Guild Wars 2

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Ranger_-_Condition_Survival

This build is very easy to play and solves all your problems. The person who can´t beat thief or mesmers with it is just…

…a very new beginner. One thing to add, only because every noob cant dodge or LOS powerranger damage it doesn´t mean powerranger is the best ranger. It is only the most popular and easiest build in the whole game.

btw.: Thief is much harder to play than Ranger ( I main Ranger)

It is still nearly impossible to drop points, so if you play enough you will get high in laddersystem. If you are skilled but have no time to play 10 games a day, you wont have a chance to compete with unskilled grinding guys. WHY?+

I would terrible hard wish to get some insight on this changes they´ve done.

didn`t read anything above except the first post. not willing to debate about it, just telling what i think.

1. Which is the best 1v1 profession/build?
There are very good Eles of which you can think they would kill everyone, anyway in tpvp ham/bow is suggested as the strongest 1vs1 class on a point.
2. Which is the most wanted team profession/build?
Actually every team needs a guard. Spiritranger also is a “must-have”.
3. Are either of the above “easy spam”? If yes, why does anyone ever run anything else?
Calling ham/bow out, it is not hard to play, but it offers a lot of chain cc. Spiritranger is very easy to play and it offers huge groupsupport!
4. What is the viability of builds that require huge amounts of skill?
Ele is playable, but it is hard! (how everyone will hate me now . )
5. Is there a profession where you can reach unlimited effectiveness merely by improving your skill?
Guardian.

Just about some minutes ago i was playing with some mates, we were winning our game. Then we suddenly got ported to the heart of the mists. 5 minutes later we could reconnect again. All our points were deleted, the enemyteam had a tripcap, we lost the game. At least you shouldn´t count this game for the loosing party, but as i know you guys, you´ll ban me from forums for this post. So thank you anet.

since this patch is kinda sobering in terms of balance i am wondering how long it will take till we get some significant changes for pvp?

i am wondering why there are ele in top 100 in eu, if its soooooooo unplayable (watch xerrex, phantaram or cmc stream for proof).

learn to position yourself and use stability.

ELE IS FINE. you can play s/f, s/d and d/d. If you cant you are just to bad, no offense.

the real problem is other classes are slightly to strong and to easy to play.

Its not the MMR, tis the players.
I was at ladderplace 25 (SoloQ) and my teammates still refuse to play tactical. They zerg happy over the map, dont protect any points or do something skillful. To be true most players which are in the Top 200 now are just so bad, they dont deserve getting listed anywhere. A lowskilled community cant be fixed by matchmaking.

ghaleon.2861:

I feel your pain, most of my losses come from 4v5 and guild teams syncing solo Q.

You dont know how true you are, well you forgt that u cant win spiritwatch or skyhammer without having luck.

Ele is considered as weak in higher rating areas. Even though, fresh air (S/F 0|30|0|10|30) is quite fun to play and if played a bit sneaky you keep up, somehow.

Right direction, but please don´t give us mats, since some of us only play pvp and they don´t need them, i would prefer some rare skins. they do not need to be custom and for pvp only, which ofc would be nice, but you could give us skin like lord taeres shadow. i mean this as a pvp skin would be amazing!!!
ofc only give the skins for tournament wins and you could make the dropchance scale, so you have a drop chance like 1% if you are rank 1 on the leaderboard and 0,01% if you are at the very bottom of all.

Well asking this for obv. reason i guess. So anyone knows it?

nicknamenick.2437:

again about the healing signet? […] I really dont get why people still think warriors are beasts and can hold a point against 2-3 people..

Get better in pvp, reach top 1000 at least. Then look those Warriors there, they can easily do that. You simply can´t because of missing skill.

felivear.1536:

I guess, to keep this constructive: why can’t we fix bugs immediately? Why do you we have to wait for large updates for major bugs THAT ARE ADMITTEDLY SHIFTING THE META, to be fixed?

JonathanSharp.7094:

We have plans to rework all sigils/runes, but that Sigil, we felt, was so important that we had to fix it now, before we did a large balance pass on the sigils/runes.

We have to make sure we aren’t making you guys download new clients all the time for fixes. We knew the sigil of paralyzation was strong, but we also knew our fix was coming in today’s update.

Worst and most jackleg answer i´ve ever heard.
- So every time u grant us thousands of new bugs we have to wait 4 months to get them fixxed, that sounds great, you are so fast!

JonathanSharp.7094:

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

Jonathan, don’t you think Warriors are just a little over the top at the moment? Such as the amount of sustain available even when playing glassy? The mobility/escapes from the gap closers in sword/GS where most classes require targeting for those skills to work? How short the cooldown is on some of the cc? Zerker stance stopping all condi’s instead of negative duration (isn’t this a bug, if so why isn’t it fixed?)

I know you guys like to look at the metrics and let things settle… but seriously, it’s been months… Surely you guys are aware of how much this has also affected wvw with increased stats…

Thanks for the thoughts!

Yes, Warrior is pretty beefy right now, and can dish out strong aoe CC with some specs. We’ll have to watch to see if any counters crop up to deal with it in the next few weeks. I do think the build is strong, and we’re watching it very closely.

If you’ll recall, Berserk’s stance was brought in at a 6s duration (and very few people ran it), and then went to an 8s duration. This was enough to get people to start trying to make a build around it, and this lead to the current sustain/cc Warrior that’s so powerful right now.

That duration may need to come down, now that their traits align and give them VERY strong sustain due to multiple sources or regen. It’s working as it’s intended right now, but the duration is longer than it was previously.

TL:DR – We’re watching Warriors very closely right now and waiting to see how the meta adjusts.

Ok, that means that you didn´t saw this bersi wars, only standing on a point, only going down if 3-5 people constantly pull out dmg on them. Sorry, but you must be somehow blind, if you really didn`t notice how op the heal sig on war is. Did you even play the game on yourself? Do you have only unskilled devs or why do you still think the war is ok?

since everyone leaves this game you will be matched with such sort of people more and more often. just deal with it. i lost my last 5 matches vs the same top 200 team (in soloQ), even though my mates aren´t even listed in the top1000. there are no people playing anymore and the mmr isn`t well made, so prepare to get those mates more often.

Arheundel.6451:

Will my grandson(got no sons atm) be in time for your balanced matchmaking? Or is it too early?

maybe your son will receive an answer to that

Busy, busy. With what are you busy? You took 2 months to ruin pvp more. I dont think you are working at all. No offense – just logical conclusion

silvermember.8941:

mistsim.2748:

HPLT.7132:

Takes at least another year until they realise family feedback is kitten and test servers for real input have to be implemented. Quitting this game was the best decision. Saves alot of dissapointment.

this! quitting gw2 was definitely the best “gaming” decision i ever made. im having a blast playing other games and i have zero desire to come back to this trainwreck. wont be coming back until we get some new devs who actually play pvp at a higher level.

Thanks for sharing which begs the question, why are you here? Are you trying to validate your decision or something?

maybe for giving a-net some strong negatvie critic. nice try guys, but a-net doesnt care about you, or anyone else interested in pvp.

they dont need to give us more skills, they need to get a dictionary for themself. so they can look up balance and try to reach this between classes. if they reach this, which they wont, we can QQ for more build diversity.

Kwll.1468:

When will people understand that they (A-net the company not the poor handful of pvp devs) care nothing about pvp.

Dont say stuff like this, they are doing their very best…

…to get rid off pvp.

yes nerfs for ele are always good

We have stronger warriors now YAY

so that is the huge all changing patch for pvp, at least they told us in sotg this patch will be bringing pvp up again.

btw buff warriors more, might be good

- Warriors with hammer and nearly permanent stability are unbeatable in 2v2 situation, they have way to much stability or crowd controll. Please, just descrease the stabilitytime on warriors!
- This is Guildwars right? Why isn´t there a Guildladder? Why should i even join a Guild in pvp, it gives me nothing! (I can also add mates on my friendlist. Imo you could remove guilds from pvp, the way they are treated right now) Reforming ur 5vs5 Ladder into a Guildladder cant be that hard.
- There were Thread like this a few months before, you asked us waht we want to be in PvP. As i remember different gamemodes were a huge factor, so why do we only get capture maps. (i guess, i dont need to mention skyhammer was the flop of the year)
- Spectate is a kittening Joke, really nobody even wants to spectate hotjoin games (pretty understandable, since hotjoin is nearly for beginners only). Let us watch top 100 tournament games.
- The last Point is more a Question, do you really want Rangers to be in that Spot they are right now? Ranger shoudn´t be able to be bunkerish, they should do dmg…

I just played 4 games soloqueue.
I won 1 game due to leavers, i lost 3 games due to leavers. So there were not a single 5vs5. What to do?
The “punishment” you use now isn`t working at all, make people scared of leaving. In my Opinion you should be able to leave 3 Games a month (for the people with bad internet connection). If you leave more u´ll get banned from Gw2 for 1 day, next time 1 week, next time 1 months, next time permanent ban.
You should protect your tiny amount of tpvp-players, or you leave them alone with all those leavers till even the last bit of, your somehow still standing, pvp-comunity leaves the game forever.
No offense, but how you handle with leavers is just… i dont want to say stuff like that.

1. Soloque, with good teambalancing (not like 3lvl 1 + 2lvl 20 vs 5lvl 30)
2. Team-/guildladder
3. More tpvp-gamemodes (only capping gets boring a little bit to fast)