Guild Wars 2

I dont want total anonymity. i mostly solo or duo q and a lot of the time i partner up with someone i meet in a soloq game. If i think that person was playing well i will ask if he/she wants to duo. Usually they say yes. My pvp friend list was made by meeting people while solo queueing.

Ajaxx.3157:

Wow, the first Red post in the Warrior forums in over 25pages… ( I stopped looking after the 25th forum page )

New begining? Kappa.

LOL ikr!!!

Vasdamas Anklast.1607:

Never had any trouble playing revenant until they increased costs for phase traversal. Feeling kinda clumsy ever since, not to mention good mesmers and thieves would kite me 24/7 on WvW. Before that “nerf” I’d just get to them with phase traversal and if I do it now I’ll end up with only autoattacks and dodges available. And good players will know that.

100% agree with all this. I loved playing Power Rev in Season 2. In Season 3 i tried Power Rev and the Increased cost for Phase Traversal completely ruined the fun for me in PvP. I shelved it and am back to playing mostly Scrapper.

lol Wut?

You can just hide and completely ignore your chat box if you like?

You have 586 ranked wins out of 1561 ranked games played since you started this account. 37.5% win rate. I dont think this is all ANET’s fault here.

I do think that you will have less players queueing in the higher ranks. As people get their wings, the ones that haven’t been enjoying the league setup will stop queueing. As for the pve grinders, they will almost undoubtedly stop once they grind their wings and go back to pve. So total population will likely decline as we get to end of this season and by season 4 most players will probably have their wings already.

I lost client connectivity for a few minutes last night (fortunately just after i won the game). I had to kill the app and restart it to get back in.

Caedmon.6798:

Skull grinder daze needs to go ? That doesn’t make any sense,Mace is a CC weap.

Exactly . +1

I like Save Yourselves when solo in open world pve but for anything else its just suicide… It needs to be reworked.

PadreNike.1803:

Uploaded by popular demand xD:
https://youtu.be/fyN5kXchlyk

So the story behind this video is these 2 knuckleheads kept coming back to try and take the camp from me and died each time, on the 3rd or 4th time I decided to record it and got some nice action afterwards as well from war+thief.
I am by no means claiming I am god… I still sometimes random dodge or spam my skills willy nilly, plus these 2 were pretty bad but you can still see the build strength, very sustainable yet deals massive damage both power & condi.

I have some more recorded footage but since I’m on T1 it’s really hard to get uninterrupted action without someone joining you and as for 1v1s I really don’t find it a challenge on this build, you have much more room for error than pure Zerk Rev so I don’t really bother recording them.

And btw, thanks, I didn’t even know I have subscribers, I made the channel mostly for self documentation and entertainment :-)

Thanks! i’ll take a look later. I liked playing shiro/mallyux condi rev in the past but have not tried glint/mallyx in wvw. Makes sense though since shiro/mallyx is slow for movement.

I agree…..i really hate that PT now makes me use up so much energy i hardly have anything left to burst with.

Its amazing how important PT was to shiro legend use.

PadreNike.1803:

I’ve been running this (hybrid build) for 2 weeks now with great success:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQRAse5nnfN2gSuJvQRHlboskyPU4S5IKor8EllTlxe93nPNgEWQNjOKB-TVDFQBqTPQDOIAuTzAJVCSgTAAAeAAsb/BHqMINaIsn6PQRpxuUixgjAw5gDg1qWzaWg1Wbt1GQtSB81wK-w

My goal was to create a real hybrid build that would deal ample dmg on the sword as well as the obviously deadly condi burst from mace/axe.
This is a variation of the old condi pvp meta with Shiro dropped for Glint as I find it doesn’t synergize well with this build anymore, Glint/Mallyx is just so much better with amazing sustain from infused light and all the boons work really well with the boon duration from the durability runes and my choice of food.
I find mobility to still be great with perma swiftness and I can still chase people or escape (although not as well as Shiro) with unyielding anguish followed by frigid blitz.
With all the condi spam going on in WvW/PvP Mallyx is just amazing, I can easily get 6 seconds of resistance from pain absorption, overall surviveability is really good with extra vitality and toughness from the carrion and dire+rabid accessories.
With condi duration at almost 40% and torment at 70% you can imagine how deadly you are on mace/axe/Mallyx.

I usually start fights in glint/sword drop elemental blast around the enemy (or myself defensively) and follow with the usual sword 2/3 and depending on how they react I will either play defensively with shield 4/5 until they blow all their burst or try to chain CC them with elite facet followed by axe 5 into mace 2+3 (amazing condi burst) and switch to Mallyx and corrupt all their boons xD
The thing is once you do decent damage on sword (2k base power + easily 10-11 might when facet is on) people don’t expect that condi burst.

This build is extremely effective 2v1 I have some outnumbered footage I recorded I can upload it if there is demand

I highly recommend giving this build a try, it’s nuts.

NOTES:

• Viper back item: any legend (Ascension or ad infinitum)
• Carrion accessories: citadel of flame and sorrow’s embrace dungeon collections
• Viper amulet: either mordrem loop (hot story achievements) or bought with mag shards from the PVE raid
• I would sometimes run Invocation depending on the mood, invocation works great as well giving you extra stun break and condi cleanse as well as additional 20% crit from rolling mists and burst damage from equilibrium, retribution still is the safer choice with taunt and stab (counter to burst from stealth or CC chain) as well as passive prot and dwarf damage reduction.

Please upload your video. I actually subbed you a while back and would love to see this hybrid in action.

Thanks

Its a VERY tanky amulet on any class that has decent base vitality eg. warrior.

Forestnator.6298:

Spartacus.3192:

Forestnator.6298:

IWhile rune of defender or durability are mandatory for WvW you won’t run them in PvE.

I like defender runes and durability runes. Which ones are better for solo/small group roaming in WvW?

Both do have their advantages.

Rune of the defender has an incredible additional heal (4k+) which is – hands down – better than all the boni of durability on paper.
But you are forced to time your hammer#4 and you should not use it in the beginning of a fight to waste that heal.
Unfortunately hammer#4 inflicts 10x invlunerability which is nice to start bursting. Not being allowed to start with that skill is definitly a disadvantage.

The regeneration due to blocking is actually 2 seconds, not 1 second as stated. It also has no cooldown. You can easily reach 100% uptime of regeneration, but to be honest: engineer has anyway good sources of regeneration. It’s not that big.

Rune of durability on the other hand grants tougthness which maradeur gear is lacking of. Also the 4th bonus is group wide. That makes durability definitly the better choice for small groups.

I used Defender runes on my War and Guard and yes its a very good rune. I dont have any durability runes yet and i have to farm pve for them but that protection does look good.

NeHoMaR.9812:

Tman.6349:

It’s not a “so NOW I HAVE to” situation.

Of course it is, I completed the achievements, give me my reward now. Next year I am going to need another 1000g? cooool! GG

No you didnt complete ALL the requirements for the backpiece. Obviously you need 1000g for a critical component. :P

NeHoMaR.9812:

So, now I need to farm gold? not sure if someone is understanding the point here: 1000 gold to craft a PvP based item? WHY?

Errr its not a PVP item. Since you dont need any items for pvp. Its a PVE backpiece that ANET in their wisdom made as a reward for PVP leagues.

I agree. Normal Mace F1 burst is so different to Berserker F1 burst. I would prefer berserker F1 burst to be a buffed version of Skull Crack.

Superior Rune of the Defender is my Favorite rune for both my Guardian and my Warrior (GS Axe/Shield). Been using it since it was released over a year ago.

Highly recommended.

PierPiero.9142:

Spartacus.3192:

Played a game last night. As soon as we enter map. 3 people DC and never come back. The 4th guy understandably says “scr&w this, whats the point?” and AFK’s the whole match.

That leaves me as 1v5??? So i have no choice but to AFK also.

What a freaking waste of time.

In my opinion it depends on when you go afk. If in a match you arrive at 50-350 … it is quite right to go afk. The fast i lose less time i waste … I really don’t understand why to go on when you can not win a fight and you die on every points in few seconds of fight. It happens quite often in solo to see one team nuked every time really fast.
What miss in this game is the surrender button

The 3 people DC at the start of the match BEFORE we even left spawn.

Forestnator.6298:

IWhile rune of defender or durability are mandatory for WvW you won’t run them in PvE.

I like defender runes and durability runes. Which ones are better for solo/small group roaming in WvW?

Bazooka.3590:

And force newbies to play at least a 100 unranked before the can play ranked.

To avoid newbies just AFK’ing 100 ranked matches it would be better if it was win 100 unranked matches before you can Q ranked.

Played a game last night. As soon as we enter map. 3 people DC and never come back. The 4th guy understandably says “scr&w this, whats the point?” and AFK’s the whole match.

That leaves me as 1v5??? So i have no choice but to AFK also.

What a freaking waste of time.

Harper.4173:

If you are playing PvP casually in a happy-go-lucky way you should not be playing in leagues.

a thread about toxicity and here we have a perfect example.

Telling other people who paid the same amount of money as you, how they should play the game.

Dont blame the players, blame ANET for making a PVE item a reward for PVP leagues. For making class achievements in ranked only. All these are causing the problem.

TheDevice.2751:

Spartacus.3192:

And if you are dying to Procession of Blades then its a L2P issue. Meta build doesnt even take that trap and hasn’t for a long time.

You’re the type of people that QQ everytime they die in pvp and want every other class nerfed except the one they play.

2. Whoever said anything about Guards getting nerfed. You obviously play guard and are the type of person who jumps to conclusions being overly defensive thinking any criticism involving their class means nerfs for their class.

I actually play 4 different classes in pvp (Scrapper, Rev, War, DH). DH being the one i play the least especially Season 3. If one class gets nerfed i can always play one of the others. So sorry, try again.

TheDevice.2751:

Spartacus.3192:

You conveniently forgot to mention that Well of Sufferring is unblockable.

Lol yeah because WoS is completely deleting people all the time XD

Get real man.

Your type are why this game will never be balanced. The people who enjoy imbalance and abuse it.

And if you are dying to Procession of Blades then its a L2P issue. Meta build doesnt even take that trap and hasn’t for a long time.

You’re the type of people that QQ everytime they die in pvp and want every other class nerfed except the one they play.

Because Anet secret Statistics showed them that a 5 man premade did not have a significant advantage of a 2,1,1,1 team.

You conveniently forgot to mention that Well of Sufferring is unblockable.

for pvp power rev (invocation) i run scrapper runes, generosity sigil on sword and purity sigil on staff.

On some matches i get top score for conditions removed from self.

For WvW swap the purity sigil for Sigil of Cleansing.

Cynz.9437:

Don’t have enough players for that. I just add players i don’t want on my team to friends and queue when they are already in match.

^ This. And i give them names like “SuicidalDH”, “Press1Thief”, “AFK1”, “Rager1”

Can also do the same to avoid premades. If i fight a 4 person pre made that i know is playing well. I add one of them and just Q dodge them for the next hour.

Title says it.

Whats the best class for solo/small group roaming in WvW between the following

Warrior, Scrapper, Revenant.

I have all 3 and pretty much geared up. In this current meta which is best and which build would you recommend?

I have a condi thief also but im not that experienced with it as i am the other 3 classes.

Thanks

Pride.1734:

Stealth gyro doesn’t put your elite on cooldown if you swap it out before it expodes.

What exactly do you mean by that? How do you swap the stealth gyro out?

Thanks

Vicky.4563:

How to know if you have a halfway decent team?

Nobody says “Hi everyone!” at the start.

Nobody types “GLHF” into the mapchat before the match starts.

Nobody says “Just focus on 2 points, don’t push far!”

Nobody is jumping around the spawn area.

Nobody is running DH.

If anyone does any of the above during the start of the match, I have a 90% chance of losing.

I have actually had the opposite results when people do the above.

Silverkey.2078:

There is nothing wrong with targeting a warrior. Let’s be clear, if you let a warrior without pressure, you will pay it dearly!

You need to at least force them using their CD (endure pain etc…) and once those are out, a warrior can die fairly easily under focus.

+1. Ignoring a warrior is risky. Take them down fast or make them blow their defensive CDs

Letting a warrior go all Pew Pew on you with no return pressure is asking for a world of pain.

Oh and how to know when you have a bad team. Say in team chat…I’ll grab home. Then 2 other players follow me to triple cap home. (i leave before the cap so its really a double cap but of course it means it was probably a 4v2 at mid)

Furajir.3815:

You cannot beat

1. Fried Golden Dumplings
2. Furious sharpening stones

This ^

as an alternative to the dumplings you can go for the Omnomberry Pie for the Life Steal on crit.

It would be nice if someone from ANET could get some stats to see how this suggestion would affect q times. Of course they would increase but by how much and is it enough to make it worthwhile?

If you run Glint/Mallyx definitely drop dev. Run Corruption, Retribution, Herald.

I ran mallyx/shiro for a while in S2 but that was with Merc Amulet and when shiro hadnt been nerfed yet. It worked rather well. Better than glint/mallyx.

I havent tried in S3 since ive dropped revenant for warrior as part of my class rotations.

If i was to run base warrior it would be the classic Shoutbow. I have seen someone stream that a few days ago in ranked (Sapphire) and he was doing very well.

But berserker spec>vanillla spec

StickerHappy.8052:

Yea it is terrible, only way around this problem is that you have to play when the season starts, that way you will be on the same pace as the skilled players moving up to the divisions, avoiding that cesspool together. This ensures you get quality players on both sides.

And yet i see other posts saying wait a week or two and the better players will move up divisions and only the bad players remain which you can farm on your win streaks.

So which is it?

Rebound.3409:

If you think that’s the mentality of a PvE player then you are honestly ignorant. Keep thinking that.

There are as many bad apples in the “PvE side” as there are in the “PvP side”. What does that mean on the long run? nothing.

Sure im ignorant. When i read posts from players who QQ about how they’ve been grinding away for hundreds of games and can’t get to legend and how they just want their back piece so they can leave pvp and get back to pve which is what they really enjoy.

Or when im playing a match and a teammate with 15000+ achievement points, says in map chat how we lost because we suck and how he had more personal points than me and so he’s a better player, when all he did all match was double cap every node and triple attack beast in forest map.

And FYI i play every game mode, open world , pvp, wvw, dungeons. Only mode i dont play is fractals.

Moonsinn.5382:

I’ve been playing a shout DH for a bit. So far it’s not bad. Great team support with boons and condi cleanse, decent sustained damage, and some sustain.

Duo Queued with the DH ^ above and he did really well. This was emerald tier for what its worth.

warbignime.4610:

Bazooka.3590:

Spvp in this game is a Big pile of crap. Anet should face it.

1. No balance between classes.
2. MM system making it worse (attachment)
3. The pipe system never will work properly utnil they fix 1 and 2.
Thats why.
But they didnt listen to us so it leads to frustration and players will leave. And it leads even worse team setups and longer queue times until spvp extincts finally. Maybe thats what are they planning.

Funny the side that winning has 4 guardians, while guardian being the only class out of meta.

because 3 DH noobs will beat 3 Necro noobs.

So i am one of those players that basically solo q most of my matches with some duo q matches mixed in. I would love to have a full soloq pvp league and a separate team q pvp league but i understand that ANET doesnt want to do that due to increased Q times.

Currently they have said a full 5 Man premade will never face a full 5 solo q team but we all know that’s a worthless piece of coding since they can meet a 2,1,1,1 team and stomp them or as is more common , teams form a 4 man premade and avoid that issue entirely.

My suggestion

5 Man premade can only face teams with (3,2 team), 4 or 5 man premade teams
4 Man premade can only face teams with 3, 4 or 5 man premade teams
3 Man premade can only face teams with 2, 3, 4 or 5 man (only if the trio is paired witha duo) premade teams
2 Man premade can only face teams with 2 and 3 man premade teams or full solo teams
Full solo teams can only face teams with 2 man premade teams or full solo teams

Some examples to illustrate below

A 5 man premade can meet a 4,1, 3,2 or a full 5 man team.

A 4,1 team can meet another 4,1 or a 3,2 or a 3,1,1 or a 5 man team.

A 3,1,1 team can meet another 3,1,1 team or a 3,2 or a 2,1,1,1 or a 2,2,1 or a 4,1 team

A 3,2 team can face another 3,2 team, 3,1,1 team, 2,2,1 team or 4,1 team or 5 man team.

A 2,1,1,1 team can meet a 2,2,1 team and another 2,1,1,1 team or a 3,1,1 team or a 1,1,1,1,1 team

A full solo team 1,1,1,1,1 can only meet another full solo or a 2,1,1,1 team, NOT a 2,2,1 team.

Hopefully i didnt miss any obvious examples.

I think this will help increase the enjoyment for soloq players while not requiring the splitting of queues. Of course this means q times will go up from where they are but frankly from the posts im seeing Solo players or even duo players are not too happy and this method should make for closer matches.

This will prevent guild teams or premade 4 man teams abusing the matchmaking to farm solo pug teams.

Its not as comlicated as it looks and the Matchmaker can easily handle this. It woud require analysis and modeling to see the effect on Q times but i feel it would make a for better matches.

trunks.5249:

Liam McColgan.7689:

Haha, i love your honesty. You must really enjoy this game despite that w/l. But in all seriousness, you probably should change class to suit carrying in solo queue, or seek top tier advice. If that fails, seek medical advice. You probably have some sort of addiction syndrome to thinks that are bad for your health haha

the reason i pvped so much is becouse i had it in my head that i could get into a Pro League and maybe even end up in e- sports

In that case spend the hours practicing a game that actually has more than a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming an E-Sport.

Holy Mother of grinding. 200 matches in a week?

Rebound.3409:

If that item wasn’t in…you wouldn’t have had a season to begin with. Just a handfull of people playing eachother over and over again. At least those wings gave diversity. It’s not the players fault anet can’t fix their system and creates unfair situations in every season now.

Don’t worry, soon everyone will have their wings and will not care or go to pvp anymore. You will have the empty and stale dreamworld you are asking for.

Tempting PvE players to come to PvP with an legendary item is not the way to do it. I would rather fight the same people over and over again since at least they know basic strategy vs PVE’rs who think they are fighting a dungeon NPC and can’t undertand why their PVE rotations don’t work on players.

Sorel.4870:

trunks.5249:

191 matches and stuck on sapphire tier 2 lol

Don’t think of it as stuck, my friend. Think of it as getting even matches. Do you really care about what people think of the little symbol on your name tag?

I dont think its the little symbol thats the problem. Its the fact that ANET in their infinite wisdom created a Legendary PVE item as a reward for a PVP League.

If they had just made it a skin or even an ascended item, you wouldn’t have PVE scrubs who don’t care about PVP messing up match making for the players that do care about PVP.

i usually say something in map chat and guess what? 75% of the time NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING.

I say “Sweet a really talkative team” and hope they know how to play.

Fivedawgs.4267:

For example, Trackfull W (the new Abjured rev/sub) signature is taunt + their Staff 5 skill.

How can a Rev taunt someone on demand? From what i know there is only one taunt trait ""Eye for an Eye" and that is a passive taunt when CC’ed.

Treating each game as a way to get better at your rotations, did you get to execute your rotations properly? If you lose a fight whether its team or 1v1, try and understand what went wrong. Could you have done something different. If so try it next time.

If you are a support class try and know what you are supposed to do to support the team. Did you do that correctly or was you out of position etc.

I am just as human as the next guy/girl and get upset if i lose but i look at my performance as objectively as a i can. Even if we are losing 400/200 i still leave spawn and try to keep learning by rotating differently etc.

But the number 1 thing that helps me not get stressed is. DONT THINK ABOUT THE PIPS.

Just play the match and focus on your skill rotations and map awareness etc. If you play well and your team does their job properly, the pips should come naturally. Focusing on the “i gotta win this match for next tier” is an invitation to stress and mistakes.

Good luck

Bogus.1598:

Spartacus! Thanks a lot dude! I will try it for sure when im 80! cant wait!
Cheers!

Durability runes are expensive (you need aurillium ore) and to be honest not really needed. They are great to have but you can use anything else that has boon duration like water runes or monk runes . So dont worry if you dont have the Aurillium to buy them.

Im using this build in HOT and i can walk through any content. Its fun to see those retaliation numbers and having high protection boon uptime along with the 2920 armor means i hardly take any damage. Oh and also symbol damage while wielding GS also heals so its constant small heals coming in when using a greatsword.

Have fun