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The current damage output on some classes is absurdly high, which I can agree with. However, I can't agree with the stunlock complaints. Everyone saying they only have access to 3-4 stunbreaks at max but are you forgetting all of your other defences? - Stability - Aegis - Dodges / Evades - Blinds - Blocks - Kiting - Using no-port spots to prevent teleport bursts. Also, peel for teammates. If they're being CC'ed and focused, damage the target that is doing that. Take some of the pressure off them.

If you're running Shadow Arts you get access to blind with Hidden Thief (using steal) which means you could you Leaching Venoms. Having access to blind when you stealth is kind of ireelivent as most of our ways of accessing stealth also blind enemies, via directly blinding them or putting down a smoke field

In case anyone missed it, we recently had CMC on the Arenalabs PvP Podcast to talk about lots of different issues and topics regarding PvP. CMC also answered some of the questions you folks from the community were asking. The podcast can be found on Spotify and Podbean It will be uploaded on our YouTube channel soon! I hope you enjoy this episode as it was fun to get some developer insights of the game we love!

HUGE ANNOUCEMENT!!!! The ArenaLabs PvP Podcast is happy to announce that the Guild Wars 2 Developer CMC will be coming on the show to talk about everything and anything PvP related!This is where you all come in. We want to give you, the community an opportunity to ask questions about hot topics within our PvP scene! There are certain topics, CMC can and cannot talk about and there is only so much we can ask him at once so please bare this in mind. Our aim is to have a healthy discussion about the game and learn some of the cool behind the scenes things only a games developer can answer. Feel free to drop questions below and we will do our best to ask as many as possible during the show. If you want to check out our content you can find us on:YouTubeSpotifyPodbean Stay competitive and see you all in the arena!

One thing I like about this sort of idea of pre-set builds is that it would be an excellent entry point for new players. Guild Wars 2 does a terrible job of introducing new players into PvP, how to create suitable builds or even how to rotate in the game mode. It would be fantastic if a new player had access to some of decent builds and a brief explanation on their role works all in game!Yes, places like metabattle and godsofpvp exist but players should not have to go to a 3rd party to learn how to play the game or find a suitable build for PvP.

Honestly, these suggestions seem to give advantages to the losing team who are making mistakes and punishing the winning team for doing well. Snowballing is the outcome of a team winning their fights and staggering the spawns in order to get map control. Quite often, uncoordinated teams will run out as soon as they re-spawn into an outnumbered fight and inevitably die, thus allowing the snowball to continue.

They tried something like this back in Guild Wars 1. They removed Team Arenas and replaced it with Codex Arenas. Every week it provided classes with a limited skill selection to make a build from and was meant to encourage build diversity. It had the opposite effect and players hated it as ArenaNet effectively took away their freedom of choosing how the player wanted to play the game and thus, the gamemode died within weeks.

I agree, Illthex is garbage and only average at Thief.... He is only a Plat 3/Legendary player and a Thief Coach for the community. I don't get posts likes this...

This week we were honoured to be joined by the recent September mAT winner, Ultrascuffed member and Engineer extraordinaire, Floody! He shares his insight on how a competitive team should prepare mentally before a tournament and during intense games along with some important personal tips that you may not have heard before... Available on Spotify here and Podbean here.It will be available on YouTube in the next few days! Want to get involved more in PvP? Join the Welcome to PvP Discord https://discord.gg/5QverXV Enjoy!

Imagine thinking that this video which is full of memes should be taken seriously or is a true reflection of how to play Thief...Seems I should have included a disclaimer saying this a is parody of the attitude of players who think Thief is bad. If you think Thief needs higher damage in order to succeed, you're playing it wrong.Those judging my knowledge of the game and PMing me in game asking my rank in order to inflate your ego on the forums just shows your maturity levels. For those enjoyed the video and understood the irony, I'm happy and intend to do some more overly edited shenanigans covering "broken builds"... *Looks at Grenade Holosmith"

Remember back in Guild Wars 1 where all Top Ranked PvP games and Tournaments were free to spectate to all players

Thief is trash, please buff.... ;)

Another week, another episode talking about PvP...This week we were joined by the YouTube Reaper God, Hollts! He shared his views on Solo Queue ranked and how he stays so level headed and doesn't let the frustration get the better of him along with some sneaky Reaper tips and tricks. Really fun and interesting discussion to listen to! Podcast is available on Spotify here ----> https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ymoNcLevYgARUnBpoCp5q?si=A9qsYo0hQtaUhgACLQXqMA and on PodBean here ----> https://arenalabsgw2.podbean.com/ Also on YouTube (ususally delayed) ----> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCssymJwQaHJSzknAijICu8A

My team just signed up for the 1915 (UK Time) Melandru's Cup AT 16/09/2020 and just as it started, we got booted from the queue. Anyone else have this problem? Really frustrating that prime time AT bugs out and means we can't play.

What I meant by Heart Seeker spam is using the skill twice getting 5-6k damage each time. The problem is if we buff backstab an attack which is delivered from stealth (to which there is very little counter play or time to react) to deal even more damage that would make Thief way too strong. Right now in the meta, Thief is one of the top picks and arguably a must pick. To say the class needs a damage buff to backstab is beyond me. I would like to see a buff to deadly Arts and Critical Strikes to create some variety as Shadow Arts is too strong defensively