Guild Wars 2

Oblivion.8307:

Purie.9046:

I really don’t care about gold. I care about skins and fun items from gem store. I would gladly use real money to buy gems and buy the fun stuff but no freaking way if 50euros is 4k gems. and its freaking dumb that im forced to pve to buy skins to pvp. As i would really like to support the game but aswell feel like im getting something in return.

My RL money only goes on quaggan backpacks.

op quaggan symbolic..

anyway to the topic its so true i mean its such a ripoff the amount of gems u get for the price you have to pay
i cant count how mny times i saw something nice i wanted to buy on the gem store but then i was looking at the gem price and…

we stopped since the patch and not planning on making a comeback unless something worth playing comes out with the nextpatch.

even us(cn) didnt play since thursday so ye it has nothing to do with the queue being better just noone is playing.

leashmaygoss.2140:

sounds like a player skill issue

Sounds like a kitten issue

come back when u are worthy enough to say player skill issue

Noctis Assassin.4035:

Lorienda.1349:

i have no kittening clue what u guys talking about
ele didnt get nerf d/d is much stronger now they still have perma vigor 100%
their cantrips the same .
i heard somehing about seperated queues for premade and soloq it didnt happen
i am dissapointed next month is their last chance for me.

guardians can get a high vigor uptime as well from the minor adept trait in honor called vigorous precision. It gives 5 secs of vigor on critical hits and has a cd of 5 sec, sound familiar? Difference between eles and guards is eles can run away (if not immobilized whiled doing rtl) from a fight and gain fury while guards have an inherent 15% damage reduction and can only get fury from save yourself. My friend would run scepter/shield or scepter/focus just to get vigor from the high hit volume of scepter 2.
edit:forgot to mention most guards have aoe heal on dodge so 1-2k heal on every dodge so its not too far from ele healing on dodge which is on 10 sec cd.

guards cant kill most classes 1v1, guards cant pressure targets like ele/follow them
guards mobility is not even close to ele
when guards out of cd’s they rae pretty much dead cant say the same thing about ele
so dont even tell me that bullkitten guardian is like ele cuz its obv not.

i have no kittening clue what u guys talking about
ele didnt get nerf d/d is much stronger now they still have perma vigor 100%
their cantrips the same .
i heard somehing about seperated queues for premade and soloq it didnt happen
i am dissapointed next month is their last chance for me.

well i have to agree on pretty much everything..
my motivation in the last week just dropped next to 0 and even tho im still playing i am waiting for tuesday to see if anything gonna motivate me even slightly will be enough but if it will fail like the other patches im pretty sure this game will die.

Lowellollipop.5817:

Posi.4251:

+1 Teldo
+1 Helseth
I think most of “top” players are agree with teldo and helseth.

That’s exaaaaactly where you are wrong Posiqtpie! Not only top players would appreciate it: 90%+ (just a rough guess) of the playerbase would.

Why? Because SoloQ’îng in a rated environment is “the best” way to improve your own mechanical skills, solo decisions, etc that any player can find because he will be matched with and against players of the same skill level who also are playing by themselves and share the same goal: improving (well, this one does not stand true for the very top and very bottom of the ladder in which a lot of people will troll around, but still!).

Please allow me to list a few pros:

- All players would get a place where they can improve their mechanical skills by playing against opponent’s of the same skill level;

- Team players would not have to be scared about affecting their team’s average rating by playing SoloQ;

- Team players would have something to do whenever their full team is not online to play, gathering 5 people is a lot and sometimes you just want to play more;

- Solo players would have a solo ladder to show how good they are whenever they want to join a team and/or create one with people of the same skill level;

- New teams could be born from this system, which would make the game more competitive.

Here’s a little something on that one: In any team-based game that wants to be anywhere near competitive you need to give players an EASY way to create Networks.

Networks are the most IMPORTANT thing a player will need in such games, the good old “be noticeable and get noticed” has always and will always be king in team-based games because it’s what starts everything: joining/creating a team.

As of now, there is ABSOLUTELY no easy way for people who want to be noticed to actually do so because they have no Solo rating, nothing. Guys, in competitive games numbers are THE FIRST thing people will know about you! You know how important a first impression is in life right? It’s the exact same thing in gaming, the only difference is that you’re not judged on how you look, the way you speak or the ammount of money you have in the bank, but on your rating. If you have no rating, you are no one. It’s that simple, really.

Now, let’s think of a game in which being no one was a problem…. from what I gathered we could even take Guild Wars 1 as an example (I’ll be using the ladder type of game, which was GvG and pardon me if I make a mistake). It ended as an elitist-lair in which if you weren’t known no team would bother with you and you would never manage to get into the system, never manage to become “somebody” in the eyes of the people who played the game the way you wanted to play it. Why? Because a player had absolutely NO WAY to get noticed by himself.

Unfortunately, that is the exact same path GW2 is taking. It’s pretty simple. I’ll use my example as someone who’s been playing at the “top” since day 1: the only people I know and would play with in a serious environment are all the other players from top teams with whom and against whom I have played a countless ammount of games. Why? Because I know how good each and every one of them is.

Would I play with someone I don’t know, if I have never heard of that person and there is no rating to show me how good that person is? Obviously, because I’m a fluffy guy so I’d enjoy fun games with anyone. However, there is absolutely no way for me to play seriously with that guy!! I wouldn’t be able to consider him as a trustworthy player.

That is the worst possible path to chose if you hope the game to ever become a big name in the e-sports industry or even a big name in the amazingly fun team PvP games circle.

Please Anet, do not let a game as beautiful as this one become the elitist-lair it’s steadily becoming;
Please, do not let it become GW1;
Please, give players the opportunity to prove themselves to everyone else by themselves.
Please, give a way to people to get noticed.;
Please, let players become part of the networks they need to make your game a successful one, both as a fun and enjoyable game and as an e-sport;
Please, give us a SoloQ-only ladder.

I beg your pardon for my poor English.

Cheers,
Lowell

as usual supporting this hardmode because its true
anet look how many ppl telling u that its the right thing to do so please
do something about it before its too late there isnt anything i like more then gw and it will be sad to see it go into a dark cave like gw1

i hope u respond at least
thank you and have a nice day

i am happy that some ppl trying to help new players and so on but none of the builds u made is viable in the current meta except d/p
if u want to help new players make a d/d,extended d/p guide
u guys playing differnet meta but it doesnt matter because d/p,d/d is superior in any possible way atm
d/d condi and pistolwhip are pub specs atm nothing more
good job anyway.

Suzu.4193:

lol matchmaking

u getting the same ppl queing everytime

lmao

and well no duh you get the same people think about it….

one team lost one team won and what happens when you pop out? you que again and what do you know you fight the same team….because why? That’s right class they just qued the same time you did! omg!

Try to think guys not hard

5min queue and gettin the same team is not random it is an hidden mmr so dont say stuff if u are not sure about it.
also if it takes too long it put u up against really bad team so thats kinda obvious..

you can add me aswell i would love to help anyone struggling with a thief,tactics or anything related to the game
Jexster~

NaturalPortman.9562:

QtHman.9510:

Lol natural as always troll you dont even do paids LMAO

I don’t do paids often but we did almost beat you guys 480-500. Not trolling this time. Me, exe, lil crysis, D C E. forget the last guy.

he got u dam.

popcorn keep it going na i am enjoying this

2 players from qt and top 5 player in na apparently against a eu pug gj
why u heff to be so mad its only a game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A

lilz shorty.1879:

Khalifahaze.6045:

Lorienda.1349:

there is a huge gap between eu and na atm
a good eu pug can probably take down the best team on na its not because u are bad
u just dont have any decent players to play against so u naturally not as good as us.
so ye u should not have a spot in the state of the game atm till na evolves to be decent.
u can just break the game.
the meta on na is so broken you guys think it works cuz you are playing against kitten teams
so ye.
and i agree about the rest with spades.

Please I beg you EU pvp gods, come to NA and show us how to play

You realize how backwards and stupid you sound because you dont know the NA scene. Since we have no one to que against, we play the same top 10 teams everyday, unlike you guys who have many more above average pugs that you play against. So with that, our top teams I guarantee are stronger then your top teams. We hardly face pugs.

Can’t believe that attitude Aces started this thread with….Who is vain? Same can be said vice versa. Who is super squad? Idk who that is. I dare you guys to come NA. All this talk lmao lemme talk with some arrogance then. I watch your streams looks like I can play blindfolded over at EU. And QP’s dont mean much either. Specially if you have 50 more pugs to play against all the time.

whats up bro look above me legit ur teams are very good.
im sure u can stomp us..
maybe if we have 3 dc’s

mehkittentokyo u got in before me
+1 Jexster
lets hope this thread will stay and wont dissapear randomly this time

Khalifahaze.6045:

Danto.6748:

Khalifahaze.6045:

Lorienda.1349:

there is a huge gap between eu and na atm
a good eu pug can probably take down the best team on na its not because u are bad
u just dont have any decent players to play against so u naturally not as good as us.
so ye u should not have a spot in the state of the game atm till na evolves to be decent.
u can just break the game.
the meta on na is so broken you guys think it works cuz you are playing against kitten teams
so ye.
and i agree about the rest with spades.

Please I beg you EU pvp gods, come to NA and show us how to play

But there aren’t any ques in NA :/ QQ

4-5 hours of paids at night, probably not as much as you’re used to but there is ques daily.

im challenging u to come for a sync in eu i will make sure we stream it aswell .

there is a huge gap between eu and na atm
a good eu pug can probably take down the best team on na its not because u are bad
u just dont have any decent players to play against so u naturally not as good as us.
so ye u should not have a spot in the state of the game atm till na evolves to be decent.
u can just break the game.
the meta on na is so broken you guys think it works cuz you are playing against kitten teams
so ye.
and i agree about the rest with spades.

ok im gonna ignore most comments and pretend i didnt see anything.
im guessing most of u from na obviously cant play for kitten(no offense)
in eu at top level against good teams this kind of thing is game changing i am eu player dont need to mention who i am .
my main is a thief and all i can say is that this thing need a fix you can do the whole combo 1 shot someone and shortbow out and the enemy can see u for like 0.5/1sec max
so please cut the bullkitten its not a l2p issue or anything close
i hope you read this anet but u need to seperate na forums from eu
cuz we dont want this scrubs around its because of na anet doesnt bother fixing obvious stuff
i challenge your top team on na anyday to eu ill record it aswell if u get more then 200 points you rae lucky.
have a nice day and please fix this anet.

Rezz.8019:

It will never be an esport. It’s already dead.

dont play the game. problem solved.

Blackjack.5621:

you may be talking from low end pvp experience. as i said, only high end tier teams will understand my point. if your idea of a thief is
“it 1 shots everybody 24/7”
please.. don’t give your opinion on this topic.

i got 160 qp´s, so i know what i am talking about. I did not say they oneshot 24/7, but they do every 45 seconds and that is stupid.[/quote]

he played with many top teams so low end pvp exprience is wrong.
and ur qp says nothing if u are on eu say who u are and wht team u play for
if u are from na dont bother cuz we all know the competition level there.

signet need nerf im a thief myself and not playing backstab
i agree with that backstab 1shot some ppl but if u actually think thats the reason u shouldnt remove signets sry to say but please dont play tpvp u are wasting your time.

Dante.3754:

Kylex.5962:

And before the trolls come up with comments like “interrupt them?”
You don’t need LOS to rez
half of them are instant cast

Ah , but those things are incorrect. You see the res signets and abilities are ground targeted aka needing LOS. As for the instant casting they all take a long time to cast with the exception of toolbelt elixer R from the enginneer but that doesn’t insta-res either.

Really, if a team decides to take a res signet how is it different from just taking utility that secures revives like “fear me”. That skill can be used to prevent a stomp (secure a res) while still having a use outside of that while the res skills that aren’t signets don’t even have a passive effect to justify using it outside of reviving.

what world u live in ?
spvp world i believe.
in high lvl tpvp its a game breaking having a mes/ele/necro standing for example in foefire losing teamfight and just gettin 4 oppurtunities to win it again so please tell me how its possible to interrupt necro which is a fast cast or a smart ele that can cast it in mistform and it takes him exactly 1.5sec to do so cuz for some reason the timer is lower in mistform?
or a mesmer that use illusion of life and when the target actually die again he go into down state instead of dying just like warrior vengeance.
people ignoring a real problem here this is worse then the svanir meta.
and ofc lets not forget some high lvl players abuse the double illusion of life ress bug so its even worse.
john sharp i hope u see this post coming from a top player i dont need to mention what my name cuz its doesnt matter.
but just fix signet ress and everything will be fine.
thank you and have a nice day.

Lowellollipop.5817:

Jumper.9482:

Warning I will be making a lot of LoL references due to the success of the game as an esport and my personal experience.

A matchmaking system for tournaments is great and all. And I know its been in the works for a while now and you have your own reasons for doing so, but that is not what we need right now.

Right now, in free tournaments, yeah you could say that it’s a problem for new teams to get stomped by top players. But have you considered it from the top players’ point of view? It’s a great dream that these players should be matched against eachother and all, but get real! How long do you think queue times will get?

Take a look at League. When my team was rank 5 on the NA ladder premade queues took upwards of 30 minutes – 1 hour. And that’s just to find Two teams that are similarly skilled. Imagine how long it will take to find 8. And what will happen when 7 teams are queued for paids and one of them is a “top team” while the other 6 are lower ratings? Matchmaking will wait for 2 more low rating teams to throw them in a tournament and leave that one top team in queue for another hour? Not to mention GW2’s playerbase isn’t nearly as big as League’s. This is a huge concern because free tournaments are the only way to play with your team when paids aren’t popping. You know what my League team was doing when queues took more than 1 hour and noone was on to scrim? We didn’t do a 5-man normal queue. We made a smurf ranked team. Not because we wanted to stomp casuals. But because we had fun playing together and it helped tighten our coordination/communication and other necessary teamwork skills. When we wanted to improve our individual skills and compete against other individual players around our level when our teammates aren’t on? There’s a solo queue option for that.

When I heard there will be no solo queue in the works for next month I can’t tell you how upset I was. In this game communication is FAR more important than say, in League. Why? Because in League everyone in solo queue sticks to the metagame since there are no premades. You won’t normally see ad+support top and yorick/plank/etc.. bottom lane like in premade play. When you apply this to GW2, there is no minimap. You have to rely on your team to tell you where the enemy is heading, if they need help or not. If a solo queue group runs into an equally skilled premade group, sorry ANET but they have VERY little chance of winning.
Example: Even among top teams it gets difficult to organize a counter-strat for example if the enemy pulls a 1-0-4 push on you. You can’t leave your guardian on mid point because [with the current meta,] then you’re fighting 3 dps and 1 support vs 2 dps 1 support and 1 tank. While you’re fighting this uneven battle the enemy mesmer is slowly killing your mid guardian. For a solo team it would be nearly impossible to counter something like this due to lack of communication. Not to mention in solo queue its a complete dice-roll if you get a balanced team-comp or not—much like League. Sometimes you get 5ADs or 1 guy who doesn’t want to support so he picks a 2nd rAD Carry. But you know what? It’s ok because we know the enemy team has an equal chance of getting an imbalanced teamcomp since the max queue is duo (2).

A soft-matchmaking system for tournaments is OK. But please, take a look at Paid queue. It pops maybe 4 hours out of the day. There’s just no way to find 8 equally skilled teams at every hour. Finding two teams however doesn’t create this snowball effect of “There’s only 1 team other than us queued right now this queue will take hours. Let’s just go stomp frees instead while waiting for more teams to get on and queue”.

Tl;dr: Say yes to Solo and Premade single-match queues+ladder rankings. Matchmaking for tournaments should come secondary. I really don’t want to see this game die.

Edited by moderator: removed CoC infraction from the thread title

I support you 100% on that, it’s the main reason why I tried to throw the question of the ladder-like type of queue out there. Unfortunately, it seems it won’t happen soon… but they have plans at least!

supporting this anet please take 5 min to look at this im pretty sure not only us but other top players are concerned about this

Aragiel.6132:

We need tickets.. since the entry fee to PAID tournaments is 5 tickets and thats like 5 wins in a row = at least 3-4 hours of playing.

Right now the best guilds are in PAID tournaments, the average premades are loosing their tickets and therefore are going back to FREE tournaments in order to get new tickets.

We need to balance the entry price for PAID tournaments. If its more accessible for average premades, then it will make free tournaments really free

well paid is designed for top teams to compete i dont see your point
if everyone will be able to play paid constantly it will be just like free whats the point doing that.

u might aswell just suggest to remove the thief class from the game with all the complains i see around.
its just funny to see ppl complaining and they are no more then pub players
sad but true keep it up im sure anet gonna listen to u eventually and thief will end up with only condition build.

im still trying to understand if u are just a dumb kid or trying to be one.
3v3,2v2 not neede in this game the only thing needed is duel.
this game is designed for 5v5 and thats how it should be
wow fanboys like you not gonna change it.
my job is done here.