Guild Wars 2

natsos.3692:

He is repeating himself at a point which becomes boring and disturbing.

We know the issues he talks about, we know that SPvP has low resources and it should have more, we know that the updates are slow and bugs come with them every time but what about solutions?

How come this guy knows every possible problem and can judge it but has no solution – EVER – ?

No, this is just wrong, stop bashing everything, stop bashing developers, the company and the game if you have nothing to say about solving the problems, this is not the attitude we need right now.

I start to believe that Helseth doesn’ even care about the game anymore, he just wants to bakitten for the fame of controversy.

The things Helseth states in his “Rant of the Week” shows are things players have been discussing for like I guess 10 months or even more. There were problems and there were pathetic kitten solutions to those problems. I cant even think of really really good things they patched into the game after release. Class changes, most of them so bad we got to the “meta” we have now, which is like the worst and most boring “meta” since Svanirrunes. Every new feature they implemented is a disaster. Starting from Paid Tournaments over the miserable Spectator mode to meaningless Leaderboards. Well I guess Custom Arenas are not too shabby.

We players stood with the game, tried giving our input to the Devs through various channels to make a better game. Its good for them (moar money) and good for us (a good game yay). And we have been neglected ignored, Devs try to stall us (WAIT FOR THE NEXT PATCH ITS GONNA BE AWESOME) bullkitten us and hide behind smokescreens like, yeah we are humans plz forgive us I am a nice guy.
Well who cares anymore, on my part I don’t. Fun thing is, Helseth still seems to care, why else would he make those vids? Why wouldn’t he care for a game he invested something like 2,5k hours into? He kittening cares probably more than you ever will care my dear friend. The thing he says on this stream are very nice compared to the things people say in a more private environment about the game, the Devs yadayada.
Helseth vocalizes problems in a very proper manner and he uses his little E-fame to spread the word, prolly more people watch his vids than read the very good forum posts other people made. Btw if you consider this bashing you haven´t seen his other, more controversial vids.

I had the same issue, selected Greatsword and got the Hammer. I hope the customer support will fix it.

I thought this was just some random thread about some random stuff as usual but this skillque is probably the worst thing since 8 team tournaments. It feels like I have not full control over my own character and its just awful. Plz let me deactivate this “skillque”.

Sooo I am not playing anymore very interesting, and I shouldnt get access to CA because I soloqued a lot. Srsly if you dont even know everyone on the list how can you now who plays who doesnt. I am pretty sure if people ask nice everyone will be able to participate in CA.

Warriors can work exceptionally well in a high lvl tpvp environment. It just actually takes skill and communication to make it work, its not like faceroll ele “I tank every single cleave and then just heal up”. One thing people here dont seem to understand, more than anything Warriors rely on good team support and when they get it they can kill the entire enemy team within seconds. If you think you can tank everything just remove all condis and do great dps then play ele. You wanna be the hotjoin king play a build that is made for this crap, there are actually some even without GS 100B. Making Warriors work is hard. Period. Buffing Warriors will only make them OP and making them easy to play is a complete different task then just buffing them. If you are frustrated with Warrior reroll to something even my dead grandmother can play like tripple Cantrips ele.
Btw Warrior mobility is actually very good, Warriors are fast. And yeah melee fighters are susceptible to immobilizes and stuff like that, big kittening surprise. Thats in the nature of design, thats how melee works, thats why melee does more dmg than range attacks.

Yeah mantras need to be nerfed, cause in serious tpvp games everyone uses em.

How can anyone disagree with what Helseth said? Those suggestions are out now for weeks and what Helseth says is just a workaround, because Anet can not program a proper soloque, different ratings, a random map generator and so on and so forth. Arenanet can program a join solo BUTTON, gj Anet took your programmers months to create a BUTTON.
My experience with soloque was that, I soloque the first time and I meet a CN/CRS pug, that was really a great experience.

Let me get this straight, they didn´t add solo que, they added a fraking solo que BUTTON. Before you were able to que without the party, even in the 1 team vs 1 team paids. And you still can meet premades, the first time I solo qued I met a CN CRS pug. So please the only thing they added was a new map shish thats great. Oh and some minor balance changes that dont change by anything by the slightest. The current meta is still locked up hard because of the existence of those bunker Eles. Its face palming nothing more and nothing less.

Hail our new and old overlords, hail to the almighty bunker Ele HAIL ELE. I am not even kidding, literally almost every team runs a bunker Ele and its taking away so many options in terms of builds and compositions. GJ arenanet.

The situation is grim no one can deny that. Everyone knows what this game needs. There is still hope, despite the fact that the player base suffered from a great population loss ever since the release of this game. We as player can`t do anything anymore “for” this game, more than ever its up now to Anet. I have seen some Anet interviews lately like the one on some IGN show and what is up seems to be really awesome for all the PVEers. I haven´t heard anything about PvP though, and it makes me sad. The only thing worse than the actual PVP development is the lack of communication from Anet. Besides some blessed individuals nobody knows anything what is when coming and its hard just to keep on going on pure faith. And I am pretty sure this “great” communication is on of the reasons why so many quit. All those things have been said, and people will keep repeating them until Anet steps up and finally fixes those problems. The easiest thing to fix is communication, but hey who am I kidding? Good communication from a soulless multimillion dollar company? Yeah i don´t believe in it either.

Well just for the luls I tried it and iplocation says Texas.

For now I dont care how big small certain characters are. A well played Norn Warrior will strike fear into your enemies just by being big yeah. As long as there are no tourneys or real stakes it doesnt really matter. I play human cause I like the aesthetics, when there is something at stake I will make the smallest Asura with some crazy armor were you can barely see my animations at all. Considering this, size in general will be an issue in the future, but most certainly not at the moment.

By every stretch of the imagination I don´t see where solo que would be a bad thing at all. Anets argument, that the playerbase would be segregated is not a valid argument in my opinion, since its is already happening. Right now it seems that only known “elite” players and casuals can profit from the current system. Right now its almost impossible for an aspiring player to make a name for himself.
In my opinion you need 5n5 teamque, for all the good and bad teams, 5n5 soloque where you can join with a maximum a friend with a seperate rating. I would play it all day long when my team is not online, since pugging obviously can damage your teamrating there is no reason for a guy with a good ranking to ruin teamranking just because he wants to play “real” 5n5 instead of hotjoin. Third you need some kind of custom game without any kind of ranking. Like hotjoin, free tournaments whatever to kitten around and farm glory. With these things implemented I think the playerbase as a whole can be satisfied. Teams can fight vs other equal teams (rating ftw) people can play soloque all day long cause team is not here or get a good ranking to get noticed apply to a team, just because they have no team atm or just learn the game and unranked for everything else you might wanna do.
I want to reiterate again the playerbase is already fragmented and it doesn´t seem that its growing back together and for semi hardcore players without team there is no reason at all to play.

Encrusted doesnt look like other Orrian and its called even Encrusted, there are 2 Encrusted style Greatswords one has the icon of the Orrian so yeah thats what i call a bug Otti.

What buying gems? Who buys gems for real money seriously. I am a good player I earned gems through tournaments cause I am good. As for the majority of the player don`t buys gems for money only two things worth buying character slots and tournament tickets.
As for the dyes they are cosmetic, you dont become suddenly a good player running around with 150 dyes of which you use only like 4 anyway. So who gives a frak? Account bound dyes, yeah nice to have but most certainly not necessary.

Many things people address here are very true and i agree with many of those things. That said, I want just everyone to lower their expectations so people don`t get disappointed too much.

Create new characters, I have 3 Necros and 4 Mesmers each for a different purpose. Problem solved don`t thank me.
No but seriously, as I see it it would take away precious programer time to make this thing happen, and there are things in this PvP that are way more important than something.

Secret pro tip, you can craft dyes with sPvP collectibles.

yeah i agree with this idea, as a spvp player i’m always having to delete and remake toons, thus loosing my dyes all the time.

Buy new character slots, they are cheap.

AFAIK the Orrian staff is still bugged and therefore does not exist in sPvP as a usable skin.

Anet knows what to do. Keeping this 1 map “tourneys” will only work with matchmaking otherwise the last few good teams will suffer a great deal. I am already bored by all this 500:100 games, its like back in the day free tourneys. Scrim way to go!

As it is with many other classes, in tournament pvp axes make no sense whatsoever. It may is super good with some super good power builds, but those builds are just bad and worthless compared to the current meta necro builds. Axe and focus are really cute but there are much more better tools in pvp.

this is simply gold, platinum DIAMOND and yeah na meta sucks

I have now been talking to other players, thinking this whole through and even though I can see the arguments why Anet wants to change it and despite the fact that i am just a kittening lazy player I tend to dislike the change very much. Swapping weapons and utilities to adapt to a certain situation/layout of a point was just a THE trademark of a good player. The amount of builds that are viable is quite small now and this change will only narrow the amount of utilities and weapons being used now. As a Mesmer it a real no-brainer now.
P.S. Writing this lines I come to the conclusion that basically only some of the classes are really affected by this change. It really seems like a backdoor nerf to classes that switched a lot utilities and weapons. Just like lowering downstate hp opened the door to the current insta rezz meta. Everything looking innocent, until you start thinking it through. Is this how Arena Net thinks about transparency?

Danto best kitten point holder support Guard in the world. When he defends a point nothing can kick him off it, he sticks there like guano on my shoes. The amount of builds he uses is just staggering, I have learned so much <3 Danto

gw2 guru is just failing cause of some random kitten. its just too kittening bad.

I dont even know why Mesmers are complaining about Mesmer dmg and whatnot. Mesmer dmg is stronger than ever in tournaments. Phantasmspecc was bad in tournaments before the recent changes. The portal change was a hard nerf but probably necessary, you just have to adapt with side spot defense. Though I have to say I would love to see more different Mesmer speccs, condis and scepter needs love.

As i said before Aragiel, this is not even supposed to be a ladder. This “ladder” just shows a fraction of the playerbase. Consider this, you need at least 40 players to even start a tournament. At the primetime there are at least 2 Tournaments in EU going on. That means 80 players, and tbh I don’t think (besides the usual suspects ofc) there always the same 80 players playing. Besides this there are constantly free tournaments going on, with some promising teams aspiring. Sure GW2 aint nearly as big as LoL or SC2, but time will tell how the game develops.

Dear Adwila, I have read the entire thread indeed. Considering Ques are only up for like 6-8 hours a day means you have a good chance meeting the good teams a lot. Consider this, at the prime time you will always meet at least one good team you have to beat, if you dont beat them you lose -> no QP. But I agree playing very late and long can help you evading meeting the good teams, but still winning just for like 2-3 hours is not long enough to get, lets say 40 QP. Seeing the names on the ladders I tend to say those guys are actually pretty good, otherwise they wouldn’t be there.
Though it may even look like SS has played a kittenload more games compared to other teams, doesn’t mean they are bad, just practice a lot. But it also doesn’t mean they are twice as good as CN or teams like that either, just because they have twice as much QP.

You guys QQing here, you even know what QP are for? Its not even supposed to be a ladder or anything like that. QP are here for, well gettin you qualified for monthly tournaments coming out at some point in time. So I am really not so sure what the big QQ here is about.
One more thing the game is far from dead its stale, thats all. Nobody plays a dead game, the game has not been abandoned by the developers. If they do, yep its dead.

I love paid tournaments, the quality of games has vastly improved. No need anymore to sync, you just apply and play. Que times are reasonable.
Btw you only need to win 1/3 of your PT to play PT forever, if you cant win 1/3 of your PT you just need to be better, whats the big deal? But I agree there needs to be a “league” between topteams and PUGs. I guess qualifying points come into play soon.
Considering balance, there will always be a best setup or at least a setup that is superior to other setups, so why kitten yourself if you want to win? Its not like it takes forever to get a new lvl 80 char to PVP with.