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So it has come down to this. Smaller server complains that bigger server is inferior because they have bigger numbers, bigger server complains that there are no fights. Never thought I would see the day where I am on the bigger server now that leagues are over.
PS I heard that increasing the size of your guild helps some.
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Not sure why people think adding some trail to stealthed players would help at all. It would make stealth completely meaningless because anyone with eyes would be able to tell where they are.
The only way to balance it imo would be to add a longer cooldown before restealthing. Thinking 10-15 seconds. That way more thieves would actually have to time stealthing, blinding, and cc instead of spam rofl stomping people.
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1)New Utility Skills.
2)New weapons.
3)New Traits.
4)New Weapon Skins available across all modes.
5)New Utility Skills.
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NO.
Adding more filler content before upgrading existing content should always be frowned upon.
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Borlis Pass has cookies! Oh yea and temples.
http://borlis.org/
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Unless a ritualist would equip heavy armor, I wouldn’t hold your breath on this one. Reason being they would most likely create an other heavy class so each armor type has 3 professions. I doubt they would release a batch of new classes with other things taking up their time.
That being said I would’nt mind my rit solo farming arah.
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Your regen is already perma’d at 50% boon duration. Doesnt make sense to have another source of regen that is potentially doing nothing.
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Out of all the other class forums, this one seems to be teh best in terms of positive attitude and general shennaniganry. Why? Whats in those elixirs you guys drink?
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So sad there are no fights tonight. Tried to get a [MU] group to attack in ogre camp, proceeded to chase them across the map, then got winded at the top of HoD garri. Went to Obsidian Sanctum to /wrists.
Now my kitten is throbbing so hard I gotta unload. Sorry about the stain.
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R.I.P. WvW match ups forum.
You shall be missed. By some.
/roflolebaysobad
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All I know is Banishing the one guy in the blob that doesnt have stability is the most satisfying thing ever.
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I doubt cheaters in PvP last long.
Just do as I do and blame eSports.
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A horse stable for mounts is clearly the answer.
My noble karka steed demands better treatment.
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True but the number of potential trolls would decrease significantly. Identifying them would be a lot easier as well.
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currently there is only 2 way to detect stealth:
- stealth trap: expensive, clunky, resource wasting and with no guaranteed result in other word utterly useless
- arrow cart skill 4: well i never actually manage to stealth out a thief (or that i know of) since you cant bring arrow cart around and in siege condition most thief dies to bleed anywayin gw2 its to easy to abuse stealth mechanic, especially with thief (mesmer can abuse stealth but i find it as a mild annoyance compared to the thief)
they say they would nerf the perma stealth mechanic (dont dont consider moving 100% stealth to 90% stealth a nerf)
people never mention any problem with stealth because most people play warrior or guard and cant hardy notice when they are hit by backstab and their attack cleave so if the thief still linger around it can be easily hit by the auto attack.what i suggest:
- adding a revealed state each time after you use a stealth skill (2-4 second) that way you cant spam stealth and get way with it
- especially for thief make the heal (hide in shadow) only remove one condition. this is way to annoying since they can easily stealth+heal+regen+remove condition+recover initiative while hiding and the opponent only can madly aoe
- a simple way to counter stealth in combat just add a trail of glowing foot mark when stealthed in combat this way we can know where are they going
If you bothered to pay any attention at all you would realize that there is a revealed state already in effect. Adding a glowing footmark would defeat the purpose of stealth. Please start using your brain before someone else does it for you.
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^That works for me.
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If you constantly find yourself facing more then your number, then a low precision is fine. Why? You will get enough crits to trigger vigorous precision simply through the amount of hits you trigger with symbols. Switching your utility food for +precision and making sure the thief has Bountiful Theft would do wonders as well.
I (would, currently convincing guildies) run something very similar to this in zergs. Mace/ shield is so underrated.
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+1
Something has to be done. It would be helpful if commanders could pick up ready to build siege blueprints as well, to mitigate the dumb troll who throws siege on top of siege.
On a separate note I need to stop foruming so hard…
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Finished (the first phase) gearing up my staff ele for WvW big group encounters.
I was worried that I should’ve crafted some celestial gear, then I looked at how poorly the power stat stacks and decided I made a decent choice. Switch to magi staff for more support but my power becomes very sad. I want as many meteors critting as possible so I mainly use +precision utility food.
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Death to mesmer.
/zerk necro
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Anything remotely resembling a KDR scoreboard would be very welcome.
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I don’t understand your point. You complainabout 20k complete glass necro ?
I play a war and can easily do 22-28k with GS or up to 33k rifle rotation when I go glass. And on top of that its insta, no need to wait on condis to take effect. Hell, my mes can do 24k in full glass set-up at times.
That doesnt even cover my ele or thief, so whats your complaint again ?
talking out of your kitten . power burst meta died down a long time ago for a reason.
i’m doubtful you’re actually able to realistically pull any of those numbers off, if at all.Conditions are in no way OP, do not need to be fixed. If anything power builds need to be nerfed, but thats like saying healing power will get a buff.
wow… i mean wow. i didn’t know it was possible to be this stupid in one sentence.
there’s no arguing it, conditions are broken. avoiding them is typically next to impossible as they are largely inflicted at a distance and often unbroadcasted, only one stat determines their effectiveness compared to three for physical damage, they are far too easily spammable (by applying multiple conditions mainly) meaning realistically they’re incredibly hard to counter for most professions not to mention condition removal works blindly whereas it should be priority based, there is no effective way of reducing condition damage as there is power damage with toughness, conditions not only do damage but also inflict various harm like slow movement, slow cooldowns, reduce damage, make attacks miss, etc. + certain conditions themselves are innately broken (i.e. burning- needs to either do less damage or have shorter durations).
take all that and compare that to power damage: it does more damage and does it quicker than conditions, but can be mitigated much more easily through distance, boons, conditions, evasion, and cc.
to say that conditions aren’t broken is laughable, but to then go and say power is instead broken is actually astoundingly moronic.
I could go on in detail to tell you how to play your class but I wont bother.
Instead, stop complaining on the forums and learn to come up with counters. Condition builds are meant to rival power builds, and it wont change. Use your classes mechanics wisely.
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I don’t have the statistics but seems retaliation is a counter to AoE spammers. I think eliminating or toning counters down to relative uselessness would give rise to even more AoE skill spam. WvW is already 90% AoE spam.
People that are smart enough to use retaliation should have a definite advantage over ones that dont. Use AoE at the right time.
IMO AC spammers should be punished. If they die to retal then its their fault for abusing siege by pressing the 1 key over and over again.
If you hate retal because it doesnt award active play, why dont we just remove all boons and conditions then? Who decides what should be kept and thrown out? The people that abuse AoE or the ones receiving it?
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Stealth traps.
Have been in circulation for a while.
Use them.
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Necromancers are anti melee, they have been since GW1.
Warriors have two complete condi purges, the most powerful passive condi removal, the rediculous -duration stacks, good cc and good direct damage.
If you learn to dodge Corrupt Boon you will win most fights.
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Most people who PvE expect others to go into Power Precision Critical Damage to down mobs faster. If this isnt what you want then join a Role Playing guild.
I think you mean “most people that speed run dungeons in PUGs” not most people that PVE. And I’m sure the RP guilds would prefer folks that actually have an interest in role playing. Just because you don’t follow the lemmings doesn’t mean you are an RPer.
Build your characters however matches your play style and ignore the folks who insist that you have to be in full Berserker’s or you suck. I’ve got a high toughness ranger and she does just fine. She’s extremely useful in pulling aggro off of the folks in full Berserker’s who keep getting downed, and she can go mano-a-mano with a Champ and his minions and keep them busy long enough for the folks that can’t wrap their brains around anything but DPS to get rezzed.
Don’t get me wrong – a good player in full Berserker’s tears things up, but simply wearing a full set of Berserker’s gear does not immediately confer an aura of awesome on you.
I also have a high vitality Necro that plays differently, but is just as durable. I figured with Death Shroud it would make sense to go full kitten and focus my build around having a large life pool. My ranger uses more of a combination of toughness and evasion. Whichever way you go, just make sure that your build supports the path you’ve chosen and don’t emphasize one aspect to the exclusion of all others ( there are diminishing returns as someone mentioned earlier in the thread).
I should’ve worded my response better than I did. I meant to infer that there are other ways of playing the game than going full berserkers in dungeons, even though I fall into this grouping. Generally speaking if you are not someone who speedruns dungeons then you are a roleplayer, and if this is not the case, then I am unaware of this other 3rd grouping.
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In many videos I have viewed in the past via youtube, many of the people use the classic WASD keys for movement. Still many others have F1, F2, and F3 profession skills and 6, 789, 0 keys as heal, utility, and elite skills respectively (been awhile since I have seen the classic key mapping so I might be wrong here). I believe this to be very hindering to gameplay, and here is why:
> Using the F1 keys is an unnecessary reach for your fingers, and this game requires quick reactions to many factors.
> Same goes for the 6, 789, and 0 keys. This game requires skillful use of the dodge ability. To have your keys mapped so far away takes your concentration away from the game.
> Clickers (people who use their mouse to use utility/ profession abilities) should be frowned upon. If you are one of these people, I encourage you to commit to a new key mapping you are comfortable with.
> By switching to ESDF you have 3 buttons to the left of your movement keys. This is incredibly helpful for saving you time and energy. Now you can use those keys for heal, utility, dodge etc. There are of course many other setups but ESDF will be the easiest transition.
I guarantee that switching up your key mapping will vastly improve your gameplay experience. Especially elementalists. I can’t imagine using the F1 keys for attunement swapping, dear god save me now. Here is an example of what my mapping is:
ESDF keys for movement
1-5 still weapon skills
Q is heal
WRT are utility skills
6 is elite
G to interact
A is weapon swap
BVCX are profession skills
Shift to look behind
Most of the UI hotkeys you can flatout remove because there is no need to clutter your mapping when they are readily accessible at the top left of your screen. Keys that you use often such as inventory and trading post are good to keep and switch around. I still use double-tap to dodge but I’m too lazy to fit it in to my setup.
Well I hope I at least convinced one person to try the change, if you are that one person then your feedback is much appreciated here. Lets convert as many as we can together before we go up in flames!
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It would be very appreciated by all if the auto attack STOPPED TRACKING PEOPLE THROUGH WALLS.
In PvP this is a huge issue, for me at least, when I am trying to dis/engage. I hate it so much, and I would love it if Anet fixed this.
If it is working as intended, well, kitten.
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- Looks promising
- Would mean healway users get a third proc for free. Better to put it somewhere else to discourage spammy play.
- Would be too often
- Could work
- Could work
- Would not work. Even if it was reduced to .1 sec recharge per hit, it would be overpowered in WvW where you get hit by 30 sources of damage every second. Probably wouldnt work in PvP either because even 3 people could provide enough pressure to make it OP.
Summary
I agree that VoC needs a buff.
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Building up protection before your team takes the plunge into an enemy keep is tantamount, and I think this weapon might see a little more use in this case (one can hope). For the people that do use it and understand its effectiveness, I think it would vastly improve a teams chances of getting past the AC spam and into the belly of the beast because Guardians and Eles are the only ones that can stack group protection. I think siege spam is a big problem and anything that can be done to discourage it is a welcome and positive addition to WvW. Thank you.
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@ Green numbers and random dodges build
If you switch out your runes for 3 monk/3water and food to omnomberry cookie you can increase your healing power, overall boon duration, and vitality.
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As a rule of thumb I would not use healing symbols without a high enough healing power. AH does not scale with a high healing power though.
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The foods been in game since launch and the only class buffed condition damage wise since then is Necromancer and some classes received torment. Where were all the complaints since then.
Yes, but Conditions have really only been over the top since the addition of Torment.
And that point has taken a while to sink in. People didn’t complain about the food then because Conditions weren’t a problem. Well they are now.
You see, the point he was trying to make is that when you compare the Pizza food to the other food, it stands out as vastly, vastly superior in every way. And that superiority is game-breaking.
Most regular food buffs a single condition by 15%.
Pizza buffs ALL conditions by up to 40%. That includes:
- Poison (additional healing reduction)
- Bleeds
- Confusion (increases the time significantly you need to hold-off on using abilities)
- Cripple
- Torment
- Chilled (snare AND longer cooldowns)
- Burning
- Blind (more of a mitigation effect really)
- Weakness (less damage pressure, less endurance regeneration)
- Immobilize (really more of a CC effect, still improved by Pizza though)
- Vulnerability
- Fear (another CC effect increased by Pizza)
So really, +40% Condition duration not only means a 40% DPS increase for all intensity-stacking conditions, it also means.
- more mitigation
- less endurance for your target
- much longer CC effects
- much longer healing reduction
- more control-effects like Confusion and Torment
Now compare that again to some of the more popular Power-food and explain how this is fair?
+100 Power
+70 Precision
(adds maybe 5% DPS to your power-build)+66% chance to heal on critical
+70 Precision
(heals for roughly 320 every 5 seconds, if in combat. This food was considered OP for a while when it did not have an internal cooldown as it made Precision builds very durable)+200 Power for 30 seconds following a kill.
+10% Crit-damage
(this may add up to 10% DPS to power builds if the buff is maintained, but less if not).So please do tell me again how this compares to the +40% Condition DPS added by Pizza next to all the other added benefits of extended Conditions?
There is no power-food, no piece of gear or trait that is anywhere near as powerful as the pizza buff food.
Yet another idiotic post. They added +40% condition duration food to give condition builds A CHANCE against power builds. Simply comparing food and not mentioning THE RAW DPS OF POWER BUILDS over a short amount of time is…
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Completely wrong. Not even as bad as the people who think conditions should be based on condition damage/precision/critical damage though.
The fact is that on a necro I can unload every bleed stacking skill I have, and 1 skill (or even trait) will remove ALL the stacks I had spent the entire battle accumulating. Granted its kinda hard to do that with cover conditions, it is still possible and does happen enough to where I just rage quit.
Tongku said it. Conditions are in no way OP, do not need to be fixed. If anything power builds need to be nerfed, but thats like saying healing power will get a buff.
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They said they were working to make it so you couldn’t get stacks and then swap to another weapon. That’s fair imo.
I guess that works for me. As long as it doesnt apply to PvE as well.
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I agree man its pretty wack. IMO sigil stacks shouldnt exist in PvP and WvW. All it does is encourage people to throw everything they have at you and expect it to work. My best advice is to play PvP to learn how to counter different classes and specs. Good luck.
Word to the Wise: Stealth Traps.
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The only way to change that would be put the main respond point in the middle of the map in borderlands. Which i would not be against as it would add a new feel to borderlands and would not be the some old layout. Which i think would bring more people into borderlands simply because of the new layout.If you server only focuses on EB your most likely losing your matches because unless you can take over all of EB your borderlands has more points than EB.
An interesting concept. Keep waypoints removed, a new waypoint in the center added. Holding and capturing ruins would be even more crucial, and maybe we could finally get that horrible Orb Bonus removed. It would certainly diminish the time to get to places for sure, which no one would object. The entire area would have to remade of course with Legendary Defenders and such, with no exploits to get in there and spawn camp. Then how would they other opposing server get their hands on this WP?
The main problem with this is that a WP here would be able to dish out extreme pressure to Garrison, Hills, and Bay all at the same time. Reinforcements starting out on their home BL would have a lot more trouble getting to Hills and Bay.
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Go to youtube and search GotBoons.
I dismissed everything I had previously read when you said Engi: out Necro: out. They both have awesome power builds. Engi had the best spike in the game until they nerfed 1000’nades. Power necro can use conditions wisely without spamming them.
Swim away from meta island and build craft.
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There isn’t any need to change Earthshaker, just learn where to be and where not to be. Tactics at its finest.
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I am not reading this because the grammar is atrocious.
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STOP SHARING THE ENGI BUNKER BUILD WAAAAGGGHHHH
Its so kitten annoying to go up against one of these types. Theyre too kitten confident running around with their kits, CCing / regening to death while slowly widdling my hp down. Its just not fair. Stahp.
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Mace #2 is the single best group healing skill in the game, besides of course water field blasting (when traited for it and healing power is high). Mace+shield allows you to build up protection without actually being in the fight unlike hammer. Shield #5 is amazing if you use it at a pivotal point in the battle (your team is retreating to a water field, train stops to bomb downed).
The conception that one has to stand in symbols for the full duration to receive the full effect is misguided. That being because the idea of a symbol is for everyone to get a little. If more then one guardian used the mace+shield combo then it would be easy to reach at least 75% symbol coverage and uptime to everyone. So in reality symbols are more mobile then people give them credit for (unlike water fields that scream bomb here).
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I would also be willing to hire a mesmer for a modest fee.
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Most people who PvE expect others to go into Power Precision Critical Damage to down mobs faster. If this isnt what you want then join a Role Playing guild.
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Join a guild that is into what you are into. It is the biggest factor for enjoyment and survival.
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If you can get into a good WvW zerg busting guild, you can farm loot bags which have a chance at dropping t6. Doing the mystic clover thing gives you alot of t6. Crucible of Eternity is probably the only way to farm charged cores/ lodestones. I think Sparks behind an opened Temple of Dwayna used to drop charged but might have been nerfed. Risen in Cursed Shore drop bags which can contain a t6. Search wiki for in depth answers.
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Its because they are either:
A. New to the game.
B. Don’t give a kitten about PPT.
C. Farming your kitten .
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SoloQ is for new players.
Hotjoins are for good times.
TeamQ is for third party voip.
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Zerk necro, because it requires the highest ski…
Nah but seriously its just way too fun. There is nothing more satisfying then watching some d/p thief run up to you expecting a faceroll only to end up having to reset 3 times.
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