Guild Wars 2

leman.7682:

You know what – I was the biggest Anet supporter for many years.

I was an evangelist for the franchise.
I praised the Developer and the game long before it launched.
I advocated its cause every time I felt necessary.
I had a strong link with the Guild Wars brand.

Anet has done a marvelous job at destroying it with the PvP they gave us.

I first started to
get angry,
then rage,
then hate
and finally I just lost hope.

Now I don’t care anymore.

I feel we were treated as stateless people suffering from lack of civil rights and sovereign protection.
We were treated as no one cared about us.

Why would we care?

EXACTLY the same thing here, i TOTALLY understand.
I don’t care anymore neither
Leaving soon

An EX-ANET lover

Illuminati.2683:

PS. Please fix the game before you make anymore modifications. Loading bugs and this bloody timer are shrinking my friends list fast.

Alleluia
Same here bro :/

Amityel.5324:

delete pvp from game if you cant fix that loading screen bug ANET and dont fool us anymore. You are fixing some stupid PVE bugs and you let this game breaking bug in game forever? Seriously.

+1

hahahahahahahahahahaha

JonathanSharp.7094:

…I think that other game modes are something we’ll look at down the road, but for now, I think other features are just more important (like rankings, custom arenas where people can practice in private, leaderboards, spectator mode).

Okey, well you should just know the xPvP is sinking… something is really wrong, and rankings/leaderboards/spectator mode won’t cure GW2 PvP main problem : boredom… How can i get challenge? tPvP? Sure, as a solo queuer, facing a 5 premade team is all but funny/challenging… You will tell me “find a xPvP guild, then you will have teammates to group with” OK… Such guilds are breaking…more and more, my own real-friends team broke 2 weeks ago… all my friends left, and i’m afraid i will do so soon enough

Btw i would add (one more time) that hardcorers (those who are calling for Rankings, Leaderboards) are a MINORITY of the PvP Community… What do you Anet propose for the MAJORITY? Rank lvl grinding and PvE skins.. and oh capture based maps … YAY o//

Asmodean.5820:

GlockworK.2954:

samo.1054:

Pray.9751:

i didn’t read anything about stealth rendering? so i guess that is still in the game besides promises otherwise

As far as I heard, people say it’s fixed.

Eh… I’m still backstabbing fools in PvP while they are just standing there or running around freaking out because they can’t see me.

I honestly don’t think it’s been completely fixed. If only we had duels so that we could test these things out more reliably.

I think you gave yourself the answer why there is no duel option .)

Haha, wait… i think you REALLY gave the answer why there is no duel option

Plastic Soda.2438:

The pvp department is simply understaffed atm

EXPLAIN ME… How the hell is it our problem? GW2 is not F2P, it’s a non-sub game… we paid for it, and we will play for futur updates
The PvP community calls PvP… just hire more people, or transfer some ppl from PvE to PvP (GW2 is obviously PvE oriented atm)

/kiss

Reroll?
/joke

I doubt Anet will bring such a patch every month… Anet, as one of the best game dev studio (ya?), could have fixed many bugs long time ago… PvE is just focused, open your eyes

Quindim.3980:

Sorry to say that guys, but sometimes the truth hurts… I am not telling the game is perfect and have no bugs but most of QQ is really about yourselves in being owned by a better players or (usually) a better counter build. Ppl just can´t see that there are no God build, there is always a counter… there are better builds for a clean x1 too, these same ones loses at other points. finally there are builds that simply don’t work like you thought.

Come on bro, i played so many hours in sPvP and to be honest i am quite good… sigh… I have enjoyed the GW2 PvP for 2 month, but now… it’s getting more and more boring. The new map is kinda cool, but one more capture based, let’s wait 1-2 weeks then people will be bored…
My point is, Anet is obviously focusing on PvE (don’t deny it, please)… they released the game with a basic-PvP content… i am just bored, and i am not the only ones. Just check the PvP guilds recruitements or Mists… you can say whatever suits you but the stats are with me
Ok Aion PvP is not perfect, but at least there is a certain PvP content… I do not enjoy joining a tourney as a solo/duo and face a 5 premade team… I did not enjoy grinding my 30 PvP ranks, and i won’t enjoy the QP grind (new system announce QP grind yeah, Rankings are not even reseted, so the nolifers will reach the top-ranking whereas skilled players who can only play like 2-3 hours per day won’t be able to catch up).
Morover, Aion grants me challenge… The gear issue? Haha, I will just gear myself (instead of PvP ranks/QP grind) and kill ’em all!

Have fun,
Regards

Plague lasts 20sec… did not it last 30 secs before ? Maybe im wrong tho,

Yukishiro.8792:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Don-t-hold-out-people-Jon-Peters-won-t-show/page/2#post747187

Doesn’t really inspire confidence about the future of the game if ArenaNet is only willing to shell out the bones for two people to work on this stuff.

hahaha, can i agree? or will I be punished? hahhaha
+1 anyway

Don’t worry, I will. At least Updates are incoming, trailers for 4.0 are coming out… what about GW2? I just don’t know how the game will be in 2 months… My tPvP team broke twice, PvP guilds are so rare
My turn to say : have fun guys

I so so agree : +1, i am lvl 30 ( almost)… Ok i am not a pro, but i played many hours in sPvP and… i won’t rewrite all Dizzyk wrote… just read the notes above…
One more time : I completely agree
Very nice post
+1

Dear Community,
Just read the new patch… and i gotta say i am kinda disappointed. I waited this 15 November Patch really hard, and barely nothing changes… PvE Improvement (new dungeon, new gear class, many things fixed).. what about the PvP? Professions needing nerf get buffs… professions needing attention get… nothing.
I just tried the BETA map and it just sux, come on guys! Capture… Capture… Capture… S.S.D.D. Why don’t you create something new? Why aren’t you innovative? Anet is supposed to be one of the best game dev studio…
Ok im just disappointed, i am just going back to Aion… still NCSoft, so i can mention it :p

Enough Tournaments, come on! Like 80 % of the PvP community do not join tourneys at all (or very VERY casualy). You got the qualifying points already, finally something for the “rest” (the majority) of the community

/Btw, im a lil disappointed by this new map… one more cap based one… Can we get a Capture The Flag, or VIP like event ? Or bigger event like 15 vs 15?
Ok At least, this is something new, but i hope u will change more than that… the sPvT need changes, really

A matter of prioritizing? Atm you’ve done nothing at all for your PvP community… just take a look at your stats please, and you will see Mists are getting emptier and emptier… and WvsW is not that PvP, more a zergland

Angry Flying Squirrel.3041:

Esthetx.6412:

I think that not all PvP gear should be equal in stats. People need the drive to keep playing and working towards acquiring that next better gear piece. They will be a lot more happy when that new gear part drops from that chest they got from ranking up, if it actually makes a difference in their effectiveness in PvP. Having everything “balanced” like it is now, is nice in a way, but doesn’t give people the motivation to keep playing.

Disagree. People don’t need to have a drive to keep playing. Look at dota 2, LoL, Every FPS ever made. People have no problem playing a game for no gain. The reason they play is because its fun. Right now spvp is crap and not fun, tpvp is not fun. People are leaving because the game is not fun, not because they don’t have gains.

Well u are right also, atm s/tPvP is 1) not funny at all, repatitive as hell 2) MOREOVER u just wait your time in the mists, u earn nothing else than PvE skins … COME ON ANET? DON’T YOU HAVE PVP DEDICADED DESIGNERS? … oh wait, the answer is obviously NO.

MarkedOne.1309:

To be honest, there might be a few patches, some people might appreciate some custom arenas but a lot of people already left and they are not coming back. After this patch, more people will leave because pug rank 1 solo player vs. hc top team is just not fun. It doesnt matter if they delete a few sharks on a map that nobody likes. There is a bad balance between classes and completele lack of content. If there is any. Zerg 8v1 (not 8v8 mostly in my experience) hot join, pug (yeah well) tournaments. Conquest doesnt have any future imo.
The thief, mesmer + ele,guard,engi… not so much fun with such burst damage and same goes with very hard to kill builds.
PvE was not bad, I actually enjoyed it except some tactic in dungeons. sPvP was so much fun to rank 20, after that I just grinded for the armor 40. To my surprise I discovered, this is a PvE game, not PvP and therefore there will not be any competetive last-longing scene.

+1 ! ! ! !
Anet told us they want to please both PvE players and PvP community …. but for 2 months now they have been pleasing only the PvE fans… 0 PvP EVENT, Fail Tournaments, Hotjoin games getting emptier and emptier…. You are right, GW2 is not a PvP game and should be renamed, because Anetlet’s be honest … WHERE ARE THE WARS ????????

PS : remember Hardcorers are not the PvP community, they are only part of it… the rest of the community (players like me and many that left alrdy, just enjoy PvP… just enjoy playing for fun and earning something nice… the fact is… the only thing we can farm atm are skins and they are all so so so … disappoiting… same as PvE ones!!! HAHAHA… Ok the gear do not count, so everyone is equal… But do we really want to be equal? If I play I don’t want to be a newbie-equal…AND I WILL NEVER BE BECAUSE MORE YOU PLAY, STRONGER YOU BECOME ANYWAY (By-the-way, personally, gear difference always motivated me)… I just want to farm myself, THIS is the way people get interested ! Maybe you should change your strategy, your system obviously fail BECAUSE THE MISTS ARE EMPTY ! ! !)

PS2 : WvsW is the only thing that keeps me playing … for now, but zergland won’t be fun forever, know it
/kiss

You talk about tournaments… but MOST OF THE PPL just want to PvP (WvsW being more a zergland or a sneaky-paradize, people willing to fight just come to the mists).

PvP is just boring, you just earn nothing, you just don’t have fun at all with 1) all those bugs 2) the variety of professions played (every match you face mesmers, thieves, guards).

Ok gear do not count and thats great… the hardcorers and casuals are “equal” buuuut what you just don’t understand Anet is : THEY ARE NOT (hardcorers play full premade, semi-casuals just join tournament as random)

TO SUM UP : willing to gather your community, you just split it up… at least you are losing your pvp community

/kiss

Hello guys,
I so so so … SO agree with the OP… game is 2 month old and as a PvP lover im just already bored… sigh, yesterday night, i found myself playing LoL again! WTF dude, GW2 is finally here, ive waited it for like 4 years!!!

Here is a sure thing : something is wrong, u Anet told us “we want the PvE community to have the same FUN as the PvP community”. HEY WAKE UP ! PvP Community is SO BORED ! (and dont tell me hardcorers are the PvP community … because they are not)

You just develop the PvE content, Ok your Hallowen event was Ok but why not include a REAL PVP PART? (Custom Svanir and Chief ? Are you serious? Nothing else for your pvp community? Wait… I forgot the re-looking of the Mists… well …)

Your game is called Guild Wars but something like “Skeletton worldland” seem more appropriate. Your game lack of PvP… Hotjoin PvP server are getting emptier and emptier… so are Free tournament and paid one… YES! Just take a look at your stats

Cheers

Let’s be realistic, they can’t deal with the necro’s basic mechanics (btw we should be renamed buggomancer), what u suggest require computing skill… seems like they lack of dat.
Your idea is nice, really nice even if that sound a lil guardian for me (my opinion)
It would be nice to see necro having something rly special (ok DS is special), i mean, Anet announced that Fear would be a special necro condition but so many classes have it atm (warr and rogues for example).

Dariroch.6482

The current ability to remove conditions is not even closed balanced versus the ability to apply them.

The other pitfall of the Necromancer class is the lack of ability to effectively remove boons versus the ability to generate them.

This is fundamentally why the Necromancer class is broken. If they balanced boon/condition removal with application of conditions/boons the necromancer would be class I think it was designed to be.

I personally think that condition removal needs to be 1/2 aseffective as it currently is to be even semi close to being balanced. Having a necro get 16 bleeds+ on someone to have it wiped out in 1 second by a passive ability on a singet is absolutely game breaking for a class that depends on conditions to do a reliable amount of damage.

Maybe 1/2 is a lil exagerated…
Anyway, to remind you my point : im not whining about the utility that removes 1 conditions every 10 secs… i’m just saying that MANY classes have this utility (Anet obviously lack of imagination)… some of these classes don’t even need this utility. I think about elem running boons/toughness/dispel build. Such an elem is a pain for all condition spec classes… As Ground Stop said it, it just not funny at all and it requires ABSOLUTELY NO SKILL to counter condition specs… Ok condition removal skills is part of GW2, many classes have utility which transfer your conditions into a foe, turning your conditions into boons, or even consuming your conditions to heal you… My point is this utility “Remove 1 condition every 10secs” is like “gimme your conditions, please stack up your bleeds, you are a conditionmancer you can’t burst me… so my utility will remove many of your conditions!!! xaoxaoxaoxao”

All others skills removing conditions are ok… this utility is just a joke. Rangers, Guardians, Elem, Warr have it… add them some toughness… add Elems many HoTs and aoe dispel effects… then you have a broken PvP

Regards

well… that’s a nice idea! We would have something the other professions don’t have
+1

A lot of people is whining about Plague perma blind? Are you guys aware that you can just … RUN ? Plague is all ok, if yours foes are dumb enought to stay in plague aoe range then they will just RiP… haha Don’t call a nerf on something which is actually working very well
Regards

Sad thing bleeding is our only real source of DoT

Exactly :p Well someone here seems to see the pb

Just one thing, i am not whining because many prof can dispel their conditions, its just normal and quite funny. But fighting an elem running boon/thoughness/dispel build + Utility “remove one condition every 10 secs”, and a lot of elem are running this build, is just boring… and skill cannot change that if you are a conditionmancer

“The metagame is currently all about condition removal” Yes, i know it My point is : so many class atm have dispel potential (healing skills consuming the conditions, skills transfering your condition to your foe, skills turning your conditions into boons etc). It is ok… but the utility skill “remove one condition every 10 secs” is ONE MORE thing, and its getting extremly boring because many professions have it… This utility is not even appropriated on Guard (i mean they rly don’t need it anyway)… and elems? They just can remove many conditions with water spec and some traits…

Try to fight an elem running a boons/toughness/dispel build or any high survivability using this utlity being an conditionmancer then come again with your “Deathshroud. <—”
Btw, thx Zogyark for your constructive answer. /sarcasm off

Fellow necros : YAY o//

Hello fellows necros,
I am sorry if this topic already exists, i looked at the 20st pages and found no trace…
I play a lot in sPvP and i see more and more “Cure one condition every 10secs” Utility… many professions seem to have this utility skill.. I think about Warriors, Guardians, Rangers and Elem… wtf? As a conditionmancer, as well as many necros atm, i just feel useless… especially versus elem. Currently, almost all elem i see just run boons/toughness/dispel build… and more and more Rangers, Warr, Guard use the utility i presented u.
This is quite boring….
What do you guys think about it? Seems like Anet rly hate necros and even more the ones running condition builds

Spectral grasp will be my favourite skill the moment it is fixed 50% time it just don’t land and the projectile is so so sooooooo slow, i think it’s the easiest skill EVER to dodge
Waiting for your build to be upload, seems nice

All I can say is … +1, well waiting for some game change maybe i will just go back to LOL for a while Your HALLOWEEN event is nice OK, but… you guys know THE CONTENT is more important than apparence right?
See u wanna-be-devs

Indeed, this skill isn’t really a “teleport” (as it is mentioned in the skill description). Is it on purpose or simply a bug? I don’t know, but I hope it is made on purpose Such a skill can’t be that hard to fix for Anet pros ,D SARCASM

Hi guys,
Well i can handle most of 1vs1 with my necro, so i won’t whine around I just like necros, but i would mention how boring it is to play a quasi-full-bugged traits profession… Necros could be SO SO SO … PERFECT without this mess!
Regards