Guild Wars 2

1. Why aren’t you more open about upcoming updates? The community was forced to speculate and argue among themselves about what would and wouldn’t be in the Feb update. Many people were disappointed because they were expecting more for pvp.
2. Why will the ladder only show the top 100 players when it’s introduced?
3. Are there plans by ArenaNet to put more resources into spvp in order to speed up development?

I just remembered this isn’t the first time I’ve been automatically kicked from a roster while solo/trio queuing. A few months ago I was watching Qt Vain’s twitch stream and I noticed he was solo queuing in frees, so I also solo queued at the same time to try and get on the same roster.

I managed to get onto his roster twice in a row, but each time for no apparent reason, the roster disbanded itself before the match popped. On the third attempt we ended up on separate rosters and were both able to enter our separate matches. I was talking to him on his stream and he was also confused by it.

I think it may be related to my latest experience.

Verdelet Arconia.6987:

maybe the leader of the roster have kicked you from the roster and resubmitted the roster

It’s possible, but unlikely. There wasn’t enough time between me being kicked from the roster to the leader loading into the match. Maybe he was trolling me and got an instant pop, but considering how common 4v5s are at the moment I think it’s more likely to be a problem with the roster system.

Hey Evan, I experienced a bug with the roster where I was kicked just as the match popped, I’ve submitted an in-game report to ArenaNet with full details. I’m posting it here for visibility and to see if anyone else has experienced it. I wonder if this is what’s causing so many 4v5s.

This is what my bug report said:

I queued for a single-round tournament with two friends and just when the match ‘popped’ I was taken off the roster, preventing me from joining the match. I saw the PvP icon at the top of my screen change from the ‘in roster’ icon to the default icon.

I asked the roster leader if he checked that I was on the roster and he confirmed there was a green tick next to my name when he clicked submit.

1. I didn’t log out or change characters at any point while on the roster.
2. I accepted the roster invite while I was in hot join.
3. When I loaded into the heart of the mists I accepted a party invite from the roster leader.
4. A few moments later the tournament match popped and my friend told me who we were fighting, that’s when I noticed I wasn’t on the roster.

Screenshot for evidence:

Oh my! That’s a huge sword, mind if I hold it?

It hardly makes a difference if someone leaves when the match is already 5v4. If my team only has four people and we have no chance of winning then I’ll die and not respawn. The real problem seems to be people logging off before the tournament starts, they probably think they’ll be taken off the roster when they log out.

The roster UI isn’t well designed for newcomers, it’s practically hidden in the background.

I’m still seeing glass cannon eles absolutely tearing it up in tournies, they’re still perfectly strong and viable.

They’re back up, both hot join and tournies.

Hot join went down in the last few minutes, too.

Thanks for taking the time to fix these problems Evan.

The layout for ‘top skills by player’ is messed up and makes it almost impossible to read some of the numbers. I prefer using this screen over the default because it gives more useful information, but it’s hard to use because of the broken layout.

Is there any chance a fix can be included in the next patch or a follow-up?

You have to scroll over to the right to see where it falls apart.

On a related note, it would be nice if chieftan and svanir respawned a bit sooner. Currently they seem to take about 20-30 seconds to respawn, and it’s not uncommon to see several people waiting for their ‘turn’.

http://en.support.guildwars2.com

Male sylvari in the mists:

I still find the PvP enjoyable and I’m playing every other day, but the overall player base is shrinking and if it doesn’t start to recover soon there may not be enough players during my usual hours to start a tournament.

Frees have become the new paids. If you want to do frees you need to log on during prime time and arrange a team lest someone logs off before the first round. Paids are where inexperienced pugs go to get nice-looking gear.

Matchmaking is great but long overdue. It’s an essential feature that should have been in from the start, I think its absence significantly contributed to the rate of players leaving. The next most important feature in my opinion is visible rankings, it will give people an extra incentive to put in their best effort.

Along with visible rankings, it needs to be easier for all players to get into ranked matches. I think Anet is on the right track with the two-team rated games coming in the next update. For this to work I think frees and paids need to be temporarily scrapped so that two-team rated is the only choice for organised play. This mode should accept solo-queue-ers as well as premades and intelligently match everyone up.

Also, map rotation needs to be fixed.

Next would be private servers, followed shortly by a new and improved tournament system that gives players a serious goal to aim for.

I often click the respawn button rapidly so I can get back into the action as fast as possible, however every now and then I click one to many times and my F4 ability gets activated, putting it on full cooldown.

I’ve attached a screenshot which blends two frames; one where I’m alive and one where I’m dead. It shows the respawn button taking up over 1/4 of the F4 ability Distortion.

It doesn’t always happen, but when it does it’s pretty frustrating, especially in tPvP where I spend the majority of my time.

My suggestion is to make the ‘return to waypoint’ button bigger so i don’t have to put my mouse button right next to my F4 ability. This way there’s no need to move the waypoint button somewhere else, which could throw people off.

My screen resolution is 1920×1200 with default interface size, in case that affects anything.

Rank 41 human mesmer.

In PvE there’s plenty of other things to spend that gold on, in sPvP there’s nothing to use glory for, except crafting dye. Yes obtaining dye through PvP is expensive and time consuming, but it’s beside the point (and it doesn’t take 9 hours to get 11 dyes).

You can craft dyes in the PvP mystic forge. I craft about 10 dyes whenever I log on by using all the glory I earned during the last play session. I can craft lots of dyes by converting orbs to crystals and crystals to slivers.

Trying to stand out from the crowd.

Other than necros, a shatter mesmer with two forms of boon removal (remove boons on shatter, null field) can kill most guardians quite easily, though it’s time consuming so you have to pick your battles or you’re just wasting your own time. As a mesmer it’s also easy to counter guardian KDs with distortion and blur.

To deal with their full heal, remove their boons and then use a basic interrupt (daze, stun, KD).

Male human mesmer with some new sPvP outfits.

I was in Raid on the Capricorn when I saw a nice photo opportunity where the orange background contrasted well with my blue bioluminescence .

You get new armor and weapon styles from the chests you receive as you rank up, the style depends on your rank. You can also buy chests from glory vendors and if you want a specific item you can use the mystic forge to craft it.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/56825-a-general-how-to-on-crafting-pvp-gear/

Hasn’t the downed state debate been run into the ground already? There are other problems that people who don’t know how to stomp seem to be ignoring.

What I personally find un-fun is the overabundance of invulnerability and blocking that all classes have, it’s not fun when someone can stand in place without taking any damage or CC while your own health ticks down. The most annoying build I’ve come across in spvp is the near-perma-stealth thieves that drop caltrops on a point and use death blossom (evade evade evade) a couple of times before going invis and running away, only to come back to do it again. They can’t kill you, you can’t kill them, they’re just annoying.

Then there are bunker guardians that can block 100% of attacks while they’re healing.

I’ve noticed about half of my illusions spawning naked and refusing to do anything, it happens to both clones and phantasms. Of course, there are no problems in public games.

Being a PvP mesmer it’s nice to be able to change my outfit each day without worrying about storage space.

I read through the list and didn’t see any mention of this one yet. When you go underwater, and then leave the water, all of your readied mantras are reset.