Guild Wars 2

Either way the q times will be longer when leagues come.
If they add solo q, they divide an already small player base in 2 so q times go up.
If they leave it as is, a considerable amount of solo players will not participate in leagues so q times will also go up.
Given that in both scenarios q times go up but in the second scenario you also end up losing players, I think the clever choice here is to add solo queue…

You know OP as a DH you have the ability to throw your traps on actual targets during team fights as well. You’re not limited to deploying them on point, when nobody’s around and waiting for some scrub to come suicide.

I noticed that some new particle effects cause a major FPS dip on my PC. Perhaps that is what’s causing the crashes on some machines, while just lowering FPS on others.

I’m using an nvidia card as well so it can’t only be that.

Do you guys crash during intense team fights or is it random?

I haven’t crashed a single time in GW2 since I started playing before the summer.
I’ve been getting occasional disconnects since HoT release but that’s surely something else.
Are all your drivers updated OP? How much RAM do you have and how’s the rest of your rig?
About a year ago I was getting crashes in another game where nobody else seemed to have any.
It took me several months to realize that one of my RAM sticks was dead.
I recommend testing your RAM… http://www.memtest.org/

Death match on a small map leads to constant 5v5 zerg fests.
Not every conquest build works for team fights.
So until they give us the ability to save and swap builds on the fly, most PvPers will avoid Courtyard like the plague.

To me it was downright horrible the first week but now it seems to be getting better. I get way more rank 80s and less newbs, matches last a little longer and are closer.
I still get a lot of 500-100 matches but I think that is more due to people AFKing as soon as they fall behind rather than bad matchmaking.

TBH it feels like they ninja reset everyone’s MMR with HoT.

I’ve noticed the same: first it was quickness stomps that lagged, now it’s normal stability stomps too.
The delay is very long, around 3 seconds I’d say.
My abilities don’t lag at all.

“Just use stability to counter traps” yeah sure but do you realize how overpowered a skill is if its only counter is stability?
People need to save their stability for stomping/ressing, not to avoid OP instant death traps on 30sec CDs.
DH traps basically remove our ability to stomp/rezz, not only is that blatantly overpowered it’s also game breaking.

Traps should either do huge damage OR strong CC…not both.

ALL PRE HOT BUILDS ARE DEAD AND USELESS, not just bunker guard.
Anet really shot themselves in the foot with these stupidly overpowered elites.
All those years of work to balance PvP, it all went down the drain in one day.
Add to that the fact we’re stuck doing pointless unranked PvP with a bunch of clueless newbs for god knows how long…
Yeah from my perspective this is the worste MMO expansion ever. They shot PvP balance and we ended up having less to do than before HoT.
I’m soooo happy I didn’t buy it.

Wait for leagues you might say… Yeah right, leagues with solo vs premades, I’m so NOT looking forward to that.

Bunker guard sustain <—->
Druid sustain <————————————————————————————————————>

I rest my case.

Lord Victor.2174:

Agreed, either buff core or nerf Elites, cause the difference in pvp is huge.

The difference is huge and it’s killing build/role diversity. Using your elite spec is mandatory now so you’re stuck with the role associated with it, ie: guards trap dps, rangers support heal etc.

1) Way overpowered, needs to be nerfed into the ground: Scrapper.
2) Too strong, needs to be toned down: DH, Rev, Chrono.
3) On par with DDele: all other elite specs.
4) The rest of pre HoT meta builds (ie: bunker guard, PU mesmer etc.)

Some scrapper, revenant and dh builds do insane damage. Way too high, I don’t last 2 seconds on my bunker guard in some 1v2s…
It’s seriously ridiculous, often I get stunned and don’t even have time to hit a stun breaker before I’m totaled…on a freakin BUNKER.

Yeah really enjoying that new DH trap that instantly removes half your health with no effort whatsoever.
Also honorable mention to that other trap that stays invisible even after it’s been activated and knocks you down 5 times in a row…cause you know, it’s invisible so there’s no way of telling when it’s over.

Collero.7963:

It’s not just the poor balance, it’s the fact that there is still kitten all reason to sPvP and when leagues come, it’ll be even more depressing with the amount of premades farming solo or duo players.

This. They’re doing everything wrong. Instead of separating solo and group queues for a fair and healthy league, they leave it as is and push for guild premades to participate.
Will be a nightmare for solo q, unless you can play between 2am and 5pm on weekdays…

Amazingly OP yes. Just wait a few more days till people master the class… Tsunami of tears incoming.

Agreed. I’m losing the will to play at an alarming rate…

Ok I understand thanks. Doesn’t make any sense to me but ok. Stability is meant to make you immune to CC. If teleporting a foe away from you isn’t CC then I don’t know what is.

Anyone out there able to confirm this or explain to me what I’m missing ?

Nerf Necros.
Hehe

The Revenant downed 2 skill knocks you back even if u have stability on you.
Is that working as intended? The spell description at GW2 Wiki doesn’t say it’s unblockable.

Kalamire.6148:

Wait, you have to pay money to access the content of an expansion?
This practice is most certainly uncommon indeed, you are right, this is a massive issue.
Why would ArenaNet gate all this amazing new content behind a price tag, it’s not like a business wants money, right?

Because it’s been their stance from day one that PvP should be fair and all players equal in power.
Also, this is a 99% PvE expansion, it’s not worth the price tag for a PvPer.
The only PvP content we get is Stronghold (core players have access), League (core players will have access) and elite specs. So essentially we have to dish out 50 bucks just so we can have access to one new trait line. Not worth it.

I agree Skyhammer (knockback builds OP) and Courtyard (teamfight builds OP) don’t have their place in ranked but SW ? What’s the problem with this map? I actually like it.

ps: didn’t they say we were getting build templates in HoT?

I never leave hotm so no, whatever the price I won’t buy this PvE expansion.
PvP without it isn’t that bad and I’m sure all classes still have at least one decent/viable build.
Some elite specs seem OP but they’ll surely get nerfed eventually.

Loboling.5293:

Removing Ranked is silly. I’m very surprised. Please give us back a mode that offers some good competition. Or allow us to choose exactly what maps in our queue. Thank you.

You seriously wanted ranked and the new league to start on day one of the expansion? With these massive imbalances between HoT players and core players? No thanks.
On the other hand, I’m quite sure we won’t get a balance patch before the new season starts so whatever.
And even if we do, they won’t nerf the elite specs as long as HoT is at 50 bucks.
Maybe in 6 months when they lower the price of the expansion we’ll get a proper balance patch. Until then expect PvP to be horrible.

Good thing they added those bracket things on the scoreboard at the end of the match that show you who joined the match as a group.
I played all evening and the biggest premade I got was a group of 3. It happened only once. Groups of two are way more common, one in almost every match.
Guess you got unlucky, OP. You must also play on NA servers, I have the impression americans go full premade way more than europeans.

edit: but yes bring back solo queue. I’m really not looking forward to playing league matches vs full premades. Once the season starts I’m quite sure full premades will happen way more often than before HoT since winning actually means something now. That plus the fact I refuse to pay for the OP elite specs Looks like my GW2 days are numbered.

Kalriostraz.6819:

Rangelost.4857:

Necromonger.4970:

So it’s possible to use the elite specs in pvp without purchasing the expansion ? I’m asking, because I have gw2 uninstalled.

No, it is not possible to use elite specializations in PvP if you do not own Heart of Thorns.

Yes, elite specializations are far superior to normal professions, and have no drawbacks whatsoever.

No, you cannot choose to join matches with other players who do not own the expansion.

Yes, this does mean Guild Wars 2 is now technically Pay-to-Win.

How is it pay to win if you can’t use those new specs against players without the expansion? Even IF every elite was strictly better than base, you don’t/can’t fight against people without the expansion. Ergo, it cannot be P2W.

What are you talking about? I don’t have the expansion and I see elite specs all the time in sPvP.

GW2 PvP has always been about players being on equal footing: no power gap due to gear. It’s the one reason I was playing this MMO over others, for the fair PvP.
Now that’s all gone.
Elite specs are stronger than the others there’s no denying it, people who buy the expansion have an advantage of those who don’t, there’s no denying that either.
Give elite specs for free in PvP or gtfo, Anet. Actually I’ll gtfo until they pull their head of their kitten.

Spirit Watch is already a CTF but I’m not against them making another one a little more like WoW’s.
Also why isn’t SW in the ranked map rotation? Sky Hammer and Courtyard I understand but SW?

First thing I’ll do when HoT arrives is not buy it and quit the game.
New classes that’ll be unbalanced 6 months to push ppl into buying the expansion, a great new league system but no solo queue… I won’t bother.

A ladder with mixed solo/team queue, haha good one Anet but no thanks.

Condi guards are too rock-paper-scissors to be any good at high lvl play. They have too many hard counters, namely bunker guards, dd eles and signet necros. If you have 3+ of any of these on the enemy team (which happens more often than not) you’ll be useless to your team and you’ll most likely lose.

Something seems broken to me. Before the patch I was sitting at around 53% w/l in ranked after about 500 games.
After the patch I’ve played maybe 30 games but only won 5 or so.
The biggest difference I’m noticing post patch is a big influx of bad players and for some reason they always seem to be on my team

They can fine tune it all they want it won’t change the fact that there’s already an entire genre dedicated to this type of game play and that, as far as I know, not a single GW2 player asked for anything like this.
Meanwhile the things we do ask for don’t get addressed, ie: Solo queue.
/QQ

Trevor Boyer.6524:

The next step would be for the algorithm to better identify current meta and the class counters that exist.

There’s no point in the matchmaking getting involved with team compositions as long as we’re allowed to swap toons during matches.

Leaderboards are down (not updated) because we are between 2 “seasons”.

There is no bunker meta. Ppl play bunker because it’s the only thing that counters the cheese dd eles and burn guards.
Now that dd eles have been slightly nerfed we should be seeing slightly less of them and eventually , slightly less bunkers as well.

Burning’s fine. Eles are not.
They need to either go bunker and deal zero damage (like all other bunkers) or go glass and have zero surv. Like everyone else.
This master-of-all-trades situation they’re in now is silly.

Meanwhile I see just as many Necros if not more in ranked sPvP than I do Mesmers. I know that’s not necessarily a clear cut indication of their power level but if they were truly as useless as OP says I’m sure I’d see way less of them.
And as some one else mentioned, they hard counter burn guards, which is what I happen to main, so I know for a fact they do have at least one purpose.

It’s bugged the other way around too.
I have Stronghold unchecked and I just got put in one.
Fix please.

Drennon.7190:

Dirame.8521:

Drennon.7190:

Phineas Poe.3018:

The leaderboards aren’t active right now. Ranked is just a smaller map pool.

Exactly. As long as people keep voting for courtyard, I’ll keep queuing ranked. Even during this beta.

TDM is never fun on a conquest build. At least not for me.

That’s in unranked mate.

No kitten Sherlock. Did you even read what I said?
As long as courtyard is in the unranked rotation, I will continue to play ranked only.

I do not like courtyard:

Ranked has no courtyard.

I don’t think I can break it down more.

Congrats, you win the selfish kitten award for the day.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Covis.6037:

Cogbyrn.7283:

Do people not want to win because of the joy of competition anymore? Like, anyone anywhere? Always with needing rewards (material or recognition) to be incentivized to partake in the thrill of a competitive activity.

play a game for 3 years. play it without any rewards. play it without any real progression. play it daily.

I played Counter-Strike for 5 years straight. I played for the fun of it. I never leveled up, earned new guns, gained new traits, played in any leagues (though I almost joined one of the newbie CAL leagues), or anything like that.

Years and years of the same maps, the same guns, the same everything.

It just surprises me how people can’t just do something for the enjoyment of doing it anymore. Everything always has to have a level up mechanic, or some arbitrary point-accumulation, or titles or skins or etc.

I feel like an old man, wondering why all the kids these days can’t just enjoy their time playing with plastic toys, with their new-fangled gadgets and gizmos and flashy lights.

GW2 is a MMORPG, not a FPS. MMORPGs have always been about progression and have always attracted progression gamers. Asking an MMO gamer to have fun without progression is like asking a basketball player to play on a court without hoops.

Nerf Moa. 10 secs is too long. Mesmers used to be meh so everyone took the stealth elite for added survivability. Now that they’re balanced / OP , most mesmers run the moa elite and I find the 10 seconds to be way overpowered. Either reduce duration or break effect after taking X amount of damage. Getting totaled while in stupid bird form has to be the most underwhelming experience this game delivers….by far.
This BS elite paired with their current insane burst is too much.

Burn guardians are very strong in 1v1 against players that have zero condi cleanse or against mediocre players who take too long to realize they have a 6k burn tick on them.

Outside of these limited scenarios, I find them rather sub par.

Just my cents based on playing burn guard these passed few days in sPvP.

Nerf the one or two obvious OP builds every path has (except maybe rangers).
I think it’s clear to everyone what those builds are by now.

If the game were balanced the Lord’s low health wouldn’t be a problem but right now, some builds can take him down solo in 10 seconds (without even bothering to kill the guards first), whereas most others can’t. So the map favors certain team comps and that’s terrible.
It used to be my fav map, now I always vote against it.

Why just mesmers? They can pick of anyone if they have the high ground, spam 2 and nobody goes after them.

5v5 on such a small map is chaotic. Either reduce the number of players in it or make it much bigger.
Also we don’t have a build saving system and this map requires a different build than conquest for most people.

Yes buff Necros please. I hardly ever see any in sPvP.

woot just lost to a 5 necro premade team. i’ll be back when these kittens get nerfed. have fun folks.