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Deathly Chill is also the best grandmaster DPS trait for berserker reaper.
How else are they going to determine whether or not it works if the literal only way they can check is on the live servers, since the problems can’t be reproduced on their internal testing servers/clients?
A public testing server. The disaster that has been this beta weekend is one of the many, many reasons this game needs one, just like every other major MMO uses one.
Do you guys realize you’re doing all of this on a live server? Please stop ruining people’s fractal and dungeon runs.
There aren’t any assurances, and I don’t think you (or anyone) is going to get them. It’s not reasonable to ask for assurances, because unsuspected things happen. All the time. Testing on a live server can bring problems that are completely new and couldn’t be predicted. Something that works fine first can suddenly break, etc etc. It’s a good thing that they are open in their communication. It’s clearly not that easy to fix, so that will take its time.
Right. But other MMOs don’t have these problems to the same extent because they have better internal testing coupled with public testing.
Since we’re not testing three of four zones in the expansion and 11 out of 12 raid bosses, I think it’s fair to ask if something is changing internally to make sure all of this content isn’t bugged in a way that makes it unplayable. This is all costing us $50, after all.
I honestly don’t mean to be harsh or cynical. But this is now two major events in a row where it seems like the QA process failed. What assurances do we have the entire expansion won’t be a bug-ridden disaster? Is something fundamentally changing at ArenaNet?
We just had a string of terrible plane crashes, including one last week. How does something so insensitive slip through?
The German forums, where people apparently had family members affected by this tragedy, are really upset: https://forum-de.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Un-gl-cklicher-Aprilscherz.
There is only one class that has always been mandatory in every PvP group. Yet, until this thread, I have never seen people complain about it. Kind of interesting.
Rooster seems really promising. I can vouch for him.
I would only support wheeled turrets if they had visible leashes attached to the engineer.
There are plenty of premade teams that will lose to a group of 5 skilled solo players. The problem is only with high-tier premades wiping the floor with solo Q players. But, in reality, they will wipe the floor with low-mid tier premades too.
This debate is over and done with. It has been for two years, which is why they added solo queue in the first place. Even the developers agree solo players should not fight five-man or even four-man teams.
This is just a failure of their algorithm. Plain and simple. They either need to fix it, which it seems they’re incapable of doing, or bring back solo queue, which nobody said should be removed in the first place.
I just fought a five-man team with three solo players and a two-man on it.
Bring back solo queue.
The worst part is I seem to have gotten stuck in ELO hell because I lost versus various groups while solo queueing. So not only is my experience unpleasant because I fight groups, it’s generally unpleasant all the time because I play with terrible people.
The experiment has failed horribly. We had this debate two years ago. Solo players don’t want to fight teams. Teams don’t want to fight solo players. Bring back solo queue.
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Freedom of speech. I find YOUR post offensive in that you would censor people so should I have a hissy fit and demand YOU be censored? Censorship is a slippery slope, one mans vulgarity is another mans art and no one person gets to decide for others. Read 1984 by George Orwell.
LOL. This post has everything.
I’m thinking the OP might be over-sensitive. Surely there are people in the game who do insult others, but they’re a very small minority.
You have to consider the perspective of LGBT people before labeling them as over-sensitive. They’re in a minority group that faces discrimination on a daily basis. That wears a person down — and seeing any of it in a game that’s supposed to be a tool for escape can just send someone over the edge.
Nope. The new system does nothing to discourage this, because there’s no feasible solution for it. Just report and hope the person gets banned eventually.
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You guys know how you can tell the simplification excuse is bull? Literally nothing in the gem store that was added today matches 400 gem increments. Nothing. It’s all 200, 500, or 700. There’s a reason for that.
Ok, guys. Some of you are unhappy about this change, I can see that. BUT… quite honestly, most of you are sort of (I hate to use the word) ranting (sorry!) instead of offering suggestions.
I assure you, the team leader told me not 15 minutes ago, they will listen to suggestions.
- Does that mean you get everything you want? Probably not.
- Does that mean you should suggest something? Yes, of course! Because they’re expecting player input.
So you want lower increments? Think it through and present a suggestion! You want XYZ in the interface? Post that idea. You would rather see something else? Post what you think about that other thing. Please don’t get into the whole “I’m going to kick the devs and their little dogs, too” because it’s not doing you or us any good at all.
I’m not here to apologize. I’m here to communicate and right now, the communication is coming in without a whole lot of substance. Over to you for suggestions and constructive input!
Put in an option to manually exchange gold for X amount of gems and vice versa
Done.
No more putting in X gold to get the amount of gems you want and so it won’t confuse players. I want to exchang my 100 gems for gold, fine, just type it in and when you wanna get gems for your gold, fine, just type in how much gems you want. Profit.
This makes sense.
Frankly, the way it worked before didn’t make much sense. Almost no one went into the gem store and said, “I’m going to spend 40 gold today.” They went to the gem store and said, “I want to buy 400 gems.” Then they would fiddle with the gold count until they got the right amount.
With that said, I prefer the old system to this one. Destroying all flexibility is completely uncalled for.
If it’s just about simplification, why can’t you keep the simple options and then right beneath them have the option to put in your own custom value? That would keep it simple for the people who need it while keeping flexibility for those who don’t.
I really hope no one buys that this is just about simplification and making the interface intuitive. What a laughable claim.
I will never buy gem stores again, through gold or real money, until this is fixed. Such a blatant money grab.
I have never seen a company I once respected so much completely descend in every single way I can imagine. The only way my respect for ArenaNet could fall lower is if you somehow screwed up the combat and art — because those are literally the only things that keep me playing at this point.
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Please stop turning my instant sell failures into buy orders. Just because an item fails to sell instantly doesn’t mean I want to put it up as a buy order.
I think you’re giving player feedback too much weight, Phaeton. These are the same developers that needed people screaming for new modes for a year to actually admit they need to be made.
Doom and Reaper’s Mark do have unique animations, and they’re really noticeable. The problem with Doom is it’s instant, but its tell is supposed to be a necromancer going into Death Shroud.
I am a faceless nobody as far as tpvp goes, but seeing this list makes me feel good that I have seen, fought and killed 1 v 1 several of the names on this list. Of all of them Tarcis seemed the best warrior and most pleasant of a person.
I think a lot of people are in your position. I think if the game was actually competitive and had better leaderboards, a lot of the top players would be outclassed by people who don’t even do team queues. There are a couple classes that don’t even have one good player currently representing them in North American tournaments.
If good players are already able to counter it rather easily, where is the issue? I could understand if such a build was effective in tourneys as well, but it is easily crushed at competitive levels.
Asking for the game to be balanced over the needs of low skill level players is rather nonsensical. You could ask for nerfs for everything by following that pretense.It’s a joke that a turret engi can hold a point against multiple zerkers classes in uncoordinated games. I hate to break it to you, but in a large chunk of games you’ll have at least one team not on TS. It gets even worse when you get paired with randoms.
My issue with turret engis isn’t WHAT the do but HOW they do it. It is demoralizing watching a player sit there and auto attack, never dodge and often times win a fight where his turrets are setup or be a MAJOR factor in that fight. It’s bad for the playerbase because it’s like a virus. The bads that get rekt by turrets will switch to turrets and realize that it’s way too OP for how easy it is and keep playing it.
The issue is skill vs reward. AI has repeatedly proven itself to remove the required input on part of the user. There should be major sacrifices in efficacy when you choose something that is easy to play. If I’m forced to hit 4x as many buttons twice as fast to play a spec, why is a spec that hardly requires a pulse to play anywhere near effective as what turret engis are?
Exactly.
I honestly have no idea why they insist on keeping AI builds even semi-viable in PvP. They should be nerfed to uselessness.
Unfortunately, it seems like they’re moving in the exact opposite direction. See: buffs to turrets and spirit weapons tomorrow.
Well, that’s completely unrelated to what you replied to and what I commented on.
Really? Because that’s how virtually every competitive game, from Dota 2 to Halo, is balanced, and they all seem to be doing just fine.
Sigh For those of you who need multiple explanations, here it goes again.
The issue with the turret build is that it is OP against PUG teams. A PUG team consists of ALL hot join, ALL solo queue, and at least 50% of team queue. It needs to be fixed.
I understand that a lot of engineers are worried that they will need to actually play going forward, but it is for the best. Really.
I knew what you meant. I think turrets are fine in those situations. I deal with them just fine on my necromancer in solo queue, even though I can’t come close to killing the turrets.
I think the bigger problem is too many people insist on fighting right on points regardless of the circumstances. People need to learn to position themselves better. Just because it’s conquest doesn’t mean you have to stand on the point at all times.
No, they are not fine. A broken spec is still a broken spec. If it doesn’t impact top end play, then why should those players even care if it is nerfed? For everyone else, it is an OP spec that needs to be toned down.
The fact the build doesn’t work at high-level play means it’s not broken. The real problem is a lot of low-tier players, perhaps such as yourself, don’t know how to counter them.
I wouldn’t mind seeing AI builds entirely neutered in PvP just because they’re so cheesy, but there’s really no one but yourself to blame if you’re really struggling that much with any of the AI builds. None of them are viable in high-end play anymore.
it must be really frustrating for devs when they work for months on a project (like EotM) just to get the response from players that “it’s not WvW”. This is only an example, there are more. People state things like that about DryTop, sPvP maps,…
Because of this I understand why devs would hate to read forum posts (tons of non-constructive, non-respectful posts among the better ones).
Personally I love reading constructive posts on reddit. I downvote players who answer in non-respectful ways regularly. The reddit-tool remembers those downvotes and marks those players with red tags for me, so it’s really easy for me to skip their postings. This way reading through reddit threads without constantly getting the bad vibes is relatively easy for me.
This wouldn’t be a problem if they just took player feedback more seriously and earlier in the design stage.
Skyhammer, for instance, could be massively improved if they just removed the destructible panels and made the cannon possible to dodge. But instead of following that kind of advice that was made literally the day of the map’s launch, they arrogantly stick to their guns with almost every feature and piece of content.
Similar things can be said about Edge of the Mists. The map just needs more of an incentive to play, and some of the experiments in it need to be toned down, such as the cannons. But instead of making any changes whatsoever, they arrogantly stick to their original design.
One of their excuses for this is it’s apparently really difficult for them to deploy hotfixes and change tooltips. But I find that hard to believe. If it’s true, then they seriously screwed up the game’s back end because an extremely basic part of MMOs is doing quick hotfixes. Even notoriously slow developers like Blizzard deploy a huge amount of hotfixes, even some balance changes, after they release a patch.
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I don’t do it, but I never fault anyone for just alt-tabbing or stepping away from the keyboard if Skyhammer pops. I actually recommend more people do it, since it could eventually get the developers’ attention.
Spirit Watch isn’t nearly as bad as everyone says it is, although the developers could take a significant step to balance the map if they just gave the orb its own abilities.
I think it’s completely normal that people are troubled someone got an all-star nomination just because the developers like him. That kind of favoritism is normally looked down upon in competitions that are supposed to be more meritocratic.
I think you’re overestimating how seriously “professional” players want to be taken. This game isn’t big enough for people to care all that much.
Real sports’ all-star lists don’t have players of equal skill level, but they also don’t have pity- or favor-driven nominations of players who aren’t pros or, for that matter, any good.
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I think the good thing for ArenaNet is the game — and particularly the PvP community — is small enough that they can get away with it. If Blizzard tried to invite Swifty to an all-star WOW tournament, for instance, there would be a huge uproar. Here, it’s just like, whatever, the game isn’t that competitive anyway.
Grouch’s defense is really odd, though. Everyone knows that the vote is just going to be a popularity contest. So obviously the person with the most name recognition in the small, fractured PvP community will win — and that’s Blu, even though most people also know he’s not good at the game. So by nominating Blu, ArenaNet had to know he would win, or they’re just not privy to basics about popular votes.
Come to think of it, the idea of putting this to a popular vote negates any of its value. It’s just an expensive waste of time for ArenaNet. It won’t get that many viewers, because conquest just isn’t spectator-friendly, and it won’t even showcase the game at a high level of play.
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No, you don’t deserve to go. And you will not improve enough in one month to be worthy of the nomination, considering you’ve been at roughly the same skill level relative to other players for about two years.
Then again, this game’s competitive scene is so small that it probably doesn’t matter much.
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This thread is hilarious in retrospect.
The easier solution is to not complain and just report them for verbal abuse. ArenaNet is pretty good at banning ragers, in my experience.
Well, honestly every team with that mesmer build was in a disadvantage, I mean going shatterer with GS and Staff? Makes little sense to me although I don’t know the class well.
As for Warriors: the build almost every team used is horrible imo; HamBow+Soldier amulet+Runes of strenght for everybody? Really? There’s nothing better at the moment for warriors? You definitely could afford going with the berserk amulet if you use warr.
So far I’ve seen very little new builds and originality and it is at least disappointing. The only team that really put something “new” is, as it was predictable, Car Crash.
I was very surprised not to see any zerker/condi warrior or turret engi or phantasm/condi mesmer; every single class was in most of the cases the exact copy of one another. I almost had the feeling that someone just said to teams before the tourney started: “so here are the builds to use for the tourney, have fun and don’t try something new; bye”.
Anyway the tournament is thrilling and exciting, although Car Crash are still the best imo, both for originality and skills.
None of those things are surprising to any high-end player. The metagame that apparently exists at low-level play is completely wrong, because it’s built around very easy builds that only work against unknowledgeable players.
Condition necromancers don’t take post-nerf Dhuumfire outside PvE, where conditions are terrible anyway. And our condition coverage is actually pretty terrible without it.
I guess I have to agree this isn’t one of ANet’s most polished updates, but considering we’re already getting free new content and generally speedy bug fixes, and ANet’s been putting in a lot of effort for its player base, I thought there’d be less outrage and more understanding.
I think it’s problematic to view it as simply free content. A lot of people buy gem store items with the understanding that it supports the game and enables the content. A lot of people bought the box with the understanding that it would be a constantly updated MMO.
It’s also worth pointing out that it’s not “free” in the sense that it should allow ArenaNet to get away with leaving bugs in the game. It would be one thing if ArenaNet made all the living story content with a depleted revenue stream, but that’s not what’s happening. The gem store is supposed to — and does — make up for the absence of revenue that would come through a subscription fee. So ArenaNet is consistently failing to produce polished content despite getting AAA-level revenue.
There’s also the fact ArenaNet needs the game to remain populated to survive. No one would keep playing and pay for gem store items if Guild Wars 2 died. Under this understanding, players who stick around are to ArenaNet’s financial benefit.
But do you think the necessary playerbase is going to put up with consistently buggy content when so many options now exist in the MMORPG and gaming markets? Probably not. So if you truly care about Guild Wars 2, you probably shouldn’t tolerate these kind of bugs.
Wow, talk about a thread filled with massive entitled whiners. You guys have no idea how hard it is to program a game, let alone an MMO.
People would tolerate a couple bugs at launch or patch day. But we’re talking about multiple patches in a row that are fundamentally broken. That’s the first time I’ve seen that kind of terrible quality in any MMO, from WOW to Rift to SWTOR to Guild Wars 2. (SWTOR might come close with its first endgame raid, but major bugs weren’t prevalent outside of that content.)
Besides, ArenaNet promised this content would be polished. Would you consider these past few patches polished?
The latest hotfix didn’t fix a bunch of bugs and actually turned one bug into a “feature” to avoid “confusion.”
It’s amazing how many people in map chat reacted to the hotfix’s patch notes by saying ArenaNet merely “claims” they fixed some problems. No one believes the developers are competent anymore.
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Embarrassing.
Like I said in another thread, if I produced work of this patch’s quality at my real job, I would be fired on the spot, and my career would likely be ruined with such a huge black mark on my record.
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If I released anything close to this patch’s quality at my real job, I would be fired on the spot. My career would arguably be ruined, too, because I work in a very public atmosphere.
This isn’t a new problem with the game, either. Ever since launch, Guild Wars 2 has been plagued with bugs. Remember when the developers tried to do a live stream of the Orr temple events only to have three of them bug in a row? Remember at launch when literally every dynamic event in the world stalled in some servers? Remember all the class bugs some classes deal with to this day, some of them part of fundamental class mechanics?
But this patch, while wonderful in concept, is probably the buggiest, most dysfunctional content I have personally witnessed in any game. It’s definitely the buggiest content in any AAA game that comes to my mind.
A properly built condition necromancer or engineer literally has to AFK for 90 percent of the fight, even if he changes weapons, because traits automatically trigger bleeds and burning.
Considering condition builds are already the absolute worst in PvE, this is the dumbest mechanic I have ever seen in a video game.
Were condition builds too strong in PvE?
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Or what?
I don’t understand why the Assault Knights effectively negate condition damage, even more than other world bosses.
In this event, condition damage goes from worthless to actually negative.
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I find the whole thing hilarious. The fact of the matter is phase 2 is total luck in the first place. I’m not convinced that it’s even mathematically possible to consistently kill the wurm without somehow exploiting him outside the event area or onto a wall. Phase 2 is a really stupid ending to an otherwise amazing event.
It’s 100 percent deserved, then, that the only way people actually beat the event is by accidentally “cheating.” I hope the developers take this as a lesson in designing stupidly random DPS checks.
With the fix to the initial invulnerability, it’s much more doable. But it’s still largely luck. The wurm just moves way too much.
And even though the wurm does seem to focus one person before it darts off, that’s still largely RNG because one PUG can randomly ruin the encounter for everyone.
It shouldn’t be luck, if you’re trying to melee it you’re probably doing it wrong. Use Range, you don’t have to wait for it to stop moving, because obviously that may never happen.
You cannot do enough DPS with only range to kill the wurm.
Besides, the wurm’s sporadic movement affects range as well because it moves further than 1200 range at times.
It shouldn’t be luck, but it is.