Guild Wars 2

Ok so it’s very clear that not a single person on this forum is satisfied with the 18th patch. Whereas we also found out earlier that the around 500 people that post here regularly are only a vocal minority (see: very very tiny and insignificant part) of the large PvP Community of Guild Wars 2 – I have seen people in The Mists asking what happened to their PvP rewards and why it went through like this. Then again these only represent another minority that is limited to Far Shiverpeaks and Desolation Heart of the Mists.
All that said it is obvious that we have no idea nor any way of predicting what the bigger circle – the PvP Community thinks about the patch in general.
Here is what I experienced:

• Team queue – played for 2 hours, got 4 games, 4/4 same team… hey TsB! o/
• Solo queue – played for 1.5 hours, got 4 games, 14 players altogether throughout. The lowest rank player was rank18, non ranked on leaderboard, highest rank was 68, then ranked 50ish on leaderboard.

There must be a bug or something because there is no way that this massive PvP Community of Guild Wars 2 can not pump out enough players to give us a different team to play against in team queue for 2 hours and in solo queue for 1.5 hours.
P.s.: I did attempt to get new opponents and team mates in solo queue because I wanted to shamelessly queue dodge a guy that seemed to be so fascinated with enemy controlled mid that it seemed a good trade off for him to let the enemy outnumber us on far and then snowball him on mid while he autoattacked the guardian.

What are your immediate observations, fellow Vocal Minority?

Doesn’t matter, we are too small of a sample to be heard by Allie and the rest…

If only we received the new rank chests in queued arena wins, I would be playing more often.

Instead, I have to dedicate an entire day to get a chest worth of 5 minutes of pve. I don’t even

What on earth is wrong with you people. You actually expected a balance patch or something? How many layers of rock have you all been living under?

RaZaC.1963:

What on earth is wrong with you people. You actually expected a balance patch or something? How many layers of rock have you all been living under?

No offense dude, but how do you take away rewards and replace them with NOTHING?

Its going to be like this for the next 2 months imo (unless they announce on ready up when the spvp reward system will be implemented, which is highly unlikely since they don’t care about pvp due to the fact it doesn’t involve gemstore lol )

there is no logicial reason to take away rewards, replace them with absolutely nothing and than expect players to wait for a long period of time.

This is the way I see it.
You are working, getting paid every 2 weeks in the form of a check.
Your employer now says OK we don’t like this kind of check any more, so we are taking it away and going to figure out something later and pay you when its ready….

You honestly believe people are going to be happy about this?

THERES PLENTY OF OPTIONS , the fact anet gave the players NOTHING at all, is sad.

If there was nothing ready to be implemented, why on EARTH take away the only currency and reward in pvp? On what planet does this look like a logical move? Now there is absolutely no incentative for anyone to do pvp. I’m currently at 94/100 for champion hunter so ofc I’m gonna finish up 100 and call it done for now, but yesterday,
I ranked up from 25 to 26. You know what I got? a box with 4 different stacks of various T2 mats. Are you serious right now? this is what it comes to?

Well im just taking break from PvP, doing WvW now.
Maybe thats the reason why anet took away glory before having replacement rewards, cause they want more people to be active in the new WvW season?
I would want to say that i pvp for fun but tbh no rewards take out all motivation.
During wintersday i was literally playing ALL the time because i was making loads of gold with wintersday gift, then i played because of mystic coffers and dyes, now in 2 days i have done 1 soloque just to check whats the reward is.
For me PVP is down for maintenance, well at least i can get some gold now when all my time isnt wasted on PVPing.

I’ve played this game since release. PvP is where my heart is and I’ve played in about 3 teams over the past 12 months. Currently I’m playing in Beauties and the Beasts, a team that is full with players that all are dissapointed about the state of balance/features/bugs etc. Besides this I have a second account and spend way to much money on gems.

All things considering I should be joining the whine-train that has been going on since the patchnotes released, right? Or we could choose to be the bigger people and leave the game until they actually add something that makes it worth playing again. The only thing that posts like these achieve is that the dev’s will have even less respect for us as players.

I agree the decision to completely remove rewards with any substitute was another bad decision. But really, we have had so many of those it shouldn’t change anything. Wait for the FEATURE patch and see if its good or not.

Solo and team queue are pretty dead from what I see. Couldn’t find anyone willing to play team due to lack of rewards so I didn’t even bother doing the tourney dailies.

The hotjoin rooms however were bustling with people trying to grind ranks (i think?). Not really sure but the 500 rank points / win feels a lot for the relatively little effort required.

I am going to guess that once the hotjoin guys get past rank 20-30 they will get bored and realize it is a ‘chore’ to grind any further and go back to PvE (that or they realize the loot sucks and leave).

I spoke with a few friends who said that they weren’t really impressed getting oranges and t2 mats from a rank chest and that they won’t be going back (they were new to PvP).

Overall it looks pretty grim and fail but I’m sure it’ll be alright Soon™.

RaZaC.1963:

How many layers of rock have you all been living under?

Tell that to the scissors

#thismeta

our guild has stopped playing pvp, everybody i’ve talked to has stopped. anvil rock mist is empty, maybe the devs really do want to delete the pvp servers.

These issues will only get worse till a HUGE update happens. Many in the mists are talking about the changes and in a negative manner all day long. The Mists are dead maybe 10-20 players during prime time right now when normally there where close to 30-40. No Rewards and no significant updates to bugs among other issues with SPvP are slowing the game down as respects to PvP. I also haven’t seen a Dev play in pvp in over a month where I use to see one ever few days! Sad really

By the time they release new game modes there won’t be enough people to start a match in any mode.

I’ve gone undefeated since the patch. Queque times seem unchanged, but the quality of opponent is way down

Ugruk.4069:

Doesn’t matter, we are too small of a sample to be heard by Allie and the rest…

Allie listens to us, it’s just that Allie herself has only a minor role in the process of development sadly, it’s not her and not only the devs that decide what happens, it’s the NCSoft Department that tells them what to do and what not (Where they can put recources to and where not). And NCSoft likes pve more than pvp and doesn’t listen to the forums.
Thats how things go, I think sometimes you only can accept whats happening.