Guild Wars 2

gosh! a 1v1 mode!

it’s not like we’ve been asking for this for 4 years, the Devs are sure to implement this!

jihm.2315:

Reaper Alim.4176:

Yannir.4132:

Reaper Alim.4176:

I completely agree with you on this point. However when other MMORPGs do Questing, Story, and Graphics better then you. That’s when you have a issue.

I don’t think any other MMO does any of those things better than GW2 does. Especially graphics, but as those are basically irrelevant to my generation of gamers anyway. I still play a game that was published in 2001, and it’s still one of my favorite games. But that is just my opinion.

From my experiences as MMOs goes. GW2 is top noch for Story.

Outside of that it is pretty sub-par in most other categories.

- Graphics goes to ESO Eve Online, and BDO.
- Endgame content goes to WoW and ESO.
- Meaningful character progression goes to all other MMORPGs.
- PvP goes to Blade and Soul, and Eve Online.
- ESO’s quests are much better made then GW2’s.
- Combat system imo is pretty much a tie between GW2, BnS, BDO, and ESO. ESO, BnS, and BDO have a more skill based combat system. GW2 has a more casual combat system.
- Class balance goes to ESO and BnS. Tho ESO and BnS is balanced every 3 or so months. Their balance teams actually listens and partake in a way more active role with their game’s playerbase. Hence why every class in those two games are viable in all of the game modes.
- Build variety goes to ESO and Eve Online. The viable builds for PvP in those two games are immense. We have META and anti-META. Build variety in these two games are pretty much null due to the nature of NPCs. And the fact that these two games are only being balanced around PvP. Yes sometimes PvE suffers but instead of just lazly add power creep to the classes, they take a different approach and nerf the PvE content instead. PvP suffers nothing, from PvE content.
- Long term excitement goes to ESO, Eve Online, and BnS.

Again these are my views. You are welcome to have different views. But the fact that you said GW2 does graphics the best alone. Just tells me you didn’t actually play many other MMOs or GW2 is your first and only MMO you played.

black desert has the worst animations i have ever seen in a game
i cant stand all this cheesy effects on my screen
also class awakenings made no sense
i had a berserker and he got awakened as an iron man?

as a zerker main, i have to call BS. i can fly into enemy boats in naval battles as iron man, it’s the most kitten thing ever. zerker awakening is amazing.

plus the animations are excellent. sure you can glitch out on rare occasions, buts that’s all games. as far as fidelity goes, BDO trumps gw2 ezzzzz.

BDO > GW2

Stand The Wall.6987:

choov if the devs didn’t care they would be completely absent. they are the opposite, actually putting into play things the community ask for. that’s ok for some things but not important ones.

i honestly don’t know how you can still have faith, was it the sigil thread? because if those are the people who care, there about as useful as a friendly dog when your car breaks down.

leagues, HoT, the communities idiotic obsession with solo queue, and Dev neglect have killed PvP. it’s in the back alley choking breath between bouts of bile. it’s over.

here baby, look at this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/1V1-PVP

four years ago we were asking for 1v1, and here we are. here we are.

look, anet have lost most, if not all of the devs who cared about PvP. they have killed competitive play. they neglect balance. they don’t talk to the community, even tho the game is DYING. yo, it’s not hard to see that they don’t give a care.

watch this, https://youtu.be/NrbQS9kW29k

both Helseth and Jebro come in, around half time or so- and they lay out the sorry state we are in. it’s time to give up. it’s over. it really is.

Cynz.9437:

choovanski.5462:

Cynz.9437:

They don’t need to delete revs, they need to remove elites from pvp and balance

considering rev needs it’s elite spec for anything even close to a viable build, i feel removing dragon stance would be akin to deleting the class.

i would love to know what kind of a build you would run on core rev if we were restricted to core. i cant think of anything remotely viable.

You conveniently cut out half of the sentence. Read it again, there is your answer.

only because anet and balance is an oxymoron

for some inane reason most of the PvP community follows a really stupid logical path.

they advocate for a solo queue environment in a team game, then when they get it they complain about their teammates.

it’s beyond dumb. obviously having random teammates and no communication is going to result in a lot of bad and frustrating games. the selfish mentality of the average solo queue player does nothing to help this.

so we have a ranking system for a team game that you can’t play as a team. so unsurprisingly when other players perform, either actually badly, or are just perceived as playing badly people are going to get really salty. this is because a bad play from you teammate will actually ruin your ranking as well.

so, as you can see the community has just become a toxic salt mine, because you are not just fighting against the entire enemy team, often you have to contend with your teammates too.

my solution would be to restrict ranked conquest to 5v5 with a guild team leaderboard, and add a 2v2 best of 5 domination mode. i have a great concept for guild teams, but anet wouldn’t kitten on PvP if it was on fire so what’s the point?

the Devs blatantly don’t care, and the community is a toxic mess. balance is stale and problematic, matchmaking is trash. this game is well into a steep nose dive.

so, my suggestion to you, dear reader- is to look for another game. i recommend For Honor because it tickles my fancy, but hey there are a lot of games out there with Devs who actually care about the games they work on. so go forth, find another game, have some fun.

give up and let GW2 PvP die. it was fun while it lasted, but that time is long gone.

oh, but there is another way. if some dark horse were able to revive pre-specialisation’s PvP on a private server you can bet it would get played.

interestingly enough, there are a number of strategy games that Devs have abandoned that are now community balanced (FA Forever, DoWII Elite, etc) and still have a following, not to mention far better balance.

Cynz.9437:

They don’t need to delete revs, they need to remove elites from pvp and balance

considering rev needs it’s elite spec for anything even close to a viable build, i feel removing dragon stance would be akin to deleting the class.

i would love to know what kind of a build you would run on core rev if we were restricted to core. i cant think of anything remotely viable.

sometimes is think some people would rather whine than win

if you can’t beat warrior on DH you arrange utter joke of a player. like homes. go outside and dig some holes, it’s at your level.

warrior is OP sure, but kitten dude everything but Rev is OP rn so is basically balanced. i can beat it on Engi, DH and Gunflame warrior so like sad life if you can’t beat it dude. maybe consider playing the best class in the game, Druid- oh wait that class requires you to get good so maybe don’t. stick w hole digging.

also that whole ‘zerker amulet means OP’ is the most basic boy argument. only reason warrior can use zerk amulet is because it has high base HP. if DH has high base HP it would use it too, heck right now it gets away with around ~17k HP and just survives w stupid sustain.

Ragnarox.9601:

Caedmon.6798:

Ragnarox.9601:

I know ppl defending this todays warrior/berserker cause its brain dead easy to play and can smash 2 players at same time. Enjoy while it lasts (like ghost thief).

The only people defending it are the ones actually playing the class and knowing how it can be countered,unlike people as yourself that run towards a warr and spamm 1234567890 hoping the warri will die.its fun how people jump to this “braindead” mentality after getting wrecked by warris.Cus every class that wrecks me is a braindead class/build Riiight.

quite the opposite you just run as a berserker pressing buttons like 123456 while your passive healing and stab doing their work, pop 4 sec endure paing and spam attack buttons which hit for 6-10k. bers dont even need to dodge, just smash all those buttons.

btw and I wont be wrecked by warrs cause I play one. But comparing it to other classes – this build has no disadvantages – bers amulet no need to invest in defense cause your passives doing all the work. Defending this build is just like defending turret engie years ago.

you realise any class that runs marauder would run zerker amulet if they had max base HP. like, that’s the only reason warrior can get away w it.

idk why people make such a big deal out of zerker amulet.

bruh, if I’m on engi, DH or rifle/GS or condi warrior, i can hands down best meta warrior. y’all QQ and list warrior’s strengths in a vacuum without considering any of the classes. it’s like y’all have never thought about what tools you have at your disposal, and what tools work.

like dang man, on Engi i have stab on dodge lol. boy why i complain about stuns w this BS. w menders i heal like a god from just combo finishers. woah and i have a heal skill too. i have unlockable CC and damage so who cares about blocks? i only care about zerker stance if I’m trying to use poison or blinds. plus i have moa and potential rampage lol.

DH is a even more faceroll.
as far as I’m concerned Druid is the best class in the game (not always meta druid, druid has lots of strong builds a good player can use. duel spec druid is brutal. plus support/damage balance makes them a high value team member.)

ugh, maybe it’s because i come from a WvW background where we are used to theorycrafting and fighting BS builds. but like, you can beat these builds. practice and theorycraft. meta is not the only way. maybe slot a blast gyro god.

anet doesn’t balance for hecke, and only once in a blue moon. they won’t save u. only practice and theorycraft will. also, most of the good players quit, so it’s easy to outskill.

playing a team game solo is always going to be a deeply frustrating experience

https://youtu.be/3KquFZYi6L0

i played engi back when it was a ton of fun, not a hammer spam bore fest.

Drakz.7051:

I am glad it’s gone now they can work on making pvp actually balanced and not just making do to meet the next esl deadline.

But it has already done some damage by putting off quite a few potential pvpers so hopefully they can recover.

honestly, i would love to know why you think anet abandoning competitive PvP means they are going to actually balance the game. like, if they were unable to balance when they were trying to create an esports, why do you think they will be able/want to balance now?

has it ever crossed your mind, that perhaps, oh perhaps they just don’t give a care?

Loop.8106:

I’d seriously just nerf AD radius to 300, remove the blind on Skull Grinder and increase Defy Pain cd to 90 to be on par with the other professions safety nets.

only issues are arc divider radius and defy pain tbh. would leave the blind because grinder is so bloody easy to dodge, but eh. would be fine without i guess.

‘balance around gold’

my god. no wonder this community is in the state it’s in.

Caedmon.6798:

Vitali.5039:

Caedmon.6798:

Vitali.5039:

Wolfric.9380:

Vitali.5039:

The worst part of skill.. skull grinder is the daze.

well yes … but the combination with such a load of condies makes it too much ..
I play power war and normaly don´t use mace unless only dueling. I acidently forgot to swap weapons before a PvP match and got stuck with mace after going zerk. Well i thought wayne and used skull grinder … Interrupt … mace strike, pomel bash … interrupt …. oponent flees out of meele range for about 2 seconds till primal burst recharged and i leaped on him with another skull grinder … Well he was done … And i don´t play so much warrior and it was a power build :-/ …

Yes, skull grinder can make a warrior more cc-ing then a horde of Volatile Bloodstone Elementals, luckily only on single target.

I hit you, for 1 second you can’t hit me, your next move will miss me, i’ll headbutt you on the nose and if you are still alive i’ll do it again and again and again.
Luckily they’ll don’t add some sigil to gain further advantage of interrupts.. right?

I can understand the effect-overload of a skill like thief’s steal, but it’s a 20 sec (trained) CD skill that don’t improve it’s survival like a “base” skull grinder.

Trait sinergy it’s a good thing, but when you can combo skill and traits to reliably do everything ther’s something wrong.

Lets pretend people dont have dodges,lets pretend people dont have stunbreaks,lets pretend people dont have stabi,lets pretend people dont have ports,lets pretend people dont have leaps,lets pretend people dont have invulns and condi clears,lets pretend people are unable to play properply and eat everything everyone throws at em.

Yawn.

Lets pretend that warriors can break your control, lets pretend that they’ll become immune to that control, lets pretend that they have a good mobility, lets pretend that they can stun you more than you can break/dodge.

People talk as if they dont have a skillset or utilities themselves,just as you do.L2p buddy.It’s pretty obvious most people on here just don’t really know how to deal with warri in question.Practice helps instead of complaining and wanting nerfs.

‘evaluate class in a vacuum’ has always been the go to tactic for poor players wanting nerfs.

methinks there might be some engineers in here who are yet to figure out combo finishers, or the glory of the mortar kit.

ah, but alas scrub on ye salty forum, scrub on.

Miyu.8137:

I remember when ANET nerfed Surge of the Mists (nr5 skill of Revenants staff) saying the skill provides too much at once: evade, CC and dmg. Well …. the burst skills of warrior provide just as much or even more: dmg, condi cleanse, adrenal healt and eventually also CC. It also can be basically spammed unlike Surge of the Mists.

dude…. you do know warriors f1 is the class mechanic?

why compare a heavily traited class mechanic to a weapon skill? makes no sense at all.
rather, compare it to traited steal, or DH virtues, or mesmer f1-f5, or dang even engineers f1-f5 + function gyro. does it seem so OP then? not really homes.

this forum, wow.

you can describe any HoT spec and they will sound miserably OP. guess why? they are all broken af.

warrior just needs an arc divider radius nerf. the cast time and dmg is the same (dmg is a tiny bit higher, so small tho like 200) as the non zerk one. maybe increase the passive endure pain CD a bit too.

nerfing warrior to a ‘balanced’ level in the forums eyes means making it pre HoT balance, ie trash.

don’t know why i bother to post tho, game is such a mess.

KaporHabakuk.6219:

choovanski.5462:

TLDR
- if this game had a smell it would be fetid

as far as I’m concerned it’s all corpse carts and calls of ‘bring out your dead’ untill the next expansion hits.

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@OP
stronghold is more PvP than conquest? smh
all of the mechanics and objectives in stronghold are PvE lol. a game mode based around summoning AI and kill AI is not a very good PvP mode.
conquest is a tactical game of map control. you use tactics and combat prowess to win, and all bar two maps have no AI. it’s much better for PvP than summon AI to kill gates so u can kill AI lol.

still, I’d much rather have For Honor’s gamemodes. 2v2 is excellent in that game.

Actually there was only one pure pvp map,which was removed “hello courtyard” cause ppl dont like just PvP that much as they say…..With this in mind,talking about conquest which you can win by sitting on nodes,or a dude with high mobility caping empty nodes as a true pvp compared to evil stronhold where you get points by channel spawning npc or destroying gates,is just ridiculous.If you want to say you like conquest more,just say it,no need to live in self-deception and talk about SHs being more pve than conquest maps …. .

well, at the end of my post i advocated for gamemodes like For Honor, specifically the 2v2 mode. so yeah, I’m very much in favour of TDM.

eh, i don’t know how you can honestly say conquest can be more pve than stronghold, considering the goal in stronghold is to summon NPCs so you can kill another NPC. you can’t really get more pve than that.

with stronghold sure you can win by sitting on node and not doing PvP, but that’s only if the other team is afk. assuming that neither team has afk members the winning team will be the one who choose better fights (rotation) and fought better as a team. considering on most conquest maps the only thing to fight is players, yeah conquest is more PvP than a gamemode where the winner only has to kill one NPC.

I’m not saying don’t play, or don’t like stronghold. i played it a bunch, it’s ok, can be really fun sometimes, but don’t kid yourself that it’s some sort extreme PvP mode. it’s not. the whole gamemode is based around NPCs.

feel like you don’t even understand how stances work if you think they are equivalent to engi and guardian invuns.

warrior stances don’t prevent cap for two reasons:
- because they are only an immunity to one type of damage
- they don’t prevent CC, so you can still decap (sure balanced stance is there for that, but it’s not worth when you have outrage + eternal champ. so you will never see it).

unblockable attacks are very common these days, most if not all classes have them or can swap them in easily.

@Silv any class w max health pool (necro and warrior) can play zerker amulet fine (although marauder is better on necro for the life force gain). HP is the only reason people use marauder.

TLDR
- if this game had a smell it would be fetid

as far as I’m concerned it’s all corpse carts and calls of ‘bring out your dead’ untill the next expansion hits.

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@OP
stronghold is more PvP than conquest? smh
all of the mechanics and objectives in stronghold are PvE lol. a game mode based around summoning AI and kill AI is not a very good PvP mode.
conquest is a tactical game of map control. you use tactics and combat prowess to win, and all bar two maps have no AI. it’s much better for PvP than summon AI to kill gates so u can kill AI lol.

still, I’d much rather have For Honor’s gamemodes. 2v2 is excellent in that game.

Xillllix.3485:

Spartacus.3192:

it was removed because it was OP especially on an Ele.

It was removed because bad players complained too much.

Barely touch the game ever since, playing a celestial class without celestial stats is just plain stupid, specially when you’re forced to be a heal bot in a game that brags about having no trinity.

Overwatch is apparently where Anet wants the elementalists to go.

yo, y’all do know that DD Ele is the reason class stacking was forbidden in tournaments?

there is actually no way to successfully argue DD was not OP.

no team queue + toxic and scrubby player base + low population + class stacking = a terrible pvp experience

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anet is letting the game go down the bend because they believe the hype from the new expansion will save it. this is not the time to expect postive change. give up while your sanity is still intact.

Konakona.4130:

Everything is beautiful on that screenshot.

Bottom of the bronze division.

Signed p/p thief.

“I’m rich, you know” title.

~40% winratio with 100+ games.

Almost 14K AP lul.

it really is something isn’t it?

Saiyan.1704:

I’m all geared up so I don’t PvP for rewards and I don’t boycott the only decent PvP game there is (hey, For Honor got boring).

im not bored with it yet haha

gw2 can bleed out in a ditch for all i care

Ovark.2514:

OriOri.8724:

Crinn.7864:

Psilence.2859:

Am I missing something or is this still overall a big boost to condi builds and a nerf to power builds?

It’s a nerf to both. Condi in PvP is about application not duration, and the changes removed all but one condi applying sigil. The only builds that ever really cared about duration sigils are burn builds, but burn duration sigil already exists.

For example it won’t be possible for skullgrinder to apply 6 unique condis on a single hit anymore with the current sigil proposal.

The only condi class that might benefit from the change is mesmers, but we will have to see.

And this was exactly the problem. No single skill should be applying that many condis at a time unless its a mass corrupt or a well timed epi bomb (aka they aren’t directly applying conditions, just moving them around). its a good thing that Anet are removing the sigils that apply damaging conditions, i only wish that they would remove all sigils that apply a condition.

Thank you! The current meta is for ‘normal damage’ warriors to take mace for this very reason. The condi is just THAT strong that you choose a condi weapon over Axe in a ‘normal damage’ build.

Also, Orpheal, what is this mean: 4/5/7/9/9%?

nah, mace does half the power dmg of axe. you take the mace for cc and the block. it’s basic skills are much more useful than those on axe.

anet are still as incompetent as ever. here’s my short list of complaints.

1. Toxic Solo Que Community
- afk, bad tactics, rage afk, no teams, all the BS you know and love

2. Poor Balance
- many useless skills. hardly any build variety. too many short cast high impact abilities.

3. No New Game Modes
- yo conquest gets boring.

4. Stale
- i’ve played gw2 for a long time, it gets old when there is only one game-mode, and balance moves at a snails pace.

5. Other/Better Games
- gw2 has a good core combat system, but the rest of the game is pretty questionable. with other good games coming out (BDO, For Honor, Paragon etc) i’m less motivated to play this game.

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so why do i still play a dozen or so matches a week?
heck, it’s because warrior is really strong r/n so i can just gunflame for fun. if warrior gets over-nerfed i’ll be gone, it’s only my love for the class that keeps me here.

Reaper Alim.4176:

Funny how you only quoted part on my post. You did this purposely to try to discredit me because you know I’m right, and otherwise you’d have no ground to stand on in order to bash me.

However since I’m a fair guy. I’ll help correct it for you.

“TL/DR
I want my ability as a player to dictate my rating. If I can kill players while being outnumbered. For crying out loud I should get a tangible stat boost, enoth to become progressively powerful enoth to carry the match. Like in the other relevant PvP games I plays. Instead of being God Almighty in a match with not only nothing to show for it. But also massive lose of MMR and Rating. I’m tired of being brought down because of others, with little to no way of countering such a system. However again, since their are games out their that will reward my actual in match player skill, I’ll just go play those. This is one of the reasons why yall have so few players interested in PvPing GW2 these days.

GET A CLUE!"

Now it sound alot different. Then what you childishly tried to make it out to be. Don’kitten Again stop attacking my posts like a child would. Come at me with constructive conversations. It’ll potentially help improve your PvP population crisis. After all what better way to understand not only why players are leaving. But also not returning, after exploring other PvP games. Nope instead you’d rather be a destructive person to your gaming community. And farther disenfranchising such players who left. While let me give a good point of advice. You can not make a player angry by attempting to troll them. With such childish tactics, when said players are no longer playing and therefor no longer effected by the Population Crisis that’s in full swing, in YOUR community.

But yes lol continue to be a burden to your community. Continue to disinterest even more players from trying to even help you slow, if not stop YOUR population crisis. There is a reason alot of forum posts on these forums. Went from unbalanced and unfair matches. To now.. -Uhoh maybe we should’ve listened to those PvPers we used to have.- What yall currently are seeing is the fact that people like you was in fact the minority. People like me was in fact the majority. So of course after players like myself left after our complaints was ridiculed or continued to fall on deaf ears. Yall now have a population crisis from the which yall have never seen before. I’ve seen this happened in many games I’ve played in the past. I’d tried so hard to stop GW2’s PvP community from getting to this point. However I have failed us. As for my atonement for such failure. I will continue to have in relevant PvP games.

Welcome to your planet hell. The hell yall created for your selves. For your selves. I do hope yall enjoy it. Because now yall have to play in it alone.

ok, i see you’re pretty rustled. that’s cool.

now, it’s kinda weird and cool that you think putting ‘For crying out loud I should get a tangible stat boost, enoth to become progressively powerful enoth to carry the match.’ in a paragraph gives it another meaning. it doesn’t dude, it’s still asking for a boost to your stats so you have an advantage so you can win more games. like dude, that’s what you’re asking for.

it’s a pretty lame thing to ask for homes. i’ve seen players like helseth and sind carry without having an unfair advantage, so idk why you think this is something the game needs, because it’s obviously possible to carry right now. i feel like it’s something you need to win some games.

as for all this calling me a child, and acting like i’m somehow gw2 pvps metaphorical gardener/caretaker i’m not, but alright dude.
you do you, continue ‘being God Almighty in a match with not only nothing to show for it.’ i don’t mind.

Melanu.7425:

If u wanna use a rifle in dungeons, do so, i wont kick anyone for just enjoying the game. I plan on using rifle on my Charr Iron Legion Warrior woth axe/warhorn on backup for escapes and some AoE

how very kind of you. pity you’re two years too late.

Reaper Alim.4176:

Lol I love how you decided to try to come at me like a kid would. Then had the comical sense to say I’m salty. LOL. But since you don’t understand, I’ll spell it out for you in “For Dummies” terms.

No I don’t hate the top players never did. They was part of the reason I played PvP hardcore up until Season 3. This is a pure case of “I hate the system that punishes decent players for mistakes of the system.”

I mean what I hate about the system is that. More nowadays I can still go 1v2 and 1v3 at home and defend on a druid or scrapper. Load up on the top defense, top kills, and top revives, and still 5 out of 5 matches still not only get hit with the loss. But always with enoth rating deduction that it’ll take me 2 or 3 games to make it up. Then on top of it having players who’ve I’ve constantly get the better of in matches when, things are even. Telling me to Get Gud Scrub, or Learn to sit on 2 points at the same time BS.

Oh and something me and other players that used to play PvP in GW2 noticed. That the more you lose regardless of your personal merits during matches. The more progressively worst your team mates get. That mixed with 2/2/2/5/8 all solos going up against 10/10 duo’ed with 8/8 duo’ed and 5. Just makes people want to sell their GW2 account, if they are PvP oriented players. As now most PvP orented playes know. GW2 is now one of the worst games to play for players in the category. GW2 offers very little in terms of value, compared to other PvP games on the market.

TL/DR

For crying out loud I should get a tangible stat boost, enoth to become progressively powerful enoth to carry the match.
Instead of being God Almighty in a match with not only nothing to show for it.

You want a stat boost so you can win games? oh, God Almighty do tell us more

Terrorsquad.2349:

Best solutions in the short AND long run:
Either make PvP Free to Play as whole, including HoT and any other specs coming out
OR have ppl unlock all expac-specs with 1 gem price ingame.

I think first options is going to be more useful.
This will eventually convince more F2P players to buy the full game to get awesome skins etc in the long run, so it’s nothing bad anyway.

Everyone can see Season 6 is dead and it’s only going to get worse from here.
Make this happen and we’ll all benefit.

im a cynic, so here’s my theory:
anet is letting the game fall into a lull because they expect the expansion, & pre expansion hype to bring people back to the game, & get new players interested.

that would indicate that the expansion is going to come out relatively soon.

also, as connected point this could be a reason why the balance is so half hearted. anet might be choosing to not put effort into balance, because they know they will need to balance w the new expansion.

alternatively anet are just incompetent.

or you could just add separate team queue so people don’t need to ‘carry’

solo queue mentality in a team game smh

Rapr.8526:

pls do something productive and give me his build and stats… cause i DO NOT think he’s using magi’s and i rally nedd it for my ranger.

entitled much?

just message him on reddit yourself and ask for the build. https://www.reddit.com/user/Paulol

magi was played heavily in Helseth’s tournament, idk if Paul played it- but Magi druid is a ‘thing’. you can trawl thru the VOD on Helseth’s youtube if you like, but it’s not something im motivated to do for you.

Spartacus.3192:

Outrage with Rousing Resilience and Eternal Champion traits is better in every way.

^ this

however i would take balanced over signet, shorter CD and pulsing stab makes it better.

Jourdelune.7456:

Exedore.6320:

How about we let players queue up to 5 players at once so they can remove the random element?

Did you see some Anet doing that unmade some of their removal of feature in the past?

ty yoda

(jokes aside, anet removed and added solo queue, so yeah they do go back on decisions)

why do you bother to record your mic when the only sounds picked up are your keyboard & mouse?

Stand The Wall.6987:

hello! I would also like to add my own drunk engi build if that’s ok. if not ill delete no biggie! ok lol, the gist of it is to take all knockbacks:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFAUncoCtoiNeBmcBEqiF2iasN6xvgO4L+lHcE3gAA-TJBFABCcBAA4BAUz+DiXGAA
its really fun to treat ppl like pinballs! knock em around see how they like it. theyre bad guys, they deserve it anyways.

ill bet the lack of condi clear is fun too

/s

you’d have a better time w healing turret

it’s a pretty sad day when you lose to DH on power warrior.

Manthas.6234:

choovanski.5462:

did you offend a witch as a child? you could be cursed!

please try & find out, i am very concerned for your safety.

To be honest, I was cursed by a gypsy on my friend’s wedding but that was like two or three years ago

the only way to win more games is to break that gypsy curse!

so get to work!

Its Nerfing Time.1495:

It’s honestly rather amusing people seem to honestly, for whatever reason, think Rev is mediocre. Rev does not lose anywhere near the amount of DPS you seem to believe it does, and it’s certainly not outclassed.

QT run calculations for meta-speedrun, they do it very well. They even admit in their own posts for people not to take it so seriously though, and to play what they enjoy. It is not, as you have said, to be used as a means to justify anything other than Rev. Hence my point, if you aren’t going on QT meta-speedrun, then you are losing literally nothing bringing Rev, but you are gaining the ability to have multiple things in one raid slot. You are gaining the ability to let the Rev keep up boons longer, and let the DPS focus on DPS, the support on support.

Healing wise, it can bring 3 things. Heals, Protection and Alacrity. Where groups run two healing druids, they often don’t run two full heals. Since GOTL affects 10 now, you could easily run Rev/Druid for heal and protectio (I’ve done this in a group before to great effect).

The biggest issue here, is that everybody seems to be utterly obsessed with whats meta, what’s speedrun, what’s in or out decided by QT. That’s something that needs to change rather urgently.

well technically you can complete a raid on a character with no traits or gear equipped.

like, if you don’t care about efficiency, time taken or anything like that (which you don’t seem to) a class that does everything worse than the other is fine. but homes not caring about a class beings competitive does not make it competitive.

anyhow, meta will never be gone from mmos, people just like to make informed choices with success as the goal. since all the meta is is the most efficient way to do content as proven by research, people are always going to be interested.

mrauls.6519:

A buddy of mine feels the same way as you. He told me he feels strong at the beginning of a fight, but towards the end of a fight or moving on to another one, he feels extremely vulenerable because the lack of available CDs. IMO it’s all about making sure you know when to engage and disengage. To make a strong impact in a match means carrying team fights IMO

your buddy needs to get better at managing cooldowns, a DH with RF has a ton of self sustain.

DH is still as strong as it was last season. it’s better at lower ranks but can still hold it’s own at higher ones too. it has good 1v1s, & good teamfight impact.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

I’m still concidering If I would use it for roaming or not. (instead of Gsaxeshield right)
But not sure of its just as viable in wvw

axe vs mace is a damage vs utility trade off. mace has a block & soft cc, whereas the axe has raw damage. both work in wvw.

im running GS/rifle in pvp myself.

steelheart.7386:

choovanski.5462:

man i feel like im the only one here with sufficient arroganceself belief to assume i can win all my 1v1s in ranked regardless of supposed matchups, & im playing gunflame right now.

its not arrogance it’s stupidity.

skill > build

average gw2 player is a lobotomite, so being able to win theoretically bad matchups is very doable.

also i heard from multiple casters that condi warrior had better matchups vs druid. however i’ve never had an issue on power vs a druid, & would agree that power warrior is superior.

you still playing core mesmer PU?

if so, i would suggest sage chrono, it’s much much better. sure meta seems boring, but sage is going to be significantly easy to carry on. i’m not saying u gotta play meta, heck i’ve played this whole season on gunflame warrior, but if you find yourself losing a lot & want that to change, not playing condi PU is a good idea.

secondly recording games and looking for mistakes is good (i do this myself, just with geforce) but if you don’t know what to look for, sharing the videos with the mesmer forum could be a good idea. im sure some of helseth’s videos would be helpful to watch too.

man i feel like im the only one here with sufficient arroganceself belief to assume i can win all my 1v1s in ranked regardless of supposed matchups, & im playing gunflame right now.

it’s a bit rich running that ‘build’ then coming to the forum complaining about your team.

EU streamers made it popular.

anyone that can dodge mace f1 reliably can theoretically win if they have enough damage.