(edited by Knoxxius.1524)
anet what the actual blip have you done
What the hell has happened to the PVP in this game? I’m an old player who has just returned and the introduction of the elite specs has completely messed up my beloved pvp… the hell…
Guardians are insta killing with TRAPS! Now I’ve seen everything… And Necromancers are just some devil spawn of pure aggravation to fight now.
Meanwhile warrior is complete kittene as always…
Can someone explain to me how current PVP is balanced?
You know that one episode of South Park where stan’s dad buys a margaritaville after the economic collapse and goes on a magical journey and in the end the government decides his margaritaville is valued at a billion dollars based on where the body of a headless chicken landed on a board…
I think it’s like that. One the bright side, necros are a threat! Yay!
A knight in shining armor is a man who never had his metal truly tested.
What the hell has happened to the PVP in this game? I’m an old player who has just returned and the introduction of the elite specs has completely messed up my beloved pvp… the hell…
Guardians are insta killing with TRAPS! Now I’ve seen everything… And Necromancers are just some devil spawn of pure aggravation to fight now.
I remember when warriors with a hundred blades was bad… this is a whole new category!
Can someone explain to me how current PVP is balanced?
That’s just it, Its not.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSPPPUUUUURTZ is what happened.
Don’t worry, after an ESL tournament of players rage quitting in the middle of a match, thousands of people publicly booing ArenaNet on a ESL stream for their very pathetic job with balancing and QoL, plus wasting 400k like morons, they hired a new guy on the PvP team (note, not balance team, so GW2 can still be royally screwed) to hopefully make sure Guild Wars 2 PvP stop being so… pathetic.
The traps are easy enough to dodge if you’re paying attention. Reapers are a tougher to deal with, but not impossible. Revs aren’t as op now as more people have become accustomed to fighting em. Granted I still see people insta-dying to traps even in higher tiers lol……
Not saying there isn’t a balance issue, but anytime new things are added/changed, things are thrown off balance for a bit.
Give it some time, and hope the devs have been workin hard on figuring out how best to balance it without breaking it.
What the hell has happened to the PVP in this game? I’m an old player who has just returned and the introduction of the elite specs has completely messed up my beloved pvp… the hell…
Guardians are insta killing with TRAPS! Now I’ve seen everything… And Necromancers are just some devil spawn of pure aggravation to fight now.
I remember when warriors with a hundred blades was bad… this is a whole new category!
Can someone explain to me how current PVP is balanced?
It’s not balanced, the last eSport tournament was such a boring disaster. Build variety is completely gone from their priorities and now they try to “create new metas” instead of balancing the skills for new variety.
So you asked what happen, well what happen is that Anet tried to dictate the Meta instead of letting the players find it.
What the hell has happened to the PVP in this game? I’m an old player who has just returned and the introduction of the elite specs has completely messed up my beloved pvp… the hell…
Guardians are insta killing with TRAPS! Now I’ve seen everything… And Necromancers are just some devil spawn of pure aggravation to fight now.
I remember when warriors with a hundred blades was bad… this is a whole new category!
Can someone explain to me how current PVP is balanced?
Welcome back, let me catch you up to speed-
Realizations about sPvP…
In GW2 I believe sPvP integrity will always be compromised for sake of novelty because this is what pleases the PvE crowd. The PvE crowd plays for the fun of it over the win. Example: Disallowing Elite Specs in ranked PvP play would destroy the fun for those more casual PvP types and they would hate the idea. Even if those Elite Specs needed balance the causal PvE players attitute is “go with it and figure it out along the way”. PvP focused players attitude is “give me balance over everything else… give me a fair playing field and consistency so that when I get a win, I know it was my skill that earned that”. For the PvE player it’s a fun-first attitude. For the hard core sPvP player it’s a “winning in a fair fight is everything” attitude.
It’s a very different mentality. GW2 will always be about the fun-first novelty because that’s the kind of game it is and that’s what the majority of it’s player base wants.
What’s happened over the last few months…
They spent three years since the game launched making sPvP balanced and awesome. Then they released HoT and not only destroyed the meta, but also fundamentally changed many classes (e.g. A Mesmer’s primary function is now to bunker, a Ranger is now a Druid and is best utilized strategically healing, a Warrior is now useless). They took the best sPvP experience available on PC and destroyed it, they turned on ranked and introduced a broken League system then they went on vacation for holidays (seemingly giving the entire sPvP community the middle finger on their way out).
What has followed has been a follow of toxicity though the community. Open bashing of the game even by most ESL Pro GW2 players and some of our most popular Twitch streamers (here’s looking at you Leeto) openly resorting to unethical tactics (MMR tanking) to achieve their rank goals all the while cursing the game multiple times in their live Twitch feed.
As a developer ArenaNet could not have done a worse job with Leagues and ranked play this season. Two things would have solved the problem (Just two kitten things is all they had to do).
1.) Left Elite Specializations out of ranked play. Balance takes time to achieve. For the integirty of the game and the ranked season they should have been left out altogether for this first post-HoT release ranked season. That would kept the meta fun and ranked more aligned with skill than luck and exploit.
2.) They should have brought back solo and team queuing.
So now we’re hearing of balance updates and changes coming, but It’s too little too late and they still are clueless about how a mixed solo and team queue pollutes the system.
(edited by SamTheGuardian.2938)
Oh they also nerfed Ice Bow to uselessness, so you don’t have to worry about that OP broken pvp skill.
/sarcasm.
What the hell has happened to the PVP in this game? I’m an old player who has just returned and the introduction of the elite specs has completely messed up my beloved pvp… the hell…
Guardians are insta killing with TRAPS! Now I’ve seen everything… And Necromancers are just some devil spawn of pure aggravation to fight now.
I remember when warriors with a hundred blades was bad… this is a whole new category!
Can someone explain to me how current PVP is balanced?
I don’t think a sane person can explain why they have created such a mess. DH traps are a pain, every match I see instant downing of 1-3 players from these. If you don’t have much access to stability you are toast. Reaper is an I-win button for melee combat. There is much more you have yet to discover about the current madness.