Guild Wars 2

Guessing a bunch of guilds moved over? Queues on all maps, waited 15 minutes before I just gave up…..

#welcometolaunch2.0

Please no more single player content in an MMO. That is all. Thank you.

And if you could increase the size of the wallet I’d appreciate it.

Spent 30 Badges of Honor and didn’t get acheivement. Can I get them refunded pls?

Thanks.

antonbalboa.7280:

If he hits enough as to “loot” from the fight they will win all points. I think it’s ridicoulous that if 1 guy from server 1 places an static in the middle of server 2 and server 3, server 1 wil most probably win 20-40 points for server 1.
Sincerely, only 1 server should get the points, and should be the one that damaged the most the guy that gets killed, otherwise will be just one guy tagging other 2 blobs and leeching points fom other server’s fights

What static is going to hit 40 enemies multiple times?

I like this change. I hope they keep it. I’m still undecided on the white sword change.

Thanks for the replies. Any info on if/when the wintersday sale will begin?

I’ve recently come into possession of 1000 gems. I would like to spend this in the best way possible. I understand that it is subjective, but would like your opinion. I was thinking about getting one of the infinite gathering tools, but someone in game said that they were inefficient….is any tool better than the other? I’d appreciate any insight… Thanks in advance….

I run a build close to that except with soldiers amulet and sigil of force instead of doom.

To be honest with you, unless you seriously out gear him or are a much better player….The thief will win 9/10 times….However, 1v1 is kind of a thief’s specialty, so just run.

The hard truth is…there is little practical use to play an ele anymore (other than it is fun). There is always at least 1 other class that would be better than an ele in any given scenario.

JustARTificial.3175:

I have leveled a Mesmer prior to this patch, ankitten ow leveling up an Ele in this patch. It is just horrible. I feel 20-30% weaker.

Eles are 20-30% weaker by default.. Working as intended.

Ele is the most OP class in the game right now. I easily go 9/10 in sPVP. You haven’t found it yet. Turn on combat log and go back through it some time, there is a skill that will surprise you…may be a bug

As long as stealth remains as it is now, this game will most likely never be balanced. Although I doubt Anet cares.

glaphen.5230:

Warriors have had the highest population since they were known as the worst class in the game.

Find me 5 players who are not trolling to admit that war is the worst class in the game and I will give you 100 gold.

glaphen.5230:

Bombsaway.7198:

MOST classes are fairly balanced.

2 Classes need to move down to the middle.
2 Classes need to move up to the middle.
In each case, ONE class is needing to move up/down far more than the other.
This should be ANet’s focus.

Warrior and Guardian are too OP and need to come down some.

Warrior has too many areas where it is too strong or top tier with no corresponding weakness. I needs the most nerfing.
Guardians need modest toning down.
Few non-warriors/guardians would disagree. Many would disagree over how and how much (that is the real question).

In general, melee needs to be toned down making ranged more significant.
Needless, to say, the two classes needing boosts are ranged.

Ranger needs a buff. Few would disagree even if they think you can play a ranger in WvW (skill beats challenges). Still, they need attention and much more than any other class. Part of it is the wonky pet mechanics. Part of it is the traits being bunched oddly that promotes over reaching in a skill line for a trait versus build diversity and common sense.

Elementalist is probably the second class needing a bit of attention. They have their moments (where the ranger has moments by player not class) but overall need a bit more.

Zerker staff Elementalist is the best zerging class in the game and needs no help in that department. Everything a Ranger does in WvW a staff Elementalist does better in just fire attunement.

Picture of zerker ele owning players, or never happen….Eles need a flat dmg increase to make them as useful as other classes, or a rework.

Anet as well as any experienced WvWer is aware of this trend. They are “working” on solutions, surprisingly no ETA on when this will be improved.

I use a G600. It works out pretty well. Every once in a while the pointer will “reset”, so I wouldn’t recommend it for an FPS, I use it for everything else though.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Gun game, or an MMO/GW2 version of it where:

You start off as whatever you are,
After every 5 or whatever stomps, you’re automatically switched to a new class, build and gear… (Far-fetched idea, given the amount of programming required for this).

This was a really fun game mode back in the Counter-Strike days. It forced you to use weapons (or in this case, classes and builds) you weren’t familiar with or didn’t otherwise use regularly.

Of course, the further you progress, the more rewarding it is. Ideally because you show competence in many classes and builds. I think if anything else, getting to play something new is its own reward. Might open people up to new classes.

Or just move up through the classes, start with the worst, ele, and then move all the way up to War…Of course I was always more of a fan of reverse GG, that way it gets more difficult and those that get to the top first don’t utterly destroy the players that have not advanced. This may work better in PvP rather than WvW.

If the game’s economy was decent, we could salvage all items. I just hate the ascended gear drops I get and will never use that are automatically account bound……..I know, first world problems.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

SQLOwns.7316:

Ignoring the fact that WvW isn’t balanced around specific classes, your reasoning could not be worse. People will ALWAYS complain, being able to differentiate between valid and invalid complaints is how good balance is achieved. Right now, the class balance in this game is pretty bad. That is just a fact. I just keep an eye on the release notes hoping Anet is working on it.

Don’t hold your breathe, with Anet in control this game will NEVER be balanced. Not when they balance the game around a mode that hardly anyone plays compared to the other 2 modes.

Know what’s funny? I’m not even sure which mode you are referring to, lol….and that is the problem..what mode IS balanced?

Thieves are slightly OP and this is one of the reasons why….Anet will most likely never fix this. All you can do is what mrmadhaze did and become one yourself.

The Clague.4765:

I like to read the class specific forums and I notice that every class has regular posts about another class being overpowered or how their class in underpowered. This makes me think that ANET has pretty much got the balance right.

For every class there are builds that are highly effective (OP to whiners) in some situations and less effective (UP to whiners) in other situations. The game would be broken if any single build was always good or always bad but that is not the case. I have a thief, ranger and warrior and I have owned and been owned with each of them in different components of the game and this is what I want.

Does anyone else think that despite the regular whining in the forums WvW is actually fun for most classes if you choose the right build for your preferred play style.

Ignoring the fact that WvW isn’t balanced around specific classes, your reasoning could not be worse. People will ALWAYS complain, being able to differentiate between valid and invalid complaints is how good balance is achieved. Right now, the class balance in this game is pretty bad. That is just a fact. I just keep an eye on the release notes hoping Anet is working on it.

Player Character.9467:

SQLOwns.7316:

Player Character.9467:

SQLOwns.7316:

Meh, it was a crit by a glass cannon on a glass cannon, i’ve seen skills from Wars do about 30k before, nothing too impressive.

o.O that’s a terrible comparison, meteor shower is 24 meteors hitting up to 5 people each, a warrior has nothing in the 30k range hitting that many times on the zerg blobs lol

Yes, cause that video CLEARLY shows him hitting 15k, 24 times!!! AOE is easy to dodge, and its random, I’ve casted MS and 0 meteors hit the target, not sure if that is a bug or just the random nature of the skill….

Uhhh… he’s casting at a zerg so unless those guys are all only watching his meteors and avoiding them without red circles… and it wouldn’t be 24 times at cap, it would be 120 times, 15k was on 1 guy not the sum of 5(stupid filter)hits from one of 24 meteors.

Not even sure how to respond to this…..I was being sarcastic, I know he didn’t hit 15k damage 24 times, if that is what you’re talking about… bottom line, it is easy to hit the dodge key when you see a red circle….that is the point I was trying to make, I don’t think this is OP at all.

Player Character.9467:

SQLOwns.7316:

Meh, it was a crit by a glass cannon on a glass cannon, i’ve seen skills from Wars do about 30k before, nothing too impressive.

o.O that’s a terrible comparison, meteor shower is 24 meteors hitting up to 5 people each, a warrior has nothing in the 30k range hitting that many times on the zerg blobs lol

Yes, cause that video CLEARLY shows him hitting 15k, 24 times!!! AOE is easy to dodge, and its random, I’ve casted MS and 0 meteors hit the target, not sure if that is a bug or just the random nature of the skill….

Meh, it was a crit by a glass cannon on a glass cannon, i’ve seen skills from Wars do about 30k before, nothing too impressive.

Taldren.7523:

It seems warriors, thieves, ect can face roll on the keyboard and find a way to deal more than 3k damage in an attack, but my elementalist has to align the stars and planets to come close to that amount of damage.

Seriously … its like a check list … am I above 90% health, am I within 600 units, am I in the correct attunement, does that attunement even have a damage ability off cooldown, ect, ect.

Even after the hammer nerf my warrior has 500 more armor, nearly double the hitpoint, and can press just about any attack and deal more damage than my elementalist whenever he wants.

Eles are the weakest in the game…Anyone who doesn’t admit that is either trolling or just misinformed. All of these “pro” ele players talk about how they get 500 kills a night in WvW, but none of them post videos showing them owning all of these other players…(well one did, and all he got for his trouble was his build nerfed.) Sure you can do a ton of damage as a glass cannon, but then you literally get 2 shotted by a thief or 3-5 shotted by a war, so you still lose as all of eles big damage abilities do damage over time and require you to be immobile. And with AoEs being as easy to dodge as a blind linebacker, it doesn’t matter anyway.

Doesn’t really prove anything. Good job though.

a t s e.9614:

If warrior gets mobility nerfed then I want stealth because thieves can stealth but warriors cant wtf? Mesmer has clones and not warrior?? The game most be unbalanced… and why the ranger has a pet ? It like fighting 2 people , looks unfair to me. Lets just give every class everything, no but seriously those who says that ele mobility was nerfed so they need to nerf the warrior is a complete joke… A caster who sits there at 1500 range should never have mobility because yes the old D\D was beyond OP , no counter and always fully healed in 2 seconds

And if you"re just chasing run -away trolls in wvw , you are not contributing to your server. Sword\warhorn still makes me laugh , why a roamer would use such an useless setup.

You know what’s even more funny that thieves complaining about wars mobility? Players still complaining about the d/d build that was nerfed what? 6 months ago?…a build that never really was that OP, it simply made eles into what guardians are now…so if that build is OP then guardians are currently OP, which I don’t necessarily believe.

Everyone (even Anet) knows Wars are OP and the easiest to play, this is how they want it, it is by design…I look at it in 3 groups currently, You have Wars, which is the most OP class in the game (needs actual nerfs), then you have Necros, Thieves, and Guardians which are slightly OP, all pretty well balanced.. Then you have Rangers, Eles, and Engys which need some buffs to make them as viable as the other classes. Unfortunately, the last year and a half shows that Anet could care less about balance because they prefer PvE to any type of PvP or WvW.

Just ran into a thief from ET that was hacking on HoD borderlands. I can’t even report him because he is stealthed. Awesome job Anet.

I don’t think they are unlocked until the season starts. Unless you are in EU, in which case I would assume it would be unlocked.

DrWhom.3105:

DevonCarver.5370:

We’ll get some sort of schedule out as soon as we have the matchups. I’ll post it up on the forums and then we’ll find a way to get it out more broadly as well. The matchups aren’t locked in until the season actually starts. So, while EU is ready, NA won’t be ready for 6.5 more hours.

Any reason you couldn’t just publish it with rank numbers instead of server names, and we can figure it out for ourselves? I mean you must have known the schedule from that perspective for weeks…

I think you might be giving them too much credit.

I don’t get it. How is the winner decided in week 1?

The only thing I don’t like about the ascended stuff, is all the materials are account bound…i don’t know why they would do that…wait, oh yeah for the money.

Solstice.1097:

lol you can transfer anytime and there is no cutoff.

as far as changing what server you’re on for season 1, the only “cutoff” is yourself logging into wvw. until you log into wvw after tonight’s reset your league server has not been decided.

Yes, I know that bro. Do some research. I can transfer 3 weeks from now if I want to. We are talking about leagues. Which do have a cutoff as far as what server/league you are assigned to. Which sounds like tonight.

Solstice.1097:

there is no transfer cutoff. maybe the sale ended though.

once the match begins tonight, whatever WvW you log into is your season 1 server.

So there is a cuttoff? It is tonight?

Omne.4603:

SQLOwns.7316:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Blackjack.2083:

So……since the reset is tonight can we get a kitten official answer?! I mean c’mon guys the Leagues start today…..is it too much to ask?

The leagues start today, so wait all of 8 hours and you’ll get your kitten official answer.

What’s the hurry in knowing the rankings before it starts? planning on transferring?

It’s too late to transfer anyway. Relax, bro.
It would just be nice if there was some communication from Anet.

It’s not too late to transfer so im not sure what your talking about.

I thought yesterday was the cutoff. Oh well, just another bad decision Anet has made with the league system.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Blackjack.2083:

So……since the reset is tonight can we get a kitten official answer?! I mean c’mon guys the Leagues start today…..is it too much to ask?

The leagues start today, so wait all of 8 hours and you’ll get your kitten official answer.

What’s the hurry in knowing the rankings before it starts? planning on transferring?

It’s too late to transfer anyway. Relax, bro.
It would just be nice if there was some communication from Anet.

t minus 8 hours and counting…..guess it’s going to be a surprise. Or maybe they don’t even know…….random number generator FTW.

I’m still reporting them.

And you are wrong with your assumptions. There is a player limit on the map.

Repuran.1859:

SlothBear.9846:

Kill Shot is a highly telegraphed channel. It’s fine.

Warrior ability to shrug off all conditions and dash/charge away while passively regaining all their health and immune to CC is what needs nerfed.

I understand that and agree but hitting a level 80 char with some PVT for 95% of its health in one skill seems silly to me.

Welcome to Call of Guild Wars 2, you’re just lucky it wasn’t a headshot.

Mbelch.9028:

What on earth are you guys thinking?

You said you would pare down conditions: you haven’t. You haven’t even touched perplexity, yet you’ve buffed warrior, whose healing signets need nerfed, you’ve buffed guardian, which can face tank people’s damage already.

Worst of all the conjure buffs will make elementalists try these weapons then throw them right back out. The shield and axe may be useful in a fight but who would use them when they take precious time to conjure, when our instant skills are far superior?

If you all insist on making other classes better and don’t improve S/D and D/D along with cooldowns on Focus, you’re going to lose all of your elementalists. I know you’ve nearly lost me.

And by the way it wouldn’t kill a Dev to respond to ele forums. I’ve seen one in a month respond in a thread that had no consequence.

This is frustrating for any player. You string us along “MASSIVE BUFFS INCOMING” through supportive buffs and condition nerfs.

You failed to deliver on both accounts. Give us a break. Hop on and try to roam with 1-2 people on an elementalist and then honestly tell me they don’t need a buff.

In Anets defense, I don’t think they ever mentioned buffs for the ele, they mostly just buff war and guardian.

posthumecaver.6473:

Hi guys,

after the flurry of nerf occured to my only 80 char Ele, I was really discouraged and left the game.

Now I read that there lots of changes again to Ele and considering to give another go, but I can’t get a clear feeling of what is changed.

Can anybody tell me what is nerfed more and what is buffed? I left the moment they put the 40s nerf to the RTL.

I read they are trying to buff conjure builds but I have no clue what are they buffing.

They really haven’t done that much. A little buff to staff, but nothing game changing. Other classes also got buffs so it was a wash. Eles still probably the most difficult class to play.

Guardians are better hands down. The only thing Eles do better is probably mobility. But this isn’t a racing game, so stick with the Guardian.

1) Class balance.
2) Class balance.
3) Class balance.

AydenStar.4216:

The Ranger is the only class I enjoy playing in GW2 yet the GW2 WvW community and ANet just want to promote their trinity system of Hammer Warriors (Damage, utility) and Hammer Guardians (Healing, Utility, Support), Staff Necromancers ( Condi spamming, Damage, Utility) and Staff Elementalists (Healing, Support, Utility) down my throat because they are the easiest, no brain professions to play in WvW zerging. Therefore, I have lost interest in this game almost completely. There is nothing fun about playing a game mode that only benefit 4 cookies cutters builds.

I play a Hammer Guardian and Warrior too in WvW and it is so boring and routine that I rather play Mortal Combat 2 for its deep and complexity over these two cookie cutter face roll professions.

Players that are moving or have moved to serious T1 servers be warned that if you don’t play the cookie cutter build that the top guilds have come up with (which are all the same IMHO), you are going to have a horrible experience being forced to play the viable professions and builds even if you are not in these guilds but run with them.

To be honest, GW2 is not going in a good direction with these WvW leagues: let face it, WvW leaders want to win fights and they rather have 30 players of the most viable professions and I don’t blame them. If you play on T1 servers as Ranger, Thief or Engineers you will be forces into the Ruins because that is where zerg leaders will put you if they are having a bad day and need a scapegoat or have you sit in a tower all day long.

I’d agree with everything except the Ele, they are more or less worthless. An extra War or Guardian in the group would easily be more desired. But I see where you’re coming from.

Draygo.9473:

HoD will not go silver. Kaineng is the server that will endure silver for the first season.

According to the rankings, Kain and HoD will be Silver.

All I can say is, if HoD goes to Silver, which it looks like it will. I’ll most likely be done with the game. I don’t care too much, its probably about time to go do something else anyway.

upscaling isn’t broken, overall class balance is.

Have they posted the matchups for next week yet?

War, Thief, Necro. are probably your best bet.