Guild Wars 2

Staff 4 aka Renewing Wave sometimes doesn’t remove conditions. I only tested this in 1v1, I didn’t pay attention whether the heal goes through or not. And before someone says it: No, the condition remove is not just for allys, half the time it does work and removes my conditions in 1v1.
If you got more information on how to replicate this, feel free to post it.

If you can’t tell, then it’s you. If you can tell, you are most likely wrong and it’s still you.

These notes are random, bad and against everything that anet guys posted on these forums.

Sound like you want the d/d eles to reroll shout warrior Kappa

Shouldn’t get changed, it increases skillcap, if anet thinks those professions are overpowered, they can nerf them without removing core skill differentiators.

2 words: selective perception, Justin.

Evan, to confirm here, that means I could leave right before every loss and maintain a 100% winrate that way?

I assume they didn’t just lock you out of the character select screen or disable log off, because it is harder/more work/partly not possible with their current systems.

Sometimes I really see the argument of vocal minority. I don’t mind map selection in ranked queue at all. There is no map that you could “abuse” with a specific comp anyway, yes some are slightly better than others, but it isnt even close to engi – skyhammer lvl. Also I feel like this is supposed to be a competitive mode, so I would advise any team to actually play all maps to pratice. My team always practices the maps we feel uncomfortable on.

I don’t have time to comment on everyone OP said, but I just wanna note that as someone who has pretty high MMR (I assume, Justin tell me pls), I get only 2 kinds of games when I queue solo:
1. I am with mostly soloq players / players I dont know the names of (which most of the time means, that they aren’t players who were high on the old Teamq Ladder) and playing vs premade grps (e.g. a game today vs denshee, tage, vanish and texbi + random).
2. Both my team and the enemy team consist of “PvE Players”, which refers to people severely below my skill lvl, who probably don’t play sPvP or GW2 in general for too long (Its really obvious from their gameplay, like either moving or casting abilities, never simultaniously). Obviously not all of them are that unexperienced, but the rest are, just to a lesser extent.
I enjoyed the old matchmaking way more, as long as some top players were online I would get a decent quality game, which was only diminished by skyhammer/spiritwatch pops.
I also don’t agree with the current Leaderboards, I don’t have the time to compare it to other games like Hearthstone, Starcraft, LoL, Dota but I wish you would take more inspiration from those, you don’t have to invent something new.

Question as above, seems like its happening more since 2nd December Patch I would assume.

@Demon it doesnt. It pritoritizes the boon which was applied most recently, which alot of times is might (1 new stack counts as new). And I agree we don’t need new sigils like the ones op is suggesting, this one is enough for boons, if anet wants to they can buff it though.

Justin, if you want to improve Courtyard you will have to change Stealth.

The best strategy is to stealth, and restealth till your opponents arent stealthed anymore and just instantkill 1-2 ppl. With just 1 pistol offhand thief its possible to restealth infinitely with almost any setup (5ppl running together have enough blasts).
If both Teams use this optimal strategy the game would end 0-0 90% of the time.
It isn’t/wasn’t happening right now, because noone plays this map seriously enough, it’s either pugs without coordination or just4fun zerging with groups, but since you used the word “competitively” I just wanted to let you know of this.

I suggest either permanent revealed on everyone, revealed even if you don’t hit anything while stealthed, or something similar. Each option obviously has downsides like indirectly nerfing thief and those changes would need to be exclusive to the Courtyard map.

Apart from that you’ll probably want to force regroups with pug groups, aka turn deathmatch into no respawn and then multiple rounds and a Best Of X System including a change to deal with e.g. a s/d thief running around, delaying the match end after his teammates died (something like a shorter round timer as soon as its 3v2 or 3v1 and auto win for the team with more people at the end of the timer).

Furthermore I don’t think this whole thing works with 5v5, because the whole downstate mechanic becomes obsolet with 5 ppl cleaving. If possible a 3v3 Queue would probably be best, together with the other changes.

I’m available for follow up questions.

^ I play d/d ele. Don’t have any restrictions, since I’d just like to play more regularly and soloq doesn’t interest me too much.
If you message me I’m gonna be available for a couple test games.
Best soloq and teamq ranks on old leaderboards were around top 25 and top 10 respectively. Also got top 3 on na soloq on a second account.
I finished on top 50~ on eu soloq @ 2nd december 2014.

Its possible cause LB arent released yet, bruv. They testing I guess.

Leaderboards isn’t released yet.

Yeah, even tough I’m not participating in this solving process yet (not playing much atm), I really much appreciate the way Justin handles all this and also the fact that most people realize its best to argue factually and not blow off steam unnecessarily.
Thx Justin. Thx Community.

Anyone got a link to vod for the finals, the one i found was only eu vs china 1 and na vs china 2

^ needs 15 characters, but I think the question is pretty clear.

Probably not intentional.

1. I can’t play at all atm, all my characters are stuck at the “Match Ready” screen, where everyone accepted. Logging off, closing gw2, etc. doesnt work and the window isn’t movable so its blocking half my screen.

Q: How many people have been rank 1 on the leaderboards at some point?

Maybe a couple of such people might end up top xx, but its only so bad atm because everyone is waiting to play 1 game tomorrow.

Wait what?! Justin are you saying its possible to get skyhammer now if you queue with your 5 man team?

Josh Davis.6015:

As mentioned in John’s overview post today, we’ll be ranking players on the leaderboards based off of ladder points, rather than MMR like we do right now.

As some of you may remember, we’ve done leaderboard wipes before, but that also wiped your MMR, causing chaos in queues until everything normalized. In the new system, we’ll be able to save your MMR while wiping ladder points, allowing us to do resets a lot more frequently and easily – hence the test season.

Justin’s blog will explain it in more detail tomorrow.

Does that mean there won’t be temporary decay anymore?

I think they mean unrated soloq. Pls don’t be disappointed bruv.

Best. Teaser. Ever.

Just noting that there doesn’t seem to be much interest for online – “journalists” to cover these events, why I’m not 100% sure, since I don’t know the motivation for doing it for other games, but I guess it doesn’t generate a lot of site visits?

For TCG members: Which european team would win the esl monthly if you leave yourself out of the equation?
Alternatively: Which team is gonna make second place right behind TCG?

I liked this one alot more than the last one. The key were the interesting and knowledgeable guests, also 2 na / 2 eu is a good split and as many webcams as possible to capture their beauty. Also I found that the topics the players got into themselves were mostly more interesting than these “review” topics, like talking about all the results of the various tourneys. I wouldn’t say that part should be cancelled but the focus should shift (imo). Also 2 hours was a good length.

Solori.6025:

Erwin.5603:

Solori.6025:

Sizer.5632:

oneply.9586:

Whirlpool.9410:

Yeees. Just a bit. And I was tempted to mention calling the authorities at least once. I really take a dim view of these sorts of things.

the “authorities” should never be called. just laugh at them report them and move on. a hollow threat from a 2 year old should not warrant you calling the cops and having them go all SWAT crazy guns blazing on some idiot behind a computer acting tough.

Now if only they could code some pve mobs to randomly yell racist slurs (well lore friendly ones) and death threats, then pve might be as exciting as pvp is

Sizer for prez 2015

Thats not sizer.

. . . . .
Are we thinking of two different Sizers or?

I mean he isn’t Sizer, as in the Sizer who is on TCG.

Solori.6025:

Sizer.5632:

oneply.9586:

Whirlpool.9410:

Yeees. Just a bit. And I was tempted to mention calling the authorities at least once. I really take a dim view of these sorts of things.

the “authorities” should never be called. just laugh at them report them and move on. a hollow threat from a 2 year old should not warrant you calling the cops and having them go all SWAT crazy guns blazing on some idiot behind a computer acting tough.

Now if only they could code some pve mobs to randomly yell racist slurs (well lore friendly ones) and death threats, then pve might be as exciting as pvp is

Sizer for prez 2015

Thats not sizer.

wow five gauge is pretty handsome, that eyebrow movement

dat casual stream advertisement lol

Only read title so I assume you want to be coached, there are plenty of good players (eu) available. Feel free to contact one and keep practicing! One day you might be able to reach your goals, but props for trying actively mate!

Pretty sure the Go4Gw2 cup was seeded, atleast top 4 seeds. Either that, or a huge coincidence.

And living cost are different, blablablurp blabla

I have no idea about the GW1 scene, but it seems you are quite popular, so nice to have you in GW2! Although I don’t quite understand your post, why would you want PvE gear, if you plan to play sPvP? A lot of the best sPvP players right now did never touch PvE just FYI. Also you seem inexperienced in GW2. I suggest you contact maybe one of your old GW1 friends who played GW2 sPvP for 2 years, if you have someone like that, to get abit more knowledge on how things work here (scene-wise).

Acandis.3250:

It’s not random. They follow tables specific to each cleansing skill, according to what skill applied each condition.

And no, they won’t release those, for whatever reason. Though it’s pretty easy to figure out the tables if you take a few minutes to test out the skills that you run.

Pretty sure its “Last In First Out” lol

Take a look at the “standard” comp atm:
Mesmer
Thief
Ele
Guard
Smth (ranger, engi, second ele, warrior)
The reason for this is simple imo:
Mesmer is S+ , the other 3 professions (thief,guard,ele) are taken because they work best with mesmer, thief is needed to complement burst to be able to kill stuff, guard and ele to support mesmer/thief, since they dont have condi cleanse/sustain inherent in their builds. Last spot is somewhat free, you can specialize in what you want to add, will probably be a strong 1v1er with “high – mid” to “high” survivability, with good teamfight, just an overall strong class.
Thats why imo these tierlists dont work on their own, playing the same classes but without mesmer just wont work, mesmer is by far the strongest single profession, the rest is build around (obv. mesmer still wouldnt work if there weren’t strong support speccs like guard/ele, so the comp doesnt really excel without those either).

Justin ODell.9517:

uberkingkong.8041:

Like I said its the volatility of leaderboard decay for the vast majority while a small minority don’t see any.

Leaderboard decay works, put simply, by multiplying the player’s MMR by a configured percent by the power of how many hours they have been inactive (after the first). Since it works by percentage, and not a fixed amount, players at the top actually see a larger decay in terms of fixed amount.

LeaderboardRating = ActualRating * pow(DecayRate, HoursInactive)

This decay exists only on the leaderboard, and is not used for matchmaking. The decay will also be completely erased from the leaderboard the next time it updates after you play a game.

Can we get Seasons/ladders(with tiers) etc if I ask reeeaaaaaallllly kittenin nicely? :P

Booms.2594:

Erwin.5603:

Elxdark.9702:

Erwin.5603:

NA always 1-2 patches behind eu, nothing to add to that, I doubt they can beat tcg at WTS and I think thats the opinion of most eu/na top players.

That’s like your own opinion because if you ask to every top team in na they’ll say abjured will win.

And the “meta” each region has its own and now we’ll see which one is better

Yeah thats the thing, I think if I ask every eu team they will say TCG will win and if I ask every NA Team only half will say Abjured will win. Obviously its impossible to say for sure, since the region barrier didn’t let those 2 teams meet, but in the past I had the feeling that many top NA players felt that EU is stronger, while almost no EU players felt that way about NA, maybe its different now with Abjured being at the top (since they dominated the other NA Teams so hard, it might have cause others to think they are better than TCG).

actually nearly no top NA players think TCG will win. furthermore, the vast majority of top NA players think it will be a rofl stomp (we’re talking 500-200 3x in a row)

I highly doubt thats true, even abjured players don’t think they will win 100% and they wouldn’t dare to state its gonna be a roflstomp, they will probably say “it can go either way”. If you attribute that statement to just being nice, or if that’s their actual perspective is another question. While TCG players will say “no way we lose, we gonna roflstomp them”, again you can attribute that to overconfidence/being rude or to their actual perspective.

Elxdark.9702:

Erwin.5603:

NA always 1-2 patches behind eu, nothing to add to that, I doubt they can beat tcg at WTS and I think thats the opinion of most eu/na top players.

That’s like your own opinion because if you ask to every top team in na they’ll say abjured will win.

And the “meta” each region has its own and now we’ll see which one is better

Yeah thats the thing, I think if I ask every eu team they will say TCG will win and if I ask every NA Team only half will say Abjured will win. Obviously its impossible to say for sure, since the region barrier didn’t let those 2 teams meet, but in the past I had the feeling that many top NA players felt that EU is stronger, while almost no EU players felt that way about NA, maybe its different now with Abjured being at the top (since they dominated the other NA Teams so hard, it might have cause others to think they are better than TCG).

NA always 1-2 patches behind eu, nothing to add to that, I doubt they can beat tcg at WTS and I think thats the opinion of most eu/na top players.

Message me ingame and I will give you a rundown on any question you have, even if you were in a top 1 team when gw2 released, its totally normal to SUCK now, there was an influx of top players in eu that came back a couple months ago and expected way too much as in they thought after a short amount of time they will be back to where they were before. Lets just say reality didnt live up to their expectations (not blaming them, if they read this, I like almost all of them as persons but this expectation wasnt reasonable). Anyway im not just some random guy talking, I wasnt in a top team for a while, but working on that (my soloq best is smth like top 10, teamq best smth like top 20?) and almost every eu player that played at the top in the past year knows me. (not trying to sound arrogant here or something, just trying to make my opinion respectable to the people who dont know me)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c2VBm6rL46zDPTbOFTP74BILzl0Ey5MT5LDmUBdjl_Q/edit#gid=826798332
but it hasnt been updated for a considerable period of time

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/577080418
Cant load it, takes forever, anyone else with that problem?

In need of team.

Evan Lesh.3295:

This is a next-level suggestion. I’ll take it to the UI art team to see what they think!

Why would you want to hang around on character select, though? Wouldn’t you want that awesome information in-game?

Yes please! Ingame it would either go unnoticed or take up space and be annoying, character screen would not bother anyone and still get lots of attention from pve or even pvp folks who don’t follow social media/forums.
I think it’ll get more attention than the launcher. The launcher is too small and personally i spend more time on the character screen than watching the launcher (first cause the launcher does everything automatically and second because of guesting server shenanigans)

bump
I won’t message any team thats looking for member myself.