Guild Wars 2

No nerfs for mesmer, only buffs. ANet be trolling.

All the non-pro tournaments seem to be cancelled every week due to lack of interest, these things were the only thing that kept me going in PvP a lot of the time.
The EU tournaments have all disappeared because apparently nobody in EU cares about tournaments anymore (ESL, AG, pugquest), NA Thursday ESL cups don’t exist, the NA pugquest has vanished, the only thing left besides pro league is the NA AG cup, which would require to stay up until 4am if I wanted to take part.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

1. Updraft – 1/2s cast time so you can’t Lightning Flash into Updraft to force a stun breaker.

Only if they do the same thing to overcharged shot, death shroud 3 and nightmare proc.

I used to only crash in areas where there were lots of players in combat (WvW , silverwastes, etc.) but now I seem to just randomly crash all the time. I just created a revenant and crashed while loading the first story quest. I’ve also randomly crashed in LA and in low populated events in Verdant.

I don’t think more classes are in that much needed at the moment to be honest, I’d rather they fixed up current issues and improved the current classes than create even more issues by introducing several new classes.

In higher levels of play, DPS guards don’t even counter thieves that hard, it’s quite close to a 50/50. DPS guards are fairly telegraphed – yes you can argue that they have an insta cast teleport, but if you see someone start a GS whirl or hammer leap from 600 range away, they’re quite obviously about to teleport into you…
If the hammer ring screws you up, just don’t stand on top of them and they’ll have a hard time getting you inside it. Again with the insta-teleports, if they use a melee animation from range, the they’re probably teleporting into you.
Besides that, it’s just about kiting them around when they have their blocks/invulns.

Aktium.9506:

Laraley.7695:

Why would you care about how many points you get?

I don’t understand why you are going so overboard with this. All I was suggesting is giving a minimum number of wins that equate to up to a week of effort before opening up unranked, just like how a pve player has to play a minimum amount of pve before they can access Arah explorable mode, is this being PvE elitist? Arah does not have the same gameplay as AC after all

Also I also object to YOUR attitude, pouncing on me and calling me elitist for suggesting that someone with 200+ wins has more experience than someone with less than 20 wins. This is total wins since buying the game.

And this is NOTHING compared to the elitist scene where you have to spend 2 years playing the game to be accepted into competitive PvP. A week is nothing close to 2 years.

And believe me, I DO teach PvP to players in both my PvP and PvE guild as well as anyone who asks, but I’m not about to teach the entire population of beginners in PvP for very obvious reasons.

Starfall.6425:

Leeto was the link between the first two screens. His fault for sure!

Leeto’s abnormally high MMR is raining on everyone’s parade.

Matron.8013:

Thanks! So it’s safe to say any ranked games we win or lose will have no effect when the season does restart?

Correct.

Yeah don’t you just hate people who can’t afford HoT and want to play PvP with non-HoT builds, they clearly just want to throw games on purpose.

zapv.8051:

Can these all get buffed to 40 or 50 percent? 20% is not enough to be even remotely reliable. No one thinks, “let me use my 20% projectile finisher through that field,” because it isn’t reliable enough to change your play style for that.

20% projectile finishers are basically all auto attacks, or attacks that have multiple projectiles (like rapid fire). Increasing this to 40% just adds even more random passive play to the game.

I don’t know if you’re looking for honest feedback, but I can give you some:

At 1:20 I would have ported and cleaved the body with gs2 while your friend gets the finish. After this there isn’t really much you could do because 2 of your teammates were down and no enemy players were down, you weren’t going to res them vs 3 people without dying. In the meantime your team had won control of both side caps with a 1v0 on far and a 1v1 on close, so you should have supported the 1v1 on close and held the outer caps. Dying here is really bad if the enemy team knows what they are doing, because it essentially leaves your team 2v5 on the map for a good 25 seconds (15s respawn and 10s to get back to the fight) and allows the enemy team to roll over the whole map during that time. Meanwhile if you killed the guy on close in the 2v1, it would leave your team 3v4 on the map rather than 2v5. Luckily the enemy team wasn’t too bright, so they didn’t take advantage.

4:22 – 3 of your teammates go down to a single guardian, which is just a massive facepalm. I really hate to steal your thunder, but it wasn’t as much of a heroic res as you could have literally done anything you wanted and the 3 downstate players could have fully killed the single guardian.

There isn’t really anything else I can comment about on this video.

Mieczyslaw.7891:

So the funner looking ones are the harder ones? Oh poo XD

The ‘fun’ classes aren’t fun when you’re always dead on the floor because you didn’t dodge the right things at the right time

inb4 #redresignday

MrKahwk.9524:

They break PvP because they’re literally flooding the matches with their presence because everybody knows they’re overpowered.

Yes we’ve all seen how much they dominate PvP tournaments.

Oh wait…

They actually got over-nerfed (not that I particularly care). The first nerf that allowed crits and condis to land on turrets already threw the build out of the window, then they got rid of Metal Plating, Auto-tool installation and Rifled Turret Barrels which were three of the most essential turret traits which made them even more useless than they already were.

Saiyan.1704:

Rotations is 10s – Pyromancer’s Training

Do you even know the meaning of elementalist skill rotation? You know that eles don’t just camp fire right? There are skills in other attunements that need to be used in order to be effective, frozen burst for example should be used in every rotation and is a 15s cd.

If people only ran the meta, the meta would never change. Rom and Tarcis ran shoutbow when it wasn’t meta, now everyone uses it.

Now do it soloq only.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

For example,
A Ranger named Blue Lord and also names his/her pet Blue Lord.

Do you honestly have difficulty telling a player apart from the lord?

Season is over, off-season starts on Saturday and leaderboards will be reset.

http://strawpoll.me/5502028

Vote on this poll. If we get enough votes, hopefully it will show ArenaNet how much this is needed. The league system will make this an even bigger issue with premade teams having a significant advantage.

If you want a proper analysis on why gw2 needs a soloq, go here:
http://www.twitch.tv/thelordhelseth/v/13478223

Saiyan.1704:

“Played more often”

Players out-participating others is the reason why the entire leaderboard is screwed up. Not because of win %.

A person winning 7/10 games can very well be ranked lower than a person who won 5/10 games.
The chart below is the reason why.

I agree with Anet on implementing this system… just not the grinding leaderboard that they have. It needs a cap of some sort so players can’t easily out-participate other players.

Make the leaderboard only count the last 100 games.
Problem solved.

Kuroko.6239:

Eh… Any Theif can 2 hit kill a ranger and us rangers have no way to defend ourselfs…

A ranger has more thief defense than a mesmer does…

Hah. I just tried a turret engi to see what the fuss was about. A power ranger was able to take down a thumper, rifle and rocket turret all in the space of about 30 seconds with hardly any damage to him. Even the supply crate was no issue.
I see no issue with turret engis.

That would defeat the point of it being a ‘retreat’.

For the attention of anyone whining about turret engis being OP:

Beat a team with 2 turret engis, team was either full premade or 3+2. One of the turret engis is #1 on EU leaderboard.
Whole thing is sped up 3x, but if you’re still too lazy, there’s a moment at 2:26- when we essentially win the 2v2 with our mesmer + ele vs their turret engi + thief until the guardian appears. Even then, we are both able to simply disengage and leave the turrets in the dust.

This also shows how unjustified it is to have this guy at #1 on the EU leaderboards.

Keksmuffin.1450:

Dunno I would have prefered seing TCG win aswell and I think they deserved it more but why the kitten are you complaining about counter comping? You want to tell me you wouldn’t let people from your team that multiclass switch their class to adjust so you can win money?

They switched their comp after losing 3 times in the same tournament and only won once they had switched their comp. I wouldn’t have been as annoyed if they had decided a counter comp before their first match vs TCG and stuck with that, but switching as a last ditch effort after losing 3 matches just seems like a really low blow.

So apparently true shot is unblockable. Proof that ANet listens \o/

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

alvarez.3159:

sinister and zealot yes, dire and nomad definitely no

This. And while youre at it, if you add dire and nomad, lets add perplexity to pvp and make this game super fun!

Might as well add food if we’re going that way.

I don’t know how you can say that everyone finds unranked more fun than ranked when after last season everyone was moaning on forums that they were being forced to play unranked because there was no ranked.

+1
Should at least be able to go into a custom arena…

The fact that you haven’t named any cons shows that you haven’t thought this through. If you split ranked arena into 3 different team sizes, you will have on 3x less players in each mode, resulting in either 3x worse matchmaking or 3x longer queues, both of which will destroy the pvp playerbase.

They do post sometimes and no they don’t get people to post for them (as far as I’m aware). The thing is that the vast majority of people who moan on the forums aren’t actually that good at the game and would rather moan about things than figure out how to deal with them properly.

Saiyan.1704:

Anet underestimated exactly how many people want this. It’s been asked since launch…

And you’ve underestimated how bad an idea a ranked 1v1 game mode would be. Every time this is brought up in discussion on the forums, people have stated that they don’t want a 1v1 game mode and the reasons that it wouldn’t work.

1. The game isn’t balanced for 1v1, classes counter other classes and creates another dimension of tactics for team matches.
2. Yes you can argue that the effect of countering would balance out after playing lots of 1v1 matches, but not every class counters and is countered by the same number of classes – condi survival ranger for example is only really countered by condi necro, yet counters numerous classes.

Guardiagiurata.7403:

Good fake video, I’m the best turret engi, my girlfriend with my build killed everyone 1v1. Now we could have made around 10.000 videos where she killed all gw2 players 1v1 from gw2 beta LOL
So don’t create fakes like that! That means only you hate engi turret and you are excused for this cause is best class every created! Enjoy your 5v5 tournament won

Nice try, but you are not #1 on leaderboard like this turret engi was, so he must be better than you.

I can’t decide if I’m sure whether or not I want the only option there is to pick…

Because #redresignday

Can’t we just have a new amulet? The amulet in its current form is great for evis with int.

Terrorsquad.2349:

Bhawb.7408:

Bountiful Theft takes one “stack” of boons it steals, so you’d only receive one stack of stability, assuming that behavior transfers.

So basically starting expansion we won’t be able to interupt stomps/rezzes/banners anymore if they’re using +2 stacks of stability?

IIRC, if you use bountiful theft on someone with 25 stacks of might, they lose all 25 stacks but you only get 1 stack (otherwise an s/d thief would be able maintain a huge number of might stacks when fighting a cele engi/ele). This would be the same with the new stability, meaning that yes you would daze your target even if it had 3+ stacks of stability.

Why would anyone who can’t reach cross the three divisions that have tier-locking within the two months that each season lasts deserve to get the legendary?

Blu talks too much, I literally can’t listen to more then 2 matches without needing to take off my headset for a minute.

If it’s the most OP build in the game, why is it being replaced by shoutbows everywhere?

Bazooka.3590:

3 new thread of “nerf turret engi” each day means theres something wrong with that build…

Or we just have a really whiney playerbase.

Just had a match which pretty much sums up the kind of players we get in ranked queue:
https://youtu.be/xTxhjza_B0g
1. Going for NPC when mid needed help
2. Getting NPC stolen by an ele, despite there being a DPS guard
3. Both dying 2v1…

Kittykittymeowmew, aren’t you the guy who died to a thief 1v1 in 2 seconds in gold?

My mac client keeps crashing whenever I’m in a large WvW battle or during a large world event. Any idea what to do? I can’t really do either at the moment.

Drennon.7190:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

You’re asking in the wrong place, perma stealth doesn’t exist in PvP.

But every nerf thief thread mentions it! It must exist! _ _ ?!?!?!

I was once called a ‘stealth noob’ for porting to someone from behind obstruction :x

Minimum time required to get the legendary backpiece is 60 days purely due to these achievements. And that’s if you play 3 games every day for 60 days consecutively.

The achievement heavily punishes those who play extensively for a few days per week and have a few days each week that they can’t play. Players who play for 12 hours on 3 days per week gain the legendary at half the speed of those who play for 1 hour on 7 days.

This is nonsense – no other legendary has this system in place.