Guild Wars 2

apharma.3741:

Teutos.8620:

Ravenmoon.5318:

That thing that many people seem to forget these days, and older people like to blame the millenials for the lack of it – professionalism

You didn’t hear Michael Jordan trashtalking basketball on ESPN now did you? If you are old enough to know about the legend…

It wasn’t trashtalking. Where did he insult ArenaNet? He just said they made a mistake and therefore he doesn’t care about the upcoming matches.
This is absolutely something you are seeing in the ‘normal’ sports. If the stadium has problems and they are not fixed until the play-day, everybody is talking about it.
If a team is losing their top leaderboard position because of a bad decision from a judge, they are taling about it.

Wolfey.3407:

Aren’t you a lovely kid.

It is always great to start with an insult. Really shows how much you respect a good discussion!

I can send emails every week, I can’t force them to do anything.

And did you sent a email including the ddos problem? Or did you only include the normal league / balance qq?
If you did, then please tell me if there are still more ‘professional’ ways to talk about the incident?

How do you think people would react if you were drunk when being paid to work? I .

I dont get it, they normally pay me more when im drunk.

Watch any big esports and you will see that bot casters and players and loose and are having fun. Just yesterday in ESL CS:GO casters were smack talking each other and even physicly poking each other, cause its a kittening video game, its all entertainment business. Only people who need to be professional are those who work behind camera making the game and the tournament.
Of course when those people are unprofessional then you start whining that players need to be more serious cause otherwise gw2 esports look like complete joke, but it already is so what does it even matter.

Dont understand the big deal he just says what all veteran players already knew only anouncing it to public. Everyone knew that if you want to go pro in gw2 then try to put the least amount of effort and dont sacrifice anything for it.
No other team put as much effort into gw2 as vermilion did and at the end of the day all that time is wasted because they got ddosed, the game is joke and anything can happen.
Every single tournaments outcome has been decided by something that players cant affect, be it lag on lan tournament or secret sigil nerfs or whatever else.
If the game would be about skill then a team that wins world championship wouldnt be one of worst teams next year with same players while competing against same players.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Each class needs to have the same amount of sustain/damage potential as the other classes.

Thats absolutely not how balance works in mmorpg with 5 man teams and 9 classes.
But then again i still remember you from beeing the guy who whined about beeing stuck in ruby season 1 and then posting your build which was the trashiest build i have seen in 3 years of playing and then trying to say its good cause you can 1v1 on it.

Agendath.4032:

Leeto,

Are you going to continue playing reaper? If so, which kind of build will you change to? And do you think there will be a place for necromancer in competitive play this season?

I will continue fooling around on my power reaper but for condi id just go base necro, just played few games on it and it feels OP, i mean Curses/Spite/SR with signets IS OP the only thing that hold it back was that everyone was running celestial builds and later just that reaper was even more OP. And it recks some builds that reaper doesnt like thief and condi mesmer.

I would think that with the pro league no stack rule you will definetly see necros.

Ruru.1302:

cyka blyat

I know thats how they call arenanet in russia but please keep topic in english.

I just need to say this cause all this “balance” talk is pointless.
If you played this game since release then you remember actual balance patches. Every game update had some balance changes in them now we just have changes after every few months.
April 2014 trait redesign changed basicly how every class works afterwards basicly no balancing of changes.
Expansion same thing it was like 2 times minor changes, do you really think that anet is so perfect company that can achieve what noone else has ever achieved, even WoW has PTR much larger company and much more players who are actually allowed to see changes beforehand and even they gotta work hard on balancing after expansion.

And after expansion same thing they shuffle meta every quarter release and leave it there.
They stack up on changes and do them all at once when you only need to adjust one variable, like with necro buff and bunker nerf, necro needed buff cause cele classes were to powerful, so instead of one or another they remove cele amulet and buff necro.

Perfect example is chill nerf, it had to be nerfed ages ago and if every time they put outfit or glider skin in gem store someone would adjust chill dmg it would be tested and balanced but instead they did nothing and now nerfed it by what 80% and made into bleed. So thats 2 huge nerfs aka just butcher it and move onto next meta.

There is no such thing as perfect balance in mmorpg especially in one like GW2 but they dont even try anymore.
So ye just find the new OP things and enjoy them for next 3 months then move on.

1. It feels less pointless, you see some progress, getting 3 accounts from amber to legend has been most fun ive had, and playing ranked in legend division is the least fun.
2. Everyone is bad, there is no mystical good players in legendary division, i come to this topic after watching stream of a thief who has legendary wings and clicks hes heal.
GW2 has some of the worst players ive seen in any video game and maybe if you are on very bottom it seems that higher division players are better but once you get basic understanding of 5v5 conquest, get keybinds and stop playing from first person then you start realizing that everyone is way way worse than it seemed at start.

Dont worry we all just having drunk funzies here, anet doing it obvisously for past 3 years. its all good.

Was busy not beeing banned on main account and forgot to brag about this seasons legend.
So ye same as first season 100% necro 100% solo que, only now on free to play account, time +/- 2 weeks. Diamond was kinda strugle cause its full with revenants but otherwise much easier than first season.
Dont let your dreams be dreams .?(ò_ó?)?

System actually works, just got myself off a 2 week ban for talking smack in map chat.
Its beutiful world you live in where biggest problems you have is people beeing mean in a video game, i can give you some likes on facebook if that will make you feel better.

I guess they could create some system to check for builds but then which builds are allowed in ranked and which not? In this case with minionmancer its obvious but there are more horrible builds that are less obvious.
I fear anet cant fix this.

I was standing alt tabbed in heart of the mists today and noticed that a ruby player came up next to me, minutes later another ruby player came. Both stood next to me for quite a while so i logged out irritated by this mix of divisions, i dont want to accuse anyone but im quite sure that they were trying to pickpocket some pips.
Already for a while i have felt that we need to split legendary players from low division ones, so you should do that.
And now if we have split players by their skill you can adjust mists appropriately add for example dueling arena for legendary players where we can practice our legendary abilities and maybe make duels about pips so if someone does not belong in legendary division he looses pips and send him back to low division.
About low ones i dont know maybe give some more target golems to rubies and more pvp tutorial npcs to ambers.
Doing this would prevent division hatred and when some legendary player will try to take screenshot of himself he wont have to worry that some emerald runs into picture.
Thank you.

I know that people will ask my opinion about this so will just get it out here.

So i dont think its good change overall and a lazy buff to necro. Some points -

Scepter – With reapers powerful chill damage, condi build is ahead of every other build and with reapershroud beeing melee based, scepter was already far better option than dagger, so this puts scepter even further ahead of any other necro weapon (necros have only 1 weapon, staff is must have and always have been)

Necro buff – What makes necro good atm beside damage is boon corruption, but at high level necro lacks basicly everywhere else so if someone takes necro they basicly takes it because it counters mesmers/revs, instead of buffing where necro was lacking or where necro was complete trash they just gave it more of what it had, and ye maybe it will now almost force top teams to play with necro but already teams that could bare with flaws of necro were benefiting alot from necro boon corruption, but top teams dont play with necros not because what they have is weak but because of what they dont have.

Necro v Necro – Necro overall is quite simple class its not like for example thief where bad thief is complete trash and good thief is godmode, bad necro can do something and good necro can do much more, this buff shortens distance even more not only because good corrupts show difference between necros but even autoattack shows its, autoattacking in right moments especially with scepter is big deal, even in pro league you could see necro not beeing able to get kill in 2v2 because he was just spamming every button and weapon switching with just 2 chains of scepter autoattack and that poison would get them kill, necro is not class where the more buttons you press the more damage you deal but now even if you dont know when to autoattack and when not i cant imagine going wrong with just autoattacking.

Other players, fun and RNG – Does this make necro more fun? not really? does it make more fun to play together with necro? not really. does it make more fun to play against necro? no. It can take alot of fun away tho, especially if its boon corruption is RNG like other corrupts, having your stability stomp/ress interrupt just cause necro autoattacked cant be fun.

So as i said before at start its just lazy buff to necro. Necro didnt need scepter buff, it kinds didnt need more boon corruption, but it needed buff to become meta pick, maybe this is that buff but i dont think its best way to get them into meta.

Well whenever i complain about broken things in this game they say im biased about necro so here you go some necro whine.

And my biased necro opinion is – Cool, boon corruption on autoattack, thx anet.

Posted video of mesmer speedhacking week ago… and again hes in my game on enemy team porting around map killing NPCs in niflhel and stuff… he does it so obviously that it would suprise me if NSA hasnt handed in hundred page report on hes activities already, yet anet does nothing. esports.

Cynz.9437:

Leeto you should change your title btw. Anet doesn’t spit on pvpers, in fact i think majority can’t wait for balance patch.

What does this have to do with balance patch? Its about everyone playing broken meta for months which now was obviously for no reason and why hide the trash meta on big stage if thats what everyone had to play.

The moba comparison doe, even if you pretend that gw2 class is as simple as moba champion i still havent heard that top lane become unviable and player needs to start playing mid lane.

Pros should play 3 classes? Every pro could have been master of 7 classes but if it wasnt mesmer/rev they couldnt do good in tournies.
Having new meta on big stage is good? Ye sure everyone suffers months of trash meta for sake of esports and then they try to fix it just so it looks that game is fine and you are not forced to play 3 classes on 5 man team in a game with 9 classes.
Oh they will have to adjust they true pros… who the f cares about THEM i care about those players who wont be there just because they could not switch from playing thief to bunker mesmer or from bunker ele to dps revenant….
You think that current results show most skilled players/teams? No they show who was best at adapting to 2xmes2xrev cheese so and now we even wont see who is best at playing this cheese comp instead we will see who can dig out new cheese builds first.
I know that these are pvp forums and average skill level here is that of a potato and you dont understand whats going on when watching tournament but for some people watching skilled players is more fun than looking at good builds.

First of all if you are one of those who constantly whine about balance and nothing else matters then this topic aint for you.

1st WTS was won by 2x cele burn engi.
2nd WTS was won by hammer guard.
3rd WTS was won by 2x DD ele.

Winners are winners and loosers shouldve have taken the risk and adapted their comps to latest meta etc. not trying to say here that they should have not won BUT how can these tourneys be most competetive if teams qualify with one thing and then because of anet their comp is not as strong anymore.

So now this trash meta we have for while, ive been defending no balance on my stream all the time because anet said long time ago that there will be no big balance changes until pro league is over which was more than fine with me cause i wanted to see one time tourney were people play what they been playing and there isnt some cheese that others teams havent discovered.
Whole PVP community had to live with this “balance” for months just so we get most competetive tourney.

Now pro players…. People didnt got invited, people got kicked, they lost time, they lost money, some of you might think this is joke but multiple players got fkd over really hard by this meta because their teams wanted to stay competetive.

Aaaaaand at the end of the day:
“Pro League S1 Finals will use the Winter 2016 balance update, not the current.”

Who knows how balance will be, who knows what classes will be viable, maybe if pro league would happen with next patch we would see completely different teams or in some cases same teams with different players.

So why spit in face of normal PVPers and pro league players? Well money ofc.
Having pro league finals with current meta is just bad marketing. The finals will be seen by people who dont play gw2 and of course anet dont want them to see every team playing 2x mes 2x rev comp.

Division should not affect matchmaking cause it takes no skill at all to get to legend, you can party vs soloquers, play with ambers, tank mmr, just play alot of games till you get lucky everyone can do it one way or another.
I have tons of people on friendlist with who i have played matches together for past 3 years and who are on similiar skill level but i havent seen them in any of my games since league started because they dont want to farm alot of games and are 2-3 divisions below me, so instead i get other legend players who i have never seen before and obviously they are not very good.
Maybe im just having short term memory and i dont remember about past games but it really feels that with every division im seeing more bad players in my games.
I dont mind playing with emeralds or sapphires as long as they know what they doing instead of just farmed stronghold with party.

actually its quite simple, for season two every match should be made with equal size of parties on both teams, with extra reward for 5 man, like winning another 5 man team gives 2 extra pips. Sounds huge but would motivate people to create new teams and let the competetive scene grow.

So ye soloq soloq soloq soloq i want soloq but anet doesnt care about soloq.
We all are forgetting that there is no teamque either, new team has no way to even practice in this game beside setting up scrims.
Basicly almost every proleague player we have atm used to play team que back when we had it, now if someone would be interested in making team they have nowhere to practice.
None good players now que with 5 man parties at all because they will never meet another 5 man anyway its just gonna be soloquers and some smaller parties.

There is actual pro league team atm who were “practicing” before qualifier with somewhat cheesy comp and dominating every single game but they had to switch their comp after getting rekt in pro league because it didnt work AT ALL vs team that is on teamspeak.

I mean im not interested into playing on team anymore but when there was teamque i used to play with some teams and you could clearly see how good is your comp/team vs other 5 man team, now i could make 5 man of decent players with random comp and we would still win games because we wouldnt meet any coordinated 5 man.

So ye this system is not only bad for soloquers about whom anet doesnt care it doesnt let competetive scene to grow either because noone has any reason to play game with actual team.

Lexander.4579:

Seagate.4821:

Leeto.1570:

Lexander.4579:

the best part about the whole stream culture are brainless fanboys making buttcults centered around foul and toxic behavior of their streaming idols

Agree, i think thats the best part about streaming too.

Lexander PM’d and said he wants to become a famous streamer too, please send him valuable advice.

I wouldnt become an internet clown even if I was offered a guaranteed revenue, but apparently there is plenty of people willing to part with their dignity just for a chance to milk the brainless twitch crowd for their donations

Whoa internet clown? I mean i dont let other people opinions affect my life not even talking about those who are behind keyboards but clown? That hurts.
I hope one day i can restore my honor and dignity to become respectable member of kings court once again just like noble Alex Shadowdagger.

Hahahaha now i expect apologies from everyone who said that im just beeing elitist and that the things i said about OP from hes first screenshot doesnt mean that hes bad player!
Does really anyone want to tell me that player who has ANY idea about PVP could come up with that build, im not even talking about bad weapon or traitline choices im talking about looking at 3 traits in tier and picking the WORST ones….

“I can facetank dragon hunters, and stand in all of their traps without ever even dodging.” this one just killed me, dank build indeed

Ross Biddle.2367:

Rofl, he’s so blatant about it too. And made it all the way to diamond too without being banned first XD

Dunno he covering tracks pretty good when i said im reporting he said “Im lagging, kitten and learn to play” almost believed.

And 2 pips gone cause of yung thug.
Blyat.

What do you mean you “dominate” with this build? Not dying, or winning 1v1s is not dominating, dominating is winning games, which you said yourself that you dont.

You posted your issue yourself in secret manner… “I am placed on a team with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .” Obviously _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _= TheBlackLeech!

Zoltreez.6435:

Leeto.1570:

Zoltreez.6435:

Leeto.1570:

As much as i would want to say that maybe you are not good enough i cant because any bad can get to legend. So just pick up actual meta condi necro build and get your legend.
Do you even have keybinds?

that elitsm lol

its all rng in what players you get in your team
you CAN’T solo carry a match ONLY if you go againts seriously bad people

How is it elitism, if someone would google GW2 PVP basics he would probobly stumble on some guide that tells him that you need build and keybinds before you start PVPing, so this fook has no build and no keybinds so he doesnt even have the very basic requirements for PVPing.
Yes most of the time whichever team has least amount of bad players win, but if you are bad yourself then you already decrase the chances of having the better team.

he never mentioned or said that
as i said elitsm allready thinking he is a bad scrub that does not know the basics

He is celestial necro with wells.
90% sure he has no keybinds and not that they binded to mouse or something.
Hes in PVE guild.
Hes tracking wintersday achievements.

So i should ignore all these signs of someone whos not very competent PVPer and presume that hes 1 out of 1000 exception and is actually good player?
Elitist in me says that he shouldnt even be in ranked but play unranked, cause i didnt even leave hotjoin till i knew every basic thing about PVP, but im not doing that because im 100% that he plays PVP not because he wants to be good at it but because he wants reward so im telling him that even tho hes terrible player he can still get to legend if he would play build thats considered viable because there is ton of terrible player in legendary division.

Actually ye you cracked code im kitten elitist. Sorry to OP, you are awesome change nothing, its all RNG when you stop getting bad teammates you will fly to next division like beutiful eagle

Zoltreez.6435:

Leeto.1570:

As much as i would want to say that maybe you are not good enough i cant because any bad can get to legend. So just pick up actual meta condi necro build and get your legend.
Do you even have keybinds?

that elitsm lol

its all rng in what players you get in your team
you CAN’T solo carry a match ONLY if you go againts seriously bad people

How is it elitism, if someone would google GW2 PVP basics he would probobly stumble on some guide that tells him that you need build and keybinds before you start PVPing, so this fook has no build and no keybinds so he doesnt even have the very basic requirements for PVPing.
Yes most of the time whichever team has least amount of bad players win, but if you are bad yourself then you already decrase the chances of having the better team.

Lexander.4579:

the best part about the whole stream culture are brainless fanboys making buttcults centered around foul and toxic behavior of their streaming idols

Agree, i think thats the best part about streaming too.

As much as i would want to say that maybe you are not good enough i cant because any bad can get to legend. So just pick up actual meta condi necro build and get your legend.
Do you even have keybinds?

Vasdamas Anklast.1607:

Got to legendary, let’s now go trashtalk noob pugs and play a thief? ooh yeah

Oh ye i remember carrying you whole game and at end of game i killed necro 1v2 and you ran past him then started slobbering back and i died… and you instantly died right next to me and wrote that my thief is useless.
Whats the big deal, i wouldnt be surprised if even amber warriors trashtalk you.

Nope i even declined invite from 4 man party that just beat me when i was few pips away from next division, staying solo was the hardest part of it all so if i wouldnt have set this challange for myself i would totally party up when close to next division.

So at last finished my Road to 100% soloq legend run. All done on necro. I have heard from 2-3 people that they got to legend with only soloq too but that would diminish my kitten size so i will just say they lying and im only one universe. Some tips on soloqing to legend:
1. Dont kittening do it, its absolutely pointless, soloq is not that bad but 100% soloq is pointless and just 2-3 games with rat squad would save me at least 20+ hours from this run, for example i was 1 pip away from sapphire but it took me 10 extra hours to actually get there because i kept meeting party boiz.
2. Dont que at night or weekend, late in evening party boiz go out on prowl, especially car trash just waits till everyone beside soloquers are asleep and only then que. On weekends its just mystical time to que, you meet strangest creatures ever and even tho they are in your division you have never seen them in pvp before.
3. Play something that can carry and adapt, revenant or bunker mesmer or if you are very good then thief, pips were coming very slowly until i started switching between celestial/carrion/viper amulets depending what my team and enemy team is running.
4. Actually everyone can do it, as much as i would want to pretend that it took skill to carry bads with time everyone could do it in diamond i met some people soloqing and they were just horrible players that i had never met before in past, the good player progress faster and after while you are left with only bad players in your division so with time everyone can hit legend.

Was amazing run first time in years i actually cared about winning/loosing that much, at last could rage again about loosing etc. What motivated me was watching some other people streams where they would que with party and just sit there 500-100 winning every game while i at least had chance to get a good close match. even tho 30% of time party boiz would destroy it.

The system is broken, its not even supposed to work, you win/loose multiple pips not because you win/loose fair matchup by big point difference but because you win/loose unfair matchup. It already says that system is not working if one of the teams is supposed to win before game starts. But still i had my share of fun so instead of calling it completely broken system i will just say its arenanet system.

Leeto the Rat Whisperer

lloydst.6985:

let me guess you are not running any toughness and dont know how to dodge

No i dont know how to dodge while beeing immobilized, im trying to learn how to dodge the backstab but not with very high success.
Ye i dont run any toughness, i mean i have no problems against 8/9 classes playing non toughness amulet because you know i can kite/dodge/line of sight/counterpressure them. But ye maybe its not thief and i should run different amulet just because of this one class.
So if people want to deal with thief they should just run tankier build, and then we should buff thief damage because everyone runs tanky build. Good idea and power creep is already what anet likes.

no im just posting some random screenshots from runescape

What type of dmg you exactly want to buff? The 3k autoattack? The 4k dodge? The 5k one chain of elite? or the 5.5 k sword 3? Or maybe the 11k backstab that comes from stealth?
What about survibility? Every single match ive played that has decent thief he has less deaths than any other player.
Its stupid to even consider that thief would need buff and not that some other classes need a nerf. Thief is class for expert players who are good at the game, if you want to buff it for bad players then first ask to nerf it at high end.

There is random thief on eu (by random i mean not on pro team or anything) he is almost diamond just by soloquing and ive won every game when he is on my team and if i remember right then lost every time hes on enemy team.
Thief is excellent in soloque carry as it has always been, he can pick easy targets because not like soloquers can ask teammate to help on teamspeak.
The problem is that thief class sucks for bad player. Between good and bad revenant there is not such big gap but bad thief is insta dead and good thief never dies.
So ye its just hard class to play not bad.

There have been alot of suggestion to nerf things what makes thief OP at high level of play and buff things that makes them weak at lower tiers but all thiefs always like to pretend that they are super skilled ninjas and whine as fast as someone points out OP aspects of class.

I even think that as fast as top teams wont have to play double revenant thief might be meta pick again.

In theory its not possible for soloq players to win team, in badly designed system you could punish them for not doing something they arent supposed to do but how can you put double punishement for what im not supposed to do in first place.
What im talking about is that i lost two times against party yesterday and lost 2 pips both times.

Im not stressing about pips atm im just really curious, was this whole system designed by one person? And put in by one person? Cause i can bet if you would put this design on paper and show it to kids in kindergarten even they would see that there is problem here.

Ok whoever came up with this is wasting my time thats one thing but kitten m8 you have wasted 10 million years of human evolution, we are sending people in space and there is still human being on this planet who didnt see problem with how leagues work? Mindblowing.

Ye matchmaking aint the best BUT

You are PVE ranger with 200 solo arena games who still thinks that scoreboard points matter… people who are supposed to be on your MMR are atm practicing hotjoin or unranked at best.

Thats thing people dont understand you already should be experienced PVPer even before quing for ranked.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Evan Lesh.3295:

There were a few reasons for keeping players in HotM when queued:

• It forces new players to recognize they have completely different builds in PvP maps.
• You won’t miss the match accept because of load screens and get dishonor.
• We can make a better user experience (match accept and map voting) without having to worry about interrupting whatever a player might be doing elsewhere.

In order to allow queuing from outside HotM, we would need to change these things.

• We would need tech to remove players temporarily from queue during load screens.
• Create better tutorials or gating for new players so they don’t hop into PvP unprepared.
• Revisit the way the match flow UI works.

The reason I’m on the tiny “NO” amount.

I have a good PC with SSD and I can load GW2 in no time. Although for guys&gals with medicore PC, they could take up to even a minute to load HotM. I don’t wanna wait longer in re-queue and they prob don’t wanna get dishonor for having a medium PC.

Load hotm? When you accept que you get right into game it didnt load you into hotm first.
i have garbage hdd, sometimes i have 10 seconds left till start of match when i join match and even with this PC for 2 years i never missed que because of loading screen its just so rare and at worst case you can just get where you want to be and only then que up.

I really dont understand has all the old player given up on this game? Not even a year has passed since we had possibility to que outside of mists and it was working perfectly, same with soloque.
I know its hard to believe but if you werent playing back then but this game had both these features working perfectly and then anet just removed them for no reason.

1.
Thief is fine for PVP just as always it has been, their problem is the aids meta cause they rely on active defense which is hard to do in passive aids spam meta, i still feel DP shadowarts is viable.
2.
Warr has never been good at all, it has always lacked good PVP mechanics and always was carried by some cheese build be it hambow or shoutbow.
3.
There is always classes that are not meta picks, warrior and thief have been meta picks longer than any other class, get benched boiz. When warr will be without a single playable build as long as ranger was i will start caring… maybe

Its only proof that anet doesnt play their own trash game…
Most of the time que is as long as game so 50% of time PVP player is literally not doing anything at all…

If someone is taking kitten when que pops then its hes fault if someone is in loading screen when que pops then it is hes kittening fault too… not everyone is as kittening dumb as anet so most people would go where they want to be before queing up.

And not getting put against premades all day when soloquing would be nice too.

Before giving big espahts money make this game somewhat playable.

I dont disagree with removing celestial i want that amulet gone from the game just nerf thief first… im completely fine playing marauder till i meet good thief.
How do you survive on marauder? You kite, manage cooldowns, counterpressure, position and be aware of enemies, none of this works against thief.

I like how thiefs are now pretending to be the hurt ones, maybe if your whiny community wouldnt cry so much every time someone said something about how thief kittens on every other zerker then we wouldnt be stuck in this bunker meta.

You forgot mentioning that they should change/delete thief first and only then change/delete celestial, the reason why noone can play zerk builds hasnt changed, people have just been playing celestial so long that they have forgotten.

Well druids now are the meta bunkers so they kinda robbed each other.

If you didnt run spite before and still took blighters boon then it only shows how OP it is cause that trait is like made for spite.
It was kinda obvious that its gonna get nerfed but it saddens that we lost ONLY way to unlock 5 important skills before going into fight.
IMO they should have added 1-2 second cooldown on ALLY boon life force and keep no CD on your own, but ye that would be just too complicated for anet to pull it off.

It should be for free in first place.
When i bought GW2 there was 2 main selling points that got my interest competitive PVP and no expansions.
For someone who used to play WoW this was big deal cause i was tired for paying 50$ every few years just so i can do same stuff i did before.
In GW2 its just BS there isnt even the leveling/gearing in between im doing literally same thing i was doing 2 days ago with build being only change.

I dont know what these tools are talking about, at release anet said that game is built in a way that there will be no need for expansion and you dont get any amazing content you get 1 trait line which in most cases just kittens on old traitlines and is must for PVP.

After the big trait patch everyone was constantly repeating that eles have too much healing… after FOUR months they nerfed ele damage…. do you really wonder why people are speechless?
It took them so long to nerf wrong thing that a kittening expansion is coming out and it doesnt even matter anymore.
And its always like that it takes anet half year to nerf something and then they already release new patch that changes meta and brings new imbalances.

Where is the announcement for adding soloq back>?
Two weeks ago ~30 games 2 games with soloquers only ~27 where enemy team has party most of time 3+
Yesterday 2 matches both times 5 soloquers against 5 partyboiz
Today 1 match got 4 necros on my team all soloquers vs 5 man
At least shuffle it up from time to time so i can afk and loose 50% of my matches then afk and win 50% of my matches.
Or maybe put party on one team and then party on other team :O just imagine that… And if i only soloq then shouldnt it be easy to stick on the side of ratsquad? How the hell can 90% of time enemy team can have party and not mine.
I dont even know how you can write code with crayons but this mmr is some kindergarden level kitten.
If its really that impossible to add soloq then make it so it possible to que only with 5 man, cause waiting 10 minutes to farm soloquers aint fun either. (well seems it is for some)