Falan.1839

The matchmaker is fine, the population ist just too low for it to work properly most of the time.

What Sind and Trevor already said, and also the fact that the number of people who can be in one game is fairly limited as far as i know.

As Crab Fear said, this thread is a meme that never gets old.

Only 6/10 Revs from the 2 mAT winning teams of both regions, I think we can do better than that.

@arenanet Maybe reduce Glint Heal to 20s CD or give Ventari more Knockbacks. Could also sneak a few more dmg reducers into Retri Traitline or Dwarf Stance.

I suspect the random Ascended drops highly correlate with the Diminishing Returns, when you don't play for a while you get really good rng on them whereas when you play a lot constantly you barely ever get something. I can't prove statistically that it works precisely this way, but DR is definitely a thing, which is also acknowledged in the Wiki. But it's not really clearly how it works precisely, but it always felt to me as if it strongly privileged casual activity over extended, long-time efforts, as so many things in this game.

Yeah, everything fixed. Rev still a premium class with 4 meta builds, resistance rune nerf making condi sider builds more obnoxious than ever, Burn DH untouched except for a bugfix, the META IS FIXED GUYS.

Renegade and the three other rev builds that will keep dominating the meta. Along with the token support bunker guard and burn DH here and there, that is literally all you need to play now. Revs and guards. Any other class is obsolete.

Wow, chaining all your defensive cooldowns between two glint heals which give free fullheal, much skill. Such amaze.

> @"torben.1532" said:

> yo these changes are actually really good. sure there are still things that need to get changed but it actually is a really good patch targeting the correct things

Are you blushing while lying at least? Honestly, if you put all rev mains in a huge sack and clubbed them until you don't hear a sound anymore you would never hit the wrong guy. Might also wanna add the guard advocates.

Play some high DPS build, maybe even something memeworthy like Axe/Axe GS Beserker. If you want to still be survivable and play a proper meta spec just go with Zerk Power Herald. That way most fights should end, even though you might not win all of them. I'd say in ranked it's generally the better option to play high dps anyway, because people don't rotate fast enough and make too many mistakes to really abuse bunkers like in coordinated teams.

There isn't even a no option, the only that actually says no also says I only play for PvE, which doesn't make sense. 10/10 poll.

And no, I wouldn't. WvW got me bored to death 4 years ago and PvE is only bearable for 30-60 min or so, so without PvP I'd rather play another game.

> @"Flumek.9043" said:

> While im a necro 1trick since launch and its the game I enjoyed,

> I doubt how long it would last. It was very punishing , 1-shoty and very "proc" based.

>

> Air + fire sigil + dhuumfire = 3k dmg on a power necro attack thats meant to do 500 dmg.

> Add spinal shivers and I can already remember how a duel against the average sizer looked:

>

> hit for 3k with procs

> dodge

> doge

> swap to dagger, land 2x autos

> doge

> doge

> swap shroud

> doge

> evade

> dodge

> land shroud auto 4k , air 1k , fire 1k , spinal 4k

> sizer ded, me 3hp.

>

> Its a good equal matchup betweem 2 glass builds, but only cz both builds have unfair mechanics.

> So if you remove 1 stupid thing , which you 99% will have to, lets say the fire air procks , you then need to make necros actual weapon more reliable.

> At that point, youre already playing something closer to HOT than vanilla gw2.

Don't disturb people rose tinted nostalgia with actual facts about the gameplay back then.

PvP has always had it's share of bullshit mechanics (beside a lot of very cool and skillbased ones, to be fair). At least Lich was Bullshit zapping people with AA spam in 2014 and is bullshit zapping people with AA spam in 2021, so we've gone full circle on that.

Otherwise, I'd rather have the current meta improved than going back in time, despite all the fun I had on cele rifle.

Happy third birthday!

The sad truth is that while higher rated players usually have a better understanding of the game, they are at least equally biased towards their preferred classes and builds, so their suggestions often aren't much better than "I got rolled by XYZ nerf pls".

Rev carries harder in high tier and definitely has to be nerfed, but that doesn't mean a condi build that shits out higher burst than any power spike build is good design when condi is supposed to be attrition based damage over time. Burn DH is just dumb, either you have a "get out of jail card" ready and it does not do much except denying the node, or you don't and you get absolutely deleted in seconds.

The two main issues are that a) Permeating Wrath is a dumb trait promoting spamming all your shit on one point and then relying on passive procs to kill stuff and b) Trapper Rune gives waay to much value in the form of Superspeed and Stealth to a build that otherwise be fairly suicidal. Right now the build has some purpose because it denies excessive node camping by bunkers and counters a lot of res cheese, but again these are separate issues that need to be adressed.

Or maybe just actually meaningfully nerf Revs for once. Thief is completely fine, DE might even be "sleeper" meta at this point since the mobility is closer to the old D/P meta thief now, it still hits like a garbage truck and punishing it has become very hard in an overall slow meta.

Current bunker builds with Cleric or Sentinel Amulet, now that would for sure be great content...

Please think before you post.

Some people just start with the hackusation whenever they feel someone killed them faster than he is supposed to. The actual hacks I've seen were all mobility hacks (speed/port/fly), whereas some people will scream hacks basically whenever they got oneshot, which is usually just a semi-competent or competent player on a overperforming build. The amount of people that do it is probably not even that high, but individuals scream about it so regularly that it gets stuck. There is one Nec Main with a female Acc name on EU that is especially famous for it, it has become somewhat of a running gag because so many different people have posted hackusations from him on discord...

Bots are a real issue, but it is so exclusively in the low divisions, and eventually should not stop you from climbing, since they are easy to kill and there is no reason why you would get more bots in your team than the other team does on average. Obviously it might happen in single matches, but overall you will still climb. Some P1/P2 dude even made a joke out of it to drop into Bronze on purpose and then climb back up with a dedicated bot farming build. In duo it should be even easier to do that.

The last time we got it was in the reward chests for the Tournament of Legends (Top 16 according to the Wiki). I'd imagine if that returns you also have a shot at the finisher. Another ToL was originally announced for the Summer of 2020 but never took place for some reason.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Automated_Tournaments#Tournament_of_Legends

The announcement is here:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-to-spring-summer-and-the-future/

From what I've heard it was originally delayed for MotA, but that doesn't really explain why it never took place afterwards either.

Rev would be my guess.

Both options are kind of bad honestly, the pre-Feb meta might have been more explosive and mechanically challenging, but it was extremely narrow. Holo had been forced out of it with the stability nerf and Scourge was kind of gone aswell. So it was basically just a bunch of Power Revs and DP thieves stealth- and/or portengaging people for oneshots and a quick snowball. The meta right now actually has a wider variety of viable classes and specs. The major issue with the February changes is that the nerf in sustain that should have followed the dps nerfs never really came for many builds. The TTK on the overall hp pools and even immunity frames isn't to high in most cases. There is just too many builds still shitting out sustain left and right without even using their healskill and that is what makes the meta dull in many cases.

I was able to complete it after the patch dropped. I am not sure if it was a sneak fix though, might have been just the one unbugged instance after the patch.

Well I got lucky and finally got into a fresh map where it actually started I guess, but it's still bugged as hell.

> @"foozlesprite.8051" said:

> This is still happening and blocking Vision progress since we can't spawn the "Defend the Zephyrites from the Branded" event for the "Vision of Action: Thunderhead Peaks" update for "Visions of Thunderhead Peaks" unless we can escort Pepperseed first. Supply Foreman Alan and Sayida both say that the Pepperseed escort is complete. Every 20 minutes the Waasma event will pop and regardless of if it gets done or not, Pepperseed never shows up again.

>

> If it makes a difference, this was on IP 34.237.22.62:0.

Literally the same issue still...

Same issue here, similarly to what is going on in Istan with the Caravan Achivement, the followup event for this (Visions of Action: Thunderhead Peaks - Defend the Zephyrites from the Branded) won't start.

They are both crap in their own way at this point. 2v2 / 3v3 are mostly comp wars that favour bunker shit and a few mechanics that can game the overtime feature (barrier), but the conquest meta is converging towards bunker aswell and on top of it you have to deal with rng matchmaking, leading towards games being decided by which team has the bigger feeders. LB is a meme in both modes aswell at this point, so I guess indifferent it is.