Guild Wars 2

Shinzan.2908:

ThiBash.5634:

I’m kinda shocked that being the main heroes means our characters are forced to commit murder on a beaten and defenseless enemy. I’d have preferred to capture her.

She seemingly killed one of your friends and was actively trying to kill you while you finish her.

She was down. When the players goe down, they also attack stuff to rally. It’s self defense. Scarlet was literally fighting for her life at that point.

I don’t like to see ANY romance in MAIN story plot.

Most cliche dialogue since ever, why do you even put it in? It’s just broken leg, for christ sake and Scarlet lie down almost dead, but noooo Rox can’t leave poor Braham, stupid cat, i hope Rytlock will not accept her in warband.

Those are the vocal minority. We should talk more loudly than them to make our point valid.
Anyway, I totally agree with you with the idea that our character should not get ALL the credit. It doesn’t feel right at all to see hundred of people fighting beside us just for us to get all the credit. It feels like kormir or Traherne but backward.

ArenaNet Developers need to understand that when we complain, it also means we care.
My 10+ infractions means I care a lot. That’s not a joke. It may seem I hate the developers, which is not true, I love them, I just hate the decisions.

What I don’t understand why ArenaNet doesn’t mix living world with balance?

Just recently WvW was involved with the living world, it’s time for sPvP to do the same.

As game developers ArenaNet, you need to step back and examine every mechanic closely and determine if it is good, bad or ugly.

I can tell you for a fact, traits can be removed entirely for a different system that can be more fun, more engaging and more freedom for balancing.

Look at League of Legends, they went through plenty of mechanics changes. THERE IS NO SHAME! Roit knows full well when they kitten hard, admit their kitten s ON CAMERA and they have the most played game of all time.

Don’t treat us like we are toxic, don’t treat us like we are a massive group. Don’t be afraid to talk to us individually and often. We bite but it’s because we don’t want to let go. Embrace the loving pain XD

1) Is it too much complicated creating a system that balance the various professions in the teams of a battle? ( 3 thiefs, 4 mesmers, 4 warrrios…)
2) Why we have a ladder based on the single player when every match is played in team?
3) What is the sense of a soloQ ladder?
4) Why we have not a GvG system? Guild Wars of what?
5) Why we have to pray you for an update in pvp?(nerf or buff skill)

yiishing.9057:

nerf rock, paper is fine
greets, scissors

paper>rock
rock>scissors
scissors>paper
warrior>rock
warrior>paper
warrior>scissors

9. Sometimes those balance patches dont make everyone quit.

9: Hambow Warrior is new and exciting.

Lots of Blizzard shills hawking their game on the GW2 forums these days, things must be getting paaaaainful over there

style.6173:

Sigh. You don’t get it. ANET needs to make a game that a majority of players want to play. PvP is not as successful as everyone hoped. Why?

Because it’s still in beta.

It started out as a bit of flavor, and to give certain profession their strengths and weaknesses.
But after a year and a half of balance blundering, its lost all meaning. Warriors were suppose to be balanced around having natively high armor and hp, but theyve been completely overbuffed.
Now there isnt really any reason why a full zerker warrior has more hp and armor then medium armor professions who dedicates stats to toughness and vitality.

Inversely, Elementalist were suppose to draw their survivability from healing and boons, but had their healing and boons nerfed quite harshly over several patches that it doesnt justify the low armor and hp anymore.

Its one of those things that were suppose to be a part of balancing professions, that very quickly got forgotten entirely and never changed. I dont recall any changes have ever been made to a professions base hp/armor.

I, personally, always loved playing a support role in MMOs. The Support playstyle generally involves focusing more on allies than enemies, and healing and buffing them against whatever enemies we come across. Its a rewarding playstyle that takes practice (in most cases), patience, and attention to both ally and enemy detail. In most games, support characters are rewarded for their hard work via loot bags, scoreboard notice, and the unending gratitude of their teammates.

In GW2, most support players are rewarded with little loot, a frustrating supporting experience (because everyone thinks you’re DPS if you’re not a Guardian or Engineer), and blame for not running “full Berserker like everyone else.” It’s not to say that there aren’t any rewards. There’s a cool little title “Combat Healer” that nobody really cares to notice, and if you’re putting out lots of heals in sPvP you’ll be greeted with “Chaos Archangel, Combat Medic!” which is honestly really effing cool… but not enough.

There are many people who come to Guild Wars 2 hoping to be able to play a viable support role. The “Holy Trinity” in this game has be turned into Damage / Control / Support with each category being either a primary, secondary, or tertiary aspect of any build. Aggressive playstyles are rewarded with more rewards while defensive playstyles gain … very little if not a tPvP bunker.

Here are some improvements I think would definitely help improve Support play in GW2. (Mind you, this is from a Mesmer perspective. I don’t have much experience with Healing Power’s influence on other classes besides Elementalist)

HEALING POWER
Healing Power is currently very underwhelming; why go Healing Power when you could easily spec Toughness or vitality for defense? To trait for high Healing Power one must sacrifice damage, and since healing power only effects the potency of heals (survivability) and Regeneration boon (Defensive Support) it makes a crappy defensive stat and a much more potent support statistic.

• Quicker Rezzing - When I started speccing for healing power, I assumed that I’d be resurrecting my allies from downed faster. I figured “Surely these green healing numbers of mine that are springing up over this poor fool’s corpse must be greater than the brute Zerker Warrior kneeling right next to me. I specced for healing!”. I was wrong of course, and I can’t help but wonder.. why?
  - I think that your revive speed should increase respective to your healing.
  500 Healing Power = 10%
  1000 Healing Power = 20%
  1500 Healing Power = 30%

• More Gear Choices - Givers Gear -while totally underwhelming and barely worth it- was a step in the right direction. More options, such as a Healing Power / Power / Precision set would open up new opportunities for support specs. Runes like Superior Runes of Altruism (please put in sPvP) /Water (please fix 6th rune bug) / Dwayna are great examples of how new support runes, sigils, and food could be implemented.

REWARDING SUPPORT PLAY
One of the best things about Guild Wars 2 is that you can find a reward for everything you’re interested in. People who like to farm, run dungeons, go full DPS, go full tank, WvW, sPvP, ect, can always find something that’ll reward them for their playstyle… except support. The biggest complaint about running support builds is the lack of reward for all the effort.

• Loot for Support Players - I don’t know the technical side of this, so forgive my ignorance, but there’s got to be some way to reward players who focus more on heals and boons for allies than trying to tag enemies.

- Healing allies for a certain amount of HP through a battle should earn bags/gold.
- Number of boons cast on allies should earn bags/gold.
- Peripheral damage done (Example: Granting someone Retaliation/Might) should earn bags/gold
- Rezzing downed allies should earn greater rewards.

If we could figure out a possible way to implement this into the reward system, there would be many happy healers.

• Should Have a Visual Indicator (Tag of sorts) - You can see a Commander anywhere on your map, which is hella important for WvW. Having an icon or glow or .. something that allows you to see the healers in a skirmish would save a lot of time and headache and help a lot with team coordination.

• Should earn achievements. - I wanted to make a thread about earning rewards in dungeons for different achievements. (Clearing a dungeon within a certain time / Clearing all the mobs / Never wiping / Healing a certain amount / Inflicting X amount of damage to a single boss in 5 seconds ) Achievements would make people WANT to explore a supportive role.

• Boons could scale with Healing Power

sorry, but no, your a warrior not a ranger!

I feel that Guardian’s bunkering is the standard that other bunker build should be buffed to achieve.

Screwin’ up Guard’s vigor access is gonna be bad for them; consistent dodging and its synergy with Selfless Daring is perhaps the keystone aspect of Gaurd’s survivability. They do share the lowest HP pool in the game, and while heavy armor’s good, it’s of no benefit against the condition meta that’s so common right now.

Restoring Selfless Daring’s normal scaling would be an okay middle ground; with less vigor there’s less dodging, and though the HP/s would probably remain about the same, Guards still have to contend with fewer dodges to escape dangerous attacks.

Yup, close range with low mobility and virtually no soft cc= a lot of your build is making up for your deficiencies and therefor has less room go very heavy into offence. This is part of the problem that forces guards into bunker to be competitive. This, and all our good traits are in defensive trees. Our offensive trees are pure garbage (meditations are on a hybrid tree).

Play the way you enjoy!

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I agree way too many pets with too much health

I once faced an asuran spirit ranger who was named Storm Spirit with an accent on the i. The pet was named the same. I died out of rage.

I could not agree with this more. I think the biggest problem in PvP is that the main counter to AI (AoE) is actually countering AoE! Because I can only hit 5 targets with AoE, taking allies actually protects you an your party from AoE! It’s so backwards! They should raise the target limit to 10.

Oghier.7419:

glaphen.5230:

… when everyone else cant even kill a zerker Thief ever.

If you’re going to engage in the debate, consider starting off with a message other than “I am either dishonest or deluded, but here’s what I think…”

Please master explain how to kill a Thief in WvW that isn’t a moron. The only counter to Thieves is a Thief using a zerker Backstab build. Anything else and the Thief will always escape. A fight with a Thief in WvW either ends with you dead or the Thief escaping and possibly coming back to try again.

i have just a big question to developers….

Don t you think one day, pve players will be tired of all this and leave?

The situation is already Beyond broken and getting worse any patch with USELESS buffs on weak classes and HUGE NERFS to the same.

We are tired fo LFG 2 warriors 2 guardians 1 thief…..

Do you think is a good idea to nerf D/D ele and ranger again?

Seems obvious that anything that can potentially kill a thief in WWW has to be nerfed to the ground that was why i quit WWW but those also affect PvE where

only 2 classes are playing the game….

If things get on like this i just hope that only PvP players will keep playing so they will see if pvp is so important to destroy balance in the rest of the game.