Guild Wars 2

ddosing? do not worry, that is happening only in highest possible competitive level Pro League, and no one from Anet or ESL team cares, that is how you create a successfull e-sport game, right..

What happened to ESL weekly cups and why is no one playing it?

This game had a lot of potential. I remember free pvp tokens, paid pvp tokens, tournament style queues with some really fun to play builds, much less spam, and pvp rewards like i was able to recognize good players in hotm from starters just based on looks. That was quite fun i would say.

Almost every pvp and balance patch introduced at least one extremely bad idea which ruined the game to deeper level. And now we are here, statistics say there are many people playing pvp, i say i see the same people playing every day, each time i queue, same builds, no rewards, no point to compete, everyone is frustrated.

Still the game somehow always catch me back and i log in to play few matches just to realize it is really bad, but i can feel that hidden potential of what it could have been and what it is not what really bothers me the most, because there are not many other games i would have enjoy from a combat perspective that much as i do here.

Kicker.8203:

Schurge.5194:

Kicker.8203:

Dakarius.3284:

There was 1 thief running vanilla sa/da/tr

And lost 0-2. In eu there wasnt a single player without elite spec.

One would think they would leave a few vanilla builds meta so free players dont feel like its pay to win. Seems thats not the case. Every elite spec is better in all aspects. Right balancing would make you sometimes not to pick the elite traitline.

Free players are playing an extended trial… Who cares what they think? HoT is the game now – if you don’t own it, tough nuts! Expansions are not Pay-2-Win.

2 of my friends and other acquaintances bought gw2 before the free trial and then they quit.(thats why they bought it in the first place they thought they can just jump in and out of the game because it is a 1-time purchase). I don’t think its fair to them that it’s this PTW.(they are interested about the game but they wouldn’t buy the expac straight away, my 2 friends at least)

As a pvp player i already regret buying HoT, your friends made a good decision..

Morwath.9817:

Maylo.5892:

this game is by far no matter of skill, but build > skill, you don’t see?

no one can claim himself to be a good player while playing easy op meta build, the reason why we have “top” teams and these other teams is just about communication and rotation… but “top” players run revenants, druids, reapers and dragon hunters as you see for a reason…

Its true and not true at same time. For example Nos was running Necro since always, no matter if it was meta or not… obviously you can say Terrormancer was “easy op meta build” but that won’t be right thing to do…

There are few exception of course, i was trying to overally explain the situation when i see people say this guy is good, this guy is bad, it really hurts me to see people tend to say good player is the one playing kitten op build. I know people who ran builds which were not claimed to be strongest “meta” in the past, hell i played with some in my team and i know it is possible to win with that, but that is a true masterity and only such people can claim themselves to be truly good players yes..

dragonWarrior.1045:

My intentions are to buy HoT at some point but I wanted to see how this played out. I purchased with real $$$$ GW2.0 (x3) almost 3 years ago so I am not a freeloader. I mostly play WvW and PvP so new content for PvE does not interest me. Apparently WvW is dead and PvP is useless without these new builds? Why do I feel like I am being held hostage for $50?? Is this the future of F2P?

Ok i will be honest with you now, if you want to focus on PvP as a SOLO player, do not buy HoT. It is not because of elite specs, it is because future of leagues seems to promote strongly team play and as a solo player you will have no chance to get those shiny rewards and high ranks.

If you wanna form a team and play for real, then unfortunately buying HoT is a must. As gamer fellows already mentioned, Elite specs are by far superior to everything you have in an original game. I know this looks stupid and it is, but Anet does not care at the moment. Can’t tell what will happen in future, do not have high hopes for changes you will like, as most of previous patches in history shown changes to balance and game are being quite dumb and in the end far different as announced years ago (slow implementation… yawn)

this game is by far no matter of skill, but build > skill, you don’t see?

no one can claim himself to be a good player while playing easy op meta build, the reason why we have “top” teams and these other teams is just about communication and rotation… but “top” players run revenants, druids, reapers and dragon hunters as you see for a reason…

I am the best guardian and all your arguments are invalid because YOU KNOW NOTHING, JOHN SNOW

Soul.9280:

Please bring back soloq. If not, you’ll drive away those people who don’t have a team,

Already happened. Just saying.

Saiyan.1704:

Brix.8461:

This is tonight! 20 teams signed-up, remember it’s the first 16 teams to check-in who gets a spot!

What are the odds 4 teams don’t check in o_o

I imagine there will be more teams signing up too :P

I honestly think the odds are huge as there are always teams who just sign up, but on the check-in time they either forget or realize that they miss players or do not have time to play the full tourney so they pass. It is even possible there will be less than 16 teams in the end at all.

But anyway, gl to organizers and teams, hopefully the tourney will be fun for you and it is just a beginning of something that has a potential to be successful.

Never give up if you want to success. I do not understand people expecting to go everything smoothly from the start till end and if something messes up, say gg and go afk. The comeback is possible in any situation at any time, until the score for one team is not 500 or above. Sometimes even with 4 people, i saw such situations. For solo queueing, i understand it is less possible, as you will encounter lot of people with wrong thinking and behavior. You just have to ignore them and play your best, hope for enemy mistakes and luck for yourself. Sometimes it is not fun, it makes you rage. It is ok, just queue again, hope to see them in enemy team and kick their kitten, look them go afk again, win the match. That is what solo PvP is mostly like. Enjoy!

This leaderboard is totally against ANet philosophy of “No grind” and needs a whole revamp. Enough to say.

Josh Davis.6015:

While I don’t think the OP’s suggestion is exactly the change we’re going to go with, I thought I’d drop by and let you all know that the effectiveness of turret engineer is something we’re looking into very closely right now. Once our plans are a bit more concrete I’ll give an update.

Have a good weekend,

Grouch

So these are the “plans”, does that mean we will see the changes to be implemented no earlier than next year? Sorry but why is taking so long to nerf such huge problematic and game breaking build, not mentioning other balance issues? This should be a priority if you and we want to see PvP competitively successful, i thought the balance team is separated from other tasks in ANet, what are they doing all the time when no balance updates are being seen for months?

I am sorry to act like an unpatient kid but this is something i do not understand and it would be awesome to explain the process you guys have with the balancing, as it just seem to take ages to do something and when something is done badly we must wait for half a year for a fix? Is it hard to code the changes to the game, is it hard to test it? I think community would appreciate to participate in alpha tests of future balance changes to make it faster and give relevant feedback.

If you are worried that any fast balance changes will destroy other popular specs, i would rather see that then seeing the same broken thing for months, if there are no alpha tests where community can test changes why not pull out balance changes every two weeks to the game, we have test ladder, test stronghold, lets test balance no? And then take a longer break only when big tournament is being played or when ranked season starts (if ever) so people can adapt before it. It would be so fun to test every two weeks new combinations of skills and specs and have such variety and give feedback on what have gone better and what is worse. And i do believe people would be more satisfied with such thing. Why is it not reality?

Nice weekend to you too!

Game in this case definitely favours players with better builds than skill, it was always like that, you can not judge people for running the best kitten game offers to them, it is simple like that, if you wanna win you can tryhard as much as you can with something what is currenty not overpowered and broken but you will not be able to achieve something like that even with absolute 100% concentration, you will be punished for one mistake.

I think that the competition and number of teams that are “top” proves what people think about the meta and everything that is happening currently, there are not many left who are trying to have “fun” or to compete in one pvp game mode game offers, simply because people do not have the diversity and real focus to do something like that, balance patch comes once in a 6 months, no new good maps since Temple of the Silent Storm, no good rating system, leaderboard is far from anything that can be used as a proof of skill..

I just wish that maybe, we can start over with the new expansion and Stronghold, that looks imo interesting but, after all what happened in the past, my hopes are low. And i really used to love this game and everything, but since Devs are just laughing in the videos i dont think there is being taken anything seriously from the competitive perspective of the game, it is forgotten how popular the game, as for the PvP, was at the start and how it looks now, all new good teams are just veteran players grouping with other veteran players..

You know the time i actually had the most fun in this game was when there were paid tournaments and tickets, I have lost my hope for having such feeling as back then.. But your suggested change seems reasonable, that is what everyone wanted but we have got something completely different, as always..

What makes you log in when you know you will be kittened off by the game as always?

I am never going to buy the expansion if queues are not going to be separated. And fire the guy who came with such idea, it is even worse than balance patches..

Congrats to the deserved win, the competition was so big that it must have been tough to win this qualifier. There were 4 teams, one of them i have never saw, one had 2 subs because of the age restiriction and one of them got DCs in every tournament since 4ever. But i really enjoyed it because you know what? THIS IS ESPORTS!!

I do not know what is more pathetic, the fact that you did not show the nickname and trying to put blame on the whole team by making a thread without a real proof or the fact that you really believe you should even make a thread about someone, does not matter who, insulting you.

Please welcome to the PvP side of game where players are gonna insult you a lot and you are gonna insult them a lot as well because that is what you will become no matter how hard you try. I realized this right after first time playing against old Car Crash team.

Making a thread about this does not make you a hero. On the otherside, i am 100% sure it was a fake guild, but whatever dude, feel free to live in your troll free bubble full of nice and honest people and next time someone from other top team insult you, please make a thread about it with the subject of that team name, will be easier to track it down, how everyone is being mean to each other. I have no doubt you will make a nice colletion knowing some other teams and people.

When they were talking about Mastery system, if i remember good, they said multiple times it is PvE feature only.

As for the new class and new sub-classes, this is all that you can have when you buy an expansion. If a player buys only standard piece of game, he can still master the classic skills and builds we have right now at this moment available and which are gonna still probably be in a very good shape even after the expansion arrives. Of course only in terms of conquest, since that will be the only game mode he can play without expansion. So i would not be worried about that.

Anyway, in my honest opinion, Stronghold is gonna kill conquest in terms of popularity…

How dare you, don’t you know GW2 is build on “no-grind” philosophy?

What the heck are you even arguing about in this thread? Foefire will stay, it is one of the most demanded maps in every pick-up because it is good and just because the premades take bigger advantage on this map than solo players does not mean this map should be removed, the issue lies somewhere absolutely else and i am even surprised a dev came in to respond to such an irrelevant requirement from a maker of this thread.

The game has only 4 normal playable competitive maps and you wanna make it 3 because of completely different issue with lack of solo arena and bad matchmaking. thread /close

Where is the Celestial amulet nerf? Do not even tell me this is not going to be solved this patch..

the real question should be, was it ever “on”?

You want to nerf probably the only meta class which still requires at least a little bit of attention while playing and a little bit of skill in it, so no it is not OP, strong? yes. harder to play than other meta builds? yes.

Mesmer makes one/two mistakes and is dead. Engi/Ele makes trillion mistakes and is flying around with half hp still alive killing everyone around with throwing their stuff all around.

Statement #nerfmesmernotele/engi just means you wanna keep this game in the abysmal kitten of brainless unkillable spam world full of cheese moders. Just NO!

Dear ANet,

please reverse all the patch changes, make it like it was 2 years ago and let pvp in this game to be fun again.

Thanks in advance!

Justin ODell.9517:

I’m really curious as to how you guys are figuring out if the other team is a pre-made. We don’t tell you, and looking at the data there are very few party rosters compared to solo.

Is it just match quality being bad? Are you just recognizing player names?

I was playing yesterday in the evening on Spirit Watch, i solo queued, it was ranked arena. The game was horrible, we lost it completely, i asked at the end, if the enemy team is premade, they said they are full 5 party team, not on TS, but it does not matter and not changing the fact your new system is broken and needs a fix asap.

Unfortunately i dont have a screenshot of this match, but you can check my yesterdays ranked matches on spirit watch in your database, i did not play that much…

Update 19:33: Now i just played one and only match today, solo ranked arena on temple, it was again against premade. No clue why should i even bother contiune playing, i guess my money are not going to be back but my precious time is lost.

Rule number 1 for safe solo arena playing: Disable your entire chat, use only combat log instead.

Blackjack.5621:

Hello everyone, I am here to speak about the insane amounts of lags in tournaments that especially affects german players.

No, it affects everyone! And like, we were having these kind of problems from like, i dont even know, March of this year? Every thursday ESLs were affected by it, everyone from my team was lagging, always the same story, fix is not coming, and it is just worse with every PvE patch you provide.

I dont know this might be like a number milion thread about this hillarious lag and disconnects, can’t take this game too seriously until it is at least a little bit more playable on the evenings..

Unfortunately the only way is yours and your friends or other players (who can be objective) judgement about how you play. I am glad that you are not using leaderboards as a meter of skill since it really does not tell about your actual knowledge of the game anything. You will meet a lot of players who think their personal score in the match, or their LB rank is a meter of how good you are, however, just ignore their opinions and stay positive, if you wanna survive.

ANet has said some (loooong) time ago the league system will be implemented, and i am not sure if it is coming any soon or if it is something being prepared for GW3, but yea, it might happen once..

Lags are a main feature of this game already and i dont think you can achieve a lag-free situation even on EU servers.

Anyway i think on EU servers you might have less delay for sure.

BLUna.7928:

• Welcome Back CM

Lol, the whole topic about this? Must be proud..

This is cool indeed, but it is time to implement the pause button..

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

You guys are either Trolls or completely ignorant…

The link I provided is an Announcement of World Tournament 2014.
There seems to be Prize money for the winning Team.

This means that GW2 is finally E-Sport now… Unless I’m mistaken prove me wrong otherwise cause how I see it, E-Sport is when players win prize money in PvP tournaments as a team and people come to watch or participate.

Also GW2’s PvP takes lots of skills and strategy so it’s appropriate for E-sport genre.
This is why I support it becoming E-Sport… We need games with combat like this.

I will put 5 euros to a winner of a tournament in 360 FORKLIFTING game and invite my friends to watch and play it, does it make an e-sport then?

Note that driving a forklift takes more skill than playing this meta..

Killing the lord was definitely harder in the past, so i am 100% up for this idea.

Seeing how the both metas look like i see no skill no love, just a bunch of unkillable overpowered builds with players trying to hit the keys on their keyboard faster with more luck than the other one..

Silentshoes.1805:

Just wondering if the altruistic guardian is still the most effective “booster” in soloQ to amplify a random team’s chances of winning?

From my own experience i can tell that it’s really still fifty-fifty – as a bunker guardian you can’t really kill anything and if your teammates are not able to kill anything on their other builds and are not focusing the target, there is no way of carrying the games to the winning end as a bunker guardian.

I often end up holding the only point we have, being invaded by 2 or more enemy players, not getting help any soon and losing the point, still without having any other point in our favor.

And ofc there is skyhammer and spirit watch, my fav maps..

I am not even going to watch this joke, this is not an all-star anymore. No surprise for me tho that major of the community voted like this, and with all the ip system abuse, it is just disappointing…

I thought Helseth is banned from any social activities connected with ANet..

Friends.

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Sizer.2654:

BTW generally do u guys find waiting on TOL rewards has made u play the game more ? great marketting tactic it defiantly made me play more ^^

Me and my team got even more bored, so nope. I am already playing like 90% less than before, and only regular balance patches, new game modes or proper ladder system with rewards can change it..

BLUna.7928:

Edit @Maylo: Money wasnt sent to your team due to a clerical error, you should get it today.

Thank you very much for fast response, we got it!

Tell me about that, we still did not recieve the money from Mistpedia Invitational, which was held on 2 March 2014. Thats how professional and responsible everything works in esports business i guess..

Thanks Allie and good luck in your future career! I will follow you on twitch. ;D

Today at 20:00 CET there is also going to be an ESL GvG tourney, just to let you know..

This happened to me yesterday,

http://www.twitch.tv/maylox/c/3830777

Was not even the first time this happened to me, pulled and stucked alive somewhere right between the glass ground and normal ground, could not move out.

Team Name and [TAG]: Fifty Five Hp Monks [ELE]
Main Contact: ExpelHax.8012, Maylo.5892
EU or NA server: EU
Complete roster?: Yes

Bump, since i would like to know if its worth farming for the rank gear and finishers too..

Same here guys, getting disconnects every 5 minutes from 17:30 cest. I am from Desolation server, tried port 80 but did not work..

Your rank in leaderboards means nothing. There are better players ranked around 500 than a half of a players from top 100. I hate when i play with someone and he thinks he is a pro because he is in top 50. So what?

And to the topic, yea the decay does not work :P i saw the inactive players go down only on the first day of the latest update, after that, nothing has happened.