Guild Wars 2

PT nerf —-→ Buff to thieves
:D

I don’t get it too. The MMR seems to be the obvious answer for that kind of system, instead they are rewarding farmning, specially S1.

Ahh, my bad now i get it. Maybe a bug idk.

Before the system was implemented 1/3 of the matches didn’t start because someone didn’t press the accept option. Now is very rare thanks to the dishonor.

In gw1 you could purchase a pack with pvp only usable skills for a fraction of the games, including all the skills from the different campaings. Idk, maybe anet cuold charge maybe 10 bucks to unluck the elite specs for pvp only?

So many good players playing a class or a comp that is not what they feel comfortable with, making huge missplays on live and trying to learn boring and cheese specs all for the sake of wining.
I can understand the frustration, the finals may be a complete different story now comp wise, and who knows if the whole pro league would have been different if more classes or specs had been viable.

there is a limit. It’s 2 hours untill automatically drops you from the queue

azyume.6321:

Julian.2971:

The reason has always been wvw. Basically pve heroes that farm gear in a pvp environment. They have to work less this way, they kill 3 birds in one shot

Do you really truly believe that? Since when Anet balanced anything according to WvW?

WvW have been getting the short end of the stick since the begin. The most recent change that made major impact: stability.

Per chance anet fixed that? Of course not because they are fine in PvE and PvP, or actually was in PvP until HoT. Now PvP is getting a taste of what WvW has been suffering with and players been complaining since the change.

I’m not saying that anet balance everything according wvw, but because this mode is a mixture of pve and pvp, they prefer to balance once, having the 3 modes in mind and changing some modifiers between them.

In contrast of gw1, like twhite.9310 said, you had pvp only skills, they worked in different way. Now we have 3 game modes, so they thought that instead of balancing for pve and pve separately, they just needed to think in a global solution and they designed wvw to be a nexus.

It’s a lot of work, but way less than balancing separately

The reason has always been wvw. Basically pve heroes that farm gear in a pvp environment. They have to work less this way, they kill 3 birds in one shot

Huge success, working as intented. Top competition, a lot of struggle for these people. Endless amount of games played to mantain the spot and a great variety of teams.
Good job, please continue the road you have taken anet, the espurt dream is closer day by day

yeah, zombycoc double lich i remember that cancer

i read someone post on this forums that he/she will afk every single match on the spawn because he lost all the pips in ruby. He will bring disgrace to everyone becuase he has nothing to lose and he is a bitter kitten.

Zero Day.2594:

If you mean the channeling skills still hitting you, it’s working as intended.

In my personal opinion, it’s a half-baked implemenation that could have and should have went either way of the extremes (breaking stealth vs breaking channeling) – just for the sake of it being not half-baked.

(Though, as I have re-read this a couple times, I don’t think that’s what you were talking about… )

it took 10 post to someone answer the question, cmon thieves we should know better!

Got you trevor, obviusly this season has been a complete fail for solo queuers so far

Im wondering if there are some kind of real competition in the guild ladder right now, i mean how many full teams are playing consistently, if they are trying hard to maintain the high spots of the table, playing agaist random pugs soloq duoqs or against good teams all over again. Those teams are pve/pvx guilds, esl, or lesser competition teams (with good players too, im not saying otherwise) like academy, etc?

Depending on that we could say if the system is working as intented as you said or not.

All the struggling, all the suffering, all the pain, the rage and the frustration. Trying to maintain a positive w/l ratio to slowly climb in the division, at the end you just got a jewel on your name and your inventory full of crap, and the godd sensation of accomplish something after countless hours of bad times.

Is it worth to try hard in the pvp legues that anet have implemented?

i wonder if there is a protocol or something if this bug occurs on a major tournament transmission. Like a reset or a -1 player untill relog. That would be kittening embarrassing

Julian.2971:

Like the mid air immob bug, it has been stated that there is some kind of coding or programming issue that can’t be bypassed and impedes a solution for these problems

It’s not a rev trouble. It’s a glitch that has been on the game from day 1

It’s a typical human behavior, blaming others is very common. “People says that someone is still worse than me, my mistakes will be overlooked”.

Like the mid air immob bug, it has been stated that there is some kind of coding or programming issue that can’t be bypassed and impedes some kind of solution for these problems

Julian.2971:

Remember if you’re on a party <3

Wich implies you queued together….

Remember if you’re on a party, they punish your teammates pips too,
GJ ANET WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH <3

i think they don’t balance the game modes in different fashion each other, is because wvw, which is pvp in pve gear and with pve skill set, so they just touch the multipliers a little and skip/save so much work and can have 3 games modes with less effort. Pvp only skills is something i doubt we will ever see

Today’s pro league experience was the most painful and absurd thing to watch. It’s no sense how this game, after more than 3 years, is in this state. No one, even anet, could defend this. I bet none of the devs or employees watching or modding the channel enjoyed the matches.
Do something please, i beg you

Posi
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Timed blind to prevent a special strong attack is a good design idea, promoting focusing on your opponent moves and skilful play.

BUT in an age when you have to random dodge and auto attacks can proc 5k….
That’s why you can’t revert blind to what it was.

Saiyan.1704:

Vid: http://tinyurl.com/ot4bg37

Non music video. Uploaded it late last night (this morning). I was a bit tired but, it’s more or less what to expect from condi guard.

Mirin clicking skill m8.

:D:D

As a reward for reaching lvl 10 you got a key, so create a new char, spend 9 tomes, get a key, delete char, profit

As useless most of times the wait looks, it’s supposed to be expended in team coordination and set the strategies of the match, so it may be even worse to remove it, also sometimes some people have longer loading screens due bad net conection/low spec pc. Most of times it’s used to check teams roosters and respec/swap character than the former reasons.

Laraley.7695:

Plague.5329:

I might agree if there was a 10 match limit like in RA, or if when you lose you get booted out, like in RA, or if leaving the match was a little easier. Best solution is, do not do 8v8. It’s currently a bit of a mess.

Dafq I just read? 8v8? Is this thread about hotjoin? You know people can leave there, I’m quite sure this is ranked/unranked.

If losing would give you a penalty and you wouldn’t be able to play the queue time would go higher and it would be just bad.

See the date of the post m8.
For what we know Plague.5329 could be already dead and decomposed right now.

For soloquers and 0 team coordination, cele rifle is the strongest option (more consistent performance) right now

The developers develop what they told them by their bosses, not what they want to develop nor what we want them to develop.
Remember that they are employees.

Aberrant.6749:

I disagree that you need a PvP place where non-pvp people go to purposefully imbalance teams. There is WvW for that sort of thing already though.

I’m fine with the team imbalance type farmers not playing in PvP. Casuals can still play in unranked and be rewarded, they just couldn’t behave in such a kitten way and get rewarded for it.

Heck I even do this rubbish for the daily if it’s a class I don’t normally play, but it’s not right to get stuff for acting like a kitten.

Again, everything you said may be true, the issue is that any decision in order to change a game mode or alter the game in any way is made, in the very first instance, by an economical approach. If you put restriction, people could get angry/pissed for not playing in ez mode, then the numbers/pvp poblation will drop and some will stop playing, that mean less gems sold, a less appealing game for potential buyers, less active community, complains qqs, bad press, etc. You can make a list of disadvantages that could potentially lower the profits of the game.

Of course that there are advantages in removing rewards, putting restrictions on swapping or similar restriction that could improve the level of pvp in general, but you really don’t want to risk now when the expansion is comming up.

Remember that gaming is an industry, there are millions on it and people is risking a lot of money. Sure, you need to develop a good game to win in the longer run, to create a good reputation etc. but sometimes you need to opt for the “lesser evil” to please the majority of the population and protect your brand, even when it’s not optimal in entertainment wise.

Im pretty sure (i want to think) that the developer pvp team would have done a quite lot of features different, having/hiring more people working on pvp content, patches, changes, if they where in charge. But they don’t make the decisions in the end.

Aberrant.6749:

So you agree that many practice players are there just to 5v4 and team swap to get rewards? Yea… I have zero sympathy for those people not getting rewarded. They actively discourage people who are interested in playing PvP with their behavior. I’ve talked to so many that went into practice and got in a 5v4 team swap match and never went back. This is far too common.

Im not saying it’s fair and im agree it’s a kittenty behavior, but as i said, due game disign (it’s an mmo) you need a place where non pvp players can feel happy and mighty when winning a 500-100 4v3. If you put more restrictions in the game mode, you have the risk that casuals/farmers will stop playing pvp at all, and ofc anet doesn’t want that.

What you guys have to understand is that gw2 is not a dedicated pvp game where everybody that logs in wants to fight and compete. Gw1 had a lot more of competitiveness, sadly it’s not the case with gw2. That being said, the (vast majority of) people who purchase the game and are actually playing it, are not using all their time in pvp matches, and when they spend time on it they want rewards, just like in the other game modes (pve, wvw).

You could say that these people are casuals (in pvp) and don’t care, or better said, don’t want to compete. As someone else posted, they don’t want to risk themselves to be defeated, or even worse, to be streamrolled, they want to have a good time playing, winning (by a lot) and getting loot.

The people who REALLY want to improve end up doing it anyway, cause they spend time playing, reading and watching gameplays/streams. If you ask me, anet should put more rewards/pve loot on hot join and pull out all the people in ranked that clearly needs to improve before even trying it.

That is what hot join is, a jungle where apes (pve/wvw) fight each others, as intented. The only way to improve the situation is to make a gw2 pvp standalone game (kek) or maybe put more structured arenas in between unranked/ranked or something

But remember

Lich Form: This ability now grants 1 stack of stability every 3 seconds, with a 3-second duration.

Which basically nullify steal from thieves

Blackwyn.8127:

So wait a second. If your odds of victory is 90%. You disconnect for 1 second, you get -3 points, then you win the match get +1 but in the end you’ll end up with -2 points for your win?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdCy6MGOVfw

Sadly no

MailMail.6534:

^ Yes, this is scaring me. You’re allowed to switch during the 1:30 minute window before a match starts right?!

No, you get the complete penalization (deserter, loss and 0 points, and dishonor if enabled)

Michaeas Magister.1589:

kirito.4138:

if its been 2yrs then its no longer a bug, but a feature.

working as intended

Yes, after two years it is what is commonly known as an “Undocumented feature” in software. That usually means the programmers have no idea how to actually fix it or fixing it would break other things.

Maybe time to sing “Happy Birthday” to it?

Thanks.

This

Hitzer, pls stop spamming 3