Guild Wars 2

Ostricheggs.3742:

Bragging about how many random scrubs you kill in WvW is like bragging about taking the gold at the special olympics.

People in WvW are just insanely bad and you should feel bad for killing those terribads that you incredibly outgear.

You’re not special, you’re probably not very good. You’re just kittenting on undergeared noobs.

Actually I’ve done spvp as well. Even fought you a handful of times in hotjoins. Didn’t come away feeling bad about it.

Dovgan.8605:

Nuzt.7894:

dreztina.4820:

These guys made the Kzerg look like a highly skilled killing machine.

All servers have them, DR and FC included.

Stop feeding the troll. No one would have done what this person claims to have done, come onto the forums and posted it without some kind of screen shot unless it was a complete and utter nonsense.

Was never big on screenshots. Plenty of things I was more proud of will never have any proof besides my memory. Like I said, I didn’t post that to brag. I didn’t do anything impressive that fight. I was just blown away by the insane lack of skill. We didn’t win because we played amazingly. We won because the AR zerg played ungodly bad.

Thorson.9218:

100 died and only you lived.

20+ killed by you and 3 other random players.

Pardon me while I go find some tall boots. It’s getting deep in here……

The only one who lived in my group. Was plenty of people alive besides me heh. An oldschool DAoC zerg would be enough to fill a GW2 map to capacity.

The warrior has received quite a few survivability buffs over the months. If you’re dying, it may be zerker warrior doesn’t fit your playstyle. You can still do very respectable damage with much tankier stats/traits.

Nuzt.7894:

dreztina.4820:

These guys made the Kzerg look like a highly skilled killing machine.

All servers have them, DR and FC included.

I guess you would have had to be there to understand. This was on a different level, and I’ve wiped quite a few zergs.

These guys made the Kzerg look like a highly skilled killing machine.

Nuzt.7894:

Congrats on your first pug kill /pat on the back

While I sincerely doubt you have ever killed 5-6x your numbers open field with random ungrouped people you’ve never met before, that is besides the point. It wasn’t our skill that won, it was theirs that lost. Like I said, in 10 years of DAoC, and 11 months of GW2, I can only come up with one other memory of such bad play.

I got some flak for criticizing Anvil Rock in an earlier post. I just participated in killing an AR zerg of 20+ with I think four people open field (albiet with some npc help). We weren’t in a group or anything, just a few other people who happened to be in the same area. I have literally never seen worse play in the entire time I have been playing this game.

The last time I saw something like this, I was a fairly fresh lvl 50 paladin still running in the zerg. The premier gank group of the time, CKD, bombed said zerg, killing more than 100 of the people around me. When they finally died, I was stunned. While I waited for mana regen to rez, I asked my group (who had all died asides from me), how the hell could so many people die to so few? No one said a word. That was a bit over 10 years ago.

That was what watching these people die felt like.

A useful tool? Being able to invite someone is a useful tool, and if they choose to accept then that is fine. If I choose to decline an invite, the person should not be able to see my name anyway. I’m not at all saying remove the ability to group/talk with people on other servers, just that if I choose not to interact with someone, they shouldn’t be able to regardless.

And while you might not get many party invites, I do.

Currently if someone /invites you, it shows them your name, so even if you decline the invite, they can still start sending you messages. Sure I can just block them, but it’d be nice if I didn’t have to do that just because the system currently makes it easy for people to whine at me.

I have to wonder if the people who think pve stats are bad have ever actually played in high skill fights using them. From their comments, I’m thinking no.

I was actually wrong in that post. Have gotten some good fights from FC.

The dev teams earn the hate they get. So much potential is being completely wasted because the pvp team has no idea what it is doing.

DXIEdge.2789:

Then quit whining.

Please people, quit making these threads saying “This isnt viable”

Ele is still in a hard spot, but if condi meta disappears Ele is OP, and right now a strong build exists.

So, if the entire balance of the game shifts with most of the other classes getting nerfed, ele will be in a good spot again? Well, if that’s all it takes, we should let the devs know. Do you want to send them a pm or should I? They can probably hotfix that in before lunch. Oh but it’s the weekend. Well, we can do it on Monday.

Nothing is going to bring wvwers to spvp except new pvp devs that actually listen to the playerbase. Anyone who wants to play this terrible node capture mode already is.

Sorry, maybe I should have been more specific. I couldn’t care less about the score or who wins the matchup.

Nuzt.7894:

AR could say the same for DR, before we lost a large portion of our WvW community, but we didn’t go there because we were well aware that we outnumbered you on every front.

Oh and trying to troll in less then 10 posts, just screams attention kitten.

Trolling? Others have given their opinion of the matchup, and you didn’t say they were trolling. You’re fine with people posting their opinion as long as it agrees with yours, but any opinion that is different from yours should be written off as trolling? I’d rather be an attention kitten than what you are.

Darek.1836:

dreztina.4820:

Not really looking forward to this week. AR was nothing special and while I don’t know FC, from what I’ve seen so far, I’m not expecting much from them either.

you must be new to WvW or DR if you don’t know FC well by now.
anyway if you’re talking about “nothing special” in terms of massive zergs that roll over everything by pressing 1 I’m sorry we can’t do that. if you’re talking about in terms of small man skill then you’re going to have a harsh realization fighting against the several dozen extremely talented duelers here.

I actually am relatively new to DR. Been here a while now, but didn’t play for months after transferring. I was however here for one of the recent weeks where DR was matched against AR. As I said, wasn’t impressed.

If you honestly believe that is what happened in our fights, I don’t even know what to say. You ran away from me so many times after starting at 100% with nothing else hitting you, or even remotely close. I think the only times you actually stuck around was when you had another thief or two with you to chain bas venom. But like I said, I’m sure we’ll get matched against each other again, and the fun can continue.

DXIEdge.2789:

I’ll let CMC post a video/guide when he’s ready. I just wanted to let people know that although spirit ranger and necro are still op, Ele is not “Dead”

Its not as viable as other classes, no. However this build is insanely viable and is actually very strong.

That’s a funny way of describing it. Not as viable as other classes, but still insanely viable. I don’t know this person, but I don’t doubt that he does reasonably well with staff. It’s been underrated since the EA nerfs when everyone decided all of a sudden it was a useless weapon. But still, not as viable as other classes.

There’s nothing in this game you can get away with pure healing on. There are several classes that can let you do a significant amount of healing, but you won’t be playing anywhere near full efficiency if you aren’t playing offensively. That is true for every MMO I’ve ever played, but even more so in GW2 since it lacks the traditional healer character.

If you want to play support, the ele works very well, but don’t expect to just use heal spells and nothing else.

neiliam.8614:

^ You must be that Guildless Devona’s Rest Raider that likes to jump us when we are fighting other people or NPCs lol. I know my SE thief buddy hates facing you coz he has trouble beating you, haha!

If you’re the DHE thief that won’t fight until you have full stacks of every possible thing you can, and even then runs away after getting to 10% every time, you shouldn’t say it’s just the SE thief that has trouble beating me.

Not really looking forward to this week. AR was nothing special and while I don’t know FC, from what I’ve seen so far, I’m not expecting much from them either.

I think I’m going to miss my thief buds in SE/DHE, but I’m sure we’ll get matched up again.

Is the fight club still going?

Other than the d/p thieves, there’s really no one left soloing that isn’t running infinite regen condition spam anymore is there?

I swear SE are kings of the kitten block. I’ve never seen a guild so kitten ed good at arriving in the knick of time to save a guildie.

Maybe it’s PD I’m thinking of. Either way.

It’s like no one on this forum ever played a game with solo queue before lol.

I tried playing around with builds but I just can’t find something I like. It seems like either I go heavy kits and miss out on a lot of the boons/utility the class has to offer, or heavy elixir and it’s basically just a single weaponset class. A balance is kind of OK, but missing out in both aspects. I think engi may just not be for me.

Jabberwock.9014:

Khalic.3561:

They should at the very least allow fiery greatsword to be cast while moving.

This is badly needed. I’d rather have lightning hammer as the elite just because of this.

This is how you can tell how awful our elites are. If it were possible to use a regular utility in the elite slot, 99% of elementalists (at least ones who pvp), would drop the elite and never go back.

I do think the current fotm build is a bit over the top, but not because of mace. It’s the regen that’s the problem. The stun isn’t bad, the fact that they are kitten near impossible to punish between cooldowns due to the huge passive regen and defense is. They pretty much just sit at full health between skullcrack cooldowns, or whatever weapons they’re running, so there isn’t a point of vulnerability to attack. Skullcrack was never a problem before because of the fact that a warrior could very possibly die after a stunbreak and before the next cooldown.

However, while it is overpowered 1v1, it’s exactly what warriors have been needing to be able to run non glass builds and still contribute to team fights.

While I really, really hate the cheesy regen build which basically lets warriors facetank and never dodge but still stay at full health, I think that both it and skullcrack should remain untouched for now. It’s overpowered in 1v1/small scale situations (and if you don’t think so you’re kidding yourself), but it’s not gamebreaking, and the class as a whole is a lot better off for it.

Personally I’d like to see other forms of warrior healing/condition avoidance and clearing buffed up a bit and once there are multiple viable builds, then tone this down a bit.

Joey.3928:

Why won’t you duel me [SE] guardian

I was having fun versing you and that warrior.

That’s a pretty good depiction of how IoJ duels.

DevonCarver.5370:

What you seem to be missing is that technical limitations are not about the fact that a solution somewhere may have existed for some other thing. Our game is using an engine that has these technical limitations. We could, for instance, display everything as text, which would solve the problem quite nicely, however we’ve found that our graphics offer something a text-based MMO couldn’t quite deliver. The point is, it is very much a limitation of our engine. The load on the server CPU would be quite simply unsustainable if we were to increase the AoE cap as the more players hit by skills the more calculations it has to do and it actually starts increasing exponentially, rather than sequentially. We continue to seek out ways to squeeze more performance out of our game and our servers, but it is highly unlikely we would ever make a change to the AoE limits on player skills.

This is such a joke lol. A game released in 2012 with huge funding can’t handle something games were doing perfectly fine more than ten years ago. So much of the pvp in this game is a step back from games of the past, and for what?

LoBo.1724:

Skull Crack is telegraphed as hell.

Mace Warrior is suddenly trying to hug your babby hero class, you know that he has full adren, what do you do !?

1. Dodge ?
2. Hold your finger over one of your 99 stun breaker/Invulnerability keys, fully anticipating to get stunned and counter it ?
3. Slowly WALK AWAY from the Warrior while unleashing hell with your superior ranged/knockback arsenal ?
4. Press one of your INSTANT HUGE DISTANCE CREATOR keys ?
5. Randomly use a low CD blinding condition on the Warrior ?
6. Stand still mashing 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 while sitting on full dodge meter, eat the stun and don’t use any stun breakers ? <———————-

Ironically, your post telling us how bad we are makes me think that of you if the level of opponent you think of is one who makes no effort to disguise/bluff his actions at all.

Looking for something new to play, and have an 80 engi I’ve barely played at all. I know condi builds are the current go to, but I don’t enjoy playing them. What I’m looking for is bursty power with high mobility for escaping groups (I’ll be roaming solo). Kits are great as I am, or at least was, an ele main and I like pressing buttons.

I’ve been playing around with the char builder so I know the general options, but I’d like to hear the builds that experienced engis are using with success.

I don’t think I ever saw anyone purposefully avoid skull crack when I was running mace. It’s one of the easiest abilities in the game to land. Subtle animation, extremely fast cast time. I really have to wonder who you guys are fighting where everyone predicts and dodges skullcrack all the time. But hey who knows, maybe you’re all top tier tpvpers.

imsodonovan.5183:

Day 1:

I’ve seem to come across these “zergs” very frequently, they seem to think they are superior in their numbers, but I’ve found their weakness…. becoming isolated from their large numbers…

Ya but gl getting anyone from IoJ to leave their zerg lol.

Oozo.7856:

ShockStun.7453:

Oozo.7856:

Can we be friends?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH2Qf3dNtAk

So how do you like the warrior class?

Well, can only comment on conditions/healing since that is all I’ve done. Some of us were curious after watching Logi’s video. We went to the Mists and found that we could pretty much just facetank the forest NPCs without ever having played the class or build before. My build is a bit more offensive in nature than Logi’s but it’s the same basic concept.

IMO, the passive healing in this build is perhaps too good (read OP). That’s pretty clear when fighting power damage classes 1v1 or 1v2. It seems more balanced in a group fight since 3+ people focusing on you can outdamage the passive healing, but it’s still pretty kitten good.

Honestly, some of the people in the movie aren’t really bad. It’s just that their build can’t beat mine (no matter how good they play or how bad I play). On the flipside a good condition necro could post a movie destroying me.

Most importantly though, is that it is fun to play. It’s nice having a strong melee and a strong ranged option.

This is why I have just bailed from fights with condi warriors. When I land every attack perfectly and their hp is back at full before my cooldowns are back up, I can tell it’s not going to go in my favor no matter what I do.

Visirale.6097:

Yeah, what do you want me to do? It’s not fight club, you didn’t /bow, and you’re trying to flip our camp. Of course I’m gonna try to spreadshot you in the face if you’re taking the camp. Sorry for playing defense on our BL? I’d be glad to meet you at the windmill for a fight club, but seriously… what’d you expect me to do?

EDIT: You were Btsy, right? Your small team was pretty sick, don’t know why you have to resort to talking down to me.

I couldn’t care less about the camp lol. My only goal was to try to get you away from the ballista so I could kill you. And no, definitely not Bsty.

Oozo.7856:

Can we be friends?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH2Qf3dNtAk

I enjoyed the clip of the norn warrior in red from CORE dying. He was on when I was roaming this morning, and it was pretty ridiculous how sad he was. He’d bolt away from me and run to a ballista in the nearby camp and just sit there until the zerg showed up. And it did, every time. It was really impressive that they’d be able to bring 10-15 people within 30 seconds just for one roamer over and over. I wish I’d been able to get him in open field like that.

If a thief’s strongest attack is blocked, evaded, or just misses, nothing happens and he gets to spam the button until it lands. If RTL is blocked, evaded, or misses, it goes on a massively long cooldown leaving us vulnerable and very likely to die. GG Anet.

It really is a shame how much damage anet did to eles, glass ones in particular. The pvp devs are incompetent, it’s just that simple. They have no idea what they are doing, so every ‘balance’ patch is just random changes which don’t make any sense, which is why the game is no more balanced now than it was a year ago. The worst thing is the devs think they are doing an awesome job and none of the problems are their fault, so they aren’t even going to try to change anything. They’re just going to keep on doing things the way they have been, ignoring players completely, and the game is going to continue the stagnate, and this combat system is going to completely go to waste.

There’s really no excuse for them not putting in an option to turn off nodes in custom arenas. I get that they think people won’t enjoy deathmatch and thus won’t put in the effort to make a map specifically for it, but they could have let people turn the existing maps into deathmatch, yet they didn’t. They said they were working on it, but apparently decided not to go through with it. Just ridiculous.

I tried roaming with sword/warhorn and bull’s charge, but it just wasn’t enough to escape. It’s great sustained mobility, but low burst mobility, and that’s often more important. I ended up just going back to the greatsword. Maybe if I use it enough I’ll stop hating it. :|

Oh man, I said this matchup made me think of the old days, and boy has it ever. An excitable mod saw the post last night, and not only deleted it, but decided to comb through my post history and infract posts that were weeks old as well. Ah, just like the old days.

Theftwind.8976:

I will give you an example that happened about 5 hours ago which epitomizes the bravery of the DR solo roamer. I stumbled upon a DR Guardian outside of a recently capped NE camp. Now you would think that Guardian versus Guardian would be a good fight right? Well not exactly. After hitting him twice he turned tail and ran. Now since some of our guys were in the NE camp he could not run there for safety so he proceeded to run all the way to the North camp in order to catch up to the zerg.

I chased him all the way, finally catching him just inside the gates of the north camp and putting him down. Mind you I did wave to him before I finished him off.

Let me give you a story of the epitome of a HoD roamer. Warrior in KoM. Zergs me down a couple times. Finally catch him solo. kitten him twice. Bow. Next time I see him, he adds on me when I’m fighting a thief and helps run me down.

That’s all HoD does. Get owned and bring friends.

Strever.8764:

dreztina.4820:

I think HoD is the saddest server I’ve seen since Yak’s Bend. Even the roamers are chicken kittens who won’t fight without outnumbering you.

I don’t know which roamers you’re talking about but you obviously haven’t been meeting our serious roamers.

Maybe you do have a roaming guild or two that isn’t that way. Sadly, in all the hours I’ve spent roaming this matchup, I’ve yet to meet a single one of them.

It’s going to be so ridiculous if there’s no way to play with anything less than a full premade. It’s already kitten hard to play spvp with friends as it is. The devs run around trying to figure out how to make spvp more popular, and they still haven’t managed to notice one of the biggest and worst problems it has. kitten. I just wish this combat system were in the hands of a different company.

I’ve played my warrior on and off in spvp but only just leveled him to 80 for roaming around wvw solo. The problem I’m having is that greatsword seems necessary for escaping, but I really don’t enjoy the weapon. I think I’m hoping for something that doesn’t exist, but I figured I’d ask the more experienced warriors,

Is there any kind of combination of weapons/traits/utilities that will give me enough mobility to escape from groups without gimping me for when I do fight? Sword/warhorn seems like the obvious second choice, but is it actually enough mobility to get away?

evilapprentice.6379:

dreztina.4820:

I really do hate the blind change. It went from a strong ability with counterplay, to an insanely strong ability with no counterplay.

Missing an AA swing on empty space clearing blind was “Counterplay”?

Yep.

I really do hate the blind change. It went from a strong ability with counterplay, to an insanely strong ability with no counterplay.