Guild Wars 2

Here’s the thing about thieves. I’ll break them down in the 2 PvP oriented situations in gw2.

sPvP:
The reason a support thief doesn’t work in sPvP is because it’s an invis class, and with the ability of invisibility there is nowhere that a thief can hold a point which is what a support class does. They hold points and heal the teamates. Additionally, thief has the best single target fighting ability in the game. If there was a chance that a support thief was viable, then there would be a huge loss in DPS and a high chance that people either run zerk everything to compensate for it or there will be a 2 thief comp, 1 support and 1 zerk, and so far nothing supports as good as a shoutbow/cele engi does.

WvW: This is just silly to thing a support thief is viable here. In a zerg, the warriors/guardians give all support they need and nearly everything else is dps based so why would we change a class with very low toughness/vitality base to a tank to do with this too?

Idk, I’m all against support thief simply because if you want to be nearly unkillable right now just run full shadow arts and that’s getting buffed.

Simple as the title, my thief is currently the classic human male thief (was one female) and i’m debating to send em back to female or not. I’ve looked at the thief post of all the best thief looks and I’m still torn. So what do you guys think looks better, male or female thieves?

Shieldbash.5304:

I have a better idea, remove it! We all qued to play and clicked accept when it popped, why do we need another button.

You click que > click accept > pick map ~ You are ready to play

We do not need a ready button.

That’s how it used to be and there’s 10x mroe 4v5’s if that button isnt there. People either forget to leave queue or are just imbeciles and watch the queue go and pop and then dont show for some reason it gives people pleasure doing that.

nearlight.3064:

Slininstien.7546:

Generally, NA has the best necro there is so yes Abjured will run a necro but otherwise it’s not very smart to have that weight on your shoulders. It’s a required thing to monitor instead of running pretty much anything else. As this meta is based on focus damage a mesmer is much better to run if it is possible cause the focused damage is on a 10s CD instead of the 35+ for the necro wells. So look for more mesmers and less necro’s. But abjured will guaranteed run one.

Except that Noscoc typically runs condition in a tournament setting which doesn’t use wells, just the AoE condi bombs from staff and DS and then usually wurm/walk/corrupt for utilities.

since last wts where they lost they havent ran condi necro.

I’m not saying that, but the hambow days were actually fine with me, might stacking meta was very fun to play in as a s/d thief or really anything. It took skill to play nearly anything except hambow at that point. Some things simply couldnt 1v1 another class cause it couldnt do everything and that’s how i want it again.

Additionally, the fact that the meta hasnt changed in ages is frustrating. Every major patch with nerfs/buffs used to change things immensly but celestial warrior/engi/ele has been around for almost a year. Only thing that changes are the classes that are pointless to have as a celestial.

This would be fantastic ONLY if the person can see their own CD’s and possibly teamates. But the enemy team can’t have that benefit. But for internal CD’s on traits and even the long CD’s on rune sets like vamp i would be really excited if this was implemented.

That is all. And it sums up most complaints in this forum.

Generally, NA has the best necro there is so yes Abjured will run a necro but otherwise it’s not very smart to have that weight on your shoulders. It’s a required thing to monitor instead of running pretty much anything else. As this meta is based on focus damage a mesmer is much better to run if it is possible cause the focused damage is on a 10s CD instead of the 35+ for the necro wells. So look for more mesmers and less necro’s. But abjured will guaranteed run one.

This is just going to be my opinion based on recent events in the unranked and ranked world.

When Anet made unranked and ranked they used this so that people who have a team had a chance to either go hardcore in teamspeak etc and fight teams who are doing the same (ranked queue) or they had the option to casually party with 2-3 friends, hang back and fight without teamspeak just relaxingly.

Recently, though, since the turret engi period of time Ranked queue gave the impression that it’s pointless to join and that less skilled players run around in ranked which is very untrue. I fought a team that was 4 man queue full teamspeak in unranked and I went to ranked and it’s the same thing, so obviously there’s only one issue to discuss how to fix.

How do we get it back to the idea stated above where the players going casual would go to unranked and have a good time and have these teams that say there’s nobody to play in the other section of pvp when there ALWAYS IS.

To me, overall we need soloq and team que back. Or duo queue where you can run solo or duo and then team queue back but this thing we have where two teams can control all of unranked and all of ranked separately is terrible.

The other reaction people have to this is “why don’t you make your own team” as a college student and a worker I have little time to give to the game in comparison to other years and I would like to enjoy my time in unranked without being farmed by the 500-100 5 person team comps I fight daily.

So I’ve been in the hardcore seen in GW2 (before it was esports unfortunately) and I’m curious what would be the best class to invest my time in to have the most fun and still be very strong. I have alot of time on mesmer/guardian/thief/necro which it seems that 3/4 are meta currently and mesmer is meta in EU. So I’m not entirely sure what to actually choose to invest my time in as I love mesmer but it seems to be able to be 1 shot by a good thief and no other class has that except mesmer.

Anyway if you didn’t want to read that paragraph, what’s a good class to run now that will be fun still after the trait reworks.

Who would win a tournament of every meta this game has had? There’s been a lot of changes to gw2 on all classes, I’m just curious what would be the ultimate meta in the prime of their classes.

Some examples of each class are…

Warrior – Hambow, Axe/Sword Longbow, Shoutbow
Necro- Condition/Power
Thief- SD/ DP(panic)/ DP(crit)
Ranger- Power/Traps/Spirits/Sustain condi
Guardian- Bunker/Meditiation
Elementalist- Fresh air/DD
Engineer- Condition/Celestial/Turrets
Mesmer- Shatter

There’s been some known comps that have won major tournaments and I’m very interested in the opinions on which one was the strongest and would win a tournament of overall comps.

For the longest time they were crap, they never got buffed and yet they’re being used now? Anyone want to let me know why this is happening? I can only find one use for them compared to pack and that’s the fact that every minutes or whatever the CD is you cant be 1 shotted.

Jasher.6580:

Acandis.3250:

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Hey Acandis,

It’s been a while my ticklish compatriot.

This actually became a concern to me shortly after I came back to the game and found out about the MetaBattle wiki.

I said I wanted to try out Ranger again.

So I created a level 1 Ranger.

According to that site: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Ranger_-_Read_the_Wind_Power_Ranger

Survival of the Fittest power ranger requires both traits.

Am I going to spend 40 scrolls on my level 1 Ranger because I want to test that build?

I’m very reluctant.

I shouldn’t be feeling that way in sPvP.

The build you’re using on that page would not be very useful for the point of a power ranger. If a power ranger wanted to be able to take alot of damage and deal alot of damage it would probably run celestial as that’s what it’s built to do. But 6/5/3/0/0 or 6/6/2/0/0 or even 6/4/4/0/0 I would check those out, 1 skill required to learn and you get a TON of tomes from tracks.

I’d say I’m an Advanced Shatter mesmer, sPvP though so I wouldn’t be able to help w/ much else. And spvp seems to be the most standard so that’s whatevs. But send me a mail if you need some help.

The PvP menu has always had the “Favorite Map” section, just curious what factors give this map the favorite?

Wait till you get into spvp and make 3 gold a day

The revenant is in gw2, just time will tell when we can press this button.

You joined at a very fortunate time in GW2, if you go to twitch.tv/guilwars2 you’ll find the most recent tournament that was played on 3/7/2015 and you can see each meta class and how it’s played.

Basically you can chose 6/8 classes: Guardian/Warrior/Thief/Engi/Necro/Ele to be a strong player.

Guardian is a boon machine and also a DPS/damage machine. Although very fragile.
Warrior is a tank that relies on weapon swaps for damage and timing a certain skill (pindown) on longbow for damage.
Thief is obviously damage but it’s in a weird state cause it’s either s/d or d/p and both have 100% different play styles, (can be seen in Abjured vs Orange Logo video. Abjured runs s/d, Orange logo runs d/p.)
Engineer is the bursty version of an elementalist. Still tanky but you need to time your CC and your blocks to survive and it has VERY low condi clear so it needs support from a warrior/elementalist to kill condi classes if not careful.
Necromancer is a condition machine, Noscoc was considered to be the #1 necromancer in guild wars and can beat the other genral number one classes in the game (elementalist).
Elementalist is a condi cleansing machine, it’s burst comes from resilience and burn/poison/might stacking and it’s very tanky in the long run.

Overall I enjoy mesmer/thief/guardian myself but i like to do the damage and canceling out metas are fun… well i guess guardian will be meta soon since oRNG won with one.

http://battlefy.com/arenanet/world-tournament-series-boston/54cf900e12e1f34700726c93/stage/54eba448eda84d45007a0f64/bracket

This is the wts brackets

I run meta depending how hardcore i wanted to go. If I want to win easily, yea to go cele engi but if i’m having a good time i go condi p/s. So yea, I just have fun. My main is mesmer and it’s not meta atm so I don’t run it too much since thieves are so OP atm but I enjoy how the game is right now and how skill is the true factor to beating people in average tier unranked queue’s.

When people say this. I just ask, why aren’t you making a team to give a new amazing comp of condi bombs and zerk haymakers. Does it take skill to run it? Yes. But it takes skill to run any build and to run a self sustained build just allows the team to be better overall. If you come out and bring 1 condi ranger, condi necro, bunker guard, and zerk mesmer/thief then do it. But meta is meta. People will use the best builds to be the best player. It’s simple as that.

Idk who you’re fighting where everyone goes to ele since it’s a rediculously boring class, I’ve been with teams that generally knwo what the counters are so when we fight a 3-4 engi class comp (more often than you think) and we change to 2-3 necro’s, I don’t have an issue with it. Especially since engineer is one of the strongest soloq classes atm. I mean, people play to win and if you are fighting a 2 necro/2 thief/ mesmer comp, of course they’re gonna change to the one thing that comp need, place holders.

My suggestion is that you should switch to a class that can counter a DD ele, and yes they exist ;P

I have some troll characters for my PvP as a mesmer, I have an asuran (smallest there is), a charr (max sized), and a sylvari just normal, so when i want to actually try in pvp I can still wear them on my asuran/sylvari, but the fact that when I’m on my charr and I have the wings on and the enemy simply cannot see 2 feet in front of them, I think i’ll run charr for now

bump…

Idk what this error means or how to fix it… any help please?

The error code posted is: 58:11:5:535

“The game client was unable to connect to the log-in server. Please restart your client and try again. If the problem persists, contact Customer Support for assistance at http://support.guildwars2.com.

I cannot even sign in without it saying it is unable to find the server. Anyone else having this issue? It wasn’t happening approx 2 days ago so it’s very recent.

Was looking through some topics and couldn’t find one that is purely confirmed, is that out and if it is what are the weapons for classes.

Been hearing…

Hammer- Engi
Staff- Ranger
Rifle- Thief
Shield – Mesmer
Greatsword- Necro
idk about the rest though…

If the extension is real, how likely is it for us to see new weapons, classes, or races?

I’m not here to bash on the way the game searches for team in the soloq and how you can get the top tier players as a casual, I don’t mind that.

I’m here to ask why is everyone at a higher tier so terrified of competition. I just watched Mistpedia with the #1 team NA stacked with all the famous names of GW2, vs a VERY talented team (someone said not to use names so I wont, you can look it up). The outcome? 3-0 to the #1 team NA. But, why are these top tier players not making their own teams? Why don’t they make their own opposition to have competition.

A player I talked to that was/is a part of these teams did this one day, with some talented friends and he fought the stacked team that loves to increase their tPvP rank and said he had SO much fun cause it was intense, it was challenging, and yes they did win a few and yes they did lose a few but they had fun because competition existed.

So I ask, why are people afraid of competition at a high level and why don’t people try to make their own teams and break away from the cheese specs they’re all use to.

Some of you will say, they’re just trying to chill with friends and have fun, but I just don’t see the fun in winning 500-100 most of the night with the occational team that hits 200-300.

I’ve watched you alot and I’ve learned countless more combo’s than I’ve ever expected but to have you sit down and explain all of them? I would love that. Go for it Caedalade

I’ve logged in everyday for a couple months lol, I’m up to date… but there was a big patch. Idk, it just finished just was wonderin why that happened.

I’m sitting here downloading a huge patch it feels but idk wtf this is…? Anyone know if it’s just patching PvE stuff cause it seems bigger than a tiny patch.

There have been rumors of a legendary staff but i think they were simply rumors, IF they make new legendaries it’ll be when they add onto the game like an expansion. In that expansion there are rumor’d new races/classes/weapons

I would say that having a bad day in PvP is something, and some people are notorious for it, but i wont say names. I know if i’m on an 8 game win streak i’ll give advice to people I kill, make everyone better. But 5 game losing streak means anything anyone says that’s against my belief is a call for raging and a hailstorm of hate.

In hotjoin, people are kitten s who think they are good for using stupid stuff.
In sPvP, you have some elitest running people cause technically all youcan rely on is yourself and if you win, you say it’s you.
tPvP, there’s some teams that deserve to talk, but once you’re that tier of being top 3 tPvP teams, you shouldnt have to talk smack.

So idk, i learned early if you can’t take the heat dont stay in the kitchen and i couldn’t think of a better way to put GW2 PvP, people will troll you to the max, best thing to do is not respond, block them, or simply adapt around them.

The only engi to counter a necro is a decap engi on skyhammer. Seriously. Run a condi necro which you can get almost anywhere the build that is good, an you can OWN them. I, being that i’ve been playing necro, own the heck outta them and yea. Whoever says engi is the best condi class doesnt know necro. And if they’re zerker turrets, try to dodge them as much as you can, use fear to CC the engi. Not sure if you know this but an engi has 1 form of stability and i dont think it’s accessed via the turret build.

I recieved hate mail for saying that “PvP is about whoever can zerg faster” or whatever, so let me explain.

In PvP, you tend to send 1 man home to bunker it or to cap it then assist mid/go far, then you send 4 mid, that is a zerg. Then when you win mid, you can go for a 3 cap where you can rotate to have 1 bunk mid, and send 4 far, or 1 home 1 mid, 3 far, that 3 man sometimes is called a zerg, if you get hit mid, it’s about how fast your 3 man can react to that attack, aka how fast your ZERG is.

A guy named Ozzy The Insane mailed me, “Maybe hotjoin is about that, but hotjoin is PvE. Stop spreading total bull**** in the forum w/ 0 PvP experience”.

I’m not saying I’m jesus at PvP, but I am rank 80 with 2.5k+ PvP matches and I do know what I am saying. When you fight higher tiers, they will have a roaming crew, I fought the yumy team which consisted of 2 D/D ele’s, a DPS Warrior, and 2 thieves, one being Caed, and you knew exactly where their team was cause they were a team of 3, 2 thieves and a D/D ele, and they moved around the map and took out all possible roaming groups.

Interpreting what Ozzy was saying how zergs are for hotjoin, that’s false… everyone has zergs, it’s how you win the game it’s how ApeX won the ToL cause their 3 man “zerg” if you will could out bunker ALL others. So, if someone has a counter argument to me, please do message me on the forums cause I am curious to know what others might say.

I get what Kirito is saying, and Riggamaroll explains it well. I fought a 1v1 against a turret engi and needless to say I lost but i was on a shatter mesmer, quite hard for us to fight. Rigga makes a good point, kill their DPS first, whatever is doing the most damage to you, so it’s either the Rocket/Rifle turret, or the Rocket/Flame turret, and I had to kill the thumper, just too much CC. As a shatter mesmer that’s 3 shatters to do, and also, keep in mind these engi’s are ZERKER, so…. 1 efficient shatter or burst will do over 50% of their health so, you should be okay… that’s a class you pase yourself on.

To be completely honest PvP is all about who cap capture a point the FASTEST, and the fastest is by zerging usually. So in essence PvP is about who zergs the fastest.

Let me say, first, that you can tell your team was not actually going to zerg at first, or they would’ve won mid (gate), but then they got caught up at your home point i presume?

Let me teach you how to counter zerg, which it’s hard to beat when your team can’t 1v1, but if they can, try to get your team to do this.

When the opposition caps their home (far), mid, and begins to proceed to your home, try to get your quickest mate to far as they are either doing a 0-1-4 split leaving far open, or they are doing a 1-1-3 split meaning they’re very bunky and can 3v5 at your home point, OR, they’re 0-0-5 meaning you can back cap the entire map behind them.

Under all of these options if you send 1 to far and 1 mid and YOU CAN win the 1v1’s there, then they will have to react in a responsible manner of a 2 to their home and 3 mid, or they can respond in a stupid manner of 5 mid, 5 to their home, in essence, you need to be faster than them. You were on the map i call the “big buff” map as the buffs alone can basically let you win it.

When the 8:30 buffs come up they will more than likely zerg those points because as I said, they will zerg anything they think it’ll take to win, send your 2 biggest bunkers to tranquility, your quickest players to stillness, since they dont have a brain stillness should be open, if not, a quick 1v1 should do it. So, your spread is now 3 to tranq 1 to stillness, they should get angry att he fight at tranquility and send 4+ there, meaning that 1 if not 0 are on the map, now is your chance to have that fast player at stillness back cap EVERYTHING. Your bunkers will be dying if they have to bunk more than double their numbers, try to flow in people that you know can keep them off the buff as long as you can, if you lose it, no issue, you already have someone on a point to back cap the tranq, and you have bunkers rezzing to cap home.

Obviously strategies vary per map and some people might not agree w/ my rotations but so far these havent failed me and sometimes you can’t break your teams zergs and if your team cant handle a 1v1, well, you’re screwed there too. sPvP is a rough place to live cause sometimes, the other team is just better.

So… EU ran something like Hambow or Longbow/Axe (shield/sword), Bunker guardian, Ranger/Ele, and thief, all of that is understood to me, but why was the mesmer in there? I’m excited cause I love mesmer and I’m wondering if a meta will be coming to Na where mesmer is useful.

NA was running something similar as Hambow/Bunk Guard/Spirit Ranger/Thief/ and then something as the 5th is a general trend.

I’m also running why the meta’s are different? just something weird I’ve noticed. I just got into watching the ToL video’s and it’s VERY interesting.

Are they out yet? I’m excited to claim my own! If i missed them, then where are they, if they simply arent claimable, when will they be?

With recent hacking that have been occuring, I would like to change/remove the old gift card on the game to save what I have but there is no button to allow this? I am worried that the people doing the hacking will be kitten s and use the rest of the money on the card… someone help?

You said you were a bunker guardian? Well the first time you fight it might catch you off guard but if you can, save your aegis virtue, your focus or shield 5 renewed focus, also yime your dodges with your sigils of energyand the dodges it gives. If youbhabe a necro/thief/mesmer that can boon strip it then you can CC the heck out of it. Additionally a team that is coordinated should focus the hell out of them especially the zerker ones where you can 3 shot em.

I’ve done kill all bosses and the dudes for each section, but i really dont want to do the head pounding against the wall kill the 6 or so bosses again and again 6 more times… so what’s the easiest 14th thing to do?

Lol I’m not a PvE pro, i just make it over 6 months and yea… so 10g’s is a bit of a difference but by no means am i rich in gw2 lol.

I’m falling in love with these skins and changes eternity has, so if i make my sunrise and twilight one, would i lose my expensive sigils within them? I would rather not since energy is what, 10g’s now?

I need to buy an energy sigil so i can finish my shatter mesmer and then i looked and no TP

So… am I the only person who selected Radiant at the beginning of their rank up chests and regret it fully? I’m just hoping for a reset on your Achievement point Skill chests maybe? It would be nice cause I dont want radiant nor will I ever use radiant but i LOVE the other one…

I guess Anet could just say I messed up but maybe…. just maybe they let every re-choose? Anyone with me on this?

A DPS that can burst him hard enough at the start scares then, ruins their rotations, and you can kill. Since Decap refuse to leave the point Zerk Well Necro’s/Staff and Scepter/Focus Eles, Other Decap Engi’s, And personally I kick decaps booty on my guardian (zerker). So… to me, Decap or Zerk will counter.

If you’re in solo or team just wait 5 min before queing and you probably wont fight him again jut btw

To me, the 15th is actually going to be quite grand. I’m only ran 49 in PvP so i’m gaining my favorite stomp in the game (Shark), I have something to look forward to when i sign in that day and every dragon rank will be spamming it, and we get a REWARD system… but I suppose this is the entire argument of People who have worked incredibly hard vs casual PvPers right?

Your gold makes me sad as I only need 400g’s till i can make twilight…

I also have a question, why you no invest in the kitten near free 20 slot bags you coulda gotten w/ glory at your rank :O

Edit: Anet makes me laugh. I wrote the D word and they changed it to kitten… oh Anet