Guild Wars 2

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i wouldn’t swear an oath on it but from experience i’m somehow sure it’s per grenade.

Mindtrick.5190:

zaced.7948:

voice communication is essential for about any kind of pvp. nobody has the time to write down sudden changes in tactics or player delegation. i’m sorry for you being deaf but you’re just not competitive. it might not impair your gameplay performance but it impairs team communication. what if the situation requires something that you haven’t yet crypted into a number? someone will have to write it down. how do you count down if you want to spike someone? you can’t. either one person will be standing still which means their death or you will probably miss the spike. this isn’t ignorance, this is simply reducing any possibility to lose by minimizing inconvenience.
i might not be the most considerate person, but instead of memorizing a whole alphabet of your number- or letter-code i would just kick you from the group. much easier and a lot of work less. when competing against others i personally wouldn’t care a bit about whoever has whatever limitation. before starting a match the only thing i care about is the highest possible chance to win. period.

This is a wall of text with a lot of “if” you assume a lot as well. Now watch this video with local SoCal LAN player who has no limbs. He plays cs go a game that is a “esport” and competitive. Don’t put limits on others especially in a video game that means very little in the big picture of life. It’s freaking gw2 hahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bONUFkP3i8s

i’m not. being it a third rate mmo or the #1 esport game in the end what matters is winning. ofc you can overcome nearly any limitation and shine in a specific area if you really want to. but those are exceptions, not the average. and there’s still the fact that the team has to adapt which for me personally is too much to bother with.

voice communication is essential for about any kind of pvp. nobody has the time to write down sudden changes in tactics or player delegation. i’m sorry for you being deaf but you’re just not competitive. it might not impair your gameplay performance but it impairs team communication. what if the situation requires something that you haven’t yet crypted into a number? someone will have to write it down. how do you count down if you want to spike someone? you can’t. either one person will be standing still which means their death or you will probably miss the spike. this isn’t ignorance, this is simply reducing any possibility to lose by minimizing inconvenience.
i might not be the most considerate person, but instead of memorizing a whole alphabet of your number- or letter-code i would just kick you from the group. much easier and a lot of work less. when competing against others i personally wouldn’t care a bit about whoever has whatever limitation. before starting a match the only thing i care about is the highest possible chance to win. period.

is turret engi really such a big thing in soloq? i see them in teamq now and then and they usually just get steamrolled. i’ve taken some down by myself (i’m playing grenade power engi), even with granades this turret cluster is cleaned up pretty fast since the bubble only lasts some seconds. should be even easier with bombs.

vincecontix.1264:

zaced.7948:

i haven’t watched everything but i’m quite shocked how mediocre people play in the top100 range (with you wasting so much potential for damage and damage mitigation this mesmer and necro should have downed you in seconds, which also speaks for their skills). i assume this is soloq? if it is, well, who cares, it’s skyhamq. if this is teamq i have no idea how you guys got so far.

Ouch harsh words xd Play is alot better at 7:47 where i deal with decap engi + others.
You know I find its harder to climb up soloq lb rather than tq lb if u rolled with a premade group you can get top end of tq in a day easy(but yea I been top 100 tq).

i now watched it until the end. against the engineer you still miss to execute moves that would make this fight a lot easier and shorter. man, that crate drop was wonderfully timed. you could have locked him in a pit of unholy death if you would have followed up properly (after stun bomb#5 then #2 and #3, rifle#2, eg#4, rifle #5 back in, tk#3 then #2 and so on). in this case instead of chipping away the point imo you should have went for the damage and keep rifle#4 in case he tries to heal himself. the previous setup also was kinda failed (and led to key skills being on cd) because you basically fired bomb#5 and #3 into nothing after knocking him off the point with bob. also in the following situation you want to use rifle#5 after the water field is deployed for the additional healing.

i can’t tell which lb is harder to climb because i recently don’t have the time to put much effort into the game in general and lbs in special. also i don’t play soloq at all so i’m not competent to compare. call it bias or prejudice, i just look down on soloq a bit due to the map rotation. however, what i can do is to compare the gameplay to those of people i play against with very much lower rating and i see a lot of missed opportunities especially in terms of soft cc which is a powerful tool to deal damage as well as keeping people from entering the point for longer (i saw you doing something like this around 7:05, in this case you could have used glue bomb before knocking yourself back, then box of nails, then eg#4 to get to the point and leave a trail of cripple and dmg) with which you can chip away the point from the enemy bit by bit. in the fight against the engineer you f.e. pulled him off the point and didn’t do anything to prevent him to get back on although rifle#2 and #4, tk#2 and bomb#5 were ready to go. i cringe every time that happens and it happens a lot. in this case you could have immobilized him and get back on the point with eg#4 leaving him immobilized in the puddle of dmg. also i see you switching kits at a much lower pace than i’m used to while also noticing a overuse of autoattack. eg#5, bomb#5, toolkit #5 (eg#4 ->tk#5->rifle#5 back to point -> rifle#2 is f.e. a good combo to get the opponent off point; rifle#5 and eg#4 are swappable depending on position, camera angle and overview) should come into play more often while eg#2, tk#2 and toolbelt f2 (for applying burning, removing conds or getting regen) are heavily underused.

PS: against the engineer you did 7 times 666 dmg short after another, have you made some sort of pact recently? :>

i haven’t watched everything but i’m quite shocked how mediocre people play in the top100 range (with you wasting so much potential for damage and damage mitigation this mesmer and necro should have downed you in seconds, which also speaks for their skills). i assume this is soloq? if it is, well, who cares, it’s skyhamq. if this is teamq i have no idea how you guys got so far.

just btw: that #5 on your bombkit is your dearest friend, don’t neglect it.

i’m not gonna comment in detail on the other posts, there’s some truth and some bullcrap in all of them, depending on which combo or strategic move is being talked about.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

perhaps gw2 can do the same?

they won’t. those numbers are shameful.

turret engi with a kit … or 3 kit engi with thumper turret or elixir s … oh horrors. that’s a whole utility slot, man, that’s a lot. it’s basically changing the game mechanic for a class. the engi as it is now would be completely overpowered. i bet there are some really nasty setups you could play with that you haven’t thought of. this would completely get out of hand. many things would have to be rebalanced and toned down which anet would turn into an unholy nerffest. rather not, thanks.

i want to play a tree. or a bush.

it depends on your luck of course. however, since magic find has an effect on pvp chests it’s more probable to get something valuable out of them.
maybe i’m (casual r50ish, teamq player far away from any kind of leaderboard) just lucky, but after finishing several tracks i got 7 ascended armor and one weapon box.
so, no. it’s not that you can farm any kind of ascended gear there, but if you play regularly you’ll probably get your hands on some every now and then.

standard finisher > all, because fps.
and money > everything else, so ofc the shop finisher is going to be better looking. after all they have to reward those people who actually give them money.

lakdav.3694:

You argue against yourself.

so i should kiss kitten for something that should be taken for granted? beg to anet for fixing their own mistake? send them presents for ignoring everything and everyone? no thank you.
i am well aware that all is vain and our demands are futile. I made a sarcastic comment to your post and after you took it seriously for some reason i tried to make clear how pathetic that idea is. That’s all.

you don’t understand. i have no intention of nicely reminding them of something. i’m not asking, i demand. and the crafted-candy induced well-being of some company employees that consequently ignore my demands could not be less of my concern. listening to our whining when they do something stupid is part of their job and i expect them to do that. they have employees for exactly that kind of thing which are called community managers. if there’s a thread 16 pages long, that demands the same thing for over a year without any rational reason why it shouldn’t be done and nobody even answers it then either the community manager is not doing his/her job and should be disciplined or it is ignored on purpose.
no commanager would be as stupid as to disregard such a big outrage so what probably is going on is that someone up high in the hierarchy dropped something like “it’s not worth our time, don’t post in there or they’ll get the wrong idea”.

so please, if you wish, go for it and waste your time crafting whatever shaped candy in order to continue being ignored. i’ll just stay here and demand from them to do what they should have done in the first place long ago and get angry if they don’t. i’ll use the tiny bit of power i have as a customer which is not giving them any money until my demands have been met.

apt.9184:

I don’t think anyone cares anymore.

^this.

does anyone remember how the com complained about izzys random balance button in gw1? seeing what’s going on right now i want it back.

lakdav.3694:

I remember that there was a plan about sending Anet a horrible sack tailored to look like the engineer hobo-sacks, but filled with something nice

no, at this point i actually approve of sending them bombs and grenades. they don’t deserve nice.

buy gems and cash them in for gold. that’s the way the game is meant to be played.

nujabes <3
also quite informative video, mostly obvious stuff not much people know.

well, until you edited your post if what a simple one-liner, so well, that comment was kinda justified.
like i said i can’t not kill the ads since they spawn next to him every 2 seconds and die with less than 4 hits.

edit: also did. sooner or later one of the npcs will kill a slime. reflect kills the slimes as well. smoke screen is great, however it doesn’t last long enough to kill sub7 with only backstab since you have to wait for initiative since you can’t autoattack because you’ll kill a slime.
however, no further advice is needed since i no longer have the patience to grind another batch of tickets.

obviously i did that. using aoe would be amazingly stupid. i pulled, i pushed and still after 2-3 attacks there are 2-3 slimes around him again. you can’t not attack until the single target skill recast is over (or you have gained some initiative) because you simply don’t have that time while 20 slimes are attacking you.

edit: i did exactly what you said about 20 times. every single time a slime spawned within or right next to sub7 in about 2 seconds after my first attack after i kicked him away from the herd so i would either have to stop attacking or kill it alongside him.

hi,
since i missed some gaunlet achievements last time i thought i’d just do them this time.
while doing the sub7 achievement i noticed that the slimes which usually spawned around the player now spawn around sub7 which, at least for me, makes this achievement quite difficult to do. since they don’t spawn around me there’s no chance kiting along the sides to prevent them spawning in blobs which makes attacking sub7 without killing the slimes nearly impossible (2-3 always spawn within him) since they bodyblock every ranged damage. i tried a backstab thief because i thought that the most damaging single target attack might do the trick but since there are 15-20 of them after 2-4 seconds i just die due to a bazillion incoming attacks.
does anyone know a working strategy? i want to grab those achievement points as quickly as possible so i can play something else.

Bri.8354:

I was hoping ANet would learn from season 1 of the living story and improve

there’s the mistake. don’t ever assume anybody would learn whatsoever whenever. people are bound to repeat their mistakes over and over again. arenanet is no exception.

hammering bosses for half an hour to get absolutely nothing always was the kind of content i wished for in gw2. not even mentioning that someone needs to pay gold in order to activate it. that’s how everything should be.
“you paid quite a large sum of money, here, have this nonexistent pile of kitten!”

never felt more accomplishment while playing a game.

i won’t even start about the gauntlet lagging as kitten because of the genius placement of the arenas because we knew that was going to happen again.
well, the mini games in the flying hippie dudes city are quite fun. but they are, as stated, mini games. nothing worth starting gw2 a second time this quarter.

dogs are inferior, thumbs down.

they pay money to farm/cheat. as long as someone pays money a company (especially anet) will not care if they do. period.

if they respond, however it may be, it means they at least read it and don’t have every single chat deactivated. when i tell people in teamq what to do, because they don’t, i usually get ignored.

Chase.8415:

Best way to avoid newbies is to get to top 1000.

this is not true at all.

if we’re talking about ascended stuff you need to take one from the offensive category and one from the defensive, since you can’t equip two of the same category at the same time.
in your case you can’t use althea’s ashes twice, you have to get the journal for the other slot.

i use the logitech performance mx for years now and i’m very content with it. it’s not a gaming mouse by design but as a allaround mouse it’s amazing. i have a glass table so darkfield was a good option for me (glass+darkfield=minimum friction=maximum precision without moving your hand more than 1 cm). you can change pretty much everything with setpoint, too. however, you should test it out first, it might be uncomfortable if you have too big/small hands.
@donari: yes they have. i can only talk for the lpmx but there is no latency or any difference to a cable mouse as far as i can determine it whatsoever.

Blush Lift.3570:

zaced.7948:

never gonna happen. unfortunately your work was wasted time.

All is not quite lost.

But all is quite vain.
Kerstein and others from Anet promised quite a lot of stuff that got dropped in the end.

i wonder how you do that. every time i climb up above r1000 in the tq lb (which takes quite the time even with winrates above 80%) i play some games off rushhour (mostly at night) and get thrown back to 90-95% after 5-10 lost games (compared to the 30-35 games that it took to get into the lb). i’m really curious.

no, just no. absolutely no.

never gonna happen. unfortunately your work was wasted time.

i don’t really see the need for this as you can gaze at your character in undergarments as long as you take off your armor. however it is to be admitted that any kind of fap material for your pubertal clientele will probably raise the revenue.

on the other hand … some silly hawaii swimming pants might be not that bad… on the other other hand i hope i never have to see anybody in lord farens speedos (especially him).
my2cents: unnecessary but whatevs …

squallaus.8321:

while you’re at it, please add school uniforms…

no, just no …

it’s you. they’re not.

keep your dodges for trebshots and play with your camera angled in a way you can see the shots coming. there is nothing more demotivating for a person handling the treb than seeing several “dodge” indicators on mid.

you all should just give up an make a big breasted blonde female human warrior.

will probably get you banned. i don’t think there’s anything you can safely mod in gw2 since texmod is not working.

Pawstruck.9708:

That’s about it. Access to every condition, ridiculous survivability, and strong damage.

you forgot that he gets trashed by any kind of stunchain or condition spam. we can’t block and dodge forever. any team with a hambow or necro (which is about every team in this meta) should be able to take engineers down on the fly. l2p, dude.

Pawstruck.9708:

Yep I’m a thief … one class shouldn’t be able to insta-kill another just because of class choice.

i lold so hard my butt fell off. i was taking you semi-seriously until your second post. at this point to went from unaware to hilarious.

Hexi.9148:

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run. run as fast as you can.

you can’t cap a point if there’s a player opposing player on it. so … yes.

i actually bothered to craft this armor but i can’t see it anywhere in my wardrobe which has to mean that it got deleted from the live version.
i’m quite unhappy about that.

i understand that you want views on your youtube videos but i personally severely dislike looking up builds in video form. you should add a generated link on gw2skills or something where you can look up raw data without skipping through a video.

people that don’t play at maximum efficiency and are able to win every single game just deserve to be verbally trashed.

capnkewl.5019:

zaced.7948:

afaik kits have a fixed damage value balanced around exotics. their damage doesn’t scale with weapon damage. never has.

“Player bundles (kits, conjured weapons, banners, etc.) will now scale damage based on the rarity of the player’s equipped weapon.”

seriously? haven’t read the whole patchnotes due to their length but if this is really true that’s amazing at first and doesn’t seem to work on second sight.

afaik kits have a fixed damage value balanced around exotics. their damage doesn’t scale with weapon damage. never has.

muscarine.5136:

Helmet + shoulders are sold in the mists for like 5 silvers total.
One hotjoin win is 13.5 silver. One game and you have it.

this one game doesn’t level you to lvl 11.

Well, we (ReVo) made it into the tourney (lucky us, ty rng god) but i am not really happy seeing several really good teams being left out. If there will be any other tournament in the future this needs to be planned out a lot better and without rng (!).
However, i also understand the decision making it random in the end, since Anet doesn’t really provide us with reliable tools of measuring skill.

not enough russians are playing this game to invest money into translation.

pin down is not the only problem with hambows. just use shield#1, #2, toolkit #4 or dodge it (yes, it’s not telegraphed for 10 hours but you still can see it). this is ofc a lot harder from close distance. as for the stunchain take stab armor and prot injection with you. you’ll actually love being stunned with those two.

for killing them stack up confusion (ofc cover it with other conds, also you don’t want to spread out the confusion but rather hit them hard for a short time with it) and watch them either die or wait. blinds are your friends as well as well timed blocks (afaik those also prevent condremove from anything else than lb). poison is a must against healsig.
one kit has to go, toolkit is a must in pvp. no wrench, no win.
yup, this is all for condispamgineer. apart from that you simply can’t win. given a equal skill level.

bullkitten, if you say that quaggan are only made of fat you have never seen one from the inside.