Guild Wars 2

I will start off by saying that my team and i have been playing GW2 pvp since about a week after release, i will not try and say that we are a top pvp team but i think it would be fair to say we have been a competitive pvp team under the names Team Iceberg and 50 Shades Of Pink.

Now after many many months of putting alot of time and effort into GW2 we have decided as a group to take a break and move to another game. We feel (as do many many others) that the meta right now is crap plain and simple and that this is the worst spot the game has been in since release, no one wants to play condi wars the game we signed up for is Guild Wars! No one wants to play a game where each class has only 1 viable build and where 2-3 of the spots in a 5 man team are decided by the meta and whats “op” at the moment, And on top of that the decision to wait till after Pax to release a balance patch blew my mind! All the players involved in Pax really want this game to succeed im sure you could have gone to them and said “we cant let the game fester like this for 2 months+ we will be patching before Pax” maybe even let them all on the test servers ahead of time to start figuring out what they are going to run, or you could have done like many other games and run the tournament on a previous patch? (probably not able to do this would be my guess)

Now the meta is the biggest complaint we have right now but there are 2 more somewhat minor complaints that did play a part in our decision.

1. Lack of features! The ladder is a joke (decay!?! lol) there is no difference between ranked and non ranked games because of this the ladder looses all meaning! You cant say ok lets run a few non ranked get warmed up then when we are feeling good we will run a ranked or two, because of this the “ranked” games loose all meaning as well as the ladder its self. Also the team ladder needs to be a team ladder you need to be able to play with your core team and work on a rank as a group then after go mess around with some friends and not have to worry about it affecting the rank that you are working on grinding with your team. All that could be forgiven if we had some sort of automated monthly and weekly tournaments to look forward/practice for and just to generally get excited about! Automated tournaments are (besides gvg, ha and huge team comp diversity) the best thing GW1 ever did these NEED to be implemented into the game RIGHT AWAY!!

2. Last but not least the pvp rewards. I wont go into detail here the reward system atm is crap. You only get anything new every 10 levels, everyone gets the same stuff, the chests after rank 30 become a serious case of carpal tunnel waiting to happen without actually providing anything in return other than the odd glory booster and sliver (which by now most people have 2-3 full stacks of)

Well thats all i have to say, hopefully some of these changes that are so desperately needed are made soon and on that day my entire team and i will come back running.

You’re definitely not alone with your sentiments, best of luck to you and your team in whatever you end up doing! Smite is pretty fun btw if you haven’t tried it out yet.

I can relate to that. My team and I quit prior to Paid tourneys introduction – we were simply fed up with lack of the core pvp features, like promised custom arenas, tournaments, ladder…
We made a comeback lately, only to realise that pvp here is in even worse shape than it was when we left.

Sadly, despite having access to custom arenas and ladder are kitten, and there is still no competitive form of game play like mentioned AT/MAT.

What this game needs, is a proper, dedicated and well financed team to work on pvp, implement balance (including reworking some mechanics and general unresponsiveness of skills, kittenty camera, amount of randomness as a factor, unintentional canceling and some other minor annoyances), bring lacking game modes and features (scrims, tourney mode variety), and the list goes on…

The result is, we died off yet again, shocked by how much they don’t give a crap about this format.
Boredom, randomness, spam, imbalance, and boredom yet again – this is how I’d describe current pvp state.

What’s an alternative game, though? GW2 does have an interesting combat system, compared to other MMOS.

DAoC 4 lyfe best mmo ever

Lots of people leaving and teams reorganising it seems lately.

Sad to see, but can’t blame anyone. For me a game is already fun when it has all the features it needs for competitive play. I don’t really like Moba gameplay but it (a few games) has such nice features all around, it makes it just that more fun. Heck, even Blizzard’s new cardgame looks fun because of the reward/competitive structure.

I’m sad that our team is leaving but I mean lately we have not been having any fun at all playing this game.

Play Grand Theft Auto Online. Kill everyone, enslave the city, and run the entire world with your 5-man team. That will be good pvp practice.

I have my FF 14 installed in my comp….

but…where would you go?
There are no other MMOs that has a PvP gameplay like Guild Wars 2

sigh

sadly, I just have the feeling that ArenaNet is capitalizing on this “uniqueness”~~hence the sloth and unresponsiveness to the community

you’d think the Living Story section, the one they invest the most into, gets better stuffs. Well, go there and read. Not so different.

The feeling that developers are losing passion and faith~it’s not a fact, it’s a feeling. When you make players feel that way~~no matter how beautiful your character armors are (they really are! The most beautiful designs I’ve seen in any MMO), how many “official invitational tournaments” you have or “our game’s population is actually growing (without providing any statistics)”~~you know you are screwing up

Well said man, I totally agree on everything, the only thing I don’t care about enough to really bother me are the rewards.

I would put a huge emphasis on this quote: No one wants to play a game where each class has only 1 viable build and where 2-3 of the spots in a 5 man team are decided by the meta and whats “op” at the moment

This IS what really really pushes me away every single day. But I’m more of a casual gamer so I don’t really have the time and the energy to switch to another game right now…

Best of luck in your new game… Hope you guys return some day. Or better yet, I hope Anet pulls this together and convince you to come back.