Nordic Natedog.4360

I ran into a speed hacker today in GW2. It's been quite some time since I saw something so blatant. I wish I had started recording earlier as it was so obvious then. It started with us basically downing him as he jumped into the water from the cliff on the red keep side of the bridge in EB. He then nearly flew through the water in downstate. You can see that he's putting more and more space between us as I fly down to the water. I literally jumped after him from the cliff as soon as he jumped down. Later in the video you can see him teleporting around all the time during fights. I can understand lag can do this kind of thing but that always looked differently.

Vindicator is completely broken in wvw. I have seen 8+ guys trying to kill a single vindicator and can't unless they get multiple cc's. Which is no easy feat with all the dodges. On top of that, the dodge is longer than it should and skills don't work on targeting it correctly. I play scourge mostly in blob fights and don't find dealing with scrappers that difficult. So what if you can cleanse like crazy, there is more to fighting that just cleanses.

This leaping into keeps is really for the birds. We lost a t3 Garri because a deadeye made their way all the way to inner (not sure how but I have some ideas) and later I caught him jumping into air keep (twice). We killed him and the guys he ported into inner the first time and he came right back. Once he's in, he's generally impossible find. I tried a few times to get him blocked in time to report him, but never got quite enough time to do so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FudmhtEpvnU

Here is a recording I did to show the problem. I start off the video with 25 stacks, change gear which clears the stacks, then kill something using my scepter focus (focus has a stars sigil on it) but get no stacks.

There is a bug with stacking sigils. I first noticed at times that I wouldn't get any stacks despite having my weapon set with a Stars sigil on it. I played around and I believe I found the problem. The Aug 31 2021 update introduced a bug because of the "reset" change to status's after weapon changes. It appears that if you max out your stacks on a weapon set and then change gear, you will no longer be able to stack on the new gear even though the stacks correctly cleared. So while the stacks cleared out, the flag stating that the sigil has reached its max does not. So until you die or change maps, you can't use your stacking sigils.

I am pretty sure that death penalty is supposed to clear once you are ressed or waypoint after a full death. Nope. It’s never worked that way. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Downed_penalty Yes, it has always worked that way. Those stacks are when you haven't fully died yet. Once dead, you are reset on everything. It has never worked like that. If you disagree then please link a source that backs that up. The penalty stacks going away has always been time-based. I has always worked that way. In fact, Anet has fixed it and it now is removed correctly.

I am pretty sure that death penalty is supposed to clear once you are ressed or waypoint after a full death. Nope. It’s never worked that way. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Downed_penaltyYes, it has always worked that way. Those stacks are when you haven't fully died yet. Once dead, you are reset on everything.

I am pretty sure that death penalty is supposed to clear once you are ressed or waypoint after a full death.

I came across an issue where the downed penalty will reappear on you after you waypoint from a death. It looks to be a case where you get the penalty and eventually die from rallying too many times, waypoint, and then enter another zone (in this case it was leaving my keep and entering the zone for ogre watch). Here is the footage of it happening. You can see at 33 seconds the penalty isn't there but it appears (and is actively working as the footage shows) at the 51 second mark. After death and waypointing, it does it again at the 1:36 mark.

The point I took from it was not burn DH, but that most people are bots, don't care to learn and get trolled by easy to counter builds. Solo I run power DH, but a few weeks ago we had some people defending SMC vs a group, no one would push out, people were being melted on walls etc etc. I swap to burn DH, jump in the middle of them and they mostly ignore me, sit in my aoes and I down probably 1/4 of them SOLO. That has NOTHING to do with DH and everything to do with having simple awareness, I should have been downed in seconds. Keep in mind, they had a number of burn DH them selves, so it's not like I had some special build they didn't. The most annoying part is I have done this often, get huge downs in a group of 30-40, we will have 20ish AND NO ONE WILL PUSH. And on the off chance some do....It's like wet noodles, like how, how do you even make a build that does so little dmg? Then I remember what the dev for arcdps said and that was most people do not have anything close to a build but rather random traits and gear sets. I couldn't agree more. I play the bulk of my time on hybrid burn dh (2200 power, 1360 Condi, 40% crit, 192% crit dmg, might stacking from zeal line puts me at 3000 power and 2100 condi while in most fights). I do switch if a comm needs more support FB or even run my same setup as a FB to be a complemental support/dps player if we have a weaker FB or not enough engies. That's one of the great benefits for the hybrid setup. My armor is all cele so my boons and heals are decent in such a role but I still get solid damage that way.

One more thing, you, like several others that posted, missed the entire point of my post. It isn't me saying I'm great or some garbage. I know I run a niche build. My point is for people to stop complaining about one build or another. Just get out there (specifically off the siege) and have fun. People tapping keeps may seem like a funny thing to do but it slows the game down for people (for both the tapper, their server, and their opponents running back) and does little else, especially when you do it just to troll.

Talk about foolishness. I literally pass over some where it states "Finish Them". The 2nd clip had me fighting a low lvl, a bronze and a silver from those I directly targeted. The 3rd had me target some low levels, a silver and a gold. Are you expecting to only ever fight guys with 2500+ ranks in wvw? Most mithrils and diamonds I know have pretty much given up on the game. And fyi, only about 50% of my damage is burns as I run full on hybrid for exactly the point people make on cleanses.

I'm not saying people complain about my build. I'm saying I hear people complaining about one build or another. I also see a ton of people just hanging out on siege when there is very few foes. Oh, I see 2 thieves better get on the cannon type mentality. I only posted the video of game play when you don't choose that kind of mentality. FYI, Even against full comps I do significant damage as I'm not running merely burn guard with my setup. It is full on hybrid (cele and grieving).

So many complaints over this build or another. My simple complaint is people playing so passively. Whether sitting on siege because they are scared of the big vast world of wvw or hanging back during a fight worrying they'll break a nail. Buckle up and head out. Find that it is ok to die now and then and enjoy the ride. And for goodness sake, stop with the keep tapping for tapping's sake. This isn't 2018 when it brought some kind of benefit. You are only costing people a few seconds at most and are just annoying. If you are going to do it, at least learn to fight.