Guild Wars 2

tronjeremy.5820:

So I’ve played teef since beta and I’ve toyed around with shadow trap off and on but it just is so buggy half the time that it is unreliable. It seems like mesmer portal always works why doesn’t shadowtrap work as reliably.?

I am not sure if it is because of where it’s placed or where I cast the skill but half the time it ports me partially towards the trap but can stop at a wall. This really just makes things worse if I am using it to get out of trouble and I’m still there.

its probably cause of terrain, like, if u could blink / shadowstep 5 k range, u would get stuck at 1000 range or so all the time too, well most of the time

if they were to make it like mesmer portal, totally ignoring terrain, it coulda work

bomb does more dmg than nades in meele tho, just dont stack vuln so well…

somoene had done the maths w cast time + dmg or something.. !

SilverWF.4789:

Wyrden.4713:

SilverWF.4789:

Wyrden.4713:

SilverWF.4789:

Klonko.8341:

Roaming video usually features hard fight or outnumbered ones.

Let be honest: such vids mostly possible only on thieves and against pretty bad opponents. What is good here?

ehm, mesmer, engi , ele , war, condi ranger, (saw once a sw/d, gs ranger vid heavily outnumbered), condi necro pretty often , medi guard

aka every proffession can have outnumbered fights , and most of em r even enoyable

Yeah, seen that vids, but their opponents are mostly even worse than thieves have.
What is good to see here? Go outside and start beating a pack of children – will be the same “heavy outnumbered” fight…

in all honesty, no good player would loose to a 2v1, so every outnumbered fight footage in wich the one getting outnumbered wins > bad opponents.

Yes, and that’s what I’m talking about

ye but u called out on thieves

SilverWF.4789:

Wyrden.4713:

SilverWF.4789:

Klonko.8341:

Roaming video usually features hard fight or outnumbered ones.

Let be honest: such vids mostly possible only on thieves and against pretty bad opponents. What is good here?

ehm, mesmer, engi , ele , war, condi ranger, (saw once a sw/d, gs ranger vid heavily outnumbered), condi necro pretty often , medi guard

aka every proffession can have outnumbered fights , and most of em r even enoyable

Yeah, seen that vids, but their opponents are mostly even worse than thieves have.
What is good to see here? Go outside and start beating a pack of children – will be the same “heavy outnumbered” fight…

in all honesty, no good player would loose to a 2v1, so every outnumbered fight footage in wich the one getting outnumbered wins > bad opponents.

SilverWF.4789:

Klonko.8341:

Roaming video usually features hard fight or outnumbered ones.

Let be honest: such vids mostly possible only on thieves and against pretty bad opponents. What is good here?

ehm, mesmer, engi , ele , war, condi ranger, (saw once a sw/d, gs ranger vid heavily outnumbered), condi necro pretty often , medi guard

aka every proffession can have outnumbered fights , and most of em r even enoyable

Demonzy.9037:

As we all know, the remaining Dragon is an underwater dragon. This brings worry to a lot of people in the Guild Wars community regarding a new expansion/Living Story since quite frankly: under water combat sucks.

I have came up with a completely genius plan on how to fix this issue and will hopefully get Guild Wars 2 at its highest point in popularity yet!

So basically all the water gets frozen over because jormag is annoyed for some reason and all the monsters coming out of the water as frozen risen, including the dragon itself. Unable to go under water we venture through the frozen mountains with no space of water to be seen (therefore no underwater combat) searching for this monstrosity of a Dragon to hunt it down. 10/10

what of the ppl who got underwater legendaries tho

u r totally destroying the rifle for non celestial specced engis

aka u balance stuff around one build, dont consider there r more than that build that u destroy along the way

Klonko.8341:

You seems to not realize how this elite turns the tide in a fight… No other elite is that OP except maybe the lich form.But that lich form is a big “TARGET ME”.

plague form, highly defensive, spams blinds like hell and make it impossible to fight in a point

Klonko.8341:

Is there a way to balance that blatantly OP elite? I feel like engineer PvP power only survive with this skill!

Every engineer I fight has it as auto-cast! (Joke haha)

Maybe the net turret should be removed for something less harming like the rifle turret. Or the bandage removed because its actually a second heal!

Anyway I know engi doesnt have other viable elite. But considering some class doesnt have any viable elite (Hum elementalist), It’s only fair too brought down that elite that carries engi since launch!

how does a 180 s elite carry someone, it may help out and turn 1 fight, but thats about it, if u r roaming, once the supply crate lands, enemy will move away from it right away, so its only useful in the first few seconds there(remember, 180s cdd), in pvp its a rly nice aoe stun, but turrets die right away to aoe anyway(well unless its a specced turret engi, but turret engis r easily outplayed in high tier pvp).

and pve? well… its a blast finisher.. nice .. 180 s cd. gg

im not saying its trash, actually it turns the fight for the first 1-5 seconds, but its useless afterthat

some examples of more awesome elites: moa of mesmers turns fights, its basically a 10 s cc (easy to dodge, but u know, they can use it in stealth etc), revive banner of war (turns the fights to a rly unfair extend, remember, pvp isnt balanced around 1v1), every elite of ranger is useful, well thief, basilisk is a nice stun every 40 s i guess.. ?, ele has fgs for mobility, and thats rly actually a pretty awesome elite, and is understimated by a lot of ppl. , guardian has 2 out of 3 useful elites (support tome and the invuln virtue reset thingy)

i found aed to be amazing w the healskill reset trait, invention line i think?

on a glass sd build

maybe u got the precursor rng of not critting, never ever

stay away from the mystic forge !

fire sigil is also good to see location of ur enemy in stealth when u r spamming aoes w shortbow, for example where exactly an enemy thief stays inside his last refuge> swap to ur meele set, burst him down in his own refuge

i love spamming skill 3 on d/p for an unknown reason..

well in pvp, once they find out u r glass, they focus u right away..

LumAnth.5124:

How strange would it be if they inverted shields to be a main hand, ranged (more offensive) weapon.
They reversed the Great Sword, why not shield?

why not meele longbow

Rangerdeity.5847:

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

If eles get it, then so should we. That was a fantastic skill for us back in gw1 land. -Mesmers

shooo you guys already have usable elites begone -flicks on nose-

b b but we want non ai based builds .. !

Fester.9328:

Wyrden.4713:

Fester.9328:

Well the title of the video talks about High Damage…which is what he showed. And just because its labeled as roaming…doesn’t mean he never goes inside a keep/tower.

I think most people are just still miffed about the ranger’s damage when played properly. Good on ya for a nice video, ill give an 8/10.

lets say he played properly, wich is.. well.. the skillfloor is honestly pretty low on longbow focused speccs…

that said, most of the footage were of enemys not noticing him , was either of fully even terrain in wich he had the full advantage as the enemys couldnt rly obstruct the ‘almighty’ longbow, or he was in a fort , unable to get hit by the enemys.

(i said most of it, dont hate me )

its just that most ppl including myself dont like watching such vids / think its just boring , its nothing personal rly

ofc he had several nice fights either, but u know ppl, they only see the bad stuff, most of the time, and i cant rly blame them here

Well i don’t know his build or his gear but by going of the health and the dmg numbers alone i’d say he was mostly berserker, which is the thing to do these days whilst roaming as a ranger.

Now as far as sneaking up on people or taking the high ground, or making sure he had the upper hand in the fight from the start…what exactly is wrong with that? That would be like saying, “Oh he was a scrub thief because he started the fight with stealth!”(class tactic or not, an upper hand is an upper hand)

When it comes to any kind of pvp, I am under the belief that all that matters is who is left standing at the end. Don’t get me wrong there are some pretty kitten things that people can do to win and i agree, that’s just…bad gaming i guess you could say.

But in this particular situation, roaming on a ranger, I’d do the same things, and not feel one way or the other about it.

Now sure if your going to duel someone there is a code of conduct to that(maybe?), but that’s not what this is, so..yea.

the thing is, everyone would do that what he did, but those who usually do, wouldnt post the vid, cause they mostly know that it’d be boring to watch

Fester.9328:

Well the title of the video talks about High Damage…which is what he showed. And just because its labeled as roaming…doesn’t mean he never goes inside a keep/tower.

I think most people are just still miffed about the ranger’s damage when played properly. Good on ya for a nice video, ill give an 8/10.

lets say he played properly, wich is.. well.. the skillfloor is honestly pretty low on longbow focused speccs…

that said, most of the footage were of enemys not noticing him , was either of fully even terrain in wich he had the full advantage as the enemys couldnt rly obstruct the ‘almighty’ longbow, or he was in a fort , unable to get hit by the enemys.

(i said most of it, dont hate me )

its just that most ppl including myself dont like watching such vids / think its just boring , its nothing personal rly

ofc he had several nice fights either, but u know ppl, they only see the bad stuff, most of the time, and i cant rly blame them here

ocirne.7915:

For people that have The Predator, the higher damage procs always have the fireball animation, low damage procs always have the normal lightning animation.

Also, if you do not have a target, it will never do the high damage proc.

Some skills are more consistent with high procs than others and some don’t do high damage ever, but it really seems completely random. I spent a hour trying to nail down what causes the fireball to appear, but to no success.

quip too i believe

the cities and lions arch should not have the megaserver system, that would help a lot.

pvpers r forced to wvw + pve, wich is worse for them >:

wvwers r forced to pve, pvers r forced to wvw

was using in pve a lot when we were missing guards / mesmers for reflects

never had issues w it, i just had the issue at that pistol guy in arah p2 when it mostly didnt reflect scorpion wire, but thats the only issue i had w it

Substance E.4852:

Wyrden.4713:

Gotejjeken.1267:

The biggest con is that we have pro/con threads. The Ranger has to be the class with the most misinformed players, and if you want facts, look no further than the ‘bearbow’ stereotype.

Also, 25% movement speed isn’t mobility. GS IMO is a subpar weapon, so the only mobility we have is sword. I hesitate to call that mobility as I have never seen anyone actually doing the trick, as it requires two precise about faces (or macros). Run any other weapon and your mobility is lightning reflexes…which isn’t meant for mobility.

But honestly, it saddens me a bit to see the beginner stereotype attached to Rangers. Maybe for PvE…but really, is it possible to be bad at PvE? Go to WvW, and you become the target, 100% of the time. Even if you are 1v1, have fun stalemating shatter mesmers or slip up once and get facerolled by a hambow. That’s the Ranger.

how is it complicated?

u tap that face thing button to turn around, sword 2, then turn ur camera, for again sword 2?

on mesmer its face , staff 2, face

r u srs

Whoops, you just lunged right back at your target because you didn’t mash ESC to detarget. Better luck next time…

rly, thats a beginner issue if u fail to sword 2 properly….

Black para goner.7612:

Mesmers have a good chance vs engis. With condi you’d rekt us, CC builds rekt us. Depends on the type of build but also remember the skill level of the player. I’ve been playing engis since launch, I’ve noticed a greater amount of engis in pvp, yet most of them are not very good, just running basic meta builds. If you are truly a better player you will beat them.

honestly tho, the ip traits needs to get changes, i personally was thinking like ’apply burn to enemys if u hit em w pistol 3, 5 or shield 5, rifle 3 or rifle 5 " any of these skill apply burn on enemy, trait still has 10 s cd, so ppl cant just use these skills right after another to stack the burn, but it might potentially be hard to land the burn so idk…

Narrrz.7532:

i find myself equipping racial skills much more often on my asuras than on my sylavris.

That said, neither is an engineer so i don’t know what the toolbelt counterparts are like.

Charr, on the other paw, make fantastic engineers.

charr created combat engineer, asura have mastered it .. !

btw, most ppl r annoyed of hobosacks, u know, i think they r actually kawai on asura , so thats a big plus i guess? !

u r not rly a free kill w tankier gears and the proper traits

for now u could pick maybe a mix of soldiers + clerics gears ..?

and start getting quartz crystals for celestial gears right away, usually those commanders expect the staff eles to be non glass

and ur title is pvp, kind of misleading, change it to wvw pls :p

Gotejjeken.1267:

The biggest con is that we have pro/con threads. The Ranger has to be the class with the most misinformed players, and if you want facts, look no further than the ‘bearbow’ stereotype.

Also, 25% movement speed isn’t mobility. GS IMO is a subpar weapon, so the only mobility we have is sword. I hesitate to call that mobility as I have never seen anyone actually doing the trick, as it requires two precise about faces (or macros). Run any other weapon and your mobility is lightning reflexes…which isn’t meant for mobility.

But honestly, it saddens me a bit to see the beginner stereotype attached to Rangers. Maybe for PvE…but really, is it possible to be bad at PvE? Go to WvW, and you become the target, 100% of the time. Even if you are 1v1, have fun stalemating shatter mesmers or slip up once and get facerolled by a hambow. That’s the Ranger.

how is it complicated?

u tap that face thing button to turn around, sword 2, then turn ur camera, for again sword 2?

on mesmer its face , staff 2, face

r u srs

no racial skills wont help at all, engi has an awesome elite + awesome healskill + is forced to use kits in most cases so neither utility slots

so race for skills wont mather

poliswag has a whole arah p3 solo

robertul.3679:

Wyrden.4713:

robertul.3679:

I agree. It should also apply some torment. Or fear!

not sure if sarcasm or not

It’s just a duration block that stuns and also can be thrown to a decent range to daze twice. Quite lackluster.

idk , but it seems that u think that a 2 s block + / or a 1 s (potential double) daze is weak.

u may want to take a look at guardian shield skills, or any weapon skills at all…

McWolfy.5924:

Whawhewho? 1900 range? Am i missed something?
3 leaps? If you use a gs/s+x build what is not good. And you need to use the trick.
Mobility of a warrior? Hehe. No way

wait what, u say that gs , sword /x is bad?

they r awesome if played correctly, u dont need to have an axe or bows..

Brunners.7251:

People target Caed because he’s good. If he wasn’t good people wouldn’t bother pointing it out any time he dies or makes a mistake.

Really, it’s almost a compliment that people are bothering to heckle him so regularly.

b-b-but justin bieber….

robertul.3679:

I agree. It should also apply some torment. Or fear!

not sure if sarcasm or not

static shield is rly awesome, stuns ALL meele opponents if anyone atks u, can stun the sword 2 of mesmers making them vulnerable if catched out of guard(or pistolwhip)

also good for quick interrupts if u dont wanna waste ur shield 4 (like a necros heal)

and:

VitalSuit.1980:

People choose Elixir S because not only is it a stunbreak, it’s also an invuln and gives you 5 seconds of stealth.
People choose Tool Kit because of the pull, prybar, and gear shield. Box of nails is also useful for condi masking and getting rid of pesky blinds in melee.

soo i was just getting into roaming w my engi ( i usually roam kittentermes ) and was thinking about making my own build(the traits r mostly like the meta one yep.)

anyway, i was thinking about something like : fire and ice. why not

either way here is the build :
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqalsTpErlcx+KseRCbBNqxAqNIyNWlPfgAkUA-TVyFwAsUXB1+Dd0CwU5nMVKAcCAQ8AAcrD4qSQSBAzcA-w

the chill from the heal is rly handy, u can use it in between casts , doesnt destealth u, lasts long and is instant! (lasts around6-8 s , not sure atm)

i took sigil of ice instead hydromancy cause hydromancy deals damage > destealths u

when the enemy hits me, he has a chance to get chill onto himself (runes)

then we got the nade chill

i didnt take shield cause i dont have any useful combo fields anyway , the would prefer the burn from pistol 4 and the immob instead (for preparing combos)

well either way, u got a lot of burns , and tons of chill

altho since i am pretty new to roaming w engi , i couldnt take more than 1 opponent for now, so the vid is all about 1v1s ( may be boring compared to the outnumbered fights, im sry about that! )

there r several necro 1v1 fights either!

and even if u dont wanna watch, u should check the last 20-30 s, for the 40s chill on guard hueheuehue

here is the vid! http://youtu.be/qS2reGSUbEc

ah ye, criticism is fine, just have mercy :S

ellesee.8297:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Glue Shot is really good! It’s an unblockable immobilize that sets up your next attack (usually Blowtorch!) When they buffed the projectile speed, they made it perfect!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

i thought u did quit ? :o

its fine as it is and helps to land some of the skills. no change necessary

and the immob when entering could be too strong

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Summons a Toy Soldier that explodes after a couple of seconds.
Using this skill will start Costume Brawl, unlike skills such as Summon Skeleton.
This skill cannot be used if the player has started Costume Brawl; they must first Time Out in order to use this skill.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Summon_Toy

aw ty! when i linked the skill into wiki there was no article about it >.<

so i bought the winter thingy outfit, got a toy w it, but unlike other toys the skill 5 (the toy summon stuff) doesnt work like the other toy summons(bat,cat,etc(from broom, prince staff,etc)) , am i doing smth wrong or is it supposed to just explode right away? (if yes, the explosion animation is rly lame ): )

so if u bring an engineer ;

-25 perma vuln (w proper food ofc)
-fire fields
-smoke fields
-water fields(usually not needed, unless u totally pug and the engi blast it itself, is always nice to have a burst of 5-6 k aoe healing just in case)
-lots , lots of blast finishers on a reasonable cooldown
-can spec for reflects n stuff
-3rd best dps
-can pre stack 25 might solo by only sacrificing a single utility slot(can make vid if ppl interested)(ye a 50 s cd thumper turrret)(useful if ppl r bad and u need to carry em, requires em to listen to u though)
-reflects(a rly high uptime on it if purely specced for it(longer if bodyblock with shield 4)(low cooldown on turret reflects if chained)(elixir is the only one long )

in most cases the engi has most of it in a single build

gs2 has a potential of stacking 6 might on u, a full shatter is 3 might, u probably did 3 full shatters, or 1 full shatter and 2x gs 2 (more likely)

what if our mortar elite would just be removed, and we would be able to choose another kit ? like i rly rly wanna run 4 kit engi for … why not…

(we just can choose flamethrower, elixir gun, nades, bomb kit, tool kit)(and u cant choose a kit u alrdy took as utility, we would just get another utility slot for kits only w a small nerf)

the elite kit would have double or triple the cd of the normal skills and no tool belt skill for it

for example we got ft, eg, nades on utilitys slots, on elite we got tool kit
magnet would be (idk how much, around 20 s cd) would be 40-60s cd and we wouldnt have throw wrench, box of nails would be 10-15 s cd, pry bar around 30-45, and gear block idk….

would open up more options either

i do realise that we had the mokitteniscussion often enough, just wanted to share it anyway, even if all is vain..

anyone made himself a sinister stat pve build (solo or max duo )? (for dungeons mainly)

i m still tryin to get dem recipes, 3/6 atm(farming chests in silverwastes)

just wanna see a build+ opinion of how good they r+ if possible a vid :>

no
no
why not
no no

ur ideas r mostly just unreasonable tbh

we got a stickyyy!!

all hail wolfineer! (and micheal)

Michael Henninger.7451:

Wolfar,

I finally got off my kitten and read this guide. There is some magnificent material here. I’ll be testing some of this today. Say hi if you see me in game (mehenninger.2867).

let the stalking begin

in wich map is it hard to see?:o

i loved mesmer due to the clone mechanic, like, u can summon 3 copies of u! how awesome is that!

and mesmer reminds me kind of a mage assasin hybrid, like arcan thief

and i always loved both mage and assasin in every game i played, so i just choose mes, and i got no regrets besides switching over and wasting one of my legendarys for a meteorlogicus just to switch back after a few weeks to mesmer…

i kri everityme

Krispera.5087:

Wyrden.4713:

shatter build w full dmg (6 2 0 0 6) mirror image + decoy + blink

blink to enemy, decoy + mirror image + mindwrack- win

could kill zerkers!

(actually idk, worth a try tho)

Ahah, tried for the lulz and mesmer doesn’t spawn clones without a weapon. I guess we could play mantras/lockdown or play with iDesenchanter + iDefender for shatters.

nooooOOOoooo

shatter build w full dmg (6 2 0 0 6) mirror image + decoy + blink

blink to enemy, decoy + mirror image + mindwrack- win

could kill zerkers!

(actually idk, worth a try tho)