Guild Wars 2

Malthurius.6870:

It sounds to me that you’re arguing against build diversity. Do you seriously believe the game would not benefit from having a more diverse selection of competitive builds to do damage with? Sure, there’s no negative consequence to it staying as it is now, other than warrior builds being similar across PvE content… but there is an obvious benefit to making more builds competitive in the PvE space within the same profession.

Why “most effective” cant be what ppl expect from warriors? Theres no “diversity” where theres a “meta”.

Malthurius.6870:

It sounds to me that you’re arguing against build diversity.

When theres a “meta” theres no diversity, if a warriors try GS on fractals and other content they gotta rage, mocking for running a “non effective” build.

In any game i pickup a warrior, its cuz like play like a warrior and be effective, but here in GW2 i cannot. Here the most effective warrior is a mix of a pew pew ranger(longbow), and a weird sword-torch combo.

i run condi to deal almost with “hit and runners”, specially condi thiev or mesms and burn guards.

on high ranks i return to power, simply cuz i get ganked. so its how on high level they deal with condi, gank the condi guy. on low levels this inst possible cuz the news playes lack coordination and build awareness.

But take note, this was not to be the norm. A matchmaking system that depends on “right time zone”, and not on the player’s skill, is broken.

worst, players getting used to this “new normal”.

Yeah, i tested it, the weird loss streak pattern is tied to timezones, avoid weekend.

The worst time is the hours near server reset (0:00hrs server time , in my tmz is 21:00hrs).

The best time seems is morning (near 9:00 am server time, in my tmz is 6:00 am).

The “weekend warrior” meme is real. Avoid weekends at all cost. in weekend the “i need farm ascension” guys invasion happens.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Most of the people you are posting around in this discussion are players who have played since year 1, who have around 10,000 or more matches played. You have not yet undergone the lose streak activity because your account is still fresh in spvp “as you yourself even said in your first post in this forum, only 1 month ago.” New accounts, for years now are notorious for climbing too high and getting better match making than older accounts, due to how they inject new account MMRs into the system. But rest assured, you’re account will age and your total amount of games played will catch up and you will begin to experience the lose streaks. Enjoy it when it happens, remember this thread and all of the users who have posted within.

Agreed

Its my case, i have near 1500 ranked matches summing this season and the previous season.

People like me who are posting about weird loss streaks, come from other seasons, where they have not been observing this, even when the build quality drops. Its my case i have a post about the first week of current season being fine.

And ppl like me farmed the ascension, and we played lower performing classes, and so we have an idea of when the streak is caused by poor performance or not.

The problem is not inherent in humans, more specifically, powerful beings manipulating magic, or disagreeing over what to do with it. I do not particularly see anything special or problematic, it’s a kind of common narrative with fantasy games.

There is a reversal of Waracrat there, in Warcraft Orc they “invaded” the planet of humans, but then they became part of the solution, following the old script of blaming evils on “bigger forces” who manipulated everyone. Then there is room for demons, gods, ancient races.

What is very creative and interesting are the asuras. Our technological Jedi came from within the earth and not from space.

If we are honest, all our heroics since gw1 and throughout gw2 have caused more harm than good to the health of the planet. The new expansion might be the moment we will get the nasty bill for what we have been doing up until now.

Tyria reminds our own world that it is a succession of tragedies. In this it distances more from the narrative cliches that generally follow the script “everything was perfect before the invasion”. Tyria it was not perfect, and it will not be.

i found this place doing some LS3 achievments on Lake Doric. All these names are ppl from GW1

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tomb_

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tombstone_

In the previous seasons even with bots around, i have pattern of 3 loses 1 win, them 2 loses 1 win when i was getting better on skills, the 1 loss 1 win honing the build, u feel the progression. Suddenly, on this season, this weird pattern of 10 losses+ in a row.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Been playing bunker druid since start of season. First 50 games were played between 1500 and 1560 rating, solidly. For once, things felt balanced. Win 500 to 450 or lose 450 to 500, games were good. Suddenly upon the morning of 8/24/2017, there was a distinct shift in match quality. Went on a 15 game lose streak where losses were looking like 200 to 500 or worse. I 1v2 or sometimes 1v3 far, the entire game, usually never even die. Yet my team mates cannot cap/hold home OR mid in 4v3s and 4v2s.

Same, but i was used to run a “bunker” Reaper.

My suspicion is that matchmaking, is looking at stats like vitality. After the loss streak I started to test other builds, and whenever I used the 34k hp build on the necro, I was getting into very squish teams with 2 thievs almost times!!

These 2 maps are very good, it has nothing to do with achievments. In fact most of the players already had these achievments, since they existed before the achievments of the other maps.

my main is a necro, and 2nd is a warrior, is strange this happen to u.

be watchful if u arent killed too fast. Warriors are expected to be bunkers. Warriors that uses zerk and killed fast gets lots of hate.

Shen Gia.1650:

The daily is actually called ‘Rated Match’
Rated refers to a pvp match you queue for, this daily can be completed in both ranked and unranked matches. You don’t ever need to touch ranked pvp to complete any daily challenge in the heart of the mists.

Already lead to mistake anyway, specially non-english natives easily mistake it for “ranked”.

i have trouble on some achievments cuz of this, i was thinking “rated” mean same as ranked. i have asked ppl on chat many of them was confusing as me.

No native english tends to think “rated” as same way some products has a “classification rate”, classification = rank = ranked. its lead to many noobs goes on ranked match.

The amount of Afkers, quitters increased like 200% these days.

A entire day on first week of season, see at max 2 or 3 on 8 hrs of game.

but now after some days, the trash matchmaking again, become a “new normal”, 2/3 of matches always someone afk or quit.

The punishment of leavers, afkers is still very SOFT. On gunbound quitters lost GOLD and Rank, they get a clear message that they will hurt themselves.

i checked the https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator/AAEAAAEuogAB

the cost is very similar to ascension.

But what I’m curious about, is you know, if anyone who complains about buying the commander TAG, at least already made the Gift of Fortune?

reddie.5861:

i dont really understand why so many WvW players are so salty over kittenty items.

scream all u want at me call me a idiot but any exotic geared player is equally good and is dishing out same amount of dmg as fully legendary/asc geared fool out there.
90% of people hide their BP so no1 cares the other 90% have models on low limit so they dont even see ur crap.

only good thing about legendary is, is the stat switching for the rest its all trash but i dont mind dumping my ascended stuff in mystic forge to switch stats if meta change.

and theres the BFF backpiece that can be reset for cheap unbound magic too.

WvW compositions are not random groups, they come from tests done by guilds dedicated to WvW. Most WvW guilds have their own build sheet and composition.

Although, what I see the most experienced do, is not to kick. Kick is unnecessary unless actually Zerg is full 50/50. I do not particularly like these exaggerations and ultra perfectionists.

Elite guilds are necessary and do a great job, but the Pugmanders are what really make the WvW community, and especially the server, grow.

The impact of these compositions is great. One morning for example, the zerg I was in, was losing all battles, so we noticed that by distraction there were not enough compositions of the classic 2xguards + the rest. so we call the players to log in their guardians, and so we rebalanced the compositions. and the battles improved.

You yourself are the biggest beneficiary of this “science.” If your zerg (even though you outside of squad) performs better, your chances of surviving a blob collision are better, and ofc bagfarm.

from book:

Glint informed Destiny’s Edge that their weapons and golems would be useless against Kralkatorrik. The only thing that could harm the Elder Dragon was a crystal spear carved from one of its own spines that Glint had kept stored safely at her sanctum. She suggested that Rytlock took the spear and delivered the killing blow, thrusting it through a groove between the Elder Dragon’s ribs and into its heart.

it will be?

https://youtu.be/z0xcUnKI72M?t=17s

fabulous. I’ve never been very excited about the history of dragons, but these arts alongside the text really encourage.

I think Balthazar had some level of omniscience, but it really is a strange thing to fit into this kind of story(or any kind of “superpower” of any God). For example, he knew the existence of Taimi’s machine, but he did not know exactly where it was, to the point of being easily deceived by the commmander who led him into the Kaesmer trap!

Ario.8964:

As we all know many of the players here dislike passive counter cc traits as they punish a skilled player landing their cc and rewards someone who didn’t dodge or take any defensive measures.

Speak for yourself.

CC stunlocks chains is a style of play its not mean “skillful player”, not everyone likes this style of play.

Has tons of passive CC, likes Dazes and immobility, that only lose in ease of application for the condispam.

If they remove passives, they should give huge cast time to CC skills, cuz they have poor animations, fast cast time and hard to see.

Or completely remove stunlocks chains leaving only 1 class with the possibility of doing so.

Lot of people play to relax. I particularly detest the idea of winning by running or jumping, or press-button race.

Not to mention that the animations of the skills are terrible. In other games, where Pvp is skills based and have almost nothing passive, at least the skill cast seem more “solid” with consequences. The animations are clear and impactful. GW2 seems to have some problem detecting collisions (note how 2 players can occupy the same space), so CC controls skills seem to be based on AoE and pass on that impression of spam.

The game would be extremely annoying if the OP suggestions were implemented.

Charr if want look barbaric/primitive/gladiator also or some sort of steampunk too. The warrior GreatSword animations are amazing on Charr.

Human if want “medieval knight” warrior, “templar” style. the heavy armor with details seems more polished in humans.

if is Female Warrior go Norm.

every fantasy game has to have its ‘floating city’, ‘floating castle’. If Anet does not want to make this accessible, make another, but make some!

In a curious and even creative inversion from space-ship narratives. The hitech boys from Tyria, the Asura, came from the underground.

i have both, full zerker Asc. and full viper Asc., all Warrior Weapons. When i have more time i will make a post demonstrating all warrior builds for New or Returning players: a) Power Axe/Axe; b) Power GS; c) Condi LB / Sword+Torch d) Hibrid Power-Condi GS/LB e) Hibrid Power-Condi Hammer.

So this is, Zerker Gear, Runes of Scholar, Sigils of Accuracy and Sigil of Strenght on GS.

I have been playing with Axe/Axe, but its lack of mobility, inst spammy Mighty as GS.

Also GS dont punish u for going on Defense traitline.

And dont care about “support”, u real support is surviving long enough doing decent damage.

Kut.7138:

ugrakarma.9416:

I recently got a GS build on par with the axe / axe, i will show when i came to home.

Oh no, it’s been a couple days, I am beginning to worry that he never made it home

oh i guessed it, but the good news, i tested it on frac T4, is great. i will post build soon.

Warrior is more versatile. u can play many playstyle just switching traits, or some weapons, and using zerker gear. And by far, better survival, just switching to defense traitline.

With guards, prepare yourself to storage some gear.

hope no. thats why i have a guardian.

I did not know Guardian was elite specialization, lmao.

Hana.8143:

To explain a little bit more, we were 40 scourges (and probably 25 at the end of the event) We

Any classs stacking class zerg is a test driven error, is not an appropriate test. 40 guards zerg is over-powerful. 40 minions necros or rangers win by laggins the server with pet spam and so on.

An appropriate test would be with zergs stacking by groups formation, like classic 2xguards/necro/ele /rev VS to any zerg also with groups formed by some new elite specs.

The Greyhawk.9107:

Danikat.8537:

The Greyhawk.9107:

Redrobin.5627:

I’m honestly hoping for more desert inspired hair and to see if the dragon minion thing racism thing grows.

Eh, probably not, the anti-sylvari story branch is a dead one. HoT was the Xpack with a strong sylvari theme, PoF is looking to be a Human themed one.

And already some people are claiming the entire game is, and always has been, humancentric, like they claimed it was entirely sylvaricentric during HoT.

I think you’re right though. There was a lot of distrust of sylvari after Scarlet, Aerin and then the whole revelation with Mordremoth. But I think it’s calming down now that Mordremoths influence is gone and we’re back to threats coming from all angles.

Also none of that affected Elona, as far as we know. I think they might be suspicious of the sylvari, and I don’t suppose hearing that they were meant to be dragon minions will help, but I think in general Elonians would treat them like any other outsiders.

I’d less say “died down” and more “it was a promised storyline that got dropped for ‘reasons’”, basically it got flubbed. Which is too bad, but its really too late now.

Since LS3, its seems the direction is to complete old plots holes and unsolved misteries, some link to GW1 to please old game base player.

Very few people noticed that last chapter “One path ends” fulfilled an old request from users, for the game show Orr post-Zhaithan recovery. and I think it was very well implemented.

TD can be a very profitable map too, once u understand how its work.

Theres a “lane preparation” phase, which consists of events of each lane. Once a lane is done, the description on Event Panel will have “Sucess” on it. When a lane complete its events, its spawn more Chak Acid Pods to be opened on the respective lane area.

The time gap between theses events, and the Big Boss Gerente Event, is the time u will use for open acid chak pods, with keys u get from events, u can open 50+ in a run.

Once Gerent is done, u can fast swap to Tarir Meta-Event, that way u “farm” the HoT maps.

i dislike very much the circus effect that mounts brings to any game. but I noticed that each species of mounts has specific abilities tied to the masteries system, that is, this indicates that its variety will be very limited. We will probably have a maximum of 4 to 6 mounts, and the ‘variety’ will go through the skins system.

As for horses, if they are implemented, it will probably be in the form of some “exotic species” to justify giant size version.

Runes of Balthazar+Elite trait that increase burn duration give u like 80% burn duration. with smoldering sigil u stack near 100%. inst good as viper, but can be a starting point.

Hope thats dont become another engi/scrapper, full of utilities, but useless in the end, and a button-press race class.

My intuition says that we will ride Aurene.

Can throw stones at me for what I’m going to say: this Char / Human plot is looking like a reverse version of the orc / humans of WoW universe. Orc are aliens brought to the human world in WoW, where they were brought here by magic conspiracies and the whole thing with old deities and demons. The human kingdons in WoW, were apparently more freed from influence of “deities” or demons, and every 1 of the kingdoms had their own aspirations.

In Tyria, this role of alien race with complex connections with “magical entities” whose intrigues bring danger to the world belongs to humans. The charr legions have their own aspirations. In WoW, after the defeat of the Orcs, the human kingdoms were divided when what to do with them. It is not hard to imagine a plot, where the legions are divided over what to do about the “human problem” after the defeat of balthazar. The only thing that could prevent this would be if this implies a lot of change in the mechanics of the game.

And it is quite intriguing that Balthazar and Abaddon are in fact the name of demons.
Sometimes it seems that the human gods were originally thought of as demons and then, gw2 plot guys changed the whole story to “gods.”

Sifu.9745:

ugrakarma.9416:

Sifu.9745:

Here is mine list on non-meta “broken” builds:
1. condi Thief d/d or p/d.
2. condi Mesmer, probably the best 1 vs 1 spec in the game.
3. core Guardian, both Power and the burning one.
4. some non Berserker Warriors can also be a real pain in the kitten
5. not sure about bunker rev, i barely see one, maybe once per 20 matches.

i use minion necro+condi hybrid and counter all these easily.
a smart teamplay can counter these stuff.
burn guard is a free kill to anyone with 600 range weapon lol.

Are you talking about smart teamplay or do you have in mind 1 vs 1? As condi Thief i eat minion necros for breakfast mano a mano, but it takes a while. But i agree that you can counter condi mesmers and burning guards.
How can a burn Guard be a free kill to anyone with 600 range weapon (i don’t see any logic here, i guess you mean kiting them?), if Guardian’s scepter is 900 range in case that range weapon is needed? You know that scepter can be very powerful condi weapon?

Guards.
Scepter dont do much damage and is very slow. Most of Burn Guards damage come from purging flames and some specific combos. The trapper ones is even worse, i kill most guards applying condis on them while they just expect me jump into their traps. When they realize that i will dont jump into the trap area is too late. Also minions activate all their traps and transfer burn back to guard. Remenber that Scepter/Dagger necro is mid ranged.

Thievs: most of they atacks are single target, necro keep moving applying condis on them while they try kill the minions. To counter condi-minion-necro they should be really fast enough to apply condi on necros and avoid minions. but only extremely skilled thievs can do this.

Blackwaltz.7156:

Yo!

Was in same boat about a month ago when I came back.
Was full berserk geared warrior 100% ascended.
Thing is, it’s not a great performer in terms of dps – but that is if you play the regular style.
What I noticed is, I went axe/axe and ditched tactics, str/disc/zerker with axe mastery.

Sitting at 250% crit dmg with extra ferocity from axe mastery. The damage is insane.
Maguma jungle veterans are dying in like 5seconds solo ofc.
Things die so fast, that with a condi build you’d actually be underperforming in open world and non-highendtier fractals and dungeons.
By the time the condis start ticking for damage, the monsters would be dead.

Condi warrior is GREAT dps, if your target lives long enough. So unless you doing very high fractals and raids, i’d not bother with it. Heck even if you do bother with it, it aint hard to shift the ascended items stats you have to viper and be what you can be.

What I noticed as a major issue to power dps warrior is the greatsword.
The autos are weak. only 100b and 3 does any dmg and they are stationary/able to miss easily. With axe/axe you’re a machine. The autos hit like a kitten truck.

I recently got a GS build on par with the axe / axe, i will show when i came to home.

SunRain.8972:

how would you think Sylvaris react to Elona? Especially Valiants, Sapplings or Wyld hunters.

Sylvari are often portrayed as curious explorers. In Divinitys Reach theres a Sylvari “traveler” who asks questions and demonstrates find the urban environment a bit weird.

in LS2 theres Caithe memoirs, we can see some of it too.

Emmibolt.3928:

once again war gets shafted. in hot everyone got serious mainhands we got lame torch
now we have lackluster potato tier skins.

Yeah, of all HoT Ascended Skins, the torch is the only one that never left my mule-bank alt, never used it. … i have ran to catch the greatsword reaper.

The grenth outfit is really great.

Anet should look carefuly at warrior, inst wise destroy a niche.

Just look at warrior of Neverwinter(PWE), Dragon Age Inquisition, Champions Return of Arms, or the good old Titan Quest. Anyone coming from these games will find the GW2 warrior a little weird.

I switched to Axe Power Warrior, at least we can have some sort a Blade Master for while, and gw2 have good skins options to Axes, but what do really want is a cool Greatsword Warrior, at least a reason to pick up this balthazar GS skin.

Especially for those who have near 15 character slots like me, it does not make much sense to decrease the uniqueness of 1 class on behalf of the “you can have all in 1” flag.

i find the Norm Havrouns very interesting, especially the ability and open portal for the mists, pity that has few appearances out of personal history.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Havroun_Grechen

Sifu.9745:

Here is mine list on non-meta “broken” builds:
1. condi Thief d/d or p/d.
2. condi Mesmer, probably the best 1 vs 1 spec in the game.
3. core Guardian, both Power and the burning one.
4. some non Berserker Warriors can also be a real pain in the kitten
5. not sure about bunker rev, i barely see one, maybe once per 20 matches.

i use minion necro+condi hybrid and counter all these easily.
a smart teamplay can counter these stuff.
burn guard is a free kill to anyone with 600 range weapon lol.

easy, easy,

go reaper mode(near 0 time cast).
go #3, self-stab buff. also, near 0 time to cast.

stomp.

Shroud yourself with dark armor that grants stability and reduces incoming damage. You may shatter this armor to fear foes around you.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reaper

Dean.4876:

ugrakarma.9416 Can this build be used now? what Utility Skills would you use? looking to get my warrior through HoT and was looking for a build. any help would be helpful.

heres the full build pic and a short video.

This build have tons of CC at same time u are proc many conditions on them, is good for pesky HoT mobs.

Remenber Full Viper+Berserker Runes. Notice the conditions applied to mobs.
Can deal easily with packs of Veterans.
For bosses this build is a Defiance Bar overkill!

Duelists are most toxic community in any game. They beat easily some pve elitists niches.

It is easy for Anet to implement mechanically, what will be expensive for them is to manage the collateral damage from toxicity. Players mocking players making videos on youtube about the losers, tickets asking to punish players, etc.

It is no coincidence that in WvW the duelists are the most dedicated trash-talkers in team chat.

When I command on WvW, i always run over the duelists with zerg, theres no place for little big egos on cooperative game-modes.

i didnt know what Anet did, but played all morning(like 4hrs) and almost of cancer of previous seasons seens gone. No afkers, Dceds or bots in 10+ matches. Lots of loses and lots of wins, but all legits. Just have 1(one) match wich a dude gets Dc. … Its caused by some recent improvment on match-making or i just have luck, or the filter of gold tier working?

Dont be tricked by the metatards, test by yourselfs , cancer-condi solo necro can be op, if u dont get a stun lock warrior on the way,

Try this build:

DeadShot Amulet.
Rune of Reaper.

Traits: Curses, Spite, Reaper.
Utilities: all reaper shouts, except heal skill, it shoul be the corruption one.
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And if its only about 1×1, u can “cheat” it with any minion build. nothing can beat minion bunker. u die only 2(or more)x1(you) situations.

But remember Ranked sPvp isnt about 1×1. Searching for duels in a ranked match hurts your team, thats why i dont play Minion bunker. i opted for a build that make me do well, on 3×4, 5×5 fights, u must try AoE condi spam/support to help your team fast finish off longtime locked fights. U best role with necro will be the team “fireman”.

Dont show up yourself, at begin of fights, cuz pros teams like target necro first, on 4×4 mid fight, let Guards or other bunker typer get into middle first, u try start behind them with ranged AoE Staff spam, them switch to Scepter/Dagger to more condi-cancer spam, if stacks of foes get near u, spam all your shouts.

Easy targets for kitten condition: rangers, warriors, dumber burn DH (is easy to spot when dumber type), thievs, enginers, power necros.
Hard targets: some fast revs, DH with conditions cleanses, support Elementals, another cancer necro, ghost spam mesmerz.

Easy tricked (they think you are using some metatard build and jump at u): warriors, thievs, dumber burn guard.

Hardly tricked: Rangers, they always run from u.