Guild Wars 2

The issue is how WvW works… servers need to end, we need more maps, towers and castles need to offer more gameplay besides search what is T1 or is empty.

lack of mechanics, is what makes the current awfull gameplay, Anet dont even put servers against server with same population at same time… they choosed a model where one ktrain after the other, wich is why we have alot of pdv wvw pro guilds.

this will make Anet think EOTM is a decent gamemode… wich is not….

when i hit 800 damage on zerker bzerker and i have arround 2400 power…. and i get 2k+ auto atack on my armored guardian because im not playing a ded brain spam build….

i dont mind to be outplayed, but when people hit over 10k several times or burst me Textiletrough shelter or condi pressure my 30k hp(anti condi build) in a few seconds, where i can clean a condi per second while i have blocks….and i have alot of them…

And i cant defend not protect team, unless i play lame JI+trap spammer…. kill target before it lays eggs…

@Kuya.6495, if they increase damage on guardian/Dh expect other classes to get boosted, issue with guardian is that is a class that gets outdated way to fast, when Anet makes it on pair with other classes they end buffing some of the other classes all over again.

Anet is already awfull at skill balance do their skirtt gimmicks to look cool, more power creep would not be a good thing, power creep is already easilly achived.

As utilities, they reduced the CD on consecrations, ive been playing with them, they dont impact much on the game of the support, even WoR dont work since all Anet made necessary for WvW is AOE/cleave spam and that dont get reflected.

When a guardian buff happens mean other classes will receive better buffs… sooon.
When some idiot guardian uses Hallowed Ground while fithing full encro groups… and get a ton of fear and other condis that u barelly have time to cleanse….

Lots of sacrifices, class is good to kill bad players or leech from combat….

What leaves me almost speechless is Anet is forcing a condi mechanic towards PVE by sacrificing the pvp modes….

Why forcing something that dont work on the game, or u dont know how to manage/balance for the 3 gamemodes…

IF Anet reallly knew what they were doing they didnt even need to separate 1 skill for pve and other for pvp…. even rewards are a mess in this game, the more u know how the game works the more deep the mess looks like.

No.

Wait to see if proces drop or if next expac gets the HoT game since players who wanted HoT had to buy the full game again, if they do the same, probabaly the next GW2 game will have hot as well.

wait to see how the selling thing will be.

Saiyan.1704:

zinkz.7045:

Ralkuth.1456:

An MMO is 90% PvE, most stick to whatever works.

You’ve obviously never played EVE Online, beyond that even with more standard MMOs there is a good sized playerbase wanting PvP, which is why at launch a lot of MMOs have as many PvP servers as PvE (e.g – Rift), just most MMOs get PvP completely wrong / neglect it with the obvious consequences for their PvP playerbase.

As for what works, really MMOs aren’t “working” that is the problem, they are supposed to be games that excel at long term play, yet MOBAs, FPS, Minecraft, etc all do a better job on that front, whilst 99% of MMOs can’t even grow their playerbase.

The genre is a stagnant unimaginative mess, look how few AAA MMOs have been released in recent years, the two big ones even got cancelled (Everquest Next & Titan), which says it all.

Wait for Star Citizen.

Then again games like SC and Eve Online are not the same genres as GW2. Apples and asparagus.

ashes of creation will be interesting as a fatansy mmorp but more for the WvW and roles players cumunities.

Sviel.7493:

Aeolus.3615:

still to much… i do like DBL more than the ktrain maps, but there quite a few things that needs tobe adressed on the DBL…

those huge puzle keeps and very bugged that u can just walk into by climbing a rock, spawn and the camp under it should be swapped…

this is one of the issues of the fire keep design

What issue are you referring to? Also, what keep can you walk into by climbing a rock?

P.S. In that screenshot, some one is calling out an SoS thief harassing Firekeep. Pretty sure that was me <3

ive got infracted by posting that on the forum already 2 times, last time i did that was a few months ago im gona try to do it again and send u a pm.

: the 2 ways to enter in earth keep look fixed, im printing my last comment on paper and taking it has desert after dinner

u where the thief?, i was like there is a zerg on north of the keep why are people talking about a thief…?
if u see a white guardian with Spirit Weapons its me probably, im the only SW user aprentely :|

Blockhead Magee.3092:

The change to have a single DBL in a match was the right move. I hate it when its our home BL but its the price I’m willing to pay to keep the few people who like it happy.

still to much… i do like DBL more than the ktrain maps, but there quite a few things that needs tobe adressed on the DBL…
Anet needs to change how WvW works overall… but i fear they dont have the vision for that

those huge puzle keeps and very bugged that u can just walk into by climbing a rock, spawn and the camp under it should be swapped…

this is one of the issues of the fire keep design

All they need to do about combat is remove the PVE cleave auto atack spamway from the game :|

This would be a good start, then reduce the cleave zone radious for the rest of the skills that cleave.

this would help reduce the lag as well.

Arlowslol.1974, not much to expect when classes are designed for pve cleave/aoe spamway…..

That is the result of their obtuseness about pve….

Yabbie.2591:

Arlowslol.1974:

I play pvp in cn server for a long time but afk for 1 year.

since the beijing wts, there are no tournament any more because of the lack of player.

for balanced, cn pvp player dont interested about build diversity. they focus on,which will be meta.you will see all thief are dp DrD, engi are hammer ,etc.

and others, they dont talk about pvp, because 70% of the player are pve player, they talk about pve balanced instead pvp.

My engi is rarely hammer, and I play pvp in cn.
But I think the problem of gw2 pvp is, hard to learn, and hard to master.
Few people are happy to study their non-meta bd which are usually far weaker than meta bd, and with a terrible risk of being spewed.

Deppends, i find pvp quite easy to learn, the thing is im forced to play alot of stuff i dont like to play cause the gap from meta and non meta is to big.
It is not the kind of pvp game where u tune your character for your gamestyle where player think will be better for that match, but all what player need to have atention is what is most broken and easy to play in that match division and hope team mates have the same mentality.

gw2 is really a mess of a game…

u tryed? and leaned how to navigate on the map with the shortcuts map offer, the timming diference from DBL to APBL navigations isnt that much.

Still game could be better, i do like the map but it doest fit in the ktrain game wich is all that WvW has to offer
But that might be a lack of mechanics and poor gameplay the gw2 offers at best that is conflicting with the map disposal, add the WvW zero goals, ppt is a placebo and servers are ment to ktrain each other with difere2nt timezones, every one farms and reduces lag…

About lag, it will get worse with the more condi spamming Anet is addding to the game lol… reason WvW will never get better.~

The DBL map layout it looks like it was ment for guild/groups take care of their structures wich is the thing that doesnt matter in this game, all that matters is to try to cap faster than other servers do, having more structures only increase players HP pool (wich needs to be removed) and ppt wich Anet needs to end with it and make something else, besides that structures are worthless.

Still for a company that transformed guild in chat rooms channels and failled to introduce guild halls, i think they are pretty good at creating fake mechanics, alot of players have been falling for this staleness as progress and inovative.

Core guardian now is way more build diversity than DH combinations, DH was always a sucker addon for guardian, a power creeper leecher, nothing more, and another usual mistake added by Anet with their lammer figthing gimmicks.

i think the best feacture is the vertical pull on spear, and we send target fly away.

f1 target, pull target against a slope, castle wall slope anything, theres a few places where it makes wonders as well in open field.

i think it is balanced, it put Dh on pair with something that Anet does once in a while for other classes, the diference is that ours is a bit RNG, and other players needs a easy rotation.

The game is mostly about damage output creep and easy builds to cater players so its ok.

1 – Make conditions work like gw1, players needed to know know how and have more team effort.

2 – bring back hexes… make some conditions to be hexes.

3 – Make the game being more single target instead of cleave/aoe spam

4 – Make aoe boons affect party members only.

Anet will counter this with some mandatory class to be bought in next expansion… it will be “fixed a la Anet style”

SCVwar.3784:

A subtle hand gesture from enemy necro who is stacked or half hidden behind other bulky characters to green dungs flying towards you? Hell yeah, I say it’s a long due balance change that has finally arrived, at least for WvW zerg fights scenario. sPvP or small scaled fights weren’t a friendly place for epidemic anyway

that proves imo that condiiton need to be worked they a re only spam based gameplay, being wahtever gameplay it is.

Conditions system from gw1 was really amazing, sometime we could overcindi player that not even 2 monks could do anything, still was required a good gank with certain skills, gw2 is just aoe+cleave keysmashing.
they could pressure players being in small scale of large scale…

well players damage to gate should do arround 1 – 30

actually every melee weapon range suffers that problem…. i should say its for pve reasons make skrits having more range than mobs XD

sometimes im hitting targets with sword or mace at that range test is on a gate for safe reasons since its imobile and start falling back

Obtena.7952:

This is a HUGE freebie and everyone should be kissing Anet’s behind for getting it.

so true….

players that relly in gimmick to win instead on personal skills will cry, blance path super effective.

Gimmicks are still there player have to aply more, this is what made gw1 actually a very good pvp, every one could play meta, but metas could require some player skill more than the build.

if they continue with this mentality i think i have to change my signature, cause 5years later they are starting to do it right.

the passive will only happens if guardian has taken damage, that is how the pulse happens, and 1.6k heal every 10seconds? maybe with a 10 guardian party, but loose a refresh to virtues wich provide aoe boons for a skill that might get u in trouble…

no ty.

All that SW are in needs is to reduce CD for 25-30 instead of 1 minute, and a better A.I, or actually remove the A.I.

lmao expect mounts tied to grindy masteries and more timegated PVE.

bruning would be to op and we already have on that aplyes burn, that is easilly overstacked, still retaliation arround 240-260 damage…. feels weird.

circular WoR pulse arround the consecration within the stability pulse would be interesting XD imo

well epidemic should be the right way to condi bomb, maybe its th eother sources that are to much spreaded?

this is a hard topic, epidemic causes alot of stress on server, epidemic needs to stay strong but needs a few changes….

azizul.8469:

just make it faction war, like AB in GW1, and remove EoTM….. settle….

Humm sadly Anet is very obtuse maintning a system that not works, just for pve reasons, and MO during gw1 time and gw2 anouncing said they would abolish factions gameplay, saddly Anet picked up a far worse thing in exchange….

WvW needs to be something like plating an rts, where th eplayers are the little soldiers, still w/o the right mechanics wich WvW has zero, since its a ppt race while Anet make one server stacked eneught to win… this system is more than a joke actually, added with the poor care on skills design in favour to pve spamway.

for some reason has puzzle in its name o_O

dont worry OP im awfull at them as well reason why ic a JP i logoff or go back to wvw even if im outmaned as usual.

Big blob server vs medium-small vs very small server…. game design is ment for that… just wait for your ktrain time, Anet have seted even blob times with diferent sheduled servers.

#gamemodebrokenbydefault

Offair.2563:

Svarty.8019:

I don’t mean this is a nasty way, but Rayya, you and all your server-hopping pals are the reason WvW never gets balanced.

Anet have stated before that the system takes time to work. When people transfer servers en masse you mess up the algorithm. It’s Anet’s fault really, they shouldn’t allow transfers at any time, there should be specific time windows to do transferring.

Well said Svarty, theyre the cause of this problem.

People should get their WvW rank reseted each time they would transfer over
And there should be only a 2 -3 times server swap in a year.

Redfeather.6401:

I would like a mount whose nose glows when it is close to treasure. It also has to fart a ton. Like imagine an animal that has bad gas and then multiply that by 10.

u must be a condi leecher

Anchoku.8142:

Blind is supposed to be an awesome defensive condition, moreso than weakness.

I think Arenanet should take a hard look at the condition and its mechanics.

wich can be abused easilly in wvw, i would bet on slow skill activation, or even a skill that could nullify portals.

i bet it will be a cc spec, with holograms that cause KB and stun, and make engi use teleports, might have as well some refelctive shields

Voice acting can be quite expensive if u want to get many languages on your game, i think the best aproach would be subtitles, adding once in a while a few languages if that is justified.

no server is to be blamed if the system is ment to work this way…

Saiyan.1704:

With a name like Firebrand, I don’t see Bunker guard returning to meta. Especially when we’re getting a melee weapon.

I’m hoping for a new way to deal dps, whether that be Condi or Power.

yeah and the support were getting is to purge condis and probably use them as source of damage, arorund that gameplay.

Its like a fusion of a Axe warrior main and Monk with smitting prayers as second class, if we can make an analogy with the gw1 classes system.

It will be necessary since they will be pushing the conditions spam even more.

They kinda “fixed” WvW, form what WvW was suposed to be:

A big server vs a medium(ish) server vs a very small server.
While the big server ktrain everything the other two got to empty maps to ktrain or they provode more content to the biggest server capping stuff behind the blob server, this is to create content it is a awfull design, and very placeboish as well.

Gw2 is a pve game oinly, reason they wrecked their own pvp gamemodes….

I would say no server has best fights, is there any server that the servers happend to have the same players peak at the same time?

its a ktrain or get ktrained gameplay in all tiers.
(i would bet Anet carefully selected servers and stacked them against server that play in diferent time).

No fights means no lag
No fights means no broken balance
No broken balance game is fixed.

no easy whisper on wvw…

Sometimes i like to bring a full spirit weapon build to WvW, and people used to laugh at call noob all the time cause that would not make me win (some actually lost and had to bring after a 1vs1 arround 5-6 friends to easy win and spam noob to me).

I already got that from my allies and that is eneught, i think i can imaagine my teammates when i pop up the SW….." oh god why is this guy with me" XD

Well i like to think i play a upgraded version of core, since i only use the DH for the virtues and the trait that removes conditions on blocks(only reason i bought hot…).

Still playing it based on the old mace shield guard, never liked trap nor bow.

Nickzor.2453:

I would imagine he is means the current state of warrior and DH. Portion of the community seems to believe these 2 classes are OP. While war is in a very high point of balance atm its still countered by enough to negate that concept…. and DH is countered by like…. half the meta.

increase health and remove traps for something else like wards and the class would be perfect XD

after the stream on ashes of creation yesterday, they have the siege (WvW) game i hever dreamed about players can even siege cities Ç_Ç.

I dont think Anet can compete with that….. by miles…

RabbitUp.8294:

There was a follow-up leak post on reddit. It said there’s no healer like druid this time around, but there’s support. Now, I will be really surprised if F2 doesn’t have healing abilities, so maybe the leaker meant no dedicater healer, not no healing at all, since Firebrand should be quite flexible with the Tomes.

But, they did say this spec has “a lot of support”, so at least we can be sure it won’t be pure condi.

DPS aoe support…. convert condis to damage, convert condis to healing and direct damage, guardian fire spec is based on smmiting prayers and divefavour mostly.
Maybe controlling allies conditions like we do with aegis, i dont think i will like the next expac classes.

Imo druids and eles healing is anoying, they can do damage at least more than i do with mace shield shout guard.~

@Kilo, i hate druid and eles healings, yeah necros are stupidly op when stacked but they need to be like that due PVE reasons, since they are doing a stupid broken design due pve reasons they canteven balance for pvp.
Anet will add a another stupid gimmick to try to counter necros probably….

@coro.3176, well for pve reason, Necros needs to perform that way, to make condition build viable to pve…

wait for the next guardian smitting praers specs, transform allies condis in fire to nearby hostiles… ^^

if i recall….
from light to heavy armor the damage reducing is arorund 12-15%
from medium to heavy its arround 7% damage reducing.

get better defensive rotations/gimmick?

healing power is ok if Anet will hever gives us a support/protective role/spec

hammer+shield XD

Note:
-spirit weapons, shield and hammer on command go trough gates.
-SW weapons casted under water, dont share land skills CD, so u can have all the 4 SW plus traps or shouts.

Tough i could use this thread for some info.

Jski.6180:

Paulytnz.7619:

Warcry.1596:

Elite in this case isn’t supposed to mean better or superior. Elite just means the specialization does more than a base one does. Elite ones change the profession mechanic, bring new skills, new weapon type.

Which is exactly the problem to a lot of people, they consider that the Elites specs currently ARE superior. Which I am gathering is the reason this post was made, so all your reply does really is support this thread, in a kind of round about way lol.

For a lot of classes they are because they did not take any thing away from the core class they only added more effects. They need to re-look at the core classes by making the core class line its own elite spec or simply take away something for the current elites spec that only the core class can use.

that would kill how the class is played in pve so they might actually buf for the player feel mor ethe elite feeling… dont forget how balance is done in this game.