Guild Wars 2

thanks, Count Grouchula.

I changed from 04406 to 44006 which results in much better damage and some drawbacks in survivability. Also your might won’t cap at 25 stacks all day like it does with BI (best trait eveerrrr but Shattered Concentration is too useful in this meta). I don’t know if it really destroys cele eles or maybe the torment just catches them by surprise (or i play against horrible ones…), but I usually need less than half a minute to kill them.
Loving it in unranked.

Because everyone runs longbow, right. And lol at the pet, it’s still useless in anything bigger than 2v2.

Thumbs up!
I should stream more again, sigh.

This is my favorite build right now. Got the burns, got the survivability, got the direct damage. If you get an Entangle combo off, it destroys pretty much anyone (doesn’t happen often against good players, but I receive a lot of hate from Engis). If you want to try a spirit build, I suggest this one. You can tweak it if you want (like signet mastery and take signet of renewal as a stunbreak, take a different amulet and whatnot). It’s just that I really don’t like sunspirit because pretty much anyone has a lot of access to burning and it doesn’t stack in intensity, so it’s kinda meh. The active blind is nice tho. But try call lightning and you’ll see what I mean.

I’ve tried a 04406 cele build too, but with MtD instead of IP. Really good in 1v1s, basically no pressure in teamfights.

Due to holidays, people’s HDDs breaking down and others being trapped in Mozambique, tryouts are hard to do for us atm, so if you’re interested, please wait until next year.

Good day!

We are a freshly founded PvP guild consisting of some friends from our former PvX guild that wanted to be a bit more serious about PvP.

Right now, we have few members

Varez (Ele, Thief)
Sel (War, Mes)
Treb (Teeeeef)
Holy (Guard)
Raven (Ranger)
and me, Yndi (Engi, Necro)

We aim to have a maximum of 20 very active members, so everyone can find teams to play with at any time. We want to have people on our skill-level, which is quite high and still growing, so we have a couple of restrictions. Our goal is to have a guild, where you can ask anyone at any time and trust him to play a more than decent role in your team.
Also, we will join ESL cups quite soon and don’t plan to be cannon fodder.

When you feel like you want to join us, here are the things we are looking for:

-1k+ ranked games with a decent winrate
-any class right now, preferably not multiclass, we’d like you to have 1 or 2 main classes
-you will be tested in 1v1s and in ranked arena and we will observe and judge how you play
-your personality has to be cool and you have to rage less than me
-knowledge of rotations(!!!!!)

we have a 2 week-ish trial period after which we decide whether you can join us or not.
And if it doesn’t sound like we’re nice, don’t be fooled, we really are

We are excited to meet you!

Yea right. I’m glad it’s only mini llamas or armor pieces because I would REALLY care about titles and get mad when some 12 game scrub kicks me out of a title. (this is only for soloQ).

TeamQ would work I guess.

3/10, too obvious

You have to press B and hit one of the swords or the dice, it will get you into a team.

I see and understand your points and I will give Celestial another look. It’s just that personally I had better results with Settler’s, though I changed my build slightly after switching to it. It may work as well or better with Celestial.

Dayyyyyyum guys manly esports tears

I’m gonna start streaming ranger and mesmer pvp, occasional engi if needed but there are so many good engi streamers out there and I’m mediocre on that class at best.
twitch.tv/zkolden

I’m all in for staff or OH focus for ranger too, giving it more support-y skills.

What I don’t like about celestial is the waste of most of the power stats, because unlike ele, engi and warrior, the standard weapon sets (a/d and s/t) have horrendous powerdamage attached to their skills. As it stands now, I feel like Settlers does everything Celestial should be doing, just even better.

yea got that bullkitten going on again right now. Legacy once again.

And as I replied here it appears to be happening again to me. Khylo this time.

Mmh, me and some others had that issue earlier on Foefire and prefreset worked perfectly fine for me. Have you tried logging on another character first?

Aaaaaaand Foefire again.

Haha, what would happen if literally no-one played it? Everyone loses?

It happened just now to me when I tried to load into my tPvP map (Foefire). Pretty kittened.

Wow dude, can you stop posting your whining in every single thread, you got killed by some mesmers, tough life, learn to dodge or get some of your beloved bunkerlifestyle.

I actually could imagine SW in teamQ if the orb mechanic gets a little altered so that some classes don’t have the edge other than being a little tankier.

I started out at a similar build, but moved away from it towards a more beastmaster-y version of it with settlers amulet and 4-6 points in BM line. (Quickness wolf fear+res carries hard in SoloQ). The condition output is rather bursty and not as sustained and Entangle plays a big role in it, but the direct damage my owl or wolf put out is nothing to laugh at.
With 6 in BM I have to sacrifice SotF, but the regen i have and evasive purity is more than enough to sustain myself, condition classes aren’t such a tough matchup for me. DPS guard and hambows can be very good against this spec, both are manageable though if you time your dodges (of which you have many) right.

Dreams come true.

Shooo Shooo! Hype Train!

I’m using that build against condi heavy teams, against most other i use invigorating bond instead of empathetic bond. Probably not the best idea but i just love those 2k extra heals. Sigils are geomancy and battle. Also i use krait runes, the condi burst you can put out with good timing and entangle, splitblade, winter’s bite, crippling talon, geomancy runes, bonfire is too sick and will bring baddies down and good players into defensive mode. Just count the dodges before using entangle.

So what are the news here or is everyone still on the LB train? I’m still experimenting to find the best setup for me, but I’m pretty content with the outcomes so far, running mostly 0-0-4-4-6. Lack of condi removal but it turns out that there are worse things to worry about in a rather organized team.
Not sure about runes though. Krait? Forge? Dwayna?
Just give me Aristocracy runes in pvp finally!

Why not Zealot, kitten

I was always someone that believed that Anet is on the right track and that everything will come when it’s time, but this patch is such a major disappointment to me. Nothing substantial will be added and we’re left with problems that more or less exist since launch. Just a little straw to cling to, a statement that something bigger is in the making might reignite the fun I had in this game, but as of now, I don’t see that coming. Bummer.

bethekey.8314:

It is really quite simple. Anet’s recipe for the perfect Solo Q team is:

• One disgruntled veteran player, who brings up rotations and leaderboard ranking no less than twice per match
• The “I’m just here for my daily and achievement points”, Eternity-wielding PvE’er
• A “How are you losing an X v Y” dead far-point pusher
• The mute, starter armor, Rabbit who will somehow be boosted to the top of the leaderboards
• The infallible You, a shining example of everything good and skillful in the game

The best and most on-point post I have read in days.

Ona successful kill, mesmer gets 3 sec and phantasm 1 sec of distortion, 10 sec ICD.

Chilli.2976:

Pretty straight forward, screenshot your chat in a sPvP game and make sure you hide the names of other players.

Just finished this Skyhammer game vs high ranked players and this is what happened:

Haha, I think he meant me cause I pulled him down so often in hammer room. I enjoy the rage so much.

Better music than you #hipster

Right now United Nations, Alvvays, Gold-Bears, Antemasque, Trophy Scars, The Antlers, The Hotelier….Whatever the shuffle god giveth me.

Also a lot of chillwave or whatever you wanna call it.

I think I have good days and bad days. On good days, everything I want to do, actually happens, on bad days…well it doesn’t and I usually can’t really tell why.
But also I am very stubborn and when I know i play bad I have to play more because i have to leave the game with a positive outcome. Which usually takes quite some matches, during which I get more and more enraged by the stupidity. My own and the one of my fellow teammates.
But whatever day I have, I usually play rather consistent.

120 matches, you sure are an expert.

makes some more noise At least give me a better fire field, kitten!

Into The Void is actually the best skill on this map with some practice. Also, Mesmer has stealth. And yeah, I use it, and yeah I win a lot on this map. Do I like it? Not really.

Runes of the Pirate all day. Ma birdie!

It’s just that EA doesn’t offer anything for me. I got enough condi cleanse, might stacking and burns, only the heal would be useful and i don’t want to invest a GM trait in a line I don’t really need. But opinions, I guess.

Yea i almost exclusively play pvp.

I run 4/2/2/6/0 with d/f on my ele atm, gaining all the boons the arcana line would offer in a different way. EA is weird in my eyes, as it creates more situations where you would want to dodge; I’d rather just dodge the opponents attacks instead of using it as an offensive tool.

BlackBeard.2873:

In pvp, you can actually use any weapon-combo for eles except d/f really (there just isn’t any damage outside of air autos, so you will get killed by mostly everything before you kill them).

Objection, d/f is a beast (especially in duels) and arguably better than OH dagger.
And Arcana really isn’t all that great, i do well with 0 points in it. (Just a thing I wanted to say for a long time :P)

Working on Ele right now…

Oh, I will definitely try out 30/30/x/x/x burst on my ele in PvP. Fire shield actually isn’t too shabby with this. Also there are some nice traits in Fire that synergize with it. I really can see myself playing it with either d/f or s/f, let’s see what will get me killed less. Not sure whether i want stone splinters or vigor. Probably vigor.
Yeah it is a good trait but OP? No, not really.

kitten yea, EU! Totally didn’t expect them to win, but it’s cool!

I don’t believe Grouch, I want to see a legit vod of him playing Ele!

knackyknave.7469:

How do you deal with Necros? I came across 4 or 5 today in WvW and had a rough time dealing with them when they pile on 5 conditions instantly.

You pretty much need to get the first hit in and lock them down completely. If you get the first hit, they are dead.

I never really got the point of having 2 movement-slowing conditions anyway. Especially because chill already has an extremely strong effect that ruins most rotations.