killing people but i don’t think it is really viable in this kind of contest game

why this game have to be only a conquest game ? is it written in the Bible ?

PVP and WvW are different and quite often it is different the player base . I am not so sure that in tpvp you will have great success … Another thing that is not consider is that our pvp is a conquer game …. so you have to take a point and stand on it . And often on a point you have more than one opponent …

Dhunis.9072:

The matchmaking is a lot better now. I have played 6 games so far, all of them able to carry to victory. Right decision.

The fact that you win 6 matches in a row does not mean match making is balanced. If you win 6 balanced match the system is working , if you win 6 unbalanced (ex 500-100 or so ) match the system is not working … but u will be much happier than the other side

No , in my opinion it is not only a l2p issue. The system now works without leaderboard so now you can face player lower than you or more stronger than you randomly. Before the patch there was more stability and so you usually was against someone a little stronger than you or a little weaker than you . I think this situation will end in a month … when the rank system will begin to have adjusted data