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Dhuumfire … has less defense.
Are you refering to the extra 200 toughness the 06404 build provides?
No I’m refering to Reaper’s Protection which does help a lot.
As for Reaper protection, i agree with flow … i would take greater marks any day. With RP you get what? One fear on cc with 60 sec cd, that can fail if hit stability, imunity, blind (so yeah if this happens … it is useless
)? Dont forget that fear can also be removed with condi removal spells not just stunbreakers.
I used to think that as well. But it’s a 3.5 sec AoE fear just because someone CC’d you, even if it was a 1 sec daze. Nec does not have too many defensive things (no vigor/blocks/stability/barely any blinds) – that fear proc is amazing.
And yes, people can use stunbreakers and condi cleanses (however most condi cleanses cannot be used while CC’d), but that’s the point – your enemy has to use a stunbreaker and you did not even use a single skill. And if they won’t break the stun, you can easily overload them with conditions while you still have 2 on-demand fears you can use, and even a Nightmare proc.
In PvP never use 2 Two-handed weapons in the same build as a guardian. One set should always have Focus off-hand.
Currently, you have the trait point distribution of a bunker guard, with the weapons of a DPS and the wrong amulet.
Resolute Healer is actively used by bunker guardians, but not DPS ones.
For DPS I’d recommend this: http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Guardian_-_Meditation_DPS_Variant
And in general if you’re looking for builds use metabattle
Lockdown > Shatter.
So that’s why nobody runs lockdown in tournaments, only shatter?
Could you elaborate a bit more on what you’re implying? I’d like to get an educated discussion going from as many different perspectives as possible.
Sure People here are in love with lockdown, portraying it as the better build, meanwhile there hasn’t been a single lockdown mesmer in tournaments in the history of GW2 (or at least not on a serious level).
While punishing people with interrupts is something i like to do since GW1, shatter does better in a tournament environment. The burst is bigger and more frequent, and with Illusionary Persona it’s a lot more adaptive because you can use your shatter skills without having clones – this is actually a huge thing. You can use Distortion to save yourself from something that could kill you even with 0 clones, or you can use Diversion to interrupt someone in melee range immediately – interrupting a warrior’s earthshaker this way for example.
If we look at the utility skills they also have a lot less ways to save themselves – mesmers realy a lot on positioning, and Blink + Decoy are key elements of it. With lockdown you have to take the daze mantra, and Portal can be considered mandatory as well, this means you can only take one of these – Blink is preferable, but that won’t be as useful against Mesmer’s hardcounter (Thief) as Decoy’s stealth.
TL;DR: Shatter’s a lot more adaptive IMO. Lockdown’s also more vulnerable when it’s getting focused and has lower damage.
Lockdown > Shatter.
So that’s why nobody runs lockdown in tournaments, only shatter?
Added your guide to http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_Dagger/Dagger
If you have a twitch account I could add that too.
well at least in hotjoin NA, all 8 professions are played.
It’s like someone’s asking for a dungeon tier list in PvE and you say that in the Queensdale champion autoattack-train every class is played. Means nothing.
On the topic: EU’s least played class is probably necro or ranger.
How do you tell if the persons build you are look at it is a good build? they seem to link to nearly everything there.
Most builds are drained from top streamers and major tournaments, those make up the Meta/Great categories and ~50% of the Good category. Basically, if streamers are listed on the build’s page then you can know it’s based on them.
Someone added a lot of old builds to that site. Most aren’t even in the meta anyway. That said, if you want to play engi, you have more options. It is currently the strongest or second strongest class in PvP.
At this point we can consider hambow “old” too Btw metabattle collects working builds, not juse “meta” ones.
Hey guys,
today i decided to join a rankfarm server to rank up a bit.
It was all chill and fun until some pvp guild joined and literally destroyed everyone on the server.
They all joined blue and prevent red from capping any points, match ended 0-500.
Unfortunatelly there was no admin online at this time to stop them.So is there any way to get these people banned??
They were clearly playing against the server rules which they were aware of!!Got everything on video.
Would it help if i sent this to the support team??
Cause they just ruined my whole daywould´ve ranked up to 40 finally, if these guys didn´t show up
Write ticket, add screenshots, and don’t forget to show one with server rules. Ask other peoples to do same thing. If you get enough people to write tickets, they will receive ban for griefing. There is nothing new in that, and pretty standard way to ban dumb people like them.
Are you.. seriously helping people who are violating the code of conduct to take action against players who are trying to prevent match manipulation? The community officially reached a new level.
assuming you get 1 track done per day that would be 4 boxes, -> 5000 days for 20000 finishers. 1000 would be well enough because most of the time you wont do 1 track a day.
those chests have to be untradeable, its a joke if a pvp reward which involves something with a rank is tradeable.
The chests must be tradeable if you want to make a decent profit. Having this rank is a matter of time and gold, in now way an indication of skill (even if it would be account bound) – for something that represents skill/experience devs would have to fix the leaderboards and add rank that can only be earned by winning matches about a given rating, just like gw’s Champion title.
If they can make the zaishen finisher flashy enough, and the drops appealing, the chests will have a nice value in gold. In GW1 an average PvP player earned 1-2 keys a day, while high tier players could easily make 10+. R12 is not for everyone, that’s why it’s even more appealing for some lunatics with a bunch of money who have no idea how to spend it
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Shortbow is a condi weapon, don’t try to shoehorn it into a power build. I1d change everything from traits to sigils.
If you’re willing to give up on that build I’d recommend
GS/Longbow for power and Condi Survival for condi/shortbow.Erm, I think meta battle has GS/Longbow rated way to high. I would put that at 2.5/5 for conquest. It has no armor or condition removal, which makes you a walking rally bot.
Not like shatter mesmer has any condi removal Plus if you acually take a look at the build’s page you can go with the survival version, which gives you decent condition removal.
It’s under the meta section because it’s what most rangers run atm, even if there are better options. Most people however underestimate power rangers and I can completely understand that, because it’s the spec that most bad players pick up these days and pew pew 1.5k range away from the fight with no clue about PvP – and because of that many associate power rangers with bad players. But that should not diminish what a power ranger can do in the right hands – it has decent damage, multiple CC options, a block, access to steath, stability, etc.
While it’s still not a thing on the very highest levels of teamque/tournaments, it’s not nearly as bad as you think it is.
Go to metabattle.com, you can currently browse from 40+ working pvp builds. Making a PvP build is free in most cases, you should be able to try almost every build without spending gold/skill points (you can also pvp from level 2 so just make a new charatcer if you want to try a new class, you don’t have to level it).
Btw your descriptions fits ele, dps guardian and engineer IMO.
thank you for that link, clears up alot of other questions.
and if i understand it correctly all i have to have is a lvl 22 character and then i can play with any character regardless of lvl in pvp?You can play from level 2, not 22
You do not even have to unlock every armor piece, you only have to equip chest, leg and feet armors for maximum armor rating. Gear is purely cosmetical in pvp.
You can pvp at level 2 but he might be confused since the wonderful NPE locked traveling to the mists through the menu until level 20ish. If you want to pvp at level 2 you have to port from your home city to lions arch and then run to the asura gate (unless there is another way to do it by now)
True, you need to reach lvl 20 with your first character to unlock it for your account. But after that you can still go to pvp from lvl 2 on alts.