Guild Wars 2

Well, okay. Sorry for derailing the thread.

Should it be changed? Yes. No matter how you obtained it, it should count towards armor collection. We don’t know how they check progress towards the title though. Perhaps only when you buy the armor with gold.

How should it be changed? Maybe they should change it to recognising the skin in your wardrobe. I’ll also say that since this PvP Cultural for glory thing was months ago, it is a very minor feature and they are not likely to go over it even at our suggestions. Ask for help at support maybe?

uberkingkong.8041:

Lukin.4061:

Why did you expect something to be given to pvp players?

ya what this guy said..

Only expect things to be taken away. For example, the PvP slot bags. I can no longer get my pvp 20 slot bags anymore, thanks to them not caring.

Indeed. When I started PvP, I only had eye for the bags. Now you can only get all this PvE crap. I suppose you can sell them then buy bags with gold, but I want my bags of glory.

Glory could have been an exchange currency like gems… but I’m dreaming. When have they ever made PvPers happy?

Sorry Anet, I know you tried. But the fact remains that 70% of my friends are not playing anymore because you don’t really listen.

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-Solo queue: As a Shatter Mesmer, put Portal on close and let someone cap it while you go mid with team and try to win the fight by bursting squishies (you get on other zerkers and condition engi/necro to stop freecasting) and securing stomps/resses (Shattered Concentration allows you to remove Stability and Pull/Push/Daze the stomp/res and sway the teamfight in your favour). As a mesmer, you are squishy. Very. You have to ledge constantly and know where to kite and when to pressure the chaser so you can live to do damage. You have to check home point and portal back to stop decaps or assist in the fight there. You can do Sword/Focus/GS for the classice hard burst or GS/Staff with Halting Strike for more Staff #2 mobility (you can port up and down quite a few specific places). You can also try 4 4 6 0 0 CI spec. Try reading Supcutie’s Shatter Guide. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ul7cz/supcuties_comprehensive_pvp_shatter_guide/

Also, with sPvP comes the knowledge of a rotation. You want to be at teamfights to sway a node in your favour, and also be there when someone decaps your point. You have to make choices. Ask and think about these things. Learn about map objectives.

Maps:
Foefire is a snowball map where winning mid and holding generally wins you the game since it is strategically and positionally important for map-wide assists.

Temple is an objective heavy map where 1130, 830, 530 and 230 spawns a top buff that doubles capped point gain for about 45-60s, and 830, 230 grants a bottom buff that takes 5 seconds to cap but flips all points in your favour. You fight around these buffs and watch your points and Temple goes by really quickly. You ignore these buffs, and Temple will be a lost game, very quickly.

Forest has Monsters that grant buffs, and side points that are prone to decap. Have someone watch close very carefully and if enemy wipes at mid, be prepared for crossing to home. Skip boss at start and focus at midpoint. If you hold 2 points + win a major fight, go kill the boss. Otherwise, they can steal it. Also, if you can stop bosses running around, your enemy might not know that you are killing it. E.g. Thief tanking Svanir with BP and Auto’ing it down right where it stands.

Kyhlo is a defensive map where good trebbing wins you the match. Mesmer, Thief and to a lesser extent Eles can utilize Clocktower as a teleport platform and go out completely when under pressure. Clocktower has a platform great for knockbacks and AoE and Guardians/Warriors/Engineers can use specialized builds to keep the point neutered or capped with many launches or on-point control.

Skyhammer is great for Mesmers, Engineers and Thieves. Bring your pulls, pushes and stealth and insta-kill with the panels there. Nobody likes this map.

-If you are on the losing team of 4 vs a winning team of 5, go into spectators and pull someone from the winning side to yours for a 4v4. Someone will then join the winning team and you can go back to your own team for a 5v5 (at least for a while). However, I urge you to play Solo/Team queue and learn more about properly rotating and playing as a team. I just realised that you’re talking about hotjoin, but I hope you read this and try out tPvP for real.

Hi, I’m kinda bad, but I’ll try to answer some of the questions you have.

-Warriors with Hammer/Longbow, Soldier Amulet and Strength Runes are #1 meta. Axe Sword/Longbow is #2 and it can be Celestial for better Condition damage. Either way, they utilise Might-stacking as well as intelligence sigils to compensate for low crit chance and gain controlled burst damage. Warrior skills are all highly telegraphed but hit hard. Common trait setup for Hammer is 0 0 6 2 6. Axe Sword or Shield is 2 0 6 0 6.

-Hammer is easy to dodge if you stay a bit back. He will use Hammer #3 + Leg Specialist trait or attempt LB Pin Down + #3 into Hammer F1 + #5 + #2 + #3 + #4 into LB #2. Dodge the Pin Down. Dodge the Earthshaker or block when he immobs you with Hammer traited #3 (immob 1s). Blind or block or invuln his hammer skills. Staff #2 after Earthshaker. Remember you can shatter off Stability and control him. Hammer #4 is the knockback that is immposible to dodge but very short ranged. It comes out way too fast but you can bait it.

-Guardians that can actually hurt you are Triple Meditation guards using Strength Runes and Zerkers Amulet. Some GS’s may also be slotted with Rage Sigil for suprise rudeness. Setups are usually 2 1 6 1 4 or 2 6 6 0 0 or 0 6 6 1 1. The healing is from Monk’s Focus in the Valor tree; however what makes Guardian great are Shelter and RF when used at the right time. Don’t get hit by too many Guardian Sword Autos, those things hurt like nothing else. You may see the odd Burn Guard somewhere with 1k Burn ticks.

-Turn up sound effects volume for Thieves. You can often start leaving a point and hear the Infiltrator Arrow whoosh sound behind, or that of Stealth House. Start counting after they BP + HS and dodge or Blurred Frenzy and you might see Invulnerable! pop up as they spam Backstab. Play one or play against to anticipate their distance and movement and get a feel for when they backstab. Weave back and forth and face different directions to ruin their Backstab and eat a Facestab so you can shatter them right after. S/D Thieves are a different story though, and you can try bursting them right after flanking strike. However, Mesmer having a very obvious burst setup vs the build with the most evades means you will be fighting an uphill battle. Get a feel for when they are low and start watching for where they will Stealth House/Heal. Save your pulls and pushes/interrupt/daze for this, follow with burst and you will have won.

-Rangers can do something like Shout Beastmaster where they give permanent Regen and Protection to their Raven and pillarhug until the birdy crits you dead, or Spirit you until you get hit by Storm Spirit and meet your maker. Rangers are optimised (because of really, really bad traits) for 1v1 and 1v1 only at the moment. You might see the rare LB/GS Zerker yolo’ing his life away but that’s another matter… They have a famous Stealth + GS #3 to you + GS #5 Backstun + Signet 25% damage + Maul 10k crit combo. Up close they have one block, stealth, Endure Pain/Condi clear and one gapclose to run with but other than that they are paper. They are great if they ledge and just pump out 3k+ auto LB Crits.

-Anticipate their movement. You can Chaotic Interruption a Warrior Rushing away in GS. You can Interrupt a Thief using Hide in Shadows. You can stop them HS’ing away. You can do that to Ele’s using Ride the Lightning. It’s easier if you know they will when they are low. If they pop a stability/endure pain/house/portal just to get away, be content that in a tPvP match, they have used up very important skills for survival in the next fight, which they will not be able to access.

- Decoy/Torch + Mass Invis could give you a few seconds of player confuddlement. Once you start casting/dodging or getting hit though, experienced players will know who you are. Play your Mesmer as if they always know who you are is probably more effective than trying to play pretend (which might still serve a purpose).

-Shatter burst with Sword is one of the most highly telegraphed (#1 being the obsolete Bulls Charge Frenzy Hundred Blades Warrior) bursts and the whooosh and clone coming out (even with stealth, best stealthed and 0 range) is the definitive warning and would almost guarantee a dodge/block/invuln/evade/port. You need to count dodges, or wait out dodge and only swap when clone walks up to enemy again. Either way, plan your next step and anticipate the block. Try to bait out the defensive cooldown, then burst straight after.

It fully heals your downed teammate for 100% hp and if your teammate is below 33% and Poisoned, then he won’t get revived (because it then heals for 67%).

Go to WvW. There’s a vendor that sells karma blue gear, perfect for your level 2’s. There’s a full blue set for very little karma and you can put skins over them just like any other armor and enjoy full barbie-ness in PvP. They are even great starter gear.

You’re welcome. Oh, and you can also not worry about all those things if you have an outfit you like.

Back when PVT bunker Mesmers were a thing, it was funny to watch GS Guards and Flamethrower Engis promptly kill themselves when they do the spin to win/auto spam on four avatars with retaliation. Was even better with confusion stacks on.

It’s a good thing to check enemy buff bar for key boons and hard buffs. You can bind Sheathe weapon to stop casting a fast hitting AoE if you don’t want to kill yourself..

Your Voices Shall Be Heard™. Soon™.

Here is a G.I.F.T. to help you understand why.

Yes, the double loading screen is entirely unnecessary and an unneeded punishment for those who are the victims of a disconnect. People with fairly old computers may take up to 40 seconds to get past a screen, discounting the time to login and then load character selection.
For this game, or just for the competitive side of it, a clean, fast and functional load will improve our quality of life by a significant margin. Maybe a tickbox for fast start-up?

Don’t break the window though. Last time I did that, I got my keyboard, mousepad and speakers rain-soaked and had to buy replacements. On a side note, cardboard makes a pretty good mousepad.

I use Taugrim’s configurations, modded slightly. Eliminates carpal tunnel.

Weapon Skills: 1-5
Swap: `
Heal: Q
Stomp/Interact: T
Utilities: A S F
Class Mechanics: ZXCV
Elite: G
Movement Keys: WER for left forward right; D for backpedal
Dodge: Shift
About-face: Y
Jump: Space
Acquire Target: F1, F2

Tab-targetting and Marking target on a mouse with 2 thumb buttons (Mouse buttons 4 & 5)
I use mouse to look and aim (you can manual aim some ranged abilities, like Mirror Blade, Kill Shot, Fan of Fire), and click targetting sometimes.
For One-Shot S/D Ele, you have to use instant AoE targetting (fire at pointer) to pull everything off. You can use normal activate + mouse click but you need good ping.

I try to use the same configuration for all classes. However it’s best to customise to make some specific builds with 1 killing combo (e.g. Static Discharge Engi, Superglass S/D Ele) go off without any stumbles.
Blink utilities like Lightning Flash, Blink, Shadowstep and Mr. Wurm I put on A so I can immediately hit with pinky.
Normal stunbreaks like SYG!, Lightning Reflexes, Balanced Stance I put on S.

I suggest taking a look at TERA Female High Elf Lancers and Destroyers. They only have steel plating over their girly parts.
Or Aion where you can wear gowns and still retain heavy armor value.

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Liewec.2896:

Ralkuth.1456:

I played PVT Bunk war for a bit. You have regen banners, adrenal health, and all the stances to mitigate damage. All you need to do is use Warhorn 5 and Mace auto if you can to give weakness, then run around point with Sword 2, randomly stun people trying to res and stomp, miss a few Warbanners, and you win 60% of your Solo Queue games (150-105 on this spec)!

oo i hadn’t thought about using mace, i’d taken sw/sw and sw/sh for the blocks/reflects and the constant condi damage, but throwing weakness in there does seem pretty great!
since i’m not taking it too seriously i’ve even taken dolyak runes just for the extra health regen (and teh lols) :P its not too great, something like 63 health per second, but thats still an extra 3780 health a minute.

even though i dont take it to serious it does still feel like god mode, until someone comes along with poison :P

Take Mercy runes to complement your Tactics minor traits for the fastest possible in-game ress speed (130%). Some “clutch” resses are just hilarious as you can pick them up before the stomp finishes (no cleave, sometimes doable with poison if you mace daze).
PVT
Mace/Shield Sword/Horn (Para/Energy Life/Energy)
Dolyak/Banner of Def or Tactics or Disc/Zerk stance or Balanced or Stamina
This is Olrun the Blade’s bunker banner warrior build. As he says, remember to jump dodge often! You can actually go that extra little bit and make melee miss so its always good to do.
People will always love you for Banner res. However you have to judge if it is worth it and have to LoS/Stab to pull it off safely. Smart players will try to stop you. Please don’t miss banner by the way xd

On topic:
Have faith… games start out rocky but they have the potential to be great. However, some quality progress could take years…

They use PvEers for money, and use PvPers for publicity. Then, when the publicity served its purpose, they strip away PvP currency to squeeze out more cash from the playerbase.

I don’t blame them though, they’ve got to deal with the “freeloading” population somehow.

Don’t afk out.
These are 2 separate issues. Other people don’t show up for match, that’s their bad behaviour. There is no direct cause and effect, A → B between them leaving and you afking.
If I afk out and get Dishonoured, that’s my own fault.

Liewec.2896:

i’ve been messing around in hotjoins as a bunker war and its so hilarious against classes without spammable sources of poison,
i can literally just stand there, i don’t even need to press any buttons my passive health regen outheals their damage, plus i have retaliation passively proccing for 6 seconds every 10 seconds.

throw in s/s so you can do fairly decent condi damage and it becomes HILARIOUS.

i agree with your list, some classes are just way too cheesy.

I played PVT Bunk war for a bit. You have regen banners, adrenal health, and all the stances to mitigate damage. All you need to do is use Warhorn 5 and Mace auto if you can to give weakness, then run around point with Sword 2, randomly stun people trying to res and stomp, miss a few Warbanners, and you win 60% of your Solo Queue games (150-105 on this spec)!

There was this Power Necro I was fighting one day at home point. I dodged Dark Pact and Sword 2’d over his wells. Then he stabbed me for 1 minute while my health remained at 27k. “We nerfed healing signet, they said,” he sighed and walked off…

I believed that everyone has goodness inside them and won’t go out of their way to confuse others.

I see you’re having fun with that build. Mace F1 is really readable so be patient, count dodges and use your other stuns and dazes to bait his stunbreaks, so when your F1 hits you get the full 100b in.

I would trust Sky Avalon if I were you. Just give Staff/Scepter Shield a try. You would be dodging on the point and running around it to avoid hits. What you want on your weapons are stuff that helps out your team, boons and immobilises.

AH is now the most common.
0 0 2 6 6 old meta guard is still very much useful.

There are lots you can switch around to, but keep your shouts, maybe a consecration, RF, and Soldier runes. Oh, and ress knockback trait is really nice.
Hammer/Staff (Spirit Watch)
Hammer/Scepter Shield (Control)
Hammer/Sword Shield (Kyhlo)
Staff/Scepter Shield (Support)
Staff/Sword Shield (Mobility)
Staff/Mace Shield
Staff/Mace Focus
Mace Focus/Scepter Shield (Survival)

Nimrud.5642:

To be more specific:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAV8Yl0Mp7pVOxwJ8PNBNB5dY+SZ0KAdHl+eEA-TZBFwACOCAl2fYxFAoaZAAPEAA

Oh btw, if I want to change the amulet, should it be barbarian or knight?

This… this is 2 0 0 6 6 S/D Thief right? :0

Warriors -are- tanky. If you like 1v1 builds, Axe/Sword + LB 2 0 6 0 6 Soldier’s + Strength Runes is good. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAncTjMdUFaZIehwJaghgCdOUCxgpAQ9ZE7dBA-TZBHwAGODAAeAAd2fwZZgBHCAA
Hambow is good 1v1, it can perform well and do a lot of control with Hammer F1, 4 and 5. You also have immobilises from Hammer 3 (need Leg Specialist trait) and Longbow 5. It just loses to Axe/Sword because Hammer has large tells on its skills. If you’d like to see it in action, you can go to twitch and watch the NA ToL finals – the winning team APeX has 2 Hambow warriors, and one of them is a home-point defender with a few 1v1s for much of the matches. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJASTjMdUFaZIehwJagqgCdFEAPg6hoxzhUbAA-TZBHwAAuAAGeCAd2fwZZgBHCAA

The usual specs now use Soldier’s for the durability, and use battle sigils + strength runes as well as fire + blast combos for might. They also slot intelligence on the axe and hammer for hard-hitting, might-stacked crits even if the amulet is a really defensive and tanky one (Power, Toughness, Vitality).

If you like really long stuns, then as before, mace shield GS is a really strong 1v1 duelist spec (unsuspecting foe + valk amulet). http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAR5ejMdU2ZZIWhwJaAlgC9K8Bjwx2OAUmFXBA-TZBCwAAOCAOeAAgLDo5iAEb/BA lots of variations. Slot sigil of Rage, trait Last Chance and Last Stand and use Lyssa, put in Zerker amulet and you have a pretty surprisingly powerful quickness spec.

Guardian is usually popular as 0 1 6 6 1 team support bunker, because it’s just so good at that role. You can also run DPS guardian as triple meditation, but that requires you to be Zerker to be effective.

Check vulnerability on your target Roz.
Turrets don’t scale at all.

Play triple kit engi. Elixir Gun, Bomb and Nades.
Nades is not boring. Nades take a lot of skill to land correctly in PvP. You have to take into account the slow travel speed and where the enemy is likely to be. People like Ostrich Eggs/K Pz can land the Nades nearly every time where they want on who they want.
Turn off all the auto camera facing. Run away from enemy and pan camera backwards with left mouse to kite effectively with Nades.

Bomb is great for Combo blast finishes. Turret heal, Shield off-hand, Big Ol Bomb and Elixir 4 can be used to mightstack yourself. Same for the Smoke bomb for Shadow Refuge-length stealth.

Toolkit hits really hard with Prybar but it’s more a PvP kit. However you might like the cripple.

Elixir Gun helps the Engi scale with healing gear and has a great weakness autoattack as well as cripple.

Flamethrower auto is actually not that great because it’s hard to aim while kiting, and you also want to land the last hit instead of whiffing it. You can also kill yourself to retal very fast. The main thing about FT is the toolbelt Ammo, #3 and #5. Long burning, Instant CC and Blind (can use for stomp). With the toolbelt #1 actually has a use in applying the burn buff very quickly. #2 hits quite kitten a low CD, and there’s a knack to landing it.

Engi is just… not about instant gratification. You have to practise to get to where other classes can be easily (Engi, Ele about the same) which is why people get turned off trying to play it well. However, it’s got a lot of tricks and options to make it one of the more fun classes to play.

Use stunbreaks, or use your evades and blinds. If he pops zerker stance, run away until it goes down. If he pops Balanced Stance and Endure Pain as well, just wait it out… Nobody told you to stand on a point with him. Though if you are defending it, you have to actively avoid his attacks. Good thing about stances is that they are on long CDs.
Learn the animations. Get a feel for Hammer F1. If he is a bit far away from you most likely he will Hammer 3 into F1 so try and dodge that. Slot Lightning Reflexes. Keep track of your Shared Anguish.
Learn to feel for Longbow. Some like to immediately Pin Down and you can read the animation now so save your evades for that. If you do get hit, watch the switch to Hammer and use evades inside the immobilise then.

If you are traps, just set traps under yourself. If you have torch, try and land your skills then keep him poisoned. If you are spirit, you can try to blind his hammer and get away with cripples. When you have burning, bleeding and poison on him, fear him away to let it tick so he is forced to stunbreak. You have to counterpressure so that he uses his adrenaline and stances for defense.

If you really can’t use your evades to best effect (you have to know what to dodge and have the reflexes), try and fight hambow with hambow and try to beat the mirror setup. This will give you the most understanding.

They removed it. Do a custom search for 8v8s and above and keep tabs on those. Join when there’s a space.

This may sound silly, but initially, I decided to spend most of my time in HotM because I wanted the 18 and 20 slot bags.
I missed out on buying the Tomes (kitten it) but at least those are obtainable if I’m consistent.
Bags would be great.

Let go of discussing points, as the above said; it’s only indicative of getting into large fights and tagging a lot of people/getting decaps as a high mobility class.
The 1v1 hard target at home point who goes to help mid but consistently comes back to defend close (MM Necro, Turret Engi, Spirit Ranger, D/D Ele) and makes people retreat, or holds 1v2s until teammates come help (at which point he may be stomped) will never have the score of say, a Hambow nearly always swinging on mid, or the Guardian bunker going to all major teamfights.

I’ve gone from 90% to 350ish, then back down again with consecutive losses. Most I had were 8 losses back to back on 2 separate days. On those days there were a few really bad compositions, sure (e.g. 2 rangers, 4 guardians, 3 mesmers…) but some of it can be attributed to my bad rotations as well. I lost home quite a few times because I wasn’t keeping a close eye on it, or I wasn’t able to deal with somebody 1v1 long enough.

Playing something suited to conquest helps your wins as well, I’ve been playing Engineer and Guardian and I’ve always had a ~50% ratio (actually, I dream about being good on Engi). When I switched to Banner Regen Warrior (Olrun the Blade’s build), I had a near 60% win rate (150-105). I could have improved, but I felt that it was mostly due to the build being able to take hits 1v2 for a very long time, until teammates felt like helping me out after about a minute.

I had quite a few 80s I deleted… I think at least one of every class (so I can make alts for PvP).
I took a few months’ break from the game and now leveling is at least dimly interesting.

Try having music in the background and a set goal of a few levels a day I guess?
Also, multi-pulling and using all out zerker specs tend to make it less tedious. With trait changing you can adapt to a lot of situations…

Engi best with 6 0 0 2 2 if you do Grenade/Tool or Bomb/Rocket Boots and Rifle. That’s a build with some good traits.
Guardian great with meditations.
Necro is good with Power, dagger horn and staff. Mass pull into wells.
Mesmer… well… until clone on dodge, you have to kite with staff and GS. Safest that way.
Thief… S/P and Shortbow is fastest. Lots of AoE cleave.
Warrior… Anything goes really. Everything you do has a lot of damage. I recommend GS/LB and Warrior’s Sprint.
Ele… D/D mass pull.
Ranger actually great with Torch, Traps and condi.

lol 25 stacks of Swiftness… +825% movespeed?
Is this Ballistics we’re playing?
(Flashing Lights/Seizure Warning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtlR3tsYb4I

Engineer is just different. I recommend the Bomb and Nade kits and pulling 4-5 mobs for convenience. Both Power (Rifle, or Pistol Shield) and Condition (Pistol/X) will do.
Quick Travel tips: get Speedy Kits soon as possible, Tools line VI.
Rifle #5 + Rocket Boots will be handy for travelling.
Rifle damage is best up close. Something like Net Shot → Jump Shot up close for both hits → Blunderbuss → Overcharged Shot (+Toolkit: Magnet → Prybar)

Turrets not worth it except Healing Turret while leveling – you want to move on fast. Use when you know you’ll be fighting Orrians – you want to keep the poisons off. Try comboing Rifle #5 or Big Ol’ Bomb into the Healing Turret field! (BOB before you cast heal, rifle straight after you cast heal and detonate turret) Healing Turret can be detonated to keep the water field and with 1.4k extra healing in an area at the expense of 5 seconds of cooldown. Stow it to use the turret quicker!
Medkit good for Fury and Swiftness.

If you like Conditions, Pistol/Pistol is fun, Blowtorch is strong! Shield offers some fun blast finishes, such as Smoke Bomb + Big Ol’ Bomb + Heal Turret Detonate + Shield #4 Detonate + Rocket Boots = Engi Stealth! Figure out the timing and it’ll be amazingly fun!

Engineer has a lot of skills you can use in combo.
Also, toolkit great for lowest CD block in game, a Prybar to hit people with, a Magnet to pull and get a free skill in, even a Box of Nails to help you kite enemies.

But… but it helps build diversity! We love build diversity in this game! Isn’t that what you all asked for? That’s why we made all these wonderful XIII traits! Absolutely wonderful little buggers aren’t they! We already removed the map that you didn’t really tell us to remove (along with +1 innocent Ranger NPC sealed in stone) and added a new map to divert your attention from the one that got people popping veins 24/7!

Wait you were saying?

limbeurt.9642:

I’ve tried “adapting” on my thief and using wire, but literally 90% of the time the pulled enemy will just stumble in place and not get pulled, any reason for that?

Try Blinding Powder → Shortbow Stealth #1 immob → Stand on glass + Scorpion Wire → Dodge back

You can combo Scepter immobilise into Triple Meditation Guardian burst. You can Judge’s Intervention with GS #2 or Hammer #2 + Virtue of Justice + Smite Conditions for a high amount of burst damage. Scepter #3 + Torch #4 Double Tap + Judge’s Intervention while casting will make it almost always land.
Scepter #2 + Hammer #3 can be used to chain immobilise someone and have your team catch up to them or make them blow some panic buttons. Binding Jeopardy could be great. The immob signet also funny to use together with these.
Scepter is great on its own on an offensive Guardian build as the immobilise allow you to land some otherwise easy to dodge skills, or catch fleeing targets and hopefully get them down with #2 and a few lucky autos.

Hello. Standard AH Guardian Bunker-Roaming Support (which is what the guardian is great at, skewing teamfights). You might want to confirm the spec from Jax’s thread in Guardian forums, which is stickied.
You’re welcome.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAW5elsApfn1CxVI8DRBDRkjNYnFOedRTAA-TJBHwALLDA4iA0b/hBPBAA

Use Save Yourselves! in RF to pull conditions but not get them on yourself.
Use Shelter because it’s nearly (fear wall and line of warding and ring of warding and lucky magnet/scorpion wire/traited unblockable mark/well of corruption excluded) a guaranteed heal. Check poison though.
Use that VoJ blind to stomp.
Triple Shout for necessary condition cleansing. Remove weakness from bursters, and burning on yourself ASAP.
Use VoC to stomp.

Old meta Control Bunker.
You’re welcome.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAreSlsApeo1CxVI8DNhDBl9Kq/9xuCd4DXFAA-TJBHwALLDA4UA0b/hBPBAA
Can use Staff/Hammer and 2 Handed. But you lose the mega awesome res bubble. If I could, I’ll res bubble all day. I love res bubble. Use Banish to nearly the same effect.
Stability on VoC and 3 Condi wipe on VoR (VoR twice, through RF) along with 2 shouts means this is better against heavy conditions.
You are also better on maps like Kyhlo, where with a Hammer, you can attain a brief glimpse of god-hood/ascension/transcendence as you banish people off clock tower into the stairs. Then have ring hit them in face as they run into the node.
Sanctuary great for resses. Switch out for other consecrations like Purging Flames, or Wall of Reflection. Run Hallowed Ground on Kyhlo if you really, really want to.

Lyssa took 2 years to nerf…
Strength runes fo eva!

They sacrificed the welfare/feeling of superiority of sPvP players for an increased transient sPvP playerbase.
Because of the non-existent PvP population by default, the large amount of incoming players diluted the present pool and created a large proportion of skewed games.

To a lot of people, winning and feeling that you’re wearing something special could be most of what drives them to play sPvP, day after day, dutifully buying gems and giving you revenue for 2 years.

But maybe they got us. They know that this huge time sink is still our best option. So, if we want to have the things PvEers already have, we have to go out there and do the things we didn’t before… (and seriously, the trait thing and the crafting xp decrease… it’s such a cheap move to make you level and collect for longer).

New game mode, more new maps, better group/guild/queue facilities.
Instead, we have 1 removed map, 1 map not in rotation, 1 map nobody wants, conquest forever, and botched queues.

Despite that, we still love the game. We smile and welcome our cheating partner with open arms and a wide smile.

We’re really, really sick.

Can’t forget about Quickness Lich, Quickness Hundred Blades sniping…
The invincible twin ele 10k firegrab meta.

GW2 could learn/steal a thing or two from the rating system.
It would make matches more enjoyable for the players.
However, the PvP population is small, much smaller than in WoW. If only they made changes soon after launch.
Game pace/game mode/game mechanics is different though.
I was watching VanguardsTV on twitch as he plays top level WoW Arenas… and sadly, it took much more team communication and was so much more enjoyable to watch than even the clash of the Titans like TCG and 55Hp/APeX KPeX.

What went wrong?

joonasp.9217:

cheese.4739:

That way we can enjoy getting stealth-pulled

Aegis doesn’t even block Magnet stealthpull.

That intended? BS

That’s unblockable as mentioned on tooltip.
It’s fairly easy to dodge/stunbreak and roll away from Prybar or Blowtorch if you see it.
However, there’s the stealthpull so just give up and go play an Engi/Thief/Mesmer/Necro with a spec just for this map, and go play this twisted version of virtual golf.

Shameless necro’ing of thread to share the love. Support our streamers!

Where is the stickiness for much needed threads in these trying and changing times?

If you’ve learned something from making this thread, i.e. using the “I Volunteer!” button more, great!
People could have let you off easy and gave you some room to back off but they didn’t, and that’s not good etiquette.
However, don’t try to flame back… it only feeds the fire.

Forsaker N (EU, Necro)
http://www.twitch.tv/forsaker_

This one’s good too.

If you try to stack teams and roll over the other team, they have nothing to gain, rank and rewards wise, and there’s an easy button to quit and try their luck somewhere else. Who’s stopping them?

If you are one of those few with sportsmanship that stay behind on the losing team and keep playing, props to you, stuff like that is few and far between. Some even call that unwise. If only everyone is like that.

Maybe you’re not stacking. Perhaps you just play better, okay. If you can do 300-20 easily, do Solo and Team queues. You’d probably enjoy winning more than half your games, and the opposition doesn’t ragequit, because of dishonoured. Hotjoin is made for casual play and this is expected. Maybe hit that “I Volunteer” button next time?

Personal score is not indicative of anything. There are no separate score calculations for each build and role. If you’ve yolo queued since the launch of the game, you’d know that if you played things like guardian bunker you’d probably have action throughout the match but the least score because you’d only be rotating onto neutral or owned points to help a teamfight but not capping points. You could have a thief that solely backcaps but die to an off-point zerg and he’d potentially have more points than the bunker.

You can’t change opinion on the internet, unless that opinion offers the recipient a better virtual position be it wealth, status symbol, or other sorts of well-being. Trying to get other people to stop insulting and whining about you is futile. Instead, the most flexible thing you can change is your perception of these situations. When you get trash talked, don’t say anything, and don’t feel anything. I mostly just find it amusing and read it like your daily newspaper comic.

If you know you made a mistake, correct it quietly. If you know you can improve, best to do some research or watch streams. You don’t have to go red-faced and engage in steamy pink chat.

entropy.9613:

Why fight it?

I believe in his benevolence…

entropy.9613:

Externalising criticism as ‘a convenient ego-saving strategy’ is a convenient ego-saving strategy.

Under the premise that the team he played with used criticism as a convenient ego-saving strategy.
Would it be so bad to externalise criticism as “a convenient ego-saving strategy” to conveniently save himself some ego when everyone else is trying to do so?
I could be wrong, but I was trying to give our frand here a pat on the back and keep going.

Though taking criticism the right way is key to improvement, you’d also want to take the right criticism. Don’t think people whining about how bad he was could turn into anything contributive… “You’re bad” -> “L2P” -> “Get good”? Substantial indeed.

Sir Arthur.8905:

the TOXIC members of the pvp community

Don’t think I want to fight negativity with more negativity. That word won’t scare them away. Though I don’t know what truly will create an adverse event to talking down on people. Maybe buy a thesaurus and frighten them with your learnedness?

LB F1 is used to stack might. The LB and Hammer both have Blast finishers to synergise well with Strength Runes. LB also great on-demand Cleansing Ire and synergise with Burst Mastery for more adrenaline for both bursts.

Hammer/GS is very vulnerable to kiting and the utilites you use are not as effective.

You can run GS/LB and be a 1v1 skirmisher. (Frenzy Bull’s Charge, Lyssa, Zerk 4 0 4 0 6)
You can run Hammer/Longbow and be great in a teamfight, or okay 1v1. (Triple Stance, Strength Rune, Soldier’s or Zerker, 0 0 6 2 6)
You can run AxeSword or Shield/LB and be good 1v1. (PVT, Strength, Soldier’s, 2 0 6 0 6)

all of them run Cleansing Ire, have Burst Mastery, and carry Longbow.

If you truly really really want to run it, get Leg Specialist, Burst Mastery, Dogged March, and Mobile Strikes so you can at least try to hit people kiting you, then get Zerker Amulet so you can kill them. Valk only worth it with Unsuspecting Foe, and best with the Mace Shield/GS setup.

So your suggestions are:
1. Nerf hammer damage and give more weakness.
2. Remove Berserker Stance adrenaline gain or reduce duration.

There. Now we have something to discuss. You don’t want people to -perceive- your post as -whining- now, do you?

Regrettably, no. However, you can probably contact Crispeke/Crescent in-game with Synti.6142 (it’s there on the official caster list), if you have any questions. The [UC] team has been playing a long time and have a lot of experience. Many streamers also take questions actively. All other streams should be using English as the medium of instruction

You might also want to go on the offical GW2 channels for the ESL, Mistpedia weeklies.
NA, Blu, English
http://www.twitch.tv/blu42
NA, Crispeke & Ishanah, Mandarin
http://www.twitch.tv/gw2cbc
(tbh, the people from team [UC] know what they are talking about. I like it more than Blu’s…)

Sizer (EU, S/D Thief)
http://www.twitch.tv/sizer2654
Reikou (NA, Mostly Thief, rarely Guardian)
http://www.twitch.tv/ailesdelumiere
Collero (EU, Thief)
http://www.twitch.tv/colleroeu
Magic Toker (NA, Thief, of Good Fights)
http://www.twitch.tv/magictoker

These 4 above pretty active at the moment.
Sorry, they are all Thieves xd

Mr Maylo (EU 55Hp Guard)
http://www.twitch.tv/maylox
Kensuda (NA, Guard, of Good Fights)
http://www.twitch.tv/cymerdown
Acandis (NA, Guard, rarely though, multiclass)
http://www.twitch.tv/acandis19
Arken Elric (NA, Guard)
http://www.twitch.tv/bigheart_gamer
Anas Tarcis (NA, Warrior)
http://www.twitch.tv/tarcisanastasis
Zellqt (NA, Most Jacked, Tan and Handsome Mesmer)
http://www.twitch.tv/zellqt
Countless (NA, Mesmer)
http://www.twitch.tv/bringyourfriends
Supcutie (NA, Mesmer)
http://www.twitch.tv/hansawesome
Vee Wee (NA, #1 Engi and World First r80)
http://twitch.tv/Livskis
Chaithh (NA, Engineer, Good Fights, Big Explosions Guaranteed)
http://www.twitch.tv/chaithh
Tron Jeremy (NA, Best Teef)
http://www.twitch.tv/tronjeremyspvp
Caed (NA, Thief)
http://www.twitch.tv/narcarsis
Ostrich Eggs (NA, Engi, multiclass, 10000+ Tourneys)
http://www.twitch.tv/ostricheggs

They’ve been on but not recently.

Zoe L (NA, D/D Thief)
http://www.twitch.tv/zoel_mii

Some might like this one…