[Gearing for PVP]

@"Joseph.4259" said:Good afternoon my dear Guild wars community. A new player has a quick question for you veterans. How does the gearing system operates here? Do we raid to obtain PVP sets or we win games in PVP and spend the points on the purchases? or both?

I've read about structured PVP and how everything is even but Arenas and WvW seem to be more demanding in terms of fighting and armor so my guess is that going at it right from the start of the game is kind of a bad decision....I think.

Thank you in advance.

No gear in PvP.

For WvW you want Trailblazer.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Acquisition_methods

[Sustain is a monster]

@"SpellOfIniquity.1780" said:It has always had an animation ( a dark cloud appears over your head with a Reaper in it )That's actually wrong. The animation for Doom wasn't added until August 06, 2013. It used to have no animation whatsoever.

[If you want to gain/keep PvP players, stop absolutely demolishing builds every patch]

Nah we unironically need at least two or three big sweeping whack-a-mole balance patches complete with a bunch of reworks each year.

That keeps things fresh and interesting.

[If you want to gain/keep PvP players, stop absolutely demolishing builds every patch]

@"Drennon.7190" said:"Unfun" to fight against does not mean broken or overpowered.Well, good thing chronobunker and condi mirage was both.

[If you want to gain/keep PvP players, stop absolutely demolishing builds every patch]

@Drennon.7190 said:Think of all the fun buildsCore cele d/d eleSoulbeast is over nerfedMesmer is now a memeCele D/D in core was not fun to play as or play against. It was the most formulaic shit imaginable and made pre-nerf Core Signet Nec in this patch look like a skillful build.

Every iteration of Soulbeast from Sic 'Em snipers to the ridiculous bs that was the abomination of Boonbeast were truly awful. Boonbeast might very well hold the spot as the least balanced build the game has ever had.

There has been a single set of Mesmer builds that were not completely unfun to play against since the game launched, and that's the various shatter burst builds. But since core there were the apex cancer PU clone death builds, then the esports killing chronobunker, condi mirage pre-nerf and then the return of chronobunker.

I'll give you Warrior tho. The only times it's ever been out of line has been the condizerker skullcrack build we had a for a brief time in HoT and Rampage being too strong for a long time.

The solution to all of these has been nerfs. And it is the right choice. Because buffing things to try and bring other builds up to the level of the mentioned builds at a large scale is just downright stupid.

[Query about matchmaking parameters]

@"Meteor.3720" said:Query for ANet or anyone else who can answer.

I understood that matchmaking parameters only widened after queuing for 5 minutes, so after that length of time you're more likely to get people outside your mmr.Why then can you be matched with people 300 rating below you when queue pops after 30 seconds - 2 minutes?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm#Ratings

[Can you let us switch character 1 min after match starts]

@Bazsi.2734 said:Even better, just remove the ability to reroll period. The matchmaker put you into that match as X class, playing as Y is kind of cheating already. Allow for retraiting in that 1 minute, but lock the classes down.

There's also the slightly abusable part where the matchmaking algorithm will always try to create mirror matchups between classes if it can. So if you queue on Warrior it will try to put another Warrior on the enemy team for example. Meaning if you have a build on Class A that hardcounters the meta build for Class B you can queue as Class B and then reroll Class A.

This is incidentally also why its generally really, really bad to play a sidenoder build or duelist build on classes where the most common or meta build is a support or teamfight role.

[Can you let us switch character 1 min after match starts]

I think they should completely lock character switching and even build template switching as soon as you have pressed accept on a ranked match pop.

I've been in a similar situation to you tho a few times where I did some PvE and then queued and then I have the wrong weapons on and I don't realize until after the match has started

[Non-meta Necro builds]

@"Brimstone Jack.3462" said:The topic is "Non Meta Necro Builds." So yes, the builds matter.Well if I absolutely had to, something like this maybe

[Power is not dead, but...]

@Alin.2468 said:conditions obtained through combosu wot m8?

Aside from the old condi Reaper builds after they changed Deathly Chill from making Chill do damage to inflicting Bleed on Chill. And you had to use Shroud 4 in Shroud 5 to generate Chill bolts to inflict a bunch of Bleeding before it was nerfed, I can't remember a single build on any class that relied to combos to generate conditions.

[Power is not dead, but...]

@Crab Fear.1624 said:

@"Tayga.3192" said:9 out of 12 classes in metabattle's "meta" and "great" sections are power.5/9 can't go above 10 might without team's help.

Lol last updated half a year ago or more

26th April actually.

Although if Metabattle isn't your thing, then Gods of PvP also only has Necro and Mesmer using Condi builds.

[Reports for Inactivity/Sitting in spawn/rage quit!]

@jpsssss.7530 said:We need a report dedicated to people who tilt then afk in spawn or dc.I mean they literally added a report option called Idle Player some time back

Unless you did not know, it means essentially AFK.

[Non-meta Necro builds]

@Brimstone Jack.3462 said:

@"DanAlcedo.3281" said:Have seen necros destroy people on a pure Minion build in plat1.

Have seen the same with plain old well bomb necro.

Got any links to specific builds?

The build itself doesn't really matter. You can sort of soft counter most condi builds 1v1 due to

this trait

It falls apart against power and is mostly useless in teamfights

[Competitive Mindset]

I swore to myself to never ever play anything but Necro in PvP since early HoT tho

I have stayed true to it ever since. I will play Necro and nothing but Necro regardless of the state of Necro or whether the enemy comp hard counters me.

[Instant rez signet and effects all need to be nerfed.]

@wevh.2903 said:Apply a poison field and do some dmg ezAnd thats how I know you're a Thief player.

[PvP Amulets and Runes]

@Scoobaniec.9561 said:Legend from s1 to 4 then dropped the game.But season 1-4 gave you legend for just grinding enough games...I was also legend in those seasons. Everyone was.

[PvP Amulets and Runes]

@Scoobaniec.9561 said:Yes. Lets add these stats in and rebalance condition damage. Its been 8yrs. Like i said stats arent a problem, its broken mechanics. Daily reminder that condition damage needs just one stats while power require 3. If thats not broken then idk what is.Except no one with more than two braincells isn't aware that the main problems with condition damage is the spamminess of application combined with the spamminess of cleanse on top of the fact that conditions can't crit. If you rebalanced conditions along longer durations and less cleanse (yes I know they started doing this but it has barely changed anything aside from removing extreme outliers of condi burst) in the game as well as making conditions able to crit and be affected by ferocity. Then yes, the end product would be much more balanced. But doing so is an immensely massive workload that would overshadow even Feb 25 patch many times over. Why would they do that when you can just delete an amulet instead?

[PvP Amulets and Runes]

@Scoobaniec.9561 said:How about we remove amulet system completely and let us select custom stats like in wvw/pve?Yeah nah.

If anything WvW should use the PvP amulet system. While the novelty of roaming with stats like Dire or Trailblazer and going 1vX without ever feeling in danger is fun. It's beyond broken.

Reminder stats were never the problemAlrighty. Lets add Minstrel, Nomad, Trailblazer and Dire to PvP.

[Instant rez signet and effects all need to be nerfed.]

@Novuake.2691 said:Just played a game with both a bunker necro and a tempest runing revive signets. Sheer BS.

Make them work like engi Toss Elixir R and pulse over time instead of a chunk heal like they work now.I dunno about the Ele ress signet, but the Necro one costs 10k health as soon as you press it, even if it gets interrupted. And Necro doesn't have any stability at all to cover it with. So using it is pretty risky and a lot of times popping shroud and diving in for a manual ress is actually a lot safer. Elixir R is honestly harder to counter since they nerfed damage. Outcleaving the ress pulses generally isn't going to happen unless you're running a dps heavy build, and the cast is really really fast. The animation with the white mist and the floaty ress symbol is pretty hard to see in visual clutter as well. I like Elixir R tho. It's a cool skill it should definitely not be nerfed. I wouldn't mind if they made the floaty symbol like 10x bigger tho.

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I'm enjoying it. It's the best and most diverse meta we've had for a very long time ?

[Necromancer Dagger Skills: Buff or Stay as They Are?]

Maybe make the 3 skill a tight cone AoE.

As for the auto attack. Back before PoF launched I wanted Anet to add a condi to it, admittedly that was for PvE reasons. I still kinda want that.

Maybe Poison on the two first hits and Slow on the last hit. Or just poison on all three hits if Slow is too strong.I do want to see some more Poison on Necro. Since Putrid Defense exists after all

[Double dagger condi Soulbeast top100 footage]

@CroTiger.7819 said:since each stack of poison is lifesteal so hiting aoe 3 targets 3 pulses with 3 stack on each target can heal you for 3-4k.So that's where the healing is coming from. I've been wondering how you're outhealing my condis in some fights when I didn't see unguent on you.

[Thank you for the PvP balance update]

It's a good patch.

Although I would have liked to see Fear of Death at either 5% or 10%. 7% is such an ugly number. I don't like it.

[How to PROPERLY handle lich form.]

It should probably have its cooldown reduced to 90s now though for consistency.

[I take back what I said, nerf ranger.]

The original Skyhammer was an abomination.

Even though Necro was immune to fall damage back then as well. Spending an entire game chilling with the wurms beneath the Skyhammer platform was boring as hell.