Guild Wars 2

used to be able to play just fine I think at some point i had figured it out, but i quit the game about a year ago and now im back with the same issue… non stop crashes every 10 minutes or so as well

You’re problem sounds more like a hotjoin issue, in which case i can only say, deal with the zerging bud…. it annoys me sometimes too and i have to just rage-switch servers if there are too many of the same class, but thats just how it is…

the maps are small and there are too many people on it in hotjoin

in tourneys you might see one warrior, or one thief, anything more than that you should be able to kitten because it wouldnt be the best team comp.

I know what you mean by 100b hurting, but that is the trade off, they hurt if they catch you with it but you will dismantle them if they mess up or if you survive it, unless they are decent and hotswap to their shield/axe then you are still in trouble.

As for the bad thief/warriors/guardians running around getting kills by milking other peoples dmg in hotjoin, theres no way the devs can stop that without hurting the classes too much for competitive play.

to those that say your mist is dead, transfer to anvil rock, i see a lot of people here even now and its 3 am. and people still forming teams…

there is no skill in the game that kills you instantly, 100blades is 3.5s with frenzy 1.7
one single backstab wont kill you unless they have all kinds of buffs stacked and you are 100% glass canon with no defense, several backstabs might though.
Blade trail can get a pet necro very low, but is also extremely avoidable, and the warrior has to align to hit every single one of your pet, and even then you shouldnt die in one shot.

so what skill are you talking about that “insta” kills you?

Bamp for a cool dude, hes all about the yoloswag, #1 US

SamTheGuardian.2938:

Just read the latest info from Jonathan Sharp. Not happy. We know the best players will want to participate in paid tournaments With that statement ArenaNet immediately closes the door to the non-hardcore sPvP crowd.

I believe Jonathan Sharp’s history in sPvP makes him a great person to be heading up the hardcore aspects of the game, but what GW2 desperately needs is mechanics in place to make sPvP fun for all. With GW2 most of the players are PvE crowd, they don’t want to cross over to sPvP and only be given the choice to do hot-join ad-hoc matches without any real structure or go full on hardcore and devote many hours a week to sPvP.

This is not good for GW2.

In the sPvP intro video up on this site where you hear him say it’s about you bring your A game and I’ll bring mine and one of us goes home licking our wounds I cringed and realized he is not the right person to head up sPvP in this game. That is not a personal attack, it’s an opinion I will qualify.

My A game as a casual MMORPG player is entirely different than the A game of someone who’s trying to compete at pro level. If I want to organize five members of my PvE guild and go into sPvP and play to win I should not be paired up against a five man group from a hardcore sPvP guild like Team Paradigm.

To make an analogy, this would be like a local community organized mens basketball team going up against NBA pros. The answer is not to have a single league system where only the pros can participate in the for pay Tournaments. This is a closed system. Coming from a pro background, Chaplin seems to only want to cater to this group.

Someone who plays 8-10 hours a week and wants to split their time between PvE/WvW and sPvP should have an sPvP system that accomodates that and not one that forces them to sPvP 100% of the time and be devoted to an sPvP guild. When they do enter a Tournament, They should be paired with similar skilled teams so the competition can be fair. That type of player represents the majority of the GW2 demographic. It’s very sad that sPvP forces players to devote 100% of themselves to that aspect of the game so often with these type of games. The more recreational serious type of players should have their own monthly and yearly rewards separate from the best of the best. Yes, I am proposing a two league system, I just don’t think the qualifier points should be an exclusive thing given out to only the pros. I don’t think newcomers who want to do paid Tournaments should be paired against a team in a hardcore sPvP guild.

If there are things planned to stop this sort of thing that I’m missing I would like ArenaNet to talk about it.

I think the sPvP side of the game would do good if Jonathan Sharp would either consider this other group of perhaps have a peer on the sPvP team with him that understands the dynamics of casual sPvP. The non-hardcore players don’t want to be treated like second class citizens just because we have other time commitments and can’t practice as often as the pros. We should have a league of our own with our own Paid Tournaments. Without such a thing, the real structured five man sPvP will remain a very niche, closed aspect of the game. Who is that good for? Why can’t there be a more open design. Why can’t games like Team Fortress 2 serve as an example?

No offense sir, but they can’t even pull off one league, how will they make it a 2 league system? I do agree that it would be unfair to the non hardcore players, but I highly doubt that will happen, they have given nothing but broken promises, or misleading answers that make us believe one thing so we shut up for a bit to then mislead us again when the time comes.

I am seeing a trend here, and I’m not sure how many people will stick around for it, I am trying my best…. but its tough when all my RL friends went back to WOW or League… I will hit them up whenever this supposed e-sport develops if I am able to make it through all their misleading BS, just hope its not too late.

Pray.9751:

oh it’s gonna be alright, jon is already starting to write a new blogpost

it will be posted when it’s ready! stay tuned guyz

hahahaha! true, the blog will be up soon (as in 3 weeks for a page of more soonness)

(hope you dont get an infraction for what you posted, it made me laugh big time, they have some sort of EXTREME forum regime going on. )

This is extremely situational, other than in hotjoin i dont see when you will see a cluster of people standing lined up waiting for it to go through and return to the players, someone said this was instant, it is by no means instant, even if they are standing in front of you, if he hits the closest target that means he wont get that high dmg unless they are all on top of you….

Just curious, why are you in a hurry? its going to take very long for anyone to get to 80
and when people do it will be a real in game accomplishment, now if gear ir your reasoning, after rank 10 you can get some of the cooler stuff like armaggedon / pit fighters and vigil weapons

as far as how to do it faster? honestly and this may seem like troll advice, but roll either a warrior, thief, mesmer for hotjoin and roam as much as possible getting every spot you can cap as well as tagging every single downed player before they get downed, worse case you will get 5 points, best you get 15, even if you dont help down someone go and tag em, if you are trying to glory/rank farm that is the only advice i can give you and it is why i say use war/thief they roam like champs.

Well, yeah i think most people will just say the people they know, play against or play with, and the ones that dont really tourney much will mostly say people they watch on twitch.

I couldnt really say, as ive bumped into a lot of really good players and a lot of really bad players, but none that really stick in my mind sadly i have a terrible memory lol

According to these forums, yes, absolutely everything is O.P.

Varonth.5830:

Heartseeker is still a problem. Damage got reduced, but the fact that it is cruise control for thiefs is still present.
Oh that Mesmer/Ele just blinked away? Press 2.
The leap still has to go.

If you need a gapcloser: Dancing Dagger/Shadow Shot.

I dont remember the last time i died to heart seaker, roll one, if you have a shield block the other, you may get hit with one, but they can only spam it 3 times in a row far as i know? after that, just faceroll on your keyboard, and the theif dies, most thieves are glassy.

that would be awesome.

Knyx.5926:

shalmont.2539:

pistol whip gets nerfed, you guys arent content with the fact that they found another spec, you want that nerfed again…. let me ask you O.P do you want what is supposed to be a damage class, to have no damage, would that make you happy?

if they nerf backstab, they will probably figure out another spec, and again… someone somewhere will make another post to please nerf it, until the class is rendered useless.

I do not play a thief in pvp, nor care for it in pvp, but i think people are poking at the class a bit too much, i sometimes die to these burst glassy thieves, i just make sure im aware of his presence and never stop moving.

Well considering they are really complaining about not having time to react, and when I made a thread called " a redesign" of thief that would successfully give them at LEAST 4 extra seconds to react, and they are NOT jumping all over it. It shows that these whiners, and the whining threads are meaningless banter from a small community of players (forum-goers) that are unwilling to adapt and that their complaints are just younglings who want attention.

true, its just hard sometimes not to respond to these post, I really think that arena net needs to make a specific section called “nerf complaints”

because 70% of the post on the front page of the spvp forum is people complaining about other classes and begging for nerfs.

This is a troll right? if not, all of the things you mentioned are skills we have, the evades is a warrior who knows how to roll… frenzy 100blade, frenzy axe spam, both will destroy you if you dont roll out, and avoid the 4 seconds of glorious pain they can inflict, after that you are golden if the warrior is not very good.

:sigh:

pistol whip gets nerfed, you guys arent content with the fact that they found another spec, you want that nerfed again…. let me ask you O.P do you want what is supposed to be a damage class, to have no damage, would that make you happy?

if they nerf backstab, they will probably figure out another spec, and again… someone somewhere will make another post to please nerf it, until the class is rendered useless.

I do not play a thief in pvp, nor care for it in pvp, but i think people are poking at the class a bit too much, i sometimes die to these burst glassy thieves, i just make sure im aware of his presence and never stop moving.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Whenever the thread doesn’t show anything, change the ‘2’ in /page/2#postxxxxxx in your URL to a ‘1’. It looks like the forum isn’t aligned in how many it thinks should be on one page versus how many are stored on one page.

thank you !!!

i like duels, currently only way to do it is go into an empty server, im able to do this for hours at a time sometimes in the A.M’s, and yes its the best way to learn to counter other classes

:sigh: honestly man, im not trying to troll you, but thats a horrible team composition, put that up against any of the top teams and they will get steam rolled.

bugged out post? cant see it anymore :/ only gives me the option to post

very well said, I couldnt agree with this more.

Also agree with asmodean, more action less promising

Dont forget that this is a game for team based pvp, not 1v1.

Anvil Rock is pretty nice.

haha, i liked the mesmer’s wife one

Im sure a lot of the teams would love this, but like Aragiel stated….. with the current state of things its very very hard to pull off, even when the private servers go up, people wont be able to spectate.

I truly hoped i’d get a chuckle too

but hey at least you tried so kudos.

korzal.5068:

please fix this….

seriously, dont send your programmers home or let them see their kids until this bug has been fixed.

Co-sign.

Cage them, this is something you fire someone over lol, make it happen cappain!

its punished huh? I’ll take a stealth thief on my team over any burst glassy thief any day, my reason…. well there are far superior burst classes with more mobility, and also because stealth thieves are extraordinarily annoying and harder to deal with

Sky.9347:

shalmont.2539:

Hsulf.9370:

I actually think another week or two of silence would’ve been more appropriate.

I’m not annoyed with the post, and I see the pressure the community has put on the devs for releasing this post, but I don’t believe this is the blog post they wanted to put on the forums.

They have a lot of stuff they are fixing, not just spvp bugs but pve bugs, wvwvw bugs etc, and obviously implementing the pvp aspects it taking longer than expected. They’re just not handling the demands of the community very well.

wait what? PRESSURE? lol for something that should have been out since release? they promised an e-sport, people came to this game cause of it, not because of their radddddddd raiding system and pve options, most of the pvpers went back to wow or whatever other games they played, and the ones of us that remained with high hopes that it was just overlooked and they would get back on their job, were seriously let down by the blog post…. another week? for a blog post that took 3? lol you sir must be an under cover employee.

Hahaha, that’s funny. You said PvPers went back to WoW. Good one.

They never promised you an eSport level game on the day of release.

Say what you want about wow, but uhh all you have to do is go on twitch.tv and see which one has the most viewers, cant knock their pvp community.

So if they werent planning on having an esport on release why did they make it seem like the game would come out ready? they said they are now “planning” lol, know what that means? in the MMO world?

Hsulf.9370:

I actually think another week or two of silence would’ve been more appropriate.

I’m not annoyed with the post, and I see the pressure the community has put on the devs for releasing this post, but I don’t believe this is the blog post they wanted to put on the forums.

They have a lot of stuff they are fixing, not just spvp bugs but pve bugs, wvwvw bugs etc, and obviously implementing the pvp aspects it taking longer than expected. They’re just not handling the demands of the community very well.

wait what? PRESSURE? lol for something that should have been out since release? they promised an e-sport, people came to this game cause of it, not because of their radddddddd raiding system and pve options, most of the pvpers went back to wow or whatever other games they played, and the ones of us that remained with high hopes that it was just overlooked and they would get back on their job, were seriously let down by the blog post…. another week? for a blog post that took 3? lol you sir must be an under cover employee.

let me guess you are a glass canon that got glass canon’d?

turn a corner, simple, stop being bad.

ive been moa’d loads of time, rarely die to it….

Pyrial.2917:

Listen, all of us clowns who are complaining about this need to realize that A-Net doesn’t half a— it. They’re only going to release a fix for this “when it’s ready”…This means having someone go through lines and lines of code to make sure everything works as intended. Then it has to go through the localization process, oh wait…

ahhahaha, man i loved this… made my day

also… this is still happening……. jeebussssssss

have any of you been polymorphed in world of warcraft?

probably not.

I dont think its rare that warriors use it, Ive seen almost every single “decent” warrior use it in tournaments, its pretty much basics to hotswap to it for mobility, its a vital tool.

still happening almost 4 days later :|

what in the world………

Not sure if im not seeing it and what not, but is there no option to remove tooltips in gw2? if not, why not?

I hotswap weapons/armor mid match sometimes and the big old tooltips can get kind of annoying, i mean its not a huge deal but i was just wondering why there isnt an option (if there isnt)

same with my team, this is so painfully frustrating when you are winning and all of a sudden have to crash yourself out to come back to a losing game lol

I think the luxury of being small…. is being small… and harder to target/being seen…. I’m not sure how this didnt occur to you lol

^server has absolutely nothing to do with spvp unless you want to troll mist and what not… for tourney/spvp guilds it doesnt really matter.

@ op: I suggest you just pug tourneys man, i have found quite a few good players that i have tried out for my team, i did the whole switching servers, asking in several diff mist’s, and on here on the forums, no one really responds here for the most part….

in pugs you will mostly get baddies, but every now and then you will find yourself in a pretty good pug group, add them to your list and talk to them a bit, see if they are interested.

yes it is… and… I know right? LOL!

a lot of people are not leaving, they are getting endless load screen, and when they get back on, forget what number they were on, its happened to me more than 20 times last night.

just found this video, thought you’d like to see it, its probably what you were hit with.

i just leave the server im on whenever it cycles to that map, the underwater fighting is beyond unbalanced, and its simply not fun for me when there is ai helping whatever team zergs that spot first (which i dont like to begin with)

anyways, loved this post, made me lulz lots.

3k is what i do on crits with full glass canon spec with all buffs running, and thats not on 100% toughness, my mistake, thats on squishy people…… on bunkers its more like 800-1200’ish give or take.

@ wintermute, i never said i was quiting…. and im not demanding they fix it, im just very surprised they have not yet.

you must have skipped the post’s i linked, it IS broken, both wvw and spvp.

Vaerah.4907:

Red Falcon.8257:

One word, OP: Toughness.

Another word: LOL.

Glass cannon, I get crit by spammable attack for 8k+
Full thougness + full bunker spec + full bunker gear I get crit for 6.9k. 3 hits are still enough to kill said full bunker spec from 100% to 0%.

I cant do anything but laugh at your misfortune, as there is absolutely no way you are being hit for 6.9k by anything in a full bunker spec, what are you concidering a full bunker spec, because I am a glass canon and there is absolutely no class in this game that specs toughness 100% and gets hit for anything more than 3k crits from white hits (regular 1 hits)

Harmadda.5971:

Okay I just left PVP to write this up. This is actually my first post.
I was running through the battlefield and came across a Thief.

The guy vanished, hit me and BAM I was suddenly dying on the ground.

Now as this is my first post I am sure there have been others regarding “overpowered classes” and I just read through one of the developers saying “find a counter” before making that claim but I have to say…I can’t counter what happened when I was dead before I could react. I play sPVP primarily in this game and I was just floored at what happened.

Could a DEV even counter that?
I seriously doubt it.

Now I play a Thief occasionally, and personally I don’t think they are overpowered at all, I think there are certain combinations that can be made with a few Professions that are just undeniably unstoppable. There seriously needs to be some retooling if this is going to be the norm because I literally had 1 second to react. ONE SECOND between that fast attack and I was “fighting for my life”.

COME ON.

I have seen a few on Youtube that can drop health pretty quickly if utilized properly but NOTHING like what I just went through. Those attacks (Pistol/Sword for example) could at least be countered. This was just plain wrong. W-R-O-N-G.

It’s not even PVP.
It’s not even a fight.
Hell…it’s probably not even that hard to do because I am sure it wasn’t an exploit.

The point is that stuff like this takes the fun right out of the game. You expect some level of player versus player in PVP, not 2-3 button kills.

Who wants to play PVP like that anyway?
I wouldn’t even if I could.
It’s extremely cheap and without challenege.

So Devs, this isn’t a case of someone crying “OP!!!” just because they couldn’t stop a player, this is someone who has been PVPing since release and just came across a serious WTF moment. I even said that in PVP.

“Did I just die without even any time to react??!”

The Thief responded with a ‘<3’.

Yeah.

- H

not saying this didnt happen to you sir, but i have a couple of questions, are you a glass canon? what class are you? are you specced properly?

I have 533 hours played in 33 days (yes all i do is play video games), and I have played pretty much every class, and i have yet to be killed in under a second, not even by pistol whip at its prime while playing a glass canon ele…….

so why didnt you ask the fella what he hit you with or look at your dmg log? that may have answered your question on ’wtf?" it was

good players find counters bads complain about it to devs and forums (-_^)

Pants.8315:

Massively game destroying bugs? Where?

My clients crashed, maybe twice since launch, the issues sound like they are your side to be honest.

The mists are still packed on my server.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/BUG-10-7-patch-stuck-on-loading-screens-in-spvp/page/2#post383539

ahhhh, nevermind the link, im pretty sure its just me.

but wait….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/BUG-107-Patch-No-allies-Enemies-Render-in-WvW/first#post384626

nevermind that post either, cant be the game has bugs that they’ve already acknowledged?

meh… I doubt it.

alfista, you may want to go over to the bug section of the forums and take a look at all the people having the issues, are you doing tourneys or spvp? as far as i know no pve’rs have complained about the issue, atleast on the post i read…

@xericor, because this is really game breaking for people that only play this game for pvp, I am not really looking for people to get on my side, im pretty sure the empty mist speaks for itself… at least on the server im on

@moderator my computer can run 2 of these games at the same time, I am not having hardware issues sir, thank you…. and this is general chat forum, i figured I could ask people for alternative things to do in game now that pvp doesnt function in this game….