Guild Wars 2

As much as I enjoy Helseth, they would be nuts to have him on official channel

Alas poor powerblock, it was a fun 3 days or so.

ellesee.8297:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

There should be a match between the winners of the NA and EU tournament! The winning team receives another legendary for each member! #Veesports

Wahoo! Bye frands!

No one wants to see NA get massacred, least of all ANET who need your customer $$$.

“won btw” makes this a pretty weird post, what is the problem here? either a fluke or people doing it for a laugh, seen similar with 5 warriors.

Yeah it’s a crazy bug – happens a lot on mesmer when phaseretreating out of a hammer stun or similar effect. /dance is the only cure, I always worry people think I’m being insulting by doing it though.

Hollywood.3490:

PU is for people who want to play with one hand and click their skills. In other words. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you go PU. If you know what you’re doing, you pick CI.

Laughable

Oh and it takes so much skill to use immobilise?

So to prove a point in this thread – today I fought someone a couple of times while they were using pretty much this build, and I was using Doiid’s build. As expected could easily keep him at range and wait for eventual mistake to burst him down. He did manage to gank some pve ranger who I couldn’t quite save though.

Advent.6193:

Well, BlackDevil … that’s the weakness of most any PU or Condi-Mesmer.

Well Power PU with GS, sword/pistol and blink + traveller/speed runes can catch most people.

I would agree this build is something to gank the unwary, not what I would call a roaming build. I think also once people see it’s the close range burn, they will either range you or avoid you. Still very interesting design but you could get similar kills from other builds with fewer disadvantages.

Weakest excuse ever, have no problems with Asura.

You tanked full damage from a zerker amulet wearer, while probably wearing zerker yourself, and therefore died.

They can nerf phantasm when they buff shatter damage or preferably bring back pre-hotfix powerblock.

They are too powerful. I do use them and play burst, and agree that zerker should trump condi and break bunkers, but this is a bit too much.

Anyone claiming interrupts are ‘easy’ is laughable, let alone the sheer number of interruptable skills due to no cooldown or unblockable there is stability. If you’re getting interrupted constantly, says more about your bad and predictable play.

In any case, hardly anyone is going to be taking power block after this hotfix. So you can rest easy and continue mashing the same keys without any strategic thought.

Thanks for another now pointless GM trait.

Also how can they hotfix this so quickly, yet been months with no fix for something like illusionary elasticity?

Amount of damage and conditions has risen a lot, mainly consequence of extra sigil on 2 handed weapons + runes being changed (especially Strength). A lot of people saw this power creep coming… seems they were right.

ronpierce.2760:

It’s not actually so they don’t have to fix it. Its so people stop attacking players like a bunch of kitten animals. New players have a right to play the kitten game, it’s not their fault the MMR system sets up their team in such a way that made you lose a precious match. I’m sure they want to play with kittens far less than you want to play with noobs. Losing a match hurts your rating, getting attacked by other players over a kitten game is just sad. This change only affects you if you’re a starving buzzard.

Exactly.

It’s not ‘broken matchmaking’, it’s pvp having a tiny active population. No matchmaking can magically give equal games to everyone when the players aren’t there.

Was interesting to see Misha’s build for 55hp monks yesterday. Total team fight build, bringing back timewarp, runes of strength + battle for the sick might stacks, 30-20-20-0-0 traits.

PU condi is absolutely not the best, arguably the worst build you can run. Very little point control, poor in team fight. PU power may be interesting-ish, but does seem Lockdown, ranged shatter (staff/GS) still the best, and for something a bit easier also Sensotix condi build from 26 Dec still works decent.

It’s a hotjoin/custom arena map, can’t believe it still exists in solo que. For every decent change, seems something bad has to stay.

Agree that if they change, they need to shave it not smash it into the ground, otherwise this patch is pointless.

Yes Shatter/GS, usually known as ranged shatter is very strong and rightly has been the mesmer meta in EU tpvp. Such a great set of weapons and it also works very well with power block + shatter.

As for the guy above querying phase retreat mobility – about face/phase retreat/about face is like a second blink for mobility if you can pull it off. There are youtube videos to show you how.

Well in spvp I’m going to try the Confusing Suggestions / ranged shatter build, for which I must give credit to Helseth using it months ago when confusing suggestions + chaos storm was lethal. I think with Power Block, seems well worth trying again, although hopefully won’t get same false results if it is bugged on autoattack.

So it’s 30 Dom, 20 Duel, 20 illusions. Staff + GS, Mantra of distraction, blink and portal. Lyssa runes and beserker amulet.

GS/Staff Shatter was working ok in tpvp right before the patch, although needed organised team to take full advantage of portal, usually thief in same team and had very high skill cap. It is a bit stronger now, as we have 2 extra sigils and thief/warrior being hit harder by lyssa nerf. Only issue is condi specs seem to have got even stronger with this patch.

People also much more likely to notice and report bots in arena modes, rather than just assume it’s a standard hotjoiner :p

I did some hotjoin today and there was a lot of afkers and stacked teams, clearly people trying to farm rewards.

Well I think it’s pretty clear the new traits were just token additions to make the game look more changed than it is. Saying that in spvp should be better for us with lyssa nerf to thieves/warrriors, and extra sigil on 2 handed weapons for ranged shatter.

It’s crazy this stuff still isn’t fixed…

Given custom arenas have hardly taken off, they need more ways to monetize pvp. It sucks they’ve chosen this route, but can see why.

Nice prompt action. Good to see.

Yeah tired of tools who think anet should drop more important development work for trivial stuff which 99% of players don’t care about. This is a bottom end priority.

When the game is fun and interesting to play and has a sizeable population as a result, then we can worry about leaderboards.

Dutchares.6084:

Community of AG made some guilds leave..
They didn’t want guilds doing their thing. They wanted guilds running server blobs or something.

In fairness most servers have a least some people who feel that way. Although AG’s was usually bigger and had some kind of ‘Council’ nonsense.

Skyz.4105:

its actually suprisingly easy, the trick is they do decent damage over time as you try to attack them so the best thing to do is ONLY attack in bursts when all or most of your cooldowns are up. PU cant actually put that much preasure on you unless u are trying to kill them so only make trades that u come out on top for example burst which u win, so burst kite burst kite and repeat if u fight with the right mindset it makes it alot easier.

Yep. As per others Power PU should still win, but condi PU is beatable with good targeting and kiting.

+1 to this, remove the rewards. Hotjoin should be casual fun, not a place for people to farm without effort or as alternative to solo/team que.

yeah even if op was using a ‘cheesy’ build, if someone is dumb enough to still 1v1 them and lose…

Dee Jay.2460:

You must be new to PvP in general. If insulting your attacker was a little simpler in WvW you hear it all the time.

Still get it sometimes with party invites

You can spot the worst players, as they are always the ones obsessed with rank.

The only roamers I’ve seen from Gandara have been 5-6 taking camps, and what seems to be 90% of world’s supply of perplexity runes. If Gandara had any roaming culture it seems dead now.

PPT is the worst aspect of WvW and turns the game into a dull grind of nightwars and pvdoor. Playing with guilds is the only way to stave off the boredom for any length of time.

Thanks for all your efforts Allie, good luck in your next job

Have to say for tpvp I have my eye on sigil of intelligence in the ranged shatter build. Two of those + the usual two energy and could take Valk amulet instead, although will keep eye on celestial change.

I don’t think anything changes wvw meta much, other than probably reinforcing hammer train of guardians+warriors with supporting eles and necros.

Lest he call us all virgins, I offer up the name of Helseth, Lord of mesmers

I heard that restriction isn’t actually active.

PU mesmer is crap in team fight.

Ele will actually be strong, saw that in 6v6 and with buffs still to come.

Forsaker.9213:

idk how many games i lost becose someone was afk on close and enemy team just ignored him whole game

There are German servers who have taken this Golem display art to its absolute extreme

bhagwad.4281:

Oh, “anti social” means I see. And I suppose you get to decide that “anti social” means are not “worthy” huh? Besides, this is PvP. Player verses player. If you have sympathy for your opponents you may be in the wrong game.

Yeah because this isn’t a game played for fun, it’s a WAR for pride and profit right? There’s no friendly competition, there’s no honest sportsmanship, just cheese your way to successs and demand to be exclusively rewarded for it.

Have you considered a career in investment banking?

bhagwad.4281:

The “No true scotsman fallacy”.

1) You’re not a true PvP player if you go hotjoin
2) You’re not a true PvP player if you skyhammered
3) You’re not a true PvP player if you play decap engi
4) You’re not a true PvP player if hambow/whatever

People just get to make up their own classifications and feel good about them.

Nice straw man.

It’s not about who is a ‘true pvp player’, it’s about whether largely exclusive rewards are merited when they are best earned through antisocial means which actively harm the game- i.e. playing a broken build which ruins the fun of other players. Amusing that you seem to think there’s no issue in cheesing to win, and also think that this cheesing merits maintaining an exclusive reward system.

Yeah OP is rather dumb, pvp only matters if there’s a population. The bigger the population the more top players will want to play for twitch/youtube views, sponsorship, prizes and just straight up pride at being good at something popular. Let alone that there will be a bigger pool of people able to replace top players as they move on.

So those ‘casuals’ you sneer at are the most important element to esports or a high competitive game. Nobody wants to stick with a dead game, no matter how ‘high skill’ it is., or an exclusive title nobody but you will care about.

Definitely hambow, although imo a support guardian is easy to play but at least requires some dodging and timing.

The funniest thing about OP is that he was one of the biggest complainers about the change to reduce Dragon rank requirement. It’s because of people who cheese in solo que with decap engi that these ranks are meaningless, not any anet change.

XGhoul.7426:

The amount of trolling that will happen in map chat . . . will be immense.

edit: Just thought about the amount of rage building up for the rank 5 that decided to soloq and did nothing all game

Yes, but there is still a report verbal abuse button and much easier to get more reports and for GM to take action when it’s only checking one place.

Too many kids who played these lame mobas like Dota and want to behave the same way. It’s one of the depressing changes from GW1 to GW2.

WvW group meta has been a bit screwed up for mesmers since condition meta, still a role with veil and shatters on the periphery but it’s dull and a group can’t carry too many. Spvp and small scale is still decent, even with condi meta.