Guild Wars 2

There was actually a post on reddit with a really funny rage from last season.
Just can’t find it now, but it had some legendary comments that could easily make it to whiner’s paradise.

This has already been discussed to death.
To make it short: If you have reached the point where your winrate is approximately 50%, you have reached equilibrium.
You will only advance if you improve your gameplay relative to you other fellow players.

As the league works since season one, there is no feeling of progress. As this core to a mmo, I can see why you want that and even agree that this would be beneficial.

You just have to separate your request for the feeling of progress for invested time from the progress from skill improvement (although both are linked to a certain degree).

It is not a struggle, but a balanced system.
You are complaining that you can’t stomp the opposing team, as this made you feel like a great player which was (obviously) a misconception.

Winning at the cost of a bunch of other players with less experience is great, don’t you think?
Who cares if others don’t enjoy it, as long as you get your ego boosted, right?

This is another completely useless thread complaining about an improving system.

If you don’t like it, nothing forces you to play pvp.
Just stop crying because you can’t stroke your ego at the cost of others, it’s disgusting.

Chris Cleary.8017:

I’ll pitch in on this thread, as there seems to be some confusion about this situation.

The auto-cast feature was never intended to be used as an AFK farming mechanism, and usage of the auto-cast feature while AFK is fine as long as it is not used to facilitate unattended gameplay.

Mastery auto-loot also stopping players from being flagged afk seems like a bug instead of a feature, and I’ll be sure to bring it up today while we have a chat about this internally.

1) Using skill (1 or more) while AFK
2) AFKing in a place where it is beneficial for your character to be at
3) Unresponsive to interaction with GMs

If all 3 of these apply to what you are doing, you may get actioned for it.

So… basically… stop to ever go to the loo, answer a phone call, open your door, do anything other than focusing on the game if you are in a place that nets you profit, as you might get talked to by a GM and are screwed if you can’t reply immediately.
Or is there any time indicator or anything?

I appreciate a dev response, but this topic is really getting confusing as there are a lot of different and vaguely articulated stances on what is allowed or not allowed.

This issue is difficult to track in-game, we all are aware of this, but it’s really getting more confusing instead of clarifying with all the different Anet replies.

As I have already mentioned in another thread, I fully agree with the decisions made by Anet.
The behaviour by Argi during the interview on the stream was highly unprofessional.
He was wearing his heart on his sleeve, which is a privilege or youth, but this was just shortsighted.
If he and his team do not wish to play GW2 ESL, they should quit and make place for people who wish to do so.
No respect for that kind of behaviour.

Rule of thumb: Never keep your savings in the form of gold, as it is subject to inflation, but you do not receive any interest if you have it in your wallet.

Instead, spread it amongst items with a high turnover, mostly amongst tier 6 items (the ones with crafting requirement 400+) and alike (e.g. glob of ectoplasm), as they usually go up in price with the volume of gold in circulation.

Again: As a rule of thumb.

Glott.7239:

we really need a “open all” option. people are already making jokes that Razer is paying them to implement all the double clicking, so that players wear out there mice and have to buy new once :P

an while they are at it. something like a dial to adjust which items are considered to be trash, as well as an option to disable the confirmation popup on savaging rares would be great to.

100% this. Anet just needs to give a “consume all”-option to bags/boxes and the option to disable the confirmation window on rares and many of us would be happy.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Tomoyo.3482:

its in the grey area but free programs can also do the clicking for you. just have to move the mouse.

Which is against ToS and will get you banned.

Just having a tool to double-click for you won’t get you banned.
Anet even mentioned that. Else they would have to ban all users of programmable gaming mice.

Third-party programs that gain you an advantage to your fellow players are against ToS, protecting your wrists and therefore your health is not.

This thread is much rather an opinion than a guide.
And if it were a guide, it would be wrong, as previous posters have already mentioned correctly.

No experienced fotm-player is gonna buy the OP recommendation, but new players might.

And as a consequence, frustration is gonna rise and the threshold between new and veteran players is gonna increase.

Long story short: Bad advise, but it’s the thought that counts.

Ubi.4136:

Do the Dragon’s Stand meta chain, over and over. Tons of XP.

Basically that with all sorts of xp boosts.
I also did (and still do to a certain degree) daily hp champ and adventure run.

Mossman – Director’s Cut

cafard.8953:

Zombie Scarlet.

That made me laugh and despair at the same time.

I just happened to stumble across an interesting reddit thread regarding refunds for multiple salvage-o-matics after the introduction of shared inventory slots.
My assumption was that it is simply bad luck if you bought multiple tools, but from the thread linked below it seems that GM are arbitrarily refunding such tools.

Can we get an official statement on the policy here, as the same issue seems to be treated differently without any reasoning behind it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4fykxb/now_i_have_a_shared_slot_and_5_coin_fed_salvage/

Gokil.2543:

This would be sad if it wasn’t also hilarious.

Taken from reddit:

[–]manny2494 St Platano.9271
How does ANet find out that another person was using one of the team member’s accounts?

[–]Joshua_Davis Grouch
I can’t get into the specifics, unfortunately.
That said, planning a scheme such as this entirely through in-game chat is generally not advised.

The comment by Joshua made my day.
I know that all from CC are still very young, but cheating this dilettantish is hilarious.
Can’t even be mad, they get my GW2 vote for world’s dumbest of 2016.

cptaylor.2670:

I’ve found a way to make them at next to no cost with a slight initial investment that might net me some profit later. Unfortunately it’s a slow process and will take awhile to accumulate all of them. Do some research, I’m sure you’ll find a more affordable way.

That statement is wrong, as you didn’t consider opportunity costs.
Amalgamated Gemstones HAVE costs, but it is cheaper to forge them than to buy them off of the TP.
People are impatient, that is the reason why it still nets a profit to sell those gemstones if you buy and forge wisely.

Dante.1508:

This thread shows perfectly why most people hate raiding with a passion, the communities it draws are some of the worst online games can generate..

Best honestly just to ignore raiding completely, in every game not just here.

QFT

If you don’t like how the matchmaking is currently working, then you should stop to play pvp. Not trying to be cynical, but this is the only option you have to vote.

Comments on the forum are nice, but they will not change anything.
If enough peoply don’t play a certain game mode, the situation will be reviewed and adjustments will be made.

For me, I know that this season wasn’t an enjoyable experience, so I simply stopped playing pvp.

Is it the best solution? No.
Is it the only viable solution? Yes.

Given an income of approximately 10g/hour of gameplay, 300g is by no means too expensive. If you want the tag for a guild, pool your gold and it will even be easier.

Stating that a raid doesn’t provide income is plain wrong.

Furthermore, the usage of the most expensive food/utility is simply not necessary, as the difference to cheaper alternatives is marginal.

I am rather curious if season 3 is going to be the final total trainwreck.

Given that this pvp season is one of my worst gaming experiences in 15 years of mmo gaming, I can’t be the only one thinking that way.
Not if the forum is even barely a representation of player opinion.

Hence, I wonder what season 3 and the April update will do to this game to turn the HoT desaster around. For me, it’s make or break with GW2 as I am moving on from being salty to just not caring anymore.

White Knights United were striking fast again.
System working as it should, if you ain’t got fun, who cares.
System working as intended, all is good.

Warriors suck. The weakness of the class is not the player’s fault, but choosing to play with it in ranked is.

If a warrior is able to pull his weight (and I have yet to find one for this season), then the player would be of much better use to the team with a better class.

So far, every warrior I had in the team was a full-blown liability that needed to be carried (if possible).

That is the simple truth, no matter how any forum white knights try to defend it.

Don’t really see the issue here.
Just the usual toxicity you get when running soloQ.

The way I handle this is by having a separate chat tab without team/say chat. And since the toxicity is rather high this season, I have temporarily disabled any /whisper.

However, this is just my solution – everybody has to decide for himself how to deal with other people lacking manners. Much easier in this game though than irl.

Malediktus.9250:

I am really angry right now. I was on a hard earned win streak then this happened. The 4 people were from 1 guild and 3 of them had less then 10 points until far mid game. Utter trash matchmaking anet. If I soloQ I dont want to help out crappy PVE guilds!

That is why we need to get real SoloQ again.

OP doesn’t get it.
It’s not about leagues, it’s about having fun matches and the feeling of progression. Both of which are very sparsely seen this season for the majority of people.

Currently, it is also the case that ego-boosting win streaks happen at the cost of less experienced players. This should not be the case as it will drive away new players and slowly but steadily kill pvp (even more).

The devs are having some issues that Wildstar also had (not only pvp, in general). It seems that they are catering more and more to a minority of people at the expense of the majority. Taking all the feedback from hardcore players whilst ignoring the casual fanbase is rather alienating.

Since the release of HoT, Anet is really not doing a good job in my opinion. They axed Colin for it – let’s see what happens next.

Share you opinion, flame if you feel like it, either way is fine for me.

johnyboy.3614:

Nope the problem is there is no F’N matchmaker. from what iv seen and seen on the form’s is that if you lose more then win at all it can be a number of factor’s from bad teammates too maybe just plain messing up or whatever float’s your boat your MMR goes down and for the winners well it goes up.

what the matchmaker is doing is pairing you with players of similar MMR but the useless matchmaker dose not make you fight a team of similar MMR, so if you start haveing badluck I.E loseing maybe 15+ your kittened for a good long time

plus new players have a base middle range MMR so if mine waz there and and i waz a decent player but got the FN luck of those kids in my team and lose game’s (kinda like playing the lottery) im just going too eat it over this.

once your in this hole GFL, GG Anet well played i F’N hate you, people want a Matchmaker that give’s them fun games with people with similar skill both sides not this lottery train that just ends in 80% of the people trying and quitting after 2 weeks because they’er MMR hit the floor and see players that cant even kill a paper bag,
then people wonder why im so salty

i seen this day 3 the fact that its unforgiving and that i got snowballed by premade’s day 1 too just get F’N owned by a MatchMaker that dose a garbo job, wow GG Anet a F’N monkey can do your F’N job at this point

PVP Matchmaker needs 3 things too make this work

1# Team/solo ranked ques, i don’t give a F’N care what other people say, Fact

2# MMR based pvp, Pips are kittening useless never wanted them, that mean’s (me the player’s will have teammates with similar MMR) and (me and my team will play team’s with similar MMR)

IE (1000 team MMR= 5 players at 200 base MMR) not (1000 team MMR = 1 player with 300, 2 with 200, and 2 with 100 or some garbo like that and it need’s too make it fight even MMR team’s

3# how MMR is scored (not just based of win/lose) IE high damage, kill’s, death’s, cap’s, damage tanked vs death’s, top stat’s award’s ECT

sure takes a little too balance out but like many have said you can always make people do a qualifier

FACT’S get over it Anet or fail

This. So. Much. This.
Why did they even start with such a pip-based league.
Leave the MMR as it was, assign leagues to MMR range, done.

I could whine and rage and I am admittedly salty, but this season is just really, REALLY frustrating. And I am speaking as someone with three years and around 4k matches experience.

At least I hope to learn something about myself, as I am still playing a game I don’t enjoy anymore and I have yet to figure out why.
Maybe its emotional ties after investing so much time in it for about three years.

Then again, maybe they canned Colin as they are aware of the downward spiral they are in and he had to take his hat for that.

The matchmaking this season is no fun.
I’m beyond salty, I’m fully frustrated now.
This isn’t what a game is supposed to achieve.
It is not working.
There is elo hell.
Your pvp team needs some experienced help.
I don’t think they are capable of getting it right on their own.
And I stand by every word I have written here.

Feeling embarrassed for the OP.
Not sure if he failed to comprehend the according dev posts or if the fingers were faster than the mind. Seems to be more and more common on the forum nowadays, so at least he is not alone.

No power to drugs.

1) Bring back soloQ

2) Enable different weapon sets in pvp and pve, so that we don’t have to swap weapons everytime we switch between pvp and pve content.
NOTE: This has already been possible for a long time, I don’t know why you took that away from us with a pvp patch…

3) Keep the match-ups as they are now – maybe move it to a pre-season if necessary.
Why aren’t more people seeing matches against higher skilled opponents as an opportunity to learn? Diamonds are formed under pressure after all.

4) I like the OP’s suggestion: A dueling option at the lobby would be great.

5) Split the league into skill and progress league.
- Skill league: System as it is now. You can lose tiers and divisions. This is for bragging rights, e.g. the nice little league-icon floating above our toons.
- Progress league: You get a pip for each victory, you don’t lose. This tracks rewards and would help to keep pvp motivation high and make things like the backpack easier achievable.

Strictly from a soloQ perspective:

Go necro, herald or scrapper.
Focus on one, at most two professions for a season, as you need practise with each to get better, especially to get some basic moves into your muslce memory.

The issue with tempest is that he gets better the better your teammates are, which is something you should not rely upon for soloQ.

And most important for soloQ and I cannot stress this enough: Learn a proper rotation and keep up situation awareness at all times.

Taken from more than 4k soloQ games over the last three years: This IS how it is. Listen to others if you like, listen to me if you want to succeed.

The salt this season is fantastic!
Bring it on, so Guilt Wars can expand!

…still waiting for more creative excuses to avoid the reality check many are prone to at the moment, but the mix of blaming Anet, other players or lacking balance are always a nice mix to excuse the lack of self-reflection or personal skill…

Link to a reddit post (by someone else) that summarises the issues of this season rather well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/485sx2/the_official_season_2_rant_thread/d0lbup5

Emapudapus.1307:

Tempest alone makes matches bunker meta 2.0 , even if others are pure dps. It increases survival of others too much.

Wrong. Focus target and all is fine.
The real cancer this season is reaper – for obvious reasons.

0%… but then again… I haven’t played a single game yet, so I’m not 100% surprised.
I’ll give 120% on the rage train though to make up for it.

I think Anet needs to nerf all classes but ele, as I am currently playing that class.
I’ll send a notification as soon as I decide to use another class so corrections can be made to cater to my needs.

Sunshine.5014:

Okay, so 1% of the gw2 population get it within 2 seasons. What’s the problem, dear?

You can easily get it with 3 seasons. I see no problem with better players (who get to LX2+ last season) get their rewards sooner.

It’s a competitive league, dear.

Condescension is rather uncreative and plain boring. Try again.

So… basically you just lost two matches and now its Anet’s fault?
We have plenty of hilarious posts, why do you feel the need to add a ridiculous one?

If anyone from ANET happens to read this:

Would it be possible to capture the first-person pov for all ESL players during their matches and put them up on a streaming service afterwards to be able to watch a full game from an individual point of view?

Seeing an ESL pro player pov would certainly be beneficial for the gameplay of the (not so) casual pvp folk.

Am I the only one who would like to see that?
Feel free to share your thoughts or rant and rave.

Drama thread no. 234.124… and as necessary as all the others.

It’s an old post from a rather dead blog (unfortunately), but you can try his settings as a base for your setup.

http://taugrim.com/2012/06/27/guide-to-guild-wars-2-keybinds/

If you are left-handed, let me know and I’ll try to upload my setup some time next week.

Wolfs Shadow.7234:

kdaddy.5431:

Whoa whoa dont blame them, there is no counter for them.

Currently only 1-2 teams actually counter this meta out of 16 and dont blame them for anet not doing there jobs.

I don’t care how bad ANET is at balancing, or how lopsided a match is. There are players in pvp right now that would kill for the opportunity to play in this tournament whether they win or lose. Those member(s) of Zero Counterplay that did rage quit are as pathetic as it gets.

I have no respect for players or teams that rage quit; regardless of the circumstances, the sportsmanship goes right out the window.

How can anyone give excuses to rage quitters.

I agree 100%.
No matter how frustrating it is, you play for league and as such that sort of immature behaviour has no place at all.

From my point of view, the rage-quitter(s) – not the whole team per se – should receive the red card for the next season.

No respect.
None.

PrinceKhaled.5104:

ANET….. DO kittenIN SOMETHING WITH DH kittenIN TRAPS IN PVP!!!!!

like why? WHYYYYYYYY? why would you have a league with so so so unbalanced classes??
Then people come cry about CoR Revenant skill??? pfff please…..
Fix the kitten of this DH…… so broken build……………….

Nice to see that some posts still can make me laugh.

The solution is rather simple:

1) Give more daily fractals per bracket.

2) Improve the rewards (see 1). Less rng, more relics, additional items from vendors that help with ascended gear. Ideally not only rings, but ascended trinkets in general.

3) MOST IMPORTANT (and admittetly most difficult to change too): Adjust the toughness scaling and rework the instabilities.

Problem solved.

The thing that strikes me most about the mini-games (adventures) is that they are not some relaxing content to “take a break”. Mini-games pre-HoT (activities) always had that feel and to me that is how it should be.

Yet by making gold a de facto requirement to progress masteries past a certain level, it feels forced onto the playerbase (or at least the little part of it that is me).

To answer the OP: The one with all the tears; so you are clearly right here.

Just to be precise: They said that the changes to fractals will hit in December. They didn’t say which day during this month. In other words: 31st is still December.

And to be even more accurate: They didn’t mention which time zone. So it’s December until January, 1st HAST.

In other words: Honolulu, we are watching you!

Haven’t played Wildstar, but I’d be curious to know if the game changes the expansion brought with it equal the style of Wildstar. From what I read about Wildstar, it failed because it was heading exactly in the direction GW2 is moving to.
Could be completely wrong though – maybe someone cares to elaborate?

Loli Ruri.8307:

I found it funny how there were a few people talking about how the game shouldn’t be reliant on a group of people, but individual skill, and yet the game is called “Guild Wars 2”. Funny that.

And there is a movie called Blade Runner yet I didn’t see Harrison Ford dancing on a sword. Your point?

Another useless reward thread. Woohoo…

Obtena.7952:

The bottom line is that Core GW2 is for scrubs … ANYONE can play it. That made everyone think they were good at the game, especially with a certain group of people telling them that using zerkers armor made them ‘good players’. Now something comes out that makes those people fail, they don’t believe it’s because they are bad since they are so pro at Core GW2. They just think it’s the game being too hard.

Some posts are so stupid, they nearly cause physical pain whilst reading.
Please give us a PSA like “baboon typing” or something before your next post.