Guild Wars 2

Katran.9186:

Uhtameit.2413:

Ele will be good support after the patch.

Why do you think so?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEAQFAWhMM6a25wwBd0AA5BMvAw4RIjAQpwOA-TkAgzCmIuRdj7GzNybs3M+A

This is just an example of build, you could get something similar now (0/0/10/30/30) that would be almost as good.

After the patch though, going 30 into earth will be good to get the new GM, so you can get Rock Solid (group stability every 11s) and you can get Cleansing Water or +25% outgoing heal at 30 in water (depending on the team you’re facing).

AoE heal, AoE cleanses, AoE ccs and a little of damage on top of that. Staff ele will be an excellent support class.

XGhoul.7426:

This is an old bug which I’m surprised someone actually used in a match, since it is being addressed now can we get a fix on the Foefire teleport glitch to lord? the obvious exploit to break the map on Forest to get to the enemy base (on any side)? maybe??

The glitch to get to the red lord was fixed ages ago as far as I know.

There was some thread about the observer system.

Basically a dev said that can’t be done with the current system because it is very complicated, so come back in two years I guess.

Got it :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Spectator-Mode-Solo-Team-Matches/first#post3835609

Evan Lesh.3295:

We can’t support GW1 style observer mode and recordings yet due to the fact we use Havok. The simulations are not deterministic so we have to figure out a way around that first. Basically, its way harder to do in GW2 than GW1.

Btw, the leaderboards are so broken that it’s not that much of a loss that no one can see them IG, if you ask me. The matchmaking is terrible, too.

I guess they just like warriors.

To be honest nerfing this while not introducing new ways to deal with conditions for engineer was just plain silly. Automated Response was a very bad and lazy way to give engi a way to deal with conditions for starters (useless in team fight, op in 1v1), and now they don’t have it anymore.

I’ve never used it but I’d like to see some condition removal on kits now, like :

“Remove 2 conditions when swapping in or out of a kit (15s CD)”

How hard could that be?

They won’t allow to trade anything. Use what you can, you won’t be able to use it all anyway. Oh and yes they’ll be removed on the 15th.

Condition elementalist is not viable atm : you don’t have enough conditions that you can apply, therefore you can’t cover your damaging conditions which will be cleansed easily.

That being said, you could try this out :

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEAQFAWhcMacW2wwBd0AApAMjHg8BJlH7MjNA-ToAg2CuIaS1krJTTymsNN640B

You can support and do some good condi damage with this. You’ll be somewhat vulnerable to conditions though.

You have access to 6 bleeds, 4 ways of applying burn and poison so you can probably do a bit of damage and kill noobs with that kind of build.

Oh and btw rabid is a bad choice for condi ele, you don’t need the crit.

cheese.4739:

Why have you got your offhand weapon held in your main hand, with your mainhand weapon sheathed ready to be drawn by that same hand?

It’s a new legendary so it’s a bit buggy.

They also didn’t warn you to spend the pvp materials. By the way, you can’t spend your crafting materials even if you had wanted to from the get go, you get too many crafting materials from salvaging.

It wouldn’t have been very hard to create a npc to trade materials for gold but hey, I guess they just don’t care.

Ele will be good support after the patch.

If you don’t have tokens or glory, you’re pretty much screwed. You can thank Anet for that.

It’s getting nerfed but decap engis will still be annoying.

http://dulfy.net/2014/03/28/gw2-ready-up-episode-9-livestream-notes/

Avead.5760:

Uhtameit.2413:

Avead.5760:

Staff ele =lower condi group cleanse

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Healing_Rain

+ Cleansing Water

Sorry, what?

Yeah thats why i put an “or” inbetween there.. i meant if you go with ~45% more outgoing healing kind of build with new gm instead of cleansing water which is for me at least a pretty valid choice for some of cases.You can always swap them before match anyway.
My point of the post was that its not staff ele that will be stronger than beforebut all kinds of ele for several kinds of role..that is compared to the stuff the other classes seem to get or .. lose

isn’t it +25% outgoing healing via the GM trait? I’m guessing you’re counting Rune of The Monk probably too. It’s the way to go anyway, I guess.

Avead.5760:

Staff ele =lower condi group cleanse

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Healing_Rain

+ Cleansing Water

Sorry, what?

Coulter.2315:

Where do the Ready Up notes get published all in one place btw? I’m probably just being stupid and failing to read the obvious forum thread but any help would be appreciated.

https://www.google.ca/#q=dulfy+gw2+ready+up+notes

There you go.

The people you are mad at won’t ever go to the forums.

Yes, bunker staff eles will be unstoppable. Gj you can read ready up notes, you are amazing.

Lucentfir.7430:

Hambow, at least with the build I ran, on engi for condi, dual pistol, Toolkit, Bombkit, and Shirk Elixer, I tore apart warriors, Kite around The Warrior and wait till Zerker stance expires, throw your first load of conditions on him by using bomb kit, spam, and overload his bar, make him proc SoR, kite him again, load him up again with pistol skills. with my build I used I think 20/30/0/20/0 with Rabid’s amulet. Sitting Duck Trait for the easy cover condition on Glue Shot, burning completely nulls and even damages Warrior with HS, add posion, confusion and and stacks of bleed you’ll easily burn them down. I use bombs for anti melee, if someone is chasing me I lay down a bunch of bombs, and if they take a second to back off I’ll go back to pistol and spam them with conditions. I see a lot of engineers use grenades, in Spvp but I think that’s because it’s ranged, spammable, also it has really long poison duration.

You’ll have some trouble kiting a hambow. Also, any half-decent warriors won’t walk in your bombs and if he does he’ll use his stance then and stunlock the kitten out of you. You’ll take some damage anyway from the longbow and at some point you’ll be unable to cleanse Pin Down and you’ll be in for another stun lock. In sPvP engis usually run 30 10 0 20 10 or 30 0 0 30 10 but still, I find it very annoying to fight hambows. You can win, sure, but you have to put three times the effort they put, and it will take a very long time.

Anyway, we’re getting off topic here

Althalos.6734:

Uhtameit.2413:

I know quite a few decent guardians who use torch with scepter in PvP so it’s not that weak. For instance it’s quite good coupled with sword/focus and the GM trait that gives +15% crit one one-hand weapons.

Again, no no no no, I suggested to get the trait to chill because the OP asked for soft cc options. This is one of the few guardian already possesses. Don’t bend my words into some other meaning : the trait is not amazing, but it is a soft cc. And it is pretty much reliable if you use it with the GM i just mentionned that could get you around 65% crit.

Glacial Heart works with hammer only which is a two handed weapon, Right-Hand Strength doesn’t apply here. In addition, you have to sacrifice Monk’s Focus (read sustain) if you want to have Focused Mind for Fury and Glacial Heart at the same time.

Right xD I completely forgot about that. Yeah you have to give up a lot to get Glacial Heart but tbh that traitline has so many good traits.

bhagwad.4281:

But the fact that he’s equating previous rank up chests to the ones we get now…I mean come on. It’s hardly surprising that we ask him which planet he’s been living on.

He’s saying that they’ve been rewarded, that much is true. I’d like to see him comment on that because I honestly can’t defend him on that one.

@Gesamtkunstwerk.6590

So yeah, I stated that LB are meaningless and what do you know, I don’t play tournament. What are the odds?

I mostly enjoy my ele and I don’t wanna play it in the meta that’s been around for months now.

That aside, I’m not asking for anything, I’m explaining that your behaviour is toxic and you’re not even helping your case…Btw, how is being a casual “filthy”? xD you should probably get some help, buddy.

I main ele (scepter / focus roamer and staff team-fighter), but have a decent amount of experience playing warrior (longbow + mace / sword home defender, roamer, far point assaulter), guardian (staff + mace / focus mid bunker), engi (rifle far point assaulter / decapper / bunker) and mesmer (greatsword + sword / focus trebber)

mmmmh, condi war, bunker guard, decap engi, you so pro <3 I’m sure you having tons of stuff playing those classes

It was, but Anet won’t admit to it nor do anything about it so that’s that.

Gesamtkunstwerk.6590:

Player Static.9841 [Jane Woo]

Total games played solo queue: 26
Current rank solo queue: 9,000 (highest rank, 605)

Total games played team queue: 528
Current rank team queue: 9,000 (highest rank, 959)

How you can sit there and believe your opinion carries any weight whatsoever when it comes to what is due to veteran players is what is truly hilarious and hypocritical.

Yes, I know… your disrespectful and ill-conceived opinions are completely unrelated to your lack of experience and success in pvp, or the fact you have everything to gain and nothing to lose from the rank changes. It certainly has nothing to do with your jealous resentment or sense of victimization toward players who achieved a higher rank and leaderboard standing than you. Everything you say is completely true and objective.

Yeah, someone like you is highly credible.

I fail to see how his rank on the LB means anything. Most high rank peeps agree to say the LB are meaningless so…

bhagwad.4281:

Static.9841:

bhagwad.4281:

Static.9841:

bhagwad.4281:

Static.9841:

constant bashing of players below a certain set criteria

Citation please.

Look for yourself in similar threads, I’m not going to feed your laziness or ignorance.

However, you did tell me to just accept injustice. Know that not all of us make that choice.

Did I? Where? I pointed out that MY expectation was low for them to do anything considering how long it takes them to do anything in this game.

Yup. Sure. They already got their chests.

P.S. Just to make sure you know what you’re talking about, can you tell us your rank and the contents of the last rank up chest you received?

Irrelevant. I’m not going to perpetuate the garbage idea that person of X rank has no relevant opinion just because YOU decide it to be that way whilst touting your personal idea of injustice making it blatant hypocrisy.

The fact is I’ve never bashed anyone of any rank and I challenge you to give me even one instance of it. Your’e just grandstanding. Probably you got me mixed up with someone else and only now realized your mistake and are too embarrassed to admit it.

Static.9841:

I’m not going to perpetuate the garbage idea that person of X rank has no relevant opinion

Your words. Not mine. You gave the game away and made me realize that you don’t know what you’re talking about as soon as you said that r70’s had already received their rank up chests. This is not about a “relevant opinion”. It’s about ascertaining whether or not you are in any position to be an authority on what you’re talking about.

Oh how you children decide to raise the bar any time an opposing opinion comes your way, first it’s R55s, now it’s anyone under R70, seriously, you’re incredibly boring and contradictory. You say you don’t perpetuate the idea that you have to be a certain rank to have an opinion or know what they are talking about has to be X rank and yet, you just did.

I’ve been playing PvP since launch as have many friends, I’m well aware of the time investment and just like you Boy Wonder, I’m entitled to my opinion whether you deem it valid or not simply because you want to set your own prerequisites.

There’s no point arguing with you, you want to gloss over any valid point in an utterly childish way and maintain you are the keeper of justice. Hilarious and hypocritical.

Wait a minute. You say you’ve played PvP since the start and you still equate the new rank up chests with skill tomes, gold and chance of precursors to the ones you used to get when you ranked up before.

Something’s not right.

Well they aren’t equal but with the glory you’ve got you had a shot at getting tomes, at the very least. As for gold, whether it’s for PvE or PvP I doubt it’s that much gold anyway (if we’re talking about the PvE gear in the chests, that is). Finally, a chance of precursor? You still need the gift of exploration to get a legendary out of it…how would you get it if you’re playing PvP? Does it really matter anyway since you’ll get chests when you rank up again and again and you’ll get a precursor then?

Is this situation annoying to high ranks : yes
Will whining while being rather rude to people who ask to stop whining help your case : I doubt it.

@Lucentfir

Guardian never was the beast roamer out there because it is far from having the best mobility. If it doesn’t have a target, it has a very poor mobility actually. And perhaps I did assume wrong, but you didn’t mention Lyssa and the possibility to be able to use it is very nice for guards.

To be honest it’s easy to overload anyone with conditions if they take your grenades/bombs except : war and necro.

About the heals, I know. Already commented on that, I’m not going that way twice.

Fighting a hambow is most dangerous for the opponent of course, though guardian probably stands okay-chances (since my engi depends on doing condi damage and cc, good luck with Berserker Stance/ Balanced Stance/ Rune of Lyssa).

As for guardian vs engi, a duel where the engi uses his crate is pretty hard to win (except if you play hambow). Tbh bombs in a duel are just so unreliable I don’t really get how they can prove much of an issue (unlike grenades), they’re more of a way to make sure you don’t come close.If they have rocket boots/tool kit/ grenades or bombs, they don’t have a stun breaker (that’s what I run actually) which puts them at risk against a few other classes so you know…paper, scissors, etc…

@Aza

Nah nah nah I never meant that scepter has 1200 range, nothing will land at that range. Even the wiki says that “The maximum damage range for scepters is 940 – 1,060” (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scepter ). I meant that it’s a short range option, you can use it at say 400-600. Scepter is actually pretty good in sPvP AFAIK.

I know quite a few decent guardians who use torch with scepter in PvP so it’s not that weak. For instance it’s quite good coupled with sword/focus and the GM trait that gives +15% crit one one-hand weapons.

Again, no no no no, I suggested to get the trait to chill because the OP asked for soft cc options. This is one of the few guardian already possesses. Don’t bend my words into some other meaning : the trait is not amazing, but it is a soft cc. And it is pretty much reliable if you use it with the GM i just mentionned that could get you around 65% crit.

Oh, okay. Well maybe he can get some skins.

insanemaniac.2456:

1800+ toughness isnt glass…

I thought we were talking about sPvP. In PvP you won’t do near enough damage to kill a warrior without berserker amulet.

Super.2749:

i opened 100 chests. My luck didn’t move a single % not even 1% lol.

You have to salvage the items to get the luck…xD we’re talking about mystery chests, right? you’ll get a lot of luck if you salvage the items. Probably still true for random chests.

So you’re running both protection and stabilized armor. Yeah, it probably helps a good deal. Still, you’re glass so you’re bound to take some damage.

If not with that build, then I challenge you to have fun with rifle/ axe+shield build. Eventually you’ll eat kill shot or eviscerate for 11k. Tons of fun.

Chase.8415:

I love how you are raging at your team for a close inc, then complain how no one showed up and you’re actually standing at Far.

Of course no one is going to show up, you’re telling them to go to the wrong point.

I already pointed it out, but I would love to see the OP answer.

@Lucentfir

Come come now, you could spell my nick properly . Yes, in WvW, why not. In PvP, even full zerker you won’t do near enough damage with such traits.

Concerning Rune of Lyssa : it is a must in PvP and so is Renewed Focus. Of course it is 90s, but…on the other hand, it’s another full cleanse (well it will “only” remove 5 conditions after the patch but it’s still good). A full cleanse on top of decent condition removal abilities allow guardian to cleanse rather well. Btw, all the good guardians in PvP use Rune of Lyssa (or Rune of Speed to a lesser extent). I assume you don’t play sPvP very often otherwise you would know how amazing that set of runes is.

Signet of Resolve isn’t reliable indeed, my point is that you have access to options to get condition removal without hurting the meditation build (that still stands since the trait to reduce CD is not hard to get).And yeah you’ll have to give up something to get the -1condition per 10s trait but not the meditation CD reduction ofc. Just saying you can get condition removal (which is a good thing in this meta).

I am just saying guardians have good condition removal if they want to, kitten xD

I keep bringing it because it gives ranged options if you’re being kited a bit. sPvP (the mode i’m talking about, not WvW where you’re frustrated that your ennemies kite you) is conquest, which means people tend to stay on point. Still, they can move outside of Smite (you can immobilize them…) but at least they take one of two hits from it. No one will ever stand in it except noobs. Again, a lot of skilled guardian players use scepter in sPvP.
I honestly don’t know which game mode you’ve been playing.

I know why warriors are op and I don’t need you to explain it to me.Btw, sPvP warriors use Rune of Lyssa too, not rune of melandru.Guardian is strong, so strong that good guardians with meditation builds manage to kill hambows (ask Phaeton, I have no clue how he does it but he claims he can).

As for an engineer, know this : the best way for an engineer to use grenades/ bombs is if you chase him. So don’t, you’re sure to take them all in your face if you do.Save your meditation teleport to use GS cc or whirl on his face when he runs. If all he does is running and he doesn’t wanna fight, I agree it’s gonna be impossible to kill him, but the same could be said about many classes.

As for necros, Dhuumfire is getting nerfed so I fail to see your point.

I think you only play WvW and I suggest you try sPvP, you might see the game in a new light.

Hayashi.3416:

Ele: Scepter, because that’s a PvE thing.

XDDDDDDDDDDD

Nice joke. In case you’re not trolling, you should know that almost all the skilled elementalists in PvP use s/d or s/f (to a lesser extent staff since it’s not really viable) because it offers the best AoE burst in the game.

PeepMeDown.5017:

This gonna be a massive nerf. Hopefully lyssa nerf will make up for it but im doubtful. The removal of perplexity runes from the patch also doesn’t help as i imagined they thought the rune set would offset the loss of dhumfire. Its a shame lord rosicky will have to reroll to get no 1 again :P
Necros aren’t strong now and haven’t been since last summer. So all those people saying they deserve it are clearly don’t have any knowledge of the current meta.

Perplexity runes would have made every single condi build unstoppable.

Phantom Master.9582:

If they plan to do this to dhuumfire they should at LEAST buff the bleeding back to its original state. Why are they taking this away from necros? Necros are fine!

Not if you’re playing ele or engi.

cheese.4739:

Liewec.2896:

it would also mean that the rest of us don’t have to switch servers everytime the rotation gets back around to skyhammer.

Yeah a pretty accurate way to check how popular a map is: count the number of hotjoin servers that are empty and sitting on it. They’re all bloody Skyhammer.

That’s because it’s the first map of the rotation…xD

magic fly.2041:

Necromancer : Warhorn, because it is too easy to self-interrupt the weird casting time on #5.

It has an unblockable cc. The only thing that will cancel a block in the game. And it is AoE. How could that be your weakest weapon? xD

Time to put those 30 points elsewhere then. Yay for build diversity. Tbh though it might have been better to put the burn on Dark Path and increase the duration a bit.

Lucentfir.7430:

hooma.9642:

so this thread is about: “i ignored the class-philosophy and picked a guard but wanted a warrior in secret”?

I don’t get how asking for some Soft CC(at least from me and a few others) to stick to moving foes is wanting a Warrior in secret. Also most of our builds we sacrifice for things(as it should be) we want to do with our guard. Warriors have high base HP pools, and Armor, greatest mobility speeches are obviously aimed at GS users, or the troll GS/S+W build using Bull’s Charge, outside of those builds though Warriors have decent mobility. They don’t have to sacrifice as much to get other things compared to the other classes.

Because guardian is already strong and the lack of soft cc is the only thing keeping it from becoming a new warrior. If you want to stick to your fleeing opponents so bad, just get Rune of Speed.

That warrior must not have been using Endure Pain and Balanced Stance/Rune of Lyssa properly then. Otherwise he can just nullify your burst and keep you from cc-ing him.

In the end you’ll take eviscerate or earthquaker and you will die.

@Lucentfir.7430

No matter what you say, an elementalist with 30 arcana and 20 or 30 points in arcane can’t do that much damage. Sure, it can be glass and still deal some damage but it will be significantly less damaging than someone who bothers going 30 into air.

Are you really playing guardian? Seems you forgot scepter has an immobilize. I’ll let the glass engi out because my point really was that you need to be close range to burst.So yes, I never denied that guardian has less soft cc options : what I said from the get go is that it has good offensive abilities and better defensive abilities than most. Adding soft cc on top of it would make it op.

For the last time, d/d does no damage when it is at 400-600 so it NEEDS the soft cc. A guardian can use scepter/torch or scepter/focus and still be effective at that range. How is that complicated? =__=

I admit in my last post that ele can have better condition removal so why are we even going there? anyway, yes, if you put 30 points into a defensive traitline and then use a utility specially designed to remove conditions in that case it is obvious you will be able to remove conditions easily . You could build your meditation guardian to get some condition removals too, if you add on top of that rune of lyssa (which is not viable with an ele due to the long CDs on the elite) and contemplation of purity you get condition cleanses that are at least as good as an elementalist without ER.

As I keep reading your post, it seems you are unaware of those possibilities. You can get the trait to remove 1 condition per 10s, and even run the heal Signet, one more condition per 10s. That, on top of Smite condition (1 /16s) and rune of lyssa/Contemplation of purity gives you something that is just as good if not better than an ele without ER.You could even get the trait that removes 3 conditions when you use one of the virtues (can’t remember which) and it would be even stronger.

Now ER has two weaknesses I’ll explain before you go into this further :

1) you channel it for more than 3s so you are giving time to your opponent
2) it can be interrupted from the very start so that you get no heal from it, and you will die

Again, high risk, decent reward.

Now that conditions are out of the way (you seem to be unaware of lyssa being so strong), I hope you will finally see that ele and guardian are almost on par for that matter.

There is one point I would like to tackle now :

If you add guardian base armor (2400 for a glass meditation guard compared to 1800 for ele and 1900 for engi I think) + Shield of Wrath + Shelter + Renewed Focus + the blinds : yes, guardian has far better survivability and ways to nullify damage.

My point was that d/d ele has no ranged options whatsoever and is more fragile. Can you at least try to follow?

Now let’s move on to what you said about ele (I fail to see any reasoning whatsoever but there are so many flaws that I have to point them out):

-the new blast finisher is in water which makes it useless to stack might (which you would know if you weren’t clueless about ele). Of course you’ll ask why : if you use ring of fire you are attacking the ennemy, you are not about to go into water attunement and heal.
Beside that, yes, it is getting an evade on Burning Speed but it’s still not a ranged option. It will have a very slightly better survivability. With 30 water and 20+ arcana you don’t look like much of “damage based” elementalist, btw.

-Ele does have better condition removal than guardian if

1) the ele is using Ether Renewal
2) ER is not interrupted

2) being the equivalent of 3) you are playing against noobs

-Finally,scepter ele does have some nice burst but it is not easy to land, it has a far bigger CD than the guardian’s, and it has far less survivability (I’m trying to sum up a bit ’cause I have no clue where you are going).

As for engis :

Yes, immobilize and kb allow engis to land their burst. Except, you know, against good players that use their stun breakers. But regardless of that, I don’t make it sound like it’s hard to land those skills : what I said is that a burst engi (not necessarily a SD one with utility goggles which is an awful utility choice) won’t make enough damage if he doesn’t land those skills which are close ranged skills (Pry Bar, Overcharged Shot, Blunderbuss, Jump Shot…all close range) !

To sum it up : after comparing power spec base stats to condi spec base stats, proving you seem to be new to elementalist regarding how useful a blast finisher can be/ what a burst ele’s traits look like, and demonstrating your lack of understanding as a whole, I hope you will get my point (you don’t look very well informed about the state of the game though and you seem to only play the easiest builds, which could very well be linked).

Glass engineer and glass elementalist can have ranged options, but they will need to get close to burst. Yes, scepter ele has a better burst than guardian (but on a bigger CD) and yes elementalist can have better condi removal. But my point was that guardian has much better survivability and since pretty much all classes need to get close to burst (in that process, they take the risk to get bursted themselves), Guardian has a significant advantage thanks to its insane survivability and its many ways to nullify a burst which other classes do not possess.

TL,DR :

Guardian = Low Risk, High Reward
Elementalist = High Risk, Low/Decent Reward
Glass engi = High Risk, Low Reward

Nary Why Irk.8150:

Uhtameit.2413:

Nary Why Irk.8150:

it sucks to see everyone getting dragon when others have worked hard for it.
It sucks to see r55+ players lose their excess rank points in order to get on the same boat that less dedicated players.
It sucks to be getting less rewards than pver´s and less ranked players.

Nary Nary Nary :

1) playing only skyhammer maps in hotjoin with a cc engi
2) farming skyhammer

are not “hard work”. Besides, this is a game, it’s not work.

Get on Solo Q leaderboards and watch my rating, scrub.
Being top 5 Europe Solo Q is hard work Mr. Flamer

You only play decap engi so I doubt the gameplay is that hard to master. It seems I have yet to repeat myself : a game is not work.

You can pretend you’re not a skyhammer farmer who then moved on to only playing cc engi on skyhammer HJ but it doesn’t change the fact that we know it to be true.

This is hardly the matter of the thread so if you please, let us stay on topic.

bhagwad.4281:

Uhtameit.2413:

Nary Why Irk.8150:

it sucks to see everyone getting dragon when others have worked hard for it.
It sucks to see r55+ players lose their excess rank points in order to get on the same boat that less dedicated players.
It sucks to be getting less rewards than pver´s and less ranked players.

Nary Nary Nary :

1) playing only skyhammer maps in hotjoin with a cc engi
2) farming skyhammer

are not “hard work”. Besides, this is a game, it’s not work.

You have to prove that a majority of high rankers are sky hammer farmers. Unless Anet breaks out the numbers, we have to assume they’re insignificant and not worth consideration.

The whole “skyhammer” issue has turned into a convenient justification for misplaced egalitarianism.

I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. Most high rank players are not skyhammer farmers. Nary is one though, and when skyhammer farming got “nerfed”, he decided to play skyhammer hotjoin with a cc decap engi instead. Therefore he can’t pretend to deserve anything imo. I was only referring to him.

Nary Why Irk.8150:

it sucks to see everyone getting dragon when others have worked hard for it.
It sucks to see r55+ players lose their excess rank points in order to get on the same boat that less dedicated players.
It sucks to be getting less rewards than pver´s and less ranked players.

Nary Nary Nary :

1) playing only skyhammer maps in hotjoin with a cc engi
2) farming skyhammer

are not “hard work”. Besides, this is a game, it’s not work.

insanemaniac.2456:

Bombsaway.7198:

Look, every class has some other class or build that is tough for it (save warrior but don’t get me started on warrior).

gets you started
make any power warrior run away (just beware eviscerate)
make any condi warrior run lolololol

A warrior with hammer/ axe+shield will eat you. Or any warrior with hammer, for that matter.

XGhoul.7426:

Uhtameit.2413:

Actually if there is 500-500 I think the winner is decided by the highest individual score. Here, both teams have the same highest individual score, so that’s why

No, everyone’s score is added together, in this case Reds Total Points (785) > Blues Total Points (675), so his team lost.

He said no one won though.

Actually if there is 500-500 I think the winner is decided by the highest individual score. Here, both teams have the same highest individual score, so that’s why

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Sure the 10% damage reduction isn’t amazing combine that with one or 2 traits and you could have Protection for another 33% damage reduction and/or Swiftness and Fury. Sure the healing isn’t amazing with no Healing Power mine has like 800Healing Power and that is a 2,100healing done, i take the cool down reduction trait as well which helps.

I would say the Fire skills need to be redone, the Fire Aura is decent but needs a cool down reduction at the very least. The Water spells need to be totally redone. Air is okay, cool downs could be adjusted. Earth could do with little changes as well. Obsidian Flesh needs like a BIG cool down reduction. Magnetic could do with little tweaks.

So you’re running bunker or something? in sPvP it would be bunker anyway with 800 healing power oO. The daze in water is okay, the chill is kinda meh. Obsidian flesh is actually very good when you think about it, you are immune and have access to all your skills for kitten the CD makes sense. The 4th skill in earth does damage, removes 3 condis and reflects projectiles so again the CD makes a lot of sense imo.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Uhtameit.2413:

Not denying it, far from it. Focus is just a defensive weapon while a dagger obviously is an offensive one.

Dagger is “more” offensive…Yet it comes with Heal, Damage reduction Aura, 2 CC and Mobility.

Yes but most dagger skills offer some nice damage. In water, the aura gives -10% damage (it’s nice but not that big of a deal) and the heal is 1k2 every 40s. If you consider focus, with 4 air and 4 earth you have around 10s immunity against projectiles which can prove way more helpful than just a 1k2 heal every 40s. And on top of that you’ve got a 4s immunity to everything. You have two CCs with focus too, btw. And yes, you have more mobility with dagger but that makes sense since it’s an offensive weapon.

So yes, it’s more defensive but clearly the fire skills need to be reworked. Dagger is overall much more fun but it doesn’t serve the same purpose

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Uhtameit.2413:

I like it but there’s little chance that Anet will see it.

Either that or will ignore it. I have a thread i made about the same issue over 2 weeks old and no red comment or anything.

OP, check out my thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Sigils-Ele-and-Engineer-punished/page/2#post3867687

Had a few ideas posted. See what you think.

The OP mentionned your thread in his second post ^^

Mighty Meak n°2