Guild Wars 2

So annoying knowing that your guna have to “finish” someone twice

I don’t mind it as much anymore. I alt-f4 any time I get downed and don’t rally instantly. I don’t care about repair costs or giving the other team points or anything like that, I just hate sitting there and waiting to die if nobody has immediately stomped me. it’s a waste of time. it is much quicker to just log out to character select/alt-f4 and log back in and get back into the fray then it is to wait to have your ridiculous downed health pool go away.

Spicyhash.7605:

I don’t mind it as much anymore. I alt-f4 any time I get downed and don’t rally instantly. I don’t care about repair costs or giving the other team points or anything like that, I just hate sitting there and waiting to die if nobody has immediately stomped me. it’s a waste of time. it is much quicker to just log out to character select/alt-f4 and log back in and get back into the fray then it is to wait to have your ridiculous downed health pool go away.

That is probably the saddest thing I’ve ever read in this forum.

Yeah, I hate how I often kill 2v1 or even 3v1 and they can just keep ressing each other. Imagine 2 thieves together, constantly switching refuge to res each other. It’s hell…

Downstate is fine, remove rallies.

Downstate is fun! One of the best thing in PvP

It’s a big feature of this game so it’s not going anywhere. What they can/should change is the massive imbalances in the downed state.

Lets compare 2 classes when downed… Eng… and Ele. The #2 skill is by far the more important out of the 3. It’s what saves you from that first quick stomp and gives your team mates time to come and save you.

Eng’s #2 skill is a projectile that interrupts and pull them in close. I can be stopped by blind, stealth, block, stability, another body in the way, random tiny rock that obstructs your projectile, etc. Ele’s #2 is a 100% stomp avoid plus relocation to wherever you want plus can get you inside towers/keeps.

Eng’s #3 skill is pretty nice (aoe knockback), but you’ll hardly ever get to use it since you’re probably not going to make it past that first stomp attempt. Ele’s #3 also isn’t too bad causing Immobilize and bleeds… giving your team mates (who you just moved closer to) even more time to get you back up.

These are hardly balanced and these sorts of issues haven’t been addressed much for over a year… and it’s just 3 skills.

ArkAngel.7940:

Spicyhash.7605:

I don’t mind it as much anymore. I alt-f4 any time I get downed and don’t rally instantly. I don’t care about repair costs or giving the other team points or anything like that, I just hate sitting there and waiting to die if nobody has immediately stomped me. it’s a waste of time. it is much quicker to just log out to character select/alt-f4 and log back in and get back into the fray then it is to wait to have your ridiculous downed health pool go away.

That is probably the saddest thing I’ve ever read in this forum.

But it’s true. Your respawn timer in sPvP doesn’t start until you are completely dead so it really is quicker to just skip the downed-state phase straight away if you know you’re not going to rally.

It is by far the most unnecessary, unfun, frustrating and imbalanced game-feature to ever grace the PvP scene of any MMO do date.

Dee Jay.2460:

ArkAngel.7940:

Spicyhash.7605:

I don’t mind it as much anymore. I alt-f4 any time I get downed and don’t rally instantly. I don’t care about repair costs or giving the other team points or anything like that, I just hate sitting there and waiting to die if nobody has immediately stomped me. it’s a waste of time. it is much quicker to just log out to character select/alt-f4 and log back in and get back into the fray then it is to wait to have your ridiculous downed health pool go away.

That is probably the saddest thing I’ve ever read in this forum.

But it’s true. Your respawn timer in sPvP doesn’t start until you are completely dead so it really is quicker to just skip the downed-state phase straight away if you know you’re not going to rally.

It is by far the most unnecessary, unfun, frustrating and imbalanced game-feature to ever grace the PvP scene of any MMO do date.

Jeeze… how fast is your computer to where you can restart the client/load up into WvW faster than just respawn. I’m jelly… I’m sitting here using a HP I got on thanksgiving sale that I just slapped a video card and some extra ram into…

Jeeze… how fast is your computer to where you can restart the client/load up into WvW faster than just respawn. I’m jelly… I’m sitting here using a HP I got on thanksgiving sale that I just slapped a video card and some extra ram into…

kitten almost halves loading times, at least for me. Im running a 5 year old machine (dual core) with kitten, i usually load faster than most peeps in my guild with a high end computer. From desktop to lions arch to WvW in 35 secs.

Edit: The overly agressive profanity filter got me. Left kitten for the lols. Kitten = A solid state drive

skyvahaerie.5340:

Jeeze… how fast is your computer to where you can restart the client/load up into WvW faster than just respawn. I’m jelly… I’m sitting here using a HP I got on thanksgiving sale that I just slapped a video card and some extra ram into…

kitten almost halves loading times, at least for me. Im running a 5 year old machine (dual core) with kitten, i usually load faster than most peeps in my guild with a high end computer. From desktop to lions arch to WvW in 35 secs.

Edit: The overly agressive profanity filter got me. Left kitten for the lols. Kitten = A solid state drive

I’m using hamsters atm, I obviously need to use kittens instead next time.

They are driving a lot of income from finisher sales right now. No way they’re going to kill one of the core mechanics of the game’s combat as well as get rid of all that income.

I like stomping someone. I don’t like downed state, but the finishers are always fun.

The downed state is a great boon to teamwork, I just wish eles couldn’t go through gates while downed.

Remove Rally in WvW (or at least limit it to 1 rally for 1 death) and don’t allow Elementalist to pass through gates in downstate mist form. Those would be a huge step in the right direction for better fights and less frustration overall. Many more exploitable issues and bugs still plage WvW, but I’ll limit myself to those mentionned in this tread

The only problem with downed state is improper balance…they don’t need to remove it.

Since ANet hasn’t balanced it we’re left to assume it’s working as intended.

I have plenty of ideas to fix the imbalance, but I’m done reposting the same suggestions . ANet wants to fix it, they’ll figure it. Don’t think they want to though.