With the plethora of AoE from engie and thief I don’t really understand how you lost to 4 spirit rangers. You should just have the thieves cluster bomb midfight while engies do the same with bombs and grenades. It seems to me like you expect to play normally to beat a team comp that is anything but normal.spirit rezz spam might have been an issue though
Is this guy even ranked? Didnt find him on gw2shack but it doesnt seem to be working for me as well as it used to anyway..
lol@clicker saw some of these dudes by now
also he cant be that pro if thats the music he chooses.. real roxxor kidxx only listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdTjTjcrcLI
everyone who gets the reference may treat himself to a cookie
I see, you are EU. See how it goes with lots of games without top players on your team. It will be interesting.
If matchmaking works – why would i be matched WITH bad players vs good players? (in fact i think that beating bads with bad team is always easier than top team v top team – maybe except foefire)
And obviously the first few games i played i didnt have a top team…
Spirit definitely needs a rework and i was wondering when the first ranger would complain about it because the build itself is pretty kitten boring to play i guess.
AoE Prot alone makes it completely broken in teamfights.
I`d rather have the old BM back even if they kicked my kitten .
Play a few more games Rayn. You’ll begin to see how it goes most of the time.
Actually game quality gets a lot better with higher rank. Quitting and akitteng is more of a low MMR issue.
But yea i get where ure coming from… just make sure your team is a few points ahead rigfht after start so if anyone ragequits its going to be the opposing team.
Also some ragequits might be deserved. I always instaleave when anyone goes boss on forest at start and then our 1 dude in mid dies instantly.
I think it would be very interesting and instructive if one of the top “name” players were to ask ANet to set their SoloQ ELO to a minimum, and see how long it takes them to raise that character to the top again. If they even could.
It would be something to watch.
I won my first game on soloq by solo capping far and bunkering vs up to 4 people for pretty much the entire game. (not that build mattered – could have played dps and just destroyed everyone – ppl too bad)
Would be kittening depressing for everyone else to do that thats all. Takes a few hours max.
EDIT: @ the guy above me whose name automatically gets turned to kitten – just make a second character and switch before game starts (ALSO: why the hell is deeeeeeeerp banned? theres literally NOTHING offensive about it)
Wallet and instant pvp browser are aweeeeesomeeeeeeeeeee.
What a great patch!
Now just make some actually challenging 5man+ PvE content and this game will have beaten wow in pretty much any aspect. (Bring back the laserboss from aetherblade dungeon! great boss! first time i felt like i achieved something in dungeon content in gw2)
i know i know right ppl always want want want but wuteva
TL;DR – the “countdown ring” of condis and boons does sometimes not represent the actual remaining duration and will instead just disappear with the boon / condi remaining on the character
I have observed the following with stability and poison multiple times and a few times with burn but its probably an issue with others as well. I believe it usually happens when i stack duration pretty long but in the end i really have no idea what is causing it.
*The Issue:
The “countdown ring” of the condition or boon (which shows remaining duration of a boon or condi by slowly ticking down) does sometimes not represent the actual remaining time of the condition / boon. It will “run out” but the condition / boon will remain on the player with the “countdown ring” gone. When hovering over the condi/boon your are still able to see the remaining seconds (which have rightfully been applied as far as i could tell) but the countdown timer remains hidden.
It happens for both self and other (targeted) players
This is a huge game deciding problem when: Trying to CC right when stability runs out or heal / condi cleanse right when poison ends.
any person with a brain who wants to farm glory goes hotjoin
some people in tournaments are straight out terrible (even when youre in the top 1000 you sometimes get matched with complete kitten who duo cap close and then do boss and kitten like that..)
They can nerf it all they want! I hate it when bad ppl run this troll trait and i miss my nade barrage so it takes forever to kill.
No decent player should run this.
Are you talking PvE? Or PvP/WvW?
This trait can be a corner-stone of a bunker or condition bunker build. Seriously.
always PvP my bad should have said so
On high lvl there are hardly any TRUE bunkers anymore – its all about team support + caps/decaps and kills
i kill AR engis regularly with full condi builds
it can be a pain in the kitten i guess but most of the time its not worth picking (only exception might be with soldiers amy but imo there are no strong builkds with that soooo)
- stealth yourself
- move from the points , keep moving until stealth runs out
- try to hinder them stealthing, they have to cluster and cannot attack , if you know you just killed 3 of the nmy team follow them and disrupt their stealthatempt ..
points are ticking for your team that time
stealth yourself – already mentioned that
keep moving in a group until stealth runs out – this is the best you can do atm but even then, if you cant see the enemy coming its easy as hell to just roflstomp 1 guy then disengage
hinder them stealthing – idk how you do stealth plays but the last thing i worry about after killing 3 of the opposing team is them instagibbing me from stealth
no srsly – unless theyre doing it wrong any attempt of “hinder them stealthing” is not going to happen
the whole “hurr durr” points are ticking for your team statement is just random bullkitten not going to comment on that – obviously you can stealth when youre in the lead as well and just put 1-2 ppl on nodes
What if instead of -100% duration, instead it just Removed all conditions and gave an 8-10 seconds berserker stance effect (shown with an icon of the trait number so we can see when its about to run off) on a 60-90 sec cd. It’d save lives, allow clutch, bot not be a perma resistance which is no fun.
That would actually be a buff! Full condi cleanse at 25% hp? we`re talking necro levels of op here
No, there should be no rank requirement to play a tournament, and it’s not really rank 1-20’s fault of being matched with ranks 40-50. Blame MM for that.
In fact, I feel the whole game in general could do with being a slightly slower paced.
MMOs are braindead already.
Gw2 dumbed it down even more to 10 skills with kittenedly long cds (compared to WoW)
If the game gets any more boring and slow than it already is i wont be able to do enough drugs to bear with it.
Slowing down the pace of GW2’s combat slightly would actually contribute to making it deeper and more strategical, not the opposite, IMO. My post explains it.
Fair enough to give it the stun breaker and then a 3 second cast on the actual res. Then yeh, I would be happy with the engi. The self res is ridiculous. Resses got nerfed but they forgot to nerf toss elixr r
They already nerfed it long ago, by increasing its cooldown.
And putting 3s cast would make it useless. It already requires whoever must be ressed to stay inside that little area for enough time – it isn’t instant, it gives 20% downed hp per second. You can already use CC before the engineer gets downed to sweep it away from that area. You can use launches after that or poison him and dps him down.
The other ress skills have got a cast time and an instant effect. Here there is an instant cast and an effect that requires some time. And that’s why it is balanced.
Just learn to play.
Ress elixir has a few downsides but its still hands down the best rezz in the game.
The main issue is that most engi utility skills are plain bullkitten + no weapons swap so theres really no reason to bring anything else.
Also for the record: D/D burst ELE spamming his lightning (1) deals enough dps to out dps elixir R rezz without the need for poison
So i remembered someone else talking about this but due to the fact that i cant find the thread anymore im gonna make my own…
AoE stealth for the entire team is OP! Maybe make explo finishers count for the person activating it only but not sure if that would fix the issue.
Either way…
AoE team stealth is ridicolously OP. There is no counter except stealthing yourself as well and hoping their stealth runs out first and they somehow end up in a bad spot where u can open on them as well..
restealthing mid game is just as op – wipe enemy team, wait a few seconds restealth 4 ppl – gank their respawn – at least 1 down again.
This kitten really has to go – there is no counter play to this crap except hiding back on close with 5 ppl and cowering in fear (ok might be exaggerated but u get the point)
Bombs are too expensive traitwise – they cost as much as a main weapon should but dont perform
I understand that people have been using these things to some effect in tourneys but i personally always found them to be meh and can dodge pretty much all of them as long as im playing ranged.
If a nerf goes live it will be the second one i dodged in a row.
I think i’m on a roll.
Also i’m still looking for a recent tourney where i see a bomb engi facerofl people
Edith says: As long as Mesmers run no condi cleanse teambuilds they need to stop qq about being hardcountered by everything that brings condi. If i dont bring a stunbreaker at all (or condi cleanse – not that engineer could make a build that would even be considered viable without cleanse cough portal + rezz op (rezz not rly but anyway))i’m going to get mushed in a CC chain. Staff (2) pretty good at avoiding that by the way – last time i checked.
