Guild Wars 2

Simple question

fun? what else for shinnies and prestige! just kidding im actually really bored of this game pve or pvp doesnt matter.

Nothing, and that’s sad really. I’ve been with Guild Wars since Nightfall and I’ve reached a point where I can no longer support what Anet’s become. This dev team is incompetent beyond words and it pains me to say that.

Well usually i play for fun.. Lately just to reach ruby and didn´t bother to grind through it.
Matchmaking and build diversity is bad. Its more or less one viable build per class and this gets booring. I played to get ascended backpacks and reach ruby each season. I tried more once but after falling back close to diamond with a loss streak I gave up. playing more then 100 games a season is simply to much for me.

Trying to get better.

I make useless builds useful.

Throw some random idea together like tonights S/W sage burn might stacking Ele, drop 20 bleeds and 12+ burns, watch people melt then laugh it off when people start raging about skilless builds.

sephiroth.4217:

I make useless builds useful.

Throw some random idea together like tonights S/W sage burn might stacking Ele, drop 20 bleeds and 12+ burns, watch people melt then laugh it off when people start raging about skilless builds.

That sounds like fun!

Match making & diversity.

I love comming up with my own builds and play at my own level of skills. But at the moment the only good builds I can come up with is build very close to the meta. A few selective skills and combinations that is way more effective then the rest of the many other skills and combinations.

Every patch I always hope for a nerf to the elite specs… I miss the good old days when I used bomb kit when nobody else did and I did really well anyway. Now it is more like, play meta or prepare to always loose.

Also the mmr seems weird. I used to be at 50/50 or even more like 60/50 but now I have about 30/70.

I sadly play very rarely now. Not only becouse of the above but I have less time for games now.

Edit: lol I miss read the post, read it as “what keeps you from playing” :P

What makes me play PvP, whatever I said above. The game in it self is so darn good and there is no other MMO PvP that I enjoy as much as this.

Forgot to mention. I love doing surprise builds :-).
@sephiroth.4217 Thats not a random build, i play this regular (with focus) and it is fun!
This kind of thing is why diversity matters so much …

Build diversity. Yes, you can have the same weapons as others, but having different traits, amulets, etc can seriously change a character. I saw a mesmer earlier who literally rekt everyone in a 1v1 room (a gm was there too) It was insane!! He said he made the build himself too

Fun matches. Every game last season ended winning or losing by 200 points so I stopped playing spvp.

An outlet for anger managment and desire to improve my game

The rewards, really. I can’t get certain armor sets or the Ascension any other way, so I PvP.

It’s fun sometimes, but matchmaking is bad enough that either I demolish the enemy team or am demolished, and it just isn’t enjoyable. Very rarely do I get what I would consider a good game, and oftentimes any game with close numbers is still very frustrating for me because my team lacks the ability to properly rotate, lacks the ability to team fight, or both, so it’s a constant struggle.

I think it’s fun.

enjoy competition and all that goes with it, whether good or ill its fun to compete; “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat”

Competition (I’ve always enjoyed PvP in MMO’s, dating back to early MMO days in EQ/AC1)

Fun comes naturally when there’s good competition. Obviously it’s not fun when games are blowout games, or when balance is bad.

Good teammates…Which don’t exist anymore in SoloQ.

Tiefsee.3647:

Simple question

nothing, only some time to loose…

sephiroth.4217:

I make useless builds useful.

This, exactly this. I can’t play meta builds because I am bored playing them and seeing them. Every time I play a condi mesmer I am in danger of falling asleep because they don’t apply enough (or any) burst pressure to feel satisfying and you don’t die quickly so your never really threatened unless there’s 3-4 of them on you and that’s not fun either. You just have to escape or get flattened. It’s boring, like really, really boring. But if I play something like a power wells mesmer then I have a lot more fun. It’s worse, but at least it’s fun.

Rose tinted glasses.

I finished coli achievements, thus I’m done playing for the foreseeable future.

Still fun and one of the most skill based games I’ve played so far, even though the power creep has dumbed it down quite a bit. But good players will still prevail over bad ones, and there is always room for improvement.

Titles, achievements, rewards and whatever are a nice bonus, nothing that really matters, but it’s more fun to have goals when you play pvp anyway.

literally is the PvP potions and 2 gold.

I have 28k AP and 8.5k games played. I have 95% of the skins available from PvP. Im 1/3 way done with leystone armor and 1/2 done with bladed armor and then 1/2 with plated weapons. All from PvP tracks and im not to interested in the easter egg hunts to finish them.

So PvP potions ……………

I enjoy GW2’s gameplay. It’s active yet it still requires mastery of your profession skills and knowledge of your opponents’ skills. The classes are quite unique and play much differently from previous MMO’s I’ve played (Mesmer, elementalist in particular.), structured pvp doesn’t rely on grinding equipment and you can change builds on the fly.

Sure profession balance can be questionable. I can never count how many times I’ve died from DH traps, how useless I feel against resistance/endure pain warriors, but then again, these are the two classes I still don’t have yet.

PVP is also the fastest way to finish dailies and a guaranteed way to get exotic weapons to throw into the mystic forge.

kdaddy.5431:

literally is the PvP potions and 2 gold.

I have 28k AP and 8.5k games played. I have 95% of the skins available from PvP. Im 1/3 way done with leystone armor and 1/2 done with bladed armor and then 1/2 with plated weapons. All from PvP tracks and im not to interested in the easter egg hunts to finish them.

So PvP potions ……………

^ This guy.
PvP failed to be skilled orientated a long time ago. As long as you understand rotations and how to play a numbers game, you’ll win. It has got to the point that tournament players have satire streams of them queing solo and showcasing how they’ve orchestrated the win from the first 10 seconds of the match when they could see where the opponents were headed towards first. It is not even beyond them to log out half way through and swap alts and rejoin and be 150 points down and still turn it round to a winning match.

Originally mostly for the achievements (finished my thief title with the new map, last one I needed so cbf now) and sorta the reward track since I hate doing any HoT metas I’d rather do the track and get stuff that way.

5.2k games played here and quite frankly matchmaking has never been worse.

In the old days when we had solo/team q, even as a solo player I’d get way better matches in both team and solo q than what I get now. The sheer amount of bad players in both ranked and unranked just puts me off from playing for ‘fun’.

The terrible players.
And myself.

-It’s challenging on thief, and I got to a level where I can manage things without being wreaked.

-It’s the only game mode, I can play around builds without caring about money.

-I only played GW as CORPG/MMO so I’m used to it and still liking it.

-I spent most of my time playing pvp in GW1, AvA was the most fun I had. This is the game mode that is the closest to that.

- Testing builds
- The challenge of beating the meta builds without using the meta builds

I enjoy the game mode more than WvW and play some PvP everyday when my guild has nothing going on in PvE.

It’s fun and “something different” for me to do, when I’m not running fractals, dungeons or other PvE stuff.

I’m in it for the AP as well. The seasons never bothered me appart from the AP and the legendary backpiece because I don’t see myself as a competitive player.

I got gw2 for pvp. I used to pvp in this game non stop, even when pvp wasn’t worth anything (sup glory days). Then devs changed and thief gradually was turned into worthless team pet that shouldn’t be able to do anything but decap empty points and +1 according to devs (because clearly other classes can’t do it lel).

It is just not fun anymore, i have to be 10 times better than my enemy just to have somehow even chance.

The game also became so spammy with HoT – resource management, positioning, timing – all gone.

I would pvp regardless the system (leagues, LB, w/e) but class balance definitely killed it for me. Now I just grind legend in first weeks of season and then play OW till next season starts. Balancing patches for past 2+ years made it pretty clear that thief players are not wanted here – fine, whatever, i gave my money to Blizz.

Watching thieves come to close thinking they got an easy kill, only to fall into my traps and end up dead seconds later. It’s hilarious:3.

But other then that it did get pretty darn toxic to a point I decided it’s time for a break. sPvP maps being butt ugly doesn’t help either (hi colloseum, capricorn, foefire).

I came to PvP because I got sick of being overwhelmingly outnumbered in WvW. The personal story and living world episodes are the heart of the game for me, but not terribly challenging.

Most of the time PvP is where I come to try to get better. Some of the time, I log in because I’m in an awful mood and the environment, ( with it’s extreme match imbalances and flaming,) suits the mood.

1. Having fun, RL stress relief
2. Setting goals and working towards them (both PVE and PVP), continuous improvement
3. Laughing my kitten off reading forums and all the qq / nerf this / buff that posts

Hope that after one of these games i will have a heart attack.

Combat, cant find it anywhere else on an MMO. Only reason im playing the game actually. Combat this nice is bound to get copied by another studio that is better at class balancing and isnt obsessed with hand holding PvE content. Till that happens its HoTM 4 me

15 minutes game is genius. u cant find any moba with this

I want to achieve a 20k crit (17k is the current reccord).

cyberzombie.7348:

I want to achieve a 20k crit (17k is the current reccord).

care to share what class? I’ve been using War to get my highest crit lol

sephiroth.4217:

care to share what class? I’ve been using War to get my highest crit lol

Theif/Darevevil

Masochism ^_^

:(

cursE.1794:

Masochism ^_^

:(

Solo Q on a winstreak, i see ;)

I have about 6.5k games. HOT just destroyed all the fun pvp builds, i play just for the daily 2 golds and pvp potions