Guild Wars 2

Thedenofsin.7340:

When you passed out, your face hit the keyboard. While you slept your warrior won 5 consecutive tPvP tournaments.

Only 5 wins? He got dc’t after the fifth win?

Acaro.4067:

Wait what? This isn’t Accountbound? This just doesn’t make sense. Seriously that’s what’s going wrong with GW2 – bad managment decisions even thought the employees now better then that.

Sure it makes sense. more short-term $.
No more deleting characters , you should buy new character slots.

HypnoticEyes.2683:

Please read my second post also. The idea behind it isn’t bad. They just took the 6% based on the wrong stat to compensate for the unintended damage done to celestial. It’s easy to fix.

Heh. Wanna bet that this error never gets fixed and/or goes atleast 6+ months without even getting acknowledged?

Allie Murdock.8152:

Those were the high level changes, meaning we didn’t get into all the details for each profession (each and every # change), each weapon, each skill, etc. We were just trying to move through a lot of info in the Ready Up, so we didn’t get down into each and every # change for every class. That would be more of a detailed list you’d expect from game release notes for a release, for example.

Some of you have asked why we haven’t focused on fixing the issues already in the game. A lot of things have been fixed, but some concerns you guys have like with PW, HS, decap engi, etc. we decided to wait and see how the new traits will affect the meta.

This does not mean that we aren’t open to adjusting them.

Ultimately, we knew we wanted to add some more traits, so we wanted to focus on trying to make those good and then we can revisit them if they are still an issue. Does that make sense?

People have been waiting for a meaningful balance patch since PAX last year , but once again you failed to provide one. There’s always some excuse why you dont deliver. This time it’s the ‘we want to see how the new traits affect the meta’
Isn’t there really any professionalism or accountability left with you guys? What on earth the balance team does when it accomplishes so little or breaks the game even more and why it is still employed?
Why would anyone think it’s a good idea to introduce new skills before fixing what is broken in the first place?

Why the new revealed ranger GM trait is basically a bugfix and not an actual trait?

It seems they have atleast removed Sharp and Peters. Last relevants posts seem to be from around couple months back. Times like these would be a good time to for the lead designers to give their 2 cents instead of missing in action.

Thanks in advance.

5) Playing other games
6) Uninstalled GW2 and looking for a new PvP game to play

Dahkeus.8243:

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

Dahkeus.8243:

Take a look at the posts around here…

If I were the devs, I certainly wouldn’t be in any hurry to serve up any new content for the entitled jerks that believe it’s their right to constantly berate the company giving them free updates on their $60 game.

If I were a dev, I wouldn’t have an ounce of motivation to quickly provide additional content.

If I were a dev, I wouldn’t have an ounce of motivation to try to deliver truly high quality content.

Because at the end of the day, they only thing they’ll get in return from the community is more complaints and more finger pointing.

You will have a hard time in your future life, if this is your mental attitude.

Please, don’t try to spin my point into some armchair lecture/personal attack.

It’s a proven fact that you get better efficiency and higher quality work out of people who aren’t filled with entirely negative and toxic environment, which is pretty much what these forums have turned into.

While criticism that points out shortcomings is important, what we have here has gone way beyond that.

If you want a dev community that is highly inspired to give you the best game they can provide, you have to treat them like human beings. If you want them to keep you in the loop of communication, you have to be able to communicate in a mature manner.

If you decide to act like an entitled brat, you’ll just get treated like a kid.

Quality feedback and constructive critisism was given for over a year before things really started going sour. They have pretty much just themselves to blame. You don’t get that long to fix your product in other industries.
When you do something for a living and charge people money for something you do your best regardless , you don’t have the luxury of getting your feelings hurt from unpleasant feedback and crawl to the corner to cry/hide.

Thedenofsin.7340:

How could something go so horribly wrong that major milestones were missed by up to a full six months? And what does it say about ArenaNet if they were not able to communicate these changes to their customers over those 6 months?

I’ve managed large software tasks with large teams ($15m+ USD yearly budgets). I know how to lay down a schedule and manage a budget. I’ve never laid down a plan so aggressive that I miss 50% of my milestones in a 6 month window. Whenever I believe I am going to slip a milestone, I immediately let my management and customers know and replan.

Lucky for them they work in the gaming industry. If they were in any other business with such lack of accountability they would be out of customers/jobs very soon.

102. Danicia not figuring out the sarcasm here so this thread is still open

I think they originally planned to do the balance patch right after the last living story update but when they went in to check the balance teams progress and found Karl doing tooltip fixes and Jon working for new buffs to warriors they just closed the door and postponed the balance patch indefinitely.

Wonder if it has broken ai?

Yes.

Cynz.9437:

i am sure more ppl from wvw would pvp more if it was offering more rewards and pvp in this game desperately needs more players, so overall i like this changes but pvp system definitely needs more…we will see~

Sorry , no chance. Distracting people with shinies only works for a short while. Things like fun gamemodes , good balance , interesting maps and gameplay that rewards skill instead of team comp are the things that keep people playing.
Too bad none of those things exist in pvp.

People aren’t ok with it. They just don’t care enough anymore to complain about it and have given up on hope with this games pvp. Just like the devs have.

1. Ranger(broken since lauch)
2. Elementalist(overnerfed)
3. Mesmer

Pretty brutal saving even the bug fixes until the big patch to try counter Eso. New features i can kinda understand but things like this…
Talk about kittening your customers over. Guess it fits the pattern.

Any update on fixing the broken ranger profession mechanic?

Swagger.1459:

Missing from that preview…

Ranger
• Amazing things!

That can only mean one of two things. Rangers get their game and gems refunded or they will convert all rangers into warriors.

Ltomato.8649:

Also, just a heads up- I just found this in-game:
Tthe Skirmishing 15 minor trait, furious grip actually only gives about half of what the tooltip says it should. 5 seconds of fury vs the tooltip’s 9 or 10.

Known issue. But they only fix the bugs that have a positive effect.

Lightning reflexes breaking immobilize was one of the most asked and logical buff people kept asking in here back in the days but think most have given up since the most ranger changes are irrational and seem completely random with little to no feedback listened from players. So why bother.

Ulalume.9584:

John is doing a lovely job as a public speaker and presents his points in a very warm and likable manner. Anyone can see how passionate you guys are about pvp.

Agree. Keep up the great work John and Josh.

Only matter of time when they extend the censorship to other forums to tone down the negative feedback also. Happens in every mmo forum if there’s enough negative feedback since it’s cheaper to quiet down the forums than to fix the game.

Any eta on fixing the broken since lauch ranger pet mechanics?
What happened to Jonathan Sharp?
Healing signet → all is vain

Quick everyone, let’s all log on to our warriors and wipe them first.

Sickness.9831:

how will you make ele viable again?

By buffing necro,mesmer and warrior.

This poll is flawed. No ‘all is vain’ option.

Andrew.4506:

From: http://ncsoft.com/en/legal/user-agreements/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct.php

While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder.

That quote must be from the old rules of conduct. Before the time of Skyhammer abuse. They should update that.

Optimal new skill for WvW would be a

1. Balance teams vengeance
* Turns your ranger into a warrior and blows up your pet. Effect lasts until you log out

Remove root on barrage and axe 5 while youre at it similar to warriors. Thanks.

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

lol the new water spiris sucks, use healing spring instead

This.

JonathanSharp.7094:

Also, as many of us have said, we want to give players enough variety such that they can change what they play from time to time, while also being sure that we don’t fracture the player-base by spreading players out to too many different game types.

I don’t know if Jon works at anet anymore but i just wanted to say this is a very backwards way of thinking. There’s literally tons of people just waiting in for new game modes. Or atleast there used to be.
Whatever those game modes would be 2vs2 ,3vs3 , dueling , deathmatch. People love to play these in every game and i bet new game modes would give a huge boost to pvp population.

solrik.6028:

Maybe if everyone reacted like “Wow, nice stealth buff to the ranger!” instead of “They broke LB”, “Anet messed it up again”, “Probably just a bug” etc, then it might have been left in the game…..

But no, an unintentional buf that buffed the LB is till seen as something horrible and makes anet worse, right? -_-

Maybe if they didn’t have such a horrible track record ranger players would give them the benefit of a doubt. Sadly it seems they have no vision and direction when it comes to the ranger so we just end up getting random buffs and nerfs that make little to no sense overall.

No time to big fix ranger bugs when there’s a warrior and guardian to fine tune and polish.

Funny part is , no one apart from rangers would even notice the hp buff in wvw.
Rarely anyone bothers to focus the pet down. Why bother when they melt to the random aoes/cleave damage anyways.

urdriel.8496:

they will delete ranger class in the next big patch.

Finally a bug free ranger

Please hoxfix broken ranger pet mechanics while you are at it

Adris.1859:

Writetyper.1985:

Boomstin.3460:

Easiest way to make ‘content’

- Add dailies that takes hours to complete
– ?
– Profit

Don’t do them then. Why is this so kittening difficult? If it’s too hard, you don’t do it! Wow! Amazing concept!

Thats the part that nobody from this topic understands. Right with the leaderboard tryhard kid.

Don’t worry about me, i’m not planning to do them. Haven’t infact played a single pvp match in couple of months.
This just reminds me about certain game/s where the devs kept throwing boring/grindy dailies every few months instead of creating some fun and exciting new content.

Easiest way to make ‘content’

- Add dailies that takes hours to complete
– ?
– Profit

Sad part is that no one really knows for sure if it’s intented or not that the pets didn’t receive the buffs in wvw.

Very strange , as far as i know the pve and pvp players are bound by the same rules of conduct and exploiting shouldnt be ok on either. Or are the rules of conduct been updated so it says exploiting is ok in pvp?
Any clarification by anet would be welcome. This silence and deletion of valid topics about the issue isn’t looking very professional.

I’m ok with them removing it… if it’s after they have fixed the pet ai :P

Not gonna happen. Would make too much sense to remove immobilize.

Blackhat.4016:

Hopefully those tweaks finally bring some balance to WvW (although I highly doubt it). The current situation is just a sad joke.

Their idea of balance is to have a sale on transfers just before the league even when the whole idea of leagues was to put servers with similar strenght/population play agains’t eachother.
Guess not…

Bombsaway.7198:

I still want a self destruct button on the spirits.

I want one for pets.

I think this season everyone was just a loser wherever they ended up in the league rankings :P

Moon.7310:

Really dissapointed that the finisher is limited… 250 is really not much, this will blow through very fast. I was really expecting something permanent for winning the season.

Well, the disappointment will last.

Everyone got basicly the same rewards. Apart from the finishers.

Seems the rewards were more or less the same whatever the spot apart from the finishers the season winners got.

Wonder what happened to the previous heal thread? Somehow it mysteriously disappeared.

Wolf.5816:

If it doesn’t work it will be changed.

Or they just wait for the meta to settle for the next six months and the players are left with a broken game in the meanwhile again.