Guild Wars 2

The direction with balance(or lack there of), the constant let downs, the small patches that were suppose to be big patches(but turns out they were small). How many people still have hope this game will get better any time soon?

I think it’s going to take an expansion just for some hope for the naive few remaining in the game just because the combat is fun but the balance is severely lacking.

Does Arena net acknowledge their efforts in the organized pvp are poor? I have yet to hear this from them, if they acknowledge their poor efforts maybe we can take steps forward. How do I know for a fact their efforts are poor? Look at the population decline since November, a small minority remain that care more than they should.

What are the numbers looking like since November and December, what % of people are left? Why do the rest of you succumb to such curious torture as to stick around and hope this game will improve?

Also if the new players just starting Spvp knew the horrible direction it’s been going in since launch, would they still be experimenting in this game knowing they are headed for a huge dead end once they unravel the intricacies of spvp?

Excuse the title, had to reduce the # of characters to submit.

i do. im looking forward to this SOTG we will see how it goes

After the last update I finally stopped playing, right now I’m in the state of sticking around and watching the forums. I’ll see how SotG goes, will as usually play for 1 or 2 days after next patch to see if it’s worth anything.

If things aren’t fixed in this patch and by fixed I mean a big balance(not the useless crap we received every month so far), rankings (not 100 people list NPC in HotM) and some look into Custom Arenas and Observer mode (a video or something + a blogpost), I will most surely leave the game.

The being patient and forgiving devs every month honeymoon period is over. The faith is lost if they don’t deliver this month.

Me. This game is awesome and i have lots of fun in it, i’m ok with the current balance, combat system is great and thats whats most important. Ladders will be welcome but only as a secondary thing for me.

i stopped playing for about 10 days cause of an internet problem. i didn’t miss gw2.
so , no, i have lost faith in anet, because i played gw1 a lot and have a lot of expectation from this game.
i have already spent my money buying this game so anet should not care if i still play or i leave.
i really hope next will be THE tpvp patch.

on a side note: nice map rotation anet….NOT

I am taking an extended break for the time being, which could become permanent, due to the following issues:
1, Inability to introduce map rotation leading to tedious tournament system.
2, Inability to make meaningful balance changes meaning eles still define the meta.
3, Inability to introduce a solo Q to keep premades and solo Q players apart.

I don’t see balance as a major issue at all. Sure, it could be tuned a bit and some classes need some love in areas and a few traits need toning down on others but overall it’s not gamebreaking for me (for the record, I attempt to play a great sword dps guardian).

The solo que needs to be fixed though. I lose alot in solo que, so by proxy my MMR should be terrible yet I still hit teams everytime I solo que. had 5 In a rows tonight where we got proper stomped as solo players.

I want them to be split, and timed match starts every 5 or 10 minutes to better the matchmaking and enlarge the player pool at any given time.

Plenty of faith left, it’s still the best pvp MMO on the market and will be for quite some time.

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I don’t see balance as a major issue at all. Sure, it could be tuned a bit and some classes need some love in areas and a few traits need toning down on others but overall it’s not gamebreaking for me (for the record, I attempt to play a great sword dps guardian).

The solo que needs to be fixed though. I lose alot in solo que, so by proxy my MMR should be terrible yet I still hit teams everytime I solo que. had 5 In a rows tonight where we got proper stomped as solo players.

I want them to be split, and timed match starts every 5 or 10 minutes to better the matchmaking and enlarge the player pool at any given time.

Plenty of faith left, it’s still the best pvp MMO on the market and will be for quite some time.

It’s not the best pvp MMO. It can be much better than it is now though. How many tourney classes have you played on the guard(I see you have a warrior as well)? Have you tried all the meta builds available on all the classes and not just the guardian? Guardian happens to be one of the more versatile classes so you are lucky, why’d you go with a Guard and not a warrior? If you had you’d understand the skill ceiling for some leaves room for much more power in all departments which is a huge balance issue.

My personal opinion, if you still have faith in this game you have played it too long… and that’s like false hope for you real hardcore vets kind of like being with a girl that is going to just disapoint you everytime. Or you haven’t played it long enough to understand the issues and how stale Tpvp get with lack of features in and balance issues.

I think gw2 pvp is gona grow alot, i giver it 1 year from now
You young one nede to relax a bit

gw2 will be huge in 3-4 years… might even be e-sport

Yeah I’d say I still have faith. The spvp part of this game might have launched in a state that can hardly be called ready, but since then it’s definatly moved in the right direction.
Maybe a little late and perhaps even a little slow, especially considering how succesful this game has been outside of spvp, but I think it’ll get there.

I used to have faith

i still have faith in da dev of pvp. plx gimme observermode, visible rating , ladder, real money prices for tourneys … maybe 3v3 4v4 5v5 2v2 arena ? and separate soloqueue pugs from premades…

I left when planetside2 hit, dont know the date. Just logged in to try christmas bg and recently the new map and tonight 1 team vs 1 team tournaments. My friends left in planerside2 and Im the only one who has returned to try some things out. They arent coming back, and tournaments arent sorted out enough for solo queues for me to return yet. Also balance is lacking, I want to be able to play more than glass shatter as a mesmer.

I would have to say that I have faith, but not patience anymore. I’ve been one of the biggest defenders of this game’s PvP since BETA because the actual PvP engine to me is the best I’ve ever played.

I do not, however, feel that that this game’s current conquest mode is very fun at higher levels. Once I realized that, in an actual tPvP team, my balanced builds, designed for long team fights and balanced 1v1 action were useless against teams that super-bunker with high-movement burst, I realized it doesn’t matter how skilled you are at playing your class, the top end PvP is about map control, outnumbering, and downed state management, arguably the 3 most unfun parts of PvP in and of itself. Balanced hotjoin matches are often fun (when you finally find them) because you don’t feel the stress of fighting out a good 1v1 on a point against someone’s non-bunker non-burst, but in tPvP you are punished for playing with a balanced build.

For me personally, this isn’t talked about much on the forums, but it’s what has finally made me give the game a break… my style of play only fits casual gameplay, and I like to play competetively (relatively speaking) but I don’t like to feel forced to use a build, and tPvP almost forces you to pick bunker or burst. I didn’t believe it for a long time until my old tPvP team started to play the better teams, and I realized, we were outfighting them and still losing every match.

I theorycraft builds for hours that work wonders against 1v1 fights and are completely useless in tPvP, and so there goes my interest in the game. I like to fight in my own style and to customize my builds, and this is nowhere near a top priority for the Devs so I’ve sort of made my piece with the game at this point and pop in to play here and there for now.

It does however seem very odd that a game would offer this massive level of customization for your character and make so much of it useless in competetive play for lots of professions. I think this hits on the thread in this forum about how this game engine and design is incredible, even revolutionary to me, but the sense of direction feels a stark contrast by now.

Still think it’s a very good game overall, however, just dropping off fast from it’s massive potential.

As long as the game is alive I’ll have faith in it. But that doesn’t make the slow progress is any less frustrating. Especially because it feels like ArenaNet are just beta testing various new things, instead of working on systems they know can improve the game experience. There’s a ton of topics and players talking about wanting exactly the same things for sPvP, but Arenanet just seem to be going off in their own direction.