Guild Wars 2

Davinci.8027:

If all you play is hotjoins…

Hot-joins are more fair than tourneys, no premade vs pug nonsense, question is why YOU play tourneys instead of hot-join, you like butchering pug players with your buddies or something?

Gandarel.5091:

Jzaku.9765:

Gandarel.5091:

Necros can kitten bunker eles. Mostly. But with other classes, eles can survive in 3v1 sometimes, while mesmers die in 2v1, at least won’t be able to finish them off.

And once you learn how to find the real mesmer not the clone, it’s not that OP.

This is such a stupid thing to say. Anyone with half a brain can find the real mesmer, not to mention half the time the clones he’s kittenting out are running straight at you for a shatter.

Mesmers aren’t hard/unfun to fight because of IDENTIFICATION problems, they’re hard to fight because they throw a clustercat out into the field, can drop into stealth, and have a million (exaggeration wow) invulnerabilities.

I’m sure 70% of ppl crying here about the mesmer being OP can’t find the real one. Not like it’s that hard.

Try finding real one in a group fight against 3 mesmers.

Omg, my old post

Do not join tourney as solo in the evening, that is when most teams are playing. And yes, premade vs pug matchmaking is utter nonsense i pointed that out as soon as they announced it the way things are now solo queue players serve as cannon fodder for team queue players. Some of them even go as far as insulting pug players after the match, can you believe that fecal matter ?

Kardiamond.6952:

@Khyras

That’s from february patch, they added 2 second and 2 stack of consuion on prybar.

In WvW it’s crazy.

In sPvP not so much.

Ah ok, thanks for the info.

hharry.1967:

Damage wasnt reduced by half, it is increased by 100% in PvE which is different.

I had no problems with confusion lately, did they buff it or something in this last patch and i didnt notice it?

Maybe im wrong, but i think confusion from engis hurts a lot more then before patch they stack it pretty often too. Just my personal observation,again, could be wrong.

waka.9826:

Khyras.8021:

tetrodoxin.2134:

More obvious visual indicator? Isn’t your toons head like, glowing ’n stuff?

I am confused now.

I would prefer something like that wow addon that flashes skill icon when it is off cooldown. Particle effects in this game are bit over the top.

might as well have the game announcer announce every condition you have while you’re at it.

Well, if it isnt waka.9826, my arch-nemesis rofl.

tetrodoxin.2134:

More obvious visual indicator? Isn’t your toons head like, glowing ’n stuff?

I am confused now.

I would prefer something like that wow addon that flashes skill icon when it is off cooldown. Particle effects in this game are bit over the top.

I, for one, am having fun. Lot of wins today as solo queue.

RoRo.8270:

OP probably had 6 stacks of confusion then popped haste and killed himself within seconds then yells “THAT IS OP” and proceeds to the forums to try get it nerfed

Yes that is exactly what happened!!! OMG i feel so exposed now lol.

Your quick wit is killing me here, stop it.

Xeph.4513:

leave confusion alone!!!!

Or what? shakes fist

Myrmidian Eudoros.4671:

Khyras.8021:

Real men join solo, not with a team

No offense Khyras, but the sPvP in this game is team oriented and solo-que players cannot ever approach the skill cap as it requires coordination and comboing between teammates. Solo que can be fun, but if you want to truly maximize your sPvP ability and you only solo que, then you are doing it wrong.

to the OP:
gl hf

Hopefully you find your team. We all know the game needs more of them.

I was under the impression that playing with a team means simply creating a situation where you outnumber your oponent ( roamers) and subsequently taking a point or holding a point ( tanks) untill back up arrives to again outnumber your oponent. You actually use cross-class combos to gain the upper hand in team battles? commendable. Anyways, if they ever introduce solo queue and ladder we will see how much you are worth on individual level, ofc, if you even have guts to compete on solo ladder. Until then, i would say you presume too much. Better composition and voice com of your team does not make you a better player than me. No offense

Real men join solo, not with a team

Either tone it down severely or add more obvious visual indicator when you are affected, like flashing its icon mid screen when you are affected, checking your UI every 2 seconds to see if its there and how many stacks is less than optimal.

EnRohbi.2187:

Khyras.8021:

From GW 2 wiki : Illusion of Life
| description = Gives [[ally|allies]] [[Illusion of Life (effect)|Illusion of Vengeance]] at the target location, allowing them to get up from [[downed]] …rarily be [[rally|rallied]] unless they kill an enemy before [[Illusion of Life]] wears off. If they do not rally, they will be downed again.

So i should have been downed again, not killed with 22 k hit? i am not trolling btw.

The wiki can be wrong about things.
The in game tooltip is worded differently and doesn’t say you get downed

Ok lets leave it at that.

I did not fell it was mid combat.

Edit: i suspect 22 k is both my 2/3 of normal health and my downed state health gone in one hit

From GW 2 wiki : Illusion of Life
| description = Gives [[ally|allies]] [[Illusion of Life (effect)|Illusion of Vengeance]] at the target location, allowing them to get up from [[downed]] …rarily be [[rally|rallied]] unless they kill an enemy before [[Illusion of Life]] wears off. If they do not rally, they will be downed again.

So i should have been downed again, not killed with 22 k hit? i am not trolling btw.

And on the right it says i killed myself with illusion of life. LoL i dont get it,, what could i do to cause 22 k hit on myself with allied skill that kills me when i have 2/3 of my health.
There is something basically wrong with that.

All i know is that my health dropped from 75% to 0 in 1 sec and this is dmg breakdown. Bah.

Never mind, just never seen this before.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5258/gw046ml.jpg
No comment.

Valkyriez.6578:

In a game of cosmetics, 10 additional dyes every 5 days is an awesome change. It’s a guaranteed 80 dyes a month, which is god considering they aren’t account wide and u can sell leftovers even if they are at a pittance.

“Ina game of cosmetics” ? MUAHAHAHA.

Destiny.6738:

Like I said, a lot of things need to be improved /added, and the devs did different things wrong. But they will always give a kitten on “OMG pvp sucks so much”-Threads.

expansion = ppl will return

There are no expansions planned for foreseeable future, and even if there were i would not buy one.

If bunkers must exist, warrior should be best bunker in the game. Guardian for example is better bunker than a warrior because of boons, not because he is healthier or tougher. So, toughness efficiency needs to go up for warriors and toughness should also mitigate portion of condition damage.
Generally speaking, if you have pvp with 2 roles, bunker and dps, then you should be forced to sacrifice one for the other, and atm that is not the case for all classes, mainly because you cannot mitigate condition damage, you can remove condition but for most classes conditions are spammable. Bunkering up then relying on condition dmg for the kill should not be allowed imo.

Last 7 months feel like prologue to me.

“Its not going to stay that way” ?. Based on what you make that assumption? You are naive if you still believe they know what they are doing. There wasn’t even mentioning of quickness nerf in the last sotg as far as i know, and the stuff they do mention before haven’t happened yet ( aoe nerf for example). Balance wise and generally pvp wise they are just stumbling in the dark aimlessly and people are supposed to calm down? i say pick up your pitchforks, its time to put some pressure on these people.
Edit: If a-net were serious about fixing pvp first thing they would do is fire people like JONs and Karl and hire someone with a vision , competence and experience to replace them. never gonna happen, i know.

Shranks.3260:

Engi is Godmode currently – I do in average 12k Damage on my opponents – just with confusion xD

EDIT: oh forgot to say that I do that within 5 seconds xD

How skillful, a-net must be pleased.

Raqanar.3648:

Well. We have no problem here, then.

Yes we do have a problem here imo, and people like you are a part of the problem. After 7 months of slow paced, miniscule, unsignificant changes how about they GIVE US SOMETHING GOOD FOR FREE. After all, i did BUY THE GAME advertised as e-sports material, and it still lacks features, after 7 months, that should have been there on release. I dont know about you, but i dont appreciate being cheated and lied to. Instead of giving players opportunity to earn money ( real money not gems) by competing on the top level, they want more money from the players for some not-really-optional features. HA. They will not get a cent from me until all features that make a good PVP MMO are in place and are free of charge, THEN i will consider buying something i like if its completely optional. If that does not happen i will not play this, and i suspect many who dont play feel the same way. Good day.

This is as ridiculous as paid tournaments. PvP feature that i must pay for in a B2P game? Unacceptable. Also, how do you expect nonsense like this to create influx of new players? If i am new player trying GW 2 SPvP or am returning after months of waiting for new features to be finally implemented, first thing i gotta do is spend real money to rent CA and 200 gems per day no less? What a joke. Even F2P games have microtransaction systems based on completely optional content. Here, if i want to duel in peace i have to pay a daily fee? Could you please give us a less cheap way to milk your players? Really, this is too obvious.
And to people who think this kind of behavior from supposedly AAA MMO title company is normal or standard or acceptable, please raise your bloody standards already, i dont care how many gems or money you have, this should be unacceptable for you as well as a matter of principle.

OMG, LooooooooL MMO developers around the world must be laughing their kitten off.

For me, WvW is just a pointless zerg fest and PvE is boring with poorly written shallow story and characters ( aside from few exceptions). SPvP on the other hand is still in early beta imho with no hope of getting better at all.
They should have just imported GW 1 PvP completely and have some kind of factions system with open world PvP on PvP servers and it would have been best MMORPG PvP game in history. What we have now is casual, kiddy-friendly,watered down, shallow, unfinished product with great environments, music and combat and incredibly bad everything else.

condiments.8043:

Yeah I was solo queuing yesterday and went against premades with rank 5 and below players for some pretty hilarious results.

A new guardian player was holding close point and when I noticed it was contested I rotated back to help him. I saw him running AWAY from the point with his sword sheathed(he hadn’t even engaged in combat), with a ranger chasing him while pelting in the back for free bleed stacks. Apparently the guy was so frightened by this ranger killing 1v1 before the game, the thought of fighting him again was unthinkable. Another similar situation occurred where I was rotating back to close and saw the death icon on my mini map and assumed our close was going to be attacked. Nope, a player had simply died solo to the chieftain by attacking right out of the gate while the rest of our team was fighting over middle(a lot of pug teams just go after mob).

Its pretty frustrating right now to say the least because not only are you facing competent players with little to no support, but these poor guys have no idea what is going on and are getting owned.

LOL at the ranger chasing guardian from the point. Thank you for posting that i laughed hard

Was probably like “screw this im outta here” haha.

I like everything you said but sadly it would take them years to implement all that even if they wanted to. Just look how long it takes to solve game breaking issues like culling, months, and that is just one thing. I think we GW 2 PvPers are screwed.

jportell.2197:

Verdelet Arconia.6987:

1)not all rangers use traps, those are builds best suited for conquest maps only

3) Rangers have the least condition removal with regards to conditions applied to the ranger so that is our weakness,you can take a look at the list of condition removal at this website to confirm i’m not making baseless facts. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Condition

2 Ranger Skills that remove conditions
Utility- Signet of Renewal — Passive: Cures a condition every ten seconds.
60 secs CD-Active: Your pet pulls all conditions from nearby allies to itself.

Pet skill- Purge Conditions (Juvenile Brown Bear) — Purge all conditions from yourself.
Pet needs to be alive for this to work, ranger need to be near pet to have the conditions transferred.F2 skill is not instant cast,pet will need to run to target and carry out the animation before the conditions is cured.Since ranger usualy fight at a range,this skill will take around 2-5 seconds to cast depending on the bear response

choice of 1 Ranger Traits that remove conditions.you can only choose 1 since both are 30 points in survival grandmaster trait.

Evasive Purity – two conditions (blind & poison only) from self upon dodge rolling 10 secs CD

Empathic Bond-Your pet will take three conditions from you every 10 seconds
Pet needs to be alive for this to work

Hi I am a Mesmer… And I can remove a condition if I heal only when traited and only one other than that I can either use one of 2 skills on a 45 second CD or take 2 per use of a mantra… That’s it Any other condition removal we have either doesn’t work or the skill that is coupled with it is useless… Don’t even talk to me about how bad condition removal for classes I will tear you apart.

Your post is absolutely unrelated to what OP said. I have seen you in every thread that mentions mesmers lamenting about their plight and so forth so i gotta ask do you have some sort of pathological need to post as soon as mesmers are mentioned, fueled perhaps by some fetish like fixation with your class? Your posts are even more annoying than a cheap/god mode class you play and you are not even a PvP player so take your opinions to PvE forum where they belong. Or just stop posting altogether that would be great too.

For me, best ranger build atm is beastmaster 0/0/30/10/30. I use SB with sword and dagger and signets of the hunt, renewal and wild, heal as one for the healing and rampage as one as elite. Pets i use lynx and devourer because i take bleed on hit in bm trait line. When fighting mesmer stay away from the clones using dodge, sword dodge and shortbow quickshot, always try to keep him at max distance especially when he stealths/drops target then focus fire and use pet skills when you find him. But yeah, mesmers can be hard to kill for every class not just ranger especially in group fights. Kite and dodge then burst using sword/dagger and pet skills when you see opportunity. Put sigil of hidromancy on SB to chill them after sword burst then contiue kite/dodge, rinse and repeat. Also i put sigils that give me toughness and reduced condition/stun duration + toughness on my armor cause i absolutely hate conditions.

lettucemode.3789:

Lay off of Karl. Grouch specifically asked him to summarize the first couple classes, so then Karl assumed that’s what he wanted for all the classes, and Grouch nor the other interviewers ever asked him to stop doing that. It’s not Karl’s fault, it’s the interviewers’.

So he’s not a good public speaker. So what? If there wasn’t someone from the balance team there I’m sure people would complain even more. So he forgot whether or not a certain skill has a blast finisher. So what? There are hundreds of skills and effects in the game, he can be forgiven for forgetting one. So it makes him appear less capable at his job. So what? He’s a human being and human beings all make mistakes, he doesn’t deserve to be judged for that.

“They said ele healing is fine, lol” – no, they said that the amount that eles heal is fine and that they want to increase the casting times of those abilities. They want an ele getting his heal off to be a big deal, but they admitted that right now it is perhaps too easy to do so.

“same build diversity as necros? Necros have no build diversity, lol” – wrong. There’s the standard condition build, then you have 30/30/10/0/0, you have the condition build with Terror mixed in, there’s a 30/20/0/0/20 ele-killer build which is super fun with 4.2k life blast crits and incredible dagger spam damage and boon removal, you have the minion bunker-buster or bunker build, heck take a look at the two builds in my sig. The point is that the tree is diverse enough to support a wide variety of builds, AND there is room for “tweaking” builds to suit personal preference. Whereas there’s only one mesmer shatter build, for example.

“leaderboards will probably release six months from now” – oh my lord, they said specifically that leaderboards are in testing. Meaning that all of the programming work is done unless the testers find a bug that needs to be fixed. They also said that leaderboards will be here soon, maybe even before the patch! How in the hell do you interpret that as “6 months”?

EDIT: sorry for the venom in this post. The forums have been frustrating me lately, there was a thread where someone dared to say that they were actually having fun with sPvP and everyone on here tore him a new butthole. I guess I’m frustrated over how this forum behaves, but it is the internet, so I should probably get over it…

Im sorry but imo people have every right to show their discontent in the worst way possible because overall pvp in GW 2 is basically substandard. Even the people who fiercely defended the game in the past are starting to leave for good, if now is not the time to criticize then when? 6 months after release they dont even have features implemented that should have been in place in beta and on release, forget about the new content, and you propose that people give them some sort gentlemanly treatment, white gloves and all ? Please, raise your standards just a little bit for gods sake.

wintermute.4096:

kailin.4905:

Xsorus.2507:

No, they said they’re looking at shatter to see if its overpowered, which they won’t determine till after they buff Greatsword/Scepter…Then and only then will they nerf Shatter

So essentially give one of the two or three most powerful and played classes another OP ability then MAYBE nerf there other OP ability a month or five down the road. Meanwhile everyone playing rolls mesmer and loses there kitten when the nerf does come about leading to them re-buffing it the following patch.

Making Greatsword piercing can hardly be called op. After all, it’s #1 is one of the weakest in the game in terms of dps, and how often can you really consistently line up people who are not complete scrubs anyway?
If that is the compensation mesmers get for their primary source of burst, yea, that’s a pretty hard hitting nerf.

Zinwrath.2049:

Xeph, i nearly lost it at my computer …like into tears when you brought up how fighting mesmer/theifs is frusterating and confusing for new players coming into hotjoins and the entire room goes dead silent.

That was the most memorable moment of the whole interview. I pretty much think that summed up everything for me. Massive kick to the nuts, GJ.

Sorry, but we the first impression something makes on complete newbs is not something that should be that important for balancing. Any burst-heavy build can be frustrating for newbs, just look at all the screaming about bull rush + frenzy + 100b after launch. That’s something that surely was pretty frustrating when you had to learn that not doding at the right time was pretty much game over.

The only newb here is you.

About thief and other bursters they do a lot of dmg if glass cannon so dont let them do that focus them and kill or make them run away.If i fight someone for a minute or two then thief comes along and one shots them while they are are at 20-30% HP he gets same reward as me? how is that fair? As for the tanks not doing much dmg lol, what do you want? take points and hold them or roll dps character you cannot be good at everything. You can survive longer than pure dps so dmg should even up over a longer period of time, what do you propose glass cannon tanks? What a bunch of jokers. Getting points proportional to dmag done would reduce number of people roling tank builds which is good imo, would make pvp more dynamic cause people would compete to be more effective in different ways. Do i go pure glass cannon, balanced character to survive longer or tank so that i dont die at all and do dmg constantly during entire match?
ME means mass effect btw.

“3. Solo Queue” care to elaborate on that one? I remember you supporting mixed queue that is in place now. Changed your mind or what?

like in ME 3 co-op. You get points proportional to dmg done to target plus bonus for kiling blow. Make it happen.

Harrier.9380:

As for recognizing the real mesmer – he’ll act diffirent from the clones – strafing, dodging, moving in circles, backpedaling etc. Also clones only use a single skill, while the real one uses multiple animations.

What if he does not act different from the clones? Like phantasm dmg build for example, dont use signets or glory booster, pop clones and phantasms then stealth dodge once or twice to change position for when you come out of stealth, then just spam 1 and stand still while phantasms kill him or until your stealth CDs come back up ( if he does manage to find you) You will look no different than your replicas. Rinse and repeat until target is dead. He cant find you and if he kills clones and phantasms he gets random conditions on him. 1vs1 mesmer is a best class in the game by far imo.

I agree, there is too many clones, pets and turrets on the battlefield. Its a clusterkitten, especially without target nearest enemy player feature and especially with multiple clone spammers present.Necro pets and turrets can be destroyed but mesmer just constantly spamms illusions and clones because of low CDs on those abilities.

One round tournaments are there because players wanted them and 3 round tournaments are there because Jonathan Sharp thinks they are “kinda cool” ( his words).
No separated solo queue, no ladder, no new game modes, tickets removed after “only” 6 months, no improved reward system, no duels. Just 2 types of tournaments with some elusive rating and matchmaking that will “try” ( LOL ) to match you against solo queue players if you queue as solo, how comforting.
Another disappointing PvE focused patch even tho they promised february is the big PvP patch.

Environments, combat and music were done right, the rest of the game is embarrassingly bad with no hope of getting better. They have no clue what decent MMO game should look like and feel like, they are just stumbling in the dark since the release, people see that and they leave ofc. They did nothing but deliver false promises from before release up to now and it will continue in the future imo.
They absolutely need to fire incompetent PvP team leaders and hire someone with proper experience to try to save what can be saved, in order to get PvP in this game better, simple as that.

100 b noob killed ranger noob then boasts on forum. How interesting.

If combat is what is lacking for you in other games, try playing AoC one of the melee classes until things get better here, ( if they ever do). I also quit actively playing few months ago, sometimes i log in but game cant hold my attention for longer than 30 mins, its just too sterile and repetitive. Basically, they nailed art style, environments, combat and music but everything else is sub – standard, especially pvp.

Or they could just introduce anywhere/anytime dueling, along with things like PTR, general chat,deserter debuff, solo and team ranking and ladders and matchmaking, 2 or 3 non-conquest game modes. Would like to be able to go on general chat and write " Hey everyone, if interested in duels lets meet up in front of Divinity Reach" or just engage in dueling while in the mists, right click a person, choose duel option, how hard can it be to implement that?. But, i dont see that happening any time soon or ever. If you want an uninterrupted duels you will pay for it via rented servers As far as PvP is concerned, this game is pretty pathetic.

I hate mesmers, but happy birthday

With solo queue/ladder/rating i wouldn’t need friggin team nor would i look for one, nor would i have too look for one in order to compete, that’s the whole point. Who says 100 people who play paids constantly are the best pvp players in this game? Maybe there are 100 people who don’t want/cant play as a team who are better than those 100 team players? Without solo queue no one will ever know.