Guild Wars 2

So I was thinking about my experience playing recently, and realized I only occasionally even bother trying to read opponent telegraphs too much anymore. This is even after trying to actively work on paying attention to telegraphs and not waste dodges. Of course, there are some skills that are very important to dodge, but these are few and far between. Most of the big bursts or cc’s (to set up that burst) nowadays are straight instant cast or essentially instant, and every class is an offender. There aren’t many specific skills where you say “oh, I need to pay attention to X, that really led to my death.” Fights used to rely more on dodges, requiring close attention for key skills. Nowadays, it seems fight are about simply positioning and proper rotation of skills, with a few random dodges sprinkled in (hoping to predict when your opponent is going to use that big burst).

Not only is the issue of too much instant damage frustrating for players, who have a hard time diagnosing exactly what led to their death, it is also an issue for viewers. As a viewer, when big plays come from piling up a bunch of instant and no cast-time skills, the combat becomes very hard to follow and cast. I am no expert at LoL or Smite, but I can watch these games and watch the character models go through large telegraphs at the same time casters are going “HERE COMES THE PAIN TRAIN!!!” With GW2, casting is usually left giving after-the-fact analysis “HE JUST ATE THAT INSTANT CC, THEN HE GOT SHATTERED!” Viewers aren’t witnessing the action unfold while someone commentates in real time, they just see stuff flash on the screen before the casters interpret what just happened.

Therefore, say no to all the instants, procs, and poor animations that plague pvp after a few years of power-creep. Support a return to “large effects have large animations.” It will make the game both more fun and more viewable.

Please please make sure you let us know if you will be fixing the many dungeon bugs introduced in the last patch too.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeons-changes-bugs-on-March-31/first#post4936915

Anet will figure it out when reviewing. The proper report is ‘Looking for group abuse" (think that’s what it says). They are violating the terms of agreement and ‘fixing’ PvP matches.

I was wondering if this would boost pvp. Many don’t have TS and those that do have a huge advantage. I believe adding ingame voice or at least if GW2 promoted some TS/Mumble/Vent plugin that it would help boost pvp players to learn good practices faster.

On PvP your opponents also learn and get better. Which would be comparable of having new instanced content once in a while.

Underworld GW1

Are there any plans for future dungeon content?

Have you ever read the text for defiance? It already treats blind as a control mechanic, reducing it to a 10% chance of missing an attack, and the blind is still removed in the very likely event that the attack hits.

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Gaile Gray.6029:

definitely on their radar.

you mean … table?

Trashcan?

It would be nice to bring back /resign like there was in gw1.

I only bring this up because today I have had a few 4v5’s and it would be great if we could just /resign like in gw1 and get on with our lives.

First I’d like to post the Flanking Strike / Larcenous Strike update history to make my point a bit more clear.

Game-Update-Notes-April-30-2013
Larcenous Strike: Deliver a quick strike that steals up to two boons from an enemy. Costs 1 initiative.
Larcenous Strike, Stab skills: Reduced aftercast by 0.5 seconds.

Flanking Strike skill:
Now evades and delivers one strike instead of delivering two attacks.
Removed boon removal.
Reduced initiative cost from 4 to 3.
Now toggles for 5 seconds to a second skill, Larcenous Strike, if the attack hits an enemy.
Improved reliability of flanking strike.

Game-Update-Notes-June-25th-2013
Larcenous Strike: Increased the initiative cost to 2.

Game-Update-Notes-October-15-2013
Larcenous Strike: This skill now steals only 1 boon.

Game-Update-Notes-September-9-2014
Larcenous Strike: Initiative cost of this skill has been reduced to 1.

Flanking Strike: This skill now must successfully hit a target before giving the thief access to Larcenous Strike. Initiative cost has been increased to 4.

To summarize the initiative changes
Flanking strike
- From 4 to 3 (4/30/13), from 3 to 4 (9/9/14)
Larcenous Strike
- 1 (4/30/13), from 1 to 2 (6/25/13), from 2 to 1 (9/9/14)

Initiative costs were reverted back to how they were in their initial implementation on the patch risk was added to the skill.

Larcenous Strike was weakened by removing only 1 boon from the target because it was possible to use the skill on missed Flanking Strikes, hence it was too strong and there was no risk to it.

On the 9/9/14 update however, risk was added to the skill, initiative costs were reverted but no change was made to the amount of boons the skill removes. Given: the risk of missing the skill, the current high boon state of the game and the lack of boon stripping I believe it should at least be considered to revert the skill to its original potency, while still keeping the added risk to it.

Watch the VOD here:

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/618175059

Highlights:

• February 13th was noted as the day where Stronghold, Borderlands, and Revenant/Specializations mechanics that interact with the competitive side of GW2 will be discussed in greater detail, featuring Hugh Norfolk.

• Stronghold teaser was teased. The Stronghold teaser will take place on the WTS Quals, taking place February 7th.

• Call of the Mists (magic find) buff for days around the WTS Quals, hold your PvP chests for then.

• Future change to the leaderboards confirmed: They will take into account higher weighting on overall performance, as opposed to an emphasis on grinding.

• Question posed to viewers about Revenants & Specializations, from a PvP perspective: “If a deep-dive is done, a technical theorycraft on the Revenant & Specialization mechanics, what would you like to have discussed?

I specifically want to know how the Revenant’s ability to channel legends will affect the 6-10 skills, and also how they overlap with specializations.

Put your questions on Revenant & Specializations in PvP below, please keep it constructive and don’t talk about how ‘this Ready Up sux’.

This bug still exists lol. Logged in today. “You are not in a guild.” Logging out of the game completely and back in doesn’t help. Turns out it was because I was set to Invisible status, so I’m mentioning this here in case someone else has that problem.

Fire Elemental Powder

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fire_Elemental_Powder

PvP in GW1 was just as accessible, but you had to buy the expansion if you wanted the new skills and I think it’s fair. Also, expect a price drop for the core game once the expansion hits.

Interesting, many of these changes are close/related to the leaked patch notes, in addition to some the matchmaking/queueing stuff that was implemented on Tuesday. I wonder if they actually weren’t fake, but just early thoughts? If that’s the case, there are many good changes they still need to put in.
If anyone would like to see the leaked notes pm me and I’ll send the link.
I feel like seeing more potential changes will spark discussion in the right direction. My current thoughts are that these changes are not enough.

Ranked…

• …doesn’t have Skyhammer.
• …doesn’t have Spirit Watch.
• …doesn’t have Courtyard.
• …does support generic character models.

Those four things are why I always do ranked.

Lupanic.6502:

Is it possible to write the log into a file?

DIS PLEASE!

Is it possible to write the log into a file?

most loses come from:
- people not defending points
- people not defending points
- people not defending points
- everyrone rushing far and feeding enemy at spawn
- everyone rushing animal
- nobody capping home ever
- nobody ever focusing dps on enemy team
- nobody ever defending points
- lord….
- pro team wipes the floor with your pug team

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Thieves are orange,
Engineers are yellow,
Wait engineers are yellow?
Why are engineers yellow?

Cheese

Justin ODell.9517:

Sevastianos.5672:

Our bunkers normally don’t enter the match as their bunker character, and also experience disconnect. We normally take care to make sure if someone disconnects they atleast earn points before the match ends but could there be abandonment penalties for swapping or DCing?

Yes, disconnecting or changing professions will count as desertion, and give that player dishonor. They will also be scored on the ladder as if they had a full loss, meaning as if their team had scored 0 points.

Justin in the 1.30sec period b4 the match starts can I switch character not profession(still same prof) and not be penalized in any way?

As sPvP sits currently in the game, lvl 80 happens way too soon.

If all pvp rank does is show how much you play, why is it capped at level 80?

Let us prestige and do it all over again. Give us some sort of shiny badge or other method to show what prestige we are on…. and let us rank up all over again!

I agree with your statement that the trait is powerful, and yes, Vigor makes it even stronger. However, you have to consider cost in addition to its risk/reward.

Thief survivability depends on not getting hit, either using stealth or evades. If you trait for Feline Grace, you can only get one GM trait outside of Acrobatics. The more you set up for defense, the less traits you have for offense. Thief have two traits to get Vigor. One is an Acrobatics Adept and the other is a Trickery Master on-steal.

I don’t agree with your take on the trait and wanting to see it be more "active". There’s a huge difference between spamming dodges and having the experience/skill to use them to deliberately evade certain moves while staying in to deal your damage. It can’t get more active than that.

I’m not that good. When I see someone who is, it makes me want to learn to play better.

To make it fair we should have a skill that sends their pet away for 6 seconds or prevent the engineer from using any kits for 6 seconds.

ANet didn’t want any hard counters. Yeah right… That is pretty much all this game has evolved to. The fact that they give skills to other professions that completely shut down the professions main defensive and offensive mechanic as well as an ENTIRE TRAIT LINE is just so kittening stupid I don’t even know where to begin!

/rant

Disable starndard models

I am going to post a seperate thread about the concerns, miscommunitations and general view of the developers from the community’s standpoint as they are out of touch, but for now I will help a brother out by clarifying his point;

Forsaker.9213:

Dear Anet,

This is where I have to draw a line and say that what we, Necromancers, got after 6 months is just plain awful. We got the same builds, of which one of them requires to survive via passive procs (Reaper’s Protection and Runes of the Nightmare), and a Power option that has been outclassed by many power builds within the game – without any changes that will incentify us to change our builds accordingly to make them fit a role better.

Changes were made, this much I will give you, but most of them are not regarded useful or do not have the desired effect we wanted.
You’ve also hidden nerfs from us untill patch-day which we would’ve been able to give feedback on if they were stated earlier – this has created a deep feeling of betrayal, think of Plague Form which has lost it’s toughness
Well of Blood also fits within this; the nerf was completely uncalled for and random. It is a healing skill that was already undervalued within the Necromancer’s community, and has only made it worse.

When you peform an action and cast Deathshroud after it will interrupt the skill
This will sadly not allow us to create new builds which could benefit from it, think when stomping and ressing with Foot in the Grave – which is sad, considering it would change a lot for the general combat within the game.
Now i can interact when in DS , to bad that going into death shroud after interacting with something still interrupts the action.

There is a consistent bug within the game which has not been fixed as well; When your lifeforce depleted and you proc Plague Form directly after, you will be kicked out immediately – Latency issue or not, this is just awful and should be fixed

Unholy Sanctuary also did nothing for build diversaty, as it is still incredibly underwelming

The only positive things are the changes to Spectral Armor/Last Gasp and Dagger Cleave, but neither of these are worth a 6 months wait

With regards,

Forsaker

Dahkeus.8243:

To put it in nerd terms:

Karl stacks tons of Int and Wisdom because that’s what he needs for his role, so don’t get all bent out of shape just because he’s not rolling on +Charisma gear.

/thread.

Karl is the best.

#believeinkarl