Lets say it like this… Test out every single profession and then choose.. Cause at this game its best if you like your character. Dont adjust your own attitude or focus yust to try to like a profession to much.
This has already been suggesed many times, but we havent heard Anet about this yet.
Arenanet said: spvp goal is to improve cosmeticly.. Thats the spvp progression.
What they then did is add blue and red dyes that screw up your gear and everyone looks the same.
Remove blue and red… You can make a smaller difference between teams, but other suggestions already made it clear that even if everyone wore the same gear with the same dyes.. It would not affect the performance. So please in the name of god.. Make the spvp autodyeing an option instead of making it even harder to feel the difference between rank 1 and rank 100
Superior Sigil of Battle is no longer granting 3 stacks of might on attunment swap. Using a D/D build and it doesn’t matter if the sigil on in my main hand or my off hand. I am also aware of the ICD on sigils and have confirmed it to not grant any might at all.
Yust want to add some information.. this indeed doesnt always work well when using daggers, focus or scepter combinations. With staff however this always tends to work fine
I run staff ele, i kill thiefs.. /shrug .. they are harder then most classes but if you know how to dodge perfectly, make sure you have at least 2 cantrips ready and know where to place your CC… its quite easy and yust a matter of time before the Thief dies.
Since paid tournaments don’t differ that much from free tournaments… why would it be too early?
Also as already said: the balance is pretty ok. Not perfect, but good enough to be enjoyable.
I wont complain because i will be liking them tournaments… But i have to agree that im not sure if its fine to start heavily balancing or adding from features while there clearly still are huge bug lists to be found for almost all professions.
Meh, the above statement (the one about adjusting professiona) is something i hope they will change… Maybe i can live with teams switching professions between maps.. Maybe. (in my opinion you pick a eam and your stuck with it… No changing because some things work better on some maps then on other)..
Something that goes to far though is switching while in the games already.. Ow they dont have ant condition dmg, lets change to our bunker team. Ow, they have hose professions, lets counter them wih this..
Its ridicilous in my opinion… Why not yust give us a button which changes us to the profession most usefull at that time.
I say dont let people switch after they made the roster.. Make them pick characters which hey feel will do good in all maps instead of basing some tactics as bunkering, mesmer portals etc. On certain maps.
At one hand we have an horrible ele who never does pvp and is in spvp.. At the other hand we have a high lvl guy with pvp build slaughterig some people in wvw who probably never pvped and are like level 20
Warriors have more base health because they are sturdy and can take more hits due to heavier weapontraining.. though this ofcourse isnt to be seen from the looks :P
i’d imagine any random thief would wreck you… amirite?
Nope, Thief is quite easy if you know when to avoid the burst.. combine that with alot of dodging, place down areas and keeping him slowed with the earth and water spells.. its quite easy.
now i was wondering if anyone perhaps could give me some small feedback if possible.. comments on the build, tips and tricks.. anything would be great.
God.. everytime i have people ask me about a certain build they run. If we come to the conclusion that i cant figure out what he should improve except his pvp skills .. 60% of the time they say something that gets them on my blocked list..
“Sigh, guess profession X is yust underpowered”
seriously… 90% of people who say this have 1 reason for it:
My build doesnt work and i cant seem to tank everyone and cant kill all professions either and more of that whining.
People should yust look at facts instead of blaming the whole profession for their build not working.
also.. warriors are yust avarage.. nothing more. Easy to avoid, easy to counter.
Meh, in my opinion this is yust subjective opinion. I play 2 character in pvp, elementalist and mesmer.. and after a couple of tournaments etc. after the patch i can say phantasm/illusion mesmer not only still is more then viable, but because of it we now also see a couple more mesmers more relying on their own dmg and survivability.
I think the nerf was a good thing, it made people adjust, creating more viable builds while still maintaining the viability of the illusion/phantasm mesmer.
and thats not the ele-part speaking.. since as staff ele i never had trouble taking out phantasms and illusions anyway :P
Atm i rather see them fix some of the obvious bugs before trying to balance anything, since fixing those bugs could make serious changes to the balance to.
tested with 3k attackpower and 5% critical dmg.. on light golem
arcane wave 1355 dmg
arcane blast 1359 dmg
well… clearly something is wrong since the description says 1100 for arcane blast and 1700 for arcane wave… meaning you should see a nice difference between them… no difference to see here.. so i think the numbers in the coding (coding, not description) are yust not as they should be
This rune should really be fixed, both for defensive builds and offensive builds this is an rune that could be quite strong.
except for the power it gives nothing atm, which is really sad.
I only stick with elementalist because that character is the guild master and i do a lot of WvW. I hear a lot of comments like “i chew through mobs now” and “this is so much easier” and i know they arent coming back to their ele’s unless major changes are made.
I stick with my ele….
Come on dude, you can do it. Elementalists 4 life! Dont go to the light! … uhm… i mean.. the dark side! In the end we will be victorious!
(p.s. i have checked the dark side… they dont have cookies)
Good players have logical sense and know when something is broken or unbalance, that its yust time to look at the numbers, look up the facts and present them to the devs or yust find an counter for it.
Bad players rage why noone has been nerfed yet even though even the developers dont have all the facts yet and its mostly based on people not able to look further then their own character.
Tbh, in my opinion capture the points is not an great esport choice anyway. I think things like team deathmatch or perhaps even capture the flag (given the fact that you would lose the flag if you used things like portal/teleport and such.). But capture the bases yust gives an edge to certain proffesions in my opinion.
Well… The thing is you can never say an profession is underpowered. Cause according to gw2, any proff can be any role. For example
Offensive guardians should be buffed, normal dfensivebased guardians are quite nice, guardians 100% made to survive anything and to troll people in an 5 man guardian team with 100% winratio due to pointholding should be smashed into the ground..Can you imagine esports if any team with 5 guardians yust wins anyway…
(dont say you have an counter.. Cause if you can counter it as it is atm its due to the guardians being inexperienced)
Yust saying its better to point at a certain role instead of an profession
I like the lupine one. I know its to general for some people, but with some celestial dye here and some abysa dye there i think i can make it look awesome.
Meh i dont really think thieves or mesmers are that much of a problem. Unlike some of the newer guardians with strangely build defensive/heal builds, thief and mesmer can actually be countered -_-
How i wish it was: bunker = balanced = burst
How it is: good bunker = undefeatable even with 3 burst = win because of pointholder even though noone died in the whole match..
And if you dont agree with that you have never fought 5 guardians which all were 100% specced in defense and healing which cant be 1v3d because they can stand still and take all hits while suviving
i think its a must… sadly it does require some training since whenever you move the screen using ur mouse buttons, your mouse disappears, thus its hard to see where exactly the area lands. At the other hand without it, it would require aiming and certainly an double click instead of yust 1..
i do think they need to change how the mouse disappears when turning though..
Enough people like downed state… Even i as elementalist meaning everyone can stomp and me and i cant do kitten would say it would be an bad idea to remove downed state. Its part of the game now and even though it need balancing (which anet is working on).. You either live with it or stop pvping
No matter how much i love arenanet, no matter how much i adore their way of thinking i have to agree with Sabbath….
Quite some proffesions have nice bugs in their skills and traits. For easier balancing it would be better to make sure everything works as it should be before changing anything, cause some characters strenghts/weaknesses can lie in bugged traits or spells
Dont forget to bring some good boots though cause squashing bugs can be a nasty job
never said he would nerf those profession though… only said he would watch them. Could mean he watches them to see which one he needs to buff and which one he needs to nerf
I have seen greatsword work out quite well with an power build, 1 thing you do need to watch is know when to switch back to your bow.. cause i have seen some rangers who were so stuck to their sword that they could be kited around since they were to reluctant to switch
atm longbow still looks cooler to me, but that could be the whole Legolas/Sniper feel that gets me :P
Never said you need it at every spec, if you have an spec based with dodges, avoiding etc. … Sure you dont need it.. But that guys build looks like he will be targetted and can expect a beating
Guardians can tank better, the healing is not to write to home about and you do lose a nice amount of dmg….
I think they will watch this spec yust to keep it the same but slightly buff the other elementalist roles. Cause if they would nerf such an build it would probably make sure noone will try to become either tank/healer or support anymore tbh this spec is the most balanced thing ive seen so far
