Guild Wars 2

Plykin.5764:

Warcry.1596:

If they use an invuln for a finish, they have a long cool down before using again.
Distortion: 60

Only thing with this is Continuum Split + Signet of Illusions you can literally use Distortion 4 times in a very short amount of time if done correctly. Or use it twice to finish one person then use it twice to finish another. here is the math(i think) feel free to correct me if its wrong.

split you have 4.5 seconds until you go back in time
shatter
3 seconds Distortion
finish (lets say you get interrupted at 3 1/2 seconds)
Illusions = 1.25 cast time. 4.5 total
shatter quickly gain 3 seconds Distortion
split go back in time
and this is without calculating the Alacrity you get.
shatter and Illusions are reset at this point you can finish another player.

I haven’t delved into Mesmer much since Heart of Thorns, but if you use F5, doesn’t that shatter your clones? So wouldn’t you have to summon more before you can Distort for more than 1 second?

Isn’t complaining about S2 threads… Just another S2 thread?

If they use an invuln for a finish, they have a long cool down before using again.

Mist Form: 75 seconds
Obsidian Flesh: 50(?)
Distortion: 60

Let your team know those are down and fighting them is a bit better.

That I am on the opposite side of him. I don’t know why, what I did, or anything like that I just genuinely do not understand why I am streaking like this, or why others have losing streaks

http://imgur.com/0aE7iNx

Been like this for 15 games now.

Yes it’s Stronghold, it’s my preferred mode.

Not really megaserver related. but I think for those that disconnect and/or crash, there should be a 60 second grace period where the map remains full except for that one person to come back and join it. After 60 seconds it then opens up for someone else.

1) Saturday Feb 27
2) Emerald third or fourth tier
3) I have 14 wins and 1 loss
4) Been advancing since my 12 win streak started
5) See #3
6) Yes. I should note that I was Ruby last season so my theory is until I get closer to it I will continue to ride this streak.

I beat a team of 4 Monday evening, my team had necro, warrior thief Revenant guardian. Maybe it isnt necro that’s the problem

Oh okay! Then change it from 33% —> 50% but reduce number of ways to apply it. This may result in more groups taking more mesmers though

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Alacrity got hit harder than it should have been, imo. It was a knee jerk reaction on Anet’s part.

I don’t disagree that chill needs some tweaking as well, but let’s not do another knee jerk smiter’s boon nerf.

Alacrity seemed to have been nerfed due to Spirit Vale. Which is weird because they have said they balance around PvP. Alacrity is fine as it is now, it trivialized PvE content much like 100% Quickness used to

Chill well as I am 14-1in ranked this season all on necro, I’ll leave that one up to the masses

So far my matches have been all solo except one. The one being a duo and we lost. I am 10-1 since starting Saturday. In 11 matches I got to Emerald. I think I will keep going solo

#SoloStrongholdToRuby

For April first this year, ArenaNet should change ALL enemies on all maps, all instances, everywhere…

… to Pocket Raptors. Just for one day.

steffen.4317:

thats the reason, why u should ask boss/class specific questions.

for example: u found a rev, tell him he is in the chrono group and ask him what he has to do.

only cause someone has x- insights doesnt mean he is a good player (same to ap)

I run it weekly and I have no idea the answer to your question because my group doesn’t use a Revenant.
It’s hard to find a fair answer to this =/

Currently yes, but I’ve heard that a guild has some sort of unreleased meta involving it that they may release soon. I don’t know but I am just relaying anything I hear back here :p

Since posting this, talking to a few people that do high end speedy stuff they told me about a potential meta that might be forming around it.

I have noticed the last few days Sigil of Accuracy has gone up in price. I posted it here because generally sigils like this can be used in meta builds, but from every website I’ve researched I haven’t seen anything. Is there something going on, or is this just some usual trend of supply/demand and I’m overreacting? :O

ProtoGunner.4953:

BDO looks certainly good, but it seems it will get boring pretty fast what I read about it. I’ll try it out maybe. After a short trip to BnS I noticed the high quality of GW2 which almost no other MMO has (except maybe WoW).

I actually enjoy Blade And Soul. The combat is very fun and while I have a hard time keeping up with the story due to Korean based names, I still like where it’s heading. It won’t replace GW2 for me because I am a guild leader but it’s a nice thing to play occasionally

Serious Thought.5394:

Thief problem wasn’t damage, it was being able to go into the “cluster kitten”. We got more damage, wonderful. How do we deal with 14 conditions and perma cc?

Signed of Agility, Shadowstep, and Hide in Shadows/Withdraw. That’s two stun breaks and 7 conditions

BrotherBelial.3094:

In GW1 if a guild leader didn’t login for a specific length of time the position would be transferred to an officer who was the longest serving, and still active. Strange how GW2 did not have this.

Actually it’s the officer that most recently logged in, regardless of time in the guild. Just experienced that a few months ago after I went inactive. But yes, GW2 should also do that

Why are you forced to do anything? I switched from Revenant to power Necro and we got farther after I did. Now my main team wants me on my necro

Cyninja.2954:

YaYa.5879:

Which section? Warr, Berzerker, general?

- Berserker

Scorched Earth: Enemies are now able to be struck by this skill only once every 0.5 seconds.

- Chronomancer

Alacrity: The effects of this buff have been reduced from 66% recharge reduction to 33% recharge reduction.

For the future, maybe you might want to understand how your class actually works instead of just copypasting what everyone else tells you to build/run off of metabattle.

This.

I run power Necro in Spirit Vale because I understand it and enjoy it far more than anything else. I’d rather you being what you enjoy than what is meta.

Tomiyou.3790:

Holy crap, they didn’t even state that in the official change notes. They probably knew this was going to cause a kittenstorm in the ele community, since ele got soooo many indirect buffs this patch. Too many. Well, I always had a soft spot for Anet, but this, this has made me despise them. I hope that ele is so useless this patch, nobody plays it like warrior pre-patch, so Anet buffs it next patch. In 3 months. Hey, at least Dark souls 3 is out in 3 months.

Oh but they did post it. It’s the first thing under Tempest.

But the practice of communing with the “spirit world” was considered an abomination by the New emperor of the United Cantha. So the practice was banned and many Rits were burned at the stake.

Honestly Spirit Watch’s mechanic is a decent counter to sitting on a point all game due to the Orb decap.

Shirlias.8104:

That’s it.

btw, the meaning of censure names and chat? :d

You technically aren’t supposed to have names of other players in your screenshots/posts without their permission.

Over.2137:

Probably everyone who wanted it since there are no requirements.

What sort of requirements would there be? You do have to win A lot. And maintaining a win streak can be hard for some.

When I play my ping randomly spikes to 200-300 causing a noticeable delay in ability usage. It only happens in GW2, not any other game and I can’t figure out why.

I don’t recall them specifiying that it had to provide an advantage in combat. I mean it does provide an advantage though, faster stack clearing means more efficient play :p

Dawdler.8521:

Hit a key, open 250 bags in seconds. Ah the wonders of modern computing.

That is more than one action per keystroke, and not allowed per their macro policy :O

KrewGorilla.6491:

Warcry.1596:

style.6173:

Ehecatl.9172:

Why on Earth would you want to remove the OPTION to do ranked Stronghold games?

If you’re solo queuing just uncheck the box for Stronghold. Suddenly the premades can’t “cheese” the game for easy wins anymore.

Because the two game modes share the same league system. Why should someone who cheeses stronghold be considered legendary?

Why should someone who cheesed Conquest be considered Legendary? Works both ways man. I’d much rather face the much more diverse builds that are present in Stronghold, than the -be as tanky as I can be so I don’t lose a point- garbage currently in this meta =/

What diversity lmao. Run staff tempest for heals, chronobunker with precog to invuln npcs, scrapper with gyro to stealth npcs, revenant cuz rev is just op. And DH for traps. Or another tempest or mesmer. There is no diversity, it’s the same builds lol. I’m sorry sir but this is hilarious that u think stronghold has diversity.

I will say it’s funny that my friends and I 5 manned staff tempest in stronghold and won cuz the other team couldn’t kill our Lord. So while 4 of us where healing lord our 5th was healing our npcs to kill their lord. Most bunk support cheese game ever? Lol. Funny that ppl think it has diversity and is fun.

I haven’t seen that before :p I generally see a wide range of builds. Some of what you said, but others as well.

We will have to see. I think an ideal challenge would be high mechanical skill, like Vale Guardian but more mechanical challenge, without a time limit. Make the challenge itself be the mechanics.

Agemnon.4608:

Warcry.1596:

style.6173:

Ehecatl.9172:

Why on Earth would you want to remove the OPTION to do ranked Stronghold games?

If you’re solo queuing just uncheck the box for Stronghold. Suddenly the premades can’t “cheese” the game for easy wins anymore.

Because the two game modes share the same league system. Why should someone who cheeses stronghold be considered legendary?

Why should someone who cheesed Conquest be considered Legendary? Works both ways man. I’d much rather face the much more diverse builds that are present in Stronghold, than the -be as tanky as I can be so I don’t lose a point- garbage currently in this meta =/

Because you can win in stronghold if both sides ignore other players and just zerg down the boss whereas in conquest you’re forced to fight other players. In stronghold you’re also using cheese builds and playstyles against other cheese builds and playstyles so skill wins out in the end.

I haven’t won or lost when an entire team ignores defense and pushes down kitten . Usually when that happens they lose because killing the Door Breakers is easy to do. Then because all 5 are so committed, they’ve lost both doors compared to the 1 they got down.

Besides, I’d rather skill win in the end in cheese vs cheese rather than no skill tanky being superior :p

Belenwyn.8674:

Warcry.1596:

TheFamster.7806:

Belenwyn.8674:

Warcry.1596:

The only thing I’m sad about is that the hype before Heart of Thorns launched was that he Berserker meta would not be a thing. Yet there are strict DPS checks (Ghost walls after Vale Guardian) that require it.

Other than that, I’ve enjoyed myself!

This is the biggest issue foe me too. The devs claimed a diverse range of challenges. So far it is not existent. I hope the 2nd wing will provide a greater variety of checks: DPS, HPS and CC in all possible combinations and weightings.

You do know you can CC and DPS regardless of gear…?

There will be enough DPS with 7 Soldiers geared people?

You can also ask, whether there will be enough HPS with 7 berserker geared people for a certain encounter.

I’m talking about Spirit Vale currently. 7 Berserker people can beat it, 7 Soldiers cannot :p

style.6173:

Ehecatl.9172:

Why on Earth would you want to remove the OPTION to do ranked Stronghold games?

If you’re solo queuing just uncheck the box for Stronghold. Suddenly the premades can’t “cheese” the game for easy wins anymore.

Because the two game modes share the same league system. Why should someone who cheeses stronghold be considered legendary?

Why should someone who cheesed Conquest be considered Legendary? Works both ways man. I’d much rather face the much more diverse builds that are present in Stronghold, than the -be as tanky as I can be so I don’t lose a point- garbage currently in this meta =/

TheFamster.7806:

Belenwyn.8674:

Warcry.1596:

The only thing I’m sad about is that the hype before Heart of Thorns launched was that he Berserker meta would not be a thing. Yet there are strict DPS checks (Ghost walls after Vale Guardian) that require it.

Other than that, I’ve enjoyed myself!

This is the biggest issue foe me too. The devs claimed a diverse range of challenges. So far it is not existent. I hope the 2nd wing will provide a greater variety of checks: DPS, HPS and CC in all possible combinations and weightings.

You do know you can CC and DPS regardless of gear…?

There will be enough DPS with 7 Soldiers geared people?

The only thing I’m sad about is that the hype before Heart of Thorns launched was that he Berserker meta would not be a thing. Yet there are strict DPS checks (Ghost walls after Vale Guardian) that require it.

Other than that, I’ve enjoyed myself!

TPMN.1483:

Try downloading the drivers directly from nvidias site.
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

You can select ‘manual’ to find your card/etc – get the big download file from your OS.
There is no connection required once the file has been downloaded.

Now it just fails to install. :p

My drivers are as old as my computer because everytime I try to update it fails to connect to Nvidia.

Aidenwolf.5964:

I whisper them congratulations on cheating a broken system. As a solo Q’r your diamonds mean you grouped and took advantage of a flawed mechanic. I know many of you are good and fun to play with as I’ve been here fo eva but I solo and Anet kitten on my kind.

I hit Ruby by myself, only queueing occasionally with someone else. Another friend hit Diamond with solo queue only, except those few times he tagged along with me. Neither of us tanked MMR or anything like that. Sorry you aren’t good enough to rise in the ranks, but don’t assume everyone else isn’t.

Edit: I’m not sure how or why this happened to me. But the majority of my wins were +1 or +2, with the occasional +3. My losses were almost ALWAYS -1 or -0, I think only a -2 once. I even had a Loss give me a +2 about a week ago.

I did Stronghold only to Ruby, so what?

I’d show my screenshot of my match history showing 9-1, but I don’t know how to post a picture

I think he is asking what bugs in particular are happening to you

The only thing I am caught up on is this. How can someone speak so highly of loyalty be so disloyal and switch servers twice =/

Hello,

For the past few weeks now at random times my ping would occasionally spike incredibly high, upwards of 300-400 for a few seconds. Normally there is no issue except when trying to glide at the height of my jump and it delays and I miss my target. It only happens in GW2 as I have done speed tests to test my ping and it’s always in the low 40s, and other games I experience no lag at all, nor when surfing or watching videos/streams.

I am on the 64-bit client. If you need any other information I’ll provide it.

Cool link, took me right back to your post in this thread

I do Dragon Stand once daily, I am about 100 short of the 600 I need. Never felt grindy, or repetitive, just fun

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

TheFrighteningFrenchFry.3275:

Warcry.1596:

PvP can get them money though, via sponsors and stuff. I mean I suppose raids could too but I don’t think people would be interested in competitive PvE raiding :p

Highlighted the important word in there : )

Pvp can get 200 000$ or more sponsored money per tournement? don’t think so. Steve fowler is throwing with money in the hope it will create something that ‘later fix’ his debt issue, but the conclusion later will be that it’s wasted money, that should not have been spend on tournement (at least not that much).

I dunno who that is. But you’re missing the point. The POTENTIAL revenue from PvP is apparently worth it for ArenaNet to invest money and resources into it.

That is all I was saying, even if it’s a small portion of the player base, they still see it as a way to possibly make money.

Yes, it’s an investment, with a chance at profit and a larger player base. It has the POTENTIAL to draw publicity, is it possible for there to be an esport for GW2 raids?

PvP can get them money though, via sponsors and stuff. I mean I suppose raids could too but I don’t think people would be interested in competitive PvE raiding :p

Lord Kuru.3685:

Warcry.1596:

RustyMech.9876:

It’s not even that challenging to be frank. The first time that I did it, I felt it was like “baby’s first raid”. I’m not saying that it is not fun, which it is, but it’s no more difficult then what fractals are before you know the mechanics.

Difficulty is measured by a percentage of the player base that can/has completed it. Honestly with how few people I hear that have beaten it, or are even continuing to try, it makes me wonder how much further they can go with it. Why develop something for that small of a population, it seems to not make much sense from a business standpoint; why put resources into something for only a small group of your customers.

I’m not saying it should be changed, or they should stop, I just think based on current metrics, it’s a poor investment :p

What you say is true. However, Anet said they expected only a small percentage of players to ever complete the raid. That would be fine if there were enough other content to keep everyone else satiated, but there isn’t.

So then will they really maintain content creation for such a small percentage?