Guild Wars 2

Zero.4935:

Guys, of all the boons. Having 50secs of quickness is the most op. The rest are manageable.

permanent, easily application of the boon is the problem.

like alacrity, it is too strong to be stacked as easy as it currently can be, and should be tuned down.

While we believe this issue is important to both us and our player base, there are other things coming up the pipeline that require our foremost attention. Let’s circle back to this issue once we’ve solved the pressing matters of repair hammers and mobile cannons.

http://imgur.com/G5ylLEi

desertion bug. i was on trig’s q.

nobody on my team deserted.

nobody swapped characters

nobody DC’d

y anet i want my pip.

ronpierce.2760:

We’ve tried and tried and tried to get 2v2/3v3 support. No avail, but we keep trying…

cool thing is Anet usually listens if you beg hard enough. we got courtyard, why not this?

I need something to sate my taste for PvP in MMOs – GW2 has been it for the past (quick /age) 1,045 days or so. I’ve got quite a few hours and PvP games played, participated and won a few tournaments. But Conquest has lost its flavor due to the kitten poor leaderboard, and Stronghold currently plays more like a crappy MOBA than Guild Wars. Trying to be original and innovate here isn’t necessary, just take what you have and work with it.

The reason why 5v5 TDM in Courtyard is such an absolute failure is because the games are rarely evenly matched. Nobody has fun in a 500-50 game. Take this awful implementation out. Anet, you’ve heard our plea about TDM once, listen this time and I can’t imagine it not paying off.

I’m just gonna cut the fluff here and show you how to implement 2v2, 3v3 TDM support and make it hugely popular:

- Once you die, you don’t respawn. Once your entire team is dead, the game is over. Time to queue up again. Quick, rapid fire games that are easy to watch, easy to queue for, that you can play a few of before you have to head out to work or something. This way you don’t have a cluster**** like Courtyard currently is – there’s a clear gameplan when you go into each fight.

- Cut pieces of the maps we currently have, put spawn points in locations close to where you want us to fight. Ideas other than the Legacy midpoint or Courtyard would be Skyhammer’s point B, Forest’s Keep, Temple’s Gate, Khylo’s Clocktower, and where the Orb spawns for Spirit Watch. All of these maps have great small-team fight potential, with areas to run around and line of sight capabilities.

- Team support to queue with one or two friends. You can ONLY queue the ranked/leaderboard queue with a premade team. No more ranked solo queue. This will create a community around the game mode and eliminate long queue times. To balance this, make a ‘skirmish’ unranked option where you can

- A working leaderboard that only works off of wins, not games played or points earned. Personal MMR and Team MMR should both be a thing – you could infuse Guilds into this – create rivalries not just between players but their guilds too.

- My favorite part of 2v2 and 3v3 support would be the creation of group compositions. You suddenly have more people theory crafting how to properly fight with their friends rather than by themselves. Their builds in conquest suddenly revolve around meshing well with their teammates. Arenas, if they accomplish anything, create incredible communities.

GW2 has the best combat system currently on the MMO market for PvP. It blows WoW’s current “set-up CC-pop cooldowns and burst-repeat” meta out of the water, and thousands of people still play WoW arenas just because it has a supported leaderboard and it’s fun to kill other players with your friends. The top WoW players are really unhappy with Arenas right now because they’re so rinse and repeat based. GW2 has no rinse and repeat mechanics – GW2 Arenas would take the best part of Conquest (the team fights) and artificially make them happen.

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that’s all I got for you guys. if you have any other suggestions i’m eager to hear them.

pls anet ill suck ya d

time to farm some gems

edit:

should thank you guys for making it so you can’t double celestial ammy team. those 2v2 teams were boring as all hell to kill and if i lost to paw and no-name shoutbow again i’d probably strangle amon irl

Confirmed, stealth broken.

Fix soon please.

I’m just here so I don’t get fined.

I hate these official forums.

But +1.

Thanks for trying Fallen.

Amonatory.2453:

MLGKorno.5419:

Amonatory.2453:

MLGKorno.5419:

If you want to duel just message me, no need to write long paragraphs explaining why you can’t.

P.S. Amon, are you sure you didn’t play two years ago?

That looks like 4 different pictures. Good job? You took the time to photoshop?

Yeah they’re four screenshots from 2013 that tell the story of a certain [BSL] salty DD thief who ragequit.

I dont even remember this, if I was playing D/D I was bad. Congrats LOL?

ok since kronos can’t actually talk about his poopy gameplay concerning the Caed duels in 2015, he talks about duels from ages ago when Amon was 1st rate scrub?

get real dude.

nex come on bud, you know better.

They took a very fun to play build that has a very high skillcap and made it unplayable. The utility brought from flanking/larcenous strikes made the weapon set worth playing. Sword’s damage now comes solely from its autoattack, and what is the fun of that kind of playstyle?

ye joseph madeline im a real hoe

u’s a real hoe m8

honestly this kill trading crap that you call “gvg” needs to be a bannable offense, because it’s ruining my game mode, especially in T2.

The MMO market is severely lacking when it comes to innovative combat systems. GW2 has had an innovative and fun combat system since launch – everything from 1v1s to RvR is exciting to do. There is a pool of players that need a bone thrown to them or they will leave.

We’ve been roaming the same stagnant maps, watching our intense fights with different guilds deteriorate into fighting the same people day in and day out. EOTM was a good idea, until the karma training carebears made it so most guilds will only go there for a bag farm. The population of hardcore raiding and GvGing guilds has severely dropped, and it’s a sad state for a game that has so much potential.

The lack of attention and trolling is frustrating to players that so desperately want this game to be populated with people to fight, and want their friends to stay. Too many of my friends, who enjoy WvW but can’t stand its problems, have quit in anticipation for other games. They’d rather wait for other games to come out than sink time into your free game – that’s saying something.

To keep this section of your player base logging in, GvG requires an interface and a designated map where players can schedule, plan, and observe other GvGs. GvGs are almost exclusively occurring in (NA at least) T2, where trolling happens often, trolls jumping in on a 15v15, or random guilds dropping guild kegs in the middle of Obsidian Sanctum. Preventing others from entering the arena would be a great start. GvG requires an interface and a designated map where players can schedule, plan, and observe other GvGs. GvGs are almost exclusively occurring in (NA at least) T2, where trolling happens often. Set ups for 5v5, 10s, 15s, 20s, 40s – it’d all be used and often.

WvW needs a raid interface akin to the 40 man one in WoW. This would be best to coordinate large organized groups and to know where everyone is on the map.

Finally, a proper targeting system is long overdue. One red target is not enough for a counter periphery team who needs to know where their guild leader is, the periphery they’re protecting, and the targets they’re trying to kill.

GvG requires an interface and a designated map where players can schedule, plan, and observe other GvGs. GvGs are almost exclusively occurring in (NA at least) T2, where trolling happens often. 5v5, 10s, 15s, 20s, 40s – it’d all be used and often.

These have all been suggested before, and as far as I’m aware no developer has told us about any plans. PvP shines so much brighter in this game than PvE to many of us – a high skillcap, great balance, awesome synergy potential for every type of composition is a recipe for success. Give the GW1 purists reason to throw away their rose tinted goggles and bring back a proper experience for RvR.

weak dollar-euro conversion rate, silver a failing commodity, etc.

Don’t touch my churning. It’s a spike damage skill that’s great in tPvP and GvGs.

No representatives from SoS.

Sounds right.

oZii.2864:

Joseph.7213:

Is this the build you were running when I fought you?

-mojite from blnt

Umm are you the charr or the human from blnt?

The charr from BLNT I fought I had 30 in Air food was the same.

The human I fought I had blasting staff on I think from the new s/tPvP lay out threw me off. Still you got me good and well. Will need to rematch you later.

Yeah I’m the human. It was a couple of good duels and most eles are running more armor than me now – but I think my crit damage, even nerfed, and healing power does help make up for it.

Unfortunately at this time I don’t see any build other than 0/10/0/30/30 making a case for itself as the meta. 30 in water brings the necessary heal/condi cleanse/vitality to put your eggs into other baskets.

Is this the build you were running when I fought you?

-mojite from blnt

D/F ele is great for driving. 3 invulns/burst condi clear/great cleave from air, aura share to your frontline.

Mbelch.9028:

Pardon my rage in game the other day, as I’m still stuck on why chill is allowed to hurt eles so badly.

Your crit dmg should go to around 35-40% post patch (free balling that number) full zerks will be able to pull around 60% and a balanced build like we run may stick around 40-50%.

I wish I could say this wasn’t an indirect buff to the condi meta, but it is. Know how serious I am when I say I’m considering switching to thief on the 15th.

Yeah I’m pretty sour about chill too – and no response from Devs.
It’s an indirect buff to the condi meta and it’s strong. I guess I’ll start saving gold for re-gearing again – going to need a huge base of power to make up for this.

[Serious] Don’t bother posting if it’s not constructive. Take your ‘witty’ comments elsewhere.

And how bad will it be if it does?

My guildmates and I have been discussing it – 10% less damage when in a full berserker set – that’s pretty huge, and in my opinion doesn’t fix the issue your PvE’rs have(that your content can be skipped over by dodging, good players don’t need toughness/vit). What I, and my guildies are very concerned about, is our WvW builds.

We’re a roaming guild, we’ve been crafting builds for a long time to tune them just right – our sweet spots have the best of both worlds concerning damage and sustain. My elementalist for example sits at 70% crit damage unbuffed – a decent amount that allows me to still crit hard while not sacrificing stats elsewhere that help me stay up in long fights. How badly is the nerf going to affect him? – and will I need more ferocity or power to compensate for the lost damage, because I’ve already squeezed all the power I can into my build.

Meanwhile this condition meta that Devs are pushing is downright awful. Like, the lyssa rune nerf compared to the perplexity one? Of any rune that facilitated skillful play(knowing when to use lyssa rune’s set bonus), that was it. Perplexity is the ultimate “cheese” rune, and while nerfed, still reigns as the dominate rune for any condition class with a healthy amount of interrupts.

Reading it, my post sounds a little pessimistic – but I’m the most optimistic person compared to many of the people concerned about this change. A nerf to power builds would kill this game for many players including myself – we’ve disregarded heavy condi builds for a long time.

—P.S, read the post. It’s not long, and you won’t waste your time and mine when you write something completely irrelevant to PvP. I’m not in PvE doing 30K crits in full berserker gear.

Play a conditions based engineer. Most fun I had in the game since rolling my ele was rolling my Engi in WvW.

My suggestion: Play S/F, 0/30/x/x/x, mix and match those last 40 points. You’ll do decent damage, and if you can kite well/manage attunement swapping, you can 1-shot mesmers and thieves.

My S/F ele has no problem holding out against bunker-guards, and you have enough AoE to ruin any spirit ranger’s day.

Still in need of staff elementalists and guardians.

Part of the reason fresh air is so good is the 15 point trait that does instant damage, and that scepter has 2 instant-cast abilities on low cooldowns. Fire has none of those things.

This guild kills me in WvW daily, and I hate them for it. If you like to beat up on helpless grannies like me, join BLNT.

We Beat Minorities [LAPD] made me lose my mind when I saw it.

They’re trying to push players into playing all aspects of their game. I understand that and those that WvW and sPvP will be happy, but strictly sPvP players have been shafted.

What would you strictly sPvP players want for rewards? Because there is no gear progression in sPvP, there cannot be gear rewards other than cosmetics – and from what I gather nobody here gives a kitten about it. So, leaderboards that work, and what else?

Mbelch.9028:

ComeAtMe.5932:

what server are you on I would love to duel people like you. I love dueling

The best matchup for dueling eles is Mag v SoS v FA.

It’s been that way for a few weeks. I was looking for my topic I made stating just that but couldn’t find it.

Anyways.

IMO the best eles to duel are on Mag and FA (Sorry Moj ), so if you’re not looking to be somewhere permanently, hop on SoS.

I’m hurt Nex. Truly. And next time I see you in OS, expect a whooping. #:swag

Na, I’d agree. If you want to fight more than just 1 good ele, go to SoS. My server is truly lacking in good DD eles., but it makes up for it by letting me duel a consistent stream of eles like spoon, Nex, serane, ciri, and some other nobodies that don’t like to chat.

pretty sure her clear reasons of ‘rl stuff first’ was good enough for me.

The thief left at 74 though? gosh.

Yeah I’m with you on that. Without large-scale PTR based stuff, a 2-week balance schedule would be way better than what we got now. Whispers about ‘REALLY COOL STUFF GUYS!’ can only hype me enough before I think ‘well, is it ever gonna materialize?’

The stat buff is intended. It’s not powerful enough to warrant a nerf, honestly. You become a giant target to any organized group – when the meteor shower gets a red circle it’ll be nerfed enough.

Forzani.2584:

Didn’t want to start a new thread when this one pretty much covers it. I have been playing around with S/F last couple of nights using a Fresh Air build. very explosive. Won a couple of fights where I am sure the burst caught the other guy by surprise. a little fragile though because the healing is almost non existent. I can take some hits but can’t build the hps back up as easily as I would like.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEEQJArdnMMcMowhwhNOsNwzhyB8RcJSgQK4CDFZQIIeYBOAHWKkDA-zkCB4LAYMgUEg0HAJPFRjtMsIas6FYKTJVdSQ2noIa1kCQPlRA-w

Tonight I was thinking of switching it up to this. Not as bursty, but a little more healing plus nice protection up time ..among other things. Would this do enough damage or being a little more defensive would just delay the inevitable?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vEEQJArdnMMcMowhwhNOsNwzhyB8RcJOAQU4iJDFhMS5ROzYDA-zkCB4LAYMgUEg0HAJPFRjtMsIas6FYKTJVdSQ2noIa1kCQPlRA-w

This is for WvW roaming. Some zerg surfing when it arrives.

I’ve been playing around with S/F recently(as a mostly s/d and d/d player) and I think your gear and traits are too defensive focused when a fresh air build relies on burst. Your ability to survive is going to rely on how quickly you can burst a player down — you’ve gone too little into toughness to give yourself any considerable defense, while crippling your burst. I’d say 0/30/0/30/10, or 0/30/10/20/10 instead, while pursuing more berserker pieces – water brings you the healing you’re looking for.

With S/F, it lacks any mobility from air(no swiftness, no RtL) that offhand dagger provides. So getting away relies only on Lightning Flash – but thankfully, mist form/earth 5 are great CDs if you can anticipate burst so getting away is not as important. Time your blinds right(don’t just spam it when you go to air, but use it as often as you can, same goes for earth 3)

LostSpoon.1672:

Joseph.7213:

No duels with your favorite BLNT elementalist? I’m sad.

Haha I’m sorry, didn’t have any clips of our duels because I don’t think we fought on the days I was recording.

If you’ve only been recording this past week then yeah, I haven’t been on at all. Need my pvp fix but my rig is at school. /wrists

No worries, hopefully the SoS/Mag/FA matchups continue.

~IIRC Tyler’s a contracted QA worker so after the contract expires he -must- take a leave of absence until the contract is renewed.

Christ I’m so bored.

No duels with your favorite BLNT elementalist? I’m sad.

you’re welcome to join in limebeurt, we’re just getting the waffle out now.

Someone should post a Charr warrior doing an eviscerate. My friend’s charr absolutely surprised me when I saw how flippin’ cool it was.

Amon gets mentioned in the ele forums almost as much as he does in the thief forums.

#wtbamongears

SoS missed Magumma dearly.

calavel.6249:

Please stop pretending Attunement is “just weapon swap for eles”. No other class can weapon swap between 20 different skills. No other class besides warrior can trigger any sort of effect on weapon swap. It’s F1-F4 skills and those skills are affected by chill. Should Engineer toolbelt skills also be immune to chill? No. And only necro has easy, reliable access to chill.

‘No other class beside warrior can trigger any sort of effect on weapon swap’

You don’t play very many classes, do you?

Julie Yann.5379:

PSX.9250:

Julie Yann.5379:

They could merge windborne dagger, Blasting Staff and Vigorous Sceptor into 1 trait and free up 2 spots for new traits. Which could break to Ele dependency on cantrips and open up build variety.

Too op!!!!!!

What about it makes it OP? It’s the same thing we already have now except in 1 trait. So if you change weapons on the go like I do in WvW then you don’t have to change the trait to match it. You are only benefiting from one bonus at a time anyway.

Whoosh.

I don’t see 0/10/0/30/30 going anywhere with those kinds of buffs. kitten , that’s gonna be some serious might stacking, especially if Sigil of Battle doesn’t change.

I already dropped boon duration runes from my build, and these notes make me glad I did.

And yay, hopefully scepter earth 3 won’t be the easiest blind in the world to dodge anymore. Blinds are s/d’s bread and butter. All ele weapons will be fun to try out this patch, even focus.

Nex for ele balance team.

LightningBlaze.4913:

Joseph.7213:

Those of us active in the PvP ele community know who’s good and who’s not, no need to argue among ourselves.

I have encountered many that considered themselves good in spvp are actually very amateur when they step up to WvW solo roaming.

Should have specified PvP in general, whether it be dueling in OS, solo roaming, GvGs or sPvP.

Sure, they’re different – but if you’re good at killing in one form it’s likely to translate to the others.

Those of us active in the PvP ele community know who’s good and who’s not, no need to argue among ourselves.

Glad you only included the duel where I didn’t die within the first couple moments. Good video serane!

cheese.4739:

Your 5-point traits from each line (Flame Barrier, Zephyr’s Speed, Stone Flesh, Soothing Mist) will continue to exist for another five seconds after you switch out of that attunement.

For Soothing Mist it’s for a second or two longer, usually, since the regeneration provided is for a few seconds at a time while attuned to water.

Look at your bar with and without the arcana trait – when switching attunements without it, the old icon disappears instantly. The most noticeable effects to see it staying around are probably earth (looking at hero panel) or water (for the aforementioned regen).

I honestly didn’t expect to find out the answer. Wow, thank you.

too bad it’s pathetic considering the 5 pts in air is awful.