I just wanted to address the issue on the forum and see if devs are gonna comment on it. It’s clearly an exploit of the MMR system (which is ridiculous btw) and something has to be done about it as it’s preventing people from enjoying pvp.
If you want a dev comment, better try your luck on reddit.
Guys sry I’m gonna white knight over here this couls turnnoutno be kitten but matchmaking is not somerhing you get right from the first time look at LoL Dota smite HoN …
Give em some time to let the matchmaking and devisions settle first ???? if this is not gonna happen you have all right to complain but i thing over time this will fix matchmaking more or less ?
Hope you understand
It’s hardly the first time Anet had to deal with matchmaking…
Thank you so much for your fast answers. Is that the only way? I read something about map completion, but don’t know if that means zones or world. And, I read something about some bosses like Karka and Triple, but can’t verify this any where.
Yes, that is the only way. Map completion, karka, triple trouble etc. have corresponding achievements.
I heard some personal story achievements don’t show the mastery point, even though they give one, but even then you can get mastery points only by completing achievements.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. I mean how do I acquire them. I only have 6 left for Central Tyria and my experience bar keeps going up, so I’m starting to panic. Not sure where to get more points.
You acquire them by completing achievements with a mastery point icon.
Thanks folks, I passed this discussion along to the folks driving the project on combat visibility.
Combat visibility in general isn’t driven by any sort of “esports” stuff though I realize that’s the easy out that’s cool thing to blame things on this week. Despite some of the insane assumptions I’ve seen lately, the PvP pro league is pretty much entirely a marketing team thing and has almost no impact on the dev team. Though we all think it’s really cool, and seriously some of those games monday were awesome!
From a marketing standpoint, it (and the ESL weekly cups and WTS tournaments before it) has been extremely successful so far, among the most successful projects our marketing team has ever launched to grow our title in the history of the Guild Wars franchise in return for the cost. If you don’t like it more power to you, don’t watch, but it’s absolutely helping our marketing folks make Gw2 a bigger game which I’d hope we’re all excited about. If you want to see the game fail I’m not sure what you’re doing here, but rooting against programs like pro league is basically rooting against Gw2 growing. When folks come here and rip on stuff like PvP, you’re basically hurting the games ability to grow – and personally I would say shame on you, if you truly love the game, be constructive and give awesome feedback and suggestions: but don’t knock it just cause it’s not PvE. And let’s be honest, it beats spending marketing funds on taxi confession ads or people spray painting wall cinematics if you ask me.
The reality about FX visibility is it’s consistent feedback we’ve had on every part of Gw2 for years that people can’t always see what’s going on in combat; our design, gameplay programming and FX team are putting a focus on resolving this issue together. This is most important in WvW and open world PvE where it’s the most problematic and where we need to solve this the most, though certainly impacts other parts of the game from Raids to Fractals to PvP.
Seeing what’s going on in combat isn’t a PvP problem – it’s a Gw2 problem, and it’s why our teams are trying to address it. I will say last time I saw the backlog of combat visibility cleanup work, the vast majority of stuff was along the lines of what you’re all suggesting below. More programming solutions at the systemic level and going after a lot of the side-FX like noise generated by other players rather than directly impacting your own FX 100% of the time. That’s the type of stuff you should be seeing in the future as this project ramps up, and looking at more options so you can opt into more noise if you want seems pretty logical. Along with that I imagine they will have opportunities to revisit some of the concerns raised here in relation to needing to see stuff that is important and how some FX have now become unreadable that should be, it’s (mostly) great constructive and totally fair feedback imho.
I do want to reinforce – we absolutely plan to do a major quarterly balance updates every 3 months (with a short period after each update to make small tweaks before the next PvP league season begins). The next one is due to arrive after this current PvP season ends.
There are loads of reasons why HoT was considered for us the first big balance update (and the month that followed it) for this PvP League and we couldn’t do any more balance updates before this one, but the reality is none of them really matter since they are just words. What you all care about is action.
As we’ve said before: in 2016 we’ll do one major balance update every 3 months; shortly the balance team will start discussing with you the next big balance update for early 2016 with everyone to gather feedback; and hopefully in the future action will reinforce expectations.
I realize it’s not the immediate answer everyone wants to hear this second, but it’s the realistic one of where we are today – and where we will be when 2016 starts. I’m not entirely sure why this wasn’t clear before now, and I’ll try and get to the bottom of why that messaging wasn’t provided, but that’s exactly where we stand today.
Balance is super important in a world where WvW, Raids, Fractals, PvP, etc. are key components to Gw2’s success. And ensuring we have a new major balance update you can count on every 3 months is one of our keys to accomplishing that goal.
Yeah I agree that really should have been more clear, I think we felt it was and clear that HoT was setting up the first season and obviously it was not.
In regards to balance – balance is NOT driven by our PvP Pro League, the pro league is a marketing effort that has almost zero impact on our dev team. Drawing parallels between the two is at best disingenuous.
As for viewers when it comes to the marketing side since you commented on it…pro league week one had over 400,000 unique viewers (non view bots) watch for a reasonable amount of time. That’s beyond awesome and a huge return on the investment. Are we LoL? Hell no we’re not. But PvP has been steadily growing for the last 2 years and it keeps growing faster and faster. Rather than knock it- let’s all get behind it and root for it. PvP was DoA when Gw2 first shipped, it’s amazing to watch what it has grown and turned into, how freaking cool is that?
And while we’re at it, get behind rooting for WvW and PvE to grow as well; we’re all in this together, it’s silly to knock things that are working. We have plenty of other stuff that we can make better to focus our energy on trying to improve
Because if everyone completes their content, we’d be crying for more. Atleast this way they get to fix every broke thing they released before the majority complete it and then want more content.
I already complete all the content, all the HoT achievements, story achievements, elite spec achievements, auric/leystone, chak achievements.
Now what?
Now you can start crying on the forum for more content.
Aren’t guilds server specific? can I join any guild announced here?
You can join any guild. You can play across server boundaries, however, you can only play with either EU or NA players (depending where your server is).
The only part about Triple Trouble that isn’t world-group appropriate is the simultaneous-kill portion. Otherwise, the event objectives are somewhat easy to grasp. Execution is harder, but that’s a skill challenge.
Even the simultaneous-kill objective isn’t so difficult with attentive players and commanders. It’s still not appropriate, but it requires just paying attention and coordinating.
I initially would have agreed except people have been consistently succeeding the AB meta which requires synchronized kills.
I wondered about that, too. Honestly, I expected a lot more trolling and drama there.
I suppose if everyone doing TT would know what to do, and had good dps gear, TT would be really easy.
Obviously, only people not interested in rewards run dungeons atm. These people are generally nice and welcoming towards other people, thus depriving us of a great thread.
Story dungeon paths (the primary dungeon paths you would do when leveling) weren’t nerfed as hard. I’m actually not sure if they were nerfed at all.
If you’re level 80, low level fractals are easier than most explorable dungeons paths imo.
The point remains that it doesn’t make much sense to run dungeons at level 80. Anet killed a big part of instanced content, just to force people to buy HoT and to “encourage” them to raid.
Yes we prefer them to the current ones.
But they are still 3 year old maps which have become stagnant.
Bringing those back will again just be a temporary measure to keep whats left here for just a little longer.
I want new WvW maps, not new EOTM maps!
So you agree that Anet should replace EB asap, as it’s clearly the oldest map? /s
