Guild Wars 2

Sort out zergs everything else is secondary. I stopped playing because of the zerg fest. Not because there are no duels leatherbords and so on.

You need to implement changes that discourage zergs thats all. Game will be good again.

I guess I’ll sit out for this patch and seeing this maybe even 2-3 more before something serious is done.

atm I’m playing Smite and I find the game at least 3 times more fun than gw2 pvp

sPvp is not good atm balance wise and has few other serious issues, only thing that gives me hope is that everything can be fixed in 1 day and then on the other hand I dont see why arenanet is letting people leave 1 by 1 beacause they wont implement few simple changes.

heres a list they require little to no time:
1. winning needs to be a goal not farming glory so make it you get far more for win than for anything else
2. dicourage 8 people capping the same node by spliting the glory by number or people
3. tPvp needs leather

requires some more time but not that much
4. balance clasess so all are viable
5. condition damage needs to work better

If all that would be fixed game would be ok

@McSneaky If you like PVP play Smite its great I enjoy pvp there far more than GW2 it has real structure, GW2 feels very random and unpredictable zergy.

I liked leveling up but now theres nothing to do but grind same events over and over in pve. Or play dungeons that are imo bad in sense that bosses are either very easy or so op that they 1 shot your whole group, but I wont get in to it. WvW is not fun if you are alone or running with a zerg maybe it would be ok with a guild but then knowing me I wouldnt be able to dedicate to that too much.

spvp 8v8 is bad dont want to explain go read spvp forum
tpvp is ok but you need to get 5 people and organisation and so on then trolling

I would like it so much if this could be the game that I like to play but I simply find my self playing Smite more than gw2 and I alredy played 500 games in smite and still like it.

Reason why I like Smite pvp more than gw2 is that it has real structure real goals GW2 looks like a big glory grind nothing else

Does burning and poison add a separate condition for each player?

Also yeah swaping traits is pretty much useless. Because to use crit/power/cond build you need to have a gear that optimizes that build and also the traits. If you dont have either you are basicaly nerfed to the ground. And a person that has the right setup of traits and gear would beat you on dmg by far.

I dont think removing the cap would be a problem in pve since you can always scale bosses to take that much damage and problem soloved.

I’m trying to join this discussion but I feel I dont know enough about the conditions and how they work on different classes.

How many bleeds could potentionaly stack necro and warrior, I know that thief would be able to keep up about 15 bleeds.

About other conditions.

If I understand this correctly all other conditions like poison and burning stack in duration not intensity. So thief poison could last about the minute and then it can be reaplied. Which means even that condition is very useful since 1 thief can efectively keep up the poison on target. Moreover if thief has a poison share build and gives it to all others its basicaly useles since thief can keep the poison up on the targets without any help.

Please correct me if I didnt understand this correctly.

And please tell me if burning works the same.

Overal with all the caps you would really need to be very picky about which specs and classes you take to the dungeon because you could loose about 60% of damage if you choose wrong ones.

Also if they would allow it all to stack in pvp it would be impossible to beat group of 5 necros. They could just stack up the conditions and run around.

I mentioned somewhere all the way in bwe2 how dungeons in GW2 are not challenging just chaotic. I got slaped on the face. I tried about 10-15 times to do Arah explo and noticed how after 1 hour people just give up. In about 50% of the runs someone leaves and if I go out to Orr to inv a replacement I get locked out of the instance and have to restart a trash clear again.

In any case finaly a group of people that are not funboys and understand that this is a bad dungeon experience.

What makes me a sad panda even more is that PvP is also zerg fest I really dont know what to do at the end game.

I bought mop yesteday Main reason is better structured pvp. Dated graphics and mechanics mean nothing to me. I like the idea of new challenge modes and new pvp maps. When GW2 becomes more mature in ways of pvp i’ll play gw2 again. I think I got my moneys worth alredy. Had much fun leveling.

if you think pvp is ok the way it is you havent played enough. even tourney pvp got bad with all the guardian/mesmer teams not to mention 8v8 thats pure zerg/glory grind.

I dont blame Arena net for 8v8s I think they would have never imagine that people will simply grind glory there.

Skov if you dont want LFG system you dont have to use it do you ? On the other hand what happens when you look for people your self ? You pickup people that want to join and you get the same thing.

10v10 sPvp please no 15v15 even better 8v8 is not chaotic enough

I just love it when people come down to look at animation bit. Can you really look for all the animations on so many players around you esp asuras? No you cant.

Also PW has animation too. Also HS and every other thing Thief does so whats the difference.

You see thief fly to you you dodge. And not once but twice because that way you will make him miss 2 HS and you will dodge other 2 and he is out of ini and then he will stealth if he is succesful in doing so because all the stealth mechanics are broken. If he does go in his general direction spam 1 and there you go you have a free kill.

Thiefs are UP you just cant dodge. Animations are useless since you cant see them in time to react.

Please play Thief make a HS build and try it out or PW build. You will see how hard it is to land those. In fact any build requires more skill than guardian that can simply uses my 6k dmg and retaliates so I kill my self. OH yeah I forgot he has animation for that too.

Yes I do I care weather they are red or blue. Tho less and less over the past weeks.

Could you please answer some posts in this thread so we know you are even reading them. We make up things they get pushed by other posts down and we never even see any reply from you.

edited by moderator. Staff call-out.

It can work for sure just needs some thought put in to it but I gave up on idea earliest it would get implemented would be in expansion if ever.

Devildoc.6721:

Blinding powder doesn’t always seem to stealth me, or, it doesn’t stop my attacks when I get stealthed so if I’m autoattacking, it instantly breaks stealth before I can do my sneak shot attack (what I’m stealthing for). I think it’s not cancelling attacks. I use shadow refuge and I always go into stealth and it stops attacks so that I can sneak attack.

This just today in maybe a hour of play my deception didnt work even once. I got unstealth every time when using a pistol. Same goes for steal stealth. Obviously bugs that need to be fixed because they make a thief broken.

Bleeds are quite underpowered on some classes and are ok on others.

My bad I just saw this post convincing me this will never make it in to the game.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Balancing-Guild-Wars-2/first#post92064

What you need to do in order to stop gold spammers is:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Suggestion-on-combating-the-gold-spammers/first#post130998

Guy made up a prefectly valid solution to the problem and nobody even supported his tread with bump or anything.

I saw there plenty of beautiful suggestions that never got recognized by anyone because everyone seems to be interested in making dyes shared across all their characters.

When I came to Orr I was thrilled with the map in terms of difficulty but that was just because I had bad gear. Now that my gear is pretty decent I dont find it interesting anymore since I can kill pretty much anything even 3-4 at the time.

Orr should be even harder to move around but reward in terms of materials you can gather there and drops should be better. Problem with that however is that if you are in the group of even 2 people whole zone becomes a joke.

Would be great if we could get something like personal instance of Orr where you can only be alone make it very difficult like Orr is to fresh lvl 80. And then make it rewarding to spend time there.

I know its MMO and all that its just what I would like.

I would also like to see a lot of dead npcs which you can revive and escort them to a safe place.

Game needs more pvp love for sure. I guess we cant get everything right away but try to do simple stuff. Like 5v5 randoms on same maps. DM you dont have to make whole new maps just use something from pve maps there are plenty of places that could be used for arena matches. And so on.

Yeah pvp really didnt live up to my expectations. Main reasons in 8v8 are:

- 8v8 it self it has to be 5v5 to make sense.
- glory system where worse you play more glory you get
- levels should be awarded for wins and not for amount of glory so people will actualy try to win
- mass npc spam
- op mesmers
- gimmicky classes
- inbalance
- only domination maps
- i could go on but this is enough

in this state e-sports are not an option

I dont see a huge need for the system since you can do it via mail. Bit cluncky but still not a biggie imo.

I would like to suggest you rework the trait system in such a way that you have all 12 traits to choose in all 3 tiers but with the difference that same trait in first tier is weaker in some way than in last tier.

I’ll give an example thief has in crit line number 11 trait to give you 20% more dmg if the enemy is below 50%. Same trait could be easily reworked to give for example 7% more damage if used in first tier.

Ofc you couldnt choose same trait in all 3 slots.

That would make up for endles posibilities and make so much versatility to every character.

Arenanet since you had for 6 years an idea to allow using all traits anywhere, and you changed it last minute I would like to know did you consider this option?

Also people that made so much fuss about this trait tiering please support this tread if you like the idea so it dosent disapear in to oblivion.

Launcher is freezing 5 times for about minute each before I’m actualy allowed to click play button. I had this problem since the first bwe.

In second bwe I found “-noimage” switch wich run old launcher and everything was fine. Now that switch is not working anymore and this bug is still there. I’m not sure if anyone else still has this problem.

Things I tried:
run as admin
XP compatibility
and mentioned -noimage switch

Please tell me how to deal with this. If theres currently no solution I don’t care about the fancy looking launcher as long as I can run the game with no problem.

Imagine how it is when every time I want to play GW2 first I get annoyed by launcher for 5 minutes. 5 minutes is not much time but still.

I run AMD 2.8 6X CPU and 8950 video card.

I tried to find the solotion everywhere but posting here seems to be only option left.

I’ll add 1 more for me very anoying isue in pvp.

I use stealth when steal trait. I run pistol/dagger. So when I steal I should shadow step to the target remain in stealth and then use my number pistol ability. What happens if I have auto attack on, is that every time I do that I simply fire of 1 shot and get out of stealth.

So I can run without auto attack but that makes it even harder to play condition spec.