Guild Wars 2

Ithilwen.1529:

I fully expect that the next emergency hotfix will be another nerf on Mesmer and a major buff to the new pet; DragonHunter.

Where is the love for Warriors or Thieves?

Maybe have an additional rule in Emerald/Sapphire where if you at the start of a tier and lose 5 games in a row you will drop a tier. That will also help prevent some of the MMR tankers.

Im zerker with some valkyrie trinkets so i guess its kinda like partially Marauder.

Thief toons are used as an excuse to sneakily tank your MMR.

I agree which is why for lower tier and your everyday average player, the meta builds should really be used as a starting point or inspiration. You can then swap some stuff to suit your playstyle/team comp coordinated/uncoordinated, skill level etc.

Should have been something like “must play 7 games over a 7 day period” (Mon-Sun)

Any dedicated team (even a casual team) can play 7 matches in a week.

1 match a week is laughable.

One match in 7 days? for these hardcore players, doesnt seem that restrictive.

id be more interested to see the average viewing times of these 400,000 viewers and also what was the repeat viewer percentage. As Sorenstam said, it could have been lots of people curious about GW2 PvP, realised it was awful and never came back.

BlackBeard.2873:

90% of the entertainment is twitch chat, 10% is the casters trying desperately to make the game interesting.

HAHA exactly. I spent most of my short time on that channel just reading the chat.

GW2 Pvp League should be prescribed by Doctors as a cure for Insomnia.

I use Krait runes on my DIRE Condi D/D Thief and love it.

You have to remember ANET didnt want to put a fix in until after the PRO League break. Last matches were yesterday. New matches are not till January so the Pro teams can practice with the new changes.

eSPORTS!!!

Xillllix.3485:

Balance patch tomorrow and it’s not getting fixed nerfed and neither is Coalesce of Ruin…. Fail.

Coalescence of Ruin is being patched to not hit more than 5 people.

Also i gotta laugh every time i hear someone complain about DH and if I’m not mistaken Prince is a REV. Seriously dude i used to main a guard and now i play rev and DH is a joke. So easy to fight.

I believe the consensus after dozens and dozens of QQ threads about DH traps is that DH is very effective against trash/low tier players and not against good players.

If you are having trouble against Dh….well…..

For open world exploration if you don’t have dragon hunter unlocked just use shouts and a sigil of speed . You can even have a staff on swap to quickly drop a symbol of speed. With just save yourselves and retreat I believe you can get almost 90 sec of continuous swiftness . Coupled with a sigil of speed and you can have some pretty good uptime on swiftness. If you are already level 80 and doing HoT content then taking some boom duration food as well will also increase your uptime.

I usually say GG when it was a fun exciting close match. Or if one team was losing but then comes back to win it with a close result.

Warrior was my main for almost a year but I don’t play It in pvp anymore. The only time I lose to a warrior is when I’m busy fighting a 1v1 or 2v2 and a warrior comes in to +1 the fight. I’m sorry to say that it’s just not good enough . It’s possible to fill that slot with pretty much any class and it will make the team stronger.

Lol I’m solo q or duo q and I have no problems at all fighting DH. Of course I play REV so make your own conclusions .

Death Aggro.9602:

I never understood the whole tanking MMR. Doesn’t that just give you more poop teammates to play with as well as against?

No it gives you good teammates and poop enemy team so you can get your win to maintain the 50/50 win rate.

Love math!!!

/15 chars

Can i be a top team’s “Amber Friend”?

Burtnik.5218:

I still laugh at these peeps who been taking shield trait over double stab. People finally realized how good it is.

HAHA yeah i love my double stability! No contest for me. Way more useful in pvp.

yup , the only thing a person QQ’ing about DH shows is the level of his skill. Namely trash/low tier.

Drafigo.4690:

Ebut this is the first season and hopefully it will be ironed out before a second season starts.

I wonder how many people will be around for the second season. The bad publicity GW2 is getting with this is pretty substantial.

Thanks for the post Tarcis.

Its good that you posted this. I wish Anet will do something about this because frankly if they wait for 2 months, they may have lost too many players by then. There are players in this game that only PVP and 2 months is a long time to be in this situation.

terrible idea…will have people double and triple capping nodes…..No one will play bunker, completely through away any team mentality. GG

What really? Then all i need to do is change my build to the most complete and cutter r&p build possible to help lower my rating. Then when i enter map change it back? LMAO.

Awesome

Ban Hammer will only work against the absolute dumbest of players. Its astonishingly easy to tank your MMR while making it look like you’re trying.

I havent done it because i refuse to play much PvP for the time being while all this cr*p is going on.

Thankyou for posting OP.

I must agree that i would rather see OP classes nerfed than UP classes buffed. The power creep is insane.

ReaperJr.5967:

Disappointing and embarassing behavior from a pro team. Hope the devs look into this.

My money is on Anet NOT doing anything since Anet’s “money” is on Team PZ and Abjured etc.

They cant balance around class MMR unless they prevent you from switching classes before match starts otherwise everyone will Q with their class that has the lowest MMR and then switch to their main class before match starts.

Tying pips to personal score will just lead to players double and triple capping nodes because they want those personal points. This will make the team less effective and may end up losing the match.

i have very little faith that this will actually fix the problem of players deliberately losing. Seems to be very easy to make it look like you are playing to win but actually lose.

Heck just play a full glass warrior. You can try really really hard and you will still lose.

Vague Memory.2817:

I wish people would stop with referring to top esport teams when they are trying to make a point, most people are not playing at that level even if they think they are.

Unfortunately because ANET wants to be Esports they have to balance for top tier players since its not good publicity for them if a team wins a championship running 4 ele and a thief…..wait LOLZ

I agree that they should balance for the masses but it doesn’t seem to really be the case.

Trigr.6481:

If I had it my way, it would be the following.

- You may class stack to a maximum of 2 on the one condition that you must have two trait lines different from one another.

Countless

So your idea will virtually eliminate even double classes. Since the introduction of locking us into only having 3 trait lines whereas before we could go 1, 6.6.1 for example, build diversity has become very limited. Most decent builds for a certain class will require 2 trait lines almost mandatory so at most you would have one line different for some classes.

I like the idea of limiting class stacking but i don’t agree with your suggestion sorry.

Chip Skylark.2367:

Look at the thread title. It’s not causing team imbalance. That’s my point. Revenant is.

DH is only causing imbalance in hotjoins, which are irrelevant.

+1 he is responding to title. DH is not causing team imbalance . If it was why don’t we see 2 or 3 or even 4 Dh in top ESL teams? Instead we see double Revs.

DH is for trash tier farming. before you say I’m a DH. I WAS a DH, now i main Rev because it farms bodies even easier and has more interesting gameplay. DH is so easy to outplay by any halfway decent player.

my very first toon was a guard and i played DH when it first came out and i can safely say in my experience its great for farming trash tier players. Any halfway decent player or a team with even basic coordination and composition can totally negate a DH.

As one poster said above full trap Dh are gimmick builds. The Medi trapper build is much better and generally only uses heal trap and one damage trap. So when fighting those you;re not gonna see 5 traps on you.

Most DH don’t use traveller runes and can be out rotated in a team match like conquest. Minions and ranger pets can trigger traps and leave a full trap Dh completely vulnerable.

or SoloQ with max ONE DuoQ team (so 2,1,1,1)

Thanks .

Kanto.1659:

Personally, running invisible and backstabbing someone for half their HP before they are even aware someone is present is the largest cheese chunk of the two.

exactly…..im fighting 1v1 against someone on point and out of nowhere I’m stunned and dead because of cheese build stealth thief came up behind me and killed me. Where is the counter play to that?

DH my be low skill floor class but as Rodzynald said its doesn’t take much skill to realize that you don’t run straight at a DH that is standing on point. I mained a DH when it was first released and i couldn’t believe the number of players that would just run straight at me triggering all my traps.

(I don’t play DH anymore….i moved to the other much more OP class. Revenant) Takes a little more skill than DH but is a lot stronger.

+1 yes thanks for responding to threads. Seems at least one Dev cares enough to reply.

i gotta agree that downstate REV slow Auto is just stupid (and i play Rev now).

I thought pro Leagues showed that Full Trap DH only works against low tier players. There was so much QQ in the beginning against Trap DH and then when people saw that every team with a DH lost in the early rounds of pro leagues, the QQ mysteriously died out.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Taldren.7523:

Why can’t things settle down so we can sort L2P issues from things that are truly unbalanced. This sort of posts are not beneficial to anyone, let alone the game.

Removing Durability Runes because of Herald? How is a 1.9 second resistance every 20 seconds supposedly over powered? And the boon duration exists on many runes. I don’t get your argument at all.

Because those little 1.9 seconds don’t happen every 20 seconds, they can be stacked to achieve 27-30 seconds of straight resistance. Take shiro/mally and invest in herald traits without using glint as a legend. Mace/axe-sword/shield and you’ll see what I mean. That is why what the OP is saying is sensible. better to have players suggest the nerf then let anet nerf. We all saw what happened to warrior and thief when the community got their hair about them. Now they barely usable in PvE, let alone PvP.

Is that a bug? because how can it proc for 27sec of continuous resistance?

If its a bug then def should be fixed. Tooltip is proc once every 20s.

The last post before yours was 2 years ago (Nov 5th 2013). Where do you see a month ago?

Anyway its not a problem. i was just having some fun seeing a 2 year old thread resurrected.

Combatter.5123:

This cloaked update (I didn’t see any notice of it in the update notes) is definitely NOT an improvement to those of us who use the skill as a means to apply swiftness on the go. Please revert it. Many thanks.

Are you a necro? cos this post died 2 years ago and you brought it back.

Dragon stance and related skills are bought by using hero points which are obtained by doing Hero Challenges in Tyria and HoT maps. You then spend the points “clockwise” in your character panel.

Ive been using defender runes for my guard and shield warrior very soon after they were released. Ive always been amused as to why they were not popular on forums.

I think they are very strong. Pity they dont allow them in pvp.

Dahkeus.8243:

Spartacus.3192:

What condi builds are you using may i ask? I havent really touched War except for getting his elite spec hero points done in the first week.

Not sure about PvP, but here’s the meta raid condi build:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fgw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FvJAQNBjYD7kpDolUs2Dw7DgOEsMFYHHhAwITJIED6Bvn2XbtF-TFSFAB9r%2BzgKBR2CCAeIAEr8r3rAgS7H0uuhAAIAzcmJzyMwMn5Qn5QnZpAgZZF-w

It also works pretty well on SW farming since condi works so well there. You can melt slingers and keep a lane painted pretty easily with longbow.

Thanks!

What condi builds are you using may i ask? I havent really touched War except for getting his elite spec hero points done in the first week.

i love D/D Condi Death Blossom spam. Its the only reason i play Thief. Vault spam is ok too but Condi D/D DB is much better (IMO)

princode.2750:

Ragnarox.9601:

princode.2750:

To be frank actually DD is freaking powerful…I have a guild member that is undefeated in guild…he rekt half of my guild member and most of us had been playing pvp for years. DD is extremely hard to master therefore most DD perform badly in pvp. DD is 1 of the class that is the harder to learn but once master it can be very rewarding, Most good DD don’t really show off their build they are quite low profile.

You mean build that doing 9k dmg with Vault. And spamming 5,5,5,5? Thats really hard to master IMO.

=) tht’s why I say there’s a lot of below average DD. This reply is a good example of a below average DD. Figure out yourself i’m not suppose to share my guild mate build

LOL….the hubris is strong in this one. Ever since GW2 reduced build flexibility by locking us into 3 lines only able to choose one from each tier, builds have become brain dead easy.

And dont try and tell me your guild mate has a build that all the “pro” players who play for money havent already figured it out and realised that a thief just wastes a valuable PvP slot.