Guild Wars 2

Making a current trait a baseline with a skill seems to be a common trend they are doing as well as interesting buffs to power/zerk builds specifically. It will be interesting to see what they have planned for the other classes if they follow this pattern.

While everyone’s hopping on the asuran bandwagon, I’m going Charr. Nothing like a massive beast in your face.
Out with the rats, in with the cats.
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Wyrden.4713:

woa i totally hate ppl like u

u may not have meant it but writing omg in caps then commanding him to do something, its just one of those situations i dont feel like doing anything that guy says further

Did you even read the post before typing? There was no omg in caps.

Jae.5138:

having half hp when downed is huge at high level pvp. i guess you wouldn’t know until you get there

Ahahaha right you keep thinking that. I can tell you right now this isn’t nearly as useful as our current signet of salt or even banner for that matter. This elite is about as useful as Kick.

Stooperdale.3560:

How much condition curing does a whirl finisher in a light field give?

Not enough to be useful.

@Prysin, as for the thief warrior steal, it has always reflected projectiles.

So let me get this straight.. It’s an elite that that only works when your foe is at 15% health and if you down them then it has a shorter cd and reduces their downstate hp? I can do this just fine with intelligence sigil and doom sigil poison reduces their revive amount. No offense but this is useless and to be honest the elite has to be on par or better than the current signet of salt. The banner at least brings it’s own feature by reviving people. Oh and the fact that is clearly is a pvp only elite. Elites need to be possibly useful anywhere.

If axe 4 was a block of some sort that you could then lash out and axe 5 reflected projectiles like the thief steal version then yea axe off hand would be fine.

Give me a utility skill for warrior that’s a hookshot with the same range as magnet pull or scorp wire with the same cooldown and you can keep your skyhammer.

To be totally honest I want to like skyhammer and it can be done if it saw some changes. The cannon should be dodge able and should do less damage. The glass panels also should have a slightly longer period before they break and there needs to be more enclosed space to the side points and cannon room so it’s not just a huge knock back fest that caters to certain classes. If these were implemented then skyhammer would actually be a decent map.

I used to play with a deaf player in another game, worked just fine. He had a speech to text program that displayed what we were saying in a window on his second screen which he could look over at. It flashed when new messages were up. He was a great player as it was even without teamspeak.
Personally I find that it makes your team look amazing when they can play well regardless of any personal handicaps they might have.
But this is just my opinion though. If the others teams requested that teamspeak was a must then those are their rules and it’s their option to follow them. Can’t do anything about it.

Woah they called me the Farmv"illest" bc I waz sick nasty. Aka cropmaster flex. I managed the fields erday

Nope, I say keep it. Nothing is more manlier than breaking into dance midway through a fight to initiate a dance off. Now if only I could break out the dance volume.

’Twas a shave, not a nerf. Your precious runes for pve are fine. It was due to pvp but they are still the go to rune regardless.

If you reported him he would end up with a 3 day suspension due to verbal abuse. Anything that a player does or says that negatively effects other players is an offense that Anet will respond to.

Romek.4201:

why there are no postings from arenanet guyz for weeks and this acandis guy post 2 threads in 10 min and both get answer in first 3-5 posts from a dev?

just a question

Because he not only put forth a constructive idea for a UI change, but supplied supportive imagery to better explain his ideas. Unlike 90% of these forums that are just composed of unproductive rants to remove this or nerf that instead of presenting a possible change with supportive information that could better the situation instead of destroying it. It’s how the real world works.

I’m all for ease of access but for everything else, there’s..
cough

Kitt.2567:

Getting into top100 in soloQ isnt important at all. however, keeping your rank within top100 in soloQ is extremely harder.

Lulz I get into the top10-20 easily, peace out, rank drop and come back to snag a couple wins and I’m right back where I started.
#yuprealhardbro.
I am clearly dabes.

Stances in pvp. Everything else is subpar.
Some of each for pve not that I pve regardless. Anything works there.

Graendall.4765:

Strength got nerfed btw

They got shaved a tad, no way near a nerf. They still are still very good and the go to rune in pvp besides pirate.

You betcha. Support/bunker guard has been manditory in pvp since day one.

Yes it’s easy now from all the buffs over the year that it doesn’t take too much to succeed against inexperienced players if your running meta builds. But against top rated players, it’s just as difficult as anything else and you actually have to be good with the class. I made a ranger for the first time ever the other day and I was still able to succeed against randoms in hot join with some random build I threw together. But that’s probably only due to the fact that I only pvp.

In pve yes bc everything just stands there and takes it. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.

Lulz balance in pve.. Anything is fine there. As for pvp they are fine. We have just gotten a bit more attention from devs and last patch eles got the attention. They just need to bring other classes up to snuff one by one and allow other builds to be viable. Hopefully that will happen now that they pumped out this living garbage.

Agree 100% but shouldn’t have posted on the class forums. Only casuals peruse these parts. They could give a crap about pvp. It’s fine to get salty when a guard is not using shelter but this is the wrong crowd to preach to.
Oh and abyss and celestial are the only dyes one needs, rest are obsolete. #youshouldknowdisbynow.

yolo swaggins.2570:

Really? No thief developer? I would have thought there was one for each profession.

Nope they all went to warrior.

As an r80 given to me by lovely anet the during April update, I can say is it’s just like anything else. The finisher is fairly mediocre and no one cares about it, just like everybody else sadly. And as a high rated player sadly the leaderboard doesn’t have a major significance either. I’m glad you enjoy pvp and I hope you stay with it as we are a struggling breed in this game. Maybe anet will soon give us the love we deserve.

Spvp is good. The combat is fluid and is the only reason I started this game to begin with.
As for balance, it’s fairly good right now, can be a bit bunkery but that’s the least of your worries. Yea there might be a couple easier builds that are considered “op” but these only shine in hotjoin or solo que but are useless in higher level play. I strongly suggest you don’t get used to these builds, they are a serious trap.
Only issue really is that we havnt been getting as much love frequently as our last balance patch was in April but I guess that’s due to the recent pve stuff. There’s a couple kinks here and there that they should address and we are a bit overdue for some newer content but hopefully that’s in the upcoming future.

Yea it’s an issue but advantages are what they are anything to get the upper hand in tourneys will be used. I personally have one human warrior that I play, especially for 2v2/3v3 since asurans are banned and an asuran for 5v5 tourneys bc well they havnt been banned from there yet (don’t know why exactly).
Hopefully they fix this issue so there arnt any racial advantages as this was something they swore would never happen.

2012 is back (minus the rtl) but better. Yes eles are more than just viable now, but top tier. D/d celestial in general is stupid powerful due to strength runes, changes to celestial stats and with the previous minor buffs over the months leading to the last change where they unnerfed water sustain and buffed bs it was just a matter of time.
Sadly it’s a bit over the top (not just with eles) and for balance reasons there will definitely be a nerf to strength runes to tone down the excessive bunker/power meta.

I see a pattern forming.

Don’t worry about it, the report would do nothing regardless. They only look at possible third party program use or gold selling. If you aren’t doing either then you’re in the green. I have been banned 3 times and received my account back after each time due to the idea of third party program use. They need solid evidence of the perpetration or they won’t bother with the accusation. The guy is just lying through his teeth and abusing the report function due to built up rage from pvp. Happens in any game honestly.

Romek.4201:

SaintSnow.6593:

Um others swear they hit much higher than 26k stabs so I would assume this is about right. I used to do this crap with s/p, signet stacking to instant kill with a pistol whip. Not a huge deal, it’s fun for kittening off people in hotjoin but nothing more.

we are here in spvp and not wvw
spvp has other rules like lower critdmg and no buff food and no wxp buffs and whatever

no it should not be possible in spvp to hit someone with 1 hit for 26k even when it is backstab

and it has to be a bug

I don’t play wvw, just spvp. I personally am not surprised by this, i have hit 20k+ killshots in spvp so it seems about right.

Bringing back pvp rings and trinkets? Bold.

I’d poop myself from laughter if they stealth nerfed the pick a week after the current sale. Hyped pick gets bought up by everyone and then anet puts it on the chopping block. Now that’s an amazing marketing ploy.

Um others swear they hit much higher than 26k stabs so I would assume this is about right. I used to do this crap with s/p, signet stacking to instant kill with a pistol whip. Not a huge deal, it’s fun for kittening off people in hotjoin but nothing more.

Lol when people build bunker they normally hit like nothing..
Now that you have strength runes in the picture, players can achieve 25 stacks easily and sustain it allowing them to hit much harder than they should. This leads to bunker built warriors and eles hitting like trucks while maintaining high sustain. Plain and simple. I never found the ttk high in this game. The amount of burst has been brought down exponentially since launch.

Heapheaus.5238:

Silly saint, they cant do anything to me while they’re dead

But their teammates can. Oh and throw a fire sigil on the other dagger. Double proc on that bs would be even better I suppose.

Hey kirrena o/
+1 Just bring back old amulet mix an match.

But you have to blow all your utilities to might stack for that so…

Mainly all this is due to strength runes. The excessive power and damage increase allows classes to trait for more sustain and still put out good damage. Also the fact that conditions are so easily applied requires a lot of passive and active sustain to stay alive. If they change strength runes a bit as well as lower the condition application rate, a lot of issues can be resolved and breathe some life into other areas of gameplay.

Was released during the past WintersDay event. It might return before then during their sales but no guarentees. Might not see it again till next Christmas.

I wouldn’t mind ears of different sorts besides the past bunny ears. But, tails? That’s a bit much.

It’s the casuals from wvw and pve that just want dailies, achievement points and rank advancement because they actually think the finishers are cool and want them for wvw.

Never played gw1 but I hear good things of this gvg system. If they can port it into gw2 with possibly new maps or whatever, I’m game. I suggest to keep the player amount in the game mode an odd number so as to promote rotations and outnumbered situations like it is currently. Since this mode would seem to have larger maps than the current 5 man conquest, I suggest 7 players would suffice. As for the automated tourneys both (what I would assume) weekly and monthly, it seems like a more controlled version of the old gw2 pvp system with paid and free tourneys. I would like to see something like this in the future on top of the current weeklies held by mistpedia.

Invulnerabilities are the only thing that does and should halt point capture (besides stealth), not immunities. Invuln skills such as elixir S, mist form/obsidian flesh, and distortion prevent all attacks (Cc, conditions, direct). Immunities on the other hand such as endure pain, berserker stance, diamond skin etc. grant partial immunity to a specific damage factor. Berserker Stance only prevents conditions and soft cc (cripple, immobilize, chill) and not direct damage or hard cc (knock backs, etc.). While Endure Pain only prevents direct damage but not conditions and both soft/hard cc. Warriors for one, do not have any complete invulnerabilites unless they waste both utilities which is completely wasteful and still subjective to hard cc unless stability is used(which can be stripped).
Remember shields also allow capture and block any skills unless they are unblockable. Engi’s gearshield (on a fairly low cd) or warrior shield can do this but can be interrupted by unblockable skills such as necro warhorn for example.
TL;DR Immunities are not Invulnerabilities and therefore do not block all incoming damage. Thus immune does not prevent point capture and invulnerable does.

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SaintSnow.6593:

From a pvp perspective, just play whatever class that appeals to you. As multi class user, I played warrior since beta and that’s just who I am. I can play any other class but I always go back to it. As for it being more simple? It all depends on your opponents really. I find playing ele, engi, theif or Mesmer really easy as well even though they are considered the “high skill cap classes”. It’s all just a different play style really. More buttons doesn’t mean more skill in my opinion.

Its not the buttons but the passive mechanics.

Elementalist is the highest skillcap because the defenses come from active play and the damage is hard to land. You can’t spam autoattacks and AoE on ele.

Second one is thief, assuming we are talking about spvp meta builds and not some random trash with 30 pts in shadow arts. Basically thief is extremely squishy and can’t take many hits.

Engi and mesmer come close but they have a lot of passive damage from the AI or AoE spam.

The other classes are easy because they have either a lot of passive defenses or passive damage or even both > spirit ranger , MM necro…

So it’s not the buttons.

I didn’t say it was the buttons..
I find all the classes I mentioned easy to play. Regardless of their passive mechanics. Spamming anything is poor play regardless of class, warriors still need active play both offensive and defensive. Killing them isn’t difficult since many still have that spamming mentality. Currently due to ele buffs and rune buffs ele is even easier and back to its old glory days from late 2012. So they have many passive defensives again. Skill cap is personal opinion, I find everything only skillful if played well. Hence why I find all these classes fairly easy to play.

I don’t run hambow in wvw but I do run longbow but no mobility weapons such as sword/horn/greatsword. I still do fine outside pvp but then again I roam a lot with someone else so mobility through swiftness is supplied. Though I do roam solo and the base swiftness is fine for me.

Long bow is currently the best pvp weapon a warrior has as paired with cleansing ire can cleans up to 3 conditions if your adrenaline bar is full regardless if you hit anything or not. Not only that but as Deimos stated, it creates a large fire field for burning and to combo blast finishers in for area might. The hammer is mainly a crowd control weapon that also, due to strength runes can supply sufficent damage.

From a pvp perspective, just play whatever class that appeals to you. As multi class user, I played warrior since beta and that’s just who I am. I can play any other class but I always go back to it. As for it being more simple? It all depends on your opponents really. I find playing ele, engi, theif or Mesmer really easy as well even though they are considered the “high skill cap classes”. It’s all just a different play style really. More buttons doesn’t mean more skill in my opinion.

Bahahahaha Imma teef now. Do I get a “backstab” feature too?