Before last ranked season I had a month break from spvp, trying out fractals and other pve stuff I haven’t bothered before. Hated constantly leaning for 1 on my revenant and pressing it on “ad infinitum” or at least “ad” I no longer feel my left pointing finger after some hours of fractal grind under quickness boon. So yeah, decided I give Action Camera a try. Liked it instantly and got used to it and just can’t simply play without it any more xD It was very OK until I went deep into spvp again.
I main two classes, revenant and a thief and can surely say that playing with Action Camera on a thief may punish and cripple your mobility a lot (shadow step or bow’s 5 harder to use, taking more time for targeting or simply impossible to target from some angle). On a revenant it’s not really bad except for two things : 1) Phase Traversal, you can shadow step to targeted enemy even he/she is out of range to shorten distance with Free Camera, while with Combar Camera it will say “out of range” any time you try it. 2) Hammer’s AA(autoattacks). Noticed some weird stuff while running around with a hammer on WvW. Some AA won’t simply register on a target. E.g I clearly see visible projectile hitting an enemy without aegis/dodge but neither damage or any other neglected damage floater pops up, nothing. Not sure yet what triggers it but oh well, never had it with free camera.
This sums up my experience with Action Camera so far. Useful and easy in some situations. Buggy and very annoying in the other scenarios. Doh
Got to legendary, let’s now go trashtalk noob pugs and play a thief? ooh yeah
Oh ye i remember carrying you whole game and at end of game i killed necro 1v2 and you ran past him then started slobbering back and i died… and you instantly died right next to me and wrote that my thief is useless.
Whats the big deal, i wouldnt be surprised if even amber warriors trashtalk you.
And I remember how you were not able to finish a revenant with 2k hp and kept blaming your team for the loses in next games. This is why I treat most of the streamers like kitten, nice for show, not really when not. Not to mention I’ve seen some s/p thieves playing better than you’re.
Seriously, If I knew PvP in this game sucks so bad, I’d never buy it and I’ll probably never recommend it to the friends now, unless all they want is PvE which is awesome in this game. I mained thief before HoT release and decided to try out revenant just because I liked the overall theme of the class…gotta admit if I didn’t I’d probably go crazy with thief in sPvP by this time. Boring, template copy-paste kittenfest of the same classes with the same builds with kitten ton of autoprocs and invulnerabilities. So mean
We used to have two or even three teams for spvp last season, this season however…I find myself playing it alone most of the time because so many people just ragequit and refuse to play those cheesy broken builds.
Oh well finishes 3 daily matches, opens up a PS4 and plays some fighting games
The main reason why I switched to action camera is it made autoattacking easier in PvE for me but once I gave it a try in spvp I’ve noticed like half of the cases I use ranged skills/weapons most of them simply deal no damage. It goes like, the animation ends, I see the projectile hitting the enemy yet no damage floater appears(no blind condition or projectile sheild on the enemy ofc.). Also, I’ve discovered some skills like Phase Traversal of revenant (this is also main reason I don’t use that stance in spvp) won’t allow you to use them if the target is out of skill’s range while running action camera (can’t do that fancy teleport through terrain/obstacles with that skill with action camera too). Moreover, some skills require you to look directly at your enemy in order to start casting, unlike with free camera where you can just lock the target and press buttons while looking anywherere you want.
All of that makes me really annoyed because I kind of got used to this new feature and switching back to free camera feels nuts to me. So, yeap… anyone got any advice on best settings for free camera mode? Thanks in advance
Got to diamond with soloq last week, have been trying hard to move towards legendary but it seems like mission impossible for solo player without amber abuse or a meta-based team (I played bunker revenant before I got to diamond though). So yeah, looking for a team guild that runs meta based ranked parties.
Trust me, it’s better be terrible than rather fast 5-10 minutes queue against 2 condi revs, http://i66.tinypic.com/71h8p1.jpg think after this I went to passive-aggressive. SoloQ diamond-legendary mission impossible
Tbh I like Ventari and the only thing that keeps me from trying it out is there are no stunbreakers and that condicleanse is so expensive and in current meta where condi fly here, there and everywhere at you it seems a bit useless. Healing is just not enough and it provides no additional effects like cleanse/protection. Elite is kind of cool when you need to push away a bunker from a node but that’s pretty much all. Talking pvp wise of course.
As for PvE, my friend tried building a staff/healing ventari revenant and told me it pretty much sucked because modifiers are simply miserable.
I’ve been running fractals for 4 months so far and never really bothered with those crystals until I’ve completed tier 3 Ad Infinitum collections and it’s time for me to craft the Unbound. However, once I checked my bank for mats I realized that I only had enough resources for 2 shards lmao So yeah, any tips on farming those? Kind of bugs me I had so few since I rarely missed all fractal dailies at all. Does MF affect the drops?
Thanks in advance
I just fail to understand how did they come to this about stability. They basically left it to be consumable by each tick of incomming CC, yet let some powers that apply CC each second or less. And to add to elementalist diamond skinned master-race hate, why is one of the most annoying CCs is not in fact CC? I don’t say the team behind balancing should be fired but everything now is in such a bizzarre state, separation of spvp from pve is necessary.
Getting pretty much fed up with all this permaCC-auto-passive-AI stuff going on in PvP currently. If it’s not kittenly unkillable mesmer, then it’s a bunker ranger druid with a pet that deals more damage than unrelenting assault on my revenant alt and shjit ton of immobilize, daze and blind Along with godlike elementalist with their shiny diamond skin…just ridiculous. Does stability even make sense too? I have been playing this game for 5 months so far and I heard stability used to be working in another way providing duration rather then stacks, why the hell did the devs change that?
Scratched my way out to diamond on my thief and oh god…that crystallized salt me and my friend necro gathered so far, think I never been so emotionally devastated in any free to play mmo pvp with things like pay-to-win gear as I am not on my thief. I am not complaining about my class being weak (it’s very high risk – great reward class imo) but rather shocked by the ammount of passive procs and skill kits (gives an impression the balancing wasome classes got…like…maybe just press one button and let the game play itself?
Not to mention all those queue times I had last two days, 1h and 12m record just nailed it. Guildies from lower divisions reported they had up to 30 mins queue times too, those that didn’t give up and went to play something else yet. Thus I can naturally assume it may be connected to general frustration by “meta cancer” among players. So yeah, any particular changes comming soon that might help against class stacking/perma cc/burst condition dot? Separation of sPvP from PvE perhalps?
Thanks for the replies in advance
That isn’t PvP, it’s more like Meta abusers vs Meta Abusers. Passive proc over passive proc with condi bullkitten in the middle. Maybe press one button and let the game play itself? After 2k matches I feel like playing some mere full f2p game with kittenon bugs and exploits and people running the same lame build and classes. I can only pity warriors and thieves, in many matches they very just cursed at for playing their BELOVED class. Gosh and all these new unblockables, half of them aren’t even evadable.
I’ll get my wings and never play it for anything but daily again.
The very first time I saw pure condi revenant in sPvP I was like "wow, that hurts even more than some condi reapers do, which I usually succesfully counter with my own mallyx and demonic defiance. But once I tried it myself I felt literally very dirty, pretty much as my experience of “trying out” DH. Condition revenant just looked so cheap and auto-procish to me while the celestial build I played before (herald+mallyx) felt more rewarding. Shiro’s elite > axe 5 > 2 > 3 and banishment towards them once they attempt to squize out, rare bullkitten survived after that. Though I gotta say that downstate condi revenant looks way more threatening thanks to torment lol
Also, would be really cool if demonic defiance/absorp pain granted NON boon immunity because most classes it’s aimed againts can just easily strip/convert it into conditions xD
As for opposing DHs, I found a counter in my hammer. Still doesn’t help a lot in the matches when they get beaten 1vs1 by me and just go send a druid towards me instead to stalemate if I decided to backcap. Pretty much turning it into nuke nightmare for my team on mid…
Hell no! Stop the two handed sword for heavy meta! Basically i want anything but two handed sword for revenant. A little of originality. Tired of all those two handed swords characters with twilight…
hahah indeed, the first thing I thought of when I saw LA in this game and players running around – “That must be some mainstream shiny cheap sword”. Was right except for it’s not cheap
Some people are just too obessed with that assassin stance/staff zerk pve crap……makes me cringe seeing some revenants running around in SPvP.
First of all, you can’t faceroll everything with just one build. Especially with Assassin Stance one trick pony lel For mesmers and Necromancers, if you want to 1vs1 them, you’d have to slot Mallyx and get corruption traitline with demonic defiance in t1. And then, even with that slotted, never fight them on a node because despite all that resistance you recieve from Mallyx you’re still vulnerable, pretty much. And god forbid if you run into some experienced Necros, those I only beat with Hammer trying to keep distance as far as possible. Staying on a node is no option till you make sure they are gonna die as soon as you engage.
So I think Revenant has become something somebody once said “Can do everything, but not as good as the rest”, meh…
Comparing to what I saw on BWs, Mallyx now feels from mediocre to almost useless, probably only me and other devoted revenants use that stance in pvp now xD Because neither it’s good for building condition damage, nor it’s good enough as a full counter to condi reapers and other BS. Probably because Unyielding Anguish consumes too much energy and Embrace the Darkness…please? Noone uses that elite, even in PvE UnAn is way better. I like the idea of BE though, probably one of the only good things remained in this stance for PvP IMO
The hammer overall feels slow at first, but it offers proficent utility in most situations even though staff as secondary looks better for interupting/blinding an opponent. Just wish it wasn’t somewhat bugged.
The class is new, I hope to see some tweaks soon, as well as balancing changes (oh god DH node trap-bots). So will see what happens on december’s balancing patch
