Guild Wars 2

Motoko.2875:

JonathanSharp.7094:

Just wanted you guys to know that we’re watching this thread here in the office. The results are a great way for us to see (even if it’s a very small sample size) how some of the players are feeling about what they’d like to see improved.

How does it feel to design PvP for a successor to a wildly popular game only to have every high-end GW1 PvPer (probably any PvPer who enjoyed GW1 PvP high-end or not) shun it? Are there any intentions to remedy that?

How does it feel to be a basement dweller who is too much of a pansy to say what he really means and instead comes off as a passive aggressive insecure kitten who is being blatantly rude to someone who is just doing his job.

Hubris.1245:

1. NPCs out of PvP like minions, spirits, rock dogs etc.
2. auto attack should be just that, they shouldn’t stack conditions, makes for some really dumb builds, like ranger spamming 1.
3. thiefs with cooldowns.

Ofc these ain’t gonna happen so yeah….

Since these ain’t gonna happen

Thief with cooldown would make the class completely unusable. But yes the design choice was a poor one.

They should make every single bomb immobilize for 5 seconds

NevirSayDie.6235:

Tobey.4836:

I’ve heard that the immobilise from glue bomb lasts longer since the patch (around 2-3sec). Can anyone confirm that ?

I just tested glue bomb. The immobilize is the same duration, but it now pulses once per second (three times), so it can effectively immobilize everyone around you for about three seconds. It’s actually a pretty huge stealth buff.

Some people have told me it’s a bug and it’s being fixed lol.

tigirius.9014:

Ghostpilot.6237:

From the patch notes:

Throw Mine and Mine Field skills: Certain friendly NPCs no longer detonate mines.
Scatter Mines skill: Recharge is no longer impacted by the Rifled Barrels trait.

These present new issues with mines that are greater than the original issues.

Mine Field no longer explode when enemies cross them and can only be detonated manually. Furthermore, when the Rifled Barrels trait is active, the mines not only no longer explode, but they trigger a 20 second cooldown on Mine Field whenever any creature (ally, enemy or yourself) steps on them (regardless of Recharge Rate reduction from the Tools line). This cooldown resets whenever any creature crosses them (thus making them unable to be even manually detonated) in a perpetual loop.

Great. So once again they focus solely on PVP fixes, the put out a change to PVE that breaks even more PVE builds and devices forcing people to use kits even more then they were before instead of gadgets and we’re just supposed to wait patiently while they notice ( if ever judging about how scopes has gone since BWE2 )

I usually set the thing off when I drop them but I can see this being a problem. See this poses a secondary issue. They already dropped in weird places with no decernable pattern usually behind the player anyway. I also found them to be useless when mobs ran over them in PVE so now they are doubly so.

Gotta say I can’t imagine someone in upper management actually seeing the problems here and approving what they did in this patch much less the ones in the previous patch.

Let’s be honest here, PVErs are spoiled as it is.

NevirSayDie.6235:

I never use this skill and very few do, and I’m not a whiner—however:

If the devs push a hotfix for this, it will be good for public relations. Alternatively, if the skill remains unusable…it would be bad for PR. Just sayin’.

Very few use it because they are too busy whining instead of trying it out. It does pretty beefy damage + boon removal.

Super Riceman.8702:

It will be fixed next month maybe

nah. In 9 months.

I love bry, I want him to have my children.

Lightsbane.9012:

waka.9826:

JubeiTM.5763:

waka.9826:

JubeiTM.5763:

waka.9826:

Lightsbane.9012:

Zenguy.6421:

Really, I’d given up bothering about weapon skins as I spend so little time using them.

haha, i don’t. i use my rifle more than anything else.

You must be using a really bad build. (Honest opinion)

Byte your tongue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEyg769cDc

Oh hello there “pro” WvW player.

Let’s be honest here, I can take whatever trait and whatever weapons I want in WvW and make it work. Nice try buddy.

I’m sorry if you felt offended by a Youtube video. I just wanted to correct your statement, and point out that the rifle integrates very well in strong builds, striking outrageous amounts of damage and knocking down any opponent (3.5K – 12k damage).

And no, you can’t choose any trait and any weapon and then make them work in WvW, that would be ridiculous. You actually need to think, plan, test and rework a build in order to make it work. Cheers

I’m sorry but you can literally make anything work in WvW with the over inflated stats . But if you are up for it you should go in a sPVP tournament with your rifle only build since you think rifle is such a great standalone weapon and see how you do.

Edit: Some cool extra information for you – WvW’s are kitten a pvp and we have all seen it in countless videos.

you’re a bit too smug for anyone to really care about your opinions here pal. who are you to say what i or anyone else is doing isn’t working? i mean unless it’s some genius pvdooring with pistols you really don’t have a place to correct people. let me guess, the only builds that ‘work’ for you are cookie cutters? that’d sure be ironic.

Shhhh, no more tears only dreams.

Archaon.6245:

FuzzyRamen.4902:

Marduh.4603:

Destroy all your clones and phantasms, damaging nearby foes. This attack cannot critically hit enemies.
Damage: 244
Damage (2x): 378
Damage (3x): 492
Range: 1,200

But without heal, because already little cd.

/discuss

Antiboon prety cool meta.
Go go go Antioneshot and antipet meta.

What your asking is to remove the Mesmer completely off the game like what happen to the Rangers. Anet already broke the spirit build during beta, they are not going that far to break another build after that lesson.

Like hb, dazelock, pw, 100nades, bs and so on?

I see wut u did thar

JubeiTM.5763:

waka.9826:

JubeiTM.5763:

waka.9826:

Lightsbane.9012:

Zenguy.6421:

Really, I’d given up bothering about weapon skins as I spend so little time using them.

haha, i don’t. i use my rifle more than anything else.

You must be using a really bad build. (Honest opinion)

Byte your tongue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEyg769cDc

Oh hello there “pro” WvW player.

Let’s be honest here, I can take whatever trait and whatever weapons I want in WvW and make it work. Nice try buddy.

I’m sorry if you felt offended by a Youtube video. I just wanted to correct your statement, and point out that the rifle integrates very well in strong builds, striking outrageous amounts of damage and knocking down any opponent (3.5K – 12k damage).

And no, you can’t choose any trait and any weapon and then make them work in WvW, that would be ridiculous. You actually need to think, plan, test and rework a build in order to make it work. Cheers

I’m sorry but you can literally make anything work in WvW with the over inflated stats . But if you are up for it you should go in a sPVP tournament with your rifle only build since you think rifle is such a great standalone weapon and see how you do.

Edit: Some cool extra information for you – WvW’s are kitten a pvp and we have all seen it in countless videos.

JubeiTM.5763:

waka.9826:

Lightsbane.9012:

Zenguy.6421:

Really, I’d given up bothering about weapon skins as I spend so little time using them.

haha, i don’t. i use my rifle more than anything else.

You must be using a really bad build. (Honest opinion)

Byte your tongue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEyg769cDc

Oh hello there “pro” WvW player.

Let’s be honest here, I can take whatever trait and whatever weapons I want in WvW and make it work. Nice try buddy.

Lightsbane.9012:

waka.9826:

Lightsbane.9012:

Zenguy.6421:

Really, I’d given up bothering about weapon skins as I spend so little time using them.

haha, i don’t. i use my rifle more than anything else.

You must be using a really bad build. (Honest opinion)

(honest opinion back) i kill almost everything i run across in WvW. i have a grenade kit equipped if it will make you any less smug.

I was referring to pure rifle builds. The moment I read “grenade kit” I stopped reading. You proved my point by saying “grenade kit”

Lightsbane.9012:

Zenguy.6421:

Really, I’d given up bothering about weapon skins as I spend so little time using them.

haha, i don’t. i use my rifle more than anything else.

You must be using a really bad build. (Honest opinion)

Follidus.8027:

gunz was awesome.

Gunz > > > > > > > >

Too bad Gunz 2 looks like they dumbed it down.

FuzzyRamen.4902:

Not sure if your advertisement is actually going save its current state lol.

You want to save hotjoin? Is this real life?

Hawke.6943:

waka.9826:

Quite a lot of kitten kissing going around these days.

When you`re forced to bench the most fun build to play coz a
brain-dead build is viable and some guy wins a tournament with it, yes im gonna show my appreciation

That build had nothing to do with anything. This game is barely about a single player.

Quite a lot of kitten kissing going around these days.

Clip.6845:

Toolbelt was detonate all mines, with the trait for knocbkack on trigger it was hugely OP.

edit: still had a noob vid from beta’s lying around when i was playing full bunker with mine kit :p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DzD1chFPw
mine kit from 3:00 onwards xD

Watching this makes me sad that I wasn’t around for the beta days. That looks hilariously OP.

Eurantien.4632:

If you wanna see a true tourney of this sort it should be along the lines of.

Thieves: Caed, Jumper X, Luci Puff, Hemodey….
Guardians: Davinci, Doyourbestbear, Xnemy, Kensuda….
Engineers: Lady Steamhawke, Ostrich Eggs, Voz, Ctang….
Mesmer: Supcutie, Ellen Ari, The Fun Years, Sataarcoeny?….
Warriors: K Pop, Schwarheit, Black Bry Banger, Anastasis, Qt Hman.
Rangers: Deku God, lyl Ovi Iyl, Twerp, Line (you’re better at ranger), Gasmask.
Elementalist: Acandis…. I don’t really know who else eles are all the same imo.
Necromancers: Gibbly, Symbolic, Power…..

Note: These are just some names. There are a lot of other players out there that would do just as well in a tourney such as this.

I think it should be top players in their professions as a “professional profession” tourney.

lol @ putting voz in engineers. NICE JOKE

bomber.1540:

Anyone who says this is not good for tpvp don’t know what there on about.

Like kardiamond, I use mines instead of toolkit, for a bit of extra burst.. Having an absolute blast. Pardon the pun

Nice work waka

No problem! I just want to see more variety of engi builds going around. And this is one I can confidently say is viable.

Breaking news:

Anet doesn’t read engi forum.

You have to try harder ANET, turning into a tornado or rampaging brute is not very “engineery”. Please change it into a megazord with a charzooka

Hammerheart.1426:

What’s sarcasm?

This man is your friend, he fights for freedom.

Malcolm X?

SwickHobo.5096:

waka.9826:

ensoriki.5789:

They did say they’re going to revamp sigils.
Though I think they should check some runes too.
Runes of Krait are way too strong right now.

what’s too strong about it?

sarcasm is dead. sigh.

What’s sarcasm?

ensoriki.5789:

They did say they’re going to revamp sigils.
Though I think they should check some runes too.
Runes of Krait are way too strong right now.

what’s too strong about it?

Harbinger.8637:

Biggest problem I have with it. It despawns after 60 seconds. It should stay until defeated.

Sanctuary is a joke too. It should be something like once you get your stacks it won’t trigger until you hit less then 10% hp or something similar.

Anet Studios : “You know what would be a great sigil? One that gives you invuln for 5 seconds after you killed everyone!”

Why would you use distortion when you have one of the most OP weapon skills in the game that goes by the name blurred frenzy.

You know what’s even worse? Sigil of sanctuary.

You gotta do it wit hSWAG

Because I’ve been camping out in those 2v2 / 3v3 servers for hours the couple of days and class balance issues REALLY begin to come out……

They really need to put a limit on pet leash

What’s even more ridiculous is that you as a human being could not figure out the simple task of finding a lower populated server / 5v5 setting server.

TRON.1085:

Anyone else think boon hate is a terrible game design choice and just lazy balancing?

What’s next, Confusion hate traits? Signet hate traits? Condition hate traits? Sigil stacks hate?

Technically there is already “bleed hate” and “burn hate” in the game. Just thought I’d let you know

I lost it at “TI PUTA MADRE”

I usually stomp for my enemies.

Gaffles.3296:

Looks like a modified static discharge build from before 100 nades got popular. Been using it for months now, the burst is not as omg hurtful as 100 nades but its all about poking first and bursting when the moment arises.

This guys got it, people get tunnel visioned way too much with “bursting”. Don’t be afraid to use your grenade barrage, throw wrench, sharpnel / freeze nades/ analyze from the sidelines, your teammates will thank you when you basically down their whole team.

Not to mention they will also thank you when their whole team has 15-25 vuln stacks up on them.

Lupanic.6502:

With this build you will die always first. 1 condition remove every 20 sec. low HP, low armour. I guess this will be funny in hotjoins but not really in tPvP

I’ve won almost every tPVP so far with this build, and not that it really matters with top points as well. I basically carry every single team fight if my positioning is perfect, I don’t think you guys understand the insane ranged dps this thing has.

I use scholars for 1 reason, I’ve used the build long enough to know that I’m going to stay 90%+ hp for a long duration of the fight because I know the in’s and out’s of the build pretty well now. Like I said in the post, do NOT play this build in a face to face manner. Play dirty, use unreachable terrain etc. 1v1s are also fairly easy once you get used to playing the build, the damage is really hard to keep up with.

Lupanic.6502:

I am not a top player but I play a lot of tPvP and I watch streams. From my point of view in a group fight thief is target no.1 but after the thief the engineer is the 2nd target. This is a glass cannon build and this means you eat a lot of dirt in a team fight.

All your high damage skills are also 900-1500 range, positioning is KEY to this build.

Phantaram.4816:

Waka I shall try this. If I like it there is a chance I will forgive all of your troll posts for this 1 useful post.

Good news, just from what I’ve done to the golems I can tell this is gonna be mega fun. You are forgiven natty.

Edit: not as much fun as I thought because I just melt so easily. 3.2k lightning strikes from sigils is not fun

You may be playing the build with a bad approach phanta. Try to pretend that the burst doesnt exist and NEVER initiate the fight. I even want to say the build becomes disgustingly OP when one of your teammates is down or when the enemies teammates are down. I’m always sniping with the build with the 1500 range capability of the grenades. I’ve also won a few 2v1s with this build with the sheer DPS (need to be good with kiting / LOS)

english your bad dont I understand

bomber.1540:

Waka what do u mean by 100 nade queue in your rotation description. Thx

The yellow bar when you use grenade barrage, use analyze like 3/4 way.

I WILL NAME THIS BUILD “100 NATTY NADES”

For anyone who misses the heavy set up burst of 100 nades, this might be the build for you.

It’s not exactly the same build as before but it still performs VERY well. Great dps close range and far ranged + amazing corpse / rezz bomber.

I suggest playing this build like you are a necro, use your terrain and try to stay out of
trouble, use the 100 nades burst when you have to.

The burst is not the bread and butter of this build and you should not rely on using it, throw wrench hits like a truck with analyze + double SD and with enough vuln stacks your shrapnel nades hit for around 4500-5000, freeze nade does silghtly less. Also try to use your medkit 5 when it is up, increases your dps dramatically with the fury.

Burst= Net shot > 100 nades QUEUE > Analyze just before 100 nades finishes queuing up (Can also be done from the range of the net shot)

Far ranged “burst” = Grenade barrage > analyze (before GB hits) > throw wrench (Basically kills anyone who tries to rezz someone, if not use shrapnel and freeze nade after and they should be dead, if they aren’t I will put a pineapple up my butt)

Enjoy my friends.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUl0piYH5y2F17IyoHdmoRagKYXfewWtFEC-TkAg0CnI4SxljLDXSuscNs

I also misaimed, it usually 1 shots clean

EDIT: KARL I FUARKING DARE YOU TO NERF THIS TOO, I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU MAYYYYNEEE YOU CANT STOP MY THEORY CRAFTING ABILITIES.

vinceftw.5086:

As natty as naturalgraham

Sup misc brah.

For anyone who misses the heavy set up burst of 100 nades, this might be the build for you.

It’s not exactly the same build as before but it still performs VERY well. Great dps close range and far ranged + amazing corpse / rezz bomber.

I suggest playing this build like you are a necro, use your terrain and try to stay out of trouble, use the 100 nades burst when you have to.

The burst is not the bread and butter of this build and you should not rely on using it, throw wrench hits like a truck with analyze + double SD and with enough vuln stacks your shrapnel nades hit for around 4500-5000, freeze nade does silghtly less. Also try to use your medkit 5 when it is up, increases your dps dramatically with the fury.

Burst = Net shot > 100 nades QUEUE > Analyze just before 100 nades finishes queuing up (Can also be done from the range of the net shot)

Far ranged “burst” = Grenade barrage > analyze (before GB hits) > throw wrench (Basically kills anyone who tries to rezz someone, if not use shrapnel and freeze nade after and they should be dead, if they aren’t I will put a pineapple up my butt)

Enjoy my friends.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUl0piYH5y2F17IyoHdmoRagKYXfewWtFEC-TkAg0CnI4SxljLDXSuscNs

edit: Video of the burst is uploading, too lazy to get footage of actual tournament play though I’m sure you guys can figure out how to play the build

VIDEO IS UP

Is this thread serious or are you trolling? Are you aware that endure pain has a much higher cooldown, you can still die from all the conditions, you can still get CC’d and that it doesn’t secure stomps?

Lol, you make it sound like you can even be diverse with your build.

I wish engineers had more / better movement skills

please respond.

Vylor.3276:

I have 2 80’s a warrior and a ranger. Honestly. If you know the class of warrior ranger should be a challenge, everything should actually be a challenge. When I play my ranger the problem is people DON’T kill the pet, and that’s why i can beat them. I’m sorry anet made you think and use strategy while fighting something.

I don’t think you play the game or the class. Killing the pet is the worst strategy ever against a ranger, by the time you almost kill it, you are already in a HUGE hp loss then they switch the pet on you and you basically sacrificed all the hp for absolutely no reason.