Guild Wars 2

Since season I, matchmaking has proven to be nothing but a pain in the kitten and Anet has failed to come up with a solution (thanks for the effort though).
Yes, removing mmr will create chaos, but the thing about chaos… its fair. #MovieQuote.
Still true though, would like to see a MMRless solo Q.

CD CD CD CD CD extremely annoying even with arcane on. Not liking this so far.

Is the idea behind the grind for gear something bugged or they do it on purpose? I understand the idea of progression, but, and I trully hope anet is reading, some people have jobs and do not profit like twitch players on playing this game.
Having a few hours a day to play just to find that the marks require crafting as well, crafting… the most boring part of a game, not to mention the amount of tokens the gear itself requires.
Just let people get the gear without those stupid marks, some people dont like raids, dont enjoy your idea of PVE, just want to pvp or wvw and dont have the time to grind for the kitten gear.

Seriously Anet, you had the potential, this is just kittening on your lowering community.

Heres my ping plotter results. That kitten Dallas server is killing me.

Thank you all for being a huge part of our lifes over the passed 3 years. This game was an awesome adventure, met a lot of amazing people here and had great times in it.
Unfortunately due to Anets approach on “esports”, it just not fun anymore, ever since HoT launch me and the wife kept lying to ourselves saying “oh well its probably until the get it right”, but thats what we have been saying over the passed 3 years.
Balance is not something an mmo will ever have, from a business point of view its what keeps people playing, getting new builds, gear, testing things, etc (not in spvp of course), but since this game has no difference between pvp and pve, there you have it.
All we see around are reapers, eles, and scrappers, everyone else can go F* themselves. And the final straw was this … well i tried the english dictionary and there were no words to describe such a failed attempt at a matching system, we dont run in massive guilds, we dont care about being “youtube” or “twitch” famous, we dont believe we are pros or anything, we just solo Q or we party when we have the time to, and right now, its hopeless.
We are not even mad, just disappointed, Anet has done exactly the opposite of what they were supposed to in order to keep the game interesting, hopefully new players will have a great experience and be treated better after they have a few years (and money) invested in the game.

For now, we salute you GW2 community, hope to see you all in another game as it happened with WoW.

Good night, and good hunting!

P.S.: Our gold has been donated already, so dont ask for it ^.^

I like you Crow.

Relax silverstone, Anet wont fix a thing and you know it, only way to win is not to play (and yeah, im having the exact issue you are having). Take a break from this badly coded, horribly managed game, and you ll feel better.
Its not worth it when its just not fun.

Time for a break, no point on playing like this. Ever since beta 1 the game has been somewhat of a playable subpar mmo, today was the most frustrating day in 3 years for solo Q, game just went full kitten.

Thanks for the esports attempt Anet, it didnt and wont work, learn from real games and get your head out of your kitten , k thx.

Solo Q is busted because of your lack of coding, please spend a dime and hire someone who actually knows how to fix this.
In other news, seriously?! this is your fix?
Seriously, get better coders.

Please bring them back, the new ones are nothing but pve.

For what i´ve seen lately:
1- Condi builds are just better, not enough cleanses, builds are usually tougher based on the old weak condi system, giving condition builds more survivability. Not to mention the condi damage is ridiculous, burn guardian can easily 1 shot you with a nice 19 stacks of burning, and still take a punch.
2- My last 30 matches (yes, counted) were 100% against premades, mostly dragons, while I joined in solo q and had people with 300 AP and once a 50AP kitten who kept asking about runes.
3- Why isn´t toughness reducing condition damage as well? Just why exactly.
4- You might say :“well why dont you form a premade?”, answer is simple, some of us dont have the time. We get home from work, want to play, dont give 2 kittens about being a Pro, just want to play the game and have fun (remember fun?) But dealing with this premade /lack of grouping balance is just not worth it.

The wife and I used to duo and have tons of fun in spvp, back in the days of the pirate ship map whatever it was called, and we ve been trying different builds / classes until HoT hit.
Now thanks to the idiotic mechanics you implemented she quit, i barely log in and all because of your lack of planning. We bought the game for one reason only :" Not a Korean like grind fest like Lineage 2 or Aion", remember? back in the day when you said you guys were building the holy grail of MMOS? Well you failed, now theres even people farming soloers on PVP just for the grind you implemented.

So thanks Anet, but you have turned one of the best games I´ve ever played, into nothing but a common /boring mmorpg.

GG

PS: One last rant, what the hell is your problem with noise reduction?! Just implement that on WVW where HW resources count. Why exactly is my ele spitting fire with “Fireball” on spvp / raids?

PS2: QQ over.

Ashen.2907:

Other people claim to have been able to get refunds for their HoT purchase by filing support tickets.

Thank you Ashen!

I bought the Ultimate version for my wife and for me since this has been so far the most enjoyable mmorpg we ve played.
We get to play 2 hours a day to play with 6 to 8 toons each, ascended gear was a bit of a pain for all classes but we picked one and alts would run on exotics, but this 400 hero points thing was the final straw when we read about the amount of points per toon, but also the wvw points we had were no good now.
I’m sure a whole lot of people will enjoy the new content, we just don’t have the time for this type of grind, first reason we bought the game 3 years ago.

Enough with the BS Anet, seriously. Nobody cares about your schedule changes, quit making things worse for WvW players, we ve had enough neglet from you and now we gotta take this kitten? Get real, get better, K thanks.

Made a thief, enjoyed it for 2 weeks, got the patch nerf and this class went from an amazing pvp class to help invi in arah… what a joke, and they still pretend people to pay 50 bucks for an expansion with these changes? Gl.

Nice job Regina aka Content Marketing team lead, you clearly know your market and thats why people are more than happy to pay the price you established… please go back to sell insurance policies.

HawkMeister.4758:

Because marketing is run by soulless suits fresh out of Harvard (or somesuch other useless place) who haven´t got the slightest clue.

Actually good marketing people should know it´s 9 times more expensive to attract new customers than keeping the current ones happy.
For instance, Pareto´s law explains the 80-20 principle (say 80% of the gw2 population wont buy the expansion while 20% will, then 80% of HoT earnings come from that 20% of the current population, while the other 20% of the earnings will come from new players) unfortunately they did not take into account the fact that the f2p market is saturated and people don´t really care for shady deals, meaning part of the 80% of the current population might even switch to another game. So on the long run they are actually being less cost effective than if they didn´t announce the “expansion”.

Blizzard on the other hand does know their customers…… how many years and still going strong?

What a horrid way to attract new customers n screw the old ones.

Communication has always been a huge issue for Anet. No wonder they can´t even figure out how to sell their “expansion” without enraging their community.

U$50 for an expansion that shows only a few mods, rather sad mini maps, and a hyped profession.
I´m sorry Anet but thats not an expansion worth 50 bucks, its DLC and its 35 AT most.
Even if you bundle the game (as free) it´s a rip off for people who JUST bought the game.

Short term strategies are fun, numbers go up fast, but as we´ve seen before (ahem… megaservers were required) on the long run you know you don´t have much profit with your little gem skins after the hype is over, not to mention returning players have been absolutely shutdown by this marketing strategy, and lets not forget currency exchange rates, in case you don´t quite understand them people from any country with a weaker currency will think twice before spending OVER 50 US dollars for the advertised content of your “expansion”. You are literally showing people you need the 50 bucks because your profit margins are not good, meaning less support, no QA (as we´ve seen with countless bugs during this 3 year period), lack of content, just to keep this thing running.

leman.7682:

This economist dev has been reading some principal micro it seems.
Good job on the bundling, sure you’re gonna capture some additional surplus with the strategy.

But not on me.

Maybe on the short term, but it´s definetly not a long term strategy, which will render this game a bit boring with unpopulated new maps.

No additional character slot and a rather content limited expansion for 50 bucks is not fine sorry. Even Aion´s free expansion shows more promise than this Guild Hall Sims 3 wannabe.

So after a long break i decided to play this GemWars2, pve hasnt changed much, so that was boring, wvw keeps being a mindless clusterkitten so lets do some spvp yei!
All engineers, at least 3 per team…won some lost some, but after 2 years there are still massive balance issues in the game?
This just goes beyond boring.
Guess the expansion will be nothing more than new skins and gliding, with the same root issues.

godz raiden.2631:

You could have just turned the post processing off as soon as you realized it was making you dizzy. I’m pretty sure the devs didn’t add the visual effect to the game with the intention of harming your vision. I’m a little biased though on this sort of stuff. I have no health issues whatsoever, so I guess I can’t really see where you’re coming from. I also had the common sense to turn off post processing after a couple minutes of enjoying the humor though, but only because the visual changes made aoe circles difficult to see lol.

I didnt realize it was the game making me feel bad soon enough, but i did turn it off when the headache started, still got dizzy a bit after and had to log off. Since as I said that never happened to me in a game before i was surprised that stupid thing could have such a negative effect on me.
I completely understand that it wasnt their intention to make anyone feel bad, but thats why they should be professionals and have a just in case plan, a simple check on your screen with “toggle nostalgia ON/OFF” would have sufficed.

To be honest i dont care about finding this “event” funny or not, yeah i had a very tiny chuckle when i saw my female ele dancing but heres what happened, after the first dungeon i started feeling funny, thought i was just tired but i didnt play a lot today. After the second dungeon i was dizzy and my head was killing me i had to log off not because i was insulted by the plane crash in europe, or because I found the event INCREDIBLY idiotic and had to come to the forums to rant about it, but it just made me feel like kitten, utter kitten, first time a game does that, and id still be playing if it wasnt for that moronic effect.
I did turn off post processing but i just couldnt recover, guess some sleep ll be good, just wanna say to the programmer who thought that sepia effect was a good idea : " you giganticus kittenbag can go straight to hell, trully hope your kitten gets fired yesterday."
That is all, Anet you owe me some aspirin, see you all tomorrow.

Snorcha.7586:

u mad bros……….?

Mad? actually proud of BG, it took 2 coordinated zergs to take us down.

…and we still win

Lol gotta love their spirit tho, they keep losing week after week, and now they team up to make the biggest n slowest cluster to take our keep.

Btw, thanks for the bags jq / sor ^^

Well heres what Anet plan has been and will be so please relax. Nerfs have absolutely nothing to do with balancing the game (as you may have noticed), the game isnt broken and Anet will not post on sub-forums where they know they will be kittened at.
Now, they nerf builds/classes/weapons/sigils/etc only to keep people trying new stuff, try new classes, builds, spend gold, gems, etc. The only solution i have found is to actually let go of a class until the way i play or like to play is viable again, if theres only one class you are interested in you can always use the time to quit for a few days (months), chill, and then come back to enjoy the game a bit more.
Its a shame tho, but that will never change since it Anet has shown us this is their plan since day 1.

Lmao OP. Absolutely amazing troll. Ill send you 1G tomorrow, lol irl deserves at least 1g.

And some ppl are raging rofl official forum is awesome.

Diehard.1432:

Lol, I thought its about rangers disguising as foliages etc, not being invisible/stealthy? And if you are worried of rangers abusing this ability to capture estates, this can easily be fixed by making them not able to do that while in disguise.

No sir, ppl worry cuz stealth is srs bsns for thieves/mesmers.
Rangers wont be getting this in the next 5 years or at least til the anet team gets bored n switches classes.

Meryt.9823:

Fight or flight is pretty much determined by the skills/weapons you have slotted ..
e.g. Rampage or Entangle/Warhorn or melee weapon.
short of the options here you cant have the best of both worlds.

You mean like other classes have when using a melee weapon?

KensaiZen.3740:

Must be me then it looks like I run faster with a GS then when holding a LB. I will test it when I get home

Are you sure it isnt the animation? Also happens with thief and short bow.

Whenever you have a bow on your hand the running animation slows down.

first time ive heard of innate speed increase. Never experienced it myself running w sb/s or sb/gs.

Well just as for every other profession it wouldnt stack on signet. Not a game changer imo but an improvement on the class.

Since a lot of ppl on this forum see ranger utilities as lacking (or at least defensive utilities) i dont think its fair or balanced not to have a trait that gives us a bit of running speed (10% is enough i think) when using a melee weap.
Say you run sb/gs, or sb/s/d without the 25% speed signet just feels sooooooooooooooo slow, speaking about wvw where running speed is important while roaming or running on a group (aka not zerging).

Not using that signet just makes rangers use a warhorn, limiting the amount of build/weaps, we can use. I know some of you ll say ’ Oh but i dont use it n pawn ppl in wvw lolololol l2p’, may i remind you this is just an idea for a bit of speed increase on traits which a lot of other classes have, and not a QQ about the class.
Just a thought

Eventho adding camouflage to rangers does sound pretty awesome, stealth IMO should be sth that should decrease in the game.
Say you dont give rangers this, but instead you give it to thieves, along w some toughness.
If everyone is going invisible it ll come to a point where ‘whats the point on removing culling everyone is invisible anyway’.

Not to make a ‘OMG what’ statement, but there trully is a preference for thieves on pvp (spvp/wvw) why exactly you think that is?

Lmao 1 min talk about rangers! we got a whole minute! amazing, just amazing.

Btw Karl, since you guys stated you actually read forums heres sth for ya:

’ Play as a ranger for 5 minutes and you will understand why most posts on this forum are about how sad the ranger class is, and how you have completly neglected this part of the forum (seriously? banners but not spirits?) – community is really tired (not to mention the ones who already left) of the literally nothing this class is getting from you guys. ’

Btw loved the part when the guy from t paradigm talked about stealthy thieves killing spawning players… and all he got was a laugh.
You wanted to build a game that was completly different? well you have failed, stealth is still OP and to make matters worse, you give power to thieves when in stealth LMAO. Just think for a quick sec, wvw/spvp turned into stealth vs stealth, was that really your intention or just sth you couldnt imagine it d happen?

if you think about gs as a defensive weapon then, for every single 1v1 fight block is awesome, extra bleed is good, stun.
But if you are thinking about ranger gs as warrior gs for dmg, just no.

Dear Jon,
on behalf of the ranger community i d like to request a simple answer on this post which wouldnt take you more than 20 seconds to reply.
After 6 months of launch the ranger class, as you may very well know, has been nothing but complains and to make matters worse getting nerfed, pet mechs being absolutely useless, trait lines are so far behind any other class its terribly frustrating, warriors, for instance, have better dps with our main weapon (that being the longbow), etc, etc.
That being said we would just like to see from you or anyone on the dev team a simple “yeah guys we are working on the ranger class, although fixes wont come out til mid year”.

Personally i trully enjoy playing the ranger class not just because of a pet (anyone can get a mini and move on with their lives), but my ele and my warrior are in so many ways superior (in both pvp and pve) i find myself neglecting the one class that shouldnt be about how smart a pet AI is, at least in my opinion.

If these nerfs were, are, and will be about bots, just let us know, addressing the issue about the complete lack of ranger improvements and communication is the only thing this community requests atm.

Thank you.

Is there even a point to post here? its been a while since i got this horrible lag (dat reset) and still no change.
Do you guys know what the problem is? maybe a “working on it” wouldnt make ppl quit the game in come back in a few months (as it has happened before for several reasons) cause you know…. you are losing money

fix it

kk thx

twitch stream VOD – Feb 7th GW2Guru State of the Game
Begins at 59:40.

Here’s my rough transcript:
JSharp: We don’t want to over destroy certain builds like the Ranger or the Ele, we want to bring them down a little bit but we don’t want to whack-a-mole them either.
Java: What parts of the ele are you aiming to nerf? Are you nerfing tank eles or D/D dps eles or what?
JSharp: Those are the two major things. I think the problem with the ele is he has so many small things that are a little bit more efficient than they probably should be. When you add up these little bitty traits, buff durations, little bitty heals, things from cantrips, that lets him be a bit more efficient than he probably should be. For him it’s more of looking at these features and how they go together. His ability to take damage, dodging protection regen, when he needs to he can spike and he’s also pretty mobile and survivable.

thx konli
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1939ox/devs_ranger_ele_nerf_incoming_pvp_balance/

Couple of options id like to throw out there to try improve the class (seriously nerfed cuz of botting?):
- Stow pets perm / no CD. its extremely annoying not being able to hide the stupid pet cuz of cd when trying not to aggro stuff.
- Let us choose if we want to use a pet, if not increase ranger dmg. At least til the pet mechanic is fixed, atm is just plain sad (pvp speaking)
- get better against bots, give us the power back, botting is no excuse even s/f eles 30 water can bot.

thx

Hi guys, just wanted to share w my fella eles a build ive been running for the passed few weeks.
I wanted to play sth a lil different than the 0/10/0/30/30 or 0/0/10/30/30 since thats all i see on d/d eles lately and it seems to be a pretty standard way to play.

Tha build

True, but not gonna happen.
You see? Anet has been paying attention to ppl qqs since day 1. Youtube some ele vids on bwe1 (same for ranger, thief, necro, etc) and you ll see the amount of nerfing involved since then.
It is unfortunate that balancing means nerfing some classes (while others are doing Arah exp solo … ehm…. warriors).

What would actually be interesting is to see a big kitten buff on pve and leave things as they are on pvp (while fixing bugs which have been there since day 1). Doesnt really seem fair to have a d/d ele in front of a mob hitting for 5 or 7k w firegrab and see a warrior hitting for 18k, considering the massive amount of armor they have and the paper made armor eles have.

Just a thought.

Delak.1064:

Some great Ideas in this thread. From what I’ve experienced the main tweaks that Elementalists could use are:
- Allowing players to move away from feeling forced into placing points into Arcana
- Having a higher chance of landing scepter attacks (while not being 100% chance)
- Increasing staff single target damage output
- Increasing the speed of staff abilities
- Making focus more desirable
- Making some utilities slightly more desirable
- Tweaking Ele base stats / bonus trait stats to allow for more viable damage builds
- Making some traits more desirable (especially in Fire)
- Increase damage of trident

Some ideas expanding upon that

Scepter:
- Increase direct damage on all auto attacks
- Increase damage on Shatterstone (water 2) and increase the animation speed by ~20%
- Increase the animation speed of Dragon’s Tooth (fire 2) by ~20-30%
- Increase the speed of the Phoenix “projectile” by 50%
- Increase damage on Hurl (earth 2), increase the animation speed by ~20%

Staff:
- Increase all auto attack speed / projectile speed
- Increase damage on all auto attacks
- Increase the animation speed of eruption (earth 2) / ice spike (water 2) by ~20%
- Add a direct damage component to Flame Burst (fire 3) (only affects your target, burning component is still aoe)
- Damage on Lava Font (fire 2) now occurs the moment it’s cast. The fire combo field will place a 1s burn (refreshes) on enemies standing in it
- Add a small medium damage point blank aoe to Burning Retreat (fire 4)

Dagger mainhand:
- Make Burning speed (fire 3) mechanics similar to heartseeker (can still move in a direction without a target, won’t overshoot enemies)

Dagger offhand:
- Make churning (earth 5) earth a “hold to channel” ability. The longer it is channeled, the more initial damage it does. OR reduce the cast time significantly

Focus:
- Reduce cooldown on Gale (air 5) by ~30s and add a damage component OR add a small AOE knockdown radius from the target
- Reduce cooldown on fire aura (fire 5) by ~20s, increase duration to 5s
- Replace fire wall (fire 4) with an ability similar to Thief’s Infiltrator’s Strike/shadow return, except causes a small fire wall at your location
- Allow an out of combat weapon swap

Trident:
- Increase auto attack damage on all attunments and speed of projectiles
- Add a medium direct damage on Boil (fire 2)
- Significantly increase damage on Steam (fire 3)

Utility and elites:
- All four utility signets are now instant cast similar to signet of air (signet of restoration unaffected)
- Combine all utility conjured weapons into one, allow swapping similar to attunements. Increase charges to 25. Increased stats will vary according to the weapon you’re holding
- Tornado adds protection and swiftness for the duration
- Whirlpool adds stability, protection, and swiftness for the duration. (maybe too strong?)
- Unsure what 3 utilities to add in place of 3 conjured weapons being removed

Other changes:
- Arcana traitline now increases combo field and aura duration by 0.5% per point (or 1% if it isn’t too powerful)
- Attunement swapping has a static cooldown (same as -60% reduction from current Arcana trait)
- Allow out of combat weapon swap

Interesting points really.

Now, being a d/d ele myselft since bwe1 dont you guys (other dd eles) get tired of the amount of heals mechanic? wouldnt it be better to (and this is just an opinion you dont have to go ape about it):
Evasive arcana: when used in water for instance, the water skill would be in cd. For earth give CE more damage but also have CD.
OR
Give us moar HP and reduce the healing %.

Last 5 days in wvw ive seen more D/D eles running 30 water 30 arcana than ever, i dont think its a matter of “eles have finally l2p” but actually being the only viable build for massive survival i think its pretty weak. Remember back in the day when you couldnt get outside a keep w/o seeing 2400 thiefs waiting to hit for 13k heartseaker? This is pretty much the same.

Some changes in S/D would also make it interesting, making scepter a viable weap could at least reduce the “im so good w d/d i won GW2 w AC gear” population.
Stuff like Dragon tooth falling on target and not making you wanna take a nap when you cast it d be nice. Maybe increase auto attacks and or reduce some of the animations.

Again, not saying you are BAD for playing D/D 30 water, just saying better get ready and start practicing fighting w less heals couse a LOT of ppl are complaining about it and i kinda see their point. I remember when heavys had such a massive amount of dmg they got a bit of a nerf there, same for thiefs, you guys think its “fair” we can pretty much stay 90% > HP during an entire fight? And be honest, this is w/o breaking a sweat unless going against a bigass zerg.

So we ve all been reading a whole lot of posts about how the 0/10/0/30/30 build is ‘GodLike Errmagherd’. Myself being a d/d ele i find it incredibly fun but i like to change builds every now n again just to modify the 100% healing kinda gameplay.
The one variable i have noticed on d/d ele is EA or the 30 arcana points, imo the attunement swapping time IS a must AND must be reduced at least that way we wont see that many ppl using EA and could use those points on some other line (yes yes i know some pros dont use EA but im talking about 99.99% of the d/d ele population).
On the other hand fire/earth honestly blow chunks (unless you are a staff ele who likes to stay ranged, thats fine no judging its a great way to play for some ppl), i love trying going full BURST with 30fire30air10arcana just to have some fun in pve, but using more than 10 points on those trait lines for Wvw (spvp, maeby…mmm nop still not) is a big no, wouldnt it be nice if the Earth trait line gave some sort of support options like the water trait line does?

Weapons wise Ive recently retried the good ol’ scepter, and my god… that weapon is so boring due to the lack of burst it literally makes you wanna cut off your man vegetables n make a pair of nice exotic earrings (again i know some of you are absolutely impossible to beat with a scepter cuz all gamez got proz).

What do you guys think? less healing moar powa? moar hp base less healing?

@ChillyChinaman
Thanks for the advice! Did that n its looking pretty good, i did however use trappers since i like to add spike trap for dungeons.

ChillyChinaman.6057:

Get at least 20pts into marksmanship for piercing arrows.
Also, 5pts in BM for the quickness is really helpful for burst/ressing.

What traits are you running so we have an idea of what you can afford to drop.

Definetly right, sry i got lazy n didnt post traits.

Heres my complete build, feel free to trash it, im just learning.

Heal and utilities:
*Healing sprig
*Muddy terrain
*Signet of the hunt
*Lightning reflexes
Elite: Entangle

Traits:
Marksmanship 10 : I Steady focus
Skirmishing 30 : II Sharpened edges | VIII Trappers expertise | X Quick draw
Wilderness survival 20: III Shared anguish | IX Hide in plain sight
Nature magic 10: III Nature’s bounty

Sup rangers! I come to your aid since ive rolled a ranger alt a while back, currently 80 w full exotics. I use LB/SB since i just always wanted that weapon set regardless of “dude LB sucks so bad, spare us n L2P” bs, im currently running 10/30/20/10/0.
Not exactly dissapointed with this build honestly, but i always like trying something new.
So far ive been using this build for dungeons and Wvw (grouped, still cant solo with this class)
Any advice on a dual bow build?

Thanks!

Oh ok so lets say you use Arcane wave, wouldnt that help out a bit? with a sigil of battle on weap?