Guild Wars 2

Locking out a free player for a bug in your game (e.g. crashes) is your call, but will whittle away your player base. Locking out a paying customer for no fault of their own is just wrong.

My late ’12 iMac is still running GW2 OK. Maybe because I am still running Mavericks.

It does seem to “fail to connect” more often (maybe due to increased number playing now), but once connected is about same performance and not crashing.

I alternate between celestial and rabid amulet for D/D spvp. I may also run Earth vs Fire line for more defense. Lots of crits, toughness, and condition damage. Need to watch condition cleansing with the lower HP.

Its a good time to save the upgrade cost anyways…

I keep trying different PvP builds but keep going back to this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAodhcMoxh1NwvB0RM8BY0FICsBmCQAYBU1gJ4LA-TJhHwADOBAl3fAwDAAZZAA

Kind of a throw-back to the old “ember elementalist”.
I know ele signet/condi builds are not considered top-tier but I find the survivability and amount of damage this build puts out is way too much fun for me to pass up.

A lot of good points, but I disagree about making all sPvP “arena” style. Boring. Implement better tank/damage balance per the suggestions and give players a choice of game mode. Don’t “fix” something by reducing choice and variety.

Here is the build I was talking about.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNBmQDbkjmabLuxvG+bTgLUQ+mBQkhQJQdbEHPLA-TpBFwAFOIAtPCALeAAM3foaZAAXAAA

Berserker runes. Maybe it isn’t the most tanky, but it is tankier than the meta power 6/2/0/0/6 build I used to run. I like all the synergy going on to boost protection, which I took to be one of the features being promoted by the OP. And I can’t just stand on point to hold it, I need to actively juke around using spectral walk and flesh wurm

I have a guardian whose build I get up to 3300 armor, and at that level you start to be able to notice a difference, e.g. I can face tank Savnir. But a couple hundred armor isn’t really that noticeable, and necros effectively get a vitality multiplier via LF so I agree vitality > toughness.

I make no claim to be a pro, I just wanted to share some thoughts that have made playing a necro more enjoyable for me.

I have tried a variation of this build in sPvP, and I kind of like it. (4/4/0/0/6 with rune of forge, spectral mastery/attune).

With the extra protection, plus longer duration / shorter recharge spectral skills, I find I can both survive better and recharge DS faster; then still do decent damage in DS with close to 100% crit rate. Add Plague as an elite and you can hold a point for quite a while against multiple attackers, and maybe kill one of them before help arrives.
Probably not a “meta” worthy build but a nice change of pace with a fun gameplay to it.

I have been running the “meta” medi guard build and decided to try a tankier variant.
I found running Knight amulet and the following build was rather fun in spvp last night. Decent HP, a ton of armor, good crit % to trigger sigils and enough DPS to not be ignored. Sigils of generosity help shake off conditions. I am sure it can be improved, let me know what you think.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR7dlsApaolDxbI8DRRDRljNYHBZQXe9BkABAA-TZBFABC8AAkb/hoLD02FBAgjAAA

It used to be fun. Now it isn’t. Good game.

team players need solo players to fill in the gaps on partial-teams, or the queue times would be too long for them.

Your request in many forms has been ignored for weeks. Time to admit solo play is no longer an option.

I used to win about 50% in soloQ, now I am down to <20% win rate. But it isn’t just vs premade teams. Last night two of my teammates declared this was their first time doing pvp. Better question is why am I (at pvp rank 48) being teamed up with total novices? (I guess it is because of my poor recent win ratio, which of course means I will continue to be teamed up with losing teams … argh).

I was like 7 wins out of my first 14 unranked PvP matches after patch. Now I am 7 wins for 27, i.e. lost 13 in a row. Either I all of a sudden got worse or the system matching is really bad. The problem I think is that soloQ players don’t stand much of a chance anymore.

It seems as my rating keeps dropping as solo player, I am getting matched with lower and lower skilled (other solo) players. I didn’t used to get teamed with people that would stand 3 or 4 on an uncontested point to capture it? So my odds of winning keep getting worse.

Its a death-spiral of horrible match making argh.

I have been doing sPvP for about a year and enjoying it, mostly soloQ. Now it is very unsatisfying getting womped by organized teams most every match. I have tried to get guildies to organize a teamQ but they are too PvE oriented. Hotjoin is too random with no benefit of level matching. It is hard to find a regular team when you are casual (i.e. not mad skills, not reliably online).

I have heard other players say too bad for me, just find a team or leave the game. Is that the message Anet is telling its casual PvP solo players?

Please give us back soloQ!

So you actually enjoy winning 500:0? I’m not saying I don’t suck, but I win close to 50% of my matches in every other format. Forcing you to be killed over and over for 0 points, or giving you a time lockout if you refuse to endure the punishment, is just horribly NOT FUN. Listen up Anet, if you force people to play a game that is painful to play then guess what happens?

First Courtyard pvp today. 500:0. Such fun! I couldn’t even get the leave instance to work. Will have to leave game instead. Maybe if enough people boycott courtyard they will take it out of the lineup.

Here’s my girl.

I have tried many classes, and both power and condi necro. I keep coming back to power necro – it is just the most fun. Yes you do die a lot but pounding your opponent 5K per hit in DS is just too satisfying for me.

I used to like sPvP. Rank 39. Now I die almost instantly every fight I enter. I suppose if you are killing people instantly its “fun” for you, but frankly this isn’t a good change. PvP should entail strategy and fights that last more than a couple seconds.

Come on Anet, fix this – make it a fun game for everyone please.

I think the only solution is to significantly buff warriors.

8/10
Love the look of the little guy. Wouldn’t want to run into him after dark.

Mine is nothing special but I like the sexy but dangerous “punk” look. Beware the claws.

I am finally getting the hang of a condi necro and liking it. If they nerf condi’s I will have to switch to a power zerker class like everyone else /boring.

You do realize that foul-mouthing the support staff doesn’t help…

If it still doesn’t work for you, you probably need to get your game client to update. See earlier posts for help about doing that.

Confirm fix. Yay!

BLTP stopped working for me today. Tried the various work arounds, nothing seems to work ;(. sigh…

(I do appreciate Anet supporting Macs. I hope issues like this don’t cause them to throw in the towel as being too much of a bother. Except for this issue my Mac has run GW2 pretty much flawlessly for over a year).

Another unhappy customer here. Maybe I am unusual player but when I hit level 80 (have done that on two chars), I have been making alts. I have “enjoyed the journey” more than for me more tedious grind of the end-game. New races, new classes, a rich and exciting wealth of world experiences to enjoy…

But now the journey itself has become more of a grind. First couple times I gained a level post-patch, it was a “yay” followed by an immediate “bleh” as there was no particular reward or gain of a trait point.

Pushing all the traits to higher levels with bigger level gaps between them just encourages more of a race to the end. What about those of us who actually enjoy the (arguably richer) content levels 1-79?

Also starting to crash repeatedly (about every 5 minutes). Started happening with 3/18/14 update. Stable as a rock before. iMac 2012 with 680mx GPU.
Game is unplayable, pls fix