Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pvp-november-update/?utm_source=client

Discuss your thoughts.

Also, for those of you who missed the livestream, they stated the patch should be live around 5:30 PM Central time

Well, I’m happy with a lot of those changes, and then when I hit the bottom I hadn’t seen any class changes so I went back to praying that those aren’t the full patch notes.

EDIT I don’t have to do 8v8 hotjoin, can now do 5v5 hotjoin, pretty cool.

I think the Hotjoin finally being able to 5v5 is great. Wish I would have seen something about tournaments matched better, but at least there are things being done.

Now, the meat and potatoes of this whole thing will be the profession changes. /fingerscrossed

Yay 5v5 hot join!

Yes they added /rank!

the hot join changes were really needed for the community and QP changes are for sure a great change to get people more involved to participate for QP’s.

+1

slow clap

Not bad, not bad. I’m not sure if the extra tournament tickets we get from the dailies and monthlies will be enough. They also pretty much require no effort at all to complete, maybe you can later increase the things required but also the amount of tickets rewarded, they just feel a little insignificant to me now but its a good step and maybe its fine.

Now give class changes!

5v5 sounds awesome. Don’t get me wrong, but does it concern anyone else that something the boards has been clamoring for nigh unanimously (5v5 hot join) Was tacked on at the end under the “Smaller Changes” section?
It’d be like if they were giving a presentation, and spent an hour talking about their newest helmet skin, and then right before walking off stage they mutter “Oh yeah, there’s some new game types, TDM, Capture the flag, GvG, you know, other smaller stuff”.

What if he said ‘Other Changes’?

i like new SPVP achievments, its awesome) cant wait for full patch notes ^^

Other changes would be more appropriate seeing the 5v5 hot join is actually quite a huge change

Meditation on Tranquility o.O daf?

/rank <3

This doesn’t fix the issue that the barrier of entry to paids is still too high, so there’s little point to them unless you have a really solid team.

GankSinatra.2653:

What if he said ‘Other Changes’?

It’s probably just me being nitpicky, but the language just seems off to me. Rather than just putting 5v5 maps under their own little header, and something along the lines of “you’ve asked for it, we’ve delivered”, they treat it like a sidenote. Probably not intentional of course, but subconsciously it’s poorly laid out. Whatevs, 5v5 hot join will be nice for actually testing Tourney specs.

Ember.4326:

This doesn’t fix the issue that the barrier of entry to paids is still too high, so there’s little point to them unless you have a really solid team.

Yeah why cut the rewards without cutting the cost of entry? Now you don’t even get most of your tickets back by making map 2, you need to get to map 3 to avoid flushing your entry fee. Those daily/monthly tickets are just going to sit in peoples bags forever.

Sounds good to me. It seems like they are listening to us, and are doing the best they can with the time and crew they have available. The new map also seems very interesting, but I’m worried about how a vertical map is going to diminish the Rangers pet even further.

i really like most of the changes, but i have a problem with the following one:
“Daily Achievement:

Caps: 3
Kills: 5
Matches: 3
Top Stat: 1"

top stat? thats not fair if you play tpvp only and you are the bunker of your team

With any luck, they’ll be discouraging/nerfing bunkers in the patch (along with extreme burst). Otherwise, hopefully they’ll add a “Most time spent inside a controlled node” top player stat.

Well I still kind of would like a dueling system, just to mess around with friends (I know custom arenas would fulfill that) or challenge some random. I am not sure I understand the dailies however. If it’s just like the dailies/monthlies for the PvE side of things then that is pretty cool, if not, them I am fairly confused.

Other than that, I like this small blog and update, and can’t wait for the update notes. =)