Guild Wars 2

yes, that is precisely what he wants.

there was a talk between helseth and whatshisname about introducing ladder rewards and whatnot that’s supposed to be happening "soon" which was actually re-upped around july 2013.

sometimes, i really would like to know, what the pvp department is forced to do besides improving pvp, because the amount of things that are supposedly worked on since nearly 2 years are ever increasing, while NOTHING actually happened, except for really really unimportant things like downgrading ranks, removing glory, etc. pp.

sometimes i get the feeling, anet wants this game to be played by babies, the way they dumb it down is unintelligible in more than one way.

i would be seriously angry with you guys if it got removed. there are a few tweaks to the map, which could be done to overall improve the experience with the map, but that layout, it’s fantastic. the unblinkable pillars, the jump pads, .... it’s genious. the hammer itself not so much, but the rest is super awesome. plus: if you get feared or pulled or kicked down, you’re doing something wrong. just don’t go to hammer if you don’t have stability ready for the crucial moment the thief/mesmer/engi goes invis and burst him down. there’s no such thing as an invincible build.

don’t get me wrong, i don’t say that there’s nothing wrong with it, but just a few minor tweaks would make this map perfect. remember when the same kittenstorm was around for spirit watch or temple of the silent storm? temple even got updated to a tournament map after they fixed the major bugs and the water stuff.

edit: i am just imagining, how a kittenstorm would actually look like! <3

definitely close matches. although,.. not if it happened because of some stupid move like Harbingers example.

alright, thank you

if you want a second opinion, i will gladly give you one:

neko is right. chemsorlys build is what you are looking for. additional, watch some of his RG raiding vids to get a feel for the movement.

Grimezy.5679:

Yes. There is already an option for this in Options called fast casting.

Please learn to use your eyes before ranting.

now this is completely the opposite from what the OP wanted. he wanted the option to DISABLE ground targeting, so that the effect happens on your target, without having to aim for it.

oh, i misunderstood the discussion about firefields then. or you misunderstood me.

what i wanted to know if it becomes a "fire"combo field. i am thoroughly aware of the mechanics of burning speed at the moment, but thanks for the awesome explanation anyway

i usually use /sit or /bow, it’s only three letters

yep. plus in the first gw book. and the second. and if i remember correctly, the third. although i am not sure about sea of sorrows.

magic in tyria in general cannot be wielded without something to channel it, therefore, you need a focus of some sort. and the ability to wield the power.
now, the different races found different ways to channel it, but the principle stays the same: magic is "in the air", you channel it, focus it, direct it, kaboom

i’m confused now,... does it turn the trail into a fire field or not?

rank 4xx, one apothecary armor box, one berserker ring and a gun that looks like a plant.

Aenaos.8160:

Lethal Stranger.5093:

Sooo, ETA on fix pls? ;_;

This is definitely on their table and will be fixed when it’s ready.

Josh Davis.6015:

If I remember the correctly from discussions with our server programmer, this is something we could add as a “nice to have” check in the matchmaking system

Raven.9603:

i am a leaver.

why?

sometimes i dont feel like playing skyhammer. how is this garbage on rotation but courtyards is not? rediculous. its fun once in awhile but no one really wants a match determined by the environment and or control of a giant gun. if im not in a skyhammer mood, i just log out. and how is it that it comes up 30-50% of the time? probably because other people are like me, and just leaving game when that pops. in b4 “just tpvp”, cause no, if im solo i dont want to fight premades with rando’s.

my personal favorite is the team commander who tells other people what to do, blames the team for mistakes and then afk’s the rest of the match.

i remember these people, and i will leave a soloq if they are on my team before the match starts. if they are on the enemy team, i explain to my teammates that we can force that player to afk just by getting ahead and/or killing that particular person a few times, and they help make it happen with epic troll levels.

Edit: i like the proposal, but there should be a volunteer button too.

don’t try to wiggle yourself out of it. you are a leaver/afker and therefore, you must be skyhammered to death! no reasoning will change the fact, that you are one of those that ruin the game for some.
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i personally don’t care about leavers that much, because yoloQ will always be irrelevant and pointless, but i would welcome the general idea of a balancing rotation. not with teamchanges, i think that one got mixed up in the thread and is not what the OP intended to say.

@loki, there are 2 basic mistakes in this post:
1: never tell an spvp player you’re new at anything. you’ll get reported for not being pro
2: don’t get me started on PU mesmer in general but, as we are talking about a PvP oriented build, PU mesmer is simply the wrong suggestion. it’s exactly as unviable as any other permastealth build, since you can’t cap a node, you can’t contest a node and you can’t keep a node and you are useless in teamfights.

no, there are only unique ranks, but there’s not much difference between rank 555 and 556. if any of them wins or loses, they’ll be rank 460 or 630, not rank 554.

and the rest depends on who is available.

blablablablabla, wrong thread, please delete blabalbalablablabalbala

oh, i wanted to bring one thing up:
i’ve seen teams in spvp lose because of wvw roamers ignorance on how pvp works, BUT! I’ve also seen dragons in wvw get stomped like ultranoobs, because they ignore the basic principles of wvw roaming, like: get buffed up, use food and so on.

LightningBlaze.4913:

In the short amount of time I have played spvp again, i already met a couple of players that only spvp for months yet they still do what you stated here. This is not isolated only to wvw roamers but also to spvpers both beginners and veterans. Various players have different reactions. Some even panic when going on 1v1 or in outnumbered fights. There are others that indeed don’t pay attention to details.

there is a thing called a bad player.

Exedore.6320:

WoW had a bug for years where using the warrior Charge skill over uneven terrain would sometimes instantly kill you.

The best way to help developers fix a bug is to find a way to reliably reproduce it. Pictures and video help.

i would love to see something like this implemented if a warrior uses his charge to disengage from a fight.

oh the lulz to be had…

to be fair, the cliché pc nerd in europe is so fat, they won’t fit any chair.

Anton.1769:

Israel.7056:

If a WvW roamer comes into sPvP and studies the meta, learns the rotations, tailors his build to his desired role, really learns exactly what his role entails etc then there’s no reason why that person can’t do well.

I can say more: If a PvE player comes into sPvP and studies the meta, learns the rotations, tailors his build to his desired role, really learns exactly what his role entails etc then there’s no reason why that person can’t do well.
xD

nope. and nobody will ever blame people like that. why even bring it up? the question clearly was: “why do people hate on wvw roamers”, not “why do people hate on people that actually try to play pvp they way it’s intended, no matter where they come from”

cymerdown.4103:

Hi Vylker,

Actually, I don’t recommend trying shatter for newer players, unless they are fast at picking up new games and becoming very good at them in a short amount of time. The reason I say this is because I consider shatter mesmer to be one of the harder specs in the game to play at an efficient level. It can be pretty unforgiving against condition builds especially, and brings high burst but the type of burst that can be difficult to set up for inexperienced players.

In my opinion, a better place for your girlfriend to start would be a phantasm spec. It brings moderate to high sustained damage, but is less demanding on a newer player, and has more ways to deal with condition damage. Check this link: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Ng-FR;0VPk-1y6cV-71;9;49JEO-2;019-3;034;2LBW4I;1jzyvjzyv5Y

One good reason to start with this spec is because you can be reasonably effective before you fully understand how and when to use the shatter abilities (F1-F4). You could even never use any of them and do ok in the phantasm build. The first one for her to get used to is F4, Distortion. She can use that while stomping, ressing, or as a last resort defensive move. After that, she should try using F1, Mind Wrack, to burst down an enemy when they get really low (you don’t want to use it for any other purpose, since it will destroy your phantasms, which is your main damage source in this spec). F3, Diversion, is only really used to stop a stomp or res in this build, and F2, Cry of Frustration is almost never used. Compared to shatter, where you use all 4 shatters on a regular basis, the build is much easier to manage when you’re still getting used to the game’s fast-paced combat system.

Welcome to GW2 PvP, I think your girlfriend will really enjoy this spec (mine did). If and when she feels super comfortable playing it, you might want to introduce her to the shatter spec and see what she thinks.

i do agree that the double ranged shatter, as played like helseth, takes a kittenload of practice and is probably a bit frustrating, if you are completely new to the game. but after playing 20+ hrs in singleplayer with a mesmer, i managed to pull off the classic shatter build (s/p-GS) to be enough for pvp levels 0 – 25. after reaching that goal without quitting, she’ll be proficient enough for any build.

the thing with phantasm builds, in my opinion, is: if you run across 1 single skilled player with any!!! profession, you are toast and can’t do anything about it, so it’s better to start with a demanding build with room up top, than a build that will stop working as soon as you encounter a ten year old bashing his/her face into the keyboard.

another thing that is very important:
if you yourself are high ranked (but i guess you are not, you wouldn’t have to ask this question otherwise) and want to play with your gf, she will encounter opponents with a similar mmr as the highest skilled player in your team. this can be very frustrating. either get an alt account, let yourself drop significantly!!! in the lederborsd or don’t play with her at all.

that is probably because it is a horribly stupid idea in the first place.

ArrDee.2573:

The proof is the usage section in the meta mesmer build! It’s blank because they have no idea how to play it!

i lol’d!

the logic, it’s flawless!!

although i have to agree with the guide you posted. he is indeed one of the best mesmers around and the guide is very well done

try helseths double ranged shatter build. together with portal play, it’s pretty much perfect for any noob, since you can play it from bottom tier to top tier

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_Double_Ranged_Shatter

a jumpdodge/dodgejump covers more ground than a jump, not a dodge. the ground coverage is exactly the same as regular dodging. i just tested it, to be sure.

if you still had pvp crafting mats, you could have crafted it from MF; but no, it has actually been forgotten by the devs. it will come back in some maguuma track, i am quite sure of that.

an evade is an evade and the ground coverage is the same. it looks cooler tho.

i would not even constantly go inside the point during teamfights. kite, pierce, CC and kill from the sides. if you split up the enemy, you’re doing it right. call out the preferred target, call for spike, blink to him, knockdown/knockback, push for max dps on target, stomp, get out, rinse, repeat.

what is wvw? i have never heard of this thingy. i can eatz it?

to answer your question: 1v1 is nice and all, but to win in tq, you need more than 1v1s. you need to to know where 9 people are at the same time, every second of the match, to be able to rotate properly. further, you have to know and understand the professions and the builds of 9 people at the same time, every second of the match, to be able to position yourself properly during teamfights or in 1v1/1v2 situations.

plus, there are a few major differences in 1v1ing in wvw and in pvp. while in wvw roaming you nearly have to use the terrain and spread out to be able to fight and defeat 3 or more enemies at the same time, (since nobody will run around alone anymore, it seems.) in spvp, you have to NOT do this, since your main priority is not the kill, but the cap. you cannot cap in stealth or while running around in circles and jumping over ledges.
kills over longer periods of time are also not viable, for example: with my triple cantrip celestial d/d or s/f berserker ele, i can beat any warrior at my mmr i come across, but it takes from 1,5 to 3 minutes. i admit, the thrill to kill is powerful, but you have to disengage in pvp. you’re needed elsewhere.

you see, it’s not that wvw roamers are considered bad players, they’re just feared for overrotating (or simply bad rotating), zerging, fighting off point and having to kill everything they see, no matter how long it takes.

a lot more things have been said by marvin that are also very important.

you, as an ex pvp player coming back from wvw solo roaming can be considered someone who understands the basics of rotating etc. plus bringing in awesome 1v1 skills, which should make you an asset for a lot of teams out there.

happy birthday, buggy! who’s a big boy now? huh? yeeees you are!!!!

you forgot mesmers

as an ele, i can sign Otakings post.

we soooooo much need this game breakdown!!!!!!
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erm.... what? i cannot grasp the meaning of your post, plx edit to something i can understand

A: oh, i see two warriors in enemy team, i therefore banish hammers, longbows and axes. hahaha, you cannot deal damage now, warriors! i pwn3d you so good, with my madly raging moba skillz!

B: oh kitten, both warriors relogged. to engi and guard, oh noes! what should we do now?
A: aaaaaah, what did we do?!

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A: we have a mesmer and i am nec , enemy gots like thief. we will therefore banish daggers, swords, shortbows, so our mes can freecast, lol
B: oh kitten, they banished greatswords, staffs and scepters. mesmer has to relogzors!
A: well, me too, kitten. but there is nothing left to play in the game except engis and killshot warriors.
B: oh noes, i wish anet would not have listened to the whiners! what do we do now?
A: i go outside, play a ball game or go rock climbing, maybe ride my bike!

this is so pointless, i can’t even think of any serious examples.

i support this, be it for toxic, afk or stupid people. idk, as long as there’s a match summary actually displaying everybody involved, so you can kickbanignore them as well

"i just got pve’d to death"

LMAO

correct sir. nothing will happen. those changes are not even worth mentioning, because they were not nerfs but some sort of bugfixes. the elites were clearly not working as intended. and the buffs will not change anything as well, because, well,... they buffed skills, that are so broken, they need like 200 more buffs to be half as viable as a single cantrip.

well, back in the days, i had echo and arcane echo on my echonuke, plus a nec to bip me if necessary. you COULD rearrange for some necs to share their death shroud and a bite from their lichcake.

there’s only one single situation when staying on one element is probably ok: if you run a max dmg build and equip summoned weapons like icebow or LH. a lot of dps comes from LH already, so just stay in water and keep bashing their skulls in.

also: gw1/gw2 ele are not comparable. please do not attempt to do it, you will only hurt your brain. nobody will ever understand what izzy did back then.

all is vain, they’re coming for us!!!! OMG OMG !!!! plx nerf!!!!

it very much depends on your profession. some may "completely ignore" the clones and simply evade the phantasm spawning skills and just hit the mesmer where it hurts (not in the faces, noble jedis!), others simply have to deal with the fact, that the mesmer spawns a kittenload of hard hitting mongrels. basically, rieselle has provided the one and only answer.

plus: every mesmer plays differently in every part of the game. roaming builds, shatter, you name it, every part of the game needs a totally different movement and therefore, a completely different approach to the mesmer.

i have NOT read the entire thread, only the OP, and i have to agree to one thing: nec needs the same amount of life force generation as warriors adrenaline.

and to clarify: i don’t play nec. i just regularly destroy them.

Bhawb.7408:

Necromancers don’t just get tons of HP for free. We have, bar none (and by a lot), the worst active defenses in the game. Its not even a close comparison, we get HP, protection, offensive defense (the worst kind of defense as it has multiple points of counterplay), the base dodges, and then ways to get HP back. We have awful stability, no vigor, our blinks all require pre-activation setup, no blocks, no instant blinds, no invuln, no immunities, basically no true way to negate skill effects, just ways to lower the damage we take, and take a lot of damage. This is why Necromancers do so well in 1v1s, where face-tanking can actually work, and not in teamfights where we get looked at wrong and die because our defenses don’t remotely scale.

Also, if you look at the offensive side of Necromancer right now, it has nothing to do with our *actual* design, which is sustained offense. Power necro is only remotely viable because of Lich instaburst 17k AAs, and condi necro is only viable because of random fears and CB which allow us to condi spike a target.

So reduce the burst, increase some counterplay, and give actual sustained damage and defense, just like ANet has been saying was our design since forever.

basically, this sums it up

also, i would like to see an option for necros to sacrifice their life force gained for additional damage. it would be a nice way to balance the whole second life bar kitten going on.

not sure if srs or troll ?

baerly.7204:

haven’t played in a while
why s/f over s/d and is that a fresh air zerker build?

basically, yes. it sacrifices mobility and cc over a bit more survivability and dps.

Specializing in 1-2 classes to get really really good is kinda a bunch of crap. The only way to get truly good is to understand the classes and how to play your class in any given sitation. There comes a point where you need to start learning how to other classes operate to actually be anywhere near good.

THIS!

you don’t have to be able to play every profession on a pro level, that’s a stupid thing to ask of anybody. put rom on an ele and zapdos/denshee on a warrior and they will both suck compared to their main class, but if you’re experiencing any difficulties against a certain profession, roll it, play a few matches in SQ, try out different metas, go to the 1v1 king of the hill servers, watch others play it. it helps a bunch. and always remember: a good player adapts to an enemy and doesn’t enforce his own playstyle over anybody.

That said, I would highly recommend you select a main and stick with it if you’re new. When you come across something giving you a hard time, don’t be a sucker and just go roll one and try it with the perspective of figuring out its weaknesses and general usage. It might not help you kill it, but it will help mitigate the buttpounding you receive which is one of the most important things to learn. That always helped me!

yeah, well... i just tried to rephrase this!

i still have to point out, that an internal filter + the ability to switch profession beforehand, or even midgame, makes each other obsolete. IF ANY, there should be a filter on stupid people, because this is what creates your problem.

small example: if i q with my OP ele and there are 2 already, i ask: who wants to go imba crit whatever, who wants to go faceroll d/d triple cantrip OP, who wants to go useless staffheal, yo, kittenes. dem response is usually always: i don’t reroll coz u tell me to, kitten. i say: ok , dem ele r nub, i reroll guardian or sum other kitten, yo. we win game afterwards. not becoz of filter,yo. becoz good playurs adapt, kitten. yo.

sorry... i got carried away. sometimes i think i am such a ghettogangsta 4 life, yo. but seriously. 90% of the so called problems people in this forum are complaining about could be solved with a minimum of brain usage. yet nobody does it. just look at the pve,... it got nerfed down to a ridiculous nobrainer where u can stack every boss in a corner. now they nerf fgs rush, and people are complaining about making ele obsolete. sometimes i can’t follow you guys and i have to think, oh kitten, all the brain in onlinegaming somehow got stuck in daoc or sth.

Teckos.1305:

Sins.4782:

all is vain

Never 5get!

listen to him, he is imba crit whatever!

i just went imba crit whatever, and OMG!!!!!!!!!

here’s dat pingtracking thingy picture after huge lagspike in hotm and game.

there’s two pics attached, dunno if you can see them, i can’t

i don’t really think this makes any sense at all, actually. every player should provide what they can do best. if the team consists of 4 thieves, at least two of them should relog to another profession. what are the odds, that every thief in there with you only knows how to play thief? slim to none, i say. people just need a good kick in their behinds to really play competitively and to win. for everything else, there’s hotjoin.

Magnito.6187:

I’ve been doing 2 fractals a day quite a while now.
I do not find it hard to complete them, altho it feels like
a waste of time really..

my point exactly. once you’ve reached level 50, it’s so kitten repetitive. even before 50, it’s a big *yawn*. the only challenge is bringing as less AR as possible. and to be honest, everybody crying about pvpers should do fractals etc, pp. to get their rewards: before april feature pack, every kitten dungeon was strictly pve. you could get a "worthless" pvp-skin from glory vendors and reward chests, but now, it’s a full dungeon set, weapons + armor. exotic, lvl 80 stats and all.
plus: fractals are just another dungeon, just more boring because it’s actually 3 completely unchallenging (because pve) mini dungeons in a row and in relation, even less rewarding. even since adapted rewards, the RNG kittens you every chance it gets, so no frac skin, no rings, no weapon box, no t6 mats and before the patch, it was even no gold for the whole crap. i had to do freaking 500 fractals to get ONE!!!!!!!!!!!! lousy ring. thank goodness i had so many fractal relics to buy them from doing fractals without getting ANYTHING at all. and yes, i did play high level fractals. we (guildmates) played up to 50 and then did every daily on a daily basis.
enough with the rant, i lost track a bit, sorry.

the point is, fractals are nothing more than a bit more time consuming and very boring, stupid dungeons, like the rest of not story based pve.
so WHY on earth should we actually not get a fractals reward track, since we already got every other dungeon PLUS even the dry top rewards, where probably no pvper will ever set foot again? you can either remove EVERY pve reward or give us ALL, every other solution is just stupid.