Guild Wars 2

You ask Anet to nerf one of weakest classes in pvp (DH) …. The fact that ppl cant counter a DH in low MMR games dont mean that DH needs a nerf…actually needs a big boost to be viable in 5v5 comps

worked for me thx

same problem here…well since is not a problem i personally have i guess they ll fix it … anyone knows if there is already a solution? or if they announced anything?

same here….i guess they will fix it soon or at least inform us ^^

steelheart.7386:

DH deserves it because its a garbage low skill cap build and always has been and always will be and it doesnt fit with the original class theme at all. I wish they would put diminishing returns on traps of the same type being thrown in succession to kill it off even more. I just with they would make meaningful positive changes to base guardian so I could play my guardian again. The buffs to signets are a joke. Nice renewed focus nerf not.

concidering DH is one of weakest classes in pvp , and only total clueless people cant counter a dh (avoid traps and outrotate) i wonder from where all the hate come from…dont tell me you find a dh hard to counter? i mean some ppl do but we speak about totally clueless people…

very nice…..if we want some help or more details should we mail you in game?

As a start i would like see tournaments back …. and if community can support them decent i am sure esporting will be an option again

great news . we need competitive tournaments for teams . and to be honest is better to take some time to organise it properlly than be fast . i hope me and my team can help somehow even if we are not very familair with discort . also hope Anet will give us more team tournaments too !! but great news really

AGGabriel.9230:

As it said do you continue when your in the ‘’losing,, team ? Does it worth to continue to fight and enter the fight, or let them win this time and better luck next time
I personally give up ’’sometimes,, when i see the vs slaughtering badly my team and the difference is 150-200

I try never to give up even in a game where my team looses with a big difference. Reasons : If you give up you will never do come backs. You will never LEARN how to do come backs.You will never develop the “we can come back” mentality. Also even if come back wont happen i believe is something to learn from every game even from a big diffeat.Actually if you want be top in spvp , the big diffeats is where you can learn the most things.So dont think give up is a good decission.

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi all,

I’d like to take a moment to address some of the concerns posted since last Friday regarding the possibility of solo/duo queue.

The poll we’ll be running this week will simply ask if we should trial a solo/duo queue system during season 5. Assuming the poll passes and Season 5 is solo/duo only, we’ll monitor feedback throughout the season and then run another poll at the end of S5 to ask folks if they’d like to see the change become permanent.

“But Josh, what about people that like to queue as premades, do guild missions, etc?” An overwhelming majority of players already play as solo/duo in leagues, but that doesn’t mean we’re not thinking about the groups and the guilds. That said, unranked arena will continue to accommodate roster sizes of up to 5. Guild missions will still be able to be completed in unranked arena. Assuming the post-season 5 permanence poll passes, we’ll evaluate the need for another environment where teams can compete (based on your feedback).

Hopefully that answers some of your questions!

What about Teams who will practise and not just do guild missions etc? I know we can do scirms ofc…but is a chance we have 1 solo/due que one team que? Also expect ToL what other plans you have about Team sPvP?

sephiroth.4217:

Emmrahil.1934:

sephiroth.4217:

Jourdelune.7456:

Wow, let’s play a team based ranked games without giving a team a shot.

@confused

No offense to the Pros, but this is a casual game. We have nothing in comparison to real ESL games, so realistically we are trying to be Pro in a touch football little league junior match.

This is casual game ONLY for people who see it casually. sPvP is something competitive and everything competitive has a pro side. Is like telling that handball isnt a professional sport because very few people see it that way comparing to football. But handball is a sport even if is not a top popular one. Unlike what most people believe profesionalism has to do with competition. Not with popularity. Is you who have to understand that sPvP is something competitive and will always have a pro scence and in a esport direction , but has lots of casual play it too…not the other way.

I’m not saying there’s no Pro scene at all, I’m saying in Comparison to LoL and DOTA and other games, we are the junior league football match. Every junior league has the best players/teams. (in terms to what you quoted me anyway)

Comparing a MMO RPG game like GW2 with MOBA games as you did , is like comparing handball with football. Of coarse MOBA have and will always have probablly much more fans than MMO RPGs for reason i can explain. Also football has and will always have probablly much more fans than handball. That dont make handball a non-sport neither a MMO RPG a non-esport. Makes them small sports and esports tho.But still as any sport and esport the core of game is competition. And in competition environment you cant expect to develope according the wishes of the so called casual players. You develope according the view of competitive ones.Simple.

P.S. Still waitting from developers an answer about their plans about Teams , Tournaments (expect AG) , Pro League , Challenger series etc… i know answer me is not (and should not) be your 1st priority at this moment. But i would love an answer ^^

sephiroth.4217:

Jourdelune.7456:

Wow, let’s play a team based ranked games without giving a team a shot.

@confused

No offense to the Pros, but this is a casual game. We have nothing in comparison to real ESL games, so realistically we are trying to be Pro in a touch football little league junior match.

This is casual game ONLY for people who see it casually. sPvP is something competitive and everything competitive has a pro side. Is like telling that handball isnt a professional sport because very few people see it that way comparing to football. But handball is a sport even if is not a top popular one. Unlike what most people believe profesionalism has to do with competition. Not with popularity. Is you who have to understand that sPvP is something competitive and will always have a pro scence and in a esport direction , but has lots of casual play it too…not the other way.

xeonage.1253:

Emmrahil.1934:

xeonage.1253:

Don’t make a bad balance and let it go though whole season. Like this Guardwar2 S4. Pls have a mid balance in a season. Let’s player play a worst game still 3 months. This sure break your player base and loss more player.

Actually DH wasnt even a T1 class of last season and needs boost…Ppl in low MMR just thought was op because they wasnt able counter it

Actually DH is a worst design in this Hold Point Game. AoE cc, AoE damage and stack share block and heal. It break the low MMR and get easy kill in top MMR. This class better need to remake.

Obviously that is why in WTS we saw no DH (well we saw 1 in all WTS games i think)…i guess you know better than them tho

Vargamonth.2047:

Spartacus.3192:

Personally it should have 2 leagues a solo/duo league and a 3/4/5 man league. Exclusively doing one or the other is not a good idea. As mentioned above it discriminates against full teams.

yeah yeah queue times blah blah

Thre’s no such a thing like a 3/4/5 man league. If solo/duo play on their own league, the second league can only consist on full premades.

He means a solo/duo league , and a team ranking league i guess

xeonage.1253:

Don’t make a bad balance and let it go though whole season. Like this Guardwar2 S4. Pls have a mid balance in a season. Let’s player play a worst game still 3 months. This sure break your player base and loss more player.

Actually DH wasnt even a T1 class of last season and needs boost…Ppl in low MMR just thought was op because they wasnt able counter it

Is a very good thing you will keep leagues up . Also is good to see AG come back. But what are you plans about teams? Also what about ESL Pro League and Challenger Series ? You plan keep the esporting up (hope you ll do)? Plz i would love an answer ^^

cpchow.7416:

I don’t understand why anet launch PvP League seasons and esport with poor classes and skills balance, meta build , top pvp guild facerolling randam pugs, players exhausted after it , the overall ‘PVP’ population decreased , ’AFK pvp players, PVP troll , Gold seller , USD to legendary rank , cheaters , 5v4 matchup , disconnection , etc.

My guild members and i are burnout after the PvP League seasons and decided to leave the PVP game mode in gw2.

Anet should canel PvP League seasons & e-sport because it just bad as WvW tournament.

sPvP League System improved the state of GW2 sPvP HUGELY… Made game much more competitive , and in an esport direction as it SHOULD be. The “poor classes and skills balance” is just a wrong impression you have. What actually happend is that casuals and people who wasnt able handle competition and was happy befor League system because they could tell / lie themselfs they was “good” , since was no way to actually see who was good and who was not , started to hate the League system. No , if you cant go high in League system you are NOT good and you need practise. No sPvP isnt something all should have same rewards and be happy. Yes sPvP is something competitive. And in competition should be a hierarchy no matter if you like it or not. Yes future of sPvP is esporting. Yes esporting need meta builds.No meta builds are not something wrong.Yes refuse play a good build because you think play your self made yolo useless build is better is called stupidity.No esporting dont need a LARGE community , even if a big community always helps. Hope game developers will ignore such pointless threads and keep game in an esport way. For casuals there is always hotjoin/unranked.

Saiyan.1704:

First and foremost OP, I completely agree with you. And no worries, u speak engrish better than 70% of us

Better activate that Fire Shield because a lot of people don’t like what you just said, the ugly truth.

Than you my friend. And dont worry i always have my Shield of Wrath ready for such situations. I just hope Anet will keep the game to a competitive esporting path as they already started and wont be effected from semi-casual ragers at forums. ^^

Roquen.5406:

Well, you state that you made a team for yourself, I would imagine it’s a 5 man. If that’s the case then you are now playing 5 organized people against mostly random people. So of course you will have an advantage and you would consider pvp “fair” because it plays in your favor. Try solo queing for 4 seasons and see how lopsided matches are. Either you steamroll the other side or they steamroll you. The even match-ups are so far and few in-between it’s not even fun.

You get matches like:

5 premades vs 5 pugs
3 thieves vs 3 guardians – who designed the game to be paired that way? That’s so lopsided…
4v5’s….
Other stacked classes
Games where you have people facing off against people many tiers ahead of them
Games where people tanked MMR just to breeze through the ratings
Games where your team duels off point the entire game
Games where your team cannot win a single team fight but then continue to feed mid 1 by 1
Games where someone trolls the entire game
Games where people cap and run off and don’t hold
Games where you get cursed out for trying to coordinate
Games where there is a huge disconnect between the skill level of the players on your side and the enemy side

The list goes on and on and on. Yes, I am aware that developers cannot fix everything but they can do a whole lot more than they are doing at the moment, or at least communicate with us more.

I guess that you missed the parts " all games need improvments" . For 100th time ofc pugs shouldnt face premades and IF is possible class stucking should be removed from solo que too. But that was not the point of my post.Point of my post was community’s mentality and point of view. Not my personal team. By the way i spend 2 seasons solo que100% both legendary inside max 2 weeks. But that is not the point. Also my team’s goals are very high..much higher than “win pugs in ques”.But that is not the point also.Point of post was pretty clear. Cant express is better than i already did. ^^

Roquen.5406:

I feel that you are a bit biased…

It seems to me that you create a 5 man so you steamroll pugs via premades and then praise the game for being so amazing. Realistically…you shouldn’t be able to play against pugs as it gives you an unfair advantage. But I guess because the population is so low they merged the two to fix queue times. Of course you will enjoy it when it works in your favor but think about all the people you fight against that don’t have a chance. Would you feel the same way if you were playing premade vs. premade? I’m curious.

And just because someone doesn’t have the time to practice six hours a day to dedicate to pvp, doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to have a fair chance. Remember we aren’t in the pro-leagues and many don’t intend to be, they just want balance.

Also, while there is a lot of “rage” as you would say, there are literally pages and pages and pages of constructive criticism that goes un-attended to. It’s a shame that people have to post on another website to get an official response from developers.

Back during beta weekends pre HoT the class forums and pvp forums were “flooded” with dev commentary and feedback but then just as HoT neared its release the forums for the most part became wastelands again. There is very little response from devs on what’s going on and discussion from the playerbase – which can in fact help.

A lot of the changes people suggest are in fact very well discussed and thought out and helpful but much of the time anet just seems to nerf this and nerf that and call it a day.

I don’t know why they chose a business model of silence. It seems very weird to have your own games website/forums and not maintain it. Customer service is a huge part of any industry and in this game it is severely lacking IMO.

I think there will be a bigger issue when people stop being vocal about the inherent issues in this game because that means they no longer care.

Of coarse agree that pugs shouldnt face premades…then both will cry about que times tho…game needs improvment as all games do…unlike what you said tho i think that rage posts are MUCH MUCH more than “constructive criticism”. “It seems to me that you create a 5 man so you steamroll pugs via premades and then praise the game for being so amazing”…if that is what you mainly got from this post i doubt you understood it..or that you had the will to udnderstood it. Anyway , i welcome all opinions as long are not in “OMGGAMESUCKSNERFEVERYTHING” mood

Hello my dear GW2 sPvP community~! First of all allow me introduce myself. I am Emmrahil , a 33 years old person from Greece. I play MMO RPG’s competitive last 11 years and i have a world title in my previous MMO RPG ( Lineage 2-Official Servers-Battle Tournament 2013 7v7). I play GW2 sPvP seriously for last year. I am member of a newly created team named Constant Evolution [CoEv]. What made me write this message is the number of pointless rage posts i saw in forums this year and the pointless rage comments i read in map chat in HotM. I would like tell some things to all of you first…the GW2 sPvP community.

I read many people raging about game…They say game is bad , unbalanced , unfair , and that Anet makes wrong decissions.First of all i wish to inform you that game is fine. Needs improvment ofc like all games do but is inside Top-3 MMO RPG’s when it comes to sPvP , competition and esporting at this moment. Of coarse it can not be compared with a MOBA game. But no MMO RPG will ever be able be compared with a MOBA game. If you dont know why take a moment to think about it.Why handball will never be able be as popular as basketball?Retorical question but hope will help you think.

My dear community the first thing you need to know is that sPvP is something comeptitve. And when it comes to competition , to succed you need invest time , have a proper attitude and also work , work , work.

Truth is most of you think you deserve be in a pro team. Guess what?You dont.

You cant expect be in same level with someone who practise 8 houres daily if you play 1 houre per day , even if your micro skills are decent.I personally practise 6 houres daily for 12 months and i know i still have LOTS of work to do. Of coarse people with talent exists, who can get great results with less work.But pay attention : with LESS work…not without work~! Also as any other sport , in esporting someone who works harder has a high chance rise higher than a natural talent who works much less.

My dear community..you dont even know what you wish. You raged because fights was too long..When Anet changed that you cried that fights are too fast now with too many instakills.You raged because game didnt helped people develope teams. Then when GW2 made a solid league system which encourage teams and competition with prizes you cried solo quers are left out.You cried about sPvP being unbalanced.Of corse you thought was a good timming to do so when your class got nerfed. You cry about DH this season when in meta games DH rarelly apears. Of coarse you dont even know it.You dont watch pro league. Why to do so?You are better than them~!You cry meta builds exist and noone makes his own build.You forget that in competitive enviroment people play what is best. No 99% the random yolo build you made isnt better than meta ones .You cry about solo que balance.Then when was fixed you cry about que times.You cry cry cry cry about everything that dont satisfy your instant needs…the only thing you dont do is be serious and work hard.

Is fine if you dont wish be a pro. Is fine if you are a casual who just play for fun.There is nothing wrong with it. What is wrong tho , is to think that this approach of game is the only right approach.Is wrong blame people because they play to win.Is wrong blame people because they have a sport mentality and approach.Is wrong blame Anet because the decisions Anet makes dont have YOUR game approach as center.

You need remember that meta stage (where game is played in its higher level) is the most important stage of sPvP. You think developers should care more about a semi-casual solo que’ers opinion than a pro one? No , they shouldnt. You think that random solo ques are more important than tournaments ? No they are not. You think GW2 has low popularity as an esport ? You MAYBE are right if you dont concider GW2 is a MMO RPG , but you dont have to be a top popular esport to be an esport and have an esport policy. Like you dont have to be football to be a sport and have serious professional approach.

And now my dear Game developers :
I know you work hard. I know you wish to have everyone pleased and happy. I know that you are tired see community pointlessly rage after any decision you make. So an advice : don stop getting feedback from community BUT ALSO please : STOP listen community (me including) 100% . Stop try have everyone happy.You wont manage to do it and you will probablly get bad results if you try make game esport and have casuals happy same time. People will always cry about everything that dont satisfy their instant needs.Keep in mind competition and esporting is future of gaming. And try make decisions which will help game grow that drection.

With love and respect
Emmrahil

P.S. : My English dont allow me express myself 100% BUT i think core of my point is clear. Try understand that and pay attention to that more than my spelling mistakes.

Cynz.9437:

Emmrahil.1934:

Brack.6172:

Is that even normal, aNet?
When we hop in the match first thing we check is how many guardians enemy has. If two or more it goes “crap, no chance”.
I roll power ranger (which is rare since druid is almost as OP as guardians) and I pay for my damage with my vuulnerability.
Guardians pay nothing for their damage as well as the defence.

You say you always ask for fun when developing.
Where’s fun in that?

If you bother to watch pro league where meta gaming is created , you ll see DH’s are very rare. Comparing to top tier classes (reve/scraper/reaper/druid) DH’s needs a boost tbh….i understand why DH’s can be hard to counter in small MMR games but that dont makes the class OP..actually DH is FAR from OP

WTS also have no class stacking rule….

I agree to that…dont know if is possible but if it is we should have same thing for ranked solo que (even if i doubt it is possible to happen)

CureForLiving.5360:

How about this, if the match is 5 minutes in and you’re 200 or 300 points behind, just give us the ability to forfeit the game. At that point it’s pretty clear you’re not going to win. Best then to end it quickly and hope for better in the next match.

You know you can use a defeat to learn things . Also you can do comebacks that you would never did if you forfeit when you loose a lot. Imo a “forfeit” button would have a point (maybe) only in 5v5 team games. Or else random ragers will spamm it at first 50 points difference. And yes you can learn things from 250+ points defeats. Actually you can learn a lot from those games. And no , you dont know everything , you have things to learn.

Brack.6172:

Is that even normal, aNet?
When we hop in the match first thing we check is how many guardians enemy has. If two or more it goes “crap, no chance”.
I roll power ranger (which is rare since druid is almost as OP as guardians) and I pay for my damage with my vuulnerability.
Guardians pay nothing for their damage as well as the defence.

You say you always ask for fun when developing.
Where’s fun in that?

If you bother to watch pro league where meta gaming is created , you ll see DH’s are very rare. Comparing to top tier classes (reve/scraper/reaper/druid) DH’s needs a boost tbh….i understand why DH’s can be hard to counter in small MMR games but that dont makes the class OP..actually DH is FAR from OP

[EU TEAM] s PvP Team [CoEv] Recruiting :

https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars2PvPTeams/comments/53ycnt/eu_team_recruiting/

EU sPvP Team Constant Evolution [CoEV] is recruiting . We are a new sPvP Team , but with high goals and very serious approach of sPvP . We want to become better and better , and be able to participate in highest tournaments and events of GW2 sPvP as team . At this moment we recruit one Revenant and one Scrapper (multiclassers who can play one of those two classes are welcomed too) . We are looking for people who have good knowledge of their class , can rotate decent , are able to practice at least 3 times per week ,can use voice and can communicate with the rest of the team . You need to have a professional attitude ,team spirit , build flexibility according to team’s needs and strats , see sPvP seriously , have the will to improve , learn , give and receive criticism and be able invest time. Practice schedule and choice of voice program will be decided when our lineup is finished. Having HoT and be at Legendary league is a basic but we can test diamond people too , in case we can find a hidden treasure . If you are interested mail Emmrahil.1934 in game for more info and trial dates.

Hope those are just rumors….skyhammer is a totally troll map :/

Since last patch in my season statistics panel i have a 3 Loss sterak even if my last 2 ranked games was a win (and didnt made a 3 loss streak long time now) ..is a glitch or something? ^^

Does AG Tournaments take place only for NA people? or are for EU too?

My firend First of all i know solo que can be frustrating ( i got mad also many time in this season as far) .. and i know stuck in a division or tier can be useting. My advices tho will be : 1) Even if you are not a pvp player , since you wish do spvp a bit and since spvp is something competitive try to improve yourself firstly. Some times your team will be bad in solo que. Truth is that the best way to overcome this is by become even better and better and try “cover” your teams mistakes. Wont work some times but in long term you will see the benefits.That may includes practise. Practise means either private arenas , study at sites and twitch or even solo que and try learn from every game even from a defeat . Is NOT easy expecially when is clear that you would win if your team mates was just a bit better but try gain something even from a defeat (wont work always tho…no matter the self discipline you ll be upset some times). The more you work the more you ll improve and the more you ll improve the biggesr satisfaction you ll get. 2)Relax .. if your team is very very bad truth is you cant make them good players in 1 game.Keep up the good mentaltiy you say you have (encourage your team even in mistakes etc etc) and try do your best always no matter if a game looks lost…I won many games that looked lost at start. 3) Try speak and play with people you meet in solo que and they look good players and good people to play with…Is much easier to raise in leagues if you group with 1-2 people who are good and most importantly that you are in same page about how you see game rotations etc…Most likely you ll win more…in best senario you ll become a solid team improve togeather little by little. I dont know how much time you wish to invest in spvp and i am not sure all that will work 100% in any case. But those are my general advices.

P.S. Ignore the mean comments about DH! DH was a low tier class for so long and now that got buffed (is not OP still tho) people cry..happend to most classes when they got boosted in previews patches.Hope i helped and you ll reach your goal ^^

DH needs boost not nerf atm….in spvp is one of weakest classes (and i main a DH)

Legendary with 103 wins in 162 games this season. I played only DH. Typical MediTrapper build with : Mar amulet/ rune of pack. The only difference from the typical meditrapper build was dragon’s maw as elite (in solo que is easy to interupt stomps secure rezes etc with it) insteed renweed focus.

Concidering that most people just wish to rage because they cant invest so much time to be good in spvp…concidering majority of people either ignore the meaning of “balance” or their idea of balance is “make my character able to have a chance win every other class in 1v1”….concidering most people dont even know what an esport is…concidering most people dont even know that gw2 is the first seriouse try of a MMO RPG to enter esportig…and concidering most people think that a good esport should have the views of MOBA games….i doubt polls like that would ever be helpful.
Gw2 gives a good amount of money in official tournaments and that already make it an esport…simple as that…ofc game needs many improvment (even moba and shoot em up games keeps improving every month) like some class balance (NOT the one most ppl think) and ofc a better spectator mode (plz plz Anet)…but that is far from the rage that the “i was high in lolleaderboards and now i dont even think enter a decent team and try for pro league” people throw at forums every 10 threads.

Booms.3952:

wasted.6817:

Keksmuffin.1450:

They would be pretty broken if they wouldn’t be clunky.

Yea and what’s wrong with it? There are things that are not broken nowadays?

Guardian has never been on the top half of best classes except a couple metas where bunker guard was 4th just because everything else sucked.

Hammer guard / burn guard had a high place in meta…dont get me wrong i wouldnt mind a boost to us tho!!

i was ready to post a long answer but then i decide not to..i think is a new trend ppl rage after a patch without a reason. And not sure how class balance is yet. Probablly not perfect. But truth is i play gw2 for 1 year now and is the most class balanced mmo rpg i saw in spvp as far…and i played my first mmo rpg back in 2005…

i try to convice myself that all those people who posted half houre after patch that “DragonHunter changes are bad” (like all the "OMGTRAPSAREOPQQNERFDHPLZ"posts ppl made when traps appeared) already not only fully test DH but also tested DH in comparison to other classes and their boosts/nerfs and after deep study about the class and the balance it has with he other classes they end in a conclusion that those changes made DH a not so good choice for a team in a game aspect (pvp-pve-wvw)…Sorry but i didnt manage to conviced me about it as far….If i am wrong and that’s the case then i am sorry…me from the other hand didnt had the chance to do it yet so i will wait to see and study DH and all the other classes with the new changes and then will judge how good DH or any other class is

Despite the fact that i dont beleive in money as a life value i will try make some things clear.
1) Buy an expancion is not pay to win. pay to wins means (some ppl already mention it above) that you have to spend more and more money to get certain advantages. 2)You choosed play a MMO RPG. I know that 30$ or 40$ can be a lot for someone but when you decide play this game i am sure you knew that any new expansion would have a price.
3) Not sure how many remember that but i recall the old 2004-2010 days when 90% of decent MMO RPG’s has a monthly fee just to log in. Tbh i hate the fact that some people cant play the game because they cant buy it (and that counts for almost every game) but that is known since the start.Still this is not a pay to win game. If you ever play one you ll understand the difference

Arutha.9874:

Emmrahil.1934:

Not sure if this is the right thread to post it but … reading the forums last weeks made me smile about how people can confuse “strong” with “op”…also made me think how people judge how strong a class is in spvp from solo que and not from meta level of play (which should be the basic place where the fact if a class is op or not should be judged) . Guess what? DH is strong (as he should be) and is not OP at all . The fact some DH owned you in solo que dont make this class OP. Dont get me wrong. DH is ( thanks ArenaNet !! ^.^) strong enough to be part of current spvp meta.That is something good and it is not making DH an OP class. Hopefully developers will make the future patch changes and balances based on the meta level of spvp (if a class is clearly overpowered in meta level is normal to nerf it and if a class is not at all in high level games is normal to boost it -warrior cough cough-) and not based to what people say from their solo que experiance. I hope that since they seem to put great effort in spvp and create pro leagues they will do that insteed of try make everyone who post in forums happy. In my humble opinion no class is OP atm in spvp (not sure about revenant tbh not saying he is just dont know for sure) .Warrior needs a boost and maybe theif needs a small one and that’s it!

I find myself disagreeing with a majority of these types of comments, in my opinion if you balance everything against high level play it becomes extremely boring for us normal people. In a lot of cases forum posters are observers instead of active gamers, I am not sure if that is true in the gw2 ones but these people forget that the game is about making people feel good at all levels of play.

Good specs should be hard to play and easier to avoid. This lets low players have much more “I can’t believe I just did that” moments as oppose to “burn noob” moments.
Dragon hunter is at the moment too easy to play and too hard to counter, this means that top level players can compete but low level players have to struggle and begin hating the game for it. This is exacerbated further as there is no skill splits so dragon hunters are everywhere.

Encouraging easy gaming specs to be above the power curve is bad for the future.
Examples of what could make DH harder to play and better for top meta players:
1. Adding knockback to skill 3 instead of RNG. (Skill shot that becomes better with Mesmer friend)
2. Traps trigger 10 seconds cooldown on utility when triggered.(placing triggers normal cooldown so you can reposition but if triggered the cd goes to max(10,current_cd) )
3. True shot gives kitten stacking intensity buff that makes next true shot deal 20% more damage, nerf TS by about 25% (stacks up to 5, stack refreshed when next true shot hits)
4. Daze removed and replaced with something thematic instead of hard to get, eg. 3 stacks of torment on trigger instead of on damage, nerf base damage a little (High usability by condi guard and asks the question, do you want to move out of the traps?)

No offence but i am not an observer…actually you can say i am a new player (6 months of gw2) who works hard in spvp trying to reach the high spvp level of play..That dont mean that i dont have a general philosophy about online competitive stuff (since i do that seriously for last 10 years). What i beleieve is that is every competitive game the power of classes should be judged based to how strong a class is in meta level. Hopefully since ArenaNet trys to raise the status of competitive spvp and make it professional they will judge the next patches and updates from high level plays also.And even in average level of play DH can beconcidered strong but not even close to OP.Knock back has certain limitations (range and CD) and traps are fine (cant be weaker expect you wish make them useless). Now if you think counter a class should be easy enough so a player who dont play spvp a lot should be able to do it i guess your logic is totally against the fact that ArenaNet trys (and many of us agrees and are super happy with it) to raise the status of spvp in general and make it a hardcore competitive thing.

Not sure if this is the right thread to post it but … reading the forums last weeks made me smile about how people can confuse “strong” with “op”…also made me think how people judge how strong a class is in spvp from solo que and not from meta level of play (which should be the basic place where the fact if a class is op or not should be judged) . Guess what? DH is strong (as he should be) and is not OP at all . The fact some DH owned you in solo que dont make this class OP. Dont get me wrong. DH is ( thanks ArenaNet !! ^.^) strong enough to be part of current spvp meta.That is something good and it is not making DH an OP class. Hopefully developers will make the future patch changes and balances based on the meta level of spvp (if a class is clearly overpowered in meta level is normal to nerf it and if a class is not at all in high level games is normal to boost it -warrior cough cough-) and not based to what people say from their solo que experiance. I hope that since they seem to put great effort in spvp and create pro leagues they will do that insteed of try make everyone who post in forums happy. In my humble opinion no class is OP atm in spvp (not sure about revenant tbh not saying he is just dont know for sure) .Warrior needs a boost and maybe theif needs a small one and that’s it!

Hello everyone! I just transfer from NA to Eu server Seafarer’s Rest.. I am looking for a PVX Guild. I mostly spvp but i would love have a crowdy friendly guild for the times i will PVE and WvW and for doing guild missions ^^ . I will rep for PVE/WvW. Wont rep in spvp. Guild Hall owner guild preferable. If rep only in pve and wvw is acceptable please message me in game (Emmrahil.1934) or throw me an invite ^^

My question is : i live in EU (greece) but i play in an NA server (Fort Aspenwood)…i am member of a team planning to apply for NA leagues…Is that against league rules? Do i have to be in an EU team since i live in europe? Do i have to server transfer to an EU server if i want to try reach pro leagues and the rest of my team (who are na citizens) will need to find a person who live in NA as 5th?I would love if a GM can answer that

As title says Dont know why but i start get disconects and network errors again any time i get a que for a spvp game or i try change map….anyone else gets that? If is a general issue i dont mind wait be fixed but if is that so inform us to wait so you can fix the issue xD