Guild Wars 2

So basically, you can flame them all you like with the knowledge that they can’t reply to you and they have to just take it.

Earning better rewards for playing PvP? Impossible!

Tao.1234:

Looks like ~50% winning ratio is going to drop quite fast and significantly.

So you plan to get bad at the game to protest against this change? F2P’ers don’t get access to ranked.

You do realise that if anet listened to all the new player complaints, it would result in nerfs to things such as stealth (omg they went invisible, I can’t do anything), longbow ranger, lich form, minion master, etc.

How many new players actually complain about D/D ele compared to any of those other things?

I can’t cancel a pending invitation during a match ready pop, meaning that I can’t prevent someone from accepting a pending invite, which leads to the queue being cancelled if that person accepts.

Just put the ready button right in the middle of the screen with flashing quaggans dancing around it so people don’t miss it.

infantrydiv.1620:

“can engage multiple enemies at a time with sustained area-of-effect damage while retaining high lethality toward single enemies.”

Sounds balanced Karl. Kappa

just what the game needs, more unkillable builds with heavy AoE but can also destroy in 1v1s … I thought maybe we had learned from ele at this point.

Btw, I know it’s too early to say whether Daredevil is actually OP or not, it’s just funny that Karl actually basically said “this spec is crazy OP” with what I quoted above.

I thought you were talking about eles when I saw the first two lines.

Jaxom.7310:

Laraley.7695:

I really don’t get these people complaining about 7 minute queues, lol.

Also, if you would rather have totally new people in ranked than having some good matches, I’m not sure why you do pvp at all.

maybe they remember gw1 RA, w/ ~30 sec queues, where mmr didn’t matter, where u didn’t have to have 4 straight losses to enjoy some wins, where u didn’t feel like u just lost an hour+ of ur life into 4 terrible matches, where u didn’t have to click around a lobby bored…

pepperidge farm remembers

Yes but in gw1, once you got a good team you’d carry on with that team until you have 25 mins. Not sure why they got rid of this actually, just add a dialogue at the end of each match asking if you want to proceed.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Maybe because all the <rank 20 players aren’t in queue anymore.

So instead of fixing queue times you’ve actually made them worse?

Brilliant.

You’re actually COMPLAINING that we don’t have completely new players in ranked anymore? /facepalm

GrandHaven.1052:

I think you are overestimating how many thieves run S/D.
S/D thief is actually A LOT worse of now because of less reliable invis,

Not just this, S/D thieves got a massive nerf by reduced dodges, which make up approximately 100% of an S/D thief’s defense. Meanwhile D/P thief gets a buff by being able to take Shadow Rejuvenation without losing any dps.

Archaon.9524:

TheLastNobody.8319:

I would feel realllly bad if I was an Ele right now, it’s going to be a long hard fall when they do get the right nerfs.

yeah, they’re too used to ez wins and they’re gonna fall really hard…and i’m gonna be there watching them failing once their totally broken spec won’t carry them anymore

with a glass of good wine and a big satisfied smile

Yes, let’s completely insult everyone who played elementalist prior to the 15th April 2014 patch that brought a boatload of buffs to the PvP elementalist. Some people just stick to a class whether or not it’s meta since it’s the class they enjoy.

basz.6129:

Tigers with tigers, wolves with wolves, etc.

I don’t understand this part of your post. Rank doesn’t have anything to do with skill. How about people with a second account? Those people would be forced to noob bash for the first month or so (which isn’t fun for either the player or the people facing that player).

The problem isn’t the amulet itself. I’m surprised people still think it’s the amulet even though celestial engineer is no longer a thing after IP was moved to firearms.

The problem is that no build should be the best at everything. Take celestial D/D ele for example. An ele that chooses to spec Fire instead of Earth should have significantly reduced power damage reduction compared to Earth spec. This can be easily achieved by increasing the ICD of blinding ashes to 12s (as I’ve suggested on multiple threads). Likewise, an ele speccing into three defensive lines (earth, water, arcana) should suffer from reduced damage output, both power and condi. Now the power damage output of this spec isn’t anything ridiculous, but the burn output definitely needs looking at (either an overall burn nerf or changes to the burn application skills, or even a combination of both).

Ara.4569:

There’s no variety so it must be all about balance, and guess what, it’s actually balanced ! Ele vs ele is pretty much 50/50.

Wrong. Celestial ele running fire/water/arcana beats every other ele spec in 1v1, or at least has an advantage over them (unless you made a build specifically designed to counter it, in which case it would be weak in other aspects).

NeXeD.3042:

Oh I see sustain builds =/ skill

Where random one or two shotting with passive procs = skill.

Thank you for clearing that up.

Oh sorry, thanks for reminding me that it’s perfectly reasonable for a skilled necromancer to be one-/two-shot by another necromancer, where both necromancers meet the 1v1 requirements.

NeXeD.3042:

Necros don’t really have the option to build for sustain and damage, unless they can use cele amulet. I think they may have gone a little to far with the amulet bans. Should be different for every class.

I’m garunteeing a Valk amulet build with the cele signet build traits probably wins this.

Lack of sustain is the whole point of these bans. Nobody wants to watch a duel that lasts 2+ mins and those never occur in real matches anyway (before being +1d). Sustain builds allow more mistakes to happen, while the amulet restriction ensures people are properly punished for misplays or rewarded for skillful play instead of death by boredom.

Increase icd of blinding ashes to 12s or make it only proc upon applying 2+ stacks of burn.

I find it stupid that fire eles are currently just as survival as earth in every 1v1 situation while having 20% more damage, more burns, more might. Due to the current 5s cd, most of the blinds aren’t even intentional and occur by being hit with fire aura up.

Blush Lift.3570:

Something to do with win 10? As only a few people from each team seem to crash when its occurred.

No, because I use a mac and still get this issue.

Atherakhia.4086:

why do you think the problem is volley?

At which point in my post did I say the problem with the warrior class is volley? I am simply pointing out that a crucial skill in the Ranger’s arsnal (can’t spell this word right without censor) was buffed, but volley was not buffed. Currently volley deals lower damage in the same period of time, RF also deals 10 vulnerability and triggers twice the number of projectile finishers.

Atherakhia.4086:

Longbow Rangers aren’t even meta

Maybe not in tournaments, but they are everywhere in ranked queue and in every 1v1 server/tournament (where taunt in combination with Rapid Fire gives it a massive upper hand vs other marauder builds, which is usually every build in a 1v1 tournament).

Big thumbs up for banning Crusader amulet, that thing was so stupid in the elementalist 1v1 tournament.

NeXeD.3042:

Inb4 Valk gets banned too!

I don’t think they’ll ban valk because it has only one defensive stat and its minor (knight has toughness as its major stat), they’d have to ban carrion and rabid if they ban valk.

Against a minion master, you can literally just run in circles while hitting the necro and you already negate most of the damage.

Zento.7401:

2 ranger spirits per team
2 and 3 warrior hammer per team
2 ele cele per team.
2 engineers per team.
2 mesmer mantra per team

Don’t forget 2 bunker guards in a team, as Radioactive currently runs.

No, because they are just numbers that don’t actually dictate how much you contributed to the team.

Renny.6571:

Had a game where everyone but me on my team crashed. Are aussies immune to these disconnects?!

Aussies OP, nerf pls.

SaintSnow.6593:

Hammerguard.9834:

It happens while in a transform. Leaving the transform fixes it. Noticed it since last patch.

So i must be constantly in a transform because it happens all the time.

The old rapid fire was fairly similar to warrior rifle volley. Rapid fire got a massive buff by having its cast time reduced, so why doesn’t volley get the same treatment since it’s basically the same skill? Might make rifle warrior slightly more useful.

I can’t even doing tequatl without crashing, resulting in me not being able to get into the same map if it’s full.

Electro.4173:

It won’t become gift-able for the same reason no other account upgrades are. There would be various issues raised by gifting something to someone who can’t actually use it on account of already being maxed. Plus its a once-per-account thing, which again would create problems if you bought it for someone who already bought it themselves.

This logic doesn’t make any sense. Outfits are also once-per-account but those can be gifted. It’s easy to ask whether or not someone has something.

Power creep, everything has more dps (both power and condi).

roachsrealm.9284:

it’s mostly for bragging rights

What? No.

It makes money faster than doing 5 man dungeon (if you sell), don’t have to rely on random pugs, can take as many breaks as you want, more fun than mindlessly spamming skills in a 5 man party.

I dunno, quickness evis is pretty hilarious.

style.6173:

Blackmoon.6837:

This has gotta be a joke. Mesmer downed state is probably the worst in the game… But now… I don’t even…

You probably should reread the OP. Your comment has nothing to do with this thread.

Well seeing as their downed skill summons a clone, it has some relevance for downed fights.

Nina.4317:

11 mounths later ppl wake up

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Auto-repeating-a-reward-track/first#post4427916

I even brought it up again 3 months ago.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Automatically-repeat-selected-reward-track/first#post5031774

Archaon.9524:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Archaon.9524:

send a cele dd to 1v1 them…cele dd solves all problems

#balance

How exactly does sending a d/d ele to suicide vs them solve the condi mesmer problem? Unless the ele is running diamond skin (which less than 1% of eles run), it will get destroyed by the condi mesmer.

all condi mesmers i’ve seen so far just disengaged from 1v1 with cele dd cause they couldn’t kill the ele and couldn’t contest point either since going on point would have ended with a pretty dead mesmer

All condi mesmers you’ve seen so far were bad then.

Creative way to nerf mesmer.

+1 Well played Anet.

Archaon.9524:

send a cele dd to 1v1 them…cele dd solves all problems

#balance

How exactly does sending a d/d ele to suicide vs them solve the condi mesmer problem? Unless the ele is running diamond skin (which less than 1% of eles run), it will get destroyed by the condi mesmer.

Can the Account Jump Start become giftable? I’d like to gift this to a friend, but is currently not possible.

Alekt.5803:

But hey Trixx, wouldn’t putting down Fire Trait line because d/d abused simply put down other elementalist builds that were using it?

For example?

MrKahwk.9524:

They break PvP because they’re literally flooding the matches with their presence because everybody knows they’re overpowered.

Yes we’ve all seen how much they dominate PvP tournaments.

Oh wait…

Most specialisations focus on a specific area such as defense, party support, power damage, condition damage, control. This was even emphasised in the (in my opinion correct) decision to move the engineer trait Incendiary Powder from the power-focussed Explosions line to the condition-focussed Firearms line.

Now if we look at the fire line, it provides significant buffs in three seperate areas:

In the power area, we have 10% damage to burning foes, 10% damage while in fire (burning speed and fire grab are both significant sources of dps in the build), reduced cooldown on those skills and might on cantrips.

In the condition area, we have an additional fire aura per rotation (more burn), additional cleansing fire (3 stacks of burn) proccing every 32s and might on cantrips.

In the defense area we have Blinding Ashes. Now besides the burning from the fire skills, there is also the fire aura combo gained on the opposite side of the rotation that means that the blind frequency is fairly close to the 5s icd, which is a rather high blind frequency. There is also the additional condition cleanse (3 conditions every 32s).

As you can see, the fire line really gives too much to three separate areas for a single trait line. There are two ways to address this. Either knock one of these areas out of the fire line, or reduce the potency of these areas. I’ll let you decide which would be best, but increasing the icd of Blinding Ashes to around 12s would be a good start. This trait alone currently gives as much defense as half of the earth line.

P.S. For anyone who doesn’t know me, I main D/D celestial elementalist and actively play it in the NA esl scene at this point in time.

Occasionally when I try to whisper people on my contacts, it doesn’t work at all (the name doesn’t appear in the whisper box). The annoying part is that several minutes later it will work, which opens the chat box for input.

There have been numerous situations where I’ve tried multiple times and failed, just to have my chat box open up several times a few minutes later while I’m in a pvp match. This means I have to continuously cancel the chat box input while in a fight, which severely disrupts my gameplay.

Guardian seems to be what you want. Easy to play, can hold your own, needed in every dungeon/fractal group, also useful for farming areas (staff 11111111) and it’s heavy armor.

Not really worth it unless you desperately want fractal skins and have thousands of golds to waste.

Adjust.6903:

On my ranger however I can farm dd Ele all day -.-

That’s because at lower levels of play, ranger is easier to get results from than ele. At high level play, a ranger is never going to beat a d/d ele. I can duel you on my ele if you don’t believe me

It won’t.

Treat it like getting a gift for someone in real life, exact same problem and solutions

TheBlackLeech.9360:

If you are using a profession that uses gap closers, leaps, etc.. I would highly reccommend staying out of pvp unless your ping is ~10-13

I have 50-60 ping and do just fine on those classes. Even on NA with my 160 ping, I don’t suffer a huge amount, it causes me to miss about half my dodges on short cast skills such as earthquake, but that isn’t always game-changing.

Why not just replace MMR with divisions? People are matched based on their divisions, which will make it harder for less skilled players to reach the top division since they’d be matched against progressively tougher players.

Archaon.9524:

Jasher.6580:

Velimere.7685:

Jasher.6580:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

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?

Where is the OP? Is he hiding somewhere?

Intel suggests he has gone underground.

Please come back OP.

i’m here kids don’t worry

anyway yeah i really hope to see necros countering eles in europe esl too…would be pretty good actually

we’ll see next sunday…i’ll be glad to see something finally pushing celestial eles out of meta after 1 year or reterdness

Well the thing with EU is that no decent necros currently exist. You know things are dire when the most well known necros in EU are Leeto and Prince Vingador.

princode.2750:

You can Mind Wrack 6 times in a row using Continuum Shift, Mimic and Signet of Illusions (you can use all shatters 6 times in a row actually…). Since Illusionary Persona is now baseline, all shatters will trigger on your character so you don’t even need any clone.
Overall you can use Continuum Shift and Mimic to use any utility skill 4 times, every 90s.

how is this not op

Okay, how about you try this vs any decent player and show us the results.

How does one get 5,000 kills on shield?