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Fifty shades of green doesn’t cut it. It was fine the way it was with red for downstate.
Go berserker. It’s obvious.
Celestial is not fine in dungeons it’s pure kitten. For wvw you can replace the trinkets with defensive stuff since those are super easy to acquire.
Most “roamers” in wvw are so bad you can kill them with the standard dungeon meta build.
In zergs you will probably die from retaliation if you use grenades and for bombs you have to be close to the cc hammer train which is not feasible either. You can’t gank the backlines like a thief either.
Best is ele.
Worst is ranger.
I would say go engineer.
Plenty of range, doesn’t require babysitting like necro.
I thought I was pretty clear on the reasoning.
“Hello. Ranger is in a weird place with some overpowered things but weak overall.”
Basically some things are too strong and they seem to only exist because everything else is too weak. The whole entangle nerf cry is answered by “yea but they don’t got anything else going for them”.
One quitter ruins the game for nine other people. I wish the penalties were a lot stricter.
Yes maybe their accounts should be terminated and grouch will personally come and slap them on their silly quitter faces!
Would you prefer if they were 3 shoutbows? Imagine that! At least engis die.
If the engis are turrets then reroll some staff cele ele to hard counter.
Obviously 3 thieves won’t win against 3 turret engis. At least not by fighting them directly. But the mobility they have should get them to just 2v1 each of them all over the map while the other 2 guys hold the nodes and survive. Or just spawn camp them after they die first time. It’s not that hard.
Necro is the main target because they lack disengage the most. Also they are dangerous if left unattended.
Engineer is easy to lock down too but they got a block and perma swiftness and decent mobility with rifle/elixirgun so they are harder to kill but they still get pretty heavily focused.
Chainsaw is ugly. Go with legendary.
People never die. When they die they get power rezzed or warbannered.
If the downed gets cleaved everything snowballs.
When I first saw eura a long time ago I was impressed but then..not so much.
Also even if he was god-tier it doesn’t make the class amazing! Compensating a bad class with skill doesn’t change the class at all.
Thief is the best at roaming but higher skillcap, not ranged.
Warrior is solid at roaming against idiots(most in wvw) but also not ranged, yet easy to play.
Engineer is good roamer, mid range, average skill cap.
Ranger is great roamer, great range, average skill cap. Not amazing in pvp though.
I don’t really understand that language. Could you maybe use english while explaining? It would help a lot.
I don’t like curly fries!
Are they french fries..or are they curly stuff? Madness!
Yes and this racism has to stop!
I won 4v5s in the past. Real 4v5 not just a guy disconnecting a few times.
Did the horrible music help winning at least?
Nobody goes into first line for shortbow builds! Especially not 4 points! Some might for the sharpening stone trait but that’s only 2! So piercing arrows only benefit longbow.
Beastmaster ranger isn’t really a pvp build except maybe to troll 1v1s!
Thieves can cloak and dagger repeatedly!
Who takes martial mastery anyway?
What is not constructive again?
So you want people to guide you into playing how you want? What?
Except fancy new class and new skills/weapons/whatevers HoT will be a huge dissapointment if you care about anything non-casual.
If you love to talk to npcs about their super amazing stories and watch pretty trees then you gonna have a blast!
No content can be challenging forever. New stuff can be hard but after you do it for 3 years…
Dungeons. Fractals above 20.
Skill.
Except hotw p3 last boss which is indeed annoying I can’t think of something hard to beat with 5 people.
Is really 1 dungeon path ruining the whole instanced pve experience for you?
Hello. Ranger is in a weird place with some overpowered things but weak overall.
Greatsword autoattack. Increased attack speed and damage, reduce the evade frame. Lets be real, it’s not like the evade is reliable enough and currently it gets shut down completely by blinds because it’s too slow!
Reduce maul cast time! It’s a huge freakin bear animation! People should be able to dodge it anyway. Now they can just walk away slowly..
Fix swoop and other rush bugs regarding terrain.
Entangle. Requires the ranger to stand still. No more fancy jumps to reduce the telegraph.
Shortbow. Move the bleeds to other skills. The autoattack has no counterplay. Move them to crippling shot or concussion shot or whatever.
Axe mainhand auto. Even after buffs it’s pretty meh and the might is too short. Increase the might duration but add an icd. Takes longer to build might(and less stacks) but it doesn’t go away instantly.
Signet of renewal. Now works even if your pet is far away/dead/ etc.
General pet stuff. Remove the penalty for dead pet swap. They explode in team fights anyway. No reason to punish the ranger further.
Merge piercing arrows and read the wind traits.
Shared anguish has a buff icon.
Hunter shot stealths even if it misses/gets blocked.
Tone down the burns on the torch bonfire.
Add more condition removal that’s reliable. Empathic bond is strong but too unreliable. Survival of the fittest is fine but it requires a big investment.
Coated bullets is kitten.
Condi engi eats through mm necro and spirit ranger. Against turret celestial is probably better.
Tell me about it. I’ve been pugging for the past 1 year.
Now I sleep at most 3h per night, have nightmares and I’m having panic attacks whenever I’m around more than 3 people.
At the subway I hear voices whispering “stack..stack..” like some twisted demonic..evil..stuff!
Yes nomad is perfectly fine. I can’t imagine it being used on some mercy rune warrior build with stability for days and also crazy cc spam while never actually dying.
Just make your own builds and play those. After you realize they fail play a meta one.
It’s better than playing a meta from start, not realizing the strengths of it and ending up with a hipster personalized one you created later on.
No anet can’t do that because it’s a kittening kittened thing to do.
1 month ban for 1 ragequit?
Not all soloers are bads. Not all premades are good.
Yes, communication offers an advantage but there isn’t a mastermind coordinating the whole team. Usually people know where to go and what to do.
Premades can include:
1)guys who have been matched together a few games and won, leading them to believe there is some sort of synergy between them so they group up(usually stupid idea)
2a)people who queue with their friends despite being a huge skill gap between them
2b)people who queue with guildies but nobody is good, they just wanna have some fun
Winning against premades isn’t some godlike achievement. Premades are not hard to beat based on the fact that they premades. Good premades are hard to beat. Good soloers are also hard to beat.
I suspected it was the buff thing too. But now the buff is gone yet the matches still suck.
Maybe they came for the buff but stayed for the farm! Not sure why they in ranked.
Yes it’s really nice everybody came to vent their frustration about pvp dailies and broken leaderboards.
But my point was that this is a recent thing. Like the past 4 days or so.
Since personal experience is not an unbiased source I was hoping for some less subjective information.
Dear ANET.
Did you break MMR?
I get horrible matchups these past few days. Super bad players on both teams in ranked.
The team with less bads wins! But even if I win it doesn’t feel like a real win because it’s so RNG. I either have to win outnumbered fights constantly or just hope my team won’t die by the time I arrive. No fun!
I don’t say I’m top player. I don’t say I’m even higher tier. But the people I get matched with are certainly way under me.
This is making me toxic. I’m glad there is no dishonor. I don’t want to be toxic.
Help.
Leg mods vs power wrench is debatable to a certain extent even though power wrench tends to be better.
Backpack regenerator is simply mandatory. Don’t listen to meta battle. Never take protection injection over it.
tire 1(numero uno, za best):
elemental – max deeps, chill bow, furry, might or might not
worrier – beners of tactic, big dps with 10000blades, never die always live
gaurdien – area retalation, perma light fields, blocks for no doges, big dps when aegis(100% uptime)
tire 2(is ok not za best):
teef – always invisible never see, makes u invisible too
mezmer – reflect, teleport, infinite dps with pink lazer(after long time to charge)
hunter – big range strong bow, bear animal to tank, easy to play(full signet never press them)
tire3(not good never play):
ingeneer – big lag for all, arrogant player says it can invisible you(lol only teef can)
necro – plays with dead eww, no damage just fear all away
Some people never improve. I think it’s called PV Syndrome.
Some people have alt accounts. Especially since we had 2 big 75% off sales in a short time span.
New accounts have pretty low mmr. From personal experience after about 50 matches it finally settles. And even after that, you will still get bad matchups because of the massive influx of players and the lack of decent ones.
Epic fights all.
this WTS is so far better than the last, great fights from Abjured & Orng logo.
you all did a fantastic job and made a great show.
and for the haters heres a Packet of Salt.
Speaking of salt, that “omelet” sure required loads of it. I guess in an alternate reality killing a guy once makes you better than him.
Funny comment with the 60s icd cleansing ire to make mending viable. Hope that’s a joke.
The problem is that yes, 1v1 on zerker amulets can take long when the players are equally skilled. Assuming it’s not a direct counter like thief vs mesmer. But the moment that 1v1 becomes 1v2 it ends in seconds.
It already ends pretty fast when 1v1 cele is +1 by a zerker.
If everything was a zerker meta then people would either agree to 1v1 on 5 different places which kinda defeats the whole conquest/team fight thing or it would be a spamfest of lucky sigil procs and constant rallies. A huge mess basically.
I had matches with like 3 thieves on each team and the other 2 guys were power ranger, mesmer, dps guard etc. It was not cool. It boiled down to 2v1 focusing a guy and ganking then getting ganked themselves by another duo. Horrible!
Yes. And aristocracy, tormenting and evasion runes too.
There are high damage ele builds like fresh air with either scepter/focus(traditional in a way) and dagger/focus(newer, not popular). They both have their pros and cons. There also used to be a staff zerker ele build that could wipe a whole enemy team but it only worked against people who ignored the ele, meaning lower tier play.
The problem is d/d cele and staff cele are better.
Also you can either sustain 1v2 with bunkier builds like cele ele, engi, war or roam and burst hard with dps like thief, mesmer, even ranger. A build that could both burst and survive outnumbered for long would be crazy overpowered.
Thief. Spam 3 spam 2 when it gets rough swap to shortbow and just run away. Immortal basically.
Nobody looks at the sacks to check the engi kit especially since it doesn’t kittening matter because its 1s to swap to another one.
Eles get fancy attunement icons and pretty bracelets.
It’s not hard. You either want to look cool and play it easily or you want a good build?
Staff ele is your best choice for both ranged and easy. Camp fire auto and press 2 and 5 on cooldown. Easy.
Also it has fire so you can kinda “burn” mobs too.
You obviously haven’t met cruuk. If you had he would have decapitated you so fast you wouldn’t even dare to call anybody else the most lethal thief.
You can use many non-projectile things to deal damage.
Blunderbuss, jump shot, blowtorch, poison grenade, all bombs, pry bar, acid bomb etc.
The worst you could do is toolkit auto. Want perma cripple? Box of nails!
Don’t like kit swapping don’t play engi.
Yes the lack of cleave on 3rd hit of the toolkit auto is the exact reason people don’t use the toolkit auto.
It’s not a joke if it isn’t funny though!
Isn’t a healer ele better?
One day I wanted to buy a car. But then I realized I can just use the subway.
Maybe I make a post about how I saved 30k $!
You will be extremely slow if you plan to level using turrets. They are simply bad. Everywhere!
Use bombs! Buy proper gear, runes and nourishment! Use +x power runes and mix them so you gain the most stats. Bloodlust sigil and some decent food also goes a long way.
They all cheap.