Guild Wars 2

Looks awesome, venoms are prob the best thing to go with if you’re doing pvp, and they’re pretty good in pve too. Most importantly though, much more fun than zerker!

Hi guys. For an entire year I’ve only played thief in PvP, but with the new meta and the amount of rage I’m recieving I feel like trying something different. I looked though all the classes and I thought engineer seemed like the most fun one.

I checked out metabattle and found two builds; Celestial hammer and Marauder hammer, which one would be easiest for beginners? Does anyone know any good guides or videos about any of the builds?

Thanks in advance

I just got paired up with this guy who wanted me to cap points where a scrapper was parked and +1 fights that we were already winning. He also stated that he had “never won a match with a thief”, and I’m guessing he just lost most of his games lol. We actually ended up winning the match even though he whined all the way through it. There was also an enemy chronomancer who kept kalling me “noob” and “kittenty thief” throughout the game.

Everyone thinks thief sucks, but then how would we even be able to climb leagues?

DS definitely need a nerf. Just give it a 0,5 s internal cooldown, that would make it still useful

Nihevil.8024:

Take the portal back and leave the rev in narnia = profit.

Lmao! This would be such a fun thing to do, just carry him to a really far off, random location and then portal back to the point and slaughter them all.

I play thief in ranked and I’ve got a 50%+ win rate, so thief is not “bad for the team”. You can learn to play it great, you just need to practice a lot. What helps me is to always look at the minimap and consider at which fight/point you’ll be most valuable. Thieves are not great at 1v1 so try to join team fights or cap empty points.

The greatest thing about thief is that they can flee a fight very easily, so if you think you’re going to die just get the hell out of there lol, there’ll always be another place on the map where you can be useful.

I play thief too and get flamed all the time, sometimes before the game even starts by my own teammates. I try not to care and as long as I got a 50%+ win rate I know I’m doing well no matter what they’re saying lol. Believe in yourself!!!!

Agreed. I choose to play only one class for a reason, and I don’t want to have to try classes I’m bad at just to get the achievements, its very annoying.

I personally suck at everything but thief, it’s the only class I’ve managed to get 50%+ win rate with, (I only soloq because I have 0 friends in this game q.q).

Thief has amazing mobility which is why they are beneficial to the team, with SB 5 and dash you can move across the map in seconds, so having a thief is definitely not bad for the team.

Wow, those skins are awesome!!

SlayerSixx.5763:

They SEE the venoms on your bar and know what you intend to do, unless you wanna stare at them for a few seconds and then leap at them randomly while they take their time downing you. They’ll instantly cleanse and then deal with you like they’d deal with any other evade spam condi thief. Problem is, unlike the other evade spam condi thieves, you have no stun breaks so….

Well, it works great for me still. I’ve won about 60% of matches, and I already had a decent MMR since I had a fifty five % win ratio before the HoT patch. Yes you have a stun break, Hard to Catch from Acrobatics line. You also got “Don’t Stop” which makes you immune to immobile basically.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Because thieves guild has an ungodly CD and the enemy will literally be waiting for your venoms to be used up before they cleanse it all and laugh at your sudden loss of DPS o.o?

It won’t work vs competent players, ijs.

Yea the CD is pretty annoying, TG is only needed when solo capturing though and you wont be doing this all the time.

Regarding the condi cleanse it doesn’t really matter if they remove it because 2-3 seconds will still kill them. If they manage to remove it right away then you just gotta evade and heart seek like mad, and they’ll lose big amounts of HP since ur invincible and they’ll get 10+ stacks of bleeding and lots of torment, and then 30 sec later you can activate the venoms again.

Rod.3087:

@Revolutionen: i’m fairly new to game still i tried ur build jesus christ i slaughtered the entire enemy team my name wouldn’t stop being spammed i was on rampage thankz doo!!

they were all good players too

I’m glad you liked it haha! It’s very fun and easy, I’m not sure why no one thinks of using the condi venoms with SR and thieves guild, its almost a 100% chance win in 1v1 situations

For 1v1 id say the new D/D venom evade spam build, with Thieves Guild you’ll inflict 12 stacks of torment and vulnerability, 18 stacks of poison and bleeds up to 14+ stacks with death blossom spam. you can 1v1 ANY profession/build, even guardians and ele’s.

Druids and revenants are the most difficult. Only downside to the build is the 144s recharge on Thieves Guild with traits.

Edit:

This is the build if anyone is interested in trying it out:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoYVn8lCFNhNNBePBsPhlhCjLAsByAdflRwYae/9/GgA-TZxBAB8t/wynAAAeCAeVGAjDBAA

The costs are too high and would make no one use it. A stealth toggle is a nice suggestion though. I’d like a simple 1s stealth with a 5-6s cool down (instant cast) to use whenever, or a trait that made you stealth 1s every 5s.

Why are people convinced it’s still 2/5 to kick?! It’s not. It’s 3/5. At least in dungeons and fractals and it’s been that way all summer. If you look at the chat log you’ll see 2 ppl requesting to kick, and when you agree they will get kicked. It’s not 2/5.

Why is this even a mechanic? If you’re in a group of random people vs a guild, there’s a 80-90% chance you’ll lose. It’s unfair as kitten and not fun at all. I have no idea why Anet has allowed a way to completely bypass the matchmaking algorith that’s supposed to make pvp fair.

I’d suggest to split spvp into team arenas and random arenas like in GW1, and only keep the MMR algorithm for the random arenas.

why is this still disabled?? I can’t do fractals until this guy is available since I need the agonized essence for my rings.

This makes me very sad, dungeons and fractals were basically the only thing I did in GW2 and now dungeons are 33% as profitable and fractals actually make you lose money because of all the kitten you have to buy to get the chest and salvage the rings. Atm I’m very angry and sad about these changes.

kitten no, there’s enough sexualization of human females as there is

I had no idea you could get the carlotta spider in halloween, so I’ll probably do that instead thanks for the info everyone

Got my first key ever from a drop 2 weeks ago, gotten more chests than usual aswell

I bought the “Costumed mini 3-pack” from the Gemstore so that I could combine the 3 minis with a candy corn cob and get a mini ghost carlotta spider. However, I accidentally added one of them to my account wardrobe because I didnt realize it would delete it from my inventory.

Is there any way to get the item back? If not, is it likely that Anet would send me a new one if I sent a ticket about this?

All of these skins look great! I love how they’ve stepped away from the “circus-looking” legendaries that exists in game right now. No more unicorns, rainbows or disco-balls, yay!!

EDIT: oh my god. Just saw the new axe from the newspost:

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/63de3Astralaria-swing-590x341.jpg

That looks amazing o.o

Well, I know for sure that the lag is hardly noticable. I played on NA server for a long time before moving to EU since most of my friends were on NA servers. in GW1 you could choose yourself if you wanted to play on NA or EU for the time being, this means that if you’re lagging you can just switch back to the server on your own continent.

And while the explorable zones were instances in the first game, cities weren’t. And you could also create a party on either EU or NA server and merge them into one party that shared an instance, and I never had any lag problems.

As the title says, why are they?
I don’t think it’s because of latency issues, since GW1 managed to merge them just fine. If it’s because of lag, why not let you choose whether you want to be in NA or EU server freely, again like in GW1, and only keep servers for WvW?

I was so confused when people kept telling me to “go ooc”. Why do you want me to go out of character?! How’s that gonna help us during fractal?

I had no idea that there was a voting about this but I would totally have voted for an abaddon fractal! I loved the Realm of Torment area in Gw1, and being able to fight in that environment again would be awesome.

Are you sure its not your internet? Skills behave just like that whenever I disconnect for a few seconds

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

twiddling her thumbs waiting for the patch notes

Why has it not been updated already … it’s late afternoon in Europe right now, I thought I would be able to play around with the new skills today :(

First one happens to me all the time in Skyhammer I also made about 10 +5 power infusions for my thief without knowing most slots were defensive …

So what? I don’t think girly lolita moans would fit the charr lore very well

Does anyone know what time skill updates like these are usually released?

Where can I find these update notes?

Sword/Pistol is the best option for open world pve IMO, with Short bow as your secondary weapon.

For heal you want to use signet of malice, which heal you a lot with skill nr 3 on S/P. For utilities I’d use shadow step, signet of shadows (can be switched out for anything) and haste.

Take either Thieves Guild or Dagger Storm for elite.

Traits:
Deadly arts: 2-2-1
Critical Strikes: 1-2-3
Third trait could be anything. Pick Shadow Arts or Acrobatics if you feel squishy or trickery for some more DPS and a stronger steal.

Good luck!

Zaron.1987:

Revolutionen.5693:

Manu.6078:

Disconnections. It is like waking up in a middle of a nice dream.

YES. It’s like a nightmare. First you see people start running in different directions, then you try and press a skill and it loads forever, you try and type something but it doesn’t work … ugh, horror-inducing.

dont forget the “pls pls pls maybe its only a terrible lag”moment of hope and then…… phut…. dc

omg yes :‘( and it’s not like it pauses the game when you dc and throw you back/redirects you to character selection when your connection is back. No, the entire game lags or shuts down and you have to wait for it to load, log in, pick a character and load the map, only to find out you’ve been kicked. </3

Why isn’t the system like this: High MMR vs High MMR, low MMR vs low MMR? Why do they mix high and low MMR in a single team?

Manu.6078:

Disconnections. It is like waking up in a middle of a nice dream.

YES. It’s like a nightmare. First you see people start running in different directions, then you try and press a skill and it loads forever, you try and type something but it doesn’t work … ugh, horror-inducing.

How GW2 even allows guilds to play against random players is beyond me. It’s a flawed mechanic and needs to be addressed. When you see the whole team with matching guild tags you already know to 99% who’s gonna win, and it’s not fun to be on the other team.

Also, the fact that DD cele ele’s have been allowed to be ridiculously OP for a quarter of a year shows how slow updates are in this game, updates were alot more frequent in GW1.

I sure hope its intended. Stealth is the only defense a thief have, take that away from them and they’ll fall like flies

Guardian – Norn
Mesmer – Human
Thief – Human
Elementalist – Asura
Ranger – Sylvari
Warrior – Human/Charr/Norn
Engineer – Charr
Necromancer – Human/Asura

I wouldn’t mind exotic dyes as long as they made a pure white one, I’d do anything to get that q.q

Indeed.

Diamond Skin should not only keep the ele immune to conditions, but all allies in 1200 range.

How would you ever get players to stay in a game if there was no grind? The only other option for slow progression in a game are time-locked items, which is even worse than grind imo. If you got everything you wanted easily no one would play the game.

It triggers on venoms as well, that’s a good thing though.

I didn’t try the staff for very long since it felt a bit too slow for me. I did find a trolly build though that was a lot of fun. I used venoms (skale and spider) with lotus training and acrobatics traits, then D/D for death blossom which is another evade.

This lets you perma-evade while throwing condis all around you, (like 6 stacks of poison, 8 stacks of torment and 10+ stacks of bleeding). I could even 1v2 a few times since they could hardly ever hit me. D/D ele’s and guardians will remove the conditions so the fight will continue endlessly, so these are the only counters.

I have 6 transmutation charges on my real characters, but only 3 on my beta ones, why is this? I also don’t have a skin available in the wardrobe that I usually have. Is this intentional or a bug?

Don’t think there will be anything new or amazing unfortunately. They have a lot of other stuff going on that they’re probably prioritizing.

I hate it when people stand in/on top of my character. I just move to the side though, haven’t had anyone follow me yet. As someone else mentioned, I think they might be doing it unintentionally because of server lag and you might not be standing at the exact same spot on someone else’s screen.

mmorpg’s must be heavenly for celebrities who are tired of being treated like aliens. I bet it was Britney Spears who spent the entire TA run in the downed state yesterday.