LOL This is glorious, I had no idea it would get this response. If you guys are this angry now, I can only begin to imagine how furious you’d be if you click on the link and realize what you’ve all been moaning about.
To add to that, I’d also like to see them put some of the glider skins as backpack items again. I can buy the black ir white feathered glider, but I missed the 24 hour window to get the back items so I have the wings on glider but not as a backpack. Why have one and not the other?
For you folks who are deep into the lore, if you guys pay close attention to certain parts of the story you can start to piece together who the REAL antagonist is. The person pulling the strings behind Mordremoth.
Well I liked the fight when it was working until about 50% when the boss bugged out. So far I’ve had to abandon this story mission twice due to the bosses glitching out and doing things they’re not supposed to. I’m waiting until the bugs get addressed before I make another attempt, but from what I saw in the fight I did like. Yes definitely not very dragon like, but I feel the fight is more involved and more fun than zhaitan.
I took a break from the game for awhile and have recently started playing again. I noticed quite a few awesome looking outfits and other cosmetic items that apparently were only obtainable through the gem store at one point, but are no longer available.
I was wondering, do those older gem store items ever get put back into the shop? or is it just a “you missed your chance sorry bro” type of deal?
I don’t see the problem, and the toy abilities for the executioner’s axe would be pretty sweet if they just took it out of toy mode and slapped some damage co-efficients onto each ability.
Even without that, having some two handed axe SKINS for GS or hammer would be sufficient enough to at least stomp out the ridiculous concept that there are no two-handed axes used at all in the entire universe of tyria. It would have to be more than one skin though, give us some variety.
It’s obvious what I meant, and that toy being in game just further proves how easy it would be for them to be implement them into the game.
Seriously though the absurdity of not having them has been eating at me since gw2 launched.
We have…
one handed maces, two handed maces(hammers)
one handed swords, two handed swords(greatsword)
one handed axes…. and then we trail off into the other weapons.
Is there some lore reason why two handed axes are not used as weapons in the guild wars universe? Also since this section of the forums is for the expansion and for things to come, it seemed a good place to toss the idea out there.
You didn’t answer the one question that’s been repeatedly asked since the last ready up show. What is going to be done about the people that farmed skyhammer? Rollbacks? Retroactive tournament compensation? Anything? Or should we just go ahead and take advantage of the next exploit that gets discovered because what the hell….it’s only pvp, we won’t get punished?
I want to have fun on warrior again without running longbow.
I understand warrior needs to be brought into line with other classes, but this would be a subtle but positive change in the long term, regardless of meta.
It looks like wildstar has been listening to pvpers because they are going with, 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 dm arenas with a set number of respawns.
If i was Aanet i would try to release gw2 arenas before wildstar launches, but what would i know.
I agree here, while there’s bound to be a few noble souls to rush into this thread and tell us how bad they think Wildstar will be, every new MMO release with that much buzz behind it means there will be a mass wave of players rushing to it if nothing else to at least try it out. If it comes out with less buggy, more fun PvP while Arenanet still struggles to fix bugs from beta and still has no new modes or improvement, why would anyone come back? I liked what I saw in the PvP roadmap but honestly I think their window of opportunity is closing.
I’ve been running something very similar to that GS/LB build for the past few months, only difference is that last 10 points I put into Berserker’s power instead of Burst mastery.
I’d personally like an explanation as to why when I win 4-5 matches in a row that I fall 20-30 spots in the leaderboard. Seriously how is this even possible?
BakiSaN.9281
This has no way to have a bad effect on the game in any way what so ever. Compensating loyal and active players with points that do NOT impact the game in ANY way except for bestowing bragging rights can only have a positive effect. Don’t get me even started on how much it would do towards fixing the damage caused by skyhammer farming. Let’s look at it this way. I have around 1,5k tournies played and my current LEGIT rank is 43. The other day, I decided to go FotM to have a lil’ fun with the new stuff and all and at 1 point I wanted to brag somewhat with my tiger. I did /rank (the only thing you can do to brag) and got faceslapped by a PvE’er that pulled a bear on my kitten . I pressumed he was a sPvPer too, a legit one and so I asked him. He said and I quote: “Nah, I just did the sh farm for a month or so, wanted the bear for giggles”. I just stood there for a minute or two, mindblown at how my effort and loyalty meant absolutely nothing and not only that but it actually made me look silly.
This testimony right here, is exactly the kind of thing that bothers me and is why I want something done. I agree that rank is merely time spent, but being that it, along with our rank finisher, is the only thing we have on PvE I am proud of it, and the fact that some PvE scrubs were able to just hop into a skyhammer farming custom arena and grind it out by suicide cheesing it for two months kitten es me off.
Not letting this slide, I want a response. A yes, a no, a kitten you….something. Not letting this one slide under the carpet like they did with the skyhammer rank farmers
I’d like to see this as well, since you know….you guys don’t seem to be in any hurry to roll back the cheesed rank, you could at least compensate us the rank for what we’ve already done.
nateedubs.8053
Kugron.5128: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-o;1NKVO0S4gL-60;9;4T-J-J38A;118;259-4-k6;2KJG4KJG45kR
Give that a whirl. I’ve been using this for a couple of months now and had great success with it.
This seems like a fun build but I’m also still pretty new to the game. I was under the impression that have a warrior that did a lot of bleeds or “conditions?” was the way to go.
Don’t you lose a great deal of that by not putting any points into Arms?
My build is not a condition build, it’s a burst build, and no build is really “the way to go”. If you get comfortable enough with classes, you can do well with any build. I personally find condition builds to be lacking since the pressure feels so weak due to having only 2-3 conditions, and its easily countered against anyone with lots of condi removal.
BurrTheKing.8571
The above build seems solid, but I would use Healing Surge instead of Signet. What makes the Signet good with Hammer or Mace is the fact that you’re stunning so frequently that it makes the regen more effective. Without that, a power build can overwhelm you fairly easily. It’s still up to preference but I like a big burst heal when running DPS.
Also, if you’re using Lyssa runes you’re missing out on the bonus boon on heal with the Signet seeing as you’ll never use it.
I can see Sword/X + Longbow still being a strong option.
A more offense focused version
Yea, healing surge does give a bit more synergy and it also means you can be more aggresive right out of the gate since you can go into a fight with full adrenaline, I just used healing signet for some longevity in teamfights but it can go either way.
I know they said they won’t give us gold for the games we’ve won which is just w/e, but I would love to be rewarded for all those tournament wins with rank. Like you said this would put legit players back above skyhammer rank farmers since I really don’t think they have any intention of rolling them back.
Give that a whirl. I’ve been using this for a couple of months now and had great success with it.
Your main damage comes from whirlwind, arcing shot, and if you can land a pindown on your target you can get most of a 100b on them. Bullcharge→Rush→(swap)arcing shot is also a nice bursty combo. 100b is also still amazing for pressure on downed bodies while your teammates stomp to negate a res.
Combustive shot gives you some condi-AoE over a node and also cleanses condis off yourself if your signet or rage and zerk stance are down. You also have some nice defensive capability with the whirlwind evasion, blinding shot, and sigil of energy on your bow for the extra dodge if needed. Also having GS means you have great mobility to get around the map in a flash to help your teammates, backcap, or pull away from a fight if it’s a lost cause.
Verdelet Arconia.6987
Pvp rank progression was ruined by hotjoins and skyhammer exploits.
Penalising the exploiters might be a huge undertaking as it will involve alot of investigation and effort.
Removing pvp rank progression entirely will just make all the efforts of the legit players go to waste.
I suggest we need to boost up the rank points of legit TPVP players effort so that whatever rank that was gained in hotjoin or the skyhammer,will seem trivial to TPVP players. How this is to be executed is via retroactive reward,similar in a sense to how achievement points reward was first implemented.
Since Data for our matches is already recorded,this would be easy to be executed with accuracy.
For every TPVP match played from 2012 up to 10 dec 2013 patch, a player will earn X Rank points per match. That player will earn a bonus Y Rank points per match won in TPVP. X and Y should be a huge number so as to render the hotjoin and skyhammer farming to be insignificant, for example 2000 rank points for X and 4000 rank points for Y.
Bsgapollo.5364
Sometimes it’s really so frustrating to play this game. Whenever I log in I’m already depressed of the thought facing the cheese specs in tourney’s. A warrior can eat a full churning earth without any problem but I can’t take 3 auto attacks from a kitten hammer. Any CC spec should almost do no damage what so ever. It’s dumb that you get 10k health taken while being CC’d, I’m not taking about warriors alone, necro’s and other classes fall under that category as well.
For an ai spec spirit ranger is extremely effective which is dumb as kitten, engi decap specs can kiss my kitten . Scepter air on ele is broken as well since everything is instant. AND SO ON….
Where is the kitten counterplay?!
Qft
I feel the same way, the fun aspect isn’t really there anymore. In fact the past month or so I’ve just been forcing myself to play to grind some rank, but I usually just end up doing the daily and then logging for the night because…why bother?
With Hambow we had…
a 2 sec AoE stun on an 8 second cd WITH high crit/burst
a condi immunity
high regen
condi removal
range AoE+combo field with high damage
Enough armor to last in any team fight
No other class/build in the game is this flawless, in fact the last time I remember a class having this much utility was just after launch when eles were the hotness, and we saw what happened to them. We had to lose something, looks like it’s damage.
As far as PvE goes, I think they could help issue with hammers in the Merciless Hammer trait by adding the following bold to the trait.
Hammer damage is increased by 25% when a foe is disabled, or has 1 or more stacks of defiant.
I feel your pain OP, I am not flawless myself but I know good godkitten well I should be up there. Two days ago I lost 11 matches in a row and went from 118th to 65% and now I fear there is no chance of escaping the elo hell.
John Corpening.9847:
If not, what would you do to improve rank acquisition?
I think the rate of rank acquisition should be accelerated. It took me 7 months of semi-hardcore play to reach rank 51 (564,000 points). To reach the coveted dragon rank I would need nearly 9,000,000 points (and as high as 15,000,000 to attain the Legendary Champion title). If I maintain my rather unhealthy rate of play, it would take a total of 9.5 years (I assume we’d be well into GW3 by that point)… Neither hardcore nor casual players have any hope of achieving this absurd goal. Therefore, my thought is to keep the ranking system, but to rapidly increase the amount of rank points awarded.
For example, I would favor the following formula:
Hotjoin: win = 800 points / loss = 300 points.
Solo Queue: win = 1,600 points / loss = 600 points.
Team Queue: win = 2,000 points / loss = 900 points.
At the same time, I think top stats should have their values increased: say, from 5 to 50 points per top stat.
If a scheme of this nature were ever implemented, it would be nice to see a rollback for a player’s previous accomplishments (it simply wouldn’t fair to older players). For example, you could take the top stats for all players and multiply it by a factor of 10, adjusting their ranks accordingly. Rolling back a player’s hotjoin, solo queue and tournament wins shouldn’t be much harder to execute, as these numbers are already in your database. So, if a player has 1,000 team arena wins, they’d at least be compensated in light of the new system. Likewise, with hotjoin and solo queue.
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So much this, the amount of rank required for each rank is staggering, and all other major achievements in the game(legendaries, 250k wvw kills, ect.) don’t hold a candle to the amount of time needed to rank up. 200 rank for a hotjoin win, 250 for a solo queue win, these amounts are pretty pathetic when you get up past rank 50 and need 1 mil + to get through the next 10 ranks.
I want to echo my previous question from another thread, but when should we be expecting the rank system to be removed? If you are really going to follow through with this then we’d like to know how long we have to finish getting our desired ranks/if they’re worth going for at all.
Since you devs keep repeating in every thread that we should give our reward ideas here I’ll bite, I’d like to see some of the followinf for rewards…
Rank finishers
I like them, I want them to stay.
Armor skins exclusive to just pvp
Seriously, new skins that you can’t get in PvE since there are some PvE skins unobtainable in PVP.
Titles
Anything cool, maybe tie it to where you rank in your league or division.
Colored Nameplates showing which division you reach in a season
Think league of legends at the loading screen, the players get a gold or silver or diamond rim based on their past leagues and divisions they reached from previous seasons.
1. With the removal of the rank system being announced, how long do players have to get their desired rank finishers before it is too late? Or more simply how long do we have before the rank system is gone?
2. If you guys do eventually remove the rank system and reward the players prestige for their earned ranks, will anything be done about the people who farmed skyhammer? You’d basically be rewarding people who exploited the game.
I understand that you guys are unjustifiably proud of this awful map, but it doesn’t need to be shoved down our throats. Or at all for that matter. Seriously is it just me having bad luck or is anyone else getting skyhammer every other match?
I look forward to these nerfs as all of the retarted ES spam monkeys will go away to the next fotm, and I’ll go back to enjoying my class without getting ridiculed and insulted.
I’m not a fan of any new rank system based off of tournament wins. FOTM build cookie cutters will be at the top. Not underdogs who make viable fun builds. People who join pvp guilds will not be having fun—they will be playing what they are told to play, which is fotm or get out and not play tournies.
Not to get off topic, but it’s like this for the rest of the game aswell. Top WvW guilds want their players running specific builds to compliment what the team needs, PvE guild and dungeon groups kick people who don’t run full zerk FotM builds. There’s nothing that can be done to avoid the build favoritism.
So you’re saying they’re just going to reward those who rank farmed skyhammer while it was allowed and punish those who didn’t take advantage of that opportunity by not taking away their rank status or making it easier for people to gain rank?
I really don’t see how they can fix this problem, and I can guarantee you there will be no rollback. I recently had an issue with my account and asked to have it rolled back, and I had the customer service representative explain to me how it costs a lot of man hours and resources with a third party program to rollback an account, and this was just for one. I can’t imagine they would go back on a massive amount of accounts.
Also, there have been exploits in pvp before that were never rolled back. There are some pvpers who are running around with rank 80 items because of the exploit that let you get dragon tokens early, nothing was done about that.
Honestly they might aswell just scrap the rank system entirely, I’m not really sure what they would put in place to gate off the items.
