Guild Wars 2

Flumek.9043:

Yes / no?

How would you like it to work 1v1 ?

Id personaly trade any CD increase, for the target also counting as a target (yo dawg)… Basicaly you double condies on target and then hit 4x others

too stronk doubling in a 1v1

getting right to the point~

arcane wave (the blast finisher) underwater 99% of the time doesnt proc the blast finisher, i am not sure why, but i guess its cause the blast finisher isnt on player like it should be, but somewhere else

anyway i died a lot coz of it not beeing able to stack stealth in wvw ~

its quite disturbing , would be nice if someone could look into it

well that escalated qukcly…

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

I’d vote a slight buff to Backstab, but that’s just my opinion. I know people will still moan about it being to powerful, but what about increasing the damage to the “facestab” portion of the skill as a compromise?

facestab could use a small buff

NeXeD.3042:

I would have thought my sarcasm is just understood at this point……sigh.

tss u fool! how could u think forum ppl can differ jokes and honesty! tss..!

i dont think anyone would be against it, its optimal after all

edit: optional*

NeXeD.3042:

Yeah I agree dagger 3 is like the worst attack we have who the kitten needs immobilize when we could just all stack in a corner

dagger 3 is insanely stronk for pvp tho

check wolvineers sd engineer burst :>

s/d ele works best when the enemy doesnt see u, probably best roaming partner would be a thief for de stealth , solo roam as s/d ele is rly tough cause anything that touches u kills u, but its awesome in a small team, u can pick and kill even rly bunkerish specced stuff

Bombsaway.7198:

What is the trick to getting it to stack so many times? When I try, I get a similar maybe 9 second timeframe (at best).

Are there tools and tricks to make it easier or more reliable? Are others having trouble getting the hang of it?

I tend to drop HT, then BOB, then smoke, blow turret, magnetic and if I could move fast enough e-gun.

Also, it seems like it is only 2 seconds per blast and not 3 that the Wiki mentions. Correct or am I just having trouble max stacking the combination?

in my experience u can get 3 finishers max, then u can use toss elixir s, to get it to 14 s, my guess is stealth is capped to 3 finishers, if gained w finishers, then u can use other stealth skills maybe, like shadow refugee, toss elixir s, and whatever else is out there

its weird but, i have only ever managed to stack 9 sec stealth with blast finishers, it stops stacking for me at 9, unless i use toss elixir s, then its 14

so is it so that u can only stack 3 times stealth via finishers?

darres.8203:

well then…let’s compare classes
warrior, eles, power necros and guardians…personally i think all their full bursts are stronger than ours
i’m talking about bursts builds atm
with like 6/6/0/0/2 or 4/6/0/0/4

i’m not even ganna behind with full burst thief’s survival…just straight up dmg right now

ye nice, lets compare dmg!

how about no, then lets give mesmers etc the dmg eles or warriors do.

not even sure if u r srs.

(mesmer) one thing tho, to make mimic usable, else its gonna be trash:

make it usable on our ally that we target, i am pretty sure its gonna be useless if thats not possible, in pve barely some mobs have boons, in pvp its rly situational..too situational, u wont even need it in wvw

Sagat.3285:

When you compare two skills you forget the other skills, weapons, traits,class roles, base stat difference, class,mechanism …..unless you mention all that it’s pointless.

exactly this.

frifox.5283:

Depending from which side I attacked the Target Golem (Indestructible) in HotM, gs autoattack would at certain angles connect all the way from 1,700+ even though the skill itself is technically 1,200 max…

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqYkug_M6Ec

Has anyone seen this happen maybe somewhere else in game?

what r u using to see distance etc? ;0

Esplen.3940:

:/ I meant the top right of your screenshot… where it tells you to meet your friends…?

Really, you guys are all mesmers and this blind…? Where’s the thief in this thread spamming smoke field?

oh you..

Esplen.3940:

phirefox.2568:

You are actually right about that range – when i saw your OP, i didn’t want to believe it (i know – through multiple tests – that the range of GS#1 was about 1300 units for some time, but didn’t test it recently).

So naturally i instantly went online and testet it for myself – and you’re spot on with your observations.

I went to queensdale with my little engi, which has – due to traits – exactly 1500 range on her grenade skills; targeted the second practise-dummy to the right, and walked backwards until i was at the limit of being out-of-range, making a screenshot to mark the position. I then relogged on my mes, moved to the same position, and attacked – see the results:

You should meet with your friends.

b-b-b-but outside theres sun!

edit: oh nvm..

op stop comparing proffessions. warrior is way different than thief, not happy with it? play a warrior.

Blackhat.4016:

1200 -> 1700 is quite a lot though (way more than 15%).

I knew about the ele staff fire 1 since it’s at least 1200 range (not including +15% here) + 180 explosion radius (with Blasting Staff) = 1380 range. Sometimes the projectile flies further which increases the range which doesn’t make any sense to me tbh.

Just tried it with my ranger and it works there too…

Maybe they should look at all the ranged AAs again, quite a few seem to be bugged. If they really wanted them to have ~15% more range, all of them should have that bonus. Some of them don’t have it at all while other attacks have way more than 15%.

the elementalist staff in fire goes around 1500 + 180 radius, 1680 or so range in total

and i am pretty sure mesmer gs1 is not more than 1500

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Gamgee.8612:

Prysin.8542:

harharhar got rekt by condi spec when running power…. bet it was a power bunker or less bursty power spec then….

The problem is that conditionspecs can be bunkers and tanky as hell but still do as much dps as a full spec zerker with no survival. It’s simple – it takes one stat to go full out condition and three stats to go power.

Conditions have a wind up, power doesn’t. Power builds always try to kite and outlive condition spec’s, I see it happen all the time. They think if they play defensive and stay at range somehow they’re safe. Power damage is instant, condition damage is over time. Aggressive power spec’d builds will always beat a condition build, but 90% of power spec’d builds are too stupid to be aggressive.

i second this

unless its a pu mes

every ranged auto atk has a slightly more range than it says, ranger longbow traited auto atk has like 1800 or so(it says 1500)

ofc same is for fire staff 1 on ele, guard staff 1, scepter air 1 ele, not sure if longbow on war, butcould be, and a lot more~

the devs said smth like , its so that it can better connect w kiting enemys (not sure what exactly they said) so its not abug

khani.4786:

For your next screenshot you’ll want to turn up the quality but that’s not what this thread is about.

Here are a few pretties of my own

the 2nd pic is awesome.

was ur enemy mesmer by any chance an asura, and maybe of silver rank or above? he is pretty good, forgot his name tho, we duelled for hours

Anton.1769:

Hmmmm, if engie used SC – just get away from range of turrets? Or it’s too hard to understand?

getting away for most proffessions isnt so easy, its mostly a cc+ net turret immob

ofc the better players always watch out for supply crate animation and dodge accordingly , and always try avoiding it(its actually pretty easy avoiding it if u watch out for it)

but if it hits, it turns the whole fight, enemy is locked there cant do a thing while an engi bursts them down

i play nearly every proffessions, but mainly an ele , mes and engi, so i look at it not from one view only

ofc it feels as if it is underwhelming for the engi, its actually not

well its for humans actually, but since we dont have any useful incombat elite

the avatar transformation, the thing that transforms us into a tree

due to it beeing instant i tested yday the same bug as deathshroud stomping/rezzing

so its simple, u basically tap stomp+ ur elite at same time, resulting it in a safe stomp(if ur mistform ever is in cd), also works for rezzing

u can also use it when u r stunned and dont have any stunbreaks! for example, a mace/gs war, 4 s mace stun + 100 b sure can drop the more glassy eles, u can just pop avatar of melandru, ur toughness increases, resulting it doing waaay lower dmg (u got more vitality either)

if u ever get tired of using fgs to chase ppl or run away that is

mesmer pu gets a major nerf, the clone deaths r evadeable, blockable, blindable etc

in last ready up before necro and guard they talked about it, also the bleed from clone death gets reduced to 2 stacks to 4 s

meh lame, one more thing, does it stack with the effect of monk runes? 20% more heal to alllies, and is that for urself either or just allies again?

i want water scepter 2 to be reworked into a totally new aura :>

does the trait affect urself either or just allys?

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Epidemic. Because Sharing is Caring. Why should one poor fool be the only one to enjoy what you have to offer?

i like the way u put it

i still dont see why so many ppl want creative usage of skills be gone..

yday some guy w spectral walk nerf, now dis.

either way, its not a bug, everyone in livestreams /tournaments even (ToL for example) been using in front of devs, so its not a bug

10/10 he is a warrior

btw op, lets not make life more difficult for roamers pretty pls

dancingmonkey.4902:

Jelzouki.4128:

Arenanet skipped out on the Necromancer for this feature patch just like they did in the first one. When are we going to see some REAL changes?!!?!?!? Can they just kittening make our siphoning builds effective in PvP already?!?!

Tell that to warriors who literally got nerfed, while the necromancer recieved a list of small buffs.

necro was never rly awesome to begin with unlike wars

the only real nerf would be lich form duration, and lets be honest, if u positioned well and ur enemys r busy, lich form reks everything, so lich form nerf is understandable

Loyo.8526:

I think what he is trying to say is that Necromancer was left last with very little changes that would effect it positively balance wise across Gametypes (PvE, PvP, WvW). There was also very little time to leave effective feedback due to this.

at least no nerf \o/

necro was right after guard..

Volrath.1473:

Wyrden.4713:

they r fixing it if u pay attention, the adrenaline nerf is gonna be a rly huge nerf, ik that, i dont even play warrior.

I disagree, with the change to adrenaline, abilities will also build adrenaline faster so even if you fail an attack and dump your adrenaline, by the time the CD is over you will have full adrenaline to try it again. The only thing they did was deny warriors from having a second full adrenaline ability available if they missed the first one, by switching weapons, that’s all.

this change and the adrenaline decay should have been there since launch, anyway, better late then never.

how are abilitys gonna regen adrenaline faster? didnt hear about that..

Solori.6025:

Loki.2894:

Solori.6025:

Loki.2894:

The adrenaline nerf is not going to be huge. Longbow is fastest adrenaline generator and doesnt need a target to clear 3 conditions, theres just going to be a lot more lb camping (on a 5 second weaponswap i might add).

You dont lose adrenaline unless you leave combat, and earthshaker is pretty hard to miss as it is. The only thing it affects is eviscerate.

Signet, hammer and burst on longbow is still OP nerf it more.

another thing to add the above list is a 5 second weaponswap – WHY?? give it to all classes

If you are in hotjoin fighting new players then yes
ES is really easy to land, because people don’t know any better.

If you are argueing that you can land a reliable ES when its a X v 1

Yes, any class can be downed when they are fighting X v 1

This nerf to adrenaline is going to effect every spamtastic warrior who didn’t bother to learn the profession thoroughly, and by thoroughly i mean learning to bait dodges, cooldowns, etc.

They are getting nerfs and buffs next patch, and really if you are playing a thief. You have the most rewarding braindead spec in the game right now and its only going to get worse next patch because you can evade and stealth at a whim.

Have you played a theif? its extremely difficult – you get stunned once and your dead. Anyone using s/d spamming 3 is an idiot as your technique is obvious and a well timed stun/knockback means your toast.

LOL no you aren’t

You get stunned- Teleport away

OR steal and daze your target while your stunned.

No one spams 3 unless their bad or new.
But you still are FAR from dead from a single stun.
IF you get stunned.

agree w him^

MyPuppy.8970:

Or just give us Light Dash as an Elite Skill

Godzzila.3752:

No.

Also they sould remove any kind of ways that allow certain classes to solo certain dungeons.
Dungeons is supposed to be group content, if you can’t do it on a group you don’t do it. This game already feels a lot like single-player mode, no need to improve that single-player even further.

(Plus, even if this was the greatest idea ever and recognized by Anet that should me implemented ASAP, you would have to way for the feature patch of 2016)

i like soloing dungeons. they r too easy in teams, even solo its easy most of the times, just certain encounters r fun like lupi etc, why shouldnt we be allowed to solo stuff like that for fun…

vinceftw.5086:

I was thinking about this question a few days earlier and realized it’s really hard to answer this one. Most people like a class because they like the class mechanics, how skills interact with each other or certain weapon sets and traits.

Because your favorite skill is such an isolated object, it might not even be from your favorite class. I can imagine people love Corrupt Boon but not the necro class in general.

For me; it’s Heartseeker. I love the feeling of hunting my target down with executing damage that gets higher as my target gets lower. The ultimate assassinating move in my opinion. Dat feel when it doesn’t crit 3 times in a row tho.

So what’s yours?

hs spammer detected!

anyway, spectral walk ftw~

Gokil.2543:

You’d be surprised how often this happens

You’d also be surprised how often retal will oneshot the ele when this happens

i once killed 4-5 ppl at same time w fgs

anyway in most cases if this happens, experienced ppl inv u into team and go ’ LOL dis was crazy!’

Chicago Jack.5647:

Dondagora.9645:

What is your, the thief community’s, opinion on this matter? How do you want it handled, if at all?

I feel there is a whole host of different ways to deal with a general thief. I think your main gripe as a mesmer is S/D thieves as you pretty much need hard CC to make them think twice. I think the changes to s/d coming next patch is going to up a more diverse set of disables for the s/d thief and will allow you to burn more of their initiative before they can do any real damage to you.

mesmer here o/

isnt the skill 3 , first part, an evade? how is it interruptable as mesmer?

projectyles be feared!!!

i like ur friends

Jonny.6013:

It’s enjoyable, reasonably mindless leveling. As someone who is more or less 100% PVE nowadays I can appreciate EOTM in that it provides an opportunity to try something similar to WvWvW as a sort of introduction.

But, it’s not proper WvWvW. Not really.

Nice map, though.

not just a nice map, its an awesome designed map

just the xp rewards and overall rewards r too high.. sad the playerbase turned it into a pve map..

so many possibilitys gon to waste~

they could nerf the loot and exp granted in eotm , might fix some stuff

tanztante.6532:

i just went imba crit whatever, and OMG!!!!!!!!!

but thats not a crit! now imagine aa crit from a year long scepter aa camping ! OMG!!!

kellcam.7903:

watch the necro all most wipe a zerg in WvW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0kvzb2B16Y&index=2&list=UUmKZxEULx_uvwiLh2ES2lTA

guess what allowed this to be so easy! yes stealth! #plsnerftiff

obastable.5231:

So I really love a gun that shoots cake.

Who WOULDN’T love a gun that shoots cake???

But as someone who spent the time and effort to create Quip for it’s awesome confetti and sound effects it really bums me out to see and hear it 19082387978 times from people who didn’t put in that same time and effort.

The cake gun is essentially Quip minus the footprints (and yes of course it’s not an actual gun), but c’mon … if they’d skimped out and copied any other legendary it’d be just as awful.

Quip is legendary for a reason and it’s animations and sounds should be exclusive to it. Please fix, Anet. This is terribly depressing and I feel like I wasted a whole awful lot of time and money creating something to achieve a terribly common & now not very legendary effect.

they invested 2 years into it:o

in most cases if i am dueling a guy in wvw and he begs me not to use supply crate, and i am in a power setup, i use elixir x

if u get tornado.. well he wont go near u for some time, it rocks if u get rampage tho, skill 3 hits for around 4 k, all other skills r cc, and after the duel they complain about ur rampage :p

anyway, if its in a pvp server (mostly all eu pvp dueling servers ) got the rule not to use any elite above 121 sec, as ranger u cant use entangle for example, but can be traited to 120 s, and is allowed afterwards, if ur duel was there, it could be that case

anyway, it could also be that supply crate is strongest elite ingame (most impactful) in a pvp perspective (player vs player, i dont mean the game mode) and they dont wanna fight smth like that

10/10 this was him
http://youtu.be/XdzREXaxRTw?list=UUmKZxEULx_uvwiLh2ES2lTA