Guild Wars 2

no you are not wrong since AH is the biggest warrior heal (might be wrong here, but pretty much) and not even in the healing slot… on the other hand what do you want to do when the game is in a state like this were everyone does huge damage and chains invuln/block/evade to survive. give us more invuln / stuff? impossible..

FORCED to defense for AH – hugely gimping yourself by halving your sigil usage if you dont go disc – and pretty much forced to take zerker if you want to duel against people who can dodge your burst. its really GG variety.

They need to change it like this: less powerfull traits / skills (for another bad example – cleansing ire – without it you can go home against condi bombers), but more of them distributed among all trait lines making evil trade-offs for damage if you want to stack them.

“I don’t agree on 5s weapon swap, for the record. It’s amazing, but living without it is simply a matter of… discipline.” kek nice pun.

Gunnar’s Hold is awesome for roaming – but close to no GvG, i think we have only 1 GvG guild right now. But roaming – superb. GH actually does have solo roamers aswell, which are a very rare sight on our enemies’ servers. Not talking about noobs trying to flip back camps on home border, but real solo roamers going out to find 1v1, 1v2, 1v3.. also can pretty much drop a hello on any map and get invited to a roaming party asap.

Lol yeah we get whole EB blobs now running perma resi and perma protection. I just dont expect anything from Anet anymore at this point. I stick to duelling – the rest of the game is completely broken since HoT. Funny how people always say “game not balanced for 1v1” when 1v1 is actually the most balanced “game mode” in this mess atm.

Ultra Hades.4691:

Right now I think there is too much emphasis on defense and flipping T1/T2 upgraded things, to the point that guilds just won’t go on the offensive on a borderland if it has T3 upgrades in their third during a prime time.

fighting guilds are usually not interested in taking T3, it means hours long dedication, handholding and first of all NUMBERS. However a pug commander with a map sized blob attacking a well defended keep for 3 hours up untill final orgy in lords makes for epic WvW. In the beginning of WvW you could never hold your T3 in prime – both keeps had 50-60 pushing all primetime long and fighting guilds actually found their fun in defending keeps wiping the map blobs off. But these days lazy maphopping blobs knocking on door and if someone shows up they run off to the next target on some other map. At least on GH we still have a commander or two who will “just take that keep no matter what”. For example bay can always be taken when you can win a field fight. garrison will crumble aswell to sustained effort. only hills rules supreme :>

If you want to Karma Train there is always EOTM or the PvE maps.

“I loved jumping off cliffs and landing with a big thump, i had way too much fun doing that.”

roll warrior! https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Death_from_Above

@Swagger: stop spamming threads about completely different stuff with your EOTM-idea which already has been downvoted into oblivion.

Agree with OP. We don’t want to vote about portable mortars, we want to vote on what you do next because the past has shown you dont know where the real problems are and we have to tell you.

so here are my priorities as i see it right now:

- population balance / world linking
- redesign skills / combat (general guidelines: less cheese, less damage)
- scoring improvments (coverage)
- break up /weaken map-switching megablobs

if you havent been around since the beginning you probably dont even know anything but blobbing. map-based WvW disappeared around 2014.

there are a milion solutions, for example removing AOE cap, numbers debuff, dynamic map caps… but blobbing has never been acknowledged as a problem by Anet, quite on the contrary that seems how they envision wvw. i’m totally with you though, its pure garbage gameplay. nothing against 50 vs 50 vs 50 in SM, but the default operating mode these days is pack all your people in one zerg and hop borders karma training everything down by outmanning the opposition.

I’m a warrior commander and my word is you should reroll guard if you are serious. or you could just take out the axe and go yolo on their backline like i do when “i’ve had it up to here with the pirateship!”

apharma, thats not really a problem. all keeps have superior positions/range with their trebs than the guys attacking, at least from inner – only exception is Bay. Imo what we need is a working siege cap so they cant put 6 superior rams on a gate or 6 superior catas on a single spot defended by 2 shield gens.

thieves thieves thieves… stealth is a pain in the butt from all classes! ever tried to clear a mesmer out of your keep alone or duo? good luck with that. RANGERS constantly stealthing, engis now stealthing – every godkitten class is stealthing when it was only thief at the beginning and very very little mesmer. just stop right there and turn around and start REMOVING stealth and giving other tools. this argument is stupid “dont touch thief it can do nothing execept stealth and kill noobs”.. well wow isnt that the best argument to how broken op the stealth mechanic is in this game? you can basically nerf the classes to the ground – as long as they can stealth they are just fine! no this has been going the wrong direction for a long time, just like the invuln /block/evade spam – make combat more about position, movement, reaction – not about rotating through your damage-nullifiers/stealth/evades and not giving a kitten.

zerker or vanilla – im always happy when i see other warriors and immediately try to get in their face. most warriors seem to act similiar xD

i think first thing you need to do is find means to accurately analyze current wvw strength of a server solely based on the last 2 weeks. because i think lots of things already go down south there and there is never a need for unfair matches if you have tools to do that right.

stating that, the first world-linking wasnt done very well – community was already making lists of what pairing would make sense all over the internets and the one you guys made was simply .. uhm.. lets say pretty bad. we would have expected a grab for server balance but seems this wasnt even intended looking at pairing like deso & vabbi vs rof & wsr or gh & fow or dead Abaddon not even getting a partner. so right now nobody understand why you linked how you linked.

next, keep with the program. relinking every 3 months is just fine for the moment, but next time do it better.

when i use all stability skills of warrior (bad build) i still get like only 1/3 stab uptime and i can only give stab to myself.. :S so every raid is guardians, guardians, guardians – just because of teh stab. oh a warrior – uhm – move him out of my sight to group 5, thanks. that said stab is now better then before, but not as good as it used to be – dont see why you would have to wreck a melee train with hard CC.. better reduce the amount of soft CC they can ignore (98% duration reduce on cripple anyone?) and slow them down, then they are easy to avoid.

this game.. such beauty, such comfort, such nice input handling, such awesome action combat.. and then there is the class design which just makes you want uninstall.

“Only thing I REALLY miss is the GS trait from Str line”

pretty sure you forgot about reckless dodge there :P yeah str line is 3 traits superb, kitten the rest → 20% dmg, 20%cd and reckless dodgerino.

utilities as in the trait effects or do you actually use rage skills?

“missing a normal burst on a vanilla war is a major problem when it comes to AH”

hell yeah it is. btw i was talking about wvw ony where i see just as many vanilla wars as zerker ones. could be because of the falling damage trait which is a complete kitten skill in wvw

why do people running axe/shield/GS prefer zerker over strength? i dont see the value, is it the headbutt/RR thing or what am i missing here?

we have no queues on any maps, filling about 1.5 maps including eb in primetime and are “full”.. well yeah. dunno what they did but it certainly didnt involve counting.

its hilarious how they are supposed to do something about population / scoring imbalance and the first thing they come up with is actually making it worse every friday – guys please.

nothing depends on class, everything depends on build. balance in WvW is a joke and class design in gw2 is a great big gimmicky cheesy steaming pile of kitten which is constantly getting added to by the devs. get used to it.

“current elite specs are and should be better than the vanilla builds, since you can access those through F2P while the HoT ones you have to pay "

sigh.. what makes you so bad you need to buy an advantage over f2p? do you have no pride?

ok.

-population balance: is still the same issue as before. you linked servers, but you didn’t link them according to population.
- last stand: the team that is strongest during the week is also strongest on friday. when there is a balanced matchup, last stand is already the amount of people playing on friday, its simply not needed and will only allow for abuse if its actually a good enough multiplier that you can revert the scores of many days before.

→ think about dynamic map caps to prevent karma training by the server who outmans other.
→ link servers according to population next time

that is all. i like the rest of the stuff.

Furajir.3815:

power warr > condi warr in a 1v1 situation. Smash Brawler + CI = too good, i have zero issues with condi warrs

and condi wars have zero issues with all the classes that kick your butt aka daredevil etc. :P power war is pretty much condi war’s worst matchup.

blobs are fine if you have blob too. blobs arent fine when a server pulls all people on all maps into one group to outman the other servers who dont have as many people on and karma trains all 4 maps through sheer numbers. that’s the real pain in the kitten of WvW. that’s why there should be a dynamic map cap depending on how many people are on the map. say you can bring 10 more, but not 40 more. dynamic map cap on all maps except EB and no dynamic map cap for the defenders of home border, that’s how i think it should be.

anyone else had his hydro proc on the wrong weapon switch? O_O

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Steelo.4597:

there are no wages in gw2, just value and profits. nobody hires work for pay around here.. well except the gold sellers.

I’ve hired Mesmers to do a jumping puzzle and then a portal for a fee. And I know there are people who have paid for someone else to do the final bosses in dungeons and get access to the chest at the end.

you are right sir o7

yeah and i fire my old milk into the garbage bin. huehue semantics such fun, unfortunately you didn’t make an argument so i’ll just troll you back some if thats k for you.

the afk farmers devalue the loot of all others by placing their loot in the same market when they dont have the same production costs. so if you think this bothers no one you are dead wrong, it only doesnt bother people who dont understand about markets. anyone trying to farm with the purpose of selling it should be mad as hell about afk farmers.

there are no wages in gw2, just value and profits. nobody hires work for pay around here.. well except the gold sellers.

“I don’t think anyone’s argued for that here, tbh. Afaik, all of the responses have been about the considerably less dire situation of losing out on AH if you miss a burst than the OP was making out.”

yeah usual story bro “this mechanic sucks” .. “no u suck”.. good forum discussion like i’m used to from the internet.

i run all kinds of builds, i find the principle stupid – yes we have competitive sustain – but only if someone doesnt see us coming and takes our biggest most telegraphed hits to the face. except longbow… longbow has the swag.

DH you kidding? DH is just a free bag.

yeah i actually look around for pve mobs to hit them with my burst so i stand a chance in 1v1.. what a joke.

either make it so we dont lose adrenaline on missed burst or unlink adrenal health from landing a burst… this is just stupid.

Firefly.5982:

It’s so unbelievably sad that the economy in this game is just the same as in real life. The poor will always stay poor and the rich will forever get richer. Why is this allowed to happen?

That’s just what you get when you create a free market where people trade making their own prices (99.9% of humans including everyone in this thread don’t even know what it is they are trading (value)). At least in game gold seems easy enough to come around that you don’t have to work for someone else just to get it like IRL.

Updated for HoT (post warhorn buff):

(i know there are other good condi warrior builds by now – still cant change the title anymore :P)

The build isnt completely OP anymore like it used to be (reasons: removal of condi convert from warhorn and overall higher damage level which hurts our sustain) – but you can still handle most of what comes your way in WvW.

Strong Points: Cleansing, Sustain, Mobility, Versatility
Weak Points: Zerker, CC (only 1 stunbreak, no block / evade, just endure pain proc)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNBMhNaknDq8wOPw1D4ExQVQhLeDEA5LMCpg2DxeOA-TlyCABe/AA2U9HtU+dy+D6pJAgTAgEHCgJOCA+pHgRlgkCAmxWA-w

(build doesnt use elite spec so you can run this without HoT aswell)

when you tab back into wvw from gw2wvw.net and notice 35 mad Charr Guardians just broke your watergate and are coming up the stairs.

Not sure if Ogre is trolling or kittened.

main problem is damage is way too high all over the place. people getting 10k aoe crits and stuff, every fault you make a death sentence in big zerg fights. lots of factors contributed, starting with ascended gear, losing vitality buff in wvw, more damage on skills and traits, nerfs to food etc etc.. could put a 50% damage reduction buff on the whole of WvW and it would be a lot more fun again.

“Mesmers , engineer’s and necros seem to hard counter POWER warriors right now.”

fixed that for you. shoutbow is back in town sheriffing it out with the cancer boys i tell you.

you kill condi classes by getting more cleanse and more healing. which is a bit hard if you are rolling power.. so, actually – you cant be helped sry :P there is no shame in bending your knee to kitten mesmer if your pride can take it :P if not – you’ll have to roll condi war ^^

Ross Biddle.2367:

Steelo.4597:

That’s an easy question! If the fight lasts under 20 seconds, power warrior wins. If it lasts between 20 and 50 seconds – condi warrior wins. If it lasts even longer – either can grab the win.

What’s your reasoning for the time windows?

hehe – well the serious answer is it comes down to skill… because its actually a pretty equal fight. but my reasoning was this: zerker warrior will use his stances/resistance to carry survivability over the first 20 seconds. during this time the power warrior is more or less invulnerable and has all the skills ready to bring home a nice burst and finish off the condi warrior with a few last swings. if condi warrior doesnt dodge CC or something he is basically dead because cant even get weakness on power warrior. after 20 seconds resistance runs out and since condi warrior survived up to this point he will prolly survive even longer because he has the same tools available all the time – dodge and leap and weakness (which now also actually does something..). so 20-50 seconds is the condi warrior’s time where he can actually do damage and if he lands a burst early the other guy probably cant recover untill stances are up again. if zerker warrior carries through this phase – props to him, both players are able to avoid the others danger moves – so now kitten comes down to who makes the first mistake.

That’s an easy question! If the fight lasts under 20 seconds, power warrior wins. If it lasts between 20 and 50 seconds – condi warrior wins. If it lasts even longer – either can grab the win.

Sick of people repeating arguments that were destroyed 2 years ago.

Thanks for this last patch, so many steps in the right direction. Even Moa nerfed And Cloaking Waters! So many good things and we finally have our beloved Alpines back. What i dont understand -why did the Siegerazer events get removed? Technical or Balancing/Design reasons? Also a little bit salty about the Quaggans not coming back. Beefing up your camp with a few extra quaggans was great and due to the repeatable nature middle of the lake was a point of constant action (and also bleeding).

Need some hard hitting melee to take out that relevant?

nice typo .))

apothecary shouts is your best bet for 1vX. condi warrior doesn’t need power and you-ll get all the condi duration you need from runes, traits, food no need to waste stats on it. its also a great support build for small groups, lots of healing and condi cleanse for everyone close.

“If people don’t like losing their towers and keeps when they are not playing…they can stay up all night and fight it. "

sure mate. the problem is caused by 695 ppt going out NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ONLINE. so to begin with your nightcappers are worth 500% of a regular primetime player.. but that doesnt disturb you one bit when you QQ about fairness? When you say “worth less” it is actually “not worth as much more as before”.