I feel like they gave us an old build of Stronghold this weekend
-DB health seemed to be the old again
-DB and Archer AI felt like the one in an old build
…..-DB attacked the treb again
…..-Archers chased players down
-I couldnt choose the mist hero I wanted
I might be wrong tho.
But if this is the case I expect big changes for BWE3.
This Needs to END. It is broken, it is unbalanced and it is a cheap and fake way to win. It is the perfect example reason of how unbalanced the entire system is.
Risk and Reward Gameplay. that is the Basis of challenge. Risk the squishyness of Berserker to kill people faster. Lose the risk by playing bunker and have less rewards.
Risk Stomping people to get the reward of them not being ressed.
Oh wait. you can just go invuln and 100% guarentee your stomp unless the other team is like zerg ressing. You cant CC the stomper, you cant Burn him down you can just res frantically and hope that you wont die cus.. Funny that you DONT have invulnerability..
I like Skills that make you invulnerable. It gives you play, dynamics, challenges I get that that is good. But the risk is 0 The reward SHOULD be zero.
Skills like renewed Focus are in a good place. Take no damage, but lose access to skills, weapons AND Interactions for a renewal of your virtues. Unlike Elixir S, Mist Form, Vampirism Runes which allow you to still contribute to your team even though to the other team you may as well be a spectator. Those are the problem.
As Well Invulnerability is something only certain classes get access to. Engineers, Elementalists, Mesmers. I will not count guardians because I think that that type of invuln is fine and I wont add the runes because that is risk and the unpredictability of when it will pop leaves question marks.
So Anet are you planning to fix this or do anything about it. And if it IS in fact working as intended, would you please explain why you allow it? Perhaps it is beyond me. In that case please share your wisdom with me
Yo dude, did you ever play in this kittening meta?
It’s a kittening nightmare to stomp ppl, so easy to rezz.
Nooooooo, don’t go “all in for soloq or teamq”. Unacceptable. We had soloq in the past. It worked. Give it back.
yeah it worked so well we had 20 min que times and no one ever used it at the end. I dont know if the “all in” thing is the right way to go but currently the player base is still to small and we wont know what we have until the exp comes out.
You keep complaining about solo queue in every thread. We get it. You only win as part of an organized team and enjoy facing pugs. Not everyone feels that way though. Some want to fight on a more even playing field.
The thing is, he’s right. You didn’t address the issue he’s raising. We had 20min queues in soloq. The match-making was even more random than it is now. Most soloq players, myself included preferred to PUG in teamq, and in those days there was no mechanism to make sure you don’t face premades that often. And STILL we chose that over soloq. Why the nostalgia mate?
That logic.
“It was kitten last time because it didn’t work, don’t try it again and make it work!”
Only because anet kittened up the last implementation of soloq doesn’t mean it’s bad in general.
don’t worry when you hit 45min talk to me i actually forgot i was in a q it was so long, i eventually went to go q and realized i had been waiting that long……… plus average q time don’t even work i think… i average like 7 min per q solo and like 10 min with a party of 3 or more
The same balance team we want to balance the current game is busy with the elite specs that are coming, there is no balance team that is entirely dedicated to the current state of the game.
Sad truth.
One of the good things about this game vs other games in this genre was the lack of this sort of crap. I see this already used in PvE on dungeon runs here and there. This to me seems like nothing but an external “gearscore” app which will soon be required, by everyone for everything in the game.
Its a bad move, very bad.
Lol you don’t have to join a team that is looking for good players.
Only thing why you don’t want these stats is that you can’t hide (possibly) how bad you are.
You guys are missing the point that anet needs builds for ppl with less skill so they can do even good without knowing anything about the game, that keeps them playing ^^.
Well, its not you give up 20% dmg boost after you used your burst skill since there is no way to take the strength trait line.
You also lose rampage wich is the bread and butter of power dmg warrior for headbut which is decent dmg but hard to hit.
If Warriors had BASELINE FAST HANDS and a way to have sustain outside of double Endure Pain then maybe Berserker could be good. However, the base Warrior needs changes first.
Sums up pretty much everything I think of warrior/berserk.
Make “Fast Hands” baseline and a lot of the problems are solved, so you dont have to take discipline all the time. That would make place for strength/arms if you want to run power/condi dmg.
Defense, Strength/arms, Berserk
I can see that being viable.
Make “Fast Hands” baseline and a lot of the problems are solved, so you dont have to take discipline all the time. That would make place for strength/arms if you want to run power/condi dmg.
Defense, Strength/arms, Berserk
I can see that being viable.
Hmmm maybe whining and thread spamming isn’t the way to get what you want. Who could’ve guessed?
+1
Furthermore almost all the upcoming elite specializations are an upgraded version of the core profession( berseker, dare devil, herald, chrono, reaper and I believe druid, forge too) and they will have all the tools to easily destroy d/d eles who didn’t receive a competitive elite spec as the core already perceived as strong
Such logic, much wow.
You sir are a legend.
Just because in half a year something releases that could outclass the current specs just make it OP as **** now and nuke sPvP completly.
I like stronghold (ofc it still needs tweaks here and there, it’s still in beta) but i see a lot of potential and I already enjoy playing it.
I play exclusively sPvP.
NA:
Nos
OPN- tho no succes on necro yet after patch, so no need to rewatch go4
Idk about active ones, tho i dont think anyone else has video material
Choxie is a wvwer with funny youtube clips and twitch.
EU:
Blackmoa, prototype, djooce, leeto are some esl names.
Forsaker and Posi sometimes play AG cup.
Fibi, flow and probably hollts too arent tourny player but like lets say top1000 or95% in previous standards.
For videos, forsaker also streams, but i think for average beginer hollts chanel is actualy most helpful.
P.S. once you get gud you can start watching vingador stream
pls don’t put me on any top player lists atm^^ that times are long over. i know alot of stuff but i DONT play on top level anymore
Yeah I remember your indepth expert desk analysis. Kappa
I really don’t understand Arena Net. Why this over actually doing something for sPvP like adding more maps, better Reward Tracks with exclusive items, or splitting the game modes to let players pick their style of PvP.
Things that have been requested for 3-years are ignored in favor of yet another ‘system’ that’s probably going to have little-to-no long term effect in player retention outside of those already dedicated to PvP.
Not to take anything away from Abjured but ORNG were disgusting in those last games and apparently the ORNG Thief (I won’t name names…) has no idea about the importance of decapping – It was HORRIBLE. I’ve never witnessed a more painful watching experience in WTS.
Grats to Abjured also WELL DONE TO TOKER for playing Thief correctly.
I really hope stronghold isn’t everything for sPvp only players that would be pretty bad, also stronghold isn’t even expansion only stuff you will get it for free in the base game.
So far really disappointing x-pac for pvpers I hope they still have stuff to announce.
You seem to be very inexperienced pvp wise at least it looks like it from what you are posting, maybe you should ask ppl that held tournaments before for some help ^^.
I take it you like to explore a patch for a year without changes.
Some things are obviously broken right from the start. If you don’t understand that about specs like dd ele or even mesmer in general, no amount of time will help.
That’s not even the point of what he is saying and why I made this thread.
So I read a tweet longer from a pro in league of legends and thought since we are always crying about that anet does not balance frequently enough and we always compare it to league and say that’s how it has to be done, this tweet may be interesting.
I think the people who demanded the removal of soloq should apologize to the community. They frequently posted on the forums saying things like “soloq rank is meaningless” and wanted it to be removed. The sad thing is ANet listened to them.
All they said the soloq leaderboards are meaningless, not soloq itself.
It’s good that a guy like Helseth wrote this because his word has more weight within the scene than other ppl words because he is playing at the highest end and has a lot of ppl that care about his thoughts.
Maybe we can get an offical statement from Anet, that would be really awesome.
But I don’t think that’s likely to happen.
What is wrong with the balance team? Maybe we should start a kickstarter campaign so that ANET can hire some balance people. It’s just embarrassing at this point.
It feels like their balance team wants to prove everyone wrong and be the guy saying I was right the whole time I knew it better.
With all the amazing help that the community gives in terms of balance ideas it could be such an easy job to balance this game …
Krysard is correct, there is currently not an active season running, so the leaderboards are frozen.
Unless I’m mistaken, the leaderboards worked just fine before the last season was active. In fact, they seemed to be functional long before “seasons” were a thing.
Was it frozen to add “having your name at the top of the frozen leaderboard until the next season” as a reward for doing well? Because I haven’t been able to find anything posted before the end of the season that even mentioned a frozen leaderboard.
We were running off-seasons between our beta seasons, which was why the boards were active. We currently haven’t announced plans to start a new off season ladder.
You also never announced when you start the season again. Pretty boring to play soloq atm no motivation.
Only reason why I still keep playing is my team and tournaments I want to take part in.
Watching VOD’s it’s just a skill effects clusterfunk, can’t notice any clutch plays or whatnot, I mean the casters didn’t even notice the AoE Moa at Lord and I can’t say I did either… During most of the game I was just watching minimap to see how things progress, cause looking at the fights is pretty pointless.
If after like 2 years they haven’t managed to clean it up I guess its not doable. Rip…, it’s just not a spectators game and probably never will be.
I think if they did a cast after the match to talk about key plays that happened and the combos they did. For instance on sports center or nfl or nba shows. They break down the match ups and show why certain plays happened like they did and why the outcome happened.
To me that would help a ton if the broadcasters after the match would explain the rotations and combos that certain 2 vs 2 and 3 vs 3 set ups work. Like in some 3 vs 3 situations and 2 are targeting 1 player and 1 player is targeting another and talking about the match ups with in the match ups. 1 of the best matches ive ever seen was broadcasted by BLUE and Helseth on youtube and it was after the fact. They actaully paused certain spots and talked about what each time was trying to do and which team accomplished there combo.
The casters have no clue what’s going on in a game, they don’t know how rotations work, they don’t see nice plays even if they pause every single situation they still wouldn’t have a clue because they never ever played even close to the level of play that the current top teams are playing at.
Moreover they don’t give a kitten about it because their spot as a caster is pretty much save because nobody wants to do the job, so they don’t have to improve and learn the game they are casting about.
Not every caster on a successfull cast has to have a perfect clue about the game.
Peferct combination imo:
-One play by play caster (doesn’t have to go indepth about certain rotations)
-One caster that breaks down certain moves on the map and so on.
They already confirmed there will be more maps after the expansion is released. I expect to see a couple of maps thrown into the new game mode 6 months or so after release, just give it some time. And oh boy, I don’t want a few of Skyhammers in the new mode too man :P
