Guild Wars 2

The problem with your suggestions for increasing the number of gamemodes in pvp is that there isn’t sufficient player base. The queues would become longer and result in more people sitting around twiddling their thumbs than actually pvping. It’s simply too late for ANet to get their act together unless they throw hundreds of thousands into pvp (which is very kitten unlikely). The game has wonderful mechanics and looks aethetically pleasing. It’s a real shame that the state of pvp has come to a point in which the monkeys put on a show once a week and talk about balance. It is all a game of let’s dangle a carrot in front of the donkey.

The development of the game is so slow I predict that it won’t be until late this year (December) before we see a new gamemode. If we do see a new gamemode before then it’ll be extremely unpolished and broken.

The carrot simply gets larger and further away, the suggestions that are required to keep this game from eventually going under would require more resources being put into pvp. Which we all know won’t happen because there isn’t any money in gw2 esports.

I used to love this game and now I simply read the reddit sub thread and have a gander at the pvp section to see if I’ve missed something. Oh wait I haven’t for the past 6 or so months. I’m just going to laugh when this “game changing” patch comes out which we’ve been waiting for for god knows how long for and it being a flop. Best case scenario is that it bring people back to pvp who will play for a few days/couple of weeks and be like this really hasn’t inspired me to play again.

Tldr: Read the above and summarise it yourself, you lazy monkey.

Edit: Adding image for emphasis

Honestly I have too many chests, both tournament win chests and rank chests that I would just love to exchange straight into glory. I genuinely would have to be sitting at my pc for 12 hours to salvage them all.

Josh Davis.6015:

It would be in your benefit to salvage the items from the chests for luck.

What exactly will happen to tournament chest gear/rank chests if they are not opened and salvaged? (with respect to gear being cross compatible ie pve and pvp)

Where exactly is the report option for leechers in solo queue?

oh and whilst you’re at it add gems back to pvp so we can afford things on the gem store. Thanks!

If you’re wondering, how would they add gems back to pvp. How about you simply put in automated weekly and monthly tournaments a bit like GW1. ( you know the game that was released in 2005)

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Automated_tournament

Bring back the old minimaps or allow us to change back to it. It was far superior and there was no issues with it. The current minimaps are horrifying. The only argument for the current maps is the supposed fact that they are easier for viewers to see what is going on for spectator mode. Yeah right.

Hahahaha, good joke.

I haven’t played the game in a long time because I know the PvP scene will take another 12 months to develop into something substancial.

I saw that the leaderboards were being reset so I played two games of solo queue. I win twice and all of a sudden I’m #1 on the leaderboard. As of today I’ve been knocked down to #2. The leaderboards are still a joke and to be honest I can’t even tell if they’ve done anything.

oh and here is an image
http://puu.sh/5vduj/38da0d6a05.png

I wonder how the developers feel about the current scene?

Did they know that the teams like SYNC, CC, and DEN hardly practiced at all before the tournament? CC and SYNC only played for about a week up till the tournament started while DNL had not played a single team queue together for a month before the tournament started. They had literally never practiced with the guardian they pugged either.

The current PvP scene is dead and the reason why there was so much variety because nobody takes it seriously anymore. Now that the tournament is over you literally never see these teams practice, and they don’t intend to either. They’ll AFK for as long as it’s possible for them to do so while being competitively viable while the teams that remain and want to tryhard can do nothing but queue vs pugs and extremely low tier teams.

I hope that ArenaNet sees this tournament sees the low level of play, random compositions, haphazard pugs, lack of professionalism and understands that the scene needs a LOT to be rebuilt after you ruined the scene in the EU with the dhuumfire patch. You literally made it go from 8+ competitive teams to 0. For the first time ever there isn’t a single known tournament team that queues regularly.

This is what I got from Helseth, who could have said similiar things to confirm this if he was not banned on the forum.

For those who missed the going on two hour stream here is the recording

http://www.twitch.tv/adamodon/b/456414289

The lack of professionalism is somewhat charming. This effectively acts as a podcast on the game. I would probably skip the first few minutes of fumbling about and just listen to what is said.

(Karsaib + streams comments on warrior)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10kBbz5wn8U62oK4Ha1vZztaiKy7_2e0stqnGil1CanY/edit

The stream is about to start on http://www.twitch.tv/adamodon

It is not hard to pull off ele burst in ~1 second without macros, you counter it by pressuring them with condis and randomly evading.

On the couch will be a talk show of sorts which will include top tier players. The topics of discussion will revolve around PvP and the current balance.

The plan is to have at least one person representing each class, there will be no beating about the bush and all opinions will be heard. I have already spoken to a number of players about being on the show, however, we may be short of people in which case contact me either before or during the show.

The discussion will be held over teamspeak and shall be on twitch. The aim of the show is to have open discussion between top tier players about the game.

Examples of topics:

-The most recent tournaments (PaX and ESL)
-The balance/meta/roles of different classes
-Leaderboards
-Additions to PvP since release
-Playerbase
-Incentives to play
-Suggestions

Chances are there will be no strict format and we’ll just go with the flow

It shall be hosted on the 4/09/2013 and will be at around 22:00 (GMT+2), I have no intention to set an end time we’ll just see where the discussion takes us.

No /15 chars…

PvP is becoming too casual. /bump

Right so we all know that you didn’t want to balance before PAX.

Why is it that we’ve gone 2 months without ANY pvp content?
Where are the quality of life updates?

-PvE gets new quality of life updates every 2 weeks. – PvP gets nothing
-PvP rewards are a joke
-Weekly/Monthly Automated Tournaments – That reward something of value to PvE/WvW players.

The list goes on

This thread a thousand times over. I was just discussing my problems with this game and I was saying this exactly. What would also be flippin brilliant would be that your tournament games would be recorded from all players perspective sort of like the ability to spectate and have the ability to fast forward pause and play. However I do think that this is far beyond the capability of the developers.

I was also suffering extreme lag whilst playing EU PvP. My team were also suffering earlier today.

The makitten till abysmal, it doesn’t show all of your players. The obscene circles you insist on adding to points of interest seem to cover up players. Good to see some solid testing was done.

Secondly this filter is preventing me from writing map — is -still- abysmal.

Halivastus.9021:

Ditto ^^^

I’m not a fan of the new coloring and I cant see my teammates. Definitely a game breaker for soloQ. Not sure if this happens for team arena though.

Well it is broken on custom arenas as I literally had 3 people on my map when playing the ESL Cup yesterday. It is also broken on Team Arena, fortunately the guy I couldn’t see had a commander tag which meant I could see him regardless.

Seems like pvpers need to buy a commander tag to guarantee their teammates see them on the map

For some reason the map has been coloured in and it looks horrific. Fortunately whoever was colouring in didn’t go over the lines. Secondly there are some garish circles around random points of interest. There is no way to zoom/rotate the map and the symbols are coloured in a way in which they hurt my eyes.

Another point is your teammates do not show up on the map which is quite catastrophic.

A map revert is necessary if these issues aren’t resolved. It has severe impact upon pvp and needs addressing immediately.

You can’t /thread

Adam.6047:

Clear lack of understanding of guardian mechanics here.

-Absolute Resolution – Activating Virtue of Resolve removes three conditions. Virtue of Resolve’s passive effect is stronger.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Virtue_of_Resolve

Skip to 2:55 on the video and watch as he shows that you remove 3 condis from your team with virtue of resolve active. Oh wait it didn’t, yes he condi cleansed by that using save yourself and contemplation of purity. The team condi cleanse had absolutely nothing to do with him activating virtue of resolve.

Poorly written post by me at some obscene time in the morning. I apologise if it came across that virtue of justice didn’t team condi clear. My point was that he could quite easily have removed all of the condis without blowing the cd.

Sovereign.1093:

You knows, virtue of resolve also adds health to allies, maybe he did that because his allies health were so low that they could have died if he only focused on taking away conditions.

Clear lack of understanding of guardian mechanics here.

-Absolute Resolution – Activating Virtue of Resolve removes three conditions. Virtue of Resolve’s passive effect is stronger.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Virtue_of_Resolve

Skip to 2:55 on the video and watch as he shows that you remove 3 condis from your team with virtue of resolve active. Oh wait it didn’t, yes he condi cleansed by that using save yourself and contemplation of purity. The team condi cleanse had absolutely nothing to do with him activating virtue of resolve.

Matty.1953:

I just think Anet are big fans of quick fix balancing right now, so I still think a good suggestion at the moment is to just move Shattered Conditions to the master tier. I made a thread about this but it didn’t get a very good following.

This

Guide to winning in SoloQ

- Sync with people of a similar MMR on VOIP

@Darnis

I don’t think you’re right at all. Mesmer filled a niche pre patch it is only when necros got turned into a nuke of condis that mesmers became not viable.

Mesmers could provide a lot of team support through stuns/portal plays/illusion res/condi clear however they simply aren’t able to as they are shut down extremely easily by conditions. A mesmer could easily fill the role of a roamer.

There is alpha testing already however I believe it is rather exclusive and isn’t spoken about very much. Chances are because they have to agree to an NDA before joining the “krewe”. Few players have the qualities required to be such a tester, however, many would like to be an alpha. I believe a large proportion of the pvp playerbase would like to be involved more within the balance of the game. The problem is that if you have too many alpha testers then you will have too many sources of information which would all have to be read by people at ArenaNet. (taking up resources slowing down productivity). I for one would love to be part of the exclusive circle but I doubt I’ll ever be part of the krewe.

Another thing that I didn’t quite make clear was that I do believe my #1 position was very much luck driven. If I hadn’t have won my first match which was against 4 thieves + a warrior I don’t think I would be in the top 10. It’s really that simple, if you win your first few matches your rating goes up and as it goes up you leave behind quite a lot of what many good players are experiencing. A grind of playing with inexperienced players and not being able to progress as the entire game is a team game without any co ordination. As I progressed through the ratings I started to recognise everyone I was playing with and against which does show the MMR system works to an extent. However many players are suffering as they lost their first couple of games and it wasn’t necessarily their fault. This will all settle down as the leaderboard progresses and levels out. Do you remember when team arena leaderboards were released, they collected data for a long period of time before releasing them. If they had done this with solo queue chances are half of these posts wouldn’t exist. I do feel sorry for those wanting to progress and play with players of a similar skill level but simply cannot jump off the sinking ship. It will happen in time but it won’t by any means be immediate as it was with me.

Edit: One more thing to mention that as you progress through your rating and play with more “known” players it is easier to get them to come on a voip program so it is effectively team arena with a triple queue against a team not necessarily using voip and as a consequence the team with a higher level of communication is more likely to win.

As the current #1 in Solo Queue I will quite openly say that I did sync queue with lemanve and we got into the same team about 5 times on the run. We faced relatively decent players and the games were quite balanced imo. The way I got to #1 was quite simple, when you get a queue pop try and get as many people on your team in your teamspeak channel. It is as simple as that, GW2 tournaments are all about communication, you can have absolutely incredible technical skill and experience but at the end of the day it comes down to communication. For example karsaib who is also highly ranked seemed to always be on the same team as shad, at the start of a game as a thief + ele they would stack might and stealth gank a guardian at mid. Not exactly a solo queue strategy as you don’t exactly expect such a high level of co ordination. I will say however that I don’t think they were using ts but simply worked well together as they did call targets and refused to get on ts irrespective of my attempts.

Oh and to the OP I won’t be doing solo queues until I’m knocked off #1 and as I said on ts “I’m doing a symbolic” – except I’m not using smurf accounts. Another thing whilst I’m on a roll is that I would love to be knocked of the top spot because then I can quite happily use solo queue to farm ranks as hot zerg is tiresome.

The fact that solo queue has a ladder is somewhat silly, imo soloq is a joke and in lieu there should be an unrated tournament queue with a better MMR system that doesn’t match solo queues with premades.

The only problem with having a system that does this is that the pvp community isn’t exactly huge and finding matches at times which aren’t peak will take 20-30 minutes (estimate). The only way I can see any of the current issues being resolved is that they bring out of the looking for group tool which we were teased with around March (if I remember correctly). The other issue is that there is very little incentive for players who achieve high ranks to actually play again unless they lose their spot. There is no benefit to me by playing solo queue I’ve already gotten to #1. Why would I want to lose that for another trash tournament chest which already plague my inventory and some glory I can get from hot zerg. This game is huge on the side of PvE and WvW, it’s a shame that players who enjoy WvW/PvE have no incentive to come and play PvP due to a lack of rewards. (side point*****)Oh and then of course the integration of American and European servers so that the queues are shared just as GW1 had districts. (I know this has been discussed before).

Ps. To the person that said that the classes that win 1v1s such as rangers, engis and necros are the classes that are on the top of the leaderboard. Well that is simply incorrect as there is a lot of variety in the “top” rated leaderboard solo queue players. I am a Guardian for example.

Side point: PvE rewards have been increased consistently over time and not a single change has been made to the PvP rewards since the removal of Free and Paid tournaments. Achievement points were a benefit to PvE players as AP are not really accessible in PvP at all. The big changes to dungeons that nerfed CoF to attempt to get players to try other dungeons and reward PvE players so that they feel rewarded for their time spent. Well I don’t feel rewarded at all for the time I’ve spent in PvP, the only thing I’ve got is the satisfaction of beating someone.

- That guy who isn’t going to queue as their is no benefit of me queuing.

Thesilentflute.8761:

I think I will be at the top, but what I really care about is that they reset both rankings cause if not it will kill team que.

Why would it ?

Parisalchuk.9230:

Zoutsha.1093:

Parisalchuk.9230:

Romek.4201:

most people which are now in leaderboards farmed it with premade vs SoloQers^^

even when watch top 100 teamstreams they get 50% of the time randomteams – so will see

edit: oh and when we have finaly a real SoloQ you will see a new Phenomen in the forum: The Elohell^^

Says the person not even in the top 1000 of a leaderboard. Sure, we play against soloQ’s sometimes but 90% of the time in the top 1000 I am playing against premades in a premade vs premade match and if I do face a soloQ team its players all in the top 1000 that soloQ so the advantage is not as large as this forum makes it out to be. To say we farmed our rank by playing against soloQ is insulting.

The majority of SoloQ players that have had issues and come here to complain are in the 70-90% rank range. Thats the point where teams start to form and soloQ players begin to run into them. You also get the issue that bad players that have been carried to that range are no longer able to keep up bringing teams down.

1. Romek is right you can easily reach top 100 only by farming soloq with your team.

2. My team is facing soloq 50% of the time although we are pretty high rated.

3. I know tons of r500+ soloq players who play on a top 50 skilllevel. If a top 100 teamplayer decides to start soloq he will drop like 200-300 ranks within 1-2 days cause soloq players keep facing good r40-50+ premades with r5-20s in their team.

4. Stop feeling like a boss and forbid people to talk cause your a “top” player. This forum is made to discuss and improve things and your behaivor doesnt allow that.

1) Yea, sure its simple to get to top 100 IF you are playing against soloQ. In NA thats just not the case. The second you get into top 90% you are facing team after team with only an occasional SoloQ team so you arent farming these teams anymore, and those soloQ teams are filled with high ranked and highly organized players the vast majority of the time.

2) Maybe its just NA vs EU thing, but playing 10 games yesterday we faced 0 SoloQ teams and over the past say week I have played maybe 5% of my matches against SoloQers. My team is all around the 500 +/- 200 LB rank NA.

3) The SoloQ teams I do face, they are highly organized because at that point they have learned how to comunicate via chat, know which builds work regardless of a team comp and are able to provide fine competition. Not nearly the roflstomp this form makes SoloQ vs Team matches out to be.

4) I never forbade anyone from speaking, but if people are going to make baseless claims that are insulting to players that have worked to get better at this game and climb the leaderboard Im going to respond. And my rank and how I have gotten there has given me insight to the different Leaderboard levels and how matches on those levels go, atleast in NA.

If you’re losing to solo queue as a premade you’re doing something wrong. It is very possible to farm solo queue and get to the top 100. The fact that these “advanced solo queue players” are using chat to type only makes me think that you’re doing something wrong.

Oh and another thing, solo queue against a decent premade will almost always end up as 500-0. So yes I would call it a “roflstomp”.

Both of these quotes are from members of CC, this all started when super and posi had a bit of a tantrum and kicked up a fuss.

Zoutsha.1093:

We lost on niflhel although we played good thats the difference. Niflhel is not a free win for us like foefire is for TP and since everyone is doing mistakes from time to time its was just a matter of time for TP to win niflhel and the whole final.

Olli.6137:

Yep its all together but it is how it is u cant change things

As Lady Nag Nag says “it is how it is u cant change things”.

In my opinion it was stupid of CC to agree to a bo5 when they had been playing the entire day and therefore as an improvement for the next pax the finals should be held on a separate day. However the only issue with doing this is the number of viewers on twitch.

/thread

So it appears I was right, necros in todays PaX qualifier were running dhuum. Crying on the forums about a small nerf and saying how you got nothing in exchange is somewhat silly. The reason why it’s called a nerf is because it is too strong and needs to be brought down. It wouldn’t be logical to make them better at something else simply because you’re making something too strong not as strong.

Secondly death shroud right now is really nice and if anything the patch before actually buffed necros. Right you shouldn’t be running 10 for greater marks as the default marks are now a reasonable size. If you put 20 in the last trait line if anything you’re even stronger than you were pre patch before the dhuum fire nerf.

Krayiss.4926:

I don’t even use Dhummfire anymore, heres my build below……. BUT
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Is-my-Necromancer-the-cause-of-unbalance/first#post2496887

Anet nerfed terror 17% then fire 50% (atleast start out with a 25% nerf 1sec)
And again alot of people brought up the fact that 2 addition torment+burn conditions was the bigger problem over the extra burn dps since alot of classes have either cleans 2 or 3 conditions. Change Dhumm to torment like everyone else said because noone is using it now….

edit*
Also check out the 2nd post below for Anets arrow to the knee topic and whats really wrong compared to all these balances. Poor esports its been a year w/so many bugs
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Anet-s-Arrow-to-the-knee-Balance-or-fix-bugs/first#post2489280

I can bet you will see pretty much every single necro running dhuum in tomorrows qualifier tournament.

Still looking for an s/d thief, message me in game through whisper/mail.

JonathanSharp.7094:

• It takes us time to get our changes to editors for writing (any text/trait change has to be edited). This can take a week or more.
• We have to then get changes to writers.

Not trying to sound harsh but whoever is proof reading isn’t doing a fantastic job.

“Hunter’s Shot: This skill no longer applies vulnerability on each hit, but now grantss the ranger stealth for 3 seconds.”

>grantss

Celestial Amulet – CelestRial jewel

>CelestRial isn’t a word

Gain life force as you take damage. Removed when you enter Death Shroud. Also applies protection.

>Previous patch “Death Shroud: No longer removes the Spectral Armor buff.”

The fact that it takes weeks and they still slip up is comical at best. Not trying to derail the topic any further so I’ll get back on topic.

The problem with the most recent patch to necros is that they went from zero to hero. It shifted the meta from power to condi. The fact that many top tier mesmers no longer play their preferred profession as they simply cannot do their role effectively tells you something.

Mesmers are extremely susceptible to conditions as they have very little to condi cleanse with. To be frank the reduction on the recharge of null field was a bit of a kick in the teeth, a 5 second reduction is not going to help when you’ve got a condition nuke firing all cylinders in an AoE fashion.

I’ll be surprised if we see many of them at all in the qualifiers for PaX and if we do I wish them the best of luck.

The sheer response from the community expressing that necro condi pressure is too much is a sign to do something. As the time between patches is so long, when nothing substantial happens you can expect an outcry.

Edit: Another thing that thoroughly annoys me is the ridiculous messages saying the game will patch in 1-2 hours. It then takes a good 4-5 hours to patch and in the mean time the PvP community are left to jump around the heart of the mists as they are unable to play PvP. Considering you understand that PvPers tend to stick to PvP why hasn’t this been addressed? Turn around time is pretty inefficient imo.

To put it simply we have 4 guys and our composition is as follows:

Guardian, Ele, Necro, Engi and all we need is a thief to compete in PAX etc

3 of us are top 100 EU and we’re looking for someone who is highly skilled.

Pretty average ele I’d pick him up

Hanzo.9624:

I would love to see an eventual option to swap between saved builds and gear in PvP matches so you can change your setup depending on the map you’re on without having to go back into the Mists. Maybe use gems to purchase more available saved build slots. Could make it so you set the gear you want with the build and as long as it’s in your inventory it’ll automatically equip it all. I saw it mentioned in the Skyhammer thread and felt maybe the idea would get more attention in its own thread.

(Or at least an Equip All option for Runes, already.)

[I can dream, can’t I?]

If they start charging gems for build templates I will not only lose all faith in ArenaNet as a company I will continue to use alternate characters with different builds.

Dojo.1867:

On cannon platform are plenty of spots to prevent being feared? Sure.

Also guess 70% of proplayers that don’t want this in turneys either should learn to play, too.

Nice statistic you pulled out of thin air, and yes they should learn to be more diverse.

Dojo.1867:

The cannon platform is so poorly designed? Were they not aware that there is stuff like fear in the game? There is nearly no fear save spot, add one freaking L-shaped wall so that people have atleast a chance to not get feared off.

Quit moaning and learn to play, please. There are plenty of spots where you can prevent being feared. Stop coming to the forums and bashing when you have no idea how to play.

So I’ll start off by saying that I main a Guardian and therefore I love this map. I’ll attempt to remain objective. I have two guys that I regularly pvp with and honestly I can’t stand them raging so much after this map came out. One of which plain out refuses to do tournaments whilst it is in the rotation. I lost hope with him at this point.

The reason why people hate this map, it forces the players to change their builds and their playstyle. ArenaNet have done a fantastic job I must say at doing exactly this, and for this I commend them as they haven’t done any balance changes in this patch yet they have increased build diversity. People don’t like change, I personally love this change irrespective of the significantly less amount of love us PvPers get compared to the PvErs.

The map has been out for a couple of days now, how about you give it awhile before you take to the forums? Half the feedback given is by those who are thinking irrationally.

This map shifts the meta towards CC, the previous patch shifted it towards condi necros (still OP mind you – nice whack a mole balance imo). The only issue I have with the map is that you cannot evade the blast which seems entirely ridiculous.

Let’s look at some previous “balance” fixes: Mesmer focus pull has a 1 second cooldown before you can pull someone. This was done so that it allows the player to react and evade accordingly. New map comes out which makes it impossible to evade the main source of damage which is ultimately the game winning cannon. I know you can walk out of the way of it but seriously you decap a node in 5 seconds which therefore makes the cannon the most important objective.

The fact that people don’t like the new CC meta need to adapt and learn to play. Learn to play, that is all, learn to kittening play. Tournament play, you should recognise CC skills and evade them accordingly. Lets take my recent tournament experiences as an example. I have taken on two relatively decent necros and two relatively decent hammer guardians successfully as a hammer guardian on my own. Could it be luck, or could it be the fact that I am watching their stability and cancelling my skills when appropriate? Or even evading their CC?

This map is bloody brilliant, it forces players to actually care about CC skills instead of only evading burst. They now learn about common CC skills and tactics. How about we allow the meta to adjust and then adjust accordingly? Which is very much ArenaNets stand point and for once I’m glad that it is. (Unlike OP necros)

The only thing that I would suggest is that you should be able to evade the cannon blast, it makes sense as it adds skill in the fact you have to count down the blast. (the aoe ring should be removed potentially or make the blast less telegraphed).

I’d go off on a rant about how I think that this patch has been very much casual friendly but I’m going to bed (UK). (I’ll probably correct the English in this post tomorrow)

Edit: 1 more thing, the camera is horrible when you’re looking at B.

DPS Guardians don’t exist at high end PvP (EU). You may see the odd one every month and I roll it if I’m bored but it isn’t viable. The recent patch to Guardians were a joke and achieved absolutely nothing. Typical builds are meditation or shouts and the patch tried to make spirit weapons useful but the truth is when you start speccing 30 into zeal it’s suicide. Basically you want a full zerker guardian and a greatsword with 10 in zeal and the other 60 you can just trait however you want to survive.

As soon as I saw this I laughed hysterically. Why is it that PvE players are consistently rewarded and PvP players are left to being rewarded with self satisfaction. This patch if anything is simply increasing the disparity between PvP players and PvE players. Lets give more rewards to the PvE players and force PvP players to PvE in order to get PvP skins. Nice logic.

The solution is somewhat simple, keep losing until you are no where near the leaderboards and eventually you will play against solo queue. TPvP is very much about communication and not necessarily about being technically skilled. Today I formed a group of a r16,r18,r19,r32 myself being r42. I got them all on teamspeak and asked what they were running and in some cases I suggested builds. We played quite a few matches and we won the first 3. After those games I had a couple of them whispering me about how they were enjoying it etc but we had one leave. So I asked Mouby to come join us and we played a few more games some of which we won and some we lost. Overall I think everyone enjoyed themselves, the key to winning is communication and positioning. Practicing 1v1 is a good idea because being able to win 1v1s can win you the game. Knowing which classes to target first and calling targets are crucial when it comes to tournaments. Really the only thing I can suggest is to just continue playing as a team and try and find out how other teams communicate.

Good luck

JonathanSharp.7094:

Thanks for the feedback. We intend to watch things in the meta and make small adjustments accordingly for ALL classes, including the Necro.

This is why I despise the guild wars 2 forums. The entire development team persist in being cryptic. Constantly providing generic responses that have absolutely no meaning or substance. This occurs throughout the forum and SOTG, why is it that you cannot give a straight answer, for the love of kitten, you may as well be politicians.

Please endeavor to give more thorough responses as your current attempts are somewhat disgusting. How about you answer the questions we have rather than “reading” them and not responding. You can start with the thread made by SupCutie with questions for SOTG as to be honest not a lot of them were brought up.

I hope you enjoy my feedback and I would love to understand what is going on behind those closed doors. So lets have a bit more transparency hey? Thanks again, lots of love Adam.

Tournaments that actually reward the people playing them with a viable currency. Either in the form of gold or gems. It is as simple as that. How about we get rewarded for the time we put in compared to those who play PvE ?

By making it profitable to play tournaments for your average PvE player they are likely to want to try TPvP and thereby increasing it’s popularity. I’m not sure why you can’t understand the simple psychology of incentive and popularity. As a result GW2 will have more viewers on twitch and the list goes on.

Too many sloths in the office imo.

Travee.8492:

1. Are you going to make Spectral Wall more visible? (red line around it if hostile)

2. Are you going to give Spectral Wall a 1sec cd, just as you did with the Mesmer focus?

+1

Why is it that we need SOTG to actually achieve any sort of transparency between the developers and the players ?

Why is it that when you reply to questions you cannot give a straightforward answer?

There is no chance that you’ll get time to ask all of these questions but honestly the GW2 Devs should be making it their priority to communicate with the people who play their game. Answer their questions on the forums – and no I don’t mean one response per 100 threads.

uberkingkong.8041:

Adam.6047:

uberkingkong.8041:

Next time you do a image like that you need to show everyones rank at the end.

Hotjoin is notorious for team stacking, where all the good players stack on one team while the newbs are on the other team.

Without knowing the ranks you cant really say anything.

This img is perfect example.

Read my post before posting. Cheers.

Here is a link to an album, http://imgur.com/a/WLpUt – Draw your own conclusions, if you can’t I’ll help you along.

The album has images from the start and end of the game with their respective ranks.

Thanks.

I looked at that link, the last image doesn’t show everyones rank. Its very easy for any good player to play any class and dominate in a zerg like you describe while you backcap the zerg.

Has nothing to do with people playing necro, if they are good everyone could be playing warrior and dominate while in zerg with other good players against crappy players.

I manage to average out 500 points a game with glory booster just by playing hotjoins and joining the “right” team. Newplayers aren’t familiar with peoples names, if I join a game right now all I have to do is press B and see which team the hotjoin heroes are on and join that team every single game.

However your right in a way because people just aren’t safe in hotjoins. Brainless newbs will continue to join game without knowing why the rank 50s are always on the other team and continue to get farmed.

Check out this img as well. Somebody map chatted a couple times hes quitting if he keeps getting newbs on his team… litte does he know you can chose to be on the winning team. Its not rocket science to tell whose going to win.

I apologise I uploaded the incorrect image