Guild Wars 2

Jinn Galen.2468:

I’ve always wondered why the Stronghold map wasn’t in ranked PvP (I’m new to GW2)… It’s a fun map. People being lazy to change builds should not be a reason for it to get removed…

Season 1-4 was quite fun when you had a choice for ranked conq or sh. Broke the boring same old circle dancing routine in conq when i could play ranked SH. Then without any warning anet just said F u to people who wanted a option and took it away come season 5.

Reaper Alim.4176:

Because GW2 is a highly casual PvE oriented MMORPG. PvP and WvW are treat as nothing more then side attractions, by this dev team.

My guess is they don’t have the staffing to promote engaging combat in all three of the modes. Therefor they settled with consolidating, their resources for the safer and low maintenance modes and features of this game. PvE and Gem store items.

They catered to the pve folk who need easy pvp. In conq it just requires really 3 tanks and 2 teefs to control a map. it isn’t hard as long as your willing to play boring pvp but win a lot. Pvp has been a joke since around 2013 when they started to force conq more and more on the players. Yes its a nice idea but we either need a different mode for ranked or multiple modes. Dancing on and around circles in different maps is still dancing in circles. Zerg or +1 on a point while a tank is on another and a teef rotates.

gg

zzzZZZzzzZZZzzz Tis why i haven’t played rank much since season 4 ended. Hasn’t been worth my time when i can’t carry 2 or 3 pugs with a negative IQ while the other team woks like a unit somehow randomly. I may own the whole other team 1v1 but ill still lose.

Conq is just a horrible game mode for competitive pvp. Esl failed because of it (and other reasons), and its also a cause of the declining population. Conqcrap was a good idea and all but when you have a super speedster class in a speed game it doesn’t work. Heck anet made the worst idea in the world now by making deadeye slow compared to old teefys. Teefs will never give up speed in circle dancing conq so deadeye is literally dead in pvp already lol. They require speed to dance between circles

Anet has done nothing right when it comes to pvp for 5 years now. They had a chance with courtyard version 1 when it came out but they let it fail and went full steam conq. Same with stronghold. Build a awesome map and don’t fix or improve anything so it dies. Now we are stuck with endless circle dancing maps and anet will never change course. Too much effort in the wrong way from anet is what killed off gw2 pvp.. R.I.P gw2 pvp after around season 4.

lol if you want competitive pvp then your in the wrong game. Gotta find a way to enjoy it because there isn’t a competitive pvp here yet. Anet doesn’t care and nothing will improve till the gem store takes a financial hit to shake them up.. Just spam and condition wars 2. Join unranked where the fun people are, least its enjoyable.

Seasons 1-4 had flaws but it was muuuch better then this brain dead kindergarten system now. I mean look in NA we have the “top” players again with most likely match manipulation (in many forms) and stupid duo builds vs pug teams. We don’t have a real top list yet again just basement kiddos on a fake list like seasons 5-7.

I played hardcore ranked in 1-4 and kind of season 5 then 6 7 and now has just not been worth the time and agony. All the trash and toxic players (pve hunters, and manipulators) are in ranked right now comparing who has a bigger mouse.

Unranked has been where the fun is for a few seasons now. Let the trash play trash in ranked if you are frustrated. The rewards here will stay, just wait till season 9 or 13 till it gets better then play ranked and go for them.

They may need 4 more failed seasons of circle dancing maps. Maybe season 13 will have TDM and things will get better in ranked.

Sad how anet keeps forcing a failed map type on the players and calling it “ranked” play lol

Lol these days in ranked it’s just a pve farm, no need to play just afk get pips n win prizes. Ranked has been too cancerous and toxic since season 5 to even bother with playing and wasting time. Got my kicks in seasons 1-4 in ranked. i’ll wait for S9 to maybe play if things improve

So many necro issues so little space to write on here. Anet doesn’t care about necros. I bet not one dev mains a necro in pve pvp and wvw. otherwise the issues would have popped up so quickly and have been fixed by now.

Let me gs#5… oh sorry you moved around let me retarget and try to activate it again.

Bought every game from gw1 and exp to HoT with preorder now n then. I shall skip PoF until its super cheap or unless things change for the better in pvp right after the release. I’ll stick to my Reaper for pvp since it seems PoF isn’t worth the money. Pvp will stay stale (deadeye is dead in pvp already since teefys wont give up speed for power) and nothing will improve.

Maybe ill get PoF after anet realizes like seasons 5-7 season 8 is a failure and actually fixes pvp for season 9. I’m not about to pay for a exp just to play more crappy pvp. i’ll stick to unranked like seasons 5-7. Less toxic people and more fun there.

enjoy your not so great exp gents.

Again no real change will happen until one or more of the following:

- Anet actually bans cheaters

- They actually deal with the afk problem

- Bot issue is taken care of

- Conquest is dropped for real maps that are TDM based.

- Some actual balancing since we have had the Jumping bean teef, 1,000 block and burn guard, and the ele heal bot being spam used for ages now since HoT drop.

- Fix how bronze people somehow end up in gold and plat games

That is all i have to say.

Pvp teef is anet’s joke on the community it seems. Gotta give fresh out of the box players a build to use with no skill required. You have the jumping bean staff or jumping bean condi teef, plus the teefs that just run around on the circle dance maps to decap. Really besides teef the only other cheese build would be the guard 1,000 block and burn build.

Besides those ez to pick up no skill required and go builds like those the rest of pvp is quite balanced. As a reaper i can kill most people 1v1 but if not careful i can be killed by most. Gw2 startup i had a teefy as main for pve and pvp, he even holds my account name as his. After easy wins and doing nothing but run around the circle dance maps it got too boring so i don’t teef much anymore. Good starter class.

Just some salt over what anet has done to the pvp in gw2. Pretty much killed it lol.

Alim ive gotten nothing but high plat and legendary as a power necro for seasons1-7. Just i dont play the max games since season 5 because well it’s not worth the time when no one cares in pvp these days. It’s a pve farm in ranked now and not much fun unless you are a teef or really want to get a pass to the upper level in HOTM lol.

Sad that anet doesn’t care about a full section of their game. Kind of just half butt it here then half butt it there. Even if “Hey look a new shiny concrap map!” Annnndd. nothing changes still, pvp remains crap in ranked.

R.I.P gw2 pvp December 13 2016

That i play stronghold in unranked and not concrap. Had a few good concrap games then a bad one and i remember why i can’t play concrap

- No TDM maps to play on que

- I can carry 4 random pugs vs a full premade team

- No slamming my head against the wall dealing with 1 or 2 bad pug ruining a game. (They can be carried easy)

- No toxic loser people like ranked play

- Not as many bots while ranked is going

- I don’t have to be restricted to non competitive circle dancing maps.

- Since it’s stronghold i can play 3-7 games in a hour if i win in a few minutes each game

- I’m not here for rewards just enemy tears so i don’t have to play with the useless pve reward hunters in ranked. (lots of ez rewards tho)

Enjoy the toxic ranked environment. I’ll go back to some actually semi decent competitive pvp in SH. Wish i could que unranked or ranked TDM.

So with all the seasons thus far we still only have a team leaderboard. Even when you play the monthly there is no way to be a single player with 4 random pugs and win. Other teams come in with voice chat ready to play with strategies. In the duo que system it’s still you and another plus a possibility of a second duo team paired with you and a single pug. This is unfair to all the solo que people who don’t always want a team and like to just jump into games.

Anyone can group up and own a circle dancing conq map with voice chat, it isn’t hard. So why is it that if it’s not complex to win while you have voice chat and some don’t but yet the leaderboard favors them?

If you want to continue with circle dancing conq as a “competitive” pvp then it needs to be all solo que only. Or if anything solo que LB and a team LB. Yes this means 2 different ranks for each person if they do both but it would be better for all. Let solo que face only solo que and groups of 2+ face each other.

I’ve gotten my legendary seasons in the past. I’ll play unranked till ranked is worth actually playing and getting into again. Till then i just laugh at the “competitive” side of gw2 pvp since anet doesn’t actually care about pvp here just $$ and gems.

Welcome to the water down pvp. It has slowly gotten worse with pve pugs coming in. When they can’t kill someone like they do a monster they get frustrated. Can we please just take all the awards away from pvp and let it be about killing each other and battling and not about reward farming.

GW2 pvp wasn’t too bad at the start with pvp skins and all because that ment the pve people wouldn’t go there. It was pvp only rewards. Played pvp decently seriously on n off since gw2 launch. Now i just play in unranked because all the toxic trash people and the pve people are in ranked.

Eh pvp is ded and has no chance to recover. Even PoF wont help at this point, Deadeye will never be used in actual pvp because teefs would have to give up speed. Scourge is ok not great. The other specs are just eh. Guard got more burning and mes got more clone fun. Wow big change.

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

As many of you are aware, we received many reports that the winners of July’s Monthly tournament were not played by the owners of those accounts. After a thorough investigation, we have found that these accusations are true.
We are taking this very seriously. The following 10 players listed below have been given permanent dishonor.
Naru and alts
Nos and alts
Wakkey and alts
Toker and alts
Zeromis and alts
Asuna Proxy
Forever I Promise
Love Them Boons
Jolly Karen
Makus
In addition, we have removed prizes gained by the winning players and have cleared the statues. They will retain the titles for a short while until we can remove them in the future.
We will be continuing to monitor tournaments in the future.
The Guild Wars 2 PvP Team

Let me fix the anet statement if the banned people are actually playing again.

“We are taking this very lightly. The following 10 players listed below have been given a slap on the wrist. They have permanent dishonor on main accounts and some what kind of permanent dishonor on their alt accounts, unless they pay money and buy a new account from us then they are good.”

for some reason i don’t know i thought banning a person from pvp and alts ment the person was gone from pvp period… Wow those tricky politician like statements from anet lol. That’s why ill never play ranked again and i may just skip out on PoF and run reaper. If season 9 has a chance at life ill buy PoF.

Let ranked die and At go no where. Unranked is where the fun is.

This game isn’t competitive in any way with ranked and AT in pvp right now so why join the toxic people there? Why bang your head against the wall for nothing?

Let botters and cheaters play each other. I don’t stress about the seasons because they are a joke. Since then i have enjoyed every game good or bad in unranked. Until anet actually bans the loser cheaters and fixes the botting issue. There is no reason to play seriously right now and its been that way since after season 4.

Hahaha anet aye they should have removed their accounts from. Gw2 and banned ips but they did the slap on the wrist like as usual for PvP. There are bots in ranked and “banned” players back at it. Just another day in gw2 “competitive” “ranked” games. Just join m in unranked where the good people are and let ranked die till they make it playable for everyone and not half but it. I’ll stick to stronghold where its enjoyable to play. If your not a rewards Hunter but are here for PvP sadly unranked is where you should be now. Bots, banned players, and toxic players swim around in ranked.

Dear Anet I will pay 2,000 gems if you add in any form of TDM to ranked or even just simple que. 1v1 2v2 3v3 4v4 5v5 10v10. Anything but what you have going now.

I enjoying killing and battles in pvp i have no need of random pvp items or anything pve that is in pvp from the “Season” pvp. Reward track is just a extra thing for me to get rewards from. My reward is the tears of my opponent or a battle scar to learn from.

It sucks anet has catered to the f2p and pve crowd thus ruining pvp for a majority of pvp playyers. The most toxic people i know are the pve reward hunters in ranked and the “top” players lol. So why torment myself in ranked when i can play unranked stronghold and carry a team of pugs vs a 5 man premade team. Hell the community is nicer in unranked. If i play conqcrap I’m at the mercy of my special needs random teammates. Only real pvp is TDM like gw1 but anet has wasted too much time on contrash by now. If we had 3 or 4 TDM maps that were good and not the half butt made courtyard pvp would be thriving.

If they only the devs had realized long ago that conquest is a horrible noncompetitive pvp mode that had no chance in ESL. Anet was too busy on more flashy crap maps, pve, but mainly the gem store.

Anet has failed at pvp completely by pushing a map based on speed and dancing in circles with no competitive nature needed. Just zerg mid while 1 teef runs around.

Stronghold had a better chance at being a esl kind of pvp but any just fell asleep on it and forced unenjoyable conq maps on us.

In reality if anet wanted to actually make pvp competitive they would have to remove all conq maps from ranked or rework them and just run TDM on ranked play.

TDM is the only legit pvp you can have. Look at gw1. PvP never was a issue.

Or we make it a real competition and go solo queue only. Concrap circle dancing with 5 man ques ruin fun for solo queue or people queing just 2 peeps.

Voice chat players will beat non voice chat Everytime even if they are carrying a Amber player to play.

On the last trial day i actually modified a old fun power build with a minor in burn i used ages ago with my reaper . I was running around with dag/horn with axe/ foc (may try axe/torch as soon as i can) with my build and barbarian ammy. Since everyone and their mother is playing a condi build from every class i could tank condi spikes pretty well. Then running blood with power made me never lose health. Can’t wait to perfect it a bit hehe .

Condi is too easy and non personal. I love straight power damage.

@ AndyJo.8794

Like i said above “Unless your a pve person going for pvp related only gear i understand”

Unless your a pve person going for pvp related only gear i understand. But the ones who think the leader board actually matters i pitty you lol. I have more fun with less toxic people in unranked and i get the same rewards.

Hahaha so nothing has changed since last 3 seasons. Just a few happy or unhappy people from a few little skill and trait shake ups that didn’t change much from the last “update”. Still the stale game play of get on a circle or around it and dance. Since circle dancing conquest it still the thing anet thinks is “competitive”, so it will still be boring. Hell even the PoF update wont help or change much besides those who play deadeye will be yelled at to change to a running run teef. ( I’d laugh if bow / rifle deadeye became a thing lol)

Spammyvill in middle while one person dances around the sides and decaps will stay the same. ZzZzZzZz nothing new so i wont bother again. Seasons 1-4 weren’t bad but weren’t great, then came 5-8 which are just sad excuses for “competitive” “pvp”

I’m waiting for the drop of scourge and also the update for full power necro. Right now reaper is like half power half condi. Right now I love my reaper but.. I did find a fun hybrid main power secondary condi scourge build that was fun.

DeShadowWolf.6854:

Ziggityzog.7389:

When will we ever get to go back to real Guild Wars and not this half game we have? We need to go back to dual classes!

The only thing that will make this game some what enjoyable again is if in the Crystal Desert we find the path to ascension and are able to go dual class.

If your enjoyment of the game is that tied to second professions…this might not be the game for you.

Ziggityzog.7389:

We need diversity! I’m bored of every class and spec already including the ones from PoF from the preview weekend. When do i get to get my Ranger/Necro or vice versa.

I dunno man, if you look at, say, Spellbreaker, that’s essentially a “mesmer through the eyes of a warrior.” I think if you got bored by all 9 elite specs after playing them for 2 days, again…..the commonality here is you.

Ziggityzog.7389:

Yes this will create total madness for the devs with what will become “overpowered” or what not. Yet that’s how great build ideas and more fun come into play. With dual classes in gw1 you had hundreds of builds going. Now you have maybe 3 per profession if that.

I begith of you anet We Want Dual Class!!!!!

And that madness is exactly why it will never happen. Elite specs is Anet’s way of adding new pseudoclasses without running into a balancing hell. Just No.

Not much of a argument on anything and obviously you never played OG Guild Wars haha please try again. Dual classes bring diversity and there is no argument against that. Currently anet hasn’t done much to improve the fun of game play. After about a month or so after PoF it will be the standard of everyone copies 1 or 2 builds in each profession. Everything else dies and everyone is the same again.

Trust me if you played gw1 diversity was never ever a issue.

When will we ever get to go back to real Guild Wars and not this half game we have? We need to go back to dual classes!

The only thing that will make this game some what enjoyable again is if in the Crystal Desert we find the path to ascension and are able to go dual class.

We need diversity! I’m bored of every class and spec already including the ones from PoF from the preview weekend. When do i get to get my Ranger/Necro or vice versa.

Yes this will create total madness for the devs with what will become “overpowered” or what not. Yet that’s how great build ideas and more fun come into play. With dual classes in gw1 you had hundreds of builds going. Now you have maybe 3 per profession if that.

I begith of you anet We Want Dual Class!!!!!

Anet i love you for my power scourge, I feared i may have been forced to go the full condi spammy boring necro but in fact power scourge is just amazingly fun. Thank you for at least giving us necros something fun to use in this exp. I fear from the sounds of it a lot of people are sad by other specs. Pvp scourge has me rethinking staying reaper in pvp.

As for scourge i say thank you good sirs and madams

I find my power necro is the tankiest thing out there. Since I haven’t been killed 1 on 1 yet after about 7 games I’d say scourge is good.

Nicee glad to see fellow power scourge!

I’m currently running a blood wells scourge.

Blood 131

Soul Reaping 321

Scourge 313

Rolling paladin or Barbarian. Still getting the feels.

You know what as a power player and not a fan of conditions i can say power scourge is quite fun! I had a fear i was going to hate it but there is so much dmg and spam capability.

I was tanky and yet i was able to 3v1 in a few matches against random other toons. The only complaint that i have is barrier is wayyyyy to short of use. Please reduce the degen by half at least. Otherwise barrier is nice but it only will take like 2 hits then gone.

Saiyan.1704:

MiGFiD.1760:

Which one do you prefer?

I prefer stronghold because it’s not so much a clusterkitten than its counterpart.

People who continuously complain about the game mode, simply don’t understand the strategies involved. It’s why players Zerg in two’s or threes because they literally don’t know how or when to rotate to other points.

Lol that is a joke. You can have 3 great players but with just 2 random pugs or even 1 bad pug tossed on your team and it’s over. Conq can’t be competitive by it’s game play style. There is no way to make it competitive even if you make a rules list for rotation, that’s just your opinion.

5 Years in and still each game requires a teef to do running. Once you get to where a single class is required for a map. By means of nothing else but running around with bow #5. That is not skill no matter how hard you try to say it is, and being a huge part of it takes away the competitive nature of the game where you fight not run.

It’s never been a rotation issue it has been a map style issue. With the Correct TDM maps like gw1. pvp wouldn’t be this sad state that it’s in.

Stronghold but i would prefer TDM. Circle dancing conq maps are non competitive and have no reason being in ranked. But since anet wasted 5 years on circle dancing maps, nothing will change. We will be forced to dance in circles in “ranked” play.

lol @ Deadeye spec. Silly anet devs. They really think teef players are willing to give up their speed of bow #5 in circle dancing conq maps? hahaha Rifle and bow teef doesn’t sound like a meta build so its either speed or mega range damage. I hear the complaining now of “Noo a dead eye! switch to teef!” in circle dancing maps

There are no power ranks especially for those who got banned. Anyone can lose to someone, and anet has still yet to make a competitive pvp style of maps. Being on the top leaderboard for seasons 5-7 and soon 8 is equivalent to who sits front seat on the short bus.

You need a competitive game style (Not dancing in and around circles) before you can have a “Top”

Lost me at staff and Soul Reaping is so 4 seasons ago. Spite Blood and Reaper with gs axe/horn is what took me to plat t2 without investing much pvp time in ranked.

@Sigmoid.7082 : Yeah I’ll never get the twitcher or youtubers or those who follow and watch em lol. Easiest way like you said is that or simply Blood _ _ _ Spite _ _ _ Reaper _ _ _ and the rest.

I have to give you props people are finally moving back to the best trait line for necro BLOOD!

I’ve changed traits tried every combination known to necro in the 3 n a half years playing on it. Yet still I somehow can’t get away from how awesome blood is when on power necro. Just makes the tank play up close n personal too much fun.

@Genesis

Nice toon but.

That map chat tho…. lol om gawd i think i about died laughing after i zoomed in

Dark is just cool. Plus power reaper is sooo fun.

Can we get maps worth queing up for. Maybe let TDM Sh and Conq be up for ranked. Dancing in and around little circles playing un competitive play style maps has killed my love of pvp after gw1 pvp and years in gw2 pvp.

I love my power reaper but i would love to have it go more full power. Reaper should have been a powerhouse at the start :/ not condi.

See again this goes down to the issue of conquest is not a competitive map. If one team is rolling voice chat over ip and a team is not, then the team without has a 85% chance of losing. There isn’t much after that then some people being better then others. It could be me and maybe 2 friends and 2 randoms. We could do epic good but when faced with a team with great rotations do to instant voice chat it is a advantage.

Same thing could kind of be said about TDM and targeting but not at this scale. Like gw1 TDM is the only true option for competitive pvp. Dancing in and around little circles requires instant communication. TDM is simple kill or be killed and done.

I love how the only complaint about TDM is “courtyard was horrible”. Well yeah if devs only made 1 conquest map and just made it bad in every way possible then you would say the same thing about circle dancing maps. It’s all about perspective and what is favored in the dev’s eyes.

To be honest like most players in pvp i have to agree that if done right tdm would be the end of conquest and all the work the devs put into it. Devs have put 95% of pvp effort into conquest, 5% into the new pvp map, then SH and TDM share the last 5% of effort from the devs.

It sucks to have been able to enjoy pvp since launch then watch it slowly wither away. If they only invested as much time into TDM as the failed circle dancing maps then pvp would be thriving. Up to the start of season 5 pvp ranked wasn’t too bad, then it took it’s final breath as esl died from the non competitive play.

If you don’t have voice chat communication vs a team that does then it’s just over. TDM fixes soo many issues with pvp currently destroying it.

Power necro is fun, got me to plat T2 hehe. As far as post patch i have more options on my power necro but I haven’t changed it. With power i can 1v1 any class. I’ve only had a few players who out played me now n then but nothing like what I’m hearing from other necros.

Last 5 patches helped my power build or didn’t help at all but it didn’t get nerfed down.

dceptaconroy.7928:

Ziggityzog.7389:

Mmmm too much qqing going on. Power necro for about a year n a half now. I’ve never had a issue with power necro and getting to gold t3 or plat each season without really trying since i hate conquest and how it’s boring. If i tried and did the required games, I would have gotten top 250 ez. Last 5 patches now have either boosted a bit or done nothing to my build.

Always remember like in gw1 unique builds win the game if you know how to use them right. No one expects builds that aren’t “meta” so they are caught off guard a bit. Yes Copy Paste “meta” builds seem fun till people know the easy counters or anet buffs them down for being over used. Then your stuck in the wind. I’ve head nothing but necros hating the patch but i laugh because it improved my build a tad and gave me more power build options to try. It just screwed the condi necros a bit lol. Just wish they buffed me a bit more

Power Reap 4 life.

Nice to see a player positive about the changes. I’m a completely non meta power reaper build and this has gutted my survivability. Let us know how your newly buffed build treats you.

This is the standard gw2 pug player : “What can i use to spike and use high damage for quick kills”

The one that wins : “What build works for me? I like this weapon here so let me build around it.”

For me survivability > Spike burst

Once you make a build for your play style then nothing else matters. I’ve taken down every single class with my power build. Conditions are the hard part but with the life gain in my build and knowing all the other professions i kind of just laugh conditions off now then spike the person.

I love when a teefy or guard for instance tries to burst me but ends up being burst down and spiked to the floor lol. Little blocks don’t work against “Nothing can save you!”

Ill give you a hint to finishing the season off with just almost plat 2 and a 70% win loss ratio.

Spite Blood Reaper.

To answer your question my build is doing great and i haven’t changed a thing after the patch because it didn’t go up or down from the nerfs. Having a uniqe build takes me back to the good old days of Guild Wars 1 and the massive options for builds they had.

Mmmm too much qqing going on. Power necro for about a year n a half now. I’ve never had a issue with power necro and getting to gold t3 or plat each season without really trying since i hate conquest and how it’s boring. If i tried and did the required games, I would have gotten top 250 ez. Last 5 patches now have either boosted a bit or done nothing to my build.

Always remember like in gw1 unique builds win the game if you know how to use them right. No one expects builds that aren’t “meta” so they are caught off guard a bit. Yes Copy Paste “meta” builds seem fun till people know the easy counters or anet buffs them down for being over used. Then your stuck in the wind. I’ve head nothing but necros hating the patch but i laugh because it improved my build a tad and gave me more power build options to try. It just screwed the condi necros a bit lol. Just wish they buffed me a bit more

Power Reap 4 life.

After season 4 anet ruined pvp by making it conq and conq only for ranked. Instead of maybe Having TDM SH and Conq on ranked they forced everyone to conq. That’s was one of the many reasons the pvp community shrunk. Another would be lack of build diversity with ammys and such.

Seasons 5-7 have been a bore fest thus far. I dont have high hopes for season 8 with the same MMR system and single game mode ranked. Got Almost plat T2 with 20-10 w/l for this season. Just couldnt stand it, I play Stronghold most of the times these days.

Most competitive ranked pvp would be all solo que no teams and do 3v3 TDM ranked.

That will prove who is good. You cant quite zerg with just 3v3 and there is no dancing in circles or holding lines with rats running down them. Kill or be killed

I never liked reaper as a condition spec. I run it as power and it’s great. Necro baseline has the conditions if you want it and soon scourge. I for one will welcome this change to my fav class the reaper.

More minions eh.. I was hoping for main hand torch to make it unique but its a offhand that i may never use because i’m not a huge condition fan. Yes its the easiest to run due to it having to be removed to finished before it ends compared to straight damage. But since gw1 I’ve been a power fan. Sure i’ve run some condition here n there but mostly power.

This seems to just cater to conditions more. Reaper feels more power based compared to what this sounds like with burn and torment.

Eh hopefully it just doesn’t force condition builds only with the spec line. If so may have to stay power reaper.

Daishi.6027:

I’m excited to see everyone buy into it and ESL get momentum, then everyone realizes it’s the same kitten, get disappointed, then watch the numbers dwindle away again.

All for the exact same reasons why A-net recognizes that a fight between 6 people off point is unbalanced, but only a-net is blind enough to think 10 people with 3 cap points makes it better, and is something people actually want to play, or watch.

The excitement is the same drawn out anticiption we’ve had for years when waiting for the next patch and hoping it’ll be better. But it never is.

Bingo, after the exp it wont take long to become stale again in the game pvp wise. They love their circle dancing maps which is why pvp is dead to begin with. I’m excited about it and ill buy it but i have no hopes of pvp improving at all from how horrible it is.

@Alatar.7364

“I’m excited but not excited.”

I did say that but as i stated yes the content will be fun but if you are a pvp player. Anet has said nothing new will change in pvp with map wise so it will be the same old stale pvp. Yes i do enjoy PvE and the story line from it but… I need something more stimulating then fighting computer generated mobs hence why i enjoy pvp.

A shiny new spec for each class with more damage doesn’t help pvp. New map styles or just moving on from a failed stale map type would benefit pvp more.

Btw i could care less about your opinion so good for you, want a cookie?

Silv.9207

The thing is anet doesn’t seem to want to budge from making the most un competitive map style they have as the main pvp style. New builds may refresh it for a year but then it will die again due to it being well forced conquest..

Hey Caveman anything but the failed “esl” map type. Least in TDM or Stronghold you have a chance to carry a team when solo que due to strategic value. In conq its hey 1 teef or mes rotates around with speed or portals while everyone else zergs mid.

They made a map with speed required then made a broken speedster lol silly anet. I can jump on the teef i made at gw2 start and win ez but its too boring on teef playing circle dancing maps.