Guild Wars 2

Several classes have a knockback. Knock him off the point, then root/slow him. Let him bunker down just off point and sit there and do nothing while you cap the point. Or, use tons of condition damage and watch his HP drop. Kite him if he’s melee and you have some decent range. There are options, but in general it’ll probably take at least 2 to dislodge a Guardian.

Demonical.1039:

We were told in the BWE that Necro “Needed some love” it was followed up by a nerf to our most viable spec. Now he tells us that we are fine and that evry necro just needs too “Master” DS to be viable, We are the least desired PvP class up there with Elementalist thats just a fact, In PvE yet again least desirable class. For the people who acctualy lvled up Necro and like it who were waiting for that “Love” they promised we have now just been told that we are fine and we need to L2P it properly. That kind of information tends to upset people.

When the heck did he say that Necros are fine and that every necro just needs to master ds to be viable? That is NOT what he said. Re-read his statement, he only offered an insight that he feels when people master DS that it is going to be interesting. Not that that was the ONLY viable spec, or that they didn’t want to tweak the class.

I think the main thing is that Guild Wars 2 is not your typical MMO. GW2 is a game to play if you enjoy THE GAME. If you like PVPing JUST for PVP sake, keep PVPing. If you like exploring and doing random events just for the sake of doing it, keep doing it. If you want PVP gear progression, pub stomping, serious raiding, etc then GW2 is just NOT the game for you. It doesn’t have a subscription, you have most likely already gotten your moneys worth out of the game. If you aren’t enjoying the game for what it is, that is fine. Just find another game and come back if you ever feel like it.

I’m not saying “Shut up or GTFO”, I’m simply stating a fact. If you don’t like playing RTS games you aren’t going to play an RTS game. If you didn’t like Duke Nukem Forever you wouldn’t play it. If you aren’t enjoying/are no longer enjoying GW2, move on and come back if you feel like it. There is no sub tying you to the game.

I really hope this never happens. Or, if it does happen, you’re going to need to include a queue so that a team of 4 will only get into a game vs. another team of 4 premade, then fill out the rest with individuals. The issue is, why would I, as a single player, EVER choose to queue up for premade hell? In tournaments? Sure, but we already have those. Plus, if you are getting queued against another team of the same amount of premades, there is a good chance that the enemy team is going to be tPVP specced and are going to rock you just as hard as in tPVP.

I understand you want to play with your friends, I really do. I play sPVP with my friends all the time, up to 5 of us all on the same server. Most of the time we aren’t on the same team, but who cares? We obviously aren’t practicing for tPVP or we’d be doing tPVP. Still, I do understand wanting to all be on the same team, but your want to be on the same team as your friends should not overpower the want of everyone else not to get pub stomped all day. It also has nothing to do with gear or no gear. Try getting an entire premade of classes BUILT to hold points and just go hold two points every round. You will win almost every time, unless the enemy team is a premade. People just can’t be trusted enough to implement something like this.

The problem is that the game wants to be an eSport. I don’t hear anyone taking complains of Dota 2 lacking map variety seriously. Sure, you CAN have more map types and still be a valid eSport but the balancing required becomes MUCH more difficult for every new map type. Plus, GW2 wants people to play as a team. Pickup games of CTF in any game I have ever played devolve into a large fight in a big open area, with only 1 or 2 people actually trying to get/defend a flag. I understand that tournament would be much more strategic yes, so I wouldn’t care if they added it there, but again the balance is going to be awful.

For that same reason they won’t be adding a “Team Deathmatch” because in this game especially, with no “healer” you don’t have much in the way of “Team” going on usually. Can you support your team? Yes. Can you focus fire a target? Yes. But what if the enemy team has, let’s say, two Necros with the “revive 3 fallen allies” skill each. Maybe a guardian with the bubble/revive. Good luck dropping AND killing/stomping 5 people in a small area. With no objectives there would be no reason to go anywhere else, and with good teams it would devolve into chain revives and 20 minutes of the most boring action ever. I’m imagining the worst part of WAR’s keep sieges, the top of the stair slaughters.

Anyway, I enjoy the capture points style gameplay, and as someone who only does sPVP and probably won’t ever touch tPVP, I really don’t want a CTF mode added to sPVP. Would i like some more innovation? Sure, but doing that and not screwing it up is hard. Heck, think of SWTORs innovation, Hutt Ball. It sounded awesome, and the first couple of games were great until people figured out how to exploit the weaknesses of the map. It devolved into one of the most hated maps in the game (I understand that it became hated for the Empire long before the Republic just because it was the only map where the same faction could fight, and it was used to ease population imbalance causing longer queues).

Just my 2cents, I’ve only been PVPing in GW2 for a short while so it could very well be massively wrong, again it is just what I feel at the moment.

So then what do you get for the silver? Less chance of a higher rank item?

I thought I understood what the difference was. I assumed that the better the box, either you’d get MORE items, or BETTER (subjective) items. After countless boxes I seem to get the same amount of items from a bronze and a gold, and I seem to get nothing special from the gold boxes. It’s like I’m throwing 800 away each time. I HAVE to be wrong about this. Maybe it’s just a CHANCE at better looking items and I am just SUPER unlucky.

If anyone knows officially, let me know. Thanks.