Guild Wars 2

I’ve played LoL since it came out and saw it go through many of the same problems we are now. I hope you guys are paying close attention to they way they’ve dealt with those problems and hopefully implementing similar fixes.

For example, there was always a huge problem with AFKs in queue because there was no check after the queue popped. So what they added was a neat little popup that says “your game is ready. Accept? Y/n” AFKs are kicked from the queue if they don’t respond within 30 seconds.

It’s a very simple fix that immediately got rid of 99% of AFKs in champ select

the 25 skill cost is absolutely ridiculous.

I literally went back to gw2 after months to try out the new skills and then I need to play PvE for them or sth? Immediately closed gw2 again.

I have no Idea what made Anet do this and it makes absolutely no sense at all.

They don’t want everyone rerolling into mesmers so easily

the hammer is the most telegraphed weapon.i have no problem dodging the attacks especially with ranged classes, and if I do get hit by the cc chain its easy to get out of or negate. ie: stun breakers,blinds,blink/shadowstep/infi strike, distortion….etc. hammer is indeed powerful if hit by the whole cc chain but your just bad if you do. this is indeed a l2p issue. hammer SHOULD NOT be nerfed…whats your opinion on warrior hammer?

Vanthian.9267:

Heta.8629:

Why not just post the video on Friday instead of making this thread?

The art of anticipation. Much like what Anet did with Guild Wars 2. I have a feeling the video will not be good…

Then he should have announced his video was in development 5 years before it was released..better yet, it will be ready when it is ready.

I’m wondering if this will negate damage from legendary defenders in WvW, They don’t just outright kill you, they just deal really, really high damage that 1 shots you. I’m wondering if I could pop this and run right into an enemy spawn. I know you already can with other things, but this will just give me one more thing to troll my opponents with. Pop this stance, run into their spawn, dance a bit, pop endure pain, rush out, swap to s/shield, run out and laugh at them.

I propose a toast to the worthless and terrible builds that have become less ridiculous than before on this great day in GW2 PvP balance history

• To you, Hambow Warrior slayer of all with your puddles of slobber and rotten cheese. Your damage has been reduced and your Elementalist rivals of old have come for you ready to challenge your previous place as the masters of the side node

• To you, Sword Dagger thief, the imaculate troll build of all troll builds. May your legion of average players find far more challenging days in the months ahead. In anticipation of their new, demanding days ahead they have run away from their class like scared rats! Let them run!

• To you, Condi Necro whose nonexistent direct damage will not pierce the Diamond Skin of the glorious Elementalist who will have his righteous vengeance. May you discover how to play with skill in a future that demands both direct and condition damage

• To you, No Stun Break Condi Engis, whose vigor uptime was the only thing keeping you alive outside of your AoE spam and blinds and who now must consider their mortality far more than previously. May you reconsider your greedy ways and build more conservatively!

• To you, Spirit Ranger, whose thunderous spirit will no longer severely punish those near you with lower armor rating, and who will have to earn their duels against the Diamond Skin Elementalist who will enjoy destroying your embarassing existence

• To you, Condi Mesmers and Warriors, making mockeries of classes whose true glory lies in the risk and reward of bringing the burst, as you attempt to stack a few conditions on Berserker Stance, Diamond Skin, and Mesmers with stronger condition removal

• To you, Perma Stealth thieves, the truest definition of coward this game has seen. Your infusion of failure is dead and so will you if you try to run that terrible build in the hallowed grounds of TPvP again!

Let this day of December 10th be a new day – the dawn of the skilled and intelligent winning while the weak and spineless builds of the past die the shameful deaths they have long deserved!

what do you think about give the old pvp players gold for the tournys they played in the past?
because there are much old players played tpvp since beta and spend rly much time only into pvp.

for example, i played 3802 tpvp machtes and won 2441 of them.
i never played much pve, so i have only 20 gold atm :P

maybe it would be nice to give us pvp only players a bit gold after the patch.
maybe only for the wins ~15-20 silver.
sure it would be much gold in a short time, but pvp only players never have much gold and we spend rly much time into playing the game in pvp since beta and dont get much more then fun for that :P

Zenith.7301:

Warriors obviously needed more invincibility skills! 8+ seconds of total immunity wasn’t enough.

If you managed to die in 8 sec against warrior with 30 points in defense line, I would recommend you to try PvE.

I was expecting a little more. Giving us a draft of features that should have been developed in Beta, and implemented over a year ago is a step in the right direction, but I think it happened too late. I can’t even log for dailies anymore.

4v5, AFKs, and other things that can clearly be copied/solved from other games to give us an interim solution has not been done either :\

I feel like the direction of this game is going in too many directions, but with a low player base (and fading fast), regardless of how good the game is…kills it for me. You can’t ask me to wait like a dramatic girlfriend, I already have one of those

I love you GW2, but I think I am throwing in the towel.

Xista.7391:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Xista,
the gold earned from participation in casual sPvP and competitive sPvP must be very significantly more than earning gold in casual PvE / WvW or else PvE / WvW players will not bother to check out sPvP at all.

the sPvP player population will remain low.

top competitive sPvP players need to control the gold economy via their sPvP skills, not the gold farmers in PvE.

I would like to see gold only in Team Queue and Solo Queues. Having it in hotjoins could just backfire making it a toxic place to be. People already AFK if they’re losing, and jump out into spectator mode to force auto-balance. If anything, it would have to be a very low amount in hot joins. Probably less than ~5 silver.

5 silvers is too low.
people earn about 10 silvers per southsun survival game of 10 minutes.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Southsun_Survival#Rewards

PvE dungeon runners, they earn 1 gold from CoF path 1 per day. average 10 minutes as well.

gold rewards from casual sPvP should be much higher than PvE to attract new sPvP players from PvE / WvW.

the message must be clear.
sPvP is the end game to rake in riches.
not PvE farming.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Xista.7391:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Xista,
the gold earned from participation in casual sPvP and competitive sPvP must be very significantly more than earning gold in casual PvE / WvW or else PvE / WvW players will not bother to check out sPvP at all.

the sPvP player population will remain low.

top competitive sPvP players need to control the gold economy via their sPvP skills, not the gold farmers in PvE.

I would like to see gold only in Team Queue and Solo Queues. Having it in hotjoins could just backfire making it a toxic place to be. People already AFK if they’re losing, and jump out into spectator mode to force auto-balance. If anything, it would have to be a very low amount in hot joins. Probably less than ~5 silver.

5 silvers is too low.
people earn about 10 silvers per southsun survival game of 10 minutes.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Southsun_Survival#Rewards

PvE dungeon runners, they earn 1 gold from CoF path 1 per day. average 10 minutes as well.

gold rewards from casual sPvP should be much higher than PvE to attract new sPvP players from PvE / WvW.

the message must be clear.
sPvP is the end game to rake in riches.
not PvE farming.

Just want to echo this. +1

If you only pvp there is literally nothing to do when you log on outside of the worst solo que to ever exist. This doesn’t have anything to do with balance, lack of rewards, or lack of new builds/skills/ect.

Solo que - Great, que up right when you log on right? Nope.

• Conquest is the worst possible mode for solo que because not only does it amplify the selfish nature of conquest due to uncoordinated splitting but you rely on FOUR whole other people to have game sense. Just having 1 person afk part of the game, or being generally clueless / keyboard turner makes it a blow out game.

• Standard features make those issues I listed above have no filtering. There is no ready up, there is no alert system, the matchmaking throws rank 50 people together with unranked players – but what can you do? It’s already 10-15 minute ques for those high ranked.

Team que - ESPORTS RIGHT? who cares about fun?

• Great, another 5v5 format for the only two modes in the game. Yeah, let me log on and spend an hour gathering up 4 other people who are competent, have a good class spread, can get on team speak, don’t have to leave after 2-3 games, don’t have at least SOMEONE go afk between every game, developing synergy with these 4 people… and expecting them to be on at least a few times a week to play.

Even if that were an enjoyable thing to do, that still only means you get to play a few times a week and can’t just have fun within 15 minutes of logging on. Oh just get a huge friends list of decent people and start spam inviting?

“okay who wants to play mid bunk.. nobody.. okay”
" who wants to play side point… nobody… alright"
" what kind of team synergy are we going for? nobody cares? k"
" wait we have no poison on our team, oh alright lets just stomp bad team for a few games"

it’s just not worth it. 5v5 format, between good friends, is something that you can coordinate once – twice a week. Usually you meet those people playing OTHER FORMATS to develop your synergy with them.

hot join - completely pointless

• there is literally no point to this mode. It is not even a good medium to test new builds. It does not encourage even winning because it will swap you almost every game. There is no incentive to do anything outside of zerg with a group mashing your buttons. I honestly can not see an ounce of fun for even 2 minutes playing hot join, even with my friends.

custom arena = so close but so far

• There are too few options for custom arenas. Sure, people can set up private tournaments now. There are also a few dueling servers because anet can’t even make one public duel server themselves. It’s sad that even the duel servers wouldn’t work without monitoring. You don’t have enough power to create any meaningful different game modes or even alter the current conquest in any meaningful way. The best you can do is get 10-16 people all on team speak, in different channels, explain to them some honor system based obscure rules.. and hope after 2 hours of organizing you can test it ONCE before someone has to go.

Most people I know spend 98% of their time online chatting in duel servers. There is literally nothing to do. Even if you DO try to be competitive in the current formats through great pain – there’s still no way of anyone caring or noticing unless they go search through the leader boards for your name.

Peace

No.

- Classes are absurdly far apart in terms of depth and risk/reward.
- Without sweetfx the game looks very gloomy/blurry which makes it hard to follow.
- Esports are usually kill oriented. Conquest isnt.
- Adding skyhammer shows they see this as a minigame and not as esports. Filled with trollish 1 shot possibilities. Fun but far from esports.

no

-PvP Rewards/PvP in general-
- Have a monthly tournament that is being advertised like the Scarleth Pve stuff
- Implement Seasons with new armor skins at the end of every season for very good teams
- Implement leagues (gold, silver,bronze etc etc) at the end of every season the best team of the silver league moves up to the gold league and the team on the last place moves down to the bronze league (team leaderboard kind of thing)
- Implement ingame video tutorials on how to play pvp for new players
(I would be up for working on one but it has to be easy accessible for new players)
- Let players enter solo q/team q only after they have reached a certain rank or have played a certain amount of matches
- Legendaries: when reaching a certain position in the leagues you get a reward with which you can craft a legendary (so people can’t farm them)
- Let players display their leaderboard rank ingame (number next to the name)
- Implement a trading post npc in the heart of the mists
- Implement a system where players can place bets on teams in tournaments
—>>> easy gold for players but they have to watch streamed tournaments to know which teams are good so they don’t lose their money when placing bets (very good for the shoutcaster community)
-Implement X vs X arenas (FOR FUN)
-Implement a leaderboard ingame so you don’t have to check your rank on a website
-Let a player decide in the character creation if he wants to start his adventures in pve or pvp

General Changes:

-Conditions:-
Bleeding/Burning: let the damage scale with condition damage more so that berserker or soldier classes don’t deal that much damage with conditions
Blind: make the skills that apply a blind instant (like we see on ele) but decrease the blind duration
Poison: remove damage
Torment: change the skill so it does half the damage when moving double dmg while the target is not moving (in a game where good positioning and movement is a key to win a fight moving should not be punished) it also can lead to nice combinations with stun and immobilise
Immobilise: max duration 5 sec
Fear: move the “terror” trait on necro to grandmaster
Weakness: let it stack in intensity and reduce the duration of weakness applied by skills a little bit

How will that affect the Game:
Conditions will be used more carefully and we don’t see the spam we all hate

Runes:
Remove passive effects that depend on luck like the fear when fighting against somebody using nightmare runes

I don’t sit on either side of the fence on this decision, but it does strike me as odd that the new gem store light armor skins are retouches on human T3 light and I could get them on a Norn if I wanted. The other 2 skins are not based on racial armor. Curious as to why this decision was made.

I’ve been almost exclusively PvPing since the betas, and yet only just found this trick the other week:

Jumping to Keep Wall on Forest

Are there any other tricks like this that people might have missed?