Guild Wars 2

So you’re standing on point. There’s four players incoming, all your stuffs on cooldown. If you run there isn’t much chance of escaping, but if you stay on point you won’t last more than a few seconds.

Do you run?

This is one of the age old questions of the pvper; as old as pvp itself.

Today I saw something else incoming however. Arenanet have announced that pvp skins will be awarded in return for achievement points, something that we as pvpers have been stockpiling since launch. At first I was a little shocked by this sudden shift towards player rewards, however now that the dust has settled I can see that this could be a good idea. I’ve been slaving away on the last 1% of my marauder title for what feels like an age now, and at first I thought those final 10 achievement points were unbalanced versus pve achievements – but check this out.

Did you know that getting your 5th legendary weapon only lands you 10 points? Having spent the last 10 months grinding hotjoins I felt marauder to be my crowning glory. But 5 legendary weapons? That’s ALOT of grinding. They can’t even show them off in spvp.

I don’t know if everyone is happy with this, but I’m sure at least some of you are – and don’t be afraid to comment on it! So sick of elitist jerks dictating the direction of this game.

Other highlights from today include

1: Say NO to the warrior nerf

2. Vote Kenny for SotG

3. Did the rabbit eat’ my Custom pvp Arena ?

It seems everyone is doing a post on warriors these days so thought I’d add some quotes.

Enmity.3428:

Warriors are getting shafted hard by everyone.

The best thing the “balance” team could do for us is to hand out some free anal-lube.

JETWING.2759:

“I’m the best at what i do. And what i do best are…
Dye”

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

if they’re gonna nerf our Fiery greatsword mobility then they should do the same to warriors.

Is warrior underpowered? Or are all other classes just OP? Discuss!

This was just dumb trolling

Phaeton.9582:

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

if they’re gonna nerf our Fiery greatsword mobility then they should do the same to warriors.

Is warrior underpowered? Or are all other classes just OP? Discuss!

Warrior is crazy beast as a WvW solo roamer or a hammer train tank. Posting a link to the class forums which cover the entire game isn’t really relevant to warrior tPvP struggles.

Allrdy discussed thousand of times. Influence of AoE-dmg, 130-ranged weapon issue and obvious animations are the core of it.

no its not hard to get 5 legendarys you only need to dualwield creditcards, farm brainafk mobs in orr, or make gold from AH and buy it

AND you will not buy items or whatever with archievment pointz – it will be like this event archievments where you get a chest for some special archievments or an amount special archievments. Would be stupid to make archievment pointz a currency^^

Why are they adding PvP rewards to achievement points, isn’t that like forcing PvP players to PvE? I mean I understand they maybe want to entice players from those sections of the game to showoff some of their “elite skillz” in the mists lobby but you are doing it in the opposite direction. You give a PvE rewards in PvP so it does not feel like that are wasting their time not gaining money/farming/instancing.

Taym.8326:

Why are they adding PvP rewards to achievement points, isn’t that like forcing PvP players to PvE? I mean I understand they maybe want to entice players from those sections of the game to showoff some of their “elite skillz” in the mists lobby but you are doing it in the opposite direction. You give a PvE rewards in PvP so it does not feel like that are wasting their time not gaining money/farming/instancing.

They did the same with CA’s allrdy. Why not with Achivement Points?

you will get this glorybooster and the other pvp rewards from pvp archievments not pve ones

Taym.8326:

Why are they adding PvP rewards to achievement points, isn’t that like forcing PvP players to PvE?

I have this strange feeling that there are these things… called PvP achievements.

Taym.8326:

Why are they adding PvP rewards to achievement points, isn’t that like forcing PvP players to PvE? I mean I understand they maybe want to entice players from those sections of the game to showoff some of their “elite skillz” in the mists lobby but you are doing it in the opposite direction. You give a PvE rewards in PvP so it does not feel like that are wasting their time not gaining money/farming/instancing.

Because they wanted to make this “A PvP oriented game” so that’s exactly what they are not doing. Say one thing, do something completely different! The people “balancing” this game obviously have no idea what the hell they’re doing, as every patch that comes in, botches the hell out of most things and either vastly UP’s something or makes something else OP, sometimes both. Then you get to wait a month or two before any fixes come in to play!

How wonderful for “competitive” play in this obviously PvP oriented game that gets literally 5% (if not less) of their resources to balance their oh so precious PvP.

Arenanet deserves the hate they get. Buncha lies, hype, and expectations setup JUST to make sales. By now it should be obvious that’s exactly what they did. I mean have you seen the Developers play considering how much they flapped their jaws about “PvP / esports / etc” in contrast to how good they are?

Kinda tells me that they don’t actually know their game inside and out. Think back to block bug, and then runes of svanir + a stunbreak, was it? How long did it take them to fix this trash? And how many other worthless combinations of runesets / sigils there are thanks to terrible oversights.

It just tells me they aren’t standing behind what they preached pre-launch, and then continue to pretend like they stand behind it, when what is actually done by them does not equal what they said.

kitten them, they suck. This is just one more layer of how much this game is NOT PvP oriented, as they are trying to coax PvP’ers into PvE – PROBABLY because they hope to get them ‘hooked’ on PvE and want to spend money to gear up their toons / whatever else they can milk out of players. $$ Is most likely the reasoning behind most of their actions, and why we as PvP’ers don’t often agree with Arenanubs with just about anything they do.

Like this current incoming garbage. =]

Warrior is apparently unstoppable in PvE/WvWvW even though our traits got nerfed to the ground, we only do about 5-8% more damage then other classes now but because everyone still is in the mindset of (warriors are gods in pve!) we will never get fixed.

Compared to Guardians though, warriors are total trash in all apartments, there is nothing a warrior can do in pve/wvwvw/spvp/tpvp a guardian can’t do better, and guess what? They are getting more buffs, they literally talked about guardian twice as much as warrior and do you want to know there solution to fixing the warrior? More health…. They really don’t play the warrior and have literally no idea why its terrible.

Daecollo.9578:

Warrior is apparently unstoppable in PvE/WvWvW even though our traits got nerfed to the ground, we only do about 5-8% more damage then other classes now but because everyone still is in the mindset of (warriors are gods in pve!) we will never get fixed.

Compared to Guardians though, warriors are total trash in all apartments, there is nothing a warrior can do in pve/wvwvw/spvp/tpvp a guardian can’t do better, and guess what? They are getting more buffs, they literally talked about guardian twice as much as warrior and do you want to know there solution to fixing the warrior? More health…. They really don’t play the warrior and have literally no idea why its terrible.

“nothing a warrior can do in pve a guardian can’t do better” wrong. A warrior can out dps a full glass cannon guard without trying.