Guild Wars 2

As bad as it sounds I really hope opening these servers is driven by generating revenue and not by stupidity.

RIP T1, desperate cash grab before the end of the year I guess?

Really sad, need some people who actually understand what makes wvw great.

As has been pointed out elsewhere please merge servers and stop linking.

Can you just let the people on dead servers transfer? System would be better with no links and fewer total servers.

Bursting people with power will always be better in group fights. If you are in a group/Zerg and die to condi you are just lazy and running a trash comp. There are plenty of ways to aoe cleanse.

Problem is conditions+stealth.

More transparency in mmr would go a long way.

Idk fine 1v1, easy to kill w condi. Wouldn’t say they are top tier.

Let’s be honest TC was only a T1 server when it got the mass exodus from SoR.

On topic – The keep changes in HoT have been a major turnoff. All for defenders having an advantage but HoT went too far.

Yes there is too much cc.

What Umbra said. Can’t speak to legend but it was common to 1v2 in Ruby, not too hard in diamond and I’ve seen plenty of other people 1v2 in diamond.

Power creep happens in most expansions which is probably fine. Some classes just got a bit too much.

People should stop posting the bad design picture. Bad design is Mesmer and revnant… guardians just need some numbers tweaked.

The skill issue is the biggest reason I’ve seen rage, as others have stated. People who are oblivious to the map/rotating, can’t last 2 seconds in a 1v1 etc all plague higher divisions when they really have no business outside of amber/emerald.

Sustain/revive meta is boring. People who don’t multiclass and hardcore defend/spew falsehoods about their “main” are also really unhealthy for balance.

Maybe it does get worse every season? It was much better before the introduction of divisions and pips.

Not sure about that but they def have nfc what they are doing with match making, or at least they tried to implement too many things at the same time. Every game is a blowout. Beat scrub premade one game, next game against said scrub premade lose because you have the biggest kittening bads possible.

And sorry it is hard not to be abrasive when things are this bad, this match making system should never have been allowed to stay in place for so long. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE QUIT.

Thought op was saying he doesn’t like bruiser meta.

Definitely the worst it’s been since s1.

Really bad match making and infrequent balance.

The elite specs are fine, the league system is just a complete failure.

PIPS/division should just have nothing to do with match making. This game has the single worst match making system I have ever seen.

I think a lot of people try as hard as possible to throw games.

Symbolic is strong the bad medi traps just die.

Tiers seem a bit relative, individual class balance isn’t that bad right now. Guardians are probably a little strong 1v1. War sees little representation. Necro is strong but also everyone’s punching bag. Chrono is a more canerous design of the already extremely annoying mes.

Thank you for the terrible games, especially on weekends. Continuing to get paired with or against people who don’t understand the basics of rotating or map awareness makes for a truly miserable pvp experience.

The way I am looking at it is get the wings and never set foot in PvP again. The yoyo effect of pips and getting paired with people who have no business playing in your rating (one way or the other) completely ruins any fun or sense of accomplishment.

Anet takes forever to balance, have to come back in a few months to experience any change. (Plus enjoy the new fotm scrub build)

Matchmaking is worse than season 1 since it tries to pair you based on division rather than mmr. That being said you can’t group legend with amber to pull your rating down.

Ele and necro need love.

Not sure what game people are playing if they don’t think dh is op

The elite specs are fine.

They just need to tone down DH, it is not remotely close to balanced at the moment.

This time gated achievement has been the worst part about the seasons. For those of us who are time poor it can be difficult to commit to three games a day as opposed to X games overall.

I really dislike the treb, Kylo has always been my least favorite map. Too much advantage to certain classes with teleports and the treb isn’t as clear a side objective as those found in other competitive maps.

Evan, please hurry up and fix match making. I’d rather be playing against higher division players than losing with 4 people who don’t even understand basic rotating and fight off point.

Seriously what has happened? I know I at least had a decent MMR, get matched with the absolute worst teams the last two days.

Did you break matchmaking again?

Reaper isn’t even good.

Was really looking forward to ranked but the way everything has been implemented is easily the worst I have seen in any MMO.

Think you might have one more shot with season 2, that is if anyone still trusts the company.

You guys who can predict the future should probably go pick some lotto numbers.

Seems like it has been worse.

Also, it is a joke that stronghold is part of ranked.

Please never do this again, I understand the season is a joke/wash at this point but stuff like this is insult to injury.

Is any of this going to fix the horrible matchmaking? I really enjoy sitting in a queue for 7-8 mins in amber (just started playing with the mess that is ranked yesterday) to get paired against premades and full teams of people above my division.

How do you pair a full team of emeralds against a full team of ambers?

I have never seen such a mess in any form of organized play I have ever participated in. I don’t know if you had people in place for this sort of thing in the past.. but I strongly suggest you hire someone who has years of industry experience handling this sort of thing.

Mistakes happen but it isn’t like ranked/competitive gaming is a new thing.

As with many others have expressed I’m a little disappointed with how long it takes to fully unlock the elite specialization via hero points.

It seems super counter productive to give us these new class specializations only after we have played through all the PvE content. I don’t feel it is entitled or an unreasonable statement when I say I would be having a lot more fun right now if I were playing the elite specialization, while at the same time enjoying the new story.

This is expansion is the single most restrictive content you have ever put in the game and it does the game as a whole a huge disservice.

I don’t think they are doing a good job with balance but the original post is pretty bad.

Game design and development is not nearly this black and white, it goes beyond simple math as you have to quantify things like CC, mobility, buffs, objectives etc. There are plenty of other things like range and risk versus reward as well.

TTK is a good discussion to have as far as whether or not it is healthy for the game, both on a casual and competitive level. Trying to perfect TTK precisely between classes is not.

Some examples from other competitive games as it is late…

If I’m using LoL as an example, how do you factor something like a character’s ULT? It goes well beyond TTK. You could argue that in GW2 things are unbalanced like plague versus tornado but this is not a TTK issue.

Most FPS games are well balanced. There are websites delving deep into the math not just on bullet damage but spread, recoil, reload, effective range etc. If it can mostly be agreed these weapons are balanced TTK between two weapons is a silly discussion to have as they function in very different roles. You can’t compare a sniper rifle to a shotgun.

Shouts and GS are really lacking, shouts are mediocre and GS does subpar damage given the cast times. With the current mobility/damage gs is totally unviable.

+A for effort but the lack of communication once there was all this feedback and no fix to the exploit is pretty terrible customer service.

Please do something about burning, mesmer CC, and rampage/lich.

These things are ruining the fun of PvP right now.

Forgot to add MM necro is also cancer just like turret engi was.

Mesmer is out of control in all aspects. The CC is the worst part, but tons of escapes and crazy burst at range.

Ele is also pretty over the top but it is hard to tell how some of these classes would fare if burning is nerfed so they should probably tone burning down before they hit ele/eng/guardian etc.

On the other hand if mesmer is nerfed too much thief could be a problem.

Conditions are still just worse and a mesmer can blow you up 100-0 even if you are running with a “bunker” spec.