Do yourself a favour and find another game for pvp. Most players have left to play other games and now the only seemingly fun thing left is teamq because of the awful matchmaking and leaderboard system for soloq but even then good teams are so rare.
3% direct dmg mitigation in earth (no protection) seems to work even tho it doesnt show in the stats window and doesnt affect runes or other things that scale of toughnes.
Strange, when I replied to this the other day I was getting the toughness increase displayed in my stats but now I am no longer getting it. I was testing a build at the time so it might have something to do with that.
The display bug came with the most recent feature patch but as far as I can remember the trait never worked with undead runes.
I just realised that it only displays when you have signet of earth equipped. Try changing attunements with it and then remove it and try again.
top players sit in mists trying to figure out best way to color their gear.
It’s so unappealing that I can’t even make myself do sPvP for the glorious armour that I want so badly. I preview it from wardrobe and use TP dyes instead.
7 of those losses were with 400 points or more and I honestly think in some games that weren’t 4v5 we could have won if one person just went afk because they gave the opposing team more points than they gave us.
I mean no offense to anyone with this. It’s not an attack on peoples ability to play the game but I’m just frustrated that the leaderboard and small playerbase can cause such awful matchups at peak time on a Sunday. We need the option to avoid these encounters if they are going to happen.
Once your soloq matchup was complete you would get a 1 minute countdown which showed the leaderboard ranks of your players and which you had to confirm within the minute to move on to a 1 minute countdown before the match begins.
I am genuinely not surprised many players stopped playing after my experience yesterday.
Hey, I am writing this for a friend who is getting the mouse but I thought it might also be helpful to anyone else using the mouse who has confusion over where to bind keys.
I will split section into mouse and keyboard binds.
Logitech g600:
G9-skill 1
G10- skill 2
G11- skill 3
G12- utility 3 (armour of earth)
G13- skill 4
G14- skill 5
G19 & 20- call target (pressed with back of thumb so two adjacent buttons for reliability)
Scroll click left- utility 1 (armour of earth)
Scroll click right- utility 2 (lightning flash as this is more convenient for combining with other skills with muscle movements)
Scroll downwards click- change weapons (not so useful on ele but is an especially convenient bind for other classes)
G7- Heal skill (press with center bone of index finger)
Ring finger rest button- Dodge (most right button which allows fluid movement whilst using)
Keyboard:
—-WASD replaced with RDFG for movement—-
F1 ability- E
F2 ability- T
F3 ability- Z (or Y on british keyboard)
F4 ability- B
Interact- N
Jump- Y (or Z on british keyboard)
Stow weapon- > (or \ on british keyboard)
Next target- spacebar
Elite skill- S
I think that sums up the most important things. Hope it helps Evris!
sup
Just askin to Texbi.
Waiting for your response ^^
Windu from Otist Team (War officially, but I used to play guard and spirit ranger)
Hey man,
I will talk to texbi about it when i can contact him and will tell him to get in touch with you. Being able to play multiple classes is great but ofc we want someone who is strong on bunker guardian so I would recommend practising a bit before we do some trials if youre rusty. Its unlikely we will decide on our guardian until vanish is back in a week so I wouldnt want to turn you down because of a false impression.
Ohai we make new team. Very gud. Need strong guard, big muscles.
Players: Ivanishyouwipe, Texbi, Rolyate, Zuik
We will do trial runs with applicants in teamq and will also test for mechanical ability in which the guardian must survive a 1v1 with Ivanishyouwipe on point.)))
Many players have brought up the issue of difficulty viewing asura animations before and I think now is the time to give us that red post and tell us what you are currently working on to address this.
The warrior is already known for its more obvious animations which caused a large movement of players to use an asura character however the new adrenaline changes will make anyone not using an asura warrior hugely disadvantaged as the f1 ability hitting will be of amplified importance.
We have all seen the bobble head patch, we have all seen the WvW player appearance options but we have not seen any confirmation that this issue will be addressed with the necessary fix. Making four of your five races undesirable in a competitve mode is not something players want to see and neither is having to ban the use of asura characters in tournaments as the players may feel uncomfortable using models they are not used to.
We hear too much about the intention of not adding or changing a great deal to keep balance strong but one of the main balance issues in this game mode has never been addressed and will only persist until you do something about it.
All I ask is that you tell us how you plan to address this issue. No dates necessary, no more opinions from us but instead an answer to the question.
I agree that it is passively carrying players but engineer needs this to have some place in the current meta. I would like to see the duration largely reduced but the class needs additional damage made available through more skillful play to compensate for the loss.
liek necro lacks cond and warr needs more cc this gaem so unbalanced
Im going to assume youve never played signet berserker ranger.
I’m going to assume you haven’t, either. If you think 3-4k autos on a full berserker build which is oh so easily negated by sidestepping is burst, you probably have never been killed by anyone running a real burst build.
I broke this record yesterday on a necro, because the screenshot is of a guardian which as heavies take less damage. Neither were uplevels as usually those die on the 12-16k CnD damage alone when factoring in the ~8k mugs.
I’d also like to point out that a lich form necro does more damage in auto-attacking than my backstab. 20k auto-attacks versus 4k’s… hmm… something about burst or even sustained damage? I’m sorry, rangers in their current state have neither.
Unfortunately I cannot respond with pictures of record number crits in WvW but tbh looking at your numbers in relation to a viable spvp thief zerker output that doesnt matter.
This is posted within the sPvP forums for an obvious reason. Most of the balance changes are aimed towards this and not the completely unbalanced other areas. When comparing viable or soon to be viable builds, signet ranger has a large burst potential.
This reply has nothing to do with skyhammer whatsoever. Yes I think spirithammer is a great map where positioning on the map takes additional skill. Sometimes though I think our team is doing well and then suddenly the tide is turned by secondary objects making me feel like I was stood on a glass panel.
What I love is when the opposing team focuses on only one area you can really hammer down on them and take the lead.
Skyhammer and Spirit Watch are weird. They both have the three side points and a massively more important secondary objective. That means that you need to split to four “points” at pretty much all times. That makes rotations a good bit harder, with communication being more important. For that reason, they might be better in team queue… wtf am I saying. The maps suck. plsno
I’ll explain the basics for you assuming you’re fighting one on a point. Firstly you need to keep an eye on their attunements, whether it’s through looking at their status or recognising their skills.
Their main burst comes from fire attunement as well as a strong portion of sustained damage through burning. A decent way to counter this is to stay at very close range to them when they’re in fire to avoid being hit by burning speed as well as running through them to position yourself behind them when they start casting drakes breath. Save your condition removal for after they use their burning skills or when they switch out of fire. Fire grab is normally casted at the same time as they switch out of an attunement for fury to increase crit chance so it usually comes late into the fire attunement. Dodging this skill and removing burning before it hits is important.
They are most vulnerable after switching out of water attunement or using their water healing abilities (watch for dodge roll) as this means they have less access to condition removal and healing.
Applying conditions and CC on them during lightning attunement would be wise as this is their main source of CC and sustained power damage with a decent amount of cleave. The reason you want to apply conditions now is because this attunement is normally the only one that is beneficial for them to stay in despite having skills on cooldown and so forcing them to switch back into water to remove conditions or focus on defensive play could prevent some damage on yourself.
When they are in earth you have 2 skills that you should truly watch out for. Magnetic grasp and earthquake are effectively lockdown skills that will make you vulnerable to their fire burst. Earthquake is very easy to avoid by dodging, magnetic grasp not so much. If you get hit by earth 5 though you’re just a noob.
For a necromancer the most important addition to this is timing your conditon transfer. Normally when fighting one I have to be extremely careful when using chill otherwise I can be of detriment to myself once the necro transfers. Theres a lot more to it than this such as baiting their skills and attunements. I really do advise you play it a bit.
Ele op cause dey keeled me wig a staff in 2.5 sec. No fair. Warrior must chop chop yo face yet ele just cast den run away. How dis right? I should be able to 1 2 ko heem but nope.
:(
lel brav u just nab no skill.
staff macro take 150% skill but u wudnt kno
I looked you up and you havent played pvp in 7 weeks. So why are you still posting on here? Makes no sense that this thread is full of people who don’t even pvp. Some have almost never pvped. And yet they all post here…. It is almost comical
lel brav u is stalkin
Im at home working without my pc currently so I cant play. Still, I get bored sometimes and check the forums for things that I find interesting. Besides, how did you turn 5 weeks into 7 weeks?
Fair enough. But people who don’t currently play can’t really talk about current balance issues. It makes no sense. I recently quit the game for 3 months, and before that for 3-6 months. During those periods I wasn’t on here giving my opinion on balance issues
That depends entirely on when you are inactive. I was in top 25 for soloq with d/d celestial for over a month before leaving for home so Im sure you can understand Im not some random guy giving you bad advice on a build I cant use. This build is one thats best played to understand as its quite complicated to counter right.
Honestly I dont like shouting out the weakness of builds because its tiring hence the first comment I made. If you look through my history I think theres one in detail that might be useful to you though. Im sure there were a lot of tips for a necro missing from it though as it was a basic overview. * found it so will post below
Dont get me wrong, the current meta builds arent something I enjoy seeing however they are necessary to stay within capability of other badly balanced builds. This games balance needs some serious rework.
Ele op cause dey keeled me wig a staff in 2.5 sec. No fair. Warrior must chop chop yo face yet ele just cast den run away. How dis right? I should be able to 1 2 ko heem but nope.
:(
lel brav u just nab no skill.
staff macro take 150% skill but u wudnt kno
I looked you up and you havent played pvp in 7 weeks. So why are you still posting on here? Makes no sense that this thread is full of people who don’t even pvp. Some have almost never pvped. And yet they all post here…. It is almost comical
lel brav u is stalkin
Im at home working without my pc currently so I cant play. Still, I get bored sometimes and check the forums for things that I find interesting. Besides, how did you turn 5 weeks into 7 weeks?
Ele op cause dey keeled me wig a staff in 2.5 sec. No fair. Warrior must chop chop yo face yet ele just cast den run away. How dis right? I should be able to 1 2 ko heem but nope.
:(
Bullet Punch? That sounds familiar.. Oh yeah!
Watched him do 1v1’s in the arena and studied his playstyle and build — along time ago
I went out and made a zerker guardian..tweaked it.. beefed it up MAXI pad time!.. practcied practiced practiced with roaming!
Now I’m better then him but still I was his SECRET student – for an hour!
Funnest class to play!
I’ve moved on tho play a different lvl 80 everyday I am master of none anymore
First was ranger-thief-ele-warrior-guard-necro-thief-guard- pacman
this is like the 4th or 5th thread you post about either necro being bad or eles/celestial being op…
why dont you just l2p with your necro… complaining about celestial amy which heavily relies on boons while playing necro, the class with the best boon removal…
The best advice I can give is to play the elementalist builds yourself until you understand how to fight them. I don’t mean to be offensive but I wouldn’t understand half the weaknesses of the build if I didn’t play it.
The reason the builds with rapid and frequent removals are meta is because it is needed to cope with the constant spam of random conditions. Adding more of this condition spam would put builds with less removals even further from the meta.
I think a better solution would be to make condition removal less frequent and available but also move conditions to skills which require timing and can be avoided through watching for animations. This way the skill floor on both sides would increase.
Hai im texbi and I suck at PvP. I usually lose every match and is not fun. I play engi proskill circle strafe bomb build but evry noob is 2 fast. Basiclay I need pro tips, coach, sumthin.
He has done more work than anyone else in the community and deserves it more than anyone. At the same time he is not a top tier player like the others on the list and should not be playing in an “All Stars” competition, he is a caster not a player and we do not want the casting mess that was pax.
Anyone that plays this game still agrees that the combat is the only thing keeping us playing
I have to say, seeing that combat system not brought out to at least half of its potential is the most depressing thought for me in my gaming history. They could have done amazing things with that as the basis.
)))play a different lvl 80 everyday
