Guild Wars 2

Glacial heart is garbage because its the only source of chill guardian has and it has no synergy with nothing else. Its also located in a trait line that isn’t geared towards conditions. It shouldn’t even be a master trait, it should be a tier 1 one trait. Maybe combine it with something else like they did the warrior hammer trait.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Low population being responsible for bad match making is a myth and it’s not the issue at all. Even if only 10 people were playing Guild Wars 2, only 10. If those people were standing in que as: plat plat plat plat gold gold silver silver silver silver, it should que the match as: plat plat gold silver silver vs. plat plat gold silver silver. It should not que it as plat plat plat plat gold vs. gold silver silver silver silver. That is in no way balanced or competitive and that is what people are talking about in this thread, matches like that when there is no reason for the algorithm to be doing it other than to feed a team of low ranks to higher ranks.

The system does this often. It chooses when players go on win streaks or lose streaks to the point that the win/lose switch flip is reliable and dependable like clockwork. It is excruciatingly obnoxious for a player to “know” that he just had a ridiculously bad match 500 to 40 or some kitten and that it’s going to continue for another 8 to 10 games or so, for the purpose of resetting his rating gain.

I think the Glicko needs the game to do this for it to function, which is absolute garbage. If that is the case, they need to figure something else out or even remove the algorithm entirely and leave que’ing up to true randomness like GW1 RA. Honestly the match making couldn’t get worse than predictable win streaks and lose streaks.

Same problem. And it happens every time these past seasons for me. Before I hit around the 1550 mark. My match history would be around 3-4 wins in a row, one loss. When I hit 1550 it turns into 2 wins out of 10 matches.

Really interesting. I’m sure Anet will deny this is a problem and there will be those mindless fanboys who come to defend the honor of the matchmaking system (lol). But this can not be a coincidence.

phokus.8934:

The problem is the OP. I’ve played against him a few times and he was feeding far (our home) all match and kept dying.

You want to know where 99% of the problems come from? Look in the mirror.

GW2 matchmaking isn’t perfect but to make some outrageous claims like you’re being singled out is pure lunacy.

That doesn’t explain how team mates can’t win when they are +1 or +2. Nor why team mates are all at the home node or fighting off point. Sorry!!!

I have the same experience as the OP. The losses are usually by blow out, 500 -100. And the wins are generally by blow out. As always I lose more points from losing than winning. Which makes progression impossible.

Over the last several seasons I noticed a pattern with the quality of matches. It usually goes something like this:

Wins: Everyone is in sync, excellent rotations and communication, respectable builds that can perform their role adequately.

Loses: Everyone out of sync, non existing rotations, little to no communications, questionable builds that can not perform adequately.

In nearly all the loses I observed, team mates can not win when they are even +1 or +2. Making one or two of the opponents able to roam free unchecked. Just this last match I did, I watched my team mates repeatedly lose 2 vs 3 fights or at the very list stalemate. It shows that something is wrong with someone/s on the team.

This happens nearly every since loss. My guess is that despite what Anet says, matchmaker doesn’t provide balanced matches but pendulum swing matches aka extreme matches. You are either winning with no competition or you are getting blown out. Very rarely I encounter a match that is competitive, were its like 500 -450.

The problem with that GS Mesmer build is really simple, it does that damage coming out of stealth. Meaning you can’t see it coming. And yep it does like 22k dmg in around 2seconds that you have no time to counter. Unlikely Anet will ever change it though.

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

We have a potential change that we’re working on to to reduce instances of this happening. Probably not 100%, but hopefully a significant amount. If testing goes ok, we’re hoping it’ll be ready in time for PoF launch.

Great news! I’m totally looking forward to it. There are other maps where you can get stuck. Like I’ve gotten stuck in a pillar on the mid point of temple of the silent storm. But its very rare.

phokus.8934:

He should’ve relogged then.

Yeah I was trying to tell him to just kill his client with task manager then start the game again. But he didn’t listen.

Just got a loss because a team mate got stuck in the clock tower wall on Battle of Khylo. How long has this glitch been around and not been fix?

Tome of courage with legendary lore and pure of heart trait is better for healing than tome of resolve hah.

Tome of resolve is the worst one. Tome of courage does better healing with the honor trait that heals when you lose aegis.

Yea I’ve been testing it in pvp and its…..pretty bad. Its only semi playable as a healer build. The elite spec is every where, it does everything but at the same time good at nothing. There are too many restrictions, long cooldowns on tomes, then cooldowns within the tomes (skills) then long cast times and then finally page count. Something has to go. I’m not sure what. I think maybe they should get rid of the tome cooldowns so that you can weave through them. But make the pages shared through all of them and give pages a regeneration rate. Similar to thief initiative.

Then there are mantras. The heal is super weak. Even with healing power it only heals for 1.4k and 3.4k for the final charge. That just isn’t worth it, especially with all of the damage being thrown around. The best mantra is the one that removes conditions but it still feels sort of meh.

Hopefully Anet listens to feedback, they did with Dragonhunter. So hopefully we see some positive changes before the game goes live.

Just my opinion though! And yea, the animations look great.

Firebrand lacks focus.

Mantras are melee and cone (why???). Tomes are range. Tomes require 2 distinct stats to be optimal. You have a condi axe, but when you are using tomes you can’t use the condi axe. It needs something to bring it all together. Maybe like going through tomes improves your stats in another area or something. I don’t know! It just feels off.

When the patch first hit they felt quite strong, I was surprised. After Anet changed them to scale with power they feel very very weak. Even with a full power build. Why change them if they are broken like this? Any fix in the works? I’d hate to have to wait another 5 years for spirit weapons to be viable again.

With a full zerker build…. hammer hits for a whopping 500 dmg. Sword of justice hits for a whopping 500 dmg x4. Wow!

I was almost t3 plat, one match away. The team was scattered, the necromancer was farming beasts and getting them stolen each time. Finally I said come on guys get it together you are plat ranked. To which two responded….what? No this is silver tier.

I was like omg anet matchmaker! lol

Toughness is useless as well as damage mitigation. Several months ago I ran a experiment using my guardian. I wanted to aim for maximum toughness and passive mitigation so I used: Signet of judgment, Hunter’s Fortification, Retributive Armor, Scrapper Rune, Knight Amulet and modest protection up time. And guess what? A thief still killed me in a couple of seconds.

I honestly didn’t notice any reduction in damage. Damage is so high at this point that I don’t think any of that no longer matters.

This is great news!!!

I’ve been theory crafting since GW1, its the only reason why I play the game. Its so much fun.

What in the hell were you guys at anet thinking? HOW did this even get a ok from the skill balance team? A aoe knockback with no icd, low energy cost and is practically spammable. WOW!!!!!!!!! When I seen a few players complain about it, I couldn’t believe it.

This is probably one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in gw2 and I’ve been playing since launch. I can not believe you guys were so quick to nerf thief shortbow daze but let ventari knockback spam stay. Amazing!!!!!!!

The new dailies are way better if you are a pvper.

Jekkt.6045:

when stronghold was in beta players provided an incredible amount of feedback for the devs. the devs didn’t seem to care and didn’t do anything. you release a new game mode and then you let it die at the same time?

first they released courtyard – dead
then they released stronghold – dead
now they release 2v2
see a pattern?

Yep. Definitely.

Saiyan.1704:

Aza.2105:

NotASmurf.1725:

Stronghold is the last thing in the world they should spend dev time at. It’s a failed attempt at copying mobas for an MMO.

Stronghold is PvP for PvE players. PvE players are better off with pure PvE content and PvP players benefit more from new maps and PvP gamemodes. Stronghold has no target audience, or at least not more than a few dozen players.

I’m not sure if I agree. Unless you are saying mobas are for pve audiences?

Derail topic imminent!

Anywho, I too agree with the above posters. Stronghold isn’t worth Dev time…being… I don’t want a whole year of 0 SPvP content just because they’re working on Stronghold. That’s exactly what will happen. The game mode will just have to wait till the next expansion.

As for suggestions, why not make it more like a Moba? I’d like to earn trait points and create my build throughout the game mode within a period of 15-20minutes.

I think the problem with stronghold is there are just too many things going on at once. Grabbing supplies, running back to the fort to summon skritt , defending your lane, attacking the enemy lane, destroying enemy treb (if needed), fighting over the hero summon and then finally attacking and defending the lord.

Its just too much. Especially for 5v5. It might felt better if it was 8v8, but who knows.

NotASmurf.1725:

Stronghold is the last thing in the world they should spend dev time at. It’s a failed attempt at copying mobas for an MMO.

Stronghold is PvP for PvE players. PvE players are better off with pure PvE content and PvP players benefit more from new maps and PvP gamemodes. Stronghold has no target audience, or at least not more than a few dozen players.

I’m not sure if I agree. Unless you are saying mobas are for pve audiences?

Its terrible, I think I get like 40fps or less with the revamped map. Before it was around 60fps. What is it about the map that is killing performance? Because it just feels like a overly large empty box.

Cynz.9437:

Aza.2105:

I think the op is asking the wrong question. Thief really isn’t a issue, but evade having no hard counter can be.

There are plenty of spells that counter evades. But let’s assume for a second that Anet nerfs evades even more (despite nerfing them basically every patch so far), how should thief survive? This is a legit question. Stealth is not an option due to abundance of reveals and stealth not really providing damage mitigation. What is left? I am genuinely curious.

I can’t disagree with what you are questioning really. If they introduce hard evade counters then thief will vanish from pvp. I always felt the design of thief was so polarizing and extreme that it makes them very hard to balance. They would need a entire rework and even then they would probably end up worse than they were in the beginning.

Sly.9518:

Aza.2105:

I think the op is asking the wrong question. Thief really isn’t a issue, but evade having no hard counter can be.

Evades have Hard counters…. look at any ward style affect, quite a few classes have them, and let’s not forget the past couple patches Thief evades have been nerfed…and your line of thinking can be applied to invulns, which they don’t have any hardcounters and more classes have access to invulns and invuln style affects on top of having Evade skills…

Invulnerabilities have hefty cooldowns, so its balanced by that. Let me be more specific, its skills that evade and do damage at once. Wards…you mean pulsing style skills right? Then yes, sort of. They can still be evaded through, so its not a hard counter. There are no skills in game that can not be evaded. Which is my point. There are no hard counters.

I think the op is asking the wrong question. Thief really isn’t a issue, but evade having no hard counter can be.

There is stronghold.

zinkz.7045:

kdaddy.5431:

This is a PvE game and the game gets PvE patches, more PvE patches doesnt fix the game.

For the first 3 years & pre-launch it was a PvP game (at least in regard to balance).

Its still a pvp game, there is no denying that. I think its one of the only games that lets the player jump right into pvp without having to level up their character. That follows in the footsteps of the original gw.

However I do really believe that pve was gw2s primary focus. Gw was a pvp game first, pve was secondary. But then pve became more popular than pvp. But its like this in ALL mmos.

I don’t think more frequent balance patches would change anything, it didn’t change anything in the past when we had more frequent patches. I believe the solution would be to put the power in the players hands, similar to gw1. Give the players more traits and skills that can counter frequently used skills. That way it gives the players the power to change the meta instead of waiting for developers to do it.

This patch was great because they gave counters to classes for stealth. If they can continue this pattern with things like evade, block etc etc. Then we will see a much healthier game.

Sly.9518:

You mean poorly executed by having Lowest Weapon CDs, Highest Armor, Highest HP, Highest Passive Health regen, High Block uptime, a lot of pseudo invulnerabilities, lowest Weapon Swap recharge, High Damage…… or do you mean now it doesn’t play itself as much that it’s bad now?

I think you bring up some valid points in a lot of your posts, but what I noticed about you is that you are straight up biased. You don’t do this with thief since you play the class and view it through rose colored glasses. If thief had all of that and people were complaining I’m sure you would be telling them to learn to play or learn to counter play their mechanics. You need to learn to be partial, like I said I can respect some of the stuff you say but when I see you go in like this then its sort of hard to respect your opinion.

And btw, you forgot to add that warrior has the most telegraphed skill animations in the game. Making it very easy to dodge and predict what they are going to do.

It would be cool if spirit weapons augment guardians existing weapons in some way.

For example:

• Using the spirit bow augments your long bow attacks to heal. For example skill 5 performs the rain of arrows and rain of healing arrows. Also increases healing power.

• Using the spirit hammer gives extra cc to some of your hammer attacks. Increases power.

• Using spirit shield changes shield of judgment from a cone to a ricochet which grants aegis to allies and weakness to enemies. It also allows you to place shield of absorption anywhere in a radius instead. Increases toughness.

• Using spirit sword augments great sword attacks with burning. Increases condition damage.

martin.1653:

Aza.2105:

Biased players shouldn’t discuss balance.

With that said, its a bit hard to deny that Unhindered Combatant might be a little bit over the top. On the opposite end of the coin, it does sort of have a cd since its tied to endurance. So once they run out they can no longer do it. But when you take into consideration a daredevil’s mobility, the ability to disengage and reset fights and the amount of other condi clears they have access to then Unhindered Combatant starts to look a tad bit too strong.

Yes, being tied to endurance also means you sometimes have to sacrifice dodge to clear that condition, even though you don’t need to really dodge.
Strong ability for sure. But game is full of strong abilities. It’s an ability that gives a good value to thief and makes thief have a proper role and be good at that role. Just like any other class has its own role and doing it better than others.
You don’t see 4 thieves in every ranked match during season, but you do see quite often 4 of some other classes in same match.

People need to worry about more pressing issues and not get salty all over the forum whenever they get ganked by thief.

Well said man! I’m just offering alternative perspective on the matter though. Personally speaking, I think unhindered combatant is ok. And yea its tied to endurance which also means…..weakness hinders its cooldown. I’m sure most didn’t think about that!

I think there are more important issues to deal with though, like making powerful skills be more apparent (like the changes to headbutt) more easy to read and being able to reset fights (thief should be the only class doing this).

Biased players shouldn’t discuss balance.

With that said, its a bit hard to deny that Unhindered Combatant might be a little bit over the top. On the opposite end of the coin, it does sort of have a cd since its tied to endurance. So once they run out they can no longer do it. But when you take into consideration a daredevil’s mobility, the ability to disengage and reset fights and the amount of other condi clears they have access to then Unhindered Combatant starts to look a tad bit too strong.

loseridoit.2756:

MoZing.1594:

loseridoit.2756:

8GB ddr4 2400mhz ram

why are you gimping ryzen with low speed ram?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5zr8lv/i_asked_amd_a_followup_question_about_infinity/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=hot&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=Amd

The Infinity Fabric connects CCX to uncore devices such as memory controllers, PCIe, SATA, USB etc. It is a 256 bi directional crossbar and runs at the speed of the memory controller ( ie when using 2133 Mhz memory, the memory controller clock speed of 1066Mhz is the clock speed of the frabric. Using faster memory increases fabric speed )

Because it’s my computer, not yours. Pretty simple answer.

Hey, I am asking because you cannot have it both ways. If you want optimal performance, you have to buy optimal hardware.

Edit: the performance might be too low, there might be another issue with your computer.

OP, did you add a custom ryzen power management scheme. Ryzen is known to have a pretty complicated power management that Windows does not understand

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/248414-amd-updates-ryzens-windows-power-plan-boosts-performance-new-chipset-driver

Its not the power management settings. I was running my 1800x before AMD did their little custom power settings and it ran the same as it did with the settings. He should check to see if all of his cores are enabled in msconfig. Go to run, then type msconfig then click advanced options and make sure the number of processor box is unchecked. Apparently some people were experience a bug were the box was checked when they upgraded to Ryzen.

This sigil is cancerous lol.

Phantom.5389:

Sadly… they nerfed healing signet (which also affect core warrior) instead of looking into either the f1 counting as x3 adrenal… or simply reworking ‘’Dead of Alive’’ which is a passive on 30 second cooldown that turn any fatal hit recieved when in berzerker form to heal the berzerker for 5.2k instead…

So much could be done instead of making changes that affect core warrior too…

As for sigil choices. It is indeed quite limited. It is now a choice where you look at which sigils is not as bad as the next one.

Anet has always had a love/hate relationship with healing signet. It either gets buffed or nerfed hah.

Entenkommando.5208:

Fashion Mage.3712:

Signet of Courage is now the best burst heal in the game and the only reason people are considering using it is because its passive is a sub-par Healing Signet. Typical guardian community. :>

You can’t simply ignore it’s passive effect. It’s bad and that’s all you can say about it.
Also explain to me how in 99.9% of the possible situations where someone, who could profit from this kind of heal, would be able to wait over 2 seconds for it without dying.
For being a “burst” it would need a lot smaller cast time. Perhaps even 0.5-0.25 in PvE only as a one time life saver.

But its passive effect gets stronger with perfect inscriptions and it scales relatively well with healing power. I always thought that it was a elite for a healing spec.

I tried a condi build with radiant retaliation and hallowed ground. It does a lot of dmg with burn lol.

When vsync is enabled opening the hero panel drops my fps to 25, regardless where I may be. Fps returns to normal after the hero panel is closed. If I disable vysnc and open the hero panel I get max fps like I’d normally expect.

My computer specs is in my signature!

Anyone else with this problem?

I think stronghold is a good concept, but there is just too many different mechanics going on at once. Treb, escorting door assaulters, collecting crates to summon door assaulters, defending your lane, assaulting the enemy lane, collecting essence to summon elite npc and then killing the lord.

Its just too much, particularly for 5v5. Stronghold might in fact be a great map type if it was 8v8 instead of 5v5.

I always felt the underwater mechanics were fine, but the problem was that you no longer had to deal with enemies surrounding you but enemies could be above and underneath you. Essentially the problem comes to having to deal with a x, y and z plane. The same problem existed in Aion with flight…which is essentially the same thing as being underwater.

jihm.2315:

Aza.2105:

jihm.2315:

what killed pvp is bright and clear its the poor combat system.
if people dont enjoy something they will stop doing it,
by the way the games selling point is pve and armor skins now so i dont expect them to give much attention to pvp and i dont blame them they are a company and companies want profit.

I think GW2 combat system is good, its really fun. I always felt pvp could use more indicators….like casting bars. Which Anet refused to add. Overall it has a lot of good things going and bad. But so does every combat system.

its too fast ,too spammy ,too much damage, cant stand still for a second and the aoe hurts like hell.
i can deal with it to an average level but i see why a lot people dont like to play.
also i was born in 1982 my processor is getting old for this kind of tension ,2-3 pvps a day and im done its just not relaxing at all.
pvp should not mean move and spam all the time.
the game is nice but that pvp just isnt.

1982…same here. Stop it man, it making me feel old! hah. I feel what you are saying though.

jihm.2315:

what killed pvp is bright and clear its the poor combat system.
if people dont enjoy something they will stop doing it,
by the way the games selling point is pve and armor skins now so i dont expect them to give much attention to pvp and i dont blame them they are a company and companies want profit.

I think GW2 combat system is good, its really fun. I always felt pvp could use more indicators….like casting bars. Which Anet refused to add. Overall it has a lot of good things going and bad. But so does every combat system.

loseridoit.2756:

Aza.2105:

loseridoit.2756:

8GB ddr4 2400mhz ram

why are you gimping ryzen with low speed ram?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5zr8lv/i_asked_amd_a_followup_question_about_infinity/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=hot&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=Amd

The Infinity Fabric connects CCX to uncore devices such as memory controllers, PCIe, SATA, USB etc. It is a 256 bi directional crossbar and runs at the speed of the memory controller ( ie when using 2133 Mhz memory, the memory controller clock speed of 1066Mhz is the clock speed of the frabric. Using faster memory increases fabric speed )

That only applies for certain games. It doesn’t really make a difference with gw2. I’ve tried at 2133mhz, 2666, 3000 and 3200. There was no performance difference really. While its true that Ryzen does like faster memory for some games there won’t be a noticeable difference. In addition to that, you probably won’t see 3200mhz ram on Ryzen too often until AMD releases the AGESA this May. Right now, its hard for most people to actually hit 3200mhz.

having faster memory/cpu improves minimum fps.

I dont care about average fps because many instances maybe gpu bottleneck.

Unless you are providing, .1% or 1% lowest frames. I cannot take your anecdote with any grain of salt.

Either way, I wish there was a better discussion about cpu benchmarking.

So far, I wonder how many people understand cpu usage

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html

Maybe you should test it yourself with your Ryzen and AM4 platform.

Entenkommando.5208:

Aenaos.8160:

If GW1 is so much better,why aren’t there more people playing it than GW2?
Less chances for qq in the forums there?

Because they stopped their work on balance.
And they also eventually admitted many years ago, that there were simply too many skills in gw1 for them to keep up a decent balance…. Which is understandable with literally far over a thousand skills… And makes the balance in gw2 even less understandable.

That is the ironic thing. GW2 has less skills but less balanced.

loseridoit.2756:

8GB ddr4 2400mhz ram

why are you gimping ryzen with low speed ram?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5zr8lv/i_asked_amd_a_followup_question_about_infinity/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=hot&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=Amd

The Infinity Fabric connects CCX to uncore devices such as memory controllers, PCIe, SATA, USB etc. It is a 256 bi directional crossbar and runs at the speed of the memory controller ( ie when using 2133 Mhz memory, the memory controller clock speed of 1066Mhz is the clock speed of the frabric. Using faster memory increases fabric speed )

That only applies for certain games. It doesn’t really make a difference with gw2. I’ve tried at 2133mhz, 2666, 3000 and 3200. There was no performance difference really. While its true that Ryzen does like faster memory for some games there won’t be a noticeable difference. In addition to that, you probably won’t see 3200mhz ram on Ryzen too often until AMD releases the AGESA this May. Right now, its hard for most people to actually hit 3200mhz.

AI killed grouping in GW1. So no!!!

Pvp was severely hindered by the closed skill system as opposed to the gw1 open skill system. What a close skill system does is make the player highly reliant on devs to buff or nerf skills were as a open skill system gives players the tools to create solutions to problems themselves.

In addition, since HoT many classes are able to fulfill multiple roles at once i.e being a tank, dps and having amazing sustain all at once. This is bad for pvp, because it pretty much negates potential glaring weaknesses a class may have. For example before HoT, a bunker guardian traded damage for sustain and tanking. Now a DH can do damage, sustain and tank.

Furthermore I think the 5v5 format is actually pretty bad. It leaves little room of error with team mates. If just one person isn’t very good then the team suffers greatly, making the match feel like a 4v5. If the match format was 8v8 it would feel a lot smoother. Also, I think they should consider dropping conquest in general for a hall of heroes style of pvp. 8v8v8 with different map objectives: Flag carry, King of the hill, holding points etc.

Sykper.6583:

Seems to imply. Players who raid =/= players who aren’t being responsible with real life time.

“Seems to imply” Is a great way of explaining your perspective on what you feel I’m saying.

Sykper.6583:

Your argument is effectively showing your own immaturity if you think it is difficult for any adult to find some dedicated time to do some GW2, because adults are playing raids and not having Real-Life issues for it.

What is this?

OnizukaBR.8537:

Aza.2105:

OnizukaBR.8537:

Aza.2105:

TheOrlyFactor.8341:

OnizukaBR.8537:

Hate this argument because i know a lot of players like me that have a job, a wife AND kids, and still can raid normally.
If you have time to play the game you have time to raid, stop blamming your job/family as the reason you cant raid.

Those kids and wife (or husband) deserve better then.

I agree! Well said.

Yes because if you spend 2 hours farming SW you are not forsaking your family, but god forbid you raid for 30 mins you are a terrible human being and should be ashamed /s

Playing open world content is using ones own time, doing raiding is using other peoples time. Its not the same.

Playing for 1 hour is playing for 1 hour no matter what you doing, If you can play one hour in SW you can raid, if you dont is your choice not because your family dont allow it.

If you look at it that way then you fail to understand my point. The hour isn’t the same because one is your time and the other hour is other peoples time. In other words a hour of my own time I can stop what I’m doing in the game to do other important things or I might have to stop all together abruptly. It doesn’t infringe upon anyone else. Were as with other peoples time you cant do this. You can’t just tell a group of people who expect you to be there and depend on you, that you are going afk for a extended period of time. Its disrespectful and selfish.