Guild Wars 2

This stuff with being good and climbing faster is bullkitten. Unless if you are REALLY good and can carry out a lot of noobs. Every game is either 3-4 clueless people in my team and we get steamrolled or the noobs are in the other team and we wreck them. How the hell can one climb up? I made it to Silver, then got dragged back to bronze. It reminds of Ruby where I was constantly stuck with the same bullkitten.

PvP is not rewarding nor even fun, it’s aggravating.

So in short, they don’t have the time to create something that will bring money and they just create something faster and easier to pump trash content. In my opinion the shop is really bad, could have been much better monetarized.

I would have spent much more on armor if it wasn’t the outfits, I simply want to use just a part of it. I rarely see people running with outfits a week after their releases so I would argue how well they sell.

The whole in-game shop of GW2 is very lame and unoptimized. There are a lot of things I want to buy that are no longer offered, and I am not talking about the limited offers that are here just for a day. The dev’s focus in this game is something I struggle to understand for quite some time.

Evan Lesh.3295:

This is a really great analysis. I appreciate all the work you put into this. We recognize the problems that the season 2 matchmaking is causing and are looking into solutions that will provide a good experience and satisfy our goals for the league system.

Is that it? Whole season ruined, you are going to wait for it to finish to serve us another bullkitten for the next one? And then again “mmm interesting, we are looking into it”.

Way to go.

No matter of the class your first steps into pvp will be very frustrating and you will die a lot. Once you figure out what is happening this may start to change. But yes, the pvp is broken for quite some time The best you can do is watch twitch/youtube daredevils and understand the play instead of trying to figure it out on your own.

Not my class but this one looks ok: http://www.twitch.tv/sindrenerr/v/39869100 also metabattle.com will help you with your build, there are also explanations of the builds. The thieves forum may also be helpful with all the info about the class you need.

In any case, pvp in GW2 is very frustrating experience.

I am sick of this kitten already, looking for similar people with skills to match. I main condi mesmer since the HoT is out, but I also have champion titles with ranger, elementalist and necromancer. Almost there with guardian too.

Looking forward to your guild

Emerald tier 2 whole kittening day. Feels like ruby middle tier from the last season. Nothing but pain and agony. Extremely moronic. And you get laughed at when you ask for a team on map chat. Hopefully a better game will come out soon, following similar payment model.

I had it. This is systematically killing the pvp patch after patch, season after season. Can’t even begin to describe today’s experience. And for what? No really, for what?

Zefrost nicely said. I’ve shown the game to a few friends of mine and they are like “wtf is happening in this game?”. But I don’t hold any hopes that it will go any better.

Bacon.4918:

July.5361:

Now being forced to play unranked with all the first timers around is just DRIVING ME CRAZY EVERY SINGLE GAME! Just give us the separation from the newbies back and let us lose some time in this game.

Unranked uses MMR just like ranked does as far as I know. I don’t think your MMR is shared between the two modes, but I personally play with mostly the same people in unranked as I was playing with during the ranked season.

All the games in unranked half the people run randomly exploring the map wondering what they have to do. Point decapped but they fight vigorously just outside of it with someone unimportant… Stuff that usually don’t happen in ranked. The difference is HUGE. Either I play with 4 newbies or they do, it’s been nothing but painful so far. Not to mention the few lame maps…

I will complain too. Playing any kind of spvp solo was always a pain in the kitten , but there were hits and misses. Now being forced to play unranked with all the first timers around is just DRIVING ME CRAZY EVERY SINGLE GAME! Just give us the separation from the newbies back and let us lose some time in this game. I see absolutely no reason to have gaps between the seasons.

How hard is it to think before you act? Move the kitten leaderboards on the arena.net domain too if it’s so kitten hard to share the kitten session! A simple search would be great benefit too in the light of the current screw up.

What we really need is, all armor and weapon skins to be cultural and class specific instead to copy paste the same ugly kitten all over again for different price.

Brian chill out and don’t give a kitten for the losers.

In PvP the thing is, that Anet made lame system, and when a newbie enters the arena it makes it complicated for the team he is in. And there is a lot of rage in the “competitive” play anyway. Don’t sweat it and play Practice not Ranked. PvP definitely needs some time to get used to.

In WvW just follow the zerg and contribute with what you can. It doesn’t matter at all what level you are, it just matters how big the zerg is.

In PvE avoid speed runs and groups that ask for “zerk”, “exp”, “anet points” and such. They are all losers that will make your game experience bitter.

Relax, don’t give a kitten about idiots and use your block list without a second thought:)

Unfortunately the games are being plaid mostly by teenagers that don’t know how to behave in a social environment. Find a mature guild of casual players and have fun.

First time I am forced to use Stone Heart. Yes, Water and Arcana are mandatory for me but also Earth after the patch with all the crazy dmg going on and the Elementalist seems to not be scaled up in spvp with the rest, for diffrence of the pve dmg.

d/d and water/arcana/earth :/ Fresh air doesn’t seem to fit as good as it was, and zerk staff just gets wiped out without the dmg it had.

There is a lot you can do, at least at first.
There are a lot of world bosses and champions around the map.
Many and different dungeons.
There is the PvP and WvW that can suck up a lot of time.
And there is the huge world you can explore that scales down your level to the level of the zone so the contet won’t get redundant.
The crafting and hunting for skins and materials is also part of the game.
There are various events that pops up around the map.

There is planty of content and if you enjoy playing alts, every time it will be different experience. After some time it will get boring, but the expansion is on its way.

The big guild events are kind of lacking in this game, not because there are no WoW like raids, but because the way the guilds are.

For me personally power is more fun, but useless outside of well organised strong teams. It’s very hard to survive against good groups and you become the weak spot in the chain. Terror feels much more viable and with much less counter builds.

You should try both to see what fits you best.

Quite a few pvp games 4v5 because I or someone else of one of the two teams can’t get into the map. It’s about time to find the solution, whole weekend wasted. We are waiting for Monday when the tech support is back on work or what?

I enjoy dungeons with Condition Necro and I was never denied unless from the noob zerker rush groups that I don’t want to play with anyway.

The dmg is fine and it handles bigger groups of mobs very easily. If you play Power, the dmg is even greater but it needs much more interaction from your part as you are more squishy. No idea about minions, it was always boring for me to play.

Is it a bad class? No, I don’t think so. Are there better ones? Sure there are but I don’t see how a Necro would be weaker than half of the other classes.

It’s not the quantity, it’s the quality.

I know games with far less gear choices that makes you feel much more epic. Especially the first 60 levels, you look like crap. Especially with medium armor, my Ranged looked like a tug for 80 levels, no sign of the tribal Norn look they fed me on the character creation skin.

Which is really a shame, as an artist myself I can say that Anet have great artists! I don’t know why there is so little imagination in the gear/weapons (and so much joke).

So I was away for 2 months, I log in and I see the same kitten as before! Seriously? I am sure I have asked it before, but are you blind Anet? Do any of you play the game?

I wanna see ALL gear to be cultural, which will make all the weapons cultural too. But it’s not going to happen.

But strictly on topic, Greataxe and Polearm, also usable shield skills:( I love the look of a massive shield on my back but it’s useless in this game.

The traits unlock is real NIGHTMARE for me! Remove this bullkitten kitten! To unlock adept trait at around lvl 35 I need to complete lvl 55 personal story? SERIOUSLY? Complete 100% map on the other end of the world? Mix WvW/PvP with PvE?

NO! I have 5 max level characters and I just started making the last class that seems fun but with this system I will probably just quit playing and check back a few months later if this nonsense is removed.

Are you blind Anet?

As much as I want mounts for purely aesthetic reasons, I don’t see them fit in GW2. When I was playing Warhammer Online I loved all my mounts. Each of them was connected with the lore of my class, but in GW2 there is no lore and there are no vast empty spaces to travel. Plus I smell Black Lion tickets/chests abuse from Anet. This game is not meant to have mounts.

The Power Longbow Rangers was buffed for exactly 2 days, then with few hotfixes our dmg was toned down to the place we were before. For those 2 days we were viable to clean the point from distance, now… better play spirit or trapper but I find them very boring. Thieves and hambow Warriors all over the place again, nothing changed much.

Arachnid.4062:

when I’m playing my thief, I troll and…

Fixed for you:)

What type of structure would you find interesting for leagues and ladders?
Ladder divisions based on the personal character rating. NOT account wide! You win games, you gain points, you lose games, you lose points. 5v5 only!

Goal of Proposal
Having personal character rating and not account bound one will allow for better matching of the players. 5v5 is the only scenario you could possibly balance.

How long should a season last?
2-3 months or so.

What would motivate you to play in one?
Rewards that are usable in PvP and PvE, like armor and weapon skins, but cool ones, not like the latest additions in the gem store… Good balanced system with balanced classes that is fun to play and won’t make me rage, like the current one.

How would a player earn these rewards?
Either spend the points you earn or get parts of gear on different rank limits.

How would you encourage players of all skill levels to participate?
Rewards and balance that will make it fun and skill dependent.

It’s already made in other games, just see what they did. After all the nonsense from WoW their arenas were actually good and enjoyable experience (5v5!).

And as others said, there are too many things to fix before you do that.

I’ve had like 100 games this weekend and this was my most frustrating experience since the Warhammer Online pvp. And even there the balance was kind of bearable. Everything the OP said was exactly on my mind, except the asuras:D

Not exactly forum or website bug, but there is no suitable section:) I am playing on Dell U2410, calibrated and with clear blue desktop color and every time I start the launcher my eyes hurt from the leftover at the bottom. Here is the screenshot, I circled it.

Gear up, get better weapons and equipment, put the right stones and traits and you will go ahead of your pet. It’s fine by me.

Opening strike very rarely apply vulnerability for both me and my pet, like once a day. Sometimes it happens to work but very very very very rarely and for a single time. I play with longbow/shortbow if it matters, and I’ve just tested it with Axe – same thing.

The Spotter trait also doesn’t work. It doesn’t give single point of precision to anyone, not in group not solo, not in combat, not out of it.

Also I am not sure if the Quickening Zephyr count as a boon, but the increased boon duration from Nature Magic doesn’t apply on it. Also it doesn’t apply to Rampage as one and all the signets.