Guild Wars 2

To try to put this into perspective, earlier on my EU account I faced a premade team on voice comms with full solos on my side. The end result was something like 35 to 500, with all the solos on my side feeling miserable. After that, I faced the same team two more times in a row, with never more than 2 people grouped together on my side, and never managed to get even 100 points against them. You simply can’t win against a decent full premade with solo players. Not only do they have the advantage of voice comms (a huge advantage already), they also have complete control over their team composition, which solo players can no longer adapt and change due to receiving a loss/dishonor for swapping professions pre-match. All I’m asking for is for solo/duo players to never, or hardly ever, have to face full 5-man groups. Getting roflstomped 3 times in a row by premades does not leave anyone with the desire to pvp longer.

You can add my EU account (Prisoner.2419) if you want, I spend more time on NA but I’m still on it pretty regularly.

I hate compacting my inventory by accident. It takes ages to get everything rearranged the way I like it. Honestly, I’d just like Deposit Materials to have it’s own button, and not be stuck in that drop down menu, as it’s used far more often than any of the other options there.

Does someone switching to another profession before the game starts make the game count as a bye/forfeit?

I use OBS for recording, works pretty well for me.

I see now that this is the true endgame of Dictionary Wars 2. I just now realized that I had been playing the game wrong this entire time.

coglin.1867:

I just updated the wiki on block duration. It correctly had 1.5s as the duration in the pictorial and visual on the right. The numerical value in the main page description simply wasn’t adjusted. I corrected it so that it would be correct. Sorry about that. I try to stay on top of all of the engineer changes when it comes to the wiki, but occasionally I miss them. Most of those who used to help me keep it updated have kind of disappeared on me.

Thank you for your service.

Slick Shoes is in use because it’s our best offensive option atm. Not only does the skill itself wreak havoc upon thieves, mesmers, necros, and other engineers, it also comes with Super Speed, our lowest cooldown stunbreak. Super Speed can be used offensively immediately after Overcharged Shot to ensure a large burst on anyone that doesn’t have stability or a stun break ready, which is excellent in 1v1/1v2 scenarios. It’s far Superior to Elixir Gun both stunbreaking and escaping fights, though Elixir Gun can be the better option versus some condi heavy team comps. The safe stomp on Elixir S is lovely, and certainly worth taking if your team has a distinct lack of stomping capabilities, but I don’t think it’s worth taking over Slick Shoes otherwise. Toss Elixir S on downed allies is nice, but unlikely to save them in large midfights unless you have a bunker nearby to help res through high pressure. It’s not as good of an escape as Slick Shoes is due to the prevalence of soft CC in the current meta, but there are some stealth plays that can be made with it to decap points you would have otherwise been stopped at— so if that’s your thing, by all means take Elixir S.

Honestly, I think 6/0/0/4/4 is much better than 6/0/0/6/2 atm. Between vigor, tool kit’s block, and super speed’s stun break, you really don’t need protection injection. The -50% duration on soft CCs you get from the combination of Hoelbrak runes and leg mods is godly, but if you’re playing against a comp without much soft CC (what are you playing against, anyway? 5 guards?), you can take power wrench for lower cd block/pull and some hilariously high pry bars against squishies when used with intelligence sigil. Not to mention having all your toolbelt skills recharge at 25% hp, meaning you can play offensively with Super Speed and have it off cooldown to disengage with should things go south. It’s also useful for Toss Elixir S recharge.

6/2/0/4/2… eh. Honestly, I only use it when I feel like being cheesey on skyhammer, because flamethrower’s air blast into range traited overcharged shot is hilarious on side points/skyhammer platform. Having a 600 range instant knockback with overcharged shot can be pretty OP for setting up team bursts, but isn’t particularly great in lower numbered fights due to how close range our best burst damage is, so I don’t see it being all that useful outside of maybe a large teamfight at mid on foefire. You could take Hair Trigger for the reduced cd on rifle for bursts, or invigorating precision for perma vigor, but I don’t think either are worth giving up inertial converter + leg mods. The extra precision isn’t needed because of ensured crits from intelligence sigil, and the extra condi damage is kinda meh due to how little of our damage comes from condi anyway. If backpack regenerator wasn’t so good, I could see 6/0/0/2/6 being pretty fun though.

Please fix LA. It looks terrible as is, and is a generally unpleasant place to conduct everyday business in. Old LA was far better.

Got stomped by the same premade 3 times in a row on my EU account. 1-1-1-1-1 or 2-1-1-1 on my side every time. WTB premade repellent!

Also had a full solo vs full premade game earlier. Not fun. The game after that was 1-1-1-2 vs that same premade. It gets boring after a while.

Shield 5 is pretty OP when facing thieves, and great for interrupting heals or stompers/resurrectors without stability. If anything’s a little weak, it’s the pistol mainhand you have to take with it.

All I got was some 2g exotic from my Dungeoneer chest. Heard someone in guild got one worth 100g or so from it though. Too much RNG there IMO.

Why in the Six is this thread still up? Are the mods all on vacation or something? It ceased being productive around page 10…

Is there anywhere I can watch the China vs NA and China vs EU matches?

Doesn’t this also display HP #s above stealthed enemies heads? Getting caught using it in pvp would probably be a bad thing.

I once saw a Jaguar named ‘Juvenile Brown Bear’.

If you’re in a party in either of the story missions, only the person to trigger gets Caithe’s skill set. Everyone else keeps their original skills, except for Engineer’s, when you try to equip a kit, you end up on your main weapon set again. On kit swap effects like Speedy Kits and Kit Refinement trigger, as well as on-swap effects from sigils, but you don’t get any of the kit skills. It really sucked when I was trying to get the achievements, had to use SD with toss elixir u and try to make do without blocks. When I went back to help another guild member get the achievements, I just switched to guardian, because engi’s just not worth playing without kits.

I just want a separate volume slider for them, that always plays even when the game’s master volume is at 0 or when ‘mute while in the background’ is checked. I don’t want to have to listen to all the UI sounds just to hear when I have a queue pop.

Multiple Lupicus spawns please!

SD is fun to play, but you lack the mobility needed in higher tier PvP. Escaping fights can be very hard, and certain other zerker specs will completely counter you (cough Fresh Air ele cough). You can get some mobility, but at the cost of defenses and damage through surer SD procs, but you’re still likely to be shut down by enemy zerkers unless you have a thief covering you. It’s simply not worth the hassle for most teams when you could go celestial, actually be able to hold a point, and still have decent CC and burst.

Can you guys write a script to change matchmaking variables at set intervals based on number of players queuing or something?

Are there any higher quality VoDs up? Maybe without missing large parts of games?

Mind sending me one as well?

The mods thought we were too aggressive >.<

I even gained some PvF experience for telling people they could join!

Not all that long after you implemented these changes last night I got these 2 games in a row, while queuing unranked on my thief. First game was 4 thieves 1 mesmer vs a decent comp, second was 4 thieves 1 elementalist vs a decent comp. Neither time was anyone on my side in a party, though the first game had 2 people on the opposite team in one. We lost the first game terrible, because what the kitten can an unorganized team of only squishies do on foefire, but won the second game thanks to whoever the 2 people who voted trollhammer were.

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I seem to recall blinding one of the champ dredge in SE p3 before— either the two before Zadorojny or Zadorojny himself, I don’t remember which.

Last Courtyard match I had was 475-500.

So, uh, I queued for an unranked game, and about 3m into it, a queue popped for all of us. What even? When everyone accepted to see what happened, I got thrown into a different game with different people.

Still sad you wanted to scrap us. Trust == lost.

Gaile, have you tried clearing your cache or using a different browser? Do you get the same loading times while logged into your dev account as when logged off?

Also, I am very against the removal of the Dungeon and BLTC subforums. The general forum goes way too fast as is, and we do not need it moving faster, as ‘controversial’ topics (all those mount/dueling threads we’ve seen 100+ times) push others off the front page, never to be seen again. I would suggest leaving the Dungeon and BLTC subforums, and merging the Asura/Sylvari/Norn/Human/Charr forums into a single ‘Races’ subforum or such. The profession balance forum should stay as well, even though 95% of the posts/suggestions in it are trash anyway, just to keep that kind of stuff off other subforums.

Working for me now, thanks.

Gaile hates us :(

Still having this problem on my main account (this one).

I should note that my second account on EU does not have the issues that this account does. It is most certainly not a firewall issue, as the error message suggests.

I’m also having this problem. I can click the queue buttons, but the UI does not change at all, until over a minute later a ‘could not connect to login server’ message pops up. Previously I’ve only seen this error rarely when attempting to change lfg tab while jumping, and a few other seemingly random times, but it has had no effect on gameplay whatsoever.

Sins.4782

Edit: Perhaps I should mention that I was able to get into one match earlier, just after the patch went live, but have been getting this error ever since.

Also bothered by this, I won 3 games in a row prior to the patch that should have thrown me back into the top 100 for solo.

Engineer, the profession I have the majority of my games on, is not showing up on my Ranked Games and Wins pie charts. It actually looks somewhat balanced, and that certainly can’t be right.

11/10

Have the leaderboards been frozen yet?

Signed. Can I have my sinister ’nade/FT/EG engi now?

Looks like senary to me.

If you’re comparing rifle dps to no rifle dps over 60+ seconds the difference isn’t so large, but rifle shines because many encounters in this game are short with a proper group, and have decent walks between encounters, allowing you to start one fight with jump shot + blunderbuss, and have them off cooldown to start the next fight with the same. I think you’ll find the difference in dps between a rifle setup and a no-rifle setup for a 10 second fight is much, much larger. That said, you should still be swapping to shield when pre-stacking might, or for any harder skips where you may benefit from an extra block.

The few times I’ve had it, it seemed to me that Grast was too far behind when we killed Rumblus, as in outside the large arena room (probably attacking graveling spawns in the tunnel). After getting hit with this 2-3 times we decided to wait a little for him to catch up, and we didn’t get this again. That said, since then we’ve started rushing in and killing Rumblus before Grast can reach us, and still have yet to encounter the bug again.

Bump.

Posting on the first page of a general discussion thread.

I was going through AC p3 the other day on my new salad thief, and I thought I would try to solo the burrows part on her, only to find I didn’t have enough dps to clear burrows before the next would spawn after the first 4 or 5. I’ve never really had trouble there before on my ele and engi, though. Is thief just terrible for that, or am I missing something obvious in traits/rotation?

More than just the Tribal set is missing, I believe there are 2 other armor sets that are no longer obtainable (I don’t remember the names off the top of my head though), and several weapons such as the Dark Moon Shield.

Well, I’m done with the forums now. It seems obvious we’re never going to get any meaningful information here.

By the way, Gaile, I don’t believe we ever heard back about getting kicked out of the Royal Terrace upon login.

Sometimes I end up against a comp that I know I can’t deal with on my current class/build, and will switch to another profession that I know will deal better with the situation, pre-game start of course. I don’t want to be locked into what I know will be a very miserable game for me due to being countered constantly, when before I wouldn’t be. If you’re going to log us into one profession for each fight, at least have the decency to implement build hot-switching through templates first.

Also, there should definitely be a window for the first disconnect, even if it’s as small as 20s. These do happen with even the best of ISP’s and internet connections.

Amicable Pugs.4503:

ShadowRX.9024:

Yes it is if you know how to dodge those hard hiting bosses. If youre gonna wipe youre gonna wipe anyway even with or without protection.

You can dodge all you want and pretend to be pro, won’t matter in the end since dodging = dps loss no matter how you put it. If there’s a way to mitigate damage and do more damage through that then why would we not do it? We can all solo Arah and other dungeons/fotm on Ele and Warr and probably any class if we cared, dodging doesn’t make you pro, having a good team and strat is only thing that matters in the end unless you’re soloing and this is ours. Also, correct me if I’m wrong but we beat your SE p1 earlier with 3 eles and 1 PS warr. 3 Eles could’ve stacked 25 might permanently easily yet we didn’t do it. Would’ve been a dps loss in the end. Feel free to do it yourself and beat us.
P.S. Sorry for letting you join our tours.

I play the mystical might-stacking Engineer profession, where dodging is a dps increase. Life is good.