Guild Wars 2

A lil bit of that $400,000 could have gone to hiring a programmer on contract to add solo queue, especially given the community is supposedly so large right now.

Unless that is, adding solo queue costs more than $400,000 which makes me wonder why such a vital component was removed in the first place tbh

Hey some issues that I’d like to point out while you’re working on this that I’d LOVE to see considered, a lot of Aussie/SEA players I know have issues with the same things:

• Any skill that involves movement and a dodge will warp back and forth from it’s end location over a second or so. Extremely irritating. Happens on every Daredevil dodge. Please fix this for at least Daredevil or I will simply walk away if I see a Daredevil coming to fight me when HoT comes out. I aint about that life. They can have the kittening point.

• Any teleport can’t be used as effectively as there is a maximum CLIENT SIDE range, but the actual skill won’t go off for an extra 400ms or so. The net effect of this is that if you are moving in the direction that you’re teleporting, you can’t go as far as someone with low ping. Small issue for instant teleports but a huge issue for thief, as SB5 (potentially the most important skill on the thief skillset) has a cast time as well. Given that you typically chain 2-3 SB5’s for map mobility, a small difference will add up. A potential fix for this that’s not very related to latency at all would be skills outside maximum distance always being used at maximum distance.

• Hit mid-dodge. There’s admittedly no real solution to this that doesn’t sacrifice something on the low-ping user’s end and they should (also admittedly) probably have an advantage, but I just wanted to whinge about how kittenoff annoying it is to prepare for impale/pindown/SoSpite 10 seconds in advance and STILL get pulled by it because you didn’t have the superhuman reactions to dodge within 30ms (+300 for latency). I think it would be fair to have lag compensation in PvE as AI monsters aren’t going to complain about their attacks missing on laggy players. Subtle quick animations (That one achievement where you had to not get hit by a sand pool from a centaur was literally hell incarnate) are mostly undodgable. You just have to take it, dodge in advance (possible for a lot of predictable creeps), or use something like endure pain to cover the 3 seconds. The margin for error is a hell of a lot lower for high ping players in PvE.

• Melee skills are weird. I’ve played on a low ping connection during my holiday in les frances and I didn’t know this was an issue until I noticed how much of an insane reach melee skills (sometimes? not enough testing, but it doesn’t happen all the time) have on low ping. It’s especially noticeable when you’re chasing someone – IE, trying to melee hit someone who is running away from you.

• Minor but the BLTC is annoying as kitten to use because you have to wait for every step to load.

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Hey fellas! Helpful hint to all the brand new players congregating in this thread in regards to how to not be soulcrushingly terrible:

In the options menu, you can bind a key to the “dodge” button. After binding this button, you’ll be able to use it to roll away from dangerous attacks and area-of-effect spells!

For practice on this fancy new technique known as “dodging” (don’t worry, scary as it sounds, you’ll get it soon enough!) you can head to any PvE starting zone to find a friendly NPC here to help you press that button! Here’s an example of what you’re looking for: http://i.imgur.com/fdRgzw7.jpg

Good luck out there friends! Hope this guide helps in your future adventures in Tyria!

Case closed I guess. In my defence I asked another active community, everyone in the party and my guild first.

Wethospu.6437:

His protective ice crystal may explain that.

Are you seriously telling me that all this time the ice crystal has had a reductive effect on damage and I’ve never noticed?

I am disgrace to family

Just a plain rush towards the shaman on flat ground, no spikes in the way, never seen anything like it. Bug or some new mechanic?

who cares it doesn’t matter

Bran.7425:

Writetyper.1985:

it has always been this way

If that is the case I now wonder why it was designed that way or was it just something that slipped through the cracks as I can recall them adjusting abilities with similar functionality before in the past. So there is a possibility of such a change, but that would probably require someone to comment on it during some tournament or another and then it will be all ‘wrath from on high.’

Probably a mistake, considering they fixed Warrior GS4 doing the same thing. If not I think changing it would be fair considering it adds an extra counter to the lich. I feel like if you’re going to do 6k on auto, those autos better be clunky and hard to use.

Literally don’t know why they’re doing this complex, pretentious system that flat out doesn’t work.

Look at dota. +0-25 for winning depending on the MMR difference between the teams, -0-25 for losing, same factors. That’s so kitten easy it’s common sense. Why are there points for losing under any scenario? If you even think about that for a second you know that the more you play the more that’s going to add up.

Readymade.1672:

#RemoveTheFarmBoards
#NoPointsForLosing

ur my hero

StinVec.3621:

Thank you to those who have made posts with actual contributions to the topic of the thread so far. I appreciate your taking the time to reply with the requested information.

I love how you make a subtle humblebrag thread to show off your rediculous salvage amount and then throw this passive aggressive comment at all the people discussion your rediculous salvage amount.

What were you actually expecting?

Yes great idea let’s buff the best PvP class even more to a point which will make zero difference in PvE but make them demigods of balthazar with the best condition in the game permanently applied on a godkitten auto-attack in PvP.

kitten me, have you ever considered playing GW2 before posting threads like this?

Yes please. Explaining simple rotation and focus concepts to pubbies WHILE trying to fight people using text chat that they’re probably not going to read anyway really kittening does my head in

The only arguement against is from the thin skinned hugbox crowd complaining about abusive players. There’s already a solution to this, it’s called reporting and muting.

it has always been this way

1-4 because it’s a meme and anet use a ouija board to balance

gr8 banter lads

-can’t queue without taking your party with you – if you just want to do some casual queues while talking to people well you can’t do that get kittening memed

-can’t leave the mists without cancelling the queue so you can’t pooppost in DR while you wait to play this silly kittening game :^))))

-can’t do some cool hotbangs to warm up while you wait for the queue for literally no reason

Wow! what a step forward! I mean I would say that the technology just isn’t there, but it kittening is, the old queue had all this kitten and it was just a simple box that said “join” with a timer. What a downgrade. Shoutout to my boys who started at the bottom and then stayed there aka coolnet. :~~))~) xDDDDDDD?:^)^)^))^)^)

frothing at the mouth bros. it’s a miracle.

caed can I duel you breh i’m good thief, whisper me, “Layaleth”, in game C: C: C: :o B^)

yo do you mean to tell me I’ve not played for practically a year and skyhammer S T I L L hasn’t been removed? ayy lmao

sry no gvg in guild wars sry sry sry sry

:^))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) anetuuuuu

> If I had a dollar for every stun ability in this game…I spend more time stunned than I do in control of my body. It’s extremely aggravating to have my character immobile for half my play session. Make combat smoother and more mobile, not based on annoying stun-locks.

You can hit the “dodge” key on your keyboard for a 100% stun reduction, it’s great!

Charak.9761:

Can’t have an e-sport with no DR on CC… as I have always said.

DR on CC wouldn’t do anything about your inability to dodge, sry m8

4 war 1 mes will win all gg >.<

PS pls screenshot my post and put it on le veegee thread like the others i want to be efamous

PPS whos pumped for mgsv

~the esports patch~ will make everything better (^´_^´);*-`~

kirito.4138:

Lupanic.6502:

could someone post a screenshot?

Hey on the upside it helps nerf sumo engis

apt.9184:

I don’t think anyone cares anymore. Since, next update will probably happen in a year. The main people that QQ now on the fourms are new players who play solo que.

Truer than true

Doesn’t matter what gets posted, balance patches are done every 6 months using a ouija board in anet HQ. We all have to deal with it, even if that does mean we end up with turret engis and s/d everywhere for that whole 6-10 months,

just add mirror matchup dueling matchmaking queues

engis matched with engis, rangers with rangers, thieves with thieves

etcetcetc

Sarrs.4831:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

do you have any idea how many people actually load up their gems with real dollars in order to buy lots of black lion keys?

do you? i’m actually genuinely curious

probably about 3 people

Because hotjoins are for casual, sandpit quick matches and ranked matches solve every problem here except 5. (Actually it doesn’t solve any of them (top lel) but it should).

If I wanted to play a quick bit of PvP before my WvW queue or while waiting for a ranked match queue, and you couldn’t go into hotjoins without consequences for leaving, what would you suggest I do? Hit target dummies for 10 minutes?

Honestly it perplexes me that this hotjoin/ranked match system exists so that people have the option to choose between lighthearted casual matches and hardcore more competitive experience, and people try to force the lighthearted casual example into something to be taken seriously.

This is my constructive response that pretty much nullifies all your points (except for #5). Until you can explain why you believe hotjoins should be competitive, that is. If you can come up with a good reason, then fair enough.

Tom Gore.4035:

If you’re getting 4v5 at mid, why isn’t someone from your team capping their home?

Becauase the only person not 4v5ing is “defending” home point

what I honestly don’t get is why they don’t at least walk up to the ledge or close to the point to lend a bit of support, it’s not kittening difficult and on almost every map there’s somewhere you can see people crossing to push home

hehk.8705:

JinDaVikk.7291:

Mace 3 blocks all attacks for full channel until hit by melee.

Nope.

The block breaks if the guardian or any player within the effect would be hit by a block-able kill. It does not work like the mesmer sword block, warrior sword block or the ranger GS block.

Cool thing about this skill is if you block a skill like Earthshaker anyone within your block field will not get hit by the Earthshaker.

And also it does metric kittentonnes of damage even in a bunker build. Such a based skill.

Caedmon.6798:

Writetyper.1985:

Caedmon.6798:

Rubik.7192:

Caedmon.6798:

Rubik.7192:

Warrior: Equip heal signet and soldiers amulet. Now you can’t die.

So it kinda shows youre only able to make stupid comments in every thread you post ? bravo.

Someone doesn’t get a joke.

Honestly…you have some issues going on buddy.

senseofhumour.exe not found

I do,but this guy is serious.It shows with the all the replys he made in the past about warriors,his newest thread should say something about him aswell.

Last thread is probably a little childish and is likely going to get a ban for singling out players, but honestly, everyone is sick of one and a half years of unsubstantiated “thief op” claims so I don’t blame him. Especially considering he retorted with evidence (evade spamming thief is running S/D and is therefore not blind spamming) and you just go “no! thif op! evades! blinds!”. It’s really quite annoying.

Mike.4830:

Super.2749:

engineer is totally useless in this meta. Can’t team fight, gets destroyed by condi warrior, have to play perfect to survive a hambow or a mesmer in 1v1, gets destroyed by necro 1v1 , really hard to beat eles also, only easy matchup is 1v1 vs thiefs but in 2v2s gets destroyed by thiefs lol.

What super is trying to say, is his engineer has no place in this meta, bc he is bad at it.. K thnx for ur opinion PS u shudnt have been at PAX

holy kitten, riggidy riggidy rekt

Caedmon.6798:

Rubik.7192:

Caedmon.6798:

Rubik.7192:

Warrior: Equip heal signet and soldiers amulet. Now you can’t die.

So it kinda shows youre only able to make stupid comments in every thread you post ? bravo.

Someone doesn’t get a joke.

Honestly…you have some issues going on buddy.

senseofhumour.exe not found

Engineer: you can spam random buttons and fill everyone up with conditions.

esports

15 big fellas

I like conquest becasue this game is filled with escape abilities. If you win a fight you actually win a fight because you cap the point, not have to chase some little kitten warrior with zerker stance and gs/sword around the map for 5 hours just for 25 points. You still get all the good fights, fights at tranq, sidepoint 1v1s, midpoint fights etcetcetc.

I don’t know why you’re complaining, you have Courtyard right now and it’s pretty fun, and there’s always been people organizing duel servs and 2v2/3v3’s like blu

In what world is that forcing you to play? the hell, brah

garbage list, kill la kill yourself

1. me
1+n. me
50. me

Formula is: x=me

Solstice.1097:

it helps if you ask people, like as a favor, rather than tell them what to do.

“ranger can you please grab home?”

rather than

“ranger go home”

Yeah bro we should totally take the time during a match while fighting to double the length of what we’re typing for the sole reason of the level of courtesy you’d probably expect to find in victorian era dinner parties. You’ve got it. Perfect sense, because good manners is of utmost importance during a match, if everyone used good manners rather than neutral tones everyone on the enemy team would drop dead immediately.

Why don’t you just assume that someone would ask nicely had they the time?

I had this guy in yolo q yesterday focusing a bunker warr and letting a condi nec freecast. I tried targetting him, I tried saying “focus nec” in chat, I tried banishing the war away and then going back to the nec, he still kept beating on this 75% HP bunker war and then called me pretentious after we both died. Are you telling me if I stopped to type

“Hello my dear friend! Please heed my advice, it would be of the utmost importance to one if you were to direct your glorious self in the direction of the necromancer! Thank you, o majestic one! I am truely lucky to have been graced by your presence”

while being molested by the necromancer, then he would have listened? Both impractical and rediculous.

If you want to win solo queue the best thing to do is cross your fingers.

Engineers are a joke atm and anyone who plays balth engi or decap engi should feel pretty bad about themselves

don’t even get me started about wvw, half-asleep 3v1’s from just spamming condis are not unusual

The only thing bad about it is kittening balth engis and mm/decap not being hit hard enough.

Jiyu.8310:

@writetyper: y u are, intelligence gives u 3 crits after weapon switch which has a 9 sec cooldown, these crits (as i mentioned in my post above) can be used to put up some presssure and to activate the minor trait in “Virgorous Precision” which does give 5 seconds of vigor on a 10sec internal cooldown. So u have a safe 50% uptime of vigor just from ur crits and on the other hand some skills of the guardian can hit for quite some decent dmg (staff 2, mace 3 just to name some).
U can basically kill every glassy spec like thiefs and mesmer easily.

(All experiences on a standart 0/1/6/6/1 bunkerbuild with cleric)

Oh kitten. I forgot about that, thansk for the heads up I’ll give it a go right away. could easily be really good.

haven’t noticed any bunker guardians overachieving in the ~50 matches I’ve played since patch so it can’t be too bad, either that or it hasn’t spread yet.

jportell.2197:

This post is just… Wut? lol No interrupt mesmer is one of the highest skill cap builds in the game hands down….

Did you actually read his post, or rather the first 2 lines before jumping to conclusions?

>what’s this? oh no someone is insuling MUH CLASS gotta DEFEND M Y HONOR ON THE FORUMS

He said that landing interrupts to interrupt key skills is incredibly skillful. The problem is damage based interrupts are incredibly easy to just spam/luck your way through. Everyone in GW2 is ALWAYS doing something. Nobody just stands there like some hyper-tactical game waiting to make their next move, because even autoattacks do heavy damage. If you just use an interrupt at a random time there’s a 95% chance it’ll hit someone swinging their sword like a maniac. That’s bad.

Do you pat yourself on the back whenever you interrupt a ranger autoattacking?

Yeah it’s broken, I’m not at the top anymore ;;

anet please fix with haste thx hugs and kisses no deleterino

>Bunker guardian is relatively the same but I think intelligence sigil makes it look pretty fun and interesting. Azshene won’t try it, he’s a goofy goober. He likes the condi removal sigil I guess.

sorry what, inteligence sigil on a bunker? 300 damage autos>500 damage autos #OhNo

is there some synergy I’m missing?

Easiest 60g of m y life, thank you based anet

I’m seeing more negineers than anything else. #masterrace

what’s solo queue? is that what I call the “skyhammer pop containment zone”?