Guild Wars 2

jcbroe.4329:

First leave; warning.
Second leave; 10 minute PvP ban.
Third; 72 hour PvP ban.

Any amount over 3 leaves that happens within a given probation period once bans are lifted should result in that person being outright banned from the game, with an appropriately scaled time period, for malicious behavior and intent to harm others gameplay experience.

THIS i had 3 games with the same dood who left over and over yesterday twice on my team once on the other

Since the pvp announcements more people are playing queue times are lower but…. all ive had is terrible games at least 50% have been 4/5 or 5/4 and so real bad players who have high rank(skyhammer farmers). I’ve gone from 74% win rate to almost 60% in 1 week….

I’d rather they low ball it so it discourage’s people queuing to afk lose for free money

LOL just got enough wins to get a chest…… still would like it fixed if i ever go back to eu

kinda sucks ive missed out on so much glory/ranks because of this…. any devs want to answer this?

Since switching to NA from EU about 3 months ago i’ve not been getting win rewards because i have more wins on EU… will this bug be fixed with the next patch??

QL just got 14k viewers for a 14 year old game @ dreamhack finals.. BUT ESPORTS BRAH

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Hammer is very rinse-repeat friendly, but it requires the warrior to be relatively close to it’s target and it cannot be used in a tiered environment.

Newsflash gw2 pvp is based around small capture points + immobilize stacking is one of the most broken things ever

BECAUSE LOLESPORTS

haha this was my first match since the reset too, im the ranger :P

idk something to do with BG buying a guild off SOR maybe

JQ faces BG 3 times, SOR faces BG 5 times… great system

year old bug really?

YUP THIEF WIRE PULL/ENGIE TOOL KIT ON SIDE POINTS REAL SKILLFUL

XGhoul.7426:

You have to pass the amount of wins you got in EU to receive tourny chests in NA.

Urg what really?

Since i transferred to NA about a month ago i didn’t get any reward chest for wins not even the Halloween stuff but i assumed it was to do with that, now im still not getting chests for wins

I’ll add my 2cents as someone who’s transferred from EU to NA about a month ago

Seems to be way less people playing spvp in NA than EU thus games were always a wide range of pvp leveled players which NEVER happened in EU i never had people in game who were more than 10 levels above or below me, i doubt this change will do much to help NA

The only thing thats better in NA than EU is even tho the queue times are alot higher theres always people playing no matter what time it is, queue times are way shorter during peak times in EU but ones you get into the a.m. the queues get really high

NEWSFLASH

most classes/spec require little skill

Go ahead nerf spirit range but give us some proper damage builds thanks, this conquest game type just make bunkering good, wonder why guards have been a constant since day 1?

Shinra.9348:

Hilt Bash- No real complaint from me on this skill, it’s a pretty useful tool as it is.

Hilt bash needs to be faster/longer range as it misses on moving targets most of the time, also GS auto attack swing arc needs fixing as it can miss while you’re moving even tho the target is close

Jon can you please looks at ranger greatsword? the 1 attack swing arc is weird and tends to miss stuff while you’re moving kinda reminds me what used to happen to ele lightning dagger 1, also please increase the range of the 5 skill on GS as it pretty much misses anything moving

next time turn down your game sound if you’re going to play while doing something like this

I use this
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-F;4sEFx-e2ZDV-0;9;5TJJ;208B39-57;2LRV4;26TsW6TsWn-kKVH35;2VWVTWY1kYq3o_2H0DV1V;57X7X7X7X;9;9;9;9;7V8k3m

heal skill and elite is up to you, high armour, crit, crit damage and a decent amount of health

Wheres the vod?

2 wins so far and ive gotton nothing?

tichorum.2415:

There were over 2,000 just on Blu’s stream for two teams that aren’t even “that well-known”, if you know what I mean.

That’s quite impressive for the first ESL tournament. It went well and congrats to TP!

Also, GW2 is played competitively. Perhaps not as competitively as it has potential for and perhaps will be in the coming months. Nevertheless, it is considered an “eSport” by definition terms.

No its not, Quake 3(live) can get double that for finals and its a 14 year old game with a 1000 or so players

1.5-3k current views is pityful, quake 3(live) can get 3-6k viewers and its a 14 year old game with players with only a few 1000 players

Its only 2 abilities that need added as the auto attack shouldn’t be included, that means F1-4 no more than engies have… also they could have a toggle for auto cast for newbs…..

Shame they didn’t add dual classes cos they wanted gw2 to be a lol-sport

Hule.8794:

Does everybody think of orange swords before joining zerg?
Those PvE player do not even know what orange swords means. They join zerg of 50 other because of chance to win, not because of some orange swords.

But the commander they are following will know what it is, another example of a moot point in this thread

VOLKON.1290:

So, here we go! Start trebbing Bay from Garrison, put up white swords. Sneak your full zerg around to, for example, NW gate. Have 20 or so people melt the gates in a hurry, still no orange swords. Do the same on North inner. Entire zerg in the lords room, done. Do this with any tower, keep, whatever. Have thieves go around and put up swords on every structure on the map. Send the zerg to a target, melt the gate with 20 or so, cap.

This will make things worse. I’ll make sure of that.

Yeah and all this could be countered by 1 scout.

Don’t get why people are getting upset by this all people have a problem with this arguments countered by scouts and good comms rather than just zerging behind a commander. Scotting boring blah blah, i scout alot due to needing to take a break for awhile/cooking during my guilds raid times

I think the thing most of you are missing what the OP said is the map size, imagine is the maps were 1.5-2x their current size and had alot more small objectives that were important enough for small groups to fight over yet not really worth the time for the ‘zerg’ to go after constantly

If you think the NA is bad look at EU, a t7 and t8 server will be t1 next week

As it stands now

1. Whiteside Ridge
2. Ruins of Surmia
3. Piken Square

4. Dzagonur
5. Abaddon’s Mouth
6. Drakkar Lake

7. Riverside
8. Vizunah Square
9. Miller’s Sound

tbh maybe a 3 day week would of been better as cos server like WSR and ROS will have a massive lead by friday

Is it going to be daily, 3 day or weekly matches??

Im someone who played Ranger for the first 2 months then switched to Ele and for me ele is so much better in large groups staff is amazing, i had 8k kills in 2months and got 3k kills in a week of being an ele.

For solo/small scale D/D bunker build is way better than ranger and also alot of kitten fun so its the spec i use 90% of the time now. D/D you can 1v1/2/3/4/5 get a kill or 2 and get away something you cant even dream of doing on a ranger.

I still want to play ranger but i dont think anet will ever fix them, they were underpowered all the way thru gw1 and i have the feeling gw2 will be the same

O and persoanlly i think barrage is actually better than meteor shower in many ways as the hits are more consistant and the cd are similar but the staff has other smaller aoes that have a much shorted CD as well which make it so much better than LB

Erm people should know the point of 1v1v1 is the 2 bottom servers are meant to focus on the winning team tho what normally happens is the top focus on 2nd place to keep them down and 3rd place focuses on 2nd place cos they don’t want to be last, this week something different happened….. even tho a lot of piken guilds were not involved in such discussions.

As for PK night crew remember we are a medium pop server we don’t have a night crew, hopefully now you’re in higher tiers you’ll face servers like elona who have 60-70+ running around at night then you can comeback and talk about pikens so called night crew

Tortun.5946:

I also have to apologise for the reported exploiting thats been going on. I know of one lot for sure and I will be talking to their guild leader about it as exploiting in my eyes should never be an option even if the enemy has decided to ram it in both ways until you bleed.

I also have to admit that when the group were exploiting I may have warned a former Gandaran who is now on Piken of the coming sneak attack. Needless to say they were killed just in time. Not proud of the betrayal but despite being war, there are rules of engagement and they must be adhered to!

Yes thanks for the heads up and reporting, also stay away from my hills fort kitten /p>

Lots of love the D/D Ele with the afro

Elona just bought 50+ guys to fight 10, then made 5+ cata + ballista’s to take a tower with 4/5 people in it, me and some guy from VII stood across the bridge from them and they wouldn’t come fight the two of us….. if this is what it takes to be high tier server id rather stay in tier 4. GL Kodash maybe we will be in the same tier next week at least they fights will be fun

Why dont you give enemies default skins ie one for every class

arcaneclarity.5283:

WvW definitely isn’t as good as DAoC’s RvR. The maps are too small, there is no persistence. Things like limited number of targets for AOE really limit the few versus many battles. It’s really a poor substitute overall.

Yes this is the biggest problem are the map sizes as well as cross swords, imo GW2 maps are at least bigger/have more objectives than WH did but its still not big enough.

If they their were bigger maps with more small objectives that helped your side but weren’t worth the time for the zergs to goto it would help fix the problem. Right now supply camps are something the zerg needs and the way the camp boss buff works is that it actually promotes zergs

Rajnesh.4526:

Thanks a lot, it was a pleasure to fight against you guys!

I wish we had some guilds like DT, PX, Boon, NECR and VII on our Server!

This week isn’t that hard for us, because you are just hard in primetime while we have a lot of manpower all day long. BUT THE FIGHTS ARE TH HARDEST WE HAVE FACED EVER! Thanks for that, we can learn from each other!

Greets from all my Teammates!
Rajnesh [KoA]

Kodash is the first server to challenge us during ‘peak’ times, i think you guys are alot better than millers as we handled them pretty easy during peak times but they had good night/day coverage. Kick their kitten next week please

Xanthian.3025:

Drexciyian.9453:

Xanthian.3025:

30man!? Booo.. Give us some 5/10 man Katie

The game isn’t balanced towards small man groups, its not as bad as WH was but still anet missed the boat :/

O hi btw i was in Eva Vix but i joined Boonies for GW2

I beg to differ, there’s nothing a 5man cant do that a zerg can (apart from fight other zergs).

Its down to player choice/skill.

Its ultimately easier to follow around a large force farming tokens than it is to run small scale where winning requires more on skill.

We managed it in Warhammer despite guilds like KDS trying otherwise, and it was mostly a success.

As we drop through the tiers the small scale becomes better and better, was great 2 weeks ago v’s Kodash and another server I cant remember.

Well while there’s cross swords on the map there’s not much a 5 man group can do, smallish map size with teleports don’t help either

Xanthian.3025:

30man!? Booo.. Give us some 5/10 man Katie

The game isn’t balanced towards small man groups, its not as bad as WH was but still anet missed the boat :/

O hi btw i was in Eva Vix but i joined Boonies for GW2

The biggest disappointment to me if the maps, when they announced WwW they made it look like it was going to be a massive zone where their were things for the zergs to do while their were plenty of meaningful objectives for small groups to do but what we got instead were 4 medium size maps that promotes zerging and even has a special zerg icon(orange swords)

What a joke, they couldn’t fix rangers in GW1 and it seems the class will be useless in GW2 forever too

They should just make enemies a default model/armour for each class/race

Be thankful you aren’t playing eve if thats how you feel lol

• Pets can now be stowed even in combat. when stowed the ranger gets 20% power and precision bonus

I can dream can’t i??

I’m offering 2nd place to the highest bidder, who ever gives me the most gold from AM or Gunnars we’ll attack the other side

OK here are my issues with rangers in pvp(i focus on www)

Pets
1) As people have mentions there’s issues with damage output on moving targets
2) Cast time F2 skill either don’t go off then flat out fail sometimes and go on a short cool down, if its an AOE ability most of the time the target/you have moved out of range/direction of it. IMO all F2 pet skill should be at least instant.
3) They just flat out die to easy, the amount of AOE damage in www makes them close to useless
4) Bug? one of the moas has a protection buff that the tooltip says is 10s but it only lasts for 3s

Skills/Traits
1) Spirits are close to useless, low hitpoints and extremely low range on their auras
2) Over all weapon sets and skills aren’t very good compared to pretty much every other class, i suspect because we have pets anet limited the weapons we have but as I’ve stated pets just don’t work well. I was kinda disappointed when i saw warrors long bow and how good it is compared to our bows in many ways, they can put out massive AOE pressure while we get barrage which is on a massive CD, on top of that the have rifle which is way better single target damage & bleeds on autoattack without worrying about flanking. Anet should consider adding a 3rd bow for rangers and rework the other 2
3) Traps should be ranged by default and should be trait to 900 range
4) Both Natural magic and Beastmastery trait trees and useless due to issue with pets/spirits
5) Shortbow damage got nerfed which is okish but the fact it hard to stack bleeds on targets unless they are running away. Instead of flanking the bleeds should be based on range like: 0-500 range 100% add bleed 500-100 66% 1000+ 33%
6) Long bow is low DPS, rapid fire is great damage output but in pvp players and easily dodge roll out of it. Barrage CD is extremely long.

One possible solution for rangers could be we can switch off pets and get some F Key abilities.