Guild Wars 2

So it’s hidden?

Just seems odd that it reads 2% per stack, but you can’t see any stack nor any increase in stats.

Is it bugged? I don’t see any buff or increase in stats happening.

great matches.

Thanks for the answers Blu.

1 – For the World Tournament Series, we have seen streams of NA and EU matches, but has there been or will there be an Asian bracket?

2 – During the stream yesterday, rom was typing in the twitch chat. Can participants watch the stream or is there a delay?

Thanks.

I’ve enjoyed this game since BE1. I’ve explored the PvE and WvW realms, but as in most MMO’s I lean towards PvP. Generally I’m found in the Solo Q, and I do not claim to be the greatest PvP’er to ever grace this game, but I still enjoy the fights. I was happy to have gotten my shark before the big change up.

Anyway, despite the constant negativity that is vocalized there are still people in Solo Q that actually enjoy it. Sometimes you’ll get a “good fight” from people when it’s deserved. Sometimes a team of 4 takes out a team of 5 and it feels so good afterwards. Sometimes I’ll make a nub mistake like dodging off the skyhammer map and instead of being ridiculed both of us laugh. Sometimes people stop the kittening and make a 200 point deficit into a win.

While there is always a person or two in a match who vocalize their distaste for skyhammer or complain about hambows, or necros, or whatever FoTM class is wrecking people…there are still people who enjoy the pvp in this game and look past it’s hang ups. Most of those people don’t post on the forums, or talk about it openly for fear of flaming…but there are positive people out there. To those people and the friends I met along the way, I just want to say thanks.

The end.

Zach.3264:

Blacknasty.3641:

Zach.3264:

Gotta love these threads where the OP dies to someone better than them, they come on forums and complain how OP it is. Not only that, but they exaggerate it to the point of no return.

I’ve never known a Necro being able to apply 25 stacks of any condition in 1 second, nevermind being able to get 25 stacks of Chill/Fear/Poison/Burn etc.

Mind.
Was.
Blown.

My first reaction to the OP. Quite a bit of an exaggeration.

The combat and builds in the game can be quite complex. For new comers I could see the confusion and frustration, but my suggestion is to try multiple classes and builds. With time, you’ll start to understand professions, conditions, boons and counters.

When I play power wells, sometimes people react as “omg your conditions just melted me”…but in actuality, the conditions I’m applying are doing little damage. Blind, chill, immobilize, or condi transfers.

True. though, I do hate when people get beat by someone better than them and then they complain that they are OP. It’s very tiring.
I remember when I started SPvP and I was getting mashed by a Warrior using Bull Rush and Eviscerate and killing me super easy.
Now that I’ve played for a while, you know to stun break/dodge/invul/block etc.

People are too quick to complain, if they’d just take the time to learn the game they’d realise they can only get better by practice.

Oh, I was agreeing with you. All conditions to 25 stacks in 1 second is quite a bit of an exaggeration. >.<

Zach.3264:

Gotta love these threads where the OP dies to someone better than them, they come on forums and complain how OP it is. Not only that, but they exaggerate it to the point of no return.

I’ve never known a Necro being able to apply 25 stacks of any condition in 1 second, nevermind being able to get 25 stacks of Chill/Fear/Poison/Burn etc.

Mind.
Was.
Blown.

My first reaction to the original post. Quite a bit of an exaggeration.

The combat and builds in the game can be quite complex. For new comers I could see the confusion and frustration, but my suggestion is to try multiple classes and builds. With time, you’ll start to understand professions, conditions, boons and counters.

When I play power wells, sometimes people react as “omg your conditions just melted me”…but in actuality, the conditions I’m applying are doing little damage. Blind, chill, immobilize, or condi transfers.

I saw a post a while ago where the OP reported things like this going on. In all the time I’ve spent in pvp, I had never seen things like this happening….until the other night. A warrior used ride the lighting on me. I thought I was mistaken, but I saw him use it on someone else later on. ( it wasn’t bulls charge: he was enveloped in lightening and used the skill at the 1,200 range ) I reported him, but I had a hard time choosing what to report this under. “Botting” seemed to be the closest option, but it was in the middle of a fast paced match and quickly chose it. Is there a better option for hacks?

I think that sometimes people attribute certain rezes has hacks. Glyph of Renewal isn’t supper common in the meta now, and it’s animation is really minimal, but when attuned to lightening it can port the downed player to you…making it appear quite hack like.

I’m really glad to hear about the mega-servers, with all the recent changes I’ve been a bit worried that the mists would a ghost town. ( wait…aren’t the pvp maps technically ghost towns according to lore? )

Anyway, I’ve always thought that having a Treb and Enemy Wall to destroy would help fill out the mists. Also, going along with the mini-game idea, possibly involve one with running an orb through a bunch of golems with knock backs, cripples, immobilizes.

Maybe this has been mentioned before, but with all the game lore, and the Heart of the Mists being described as " the Mists is the space between worlds and realms, connecting to all worlds and binding the multiverse together, including the past, present, and future, and is the source of all things and where creatures from across the worlds converge"…it would be nice to see some heroes like Tybalt visit the mists in some feasible way. Or possibly hide NPC’s who may hint at some future Living Story content.

This might be too much and encourage people to not head to the cities, but it would be nice to have a black lion npc as well.

And lastly, this is more of a wish list type of thing, but it would be great if there more of a guild tie to PvP. Right now, for guild unlocks, there is nothing for sPvP. There used to be a banner you could drop, but glory has been removed. Maybe a rank point banner? Maybe the gold banner would boost silver for winning a match. Maybe doing tPvP as a group would reward extra guild influence. ( Honestly, I am not a member of a guild…but I’ve always thought the guild tie and reward for PvP has been lackluster. )

Anyway, I’m sure I’m missing something, but I need to get back to work. >.<

Yesterday I was in a match, where a person started out excitedly assigning positions for the team on Khylo: “Okay, I need 2 with me at CT to secure it, two people to take each outside points, one person to take out their treb, and someone take our treb”

Hmmm. I’m not too great at math, but something seemed wrong….

Anyway, sometimes I am guilty of not participating in pre-game chat. Sometimes I do, but generally not. To be honest, we have all ran those maps so many times, that there are only so many ways to start out a match. ( If it were team queue with VoIP and a familiar organized team then the situation is different. ) Once the match starts, all that early planning tends to turn to kitten. Part of the enjoyment of pvping for me is reacting to all the dynamic situations. Which classes are where, who on your team is doing what, going against a “harder” profession played by a weaker player. Seeing a “softer” profession played by a skilled player. To me, it’s about putting your best foot forward, and hoping to roll a yahtzee.

And a lot of that information can be seen by watching the mini-map and reacting.

In my opinion, and one of the reasons I play Solo Q, is that if I try my best – hopefully the rest of my team will too and we’ll end up with a victory. It’s not Team Q, where plays, rotations, targets are called and the team reacts like a machine. It’s not Team Q where if I fail and lose a fight, I hate myself for letting my good buddies down. And honestly, in my experience, when I do the whole “join TPvP as solo” I tend to find a bunch of pre-rank 20’s running around barking orders, talking kitten, hating on professions, etc….

Anyway, I’m tired and trying to avoid work, but to sum it up: Sometimes I don’t say anything, because I assume that the people on my team have run these maps enough to know their professions, roles, and what they excel at. I also hope that they can keep an eye on the mini-map and make their own decisions as to what would be best for the team, because after all it’s solo queue.

Are you speaking of the Ready-Up stream from the 14th? If so, aside from caed and supcutie, I wouldn’t really call it “top-tier” play. The elementalist is wooden potatoes who is primarily known for his lore videos…although he is rank 60+. One of the Engi’s was Matt Visual who admits himself that he is rather new to tPvP ( rank 17 ). Richie Procopio is a writer for Massively, and I think he was the rank 5 warrior.

It was a scrimmage, not a tournament and for me it was fun to watch.

“Looks like the bakery has set up shop”

ha!

Please do this again. I found it quite enjoyable.

Take it with a grain of salt. While it only takes one guy to make a rude comment to jade the team focus, there are usually 9 ( or 8, or 7 ) people focusing on the actual game and winning. Can’t have the sweet without the sour, and sadly games with constant kitten talking will happen, but thankfully there are really close games, fun games, nail biters that make it worth it to me.

Gratz on 27, it does take some time, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to 60. In my experience, the people who bark orders, call people noobs, and scream are usually under rank 30. While those people have spent some time, gained some experience and are proficient with one or two classes…Most rank 60’s have champ titles on all professions. At times, I feel that people under rank 20 or 30 don’t fully comprehend that all with all their time and effort it takes to go from rank 20 to 30, it is still less than the amount of time it takes a rank 60 player to achieve one rank. ( and even far less for 69 to 70 )

Personally, and I’m sure there are others with me on this, but it would be nice to remove sub-rank 20 players from tournies. There are a lot of frustrating things in life and in this game, but one that makes me cringe is seeing a rank 1 in Solo Queue or tPvP. How long does it take to get to rank 2, under an hour? Granted a few of those people may be playing alternate accounts, but generally rank 1’s have so little knowledge on the game. I would rather see them try out 5v5 hot join, learn the maps, professions, counters, etc…

I’m rambling, tgif.

I thank the OP for the post. It’s something that is constantly on my mind, but never really put to words.

In the yolo q where I spend most of my time, it seems more often than not that the person yapping “omg, noobs. worst team ever. ugghhh L2P!” is usually under rank 20. They’ve spent some time in the matches and are feeling a little more confident… but haven’t picked up on all the random possibilities of what is going on. It’s easy to pick flavor of the month builds and common tactics, but those are only a fraction of the action. We have all seen people with terribad builds just demolish people, and people with best possible meta builds just flail and die. I would like to think that aside from the one person in chat kittening and moaning, the other 9 are actually focused on the game and are enjoying it. I’ve gotten to know some of the randoms I’ve met in solo queue, and despite how the forums makes it sound, there are actually talented and nice folks who enjoy pvp…Though people rarely mention that.

I like that discussions like this exist.

The way that traits can be built and tweaked, a large portion of stats adjusted between amulets and their jewels, and the even more detailed finer adjustments with runes and sigils…it’s awesome to me.

When it comes to Lyssa runes, they maybe a strong choice for a couple of classes ( mesmers, thieves, and at times necro ), but they are not the de facto rune set for all classes. Personally, I like to build my characters with team play in mind, and Lyssa runes don’t offer that. I think pack runes provide more benefit overall for both the player and the team with the aforementioned classes ( depending on build of course ). As mentioned before, divinity runes and ogre runes are strong contenders as well.

And then there are other classes. You mentioned the condition removal every 45 seconds being OP. Does that make Soldier runes on a shout bunker guardian OP? Almost equal, if not better, in condition removal, plus added boons from shouts, all usable on demand and exactly when needed…not on a 45 second cooldown, all boons blown at once, and for only 5 seconds.

To further continue my appreciation the finer adjustments with rune sets and sigils. Depending on the character and build, I find a split rune set of Lyssa and Nightmare amazing with condi builds: 183 condition damage and 20% duration, just from the runes.

Either which way, if people want get hung up on single cookie cutter builds and runesets, that is their choice. I would strongly encourage exploring the diversities of professions, builds, and stat combos…because there is way more to this game than 1v1 min maxing.

As an ex-wow pvp’r and as mentioned earlier…GW2 is a totally different experience.

Simple things that I found exciting: Dodging. A level playing field ( ie – lack of gear grinding ) The ability to hop immediately in pvp. Testing out builds, professions, stat combos very easily in the heart of the mists. Each profession is very unique, and unlike wow traits can be built with a wide array of diversity. I enjoy the maps much better with better use of LoS and terrain elevations. Also, I think the core mechanics of game play are faster than WoW imho.

As far as top ranked, high-tier play…I would suggest getting your feet wet in hot join 5v5 for a little. Get used to your build and profession, then work your way into Solo Queue where you can work on your rating. Eventually, hopefully you will meet some folks and Team Queue where, in my mind, the top level of play exists.

One side note, when it comes to Solo Queue, you can change your profession at any time. ( Preferably at the begging of a match ) You’ll see people on your team who will say “Oh great, we have 3 theives and 2 eles…going against all heavies…great this is a loss” Instead of giving up, change it up. Play a guardian or warrior to help out. ( basically, try to become proficient at a dps role, bunker role, support role, etc…eventually, i would suggest learning and playing all the professions to help your counter play)

Be warned: Hot join 8v8 is a bit of a kitten show. You won’t be ranked, so don’t worry about win / loss. Learn the maps, professions, and their counters. And also, the forums is mainly for the 1% ers. And by 1%, I mean the most poisoned, hate filled, kitteners and moaners.

Anyway, good luck and enjoy.

Call me stupid for trying to say something positive on the forums, but…

I like how hot joins / solo q’s and team arena are evolving. Typically, I’m a solo queue type of person, but will hot join to test silly builds or sometimes team queue with friends. In my mind, each of the 3 queues have their own persona.

Hot Join: Zerg fest, that sometimes I like. It’s like death waves of enemies. Start out at one, maybe two, then see how long you can last against 3 or 4. While they aren’t always a win, it can really test your reflexes to recognize which classes you are going against, counters, dodges, line of sight, etc.. Honestly though, sometimes I hop in hot joins while watching a movie >.< Mindlessly pressing buttons while testing out weird build ideas or stat combos. A win or loss in hot join just doesn’t really mean all that much. ( to me )

Team Queue: Fast paced, team cooperation. VoIP helps a ton. Can be super frustrating in their losses, but very rewarding in their wins. Definitely team building, selective roles, and game plans. In my opinion, I do think that in order to team queue that you should have a party of 2 or more. Mainly because A ) it detracts from the actual teams that want good matches, not just a bunch of pugs, and B ) it just makes sense, if you are join as a solo player then you should be in solo queue.

Solo Queue: This is where I spend most of my time. A couple of randoms might recognize my <insert color here > nasty tag. I practically live there. I believe that individual play the stronger focus as opposed to team play. Now before you get your panties in a knot, there is definitely team play in a solo queue, but as we have all played these maps countless times…smart solo play should recognize the mini map, realize where action is needed and still function as a team despite the lack of voice comms. Hot joins make evident to me how much these pvp maps were made with 5v5 in mind. ( 8v8 can be a bit of a kitten show >.< ) Therefore, I find myself preferring 5v5 and solo q.

I’ve been playing guild wars 2 since the first beta event, and I still really like the pvp. When people talk about balance, it takes me back to early vanilla wow pvp. So many glaring disparities between classes and limited builds, but to me it was fun. There is something about taking a build that is “sub-optimal” and winning fights against “FoTM face rollers” After time, blizzard tried to balance everything, until feral druids were pretty much rogues, shamans became mages, the lines between paly’s and warriors became blurred. All classes had at least one stun break, heal, root, cc, ect. The idea of balance pretty much became: All classes are pretty much the same thing, but with different textures, particle effects, and armors. Guild wars 2 on the other hand still has that separation for me. Each class still feels unique in its own way, and killing a “God Tier” warrior with a “All Elementalist Builds are Terrible” makes me happy. Because, to me, it’s not about the profession you bring but how you play that profession.

Anyway TL/DR: I like the pvp in Guild Wars 2. Is it perfect no? But I still enjoy it.

Thank you for your time.

Heya Xeph, just want to say it’s nice to see ya back.

( and the passive play of MM necros makes me want to vomit )

15. The forums are only for people who hate the game so much that rather than do something else with their time, they feel compelled to cry about it on an online forum.

I don’t think I would have the same appreciation for the game if it weren’t for Wooden Potatoes.

Game ended, and cant get out.

Have tried leaving party, going to wvw, different characters, logging out for 5 minutes, guesting on a different server…and all load screens eventually go back to spirit watch and the same game that ended.

It’s been going on for 20 or so minutes now.