Guild Wars 2

Yea what the kitten kat is this. I was excited at first but I’ve been cursing all night cause of this. This is about as fun as getting condition spammed in pvp.

Quin.9740:

jmatb.6307:

Furajir Eles and Mesmers lolstomp Warriors 1v1 if they have any idea what they’re doing.

Agreed!!! Mesmer will never lose to a warrior. I main a Warrior and when I play a Mesmer, they are so strong against any profession except conditions, which apparently is the meta game atm.

Yes and no. I main a ranger and main a mesmer and play a warrior. I have fought many warriors and usually win. But if a warrior specs right, they can be impossible to win against. I fought a great warrior, and unfortunately can’t remember his name. He beat me all 6 duels. I changed from shatter, to phantasm, to glamour confusion, to a few other condition hybrids and lost every time. In my squishier builds I died quickly. He kept me stunned and swapped to longbow to throw conditions on me when I broke his stun. Even in my tankier builds I would only last so long. Breaking his stun repeatedly, he would just swap to longbow and condition spam me. Eventually I was stuck without any stun locks up and he would win. This is rare yes, but good warriors cannot lose so they are definitely on top. Once conditions go down it might help, but I never took that war below 65% life. His healing was to strong and my bursts far to weak no matter what spec. They are insanely strong if played right. The thing is, most people don’t use war to their full potential. That is why you get threads like this saying they are fine as is.

Why are you guys crying? Is it really that hard to setup your spirits before a boss fight to a safe location and then re-summon in 25 seconds for the next fight? This is a buff for you pvers actually. This gives you a shorter CD. How about you l2p pve and be happy that the devs are doing a good job at balancing pve and pvp. Anet is actually losing a good amount of people from pvp because they give you guys priority. So how bout you adapt?

Also myself, when I pve I go zerkers for most gear and focus on traits that give damage. That seems to be best for group play. I can outdps almost anyone and I still have decent toughness. Think you guys are the noobs that give rangers a bad rap. What does a FULL spirits build give to a group seriously, before or after this patch.

Fungalfoot.7213:

Should have been a PvP only nerf. ArenaNet once again drops the ball.

Can we please just get rid of SPvP already? It’s destroying the game.

Actually can we get rid of pve. It’s ruining the game. Sorry you have to actually use a little skill now to use spirits. I am a ranger main and actually love this change.

ask them what build they are running.

Yup, I said it to. Warrior if played and built right is one of the best classes right now, probably close to necro.

Just have 5 necros on your team. You can’t lose.

0/10
Your ranger looks like pure trash.

Here’s mine:

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Avead.5760:

No bug imo .You queue you get to play with a few people ,you win or lose and then you all start queueing again at the same time.And because you can clearly sync (big secret ,right?) you get to play with them for 100000000 games in a row.
What you can do to break this is waiting and not queueing immediately after match.
You can even add them to your contact list and wait till they are in a game.
It works 100% to break that and for all i know is the only way to stop getting 20 matches with the same people.
Its extremely effective against trolls that play sitting duck on node(guard) and go afk if their team goes behind by 50 pnts !! hehe :P

Or Anet could fix it. Iv’e been on both ends. Iv’e been stuck queing with a good player over and over and a crappy one over and over. Iv’e even had certain people who could be on both sides which is how it should be. Unfortunately there are still those players you are stuck with no matter what. 5+, 10+ games and you never go against them is not random. I think Anet did this on purpose to make the elitists feel good and keep them playing, as they don’t give a cent about the rest of the pvp community.

This is the crap that helped contribute to my 30 or so loss streak (a win or 2 between) today.

After playing hundreds of solo q games I realized it’s just a sync que. I was higher rank when I started and won most games, but as I took more risks I dropped in rank. Now I cannot win a game without ALOT of luck. I even tried spirit ranger to get back up, but I couldn’t pull out people who were just killing and not holding points etc. I had good hopes for solo q but unfortunately this is a joke. Over 30 losses and about 4 wins today. When I was higher in rank I was getting 15 win streaks. I hope they fix this, or I’m going elsewhere. Sad that I used to defend Anet.

Very minor delay, but yeah same.

Wow, this may be for PS4 to. It has potential but as many said and also my own experience with korean games, they have been extremely unbalanced. Then again this game is unbalanced. Getting rooted/stunned/dazed and dead 3 seconds later lately. I’m losing hope.

Signed.

Just add cast bars.

A level 50+ necro feared my spirit ranger and I died in 5 seconds unable to cast a thing. Maybe you aren’t fighting skilled players? But yeah I forgot, spirit ranger is op period cause noob spirit ranger can kill noob whatever else.

Derps.7421:

Or we could just get cast bars?

That would actually be pretty cool. Leave my poor Asura alone!

Why so much crying over this? So many games have smaller characters. Many people play this game for the asura height, not the meager benefits it provides. They will lose a lot of players including myself if they give in to your crying of such a minor issue. Fix real pvp issues, like condition spam.

What server has been mostly successful for this event. Every server that I have guested fails end event because people farm. Any servers that people actually do the event? Thanks.

Yes, so put more work into other areas like pvp. You are losing pvp players, and now over doing it with LS you are losing those players. How about evening out the game all around?

Great map. Teaches you to play a bit different and that’s always fun.

style.6173:

If I see skyhammer come up, I alt-f4. I never actually go into the map so idk if the system puts in a new person or if the team fights undermanned. Either way, I hope anet gets the message soon.

and then I cuss you out for being a selfish ….

People like you are the reason Anet doesn’t fix as much in pvp. This childish behavior gets us no where.

Sounds like you were just glory farming and not contributing to the team, just yourself. If someone is on a point, don’t sit there and collect the points when you could be doing something else to help the team. Go to hotjoin if you want to collect top stats and think you are best when it’s anything but the truth. Plenty of bunkers end up low score, but contribute a ton.

Okay thanks. I have mine on minimum and have noticed a decent improvement to my fps. Thanks guys.

I have my mesmer standing by if they listen to you Daishi. Or maybe my war..

Why do people do this? What’s the point? Do they make money or something?

Daishi.6027:

Rufy.6093:

Daishi.6027:

Why’s everyone think I’m crazy when I say Rangers just need a nerf to their heals/regen and less doge spam then they’d be fine?

So nerf rangers only survivability? Okay, then nerf thief invis.

Thief invis is balanced and you can counter or outplay it.

Rangers can out heal spike consistently over a long period of time, it’s in the same boat if not stronger than ele’s water and heal to full before it was nerfed and this is all while going pew pew pew with condis and evade spam in a pinch. Rangers do not need this much survivability and having it is unfair over all.

No class should just flat out, out heal spike or burst.

Rangers are steady dps (not counting spirit ranger) and would be owned by every class if you destroy our heal. Play a none spirit ranger, and come back telling me how great they are. You want to destroy the only good build spirit, then fine. But don’t make ranger the joke of pvp by nerfing a heal that lasts 8 sec on a 25 sec cd.

A shark ate me last night, I felt very noob

I can see this guy looking at the leaderboard after every win. Obsessed with a number, as he freaks out and sees a loss and cry’s out nooo! “I must now complain on the forums, I have lost my precious rating!”

Please, get out of my post trolls. You will ruin this game the more you cry. I hope Devs keep fixing things and don’t listen to the whining trolls trying to make the game fail.

People care about rank that means nothing? I guess you should prove you are best and make a team and then come back to forums crying about something else.

Yup, I’m doing the same. Much more effective in tourneys Iv’e noticed. So much curing going on, I could never hold conditions on people very long.

Skyhammer is a delite for me to! Sometimes it’s frustrating, but other times I get a knockback and it’s fun. I like the change of pace this map gives.

Gizmo.8623:

Rufy.6093:

This is a very balanced game and I have experimented on every class, and learned that you can counter different builds by going different traits/gear. I am really enjoying this game, and keep up the good work. Please don’t listen to the whiners, because they don’t realize every class has a counter. They must stick to one build and try nothing new, from what it sounds. Keep on fixing the little things that need to be done. Thanks for all your hard work!

Oh, man you discovered the secret of PvP! Change your class or build depending on who you face! Why no one told me this before?
I’ll tell you about few fights I’ve just had with my engineer (experimental melee/elixir build). Without stunbreaker (I forgot to take one) warrior got medieval on my kitten by stunlocking me and killing with 100b. Lesson learned hard.
I’m still getting to know engineer and PvP in general (I’ve got LvL 18) so I will fare better for sure but even now I know that there are thing that MUST CHANGE!
I’m using pistol/shield and tool kit. With smallest mistake my every skill can fail and do nothing at all – enemy moves a little too much – static shot fails. He has aegis or I’m blind – static shot fails and won’t bounce to other targets. Throw shield have the same problem. Poison shot is weak in general. You may say – well, position yourself better, try a little harder, etc. My complaint is that to do something with this build I must be perfect – perfect positioning, perfect aiming, I must count on luck, because rotation depends on succesful hit or I can do nothing at all, like if Magnet fails, I won’t use Pry Bar. I am lacking skills that give me a bit of ease in case of mistake like Poison Valley – if first show misses, next ones may hit.
I was just fighting with ele more than 3 or 4 minutes, I used Elixir X 3 times and my health was getting lower and lower while ele could heal himself to max in a hearthbeat. I was pressing keys like I was playing on piano, my hands were sweaty. I can bet that player behing ele wasn’t sweating.

One thing I cannot stand in different classes is when one class to achieve an effect have to put a lot more effort while other class presses one button and have a lot more out of it and then just waits for cooldown. I may stack 7 confusion on someone which is nice but it can be cleansed instantly by many means. DoTs put on me I can heal with Elixir C only every 32 seconds. This counter is many levels weaker than fully getting rid of my confusion combo that can happen once every 10 seconds if I manage to land 2 succesful hits (and these are my only hits that put confusion).

I knew that Engi was supposed to be hard to play but hard shouldn’t mean – hybrid of weaker version of other classes. Another thing with Engi is this kittening RNG in effects from skills, especially Elixir X, on which I depend most. 9/10 I wanna turn to Rampaging Brute but instead I turn to Tornado and often I make it harder to kill downed enemy players by knocking them back. This skill gives 2 completely different paths of fight which you cannot predict while elementalists know exactly what they will get from their skills.
In general I don’t feel like I’m in control even when I am facing average player. Too many times I see “obstructed” or “miss” or “blocked” or “interrupted” and every time I know that it’s bad, very bad for me. I’m lacking burst to be very dangerous and 1 on 1 situations are too rare.

Last thing I just despise is downed #2 skill. This stupid skill is very slow and hits first enemy it encounters, so mermer clones are often hit by it and I’m dead half the second later. Almost every other class just uses stability (most kittened-up mechanic in the game in my opinion, it just should go to hell) and I’m done.

Yes engi takes a bit more skill then some such as my spirit ranger hybrid. (I don’t do the regular condition spam thing). But also, if played right engi is one of the best pvp classes. Check this out – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2MdZZJXJdg

Just keep trying, it will pay off. And after a bit classes such as spirit ranger will be easy for you since you put in so much effort to learn your class. Good luck

Centh.2081:

It promotes the use of tanky/burst aoe builds due to the fact all the capture points (including the skyhammer) are extremely small.

So, adapt and go tank/burst? Whats the problem?

This is a very balanced game and I have experimented on every class, and learned that you can counter different builds by going different traits/gear. I am really enjoying this game, and keep up the good work. Please don’t listen to the whiners, because they don’t realize every class has a counter. They must stick to one build and try nothing new, from what it sounds. Keep on fixing the little things that need to be done. Thanks for all your hard work!

I love the way pvp is going and Anet is doing a great job. By the way, GW1 is that way >
so get out and stop trying to break the game like so many mmo’s do when they listen to the whiners.

Daishi.6027:

Why’s everyone think I’m crazy when I say Rangers just need a nerf to their heals/regen and less doge spam then they’d be fine?

So nerf rangers only survivability? Okay, then nerf thief invis.

LB is good damage. You just need to swap it out after you use the burst CD’s from it. The knock back is great as well for holding points.

dejay.2598:

Rufy.6093:

dejay.2598:

Mammoth.1975:

Who would imagine that people overstate things on this forum?

Going by the screenshot spam being used as ‘evidence’ nowadays, I guess this is conclusive proof that mesmer > ranger. By miles.

60% of that game are spirit rangers, two necros, an engie, and a lone mesmer

lel

but nobody’s saying 4 spirit rangers is a good idea, they start losing effectiveness after 2 on a team. doesn’t make that spec a healthy game mechanic though

And yet a team of 4 warriors won against a few spirit rangers in my last game. What excuse do you want to use to show spirits op? You ever fight midpoint as spirit ranger with 3+ on each side. All you do as a spirit ranger is summon spirits again, while your teammates are getting owned and then they die again and you are a liability to your party. I’m sick of hearing spirit ranger op, when I’m considering going another route cause pets die in any team fight and make spirit ranger useless.

unhealthy game mechanic isn’t the same thing as op, but for your concern maybe you should learn to not stay bunched up on point at big team fights. that’s another classes job

Oh wait, I thought spirit ranger was op? Now I have to actually think to play it right? What if I want to use my sword and everyone is bunched up as well? I guess I should just hide in the corner and let my op spirits do the work for me. And also in solo q the players that should be holding the point are often not, so again spirit ranger can’t do it all. Thanks for proving my point. I mean what is really the definition of op? A class that may be a bit easier to learn is op? Why? Spirit rangers may provide support to a good team, but how does that make it op? I’m just tired of hearing this bull. If they nerf sr then fine, but it is not needed. People just need to learn to adapt. Spirit ranger will not make a team win just because the team has one or even two. They are not that great.

Anet needs to make solo/team que not available for trial users. There is no reason for a new player to be in tournament games.

dejay.2598:

Mammoth.1975:

Who would imagine that people overstate things on this forum?

Going by the screenshot spam being used as ‘evidence’ nowadays, I guess this is conclusive proof that mesmer > ranger. By miles.

60% of that game are spirit rangers, two necros, an engie, and a lone mesmer

lel

but nobody’s saying 4 spirit rangers is a good idea, they start losing effectiveness after 2 on a team. doesn’t make that spec a healthy game mechanic though

And yet a team of 4 warriors won against a few spirit rangers in my last game. What excuse do you want to use to show spirits op? You ever fight midpoint as spirit ranger with 3+ on each side. All you do as a spirit ranger is summon spirits again, while your teammates are getting owned and then they die again and you are a liability to your party. I’m sick of hearing spirit ranger op, when I’m considering going another route cause pets die in any team fight and make spirit ranger useless.

Nerf ranger pets 35% more, make spirits have 5% chance to trigger, and make ranger regen 50% less. Keep conditions as is, but nerf ranger conditons by 75%. That’s all I see on this forum, nerf ranger, nerf ranger. They are to ezy to play. They should be a challenge like my spam thief!

As a ranger main forced into spirit ranger, stun wars if played right win every time No stun breaker is the one thing they left out of spirits. Maybe they need to add a spirit with stun break?

I’d rather blow up and get an answer instead of sit idle. Thanks for the link.

Who.4651:

Rufy.6093:

Who.4651:

So, when are Asuras getting a 50% height/size increase in PVP ?

They do that and I quit spvp. Sorry if some people use height for advantage, but for many small characters are what feels comfortable and keeps us interested.

I also don’t see the big deal. I fight asura all the time, it’s not much harder.

“They do that and I quit spvp. " people with this mentality shouldn’t be enjoying the awesomeness of spvp anyway

Oh don’t worry. The spvp community is shrinking steadily for you awesomeness people.

So everyone that had the specs required to play at the lower end is now screwed out of pve? This is bull. I have seen it in every game, where the requirements slowly get higher.. but this will likely bring it to a whole new level. I can barely go through cities as it is, now I will crash. Why can’t it be a menu choice? Why force this culling removal on everyone, so that part of your player base has no choice but to leave? I’d love to buy a new computer, but I can’t right now. Well, I guess spvp is all that’s left if I can even log in after this.

Who.4651:

So, when are Asuras getting a 50% height/size increase in PVP ?

They do that and I quit spvp. Sorry if some people use height for advantage, but for many small characters are what feels comfortable and keeps us interested.

I also don’t see the big deal. I fight asura all the time, it’s not much harder.

No, keep it. You obviously have nothing useful to say if you are getting that message and people will spam the chat just to mess with teams and be annoying. Very bad idea.

They are to busy trading off sleep/eat cycles to post video’s. They must be first!

Bud.5617:

Mcrocha.3891:

They have 1 stun break which is a trait on a looong cd and no access to stability, go figure.

OH GREAT! So to beat them you need another OP class, the perma stunning, ever regenerating warrior. That’s dandy.

You forgot to mention necro conditions, mesmer blinks, invis’, engineer god like skills, thief bursts, elementalist healing, and guardian survivability