Berseker is bugged. It hit’s for 5k once every 15 hits or so. Normally it only hits once, for barely 1300. The only way you’re going to tank all three hits is if you’re accidently running into the direction where the zerker is running, which is far more rare than a full phoenix hitting for example.
Why do you bother responding to arehundel? He has never done a single constructive post and nobody ever takes him seriously, don’t let him derail your thread.
ont; Knowing when the shatter recharge trait would proc could open so many possible strong plays. Right now it’s always ‘’oh, shatter recharge! What a waste!’’ or ‘’Oh, shatter recharge, kitten yeah!’’ with no real strategy in it.
I would say Kirei. But actually thieves are just as good as the team that suppports them. Same with every other player.
Vanish >; kirei, easily.
Kirei is mechanically around the same level as vanish, sure. But vanish is smart as hell, calls every single time he goes on a target, switches target, immobilizes, uses basilisk, right before he is going to burst and he follows orders well. Kirei doesnt return to close to help vs the ele because he is busy 1v1ing a necro without saying a word.
lol@people arguing against soloque being a must. Yeah meng, lets appeal to teams only. Soloquers are most certainly not the majority of any pvp game.
I totally remember that whenever I played jk2, wc3, league, wow, sc2 and gw1 etc all I saw was team players and solo players are just some nische market compared to forcing 5
Gw1 failed because of it’s neglect of solo play when it could have been so much bigger. No, I’m not saying HA mode should have had soloque, but having the only form of competitively playing solo being hero battles was the most kitten idea ever and whoever argues against it should return to licking the wall they were previously making out with before posting such a thing.
@Oni
The leaderboards will be taking to account the MMR pre-patch…
That’s the problem.
They reset the mmr in February(without announcement or warning which made all of our mass gaming pointless), when all the teams were playing. We all assumed mmr would come in in march with yet another reset because that makes sense. I mean, who introduces a ladder without a reset right? So during march not a single top tier team was playing seriously except for a few lower tier teams that finally got to win a lot.
Now we find out the next month that there was no reset, which heavily kittens up the initial mmr.
In the end this wont matter, it’ll get fixed. I just hope we don’t have to see those names on the leaderboards for a month c:
The first launch of the leaderboards is going to have the most inaccurate list ever. Every single top EU team that I know has ruined their ratings by soloquing and not playing seriously during the entirety of march because they expected a reset while a bounch of lesser teams have been playing tryhard during that month. Chalk it up to another piece of failure from arenanets communication.
So yes, I desperately hope that they update the leaderboards consistently, but I kind of doubt it.
Not only do PvE play the bills and sustain the game and can be monetize. PvPers tend to be less loyal and more likely to easily move from one thing to another faster than a PvEer will do. GW1 had everything PvPers would want, however that did not prevent it’s inevitable decline. So it makes little sense to dedicate a lot of resources to a game mode that is less monetize AND significantly less loyal.
I am pretty amazed at the new PvE thing though, it looks interesting. Not interesting enough to get me to log in after 3 months, but amazing nonetheless.
It begs the question why would you bother hanging around a forum of a game you don’t play?
I always found that amazing…in a kind of sad way why people do that.
Guild wars 1 lacked proper solo play support. The vast majority of pvpers play solo.
It’s a miracle gw1 did as well as it did with that being the case.
It’s a broken mechanic to be able to noskill spam it despite what the enemy is doing. Take it like a man and start using draw weapon like we do whenever we get blinded.
We’ve been able to be very dominant with out warrior pick and I never felt like it was a great handicap. Warrior was in an okayish position.
With this patch, however, we are dropping our warrior. I don’t think we’ll be able to beat top teams at all without frenzy or the great synergy war has with timewarp.
It’s because it puts extreme pressure on the enemy team, is easy as hell to preform and is hard as hell to punish.
I couldnt care any less about the ’’satisfaction’’ of scoring a kill if the enemy team genuinely lost something when my team is forced to back off two players to counter the most mobile class in the game without even being able to kill him.
Of course they should have a reset, everyone expected them to and thus not a single serious team has been competing in their 5 man roster, everyone has either pugged or soloqued, messing the ratings up, lol.
Who would ever START a ladder season with results from a time when nobody was competing about the top of the ladder?
l o l
Obviously it would take a week for Glory Ranks to stabilize huh?
Use your brain people =/
Normally, I would completely agree. I do, however, have a counterpoint.
This is the same company as the guys who said ‘’this blog post should be out in the next few days’’ on a blogpost that came out around a month later after that.
It’s the guys who are incapable of creating a simple map generator
It’s the guys who thought the whole 8 team free paid tourny system would work out.
I’m praying to whatever god you could think of that my pessimism is wrong but judging by the wording of the march patch notes it kind of seems that the leaderboards will show glory rank.
However, the leaderboards website won’t be visible to players until we’re sure it has stable information, which could take up to a week after the release goes live on March 26. Initially, the leaderboards will feature WvW rankings, PvP player rankings, and total achievement points
Which, if they stick to their kitten idea of just sneakpatching it makes me furious.
If they were respectable developers they would have talked to us about how things are going. Is it in a state where it’ll be patched in tomorrow? Okay then, why can’t we get a forum post about that? Was there some sort of setback which will delay it by a month? Okay, would be great if they told that BEFORE the tenth of april.
We have no clue, and it’s insulting. It infuriates me that this is the company I talked so insanely high about and got about ten extra sales STRICTLY because I said what a great pvp they would deliver.
Staff is better than greatsword, focus is the primrary pick most good mesmer (including myself) goes in competitive play. Pistol isnt horrible, but in a meta that is designed around the mesmer not ever 1v1ing why would you sacrafice utility in exchange for 1v1 capability?
Gs is nowhere near the power of staff, staff gives AMAZING mobility and utility. Phase retreat can be used to teleport to a highground at almost every single point and can allow some crazy good shortcuts (you can instantly port to clocktower with it, instantly up to trebs, instantly up from lower area to higher area in mansion, instantly to the bridge on legacy, etc)
Again, look at streamers. Stop being insulted by the thought that for example I know more than you. Learn from me. Learn from my hair. http://www.twitch.tv/helsethgw2#
It’s just the lack of features that stops GW2 being more successful. E-Sports we’re coming!!! Soon.
100% Agreed.
There are several examples of games being successful despite having glaring imbalances (that often lasted for very long times and were a big Issue in the community), just look at these Games:
- SC2 has been quite imbalanced for long periods of time: There were months were Zerg couldn’t win anything and every Zerg was whining, then there were months (after certain changes in balance) were nothing could beat Zerg in the Lategame.
- DotA2 / HoN: There are always certain Heroes that are so incerdibly good, that they are being banned almost every game and then there are Heroes no1 really plays.
- Warcraft III TFT: Undead wasn’t able to win any Major Tournament for years, with only very few exceptions.
- Basically every Fighting-Game has a few Characters that are considered Top-Tier and some that almost no1 uses.
But name me one Game that had success in e-Sports where:
1) You weren’t able to make own games: This alone makes e-Sports impossible.
2) Had no Observer-Mode: Without Spectators there is no e-Sport and you can’t just Stream PoV’s of Players and expect people to watch and understand it.
Then there are other Features that are more aimed towards casual Players, like a good Matchmaking-System, a good Ladder etc., but I think those are secondary to the e-Sports Features (at least in my opinion).
The blademaster still hunts my DK in my nightmares.
Go watch videos of good players, now. Go on, you can find paradigms stream vods or our stream vods. Learn how the actual game works before you make massive walls of texts and argue with players with more experience on the forums.
A rather pointless comment really… you don’t give any reason why you believe that rather just the arragance that this situation is the “easiest” for your team to deal with.
Would of thought someone as invested in this game as you could offer more of a reply than that really…
So you don’t think three roaming thiefs all with instakill builds isn’t strong? Unless you happen to have a stun breaker up or just guess the moment they will reappear and dodge there is litterally nothing you can do to survive.
You’ll lose every single teamfight to any decent team composition. Instead of me explaining in detail why it fails every single way for you I’ll tell you to try it yourself and see the failures first hand. Defeat is the best learning process.
It has nothing to do with my team to do. ANY team will stomp this. Hell, bring a good composition (ele, mes, guard, thief) in a pug and you’ll stomp it.
That wont stop making people care about their spot. For example, me and my entire team will never pug/soloq ever again once the leaderboards come out, since it’ll hurt our teams average.
And whether the leaderboard says you are rank 2 or rank 200 will that take away the fact that you are a good player? I think it is a poor excuse to not solo again.
Ranking won’t determine anything but give you a position its not like a rank 2000 person is 2000th in skill level at the game. Since there will be no class breakdown of the leader boards it is going to be a terrible representation of anything outside of w/l
I have a sponsor that cares about where I place.
Further, unless we get top tiered opponents we aren’t going to get good matches. If I soloque around and get stomped by fullteams my rating will drop, meaning the teams average will drop. And if my team does it we are most likely going to get waste of time opposition where we have to grind ourselves up only to get smashed by teams again.
^Which is what I fear the most, it’s an absolutely kitten idea and it’s why Guild wars 1 failed as an esport despite being such an amazing game. The majority of players in any game will always be soloplayers. And a huge part of those soloplayers will want to be able to play competitively and be aknowledged as a skilled player without having to pick up the chore of playing with a full team.
Hopefully arenanet understands that or this game will never grow past the tournaments arenanet will host on their own.
That wont stop making people care about their spot. For example, me and my entire team will never pug/soloq ever again once the leaderboards come out, since it’ll hurt our teams average.
Don’t worry. Team players will never be soloqueing once they add the leaderboards, so the ’’100’’ is never gonna put up the team 2 rating.
You’re absolutely correct in your scenario though, it’s an borderline unwinnable scenario for team 2. The only way for team 2 to win is if team 1 majority kittens up. This is why the ’’100’’ player will never play without his ’’100’’ teammates or in a ’’100’’ premade once the ratings matter.
Oh and, there will never be any solo queing 100s (asusming it’s a number for a high rating), so don’t worry about that part.
This game was sold as a game where every class would be able to the same thing equally well on every front?
Go read the class philosophy, this was never their view. Clearly they had different attributes in mind for all sorts of classes which result in imbalances in advantages. This isnt a bad thing. The sicilian opening in chess tends to give you sexy queenside+central pressure but you arent going to be able to a kingside pawnstorm any time soon. Hell, chances are you’ll be subjected to them. This leads to a deep strategic game where the two opposite sides are striving for their ideal form of the game, usually with white bumrushing your king and black counterattacking through the center.
Imbalances=good
Unbalanced=bad
For example, eles deserve an arrow to their eyes.
I first wanted to appreciate your message of the community sticking together, but since you’re telling me to value the opinion of the peasantry that is hotjoiners and not to actively try to get the developers stabbed I’m going to have to hate you now too. Because differencing opinions on the internet is unacceptable.
Judging from streams I had originally thought you were a good Ele, too. But since we disagree you suck, noob.
Didn’t the devs said that we would be getting pvp features as soon as they were ready, separate from the monthly patches? Or were they only talking about the leaderboards?
Because, for example, if they could finish features like custom arenas mid-April, I would prefer for them to release those features right at that moment, instead of having us to wait until end-April’s monthly patch.
Anyways, we should at the very least get new balance changes. But with custom arenas, spectator mode and leaderboards coming “soon”, it shouldn’t take much time until pvp becomes at a much better state.
Well it was never fully alive in competitive terms. Unless I missed all those GW2 competitions and tournaments (and i don’t mean tPvP)
What are you talking about? The wall of champions has all the teams written down, but it’s just the same 5 guys winning over and over again so people don’t realize.
I tried 1v1ing Squad member 2 in a mesmer duel once. He beat me using nothing but scepter autoattack.
This is the kind of kitten I’m talking about when I’m saying that your transparency is kitten, Tyler. So you were unable to deliver the map switch in time, fine, but why wont you tell us that in advance and why?
If I’d be late for class for some reason I’d let my tutor know in advance. Is this principle really that hard to follow?
Most mesmer builds revolved around stacking3-4 stealths, blinks, position swaps, and culling abuse, utilizing a stupid high health pool with low cd tricks to endlessly cycle them with little penalty for misusing a skill.
The problem is that they want to make it an esport without ANY investment. It should be obvious for just about anyone now that the pvp team has way too little actual resources on their hands, hence why they’re pushing out actual updates so slowly.
Real esports made the game esport through proper investment. Cash price, features, having community managers, etc. We have like, what? Five devs that we know of with all of them showing criminal lack of game understanding (mantra mesmer and minion master hero karl is worse at the game than I was after a week yet is the balance designer?)
Curse is on a hiatus, we have not quit the game but we are no longer active. I play a few games every now and then for my stream but I don’t enjoy it at all, lol. I’m the only one in curse who is at least logging in to play. We’ll be back when leaderboards are up
Same for TP, they don’t soloq as much as I do though.
I’ve seen bg9 a little, but they cannot be considered active
NN May or may not quit. Their warrior, zoose, quit the game. They’re now a 4 man team, debating the thoughts of continuing play or moving to dota 2.
In short, there are no more active scenes in either EU or USA as the game is atm.
