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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:You won't be the one to see them, everyone else will. Just knowing it exists would bother me. Like animal cruelty or that piece of cake I left in the fridge for my boyfriend that he keeps saying he's going to eat but is going to go stale before he does
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Just knowing it exists would bother me. Like animal cruelty or that piece of cake I left in the fridge for my boyfriend that he keeps saying he's going to eat but is going to go stale before he does This holiday season, please think before buying a cake. Consider adopting a cake from the local cake shelter, but only if you know you're going to take care of that cake. Remember, cakes aren't just for christmas.
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I always thought releasing the new WvW maps with HoT was information overload. Not even including that it was Halloween event launch too. Had they released the borderland maps maybe 2 months later, the reception would have been very different at the start (for a while at least...).
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Dorkopotamis posted:Today I reached Sapphire in the new PvP divisions system with close to an 80% win rate. In those games I've had some observations about the most effective ways to climb the ladder in this current meta and I thought I'd write them down here. Quoting this post because the advice is fantastic. Played a few games as a bunker Mesmer and am having great results so far.
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My tempest just gets interrupted out of his overloads, i guess i should take stability on overload instead of regen/vigor on auras?
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malhavok posted:My tempest just gets interrupted out of his overloads, i guess i should take stability on overload instead of regen/vigor on auras?  No
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Johnny made us a statue tonight and now the guild entryway is GREENER THAN EVER   PLANTS FOR THE PLANT GOD(dess)
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Here's some more general advice on succeeding within conquest: Watch the mini map and keep track of how many enemy players you see, In doing so: you know what points are undefended and what points need to be reinforced. The only time you should be fighting outnumbered is if you can: 1. Preserve a friendly point from capture. 2. Are a bunker and can stall stall out a neutral point. 3. Are a bunker and can occupy at least two people for a prolonged amount of time, anywhere. Fighting outnumbered in any other situation, unless you are extremely confident you will gain a favorable match-up at some point, is nearly always a bad idea. Are you in a team-fight that seems to be going nowhere? Is it over a contested point? Are you not intentionally stalling a point, or multiple players? Count the players you see and make an educated guess about what point might be empty, decap the point and if need be return to the team fight. Attempt to always attack where the enemy is weak and fight where you are strong. Alert your team about what you're doing, so they can re-position if need be. Are you a bunker standing on a friendly team point that the enemy seems to be ignoring? Stand between that point and another, to bait enemy players into contesting your point. Chasing people around in that zone will waste enemy players' time. If you do this: make sure you can get back to that point in time to have it not be de-capped. Skills that allow you to be in two places at once are invaluable. Portal, for example, allows you to both defend a point and participate in team fights. That's one step beneath having an extra team mate. Before a game starts, you should tell your team what you intend to do. Teams the communicate well before a match always seem to perform better than teams that don't. EDIT: Also, this is so obvious I didn't include it: call targets at the beginning of fights, but switch as new threats arise. I've seen teams tunnel vision a DH, completely unaware that a power necro has just shifted into lich form. George Sex - REAL fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Lonk I hear you did this
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I'm 2 pips out from sapphire with most of my games as condi necro. While its been an enjoyable masochistic solo adventure I'd like to roll and learn a bunker chrono though because they seem to be most impactful in soloq matches, along with revs and tempests from what I've experienced so far. I just copy builds off of meta battle, are they actually any good? Probably gonna try out the chronomancer alacrity bunker build off metabattle and try and learn that. Good god there's nothing more annoying in this game than fighting a good mesmer 
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Hurp Durp Master posted:I'm 2 pips out from sapphire with most of my games as condi necro. While its been an enjoyable masochistic solo adventure I'd like to roll and learn a bunker chrono though because they seem to be most impactful in soloq matches, along with revs and tempests from what I've experienced so far. http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Chronomancer_-_Alacrity_Bunker this build is great. It requires some getting used to, measuring invuln time against alacrity. I main a mesmer and would be happy to play a few games with you. The same offer goes to any goons looking to get into PvP: just contact Germany in game. George Sex - REAL fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Any suggestions for dealing with Tempests as a Daredevil, other than rolling over and dying? The number of boons and conditions they vomit everywhere, combined with how much goddamned damage they do (in part because it's no problem to hit 15+ might stacks on a tempest) is nuts. I'm running staff shortbow, daredevil heal, standard utils (shadow refuge, signet of agility, shadowstep), and Impact Strike for my elite. One of the problems I'm having is that it seems like the moment I hit a Tempest, I'm covered in at least 3 conditions that they just exude without even pressing buttons and I have no idea how to deal with it, but I want to get better at pvp because this is astonishingly fun, other than when I'm fighting Tempests and feeling like there's no way to win other than playing 3v1. Should I be trying to kite them? Stability doesn't protect from cripple, right? So in theory I could Shortbow 5 away, turn around, pop 3, and run and gun while they burn out attunements? Only thing I can think of, other than that they just vomit too many boons and conditions and too much damage to fight head to head unless I can get a Steal -> Staff 1 for Knockdown, then pop my elite and just burst them down before their overloads can butcher me Magres fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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a cool trick on the Foe Fire map with the lord is if your enemy has their home (your far) and a bunkery dude is standing on it, run past him to the enemy base and start attacking their door. 90% of the time this will bait him into following you offpoint, then you call your buddy over to decap the point its a very good way of not wasting time 1v1ing on a point you dont own
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I made a fun discovery, the dragonhunter trait Hunter's Determination that lays a trap upon stun, etc, well if you don't die those traps do not expire and will just sit around until triggered, and it will keep laying them after the internal cooldown! I had something like 9-10 traps out at one point and it ruled.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I made a fun discovery, the dragonhunter trait Hunter's Determination that lays a trap upon stun, etc, well if you don't die those traps do not expire and will just sit around until triggered, and it will keep laying them after the internal cooldown! I had something like 9-10 traps out at one point and it ruled. thats pretty fuckin leet i wonder if you could beat a raid with it
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Holy poo poo the pro games were complete rear end, watching gw2 pvp isn't exactly exciting in the first place but the current no skill bunker comp meta is unwatchable. Spvp is total garbage right now. Hurp Durp Master posted:Probably gonna try out the chronomancer alacrity bunker build off metabattle and try and learn that. Go for it, everyone else is.
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Magres posted:Any suggestions for dealing with Tempests as a Daredevil I don't know if there is any possible Daredevil build that can 1v1 an optimally played tempest in this current meta. Thieves are generally out of favor.
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Okay so there's a bug when a guild hits 500 people, any pending invites get deleted. If you're one of those people just bump your thread on http://www.starfleetdental.com/GW2/Forums/ Sorry!
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Magres posted:Any suggestions for dealing with Tempests as a Daredevil Try to find an empty point to decap.
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Dorkopotamis posted:I don't know if there is any possible Daredevil build that can 1v1 an optimally played tempest in this current meta. Thieves are generally out of favor. All this is true unless you're Magic Toker.
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Visidan posted:Okay so there's a bug when a guild hits 500 people, any pending invites get deleted. If you're one of those people just bump your thread on http://www.starfleetdental.com/GW2/Forums/ It's been like that since day one  That's why GOON is always at 498 / 499.
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A long standing bug in Guild Wars 2? I find that hard to believe. The sPVP season has me wanting to play more to get up to rank 20 and get my rank tag
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I've been playing ranked games non stop since the league started and haven't had to do a single skyhammer. I don't think even one person has voted for it when it did come up.
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State of sPvP: Go bunker, hybrid/cele or burst damage. While DPS can be used in solo queue it has limited success due to damage being mitigated easily.malhavok posted:I've been playing ranked games non stop since the league started and haven't had to do a single skyhammer. I don't think even one person has voted for it when it did come up.
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Aesis posted:State of sPvP: Go bunker, hybrid/cele or burst damage. While DPS can be used in solo queue it has limited success due to damage being mitigated easily. I've actually done quite well with dragonhunter meditrapper in solo queue also, but that is probably the only exception to the rule. quote:No Skyhammer or Spirit Watch in Ranked. You only get Kyhlo, Tempest, Foefire, Niflhel. That would explain it.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:It's been like that since day one yeah i know, i keep forgetting so this is like the 5th time its happend in the last 3 weeks tivac plz fix
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malhavok posted:I've actually done quite well with dragonhunter meditrapper in solo queue also, but that is probably the only exception to the rule.
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Visidan posted:yeah i know, i keep forgetting so this is like the 5th time its happend in the last 3 weeks one time I forgot about this and cancelled like 20 invites sorry cletus and all new people I am The Worst
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Wait, if the guild fills up what is wrong with all outstanding invites getting canceled?
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malhavok posted:Wait, if the guild fills up what is wrong with all outstanding invites getting canceled? Because that will often happen before you remember to clear out inactives, which is only an issue when a guild is at the cap and continually getting new members still, ie. our two guilds. When you might have 20+ new invites on the go it's really annoying having to redo them.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Because that will often happen before you remember to clear out inactives, which is only an issue when a guild is at the cap and continually getting new members still, ie. our two guilds. When you might have 20+ new invites on the go it's really annoying having to redo them. Gotcha, that is annoying.
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Visidan posted:Holy poo poo the pro games were complete rear end, watching gw2 pvp isn't exactly exciting in the first place but the current no skill bunker comp meta is unwatchable. i am in total shock and awe that it turns out that trying to push mmo pvp as esports is a poor idea
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Agent Kool-Aid posted:esports is a poor idea
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Esports was better when it wasn't called Esports. GW1 PvP is proof of this.
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It's not even MMO pvp for the reasons you'd usually avoid that kind of thing (grinding out gear for a statistical advantage). People will watch lovely Minecraft videos, Slenderman game scarecam LPs, MOBA esports events, etc. because those games were already popular. GW2 was never really a meme (despite their best efforts, remember LOLCharr?) so the only people who give a poo poo are people playing the game.
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I want to hit myself for even suggesting this but I feel like GW2 sPvP would be better if it was sorta MOBA-style (with allied & enemy NPCs, bases to destroy, etc) instead of point-capture. I'm not sure how point capture the way it is currently implemented can ever really have any meta other than bunker-builds or burst-damage builds.
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Kenshin posted:I want to hit myself for even suggesting this but I feel like GW2 sPvP would be better if it was sorta MOBA-style (with allied & enemy NPCs, bases to destroy, etc) instead of point-capture. I'm not sure how point capture the way it is currently implemented can ever really have any meta other than bunker-builds or burst-damage builds. There was once a Halloween moba mode in a skeleton graveyard that was so much fun, did that even come back this year? I don't think I did any Halloween thing this year.
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I only remember the Halloween moba mode being in the first Halloween. At least they brought back the cool CTF snowball fight during wintersday the last couple years.
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Visidan posted:Holy poo poo the pro games were complete rear end, watching gw2 pvp isn't exactly exciting in the first place but the current no skill bunker comp meta is unwatchable. And as for sPvP being total garbage now, it has been an ongoing problem (even before HoT or pre trait changes) in which teams would just bring sustain/bunker builds with maybe 1 burst damage dealer, but now that these builds have no problem with bunker/sustain and damage dealing they seemed to have dropped burst damage dealers in favour of extra sustain build. e: To sum up, it's just a battle of attrition now. So basically you'll end up watching 15 minutes of both teams doing pretty much nothing aside from rotating, bunkering, decapping or team fighting to attrition. Aesis fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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