Guild Wars 2

Zenith.7301:

I want the tomes back too ;(.

it always seemed to me that guards of the past enjoyed the animation as much if not more than the function of tomes. i think was probabily a big raisin why players wanted tomes back at all. it was unque animation that other classes did not use

If anyone members, guards before HOT had tomes, animation looked like this youtube video.

for some reason, the new tomes (vitrues) don’t use this animation w/ the big old book. i says they should put it back in

I’m not able to play todays stress test, but from pvp beta, i noticed that renewed focus did nothing to recharge the new virtues, is that still tru?

just pointing it out cause if it doesn’t get fixed be launch… i don’t expect it to be fixed until sometime next year

Amaimon.7823:

pvp at the moment is random at best, …

uh you mean, pvp since the beginning of the game is random at best.

Amaimon.7823:

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The problem is, people with zero, not a little, absolute zero experience with pvp are allowed to queue ranked and as a result…

except thats wrong. i dont play it anymore, but i thought they added rank 20 req… which is not zero, it is a little, it is absolutely some exp with pvp…

and if you think taking a pool of players, wut continues to get smaller and smaller due to dozens of reasons… and making that pool even smaller is a solution.. well, take it to the extreme.

what if the pool of players was 10, including you, of perfectly evenly balanced players, would that be perfect pvp for you?

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

i need to get some more cheese with my wine these days. the salt would go better with it maybe i should try some blue cheese with it this time . but at least having a second choice to get the game is better than none at all . oh well

Esquilax.3491:

Fully agree, it’s very ugly.

I don’t like the female norn (?) on a raptor for launcher, I don’t see what that has to do with the expansion theme. I don’t understand why it’s purple, too.

It should be a stylised version of Balthazar, and probably red. Just my 2c anyway….

it’ll prob come out that lyssa is the real baddie not balth, thats why its all purp, but still don’t lik the looks of it either

Jimmus.2083:

Come on, let us choose our own launcher images. The new purple raptor rider graphic is awful. It looks like it has a color palette of about 8 colors, maximum.

think wut u wanted was something lik this?

https://i.redd.it/9c9a6vryffez.png

note, i just seen it, i’m not the maker

Abelisk.4527:

Anything can be competitive lol.

impossible! if i’ve learnt anything these past 5 years, its that 5v5 conquest is the ONLY type of competitive pvp that can work. obviously

then it wouldn’t be decorative tho, would it?

Rikimaru.7890:

….
, I’m just really curious why would ANET give in and listen to the community on this one? ….

i dunno maybe they wanted to… listen to what the community wanted? i think you A’d your own Q on this one.

listening to waht the community wants and meeting said wants is a good thing

Late For Tea.1846:

People who think their wants and needs take precendence over the decisions made by Arenanet shutting up. Now that is something I’d take over mounts, any day of the week.

people should be able to express their opinions about game decisions (read anet decisions) without someone telling them to shut up. how would anet ever kno people thought hot was a hot mess if everyone who disagreed just shut up and/or left the game instead?

we (the players) might not get to make the final call on the direction the game goes, but we shouldn’t be afraid to speak out when we think those directions are wrong.

thanks for your thoughtful and productive white knighting contribution tho, don’t remember the last time i posted

you’ll get a lot of feedback from people here. lots of it ugly, telling you that you can just join another guild to play with, if you can’t get current guild to play hot, they can just come back with the next xpac and hopefully that’ll get them on board, and also people who jus say hot maps and exp is easy and they just need to run around a bit and join maps that are completeing the meta.

but you won’t find friends here to sympathize about hot being grindy/difficult/etc. this just ins’t that kind of game

Erzian.5218:

Kuya.6495:

Better nerf true shot again just to be sure.

Do not forget test of faith and shield of courage

these guys git it

Stand The Wall.6987:

zealex.9410:

Like tell me 1 con of gvg’s.

its impossible to watch whats going on for people that haven’t played gw2 and its impossible to be an announcer for them.

he wanted 1, you provided 2, comment invalidated.

Ryudnard.2587:

… it was enjoyable.

…. But we like it, because it’s fun.

i found your mistakes. anet’s design goals for gw2 pvp typically do not include fun. i’m not entirely sure what their goals are at this point, it was esports for a while but… rite.

anyways try to find enjoyment in anet’s version of spvp, as 5 years have shown, they don’t really care about what YOU think is fun, so you need to find a whay to enjoy what they have made, maybe they think it is fun.

the real Q is why hasn’t anet added alliances, such as they had in gw1

Phineas Poe.3018:

Mistress Elemental.3750:

I cant stand the new change because I used to be able to get the dailies done with a single match in a daily room because I don’t have a huge amount of time during the week to play but I guess its too bad for me because I don’t “have skill” or “don’t like pvp” and good riddens to me and people like me.

Jesus.

Effing.

Christ.

………..

God forbid PvPers have something they can claim as their own, as little as it were.

You can’t have my shiney! stay back! its mine get out

Mistress Elemental.3750:

…..

I fully agree with the OP but I also think the “Daily PvP Matches Played in Unranked or Ranked Arena” should be removed because now that there is a permanent “Daily PvP Rated Game Winner”, so there is no point to having it anymore. Removing it would at least allow us to get 2 of the pvp dailies done in a custom arena (pvp kills, top stats, ect).

getting rid of it is terrible. there is a huge pt, one you have to win, the other you just have to participate. at least w/ the match played you can lose and move on w/ other activities. you want to lock it down to only winning, no thx

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

ButterPeanut.9746:

As soon as you say “I don’t care if I win, I just want the dailies” the correct response is that you should no longer have incentive to play PvP at all. In a competitive game mode against other players, the goal should always be to win and the reward structure should reflect that. As soon as that isn’t the case, the mode is lost.

An equivalent scenario is expecting to be rewarded in a soccer tournament by sitting on the bleachers and touching your foot to a ball once every minute.

If I have 3 horrible PvE dailies (and yes, those days have been there already) and I have to chose between them and losing some PvP match (as I can’t do them in my private arena anymore I’ll have to do some ranked game), I’d rather pick the latter. I really hope there are some “hardcore PvP’ers” in that group as I’ll be very helpful at losing said game.

the way the dailies are set up is terrible. i can knock out 2 pve dailys in 5 mins, but my option for the 3rd is a time sink. wvw has a queue at times, so thats not an option. so i switch over and knock out a quick pvp winner, but they removed those. so now i have to un/ranked to get it done quick as i can.

the pt is, i want to get back to playing the game w/ my goals in mind, but long as the daily is taking me away from that, then i have to find the quickest method i can.

Phineas Poe.3018:

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ArenaNet needs to stop catering to those people and just focus on making PvP and WvW fun to play. New WvW maps/objectives (with a desert BL rework), new PvP modes, and automated tournaments are the types of things we need more of.

i don’t ahve tiem for catchin up w/ whole thread, but i’ve always agreed w/ this, focus on making it fun.

for the new dailys tho, i just have to waste my (and others’) time by joining a un/ranked match. i dont’ care if i win or not, just got to knock that these dumb dailies

you been in the /pvp forums too long with all the other cynics cynz, you forgit that /general is all fanbois

your comment isn’t lost on i tho

Saiyan.1704:

I will not stomp a creature.

not even on weasel stomping day?

unfortunatly you foget 1 important thing, it is a creature and not a humonoid. creatures have no soul, so they do not get downed, they only get killed and disappear

as i admitted above, in my excitement about anything pvp other than conquest, my brain made a jump to new mode. forgive me

Phineas Poe.3018:

Why put in all the effort to make a 2v2 mode only to have it in custom arenas and not have a queue system for it?

Bizarre.

agreed with this. in my excitement, i read it as they custom made arenas for 2v2, and not they are adding 2v2 to the Custom Arenas , which yes is quite lame. “2v2 dailies guild ONLY” in the server list incoming a suppose

sorry i forgot to link to the reddit thread. you may revoke any internet points i made

can it be tru? only 5 years down the line, but improvement and including a new feature is always good news

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready-for-the-june-2017-competitive-feature-pack/

the link might be dead still but the news

PvP—June 20

Automated tournaments are the future of competitive PvP in Guild Wars 2, and will let you compete in three daily tournaments for a chance to qualify for a monthly tournament and earn >prestigious rewards! Structured PvP will also be updated with a custom arena map for 2v2 battles and a new and improved PvP lobby to hang out in.

apparently, pvp devs do exist

edit: per nightshade below, it was posted in reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/6efgkz/get_ready_for_the_june_2017_competitive_feature/

this did not go as i suspect s/he thought it would

basically solo except w/ my few gamer guild friends (like 2 others)

its not wrong to want the ability to gain (unbound magik, watchworks, etc) while using a tool that you like the looks of.

i really liked the ascended zerk sword that just dropped. but man i don’t like the looks of it. be cool if there was a system that let me keep the stats, abilities (sigils), etc of my new sword but let me skin it to look like my favorite sword skin.

alternatively, i rly like my snowflakes flying around me, but i wish i could have the new hound shoulder skin that was added to the game. if only we had a way to slot affects like the snowfall so that i could do both, that’d be nice.

i kno these are radical ideas, but

truth, it is the island of misfit GMs. big difference

related comment, but not directly about youtube, i’ve mentioned how i always felt like the current events created content for the ‘in crowd’.

as in, if you didn’t know to read patch notes or dulfy or a youtuber, you’d totally miss out on the filler content. i can’t remember if they’ve improved it by sending in game mail to clue players that some new current event content has dropped, but for a big chunk of it, the only hint that something was happening was a one liner at the end of patch notes “bandit activity has increased in kyrta”.

mulzi.8273:

I find it extremely strange, and somewhat insulting that the devs flock to reddit time and time again and aside from Gail of course, completely ignore the OFFICIAL forum.

the long n short of it, as they’ve said on the forums in the past, is that reddit makes for a better format for a “live” back n forth Q and A session.

that said, a more obvious post that they were starting the AMA probably would have been good.

well, started an hour ago, but in case you didn’t know and its still ongoing, u might get a Q in…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/68vw84/flashpoint_devs_here_ask_us_anything/?st=j284c9ke&sh=a489ab39

(if we all aren’t there already)

Muy.3170:

It has been 5 years and we’ve been playing the same game mode in PVP.

It has been 5 years and previously established builds have been gutted.

It has been 5 years and new builds power creep the older skills.

It has been 5 years and we are exactly where we started. 1 Mode 8 professions – Revs are dead imho. 1 build per 8 professions for the 1 mode. The exact same situation since 2012.

It has been 5 YEARS!

dunno bout most of your points, but all on board w/ 5 years an 1 mode. lik i sayd earlier, it just gets dull.

now i playing for honor (i kno, bad matchmaking, connectivity, p2win, its not an mmo, its only been out a month, etc etc) and so far as pvp goes, if i’m playing dominion (their ver of conquest) and i feel lik i’m on a bad streak, or i just not having fun, i can swap over to 2v2 or a different mode, get some fresh matchmaking, and enjoy it for a bit, until i get tired of it, and go back to another mode.

having multiple game modes really increases the drive to keep playing and helps it from getting dull

did anyone mention boring? i am xtra bored of this capture the 3 points mode

Rewoken.1209:

Can we expect Duells in next Expansion ?
In PvP Lobby with SPvP template ? or in world with option to click on player and ask for duell !
Best thing to do for PvPers is to make 1 or 2 places to pvp
1. In world with no template.
2. In PvP Lobby with SPvP template.

you can search the forums about duels. people will come out of the woodworks to tell you how it is the single worst thing in the history of mmo, how you are a terrible person for wanting duels, how every single player will quit if they added duels, and how yo mama is somehow responsible for the loss of their pet when they were 5 because u wanted duels.

fo mi personally? at this point anything new/different would be worth trying

0, no losses. if you want to kno the secret to my success, which can be yours too!, just let me kno

heads up is always good, considering pinging the community more often like this, its better than the silence

communication is important to healthy relationships. without communication, even strong love can stagnate and pass. no one wants to be in a one sided relationship where it feels like your partner is always tight lipped about their situation and how they are doing.

Soeki.9643:

I’m not sure how many people here played Elder Scrolls Online and even had the pleasure to do trials (raids) there. In the beginning just like here they were hard content for organized groups. Only a few did them. Then later on they redesigned the system. Trials had a normal and veteran mode (+ hardmode on either for extra challenge). Normal mode opened the trials up for pugs, and they were totally doable. Those who wanted to lore got it. Loot was decent too, the only difference was that you could get jewelry on a higher tier level than on normal mode (think like exotic for normal, ascended for veteran but tbh the difference was truly minimal). People can get the same sets, and those who want the challenge can do veteran mode. It truly worked well.

As for GW2, I believe this is a direction they could take. It is the best of both worlds, it caters to the casual and the veteran/hardcore raiders as well. I believe getting legendary armor should be faster on “veteran” mode, but having it available on “normal” mode too would please most players (I assume).

looks like the 3 or 4 primary people in this thread talked around/past you, but i think your comment was valuable and worth the effort.

Blaeys.3102:

….. We were having fun doing the content with people we chose to run with based on friendships.

…

none of that ‘fun’ now. don’t u kno the focus is on being leet and telling/showing others how much moar leet u are than them.

its about git gud or git out

the pop is low. the solution is not to increase time waiting.

longer time waiting > less people willing to queue > less the pop > longer queue > gg

when i had time to play, it was ~1 hr. even w/ no wait times, thats at best 6 matches. now you want to add 15min queue, i’m at best 3 matches. thats just not a good use of my ~1 game time a night. half my night clicking around waiting to play the game… no thx

what you want to do in increase the pop, not annoy people more into quiting. I think someone put a list together once

soloq
tru tdm (that 1 map don’t count an u kno it)
dueling (at least in the hotm)
something (anything) to do while waiting on queue
random arena (gw1 style or similar)
other modes (2v2, 3v3 whatevs)
original hotjoin (8v8 10v10, something like alliance battles in gw1)

now after >4 years, they added soloq back, and let you queue out of hotm. i guess progress is progress. 2/7

i came here to say, yes. can we close the thread now?

i think they look at top posters in pvp sub and then cross ref the players w/ their chars. then, they look at wut those players’ builds are. then, depending on if that player is a white knight or a troll, they will buff or nerf the build, respectively ofc.

after this, they sit back in their lounge chairs by the anet fire side, puff on their cigar/vap whilst drinking scotch, giggle and cackle to each other about who they pwned today, then having worked a full day (~ 1 PM CST), they go home.

obv

Doam.8305:

Most people are going to say they liked HoT because the people that didn’t have left the ones that remained are typically don’t care either way, liked it, or stick to the core maps.

HoT was bad however S3 got me back into the game to a degree the drop in the player base both in game and in these very forums is enough to show that HoT was poorly received. Most of the people I knew left with myself included and some of us came back do to recent events but your still looking at a loss from HoT shown by there quarterly reports as well.

truth

we can hope that anet realizes the complete focus on esports was a failure, and instead turns their attention to improving spvp as a game mode that players can enjoy more.

ie rather than all hands on board for 5v5 conquest esports pvp, they can start to consider more game modes, 1v1, 2v2. annihilation, etc.

truly, gw2 content must be at an all time high

Spartacus.3192:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Spartacus.3192:

I really hope min games for next season will be at least 100 matches.

but thanks for doing this now.

We were thinking something like 10 per week, but it is configurable. We could to 1 a day, 20 per 2 weeks, etc.

The only problem with 10 per week is if people going on vacations for a week and failing the requirement,

So it could be every 2 weeks at least with a minimum total amount of at least 100 please.

yeah thats a large req

no problem, i started to realize lots of things are posted there too, so i started to keep tabs on it.

and the post was 5 hours ago, so maybe it is clearing up