RedAvenged.5217

Just one of the ranger squad here to complain. Blah blah engineer is always better blah blah first holo now scrapper

@"Ragnar.4257" its just not. Guard is and has been the biggest counter to ranger. Anything with aoe condi damage will basically face roll ranger. Yeah a bad dh is pretty well countered by ranger becuz ranger with valk amulet can rip it fast, but that doesn’t happen often against a good one. And your actually not gonna see longbow or a ranged weapon much on this build. The average ranger build at best against this will just sit off node with longbow and basically just decap and then kite again. It will not be able to get node or ever win against a good dh becuz it is hard countered.

Is ranger trash? I think it would be S teir if not for burn dh- which in every single category is the hardest ranger counter in the game

> @"felix.2386" said: > > @"mes.4607" said: > > They did not keep their promise regarding balance. There are some things so blatantly overturned that I don't know how they weren't nerfed already. Useless traits that were never reworked. HOW > > because they midway shifted all the fundings to EoD. > feb patch with small patches was going to a good direction till november 2020 That’s based on nothing but speculation. Imo who cares about a miracle balance patch that only the elitist wanted. The problem with that patch is it went against the actual rules and regulations the company had set forth. Imagine thinking what these elitist think will help ppl, same thing happens in politics- they just waste all our money, commit crimes and go around making ppl unhappy.

There are sites for pvp like godsofpvp and meta battle but many things aren’t helpful for average players becuz they are based just what is common in tournaments which could even go as far to use a weaker build than what u could do in ranked. Try vallun’s YouTube videos and find some of his guides- he has everything from settings to basic strategies to even almost all different free to play builds in the game atm and lots of other builds from meta to good.

> @"Styros.8931" said: > can say 100 times more . If you playing d/p p/d stop crying, its broken af and you not supposed to cry about buff thiefs . If you playing non pistol weapon sets, ok understandable I play s/d only and I think only reason s/d isn’t a meta contender is cuz of rev. If a rev meets a thief anywhere on map it’s actual damage will force a thief off instantly, which is 1 reason ppl play dp since you can just stealth and not worry about revs or even other thief’s. If rev is nerfed s/d will be fine against them and it’ll win node of dp and pd anyways so not a bad pick in this meta...

I just think rev is busted. I dislike the place thief is in, in fact it’s been pepega since for a very long time just swapping between w.e is more cancer at the time. However we do seem to be touching on actual busted issues like short bow mobility which is insane compared to previous nerfs, it just took really killing the classes build diversity. BUT, just bring rev down and you’ll see things like s/d thief being a really balanced roamer, then again that same dp build suffering atm might be op without rev so idk?

I think I’ve seen scourges running this trait in 75% of my few matches this week. I think it’s the torch trait but w.e it is it’s insanely annoying

I like this idea, mostly because I really want more diversity though as we have seen recently even a heavily nerfed amulet like cele can be wild strong

@"CutesySylveon.8290" @"Zephoid.4263" both of you are wildly wrong shield is one of most heavily abused spirit weapons rn. It has more dps and weakness uptime than necro, as @"felix.2386" its good against projectile heavy comps and most popular streamers rn who play dh like naru say that if there’s any projectile ppl on the other team always go shield and that it’s insanely busted rn. Check yourselves

> @"Zephoid.4263" said: > > @"RedAvenged.5217" said: > > > @"Zephoid.4263" said: > > > Ah right.. all those ppl using hammer, bow, and shield. You know, literally no one. Therefore we need to nerf them. > > > > Ppl use shield excessively, bow is not bad atm for a support but hammer which could be awesome just doesnt hit much. Weapons are decent, nerf sword 100% doesn’t have to be a lot 25% nerf to damage condi + power and shield w.e nerf leave rest of them the same but wouldn’t mind hammer hitting more often > > Please, find me a remotely meta build that uses shield. > There is no build that uses bow. Healbrand was nerfed out of existence. > Spirit Hammer has been bad for literally forever. And it actually got nerfs at one point, despite being straight unused. Just to make sure it never was. > Sword has been the only viable one. > > Guard is only viable atm because of the CC nerf. Lets bring CC damage back and watch how guard goes back to straight useless. Having little to no stab, no prot, few stun breaks, and little condi cleanse makes a pretty awful build. Burn guard was almost always the bunker breaker and almost every class atm is a bunker due to the lack of damage across the board. Fixing the zero damage CC problem solves a lot of the most UP classes too, as any sort of dps warrior was hit way to hard by that silly change. Are u insane - metabattle.com literally the guard meta be it cheese or not has shield as an option and it’s more often abused than almost all the variants? Some ppl use the bow on supports- I see some ppl use bow on their variants of meta like blackjack a very good guard which is only reason I really mention it. 2/4 spirit weapons are meta 3/4 good 1/4 just don’t work much cuz it’s animation is bad, but this is gw2 and that’s good for most things especially guard. My statement stands...

> @"bethekey.8314" said: > > @"Terrorhuz.4695" said: > > Necromancers with rune of speed, wurm and spectral walk have some crazy mobility, but this guy isn't using anything of that, it's just speed hack. Report for botting, they'll check it. > > No, watch the video very closely. He's using some crazy Necro ability. You're not allowed to post videos of people speed hacking, so I definitely wouldn't do that. This is an out rage. Who let necro reached this point of busted ness?

> @"Khalisto.5780" said: > I think reaper bully all of em outta node with certain ease > > Sure they can kite your kitten forever > > But if you asking such thing supports on your braket will most likely try to facetank you on node and die O plz nice swipe at my mmr. I’d bet I’m higher mmr, but who cares it’s a universe problem- supports are insanely tanky atm and pretty much anyone can understand that

The tramfight s part got me

> @"ollbirtan.2915" said: > A 'support' sitting alone on a node is a waste of slot. A smart 'support' will be in group fights where it can be easily focused. > Also, a smart dps player will not be engaging in a 1v1 with a support. L2p issue here. I call bs. Support holding a node by itself is insanely common and it can often even 1v2 forever by its self bringing huge value.

Thief is weak rn. Half a second of stealth from dh isn’t worth nerfing. It would be a hypocritical thief nerf- like nerfing just short bow 5 instead of shadow arts which is the real reason why thief isn’t meta. Nerf something other than a rune lots of other classes can use than talk about nerfs

> @"Zephoid.4263" said: > Ah right.. all those ppl using hammer, bow, and shield. You know, literally no one. Therefore we need to nerf them. Ppl use shield excessively, bow is not bad atm for a support but hammer which could be awesome just doesnt hit much. Weapons are decent, nerf sword 100% doesn’t have to be a lot 25% nerf to damage condi + power and shield w.e nerf leave rest of them the same but wouldn’t mind hammer hitting more often

> @"Shao.7236" said: > Variety isn't gonna change the lack of builds. Players are still gonna take the same traits with the same intends. Why pick anything else unless it makes the existing better? > > Oh yeah, why bring back what has been proven to be broken on certain specs, but not others? Because we should nerf the certain specs? Forget that the others wouldn't even use it in the first place still if those specs were nerfed because "variety". Careful what you wish for. > > The demand is useless, it's asking for useless features with the illusion of choice. We had tons of amulets before with tons of sigils and everything was still narrowed down regardless, better have it forcefully narrowed so that people explore options that can potentially work with most instead of having niches like the Busted Knight Ranger build, Trapper runes as of late have been another example of that. Niche uses that makes something particular broken in most cases rather than being a viable option "mostly" for everyone, those shouldn't even exist in PvP. > > I can hear the elitists complaining at me that we might as well just have nothing at all and just classes themselves. I'll just repeat and you should look it up, illusion of choice. See what really matters in this game mode rather than thinking it's lackluster, you can have fun if you're not lacking the so call freewill you wish to have. > > If you're not happy with PvP, you have WvW to do whatever you want. It's not like someone who hates not having the options to make builds would care to play conquest or XvX anyway. Nothing that’s been patched out has ever been proven to be broken. Anet makes changes based on what direction they want the game to take and to claim otherwise is just silly. Saying it’s proof of anything is actually even worse than just silly, it’s a keen to some sort of socialist view to were anything that happens should be what keeps happening

It’s very strong until the map mechanic. Ofc you aren’t gonna carry much without a premade unless ur a mechanic beast but yes it’s very good in 2v2s

> @"Raiden The Beast.3016" said: > Wasnt it Sindrener in a stream: "cmc doesnt have the know how to come up with a propper bala and get suggestions from players who r just not gud enough to give suggestions for bala" ... > > Outcome r bala patches based on suggestions from players that represent 2% of the playerbase. The polls on the forum shows that the playerbase is splitted 50/50 into gud/bad bala changes which is for sure a bad baseline for a healthy pvp feeling. > > Take teef as example. I fully understand that teef frustrades the high tier play, p3, leg, mat and in other tournaments since it is mandotory to have teef in the game to win. However teef is more than throw ur stuff on node and everything is dead. Teef needs propper teamrotation since he cant 1vs1, teamfight isnt gud as well. But propper rota. starts when?, in p2... and in yolo q even in p2 u often not able to carry by +1, decaps. > > This means with the bala. u may bring teef in line for 2% of the community whereas u destroid it for 98%... maybe not destroid but u know what I mean. > > The remaining 98% r fighting vs burnguards, immortal necs and other meme and are still not happy with their ingame expierence. > > Im not saying the bala. approach is wrong, but a 50/50 split feels not healthy. > > Yeah and I don’t have time for balancing around streamers when they can just watch them. Also the amount of times I’ve seen toxic egotistical streamers do stupid stuff is immense and I can believe devs eating that stuff up like candy which is the #1 thing most ppl in the game want to avoid