Guild Wars 2

Its obvious by now that pvp is done, they put too litle resources into it and it failed, i very much doubt theyll be willing to put in anymore but the bare minimum after this. It seems to me like the top guys in Anet never really cared enough about pvp to begin with judging from what i saw at pax.

I stopped playing 6 months ago and just checked back in every few months to see what has changed and it looks like its worse now then it was then. Back then people complained about ele and mesmer wich are now considered as classes that actualy take some skill compared to what is strong now, its funny but sad too.

To be honest the most fun i had in this game was in the days of paids 8 team tournys even tho that concept was very flawed what they gave us after that was even worse.

this game unfortunately has one of the worst development teams i have ever seen, thats it really.

gw2 has pro players?

i wouldnt call australia a major region, as far as popoluation.

money is money so why not.

because those maps need to be balanced otherwise they make more harm than good. We see what happened with spirit watch and temple of the silent storm before that. Competitive games often have just 1 map, they should hire some more ppl to work on such advanced technology as soloque and map rotation and let map developers work on PvE.

why in hell are they making a new map, last thing the game needs is another map.

Ingame name: Subl (guza.6170)
Main Class / Potential Classes: Ele, can play other stuff too but not as good.
Region: EU
Practice Times:
Experience: Rank 51, #8Qp
Other: wana join/form a top team, havent played for about 2 months so will need a bit of practice.

they need to lower dmg on pets and give more to the ranger, this way if u go full tank u dont do as much dmg 1v1. Or make pets scale with the ranger.

Theres a delay on this things, it took months for ppl to start crying about eles even tho they were strong all that time and it took months more for devs to overnerf or better said missnerf them so probably near the end of the summer is when rangers will get hit, the full out crying is coming soon.

cant wait to watch, nice to see the community starting things up hopefully Anet follows too someday soon with some tourneys.

Dont even respond to posts like that, this is a thread for constructive talk about how to make ele beter ( more variety, balanced, fun…) ignore the rest.

seems accurate to me, what exactly dont u like?

i meant long range dmg.

Id like to know what balance devs think about this change and how satified they are about recent nerfs.

Focus is not ment to be a dmg weapon diogo (u have staff for that) and id much rather let it be a decent tank/support pick than not being taken at all.

MaXi.3642:

anyway, i dont agree with RTL 1500 range and 15sec CD, its just too much… 1200 range is what all other profs got, its reasonable, CD 20sec would be ok…

Not really, when u take the sustain off the dagger u can no longer rtl away heal to full and come back so giving good mobility to the squishiest class is not too much.
+ u cant compare apples to oranges, other proffesions also get the option to bring a ranged weapon into the fight and the best mobility class thief also has invis to go with it, ranger has evade and a warrior has a strudy body .

How about this, u make focus the viable bunker weapon for eles by switching cleansing wave with comet, cleansing wave is a big part of why bunker eles pick offhand dagger and the fact focus has no heal on it is why noone takes it. Also u need to make obsidian flesh a block so it doesnt get neutralized when defending a point. I think this will be enough off a nerf to dagger so u can give us back the mobility we need as a close range fighter with no ability to switch to long range weapons. Then u put rtl back on 15s CD and back on 1500 range and u keep the nerf on spirit watch or even incrase it if need be.
This might finally bring a useless weapon into play while also giving us back the option for some dps builds which absolutely need their mobility.

Second thing is the nerf to cleansing water, now this more than nerfing cantrips nerfs staff, one off the coolest things about staff was the support combo off healing rain and cleansing water which is now gone for no good reason. It would make alot more sense for u too change soothing disruption trait (remove vigor from it for example) or even remove/replace it with something else to bring down cantrips. Then to make staff more viable make lightning surge instant and make gust and shockwave to travel faster so u can actually hit something with it as it is very easy to miss right now from range with those two spells.

Third thing is u need to completely redesign conjure weapons and buff or redesign glyphs and signets and give us some better condi build options.

Its been 8 months and im sad to say there hasnt been one balance patch that would make me excited and start theorycrafting for new builds on the ele as we never get any new good options but just loose old ones.

i guess they think 10 ppl is enough spectators, esports here we go.

only karl knows why pets need to be buffed in pvp.

faster atacks on pets aswell gg Anet

Sprawl.3891:

how does it reduce their survivability? are you escaping from the same fight with RTL twice in 20 seconds? You only need one RTL to disengage if played properly.

exactly, it only hurts our mobility and gapclosing, u can still run away just as well.

kostbabis.8791:

Heres an ANOTHER IDEA ANET
New trait deep in air line.
“Now rtl has half the cooldown if it doesnt hit”
HERES YOUR FIX ANET.
No more bunkers abusing this kitten..No impact in all the already other up specs
You can play offencive roamer (and im not talking about 0/15/0/25/30 or similar “bunker in cover” speccs)

Maybe wouldnt be such a bad idea, if they also put evade on it while in rtl and a 15s CD. Could open up some dps builds if they put it in instead of temptest defense.

Preventing them from using their class mechanic ( distortion) makes them way to easy to either decap or kill, its a wrong decision to do this and i honestly dont know what the devs are smoking.

Assassin Sharks.6104:

Please Note: I did say the d/d needed a nerf which is the meta. s/d were/are rare to see. Staff isn’t really run at all and yet this nerf hits s/d-staff the hardest? Why? why didn’t they nerf d/d just straight out rather then these bullkitten round about nerfs that make the only viable build a d/d?

People should stop talking when they know nothing, s/d was far more comon in pvp than d/d. The change to rtl is kitten though.

kostbabis.8791:

But they werent even with the 20 sec cd.Thief had vertical mobility ,warrior assuming out of combat could cover amazingly more distance and ranger as well.
I dont think you understand what exactly im talking about..:(
Math says that distance covered with new rtl is worse than like the biggest cd leaps of other classes.This change keep in mind is universal to all game modes as well

dont bother, the herd mentality prevents them from understanding anything beyond ele OP.

milo.6942:

All of you are idiots.
Rtl change is reasonable, we will see how it plays but if you understand the logic behind it you will better understand why it is a good change.
There are several reasons, but here is one: They could disengage too easily with it + mist form. So, there was 0 reason not to engage an enemy — you can easily leave & outrun enemies if it goes badly. It makes it easy to play badly and think you are good. Which is why all of you crying about this are ele fanboy idiots. It was very obviously OP.

Obviously u are the ignorant idiot, the change effects our general mobility much more than the ability to disengage, we get the 40s CD when we roam but while we fight we simply wont use rtl and save it for the disengage. So all this brings us is a severe nerf to our mobility.

if u die in 20s u are just bad, not saying the nerf is good i dont agree with it.

its kitten thats all i have to say about it, our only mobility skill on a 40s CD. They are already fixing its distance from 1500 to 1200 thats allright but 40s what the kitten. I thought the focus was cantrips eles but i really dont see any smart changes being done there, the cleansing water nerfs staff more than anything else.

Scrap these changes Anet they are dumb, fix the distance on rtl like u would and move earths embrace higher in the trailine, job done. Then start looking at focus and staff skills and some of the useles traits to bring out more builds.

its not today woohoo

first of all the qp top 50 will get custom arenas not the leaderboard top 50.
second, it doesnt mater which server ur on the pvp servers are global its only the heart of the mists that are seperate and ofcourse the NA and EU seperation….

Rerroll.9083:

guza.6170:

Will the top 50qp players get a free starter kit for custom arenas as a reward or will we have to buy one?

top 50 qp shouldnt have much problems with gems

Thats not the point, and its not like we were geting huge amounts of gems and most of those went for things like character slots. Anyway they said we would get a reward so im asking is it gona be a starter kit, would be kinda nice.

Atleast give it to top 10.

Its a bit sad tho that most of this servers will eventually be hosted by PvE guys just because they have alot of gold and it wont be a problem to buy tokens while the dedicated PvP guys will have to buy it with real money. Dont really understand how anet is making money with gemstore when i see the PvE guys selling items for hundreds of gold, they can easily get anything in it with that.

Will the top 50qp players get a free starter kit for custom arenas as a reward or will we have to buy one?

Finally, it might be worth coming back soon if this leads to some competitve tournaments being hosted.

i played for the first time since february patch a few days ago for i think 6 games with premade and was ranked 84 even tho we lost 3 times.

Theres only 2 dedicated pvp devs and then there are others who work on specific things like maps that sometimes do pvp stuff other times pve….

I almost died laughing when i read that, invulnaribility and condi removal on hundred blades.

or confusion ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I think everyone except Anet has noticed that, but then again they dont actually play so….

uberkingkong.8041:

They wouldn’t add spectator mode in a big tournament because people can tell there buddies what the other team is doing. As far as I know they are adding it for hotjoins, they are thinking about it for tournament games.

But yes 1 big tournament a day would be nice.

They can put a delay on it u know. I cant imagine a tournament without spectator mode.

Valkyriez.6578:

Lol. 32 teams. As if that’s going to happen anytime soon.

It would if there were some real tornaments, why would there be teams in a state like this. And its true that without spectator mode…. u cant really host real tournaments but it would be beter than nothing.

Yea the days of paids were so much better tan this kitten now, the ques were long and all but it was more fun to play. Also ladder based on paids would be beter.

Oh great its gona be a cantrip bashing party. Tell them about rtl aswell for the 700000000 time, ppl like repeating that so much.

dd ele, greatsword/swordshield warrior, some guardians….

roll a minion necro.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

guza.6170:

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

guza.6170:

u cant criple and chill lightning, should u also be able to cripple,chill and imobillize teleport?

RTL = a bigger gap closer
Lightning Flash = Stunbreaker / “Step”

They’re not the same type of skillz. RTL should be definitely affected by chill/cripple/immobilize, as other gap closers like Rush and Whirlwind allready do.

rtl is not the same as leaps and charges. Its a unique skill with a unique mechanic, case closed.

It is still meant to be one cause you are able to target attack. The only difference is that you’re 5 weapon skillz are locked in its duration. Case closed.

by that logic so is lightning flash and flashing blade.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

guza.6170:

u cant criple and chill lightning, should u also be able to cripple,chill and imobillize teleport?

RTL = a bigger gap closer
Lightning Flash = Stunbreaker / “Step”

They’re not the same type of skillz. RTL should be definitely affected by chill/cripple/immobilize, as other gap closers like Rush and Whirlwind allready do.

rtl is not the same as leaps and charges. Its a unique skill with a unique mechanic, case closed.

If u want to nerf the bunker cantrip then move the earth 3 trait into master, that makes the bunker ele go from 4 to 3 cantrips, u dont need to nerf the cantrips more than that.

if u plan on destroying cantrips because paradigm (and everyone who likes to jump on the op bandwagon) decided to complain when they use arcane utilities and dont like others to have 3 cantrips fair enough but can u delete conjured weapons, utility signets and glyphs and give us something usefull then?

Seriously u have done nothing but nerfing so far, when do we see some new viable builds?

u cant criple and chill lightning, should u also be able to cripple,chill and imobillize teleport?

Celeras.4980:

My word isn’t enough for you?! ;p

It takes two seconds to test, your win/loss is on your PvP tab. Log off at the end of the match and watch what happens, the data isn’t recorded.

I dont think its constantly updated, only a couple times a day.