I’ve fought a few of these 1v1 lately, I always outplay the hell out of them on my thief, problem is there’s no way I can catch up to them once they realize they have no chance.
Warriors getting free 25% movement speed with the ability to leap out of draw distance at a whim (or towards someone running, but i’ve never seen this) is hilariously broken, I can’t even consider chasing with shortbow because if I waste all of my initiative teleporting towards them they’ll be able to just turn around and instakill me.
Mesmer’s Blink is a really finicky ability, sometimes it can clear chasms that would take forever to walk around, but most of the time it can’t go up a tiny jump or a small ledge.
My suggestion would be either to make it completely functional, or at the very least give a different color target circle to show that blinking to that area won’t work, maybe yellow colored.
You can’t balance a game around being able to attack twice as fast at will, PvP balance is a joke when I can literally jump on someone then kill them before they know what’s going on.
I made a fresh thief, never having played one previous to this test, whipped up a basic quickness burst build, then went into SPvP and started dominating, the sad part is it wasn’t because of how I’m a good player, but because I was able to press one button REALLY fast.
Want to get in a group? Want to never be kicked, unless you really are just bad? Click “Y”. Then Change your icon to blue. Now, this step is really complicated. Press Escape, then go to character creation. Press Create. Choose whatever race. PRESS “GUARDIAN”. Proceed to finish the character. Hit 80. Map travel to LA, or anywhere theres a dungeon and type this “80 Guard LFG XXX Exp”, XXX being the dungeon initials. Prepare to be asked almost immediately to join a group.
Seriously though, don’t spam the chat, just say “Lvl X Class LFG XX Exp/Story”. Type that once, MAYBE twice, after that, make your own group.
I am incredibly disappointed that some people who browse these forums actually take the time to type out a reply that’s entirely irrelevant due to the fact that they did not actually READ the OP post.
You say to make my own group, but notice in the OP post I said I was typing ‘LFM’.
I DID create a group. I could not fill it due to chat lockout, and when I asked my groupmates for help advertising, they got locked out too.
We were not spamming, just posting it every now and then.
If they have people devoting resources to camping the puzzle, that’s more people their team doesn’t have on the surface map. So it should help your team gain ground.
I know it doesn’t make it less aggravating – but in the grest scheme of pvp strategy, their camping of the puzzle does come at a cost (even if small) to their team.
I was part of the group that the OP is referring to, and I can tell you our numbers were far less than theirs.
I think I have a simple solution: Remove that jumping puzzle. There are a lot of other jumping puzzles which should be enough. And I can agree with having to play WvW to get a legendary because it can be used in both PvE and WvW and should take you to play everything of the game not only PvE. And this requires badges and World Completion.
The WvW you can easily do by running with the zerg and trying to get some kills if you are lucky and not forget about the drop. And checking the pois and vistas while you are holding the stuff… if not possible to cap wait until you start at another area of the map next match(now you have to wait weeks not days but still possible).
But I can’t see why they would put a jumping puzzle there. Never tried it so far… still going for world completion only at the moment and don’t care that much about the puzzles. But it is only for the achievement right? I heard about being siege blueprints in that chest but they could be awarded in some other way maybe as rare drops from killing players or making some siege engineer neutral base with uber strong npcs enginer mobs that could have a rare drop chance.
So far probably most of the people want to do that puzzle only 1 time for achievement right? And this probably is taking away people from both groups – the ones that want to do it and the others that want to grief. Of all servers people in WvW doing something else than WvW.
I think everything else is fine. The few resource nodes. The bit of pois and vistas… but that puzzle seems to be a problem from what I have heard hear. You could wast hours there doing nothing that helps your WvW ranking. I don’t think this was intended?
So remove it. Or place it somewhere else or make it instanced. People should do more WvW.
Simple solutions are usually the most poorly thought out ones.
I’m not sure you’re aware of this, but jump puzzle pvp is WvW.
Don’t really care about the present. I care about when this becomes an even bigger problem in the future.
Yeah, I agree with this.
All 3 of my arrow carts died to just one guy, what if it catches on? What if people have groups of tanky guardians that all stack up retaliation and intentionally stand in arrow cart fire?
People complaining about something that is as easy as 1 boon to beat. Here is a hint guys… RETALIATION.
For those of you that are challenged:
1. Get a guardian or someone else that can reliably buff retaliation.
2. Have them cast it.
3. Stand in arrow cart fire.
4. ??
5. Profit!
Instead of coming here and crying about how you are getting griefed, think of ways to beat it.
I did a jump puzzle on my servers homeland (2 keys one) and there were 2 players from a server camping it so you couldn’t make the jumps, much like you are saying. Instead of quit, I equipped sword (im a warrior) and savage leaped across while they were firing on someone else. They never saw me coming from behind them as I rifle butted and “fear me”d them off the edge. Nothing felt more satisfying, and if you would have thought about your situation instead of come here to complain you could have had that same feeling.
Also, whenever you beat griefers, remember that /sit spam!
Great idea!
…Wait what’s that? A-net is going to fix so that retaliation doesn’t work on siege no more? Better luck next time!
Is it confirmed that retaliation is being fixed to not work on siege? I personally found it silly a guardian could kill my arrow carts by being hit by them.
The secret to getting past 3 to 4 good players is to just bring 15, that worked well for SoS, after about an hour of struggling they finally got up when they were reviving each other faster than we could down them.
The LFG system is a joke, there’s no other way to find a group than spamming chat.
After I typed “LFM AC Explorable” twice within five minutes, the game BLOCKED ME FROM SAYING THE PHRASES “LFM, AC, and Explorable” because it thought I was a gold seller.
I COULD NOT rephrase it, it simply blocked any attempt I made to look for a group.
This is a good example of screwing over players with automatic prevention systems.
