Guild Wars 2

I think in the end, DH is a horribly designed profession for sPvP. Low skill floor, low skill cap. It’s very effective against lower skilled players, but anyone experienced can easily play around it.

Just wait til 2 xpacs from now. Every profession will have 3 OP builds to pick from!

… in 2020

See sig /15char

I want some aviators.

It’s different. Nice change of pace from conquest. However it’s so different than conquest, that it needs its own queue.

My only suggestion is the win condition. Win condition shouldn’t be by points, but rather the furthest a team gets to downing the lord.

No.

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/593097468121845760

Yeah i’ve witnessed someone get stomped today out of nowhere (other team had no easy means of stealth). A few seconds later several of my teammates were trying to cap home but couldn’t because someone was invisible, standing on it. They were complaining someone was abusing a glitch..

70-500 ish

Endtime: 8:30pm central
Unranked
NA
This account

Wonder if this will be streamed. Last time it was DDOSd.

There are two things that come to mind when you distinguish Jade Quarry and Tarnished Coast.

First is WvW, as they are both in the Tier 1 bracket of WvW. In past match-ups, as well as tournaments, both servers have done fairly even in terms of competition. One isn’t decidedly better than the other IMO.

The second is the community. Both have great guilds, but Tarnished Coast is known for the RP-Community. So if that is something that you’re interested in, TC is for you.

Other than RP, and WvW, realm choice doesn’t really matter. Both are great realms if you can actually get into them.

The way that I look at it:

We’ve been approaching better balance in PvP very steadily. It’s better than a year ago, 2 years ago etc. Sometimes when they balance 3 things, 2 things get unbalanced. Etc. But there has been progress.

But it seems that each profession will get a new “spec”, if you will. So 8 new specs into the game, plus another profession on top of that…. This is probably going back 10 steps in terms of PvP balance. Something is going to be broken as hell. And knowing Anet, they will take months to actually fix it.

But, it does add variety, which I desperately want in the game. So, to me, I’m willing to ride this out. I just hope that they take their PvP balancing seriously post-xpac launch. Some aspects of PvP are obviously broken, yet they take months to fix it. Everyone knows that cele dd eles are broken, but it’s been many, many months since they actually got nerfed. They need to fix their cadence.

Considering that the base character slots is 5/account (which is an intentional money grab), it’s hard for me to believe that they will give you an additional character slot for free.

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This was not a hotjoin match.

Test season is test.

They’re testing things because things are bound to break, and or not work. And what do ya know…

Justin, you the realm MVP, and I love you being vocal on the forums <3

Sometimes. I like to think of me as a little 4 y/o on Christmas.

And I just wish to the Santa Claus. Please. Please let my team mates know how to rotate. That’s all I ask for.

But alas, no one has a kittening clue.

…. it’s really bad with the mmr turned off

I saw Svanir kill two of my teammates within 30 seconds last night.

Maybe gotten this map 4-5 times out of 100 games. I think only 1 was an actual 5v5.

People are taking advantage of no dishonor and boycotting this map.

anetplz

Yet to see “I like Skyhammer, I voted for it!” in team chat.

It’s always “You can thank me, I voted for Skyhammer. I know people hate it.”

convinced mmr is broken

anet plzzz

everyone is in HoTM anyways… i can see their pretty armor there…

60-70 games. I’ve only played 2 skyhams.

It’s 2 skyhams too much.

0 improvements so far for me in unranked queue. I maybe have 60+ games since patch, and won 65-70% ish of them on my main (my stats keep getting deleted).

I just had by far had my worst game of my entire GW2 career.

Ele + mesmer double cap home at start. They continue to double cap all game.

Thief was afk for 30+ seconds. Goes to enemy lord, doesn’t do anything. Wastes a minute there. Breaks the other door. Spend another good 1 minute in there doing something….

All game my team, and theirs were double capping. My team let the enemy run right past them to go cap.

We barely won because I 1v2 a Necro + Thief on far.

It’s like a freaking hotjoin. How many games do I have to win before I get the same quality opponents as I did in soloQ (I never thought I’d say that.)

They really need to carry over the MMR from the soloQ/teamQ into unranked/ranked respectively. I’ve yet to have a game where I’ve faced competent players. Every game people are double capping, in roads, or simply are not great at their profession.

I’m not having fun steamrolling these new players, nor do I want them on my team. I have over 50 games since the patch, and the quality of players have not improved. Is my MMR even growing, or is it even implemented yet? Most games are hotjoin level of …. competence.

Yeah I have a 71% win ratio on my main, since patch. I normally have under 55%.

Everyone in unranked queue…. is so bad. Every game it’s horrible rotations. Every game people are fighting in roads or 4v1 someone at mid, then zerg somewhere else to lose it.

It’s very easy for a competent player who has a clue to make a huge difference as of now.

Abjured,

Let no one question your place in eSports history.
The fact that you are in China is no coincidence or accident.
It is your fate.
This tournament, your birthright, your legacy; you were born to fight the Europeans.
You, my fellow players, were born for this very day.
Today, EU will hear the roar of North America, and they will fear us.

May the Almighty Zomorros and the Spirit of Grouch bless your souls. Esports be with you.

(this may or may not have been slightly altered from something)… plus i’m slightly drunk

It was stupidly fun for me… for like 3 minutes. Then our team was just steamrolling the other until it was finished.

Maybe it could be a true deathmatch, arena style. Once you’re dead, you’re dead. Play best of 3.

3 games here in unranked.

They weren’t 500-0, but it was mostly the other team camping the other. I’ve rarely seen this in soloQ.

skullfaerie.7203:

Quint.3765:

Evan Lesh.3295:

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pretty childish to post that. i would have atleast expected an update on what is going on and what are the delays for when it will be fixed and why it is bugged. Not a stupid image. It’s funny to see how Anet don’t really care about PvP. When there is a bug in PvE it takes less than 20 mins before you patch something and update everything. Ive had my screen bugged for more than 2 hours with the stupid map selection tab and i can’t do nothing because even if i close my client and re-open it the tab is still there. So please fix it…

Lmao, some people are so tightly wound, it’s hilarious. I interpreted that as a funnier version of “omg, something went wrong, we’re working on it.” – what else do you need to know exactly?

Lifestealer.4910:

Such amazing design to the point where the game mode is almost dead, with only the same 100 people playing and pretending to be E-SPORTZZZZ

I’ve come to the conclusion that mmorpg’s PVP is only as successful as the PvE.

Just take WoW for example. Nearly 10 million players. The PvP is crap. If you knew nothing about WoW, you’d be absolutely lost. I played PvP for ~5 years, and I still can’t follow arena streams. Yet their streams get 10s of thousands of views.

Any other MMORPG PvP doesn’t even compare. Rift, Wildstar, ESO, 100x other that came out in the past 5 years….

GW2 is by far the best MMORPG PvP out there. But it’s only small, because GW2’s PvE population is small. If the game had the playerbase of WoW, we’d totally be esprorts.

Huge outcry from community to remove it from soloQ.

Now it will be apart of the new rankedQ (which includes teamQ)

k……….

is…

is skyhammer going to be in ranked?

I really hope the dishonor degrades quite fast. Like, a DC once or twice a week will only result in 5-10 minute timeouts each time.

If you DC and or leave a match mulitple times a day, then it should stack exponentially. It doesn’t matter if you have bad connection issues, you’re hurting your teammates by you attempting to play on a shotty network.

It’ll be very tough to balance this IMO. But sounds 10000x better than what we already have.

Josh Davis.6015:

The Glorious Hero’s Armor is a skill-based reward. I’d wager that the players who top the ladders are all skilled players in some regard.

If you don’t think they are, you have until Dec 2 to knock them out of the top 20.

yeahh, go look at the soloQ leaderboard on NA. There’s 3-4 people with less than 20 games won. They pretty much just stepped into PvP and had a good win streak.

You should require at least 50 games won, or so, to eliminate the leaderboard’s greatest flaw (being on top of leaderboard if you have a win streak as a new player).

Josh Davis.6015:

Thanks for the feedback, OP.

I’ve written blogs to this effect in the past, and I actually have one slated for this upcoming Friday. I’ve been pretty busy lately, but I will try to do them more often.

<3

You know what would be cool? If we had a message board in the middle of the mists (the same thing that lists shoutcasters/pax winners)

That could be updated with upcoming tournaments, and previous winners. TOL/WTS etc winners should pernamently be shown on the board, or a different statue. GO4 / ESL/ whathaveyou can have winners on the statue/board for, say, a month.

Put it like 10 yards in front of the portal in the mists. Anyone that enters the mists is bound to look at it.

The prizing really needs to be spread out to the top 3, 4, or even 5 teams.

If people think they can get fifth in a tourney and win like…5 bucks even…. I’m sure we’ll see a few more teams sign up and actually try.

If it’s top 2 places awarded, then grats Abjured and some other super pug of well known names. This tourney is meant to award them money. No one else even comes close.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad this is happening. There just isn’t enough competition in sPvP, and only awarding the top 2 teams isn’t enough.

Soo… are the games postponed or?

SoPP.7034:

They reduced the level of cheese, at least its a step in the right direction.

cheese is still cheese

i rarely ever get knocked off

but, its simply not fun to fight against cheese

the cheese states " it’s healthy to run different specs for different maps"

no…. majority of the population runs the same build for every map……. skyham is the only exception.. and after the patch it will remain to be

These changes don’t matter. The map still promotes cheese builds, and a single kitten up will still cause people to 1 shot you.

It’s not fun to play this map nor against the builds it promotes, regardless if they kill you or not.

Rangers are kittening STRONG against uncoordinated teams. If you let them sit on their little perches, they will win every single team fight. Sure, if you have have a brain, you can counter them fairly well. But The majority of people don’t run w/ comms or anything what so ever.

They are the biggest game changers in team fights. But they are horrible against communicated teams. Anet made an absolutely horrible buff to longbow. It makes them OP just like turret engineers or minion mancers. They aren’t making the RIGHT buffs however.

I’ve been running w/ REALLY new people in PvP. I told them, FOCUS the ranger. If a warrior is downed? Focus the ranger. If there ranger is offpoint? Focus the ranger. If the ranger is ranger? Ranger the ranger. Once people get the idea of to kill the ranger, it goes so much more smoothly. It just irks me that one profession is so god kitten effective with little effort. Again, Anet made the wrong change becaue they made rangers as viable as turret engies. They need to make professions viable at top level PvP. Getting 100-0 in a team fight with little to no way of getting to a ranger is a horrible feeling.

Anything less than this map being taken out of soloQ is unacceptable to me.

They’ll probably reduce the amount of areas that you can 1-shot people, but they won’t remove them all.

It started 12:01 pacific time on Saturday. So, you can probably safely assume it’ll last 48 hours.

I don’t really know what Mr. Sharp did at Anet. I heard his name a lot though. I know you worked with PvP however.

I just want to say thank you, and congrats on making one THE best PvP game out there (in terms of other MMORPGS). Other games don’t compare.

Appears the same way while spectating in custom arenas. While spectating an in-combat person, I can select those arrows and see the different utility skill options. If I try to select one, it crashes my client.

Just had 4 engis on my team.

The other team suddenly dropped to a 3v5.

Wonder y. I don’t experience 3v5s on other maps.

then it turns into 4v5 for obvious reasons

this is not competitive

Only Skyhammer do I see 4 engineer teams.

Cynz.9437:

do you have sound issue by chance? it happend to me when sound bugs out and have to restart the game

I had a game last night where the entire (game) sound cut out, and I dropped to ~8 FPS. Restarting fixed the issue. First time that’s ever happened.

not fun +1-ing fights, then making it a -1 with a single ability for other team

joonasp.9217:

Any red posts yet?

Not in the last year or so