Paradoxoglanis.1904

> @"Barquiel.5610" said: > I'm still facing 3 stacked teams or more over and over again. So I don't how much you can learn from just not engaging in fights and decapping. You can still learn a lot if your team is getting stomped. Practice reading the mini map, try to keep track of enemy positions so you arent surprised when they rotate to outnumber you, practice kiting, watch your teams respawns to see if you are getting staggered or just getting outplayed, and so on.

> @"Barquiel.5610" said: > However, just cause you watch a video doesn't make you awesome at the task. That takes time and practice. But then every time you try to practice you are met with just insults and BM. > > So I'm curious how exactly are newer players suppose to get into pvp, when again the only thing waiting for the newer players is pure venom? Thats the main difficulty, getting "good" at gw2 pvp requires a lot of time spent acquiring game knowledge. Veterans have 1000s of games played and have more or less fought every kind of build possible, so they know what to watch out for. The only thing you can do to try and speed up the process is find someone or a guild to play with who can explain builds to you and point out things that you need to improve on. As for the toxicity and impatience, that is just the sad reality of being a new player in an older game. Best thing to do then is just turn off map/say chat for the rest of that game.

a full 50 man squad of minionmancers

> @"WillPaharu.4837" said: > > @"Arheundel.6451" said: > > > > > You don't need to ask any question..as long as it's a ranger nerf, this community will be happy..it doesn't matter whether justified or not, it's a ranger nerf and it's enough to celebrate > > haha. I still think thief and mezmer the most hated classes tho. If a person sees them doing anything remotely well they freak out. I think the developers should focus on metabattle.com instead of listening to all the babies. hahaha. If something is meta, it's gunna need a nerf. > Alternatively they could check a person's rank. if it's silver or lower they could just be ignored. yes!! mwahahaha. elitism. let the elites decide...i actually think it's a good idea. fight me. > > Im pretty sure the dev only listens to the pvp/wvw discord. The forums dont really dictate anything.

Its a low effort meme build that does quite well in a lot of matchups and teamfights. Power is easily countered if you avoid the stealth pull and can set off their traps without getting cc chained, but not every build can do that. Condi is just stupid and not even worth fighting unless you can cleanse every few seconds.

seems like decent changes, though the lack of trapper rune / burn guard nerfs is kind of annoying

> @"FrownyClown.8402" said: > > @"Paradoxoglanis.1904" said: > > Well i tried playing the squishiest of the squish, zerker ele as a LR sword weaver. Still was having 2-3 min fights and stalemates all over the place. I think i have narrowed my issue down to people using their heal skill. It seems to be making fights last a lot longer. > > Interrupt the heal. Easier said than done with all the passive blind, blocks, cc, & stab. Also a lot of classes have enough passive healing to keep fights going on forever.

Well i tried playing the squishiest of the squish, zerker ele as a LR sword weaver. Still was having 2-3 min fights and stalemates all over the place. I think i have narrowed my issue down to people using their heal skill. It seems to be making fights last a lot longer.

Trying to 1v1 with a build that is bad at 1v1s isnt really solving the problem. I think ill just play minionmancer and watch tv so i dont have to pay attention.

Fire weaver is strong yes, but there are only 2 ways they should be able to kill you. 1 is if you blindly attack them and facetank their aoe. 2 is if they bait your cds and then cc burst you. Its a side noder build, they can hold a node but are easy to kite and they have their weaknesses in 1v1s.

We lost intense fast paced fights for mindless slogs where you just try to out rotate your opponent and eventually land a cc burst when they are out of cds, and thats only if its not a stalemate. Yeah there were issues before, but the feb patch created more problems than it fixed.

It would be nice, but often times the best advice to give to someone struggling in a matchup is just to swap classes/builds. 1v1s are often 1 sided or end in stalemates, so its not really worth learning a losing matchup since you will always lose to an equally skilled player, which leads to complaints about balance.

Players in p3 or higher would never get into matches if they didnt get paired with lower ranked players. It sucks, but thats what low population does.

Core condi staff or zerker dagger/dagger or scepter/dagger. Condi staff deals no damage, and scepter/dagger cant survive. Condi scepter/focus is actually pretty good in some matchups.

> @"Ragnar.4257" said: > I will say it again very slowly: If the DH is playing a burn build, then it can't also be doing big power damage My zerker ele begs to differ