Actually an interesting suggestion for a tactic upgrade. It offers a high risk-reward strategy and gives roamers an option to not only passively hinder enemy progress but actively threaten it if they manage to get behind enemy lines.
Except, as a roamer. I don’t have the power to make it a tactic upgrade.
Something for solo/small roamers to do that can help their server win:
Players first capture enemy camp.
Players then escort friendly dolyaks to enemy keep.
This way, the dolyak bombs the enemy supplies and reduce the progress that is upgrading the keep. the damage will be small so that zergs shouldn’t waste time escorting dolyaks one by one.
This way, camps become very important to strategy. It isn’t meant to be rewarding in the short term, but when the camp is held and escorted for a long time, it can weaken a keep/tower very much.
Diversity isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but in this case it would be completely immersion-breaking. With all of that fighting and running around, I can’t see any character being chubby.
I would simply just run away from a decisive fight because I don’t want to lose rank points. I would build around surviving and running away to get away from losing fights just so that I don’t get a penalty.
That is exactly the point. Thats how you stop mass suicides.
So, the point is that I let party members die in a winnable fight just for my own selfish reasons?
If Anet would just let deaths reflect in stats and… Im loath to say… in score, this would sensitize casuals to the negative impact deaths in pvp have.
For every death -10 score.
Top stats: Death -> resulting in less rankpoints and a penalty on mmr adjustment after match if deaths > 5.
Terrible Idea.
I would simply just run away from a decisive fight because I don’t want to lose rank points. I would build around surviving and running away to get away from losing fights just so that I don’t get a penalty.
PPP failbuilds yes; but when the thing crits for 8k AND surprise attacks from stealth or is damage immune for few seconds, almost any cele gets insta OWNED.
A ‘successful’ berserker build loses to a successful cele build every time.
Anet needs to realize that them balancing the game and making matchmaking for the few on the top is more harmful than anything else.
The entire system would probably work well if it had 10 times more players than we have now. But we dont. Setting up teams as “fodder” for “pro” players and stacking players with high MMR vs others with lower MMR has got to be the most sadistic nonsensical idea with as little players as we have now as you can come up with.
Its going to make players leave SPvP and make it even worse than it was before.
Okay, lets say you’re right.
Where should the marketing budget go to? How about they make that taxi ad again.
This game has way too many stuns. One person can stunlock an enemy forever. If stuns gets nerfed across the board, then I would be okay with removing defensive procs.
Eh another proof that nobody from balance team reads profession forums…and any other kind of player feedback…I just waiting when they will remove cleric amulet and buff sceptre dps on my ele so it will be removed from pvp completely.
They do read it.
I see so many brain dead people cry for removal of Mercenary Amulet.
Seems like 99% of issues could be solved with a gemstore PvP-only upgrade pack.
That way players could spend far less money upgrading the PvP side of the game to allow them to use HoT abilities, whilst only having access to the Core PvE content that these players likely don’t care about anyway.
It doesn’t solve anything. The game will still be pay2win.
Then buy the expansion to get access to expansion content like people do in every other MMO. Or you can just have Anet isolate non-expansion players so they can only play with other players who do not have the expansion. I think those are legacy servers. No more “unfairness”.
Separate game modes. Conquest only for Core players. Stronghold for expansion players. This would give ANet a reason to improve stronghold anyways.
More Finishers for expansion players.
More armor cosmetics for expansion players.
More reward tracks that players can grind for Finishers and armor cosmetics.
Put Elite specs behind reward tracks so that core players have to grind for them. If they buy Expansion, all elite specs will be open to them instantly.
I don’t understand how players think PvP can grow with pay2win advantages. If I was a core player and get trashed by Elite specs, I would probably quit PvP.
I would recomend that you ditch the staff for hammer. As a Ventari player I have always felt vexed by not being able to kite people around my stone. Yeah you lose the blind on reflect and cc/evasion from 5 but you get the ability to attack from safer positions and a knockdown.
I disagree completely on hammer. Staff provided a ton of vital skills I cannot ignore. The block, the heal, and the interrupts are all things I cannot afford to ignore just for ranged damage.
Plus, my damage is terrible. I shouldn’t be dpsing.
You don’t want any double-ups on swap sigils due to nature of Revenant’s weapon&Legend swapping,.
Enhanced Bulwark is a must. I liked toying with SBastion mainly for cool boon-extension value, but there’s a lot of CC in current GW2 you simply won’t be able to avoid, especially with no Shiro.
Rite of the Great Dwarf has recently scored a nerf/fix. Also, Jalis generally fails as PvP defensive Legend – besides good heal, there’s really nothing that can save you and you’re ultimately without reliable stunbreak. Glint works okay, but in my opinion Shiro remains as must-have Pvp tool (and gives you slight edge over Tempest/Druid – mobility).
Mender’s Amulet is a good option if the other team doesn’t have bunch of Thieves or more than 1 Revenant. It will also increase your damage a bit.
As always, I endorse any tries of making dedicated Ventari builds, it’s just my 2 cents from experience .
I agree with Shiro. But I don’t really agree with any other suggestions.
Seeing how Jalis is mostly useless. I find Shiro to improve my build a whole lot more.
If attacked, heal yourself until you need to go to Jalis form. Then use Elite or healing. Jalis utilities skills are not worth using energy over. You can also use blocks from staff and shield to keep yourself alive.
Jalis elite + protection + 2x 10% damage reduction from traits = lots of damage reduction.
Superior Rune of Water heals for 1.4k. Ventari will heals for 1.3k. This will give a 2.7k heal from moving the tablet. Natural harmony heals for 2.7k while the energy fragment heals for 1.6k. Also, the tablet regens for 200 hp every 3 seconds. Thats a lot of healing for a very short cooldown for each skills.
Pros:
Tons of healing
Tons of damage reduction.
Group Condi removal spam.
Blocks for days.
Cons:
Can’t do any damage at all.
After many testing with Ventari, I find that this build is the best Ventari healer build.
In other games, you cant go back to your full health again and again and again.
In Guild Wars 2, you can go back to your full health again and again and again.
Wrong. I can’t kill anyone in other games because they have healers.
That’s a weaker version of the few Ventari based build that were in use in PvP.
Any half decent condition user can kill you. Mace/shield warriors in particular.
You are also succeptible to stun locking.
One thing I agree is that half decent condi users can kill a ventari rev.
One thing I disagree is that warriors can kill Ventari rev. The sustain on Ventari is really good and warriors doesn’t do much dps, it just can outsustain enemy player. But Ventari can outsustain the warrior.
I think that Ventari just needs a stunbreak and that Energy expulsion energy cost gets lowered.
Give Energy Expulsion a stunbreak and lower the energy cost to 10. This way, Energy Expulsion becomes a panic skill. Then we can see Ventari being more viable. The sustain healing is there, but the stuns just makes it not viable.
Runeblade your sense of energy cost is as precise as always.
5/7
Being a sustain healer, I am always low on energy. Besides, Energy Expulsion cost me half of my utilities so the low energy cost is justified.
I think that Ventari just needs a stunbreak and that Energy expulsion energy cost gets lowered.
Give Energy Expulsion a stunbreak and lower the energy cost to 10. This way, Energy Expulsion becomes a panic skill. Then we can see Ventari being more viable. The sustain healing is there, but the stuns just makes it not viable.
Runeblade go back to page 1 and read my reasons againts having a tablet that follows you around…I am too lazy to go copy-paste right now. Also stun break on energy expulsion is a terrible ideea…the last thing you wanna do as Ventari is blow up the tablet while you still need it for heals or projectile defence. I would argue that the healing on EE needs to be buffed.
I didn’t make any points of having the tablet following the player around. Therefore, I won’t need to read it.
Energy expulsion gives tons of healing anyways and Tablet summoning is fast casting anyways. But, I agree it should be the last thing. It is a panic skill that is there when you need it to be used. As a last thing to use, with the low cost, you can switch to the other legend when you run out of energy for healing. It makes the Ventari legend much more fluid and feel more like a part of the build instead of the complete build.
I made some variation of Ventari build. I had some success. I could survive longer as a bunker against many builds. but the biggest counter to my ventari builds are tons of interrupt and stuns.
I think that Ventari just needs a stunbreak and that Energy expulsion energy cost gets lowered.
Give Energy Expulsion a stunbreak and lower the energy cost to 10. This way, Energy Expulsion becomes a panic skill. Then we can see Ventari being more viable. The sustain healing is there, but the stuns just makes it not viable.
I did the event twice today and no wyvern. My gliding abilities aren’t quite the best so I missed the mark when gliding over plenty of times. I did finally make it though, in both events, but the wyvern wasn’t there. So I’m assuming someone beat me to it. The question I have is this: is there only one per event? If so, that kinda sucks to be honest. I’m sure I’m not the only one that spent several hours to miss out on the pet just because someone got there first. After the second event, I waited about ten minutes hoping for a respawn but nope, nothing.
They changed the location as per April 19th patch.
I thought my sarcasm was obvious; I apologize. It’s not pay to win; it’s pay to get elite specs in HoT on top of the core specs I purchased when I bought GW2. Winning is determined by skill (both individually and corporately) but it didn’t come included with my purchase of HoT. It’s something I have to earn. I have stated it before, Anet designed it to be core and elite, therefore it’s not mean’t to be balanced but that in no way means you cannot be competitive or enjoy what you already have.
So, if ANet sold a power boost which gives an advantage in PvP, it wouldn’t be pay to win to you.
Sure there should be more balance between core/HOT, cry about that if you want more balance.
Dont cry you have to pay for the game to be better! because all you say is you dont care about balance but you just want to be the best.
In a perfect world, Core and HoT build would be balanced. But it isn’t and will never be.
So you want salaried developers to spend budgeted time completely revamping a portion of the game so that you, someone unwilling to purchase an expansion that could be paid for with 1 shift at minimum wage, don’t have to buy the game?
Logical suggestion dude.
Nah, Obviously I rather ANet sell “pay2win greatsword” in the gemshop so that their salaried developers be paid./s
Logical statement dude.
You should probably refrain from using words like “logical”. It’s pretty clear that you don’t know the definition.
In regards to your P2W comment, I’m not sure what the hell you’re talking about. Are you suggesting that you’d rather they ruin a part of the game that you don’t play so you can enjoy the part you do play without having to pay?
I am using the word ‘logical’ at the same context as you are.
I’m suggesting that elite specs to be available to all in sPvP regardless if you have the expansion or not.
It would be fair to everyone. No need to rely on pay2win for money.
Fair = pay the money like the rest of us to get elite specs
So you want salaried developers to spend budgeted time completely revamping a portion of the game so that you, someone unwilling to purchase an expansion that could be paid for with 1 shift at minimum wage, don’t have to buy the game?
Logical suggestion dude.
Nah, Obviously I rather ANet sell “pay2win greatsword” in the gemshop so that their salaried developers be paid./s
Logical statement dude.
You should probably refrain from using words like “logical”. It’s pretty clear that you don’t know the definition.
In regards to your P2W comment, I’m not sure what the hell you’re talking about. Are you suggesting that you’d rather they ruin a part of the game that you don’t play so you can enjoy the part you do play without having to pay?
I am using the word ‘logical’ at the same context as you are.
I’m suggesting that elite specs to be available to all in sPvP regardless if you have the expansion or not.
It would be fair to everyone. No need to rely on pay2win for money.
Your argument is kitten BS. How do you expect them to pay their staff?
There is a PvE content that players would buy.
ANet can section off elite specs from WvWers and PvE too.
There are gemshop items like finishers that pvp players can buy.
Stronghold could be sectioned off for expansion only.
Maybe have a reward track for free pvpers to grind for and Expansion players access Elite specs instantly.
ANet doesn’t need to profit off of Pay2win.
This is hilarious. Hilariously idiotic. Anet profits off of game expansion. Imo it’s one of the best MMO’s for the price. So much entitled bs from these kittens.
Do you live in a communist country? Maybe that’s why you feel like everything should be free.
If there was a monthly subscription fee, your argument might make sense. But there’s not, so all your ideas sound stupid.
Having a 5k burst heal whenever you are about to die, is by far not useless. And it does not make adrenal health useless. Saying that is like saying that Having a trait that auto death shrouds when you are about to die makes minion heals pointless. They are completely separate abilities.
No, Adrenal Health makes Dead or Alive pointless.
Here, just do some playing and when you die try and remember if you are in Berserk Mode or not. My experience the last couple days is that I am simply not dying in zerk because i’m keeping the hots up.
So, if i’m not dying in zerk mode because of Adrenal Health, then what’s the point of Dead or Alive? THAT is my point.
If I activate Berserk mode before a big burst. Then I would get a big heal + more sustain heals.
So you want salaried developers to spend budgeted time completely revamping a portion of the game so that you, someone unwilling to purchase an expansion that could be paid for with 1 shift at minimum wage, don’t have to buy the game?
Logical suggestion dude.
Nah, Obviously I rather ANet sell “pay2win greatsword” in the gemshop so that their salaried developers be paid./s
I am customizing my gw2 customize soundtrack. I just want to know how do I play the music in my battle folder. It seems to only use ambiance right now.
The match making system is clearly inferior to Season 1. Mixing MMR + division pip range was an epic mistake and I am still waiting for an apology from Arenanet. The current system leads to countless of pointless matches of either huge losses (and no chances of winning) and huge wins (and no chances of losing) as the “better” players are placed in team A and “worse” players in team B.
It is also obvious that the removal of amulets of was just a lazy band aid “fix”, which didn’t fix the core issue of the power creep since trait rework and most importantly the overpowered elite specs. Now we have more burst and less bunkers, but amount of builds seen is not significantly better or worse.
Okay, lets say that is true. How are you going to fix afkers trying to lower their MMR?
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