Guild Wars 2

My last match playing turret engi was splendid. I capped close in Foefire, then when no one was coming to cap it so I joined the fight at mid.

I placed rifle and rocket turret on the ledge up the stairs. From there they shot to the cap circle, took out the turrets of enemy turret engi who didn´t have the trait that gives 1500 range and also shot to the route the enemy was running to mid point from their spawn.

I then placed flame turret to the edge of the point and dropped crate on the mid of teamfight and joined myself kiting and cc:ing ppl.

My rifle and rocket turrets where there the whole match killing everything xD. Nobody tried to take them out, they just ran into the cap point to fight from 2 directions or ran away.

This is why ppl complain about turret engis. Instead of trying to destroy whatever is killing them they run to fire and do nothing to stop it, and die there. Like in a warfare you´d have a machine gun nest, sniper or enemy tank shooting at you from fixed location and you`d do nothing to destroy it but just run into fire endlessly dying as a result.

Ppl intentionally abuse this bug spam ping those on map chat to crash clients.

Just take screenshots or video if someone spams them on the chat and put a ticket up for customer service. Thats all you can do since you cant report or block without crashing yourself.

You can then later block everybody that abuses that bug from the screenshots.

No point to play ranked solo IMO. You need full team. I solo in unranked cause there’s hardly ever premade vs full solo or even 3+2 or 3+1+1 etc vs 1+1+1+1+1.

Vixena.3821:

I’ve been recently playing a ranger in hot joins so that I could do the Hunter achievement, and wow…

Random Weird Guy.3528:

The problem is when you get a team of genuine people who want to form a solid strategy, but two members don’t respond because they have team chat off. Block all you want, but turning off team chat isn’t always best.

In hot join games its always the best option to take all chat channels off. And in game voice bubbles as well. Nobodys forming any “solid strategy” on hot join.

In unranked/ranked i keep the team chat on in case someones forming some “solid strategy” Its rare even there if you que solo. I turn it off if someone starts the solo flaming monologue routine. Usually ppl dont use team chat at all or the “lonely long suffering expert superstar” player start raging how bad/kitten/noob all the team-mates are.

Spiky.8403:

I usually just wait in base if one or more team mates are doing stupid things despite of warnings and advices. Of course only if this behaviour guarantee us loss and the match is already lost. I don’t really enjoy playing a match with my own team mates helping enemy.

How would you act if you see that player in your team, who keeps rushing far point with turret engi there and die 5x in a row in few seconds. These people are worse than plague for your team, giving free points to enemy and should not be tolerated in ranked games.

You are bad and want to play? Sure, go and play, but not in ranked arena. I don’t mind telling what I think, or blocking people who deny to use brain. If they block me back because I am “rude idiot” – I couldn’t care less.

Well, sabotaging the game of your own team intentionally like that classic far point rush and dying there repeatedly or leaving points when they need to be deffed or attacking to a point with three ppl when its covered or capping empty point with 2-3 ppl is clearly a sign of not knowing what to do or being intentionally ignorant. In this case i agree no ranked maybe.

But ppl rage even in unranked full randoms in a fashion that maybe could be more constructive than just calling ppl kittens, naabs, noobs, scrubs whatever. Unless ppl are intentionally ignorant or stupid they listen when you just say couple of things and then if they dont listen fall into category of not caring. Not saying that its the “elite” players responsibily to give advice or lead but certainly just kittenting on ppl wont help. Some ppl will “go back to pve” or “go to hotjoin” but many others will not if they want to play spvp. Cause in the end you can just disable the chat and do whatever.

Jade Arkadian.9280:

I’ve read each post since my last, but well, i will trying to do an overall reply.

For those who say “Get a thicker skin”, “Deal with it”,“Rudeness is part of the game”,“They deserve it for doing ranked” or defend in any way toxic behaviour against certain players, you should know the following:

According to Guild Wars 2 Rules of Conducts (click here to take a look) and refering to the text on point 1:

The rules of conduct

1. While playing Guild Wars 2, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the Game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players. This includes posting insulting, offensive, or abusive comments about players, repeatedly sending unwanted messages, reporting players maliciously, attacking a player based on race, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, etc. Hate speech is not tolerated

The point is that you are defending and excusing something that goes against the RoC.

Also let me say that this is not really the harsh language , but about the will to harass and hurt from others, and that may extend not only to insults and harassing, but also to AFK and losing on purpose.

So… if their behaviour is against the RoC.. why should I turn off my chat? No, the problem is on their side, and their should hold their tongues if they know what’s convenient for them because each time you insult a player, you are a step closer to the ban hammer.

I turn the chat off myself because its the pragmatical solution to a problem that isn´t going to be solved by reporting, flaming back, arguing back, reasoning etc. Only way it´s gonna stop is some type enforcing from the part of service provider Anet in this case. Its not the case what is righteous and just.

You can make this a Birmingham civil rights march but until Washington backs you up with clear and zealous intent you’re pretty much singing “we shall overcome” with your fellow noob/nab/kitten etc ppl. while the horde of “elite” players´ Klan beats you up and hangs you into a tree.

I dont play ranked without a premade team. No point in that. I play unranked if I dont have a team and just want to play random games. I’m not the best player, not the worst either be it combat skill, knowledge of classes/builds or tactical “eye”.

I too think that ppl should at least check out the metabuilds for the class they play, know the maps and general idea of the gamemode and try their best in the game. And ofc take advice and remarks whatever mistakes they made and make effort to improve. Not be indifferent and “play the way they want to” cause there’s 4 other ppl.

But as far the so called “toxic” ppl go. I always take say, mapchat and whisperchat off when playing and often also the teamchat because in unranked ppl rarely bother using it anyway and if they do its not for constructive purposes.

This way i spare myself the trouble and energy of even blockin ppl or even more futile arguing or reasoning with some person flaming behind the keyboard. I guess certain type of verbal trolling and trashtalking is fine, kind of “psychological warfare” Muhammed Ali style.

But ppl being mean and getting really personal is not cool. Cowardly action behind a keyboard when you know you will not be accountable of the things you say.

Yep. proper pve end – game content (adding/improving dungeons , some raid type content, challenge missions etc.) is not a priority in this game. The LS 2 content is i guess nice to play once lore wise and do the achis as relaxing casual fun and to get the rewards but nothing more. And you can solo them anyway.

Another thing is that the pvp/wvw side hasn´t made that much improvement either at least not in a way that would satisfy myself.

I think the main problem all in all is that GW2 isnt designed to audience who play hard or semi hardcore. Or even for ppl that play casual say more than 3 nights a week….

About 1h. In some cases if ppl want to make it fast it goes in about 50 min. Although at some point i had under 1h times pretty consistently.

I guess if its goes over 1h let alone takes 3h something is wrong with ppl not knowing how to deal encounters or play in fractals of have “play it how you like” builds and playing attitude like cleric guardians using only staff to fight, no stability, walls etc. Warriors refusing to use warbanners even though group wipes, thiefs without blind, support eles with only signets etc

The thing that makes these aforementioned wonderful goodies of pugging less apparent in fractals lvl 50 is that you have know things like how much ar you need that tells you need at least lookout some info about gear and possibly even builds.

I played almost all my fractal runs which is maybe 800+ full runs now with pugs.

You basically want to build your personal reward up anyway so the first runs are gonna be easier anyway. The video guides are good study first as mentioned to get a grasp of the encounters but then jump right in and start practicing as you build your reward level.

The most sought professions for a fractal pug are almost the same as for other dungeons but the value or being able to reflect and block projectiles comes to play even more. So guardian/mesmer/thief….

If ele offhand focus is pretty standard. And thief has ofc blinds which are pretty valuable as some fractals on higher levels have strong trash mobs that cant be all skipped and when they can be skipped invis is handy

As in all dungeons knowing how to play the profession you go in with is the most important thing and knowing when to use right skills fro the benefit of the group. Like as a guardian you use wall/shield, remove condi, provide stabi aegis etc. as needed in the right situations

Jeknar.6184:

manarchon.2089:

In EOTM not giving up your position is the way to cap big objectives like keeps and towers exspecially if enemy is stronger than you. If youre stronger you can just wait until they show up and kill them = bags.

Best way to avoid fights all together in EOTM is to wipe the enemy in the first hour of a round so many times they are demoralized and dont attack you and run when they see you. Bunny’s zerg can do this.

Technically, if you are wiping someone you are not avoiding fights…

In eotm you eventually start avoiding fights if you hunt them down and demoralize them say the first hour match instead of only capping., constantly wiping them fast and easy on every encounter. If you’re aggressive enough and deny them keep/tower capping by wiping them to the circle lots of times. Even better.

They usually start avoiding you and attacking you after that.

But anyway the eotm farming is much better if you cap points AND farm the easy to kill enemy. Play guardian staff 1111. Or necro plague + wells + marks + ds = lots of bags. Pop a birthday booster and you can get 50-120 wxp from a single kill.

Jeknar.6184:

Zetsumei.4975:

you also don’t get wiped if you avoid all the fights

Questionable… Your group might be avoiding fights, but a group looking for fights can come for you and make you wipe. The only way to 100% avoid a wipe would be not give your position on the map, which is kinda impossible since EotM is mostly mindless PvDoor with orange swords popping at every objective you hit.

In EOTM not giving up your position is the way to cap big objectives like keeps and towers exspecially if enemy is stronger than you. If youre stronger you can just wait until they show up and kill them = bags.

Best way to avoid fights all together in EOTM is to wipe the enemy in the first hour of a round so many times they are demoralized and dont attack you and run when they see you. Bunny’s zerg can do this.

Junkpile.7439:

Well he is probably only commander who actually win whole time in EotM no matter what color we are. You won’t get lot’s of wexp if you get wiped often.

When SFR was red for several weeks back to back Bunny was the great white hope that saved your farming sessions. 90% otherwise you couldn’t even farm the map when you got wiped all the time. Same thing with blue at one point. Although blue seems stronger nowadays.

If you just run point from point avoiding the enemy at all cost all the time it turns out you dont cap keeps and towers anymore = much less xp and slower train. You have to **** them where they live once in a while or they do it.

I would like to see EOTM to be something else than just farming map. But if you farm its good there’s somebody that can lead the train efficiently. My goal it to max the wvw traits and get to gold level after that I dont have much reason to level my wvw rank.

As far as the utilities go. I think its trolling/semi-trolling and it looks good on those screen caps fitting sylvari theme. I think he/she uses at least judge’s intervention, syg and other normal guardian utilities….