Guild Wars 2

NikeEU.7690:

I think most of the big raiding guilds would agree that their first Gorseval kill was the most hype they felt during the raid.

Spent so kittenin long on Goresval, most satisfying of all definitely.
(not so much after you figure out the break bar strat)

My team was able to beat the “final” boss, required multiple wipes about 2.5 hours of attempts.

Everyone understand that this is the first raid wing boss encounter, I don’t believe they would put their most difficult encounter first.

The mechanics are relatively fun and difficult to a degree. This was the only PvE content where I had to pay attention to my screen for the entire duration of a fight. This is a huge improvement from current content.

Couples things:
The guardians colors seem to be place-holder skins (could be wrong)
The leashing on the guardians in “Pillar Phases” act kind of odd, they just run off with no reason.
You can get locked out of the arena as the fight starts even after you have gotten the main boss in combat. For the first 5-10 seconds of a fight and if you’re caught outside the ring you get insta-killed (this is kinda annoying).
I think speeding up the portal timers (AoE proc time) would make the raid way more difficult and reactive.
Sometimes seeing the AoE ring for the portals is kinda hard with 10 people using heavy particle effect skills. Is there a way to make them more prominent in comparison to your ally AoE’s.
The “mini bosses/trash mobs/training mobs” are really awesome, allows you to have an idea of what to expect and practice with your groups.
The break bars are relatively easy to handle and doesn’t really put much pressure on us, during the break bar phases maybe implement a a higher dps or even another mechanic to make these parts a little more difficult.

I don’t think this first raid wing should be that difficult because this should be the introduction to the challenging content.
Hopefully, the level of coordination and difficulty continues to increase and that this is just a precursor for what is to come with the rest of the raids/wings.

Everyone has gone over the hammer.

Stealth Gyro:

Not going to talk about the pathing since it has already been touched on.

One thing I think the Stealth Gyro needs is to act like a clone, since the Gyro already gives away your position. When it’s destroyed it should do damage/daze but not reveal you. You stealth is going to time out in the next max of 4 seconds no need to reveal you. This will allow for more usage of the Gyro actively to initiate a fight.

Skills to be looked at:

Ride the Lightning & Churning Earth Skills

Ride the Lightning:
Is it possible to change the way this skill interacts? ex. Ability to stop the channel mid “ride” and also have it be able to hit targets if you don’t have it targeted if you land in the area.

Churning Earth:
No one ever really uses this skill and if it is used it normally never hits. The channel is way too long for the outcome of the skill.
Proposed changes:
Shorten channel, make it between 1.75s and 2.5s. Still a channel long enough to beable to avoid/dodge but make the skill actually worth using.

With the skill being easier to land in fights, the damage/condis would have to be adjusted too.
Potential Changes:
Decease the skill coefficient.
Decrease damage of skill.
Decreasee number of bleedstacks or duration of bleed stacks.
Or increase cd

It doesn’t function perfectly, it drops target but there is a potential delay when a target is directly in front of you. Because it’s a hold to lock on a target button.
Edit: Depends on camera positioning in respect to where the target is.

Is it possible to add these two key binds into the game? There are currently poor alternatives to this that don’t fully accomplish what these Keybindsis should do.

Current “Detarget”: closest thing we have is “auto lock target” which when tapped kinda acts as a Detarget, since that’s not its primary function it it doesn’t always work properly.
I know you can click off screen however you can end up clicking on another target.

Current “Cancel Animation” : Stow weapon, doesn’t cancel all animations and doesn’t function well with kits, conjured weapons, basically any bundles.
The only button that currently does that is esc, but if you double tap escape the menu comes up.

I know I’m not the only one who has requested these features, is there any particular reason they haven’t been implanted?

TLDR: Need 2 new Keybinds, current ones that do similar function aren’t good enuff
-wrote this message on my phone at work, excuse any errors etc.

We need a fix, asap. Streamers are falling alseep in que.

Jelzouki.4128:

The typical MMO will charge you 15$/month as a subscription fee.

This is 540$ for 3 years [snip]

This.

insanemaniac.2456:

i hate power creep. dont listen to this guy. get rid of the stupid stacks.

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Finally, good thing they’re getting rid of them. Should have never been implemented.

Kronos.2560:

I think they should allow you to change the color of the orange glow in the 4th dye slot.

This would be pretty kewl.

Anyone know what this dye spot on the panel changes? I cant seem to figure out where the color gets altered on the set.

Do you really believe Arena Net released this April fools joke in reference to the plane crashing? Holy kitten, everyone is so sensitive, they clearly didn’t get together discussing the recent news and attempt to make humor out of it. People are such morons, it’s clearly a joke they do it all the time, they’re not insensitive, people are too sensitive, taking everything personally.

Harvest.2506:

The session that ended forced you to play endlessly, Its not a choice if you want to climb to play game after game.

You just failed to read thoroughly, you quote an article that ANet published (One that you must have read since you knew about the season and the rewards for the season) but there’s a quote in it that shoots down your whole argument :
“To test all the exciting improvements to the leaderboards and reinforce the competitive aspect of Ranked Arena, we’ll hold a test season starting on Tuesday, December 16, that will be running until Tuesday, January 13.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-improvements-to-pvp-and-the-ladder-test-season/

This is from your news section back in November, I’m been playing None stop Hardcore since I read this, and going by the leaderboard until they were reset today.

You’re not receiving any compensation since it was laid out for you but you failed to look or pay attention to it.
The argument “the leaderboards were still active”, yes they were BUT leaderboards don’t necessarily = rewards. They had leaderboard since the start of the game but didn’t always reward them.

tldr: Evidence showing that he read the article and should have read more thoroughly since it’s the 1st sentence of that section of the post.

Rym.1469:

Celestial Walking Among Mere Mortals.

Lmao, I’d wear this one.

Acandis.3250:

Soon…™

Not sure how many games you have played before this, jump into a LoL game, any game where people are playing against other players and do something people think is stupid, generally disagree with, or play like a scrub typically people will be annoyed since they’re trying to win. It’s the internet where people act tough. Also, if you’re new and you inform your team that you’re new they’re usually less rough on you and might even attempt to help.
People will always say “you don’t know what you’re doing” even when you’re making the best rotations and choosing optimal targets, people in PvP look for a scapegoat happens all the time ignore it.

Some ideas/thoughts/stuffs: A lot of other points have been brought up already and I might repeat somethings already said.

Holy balls this was a long post, some more important stuff in this tried to break it up so there wasn’t a wall of text.

Personal story (can skip this part least important): I started PvP’ing around August 2013 (i think somewhere around there), and I was in the pursuit of the shark finisher cause it looked kittening sick and I was amazed by it cause of how exclusive the finisher was. I spent all my time in PvP hours upon hours and I get to about rank 52-53~ and they changed the ranking system. At this point I was already enjoying PvP but was extremely disappointed that I was basically handed shark finisher and people who haven’t spent nearly as much time as I have were handed the rank I had. So, at this point there was really nothing for me to work towards in PvP so I played PvP more casually and went back to WvW’ing/Obsidian Sanctum GvG’ing. I didn’t really get back into sPvP until I wanted to compete in tournaments. I played it on occasion but I didn’t have anything to work towards long term or anything that I could show off.

We need something to show off cause dragon rank means jackkitten right now, in most games getting to the highest PvP rank takes years and if you play for about 3 months of consistent pvp you’re rank 80. Once you’re rank 80 what do you do now?

There’s no prestigious PvP skins, Glorious Hero’s Armor, is just like the Glorious set with little blue Gems on it. (Not exclusive)

Alright, no cool rank (passed a 3-5 month period), let’s check titles, alright… there’s titles linked to the 80 ranks and champion brawler, (10,000 wins) that’s a prestigious but nothing really in between r80 and 10,000 wins to work towards.

Now, the most important part of PvP, who are you better than? Leaderboards, right now the leaderboards, as everyone is aware of, is just a grindfest of who can play the most games and win about half of them. No kitten = no competitive game.

So there’s not much for PvPer’s passed r80 for most people, people want to beable to show off progress and show off their kittens which is impossible in this game.

Need an MMR rating with the leaderboard that reflects somewhat of skill. Also, having that leaderboard accessible INGAME this is huge even the current leaderboard if it’s accessible in game people will be more inclined to attempt to climb it. This is HUGE!
And it makes player networking easier, if you see a name on the leaderboard you might want to recruit them for your team since it actually means something and if you’re a player who is looking for a team and managed to get ranked high on the leaderboard you can use that to get your foot in the door etc.

Some suggestions:

Create prestigious ranks/titles to show off long term PvP play (not necessarily skill based entirely) but a longer progression of ranks that allow you to have access to more weapons/armor skins are you progress(not these PvE reward tracks). Or even skill based ones which you can ONLY get by placing 1st in specific tournaments or dealing with the leaderboard. These skins MUST remain exclusive to PvP and not have a short cutt-ed version available through reward tracks. This allows other players to see that “Oh kitten, that guy has to be high ranked cause of all his 1337 sweg gear” giving a sense of prestige to the gear. Same concept applies to rank finishers and titles. Potentially adding ranks, adding ranks in PvP isn’t the same as PvE since the rank only shows off PvP dedication and time commitment.

This would require a rank overhaul potentially (below)

This is just a couple ideas, could work, maybe not.
Remove hotjoins but leave arenas for people who purchase them, create a practice button, that throws you into a match instantly (with max of 2 friends for a total of a 3man party) and if the match isn’t “full” yet put some bots in there that aren’t complete idiots and run meta builds until the spots fill up. Have these game not grant RANK points but will grant progression towards dailies, reward tracks and account wins (not leaderboard wins). This way players are still being rewarded for playing but not towards their PvP rank(this would also apply to any custom arenas). This removes any possibility of rank farms on hotjoins etc.

Changes to unranked: – Making it more similar to solo queue –
Don’t allow anyone passed a 3-man party to queue up for unranked (hell, I’d even say anything passed a 2man queue but I feel like that’s me pushing the bar a bit). This will make it so players aren’t getting stomped out by full premades every game. Have these matches grant rank points and the reward tracks etc.

Tldr: Read the kitten post, some points you might like other eh, w/e.

I also realize some thing I list or suggest may be a stretch but some concepts in here could be very useful to growing the PvP scene.

For me the settings are in the same spot when I relog, but the zoom goes back to “normal” (the fov pre-patch).

Supcutie was playing mesmer for The Dankening

Yo, this is Lite, I play celestial D/D elementalist. I’m currently looking for a team that want to compete in Go4Gw2 NA Cups (every week, if your team doesn’t want to compete every week I will not be interested in your team) and also prepare to compete for a spot in any future WTS tournaments.

I’m a very skilled duelist and understand how to play against almost all matchups. I’m working on my team-play and support since I’m “new” to the competitive PvP scene (I learn very quickly). I have in-depth knowledge of roles and the rotations appropriate for the roles. 3k+ Games in PvP, I have some tournament experience in Go4, Mistpedia(Aspect GG) and the Academy gaming.

I’m crappy at these kind of write-ups, message me in-game if you’re interested.
IGN : Lite

-I’m not really looking to “build” a team and I’m only looking for serious teams who can and want to compete versus the best.

Put the leaderboard in the PvP menu.

Ojyh.9842:

1 – Templates like in GW1

They don’t ban turret engis, they just limited them if I’m not mistaken. Which is extremely reasonable.

This tournament is for low-mid tier players, you taking 2-3 turret engis and winning the tournament isn’t going to help any pvp scene grow. I think limiting the number of turret engis is a good thing for this kind of tournament since a lot of the players in that range struggle with turret engis.

I don’t believe ESL or Mistpedia (AspectGG) limits those specs and you can still run them in these tournaments which aren’t necessarily geared for players new to the competitive scene.

Why is your build cut out? ARE YOU A TURRETZ ENGI?!

Also, you haven’t even seen the duration in which its applied or the skills associated with it.

I am a huge salt lord about this topic.

PvP progression is stale if you don’t care about reward tracks since the rewards are meh. Would rather have an exclusive title/finisher/weapons/armor to work towards and be able to show off rather than some dungeon armor/weapons or more worthless ascended mats.

-Glorious hero’s armor doesn’t count as exclusive armor, since there is an EXTREMELY similar armor set for the reward track which you can just farm for.
-And they look like crap.
-Leaderboards don’t show anything except that you play this game 10x longer than anyone else.
-Most games you can’t reach top PvP rank for a number of years (even playing religiously).
-And PvP rank is an “optional grind” since it doesn’t give you an advantage in the game just something to show off your progress/dedication.

The change basically catered to casual players, a good compromise would have been to include reward tracks, buff the rank points per win (like they did), and keep rank points the same. Possibly adding better rewards the higher you rank (for rank up chests). This would make it so that you are getting progression short term from reward tracks and long term from your rank.

Yeah, if we could just join hotjoins/duel arenas would be awesome.
and I agree with the guy above me the leaderboard is uselss and noone wants to go to extrenal sites to check leaderboards except for the people who are on them. (rather off topic)

GrandmaFunk.3052:

ex: the other team has 3 necros so i’ll switch to my anti-condition build,

There is no such build that can counter 3 condi necros in terms of condiclear.

On legacy of the foefire, when people are talking about splits, I tell them that I’m going to defend lord all game since its worth 150 points and the nodes only give 1 point each.

Skyhammer in ranked sounds like a really kittenty idea.

Argilla.8340:

Teutos.8620:

Very cheap troll attempt ,
I give you only a 1/10.

It’s not a troll, Ele fire elemental can deal 5k every 15secs or so, and the fire elemental is moveable aswell and on 60s cd

Better proposition, you can have our elemental elite and we’ll take your crate. Fair trade.
-All Elementalists

updated!

Quick note for Might Stacking : Might is the only boon that has +45% increase.
If I’m not mistaken, all others have a max cap of +30% from runes.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

So a good change to might stacking without changing the sigils would be to make changes to might duration.
Ex.
Strength Runes +30% Might Duration
Hoelbrek Runes +10-20% Might Duration since it has a very defensive bonus of -20% condi reduction.

Yeah, a change to these forums would be awesome make it way easier to find what you’re looking for/need.

Triple Capped [GG]

Triple Capped is a newly formed PvP team looking for highly competitive players to participate in tournaments (ESL Go4GW2 Cash Cups & Train for PAX East)

Looking for players who:
Are determined to be the best.
Never give up attitude
Communicate strongly
Have citizenship in North America!
Detailed knowledge of roles/builds & rotations
High mechanical ability
High situational awareness
Experienced in PvP 1K games (minimum)
Ability to travel for tournaments (if necessary) & 18+ Age

LF:
Cele Ele
Rifle Engi
Thief

Throw me a mail with your experience and class & we’ll work from there.

Please stop re-releasing those toy skins there’s such a huge excess of these skins and if you do decide to release them once again. Please put a method in the game to deplete the supply.

The average skill level in this game is very low, not everyone wants to running around with bad players.
In addition to that, this game makes running with bad players 100x worse ex. rally mechanic.

Craft Potent Master Tunning Crystals/ Potent Master Maintenance oils/Potent Superior Sharpening Stones.
Required money to start: Recipe + 10g.
Assuming you have 400 crafting which is cheap to get.

I can’t believe they banished this post to the kittening ingame events, gg anet really knows what WvW is.

I am just a messenger, I refuse to put this in “In-game events.”

Tier 1 GvG Workshop
Tier 1 GvG Workshop
Date: August 2nd – 4pm EST
Hosted in [OnS] Onslaught Teamspeak
Goal: For the health of Guild Wars 2 WvW community – Introduce Tier 1 community to the Open Field Fights/GvG Playstyle
Organizers: [DN] Amelia Syleste, [OnS] Haru, [OnS] Malevolent Omen, [OnS] Reyana

Introduction
The Tier 1 Guild vs. Guild Initiative is a joint effort of the GvG community to introduce the open field fights playstyle to the North American Tier 1 community. It is our firm belief that a fighting playstyle will benefit Tier 1 greatly as it leads to healthy and fair competition that is based on player PvP skill and group synergy.

However, this does not have to be at the cost of different playstyles. The goal of this Initiative is to promote a mutual understanding between the Tier 1 community guilds that playing for fights and playing for server rating are not mutually exclusive; when server communities come together with the understanding that each server needs to maintain a certain rating in a tier, we will be able to focus less on pushing hard for PPT and more towards fun and competitive fights.

While GvG’s are intimidating at first, it is our hope that the workshops hosted by this Initiative will gradually introduce all guilds in Tier 1 to the open field fights playstyle and allow the scene to flourish in this tier.

What will happen during the workshop?

The purpose of the workshop is to give a direct line of communication to a wealth of resources regarding open field fighting and GvGs for the Guild Wars 2 WvW community. The drivers that have been selected to sit on the panel represent some of the top core drivers of the GvG community; these drivers have exceeded expectations in this playstyle and have revolutionized this game that we love playing. During the workshop, the panel will be asked a series of questions designed to highlight key factors in the GvG scene, whether it be driving, tactics, meta, or other salient aspects of GvG success. The panel will be able to discuss these different topics in depth with the hope that those listening will be able to pick up key strategies to bring back to their own guilds. After that, participants will have a chance to ask their own questions. Participants in the workshop will sit in a Teamspeak channel where permissions to speak will be granted by our moderators in order to maintain order during this workshop; to speak or ask a question, you must indicate it in the Teamspeak chat box and a moderator will put you in queue.

GvG Expert Panel
[Agg] Jericho
[HB] Gismor
[NaCl] Odinzu
[NS] Charles
[RG] Intigo
[TE] James

Source : http://www.gw2wvw.net/topic/tier-1-gvg-workshop

he also streams sometimes
http://www.twitch.tv/bey0ndb

you’re poo.

King Amadaeus.8619:

No to anything wanting to buff condis….

This.

TA is an EU guild.

Updated,
Guardian and Necro spots are being trialed potentially closing soon.
Warrior Closed.
Limited Slots remaining.

Changed the start up server.

Hello, [TE] The Encore is a brand new WvW/GvG guild on TC looking to recruit exceptional players.
We are composed of former members of Choo, TW, ONE, Ark.

Roster Size: 25/28 (including trials)

Needed Professions:
Elementalist:2 Staff / 1 D/D (d/d potentially closing)
Necromancer: 2 Potentially Closing – positions being trialed
Mesmer: 1
Warrior: Closed.
Guardian: 2-3 Potentially Closing – positions being trialed
Ranger: closed
Engineer: closed
Thief: 1
TOTAL: 6-10
SLOTS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE FOR EXCEPTIONAL PLAYERS, BUT YOU WILL BE COMPETING FOR THIS SLOT WITH ANOTHER GUILD MEMBER.
Minimum Requirements:
- Use our synergy build
- Must use Teamspeak
- Actively participate in Class discussions/Theory Crafting
- Must be willing to GvG and improve as a player
- Must be highly skilled at the class you play.
- Must be on the Tranished Coast Server
-Must be willing to transfer servers if the guild moves.
- Must have video footage displaying your skill.

WILL YOU FIT IN?
We are looking for modest players that are willing to take heavy criticism at any time without taking personal insult. We do not like overly arrogant players, even if you are good at your class. You will be initiated as a trial for 1-2 weeks, and if approved will receive an invite to the guild. Raids are from 8:30PM-12:00AM EST.
Your chances of joining will be increased if you:
- Have a useful alternative character
- Have been previously involved in solid GvG guild.

Raid times are Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 8:30-12:00 EST

Apply at: http://the-encore.enjin.com/recruitment
Whisper me in-game or forums if you have any questions, thank you for your interest.

James.5480 – Jameszay
Mighty Assasin.3816 – Lite

Not too impressed honestly, shark still tops it imo.

Reverence.6915:

It’s impossible for ANet to have made it any clearer…

This thread is a waste of time

You obviously can’t read.