Guild Wars 2

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Mostly used for small scale roaming or very specific 1v1 (retrib rev for exemple, swap Unstable Conduit for Gale Song).
If you are facing condis or dont use the earth signet (you will most likely use a cantrip, such as armor of earth), you may want to swap earth for water (1-1-1).
The third utility : depending of what I do, I use Arcane Shield, Aftershock or Glyph of elemental power (weakness uptime against rev is usefull and nobody expects it^^)

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In general, this variant is better for duelling. And again, I swap one utility for earth signet and water traitline for earth traitline depending of the opponent build.

The hardest match ups (to me) are bruiser druid (aka not zerk druid) (totally unkillable), bruiser scrapper, condi war/reaper, as, if the players are good, I am unable to kill them. I simply don’t have enough damage against their sustain and I can’t handle their pressure long enough to overcome this sustain. This is in my opinion normal, as fresh air ele is weak and these builds are very strong in the current balance.

Xyonon.3987:

Wahoo and heya Took me a bit longer to respond, sorry for that, here ya all go

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So after a bit more than 1 hour of writing I’m finally done Hope it helps you all! If you have questions just ask!

Greez!
- Ziggy

I’m a pvp player currently getting into pve (and I love it so far), I just finished to craft my ascended viper gears and this post answered all my questions. I may contact you ingame for more informations on specific things Thank you for this and your efforts !

Edit : I think you should “store” this kind of (very) detailled answers somewhere. They are almost guides but will disappear in the forum, which is sad :p

Ok, I lost a game ! after 30 wins ! So… Couldnt get to rubis without losing this 31th win would have been the one to get me to rubis, so rude.

Winning one or two in a row is randomly getting on a team with good/excellent players. Winning 15 in a row means your team is obviously consistently far better than the other team. The only constant in all 15 games is you, so obviously you are a good player.

Losing 2 or 3 games is randomly getting a bad team. Losing 15 games means your team is consistently much worse than the other team. The only constant in those 15 games is you, so clearly you are bad. We’ve had this conversation before though, and you’ve denied the obvious logic of it so I doubt this will get anywhere.

Suffice to say, blaming your record on anyone but yourself is nothing but self-delusion that will result in you never getting better. Own up to your bad play and figure out how to fix it, don’t go complaining on the forums about how the matchmaking system is making you lose. Trying to claim that people who are winning are being carried by the system is just ridiculous and immature. People that win consistently are clearly better than those who don’t, that’s simply how it works. Deal with it.

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This. This is pure logic, there is absolutely nothing to argue against. Ty sir. You said in words what I couldn’t formulate.

@Ohoni
You shouldn’t generalise that much dude. I don’t know you, you don’t know me, you don’t know how i play. Don’t make easy assumptions. This happens too much in this forum, really :/
And if you want to blame the “system”, do it correctly. Bring statitics, numbers, some elements of proof. Your response is made of personnal opinion and no facts, it’s worth nothing, unfortunately.

And, hum… if the system was trully broken, even recognized excellent players would have lose streaks and wouldn’t climb the ladder ? Is it the case ?
Btw, i just got to sapphire o/ (20/0)

Hello. I just want to give you people the opinion of someone who stopped playing at the end of season 1 and started playing again yesterday, at night. I’m a solo player, and I’ve played 16 ranked games so far and won all of them easily (only 1 of them was challenging). New matchmaking allow good/excellent players to rank up very fast, even tho it is a bit boring. I mean, I don’t get any challenging ennemies, but at least I have good hopes that after 20 or 30 more wins I’ll get to interesting games.
To all of those who complain about “lose streaks” : It may (may is the key word here) be a l2p issue, don’t you think ? since the golden season of the golden bunker meta is gone, the old bunker players have to learn the game…
Only my opinion, tho. And yes, climbing is very easy compared to last season. Matchmaking is fair, if i’m emerald i play with/against emeralds, so I carry and win. Repeat the process until you get where you belong.

Oh, one good thing : the amount of salt amoung players appeared to have decreased significantly. I often have some cool talks with the guys i stomped during the whole game (the 2 players trying to get me out of their close node but kept dying…). Notice the thief in chat (attachments), it’s really a good feeling compared to last season

(btw i don’t know how to prove that i’m not a liar, i can’t see more than 10 matches in history, 16/0 atm, stop being salty about anet & enjoy the game ? peace)

EDIT : I played last season casually, only got to rubis, so the “you’re getting carried by your precedent mmr” argument doesn’t work here (i’ve seen this kind of bullkitten in other sections.. salt needs to go)

msg : 7:11:3:191:101
Exactly the same problems that Sthenith, it started 3 hours ago.

1. Tempest (Overall):4
2. Traits:4
3. Warhorn:5
4. Overloads:3
5. Healing Skill:2.5
6. Utilities:2 cool, but not very efficient
7. Elite Skill: -1 (super super bad)
8. Animations & sound effects:4 (I like animations, sound effects are ok)

You are funny Do you expect something if you only autoattack ? If yes, you may consider to delete your ele and create a pewpew >:3

Same bug since yesterday. I can still join match manually, but..

It’d be very cool..