Guild Wars 2

Miss the old “State of the Game” podcasts from back in the day? We do too!

DPS will be hosting its first ever “State of the Mists” roundtable discussion tonight (Thursday) at 7pm EST. Justin Czech will be joined by NA All-Stars Zoose and Zombify as well as NA All Star Nominee Morfeus for an in-depth discussion on the current state of NA’s PVP scene.

Tune in at http://www.twitch.tv/digitalprosports !

This is good! Me and the rest of Europe will mostly be asleep at the time of course but I’m posting here to remind myself to watch it tomorrow

Speaking of tomorrow, wouldn’t it have been better to have held this tomorrow so your guests could react to the balance previews as well?

I’m just here to remind everyone that this week’s show kicks off in just a little over an hour!!

You have the wrong time posted on your twitch channel. Today is the 7th, tomorrow is the 8th.

Bas.7406:

You have the wrong time posted on your twitch channel. Today is the 7th, tomorrow is the 8th.

Ty, the one responsible has been flogged

It’s okay mate, I flog podcasters regularly as well. Sending you a PM I have some ideas i want to run by you guys.

Bas.7406:

It’s okay mate, I flog podcasters regularly as well. Sending you a PM I have some ideas i want to run by you guys.

PM’d ya back and added you on skype!

Thank you for having me! It was a fun discussion.

If you all missed the show this week it is up on our youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jVcgocbFk

I’ve never heard Zoose talk before and he really impressed me with how well he described the problems with the combat of the game. Particularly around the 30-35’ mark when he’s talking about skills with no counterplay. For anyone who doesn’t have the time to listen to it the lowdown is combat is too fast and too bursty, so everyone has to rely on instacast invulnerabilities and passive procs (eg mist form or Endure Pain) because they literally do not have the time to react to the opponent’s burst. I chuckled when he said “I don’t want this turned into WoW where everyone stands still with 4” cast times, but…" Well said Zoose, well said.

Infect.2738:

Thank you for having me! It was a fun discussion.

You sir are awesome and we would love to have you back on anytime! Thanks again for coming on this week!

Special shout outs to Morf and Zoose for coming on as well! I had a great time with yall!

manveruppd.7601:

I’ve never heard Zoose talk before and he really impressed me with how well he described the problems with the combat of the game. Particularly around the 30-35’ mark when he’s talking about skills with no counterplay. For anyone who doesn’t have the time to listen to it the lowdown is combat is too fast and too bursty, so everyone has to rely on instacast invulnerabilities and passive procs (eg mist form or Endure Pain) because they literally do not have the time to react to the opponent’s burst. I chuckled when he said “I don’t want this turned into WoW where everyone stands still with 4” cast times, but…" Well said Zoose, well said.

Zoose is hands down on of the most knowledgeable players in the community.

Good show. It was nice to hear their thoughts on the issues raised. Hopefully ArenaNet was listening and uses the feedback to fill the glass up.

Good watch. Thanks for uploading it to youtube.

Like the point about LoL’s balance and I wonder whether it’s a big part of ANet’s balance philosophy. If you can just have so many ‘good’ builds, the ‘excellent’ builds are less so. I’m not leet esports tho so

More of these please.

Lux.7169:

More of these please.

Already working on it sir!

Zombify!
How dare you?

Little note Grouch, events are good, but the main problem is a very big lack of competitive structure on daily base.

And this has a big impact on events too.

MarkPhilips.5169:

Little note Grouch, events are good, but the main problem is a very big lack of competitive structure on daily base.

And this has a big impact on events too.

much this. . . .

What we really need is a reason to be on top of the leaderboard.

Marcos.3690:

What we really need is a reason to be on top of the leaderboard.

The prestige stole by Skyhammer farming ?

Totally agree with Grouch that the meta is a trickle-down effect. Which is why it’s important that we get some in-game features to support people learning! You can’t expect casual players to go navigate the abomination in user interface design that is Twitch to find the few decent players who stream their games! What is needed is:

1. A better, instanced, and tougher tutorial teaching people conquest basics

2. In-game observer mode FOR TOURNAMENT MATCHES! Who on earth wants to watch hotjoin??? We need an in-game browser listing recent matches by high-ranked teams/players which you can replay, like GW1 Observer Mode had. For bonus points, you could do what Valve has done with Dota2 and allow people to play the audio of a commentator over the replay, so it essentially becomes like watching the match being cast on Twitch except you’re in-game instead, and you control the camera!

3. Team/Guild-based rankings and leaderboards. You know, firstly because it’s a team game, and it makes sense, especially if you’ll implement a tournament seeding system which will guarantee spots to popular/successful teams like some of the guests on last night’s podcast asked for, and secondly to make 2. possible.

Oh and bear in mind that faster knowledge-propagation and trickling down of the top-tier meta WILL also place an obligation on developers to issue more frequent balance changes.

Thanks for putting such a show into this game. Really appreciated that you show “Smiling Wubwub Morfeus” on the stream. The smile is really overpowered.

I had to ask him to change his skype picture before it started, at first it was a soccer ball lol

Anastasis.7258:

Thanks for putting such a show into this game. Really appreciated that you show “Smiling Wubwub Morfeus” on the stream. The smile is really overpowered.

Morf’s smile=secret cure for Ebola. You heard it here first.