+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Actually as is stands MTD builds will be a ton weaker, as they made all the shatter buffs a GM trait that competes with maim. So if we choose MTD we lose confusion on ALL shatters, Might on all shatters, AOE daze, reflect on distortion, and x2 confusion on CoF.(from what I understand)
This basically kills condition shatter, as their making us choose between being Shatter or MTD, which makes no sense at all.
You are incorrect. Please refer to this screenshot, and notice the minor traits that still exist: http://i.imgur.com/h7a0WHQ.jpg
Master of Fragmentation did not take the confusion and might buffs; it took Precise Wrack (F1), Confusing Cry (F2), Imbued Diversion (F3), and Masterful Reflection (F4).
Oh, ok. So now Main builds will lose %33 confusion duration, and cannot get any of the shatter improvements that are all baked into Master of fragmentation. That is even worse. %33 confusion duration should stay as a adept trait atleast.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Actually as is stands MTD builds will be a ton weaker, as they made all the shatter buffs a GM trait that competes with maim. So if we choose MTD we lose confusion on ALL shatters, Might on all shatters, AOE daze, reflect on distortion, and x2 confusion on CoF.(from what I understand)
This basically kills condition shatter, as their making us choose between being Shatter or MTD, which makes no sense at all.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
So what was the purpose of your post? Do you think Arennaet is going to suddenly say, you know what dimyzuka.7051 is right we should scrap stronghold.
It might be a good idea not to assume everybody except you is stupid. If you want to make an argument against something, do it using facts don’t assume nobody will see through your terrible dumb arguments.
So much wrong in this post. Yea, i definitely expected Aanet to scrap the expansion and their new gamemode after reading my post. Which is obviously emphasized by my “food for thought” comment at the end. Your reading comprehension is amazing. I’m impressed you can use a computer.
“Do it using facts”? I’m not sure I could fit more facts into my original post. But you’re either illiterate or kittened so ill repost some of them for you.
-5v5 failed in WoW. Fact.
-Nearly every other MMO on the market (WOW, FF14,SWTOR,Wildstar) has gone with 3v3/4v4 deathmatch as the main PVP gamemode. Fact.
-GW2 5v5 consists of 20 abilities x 10 (200) that need to be kept track of, which is overwhelming. Fact.
-Most players ignore objectives in Hotjoin. Fact.
-Finding 4 players on the same timezone/skill level/commitment/schedule is very hard, especially with gw2 small pvp playerbase. Fact.These are all undeniable ‘Facts’. Are they irrelevant to the success of the new gamemode? Maybe. But saying I had no facts just shows your lack of reading comprehension.
Please enlighten me of my “terrible dumb arguments” btw. I would really like to know. This is my opinion, and I really hope that I am wrong, but nothing i’ve seen so far has convinced me otherwise, especially not from your reply filled with nerd rage and little substance.Someone seems to be having a temper tantrum.
Claiming something is your opinion doesn’t protect you from criticism. That is not how opinions work, it seems your school system has failed to teach you something so basic.
The point being opinions can be wrong and stupid, and your post is the perfect case study for that.
Maybe my school system has failed me, but at least I understand the difference between a fact and a opinion.
How about you tell me which of my ‘dumb arguments’ makes my opinion so invalid instead of throwing kitteny insults?
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
You do understand that simply saying something is a fact doesn’t actually make it so, right?
Facts are usually accompanied with hard data demonstrating that they are, indeed, facts.
ex:-GW2 5v5 consists of 20 abilities x 10 (200) that need to be kept track of, which is overwhelming. Fact.
“Overwhelming” is not an objective state, it is subjective.
So you’re telling me that keeping track of 200 abilities/cooldowns at once isn’t overwhelming? You’re going to have to show me some evidence because it is actually a fact that keeping track of 200 abilities is overwhelming for myself and other players I have spoken with. That is a fact.
According to the Miller’s acticle, human short term memory can keep track of 7+2 objects at once. That is consistent with my experiences, keeping track of 1 characters abilities (10-20) is a struggle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two
Infact I watched Sodapopping rage log from Gw2 the other day after Phantaram literally went through every class and showed him all 200+ abitlities. Sodapoppin became overwhelmed (He said so) then logged off Gw2 to play H1Z1. This is a fact.
Nice try though. You know well that the fact I was pointing out was the large number of abilities in play in 5v5 MMO gameplay.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Usually when you’re creating a product you do Market research, where you analyse your competitors, and see what they did good and bad.
Your market research somehow skipped what was popular in the predecessor of this game – care to explain why, or do you want to hold another arguements in SHIFTLOCK as to why you dislike the things to come?
Or are you just going to make another flawed arguement? Because then I can just go and wait until Stronghold gets released and enjoy the crap out of it… Because that is what I am gonna do, play the game, and enjoy it – and you cannot stop me
In Market research there’s a thing called ‘Sample Size’. It just so happens that WoW has 2-3 times the sample size of Gw1, which means the numbers hold more weight. Also in Market Research you also focus on trends and timeframe, GW1 was released 10 years ago, I can name a ton of things that worked 10 years ago but hold absolutely no weight in modern game design. The games i mentioned (WoW/FF14/WS/SWTOR) are all still being played at this moment by millions of players, so are still very relevant when analysing gaming trends. Keep telling me about flawed arguments though, and keep sucking that Aanet candy.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
You gave “Evidence” which is not in any way related to this game or it’s predecessor…
GW2 is not WoW, and neither will it ever cater to the same crowd of people since the gameplay and the core of the combat system is vastly different…
Usually when you’re creating a product you do Market research, where you analyse your competitors, and see what they did good and bad. I’m just pointing out that the new gamemode consists of many factors that failed in other MMO’s.
Saying WoW or other MMOs are “not in any way related to this game” is just ignorant. Not only are they competition but the player crossover is HUGE.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
So what was the purpose of your post? Do you think Arennaet is going to suddenly say, you know what dimyzuka.7051 is right we should scrap stronghold.
It might be a good idea not to assume everybody except you is stupid. If you want to make an argument against something, do it using facts don’t assume nobody will see through your terrible dumb arguments.
So much wrong in this post. Yea, i definitely expected Aanet to scrap the expansion and their new gamemode after reading my post. Which is obviously emphasized by my “food for thought” comment at the end. Your reading comprehension is amazing. I’m impressed you can use a computer.
“Do it using facts”? I’m not sure I could fit more facts into my original post. But you’re either illiterate or kittened so ill repost some of them for you.
-5v5 failed in WoW. Fact.
-Nearly every other MMO on the market (WOW, FF14,SWTOR,Wildstar) has gone with 3v3/4v4 deathmatch as the main PVP gamemode. Fact.
-GW2 5v5 consists of 20 abilities x 10 (200) that need to be kept track of, which is overwhelming. Fact.
-Most players ignore objectives in Hotjoin. Fact.
-Finding 4 players on the same timezone/skill level/commitment/schedule is very hard, especially with gw2 small pvp playerbase. Fact.
These are all undeniable ‘Facts’. Are they irrelevant to the success of the new gamemode? Maybe. But saying I had no facts just shows your lack of reading comprehension.
Please enlighten me of my “terrible dumb arguments” btw. I would really like to know. This is my opinion, and I really hope that I am wrong, but nothing i’ve seen so far has convinced me otherwise, especially not from your reply filled with nerd rage and little substance.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Complaining about a gamemode that has not been released yet, and had thus no impact on the competitive scene whatsoever… Yet, said gamemode is bad and doomed to fail, said by someone with the following in his signature:
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatchI think this is a classic “It is not what I wanted! Give me what I want because I want it!!”
If you don’t like opinions then you should probably stay away from the forums.
I don’t know why your emphasizing “I” because I clearly gave evidence to show that both 5v5 AND objective based MMO PvP has failed in the past with a very large sample size. (the largest possible mmo sample size)
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
So the current gamemode wasn’t enough off a MOBA ripoff for Aanet? 5v5, objective based, 3 lanes/3 points? Do Aanet honestly think that’s why it failed? Weren’t the hundreds of threads on release begging you to stop trying to be a MOBA with the objective based PVP enough of a tell?
MMO PVP is NOTHING LIKE a MOBA, each class has 20+ skills at their disposal, multiply that by 10 and 5v5 combat becomes a AOE zergfest, just like Battlegrounds in WOW. This is the exact reason 5v5 (and RBGs) failed in WOW, and is a complete dead bracket right now. WoW, FF14, WS, SWTOR all went with 3v3/4v4 arena as their main PVP gamemode for this reason. MMO PvP is complex enough as it is, just keeping track of 3 classes skills at one time in a 3v3 (60+ Skills) while managing your cooldowns perfectly in coordination with your teammates is what MMO PVP is about.
You DON’T need to make EVERYTHING objective based. GW2 has been out almost 2 years and players in hotjoin STILL don’t care about playing ring around the rosey in the circles, do you honestly think anyone outside top tier pvpers will care for all the objectives in your MOBA gamemode? This isn’t a MOBA where you only have 5 skills and click to move, simple combat systems. MOBAs NEED objectives because the combat is so SIMPLE.
New players already get a headache when learning a new MMO from the vast number a skills each class has (Which you NEED to know for PVP), then you want them to master all your objectives in PVP, AND ontop of all that somehow find 4 players with similar skill level/schedule/timezone/comparability just so they can enter SPVP? How many gokitten barriers of entry do you need? In almost every other MMO you just need to find 1 or 2 similar players (Which is easy because they have a DUELING system that doesn’t require a ridiculous KOTH server and a 10min wait) and you can just go straight into rated arena, and duke it out like men and learn the other classes abilities as you go. Without getting yelled at and getting a headache from not knowing what Orbs do, or what a guild lord is, what’s the point in standing in the circles on the ground etc.
Maybe you should start looking at other MMOs PVP gamemodes instead of MOBAS and ask yourself why they are successfull/failed Aanet. Why did 5v5 fail in WOW yet 3v3/2v2 were so popular? Why did RBGS fail in WOW whilst arena flourished? Food for thought.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
If you wanna play the victim and call your class UP but it’s actually braindead easy to play, play Mesmer.
Over the last few days you have proved that you are the dumbest and worst poster on these forums. well done.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
GG abjured, great effort considering it wasn’t even their full team that won the qualifier.
Now Aanet can you finnaly nerf cele engi and ele now that WTS is over.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Comparing 1 country to a whole region is flawed.
BTW have China ever been dominant in any esports before?
Eg. Koreans dominate RTS/Mobas
Japanese dominate SF4/fighting games
Swedish dominate CS:go/non console FPS’s
America dominates Xbox shooters.
Considering Chinas population you’d expect more results in esports. Hopefully they put up a good fight at WTS.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
necro dont have much aoe pressure like mtd
LOL, your joking right??
Can you please get some more experience in spvp, so you have a better understanding of what your posting.
i dont think this build loosing dmg to any other zerk build
LOL please….
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
shatter mesmer> celestial engi> all the other builds here.
engi is strong but I think it is fine.
This guy…….
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
It’s the morning after and OP is sobering up, expect him to try play this whole thread and his 80+ posts in it as 1 big troll rofl.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
After release there was never a week without a thread on this forums front page with tons of players begging for a 3v3 gamemode. 2 years later everyone’s given up or gone back to other 3v3 arena games. (WoW,WS,FF14, etc)
Our only hope is that the new direction of Aanet pvp team with grouch/hugh is taking has a surprise for us.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Stop feeding the troll.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
There should be 300 /150 / 50 or something like that.
This sounds like a good idea, actually.
Agreed.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
this is quite literally the very first time that this has happened. It’s for the very first tourney that has a decent chunk of change
So asoon as some moneys on the table all the DDOS’ers come out? NO WAY?
Get real, they’re doing the best they can.
The best they can do = a cancelled joke of a tourny? You got high expectations lol.
no one EVER expected it to happen. Don’t pretend like you did.
You’ve obviously never been involved in online esports before, DDOS’ing is so rampant that nearly every top player in other games uses a proxy for skype, and will do whatever possible to keep their IP hidden. Blizzard and Riot employees have released statements with info on how to prevent DDOS’ing in the past, as well as many forum posts and guides.
They took the countermeasures they had available to keep the tourney legit.
Do you know what a countermeasure is? Please explain to us what countermeasure Aanet had for DDOSing. Take your time.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
I would really like to stress that this has absolutely nothing to do with A-net.
No, it has EVERYTHING to do with Aanet, If your involved with any online esports you should already know how rampart DDOSing is, that’s why nearly every other online esports has inbuilt features or rulesets to cater for this problem. Whether its a pause feature in most moba’s and rts, or to replay if a DC happens within certain amount of time like how online WoW tournaments do it.
Politely asking the other team if they would be kind enough to replay a game is NOT a countermeasure for DDOSing. (LOLworthy when you consider they were most likely involved with the DDOS)
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
(edited by dimyzuka.7051)
Wait, so even though a player clearly DC’d from the beginning of the match, the best Aanet can do is ASK, the other team if they would be kind enough to replay the match for a $50k tourny qualifier, ROFL.
Has anyone at Aanet ever been involved in any kind of online esports before? This ruleset is just asking for teams to get DDOS’d.
To any wannabe gw2 esports kids, all someone needs is your skype username to get your IP, and then run a simple ping script to DDOS you which can be created even in notepad. So use a proxy for skype or use voicecomms with inbuilt IP protection.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Shatter mesmer is the best noob filter in Gw2, facing a mesmer is the best way of telling if someone is new/noob by how much they struggle with finding the mesmer amongst clones.
Almost every single team in all Anet’s tourneys run a shatter mesmer..
If the shatter mesmer class was even close to be balance it would’t be present in almost every single successful team
Did you even watch the ToL NA finals? there was only 1 mesmer(Supcutie) in the whole thing, even Nnight played his ranger more instead of his mesmer in the tourny.
Either you’re a troll or a new player that struggles with the confusion of clones and just watched your first tourny (ToL EU) which happened to have more mesmers than usual, and decided to make one of the dumbest forum posts seen in awhile.
And saying that mesmer is the best 1v1 class is rubbish, maybe 2 years ago, but now most meta builds comfortably beat mesmer 1v1 if played correctly. If it wasn’t for portal you wouldn’t see mesmer in ANY tpvp team.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
This is a great change that might make condi mesmers finnaly viable in spvp, specifically condi shatter.
Aanet just needs to nerf or remove PU if that troll cheese gets out of hand with this change.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
PU is a trash spvp build that can’t burst and can’t hold a point, and lacks the condi removal to sustain in current meta. None of this will change. It’s a trash troll build.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
This bug imo is the reason condi shatter is not viable atm.
PU builds don’t go into illusions tree and I doubt this would change.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
You told us it was fixed last feature patch :
“18. Illusionary Elasticity trait.
Does not affect staff clones even though affects other clones.”
Dev: “18. Fixed on feature build if not on live.”
Then you told us you were looking into it again : “Illusionary Elasticity: I’ll have this looked at again.”
So is it safe to assume that it is %100 fixed this patch? You couldn’t lie to us again. right?
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Cmon Justin fix this kittening kitten kitten .
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
In this post we were told that it was fixed in this patch. What happened?
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
The only reason I was looking forward to this patch was the illusionary elasticity bug fix that was promised. That’s what I get for reinstalling before getting patch feedback.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
kitten . They just had to mess up the 1 fix that wasn’t redundant.
I would trade all 16 mesmer changes for this fix along with a iLeap fix.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
The funny thing is the map was designed without glass panels and some genius (Sharp or Peters) thought that adding the glass panels would make for exciting game play.
This is why you keep quake players far away from designing MMO’s.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
I think too many people are underestimating the importance of keeping the ‘top’ players. These players have a louder voice than the casual population along with more visibility. When famous players like Teldo, Xeph, Phantaram etc who averaged hundreds of views on twitch and have big followings all quit the game because of Aanet incompetence, it can severely sway public perception.
Aanet have always undervalued these players and the game has suffered because of it imo. Like just after release when Aanet perma banned Gw2’s biggest streamer Kripp who was pulling 10k views on twitch for a minor mistake he made on stream. He then began to voice his dislike of Aanet/Gw2 on stream and his youtube channel and eventually quit the game, taking with him thousands of stream views and potential players.
On topic, for almost 10 years competitive wow players have been fighting over gladiator titles, so I think that is enough proof as to the strength of title distribution as a reward. Even something as simple as a unique back piece or weapon skin to the top 100 soloQ/teamQ could do the job. When you think about it it’s unbelievable that 2 years into Gw2 and there hasn’t been ANY unique rewards for the top players. Even if they just brought back the 8 team tourny system with gem prizes for 1st and 2nd as a daily or weekly event, with each winning team getting a token which can be used to purchase a unique skin when you have gathered enough.
As for players coming back, at this point I think a new gamemode with a separate ladder is the only way to bring back the top competitive players that have quit.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Just what a load of crap. You honestly think any player was intimidated by a jewel that came inbuilt to the amulet that didn’t force any choice unless you wanted to change it. And to say that the tiny stat allocation of the jewel affected balance in any way shape or form is just a slap in the face to any semi intelligent player.
This just makes no sense, you guys keep talking about bringing PVE and PVP together and then you go the total opposite direction with a stupid change like this. If you want to lessen the option shock in SPVP the best way to do it would be to increase the stat weight of the jewels so players can mix n match to find their perfect stats with less available choices. Instead you’ve taken away jewels completely and will try to add a bunch more amulets to compensate which increases option shock tenfold.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
What The kitten? So instead of balancing the runes properly your just going to not bring them to sPvp all together? This is just a temporary band-aid and the runes will still be imbalanced in all other gamemodes.
It’s funny that on readyup you guys said you tested the new perp runes thoroughly in house and the new runes were working fine. But because of some QQ you won’t even trust your own testing and see how they go on live first? Most of this QQ was based on the pre nerf runes. This just goes to show how much faith you have in your own testing.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
No good team keeps someone full-time on close.
i did it pretty successfully.
owned.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
DE needs to be moved down or made inbuilt, Just like Thiefs mug trait it is a %100 necessity, except luckily for thieves mug is a adept trait. If mug can be a adept trait then DE should be aswell otherwise mesmers will continue to be forced to make builds with 20 pts less because we need DE.
The mesmer class feels incomplete without DE, which is a much deeper issue but i doubt it can be addressed without a expansion or something.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Perplexity runes should buff confusion specs, it shouldn’t turn you into a confusion spec.
Make it like the torment rune and increase the +%confusion duration and remove the confusion procs.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
This is a big slap in the face for Pvp’ers, more than 1 accessory is too complex for us but Pve’ers get 6 accessory’s with jewel slots in each.
In the amulet thread awhile ago most people were asking for more stat diversity by increasing the stat weight of jewels or adding an extra accessory but as usual Aanet goes the exact opposite direction. Now my condi/power hybrid build goes down the drain and i’m left with going full glass power.
Jon Sharp does someone have to constantly remind you that you are designing a MMO ? It’s time to throw away your vision of a FPS/MOBA/MMO hybrid pvp game without customization, rewards or progression.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
So as they said on Readyup the idea behind this new trait is to land a interrupt and then use a mantra heal, but did they forget that restorative mantras is the lowest scaling heal we have. +1000 healing power increases regeneration close to %100, ether feast by %20, but only increases mantra heal by %8.
If we land a interupt and we get a massive 1000 healing power, our mantra heal goes from 2600 to 2800. Do the devs even think through their changes?
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
We in the same boat as thiefs and their mug trait, except mug is a adept trait so it doesn’t limit their build diversity. If mug can be a adept trait then i don’t see why DE can’t be.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
For Spvp mesmers have to build specifically for condition removal and lose dps, utility (boon removal) and survival (decoy or blink)kittenter spec.
Compare this to a thief who doesn’t have to sacrifice anything. Shadowstep removes 3 conditions and infiltrators strike removes 1 on return(with no CD), aswell as 45sec cd lyssa cd with basilisk. It would be like us having blink remove 3 conditions and illusionary leap and phase retreat removing 1. It makes more sense for the staff to have condition removal than the thiefs teleporting skills imo.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Ah ha, you brought me to my next question xantosnightwish, when should balance patches come in relation to the season? If we had our perfect world, how often would balance patches happen and how would that affect the duration of a season? Some people have suggested fairly lengthy seasons which is at odds with more frequent balance patches. If a balance patch comes out should there be a waiting period before the season begins? If so, how long?
This is the biggest problem i see in GW2 right now. You need to differentiate between balance patches and hotfixing/tweaking patches. In WoW for example just like Gw2 they have the big balance patches that will overhaul class mechanics at the end of arena seasons, but they constantly hotfix outlier abilitys/classes between those major patches. If you don’t do this then PLEASE do not incorporate seasons because it will just become a detriment to pvp.
The current system is unacceptable. For example healing signet right now is imbalanced, the devs confirmed it 2 months ago on ‘ReadyUp’ and notified us that a fix is incoming, yet we have to wait 3 months (maybe more?) for a simple fix to a broken mechanic because you refuse to make any class balance changes outside the designated ‘balance patches’. If this was during a season the WHOLE season would be ruined due to a simple coefficient tweak. If you’re going to introduce a ladder you need to take responsibility and maintain class balance throughout the season. Especially in Gw2 since we don’t have a PTR where thousands of players can thoroughly test each incoming change.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Allie please realise that %90 of people posting in this thread are bad and/or hotjoin players that have no idea what their talking in about.
PW is fine, if you focus nerfs on PW alone thiefs will just go back to perma evade S/D cheese, or perma stealth d/p cheese. The problem is the trickery tree and the initiative regen of thiefs overall. Atleast PW can be countered by retaliation, unlike S/D which still has no counter.
I hope you realize how bad you just made yourself look. I can’t name ANY top thief in solo or team queue that runs a permastealth d/p build. It is a liability for a team.
Stay focused on PW. It doesn’t need a lot of changes. It just needs the evade removed. That won’t impact top players that much but will raise the skill cap a bit. That’s a good thing.
That’s because you dont play at high level, Caed, Xii Xii, Lux, infact in NA d/p is the premiere build amongst the top players. You wouldn’t know this because you’re a WvW and hotjoin hero.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Allie please realise that %90 of people posting in this thread are bad and/or hotjoin players that have no idea what their talking in about.
PW is fine, if you focus nerfs on PW alone thiefs will just go back to perma evade S/D cheese, or perma stealth d/p cheese. The problem is the trickery tree and the initiative regen of thiefs overall which PW happens to benefit from both the most.
Atleast PW can be countered by retaliation, unlike S/D which still has no counter.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
My reason: It’s the worst PvP map i have played in ANY game ever.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Mesmers >>> Thieves 1v1.
If you are dying to thieves in a 1v1 you should prolly head into the obsidian sanctum to practice against some thieves
You got embarrassed by Sensotix last time you tried to troll a mesmer thread spouting the same garbage. Thief > mesmer is one of the hardest counters in the meta atm.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
The meta is almost picture perfect, where tanks are tanky, conditions actually do stuff, glass cannons don’t literally 1-shot kill but are still dangerous, and builds with a good balance of offense/defense feel strong and useful as opposed to weak and useless.
But of course, this is not enough to satisfy the GW2 PvP forum lurkers. Oh no, of course not.
Says the Warrior lol. I’m sure this meta is awesome from your POV. This meta is a joke compared to the old meta. The general skillcap was much higher before with d/d eles, shatter mesmers, condi engis, pre duumfire necros and glass 100b wars. Now its Hambow wars, Spirit rangers, PistolWhip thieves, Decap engis and tanky condi spam.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Most of these are 1v1 changes. 1v1 is irrelevant in this game.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
Im sure you have grand plans, but you NEVER stop balancing classes. That is a fatal error in MMO’s. This whole problem would be diffused so easily if you just put in: -%8 healing signet fix and fix bugged spirit of nature in this upcoming patch. These 2 outlier abilitys are the main reason for all the angst at current class balance. The sad thing is they are simple coefficient tweaks which don’t take any time or effort to fix and have been broken for over half a year.
Just because you want to impress us with a big feature patch doesn’t mean you hold back on fixing broken outlier skills. This meta which we’ve been stuck with for over half a year is as skill-less as you can get. 2 of the most skillfull classes Ele and Mesmer have been replaced with Spirit rangers, Hambow Wars and Pistol Whip thieves.
+1 for dueling in the mists.
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch
+1 for 3v3 or 2v2 deathmatch