Guild Wars 2

Anet, the ball is in your court right now and I’m a huge fan of you guys and been a loyal supporter for years, ever since GW1, but right now you guys are really starting to drop the ball as much as it pains me to say it.
I’m sure you guys already know the PvP community is pretty smaller and shrinking daily. With every patch you guys cause some huge, game changing bugs and take a really long time to fix them. With that being said you guys REALLY need to fix the new huge bug issues really soon. You guys can’t afford to wait days, let alone weeks to fix them like you do with other bugs.

The mesmer clones/illusions bugs needs to get hot fixed ASAP. It’s so crucial and such a big part of tournament pvp right now. Obviously its a staple in the meta and now you broke them and turning people in the community off.

The ele bugs needs to be hot fixed also. The protection, fury and swiftness minute long durations is ridiculous. Obviously dagger eles are a huge part of the meta right now and you broke them also. Not only that but now all their attunements reset cooldown when you ride the lightning. This is also very crucial.

I’m sure there are also some other glaring and huge bugs right now but these are the top two that I can think of that really need to be hot fixed ASAP and can’t afford to wait like you guys have been doing lately. You are just gunna cause people to play less and less.

Lastly, why haven’t we removed or lowered the ticket cost for paid tournies yet so that we can get paid tournaments to pop more often and get more teams playing and getting better? The player base is dying and shrinking and we can only play competitively for like 3-4 hours a day, on a good day. You guys should at least lower the ticket cost to like 1 or remove it all together and just make it premade queue until the player base grows at least.
You guys should really should do something soon to show the community and loyal fans some good faith and that you still care about the community. A lot of long-time hardcore loyal fans are even starting to lose faith and I don’t want to see it happen.

Save our ship!!
<3

I AGREE WITH THIS!

Idk….. my naked clones going to enemies to shatter em such a troll move. But seriously it needs to be fixed.

I 100% agreed with Zzyzx. You guys need to step your game or this wont go far….

My flamethrower 1 and 2 skills have repeatedly missed since pre-release. My concern for your naked death dealers is very little.

Agreed, just tired of patches bringing bugs to a already buggy game. —-dat mistform/vengeance/etc resing bug.

If anything, we need some communication. At least acknowledge that these things are broken and that you’re working on them, and give us an ETA.

We haven’t had a serious PvP update since October, and the only thing that really did was fix block bug and Svanir runes, which are still bugged on Necro. These things essentially created a meta where EVERYONE was running them for 2-3 weeks before you guys “fixed” it.

Don’t even make me bring up the loadscreen bug, which was patched ONCE and then came back AGAIN to be ignored for another 2 weeks.

The past PvP patches for 2 months have been much delayed bug fixes and underwater combat tweaks and haven’t addressed any of the issues with balance in PvP at all.

Also, what’s with no holiday weapons?

Idk, maybe you guys really don’t care about PvP at all.

Noble.9382:

Agreed, just tired of patches bringing bugs to a already buggy game. —-dat mistform/vengeance/etc resing bug.

THIS! i CANNOT believe that jagged horrors are ressing ele’s in downed mist form and warriors in vengeance STILL. Makes me hate playing my necromancer even more. Also gives res to anyone who is under mesmer illusion of life. fix?

Oh yeah true. The buggy auto self res in mist form & vengeance etc… Forgot about that one. Good call!!

Yeah we really need to get these simple bugs fixed. Absolutely necessary. A lot of people were already really frustrated with pvp— added bugs just ad to that frustration.

Don’t forget if you kill the Lord in the prematch of Foefire then he doesn’t respawn and you can’t kill him during the match

The elementalist self rez has been out since the elementalist downed state skill was buffed, which was ages ago.

Jon Peters was just in the mists an hour ago saying they were working on an emergency patch for all 3 of those

if they touch my naked mesmers imma be so mad. i dont see how it is broken? you guys just need to see the opportunity here. we need viewers and naked mesmers can bring it.

The doomsday tears aren’t necessary.

Yes, these things need to be fixed, but other than naked clones these are minor issues that don’t have that much effect on balance. Eles could already keep up protection for 30 out of every 40 seconds. The bug is just an issue of being able to do it with less effort. Overpowered, obviously. Gamebreaking, no. RTL resetting 9 second attunement cooldowns every 15 seconds is a minor issue. What are they going to do, jump back into an attunement and stare at the 40 second cooldowns they already used? The on swap effects would be helpful, but are still only overpowered and not gamebreaking. They’re bugs and they will be fixed when they can get to them.

The issue with low tournament population has little or nothing to do with ticket cost. sPvP has a limited number of players and a lot of them a newbs who don’t want to join tPvP and get pug stomped over and over again. Making it less expensive isn’t going to get one more newb to queue up for a beat down and isn’t going to bring back one more person who left.

You’re acting like this is the end of PvP. Stahp.

Mesmer thing is minor? Clearly you don’t know the full effect of the mesmer bug, it hinders them completely, not just that they are naked mesmers…. You should do some more research IMO.

The attunment thing is game breaking. 1 minute of fury ? Yeah thats pretty crucial. The fact that they can switch to water for a pretty big heal, then ride the lightning and switch back to water again for another back to back heal? Yeah not game breaking at all… /endsarcasm!

I said the mesmer bug was important and the others were minor.

With ~600 healing, healing ripple heals my ele for around 1,700-1,800. If you think that is gamebreaking every 15-20 seconds, you don’t know what the term means. It is overpowered, and does need to be fixed, but it is in no way an I win bug.

Ele could get permanent swiftness and fury before this patch. The only significant change the MG bug introduced was increased up time on protection, and that was only a difference of going from 75% uptime to 100%.

Yes, they’re overpowered and need to be fixed. No, they’re not gamebreaking and don’t call for a doomsday thread.

Zzyzx’ main point was that Anet needs to hurry up and fix them, because it’s affecting the already fragile state of PvP. And they do. This is ridiculous.

Powerr.3649:

Jon Peters was just in the mists an hour ago saying they were working on an emergency patch for all 3 of those

Outstanding, I’m hoping they can drop a few buffs for theifs in during the hot fix. Those guys are really hurting.

it’s funny anet doesn’t use public test forums and fanboys defend them for it yet they constantly release kitten updates with tons of bugs.

GW2 pvp is again in beta,needs bug fix and new futures.

Zzyzx.8906:

Anet, the ball is in your court right now and I’m a huge fan of you guys and been a loyal supporter for years, ever since GW1, but right now you guys are really starting to drop the ball as much as it pains me to say it.
I’m sure you guys already know the PvP community is pretty smaller and shrinking daily. With every patch you guys cause some huge, game changing bugs and take a really long time to fix them. With that being said you guys REALLY need to fix the new huge bug issues really soon. You guys can’t afford to wait days, let alone weeks to fix them like you do with other bugs.

The mesmer clones/illusions bugs needs to get hot fixed ASAP. It’s so crucial and such a big part of tournament pvp right now. Obviously its a staple in the meta and now you broke them and turning people in the community off.

The ele bugs needs to be hot fixed also. The protection, fury and swiftness minute long durations is ridiculous. Obviously dagger eles are a huge part of the meta right now and you broke them also. Not only that but now all their attunements reset cooldown when you ride the lightning. This is also very crucial.

I’m sure there are also some other glaring and huge bugs right now but these are the top two that I can think of that really need to be hot fixed ASAP and can’t afford to wait like you guys have been doing lately. You are just gunna cause people to play less and less.

Lastly, why haven’t we removed or lowered the ticket cost for paid tournies yet so that we can get paid tournaments to pop more often and get more teams playing and getting better? The player base is dying and shrinking and we can only play competitively for like 3-4 hours a day, on a good day. You guys should at least lower the ticket cost to like 1 or remove it all together and just make it premade queue until the player base grows at least.
You guys should really should do something soon to show the community and loyal fans some good faith and that you still care about the community. A lot of long-time hardcore loyal fans are even starting to lose faith and I don’t want to see it happen.

Save our ship!!
<3

Pfft…don’t worry man! J. Sharp says everyone will come back once they start advertising. We’re going to be OK…

I said it before, and will say it again.

It’s great that we have so many things planned for pvp, and fixes, and major changes(february patch) and etc etc etc.

It all takes too long.
Each patch has a problem and it doesn’t get fixed, if at all, until the next patch…which is like 2-4weeks away.

This patch same thing.

Yezhik.2071:

Each patch has a problem and it doesn’t get fixed, if at all, until the next patch…which is like 2-4weeks away.

This patch same thing.

Bringing back memories of every patch Tripwire put out with Red Orchestra 2 and every other beta..ever. Sad how that pvp lost 9/10ths of its playerbase in two months and has only seen play by devs and hardcore fans ever since.

They wont get rid of or even lower tournament ticket entry fees. They want people to spend real money to buy gems for purchasing tournament tickets. Why do you think they got rid of tournament tickets as rewards on paid tourneys. It’s a ploy to make you spend money!

I am sure someone will reply, but you get gems for 1st, 2nd, 3rd… Well only a handful of teams consistently place to receive those gems so once again you are killing what small spvp community you have that want to do paid tourneys, but have to spend cash to buy tickets. Good job killing your own game.

Anet sub free, but the undisclosed fees will cost you… what a scam. Well done Anet!

You take the time to delete Redek’s random goodbye post, but do not acknowledge any of the input in this thread? What are you doing Anet?

Out of curiosity how many teams are left in NA?

Do bot teams count?

yeah why not, gotta get those numbers up

Sometimes the doom and gloom gets a bit out of hand—for example, every bug the OP mentioned has already been addressed (yes, they were glaring problems, but yes, they were fixed in what, three days?) Also, a relatively new, half-casual guild posted a topic on the forums that they were going to queue for paids at a certain time, and paids popped back to back for several hours last night. So yes, there are issues, but no, it’s not all bad.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Sometimes the doom and gloom gets a bit out of hand—for example, every bug the OP mentioned has already been addressed (yes, they were glaring problems, but yes, they were fixed in what, three days?) Also, a relatively new, half-casual guild posted a topic on the forums that they were going to queue for paids at a certain time, and paids popped back to back for several hours last night. So yes, there are issues, but no, it’s not all bad.

With as many boxes as they sold Tourny’s should have 24/7 Qs. Its not like they are all seperate servers. If there is no Q that means there are not enough people to play a single tourny Q’d up. That is an astonishingly terrible thing. Even Free Tourny’s suffer the rath of 30+ minute Q times. That is just as ridiculous to even think about. Especially with all the bots…

I’m not saying everything’s fine, because it’s not. My only goal was to point out that every bug brought up in the original post five days ago had been completely fixed a couple of days after the post.

I think he was trying to be polite. All those things are pretty annoying.

NevirSayDie.6235:

I’m not saying everything’s fine, because it’s not. My only goal was to point out that every bug brought up in the original post five days ago had been completely fixed a couple of days after the post.

Those bugs are not going to kill spvp/paid tourneys. Tournament tickets and the current system is already killing it. Bugs will eventually get fixed, a bad system is a higher priority imo. For them not to acknowledge or give some sort of input as why the way it is or that they are discussing changes, that is not acceptable.

I don’t get why they don’t have programmers around the clock working on these things. They should have programmers working until at least 2am in the morning each day in my opinion (even on weekends). That’s simply how things get done! Who the heck is the CEO of this company? PvP in this game was not ready for prime time at all. When I get a big deal at work, I work until it is done. I don’t see why they can’t get the details right with all the resources that they have. I just think you have to rule with an iron fist sometimes especially when things are so bad.

Zzyzz is right about all the bugs. I believe spvp right now needs more than balancing and bugs fixs to stop the declining population.

Oh by the way Anet, if you want to be successful at something communication helps as does reaction time. Right now your reaction time is to slow and your going to get killed by that 100b warrior if you know what I mean.

Bump.

Anet, please listen to what these people are saying.