Guild Wars 2

Looks like there’s an issue still. I can’t get anywhere after I’ve selected my character.

Add capes for &?% sake. Gold, Silver and Bronze. Make them cool, make them like you would have to wear them. people are gonna want them for prestige.

That’s how you keep the ’’team’’. Just like in GW1.

And create another title track for guild tournaments. Champion is already taken, so it cannot be a continuation of Guild Wars (1). Legendary Gladiator, Legendary Mercenary, Legendary Avenger, Legendary Ransacker, Legendary Marauder, Legendary Ravager, e.t.c.
Or come up with another that is really cool; Mist Brawler, Mist Destroyer, Mist Obliterator. Along with Season titles. each season (accompanied with a ladder reset) would have it’s own Title for those who finished in the top 50, top 25 and top 5.

If you give titles and backpiece skins, people will want it for good reason. You can merge the backpiece reward with the top (50, 25, 5) reward.

You could hold sponsored yearly tournaments who’d give weapon OR (even better) armor skins to finalists (Gold and Silver) (winner and loser of the final, the loser skin available to the both)

“I’m good”
I once heard that.
It was funny.

I have been playing a shatter mesmer forever now. I can say this: it has definitely become more difficult to be truly efficient. However, I feel, and my team feels, they are still a great boon to the team.

You can be jesus and save your friends from tough spots, transforming a 2v1 against one of your comrade on any point to a 3v1 on another point by using the portal intelligently. This, in turn, wins you a cap plus a 15 seconds 5v4 to dominate the map.

I play without any condition removals, because my job is to move fast between points to help my comrades. I come in, shatter, and I’m gone (Whoever is throwing conditions probably won’t have time to switch targets to me because I’ll be gone before he notices). I use Mirror Images so they don’t see my shatter coming. If I’m intercepted by some thief, I can use the two instant clones to pop Distortion and then a friend has the time to join me. We then overwhelm whoever intercepted me and it’s a 15 seconds of 5v4 again.

I move with my Temporal Curtain, which gives me Swiftness, and a traited Blink. I can basically reach the other end of any of the maps in around 10 seconds. Even as a squishy shatter mesmer a thief won’t get me down, so imagine if your teammates are traited and geared to resist a while. You have ample time to get there, shatter your enemies to pieces and leave to help another point fast.

To play a shatter mesmer efficiently in a team right now you really need to be a good communicator. It’s your primary tool, because it’s too risky to fight gladiator style against the META builds out there who are gonna keep you CC’ed, Condi’ed and are tough.

It’s about what you want to play and how your team wants to play in the end, but a Mesmer, even with it’s “disadvantages”, can still perform greatly and be a boon to the team.

EDIT: Me and my team haven’t played for a while, my current Leaderboards rank proves nothing unfortunately.

Temporal Curtain is already used strategically, even if not specced into it. I can close the gap between me and my target, or create a gap if I’m trying to escape; I can pull many people into an AoE pressure/spike zone; I can pull them off edges; I can pull them away from a downed target they’re trying to resurrect; and I can buff my entire team with a 12 seconds swiftness.

If you don’t use it correctly, that’s your problem.

Same thing with Illusionary Leap/Swap. While the skill has a HUGE pathing bug, it can be used to your advantage on flat ground, in a 1v1.

Hi,
My current team (NRK), in which I am a sub -by choice-, seldom plays. Therefore, I am looking into meeting a new group of players with whom I’ll also play.

I’ve been focusing on sPvP for quite some time now and have respectable tournament experience. Unfortunately, my current leaderboard rank does not reflect my actual capacity to play against very well organized team, for I played with quite a couple inexperienced people as of late. Hopefully I will meet a team that is capable of getting me back in the competitive games of the top 100-200.

I play a shatter Mesmer. I’m becoming quite good at reading the game, and I’ve my own ways of using my utilities to the very great benefit of my teammates. Aside from my team-oriented skills, my own personal skill-level is also well developed and that means I don’t suicide needlessly and I know when to get out of fights that I will obviously end up loosing. I’m actually a great escape artist…

Communication wise, I can call spikes, targets for pressure, Jesus-portals (savior-mode) or portal-bombs, as well as my resurrect and incomings. As you can see, I call what’s necessary. I have a deep belief in the need for communication.

I do have a strong french accent, but I’m perfectly bilingual, and none have had trouble understanding me.

Whisper me in-game for questions or a try-out. Also whisper me in-game if you want references.

…Rank doesn’t directly correlate to skill level…

I agree with your statement. However, it matters when you don’t choose -and have had the chance to “test”- your teammates.

…Play some more matches to stabilize your rating …

…if you’re so good and experienced as you say you will move up, and noobs will move down with time…

You guys simply don’t get it, and I’ve made myself very clear on my first post. They are SINKING me, these newbies don’t know what the hell they’re doing and as one person on my five man team I can’t carry all of them, even when I backcap like mad with my Blink and Portal.

…Relax, it’s just solo queue. Don’t get too uptight over winning or losing, you only have so much control over the result…

I agree that I don’t have as much control as with a Team Arena group, but my competitive spirit is still there, and there’s a leaderboard to allow my competitiveness to be.

…Ah just as I predicted prior Solo que release, people are QQing because they get teamed up with noobs…

Do you want a medal, man? Everybody, including me, knew there would be QQing. It has to be done when such frustrating things -getting teamed up with complete newbies- happen. I don’t mind loosing if it was a good, competitive match. But stomping noobs all over and being destroyed because of the lack of efficient and basic teamplay, I don’t fancy that.

…I played Random Arena in GW1…

I won’t even read your post further man, your comparing an arena with no leaderboards -no competitiveness- with one that has one. Think before using these fingers on your keyboards.

I don’t know how the matchmaking mechanics work for the new Solo Queue, but it’s absolutely terrible at first sight.

I played my first game yesterday night, and all I got on my team was people with individual ranks of 10 and less: I am rank 42 with good experience in tournament play, and the opposite team had rank 20s and 30s. So what’s the deal with placing me with newbies who maybe never went in a tourny match?

THAT’S RIDICULOUS!

Solo Queue, I think -with its own leaderboard- was a much anticipated addition, but the sole fact that the matchmaking system is such fail makes it pointless to participate in and, well, unattractive.

I know that if I want my set team I just have to form one up and jump into Team Arenas, but what the hell! That doesn’t mean Solo Arena should pair me with complete newbies! At least give me people my rank. Don’t know why I should be carrying newcomers or get sinked into the abyss of the Solo Q Leaderboard.

“… I have been having a very big problem getting a grasp on what Arena Net was thinking…”

followed by

“… I however do understand the thought process behind what Arena Net is trying to do…”

Ok so, that appears in the FIRST PARAGRAPH.

Staggering how one can be so controversial and appear s t u pid

Well, it was only a suggested way to do it. I’d be fine with a sort of Fame, or Champ system. As long as I don’t have to wear the same title as that mesmer who barely played a thousand games and doesn’t really know the basics of his class.

Hi,
It is my firm belief that the Champion [Class] title should now be progressive, as in there should be further tiers into this title.

At this point in time, gaining the title is so easy that it does not make anyone feel special. I have had the Champion illusionist title for a while now, and pretty much only play my mesmer, but I find it frustrating that some other mesmer -whose skills are sub-par to say the least- can share the same title as mine.

I guess there are other good reasons, but I think the one mentioned above is quite sufficient. The competitive players in GW2, those who wish to succeed and perhaps be remembered, would surely agree with me that they deserve a more prestigious title after their thousands of hours of gaming -in tournament games obviously- than that one who just took the game off the shelf and has been solo-queuing for about a hundred hours.

The current Champion title progression -inexistant as it is- just doesn’t fuel excitement as it should.
In GW1 the Glad, HA and GvG titles were a core element of what was meant to fuel player’s excitement -each of which had progressive tiers-, I feel, and the system is not well transfered into GW2.

I make this suggestion because I’m confident it would be one that wouldn’t be so tough to implement, in the grand scheme of things. I might be wrong… I hope not.

I invite any players who have other valid and solid reasons to further this cause by posting their point!

Anyone else that agrees, but has nothing to say, please do reply with a +1.

C’mon! Let’s do this.

Cya in game!

Auesis.7301:

It’s been done before.

Try going against a team of 5 MM Necros. That’s 10x worse.

Problem is it’s probably not as effective if you split your force. However, on a full mesmer team, especially if they’re all shatters, you can split 2-2-1 (or 2-3) and call spikes every 10 seconds (while also maintaining pressure inbetween). A dual shatter spike will undoubtedly bring your target down and then a mesmer can stomp while the other CCs and pressure any enemy around. Each mini-squad can have Moa Bird/Time Warp combo to CC/Stomp fast. A split necro team against a split mesmer team has no chance, especially if each mini mesmer-squad has a Null Field/IoL combination, and running portals.

Anyways, I just don’t see the necros winning, not even reaching 250 points. Mobility will seriously own them.

Varonth.5830:

A phantasm mesmer often has at least 25 in inspiration. You can easily go 30 and get condi remove on shatter. While shattering lowers your sustained damage for a while, it allows you to cleanse 3 conditions per shatter.
Combined with some clone generation with dodge rolls and weaponskills, you can easily double shatter as phantasm mesmer.
Double shatter will remove 6 conditions.
And it’s not like Mind Wrack doesn’t do damage on a phantasm spec. It’s less then a pure shatter build, but it’s still easily within the 3-5k damage range.

Oh and engi actually has some problems. The grenades will often hit 2, retaliation buffed, phantasms, for like 1k damage (~3 times 300), which in return will reflect like 1.5-2k damage back.

lol

Well said.

Strange requirement for applicants, but it does honor to the guild name I suppose.

:)

Party all night baby

Agreed, Illusionary Leap clone’s path is what needs fixing.

What needs to be fixed is Illusionary Leap clone’s path. Not Portal.

Since the devs are gonna be looking at this post:

We want true GvG!

I faced devs before. They do play already.

This game needs gold, silver and bronze trim with Monthly tournaments. Like GW1. Just the trim would make alot of guilds out there commit to sPvP.

Weirdly enough, I couldn’t be bothered reading your first post, but did the second. I completely agree. People should have the required system to play this game.

GW2 already has a way to see how many matches were played, and how many of these matches were won. Look in your PvP tab. Obviously, randoms are insignificant in terms of statistics, but tournament stats might be good to see who likes to loose, and who likes to win.

A guy with 200 tourny matches played, and 20 won, is a guy that LIKES loosing, and that will not bother with the intricacies and strategies needed to actually win against an organized team or the elites out there. He just wants to get out there and get owned.

This following video applies to them.

A sort of “sports”-like mini-game like Grift Ball in Halo 4 would be very nice!

If it’s inspired from GW1’s observer mode in any way; you will be able to switch between players PoV, will have a party status interface to watch health and the score will show, as well as the individual points.

You will quickly pick up on said intricacies by watching your favorite pro players.

Alot of newbie talk in this thread. Thank you SoS and JQ for the immense quantity of Badges you shower me with. It’s excellent when you guys double team (made obvious by JQ passing RIGHT IN FRONT of a SoS zerg without them doing anything), because then we get more badges.

The points for this week are fine! What astounds me is that SoR even got to first place, and kept it for a little while. It’s telling of the two other servers that were in Tier 1 for a decent amount of time now.

BOOOooooorrrriiiinnngggg!

Please come at us in masses, this is getting dull.

To the TC Guardian at 6 oclock in SBI BL from the Guild Pro Baddies, nice build. And too bad we couldn’t finish our duel fairly.

Last Friday, before BG left Tier 2 for Tier 1, we had a good whole day of dueling. Here are some shots.

GekoHayate.2451:

FEAR seems to be the SOR guild with the best coordination after TW, and we spent the good portion of a day just wiping FEAR.

Wait… what? Tell me who supplies you, because that’s extremely good stuff right there.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

Magnus Pym.2356:

Christos de Soufre.3802:

Dear SoR and TC,

Here are some brief moments from our mostly civilized duel event last Friday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvgN-L3jQbo

Please enjoy.

Yours truly,
Chris

Happy to see I took up half of the video’s length. We did have to stop though… It was becoming tiring, haha! You don’t die!

One of the better fights I’ve had, plus it was the most active footage I had of other people dueling around us, so yar. ^^

Haha yeah, made you turn quite alot!

Christos de Soufre.3802:

Dear SoR and TC,

Here are some brief moments from our mostly civilized duel event last Friday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvgN-L3jQbo

Please enjoy.

Yours truly,
Chris

Happy to see I took up half of the video’s length. We did have to stop though… It was becoming tiring, haha! You don’t die!

Yeah, I’ve been lazy getting a mouse with buttons on the sides… Regardless, I still have a hard time LOOSING duels. Can’t imagine when I get one… I’ma go do that now.

Nice loots bags SBI, thanks. Needed those badges.

You too, TC. AS always, we can always count on you to supply us with plenty of Loot Bags. even more than we’ll ever need.

You guys are funny. See ya tomorrow for more Loot bags!

Cool guys, gets the action going and things done.