Guild Wars 2

Rangers can be scary good in the hand of a good player. Yes not so great in zerg but none of the Medium armor prof really execl at zerg warfare but they are all good and skirmish and roaming.

Poliswag.8240:

That’s some sexy regen uptime. The endurance regain doesn’t seem normal either, even considering the sigil, but maybe that’s just me. Very well played.

Yea man that regen keeps me chugging along.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

you can report him back for verbal abuse.
false accusation of hacking is considered as verbal abuse.

here:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

1. While playing Guild Wars 2, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the Game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players. This includes posting insulting, offensive, or abusive comments about players, repeatedly sending unwanted messages, reporting players maliciously, attacking a player based on race, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, etc. Hate speech is not tolerated.

you ought to have reported him back right on the spot.

Thats very good to know.

Hamster.4861:

I enjoyed this shiki. I’m glad i donated 15g to help you come back lol.
I would be like (-_-) If i had to fight you again.

Glad you enjoyed and it ty vm for your donations good to be back on ioj.

Strength is more than viable and its quite easy to drop below 90% so it beats scholar. Also generally in a group its quite easy to maintain 20+ stacks of might.

lunyboy.8672:

I KNOW I’m pretty.

How close?

70% right and what you have is acutualy 90% of another build I run. I dont think its the best build even but players can get pretty close but simple watching the video. I like to try and keep some Individuality xd.

Lert.6287:

To be honest other builds offer much much more.

Yep I agree def could be better dps wise. Though I am used to roaming on my thief and I wanted the to reach the ability of being able to go anywhere I want and out run a zerg if I need to while still being able to kill almost anyone and take on groups solo.

Drakan.3401 lunyboy.8672 you are both pretty close;.

Yea man can be annoying I been having the same prob over the past couple days players accusing me of hacks. Some people are just so ignorant that they don’t know what a class is capable of esp if you play a non-meta build and excel at it.

Come on guys bunker/support guard is still top tier in soloQ. When enemy team has one and you don’t you can really feel the difference esp in the initial mid fight. I even go as far as to change tactics and tell team to push far at start if other team has bunker guard and my team doesn’t.

yodog.4208:

The meta is how we define a common role or build the everybody and their mom runs right? Interesting thing about it however is that how silly of a concept it is.

Imagine a world where every thief still played the game but couldn’t communicate. That means no sharing builds, no armor, no nothing, everybody went off what they figured out. There would be no meta, it would be a bunch of thieves playing in the way the have designed.

TL:DR
Ignore the meta and play in the way you think is coolest.

Yup I agree I build and play to what I like but at the same time nothing wrong with using meta builds.

RyuDragnier.9476:

vincecontix.1264:

mompen.7952:

I understand you want to promote your video, but IMO this post belongs only to the Engineer forums (saw you posted it there as well).

Anyways, Engineers is in a good spot now, and they are one of the strongest roaming classes. If played well, you will win almost every 1vs1 if you have a slight clue of what you are doing.

Will watch the video, and comment on it later on.

Edit: that was a nice and long fight dude, lol. Good job! You know what you are doing.

Yea I agree just trying to show that other classes other than thief can take on group solo be super mobile at the same time. So much unjustified thief so Op, no counters, thief need nerf all that non-sense its gets kinda annoying at times.

I don’t have much problems with engis, but I’ve noticed that many run grenades, bombs, and the toolbox. I see few who actually run with the condi-removal/healing utilities/toolkits (meaning Elixir Gun), which means I find they’re often easy prey. It’s the ones who DO run with those (like you did) that I feel I’ll never win against without some massive luck and skill difference, because that survivability is insane.

Yup your right survivability can be insane = to that of pd condi thief. Though multi kit engi is harder to play, at the same time it offer more to a group than pd condi thief would so there are benefits for the increase difficulty. Also I believe currently ele is bit stronger than engi working on that class next.

mrmadhaze.8706:

now you must make some thief hunting vids :P

Yea already started its progressing very nicely but at same time I do not want engi to get a nerf ;/

mompen.7952:

I understand you want to promote your video, but IMO this post belongs only to the Engineer forums (saw you posted it there as well).

Anyways, Engineers is in a good spot now, and they are one of the strongest roaming classes. If played well, you will win almost every 1vs1 if you have a slight clue of what you are doing.

Will watch the video, and comment on it later on.

Edit: that was a nice and long fight dude, lol. Good job! You know what you are doing.

Yea I agree just trying to show that other classes other than thief can take on group solo be super mobile at the same time. So much unjustified thief so Op, no counters, thief need nerf all that non-sense its gets kinda annoying at times.

So I tried and engi and they are just about as good as thief for roaming. Here is a quick vid enjo;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXEr-C65g8

Hi guys my name is Shikamaru X and recently I have been playing my engi and having a blast here is one of my latest battles on my new engi build enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXEr-C65g8

Lux.7169:

yeah… not expecting much from china based on my games there…

lol what! really!!

Yep this is a great idea though there need to be some parameters in place because as stated you can go un-ranked to top 500 in a day. Maybe something like you have to hold you position for a week and all un-ranked players get same reward. Rewards will vary depending where you are on the LB eg:

Rank:1000-900 same reward
: 800-700
: 600-500
: 400-300
and so on.

Also if you are moving all over the place on the LB within that week maybe the system could average out your position and reward players accordingly. Would be nice for the leaderboards to actually mean something.

This is awesome news.

ukuni.8745:

i run this with full dire 0/30/0/30/10 scavenger runes with leeching/geomancy sigils, ou can quickly stack over 2-3k damage a second in conditions and then get back to kiting as you do

Yup def agree with scavenger runes being a good choice got several set of them to test out on another build.

+1 to this good idea;).

Victory.2879:

As I main engi a lot the only thing I see is that your in combat and out of combat speed without any boost showing seems quite fast, so I assume you are using traveller runes. The dodging, etc and use of blasts etc all seems perfectly normal. Your weapon switching and timing and use of the kits etc is excellent:-)

Yea traveler rune atm its new build so testing the waters with it but just today more complaints about my game play luckily I was recording it aswell. The build seem to really annoy players.

Yea been practicing my rotations and kit swapping in soloq/tq still kind new to engi but I love this class so much very fun and interesting.

Mister Fluffkin.7358:

I dont get the idea of your spec either. You just slot in every escapetool engi offers to run circles for 20 minutes, lacking any type of punch to kill. In germany we call it "rumpimmeln".
At least slot in grenades so you can throw them back at your foes while running away.

Yea first time roaming with it so testing how much mobility and damage I can have at the same time. Though other players have accused me of exploiting over the footage you just saw and then during my 2nd time roaming with it I get accused again, video is really up to clarify any misunderstanding.

Hi guys my name is Shikamaru X I have been roaming around wvw on my extremely mobile engi build and have had couple of players sending me offensive msgs call me a jerk, cheater etc.. I was wondering what are my options can I report these players for harassment? The build seem to tick alot of players off and it quite clear players don’t realize how mobile engi can be.
Anyway here is the gameplay in question enjoy share your thoughts. I was laggin a bit at some parts and it has been un-edited so you might wanna skip some bits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq3TtPpJ84g

Hi guys my name is Shikamaru X other night I was roaming on my new engi build(extreme) mobility and got accused of wrong doing lucky for me I was recording it. It seem people don’t realize engi can be extremely mobile or if you play something other than a meta build players seem to get ticked off. Anyway here is the footage enjoy and let me know what ya think

Chilli.2976:

I’ve requested this about 6 months ago. Whats the date?

Well just because you requested it doesn’t mean it will happen. Though I do think a min rank of 10 would be nice is it necessary? idk 20 is to high to lock out players from participating in ranked matches . I think if possible a bracket system would be a better solution. Also how about rewards? isn’t there a cap on how many times you can receive them in hotjoin?

Kitt.2567:

Xista.7391:

I just afk. I don’t main decap engi / mesmer / fear necro etc.

I have better things to do. Like check my email. Clip my nails. Stair at the one painting on my wall. Flip on my television and see if there is anything good on the one channel I get. Browse imgur. Go pee. Browse forums. Get a snack.

honestly fear necro is rather fine than engis cuz we have like 1 sec to break stun it immediately before falling down. however engi’s stealth+pulling does not even give me like 0.5 sec to evade or breakstun it, and it was unblockable, therefore i just got pulled directly into hole, which takes only 0.5 sec like.. I can’t even figure out when it starts cuz they get closer to us in stealth mode and, for skyhammer map we can’t see who is coming to home/far point if we are there cuz there is wall/pillar. In conclusion, it is just freaking abuse.

Actually magnet pull has a long cast time and there is a visual indication(white lines) from the position of the engi to its target when the skill is being used. It can be quite easily countered by dodging, stability, or interrupting the engi.

Honestly I think mesmer is worse than engi when speced with focus/gs with boon removal and stealth. Class like war and guard can stay on node for long time with stability. Also bunker guard can even eat up quite a few cannon shots.

Stimulant.3970:

Slininstien.7546:

The only engi to counter a necro is a decap engi on skyhammer. Seriously. Run a condi necro which you can get almost anywhere the build that is good, an you can OWN them. I, being that i’ve been playing necro, own the heck outta them and yea. Whoever says engi is the best condi class doesnt know necro. And if they’re zerker turrets, try to dodge them as much as you can, use fear to CC the engi. Not sure if you know this but an engi has 1 form of stability and i dont think it’s accessed via the turret build.

Only bad engis lose to condi necros. or any necro…

but only bad engis play turret builds anyways. they are one dimensional and once turrets get aoed they go down too quick. they are only good for solo holding a home point from 1 person. more than that they are terrible.

I think you have it the other way around if necro loss to engine he/she is a bad necro (turret build maybe the exclusion).

More like bunkers on the other team while you have none=insta lose. Also other team having a bunker/support guard while you have none a lot of the time will result in a loss for your team.

jportell.2197:

Wanna know why so many pvp players have bad attitudes?

Because less than average intelligence players populate soloque. They run gimmicky no real threat builds.
Or you have people that balls to the wall into a 3v1 after 2 people on your team just died and then they die instead of going somewhere else which is clearly the smarter choice.

If you don’t want people to have a bad attitude toward you in pvp don’t run garbage builds in soloque. Don’t make stupid rotations like solo pushing far at start as a thief against a turret engi. You won’t win.

And don’t focus on secondary objectives for the entire freaking game.

This x100 ^^ I never used to rage at other players but lately its really hard not to.

Blackjack.5621:

Thieves are the reason why no other class can be played with zerkers amulet on a competitive level. Memser only works when he gets protectet by his own thief.

Also since the buff of air/fire sigil thieves can run full defense/utility traitline and still deal similar amount of damage as they did prepatch.

Yes at the same time else, wars can trait defensively and take a celes or knight ammy and 2 shot said thief due to strength runes an might stacks. Also the condi DMG they(war/ele) do in addition to direct power is quite high.

Levels of stupidity are at an all time high.

Benjamin.8237:

girien.1209:

Benjamin.8237:

Mesmer and Engineer are both harder to play than thief, I was doing well on my thief in about 10 hours of playing one for the first time.

Ha, ha ha ha ha…

I play Turret engi with one hand, while im eating a sandwich

In all fairness he mentioned thieves getting hated for examples such as heartseeker spam. Turret Engineer is the equivalent of this and it only works vs scrubs, like spamming heart seeker. I meant in my post about real builds, we’re talking 20066 thieves, 44006 mesmers or 60062 engineers. But I agree that turret engie is imba easy.

That spec has given engis as a whole a bad rep.

Hell yes to this!

Actually Wars not being able to contest point while using Berserk stance or Endure pain would be a good change.

Much easier to get top 100 tQ than it is soloQ.

Op you main a war? Shame on you or asking other things get nerfed let along something that isn’t broken.

this^^

Focus heavy on one point, abandon the point you control and either win the fight quickly by outnumbering them and move to the second point, or push gradually in that fight and send a roamer to the other point to either decap or go for winning the 1 v 1.

It’s basically the same strategy as what hockey teams do when they’re behind: Pull your goalie and focus heavy on offense.

this is also good.

In organized play though type of build are quite weak.

Darksteel.8412:

there is a reason why the “elitist” players play nothing but mesmers/thieves on duels pvp and smaller scaled fights…

Thats not part of the conquest mode, yes a mesmer build to duel(pu/condi?) will kill just about anything but the same type of mesmer won’t be as useful in a proper soloQ teamQ match.

Darksteel.8412:

im not here for your respect, set aside your ego… youre prolly a lill small boy in rl…but oke, just play and see… powerbuilds are quite useless vs the meta condis…..few exceptions maybe….but its condi condi condi and kite away

Strength runes with sig of air+fire or swap one for battle has made power/hybrid build more than viable at high lvl of play there aren’t many condi builds. There are more bunkers and powerbuilds for a reason.

Far from op l2p.

Dude personal score means nothing!!!! If your team loses all get same reward and that’s how it should stay. Also if you DC well that’s just bad luck for you and it shouldn’t be happening so often to be an issue.

In a 1v1 between the two set dp easy. Dp set beats all other thief sets.

Well anything is viable in hotjoin. Hybrid build works well strength runes+Sig of battle firefield+blastfinisher(bomb kit) and you good to go. Though the type of engine you describe would get focus way to easily in high lvl tq or sq.

Obsidia.5127:

SoloQ has become absolutely terrible lately. It is incredibly hard to carry compared to what it was like a few months ago.

If you want to be happier in life then I suggest you don’t play it.

Truer words could not have been spoken. You have to change your whole mind set and just not care about winning. Just try have fun with by setting personal goals and just try to improve on your own game. Though I at times forgot Soloq is not serious and rage in team chat when some people are so stupid is boggles the mind.

I think pax is in 10-12 weeks.

Guild Wars 2 is a great game and people with always complain about something. Yes the community is still very active and there are lot of people playing. Didnt really play wow so can’t comment on the necro/warlock comparison but necro is a fun class.

Multi Kit Engi is possibly the most fun thing to play. So many combos very versatile and prob has the highest skill ceiling of any Spec.