Guild Wars 2

The only downside to this is that you first have to read all your tooltips before you enter a match to see what that arena has set your skills to.

Reserved for future.

Right now the mesmer is overpowered in duels, it’s good in roaming yet never seen in sPvP or WvW zerging (except the utility bots).

This is my take on balancing the mesmer.

These are nerfs, buffs, reworks. These are all suggestions, please don’t burn it down if you see your favorite skill mentioned, but try to give feedback.

The main idea is to bring down passive play while buffing the shatter mesmers again.
Also to make the mesmer more viable in small and large scale WvW.

Traits

Domination

Shattered Concentration
Shatter Skills now remove 2 boons on hit.

- Confusing Echantments
ICD removed.

Dueling

Retaliatory Shield
Is now a minor trait (5 points).

Critical Infusion
Is now a major trait (10 points).
ICD reduced to 5 seconds instead of 10.

Confusing Cobatants
Moved to master tier (15 points).

- Sharper Images
Moved to grandmaster tier (25 points).

Chaos

Mirror of Anguish
Block the incoming CC and mirror it back to it’s source instead of only mirroring.

Greater Mantras (new trait)
New master trait (20 points).
All mantras are now AoE and their radius is increased to 480 from 240.

Prismatic Understanding
Interval increased to 3 seconds from 1 second.
Grant a random boon to everyone that you have stealthed every 3 seconds while they are in stealth.

Inspiration

Restorative Illusions
Heal you and your allies for a small ammount when you shatter illusions.
Heal increased by 150%.

Illusions

Imbued diversion
Moved to master tier (20 points).

Immortal illusions (new trait)
New grandmaster trait (30 points).
Illusions gain distortion for 1 second when summoned.

Utilities

Signet of Illusions
Renamed to Signet of Speed.
Passive effect changed to +25% movement speed.
Cooldown reduced to 75 seconds from 90 seconds.

Signet of Domination
Now hits up to 3 foes within a 240 radius of your target.

Mimic
Absorb all incoming attacks, charge a blast to return the damage.
Hit up to 5 foes within a 360 radius.
Added blast finisher.
Duration decreased to 3 seconds from 4.5 seconds.

Illusion of Life
Skill duration increased to 20 seconds from 15 seconds.
Poisons foes standing on the target location every second for 3 seconds.
Field duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.25 seconds.
Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds from 130 seconds.

Null Field
Field channels for 2 seconds when placed, after it will remove ALL boons on foes and cleanse ALL conditions on allies.
The field no longer pulses.

Timewarp
Quickness increased to 100% from 50%.

- Increased build diversity
- I can pick my fights
- The terrain is always different which you will have to adapt to and use it in your favor
- I can kite/lure people to other places I know
- I run in to friends
- Fights are always dynamic
- In WvW situational awareness is key
- Safely disengaging from a zerg that runs over you puts a smile on my face
- I can run the armor skins I already have

And probably alot more

Yes, I play without speed buffs. I bring a focus with me for out of combat and trait for cd reduction on blink.

Id be happy if they just fixed the bugs that are still around, those are massive buffs by themselves.

But if we are talking buffs, i’d like to see more aoe lockdown as mentioned above.

mahariel.4981:

Welcome back. RG got bored of Camelot Unchained or something?

Camelot Unchained is not released yet.

But the workers need their salaries!

In all seriousness, I always thought it’d have been fair if there was a system that would allow you to share the costs, like a chest where you could deposit your money.

Silent Shino.7239:

[FURY] disbanded did they? LIES! My [FURY] stalking shall continue just like before!
btw, I’ll be using an upleveled mesmer for quite a bit of the stalking, be prepared!

That certainly does explain the upscaled mesmer following me around.

From spectating a GvG I can say that spectating a GvG in the new arena is terrible, it feels that you are always too far away to see what’s going on, even when you are standing on the top. It just looks like a mess, just tags moving around.

Then again, I encourage everyone to use this arena, even though it might not be as you expected. Anet has done something for the community, let’s be grateful. They have put time and effort in it and if we don’t use it they won’t see the point in helping us again. If we do use it and they see that the map is used often enough they will probably start working on an actual GvG system.

The party window does indeed look a bit weird.

The arena look awesome, great job Arenanet, thank you.

I love the idea of the spectator ‘bridges’ so you can see the fight from above.

Thanks for the great fights tonight, was good fun.

Special thanks to the Highlander guild, I enjoyed having your group chasing me around the map for 10 minutes. I’m glad you caught me in the end with your scouts on every exit of that ruin, you guys were really motivated!

NGE.1362:

I hope [FURY] goes to AM server….
Leave UW BL alone a little for now, we’ve lost to many guilds and we are still teaching new WvW players, so give us some space lol .

Alot of the FURY members, including myself, are still on a break and/or on other servers, so you should be fine.

Zumy.6318:

Guise plis. Remain on topic. Why did FURY disband and where did they alle move to?

:(

We are bored with the current state of the game / the way it was played. Our members need a break and are going different directions.

Some of us went to Vabbi to roam in small groups, others took a break from the game, others joined other guilds.

We are still figuring out what to do as FURY, we might come back as a guild, but we don’t know in what way, or if it will be in this game at all.

Zord.6130:

Where is FURY?

We always liked to fight you guys, but you won’t see us anymore as FURY disbanded.

this isnt new and it will be fixed in 2014

kribre.9683:

Wasn’t any mesmer in the morning group you had I tried to look for it, plz believe me Para!!!!

sorry im at work

VoragoUmbra.6187:

DanyK.3842:

So many great guilds to fight this matchup, FIRE, VII, DAWN and many others also from Miller’s. Looking forward to fighting you once my queue pops

You didn’t mention TUC… how could you not mention TUC, are you trying to start drama again. God FURY sucks. I heard that you guys run 17 guardians in a 20 man gvg and they all run full PVT! Learn2Play scrubs.

(NOTE: there wasn’t enough drama in this thread. had to start somewhere.)

I demand that you get kicked from your guild.

I feel insulted by your comments and feel that there is no place for someone like you in a guild as respectful as yours.

tichai.4351:

The ONLY time I experience skill lag is when 2 huge blobs/zergs/groups are in the vicinity i.e. 50-60+ on each side. Perhaps it is Anet’s way of saying it – Don’t Blob

It happened to us while roaming with 5 people in the afternoon with nothing going on on the map….

It has never been this bad.

kribre.9683:

Footage from sunday-raid!
Enjoy, and remember to subscribe to our channel <3

I love the highlight at 5:35 where you didn’t manage to down any of us

Haven’t had any fight without (skill)lag since the league started. Random DCs happening aswell.

It’s not even just the big fights, it’s even 20v20 fights where there is constant lag. Or even when there is nothing going on there is lag.

I think AG will win because they can afford it.

My apologies for the late response. These are the results from the poll, if anyone is interested to set something up let me know so I can give you the rest of the information.

Interested:

Bronze league:

- Decisive Actions
- Spirit of Faith
- Brazilian Legion
- Incendies
- Remnants Of Terror
- Reticle
- Midnight Mafia Inc
- Qwerty
- Offensiv
- Vengeance Of The Fallen
- Ekitsuki
- Omen Gaming Community
- Second Law
- Draka Ris
- We Be Chilling
- Everything Purple

Silver League:

- Forsaken Gamers
- Elite Solidarity
- StarveD
- No Names Forever
- Inner Sanctum
- VII
- Furious Cookies
- D A W N
- Zero Negative

Not interested:

- TheNoLimit
- H A R D
- Os Guild
- Im A Lumberjack And Im Ok
- Bourrins Sans Frontieres
- The Emerald Fang
- Reason For Extinction
- The Iron Triangle
- Feel Lucky
- Ctrl Alt Elite
- Pyromancers
- Good Old Days
- Last flight Of The Crow

What Yaro said is the truth, they even confirmed this a few months back.

Why would you want to know this info anyway, it wont let you fit more people in with this knowledge and you cant tell who is going to play when so you cant plan anything either.

Kingface.9781:

Omg! you should rename your guild “Raging Fury”

That is not a bad idea actually, considering we were looking for a new name some time ago.

I will add it to the list, thank you for your suggestion.

I smell fear!

/15 chars

so if 500 people vote for 1g you lose your legendary? I like it

IMO the best place in spvp is the red keep in ( is it foefire? ). Thats the biggest space, has some levels aswell, a choke, its quite interesting. We did some 10v10s there with our own guild, was good fun.

But then again, it’ll be never as good as it could be.

Yes you can do 10v10 in a custom arena, but none of the maps are big enough for deathmatch

Silent Shino.7239:

I must remember to ask at least once a week
is FURY going to come back to AG?

No.

KeBo.4567:

So yeah I don’t think anyone is “crying.”

I didn’t say you are, I said before you are going to.

Am I the only one that doesn’t understand ROFs logic? You guys are only happy if you are ranked higher than your opponents?

Every friday I’m begging if we can get servers that are ranked higher than us, yet we always get servers that are ranked lower.

You should be happy, and if not, you might want to think about dropping some rating before you end up in the silver league and are going to cry every week.

I am sad to say that there is not as much interest in a GvG league as I had hoped.

Only 24 guilds have voted until now whereof 18 are interested in a GvG league.

Guilds that are interested:

NA
- Decisive Actions
- Everything Purple
- Zero Negative
- Omen Gaming Community
- Spirit Of Faith
- Elite Solidarity
- Remnants Of Terror

EU
- We Be Chilling
- Second Law
- Furious Cookies
- Flare
- VII
- D A W N
- Draka Ris
- Vengeance Of The Fallen
- Inner Sanctum
- Forsaken Gamers
- Incendies

Out of these 18, 6 guilds want to go to the silver league, where 12 guilds want to go to the bronze league.

Guilds that have said they are not interested:

NA
- Pyromancers
- The Iron Triangle
- Reason For Extinction

EU
- Good Old Days
- Ctrl Alt Elite
- Feel Lucky

All and all, 18 guilds would not be enough to create a GvG league.

The poll will be open for one more week.

Silent Shino.7239:

are FURY ever going to come back to AG? :P (sorry, it’s just that I haven’t asked for a while)

Instead of asking every time, you could also move yourself :p

But then again, a server doesnt belong to anyone, the few that decide does kind of things could be saying something else than the rest of the server.

Not saying its a bad idea, I just always think that noone has anything to say about it and that everyone can play how and where they want as a server is noones property.

Pryda.8257:

Hickeroar.9734:

MartyPartys.9187:

Wildstar seems to have alot of pvp formats also

Sadly though I don’t think anything will compete with the level/depth of combat that GW2 can offer. The combat system in GW2 is simply amazing. Combo fields alone make it a diamond in the rough…

I’m not holding my breath for any of the upcoming options.

I think TESO will be good for the “macro” scale of combat (top down strategizing), but the field fights….I’m far less hopeful. Wildstar is up in the air. We don’t know enough about EQ Next yet. ArcheAge looks pretty similar to TESO, but again we don’t know enough. CU will be one to keep an eye on, but it’s gonna be 2-3 years before anything reveals itself there.

As they say….time will tell.

There is nothing deep in GW2 combat because everything is wasted – combat is a mess.

Wildstar will have all PvP features: arenas, bgrounds, open PvP with OBJECTIVES, 40v40 Warplots and a combat system mixed of best arounds mmo (builds diversity of gw1, dash, double jump etc).

The targeting and aoe system looked pretty awesome too imo.

DevonCarver.5370:

The stat boost, while controversial, is there to give the buff meaning in the context of the general WvW battle. Providing boosts like %WXP, etc. don’t have impact in fights against other sides, they are just a nice bonus for you. The stat boost and the points for finishing players mean that not only do you want to have the buff, but you don’t want your opponents to have it.

If you really want to impact the match that badly ( which in my personal opinion is a bad idea ), why not add 5% points for every tick per buff? That makes it interesting to have it, doesn’t it?

There is a poll of how many people actually want a stat buff here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Do-you-want-a-blood-lust-buff/first

At this moment, more than 80% doesn’t want a stat buff, please listen to your community.

mekkanic.4759:

Sad to see our community go out like this. Just when things were getting interesting.

What’s that? Giving up?

I’m sure the community will get around it and find a solution, shouldn’t be too hard if we work all together. I mean, we cover a huge part of the wvw population, at least at primetime. Having a guild look after the orbs during someone else’s GvG shouldn’t be too hard to do.

On that note, so far 76% of the votes on the poll have said they want to be part of a matchup with all guilds involved. Detailed info will follow.

If you haven’t voted yet, please do.

Wildstar seems to have alot of pvp formats also

I heard the combat system will be terrible in ESO, holding your mouse button down longer to do more dmg etc

I believe it is, but it wont be before Oauth2 has been added

Istaf.1953:

Furiousbeard.7602:

I believe it would take a high number of man hours to program the ability to turn this ability on and off. Its a great idea, but may not be in the budget or timeline for Anet.

I hope that was a troll post.

Actually I think the guy might be right, the whole system as in boons, conditions and buffs were never intended to be able to be disabled by the user so the developers havent taken this into account while building it. Now I dont know how deep this goes into the code, but something that sounds that easy could easily take up a day, or maybe a week dependend on how deep it is.

Besides that it is something that another team has built ( if not outsourced ) and also has to change it. Then again, it would change all buffs and then they would have to make exceptions etc etc.

Long story short, its probably more work than creating an empty map without the buff.

saiyr.3071:

Also pages are loading slower than when tested for some reason. Glad the site is live though

That’s not just the pages, the whole server is loading ridiculously slow since this saturday, hope it will get fixed by the provider soon.

saiyr.3071:

Marty, does the new time zone stuff automatically take DST into account?

It should, yes, although it seems to be a bit buggy still.

Geoski.1407:

The site is nice but I see one huge problem with it.

You know how the site now shows ranks accordingly to each month?

Well,
1. For all the lower tier guilds it is more difficult to schedule GvG’s with other guilds than it is for the higher tiers, and coming from T8, it is very difficult. This leads to an unfair ranking for all the lower tier’d guilds.

An easy fix for this is to have an “Overall” page like it was before the update, so all the guilds in the lower tiers, can see how they are matching up to others, overall, in addition to monthly standings, as were lucky to maybe get a gvg once a month.

I know we can spend thousands of gold xferring the entire guild to higher tiers, but a lot of us suffer from bad fps in huge zerg encounters, and most of us have came from the higher tiers to enjoy the lower tier WvW.

There are some very, VERY skilled lower tier guilds that are being somewhat hidden under the rug now.

Let me know what you guys think of this idea.

Hey, I know where you coming from as my own guild is in tier 7 europe aswell. I have thought of your idea, but I still think it wouldn’t show accurate results.

So, instead, a list of all guilds has been added that can be filtered through, or even more specific is one you are logged in as a GvG contact you will be able to see all the guilds in your matchup with their current rating.

Slomo.1029:

The site is really cool and exciting. But the header is far too big.
I already donated, should have made a requiement to make the header smaller before I donate. lol

Haha, thanks for your donation, much appreciated.

As for the header, I’ll look into it to make it smaller, it’s just once logged in as a GvG contact there are actually buttons that you need, so just making it smaller is not an option.. yet.

Kiliaan.1934:

1. All the matches set previous to the upgrade were set by default to “friendly match”. I believe the default should be “official match”.

Where do you see them as friendly matches?

Kiliaan.1934:

2. Either in the upgrade or sometime today the challenges time zone conversion has gone wonky and it is very difficult to figure out what times these matches are for currently. Which leads me to the following.

I’m aware of the bug in the timezone conversion, I’m looking into it but date and time conversions are always a pain in the kitten . I hope I can fix this soon.

Kiliaan.1934:

3. Need an easy way to cancel an upcoming match so I can resend and reconfirm.

Can’t you click cancel in the challenges page?

Kiliaan.1934:

Typically when I confirm with other guilds leaders I usually confirm the time in “Server” time and everyone else is responsible for the conversion. Perhaps you can allow a “server” time preference on the site or server time default rather than GMT default.

If you set your timezone in personal settings to UTC you will use the server timezone.

Kiliaan.1934:

5. I understand the need to only see active guilds and monthly places, but this seems to me like a division between a tournament placement & and a career ELO/GLICKO rating. Myself and other guild leaders I have spoken with felt there was great merit to seeing leaderboards as actual career rating. We see monthly places more as tournament prizes but not indicative of overall rating/ranking. Is there a way to accomplish the need for both?

This is mainly done to not having blownouts in the top rating, as happened in the previous leaderboards. Right now the leaderboards are alot more accurate and I’d like to keep it that way. If all guilds stay active, the leaderboard will show the actual leaderboard as the rating does not reset every month, it just hides you.

Hickeroar.9734:

Marty – Thanks a lot for the hard work you and your team put into this. Great job. :-)

I wish I had a team :p