Guild Wars 2

Chalice of Tears does not even feel like a puzzle, it just feels like blind jumps and hoping the terrain does not glitch you out. Also I would like to point out that people who do not have a high end PC will probably have even a harder time as they cannot see the terrain as well as people with higher end PC. After anet decided to put both this JP and Wayfayarer’s Henge into the legendary trinket AP, I’m now convinced they just like to troll the player base. smh.

I would not call it nerfs either as it’s still just beta trials. The two things we can count on getting adjusted are the quickness and burn damage.

It should be nerfed and it makes sense. Before gw2 launched and it was in beta, warriors were doing 12k eviscerate and just wrecking anything that was not heavy. Anet did the right thing and nerfed it just like they should so with Holo.

GrahamW.5397:

Zalavaaris.5329:

GrahamW.5397:

Zalavaaris.5329:

Tifa.6473:

GrahamW.5397:

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

GrahamW.5397:

rank 1500-2000 is fine, god forbid that the players who have stuck it out through almost 5 years get rewarded a bit more than the people just jumping in now for the skins.

really so 360 – 500 hrs of wvw and I’m only 1/8th the way there and that’s “just jumping in”?

I’ve gotten around ~20 ranks since the patch. Do the math. Its not that hard to get the ranks if you really get into wvw for a while. Rank requirement is fine.

You got 20 levels in 4 hours? Would love to know how you did that. I play ktrain on beast gate and eotm and can never achieve that amount of levels and I’ve been playing for 5 years wvw.

I’m also calling BS on 20 levels in 4 hours….

did wvw for 4 hours after the patch and about 2-3 hours later on at my normal raid time. During my normal raid time i got 8 ranks without any of the wxp drops or boosters. My rank at the start of the day was 1848, right now my rank is 1876.

I 100% do not believe you but I’m not about to argue about it with somebody on the internet.

To be fair, ebg was kind of absurd, we were just one pushing the two other servers constantly for 4 hours so it was obviously kind of an extreme. The 8 ranks in ~2-3 hours was more normal for a guild raid in wvw tbh, i usually get around 5-8 ranks.

You have seasoned WvW players here who have never achieved what you are claiming so my question to you is why continue on? I don’t doubt you think ranks are easy to come by as they can be depending on how you look at it. An 8 rank leap in 2-3 hours? smh. Nothing constructive to read here from these kinds of post.

Hey at the end of the day if people want to spend all those hours, days, weeks or months engi farming then let them. I myself find it incredibly boring and rather do other things but that’s me, others who do farm daily love it.

Eventually I do think Anet will nerf that farm properly as it’s not really an immersive experience and mmo’s sell us on immersion. Once that happens people will go back to SW which yields more $ per hour btw still and more groups will form up for the proper leather farm as it was intended.

Seteruss.4058:

dps is good.
Problem is…let’s say lfg…

^^This. Ignore LFG and find a guild that raids. Once you get to know your new guild and they get to know you it’s not a problem. Among friends 30k guards/rev’s etc are welcome, most important thing is just learn the mechanics.

VaaCrow.3076:

zombyturtle.5980:

I would like to start by saying in general I have no problem with event farming however I was in cursed shore yesterday and was attempting to complete each meta just to experience the game. I waited until their farm zerg left warmaster josif and then soloed the event before moving on. I had been waiting several hours to do this event.

The amount of toxicity and hate I received for completing this event instead of failing it was extreme for this game. I was told to kill myself. Hope that I never have a good drop ever again. Hope my account is taken or I am banned ect

I think this is an issue with event design that needs to be fixed as Noone should recieve this much verbal abuse for succeeding an event chain.

My suggestion is to reduce the heavy moldy bag drops that the adds give on the dolyak escort event,prevent champs from spawning on this event and to greatly increase the timer that resets the escort event if failed.

So because you were offended, the event should be nerfed so that all the people who do it their own way and enjoy it, (like you did) get very little reward for doing so? That seems a little selfish. just block the people and choose not to be offended.

Or people can just grow up and let the dude do him. It’s not like that event get’s completed on the regular, 9/10 times the map let’s it fail. The 1 time and everybody just loses their minds….kids.

Odokuro.5049:

It would be appreciated for some sort of response from a dev or staff member, because Guardian/DH is NOT in a good spot right now, when a class/spec is seen as a trash-tier throwaway, no one wants them in groups for raids/fractals/dungeons ect. Then something has to be done, please, help us thrive again.

We need help, we need respectable DPS, and specs/utilities that are seen as an asset to a team and not a loss.

I agree that Guardian damage needs to be brought higher in line with other classes if were not going to be able to buff like chrono’s and druids. We do push out about 30k dps though and with that kind of damage output we always find spots for them in our raids and fractals. Like qt and others before have said, don’t play with class kittens. Every class if played correctly has the goods to down any boss in any encounter in the time allowed.

Grimheart.2853:

Nusku.3941:

Why is it that raiders always assume people who don’t raid are newbies, man I’ve played this game since launch and got daimond for 3 seasons of pvp, and never raided. People who raid are so full of themselves.

PvPers who think they’re good at the game and go to raids, shining their diamonds and legends, used to be my favorite thing to watch for giggles back in my training run days. It’s kittening hillarious, let me tell ya.

But us PvPers are good at the game, you think only non-PvPers have full sets of legendary armor right now? No my friend, PvE or PvP it makes no difference, it’s all the same you put enough time into it you reap the rewards.

maxwelgm.4315:

Congrats on the initiative. US could really use much more guilds like this, our raid scene is a veteran wasteland compared to EU right now.

There is nothing like this on the US servers, EU does have us beat when it comes to community helping community.

If you are after leather than just be patient, people still do leather farms but not as much. The engi farm is just that, engi sitting around semi afk and collecting heavy supply bags. The bags contain next to no leather but you do get what you would normally get from a heavy bag. Anet did nerf the farm but people are still getting a bag or 2 a minute so it’s worth it for them.

Until Anet nerfs the actual supply bag drop itself you won’t see very many groups doing leather farms. As someone said earlier engineers do tend to just chase them off when someone ask about it in map.

I admit the nerf to pvp/wvw guard were harsh but we were in a good place so I guess it would be unfair to think we can only go up. For the most part in pve we were untouched, we still do the dps we were doing before. The OP is right however, our burn build does not stack up to other classes condi spec and since condi is the new meta guard needs some love there.

As someone said earlier make us a true support spec with adequate dps like the druid or give us selfish high dps specs. As of right now there is no reason to bring a guardian to a raid or high lvl fractals with druids and mesmers in the meta.

Turk.5460:

Miko.4158:

for warrior builds that have had nerf this is a place to vent and work out alternatives.
kitten off

Where are the alternatives? The forums isn’t a place to vent, its a place to discuss. All the “venting” here is salty “boohoo the game is ruined” anyway. Since I love this game, I defend the changes, because I feel as though its not ruined. And unlike the vast majority of the crying babies that are upset about these changes, I’m being civil until someone directs their salt towards me. Someone even got so salty earlier to rudely PM me in game (then blocked me immediately before I could say “k”) Apparently simply disagreeing with some people is enough to be marked for childish behaviors.

Do explain how everyone’s opinion is somehow not an opinion. Go on, I’d love to hear this one.

In PvE warrior was not ruined but in PvP/WvW I’m not sure how you can honestly defend the changes. All Anet did was slow down the game play, that’s my issue. Now that the tells have been made obvious to every two bit pvp player, opposing players have no problem dodging incoming “key” attacks. I had no problems before with good players evading attacks because it was just good pvp on their part. What we have now though are just lumbering slow maneuvers that get out-maneuvered with ease.

You want to nerf our AoE range? that’s fair. Nerf our healing sig? again? they did by 10% again and it’s fine. Nerf our endure pain stances? again they did and it was justified. But nerfing game speed is ridiculous.

Anet you guys screwed the pooch on this one, never ever increase skill time animation. Playing warrior now just feels slow, good players could spot the tell with our moves but now everyone does. Yes, warriors needed a nerf that much was certain but to give us skill lag is ridiculous.

Decrease skill damage by x amount, increase cd of a skill or hell shave some hp off of us. Those are nerfs that make sense and don’t go against the fundamentals that guild wars 2 prides itself on.

The answer in short is yes, tried and tested condi rev does just fine in raids. Oh and guess what? so does power rev! Best advise I can give to people out there struggling to raid through lfg with rev’s is find a raiding guild. These guilds are good enough to make rev’s fit and bring you up to speed on maximizing your dps.

After playing necro for awhile and using the new epidemic I gotta say the skill just feels awkward now. You can really notice the difference from before when it was instance compared to landing the projectiles. As someone said before this skill should have been changed to pvp/wvw only like changes to other classes.

I main warrior also and even after the changes to axe which are good, GS is still the prefered option. As long as GS is generating might and 100 blades had the dps output it does, it’s always going to be our bread and butter power staple. To the OP, warriors are in a great place, we might not have the best dps but we provide banners and empowered allies. We also do very good dps for both power and condi, not on the level of power ele or condi ranger but still very good.

We cannot have it all, for us to provide banners, empowered and better dps then we already have is just too much.

Guards are in a good place right now, I think we were always meant to be a support class rather than a tank class. And finally now we have the one thing we were always lacking, dps and we still kept our supporting boons. Increasing our health pool and allowing a stacked aegis is just way too overpowered. Remember we already have access to 3-4 Aegis skills in a reasonable dps rotation not to mention our dodge rolls. I’m just glad that we are the only class that has hammer still in the meta

Medium Viper Skins please, have not seen that in ages.

Very good video and shows exactly what’s wrong with engineer. On the condition side of things engineer needs no change, it’s top tier and a welcome addition to high fractals/raids. It’s perfectly fine for some kits to have a vital contribution to rotations, weather it be blast, cc’s and applying conditions is what makes the engineer unique. But equipping a Rifle or Hammer is useless and that sucks because neither have a place in any meta except hammer guard.

trixantea.1230:

The whole game feels empty both in PvP, PvE and WvW. The only thing that really changes with PvP seasons are numbers and titles, no real class balance or variety in builds and no real rewards for ranked play (PvP specific finishers, musical instruments, costumes, dyes..)

The game needs an overhaul to some trait lines and abilities. We also need new game modes like CTF, recources race or MOBA style maps, even WoW with its outdated 2004 mechanics has more game modes.

I’m not sure we are entirely playing the same game? PvE feels very healthy as I have no problem doing fractals/dungeons whenever I want. Plenty of guilds are doing raids and plenty of pugs out there to find. As for World Bosses and Map Meta’s they too always seem to be healthy.

WvW is hit or miss, you can tell when it’s prime time and downtime. I do however agree with PvP, I just don’t think it’s ever gonna catch on like Anet would hope. But it’s very unfair to compare this or other mmo’s to WoW. That games still has millions of subscribers every month and Blizzard is a machine. WoW developers have much more resources to play with.

I have always been a big supporter of GW2 pvp but as of late I’m beginning to change my stance. It has nothing to do with mechanics, maps or rewards as being able to obtain exclusive titles, ascended armor and legendary wings is rewarding enough. Anet has done a good job with trying to refresh pvp every season but let’s face it, there are other games with much better pvp because their main focus is pvp.

The majority of players do not pvp and this game never really had a big pvp community to begin with. This game once upon a time had a huge WvW community though and I think it still can. Anet just needs to focus on the already great pve content and restoring wvw to it’s former glory. Heart of the Mist was a great idea and it’s always going to be why people log in but for most they could careless.

So I just did the Dragon Stand meta start to finish 200%, opened every pod and ended up with 61. I was reading in earlier post that some people were getting up to 14 per pod? That cannot be right as most of mine were just 1 while others were 3. Looks like I will have to do this 10-11 times to get a full set and compared to other HoT maps that seems a bit much. I think i’ll take other people’s advise and just use water runes on my Mes.

Even though I remain hopeful it does not look like it. Esport players were fun to watch and showed us what this game is truly capable of. A lot of people try and bring down the esport community and events which is sad because many of them get kitten just how much better those players are then the rest of us. I say who cares? not all of us are cut out to be that good but those events are fun to watch.

To the OP, I mean this with respect but this is a “get good” issue. I agree that warriors have certain strengths over other classes but can’t the same be said for all classes? We warriors rely on our F1 and when we encounter good players you would be surprised how hard it is to actually land a F1. Once you learn the telegraphs of the warrior and avoids F1’s you won’t worry about them so much.

Um why would we jump ship? the game is doing just fine. Smite is nothing like guild wars so I don’t even know why we are comparing them. Guild Wars should be compared to WoW, Aeon or FF. Smite is more like League and Paragon.

JTGuevara.9018:

Shaogin.2679:

So funny, he talks about how he doesn’t want people to use his words in this video to bash anet and they are leaving because they can no longer compete as a team. Then here we have a whole thread of people using this video to bash the game and talking about how he was only interested in money. Lol, too funny.

Couldn’t compete? Ha! BS. Then they should’ve left at the START of the season where it was known that 5v5 wasn’t going to be in.

No no no. They left because the e-sport money dried up, pure and simple.

Good god you come across as a hater. These e-sport players have put out videos and live streamed content to help us be better pvp players. They shared builds, shared strategies and most importantly brought more awareness to the pvp community. Did you watch the whole video? They tried to promote guild wars 2 as an e-sport game but Anet was not helping at all and the last time they helped was back in September. These guys were the best of the very best and having players like that in a game only benefits the community. You might not miss them but a lot of us will.

I would not worry about the titles, everyone who pvp’s know’s they are tainted. Remember when the Wings were suppose to mean something then we found out anyone can get them? Remember when getting Legend in seasons 1-4 was suppose to mean something then we found out anyone can get them? Seriously there was a post from a player season 3 I think where a guy played 400 games had only a 40% win rate and still made legend. Let’s also not forget that yes a lot of people exploited their way to titles but a lot of people were legit.

All games are going to have this toxic behavior of cheaters being cheaters but don’t let something like a title ruin your day.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

But soon he will get bored of paragon/smite. Of that i’m sure He will enjoy ‘working for his money’ much less.

I cannot speak for smite but Paragon is sick! Paragon is the best game I have played that is cross platform between PC and PS4. Back to the issue though, it’s sad to see Denial leave, this game only benefited from their presence. They brought more awareness to the game through twitch and youtube videos. Good luck guys in smite!

serj.8214:

All we need is some energy gain from our AutoAtacks thats all)

OMG this! Forget about cutting cd’s, cutting energy cost per skill just let us be able to generate energy with auto attacks.

megilandil.7506:

Hanth.2978:

So much salt in these responses! Honestly guys there is nothing to prove or disprove. He posted his stats and also streamed every match. Please don’t make claims about what he did or did not do when he has video to back it up, it just makes you look stupid. It’s hard to believe but to get to legendary we have to carry through not just bronze and silver but also gold and platinum. I think some people are just super salty that they cannot do it.

If us as single players are good enough to be legendary then we will be and if not then we have a lot of work to do.

salt is cuz those entitled players dennie the dificulties of average joes produced by a dev recognized faulty matchmaker saying if they can everyone can

I understand what you are saying but I also watched his streams. Not everyone can win a 1v2 or prevent cap in a 1v3 but some can. There are many legendary players streaming and two things that I have noticed with all of them is they can 1. win the 1v2’s and 1v3’s and 2. always predict how players will react to what’s happening on the map. You are right the average players does face difficulties but being legendary is not for the average player.

There is nothing wrong with pushing for e-sports, some people just hate on anything that has to do with pvp and if you need proof of that look no further then reddit. I’m all for e-sports, it’s not like anet breaks the bank on it they just use advertising money that was not well spent anyways. People think if the game went e-sport it would hurt the pve experience of this game, it wont! We will still get our expansions, living story and raids. Smh.

Super bait thread but only one response needed to end this debate, portal.

So much salt in these responses! Honestly guys there is nothing to prove or disprove. He posted his stats and also streamed every match. Please don’t make claims about what he did or did not do when he has video to back it up, it just makes you look stupid. It’s hard to believe but to get to legendary we have to carry through not just bronze and silver but also gold and platinum. I think some people are just super salty that they cannot do it.

If us as single players are good enough to be legendary then we will be and if not then we have a lot of work to do.

I agree there should be a minimum amount of games played to place on the leader board. Over the course of the season it’s not unreasonable for an active pvp player to play at least 50 matches.

Appreciate the thread and your willingness to help the pvp community. I cannot stress enough how important it is to have knowledge of all classes even if you don’t play them. I’m still trying to crack the rubik’s cube of condi mesmer lol.

NotASmurf.1725:

Hanth.2978:

Highlie.7641:

When that guy used his power creep to defeat the passive’s,so skillful he didn’t even have to look in his target’s direction due to the skillful auto channel abilities. and that cleave!

Seriously noone cares about esports because the greenhorn balance team removed 90% of player interaction.

Though it’s good it’s keeping 10-20 people interested in pvp, that’s like 80% of the playerbase…

It’s sad to see people hating on esports and the players that compete in it. If nobody cared then why does anet host world tournaments? It’s the same reason why they hosted trio speed run tournaments for pve players. Because both esports and speed run players have a big presence in the game so no amount of hating is gonna change that.

They host tournaments because A) it’s from the marketing budget and the marketing team can effectively dodge work for a year if they put it all into some tournament they don’t even have to organize and to cover up how bad PvP really is in this game and all the pro players would leave instantly if they weren’t getting paid. The pvp devs want to keep their jobs so they have to make this mess look good.

A. Better the money go into hosting tournaments for pve and pvp players than seeing all the cringe worthy ads and trailers we were getting accustomed to and B. it’s not perfect but it’s not as bad as you claim. How do you know the pro players would leave instantly? You should ask them and report back to us. From what I seen pro players actually like this game and been on the record as such.

NotASmurf.1725:

To have esport moments first we’d have to become an esport. Please don’t tell me you’re delusonal enough to think this game is esport.

No were not there yet if you compare us to the likes of League and others but with some community support and less hate we could be.

Dakurus Sunfire.9157:

Hyper Cutter.9376:

DH is probably the most balanced, since the buffs that made it go from “get out, you’re dragging us down” to “OP” were all to core guardian.

The problem with their design philosophy regarding elite specs is that any alternations they make to core specs can also make elite specs stronger. So trying to make a regular Guardian as strong as a Dragonhunter just isn’t going to work out.

Right now, Honor is probably the most ridiculous line Guardians have. For a bare minimum investment into healing power, you can gain obscene amounts of sustain without having to sacrifice utility slots. So, you can still use your traps, be ridiculously hard to kill and completely ruin anyone who would dare step anywhere near a point.

And no, I don’t think Wings of Resolve > Shield of Courage > Renewed Focus > Shield of Courage > Wings of Resolve is balanced in the slightest. Might as well prepare myself for a bunch of passive aggressive replies now.

You are right Guards do have an obscene amount of sustain but by no means are they a top tier class in my opinion. Never really am I in danger of being killed by a guard because I dodge roll through the traps, stay out of their symbols and make sure not to go ham when they have retaliation up. They are by far much harder to kill then they were last season but they needed love badly.

I been saying this from the start if anet decides to nerf guards again I hope they don’t butcher them and instead just look to adjust traps. Have the cd begin on trigger and not when they are put down.

Mad is a good warrior and a frequenter of the 1 vs 1 arena’s. No matter how good one person is at their class there is always a hard counter and Mad would be the first to tell you that. Seen him lose first hand to Mesmers, Guards and other warriors but it’s not from a lack of skill obviously but rather that’s just the nature of pvp. Any class with a high up time in reflection is going to give that build problems.

Good work on reaching legendary though and I bet it was a lot of fun doing it with Rifle/LB. The beauty of pvping with a weapon set like that is the average pvper has no idea how to counter it because it’s not “meta”.

Prince Vingador.8067:

This is very bad advise, first u have 0 life force at start , meaning wining that 1v1 incase some comes is gonna be hard, and second " bunker close " really?
This is so bad advise u should never ever ever afk at point, your team is gonna lose mid then they will just ignore u or…. send 2 guys to insta kill u.
If u playing reaper u should go to the team fights.

Hanth.2978:

sophiewhite.3149:

i mean some games i do great. then most games i get wrecked by everything. esp warriors. im talking ranked pvp here.i try everything i give it my best. i try my hardest and yet it feels like other classes dont need to try at all. i feel like im dragging my team down.

The best advise I can give is just take home at the start and bunker down. You will be much more successful there in a 1v1 then going mid and getting nuked. If I see a necro on the opposing team in the beginning of a match and they go mid I just let the team know to blow them up at the start. It’s not just because of the fact they have next to no escape skills it’s just that if they are allowed to live they provide way too many problems for us with chills,fears, cripple etc.

Take home and dig in, not many classes can dig you out at home and if you need to support mid make sure and equip spec walk in case you need to get back home.

My bad perhaps I should have explained better instead of assuming OP would know what to do. Of course never just sit at home support mid but only if opposing team does not send anyone to your home. I’m sorry but if you bring a necro mid they will die. At least they are dying first in ruby and diamond divisions. That’s not by accident.

mrauls.6519:

Were you trying to help balance Guardian when it was in the pits? ~.~

What do you find unbalanced about the current DH? The fact it can sustain itself? Finally kite…? Guardian still has its downsides. If enemies know not to step into a trap, it can really mess with a Guardian. I understand not every time a trap is placed it’ll be avoidable, but that just means they used a trap effectively. I do wish the trap play style could be replaced with something else, but that’s all AN has given us.

I just hope AN lets this blow over. In my eyes, right now Guardian is viable. Definitely not OP… If you really want to convince me Guardian is OP… Upload a video of yourself against a formidable DH or two… All of these screenshots people are posting don’t mean anything without any context backing them up

I get what you are saying here, not every guardian wants to play the trap/symbolic build but clearly it is the strongest build and that’s why it’s so popular. I have no problems with traps I just think adjustments need to be made, they have a very long duration while having very short CD’s. I play guard you play guard and we both know if we are on point we are sitting on traps and by the time people show up we have more traps ready to throw down again.

Can guards still be pushed off point? sure, but it’s not going to be easy and it’s not going to happen fast. Are guardians the most OP? no, but there is a reason why they are the most played class this season much like other classes were in season’s past. Casual players don’t want to log hours upon hours if they don’t need to to get what they want. That’s why we don’t see 4 or more necros a game, thiefs a game, revs a game, ele’s a game, rangers a game etc. Season 4 is the season of the guardian so best we all get use to it.

sophiewhite.3149:

i mean some games i do great. then most games i get wrecked by everything. esp warriors. im talking ranked pvp here.i try everything i give it my best. i try my hardest and yet it feels like other classes dont need to try at all. i feel like im dragging my team down.

The best advise I can give is just take home at the start and bunker down. You will be much more successful there in a 1v1 then going mid and getting nuked. If I see a necro on the opposing team in the beginning of a match and they go mid I just let the team know to blow them up at the start. It’s not just because of the fact they have next to no escape skills it’s just that if they are allowed to live they provide way too many problems for us with chills,fears, cripple etc.

Take home and dig in, not many classes can dig you out at home and if you need to support mid make sure and equip spec walk in case you need to get back home.

Macebow for most matches and Ragezerker for matches when I need more cleanse. I know it’s cheese and players get annoyed with it but I play to win and these builds are incredibly strong in small fights. You will still no matter what get hard countered by Mesmers, Scrappers, Guards and other Warriors but comes with the territory.

Op has this all wrong, guardians are not the problem it’s the player base that has you annoyed. Guardians are just the flavor of the month so most people are playing them, as said before when it was ele’s we saw lots of them. Don’t even get me started about all the necromancers in season’s past. Look if the guardian get’s nerfed you think these players will stick around with a guardian? Nah, they will just float to the next flavor of the month.

That’s because most of the forums are plagued by players who have to face 2-3 guards every match from Amber through Ruby. Guardians for the most part are just face rolling these divisions but in Diamond and Legendary they are being countered much more efficiently. Scrappers are just naturally built to be a better pvp class in the higher divisions.

It’s a broken system and after four seasons it’s safe to say anet has no idea how to balance the matchmaking. Winning by 200 or 300 and losing by the same amount is not fun. At this point the best thing to suggest for people struggling with pip gain is just do what most people do and party up and ascend. I know plenty of players who say yeah they ascended to legendary all solo blah blah blah, sure I believe that but a lot of people just blowing smoke out their a**. They partied up and know it just looks cool to say yeah legendary all solo baby, give me a break. I like to solo q just for the fact that it’s fun meeting new people, new pvpres but if you guys are here to just get pips and get pips only then party up and problem solved.

Because guardians are cheese in spvp? It’s no secret and everyone knows it most of all the guardians. You can bet every match you will be fighting 2-3 guards while having the same amount on you’re team. Whichever team has the better guardians will win. I’m hoping this changes once I hit Diamond because the less experienced pvpers have no idea how to fight guardians.

Also with the new buffs which added to their dps you can’t blame players for wanting to take the easier route for pips which is just sitting in traps and mitigate almost all damage for certain stretches.

I don’t know if this would solve anything but it’s just a suggestion, why not have every division gated with the same rules that apply to Ruby and up? From Amber through Legendary let’s have the divisions all have the rule we can lose pips and tiers. Maybe this might help players stay where they belong. True Ambers vs Ambers, Emeralds vs Emeralds to finally Legendaries vs Legendaries. Also to advance pass Emerald our pvp rank needs to be 20? Emerald 30, Saph 40, Ruby 50, Diam 60 and Leg 70. I think players knowing this going into the season will be encouragd to pvp more non-season to not only progress rank but hopefully get better while doing so. This can only help make our pvp season more competitive.

Again all this might be a bad idea but something needs to change, the spvp community knows it and hopefully with enough feedback Anet can implement a winning formula.

Just started pvp recently so apologize if this has been asked before but are warriors underpowered compared to mesmer, thiefs, ele’s and other classes? Straight to the point, can a player who masters their warrior beat a player who has mastered their mesmer? Not looking to re-roll but would like to be able to compete and contribute to my team as much as other classes. cheers.