Guild Wars 2

i found out that it does proc, if i apply stability on myself before using headbutt. it seems the self-stunning mechanics causes t he rune to bug out

It works fine with signet of rage and such, but it almost never procs with headbutt.

Assistance, please!

Mouse keeps getting ‘stuck’ while moving across the screen, the sensitivity is inconsistent.

I’m only having this issue in guild wars 2. It actually persists even when I minimize the game. When I close the client altogether, the issue stops. Sometimes if it’s waaaay too terrible, I restart my mouse and it can help…sometimes

It’s a weird issue. I suspected it may be hardware issue on my part but I don’t have this issue even one bit in any other games or applications.

Thank you!

When Anet first announced the Ranger class, they mentioned the pets will physically change appearance n such as they grow. But the pets feel really impersonal now especially because they dont even keep their names when stowed.

Can we have the pets’ names stay even after they’re stowed? Also, can we get little top hats for pets? :P

This is a very well thought out list of changes and I’m impressed. What really makes me sad is that Anet is probably going to print this out, run it straight through the shredder, and go: ‘lets give them another 3% in healing signet lol’

Choppy.4183:

Are you saying people are stripping your resistance every 3s? Because resistance makes you immune to blind, immobilize, and fear.

really? i must just be stupid then or was having my boon stripped

i dont agree with the proposed changes for berserker stance. it was one of few utilities that truly gave us the ability to gap close and act as a threat to classes like necro. now it’s worthless as you can be blinded, immobilized, feared, chilled and crippled all day long. most warriors would agree that the old berserker stance was better. i’d say 3 condi removal on top of the old mechanic is better.

i’m speechless. it’s definitely one of the worst attempts at improving a skill i’ve ever seen. now we can be blinded, immobilized, feared, and kited all day even more so than before. thank you, arenanet for ‘improving’ the skill.

We have runes for using elite for condi removal on self

can we please get rune for using elite to remove boon from target? Thanks!

i like how your tl dr is longer than the original post

if you’re gonna patch pvp atrociously slowly, at least play test it thanks

The biggest issue with war is its survivability. Give them 10% dmg reduction like scrappers.

and the list goes on.

torch skills are clunky and ineffective

berserk stance wasn’t buffed, just changed (now we can get feared during necro meta and BLINDED, which is our death sentence you nerfed adrenaline)

rifle 4 evade was a good move but it’s clunky as hell (the only evade skill with a cast time)

make it so that berserk doesn’t have a rage cost but reduce its power or something

revert the dumb adrenaline nerfs made

The sad part is, no one – not the players, not the devs – is surprised at the PVP being broken, because that’s what happens when expansions come out.

The REAL depressing part is how long it will take for balancing patches to kick in. Arenanet is notoriously slow with implementing balance patches, with one coming every several months.

As the title says…

I’ve only played PVP since the beta. Anet is notoriously slow with the PVP balance updates but they were slowly getting there. But man, with the latest burning changes and the trait overhaul, what a huge mess they’ve created.

E-sport promises are long forgotten. That sort of expectations by the community is long gone now. But this mess is about to get even bigger when Revenant along with the specializations.

And a mess is not always a bad thing. Because a mess comes from changes and additions. And those are fantastic things. Just not when you have a balance patch every 6 months.

I’m guessing Anet will not be introducing any PVP balance patches until HoTS is out with all the specializations. So yeah – several months of a huge mess.

Just looking at some of the trait tiers, it’s hard to believe that this was created by people who have been playing this game for years. Were classes even tested? Just to use as an example – is it not obvious to even the newest players that giving eles 33% cooldown reduction on fire skills along with blinding ash and buffs to burning would make them ridiculously strong?

Changes are great. Additions are awesome. But seriously, Anet. You keep featuring these ‘pro pvp players’ on your front page. How about giving them minimum wage to actually give you some input on these changes before they’re implemented? Because all I see is just – pardon my words – arrogance from the devs by not receiving feedback prior to the implementations.

Prior to the release it was mentioned by the devs that Anet’s approach to PVP balance wasn’t simply hammering down what sticks out, but taking meticulous steps in implementing the carefully thought-out fixes. Who would’ve guessed (sarcasm) that it would mean that we would be receiving a feeble balance patch every several months.

tl; dr:

Anet should collaborate with top-tier players on balancing the tiers – as ALLsuccessful pvp games do – instead of dumping the responsibility on the very few devs that have failed us, the pvp community.

rampage warrior just means GS/hammer + rampage warrior, no?

Did you literally have 0 condi removers? I mean, it’s not liek guardians have a ton of conditions, so it makes no sense to me as to how someone could take 24 ticks of burning from a guardian without having ever popped condition removal

Leo G.4501:

Jae.5138:

So why was there no issue whatsoever with the Demon Hunter character and so much problem with the Dragon Hunter class?

To me this shows that the community is just desperate to complain about anything at all.

Well did you read any of the threads regarding the Dragonhunter (Not Dragon Hunter) name?

Some of the more logical reasons people disliked the name:

• Cheesily trying to adhere to a 1-word naming scheme by squashing the name together instead of coming up with a 1-word name.
• There is nothing themed after dragons or the hunting of dragons in the spec.
• Slightly related to the above, nothing in the spec is at all more effective at hunting dragons than the base Guardian spec. i.e. traps aren’t good at ‘trapping’ dragons, arrows aren’t any better at killing dragons, defenses aren’t any better at protecting themselves from dragons and so on.
• Too much context. Dragonhunters aren’t simply called that because they may hunt dragons every now and again. They are called that because it has ‘hunter’ in it and hunters use bows and traps, apparently. Similar to the 1st point, they choose this name for the context of ‘hunter’ more than ‘dragon hunter’ yet try to link in the obsession ‘witch hunters’ have at pursuing their prey…it becomes a mess.
• There are just better/cooler sounding names out there.

1. If they’re complaining about the difference between Dragon Hunter and Dragonhunter that’s actually even more pathetic
2. There was nothing demon-hunting specific in the demon hunter’s skills Diablo or Warcraft
3. Also – there are ‘cooler’ names out there? Is this an argument put out by a 10 year old? The word ‘cooler’ itself is entirely subjective. All I see are kids throwing tantrums because the class name isn’t what they wanted it to be.

Also – another poster said above that not all of the Guild Wars 2 players have played Diablo/Warcraft so my point is invalid. My point is actually entirely valid regardless of whether or not the players have played only one of or both of the games:

From what I see from players’ reaction to the expansion’s price model, or the naming of the class, is that this community would basically complain about anything the developers put out. I thought the Blizzard community was crap and I was hoping I would never have to type this but maybe the Guild Wars 2 community should grow the kitten up and learn from the Blizzard community for once. (again, something I never even imagined seeing myself typing).

As the title says, it kinda boggles my mind.

As many of you know, Demon Hunter was a hero introduced into the Warcraft universe by Blizzard and it definitely wasn’t the issue there. Lore wise, sure, the demons were the ultimate enemies pulling the strings but a Demon Hunter killed many things other than demons.

In Guild Wars 2 universe, sure ultimately the enemies are the dragons, and they are seen killing non-dragon units.

So why was there no issue whatsoever with the Demon Hunter character and so much problem with the Dragon Hunter class?

To me this shows that the community is just desperate to complain about anything at all.

stupid solution. this far outweighs the monetary loss they have by not giving players anything.

so where exactly can we hope for a balance then? lol. cuz it seems like balance isn’t intended anywhere

i see… it so unds like elite specialization will almost always be taken just because of the overwhelming number of changes that it brings. no trait line is strong enough to overshadow the elite specialization + the heaps of buffs it brings, it seems

after looking at the guardian specialization, i don’t really understand it because why would anyone NOT go into specialization especially if it adds bonus effects while retaining the current effects?

you think mesmer is the hardest? that single handedly made this post a joke. just go pu and stealth forever.

then i went to wvw. oh how wrong i was

tis a shame… evasive dodge is needed for d/f build but arcane attunement is also important since d/f has like no mobility… making us choose between the two is truly a shame

jportell.2197:

Jae.5138:

another thing that should be mentioned is that already, only a small portion of the player base is queueing with a premade party. to add to that, it’s not like they’re guaranteed to win either. so really, it is a rare occurrence that one would lose to a team because they met a premade team. to prove this, arenanet started looking at the game history of the qq thread starters – and what do you know. their ‘stats’ were vastly exaggerated.

I’m not as upset about facing a premade, as I am about the team I faced. I know my MMR isn’t that high. And I don’t believe anyone else in my team was either.

you’re very right about the balance being off in matching opponents. Just yesterday, Darres was on the other team. My teammates seemed to know him and I found out after winning against his team that he was 6th on the ladder (now 4th, I believe)

but hey, you lose nothing by facing these high rated players, and you have everything to gain, right?

another thing that should be mentioned is that already, only a small portion of the player base is queueing with a premade party. to add to that, it’s not like they’re guaranteed to win either. so really, it is a rare occurrence that one would lose to a team because they met a premade team. to prove this, arenanet started looking at the game history of the qq thread starters – and what do you know. their ‘stats’ were vastly exaggerated.

you say that full pug should never face full premades… but then that’s basically saying premades should be ready to stare at their screen (specifically screen exclusively in heart of the mist ) for at least 20-30 minutes before the game starts.

divvying up premades and pugs is only feasible for the pugs. for the premades, it’s death sentence. this is made a hundred times worse at high level pvp. the queue time is already atrociously long even in the current state.

you’re in like one of the biggest pvp guilds known in gw2 and here you are whining, creating yet another premade qq thread that contributes nothing to the discussion. you could have spent the 5 minutes creating a guild party (even if not a full 5-man party) yet you decided to use those 5 minutes creating this thread.

hats of to you.

As the title says

ANet just announced that with the expansion, you won’t receive stats from traits any more, mostly from items.

This obviously has a huge impact on the PVP (along with a million other things that were just announced) but the current amulet system would severely limit the stat variation we have in the game. Right now, you’re able to mix-n-match so that the amulet balances the stats you receive from traits (e.g. a d/d ele can go 00266 for very defensive trait stats, but use berserker amulet to still dish out a bit of damage).

I hope they address this issue!

I disagree. Very often I want to play with my guildies, who are completely new to PVP. I hate the hotjoin and I don’t want to lose rank points so we have to resort to unranked games. We lose the majority of our games and we don’t bother with voice chats. And I’m willing to bet these sort of ‘casual’ groups are the majority out there, out of all the premades.

DeWolfe.2174:

Holy Mother of God…. these complaints! I’ll kindly stand in the middle of the map, wave, and not press another key. Enjoy your free kill.

the engineers were indirectly buffed thru the stab changes. and i think anyone would agree that letting engineers cc you even more so than before is a poor idea.

khani.4786:

Jae.5138:

thanks lux (i have you on f list, actually). so to get this straight… by getting high placement on leaderboard i get a llama? and… I need 27 (?!) to get lavish llama? yikes!

27 if you only want the lavish llama, 40 if you want to unlock all versions of the llama.

that’s pretty upsetting so getting top 500 is basically meaningless now

It’s basically a 4 second CC. It melts through stability charges

Just as the title says… is this a bug, by any chance? just asking because I’m in a korean guild (there’s actually a big korean community in gw2!) where mac users have to type in english while the rest of the guild chat is in korean.

Dondarrion.2748:

Jae.5138:

Let me elaborate… wiki states that currently, if you’re the high scorer in your team, it’s less likely that you’ll lose points when you do lose a ranked game.

This strongly discourages defending. I literally just had a game with a guy who was basically a bot who kept running far over, over, and over again to enemies’ home. He died countless times and contributed nothing but he got the highest point from decapping and hence will probably lose nothing. The fact that he’s even made it this far with his gameplay suggests there’s clearly something wrong with the way rank points are awarded.

Really?
The way I read the articles about leaderboards, etc. (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/finding-the-perfect-match/) was that it’s your TEAM’s final score in the match, and not you personally. So, if your team only has an odds of winning of 20-39%, then still if you get 300+ points in that match, you’ll come out with 0 or more points.

Which source are you reading?

dondarrion it seems i’ve made a mistake! thank you for showing me the way <3

so there’s basically a reward for 500th placement that you can get from signing up for any community tournaments. wonderful. glad I played those ranked games. not.

thanks lux (i have you on f list, actually). so to get this straight… by getting high placement on leaderboard i get a llama? and… I need 27 (?!) to get lavish llama? yikes!

As the title says, how do you get a mini llama without entering one of those ‘community run tournaments’?

Can you get llama depending on your placement on the leaderboard as well?

oh boy…. and some how i have a feeling they’re gonna overlook this in the next patch as well.

engineers’ slick shoes now completely annihilate stability stacks and still cc you.

Saiyan.1704:

Not a hack.. there were quite a few ways to get out of the map but I thought all those methods were patched up.

it is a hack, actually. it’s a paid-for hack with a free trial. i personally know someone who’s tried the hack with the same effect (can go as high or low as you can, teleport around, etc.)

but let’s just say for a moment that it is NOT a hack. he’s obviously exploiting it to troll others in a game. that’s definitely a bannable offence.

this is a well known hack available online. but as with all the other users, anet isn’t gonna ban him, even with video evidence.

TheFamster.7806:

DarkSyze.8627:

TheFamster.7806:

DarkSyze.8627:

Jae.5138:

classes like engis (didn’t see that coming) s/d thieves are way too op, while builds like power ranger were made even stronger (crazy mobility with an even more open shooting area)

Include: ele . That is why i will not buy expansion until these class are challenge with risk-reward. Not no challenge-reward only.

There is 5 other mmo game that will release expansion this year include next year: yes they are challenge, fun with risk-reward. I will not lose anything if Arena net continue to not make these class stay the way they are.

Based on your post you lack serious understanding of gw2 active combat. It might be better for anet and everyone else not to have you in pvp/wvw because all you’re doing is whining and posting situational videos on youtube without knowing why these builds work. Feel free to not play pvp/wvw because I’m sure the community doesn’t want you anyway.

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Umm are you saying “s/d thieves are way too op, while builds like power ranger were made even stronger (crazy mobility with an even more open shooting area)” this is constructive criticism? Its more of this class is op so plz nerf and that class is op so plz nerf. You do not specify how or why those builds are op, on the video you do not consider that most of the time he/she was not on 1v1, nor was he/she fighting against people that use optimal build for roaming/1v1. You maybe a consumer, and you maybe unhappy, but if your reasoning is similar to that of an angry 5 year old, there is no value to it. Also have you ever heard of L2P? Maybe you didn’t because you never play pvp/wvw. That said, how can you judge certain build/certain class is op since you never played such mode?

i literally explained why two posts down the thread. my god. way to go on a rant even without the slightest skim through the thread.

Dirame.8521:

Jae.5138:

Is it just me who thinks it’d be more fun to have a designated offence and defence team for stronghold?

Couldn’t you just do that with your team? That’s literally what I discuss with my team at the start of every match. Who does what and where.

very good point but I found that it’s actually very difficult to get organized with public players, especially because some players are resistant to defending (kinda like how like everyone wants mid / ranged dps in League of Legends).

It’s very easy to get organized if you have an arranged team, yes. But almost impossible in a public team (it’s hard to get pubs to defend home as it is, in conquest).

Is it just me who thinks it’d be more fun to have a designated offence and defence team for stronghold?

jonnis.2946:

Jae.5138:

jonnis.2946:

120 on each stat makes all the difference? Would you care to suggest a median that would be balanced? It seems clear to me that this is the current strongest amulet and that this stat total is the reason why

yea of course it makes all the difference. amulet is the majority of the stats in pvp and you wanna take away a quarter of it…. that’s even lower than the original stats for celestial, which was already considered weak…

Jae, one of the things I asked in my original post was what celestial was as I couldn’t remember (331 maybe?). I agree that 120 on each stat does make all the difference, but you didn’t address a stat value you would feel was balanced. I’d really rather have a constructive debate than shunning peoples opinions without any solutions though

im shocked you didn’t do a quick google search because it was literally the first link that showed it (wiki didn’t update to show the latest)

previously it was 376. only half the amount of decrease you proposed and still considered near worthless.

jonnis.2946:

120 on each stat makes all the difference? Would you care to suggest a median that would be balanced? It seems clear to me that this is the current strongest amulet and that this stat total is the reason why

yea of course it makes all the difference. amulet is the majority of the stats in pvp and you wanna take away a quarter of it…. that’s even lower than the original stats for celestial, which was already considered weak…

318…would make it garbage status amulet that no one would ever use.