Guild Wars 2

I must be blind cause I’ve never notice this bug that has been around for a month apparently or even longer.

I’ve tested this using different rune sets and apparently vamp runes is the culprit cause you can now RESET YOUR DOWN STATE HP TO 80% WITH MISTFORM…

http://www.twitch.tv/gamewithstorm/v/12814239?t=01h13m11s

If you didn’t know, have fun! kappa*

Big thanks to Mila Storm for capturing this.

GW2 turns into DBZ!

Meh, ugh, pass…

They’ve fixed it now for next BWE so shhhhhhh….

I just think they should just give classes that run it nerfs towards the use of the amulet IE eles and necros. Like they did for engis, they didn’t cause the cele amulet to be useless for engi, it just became “balanced.” I like where cele engi is now, I still see good use in it, and no one really complains about it anymore. Now that’s “balanced!”

Answer to vamp runes is condi!

You’re my hero ROY! Oh and thank you Loneworf Kai!

I’m very much for the idea for more Utility for Deflecting shot instead of just more damage!

Some suggestions, due do it being a skill shot, there can be many ways it can be rewarding to land this move either at the enemy or at allies.

- Make it heal allies it passes through?

- CC multi enemies so you can land skillfull interrupts or peel for allies? Like ranger 4 but less of a knock back and can hit multiple targets it passes through.

- Add soft cc condis like, blind, chill, cripple (would work awesome with the cripple trait!), or immobilize?

-Give a boon or boons to allies it passes through?

-Make it reflect instead of destroy projectiles?

-Make it a much slower projectile, enough so you can run along it, with some of the added benefits mentioned above, or make it a ground target aoe that creates a dome with the same affects?

- Reveal… Kappa*

I’ll like an extension for the champ titles for people with over 1000 or more ranked wins for that profession like “Legendary Paragon” or “Legendary (insert class)” that comes with a nice shiny finisher based on the profession.

But other personalized finishers would be nice too.

You have fun pvping aside from mindlessly farming SW, that’s the trade off. But… another thing to note is you’d actually make quite and bit if you were quite good in pvp. I’m won quite a bit of gems and cash from the ESL’s and mistpedias. Lots of tournaments weekly to participate in.

Then again, a lot of pvp player don’t even care about the mats we get…

I strongly agree with this!

Pvp needs a lot more players and this will generate it.

-More people equals more support for the pvp scene, more teams, more revenue (I’m pretty sure people will buy the game once they are invested), and overall more support due to a larger player-base which equals moar ESPORTS!

Isn’t more ESPORTS anets goal?

Old wts champ… Oeggs?

Not remove but limit rewards for hotjoins more.

-Make “Phase Traversal” (Shiro skill 9) be able to interrupt.

Interrupting is not easy and every move on rev has extremely easy tells and sword 5 is slow and easy to dodge like Cnd for thieves.

-Either make sword 3 either cancel-able or evade and channel stealth players

Smart players can make great use when that are getting “Unrelented Assaulted” and can trade damage much in there favor when using this skill. I’d like to have a option to prevent that instead of being forced to take free damage when stuck in the channel.

-Sword 2 is just ugh

Needs more chill or redesign?

-Shiro’s Heal

It’s alright, but still feels a bit underwhelming. Could use a bit of a heal boost or have the shards proc/hit more effectively.

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Dragonhunter- eww

Revenant- meh

Reaper- hmm.. it’s ight

Tempest- Feels just like d/d

Chronomancer- Faceroll goodness, I bad at mesmer and now I’m Espurts!

I sure hope so, this patch is disgusting.

Your an ele, just use lighting aura to counter it and interrupt the heal…

Yeah, those classes take lots of skill so they have a higher chance of outplaying other classes and should be reward accordingly. Those ranger just press 2 all day, and Engineers (lol more like Spamgineers huehuehue) take no skill at all and deserve to be bottom feeders. After playing mes for the first time, I’ve found my true calling and can finally show off my true skill that I thought I never had to begin with. All you haters just reroll and you’ll see just how much potential you had deep deep inside!

Whoa, I didn’t know it was meta?! :o

You guys find “Strength of the Fallen” way too risky for competitive play. I mean the degeneration decrease makes it no go as letting your enemy bleed off point is a very common tactic teams utilize to stagger respawns. Just saying this cause I’m a fan of shield but when not using focus mastery, I find “Strength of the Fallen” way too risky and “Smiter’s boon” underwhelming (plus it can be interrupted by smart eles). I’d much rather have degeneration decrease taken off or changed it with something else.

I understand “Smiter’s boon” is kreygasm for medi guards for this concern is mainly for non medi bunker guards.

Short answer: I miss Purity…

Pics or video or it didn’t happen…

Getting an instant que pop is more rarer than a precursor.

khani.4786:

do some quick & easy key farming?

That’s a great idea, thanks!

I like having stab being easily removed or corrupted, it provides “counter play” and that’s what makes guard balanced, now if only other classes get the same treatment…

• cough cough cough…

+1

Been said time and time again. Let us be able to hotjoin, or pve/wvw while wait for que pop; revert it back! I get on average of 5 -11 mins que times and it’s just boring having to just sit around Hotm.

I’m new to pvp (mostly do map exploration), and I gotta say, I love stronghold. Best part is I hardly need to fight anyone so I won’t be feeding the enemy team when I play a tanky class. I just run supply all game and still be a big help to my team. Best “pvp” game mode ever! They are doing a good job of introducing new players into pve-
I mean pvp side of this game. ^^

Cele amulet is fine, eles are not; simple.

Played against radioactive 7 times in a row today. Am I espurts yet?

If they wanna change this, they should only increase the CD in pve land, like how they separated “Save Yourself”.

It’s perfect in spvp right now!

I love the shield now! Cause knocking thieves out of SR is Kreygasm. Also more interrupts and decaps in spvp nice too.

Dps guards, have some nice new tools like Smiters Boon on heal and immob on justice activation in the radiance line, but our 300+ armor pre-patch is surely missed, but that can be some what made up with Strength in Numbers . That if you play GS, I’m sorry for the hammer dps users tho, with having Glacial Heart in the same line as Absolute Resolution. I believe they should’ve just put it back in valor where it actually be used and not compete with Absolute Resolution.

Condi guard on the other hand is more fun than ever, but it’s a janky build and shouldn’t be used a actual serious play.

As for Bunker guards, to me, it’s still in question if it’s actually viable in high level play. I mean we did get some nice tools and trait spreads, but the question I always keep telling myself “Why play support guard when you can just ele and do EVERYTHING AND MORE!” Kitten, they even can 1vX far better due to stone heart being a thing. Simple answer “Feel my Wraith,” This single skill alone is only thing that’s holding bunker guard in. Cause no other other class can supply group quickness so often at key moments to make big plays. One could argue about the rezzing too but with mesmer, thiefs, and necros hovering over that nearly dead teammate you got there is gonna give you a bad time… Considering those classes, bunking is much more harder/active abet funner now. 13k hp clerics but with lots of healing, oh boy better learn to dodge and have the reflexes to stun break/block cause you’re now borderline 1 shot material.

As for condi management, it’s takes a different approach. With the way condi stacks up, you have too not cleanse so aggressively. Wait for condi to stack up a bit then cleanse when they reach that threatening threshold. That’s just for the ones that do damage, I’ll remove immob right away is I see it on my teammates if I can sense a burst incoming like a mesmer’s immob.

It being much harder to 1vX now, it’s wise to always be around allies to take advantage of AH. Teammates gotta also let you rotate to team as usual how bunker guard rotations work. Almost 90% of my play time is on guard after patch, I’ve played and place in top 3 in many ESLs and mistpedias on my guard when bunker guards were still a thing before cele meta. It’s a class/role I grow to find very engaging to play in-spite of many naysayers. I feel you brother about being outshine by other professions. There’s still those occasional bugs that needs to be fix like every other class, but I’m pretty sure those will be weaved out soon enough.

Hopefully…

TL:DR “Why guard when you can just ele and do EVERYTHING AND MOAR!”
ANSWER: “FEEL MY WRAITH” nerf this, bye bye guards… burn guards lulz

Hmmm, please iterate on why you think guard is shafted? I don’t disagree, but I’m curious if it’s a general assumption.

I’ve always wanted to have black angel wings like everyone else but… but… QQ

Only few have ever survived the legend at is LX. He is a omen, if you see this thief just know that all hope is lost…

For mesmers, reflect on distort is your friend. ^^

Burst them first then spam head shot and auto hoping that you interrupted their heal . Also it’s good to shadow shot when they go rifle you suspect a overcharge shot. Plus watch for slick shoes by keeping max melee distance. Reset if your in trouble and repeat first process. You can retaliate faster than a engi can cause you run off of inti.

Hello, you can skip all that by going into the Heart of the Mist through a portal in Lion’s Arch.

Go Go Team China!
“Heaven and Earth” gotz dis

They’ve fixed necro axe auto cancels so they should do the same here.

No it’s not, I’m just stating that’s what I mainly play so people can see it through that prospective. my bad><

Bunker Guard/Engi

I would say terror necro, but hard counters to my classes is fine now that think about it. The only one I think that needs slight adjustments is d/d cele eles. I don’t have much problems against the cele engis tho.

Cheers to one of the best mesmers in the NA scene. It was fun facing against you in teams ques as well as that one time we competed together as a last min pug in a Mistpedia. lol

Can you state more clearly if this is for NA or EU plz? Oh and if you are NA feel free to ask if you need any help or a sub. I main engi/guardian respectively and been around the competitive scene for quite a while; so I’m fairly experianced. Plus I enjoy helping those who have the “spark” to become the best in the world. Good luck with the guild/team and hope to meet you in the competitive scene. Cheers ^^

Teszla

Oh so, CD isn’t together anymore?

Good luck with your future team, and hope to see you in the competitive scene again. ^^

kirito.4138:

They should have a special NPC in the mist that collects 10 silver to enter the spectate room for rated team arena matches =]

This game needs more gold sinks anyways, but make sure to add a delay of the match so there would be no cheating. And not just high rated games, but all ranked games imo would be great; so friends can help coach each other and such.

Another culprit would be the cele amulet, as more teams are stacking cele classes and becoming more self reliant. If you wanna reroll, a safe bet would be cele engi or ele.

I can agree with this issue, there’s 3-4 people on my team that run cele…

I can notice a slow decline of guardians in the in the competitive Tpvp scene. Some already have even went on to say that we’ve already have been kicked out of the meta. With more teams stacking self-reliant skirmishing classes (necros, engis, eles), the need for the traditional bunker guardian has no need in this comp nor have a good chance when faced against it when forced to split in any match-up; 2v2s and 1v1s particularly. Yes you can go dps guard but honesty it laughable at high level play when you could just get kitted till you lose all your cds, and with the enemy team being able to peel for who ever you decide to train your 10 secs of aggression on you’ll have a bit more trouble escaping the counter cleave due to the lack if disengage.

Not to mention rezing is near suicide with the amount of cleave now from these classes, and not to mention knock back (down bodies don’t have stab) of cele engis during it. I fear that the nerf to warriors has revived and even worse condi meta than before. Killed the spiders, now the flys infest the world. A meta were guards are have a iffy place in, with teams much rather bring in a warrior that can be more useful…

I’m currently trying to figure a comp, build, strat around this problem cause max condi cleanse is never enough. I even have created some wonky cele hammer guardian that’s only been doing a bit better than my normal traditional bunker build but it’s still not quit there yet and have also tried forcing 2 3v2s. Even my teammates can agree and want me to re-roll engi. Not that I’m bothered, I do enjoy my engi but I just don’t want guardians in such a bad position. I’ve actually heard of some success from a mesmer buddy of mine using his weird bunker build lol.

So I am calling out to my fellow brothers of virtue! Cause I have nothing but respect to anyone who mains this noble and unappreciated profession. Tipically the necro plays fearmancer, engi is cele rifle 1 or 2 are used the other maybe p/p rabid, and eles are d/d with doom also 1 or 2 are used. If a warr is used it’s probably hambow with that stupid doom sigil XD.

So what build/strat/comp, would you guys use or try to combat this (necro, engi, ele, and maybe warr) comp that tipically like to play 3 points 2:1:2, 2:2:1, or 1:2:2 skirmishes. I’ll like some incite from those who experienced playing in high in tpvp and having to face this comp. But if you know a lot about guardians in general and have a solid understanding of the mechanics of conquest, or have played these classes I’ve mention before then I’d like your input. Note, this is against competent team que players, not hotjoin heros or solo que masochists.

tl;dr how do I stand a chance against team Abjured (they have a thief now I believe), Cognitive Gaming, or super pug team with similar comp as a guardian

Sincerely, a concerned brother Tesla ^^

I wish more guards used hammer more, it’s it’s way more fun than boring staff. With that said, I recommend these guys to anyone who’s interested into getting into the competitive scene.

Tesla approves