Guild Wars 2

Evan Lesh.3295:

Have you checked out the list of new stats?

To clarify how this works: a win is worth 10 pips and getting ANY amount of top stats gives 1 more.

Deaths;

This is just bad and shouldn’t happen. Every decent player in the game knows every single stat is pointless in this game. We shouldn’t encourage people to have bad gameplay just so they get a top stat.

anything but warrior will work. otherwise play your best class, revenant definitely carries hard in soloq, just burst their worst player in a teamfight and you instawin the game.

is this suppose to be impressive?

he makes a lot of errors but his awareness seems pretty good for a WvW player

aegis is 1s of invuln xD

I hope people realize grouch literally carried this game mode. He’s the only person at arenanet who cares about the health of pvp. It’s gonna really suck without him but hopefully he will have set the future brightly with season 5 and everything else he’s worked on.

OriOri.8724:

Spartacus.3192:

It should be balanced around ESL BUT ranked pvp should have similar rules like no stacking. IMO the no stacking rule in ESL whereas you can stack in Ranked Q is probably the biggest cause of balance issues and QQ currently.

Balancing around ESL means you are balancing around the expectation that there are premade teams that know each other, how they all work together, use teamspeak, and know they can count on their teammates to do what needs to be done.

This just isn’t true in general PvP however. It just isn’t. Balancing should be done around what the majority of the games will feature, which now will be random soloQs. If you balance around a situation that 99% of games won’t experience, then you are automatically making those 99% of games unbalanced.

Necro is a good example here. It is clearly balanced around ESL level play as its an absolute beast if the team can coordinate enough to keep it alive in a team fight. Yet in every other game there isn’t that level of support and Necro becomes an easy target, making it a much less effective class. Is this good balancing in that the class can be amazing in less than 1% of games but sucks in the other 99% because there isn’t enough coordination to keep it alive? No, that is not good balancing.

Balancing needs to be done around the average level of play

this is how you make necro work in soloq, 2 methods
1. get good
2. tell someone to roll ele, then tell them to stay on top of you the whole game

sexuallegend.2153:

LMAO DH doesn’t lose to any class? Oh man what a comical statement that is. Sorry OP, but I’ve literally taken on 2 Trap DH’s at the same time. The fight ended with my stomp anim playing above both of their bodies. If you want to learn how to defeat a DH, try watching episode 1 of Best Player, it’s linked in my signature.

duel me
darek.1836

weve done it before no one shows up. no one in this game cares about actually getting better. and the few that do care wont hear about it.

welcome to the ascended guardian club

Emdrix.6124:

The only class in the game that dosent require dodging and can just spam cooldowns like blocks and invul while standing still and dropping AoE damage. Despite how easy it is to play this class it also too rewarding for the amount of effort required. It also hard counters thief, mes , warrior , necro and invo rev and the other match ups it can stalemate so basically Dh dosent even lose to any class 1v1 ( unless you use some useless build made for 1v1 )

Combine that with the fact that normal games dont have proper class distribution system and even if 2 builds out of dozens are good vs DH you will most likely not have them in your solo Q to counter a stacked Dh trapper team.

Just give me a reason to play any other classs than DH in a normal ranked or unranked game. if I can just stand still and spam AoE damage while blocking half of the time and the other half being invul.

Something needs to be done about DH . Either cut the block duration in half or make it at least weak to condis.

The fact of the matter is a stacked Dh trapper team in solo Q is nearly impossible to beat with pugs so the pro league balance dosent matter to 99% of the player base. DH trapper is very OP in normal games that are not team vs team or the pro league games. Because you cant have an optimal comp and team coordination to take this build down especially when stacked together.

Its also the only class that I see stacked the most. teams with 3 warriors, 3 thieves, 3 mesmers, 3 eles or whatever dosent happen very often compared to teams with 3 DHs. I wonder why so many people play it well I think I know why…

do you think its fair my class will be utterly unusable in the highest tier of gameplay simply because you were too bad to dodge a single trap?

only 2 classes need a signet for 25% movement and thats necro (who all run warhorn) and thief (who have 400% [literally] uptime with dash). except eles but they get a lot of swiftness passively, though not permanently.
therefore its basically just guardian with no swiftness.

msalakka.4653:

I just had a match where we were 3v5 and the other two in my “team” got their cutscenes and didn’t use sups, just rushed in and insta-died. I’m no pro or anything but why after 700 games am I getting matched with these morons? Can’t you match them up with a team of other clueless idiots versus a team of comprising of the same. It’s a complete waste of my time with no chance at all.

what are sups?

its balanced in pvp that guard doesn’t have swiftness but everyone saying how retreat and staff are viable in anything that isnt map exploration are soo wrong lolz

theyre still there if you aoe near where they use to be then they come out xD

best patchaikovsky since cele was removed gj anet

druids better if you have HoT

dude when you come into spvp forum people are talking about pvp

@op
guard loses nothing so thats #1
followed by mes which beats most things
scrapper
druid
thief
rev

Lucentfir.7430:

Time for everyone to jump off the Spvp scene and onto WvW scene, time to make WvW roaming great again! /jk. I don’t get what people are going on about new competative content? Everyone wants the same boring game of ye’old conquest game type with a new map, and nothing else for the competative aspect of Spvp. If you try to suggest adding or making another game mode for ranked it’s shot down and argued that it would shrink/divide the player population. Really though I’m curious to wonder what people expect for new PVP content(aside from balance changes)

we literally just want season 5

if only i hadnt overextended on legacy we couldve gone to boston and u wouldve never shoutcasted 8’^)

Doctor.1905:

Azukas.1426:

So what did the Abjured change up their roster or just have sub

The abjured (astral authority) replaced Chaith with Zoose. After their huge loss against Vermillion, the abjured decided to kick out Chaith which is really odd considering Nos is the absolute worst abjured. NA will be caving into EU pressure by not playing the worst class in this game (tef) and using a meta mesmer for superior rotations and moa spams. Right now it seems like…
STRONGEST TO WEAKEST

Big Man Toker- rev
Captain Phantaram- DH or something else
Wakkey- ele
Zoose- mesmer
..
Nos- only class he can play

Let’s hope they can rip that smug smile off of Helseth.

this is actually really funny if you know how good those players really are lolz

GladConcept.4650:

Sorry, but Skyhammer is still a terrible map.

As a DH, I wish I was a reaper which is 1000% required on every competitive team.

dude the build in your description literally has more dodges than it can use if it permanently dodged xD
talk about skillless builds

Stop trying to cheat the system you know you weren’t suppose to get 10 boxes.
Back to PvE zergs with you

Kuya.6495:

ThatNAESLGuard.6238:

dont forget guard has never had a build without valor literally ever

Nah, i think you could change valor to virtues when facing power heavy comps thanks to the stab on f3. I know changing valor to virtues has made it much easier for me to handle revs since they can’t knock me out of f3 with surge of the mists. I do change back to valor if i see a lot of condi though.

your bad build doesnt count

dont forget guard has never had a build without valor literally ever

Nerf honor GM trait
/thread

Cynz.9437:

Rogue.2768:

Wow! Thanks for all the input! Was wondering how Guardiands(or Dragon Hunters) faire in pvp? Are they alright? I’ve got a guardian I’d like to continue playing, but I’d be willing to switch over if I’ll have a bad experience due to bad balance.

DHs (not guards) are FOTM atm. Easiest class to jump into pvp with probably and most overtuned atm – so yes, they are more than fine.
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wrong

Arcaedus.7290:

Skilled players don’t have much to fear though; even a 20% nerf to Purification is only going to bring it down to an instant 9.3k (before regen) which is more than enough to keep decent sustain as long as they don’t butcher f2 wings as well.

What do you know? Every kittening HP lost makes it only harder for me to play this in top tier. 2k HP is huge and you know it. How am I suppose to keep up with double heal revs and full HP every 10 second druid and engis with only nerfs? Do you even realize that guard is probably bottom 2 in the meta right now? Do you even have the capacity to understand that even if something may seem odd or broken it’s entirely balanced?
Probably not.

as always i suggest people don’t listen to bik on anything that you think would require a decent amount of game knowledge or skill to comment on. I know it’s irrelevant to some of the thing’s he’s saying but bik is a very unskilled player, just take that into consideration

gj on the content though.

Saiyan.1704:

ThatNAESLGuard.6238:

Dirame.8521:

So… with all these things in one class…. why isn’t he used in high level matches? It’s simply because, no one has found a good use for it yet and also because, no team has outright trashed anyone whilst using a DH. When they do, you will see teams using it.

Nearly every team will be running DH after the next tournament for this reaosn.

Not true, even if you get that “special comp”, utilizing a DH. Some people simply don’t main the class, it’s half the reason why Ele is used so often – players made it their “mains” when Ele was OP for a year and a half, so it’s their default comp.

That said, teams will slowly hop on the bandwagon if there’s indeed a viable comp (I believe there is) when DH is finally utilized correctly. It just wont happen as quickly as you think it would.

Ele is better than engi right now, that’s why its run. But people always flock to the meta if they aren’t already running it once someone wins a tournament with it.

Saiyan.1704:

A good DH will never lose to a Mesmer much like how a Druid should never lose to DH. That said, Moa is the best chance you have of winning. Use it when he’s mid health then burst him down.

A DH loses 5-10% to mes Cuz of moa.

Oh cool I thought there was a Barb for each team that you just had to hit to activate but that sounds much better

Dirame.8521:

So… with all these things in one class…. why isn’t he used in high level matches? It’s simply because, no one has found a good use for it yet and also because, no team has outright trashed anyone whilst using a DH. When they do, you will see teams using it.

Nearly every team will be running DH after the next tournament for this reaosn.

grouch when or i blow up ur skype

Good ideas +1.

Readding the situation and cd management has a massive skill difference regarding top level play imo

JordanJD.3209:

In NA I am sure I can bring 3-4 teams to the table just from our guild… if you bring 2v2

https://battlefy.com/team-never-lucky/nl-weekly-2v2-12/57f2f8ea8bec93160c2d1e03/info

See you next tuesday

Save distort for pulls
The best way for you to beat a guard is to gravity well him when he has no stunbreaks. Typically that means use diversion or something to proc his passive trap (36s cd) then wait for his shield of courage if he’s virtues (if he’s honor aka big symbols he has no other stunbreaks) and then use gravity well. kitten him up then and you win gz

edit: oh wow youre having problems with full trapper ok.
step1: wait for all his traps
step2: walk into them
step3: blink away (distort optional)
step4: use the above tip to proc his passive trap and then kittening destroy that bad

legend x5
played 208
won 159

kitten i lost my 78% winrate