Guild Wars 2

Replying because I have read the Art of War inside and out countless times.

Thieves do fulfill a lot of the intelligence warfare that Sun Tzu emphasized. As a Thief, my goal in PvP matches is to pull the enemies wherever my team needs them to be pulled. Attack where they are not. Attack where they are exposed (waiting in the wings and then bursting someone in the middle of a team fight). Attack the maral of the enemy (major harass between points, so by the time they get to a fight on point they have blown cooldowns and/or not at full health).

This is how I normally play thief and it works well. I don’t play the game, I play the players.

Servers back up

This is MMORPG not MOBA

I wish we could enter spectate mode like the shoutcasters

Swagg.9236:

John Smith.4610:

If by “really perceived” you mean that you mistakenly perceive a fantastic and functioning system as broken, then no… I don’t care.

And by “fantastic and functioning system,” you mean “a system that makes us money.” Your GW2 economy is as broken as the current world debt-based economy on exactly the same levels.
- It has the capacity to generate money from literally nothing.
- It has the capacity to destroy money instantly for no concrete reason in order to curb inflation.
- Most of the wealth and movement of the market is focused into the hands of a select few that often have inside information on upcoming market changes.
- Constant inflation over time eventually drives people to accrue debt (in GW2 this comes in the form of putting real money into the game in order to receive gems; by losing real world money, the player creates a set amount of in-game money from literally nothing) in order to pay for popular and expensive items.

Your economy is about as alive or vibrant as the scene of a middle school science student drawing shapes in a petri dish culture. Nobody fixes it or questions it because it was created with the sole purpose of generating money for NCSoft. I’m not saying that a company that’s making money off of a game that they are producing is bad, but let’s not lie about whether or not the economy of that game is broken or not.

John Smith.4610:

Conncept.7638:

but there is no way you have the numbers to claim that the players think so, from a psychological perspective.

You’re adorable.

Economists have ways to measure how much your parents love you and the scariest part of all… it works.

So you’re telling me that all along the TP data could have told you guys that people on the official forums could have designed a better GW2 than you guys ever could have dreamed? Seems like a wasted resource to me.

Wow…So JS has been lying to us this entire time? And those who understand economics, and game economics, who can accuratly deduce whats going on in the in-game economy don’t know what they are about? or are lying to us as well? Just wow….

The only part of this I will comment on is: " Constant inflation over time eventually drives people to accrue debt (in GW2 this comes in the form of putting real money into the game in order to receive gems; by losing real world money, the player creates a set amount of in-game money from literally nothing) in order to pay for popular and expensive items"

Gold bought with gems bought with real world money is not created from nothing. It’s been discussed at length many times, but I’ll summerize it for you. Gold bought from gems is finite. There is a pool of gems, and a pool of gold, that was established from the very beginning of the game just for gold/gem conversion. Everytime you purchase gems and convert to gold, you add gems to the pool, and remove gold from the pool. Gold is not created from nothing using gems. It’s already there.

ThatShortGuy.4672:

+1 to this tread and answers. I’ve been having trouble with d/d eles with my d/p thief. Haven’t never really played an ele, I forgot about waiting out water attun.

Any more tips on d/d ele would be awesome!

Steal their boons right after their might combo from Fire -> Earth. Then you will get 25 stacks of might and crit them for 14k backstab.

Always use your teleport right after an Updraft knock back (and see that they switch to fire). If you dodge that big burst, the Ele will have to go to defensive mode while you burst them down.

Tbh, Ele is one of the easiest class to beat when you understand their mechanics and limitations. It’s pretty hard for them to workaround their limitations, and you will have the upperhand. The key thing is to steal their boons in Earth, and burst when they have just used their heal in water, or switched out of Water. Dodge the burst in Fire, and range it when they are in Air (so you can watch the RTL and dodge it). Most Ele has a set of rotation between attunement, and you can easily predict which attunement they are going next

Normally Air → Fire → Earth → Water → repeat.

Kay, so I bring over a hot gril for a date today right?

Im like well she gamez so I should play some Gw2. lots of women luv Gw2. Once she sees how raw my thief gameplay is she will for sure love me.

So I Q up seems like good idea 2 do sum solo Q, not too hard not too easy like Hot Join.

I get matched. Friggen 3 decap/condi engis on skyhammer oh dear lawd. Im going to lose my hot gril. But I am a fighter I use a lot of charisma thingy or was it ferocity w/e I picked in the character creation screen. Either way my toon is glorious fighter.

I figure I will help out, on mid. Nope condis are everywhere my body is burning and so are my loins. She is sad.

“Its kk bb, we will git him next tiem”

nope gangbeat, I am tears, she is tears, life is tears.

I start to worry sweat through my pantz a lil but no biggie lawts of gaem still left.

again I die, I die again 2 meny condies 4 me I clear a few but with this much cc and stuff I am dieing. My team is dieing we all died. My life is dieing.

She gets sad, shes not very impressed.
She looks me right in the eyes and whispers 2 me.. “I bet u wear ascots”

then she tells me she lieks me as friend. Engis and skyhammer blocked me wtf anet pls help. Nerf, nerf it now innocent menz are losing their chances at scoring justb ecause their skillz are not raw enuf 2 compete with this engi stuff.

Words will haunt me 4 ever…

“I bet you wear ascots”

This really has nothing to do with the post, but when someone says “why should I listen to you, you are at the bottom of the scoreboard,” it makes me mad because people don’t realize that a tpvp or soloQ match isn’t about scoring points for yourself, but scoring for the team so that you can win…

Asura you can be seen less and you can see more. Ever tried a jumping puzzle with a norn? Not easy because your dude blocks off most of your camera. So yeh, asura is a huge advantage from both the perspective that you cant be seen much and from the perspective that you have a wider field of vision on others.

I think you guys are overreacting. I know its a bit frustrating right now but i think things will be fine eventually.

Dunning-Krüger effect – the major source of balance complaints.

Allie Murdock.8152:

How can you even say that? If you honestly think you put more into this game than we do, you have absolutely no concept of what we do on a regular basis.

No, it was not dishonest. I had a great time with the players, and it was a sad occasion to have to watch half of them lose in the tournament. We spent a lot of time together this weekend, and had a lot of fun. There’s nothing forced about that.

I think its because a lot of people put effort into posting suggestions and discussions about the games issues and are dissapointed by the patches most of the time because issues have not been addressed and suggestions have not been acknowledged.

We don’t know what specifically the team is doing but we are never really told enough about it either.

This also adds to the issues w/ the patches because, (specifically pvp); the patches are not quick enough, don’t contain a lot of changes, and tend to bring in more bugs/issues while not addressing many existing ones.

If we knew what the team was working on/progress, people would probably be more accepting of the quality of patches.

If devs are like nuclear submarines but deliver big-time on patches, people are more accepting of the less of communication.

Because of the combination of both, people are not happy with whatever the team is doing on a regular basis and feel that what they suggest/discuss is done w/ more effort that whatever the team is doing

And I’m sure you had fun but I as a player did not. I do not believe that what was shown at the tournament is good enough to bring any new players or keep any existing players. It seems that it was a waste of $10k and an anniversary.

ENGLISHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PLS !!!!!!!!!!

transtemporal.2158:

Nikkle.4013:

transtemporal.2158:

ahuba.6430:

there is no matchmaking in hotjoin. thats why it is called hotjoin. you’re welcome

Oh, so the “play now” button only joins you to the first server on the list with a free spot? It doesn’t do matching at all?

Only the solo arena/ team arena’s have match making. Hot joins are just rooms to mess around in. Play now just finds a server that has room.

Oh ok, thanks for that. Explains a lot.

It seems like a topsy turvey arrangement. As a new pvp player, tourney or team or whatever its called seems like its something you “graduate” to after playing hotjoin for a while, but it seems like you’d actually learn more from tourney games than getting constantly facerolled in hotjoin.

Unfortunately that is the case for Hotjoin.
Fear not there is a hidden feature called Hotjoin 5v5.
To find this, simply press filter, then choose 5 v 5 for team size and leave all maps turned on. Then on the left you will see the “Filter” which you can name in the filter window. Click that then click refresh and if the settings you input were correct then presto, 5v5 hotjoin. This Filter will be saved for the next time you want to play. The 5v5 match’s will show up as 10/10 slots, that’s due to 5 slots of spectators per team.

5v5 hotjoin is a little closer to solo que pvp as a stepping stone (no one will complain about you if you are new). 5v5 also have generally less zergy games.

Server numbers above 100 are 5v5 instead of 8v8. Try those instead. You can even create a filter to just show you 5v5 servers.

Congrats Team Paradigm [TP] You put on a great show and we can’t wait to see you at PAX! – Hats off to Car Crash [CC] too for putting up an epic fight.

good post man! -and good info for people looking to get into thief.
To add a bit, here are my rules for capping far:

• Thief is more valuable as a defensive roamer (between mid-home bursting targets that don’t see you coming).
• If there is a fight on home (you’re 2 capped) and at least 4 of the other team are on your home node, this means either mid or far is open, go cap the free node. If the fight is in your team’s favor (your team has more ppl), go help clean up that fight faster then zerg mid with whole team.
• If there is a 5v5 at mid and their backpoint is doing more for their team than you are doing for your’s (it’s all tanky people in the teamfight and you can’t land your burst effectively), go backcap far. This is a “gambit” -you sacrifice a lesser resource for a greater one by aggroing the bunker back to far. Once he engages on you, simply disengage and get back in the fight at mid. If he stays mid and your team looses the fight, cap the point and rush towards the other side of the map to D up home and groupe back up with your team for a push on mid, usually you’ll be a player or two up because one of theirs went back to cap far and if they assault home, you can outnumber them and put them on a rez timer before rushing mid.
• If you know that the backpoint player is terrible and that you can burst him down quickly and there is nothing else really going on (no team fights), go for it. But other than that, unless far is a free cap (no one is on it), you should never really go for it.

If they just plop a bunker engi or fear necro or ranger on home point, just ignore it and win the mid fights by calling your bunker in for a 5v4, if they send one to your home node just ignore it and win the now 5v3 then just send 2 back to home and take the guy out then recap. Rotations is just a numbers game, and as a roaming DPS it’s your job to make the tactical decisions that will allow your team to outnumber theirs in as many fights as possible.

I guess 3 mesmers, with 9 clones in total, doing 10k+ aoe damage would probably look more acceptable than 8 marks.

Actualy thats confusion :p

I think the most incredible thing in those videos is your masterful control of your facial expressions… even while laughing extremely hard, you manage to appear serenely calm… almost completely still. Amazing.

Spectral wall needs a red warning outline like every other hostile area spell. Besides that, I think it wont be OP at all once necros get their nerf. The extra fears are just too much to deal with right now in addition to everything else necros are dishing out.

Log into the game and see for yourself. Personally, I can’t recommend to play this game on a competitive level, as the reward and the incentives for that are not existing. If not competitive then there is the broken-yoloQ, which gives you frustration and headache. What’s left? Hotjoin and its glory, no comment on that though.
For my part, I switched to PvE to have fun, because it is actually rewarding. At least I can buy gems with it. I’d wait some more months till they actually fixed the major issues and treat PvP with some priority.