Guild Wars 2

U get points based on how long the match was, assuming you got at least some points (like 2 captures or something).
This means if you won in 5 minutes, you get LESS points than if you won in 14 minutes. Which is … eh, Anet, who else.

On a more serious note:

I was once an eager pvp player, I had a team, came pretty close to best teams (skill-wise), but got burned out and frustrated of all those bugs in the game. I believed gw2 will be an awesome esports game.

Then I took a break for a week or 2.

Then I saw what a joke this is and how I illusioned I was.

Basic bugs (and a lot of them, sometimes I wish I’d record my pvp playing and just comment on every bug I get), huge imbalance in classes since the launch of the game, Anet having like 2 or 3 people for pvp, …

Now everytime somethins happens that should not, I just laugh at the game. It’s so much easier than getting angry at Anet. So much enjoyable.

Conclusion: take pvp as a joke and you’ll enjoy it.

Ranger: AI spirits
Mesmer: AI clones
Necromaner: AI minions (+endless spamming of condis)
Thief: ?
Warrior: endless spamming of CC
Engineer: endless spamming of condis
Guardian: ? defense all the way! … I mean …. what else, right?
Ele: kitten ele, he doesnt have condis or evasions or AI
Anet: ESPORTZZZZZZ!!!!!!

John Corpening.9847:

Today there were some changes to how glory and rank points are handed out at the end of a match. First off, instead of being based on personal score they are now based on win or loss. Secondly, rewards are now interpolated based on the duration of the match up to a time we have determined to be a little shorter than the typical match.

Laying the Groundwork for New Game Types
There are several reasons for these changes. The biggest reason is to lay the groundwork for new game types and map mechanics. By normalizing rewards we can be much more flexible with map layouts, game types and mechanics. Game modes will need to reward players equally without directing players to one mode or another based on perceived differences in rewards or encouraging players to play a specific way in order to maximize rewards. As an added benefit, we can also begin to be more flexible with Custom Arena settings.

Time interpolation falls into this category as well. If we introduce a mechanic that leaves the potential for the match to be over very quickly, such as regicide, we need to ensure that doesn’t lead to collaboration to farm rewards or encourage players to play this mode simply to maximize their rewards.

Team Based Rewards
The second big reason for this change is that we have seen that certain builds are much more effective at scoring points than other builds. For example, we see that typical bunker builds score lower than all other types of builds because they serve a vital role of point defense. All members of a team should share in the rewards equally. Again, this lays the foundation for new game modes. We don’t want to limit ideas for new modes because it creates one role that is potentially more or less lucrative than another role.

The numbers chosen for the rewards are based on the data we have collected. On average players who earn the most glory earn about 120 glory per match. We therefore set the minimum numbers to be on par with this number and scaled up from there. Along with this change you will see that Solo Arena and Team Arena both reward significantly more glory and rank points for winning. This is both to compensate for the queue times as well as to reward the higher risk that is taken in these areas.

As an added anti-AFK and botting measure players will need to score at least some points to get rewards. The standard AFK detection continues to be in place and players detected as AFK will receive no rewards.

Also, as before, players will continue to earn a small bonus for having the highest score personal score in each of the game stats.

So now I can join an empty server (or server with few players), and win at (theoretically) 14:99, to gain the most rank points. I’m ok with that.

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I wanted to change char at last boss to a low lvl for quicker leveling, got this error, went back to original char (with whom I did the dungeon so far), same error.

I’m not even sure why I’m reporting this bug, since gw2 is full of stupid bugs that werent fixed in 1+ year.

I wasnt talking about lfg tool in wvw though.

I was testing LFG tool today and noticed a few bugs. Because I’m too lazy to write them, I just recorded myself in game, which is more entertaining for DEVs to see as well I guess.

Anyway, here is the link (video is unlisted, not public): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p82PdhKYsrI&feature=youtu.be

Josh Davis.6015:

Follow-up: We’re working on a fix for Lyssa runes. Not able to give a date, though.

I think 6th lyssa rune doesnt give boons if you make an action immidieatly after using elite. For instance on my s/d thief, I always have to wait for it to proc, and then I can use skills/dodge.

Knote.2904:

ValeV.4875:

Knote.2904:

ValeV.4875:

tl;dr: blablabla nerf ranger tommorow, we’re working, blablabla THE END.

A lot easier to type a single cynical sentence than read 3 really good posts by a dev which has been something rare lately.

I dont care about awesome written posts, I care about real change. Or if I say in the style of Jonathan,
“A little less conversations a little more action.” – Elvis Presley.

Sharp is literally saying the same thing for a year now, hold your patience guys, we’re working on it, it’s hard to change stuff becuase it makes a game hard to manage (about splitting skills and whatnot).

I’ll take communication with slow steady changes than to be completely in the dark questioning whether or not I should give a kitten about the game anymore.

I fail to see the relation between you post and mine. Is there any or is that just some random thought of yours? Even if yes, how was dhummfire update steady change? It made necros and conditions completely OP and shifted the meta to what it is now.

Azunai.5974:

ValeV.4875:

tl;dr: blablabla nerf ranger tommorow, we’re working, blablabla THE END.

Do you ever wonder what you’re doing with your life?

/justasking

Do you want to talk about my life? PM me in game so we wont spam here: ValeV.4875.

Knote.2904:

ValeV.4875:

tl;dr: blablabla nerf ranger tommorow, we’re working, blablabla THE END.

A lot easier to type a single cynical sentence than read 3 really good posts by a dev which has been something rare lately.

I dont care about awesome written posts, I care about real change. Or if I say in the style of Jonathan,
“A little less conversations a little more action.” – Elvis Presley.

Sharp is literally saying the same thing for a year now, hold your patience guys, we’re working on it, it’s hard to change stuff becuase it makes a game hard to manage (about splitting skills and whatnot).

tl;dr: blablabla nerf ranger tommorow, we’re working, blablabla THE END.

Apart from Scar, Helseth and Fuzion I’d like to see 1 more from TP (symbolic?) and Caed.

Just a quick advice: for time, ask casters when do they have time. :P

Maybe it will happen same to tickets than what happened to voting tickets last living story. At least I hope. :P

We just started playing some team matches like everynight, but there are lots of problems (we know how bad anet is at fixing new stuff). For instance, what’s wrong with loading screens? I mean, maps are not big, why is it even there? But now, loading takes like 3 times more. Seriosly, how can you kitten up such thing?

(I’m currently really mad, sorry for all those “bad” words)

Thank you very much for this guide, Jumper.

This is just a normal d/p burst build we all know.

Welcome to PvP man!

I was thinking about him a few days ago too, I remember his last video was about the water map Raid of the Capricorn or w/e it’s called.

OP was on sPvP server with same people over a couple of matches and because there were same people, he saw same players playing mesmer/thief.

I’d like to see what Anet and/or Mistlegaue has to say about this. We havent seen much proof regarding if it was really said “BO5” at the start of the finale.

Darkii.1758:

Balth opened on gunner hold

Thank you so much! ^^

still looking for open balthazat on EU server. :P

Any EU server balthazar open?

Hi, is it Balthazar open on any server at the moment? Ty in advance.

Hi, just wanted to let Anet know that rune of the centaur’s 6th ability doesnt work under water at all. It does work ok on the ground though.

Hello, I’m currently stuck with this strange “bug”. Well, I dont know if it’s really a bug, but I can’t move mystic salvage kit from bank to my lvl10 warrior. I made salvage kit on my lvl80 elementalist. But it should be OK, since it says kit is account bound.

That’s ok, some people are not that intelligent to use elementalist wisely. Warrior is more approppriate for them.

You can bind a button in options to turn for 180 degrees.

Maybe one thing you didnt realize yet. This is not democracy. You dont vote for something to be in the game or change. Arenanet chooses what to change, you can simply write your opinion and wishes.

You can keep up lava font 95% of the time with trait. I dont see why other 2 spells would need to last longer, their usefulness is just to CC foes. You need to state some arguments here.

I want to do CM dungeon explorable mode a couple of times, so I can buy rune of the noble. Does anyone have any tips? Which is the fastest way? Is there a speedrun? How popular is this dungeon?
Thanks in advance.

So, I just came to LA and saw this.
Arenanet, I dont know what are your intentions about this, but whatever you’re doing to gold sellers at the moment, is obviously not working.
Have fun with people buying gold from asians for lower money than from gem store.

Hi, I just realized an error that could make my account banned. Maybe a week ago, I got in-game mail from a complete stranger. Message wasn’t in english, but there was like 17s. First I send new mail to that person, asking if he sent it to the wrong guy, but since he didn’t reply, I simply took those 17s.
So, I heard Arenanet will look up fro gold seller accounts, ban them, and ban people who got money from those accounts, because that would mean those people bought gold illegaly.
I never bought gold from gold sellers, I always report their mails as spamming. But I’m still afraid Arenanet will simply ban me. So can I get a guarantee that you guys (talking to devs) won’t do that?

On a side note, I made a ticket n. 120904-007741, where I reported a gold seller (it got solved, just wanted to make you know a little more, that I have no intention of buying from gold sellers).

Hi, I dont know if this is the right place to post this, but I didnt find more suitable one.

I get mail from gold sellers every day, but I get more and more mail last days. I always report the mail as “spamming”, but I cant add a person to bloced people, because it says person with such username doesnt exist.

Can you do anything about it? Does reporting even matters?

I have no problems repairing my armor and I’m no special gamer (I’m playing like everyone else, not just farming gold or items).

I use 8 slot bags from the point where I could craft them and very few times I ran into inventory-full problem. Just make sure that after you finish DE/heart, you talk with NPC and sell stuff you dont need.

Hmm, this is weird. Only with top 5 you make profit with silver coins, all others are kinda a waste of time, if you ask me. I’m not sure if this works allright though.

Here is a tip from https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/OMG-If-you-only-knew-this-tips-for-new-players:
32. If you’re getting into areas with mobs that are too difficult, but you’ve done all the other events in that zone (happened to me around level 20), check out the other races’ areas! You get scaled down to match the levels in those zones and can do all of their quests and events while still earning XP and Gear to match your own level!