Guild Wars 2

Gaaroth.2567:

Uhtameit.2413:

Having 16s CD on gear shield is bad, it means you have power wrench. That means you either you don’t have Protection Injection or Backpack Regenerator and both are invaluable.

For longbow rangers : remember the longbow does bad damage at close range, try to stun break then use shield as soon as they fire Point Blank Shot (their cc) so that you can avoid eating the whole Rapid Fire. PBS also has a specific animation you can look for (and dodge). I recommend pillar leeching until you can close the gap then remove Shared Anguish and/or land a couple nades.

For mesmers, it is also pretty tricky. You need to dodge the shatters which will mostly happen when they come at close range. If they try to kite you, fight on your terms : use LoS to your advantage. I’d say that 1v1 relies a lot on your ability to land magnet successfully. You could try to precast magnet from behind a wall then getting clear : you then land a little rifle/nades combo. That’s the turning point of that kind of 1v1. If you never land magnet, chances are you won’t manage to kill the mes.

Edit : yeh, as in any 1v1, landing overcharged shot will help relieve the pressure. Also, dodge the Berserker Phantasm :>

all good tips. FYI having power wrench is pretty meta: 60044 sharpnel, incendiary ammo, granadier, protection injection, backpack regenerator, speedy kits and power wrench ;-)

No vigor is sad though, +10% damage on pry bar doesn’t justify it and -4s Gear Shield CD-5s Magnet are really not worth 50% vigor uptime : 6 0 0 6 2 remains the overall best trait setup imo.

What could justify 6 0 0 4 4 is having elixir S for the minor at 3 points in tools , the throw can save you I suppose. Or packing elixir R. If you have neither, welp :’)

Having 16s CD on gear shield is bad, it means you have power wrench. That means you either you don’t have Protection Injection or Backpack Regenerator and both are invaluable.

For longbow rangers : remember the longbow does bad damage at close range, try to stun break then use shield as soon as they fire Point Blank Shot (their cc) so that you can avoid eating the whole Rapid Fire. PBS also has a specific animation you can look for (and dodge). I recommend pillar leeching until you can close the gap then remove Shared Anguish and/or land a couple nades.

For mesmers, it is also pretty tricky. You need to dodge the shatters which will mostly happen when they come at close range. If they try to kite you, fight on your terms : use LoS to your advantage. I’d say that 1v1 relies a lot on your ability to land magnet successfully. You could try to precast magnet from behind a wall then getting clear : you then land a little rifle/nades combo. That’s the turning point of that kind of 1v1. If you never land magnet, chances are you won’t manage to kill the mes.

Edit : yeh, as in any 1v1, landing overcharged shot will help relieve the pressure. Also, dodge the Berserker Phantasm :>

25 stacks mmmh. Imma go with no.

Michael Henninger.7451:

1258879 Closed as duplicate. If original is unsolved please post your first ticket.
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1243060 Waiting for competitive to confirm eligibility
1135170 Solved
1233395 Solved
1244969 Solved
1247144 Solved

Eligibility was confirmed over two months ago right here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Top-100-Players-from-each-previous-leaderboard

#1243060

I’ve already waited two months for my mini-llama, it’d be about time to fix that.

Not necessarily, they could have gotten the GW mail adress and the GW password from another website where you use the same IDs.

Even if you have a keylogger, they couldn’t get the mail password unless you type it which rarely happens : if you use a web browser, the password is probably saved (same if you use a mail client like thunderbird).

So yes, it is a security breach. The fact that players don’t secure their account is another issue entirely. Anet is making its own security system insecure. Quite the joke, don’t you think?

Maybe they didn’t have the time to put in the mobile authentication or maybe they just didn’t plan to do it at all. Not all the hackers use it, I guess (there’s no need to if they have your mail password).

And mobile authentication is way safer than mail authentication for two reasons :

1) It can’t be bypassed the way the mail auth is
2) They need your phone to authorize their IP and they’ll have a hard time getting it

The Texas IP is a glitch, it appears when you connect to the website/forums, apparently it’s because you go through some auth server in Texas. No worries.

If you did it yourself, nah.

Condition elementalist does not work against anyone that has decent condition removal and a lil bit of skill. Scepter elementalist is probably worse than dagger because it doesn’t have drake’s breath.

s/f condi ele : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz4DzKSlFBM

Exedore.6320:

Engineer
Incendiary Powder needs a big nerf. Even without Balthazar runes, it’s a huge chunk of damage that can’t be avoided at all and requires no extra work on the part of the engineer.

Uhtameit.2413:

About engineer : incendiary powder was already moved to master tier and engineer has no other way to do reliable condition damage other than that since the auto attacks suck and the bombs/grenades won’t work unless you’re close to the target. For instance, duel an ele with your engineer and ask him to run Stop, Drop and Roll. See how much damage you’ll do.

Pleasure to help.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Yeah like others have said already I bet you play a Mesmer, lol. Pulls, stuns and dazes for daaayss.. If any profession needs a nerf it’s Mesmers and that’s the only profession I’ve ever thought needed one. Not only are they confusing as hell to fight they can jerk you around like a ragdoll if you don’t have stability or enough stunbreakers. And as a Necro, stability is pretty well out of the question unless I want to go in to Plague and cheese blind spam them to death.
As for Sig of Spite, yeah I could see this needing a bit of a nerf. Personally I really dislike using anything that’s like an insta-win button. Sig of Spite is kitten close. It’s the “I don’t know how to stack all those conditions myself so it’s a good thing there’s a button that does it all in one attack” utility.

Mesmers are in need of help and have no viable build for tPvP.

Oh and try to put different passwords for the mail and the GW2 account (passwords you haven’t ever used).

Hello,

I wouldn’t have had to open this thread if you read this subforum since this issue was raised countless times but here we are. I don’t think any other subforum is really appropriate for this kind of feedback so I went ahead, feel free to move it if necessary.

Mail authentication is made useless by the mobile authenticator : if a hacker gets one person’s account name and password and then logs into the guild wars 2 website, he can enable Mobile Authentication which will bypass the mail authentication.

All you need to do is to create a mail confirmation, that way the hacker will have to get the account name, the GW password, and the mail password. Right now, mail authentication is useless because you created the mobile authentication. Which was created to secure accounts. And it does exactly the opposite for the majority of the playerbase. I truly have no clue how you guys could not spot that breach from a million miles away, you’re supposed to be professionnals.

Do I need to mention that many players don’t own smartphones, hence they can’t use the mobile authentication?

In the hope that it will get fixed soon™.

On a side note, you can’t undo the mobile authenticator from an Android phone. You ask for two codes and no matter which codes you do put in, it never works. Fixing that soon™ would be nice, too.

Your computer probably has a keylogger on it, I suggest you change your mail password from another computer ASAP then the GW2 password. It should help.

Then of course you should submit a ticket to remove the authenticator.

adozu.6398:

Whoever did it -clearly- arranged it specifically to make it hard to get it reversed. I find it pretty disturbing that you could completely outsmart the customer support if you wanted to mess someone up with something as simple as a backdoor or fake ip.

Not necessarily, OP said his GW account wasn’t the only thing that was damaged.

And I don’t find it disturbing that someone can outsmart them : it’s not hard outsmarting someone who won’t look at the evidence.

To give you another example of an issue in GW2 : right now the mail authentication is useless.

Wanna know why?

Because of the bêta mobile authenticator : if a hacker gets account name + password he can just go to the website and enable mobile authenticator which will bypass the mail authentication. They created one security system then made another which bypasses it. You could argue that it’s probably not Customer Support that’s responsible for it but still, they haven’t done anything about it (while all you would need to do would be to send a mail confirm so the hacker would have to get account name, password, and mail password).

Smooth Penguin is just like CS : they have rules and they follow them. They can’t be bend in the right direction, even if you just want to show some proof that they can’t get. They will just ignore you, pretend it doesn’t exist, and call it fair.

And btw you don’t even know what his proof is, but you act just like CS : you judge without knowing.

adozu.6398:

They could make a little stretch if they cared.

They don’t. Would probably be different if you had to pay for the game each month but as things stand, meh.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Uhtameit.2413:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

You need proof that the damage was done by a 3rd party. When Customer Support agents look at your game logs, they’ll see that no outside IPs accessed your account. Therefore they have no proof that you didn’t do the damage yourself. It’s the same as the “evil little brother” situation, where a family member or friend hopped on your PC and did something you didn’t want.

So the only advise is that you should have better computer security. A good anti-virus prog goes a long way.

Read again, he has proof, they just won’t listen.

Read again – game logs don’t lie.

You definitely need to read again. If his whole computer got hacked, of course they don’t lie, they just don’t contain all the necessary information to understand the situation. Pleasure to help.

Aaron.2413:

I have a level 80 mage, and a level 80 beast master ranger. I have played GW2 for a few months now, and I LOVE the game.. with the new PvP rewards, I have begun solo quing but my team is always losing…. I play my mage with phantasms and PU, and I win all my fights but my team still loses… What can I do to make my team win more. I think my record is like 6-51, I just dont know what to do. I am willing to change build or class if that helps!!! Please help me out so my team can start winning!!!

You’ve played a few months, have two characters level 80, and you don’t know you’re playing mesmer yet? and yeah PU is terrible in team fights.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

You need proof that the damage was done by a 3rd party. When Customer Support agents look at your game logs, they’ll see that no outside IPs accessed your account. Therefore they have no proof that you didn’t do the damage yourself. It’s the same as the “evil little brother” situation, where a family member or friend hopped on your PC and did something you didn’t want.

So the only advise is that you should have better computer security. A good anti-virus prog goes a long way.

Read again, he has proof, they just won’t listen.

If you want your ticket to be reviewed, you can post in the sticky at the top of the subforums.

I wouldn’t get your hopes too high if I were you, they tend not to listen to the players when said players contradict them and try to explain something. I had a similar experience and they blatantly ignored my mail by responding something along the lines of “we won’t be answering”.

I was expecting a “I’m #1 SoloQ and this is my opinion” thread.

Much disapointment.

I’m just gonna make a comment about Signet of Restoration since you seem quite clueless :

It was nerfed by 18% a year ago, PLUS it used to trigger 3 times per attunement, 1 time on EA, 5 times on #2 in earth and all of that is gone.

Now they rebuffed it by 17% because they realized that no one used it at all (maybe because it was nerfed too hard). They didn’t restore the other procs so it’s not back to what it was : it’s good, it’s not op. Not to mention, an elementalist that uses that heal will get kittened big time if he gets poisoned, bunker or not he will die.

Otherwise all the traits in earth require a pretty big sacrifice : 30 in earth, which is bad if the ele wishes to do damage and have decent condi removal. Written in stone is worthless compared to Heart of Stone which is okay since the ele won’t stay in earth attunement forever. There are many, many QQ thread about diamond skin which could be toned down.

About engineer : incendiary powder was already moved to master tier and engineer has no other way to do reliable condition damage other than that since the auto attacks suck and the bombs/grenades won’t work unless you’re close to the target. For instance, duel an ele with your engineer and ask him to run Stop, Drop and Roll. See how much damage you’ll do.

Flamethrower barely does any damage so incendiary ammo is fine. I wonder how we can be playing the same game tbh.

You tricked me into thinking you’re a spirit ranger ! you’re a mind ranger ! DD:

Spirit ranger ! We have a fine player here.

You’re saying we don’t have silver when we win now? Haven’t tried the patch just yet, I assumed it was still so.

How do we get gold then?

Lonely Hermit.1967:

Seriously, it was much better when we got gold… Do you really think that it is motivating to play for rewards that have absolutely no value?

When we had gold in sPvP? when was that? rewards that have absolutely no value? You mean like the PvP skins we used to get?

HeadCrowned.6834:

OneManArmy.9732:

mm necro is one of the easiest build almost fully carried by minions AI. so why not? its rly good choice for newbies/pvers that never played pvp before.

Yeh sure, cuz necro is very good in PvE ^o). Dont talk about things you don’t know.
Further more there are some easier classes to play in PvP such as warrior and thief (lame class) and much necro’s dont play MM at all.

You should learn how to read. He said it’s an easy spec for PvErs that haven’t PvP yet because you are carried by the minions.

Thief is far from being the easiest class, except if you just spam heartseeker or pistolwhip mindlessly, which will have limited success. You’re the one who’s clueless, darling.

Big Tower.5423:

OneManArmy.9732:

ele has best burst. unavoidable best burst.

Unavoidable is heavily exaggerated. Ever heard of a stunbreaker??

He’s speaking about Fresh Air burst. Hard to dodge the 2 instant lightnings.

I thought perhaps lingering elements was hindering the potential of the skill, sort of like how it does with Glyph of elemental power, only worse but thats not even the case

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glyph_of_Elemental_Power

“The determined condition does not change when swapping attunements and affects any source of direct damage. "

It’s unrelated to lingering elements.

Schwarzkopf.4081:

Uhtameit.2413:

Well, I guess you shouldn’t have transmutated your legendaries on weapons you were using to level-up. From that moment onwards, they were no longer legendaries, just skins. And that’s all you have now. That’s not related to the hack so I highly doubt Anet will do anything about it, even if they could.

Still, isn’t the skin the most important part of the legendary? at list you have two, and a few precursors. You can look pretty for what it’s worth.

Bro whats important with legendary isn’t just about the skin its also about the fact that u can change the stat whenever u want.
A lot of people have this problem and i hope ANET will be considerate about this.

Well, he did choose on his own to transmute it on another weapon. He’s solely responsible for it, it’s a problem he’ve created himself.

xanar.5892:

Oh my god… So it is not only me who was hacked recently (3 days ago). This is really annoying, when some stranger steal, destroy all the stuff, which were so hard to obtain. -.-

I like GW2 and i will not stop only becouse some idiot hacker stole my stuff, but I still hope that gw2 support will return my stuff, becouse i was hacked first time on my account.

They do that once per account so you should be alright

I think he means he met a thief with a sword. Gj xD

And yes, there are teleports in khylo and in many other maps.

Well, I guess you shouldn’t have transmutated your legendaries on weapons you were using to level-up. From that moment onwards, they were no longer legendaries, just skins. And that’s all you have now. That’s not related to the hack so I highly doubt Anet will do anything about it, even if they could.

Still, isn’t the skin the most important part of the legendary? at list you have two, and a few precursors. You can look pretty for what it’s worth.

Cecilia.5179:

I cannot see the reasoning behind many of these changes.

I strongly suggest not to look for one.

If you want to make perfectly sure, just go to “My Account”, “Security” and look at the authorized IP adresses. Those that are not in that list will need your mobile phone to get in it

Pretty sure it’s a mechanic to make sure you get to revive quicker (when it doesn’t bug, you get revived after getting stomped by those NPCs).

Haseus.8526:

but nobody is saying to just rely on the alarm.

We have yet to wait for an electrician to come by, in any case

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Actually, she is saying is it is always better to have a strong lock and door, than to just rely on an alarm. Sometimes, the electricity goes out. =)

Do you think it left the door open on its way out?

That’s actually true, if someone gets your account name and password it’s entirely unrelated to your authentication.

He’s just saying that ArenaNet should do something about the alarm, but you should make sure your door and lock are good too. Nothing wrong with that

I think he means soloQ in the new hotjoin.

Skyhammer farming was nerfed when Anet made it so the score is not longer related to the amount of glory you receive. Maybe it’s back now with the reward track, I don’t know.

As for their motives, I’d guess the whole game is a farm for them and they want pretty finishers for WvW. Other than that I have no clue.

Come come, Lord Kuru. Inculpatus is not denying that flaw, just pointing out that there are steps to be taken for players too

katniss.6735:

What is the point of this video? Most elementalists do this exact same thing with staff. I play staff in full zerkers exotic and do the same thing, barely ever dying, vs much larger blobs, and have constant streams of loot bags on the right side.

Careful now, he’s going to attack you personally and get infracted for it.

Actually the best security is mobile authentication since you can’t bypass it without having the phone \o/

In the event that they get the password + account name, the mail authentication can be bypassed by using the mobile authentication.

That’s the issue. There should be a mail confirmation that you wish to use mobile authentication.

Only solution : use the mobile authenticator. If you don’t have a smartphone, well, uh, you’re screwed.

Seriously though there should be a mail confirmation, someone should suggest this to Anet. Maybe Gaile Gray will come around and see it.

Super Riceman.8702:

[The point of putting your own is so that you can see the change you want in the game, unless you want to keep worthless minors longer, they wont know what you want till you say it. If you wait for them to read your mind and keep getting dissapointed, you will die an old man.]

They probably won’t know even if I tell them because they don’t read everything. Why, you may ask. It’s simple : a good part of those threads are made by clueless players.

Many people have asked for more survivability. They’ve given us one GM trait that is good for that purpose, reduced the CD of Earth Armor, and buffed Celestial amulet. They’re doing okay, I’m not disappointed but I have no doubt that you are. I have nothing against the idea of dying while being an old man, btw. If you wish to end your life, I suggest you get help. Trolololo.

Super Riceman.8702:

[Its not proccing only on ranged attacks I meant in the situation that ranged attacks do enough damage, its not an alignment of the stars for ranged attacks to trigger it and in that case it would help, its not like there is a class with only melee skills, obviously it wont help as much in melee but reflection has never done anything to that. Not all attacks will be projectiles but it shouldn’t be a guardian elite on a 15s cooldown]

What you fail to consider is that if you have two people on you chances are one of them is not using ranged attacks. So you can still get damaged and interrupted…hence the trait is worthless. Let’s not get into why there are better traits because there is a lot to be said about that, too.

You messed up with the screens, just click on “more posting & formatting options”, then attach them to your post. Also your engi kinda looks like a ranger xD

Pretty much, yes. It’s kind of an issue really, there should be a barrier protecting you from them abusing the mobile authentication. A mail confirmation, for instance :p

they can probably just as easily steal the password to any email account associated with said game, I would think.

Not necessarily, and in any case it’s still one more step for them so it’s good anyway.