Guild Wars 2

According to the patch notes just released looks like we wont have any balance change….. nice… another proof that pvp is not important here…
yeh this is a QQ thread.

Let me rephrase this PvP lead guy. In 2015, when they are looking back in 2014.

PVP HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR.

no.

do you dont like your own patch? Oo

its good work guys!
its so amazing good work i cant stop create topics,
because its the best patch ever!

i dont troll like you on the balance stream guys, im serious

no more winter in the mists, i dont need more. its good changes

its best patch ever.
thats amazing!

i love the change called “no more winter in the mists” most

thank you so much for this amazing patch.
i was wait so long for it, finaly its out with all this wonderful changes.

We try..but is all in vain.Try writing them down to a paper and see what happens if warrior swaps every 5 sec and count how many sigil procs are every 10 sec period.
Man its not that hard..

TLDR: If the problem is ‘overwhelmed new players’, the solution is NOT ‘unlocks’. Unlocks do not help new players, they only hurt all pvp’ers and hamper build diversity.

I think Anet believes that new players to spvp feel overwhelmed and ‘minor speedbumps and unlocks’ will go unnoticed. This can be argued, but I can see where they’re coming from. When you first start pvping, you’re terrible and your focus is on trying to survive and kill stuff. OR if you’re feeling clever, you attempt to build-craft and will most likely fail.

So fine, in reality, unlocks won’t make a difference for the newbies because they’re still learning pvp basics. Still, people should have the freedom to pick any gear/stats/skills. To learn the entirety of the calss, to experience different play styles, etc… even if they end up becoming confused or hurting themselves by picking a terrible build. That’s the only downfall that can come out of it, and these can be remedied with better solutions.

Fix the actual problem of _helping new players get oriented to spvp. _
1) Give a meta starter build and explain (in game or even a youtube link) the reasoning/playstyle of the build. E.g. A)Bunker Guardian = Stands on point, supports allies, does little damage, etc.. DPS Guardian = Sustain, does lots of damage, etc..

2) If you want unlockable skills or stats, make it a ‘soft lock’. It’s faded out, but when you go to unlock it, a warning message pops up saying ‘this is an advanced skill/stat combo. Not recommended for new players’, or something along those lines. I don’t really agre with this explanation, but put whatever you want.

3) Not necessary imo, but another option is a minimum number of spvp hotjoins to unlock everything. Let’s say 10 or 20. Or Rank 5. Something really minimal. This is easily implementable since there are already rank vendors that sell based on ranks. Make this ACCOUNT bound, not character bound.

The STUPIDEST thing right now is that even experienced pvp’ers can only create kitten characters that don’t have the final healing skill. WHY does this cost skill points? This is a totally arbitrary gate. Based on their comments, more unlocks are coming like this.The only reason I can fathom is that they consider a new character = a new (overwhelmed) spvp player that can’t handle access to everything.

Please make the distinction between a new pvp player and a competent player making a new character by implementing #3) above.

We spvp’ers all have that one character slot that we delete/recreate to test alt classes. This was one of the best things about gw2 since we didn’t need to grind any aspect to have access to everything.

Not everyone has enough character slots to try out every class. If I want to try an engi, I might not find the play style I wanted because the new heal skill and certain stats were gated. As an example, maybe an experienced player would have figured out a new meta bunker build using AED and a certain tanky stat set that was gated. Too bad no one wants to invest 25 skill points and overcome whatever ‘speedbump’ they’re going to implement because that’s their ‘free character slot’ that they delete/recreate to try different classes. Keep in mind, almost all the new heal skills are non-meta and considered bad, so the likelihood of investing 25 skill points to test it out is even less. This is hurting build diversity.

I want Anet to buff Spirit Weapons, so we can have more AI!

End-of-season Grandmaster tier reward should be a Rytlock finisher, whose sound effect is him saying “E-Sports!”… make it happen

No I am not joking. No matter what way they push to balance some builds will end up on top. Whether those builds are considered OP are not is in the eyes of the populace. Despite the whining that we hear (much of it legitimate) the fact remains players will play builds that win. It really is that simple. With the list of things players ask nerfs for I think it might be impossible to balance any of this where builds are relatively equal.

I think given the slow balance, and the fact that balance updates generally just shift the meta, (which doesn’t balance the playing field) that playing cheese builds is only logical for some players. There is no reason to force yourself to play builds that you feel are balanced.

Play what works for you. Whether the build be considered OP or not play what works for you. You may get angry tells from time to time, or the other teams may hurl insults. I am being completely serious when i say this. None of this matters. What really matters is winning.

The biggest compliment any gamer can get is to be called a hack/macro player when you are NOT hacking/macro playing. Kill them with kindness, thank them for the compliment and kill them again.

Where are “Guild Wars” in Guild Wars 2?
Can’t find them,
there is not even a guild tag shown in the gw2 ladders.
Is there any button, i can challenge other guilds in spvp to show off my guild is the best?
Ps. I want my gold cape!

Any advice or help?

Good to see the system punishing people. Sorry it hit an innocent but i’m sure this is affecting hundreds of people with ‘bad connection’

I believe we need some facility for reviewing past PvP scorecards short of having to screenshot them all. As it stands, you’re hardly given enough time to fully digest the current post-game scorecard before you get kicked out of the instance.

This could be an amazing tool for helping to build the community in PvP. For example, looking back at past cards would enable us to identify those players who are usually active when we are online and/or those with whom we tend to gel/win/not rage. This would greatly facilitate players making new friends and forming tPvP teams, the value of which cannot be oversold.

Apart from the social benefits, it would be extremely useful for players looking to analyse their own effectiveness over time with different classes and builds. If you really wanted to impress the PvP community (jk) or build upon this capacity in the future, you could incorporate graphs and all kinds of statistical measures for players to drill further down into their own PvP metrics. I think an interesting example would be if you tied in leaderboard rank so we could see how that is affected by the outcome of each individual match.

Implementation-wise, a new tab in the PvP window would be perfect. Different views for tPvP and soloQ (and hotjoin if you like) that default to the latest game and can be navigated using a slider. I’d like to see it record the last 100 games per arena type, resources allowing.

I feel like there are a lot of quick wins here. Worth investigating?

Hello players. want to share with my idea. I think would be nice if we could have some rank logo next to our nickname,instead of just numbers you can see after match is over. have a look at these two pictures. In second picture you can see different logos for different rank. its just example. 1 stick for 1-10000 rank points for example,and keep going like this till dragon.Comment and share ur ideas,and maybe one day we will get something like this P.S sorry for my bad English.

Exactly what Deejay said. Downed state is an enabler for:

- Being Carried
- Playing super glassy builds and not caring enough about your own life.
- Punishing good players from fighting multiple lesser skilled enemies due to an artificial wall that isn’t fun.
- Promotes team imbalances and other general post-death imbalances.
- Besides, regardless there’s nothing “interesting” or team-playish about picking people up off the floor. The fun is supposed to be in the combat, not rubbing a guy’s leg because they’re bad and Numbers > Skill and coordination.

Downed-State is the safety net for bad players and gives the bigger numbers and even greater upper hand.

It’s broken and unfair in ways that have been expanded on before extensively and it is by far the worst feature in GW2, of that I am sure.

In fact playing without downed-state is what I look forward to most in coming MMOs.

Down state is stupid in pvp, when some dies they should be dead unless your teammate has a res signet.

Still threads about this? I’d only like to see rallying limited. Downed state itself is fine and necessary. Also it should be possible to rally if you are in a 1 vs. 1.

But certainly not: 4-5 enemies rallying from 1 guy they tagged which got killed far away.

An ability to toggle down state off in custom arenas would be nice

I know that probably has been a post like that previously but dont get me wrong, downed state is very useful in Dungeon and generally PvE and in many occasions in WvW, but is completely annoying and useless in PvP. For example something that happened to everyone, you were dueling someone and you beat him while he`s on downed state you are trying to finish him and someone else takes advantage of your low health and defeats you and you neither got a kill or had the time to escape because you were busy FINISHING THE PREVIOUS PLAYER!!! i mean what??? and thats just one example of why downed state doesnt have place to an intense game feature such as PvP! Anet if you want your game to have at least a chance in Esports little things like that, have to change!