Haven’t played for a few seasons. What exactly happened to pvp?
Yes engi until they absolutely gutted grenades because they wanted people to play another spec
With regard to “investing months or years” my first character, Ithilwen, is approaching her 4rth birthday.
Yes I’ve been at this for years including pvp. Yes, I probably put in twice the time and work that many “legendary” players did over the 4 seasons. At some points I was doing more than full time work hours.
I earned it as much as any stacked match win streaker did and more.
How do you put “more than full time work hours” into a video game? Surely you’ve got work to go to, school, college?
I think at one point in season 3 he had around 16% win rate so he had to play much more games. With the safety net of the earlier divisions the only difficult part of obtaining the wings was logging in for dailies and the gift of fortune. The wings aren’t prestigious at all
With every game people flock to the fotm class. Right now guards take very minimal effort for high rewards in solo queue they destroy. When the game is about holding nodes it is very easy to prevent players from contesting a point when you can just spam traps that cover the entire thing.
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Why do we even have divisions if you are just going to match me with amber players when i’m in ruby? Oh and this was during prime time
i’ve noticed this with allies and enemies. Their corpse will just move quite a distance and I can’t interact with them at all…
it’s suppose to give players time to group up but if you are on the losing side chances are you dont want to do that nor stick around longer for the enemy team to rub the loss in
why does it put a full 5 man solo vs a 4man premade+1 and then you still end up losing points
Real question: How is Wildstar doing so well? Or Why?
Wildstar is doing horribly. What people forget about wildstar is it had development cost which were around 60-70million. When you are barely breaking even or operating at a loss it is grim. At this point they are just milking the remaining loyal fans until they announce the shut down
And how did anet think this was a good idea?
Why can’t people play both? Gw2 is b2p so I don’t see the big deal.
They need an option to buy pvp unlocks for the expansion. 50+ bucks for someone that only pvps is not worth it imo. Also it wasn’t some fluke that all elite specs ended up outclassing their core counterparts.
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LOL at all the people saying bs on the op playing for 12 years, I’m pretty sure he meant guild wars-guild wars 2 which would be 12 years total since the first game was released.
Ya because the loot in gw2 is similar to gw1. Clearly you haven’t played gw1.
What I don’t get is why they didn’t lower the price in any way after almost 9 months… 50 is too high for such little content. We haven’t seen anything than four maps soon one year into the expansion – that’s just embarrassing given the fact there a mere 4 maps.
It’s pretty simple. They know people will pay $50.
Yes if you do not own hot you will be at a huge disadvantage in pvp because all the elite specs are much better than the core options. It is still possible to move up in PvP but you will be limited to a few builds and will be fighting an uphill battle
These posts are absolutely meaningless. There isn’t even any context player a can have 3k hrs of crazy farming 90% of the time where precursors drop. While player b has the same 3k hours but spends his time afk in town and 10% farming. Then how would you even verify all those hours spent doing x?
Raids were advertised as challenging content. Not sure why players feel they need to be catered and have access to everything
too late. i feel like some of you suffer from battered wife syndrome if you actually think this game still has a chance
HoT showed me how greedy anet has become. Supported them from beta weekend event from gw1 but they won’t see my support anymore. The expansion was like a dlc content wise yet they charged as much as a full game for it.
They also made all elite specs ridiculously powerful where you are kitten if you do not take them for pvp.
I also can’t stand to be bothered with open world zerg trains. It’s so mindless for how rewarding it is
Not sure if I read this correctly. You want gw2 players to have access to all the HoM rewards for free or have a method to achieve these rewards through gw2? If so no this idea is terrible
I doubt there will be a second backpiece next year. ANet already said that the ascension will be available again next year, but it will be much more expensive
Link for this post would be appreciated
If only you spent as much time in game as you did making forum posts you might be able to advance
So I just had a game 3 premades Diamond, with 2 extra solo diamonds vs 1 diamond and 4 rubies all solo. I don’t know how match making decided that this makes sense, but it’s broken beyond any reasonable doubt.
they said matches are put together with people with 15 pips forward or backward so sounds about right
They aren’t I’ve been in diamond and had allies that were in amber. They were grouped with someone else though
@Hunter
The wings were to be available to anyone. I’ve worked harder for them than most and therefore, I do deserve them.
In addition, the point of this thread is that the matchmaking is setting me ( and many others ) deliberately to lose. Hence, my atrocious record.
-edit- OK I simply can’t play anymore.. having started yesterday evening. To show that the issue is not me but is matchmaking :
Note, I’m second in personal score. I did over 1/2 million in damage. I provided my teammates 325,000 + in healing, 361 boons and removed 349 conditions. I have heard ESL pros talk about 500,000 damage as a good number. No, the issue here is not me.
There is your problem you are one of those players that focus on who did the most damage. That doesn’t mean jack kitten. I can attack a bunk the entire game and come out with top damage. What matters is good rotations, calling the right targets, map awareness, etc.
The current league, pip, and rewards system is also very flawed. I won’t go into too many details because of the slew of threads, but yeah it’s troubling. It seems like the system is trying to give a sense of progression to every player, but it is in fact just inflating egos and not giving a really measurable progression that matters (skill-based). But that in itself requires a higher population, and thus maybe what we have is the best we got.
Good post. Its worth noting that Overwatch has just provided some details of its competitive mode and they have taken player feedback into account and it will be a skill based system rather than a tier based system. It will be mmr based (no tiers) and therefore reflect a players skill rather than be progression based. The games producer outright stated that players did not want a system heavily weighted around tiers and progression which only makes the ranked system a grind.
Anet should take note, not only of the system but the way Blizzard are taking player feedback into account and the transparency of communication.
Overwatchs main focus is pvp there are no pve modes. gw2 pvp is just a side show at this point.
The game is D E D. 10+min queues during prime time
Anet has a magic wand that reduces queue time.
gw2 pvp in a nut shell. spam condi, evade, evade, evade, spam condi, block, block, block, invul, evade, moar conditions!
It’s a feature at this point
If you’re over 5,000 range away from Portal Entre when you try to use Portal Exeunt it will still play the visual effect you won’t be able to interact with the portal.
Thanks. I thought before it would just put the portal on cd if you went out of range
how far away from each other were your entrance and exit?
Forest of Nifhel map. Mine node to east staircase by Keep node
Put down my portal entrance then went put down an exit it started glowing but I could not enter. No press F to enter appeared. I put the portal down on a staircase so it didn’t come out flat
I felt hot was worth 30 max. It isn’t about the money tbh it’s the fact they thought they could go ahead and charge close to the base game which offered like what 100x more stuff to do.
I still don’t get you people. You expect anet to go around individually manipulating player accounts rng? What exactly would they gain from this? Also if you think it’s a bug in the code I’m sure they’ve checked based off the amount of times they’ve responded on this topic
There isn’t such thing is some accounts getting stuck lucky. Yes there’s an RNG, yes it’s random and there are streaks and outliers and an even aggregate distribution.
There isn’t such thing is some accounts getting stuck lucky. Yes there’s an RNG, yes it’s random and there are streaks and outliers and an even aggregate distribution.
Can you confirm whether it is an RNG that uses some sort of value from the user’s account or whether it is purely random/session based? I have a friend who swears that smack-talking an anet dev during a beta weekend pvp match doomed his account to poor rng for life.
Absolutely it does not use anything to do with a user.
Here’s the premise. RNG is evenly distributed on aggregate. On an individual level this means that while almost everyone falls into a reasonable range in the middle, there are outliers on each side of the distribution that are either highly rewarded or not rewarded at all. These individuals become sample cases and spotlights for experiences that maybe shouldn’t exist.
Ironically, the randomness of the system is significantly contributes to these posts continually popping up.
You should say it as plainly as possible so there is no more confusion.. something along the lines of..
“Every account has the exact same chance on RNG. Some accounts may get better ‘rolls’ than others but that is because of probability and occurs because the system IS in fact, completely random.”
It doesn’t matter people will still say there are favoured and disfavoured accounts.
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I think some people are just cleaning out their banks.
That doesn’t make sense. The supply went from around 5-10 to 130. I tried googling but couldn’t find if anet did a big give away
How does it not make sense? Some people probably had many shields sitting in their banks. They then clean out their bank and list all of them. This causes supply to increase.
Again that doesn’t make sense. What stopped these people from doing that for the past years? Why at this particular moment
I think some people are just cleaning out their banks.
That doesn’t make sense. The supply went from around 5-10 to 130. I tried googling but couldn’t find if anet did a big give away
Haven’t really been playing lately but this shield has gone from 2k+ gold to around 500gold. Did anet just give a lot of them away for free?
Why wouldn’t you?
People are now just realizing that elite specs are better than core specs? I’ve been saying this since heart of thorns launch. It’s an obvious cash grab. Literally every elite spec is worth taking over a core spec. You think this is some coincidence?
I don’t see the big deal add a last name and be done with it.
Like others said there wasn’t really an official forums for gw1
Don’t expect a change to the amount because if they did it wouldn’t make the shoulders as sought after plus people that already have them would most likely not be compensated for the difference
Won a match in ranked where I was solo queued and did not gain a pip. I’m not even surprised at this point tbh.
Looks like artifacts. Either corrupt drive or your gpu is overheating and on its way out
So what about the people without medical issues? I’ve tried this JP for hours, last year and this year, but I’m not able to do it. And I know a lot of people who are also not able doing it.
I do accept that I’m not good enough to play raids for example, but Wintersday is a festival. Festivals should be fun for all people and since Winter’s Presence is the only big new thing that is worth to work for, is it fair to exclude so many people from it?
I assure you that you can enjoy this festival without doing the jumping puzzle as there are many other things to do.
Yep this is pretty pathetic. I have a pretty bad memory so having to change everything back every login is annoying
the biggest reason imo gw2 will never reach esports because the game isn’t centered around pvp. It is a pve game first. They also refuse to split skills for pve/pvp
LOL what? Almost every balance change is base on PvP. Yes should split PvE and PvP but too much work. Still look at all balance and most every thing was for PvP.
lol wut? this game is a mmo you do realise this? let’s just completely forget about all the dungeons/open world/personal story instances.