Guild Wars 2

2deep4me how can our stuns be real if our tech cant handle anything better

tichorum.2415:

Darnis.4056:

Why does dueling need a special feature ? :/
You can easily buy a custum arena, set a password, and duel to your heart’s content.
This game isn’t balanced for 1v1, it shouldn’t be made into a special game mode,
no thank you just because 80% of people in a thread want something doesn’t mean its good for the game.

What SHOULD be made into a game mode is 2v2 and 3v3… Like a special button for Soloque..

This is what I want;

Puma’s Photoshop skillz are op.

Too bad his world vision includes skyhammer and spirit watch in tpvp :P

psh a year ago everyone was no scoping because targeting was considered 3rd party software

Krittz.6013:

IDK why people think “dueling” is important in this game. The few times I’ve dueled, I have not had a single issue setting it up, dueling, and end.

Besides, most people that talk a big game usually say something along the lines of “I bet I can win you 1v1. I am going to get on my <insert 1vX class/build here> and own you”. If I wanted some cheese, I’d just go into tPvP. Plenty of that there already.

Please dont start with this garbage argument again, this thread is 80% people saying yay dueling and 20% this flawed reasoning.

To clarify: I’m glad you have no trouble dueling anyone you want in pve whenever you want.
Your second point… no, just no. :/

I have definitely not received the win bonus from being auto balanced without pressing either button but I guess this could have changed in the last 2.5 months?

Now that I think about it after that happened once and I learned about volunteer win bonus I have always clicked the button so it could have been up to a year lol.

Chaotic.9742:

If you are autobalanced, you auto-win

only if you volunteer

The necro is real

Tl;dr on thread:

Yay’s:

• It’s awesome
• Literally no downside with auto decline feature in menu
• Everyone but 3 carebears want it
• anet plx

Nay’s:

• Jerks will bm us if we decline (but they will bm you anyway that’s why you block them)
• I dont want to see duels in my city (dont look at it)
• I suck at this game and dont want people to see me lose (go back to your zerg trains and decline duels)

The end

Thought it did but I guess people were just casting it near the end of duration, I’ve pretty much always done a 4 5 4 asap so never actually tested the end of duration thing. Still though, I’m definitely going to try it while ooc

no reliable aoe stab, but ya does about the same heals and way more damage and probably more might. No prot though.

5 warriors:

• 1 w/ 3 banners to have perma 350 heal regen ticks on every point and cleric ammy
• 4 shout heals with celestial ammy relying on shake it off rotation instead of stab 2 hambows 1 s/s lb 1 a/s lb

Embrace the 0 0 4 6 4 with mass weapon swap sigils!

Does curtain not pull if u wait a couple seconds for it to run out? Initially I thought about needing to be ooc but if u let it sit and hit people with the gs5 before it expires then they wouldnt be able to dodge it o.O (thought that up as I wrote it)

Oh I meant like there are people all over the point and you get them into pull range with the gs5, say like they are spread over 2/3 of the graveyard point :P Just thinking that would be like a tourney highlight play if someone were to suckup all 4 people in a teamfight in a second and hit them with a x4 mindwrack. Im just daydreaming at this point, havent been able to play for a month.

That was the old definition bud, this allstars has nothing to do with skilled players it is for entertaining the 10 remaining esports fans and the 1000 pvers hoping to win a a prize.

But then again they are having a lan at gamescom and hopefully flying people out so this might be leading to a big pvp announcement.

kirito.4138:

Well it took them like over a year to make salvaging not prompt you for each item.

So… 2015 I think they will make “wait” button work.

Nah man, 1 pvp update every 1.5 years, next one will have ladders, a balance patch, and an armour set, so at least 3 years.

Moobs.8231:

Grouch I’ve lost so much respect for you for stating such a blatant lie. Showcase European casters my kitten . Does Blu not cast every European event? As fr as I know he does. I realize its not your decision probably but don’t you dare come here and LIE to us.
By the way letting you know this was worth being banned on the forums for insulting a dev or whatever it is

You won’t get banned for that lol, but ya there is like jebro and helseth sometimes, and jebro reminds me of blu when he was just starting out (kinda annoying but shoutcasting takes a ton of practice to not be annoying), literally the only reason blu isnt casting it is because anet has already put esports in the ground.

It is kinda funny cus with a few qol changes and more frequent balancing pvp could generate just as much money from gem store by attracting the bored pve playerbase that just quits after they finish living story. Just look at how popular gw1 pvp was compared to the rest of the game, really miss that :/

Chaotic.9742:

Or as it has been said, the absolute best people you may be thinking about couldn’t go during the time it happens/didn’t want to go. I do agree with the first part though, this should not be called an “all-stars” tournament.

From the googles:
allstars
Web definitions
All-star is a term designating an individual as having a high level of performance in their field. Originating in sports, it has since drifted into vernacular and been borrowed heavily by the entertainment industry. It can also be used for a group of individuals, who are popular in certain areas.

Allstars hasnt meant the best of the best for any sport in a long time bud.

Like I said before, if it truly was an olden days allstars then specific teams would be selected by merit.

my fav build is celestial str s/s lb war 0 6 4 0 4, I use to go s/a but retal is too strong :/

The longest guide ever just got longer! Also you had a typo in the forza section and capricorn isnt a map anymore. I wonder if anyone has ever pulled off a focus 4 swap blink gs 5 half sec before focus 4 auto pulls into a full mindwrack on like 3+ stacked people. I usually just cheat and do a gs 2 clone shatter on ressers.

Chaotic.9742:

I don’t think you realize what I’m trying to say… I know its a popularity contest and it is what it is. But Blu is popular from his casting of pvp events, not his play. That’s what I’m getting at. Hence, he should be invited by anet to do just that.

Yes, but allstars are entirely about viewers choice, and lets be real, eu is going to destroy any team from na because the entire roster of tcg is available while na has no chance of forming an actual team.

On that note I only picked bullet cannon or w/e his name is from eu because the other names were boring.

link to vod plx

Lopez.7369:

No, you don’t deserve to go. And you will not improve enough in one month to be worthy of the nomination, considering you’ve been at roughly the same skill level relative to other players for about two years.

Then again, this game’s competitive scene is so small that it probably doesn’t matter much.

All stars are just a show match, relative skill means next to nothing.

Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPxvq2zjy0g
Notice how the pixels are constantly smiling and don’t care when they miss or fall.

Also this is more about giving players that have put a ton of time in some cool reward/trip to germany not really about winning. If they cared about winning then teams would have been selected instead of players.

Furious.2867:

This game is not deep or advanced enough to have mandatory comms. If the team is fully aware of the roles and know how to read and respond to the map, the yelling, screaming and sometimes impulsive instructions may be a handicap. It’s so much better to play peacefully provided everyone knows what they’re doing. It also allows you to concentrate and think strategically.

In the case of the OP being deaf, I would probably give him the chance to try out because of the simple reason that when a person has a disability or weakened sense, expect one or two of the other senses to be abnormally superior i.e. better hand-eye coordination and so forth….

Except it is and you’re wrong, also nice tinfoil hat reasoning in the 2nd paragraph lol.

You are actually the only person I’d bother voting for tbh, no one has spent more time, anet should fly you out regardless imo.

hehk.8705:

solo que is a land of high skill, builds that require actively reacting to passive effects rein supreme:

- Sword dagger thieves for calculating their next fire and air procs as they counter mesmers by killing clones.

- Spirit ranger by using proper positioning and waiting for the right moment to use other shortbow skills

- Minion mancers for stacking their immobs expertly with their pets and dagger to finish off people in a fight of pure skill.

- Turret rifle engis for using next level positioning to land every knockback and control the point.

- Condi warriors for obviously counting dodges and timing skills like impale and pin-down to rek their opponents.

That’s my dream team for ToL

entropy.9613:

Lettuce.2945:

It’s amazing to me how ignorant people are when it comes to certain things.

Most of you failed to get it. I wasn’t even given a chance to try out just because I’m deaf. That fact alone was ignorance at its finest.

Thanks to those who came to my defense. But it’s no use arguing with ignorant and naive people.

4reals. Freaking nerds.

Have you considered the possibility that no-one wants you on their team because you’re a massive prat? Everyone who disagrees with you or doesn’t give you special consideration is ‘ignorant’ and it’s ‘no use arguing’ with them? Then don’t.

Your mother may have kicked up a stink with the school administration to make sure all the other children played with you when you were growing up, but you’re a big boy now.

As already mentioned, people aren’t excluding you because you’re deaf, they’re excluding you because you can’t use TS, but don’t let that stop you from playing the disabled card and acting like a victim.

It’s past time you were called on this ridiculous entitlement complex.

Ya, calling it ignorance was really bugging me too, this post screams entitlement :/

Lux.7169:

Zirith.6429:

q1 is like the easiest bracket I’ve ever seen for anything ever, but on the bright side I have no idea which teams will get out.

Without player names the default teams from quickly glancing at it to make it past Q1 is elusive and maybe joo binder, but I guess it depends on who is on the other teams since there’s really no correlation between team name and players involved.

Ya, I havent played too much recently and I’m hoping some of the obscure/new teams are secretly amazing.

q1 is like the easiest bracket I’ve ever seen for anything ever, but on the bright side I have no idea which teams will get out.

docMed.7692:

Who cares about auto-balancing; do you know that you get an AUTO-WIN (even if you get automatically switched to the other team?!). It’s just a feature to keep some sides from getting zerged down, /snooze.

most ppl probably dont know volunteering gives free win

Mike.4830:

Anyone stupid enough to “finish a combo” with 5 confusion will do it with 10 confusion, and in case you were unaware, you are supposed to use high damage condi skills such as confusion and burning AFTER you bait there cleanse with other condis. Fumigate is a 6.5s poisen (with traited duration) on a 2.5s cast… While I agree on its use in group fights, I was referring to 1v1s where you claimed it should not be used. Engi’s HPS is hard countered by poison, due to low # of condi clears, poison can destroy an Engis HPS, and as I stated he is running a bunkerish build and playing it as such. I understand what chaining CC is, HOWEVER with his build, (Which I think is a terrible build) is like a decap engi, and like you said it should be used for decaping a point, that being said, if he actually wanted to kill someone he would need to save it for interrupting their heal. And BTW I am able to do 2 things at once, I’m not sure what you were trying to get at, talking about kiting>?

Better to ensure higher dps then to gamble when using a low damage build (no conf overlap). His build has no other condis that last long enough that anyone would bother clearing anyway.

Fumigate is a waste of dps 1v1 and only good to use full duration for warriors and eles, it is far better to save 1-2 ticks for heals instead of doing 80-100 dps with 50% uptime and not hitting any heals.

On the flip side Fumigate is great for covering your 2 better condis during the channel so it would be good to use after those are applied too. So I guess your way (stacking dps condis) becomes better if fumigate can cover the clear because they will have no reason to cleanse before that.

So it is basically a gamble vs more guaranteed damage and healing reduction, I think both ways are ok, but I’d go the safer route most of the time because I’m not going to burst anyone with condis using a celestial ammy.

Mike.4830:

A lot. Using pry bar with conc. bomb is an extremely good condi burst even if your condi damage is low, damage like that would actually enable him to kill players that he would otherwise not be able to. Fumigate is a great poisen skill and poisen is important 100% uptime vs warriors, anyone with regen, and since I doubt you are going to re-actively use it on someones heal, it is good to use it to apply poisen before you think they are going to heal. He is not being “carried” by his high healing power. He is running a “bunker” engineer, and similar to a guardian, he relies on self healing. As a result he sacrifices a lot of damage. Because he has low damage, using all his CCs at once is a terrible idea… due to his low damage there is no way he can 100-0 someone, so it is best to save CC for interrupting heals, or landing a burst (Not all at once). While using healing mist and acid bomb is a good burst heal and damage source, using them only to know their CDs is ridiculous. With his build, his primary focus should be using counter pressure, so using glue bomb defensively is a bad idea, glue bomb is a great skill to help you use either fire or concussion bomb. Also as an engineer you should never find yourself auto attacking, if you do, you are doing something wrong. And please refrain from giving engineers advice.

Prybar + conc = 2 wasted cooldowns if it is cleansed, spreading it out has a better chance of doing more damage and their cooldowns and durations allow for that. And I dont know anyone that would use more than 1 skill with 10 stacks of confusion but they could get lulled into more with only 5.
Example:

• Oh shi I have a 10 stack of confusion “cleanse” good thing I only used a couple skills, that stupid engy just wasted 2 of his highest damage skills.
• Oh a 5 stack of conf let me just finish my combo then cleanse it, “reapply” omg I cant cleanse anymore but I still want to do damage and it is only a 5 stack.
  So pretty much it is always better to space out condis when it does not hurt your overall dps as to work around cleanses. You probably proc ip while using firebomb on single targets too.

Fumigates poison duration is basically over by the time the skill finishes, better in most cases to use it when they have regen ticks or are healing or to remove condis from allies. I guess if you are bad or have high ping you cant use it reactively and should just spam it for the poison uptime, good alternative I guess.

All engies are carried by their hps.

Chaining cc does not mean blow it all at once, it means comboing a cc skill with some damage instead of just blowing them randomly without follow up. For example you are decapping a point you use 1 kb every time they come close to the circle and immobs while they are out of it.

I wasnt saying waste mist with bomb to know the cd, that is just a bonus of using that combo.

When I say kiting I mean standing 200 range away spamming damage while being out of melee range. thought that was obvious but I guess you can’t do 2 things at once :/

I’ll agree with not auto attacking but im pretty sure there are times where you can get an attack or 2 in every once in a while.

Mike.4830:

Zirith.6429:

List of things to work on:

• You do not have good uptime on any key skills and a lot of your combo potential is wasted.
• If you only use elixer gun 4 with f1 then you will always know when it and EG 5 are available
• unless you are with an ally or notice the enemy healing there is no reason to use EG 3.
• You want to make sure you are fire and conc bombing on cooldown as well as rotating between nails smoke and glue bombs to mitigate damage.
• Also you really want to chain cc with rifle bigbomb and pull to get off a ton of damage.
• You are wasting a ton of dodge rolls too, ideally you want to dodge big attacks like phant zerker, or evic which are really easy to see but you kind of just use them whenever atm.

You are really being carried atm by how obscenely high your self healing and defence is and against good players (luckily there are very few) you would not be able to get away with this kind of play so easily. Without any points in inventions a celestial engy can heal for 1000hps by using all healing skills on cooldown, with inventions it is probably quite a bit more since you get that heal reset when on low health too.

In summary, chain skills, spam important dps and healing skills (but dont overlap your bomb and tool 3’s), dodge better, kite with nails and glue bomb saving shield block for when they actually get on you. You also sit in kits for too long, if there is ever idle time your best dps is rifle autos or bombs, it seems like you actually use 7 8 9 for the kits which is a massive pain to reach and really delays your actions (in the video you were extremely slow).

Oh and auto attack on m5 seems like a huge waste, in terms of binds, putting a stun break or toolkit swap there instead would allow for faster shield walls which could be much better.

sry if typos am sleepy

who are u to give advice?? ur comments are bad and dont help

What was wrong?

Removing skyhammer from soloq is pretty much the main indicator that they have already written off pvp, it is a change that takes minutes and would get tons of praise but who cares about all of the 100+ post threads complaining about how terrible it is when you can make more easy farmville pve content (it really does remind me of a facebook game from 2007)

No one takes hot joins seriously lol

List of things to work on:

• You do not have good uptime on any key skills and a lot of your combo potential is wasted.
• If you only use elixer gun 4 with f1 then you will always know when it and EG 5 are available
• unless you are with an ally or notice the enemy healing there is no reason to use EG 3.
• You want to make sure you are fire and conc bombing on cooldown as well as rotating between nails smoke and glue bombs to mitigate damage.
• Also you really want to chain cc with rifle bigbomb and pull to get off a ton of damage.
• You are wasting a ton of dodge rolls too, ideally you want to dodge big attacks like phant zerker, or evic which are really easy to see but you kind of just use them whenever atm.

You are really being carried atm by how obscenely high your self healing and defence is and against good players (luckily there are very few) you would not be able to get away with this kind of play so easily. Without any points in inventions a celestial engy can heal for 1000hps by using all healing skills on cooldown, with inventions it is probably quite a bit more since you get that heal reset when on low health too.

In summary, chain skills, spam important dps and healing skills (but dont overlap your bomb and tool 3’s), dodge better, kite with nails and glue bomb saving shield block for when they actually get on you. You also sit in kits for too long, if there is ever idle time your best dps is rifle autos or bombs, it seems like you actually use 7 8 9 for the kits which is a massive pain to reach and really delays your actions (in the video you were extremely slow).

Oh and auto attack on m5 seems like a huge waste, in terms of binds, putting a stun break or toolkit swap there instead would allow for faster shield walls which could be much better.

sry if typos am sleepy

precursors every 3rd teamq win imo

uberkingkong.8041:

tichorum.2415:

If people would stop complaining about the game and went and got better, found a good group of players through the LFG forum or messaging random people that are relatively high on the team leaderboard, they would find a team they enjoy playing with and compete. It would be more fun.

I suggest you do that.

With the old tournament system you could do this.

With the new tournament system its less friendly to make friends with. Because you solo que and win, you cant say hey lets go do team que, because only elitist play that and they’d get crushed.
Also you cant solo que with them because its solo que for a reason.

So all in all you just end up not making any friends at all.

With the old system you could que up solo, win a game. And “hey lets que up together”. Win more games and make friends.

The thing is not everyone agrees to que up together so, you’d have 3 people que together in the old system and it was perfectly fine.

In the new system you either solo or you have full team. Sure those elitist can do duo and trio que and win, but bunch of randoms duo trio queing in team que just leads to frustration.

If I was the decision maker, I’d go back to the old que system and fix matchmaking.

I have made a ton of friends from soloq and we have gone on to completely dominate teamq, in fact I met Jtan and stoddlez in soloq because I noticed that hey we are the ones carrying these noobs. Then we went on to trioq for 3 days without losing a single match.

PS Stoddlez quit 4 months ago and I am still very sad :/

I miss gw1, win gvg monthly tourney or hero battles, get 2309805 tourney points and buy 12345 zkeys, buy everything forever. When you were low on money and actually good you could do a couple 25 win streaks in random arena and make 100k in a couple hours. (monking 2 ez)

In this game I just use the tp inbetween queues, it’s really boring but makes lots of money when I bother to do it.

Moobs.8231:

Play for winning toL? that’s what we do, works well enough.

I really hope you guys are getting better, for months you were just a free win for my pug grps :P

To me the game is still in beta, so many features still arnt implemented, but the great thing about this game is you can stop playing for a year and come back and you might get a new pvp map!

But srsly the devs have talked about:

• new legendaries for this year
• guild halls
• polymock
• bar brawl
• real pvp ladders
• new game modes
• more balance patches
• PVE/PVP SKILL SEPARATION (way before the game came out, like comon)
• real pve (everything is faceroll)
• actual achievements (like clear 5 elite instances to make a real legendary, or place well in a pvp tourney and get a unique pvp skin)
• sets of alternating wvw maps

so many things, so much living world, so much waiting :/

Spend more time fixing your blue screen problem and less time complaining about your negligence on the forums :P

Not only are you a catalyst to the horde of whiners on the forums (omg 4v5 soloq) but you blame everyone but yourself because you probably have a virus or hardware issues.

Embrace the hammer

Yasi.9065:

Wow, zirith. How about you read the whole thread or even the whole post before picking things right out of their context. But maybe you could at least read the whole TOPIC.

This thread is… for your information… about SOLO QUE… dunno how you get a 1v10 in solo que at all. And empty solo que games arent anything that happens either.

So funny… trying to flame others and stepping right into it

SoloQ (aka solo que aka solo queue) = SOLO ARENA. Not hotjoin (aka play now).

???

1/10 = 10%, not 1v10 :/

Lopez.7369:

Keybindings are highly subjective. My Spectral Armor is on Z, and it works fine.

Well ya it can be fine if you always have a finger on your stunbreak, otherwise there is a delay that could make you take tons of extra damage, I guess it really isnt that important for necro because of the life force regen while sitting in ds, but for pretty much every other class it makes a huge diff.

I personally use mb4 for my main stunbreak util, it also makes spikes with guard, thief, mes, and ele way easier to pull off.

Ya mesmer’s strength is in mobility through portal, evasion with decoy blink and phase retreat, and high spike damage thanks to mind wrack. They are a support class like in gw1.

Also dagger thieves have an even easier time with mesmers because all it takes is 2 backstabs, and it is really easy to prevent phantasms from spawning. But tbh thieves only need a shortbow to beat zerker mes, all of their attacks are so easy to dodge unless they do a stealth shatter or blink slap combo.

Chaotic.9742:

To many people to quote so I’ll just say a few things to what I’ve read in here…

The fact that you can call for a condi clear, heal, peel, call number, etc is vital as it means people can focus on what they are doing and divert support when you call for it rather than worrying all the time about your teammate or overlapping cooldowns trying to condiclear that immob off your teammate, for example, but they pop theirs right when you do yours so effectively somebody wasted a cooldown they didn’t have to.

Too*

Also if your team has to type everything out then you spend more time staring at your chat log and less time paying attention to the fight which could lead to you eating a lot of damage.

@yasi: if you depend on having a good team to win soloq and complain that it is all luck then you are the main problem in your games, I’ve won lots of 4v5s and they do not happen nearly as frequently as 1/10

@uber: you should not have your stun break on x, that key is harder to hit and you will be delayed, this probably hurts your game play quite a bit by not having instant reactions to cc. Also warrior and engy are probably the easiest classes to carry a match with, push far win 1v1s and give your team a huge advantage or go mid and gib people and win the team fight, if you cannot reliably do this even with noob team mates then it is your fault that you lose :/

pirate bird > mesmer

I was thinking about that as I was writing lol ^

You are commenting without reading any of the stuff we have said about why instances like that become trivial after enough games are played :/ It isnt a gamble the best players will rise and stay at the top and the average ones will bounce between top100-1000.

But they cant attack or dodge while typing that, your team fights would be a mess unless you’re a support so they wouldnt have to tell you anything anyway. (good supports play re-actively)