Guild Wars 2

I’ll start with mine

Panic strike

Improvisation

Air-fire-blood

Chill of death

Halting Strike

Trickery Steal

On swap sigils ( Hydro, geo, doom, leeching above all)

Ranger Longbow 1900 range

Slick shoes

Gear shield 20 (16) CD

Incendiary powder

That’s all folks.

What’s yours ?

Invulnerability.

All random passive procs that have no counterplay.

*Profession-based dailies. Yes, I have one of every class, but I also paid RL $ for the gems to do that; not everyone can and it’s not fair to them if they can’t get daily because of it. To say nothing of being unbalanced.
*No more hot-join Play Now button where I’m just automagically matched with people at my sPvP level. While, yes, every now and again it might do me some good to see how someone of Dragon rank does their schtuff, too many dailies and achieves are tied to WINNING, and I can’t. I also don’t want to BE that OP person to someone just starting out =-\
*The old daily system (think over a year and a half ago, when we still had Glory and all that,) was easy, you could get in and out, done. The new system is almost impossible to get unless you manage to beat bots as one of the “profession of the day” classes or join a server and happen to be the right class on the right side just as that team wins two seconds after you load in.
*BOTTERS!!!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS SHINY AND ON FIRE! I used to PvP all the time, but now it’s just not worth the headaches. I can’t win against someone’s CPU, period. (Seriously, anet; check my pre-2015 win/lose ratio to now.)
*I PERSONALLY hate spectator mode; too open to cheating. Anyone can stalk someone when they have a guildie spectating and reporting over TS or gchat.
*Almost impossible to find an open server, as in <10 people so you can actually PLAY, after reset; NEVER had this problem before—WTH?! Maybe set up dedicated public servers for dailies and don’t allow accounts on them that have finished those dailies?
*I’m consistently told that arenas are the only “real” place to play now, though botters exist there, too, but I just don’t like arenas. What happened to just being able to PLAY????

And all of that’s just off of the top of my head right after work. I’m sure once I get home and try to play, I’ll remember other things… About the ONLY thing to like about sPvP right now vs. my other MMO addiction, SWTOR, is that, for hot-join, there’s no queue. Otherwise? Forget it

ArenaNet

That’s all.

Necro changes (or lack thereof)

underwater combat

people who won’t interrupt stomps

people who insta down as soon as they enter the teamfights

people who let rangers freecast

Immobilize Stacking.

AWFUL Leaderboards.

I spend 1/2 of my time in the game AFK in the mists.

No incentive to play other than getting an extra 2 hours minimum wage at McDonalds paycheck every week. The game doesn’t need to throw money at people to make them want to play, it needs to straight up add leagues. Gems aren’t a good prize either, top players want to show that they’re better than everyone else, and legendaries don’t show that, a diamond/plat/whatever PvP badge does.

No Arenas. Honestly after going through like 5 failure teams I’m sick of trying to find people even remotely close to my level. 2v2 and 3v3 game modes please. That or make soloQ competitive.

Terrible State of the Necromancer Class which was the main reason I left the game. Necromancer was my favorite class by far and every day I played it I asked myself why bother playing the worst class in the game.

Insane Power Creep Inc in Expansion that for sure will lead to imbalance that Anet will FOR SURE take 6 months minimum to fix.

Btw Turk, I still post on the forums because I really liked this game for a long time and it’s sad to have to go away from something with so much potential that is just unused.

Thief is pretty easy mode tbh. You can 1111 all day and kill people with procs, steal, and panic strike. Source: 800 hours on Thief.

Hmm let me see, I’ll group mine from most to less hated

-Guy who designed the ele ( will never buy another product where he’s involved)
-Stealth
-Conquest game mode
-Haters and childish block/whispering losers

That’s all

People who claim to have left the game, yet post on the forums every day.

Olives.

People who claim Thief is easymode.

Eggplant.

• Immobilize
• Immobilize bug
• Immobilize stacking
• Random “obstructed” messages on flat terrain
• No valid path to target in flat terrain (seriously?)
• 7+ minutes que only to get whack teams
• Waiting in the mists, doing nothing but having your eyes on the screen
• The fact that I still log in every day (It is like an abusive relationship, I keep comming back)
• Baddies with builds that make up for their flaws

1. Conquest!
2. Immob stacking!
3. Bunkers dealing lots of damage!
4. Slow balance!
5. Low pop!
6. Bad balance!
7. Rangers!
8. Profession dailies!
9. Courtyard!
10. Skyhammer!
11. Spirit Watch!
12. Foefire!
13. Lack of arenas!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

my top 5:
- 6month balancing patch (root of most of the problems)
- broken leaderboard (pure MMR system pls)
- no soloq (yes…)
- air immob (still there… fix pls)
- stronghold being next pvp mode (yes i dont like it… no real gvg… no real moba)

edit:
+1: -devs who design specialisations dont even play the kittening classes… guess whats gonna happen

Celestial engineers and eles that have the sustain of a bunker and the damage of a full condi dmg or almost full zerker spec, thus never die yet need to be 2v1’d to kill.

And the horrible matchmaking system that seems to think it should pair you with people that enter pvp for the first time while facing full pre-mades or even tournament teams.

I suppose I am a noob.
But I just think the current meta is the worst one we have ever had, and that every day is another nail in pvp’s coffin.

Wielder Of Magic.3950:

Celestial engineers and eles that have the sustain of a bunker and the damage of a full condi dmg or almost full zerker spec, thus never die yet need to be 2v1’d to kill.

And the horrible matchmaking system that seems to think it should pair you with people that enter pvp for the first time while facing full pre-mades or even tournament teams.

I suppose I am a noob.
But I just think the current meta is the worst one we have ever had, and that every day is another nail in pvp’s coffin.

cele engi is your wipping boy if you can play a condi build well, or gung ho with hammer warrior and stun locked them. cele ele, well until the nerf ya just gotta keep up poison and kill em. engi is easy to kill. if you ever need help whisper me, I even have some super op secret builds I can give ya. got a p/p thief build that should never loose if you can kite well.

1. Lack of arenas.
2. The AI hate stigma.
3. Poor AI design (Uselessness in team fights, too passive, not active enough, bad AI)
4. Terrible design of Necromancer.
5. Power creep.
6. How stats are handled. (IMO, in a perfect world all amulets would be 2 offensive stats and 1 defensive or 2 defensive and 1 offensive) Might stacking celestial, pure glass and pure bunk are all pretty meh to me. A nice middle ground would be peach.
7. Moa… I have my reasons…
8. Lack of arenas.

I don’t really like all the " avoid death spikes " skills that can be used while kded. I’m running mainly full warrior spikes builds, and i feel it’s cheap when the guy is getting away thanks to slick shoes, or ignoring damage because stone signet recharged on time..

It should be played like, watch the player, dodge key skills, use skill before the spike comes. Not just click skills on panic and still get rewarded..

Turk.5460:

People who claim to have left the game, yet post on the forums every day.

Olives.

People who claim Thief is easymode.

Eggplant.

this – olives.

from game?
1. skyhammer
2. immob bug, getting immob mid of heartseeker and unable to use any spells is just stupid
3. soloq merged with team q
4. matchmaking system that punishes you heavily if you have above 50% win rate
5. medi guards (i main thief duhh)
6. engis (any kind, they just have too many good things; anet srsly needs to stop overbuffing them so much in hopes that class will be more popular)
7. getting shot through walls (see lich claws, engi rifle etc.) because logic
8. outfits…. wtb cool thief like armor set that doesn’t look like sack of patched leather
9. female sylvari fat leg problem that don’t allow to use any knie high boots because models weren’t fixed since launch… i mean look at those boots!!! D8

1. metabattle
2. people copying builds from metabattle without reading what the build does or how to play/change it.
3. the tendency among gw2 players to want rewards without putting in any effort.

Courtyard

15kitteningchar

ronpierce.2760:

1. Lack of arenas.
2. The AI hate stigma.
3. Poor AI design (Uselessness in team fights, too passive, not active enough, bad AI)
4. Terrible design of Necromancer.
5. Power creep.
6. How stats are handled. (IMO, in a perfect world all amulets would be 2 offensive stats and 1 defensive or 2 defensive and 1 offensive) Might stacking celestial, pure glass and pure bunk are all pretty meh to me. A nice middle ground would be peach.
7. Moa… I have my reasons…
8. Lack of arenas.

People hate AI because it takes no skill to play. low risk High reward.

Baconplease.1657:

ronpierce.2760:

1. Lack of arenas.
2. The AI hate stigma.
3. Poor AI design (Uselessness in team fights, too passive, not active enough, bad AI)
4. Terrible design of Necromancer.
5. Power creep.
6. How stats are handled. (IMO, in a perfect world all amulets would be 2 offensive stats and 1 defensive or 2 defensive and 1 offensive) Might stacking celestial, pure glass and pure bunk are all pretty meh to me. A nice middle ground would be peach.
7. Moa… I have my reasons…
8. Lack of arenas.

People hate AI because it takes no skill to play. low risk High reward.

Not all of them, that’s just a stereotype. Most people who complain about them have absolutely zero perspective and don’t even understand the problems associated with their enemy. The only exception might have been old Turrets which were just too easy to play.

That said, I covered that. I wouldn’t mind them moving more of the passive benefits to something more active. I’ve wanted that for a long time. (FYI, I play MM, not turrets)

There’s not a whole lot that I hate, but this is my list lol:

1. Badmouthing and poor sportsmanship.
2. Super long queue times.
3. Skill lag. Or maybe lag in general, idk.
4. Immobilized bug. (most bugs, actually)
5. Being the only non-thief on my team.
*6. Oh and of course, hobosacks. Watching my beatiful rifle and light of dwayna disappear whenever I equip an ugly kit.

That they took out the underwater portions of PvP.

1- Ranger Pewpewing from an unreachable place and insane damage
2- Lich Form and LifeBlast insane damage
3- Engineers constant ccs
4- Invulnerability skills on heavy classes
5- Chill affecting attunement cooldowns on ele
6- Immobilize stacking, Roots still immobilizing when destroyed
7- Any stacking of conditions that makes it impossible to fight back (daze+fear, etc)
8- Lack of map variety

Ranger. Seriously, delete this class already or rework it from the ground. No reward for skillful play – checked. No really viable high end pvp build – checked. Yet rocks on medium/uncoordianted level perfectly, having 10k with 2k range on demand, whereas other classes have to put way more effort to such burst and usually go into melee – checked. Only somewhat useful option is to jump around like monkey and evade evade geo prot repeat – checked. EVERYTHING about this class is wrong atm.

Dragonhunter. Being spoonfed with ranger basicly. I don’t mind bow, I don’t mind traps I want to see them in action. But ‘hunter’ in the name and ‘big game’ in articule description WILL NOT DO.

State of the necro. My second class is thrash. Oh well, except one build which is strange variation of ranger. It’s not like devs anyhow know what necro actually is. Can you eat it?

People who don’t use their blinker before changing lanes.

Ugly small dogs like Yorkies and poop-Tzu’s.

No way to save builds and quickly switch between them.

No way to que specifically for a type of SPvP map (conquest, TDM, and soon Stronghold)

No means of mixing and matching stats on individual pieces of gear, like I can do in PvE and WvW

PU and Shatter Mesmers, and Cele Elementalists. Just everything about them.

These are just the things I hate in SPvP. My other complaints are outside SPvP (The thing about saving builds applies to all game modes though). I count the lack of Arenas as an ‘out of SPvP’ issue.

People that post things they dont like .!

Aowys.9420:

People that post things they dont like .!

Don’t be so kitten yourself, man!

Random Weird Guy.3528:

All random passive procs that have no counterplay.

So basically you hate gw2 lol

I agree though.

1. A leaderboard that doesn’t represent player skill.
2. Skyhammer
3. Courtyard
4. Merging ranked Solo and Team Queue
5. Poor balance decisions when tweaking professions
6. Taking too long to balance professions
7. Profession Dailies

Lordrosicky.5813:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

All random passive procs that have no counterplay.

So basically you hate gw2 lol

I agree though.

/agree

Leaderboards that don’t update. Srsly its been like 15 hours since that last update, what gives?

I strongly dislike the illusion created by keeping track of personal score during pvp match.

It completely fools new players into thinking personal score actually matters… and that a higher score means they did “better”

It encourages things like double capping points, or piggybacking kills…

…and at the end of the match… the only thing everyone takes with them is a win or loss.

In pvp you need to be a team player…. and personal score more often than not promotes personal score boosting… which is detrimental to the team’s overall success.

When it gets cloudy out, feels like its going to rain, and a single rain drop comes down, making me go out to my car and roll up the windows, yet it still hasn’t rained yet and that was like, 4 hours ago. (I live in Southern California)

Who ever is in charge of matchmaking

average player has huge ego, low skill, QQs constantly, and wants everyone to run zerk so they are easy to kill.

anti meta hippsters who think popular builds mean low skill bad builds even though the builds were invented by top level players and are used in top level pvp.

1) Immobilize bug
2) Pathing issues
3) Random pet knock-backs
4) Passive endure pain and vamp runes
5) Signet of bloody Stone
6) People who want to kill bosses in the beginning on Niflhel.

Incendiary powder
Rampage
Condi Mesmers
Fresh Air
Necromancy Addiction

-sigil of air+fire combo
-geaomancy, energy and doom sigil
-path of corruption
-Incendiary powder
-the base healing on monk focus been so huge and the scaling with healing power so low
-mirror blade unblockable for no good reason
-stow weapon exploit

No valid path
Obstructed/Out of range because of anything ranging between a pebble to a bump in the terrain.
Chill of Death
Panic Strike
On-hit effects in general (on <condition> or <specific skill> is fine because they can be counter played)
High damage instant cast skills (Smite Condition, Arcane Wave/Blast, Lightning Strike etc.)
Strong high up-time passives
Builds that can faceroll and tank everything and still be effective
Slick shoes knocking down even if you stand still on activation
Warrior being better at support than guardian

conquest mode.

solo queue rated matches gone.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

I strongly dislike the illusion created by keeping track of personal score during pvp match.

It completely fools new players into thinking personal score actually matters… and that a higher score means they did “better”

It encourages things like double capping points, or piggybacking kills…

…and at the end of the match… the only thing everyone takes with them is a win or loss.

In pvp you need to be a team player…. and personal score more often than not promotes personal score boosting… which is detrimental to the team’s overall success.

^ This. I also hate when you get harassed when you have a low personal score because you spent the whole match trying to actually win instead of scoring points.

1. Not enough rewards for top players, we need to know who’s skillful and who’s not.
2. Worse leaderboard I’ve seen in a pvp game.
3. No ingame leaderboard. Most players don’t even know a leaderboard exists which makes me sad.
4. Stupid gem store outfits, we need more pvp season armor and weapons.
5. having no 2v2 and 3v3 arenas the most popular pvp mode in mmo history.
6. Entering courtyard with a conquest build lol nice one anet.
7. The pvp finishers suck, you want better ones go to the gem store and buy.

Hats that make you look bald.

Matchmaking. /15characterslimit

Good list but you forgot..

kitten SBOW!!!!!!