Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

K Pop and I are going to be doing an intothemist Warrior guide for s/tPvP.

We’re at a cross road concerning what build to do.

Please sound off / vote below on what build you would like to see.

Thanks fellas!

-D

Just returned to GW2 to see if improvements have been made to further their esports aspirations. There is a lot of complaining about the condi-heavy meta on these boards and in-game. However, there are niche counters to a condi-heavy team. Having niche builds, imo, is a very good thing. The problem is the system of how the tournaments are started. You enter your team and if you don’t swap out characters to optimize your strat then you will be at the mercy of a blind match-up of two teams. If your tournament doesn’t allow you to swap characters and you randomly happen to go up against a team that has the right counters to your groups make-up, gg. There is no skill in countering your opponent. There is only the skill in designing a team that will be good and at least have a chance against the most possible enemy team comps.

What has this done to the meta? It has prioritized general builds over niche builds. General builds are polished and eventually turn into generic builds and you get pretty much the same builds over and over again because they are strong against most teams. Niche builds are only strong against certain team compositions, so very few teams run them because you’re unlikely to randomly be matched up against consecutive teams who are running the perfect composition for your niche builds.

A lot of people are complaining about the CC meta and focusing their ire on certain classes that have changed the general meta. However, I believe there is a more fundamental change that should happen: add a character select system at the beginning of every tournament match.

League of Legends does this very well: alternate selections and once the selection is made lock it in. For GW2, I would suggest that each player has a couple minutes to select his character and set the traits/gear. Once a character is selected, the traits and gear are locked for that particular match and all players (and viewers) can see the traits gear of the characters as soon as they are locked into place.

JonathanSharp.7094:

@ Defektive: We give Endure Pain with a trait, would Berserk’s via trait be too strong?

Or, alternate idea, what about a trait that aims solely at resistance to blinds? Sorta like the Goggles for Engineer.

Not saying we’d do that, just asking.

Ya I understand what you’re getting at.

The new Seismic Stomp on Rampage would have been an amazing F2 skill so that people could rely less on Mobility weapons so we could expand into other sets.

As for Condi, I’m unsure if having a proc-on [Event] trait will help anything. Personally, I’m against anything that gets me put on cruise control.

To be honest all what you have to care is balancing around high level gameplay.
If you start to balance around casual play you either abandon builds or entire classes from Tournament (see D/D thieves) or you overbuff them to a completly broken state (see necromancers)

Just wanted to create a thread giving Allie a shout out for her activities on this forum. We really love transparency from the devs and are really grateful that Allie’s been writing out some great answers for us recently.

For the sake of Allie’s unfinished lunch (due to writing essays on forums) we’d love to see other devs get involved and help her out.

Thanks again!

Just change all current weapons to have a static damage range, i really don’t understand why it actully have to be random?
Wouldn’t it also help a tiny bit with balaneing if the numbers were less random?

Allie Murdock.8152:

Ok Defektive.7283, then answer me this. Since it is common in tPvP, you’re suggesting that the opportunity cost of focusing on the necro, as opposed to someone else on the team, or focusing on capping a point/other secondary objective is not great enough?

If so, then let me ask you this: if there was a different class that felt more threatening, would you perform the same maneuver on them instead?

What I’m seeing is – you’re establishing a threat according to your team comp, and focusing on that threat. If a necro didn’t threaten your team because of the comp that you’re running, would you still do that?

How is it not counter, when there is a specific condition that is necessary for the success of that strategy? Maybe I’m not understanding what you’re saying, but it sounds a lot like counter play to me.

You are incorrectly inferring that targets are placed based on their threat level.

Targets are generally chosen based on squishyness / ability to escape the damage train.

In the early game, capturing a point isn’t important, winning the first team fight is.
If you can eliminate key players, or even 1 player quickly enough, you have a fight in your advantage.

Necromancers are PRIME targets, no matter their damage because of their complete inability to mitigate pressure or to tank it. Warriors unfortunately suffer from the same fate, we have no Z axis teleport or invulnerability unless we pop all of our utilities.

Early game:
1) Eliminate the easiest target from stealth.
2) Put the team fight in your advantage early on.
3) Switch targets to the most threatening in order to apply pressure and reduce their damage output.
4) Wipe out the remaining players
5) Capture the point.

Who cares if you’re down 20-30 points in the early game if you can secure a 2 cap immediately after and hold it for 2-5 minutes.

There is no opportunity cost to doing this, only an advantage to gain if your team understands how to use stealth mechanics correctly and can point out a target who can’t avoid your damage.

Shar.3402:

It’s not mentioned so I’m inclined to say no.

They don’t mention a lot of things though, hence why I’m asking lol.

Was Poison fixed with this new patch?

Hi everyone:
Im wolverine, i play GW2 since bwe1 and I play both PVE and PVP. I got my twilight 3 month ago, my current Rank is 142.

No friends, no GW2. I want to say thanks to all my friends, because of you, i can gain so much joys in this game.

This is some serious spvp right here:
http://shrani.si/f/2t/YP/1T3De0H/srs.jpg

Some high skill cap stuff here. Let’s all let AI play out our matches shall we? Mind you, there are no mesmer illusions on this screenshot, and I don’t know what happened to Ranger’s spirits. They might have just died of by my super professional grenade spam. I totally covered that cap point with grenades. Didn’t care what was on that point, didn’t look, wasn’t important, I just thought to myself: “Whatever’s on that point is gonna kittening DIE DUDE!”. Maybe I even killed an enemy Warrior trying to pull a skill off or something. Maybe that warrior was even just passing by, that poor dude. Doesn’t matter, eat my grenade and don’t touch my cap points! Those cap points are mine. I’ve got AoE, you don’t.

Anet could offer a choice to que unranked. Matchmaking still there but without the risk of dropping rank. Would be nice to be able to solo que without having to buy a new account. I would like to grind glory in solo when my team-mates are not on but without dropping 400 ranks like I did last time I gave solo a shot.

papaganoosh.7908:

Defektive.7283:

Velron.3729:

I’m fairly certain that the +stun duration sigils do not stack. Actually pretty sure Defektive said he tested it with one and with two…or maybe I watched him do it on his stream.

I tested it on-stream for the people who kept asking me to try it.

Doesn’t stack.

I’ll test it again tonight I suppose and will use a stop watch.

Did you manage to test this? I had a go and it appears both 1 and 2 just create a 4 second stun (at full adren).

Like everyone else is saying if Stuns are rounded then it doesnt matter if you go for +15% or +30%, it will all = 4 seconds, which is what it appears to do. If you had a 4 sec stun it might be possible to test it properly as one would be rounded to 5 and one to 6, but we don’t.

correct. thats why you shouldn’t use both.

The trait, Automated response Stops all conditions at 25% hp from being applied. Given so many classes play condition builds, this one trait can make almost all condition builds useless vs engineers. It also allows them to troll in a map. Three condition players may not even be able to take down an engineer with this trait on.

My suggestion, please give the trait a cool-down or allow other players to remove conditions as well as the engineer can.

…for increased activity and response on the sPvP boards. I’ve been around since launch and this at least ‘feels’ like the most transitional time in PvP since then, and it feels like more focus is finally starting to be put into this aspect of the game.

Thank you for making your presence known, and here’s to hoping the communication only continues to grow from here.

http://www.twitch.tv/defektive/c/2570590

That feel.

It’s good to see detailed opinions of players that join PvP their first time. These are aspects that veteran-players can’t bring up into this forum, therefore it will help developers a lot, just because they see another point of view.
Good to see that you tried something new. Sad to hear that it is not fun for you, but it’s the opinion of the majority. So no surprise.