It is hard to do anything with people who stay near doors or points and let enemies capture it without video evidence. But “name and shame” over all you know bad people can do what they want because you can’t report them properly.
P.S. Need at least give dishonor to players who can’t leave the base in proper time. In low gold and lower ranks i see 1-2 ppl who stay afk on the base when match is started already. After 5-10 seconds they start to move but mid is lost already due to lack of people. These people ruin the match before start. If they are too busy to start to play in proper time don’t let them join ranked match.
I agree. I had lags for ~3-5 days so i could not even use skills! This system dropped me from mid gold to mid silver. This system forces me to join ranked match and lost it for 4 people in my team. I think it is not fair to them. Also i plan to go on vacation soon. When i think about it i lose interest to play ranked at all.
Also i can understand why this system exists but for high ranks only. What the point to drop casual players from gold? Leave decay system for diamonds+.
You can use a program like Pingplotter to find out where the issue lies.
Good luck.
Actually, everyone who has only said “Yes, same issue here.” None of you did what IC said. If you actually want to see it get fixed, you have to do some stuff too. If people are on and playing, it’s obviously not a server issue. A server issue wouldn’t affect just a hundred people, EVERYONE would have an issue. That is usually a sign that it’s something between you and Anet. Anet can’t see those issues, nor can they fix those issues. They and their ISP don’t own the pathways from your house to their servers. They just own their end, like your ISP owns your end.
But your ISP has the ability to send a message to those who own the parts in between and let them know there is a problem, so that hopefully they fix it.
I opened GW2 current connections, saw 2-3 addresses, tried /tracert them, saw nothing special → wrote here. I don’t know which connection i had during that match.
Funny thing is it started to lag when we had 150-200 points, and stopped when enemies had 490.
Just tried to join unranked match to test. Game menu → General Options show ping 49 (average 88). It takes about 10 seconds to show my current PvP statistics on PvP Home screen. It takes ~5 seconds to respond when i try to click on unranked arena queue. I had almost no problems with ping while playing unranked arena.
It was bad idea make them crafting materials from first place. Who really use them for crafting?
Also look at old currencies. Even if you dont “farm” you have them. I am sure after 3-6 months most of people who actually play these maps will have surpluses of these items.
What if i don’t want to buy accessories now, but someday i will need to change my build, i must farm from start or store “currency” in my bank (for months?).
“if you don’t need those currencies don’t play those maps” – is not a good idea too.
1) I dont know it is lag or what, but happened to me 1-2 times.
2) Can’t evade this “mechanic” even if they put 100 arrows i cant react. He pushed me from mid one time to edges and while im stunned pushed me again from the platform. Another time he pushed me even from green circle.
3) It will be not for long time. Just like now it is hard to find “last cannon” or “seimur was wrong”.
1) Sometimes special key go on cooldown without moving.
2) Boss teleports to you and push from the platform.
3) No chance for redoing if boss is killed already. Good Luck find another group.
This heart must be changed!
but I can understand the situation since I was 3 days off of getting an achievement chest to buy another Gift of Battle before that change.
I apologize for going off-topic here, but I am curious (since I didn’t craft my first legendary weapon until after that change had already been implemented): How exactly was it before? Did you not have to grind a whole WvW track in order to get one of those?
I’m just gotta put this here for those that believe macros is the only way to execute 4-5 actions in less then a second. This is a recent video by Lord Helseth which I believe needs no introduction. You may or may not like him but his video about the importance of proper keybinds explains this pretty well and also shows examples on mesmer in the video.
Most of skills have pre or after execution animation. You just can’t avoid it using hands fast enough. As a thief you can use 3 skills in 1 sec like
1) throw dagger
2) while that dagger flies to enemy press heart seeker / dodge / vault etc
3) press F1
You have 3 skills executed almost together.
But i see thieves that use 5-6 skills in same time like
4) backstab (has cast animation)
5) smoke (pistol-5) (has cast/after_cast animation)
6) autoattacks (every auto has animation)
You look at it and say “cheater” they answer “i just smashed buttons cry salty noob”. I see same people here who defend “good keybinds” and ignore game mechanics.
P.S. DH traps have cast animation too, you just can’t place 4 traps in less than 1-2 seconds.
I think it’s pretty clear you just don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re making complaints that simply follow no logical sense of reality, sorry.
Sure. Can you show me your “skill”? How can you execute 5 skills i less than 1 second?
Uh…By finding 5 skills that are instant or have cast times+aftercasts that add up to less than 1 second and using them all at once?
Not random skills. You (thief) kill a person (lets say another thief) in 1 second using 5-6 skills (your choice). Post video here.
Here you go, a video of a thief alphaing people in under a second.
2017 or end of 2016 year plz, without slow motion and do not hide skills.
Yeah, I’ll pass. Honestly, I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, because you’re arguing something that seems rather different from the OP. Are you aware that a macro is simply an automated method of activating skills in a particular pattern? It doesn’t allow you to avoid normal mechanics baked into the game like cast times and aftercasts you know…
Yes, this is why i call them cheaters, they remove this important “cast/aftercast” somehow. But macros give advantages anyway.
Most of skills have pre or after execution animation. You just can’t avoid it using hands fast enough. As a thief you can use 3 skills in 1 sec like
1) throw dagger
2) while that dagger flies to enemy press heart seeker / dodge / vault etc
3) press F1
You have 3 skills executed almost together.
But i see thieves that use 5-6 skills in same time like
4) backstab (has cast animation)
5) smoke (pistol-5) (has cast/after_cast animation)
6) autoattacks (every auto has animation)
You look at it and say “cheater” they answer “i just smashed buttons cry salty noob”. I see same people here who defend “good keybinds” and ignore game mechanics.
P.S. DH traps have cast animation too, you just can’t place 4 traps in less than 1-2 seconds.
I think it’s pretty clear you just don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re making complaints that simply follow no logical sense of reality, sorry.
Sure. Can you show me your “skill”? How can you execute 5 skills i less than 1 second?
Uh…By finding 5 skills that are instant or have cast times+aftercasts that add up to less than 1 second and using them all at once?
Not random skills. You (thief) kill a person (lets say another thief) in 1 second using 5-6 skills (your choice). Post video here.
Here you go, a video of a thief alphaing people in under a second.
Works just as well today, I’m not about to waste my time filming something to prove to a random forum warrior that it’s possible to press buttons quickly…
No. It does not. Since you don’t understand this – you are forum warrior. We got it. Thanks for proving it.
Most of skills have pre or after execution animation. You just can’t avoid it using hands fast enough. As a thief you can use 3 skills in 1 sec like
1) throw dagger
2) while that dagger flies to enemy press heart seeker / dodge / vault etc
3) press F1
You have 3 skills executed almost together.
But i see thieves that use 5-6 skills in same time like
4) backstab (has cast animation)
5) smoke (pistol-5) (has cast/after_cast animation)
6) autoattacks (every auto has animation)
You look at it and say “cheater” they answer “i just smashed buttons cry salty noob”. I see same people here who defend “good keybinds” and ignore game mechanics.
P.S. DH traps have cast animation too, you just can’t place 4 traps in less than 1-2 seconds.
I think it’s pretty clear you just don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re making complaints that simply follow no logical sense of reality, sorry.
Sure. Can you show me your “skill”? How can you execute 5 skills i less than 1 second?
Uh…By finding 5 skills that are instant or have cast times+aftercasts that add up to less than 1 second and using them all at once?
Not random skills. You (thief) kill a person (lets say another thief) in 1 second using 5-6 skills (your choice). Post video here.
Most of skills have pre or after execution animation. You just can’t avoid it using hands fast enough. As a thief you can use 3 skills in 1 sec like
1) throw dagger
2) while that dagger flies to enemy press heart seeker / dodge / vault etc
3) press F1
You have 3 skills executed almost together.
But i see thieves that use 5-6 skills in same time like
4) backstab (has cast animation)
5) smoke (pistol-5) (has cast/after_cast animation)
6) autoattacks (every auto has animation)
You look at it and say “cheater” they answer “i just smashed buttons cry salty noob”. I see same people here who defend “good keybinds” and ignore game mechanics.
P.S. DH traps have cast animation too, you just can’t place 4 traps in less than 1-2 seconds.
I think it’s pretty clear you just don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re making complaints that simply follow no logical sense of reality, sorry.
Sure. Can you show me your “skill”? How can you execute 5 skills i less than 1 second?
Most of skills have pre or after execution animation. You just can’t avoid it using hands fast enough. As a thief you can use 3 skills in 1 sec like
1) throw dagger
2) while that dagger flies to enemy press heart seeker / dodge / vault etc
3) press F1
You have 3 skills executed almost together.
But i see thieves that use 5-6 skills in same time like
4) backstab (has cast animation)
5) smoke (pistol-5) (has cast/after_cast animation)
6) autoattacks (every auto has animation)
You look at it and say “cheater” they answer “i just smashed buttons cry salty noob”. I see same people here who defend “good keybinds” and ignore game mechanics.
P.S. DH traps have cast animation too, you just can’t place 4 traps in less than 1-2 seconds.
DH is not a problem, at least you can dodge roll from him. But when you meet a thief that kills you in 1 sec from nowhere – it is the problem. Funny when you say them “you can’t use 5 skills in same time – cheater” they say they dont cheat just smash buttons =)
I hope arena.net net will ban these players from sPvP for using it.
I don’t know how you can clear all conditions and kill all clones =) Just can’t imagine. Only possible way to kill me as a thief is: one “disable” attack with some autoattacks, i use F4, then run away, wait, use venom and attack me again. Or pray to a.net gods for lucky critical hits. In another way staff thieves are more hopeless, because they can’t reduce the distance fast enough.
I don’t know which game mode you play but in pvp you basically play on a point and your clones are quite packed. It’s really easy to kill them with one or two vaults.
May be it is you play on a point, i prefer to leave the point to survive and return to it 10 seconds later when that thief is dead or ran away
I will repeat, only possible way for a thief with staff to kill me is when my skills on cooldowns. Kill all clones, clear all conditions and kill me in same time is not from this reality.
I don’t know how you can clear all conditions and kill all clones =) Just can’t imagine. Only possible way to kill me as a thief is: one “disable” attack with some autoattacks, i use F4, then run away, wait, use venom and attack me again. Or pray to a.net gods for lucky critical hits. In another way staff thieves are more hopeless, because they can’t reduce the distance fast enough.
As a mesmer main I can tell you the staff acro build is what you need to look into.
That being said it’s not meta for a reason and you could be severely gimping your team running it.
When i see staff thief i just teleport (or 2 on staff) and autoattack. He will die from auto after losing all initiative. As a mesmer i dont see good solution in this situation for thieves.
Ohh… there is no reason to stay afk on close, except your team can win 4v5 or enemy team has someone stupid enough to stay on their close while nobody attacks it.
So this means it is ok to def waypoint in this situation? Why these people want to report me when i do so?
the only time its over okay to do that is against theif and not really, you in a losing matchup. Should’ve had somebody hop mes or druid or something.
But why these people don’t go far? Don’t they realise while they stay close, team lose 4v5? Actually in 90% of games we win from start even 200 points, then enemy thief takes close point and someone decide to stay on it… so i can go afk because i know we will lose. I have these people 90% of matches. I don’t understand why. Is not it obvious? Or they can’t count to 5? Why people think others must carry them? Do they read “special” guide to pvp with advices like “stay close for win”?
But how to punish players who do it in every match? I had same ranger in my team, he stay on close no matters what, just like afk. Last match when enemies come to close he leave it and stay afk somewhere else, then return when point is empty.
Saw him today too. It is not griefing, he just took 1 slot from this map to farm this JP when he will return. Selfish and stupid. I did not have problems joining this map this year, may be need to press “join” emm… 5 times? Some people can not join map becuase those afkers occupy free slots.
PVP was more fun before HoT. I don’t think they can fix it easy, because they need to remove tons of mechanics. Mesmers is not a problem compared to unkillable warriors and “block everything” engis/guards.
No DR for MF. Got ~15 precursors from MF since start. At worst spent ~2k gold for “The Legend”. Usually it takes less. I dont count money, i expect to use 1500-2000 rares.
I don’t understand why arena.net is so greedy. While a booster is not a good drop, it is still better than a ToT bag. Just why replace it? Now you can get something like tot-bag (i opened thousands)+transmutation charge (i have 430 now) + tome of knowledge (just trash).
1 key = 30g
Reward = 10s
They removed useless blts gathering tools before. Now boosters. Still not worth it.
May be they will remove fistival useless trash… one day… after a year or two. Ok we will wait.
They talked about balancing it so that players that raid regularly and successfully wouldn’t need to grind for LI’s.
This means we have the upper limit (not more than “successful players can earn”). And they have numbers between 1-150 to play with
insanemaniac, i think your idea is hard to implement. It is more easy (and more fair) just sell li for shards like 15/each. This means even if you fail long enough with randoms you can buy li. Shards are also limited == time gate, but you can farm it even with bad groups.
No.
This encourages the path of least resistance, people will just wipe farm VG for shards and buy the LI.
If they do allow shards to be bought, the only way I’d agree to it is 150 shards per LI and only AFTER you’ve cleared a wing in a given week.
You can’t farm VG for shards.
Raids have limits http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magnetite_Shard == 100 per week before w3 update and 150 shards after w3 update. And i believe you can’t farm all 150 from VG, i think maximum is ~30 (i don’t know exactly never wiped on him so long and never counted, but i know after long wipes on other bosses you receive “red mark” as loot that means you got maximum shards from this event).
150 shards = 10 li per week maximum = time gate anyway if you are unlucky. But people without static groups still have a chance to receive armor if they can kill all bosses and complete all collections.
I don’t say it should be exactly 15, but something near it. Also arena can add another conversion like 1 li to 10 shards for example if you have excess of li.
Wipe farming = farming shards by deliberately failing.
Actually, you can farm VG. Every time VG is killed, you get an event chest with 8 shards (you can re-enter with a person who hasn’t killed VG). Every attempt after reaching a certain phase also awards shards.
So what if there’s a cap per event? People will simply move onto another boss event that can be wipe farmed for more shards.
The point is, if you give people the option of wipe farming bosses without ever needing to succeed, they will find a way to make it work and hit shard cap without ever defeating a boss.
That is completely unacceptable.
For testing people’s SKILL we have COLLECTIONS. 150 LI IS NOT A SKILL TEST.
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I tired to repeat this.
If you don’t like “wipe farming” ask arena to remove shards from fail kill attempts.
insanemaniac, i think your idea is hard to implement. It is more easy (and more fair) just sell li for shards like 15/each. This means even if you fail long enough with randoms you can buy li. Shards are also limited == time gate, but you can farm it even with bad groups.
No.
This encourages the path of least resistance, people will just wipe farm VG for shards and buy the LI.
If they do allow shards to be bought, the only way I’d agree to it is 150 shards per LI and only AFTER you’ve cleared a wing in a given week.
You can’t farm VG for shards.
Raids have limits http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magnetite_Shard == 100 per week before w3 update and 150 shards after w3 update. And i believe you can’t farm all 150 from VG, i think maximum is ~30 (i don’t know exactly never wiped on him so long and never counted, but i know after long wipes on other bosses you receive “red mark” as loot that means you got maximum shards from this event).
150 shards = 10 li per week maximum = time gate anyway if you are unlucky. But people without static groups still have a chance to receive armor if they can kill all bosses and complete all collections.
I don’t say it should be exactly 15, but something near it. Also arena can add another conversion like 1 li to 10 shards for example if you have excess of li.
insanemaniac, i think your idea is hard to implement. It is more easy (and more fair) just sell li for shards like 15/each. This means even if you fail long enough with randoms you can buy li. Shards are also limited == time gate, but you can farm it even with bad groups.
… [Raids] require your raiding team to bring a high level of skill, strategy, and coordination in order to succeed … and other similar arguments “create your own group”…
All these advices you provide only help GRIND FASTER. But i think it should not be a part of the game… ok may be in small amounts. But 150 li is just prohibitive wall for most of people. I don’t think everyone must be forced to create static groups just to grind 1 component for 4 months. Is it asian MMO or what? It is not fun at all.
No one forces you to create a group and “grind” insights. But you can´t expect to get the Legendary Armor then. If you´re not willing to bring the effort or to work on it a few month (and we really had enough time to collect plenty more insights than we need even before the Armor will be released), you just shouldn´t craft it…
Yes, devs (and you) ask me to create a group if i want to craft armor. This means you agree it is pain in the * without static group. Logic, no?
I answer – i don’t think it is a good idea to force people to create static groups.
It´s not the problem to learn the fights and find a “static group”. And your real problem isn´t that you couldn´t find a group, it´s the fact that you missed to bring the effort to create one and rather relied on Anet to set the requirements to any kind of skill as low as they always did.
Is it some kind of the armor achievements list “create a static group”? It should not be a part of user skills test.
… [Raids] require your raiding team to bring a high level of skill, strategy, and coordination in order to succeed … and other similar arguments “create your own group”…
All these advices you provide only help GRIND FASTER. But i think it should not be a part of the game… ok may be in small amounts. But 150 li is just prohibitive wall for most of people. I don’t think everyone must be forced to create static groups just to grind 1 component for 4 months. Is it asian MMO or what? It is not fun at all.
