Guild Wars 2

Furajir.3815:

Then we can’t be bothered with your nonsense.

Basically this. If you’re too lazy to test why should we make the effort to do it for you.

Then we can’t be bothered with your nonsense.

Thinking about it, it could be that the values I was using to determine crit chance could be xx.51% crit chance, and that it does round on the character screen, since that would also put 21 numbers between each value. But even then, if it rounds in practice as well as on the displayed information, those 21 values are still what we want to hit. Here’s my handy list I keep in a notepad document.

2387 75
2366 74
2345 73
2324 72
2303 71
2282 70
2261 69
2240 68
2219 67
2198 66
2177 65
2156 64
2135 63
2114 62
2093 61
2072 60
2051 59
2030 58
2009 57
1988 56
1977 55
1956 54
1935 53
1914 52
1893 51
1872 50
1851 49
1830 48
1809 47
1788 46
1767 45
1746 44
1725 43
1704 42
1683 41
1662 40
1641 39
1620 38
1599 37
1578 36
1557 35
1536 34
1515 33
1494 32
1473 31
1452 30
1431 29
1410 28
1389 27

Would help many builds that feel subpar with their mediocre or unexistant swiftness access. DPS guard for example, maybe mesmer?

1. +10 to All Stats; +2% Critical Damage
2. +15% Boon Duration.png Boon Duration
3. +10 to All Stats; +2% Critical Damage
4. +10% Condition Duration.png Condition Duration
5. +10 to All Stats; +2% Critical Damage
6. +25% Movement Speed

Countless, Arken, Caed.

I understand TL;DR but please read it all it’ll take 5 minutes and voice your CONSTRUCTIVE feedback on this post below

Hey seeing as every thread keeps getting deleted destroyed the 90% bad posts but also the 10% constructive ones Im starting my own thread in direct response to JonPeters regarding the need to know finer details of what our problems with PvP are…" the devil is in the details " as you put it Jon.

This may not be 100% accurate but as a GW2 veteran in all aspects of the game here is my take.

1) Communication – It appears there is a lack of communication with playerbase and higher up devs like Colin Johansen ( spelling? sorry ) regarding the state of PvP. With the playerbase you are worried if your behind schedule you may get alternative outburst saying " We were promised x you didnt deliver on time /rage ". However I feel that majority of the PvP community would rather know what your working on and you be open with us and then have to wait say 2 weeks to a month if you are behind on a certain feature etc. Than be kept in complete darkness. Yes there will be those mad about you missing a deadline so to speak but communication > darkness.

Regarding communication to higher devs, as PAX showed it appears that the higher up devs such as Colin aren’t aware of the state PvP is in. You need to be vocal and assertive and constantly be going to them explaining current issues, telling them what you are working on and some ideas that the community have thrown out. Now if you have told them but Colin still wanted to say " Nothing exciting is coming for PvP we wanted to make a game thats easy to follow along and we are happy with what our PvP has accomplished " . ( I’m paraphrasing ). Then you need to keep saying to them…well no. Theres some major issues here. What Colin could / should have said to the PvP question. " Great question we definitely understand there are some key issues in PvP at the moment but we are working closely with our PvP team to iron them out, having experienced both feedback from our players and devs over this year we are still proud of the accomplishments we have made so far regarding PvP and plan to keep moving forward to make PvP in this game even greater. "

That statement to me, is still PR loaded and delicate. But it acknowledges our concerns. Now thats assuming they are aware of PvP issues but still chose to make that statement…In my humble opinion that is a problem with those higher up devs making a questionable choice of words…Heres the flip side perhaps the higher up devs don’t even know the real issues with PvP? If thats the case then Jon that falls on the PvP dev team in not telling them. Again goes back to being vocal and assertive. Get all up in their grill!

2) Playerbase and lack thereof – Another post in another thread mentioned some details about 17,000 unique players doing Solo Q. If thats the case I think we can all agree that number is quite low. The playerbase needs to improve before we can consider " esports " or even " competitive PvP " at this point. I believe the issues regarding playerbase are 2 things. First is the overwhelmingness to new PvP’ers. Leave this to the community, through streams and youtube videos etc FOR NOW we, the community can educate newer players. YOUR JOB now, again in my humble opinion, should be PvP rewards and balance.

First off rewards you need to bridge the gap between PvP and PvE. Dailies for example. If you complete a daily you should get mystic coin/s laurel jug of karma as well as PvP stuff….and as such you should be able to complete a mix of PvE and PvP daily achievements to get that daily done….or all PvE or all PvP. So now a PvP’er can gain PvE related items. PvP should also grant silver / gold. PvP should also grant you levels for PvE / World v World. And of course…overhaul the PvP specific reward system. This is a must, you must incentivise PvP’ing. If you are stuck for ideas on how to overhaul the PvP reward structure tell us, be open about it and the community can give ideas.

Second part of this is balance and I feel you already know a lot about what we expect balance to be like, so I want to focus specifically on PACE OF THE GAME. PvP is too fast at the moment….you should look to reduce all damage specifically condition damage. Slow the pace down. We want burst to require a team effort, not a single class spamming off global cooldown abilities like an ele etc. We should be able to see – " Okay we have a team fight here the guardian went in and split the team up with shield 5 oh wow the mesmer has been split apart from his team, the warrior jumps on him with his stuns while the thief bursts him down, Wow great play there. " and that should happen over the course of 5-10 seconds. Methodical in play not this glass cannon thief just backstabbed someone and he died admist spamming aoe.

3) Final thoughts – Theres a lot to accomplish here and if indeed 17,000 is the number of players we currently have participating in Solo Q its understandable why a company wouldn’t invest much in that game mode. But you have to look past that and trust that the combat system and potential of this game is ridiculous. Please have faith in your own product and tackle 1 step at a time.

First and foremost, balance and pace of the game, and reward system for PvP including overlapping for PvE etc. These 2 should be your top priority from here on out until you get them done! Amidst that be vocal with both community and your higher up devs. @jonpeters and crew Your community while having some volatile members too…will rally behind you if you can push past the small playerbase numbers and how that warrants less attention that other areas. If you push past that and give us these key features and talk to us, communicate and fight for the amazing PvP this game can have you will grow tremendously!

Defenseless? LMAO

Rangers have evades and energy sigils you’ll be okay. Hug your pets they’re there for you too :P

alcopaul.2156:

so when spirits die, ranger is left defenseless for 25 seconds? wow. lol

You do realize that is how a cooldown works right?

You get all you need by playing the game, not sure how that’s a grind. 500 Dragonite ore? that’s 25 Meta events, or 5 days MAX. There are cheap ways to get to 450 crafting AND you can sell the items made at that level.

I’m doing things I’ve never done before to get my Asc weapons, having a blast and have not seen this “grind” you speak of.

Not to mention, you don’t need to have these weapons. It’s a personal choice to go for them, just like Legendaries.

It’s like the Age of Piracy, but with Thieves instead of Pirates.
Thieves are free, it’s all fun and stuff, just join us.

Chess is a crappy tactical turn based RPG developed by a bunch of monkeys.

Right away you’ll notice Chess has no storyline. Instead, all you notice is the the White army and the Black army are fighting each other over a battlefield. Note the “a battlefield,” because Chess only has one story map.

As for the actual combat, it’s extremely dull. Each unit can kill another with only one hit. This means units with a real good movement ability dominate the field (more on that bellow). There aren’t even any combat animations or anything that happens in combat. One unit moves on it’s space and “captures” it, and the piece is removed from the game with no form of action or special effects.

Yawn.

Chess has kittenty class balance. The Queen is flat out overpowered while your actual front line units, the Pawns. can’t do kitten. I think the developers were afraid that no one would use the female character so they buffed up her abilities really high but now theres no point in using any other unit.

The rest of the units suck. Rooks can only move in 4 directions, same with Bishops. Boring. Also, whats up with the Knight? It has the most bizzare combat abilities of all the units. They’re kittenly hard to use cause they jump around like kittens to move and attack. The devs should have named this unit Ninja, since Knights didn’t jump around like that in real life.

Worst part, is the king. You see, the devs decided that if your king gets captured, you instantly lose the game. W-T-F? This wouldn’t be a problem, except that he can’t move for crap. Seriously, the most important unit in the game can only move 1 space a turn? Good luck keeping him alive while every other unit in the game dances around him.

Unbalanced classes, lackluster gameplay, and not to mention repetitive 1 hour+ games. Chess is not worth the time or your money.

3 out of 10.

what would Anet even give you to make you feel good though?………
Birthday Skin?

……Can I have a hat that’s a birthdaycake with 1 candle on it?

Thank you for bringing this to light. Respecing right now...

Proof. vvvvv

That wouldnt actually fix it. It would need to remove revealed, block you from being able to get revealed applied again for 1 second, stop you from being able to backstab for 1 second, and stop your auto attack when it activates to actually fix the trait and make it work as intended.

The best suggestion I ever heard, was to change it so it drops black powder at 25% HP instead of stealth.

Warrior + Thief dynamic DUO!

No thanks, I prefer it the way it is.

Arganthium.5638:

You’ve tried everything?

Try my 10/0/0/30/30 build (if you like, run Zerker amulet and jewel, it works quite well too). I’ve played S/D + SB for ages and I’ve been hugely successful with this build.

ya iv tried that build also but no shortbow… double S/D and with 3 init. on weapon swap trait. ya its good especially for boon dependent bunkers. but now im back to my old school build D/P + shortbow cuz i just learned how to do 4HS in black powder i can do it almost 80 – 90% everytime ima doin it! so addictive

Well, i guess I can throw away those Karma boosters from achievement chests. =p

But yea, at this point remove karma jugs and just directly give it to us. :S

Who cares?

Karma is a useless currency…

Now just stop us giving karma items to click on, just add it to our HUGE useless stockpile…

So what exactly is the point of liquid karma now?

All karma is account wide, therefore no reason to pass a jug / drip / vial / thimble / etc to an alt.

Boosts no longer work on liquid karma. No reason to even allow the jug / drip / vial / thimble / etc to waste space in my inventory.

Just hand out the karma directly and spare our mice a few clicks.

Zacchary.6183:

Gwalchgwn.1659:

Black Teagan.9215:

DanH.5879:

Gwalchgwn.1659:

This topic is meant for just silly comments people say about thieves without really knowing them

thief is OP

Thats right, thiefs are Ordinary Preposterously

Origin (of) pokémon?

I think he means “Out of Pie”. One simply cannot be out of pie.

“Overly Punished”?