Guild Wars 2

Naix.8156:

Ross if you’d play something besides that p/p venom share feeder build you wouldn’t rage quit and have ruined Talzed’s game. Least you could do Ross is send him a pip; it is xmas after all.

I promise to only play my zerkerberker from now on

On my main I can get paired with absolutely terrible people and lose matches, and there’s nothing I can do about it.

On my alts I’m proficient with, the same thing is true, and I can win/lose matches all the same.

Meanwhile since I have to pick up a few extra classes to get the achievement, I find it pretty simple to throw together a build and just go to town on the enemy team to rack up the wins. Sure, I have to contribute, but until I roll a team who does the same I don’t expect the wins to follow. But they will.

Case in point I busted out Ranger last night, building a Zerker LB Power ranger, 39 matches on the ranger since release, no WvW experience, and none since before the HoT/BWE’s.

I think the problem is that you’re playing scrapper, which is considered so faceroll you shouldn’t have lost even in a 4v5. Thus it stripped you of a pip.

Pro Dev team gods, will there be any personal post season stat summaries, or is it something you can whip up?

I’m talking individual classes played, wins/losses based on class, total matches played, total matches played in each tier, average to advance a tier, season deaths, season kills, average averages, etc etc etc. Pretty much a pro season breakdown of how godly we were as individuals.

Pips won and pips lost might be fun.

I’m sure others have even more interesting things we’d like to see.

Number of times flamed for playing warrior?

Elia.7193:

cakeonroof.7385:

Whoa I got dizzy reading that attachment. It’s like someone puked all over the place

Whoa apologies, next time I will use stars and unicorns to hide the names

Rofl, hilarious.

morrolan.9608:

Ithilwen.1529:

First, I’m not a dude, dude. Second, match manipulation is cheating according to ANET. Queue ing with low tier players is match manipulation since it places the higher level player in a “softer” match than is appropriate.

No it doesn’t, or at least thats not how its supposed to work. Matchmaking is supposed to allocate teams so each has a 50% chance of winning.

Yes but relative to who? XD

Zerker gunflame berserker with headbutt and greatsword. GREAT

To soon?

Power.2957:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Forestgreen.7981:

This bunker meta is so boring. Please bring some counter to passive boon spam meta, since thieves and warriors are a joke to play give them the option to completely dominate boon spamming exclusive builds.

Just as how bruiser builds tend to kill zerker builds and how sustain builds tend to kill bruiser builds.

All I run is counter meta builds, using thief and war XD.

Ez pz kills.

Being a Mes main I still do a little bit of chrono too.

I hope you’re not trying to argue that the game is currently in a great state.

The post-basic specializations patch in June was way more fun for everyone involved; the players and the spectators.

I’ll allow more counter to boon spam. I’ll push this one through to the devs today. Should see a change around this time next tuesday.

~Stripped boons cannot be reapplied for 5 seconds.

Sheobix.8796:

Anet doesn’t read the forums. Just general discussion/HoT general sub board.

L2P (lern 2 post) dude.

jk, I have always wanted this feature but Anet probably wouldn’t do it because they’re a studio made of fresh comp-sci graduates and ego-hungry paper pushers

I’m letting my Anet buddy know he’s one of these right now.

Positive, unsarcastic feedback? Lynch him boys!

How about we duo queue. You play whatever, I’ll bring my carrion p/p daredevil, and we’ll see how things go?

“Ok, we’ll give you your cooldown visuals, but it’ll be tied to a new Elite specialization on a trait in the mastery line.”
~Anet, GW2 Player Frustration Devision.

“I just want a backpack dude”

Seems legit. Isnt that how PvE’rs have been approaching the game since forever?

Ithilwen.1529:

I won’t report your post for implying that I have psych issues. You’re welcome.

:D

Ithilwen.1529:

Nice evasion. OK so you are countering my claim that matchmaking isn’t working ( based on an 80% loss rate by an average 339 point margin ) by showing an excessive win rate.

shrug. I’m told my winrate in ranked is currently 52.20%. That can be analyzed however you like I guess.

Ithilwen.1529:

So then you agree with me, yes? If you’re winning that often and easily, then matchmaking isn’t working for you either.

For Christmas my wife got me a PS4. Been with her a very long time. A definite win. Personally I’m pretty content with my matchmaking even though I know there’s a lot of bad matchups happening out there each and every day, and when those occur things don’t work out :(

Ooo, is it sharing time? :D

Naturally I only play meta builds, so here’s my last (from bottom up) zerker lockdown chrono, zerker berserker warrior (no defense line, no crappy endure pains XD), a trial condi sbow druid build, and the most recent three ranger wins on a zerker lbow trapper ranger which I used to finish up advancing a tier :D

Stephen Colbert expresses seeing Warrior elite specialization Berserker in action-
https://youtu.be/cDj4vde26oo?t=6

Dondagora.9645:

Ross Biddle.2367:

This must be PvE motivated

Nah, I’d be fine with this in PvP. No need to be so careful with the AA when you have three phants you’d rather have up. Plus more condi.

The point being the concern for the survival of the phants is utterly unfounded in pvp, now more than ever in GW2 history XD

This must be PvE motivated

Forestgreen.7981:

This bunker meta is so boring. Please bring some counter to passive boon spam meta, since thieves and warriors are a joke to play give them the option to completely dominate boon spamming exclusive builds.

Just as how bruiser builds tend to kill zerker builds and how sustain builds tend to kill bruiser builds.

All I run is counter meta builds, using thief and war XD.

Ez pz kills.

Being a Mes main I still do a little bit of chrono too.

For zerging? Or roaming?

In which fights between bunkers never end, or can eventually, slowly be lost in the enemies favor, I enjoy bringing builds to a team designed to remove enemies and sway the fight in our favor.

P/P Carrion venomshare thief allows me to turn all those crappy bunkers into condi spamming machines XD Had a team with 3 DH’s on it who decided to cry at me for playing thief. Then they proceeded to die repeatedly in the team fights at mid, and not rotate well enough to recover the match anywhere else. Still, blame the thief because you didnt have anyone to carry you with constant hard resses the whole match XD

Yet in other matches…

Yes I noticed it the other day. I had to assume it was lag related.

You were winning until they got a lord steal.

If you bunker down in base you’ll have the same effect but won’t have to fuss with those silly trait lines, weapons, and skills.

Why can’t it give out cake and ice cream so we can all just get along?

Mr T, Chuck Norris, and a GW2 Warrior walked into a bar. Only the GW2 Warrior exited.

True story.

StickerHappy.8052:

Damage output is irrelevant. If the matches stay on for so long you get a lot of damage.

Now think about it, If you manage to get a lot of damage bec you have a lot of AoEs, but you never kill anyone.

Therefore that is inefficient.

Listen to Uncle Stickerhappy.

I can easily get 10-20 kills on zerker berker but have very little overall damage in the end. Why? Because a headbutt into arc diviner + hundred blades is enough to down a person before a stomp. Do that over and over and you get a lot of kills with very little to show for it in dps totals :D

As nice as Lotus Training is, Unhindered Combatant not only gives you swiftness but the dash itself is a gap opener. Coupled with Channeled Vigor you can open or close some hefty space. It also removes all that pesky condi cc, and it will remove the need for Don’t Stop (which has a 10s icd anyway).

choovanski.5462:

Syde.5961:

I started pretty late in the season, but I’ve had no problem rising up in divisions…Of course, Warriors are currently under powered in this meta, but they aren’t useless. If you’re having trouble winning just b/c of a single class being on your team then I don’t think it’s the warrior’s fault that you’re losing.

why not? warrior brings nothing to the team apart from good damage, average single target CC, and poor survivability.

marauders scrapper is better at its job in every respect, and even has AOE heals, AOE stuns, AOE stealth, and other useful things for team fights.

having a warrior in your team is awful. it uses one of your limited slots, this is not WvW you can’t just add more and more people. you can only have 5 people in the team, and putting one of them on a class as bad as warrior is gimping the team.

warrior brings no value and has to be babysat. awful class.

You know what I hate? Having a team full of no damage dealing bunkers who fail to win the caps and can’t push out the enemy team to gain the foothold back necessary to win.

It’s great having a single zerker berserker who can cut through the cheese and force down the enemy team with a little CC and some heavy burst pressure XD

Of course I don’t trust your average warrior to handle this job -_-u

Azukas.1426:

Ross Biddle.2367:

When on Thief-

So long as my team can follow instructions, take and hold home/mid, then I can do my support/decap role and we’ll win.

When my team can’t babysit a point and/or dies loosing mid etc, it’s a road harder traveled -_-u

You dont play thief though

xD

I’ve been running this for the occasional tier
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAqaVn8lCFNhNNBGmCsPhFZCjLQ1C2BzdwQYKUbPNFCAA-TZxBQBGc/hldKAAwDAwLlBwwRAAA

blitzkrieg.2451:

Ross Biddle.2367:

When on Thief-

So long as my team can follow instructions, take and hold home/mid, then I can do my support/decap role and we’ll win.

When my team can’t babysit a point and/or dies loosing mid etc, it’s a road harder traveled -_-u

So basically, if the other team can’t do the most common tasks in conquest mode then you can’t play thief. I think that’s with any class on a team without any ability to play conquest correctly. You can’t carry bads, no matter what class not even rev.

Yup. You can be on your biggest, baddest, meta build main and if you roll a team who doesnt know how to rotate, or can’t live for more than a few seconds, you’ll lose.

So play whatever as long as it fulfills its roll.

I’m an experienced Mesmer player. If anyone is having trouble defeating Mesmer/Chrono it’s simply a matter of learning to play against them. Whether it’s a stealthing, power shatter mes, condi mes, or bunker Mes, I can defeat them on my chrono, zerker berserker, and carrion p/p daredevil in PvP (these three are just what I’m playing).

If I can do it you can too!

StickerHappy.8052:

The main problem for a lot of the classes including Mesmer, is the condition spam.

As it stands right now, You HAVE to trait into inspiration, or you will die easily with so much condi spam.

If you are playing on a team it would be less required but still.

Actually I’d say it depends on what role the Mes is playing. Bunker or support where you’re sitting in the thick of things a lot? Sure. Otherwise you can quite comfortably just avoid getting bombed. Sure you’ll get caught out once in a while, that’s just how it goes. So for inexperienced Mesmers, yeah, take inspiration. More experienced once can live without it cause, let’s be honest, we’ve been living without it for THREE YEARS.

I’m still running zerker ammy with zero cleanse. Even if I do get hit by a condi bomb once in a match, it won’t happen again XD

When on Thief-

So long as my team can follow instructions, take and hold home/mid, then I can do my support/decap role and we’ll win.

When my team can’t babysit a point and/or dies loosing mid etc, it’s a road harder traveled -_-u

Don’t worry, Anet will update the tooltips on knockback skills etc to reflect this “bug” as intended behavior.

Fixed Tooltips
Kick: Knockback target with a kick, 400 units, can potentially clip out of map Chuck Norris style.

BurrTheKing.8571:

I’d consider it…but I’m not well known. That being said, if they get to directly communicate with the devs it might be worth it. The actual job description is a little vague.

I’ve mostly taken part on the mes forum and I recognize your name with relatively positive associations with it.

Good enough imo ;D

I don’t know where it’s going wrong for you but I run zerker ammy Chrono when I PvP. It’s always bad times for the enemy team when I rock up to the fight.

Mefiq.7039:

played War whole night. Got verbaly abused so many times i stoped counting, if i do great no1 says kitten, if my team lose its WAR FAULT! Even after making play of the game with Rifle shot into zerker into 4 enemies downstated the guy who was obviously missrotating(dunno if this word even exists) Called me trash and reported… Its funny i can go TEMPEST and play like kitten and no1 will ever say bad thing about me nor report me. Just playing war i think earned me atleast 30 reports today from angry kids/

i had to drop many things from build to even be compareable to other classes, Amount of cc/dazez in this game right now is out the chart, also amount of Stability other classes generate is insane. Mby this is where meta comes from ANET, Look at nonmeta classes: Warr(low stability) Thief(no stability) Necro(only on reaper/plague/chill to the bone) Try to win vs bs classes like dh that can basically spam daze and knock.

One day we may reach a place of equality

But these holidays will not be it XD

You know, as nice as Flame Legion rune is, berserker is a superior rune. You’re losing 1s of your burn ticks, but you’re getting more condi damage, and the flat +5% bonus to all condi’s, and power too.

Assuming the 6th effect is working, I’d heard it wasn’t post release.

Elegie.3620:

Hi,

Ross Biddle.2367:

So a good combo for sword is int sigil with hydromancy. Hydro will either hit them with chill on swap so you can gap open for an escape, or you can move into melee and swap into sword, hitting them with the hydro proc followed by a Final Thrust which is easier to land thanks to the chill locking the target down. Sigil of Intillegence will ensure that both the hydro and the Final Thrust crit, which makes that quick turn around burst come out of nowhere and really hurt.

Hydromancy looks interesting indeed, all the more that it can be used to clear blinds before Final Thrust. On the other hand, I don’t think Intelligence is needed: the OP can go beyond 100% critical chance already, with Fury, Sword Mastery and the precision stacks of Signet Mastery. This is one of the big advantage of the Arms line being used in a hybrid/power build.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Alternativly you could put a sigil of Agility in place of hydro. That’ll give you that 1s of quickness to either leap away, or speed up the channel of an instant Final Thrust. Int sigil again to ensure that burst hits its hardest.

Quickness can indeed be nice for Final Thrust. As for leaping away, I’m not sure, though: Quickness makes movement skills travel less far (as Slow make them go farther), unless they’ve finally fixed this?

No, you’re right, the quickness will shorten the distance traveled. It’d only hasten the activation immediately after swap, so you’d only want to take it for the thrust.

It is a single second of course, so for general purpose a swap into an eventual leap wouldn’t hurt.

So a good combo for sword is int sigil with hydromancy. Hydro will either hit them with chill on swap so you can gap open for an escape, or you can move into melee and swap into sword, hitting them with the hydro proc followed by a Final Thrust which is easier to land thanks to the chill locking the target down. Sigil of Intillegence will ensure that both the hydro and the Final Thrust crit, which makes that quick turn around burst come out of nowhere and really hurt.

Alternativly you could put a sigil of Agility in place of hydro. That’ll give you that 1s of quickness to either leap away, or speed up the channel of an instant Final Thrust. Int sigil again to ensure that burst hits its hardest.

Keep in mind, your arc diviner has a MUCH bigger range than you think. So don’t feel you have to close the gap right into melee range to land it. You can really catch people out with it.

What you do is take a recording, then super slow down the vid to test.

Ithilwen.1529:

@TOWS I wasn’t being a troll I was answering a post. Truthfully though.. I don’t place a high value on your opinion either. You consistently attack me. So, please do stay away from my posts. That would suit me fine.

Doesn’t everyone consistently attack you, Ithilwen?

Ithilwen.1529:

The fact that it’s an Amber player makes the combination artificially low MMR. Thus, the diamond player is getting an easy match as well as cutting the queue line.

It’s cheating, plain and simple.

You’re actually assuming intent. Your assertion is that they’re taking a lower ranked player to help boost their chances to win (by playing weaker opponents, presumably).

However if the intent is to lower their queue time so that they can simply play, then that has not been explicitly called cheating/rigging/fixing/etc, and in fact highlights a flaw in the system that the player is merely trying to overcome. I.e. they’re getting lumped with high queue times. That’s on Anet, not the players.

Proving intent is difficult. Of course Anet’s not bound by any kind of law, certainly no concept of justice, so they can just ban everyone and let Andy Dufresne sort them out later.

ALL that aside, the system actually involves higher and lower tiered players playing together. If it wasn’t meant to, Anet would simply lock grouping out of your tier in ranked play.

they’re not running invisible traps in the esl, so Anet doesnt care.

People cried about Chrono initially.

Then people stopped playing glassy specs that were getting rekt by the superior glassy specs.

Then nobody cried about Chrono until Chrono bunker was top meta and everywhere.

Then Chrono bunker was nerfed and all tears wrought by the presence of a Chrono stopped.

People continue to play their “OP” elite specs and either thoroughly focus down/reck Bunker Mes, or ignore and shrug off your other breeds of Chrono.

**Note: Good Mesmers are still going to make certain players with certain builds suffer in certain situations. Mesmer will forever be seen as annoying. Much like the swams of summertime flies and mosquitoes.

Wait, base warrior, rifle, no berserk/gunflame :O

I know warriors feel/are tied to the defensive line. I get that its the true source of sustain and defense for a warrior, but (depending on your role/build) it’s such an unnecessary luxury.

When I come to face other warriors or berserkers and they’re running defense, it’s like watching a tragic play. You smack them around, the various defenses proc, and one by one they whittle away until there’s nothing left and the warrior expires. Its like, why bother taking them at all when I’m also running a warrior only without the line and they eat the dust while I don’t. XD

Don’t get me wrong, it’s one of those “You’re safer with them than without” scenarios, but if you can get by without them then….

ReaperJr.5967:

I mean.. you’re playing warrior. What do you actually expect?

If you think class is the determining factor….

XD