Guild Wars 2

Elxdark.9702:

Chaith surprised me, people always understimate him but he played as a beast, did he fail any moa? I don’t think so and even with soldier amu he was doing enough dps to pressure foes.

Not bashing Chaith or anyhting, but you realise that the animation on mesmer moa is far more recognisable and therefore easier to dodge than the AoE moa skill from elixir?

Minion master. Basically the new turret engi, except it can move around.

My mac client constantly crashes whenever there is a significant number of players in combat. This includes any large event in PvE (can’t do anything in Silverwastes) and WvW unless I deliberately run away from all allied and enemy zergs (which is impractical). This severely limits what I can do in this game and ruins the experience.

EDIT: I’ve even managed to crash twice today in Lion’s Arch just from running around.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Archaon.9524:

Jasher.6580:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Archaon.9524:

top players are not gonna stage a duel…and it’s the only way to prove your point, this or looking at a celestial nec jumping against a dd ele in esl destroying him (And trust me…it’s not gonna happen)

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/9456915

2:31:00 – watch the mid point.
And before you say that Nos had high DS, he hardly used it and could have started it with 5% with the same outcome.

He is going to ask for 5 more examples because that situation was an outlier. Trust me. He has made up his mind.

gonna try with exact same builds, i dunno the level of that ele (I’m not na so u dunno the level of players outside abj) but i’m gonna ask the best nec i can find (Hopefully proto if he want too test it) vs some top ele and we’ll see

i’ll let you know how it ended

Ok, how about this:

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/10124128

7:39:00

Denshee wasn’t the only victim of Nos during WTS either. Look at 6:11:10.

From what I can see, Nos didn’t lose a single 1v1 vs any other top ele in WTS. Does this satisfy your definition of counter?

kdaddy.5431:

Personally though i would like to see this expanded to 8 teams. Im from NA but there is clips of like 55hp monks and other Eu teams who can compete at this level.

55hp couldn’t compete as their standard roster due to the age limit if I’m not mistaken, hence why they merged with tcg for wts.

Ping isn’t the most reliable indicator. I have had 100 and not felt the effects of delay and sometimes 40 ping but with noticeable delay.

Nier.8741:

I’ll give you people an example of what this class can do.

1.) They can have 3 phantasmal berserkers because of signet of ether AND F5

Who on earth runs signet of ether?

Without any context, it looks as if Helseth is making Toker cry by giving him a death-stare.

Archaon.9524:

Jasher.6580:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Archaon.9524:

top players are not gonna stage a duel…and it’s the only way to prove your point, this or looking at a celestial nec jumping against a dd ele in esl destroying him (And trust me…it’s not gonna happen)

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/9456915

2:31:00 – watch the mid point.
And before you say that Nos had high DS, he hardly used it and could have started it with 5% with the same outcome.

He is going to ask for 5 more examples because that situation was an outlier. Trust me. He has made up his mind.

gonna try with exact same builds, i dunno the level of that ele (I’m not na so u dunno the level of players outside abj) but i’m gonna ask the best nec i can find (Hopefully proto if he want too test it) vs some top ele and we’ll see

i’ll let you know how it ended

Ok, how about this:

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/10124128

7:39:00

Only weapons and armor.

Anti.9156:

mesmer can kill the guard (moa out of stealth)

By that logic, mesmer counters every class since it can moa out of stealth.

Adjust.6903:

Haven’t played mine in months.

One might say, you need to Adjust to the new meta

Also, you completely contradicted yourself.

Archaon.9524:

thief still hardcounters shatter mes (But only good thieves not those just spamming hs around)

Archaon.9524:

To prove it’s a real hardcounter…even if a real hardcounter would be 5 out of 5

Levin does not beat Helseth 5 out of 5 times and Helseth isn’t even mechanically the best mesmer in the game.

Archaon.9524:

top players are not gonna stage a duel…and it’s the only way to prove your point, this or looking at a celestial nec jumping against a dd ele in esl destroying him (And trust me…it’s not gonna happen)

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/9456915

2:31:00 – watch the mid point.
And before you say that Nos had high DS, he hardly used it and could have started it with 5% with the same outcome.

zapv.8051:

Can these all get buffed to 40 or 50 percent? 20% is not enough to be even remotely reliable. No one thinks, “let me use my 20% projectile finisher through that field,” because it isn’t reliable enough to change your play style for that.

20% projectile finishers are basically all auto attacks, or attacks that have multiple projectiles (like rapid fire). Increasing this to 40% just adds even more random passive play to the game.

Yasha.5963:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Celestial necros counter d/d eles (constant boon removal, transferring burns). Condi rangers, condi mesmers and condi engis are all capable of killing d/d eles on point, though those are hardly meta.

How do condi rangers conter d/d ele? That is the hardest match up for me when I play condi ranger.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

When I posted this response, the question was ‘who can kill a d/d ele on point’, nothing about hard countering.

Dristig.9678:

Haven’t we recently seen Helseth and Noscoc defeat D/D Cele on point?

Where I play in kitten tier I’m able to 1v1 them on cele/engi. Most of my other classes get stomped in low level though.

Nos destroyed the ele from Radioactive yesterday.

Frenk.5917:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Celestial necros counter d/d eles (constant boon removal, transferring burns). Condi rangers, condi mesmers and condi engis are all capable of killing d/d eles on point, though those are hardly meta.

Condi rangers and condi engis can hardly sustain a 1v1 vs an elementalist, let alone hardcountering them on point. Condis in general CAN kill an elementalist, but I definately wouldn’t call these 2 classes “hardcounters of D/D ele”.

When I posted this response, the question was ‘who can kill a d/d ele on point’, nothing about hard countering. The OP obviously changed his question because he’s a child who didn’t get what he wanted and therefore did the childish thing and pretended that the question was different to make us all look like fools.

That being said, a good condi mesmer certainly hard counters d/d ele (unless the ele runs ds, but 99.9% of eles don’t).

BeepBoopBop.5403:

Team stability?

ahem https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rock_Solid

You don’t need a gaming mouse if you don’t want to (although it does help if you’re willing to invest in one). I’m currently using a 5 button mouse and I’ve coped fine in PvP on every class with it.

Keybinding keyboard buttons revolves around having crucial binds near your movement keys. Assuming you are using a qwerty keyboard, I personally use QWES for movement, QE being my strafe keys. I do not need turning keys at all, since I use my right mouse button for that. You could also use AD for movement, I use QE because it allows easier access to F123 which I use (although you might not need F123 if you have more than 5 mouse buttons). This frees up 2 buttons that are extremely quick and easy to access.

Next think to rebind is your R button. As useful as auto-run is, you really don’t need instant access too it and R is in a good position. I personally have R bound to my F4 skill, because it is distortion on mesmer, earth attunement on ele and a toolbelt skill on engineer, all of which are useful to have quick access to.

After this, it’s all just preference really.

Chill isn’t weak, you can delay a heal skill with chill and even delay all attunement swaps on an elementalist.

If you play PvP purely for the reward tracks, you’re doing it wrong.

Yashuoa.9527:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Racials are very niche skills and are generally not used at all. The only racial skill I can think of that I use on occasion is the norn Snow Leopard elite transformation, which includes a stealth skill. It’s very niche though and you can supplement it with harpy feather consumables if you need the stealth.

Thanks.

Good to hear.

So basically it is just a matter of pick the race you like animation wise the most for your class?

Pretty much.

Okay, how about you direct me to the stream or VoD of a top player who casts RoF every 10 seconds since you think it’s such an issue?

Racials are very niche skills and are generally not used at all. The only racial skill I can think of that I use on occasion is the norn Snow Leopard elite transformation, which includes a stealth skill. It’s very niche though and you can supplement it with harpy feather consumables if you need the stealth.

Depends on how far you want to go with it. Ranger is easy to pick-up and be effective with in all game-modes, but thief has a much higher skill-cap and potential. PvE speedclearing groups will not take a ranger, but they will take a good thief since a good thief does the highest boss dps. Likewise with PvP, rangers are not used at all in top-tier play, but you’ll see a thief on nearly every team.

Conclusion: Ranger if you’re just going to play it casually, thief if you’re going to be serious with this character

roachsrealm.9284:

Rangers can be devastating in PVP.

Oh really? Name one top PvP team that runs with a ranger.

If you want to make a decent recording, I’m afraid you’d have to pay for good recording software. There are plenty of free recording software around, but you’ll be disappointed if you try to record gw2 matches with them.

Saiyan.1704:

Rotations is 10s – Pyromancer’s Training

Do you even know the meaning of elementalist skill rotation? You know that eles don’t just camp fire right? There are skills in other attunements that need to be used in order to be effective, frozen burst for example should be used in every rotation and is a 15s cd.

Celestial necros counter d/d eles (constant boon removal, transferring burns). Condi rangers, condi mesmers and condi engis are all capable of killing d/d eles on point, though those are hardly meta.

This is the third time (as far as I know) that we’ve had double engineer daily and haven’t had a single double daily for any other class. Please fix this.

EDIT: 4th time

BlackTruth.6813:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Saiyan.1704:

Eles beings this tool out every 10s… you can imagine its AoE usefulness now.

Nobody uses RoF every 10s, you would have to skip several skills just for this.

Sad part is they can. Can’t believe the ele main doesn’t know how his own class works. Basically in a team fight if you ring of fire and people pay attention to that, that’s a good dodge bait and if people don’t dodge then gg 3 stacks of burning every time you go in and out.

Point though is, ANET needs to nerf this BS so the game will be balanced.

I didn’t say they can’t, I said nobody does it because you would have to skip several other skills in the rotation (such as frozen burst and magnetic grasp).

Free tournaments that have gem rewards are occasionally being cancelled due to lack of numbers and you expect to get a decent turnout to a paid tournament? Good luck with that.

Saiyan.1704:

Eles beings this tool out every 10s… you can imagine its AoE usefulness now.

Nobody uses RoF every 10s, you would have to skip several skills just for this.

Apolo.5942:

Meaning regardless of whether you like it or not, can we agree it has decimated the pvp population?.

The PvP population was decimated over 2 years ago.

Ravenmoon.5318:

blitzkrieg.2451:

Liewec.2896:

because a nerf to zerkers like power rangers, wars and thieves is exactly what is needed in this condi meta with invisible mesmers and unkillable eles.

yeah, they got your memo guys, just several metas too late.

i guess if i wanna deal damage this patch i’ll log on my burn guard like everyone else…

Condi meta? LMAO? It is a burst meta / cele meta right now and nothing has changed with this sigil nerf…. Everybody isn’t going suddenly go bunker down because 25% dmg was nerfed from 2 sigils.

25%x2=?!

also lmao all you want … if a burn guard sets you up nicely (and they always do when you try to defend a cap) you are GG because burn does insane amount of damage. And guardians stack burning without even having a target on you. They just walk around like huge fireballs …. speaking of passive play, lol.

First of all, 25% x2 = 12.5%.
Second of all, what does this calculation have to do with anything?
Also, you’re acting as if fire and air sigils are a massive part of the dps, they account for under 20% (combined dps) of the dps output from the meta zerk classes. 33% x 20% = 6.6%.

Shadow.1345:

It’s not just stealth. Really kinda makes these almost seem weak now.

‘Stealth nerf’ means nerf without telling anyone.

All guardians have to spec into virtues.
All thieves have to spec into trickery.
All elementalists have to spec into water and arcana.
All necros have to spec into soul reaping.

If fast hands if to become baseline, all of these classes would also require extra baseline traits.

Saiyan.1704:

That’s more of a PvE item, used best when you’re consistently attacking a single target for 20s rather than having a burst effect when focusing a player in tpvp.

Actually, force is best when you’re consistently attacking multiple targets since force affects all of the targets (i.e. any PvE content except bosses).

Necrotize.2974:

Using mesmer might not be the best example. Illusionary Elasticity was made baseline because it was taken pretty much only for Mirror Blade, but it was also taken in pretty much every build that could afford it.

No it wasn’t. Watch any EU Go4 stream during May and June before the patch and tell me how many mesmers were running Illusionary Elasticity. Nobody running gs + s/t (the most popular build pre-patch) ran Illusionary Elasticity.

Archon.6480:

This seems like a really nice change, why so many upset?

Because gw2 players get upset over everything.

My PvP arena favourite list keeps clearing, despite constantly re-adding the same servers back to it again. They disappear again within a few days again (I couldn’t give you the exact time frame). This has been an issue for me for several months now.

I’d be happy to lend you a hand, just hit me up in-game!

I’m also living in the UK and live on the Gandara server. I’ve got a huge wealth of experience in all game-modes, having formerly been a leader of a medium-sized PvE guild and played as part of several competitive PvP teams. I’ve taken a break from both of these as I’m quite busy in real life now, but I’m still active most evenings and happy to lend a hand.

style.6173:

Also, is the mesmer balance just trying to troll us? You reduce the recharge of mantra of distraction. Seriously?

You clearly have no idea how mesmer works. They essentially increased the recharge of mantra of distraction by 20 seconds.

Maugetarr.6823:

I’m just here to say Scorpion Wire has this problem too, along with the projectile often being “obstructed” over flat ground.

There’s all sorts of weird problems with non-existent obstructions, I often have issues teleporting across flat ground due to this.

Magnet doesn’t pull them fully if the target was using a movement skill in the opposite direction when the pull triggered.

Apolo.5942:

Nerfed rampage, uh? ok?, warrior was a mid tier or third tier class at best. The big 3 (Mesmer, Eles and Thiefs, remain untouched).

Since when was thief something that needed to be nerfed post-patch?

I’ve had an iMac Retina for about 3 months. I can’t play WvW or large world events because I just crash during those. I’m not even using the full 5k, I use 2.5k resolution.

My mac client keeps crashing whenever I’m in a large WvW battle or during a large world event. Any idea what to do? I can’t really do either at the moment.

Unfortunately I wasn’t recording the match, but here’s a screenshot of his reply. He taunted me just as I portalled out, I ended up in a 1v1 with a thief a few seconds later and couldn’t target him for the whole duration of the 1v1 since he was marked yellow.