Guild Wars 2

There was another post like this earlier.. Is this a thing?

kdaddy.5431:

naw i disagree.

HOT made ele a heal bot and 6 seasons later its a heal bot.

Warrior for 2 seasons was the worst class and then for 2 seasons the easiest class to play.

For patches would help the overall balance of the game but it wouldnt change build diversity, team comps, or create a competitive scene.

This is a PvE game and the game gets PvE patches, more PvE patches doesnt fix the game.

In a way, your criticisms actually go towards my point, which is that the lack of adjustments has a critical impact on the game.

For example, using your example of the warrior, you stated that it was (essentially) under buffed and then over-buffed (assuming that makes it easiest to play). If they had been issuing weekly or bi-monthly balance adjustments, the process might have occurred over a few months, rather than over a few years.

Proper balance might actually allow other builds to work as originally intended, which in turn would address your concern regarding build diversity (since that would hopefully increase the number of viable builds), as well as team composition.

The (in)frequency of balance patches, updates, hot-fixes, whatever you want to call them.

I don’t get how we get balance patches so infrequently when balance is fundamental to our pvp experience. Look at other (successful) games. For the most part, you get hotfixes when there’s something game-breaking, minor changes every week or so, and a comprehensive balance patch every month or so.

Balance issues are going to happen, but with this setup they are putting themselves in a position where they have to get everything right the first time. And then when the next patch comes they’re stuck fixing prior issues on top of whatever they were planning to do. It’s literally an impossible task that leads to (predictably) inadequate results.

It’s incredibly poor, unprofessional, and inadequate. And it is beyond frustrating to witness when there is so much potential here.

/endrant.

Yeah, I was hoping for a little more than that. Thanks.

I just wish they would say “here’s what we think isn’t great: x, y, z..”, and then explain what steps they were taking to fix it and why those steps would/could/might be effective. Kind of feels like i’m just along for the ride at this point.

Has there ever been any discussion of implementing something like the ptr’s in WoW? That would be neat.

I was just wondering what they think the issue with pvp is, and how they plan to address it..

did a quick search but couldn’t find anything.

Thanks!

okay, that’s kind of helpful. I guess a foundational knowledge of the matchmaker (and the context) are necessary to really understand it.

Structured Player vs. Player

Matchmaking:

Matchmaking now expands profession count scoring penalties over time instead of being a fixed amount.

The number of desired professions per team before penalties are applied begins at 1 and will rise to 2 after two minutes.

Matches can now be restricted to never allow more than the desired number of professions, but this feature is subject to change as we review matchmaking quality.

Thanks!

I’m looking for a guild of like-minded people that run sPvP exclusively. I play tempest.

I started playing/bought HoT in December so i’m still kind of new to this. I spent last season in the top tier of Silver. I did get to the bottom tier of Gold for a little bit, but couldn’t sustain it.

I’m 25 and my hours are usually anytime between 8/9a and 3pm Pacific during the week. Basically i’m just looking for a place where I can log in, find a DuoQ parter, and go ham

-Zak

Name: Zak Outlawls
- Auramancer
- sPvP
- Realm: Maguuma

Are there any good resources that have good class specific info? or like any twitch streamers?

Theres just a lot i dont know since im still kind of new. And theres just a lot of situational issues that i dont know how to approach under the auramancer meta.

MissCee.1295:

Worked fine for me when I tried just now.

Nice, still doesnt work for me but hoping itll be soon

edit: workin for me now

Ok thanks man, ill have to start following that sub

I keep getting redirected to random sites… Anyone else getting this too?

Yup exactly. As it stands im writing down everything on meta and its way too much for a noob like me

New player here. Would love it if some accomplished players could describe what type of information they would put on flashcards if they were just starting out. Theres so much to learn, and im having trouble condensing the metas down to usable info..

Zak

Is there a page that has the basic strategies laid out map by map?

I just have no idea what im doing on some maps in terms of rotating, holding a node, zerging, etc…