Guild Wars 2

I get “Obstructed” a lot when I’m within 400 range, flat ground and nothing between us.

Saiyan.1704:

sephiroth.4217:

You have condi guard build in your signature, how are mesmers are problem for you?

-Lack of sustains
-Our bursts comes from the high cd JI/PF/ZF and is negated by a single shatter cleanse.
-Higher risks in general

There’s a reason why Burn Guards arnt a thing in tournament play but Berserker Mesmers are. In short, I get easily outplayed but they don’t. If you have more inquiries I recommend visiting the Guard forums.

Nah no questions, I have 4 guards and 3 mesmers and when I troll burn guard I don’t have an issue killing mesmers, they are actually the first I look for in a fight while necro being the avoidance due to transitioning the burn back to me…

I can’t speak for tourney play, after 3 years of the game doing nothing other than WvW and PvP I’m still yet to see what seperates “Pro teams” from scrubs like myself who only play for enjoyment or when the missus is angry at me and I need to enforce legalized murder onto my fellow players.

MaximillianVonSchatten.6278:

They should add a monthly fee to people using WvW on high population servers since they have a third viable game mode that low tier servers dont have. Problem solved.

AkiraZero.8514:

Unless you’re a roamer looking specifically for small fights I’d quite honestly just ignore mesmers and thiefs. Its rarely worth while trying to engage them as they tend to be set up for lots of stealth and even if you are able to get the better of them they will just reset the fight by stealthing and getting some distance. It just isnt worth the time unless your out to test your 1v1 skill.

That being said, if you get jumped on your way to an objective, try to dodge as much of the initial burst as you can, pop your stab, use any source of swiftness and just bail for the nearest tower or group of friendlies you can find. They will soon get bored and move onto their next target.
Mesmers and Thieves just tend to pick off unsuspecting people because they know most people aren’t set up build/gear wise for proper solo fights, it makes them feel skilled even though they aren’t. Anyone can spec for max damage and just gank people, only builds determines who wins.

fixed lol

Basandra Skye.4031:

So, to summarize, the OP’s TL:DR is “I want trinity”? Did I get that right?

If you actually read it and interpreted it that way…. Sure I guess you could look at it like that.

To me it was more directed at the berseker stat meta needed just to be apart of dungeon runs and anything PvE and the OP wishes to use other stats such as healing where he could play a different role that wasn’t just DAMAGE DODGE DAMAGE DODGE DAMAGE WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT DODGE NOW BURST WE WIN – no team play/role needed except standing in the same spot and rezzing eachother who were downed.

My suggestion would be ele, but only due to how engaging the class is. Mistakes matter on Ele where as mesmer you can just decoy/stealth heal and go again.

But if you want it easy with high damage output at minimal effort, take mesmer.

You have condi guard build in your signature, how are mesmers are problem for you?

I enjoy killing people in OS after I’ve been ganked repeatedly by guild groups and zergs…

Or standing at the top of the arena with “Fear Me” ready to fear them back to the bottom then activating the trap.

Sometimes I enjoy dancing on the loot box without posing any threat what so ever just to give randoms a laugh.

If I am roaming and come across mesmer or thief I will fight…

If they use a skilless build such as condition PU perplex/torment mes or condition thief, I go to options, select log out and play PvP.

T2 is currently full of those builds and what’s worse is that yesterday I witnesses 3 PU condition staff mesmers from YB gank 1 person then proceeded to jump and /laugh on him/her like it took skill

SlayerSixx.5763:

But if your hiding in stealth all day, you’re not getting kills. If you aren’t getting kills, you aren’t going to win. Camp stealth all day if it makes you happy, but that’s just sad and boring.

Survival mode is survival, not death match lol…

All you would need to do is stealth all day, wait for everyone else to kill eachother and instagib the last one standing to win… Everyone would most likely be thief or mesmer.

Provost.6210:

Chokolata.1870:

Ok guys, there have been a lot of topics that all call for nerfs on this and that. But, taking a serious look at Ele, how would you go about nerfing it?

Personally I would:

-reduce the stat bonus from the Celestial amulet from 560-480

-reduce the damage bonuses from Pyromancer training and Burning rage from 10% to 7% (similar to how the Guardian +% to burning got reduced)

-reduce the burning duration of Drakes breath from 3s to 2s

-reduce the Ring of Fire burn stacks from 3 to 2

-increase Soothing Ice ICD from 20s to 30s

-reduce the Protection duration from Elemental swapping from 5s to 2s

What do you think? Too much? Not enough??

Why not just gut the class with a rusty spoon, make dagger main-hand only, and increase attunement recharges to 75 seconds while you’re at it?

Nerf protection duration? Sorry, but ele has lowest hp and weakest armour. That boon is one of the few ways eles are able to survive getting in to do our combo and getting back out alive.

Nerf ROF? This has got to be the silliest suggestion I see going around. Once the ele drops ROF, it’s up to you to walk into and out of it as many times as possible to get the burn stacks you’re complaining about. If you don’t like the heat, stay out of the fire!

Nerf celestial stats? kitten right off. Ele burst potential got castrated with an old butter knife and the only way elementalists have any versatility in their build right now is to run celestial. Otherwise they’re either glass cannons or impotent tanks who rely all the more heavily on the boons you’re all too eager to deny them.

You don’t want to nerf ele, you want to kill it.

This.

Hasn’t ele had enough nerfs?

Who cares if an ele can beat your class, other classes can beat ele.

Playing cele signant necro will destroy an ele or any boon reliant class, MM necro beats cele ele, power longbow ranger beats ele, rampage warrior beats ele, thief has trouble but can beat an ele, mesmer will end a fight with ele before it begins…

Why nerf ele even more? do you play guardian or something?

I think the real issue is the mobility, everytime you’re about to beat an ele, they will disengage heal and engage again, STEALTHLESS thief tactics ftw

I don’t use arcana in my zerker d/d build.

Even before patch I was 56021.

Donari.5237:

I have great faith that ANet will never force PvP in PvE zones as that gets rid of the “be glad to see another player” goal.

They forced PvE onto WvW/PvP, just look at Stonghold and Golem week… I wouldn’t put it past them.

I was hoping this post would give me a reason to log in to the game

Came to forums more, bought and tried out some new games.

Everyone bandwagoned to YB to push them to T1.

Other than that…………………….. Golems.

It’s probably not the right thing to do in PvP, but if I see a MM sitting on far point, I ignore him and help mid and wait for someone else to go far before I follow to help for a quick kill…

(I don’t play AoE heavy classes)

50 man zerg, 40 have exploit, sit there and report them all.

The WvW event is working as intended otherwise a fix would have happened.

Dear Anet,

Rock needs nerf.

Love, Scissors.

Could be some next gen mentalist kitten!

Destroy WvW and get rid of Toxic community (WvW focused players), refill maps with Eotm trains and let the toxic community quit the game or migrate to PvP to start their Esports….

(Read it somewhere in forums, game me a laugh)

Teevell.1684:

sephiroth.4217:

Im 80% WvW and 20% PvP, I only PvP when WvW is broken.

3 years playing.

GUILD WARS 2 IS THE ONLY GAME I’VE DISCOVERED WITH A MODE LIKE WvW, AND I’LL BE A CUSTOMER OF IT UNTIL THEY BREAK THE MODE OR ANOTHER GAME CREATES SOMETHING SIMILAR -Legit, WvW only reason I log on to play, not interested in playing Dragon Wars 2, just about every game has those.

Apparently there are a few games with something similar coming out within the year, so there’s something to look forward to, at least.

I just seen a thread about similar games, wish I seen it before I went out and got Far Cry 4 and Dark Souls 2….

Thx to golem week I’ve been able to try out new games

These conjure weapon glitches are the only thing good about this stupid kittening event…

Im 80% WvW and 20% PvP, I only PvP when WvW is broken.

3 years playing.

GUILD WARS 2 IS THE ONLY GAME I’VE DISCOVERED WITH A MODE LIKE WvW, AND I’LL BE A CUSTOMER OF IT UNTIL THEY BREAK THE MODE OR ANOTHER GAME CREATES SOMETHING SIMILAR -Legit, WvW only reason I log on to play, not interested in playing Dragon Wars 2, just about every game has those.

Bunker/Cele ele can handle it…

Zerker d/d ele can jump in and burst them, assuming you land your fire grab and was able to engage them first.

I can’t say for other classes, only played dd ele since patch.

You might as well ask for Perplexity Sigils….

Edit: At first I thought it sounded stupid, but you kinda have a point once my mind drifted onto Torment application sigils and the rest of the condition application sigils.

You know you’ve lost once I’m on your team

I start PvP with team builds on my classes, if losing streak starts I’ll switch to selfish builds or “broken” builds…

If I’m still losing, I’ll set up a few toons and que, once i’m in game ill look at the enemies classes then switch strait to a class that should counter most of their team.

If I roll a bunch of crap team mates who fight off point, I log off and ARAM in LoL for an hour or so

I was only WvW/pvp but now I’m a proud guardian of LA Bank when I log in for daily rewards and log off again.

Can’t even roam in WvW… Had 3 golems chase me from ogre camp > OW > SM > Duri > Brav before some people on my server seen and wiped em with me.

+1 to playboy ears on sale again.

So basically before I quit the game for a while I just want to point out a few things about the game that drove me insane.

1. Why do we have to complete map completion over and over again just to make more than 2 legendaries? Not everyone enjoys repeating the exact same stuff over and over again.

2. Map completion is strictly PvE due to PvE players complaining about having to go to WvW, a game mode they don’t like to get thier legendary while PvP and WvW players don’t have access to legendaries as we don’t enjoy PvE or are forced to grind through endless jumping puzzles on a norn and 10 fps….

3. The game is designed to be fair for all players no matter how you play… NO it’s not… Ascended gear, legendaries, food utilities, gear stats and more are only attainable through PvE and Living Stoy.

4. There is no click all button for opening bags

5. IMO, everything should be attainable through the trading post. (including PvE skins like luminescant)

6. Everything in WvW/PvP is attainable through PvE, but not vice versa.

7. The burst meta…. No tanks/defensive roles. Just stealth burst followed up by stealth stomps.

8. Dungeon groups + players who kick others to make room for guildies.

9. Perplexity Runes

10. The unnecessary buffs to ranger starting with the longbow stealth. (Ranger 2 years ago had a very high skill cap in order to be successful, now a 5 year old could play it)

11. Transfer prices do not match up world to world, dead servers have 1800g price.

12. WvW gear is not salvageable, even though players only want runes back but yet in PvE land you can salvage anything and claim ectos + what ever else from it.

13. The berserker stat nerf.

14. Wardrobe…….. People had double skins that they worked hard for, some people had double legendaries, it’s great we could now use a legendary skin across all characters but every other skin you specifically made for your toon ended up with dust on it so to speak.

15. Dyes…. As someone who went to the effort to buy celestial and abyss for 8 toons before the change, thanks for my 1s dyes in return.

16. The constant neglect towards WvW… Bugs and exploits that have been around since day 1 are still there.

17. The constant PvE content thown at me… I play PvP for the fights, but it’s shifting towards using the hammer, rushing orbs, killing svanir, stronghold in general.

18. No official GvG… I bought this game originally thinking guilds would fight other guilds, the closest resemblance is WvW but the reality of that is guilds are just wiping pug zergs until they get rolled and log off or eotm.

19. No room for melee in large combat zones.

20. Stability change.

21. The condition buff and everything about it… toughness/vit/condition and it’s all set to go with a rare veggie pizza compared to power builds who will need power/prec/ferocity just to have the same damage but will not have the toughness/vit stats to withstand 10 stacks of burn + every other condi.

22. The downed state.

Just some ramblings of a noob, in general I do like the game and I think devs have put a lot of effort into details and the game itself but as a WvW/PvP player I have a hard time seeing these good things out side of the graphics… Like this Mosquito!

If you leave the game, strip all you toons of gear, sell your mats and collect as much gold as possible…

Next: Spend all your gold on Black Lion weapon skins, by the time you get back to the game in 6 months or what ever, the prices of the skins would have doubled/trippled so sell em off for tonnes of profit. (also works on higher quality dyes like abyss/celestial)

(I’m in the process of doing the same)

I’m a fan of Caledon Forrest.

I personally find the world more engaging with 1st person mode and removing HUD with ctrl + alt + right shift + H.

(still yet to explore anywhere else though)

High level play is just a way for each player to say how good they are or an attempt to belittle a class they can counter.

BUT there ARE people who idolize TS teams dominating pug teams and refer to them as high level plays and what not. Congrats on communication and a decent FPS lol

It’s been said way too many times now in this thread….

Any power skills IS direct counter to zerker stance. It counters condition builds for a measly 8 seconds….

Couldn’t we have traits or specializations to let support roles grant at least an extra stack + duration of stability?

I rekt myself with vapor form…

No seriously, I went against a mesmer and was dead before I used a skill, not even combat log could log anything

Would also like to add:

Rabbit ears and White feather wings (get paid fortnightly and missed the chance) …

Burn guard and healway burn ele are probably the only successful condition classes I’ve seen.

Burn guard is burn guard.

Healway Bunker boon throwing might stacking condition ele is just a pain to deal with, especially if they run water/earth/arcana or fire/earth/water.

Holland.9351:

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Holland.9351:

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• Changing reflect into destroy would help PvE encounters

It wouldn’t only help players from hitting themselves without knowing (see point 1), it would also help AI, who aren’t programmed to be able to know.

So since point 2 is already solved I have 1 request left. To get a popup message when a projectile is reflected or destroyed.

The first one is a serious l2p issue. While I agree that reflect needs to be introduced with something like a tutorial (similar to dodging), it doesn’t need any further notifications, nor does it need to be changed into destroy.

The second part would still be better solved by adjusting the AI. Make mobs recognise reflects or at least stop shooting if they are hit by their own projectiles.

Also about the pop-up…

You’ve clearly not read what I wrote.

• It’s not a l2p issue if I can’t see when stuff is getting reflected or destroyed. It’s a video settings issue in WvW, nothing else.

• I said popup as in “Evaded”, “Obstructed” and “Blocked” which we already get.

• It’s not a l2p issue if I can’t see when stuff is getting reflected or destroyed. It’s a video settings issue in WvW, nothing else.———-
  The same goes for when you rapid fire us, we don’t see the projectiles, but we notice our health bar dropping and your animations.. That point you made was completely useless because you’re asking other players to pay less attention than you.

I said popup as in “Evaded”, “Obstructed” and “Blocked” which we already get. —-———- The game should have this for reflected, yes. I guess the way people play this game is different from person to person, some use a mouse to turn, others use key board. Some use buttons to attack, others click. Some have to rely on the game telling them what happened while others know the mechanics well enough not to need it

I wrote up a bunch of things to help you out, but instead wrote this due to your sarcasm and rudeness towards another forum member for taking his time to help you.

Eotm has enforced a karma farming instinct among the playerbase, you see it so much in WvW now it’s ridiculous…

Just think to yourself, how many rangers will stay at max range, in a tower or attack you from inside camps even though you’re alone…
How many people have you seen actually engage in a 1v1 and fight to their death?
How many people have you managed to keep inside a tower or at base before they started rallying people to kill the solo you?

We need a system that encourages combat against enemy players in a PvP zone – Which in itself is sad to say the least.

+1 support the idea…

(I know the frustration of wanting to change my PSN ID)

I had similar thing happen the other day in LA but with a super adventure box monkey…

I was running around exploring the new design, out in the middle of no where I found a super monkey holding the clash symbols, I ran up to it, it started bashing it’s symbols then vanished.

I assume another SAB will be coming up shortly due to my experience, maybe your ship has something to do with “delivering the patch/goodies” or has relevance of sort to an upcoming Living Story

You must play Guardian or Necro lol

Even Rangers have Gs3, Sword 2 + lightning flash + sword 2
hell, an engineer can keep up with a war if they’re smart or have rocket boots handy

Nick.7621:

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

how long did that take to stack up?

Probably 3-4 seconds. You can stack over 50 in about 1 sec.

Proof right here that Anet wants the burst meta lol…

50 burn stacks dropped onto a group of people….. I have trouble not dying in half a second to just 15+ stacks

All T2 guilds and players suck, even the server I’m on.

T2 could most likely out zerg T1

To a point I agree…. Damage needs to dial down a little, or defense needs to be buffed a little….

I see a lot of references to stronghold, Stronghold is designed for mostly ranged and stealth classes at this point, I’ve watched countless staff eles and longbow rangers do nothing but sit back and defend from distances while mesmers and thieves run around ganking each other with 0.5-3s fight durations…

So to simplify this…..

You don’t like reflect because you shoot yourself to death?

I play a different game