Guild Wars 2

Darknicrofia.2604:

300 range cone… really??

its a class that needs to stay behind ANet made that to help player positioning.

guardian core needs changes to mix well with FB

SW need to be fixed to what they were bofore but with no A.I(stay close the guard and atacks close targets) with the exception of the commands that could use the actuall ammo system.

Shouts.. what are those?

FB needs sometimes to get some range dome, maybe swap hammer trait on virtues with the shield onde??

Straegen.2938:

Aeolus.3615:

Straegen.2938, imo hack n slach is the way to go, if i reccall that was one of ANet’s options instead the 11111 system.

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MMOs have lost sight of the basics in PvP. We don’t need a complex environments for PvP/WvW/RvR. What we want is depth of play that feels rewarding. Bascially make a Team Fortress style game with leveling, loot drops and much larger maps.

Indeed……but as a TF would be a poor deph :p compared with the dephness that some mmo’s have (dispise the issues they have, any mmo nowadays equals of beats gw2 in that).

When some one talk about game depth i see it has more options available to play, more tactics, innovation, freedom of choice(as in more choices).

To create depth into WvW they would have to;
-> End server system to stack communities in factions

-> Maps, if i recall it is hard for ANet spent time doing maps, Still maps are extremelly important for MMO’S(Imo i think ANet lacks a decent WvW structure and a ideas to help it, this could be tweaked with the ending of servers and each server would be a war zone with supodes 2 or 3 factions in war).

-> Mounts…wait wait.. dont rage, golems are already mounts, (there are plenty of mechanics that could imply map strucures and type of extre siege(mounts) guilds could built).

->Better structures design (atm some are ment to loose, to avoid stallness, its a cheap model ANet, most time its a zero effort or a stacked server will fall on top of your team).

-> reward more guilds that own and care about structures, create better mechanics for ground combat(better balance?).

-> less hide n treb/proxy cata and more openfield battles are needed,ANet as encouraged less and less over time figths, map design and strucutures need more objectivity than the lame excuse to hide n treb as a tactic.

Vitali.5039, thats the reason i wanted shield on virtues(swap with hammer trait) xD cause that thing it would be the only anti range defense that would works (w/o using utilities) unless people starts to use meditations gaps as usual.

And swapping it with hammer triat would make shield and virtues avaliable for DH builds as well or any other build imo.

Straegen.2938, imo hack n slach is the way to go, if i reccall that was one of ANet’s options instead the 11111 system.

guys, it is ANet @ balance and skill design… nothing much to say….just look asside, bow your head and move along, and keep wishing someday we have a dev that likes to play guardian.

DH was all about build to achieve power creep momentum, and players after noticing the condi being the easiest way to spam and win wth lesser effort and risk, players wanted conditions, Anet need to make FB better than core as well, so they added fire stuff in a core guardian on steroids…. so players could feel the need of getting the new shinny stuff.

P.S how u guys are hoping to deal with range damage skills or burst, blost are useless against those an some are unblokcable.
ANet even managed to kill the SW SoA dome…SW skills lost alot of good things with this changes… the SW dome is far more useless now when it works than before.
The old SW’s would even fit better on a FB than the command only effect…

ascended was a nice addon to WvW more than that like ultimate skritlendary armor is to much, let it stay for Raids only.

on WvW we already have the mistforge skins, and the Tron armor with tentacles.

i heard the summons can be damaged

is that true????

that mantra of lore.. is even a condi cleanse… 4 condis removed… on a 20 sec CD if traied that CC’s as well.

mantra of lore alone = shout guard

ANet needs to buff shouts now :|

That would not work, ive been in momments where y server has like 10-15 players across all maps while other servers way much had larger groups.

Assume if a server/link decides to tank and bail out of wvw, all other players will get the impossibility to play because others are making it so….

It feels a very exploitable thing to do, it has been discussed by players few time.

It is game wide, so i tough this was a good spot for it, cause this was a bad change with good intentions.. still not a good change…

I was able to use them once in a while in wvw or pvp and my pve build was SW burn based just for the feels.

what topic said…

And remove the A.I from SW , make then close to the Guardian…. limit the weapon exiting from nearby the caster and use the ammo system on the command skill.

-hammer lost its KB
-Bow lost the condi removal
-Shield lost the aegis and stunbreaker, plus the range abosrving dome pulses…
-lost the fire stacks from SW autos…

With the new changes, they are unplayable, even worse with this cast VS its duration and effect, than actually with the awfull A.I….

For some one that always played with one or another SW this feels a nerf…

it would be the same… with it or w/o it.,,,

SkyShroud.2865:

I think is the connection itself, the lag occur during large fights but not during travels. So the sudden spike in bandwidth might be the cause. I think they are using blade servers.

usually i get an allert while traveling as in “ur gona get wrecked if u dont port back”
the stacked server just passing by will cause a bit of FPS drop (must be client reendering and aquiring data from servers)

stacked server spamming somewhere on the map will lead to masive skill lags :\, altough ive experienced massive fight with almost unnoticeable lag and fps drop, but was a a very manly oc’ed desktop…. the bottleneck can be the client and the hardware trying to process all the data.

tdlr: players need to get better computers.

Juba.8406:

DeceiverX.8361:

People seriously need to do research on this before posting about it.

It’s not servers lacking speed that’s the issue; it’s profession design and the huge amount of proc effects, boons, and conditions which all need to be calculated, ticked, and updated/kept track of all firing off as interrupts half the time. ANet has come out and said this… more than once.

So we should stop playing WvW ?

this a thing that always got me pondering, game cant handle with it, yet ANet adds more stuff to make it to get harder to fix lag issues…. due its pve aoe spam flavoured gameplay/class design.

All the FX that clients will have to process, and all the boon hate condi aoe procs and removals servers will have to do… :\
And now adding more barrier calcs since barrier will reduce damage as well….

EDIT: i sense im gona get temp banned like last time i talked about this…..pfft

nvm just checked the stats, and made a few thing with them, looks awfull even with seraph+crusader, eavesdrop random gw2 players sometimes end in awfull result if u dont check stuff first xD

Duel in pve = mesmer thief show off to new players…. nothing more than that,…. we dont need mode care bear on gw2.

i heard people wondering about mixing seraph with some gear that imprves boon durations?
Not sure how it will end :\ with that very low health pool, outside pve might be hard…
If i recall nor seraph, nor the armor stats with concentration have Vitality…

its already known what the new stats are??

wish the weapons could stay up and have an auto atack like before(but stay near the guard) ._. and go dorment when the commands ammo were spent :\

those fire stacks on auto where actually nice….
plus the KB from hammer atacks..
and the shield pulses….
and the block… (worked well with traited blocks and DH condi removal on block)
and the stunbreaker…..

CptAurellian.9537:

Valesius.6054:

Everyone likes bigger numbers. If you kept the new numbers but the old pet style would you like that better or worse?

I’d still prefer the new style. It still needs some considerable polishing, but at least we are much more independent of stupid AI.

All that was needed was to remove their “A.I turist mode” and made them stay near the guard, and improve the command skills….

they are worse… much worse…

Brutaly.6257, eheheh they are quite buggy atm, if u use the shield and empty the ammo , the next SoA casts will probably fail :\ andskill will enter in CD no matter what, what ive been noticing as well is that i have to stop and cast the SW, if i cast while moving or have a target selects SW cast will fail as well.

For some reason i prefer the old SW system but the with the turist mode fixed :\

Imo another bad/lame fix from ANet….as usual.

read it well…. im not saying it is easy and hard… wtf.. its the 2nd time people give some different meaning to what ive wrote… sorry if my english isnt clear, not my main language but i actually try.

what ive said by other words…. the game is easy to play, but other players still think this is a hard game, they miss to understand this is a low effort game, all u need is to learn meta rotations from the classes and a bit how skills work.

I dont mind classes being easy to play or master, thats actually a good thing and i think we can agree with that, the problem itseflt is the balance due the boon vs negative effects work, wich is where the game is lacking and makes the game to much mindless, this is what i call the “game being dumb down” maybe i wasnt clear, but at least that part should be more complicated making players paying more atention to the targets besides the actual spam gameplay we have.

well getting back how condis/hexes/stances/shouts and the other skill types were labeled and how each one worked in gw1 everything having a counter producing a need of clever and thinking gameplay would be a good change.

The gw2 balance issue might be cause everything is a boon and everything is a condition….

But i fear ANet is ok with how dumbed down this game is, and sadlyalot of players still think this is a a game that is hard to play, and they dont notice how ANet is carrying some of them.

ANet made a super casual game, but the skill usage should be reverted back to the gw1 scheme, this would help providinga better pve and pvp experience.

Ranged FB op?

The irony of things is FB can be AA and killed from every ranged classes, once agains people wil have to go for gap closers as meditations to do something with guardian cause everything else is easilly overhwelmed by any class.

Tzozef.9841, it was needed that ammount of evasion, its how DareD. were ment to survive in pve (HoT).

Zoltreez.6435:

if you dont have guardians in WvW your doing it wrong….

Guardians are the HEARTH of WvW zerg combat…

also condi issue in zerg fights ? pffffff they get instantly removed 24/7…..

Still how the conditions are being spammed it feels like hunters fortification should be reverted to the release CD.. :\

@TrevZach.3807, thread rebirth :|, still i belived it would be Cantha since north of Cantha is under a tirany lordship, with a free people on the south, but when i see the tyria new map, it felt like they will explore more Tyria north side than actually Cantha.
It is possible to be cantha cause there was a mission involving the tyria gods, guess we need see PoF ending first before any assumption.

otto.5684:

Aeolus.3615:

DH needs to be weaker than FB that is the class progression system this game has… they arent equevalent choices.

Still sadly ANet moto, they dont change class stuff that gone wrong, they just progress blindly…..
DH is bad and will always be a bad class due its utilities… ANet expect players to use more the trap spamming than actually use the bow…

What exactly is wrong with DH? It is one of the strongest dps in PvE and is strong in sPvP. It has several usable weapons. Currently its only issue is LB is a bit weak. And as far as the information available and comments from devs new elites do not substitute old elites. In all likely hood DH power build will remain top dps.

I just hate traps and how DH uses them, just a personal feeling of being carried when i play them, IMO one tihng that i noticed when played DH trap spam with bow, felt more like the traps were my main weapon than the bow.

DH needs to be weaker than FB that is the class progression system this game has… they arent equevalent choices.

Still sadly ANet moto, they dont change class stuff that gone wrong, they just progress blindly…..
DH is bad and will always be a bad class due its utilities… ANet expect players to use more the trap spamming than actually use the bow…

dammnn… thats some high creativity on addign words to my text… 10 / 10 scrore

meanwhile:

Stand The Wall.6987:

Manimarco Devil.1790:

Stand The Wall.6987:

burn guard can apply a lot of vuln and cripple as well.

literally wut? burn guard has no cripple sources from their skills or traits so the only way this is possible is from a sigil. Their only source of vunlerability is f1 if traited to do that which is completely awful and chains of light on scepter which applies 3 stacks.

This is why noone takes the forums seriously.

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not stating if is super meta gimmick that kills or a awfull trait/weapon to use, just stating it is possible, bad or not… who cares.

aren’t golems already like a mounts?

we need actually more stuff like that instead the transmogriffers -_-#

charrrrrpanza 1 allowed per server 30 minutes to change BL

humm i think its some other classes(orskill type) mechanics that in some situation can ignore the RF, imagine where the code of RF get ignored(or does not check) saying players should not take phisical damage.

I think i know what is happening to the clients…. or the skill iteration gets lost in all the back end processing and does not reaches all the clients that are hitting you.

I’ve seen quite a few interesting bugs to support my theory.

(EDIT)yeah, sorry about thread derail :\

Maybe i explained wrongly.. :] or not so clear.

This is not adding more confusion stuff, this is making what is bad more clean.
Skills by category:

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Condition
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hex_spell
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Stance
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Shout
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Chant
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ward_spell
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Enchantment_spell

This was like the prime directive why GW1 pvp was so good, everything was well categorized there werent massive removals of beside one skills in one or anothersituation, but what i ment is that ANet after PoF should start doing that segmentations for better skill control, and generate less lag as well, since each one had its proper way to be countered, it isnt like the massive stacking mess it is now.

Segmentation and categorising is a process of making stuffed chunks more simple and lighter.
It provides a more clean gameplay.

less iterations, less lag(in theory), more players skill required.

Gimmick as in press keys this order to be effective, atm u dont even have a decent(defined) rock-paper-scizor gameplay, its a burst gimmick rotations..dps race.
About the balance dev’s want, its a bit of a illusion the work they are doing to pretend game to be balanced

A bit offtopic, but still related:

IF ANet really wanted balance in all gamemodes at same time…. this is a bit of a constructive critic and a rage at same time (at least i tried as well to be maintain on topic), and sorry my poor english typing , ill say it’s brexit fault if something goes deeply awfull lol…

One change i believe it would help alot the balance, would be to avoid everything that is positive being a boon and everything negative it is a condition, this is one of the reason pvp combat is awfull, and will keep failling dragging spvp as well WvW.

Anet imo should try introduce hexes and stances(like they worked) back , stances had some sorta counter in some skills backthen there were skills that removed stances, when the gw series required players to be humans, in adition IMO, stability should be as a stance and some conditions need to be converted to hexes, this way ANet can catagorize better the spam vs counters like they did in gw1 actually it was one of the best balanced gameplay in terms of skill usage, and this game need that more than gw1 needed.

Some conditions should be used as hexes (since ANet as proved more than enough times they cant do anything decent how it works no matter how they nerf conditions) vs boonspam. condi removals, something will go deeply wrong.
They are doing a awfull job on this management, condis damage might be fine the issue is how everything is being catagorized as 1 and 0, and they cant balance nither pvp nor pve to decent levels, all that results is range aoe spam and class stacking fow low risk high rewards gameplay.

This would help alot the new crap that is more than obvious by just reading the skills, and knowing how players play…..

The rant:
Maybe i dont know nothing o:) …. but there were several more simple aproaches that ANet could have done over time during the game launch but they always went to the more and illogical work arround band aid, other aproaches could had leed to much more balanced aproaches that would provide better gameplay for all modes, and more freedom to explore classes on the next games, imo is almost unconscionable how the game has reached this extremelly lame combat gameplay, where everylooks capable on paper but on reallity that is not how it works, wich ANet looks fine with it.

oh.. and sorry about this last part,after reading it felt a bit threadstealling…

I think Anet has a great chance of opportunity to make a better and a more clever gameplay after PoF release.

Carighan.6758:

I would predict that they’ll throw whatever storyline we are following then out of the window to pull a new bad guy out of a hat with no connection or introduction, and then we are going into xpack 3 fresh and free from any previous story, sense or care about any of the major NPCs.

Oh wait, that’s this xpack. Hrm. Guess they might repeat it?

LOL, one god down 5 to go even kormir will be down… that leecher.
Abadon will be the new trully god :P and he wins what he always wanted when he betrayed the other gods.

Btw isnt balthazar plot a repeat story of Abadon one ?

and i tough soulbeasts would be the mounts o.O

its fine guys u ill able to use the pve dragon in some mission later on the game….
Every one will die their air white.. for that mission….

Justine.6351:

Aeolus.3615:

Cant be that way glidders need to bedisabled much before they get close the structures, the way u want to trim the barriers will lead to several ways of glicth into structures, like we had in some places.

Just make the zones disable gliders immediately. People really shouldn’t be intentionally attempting to glide into walled objectives they do not own so in the few areas it would cause death, oops… To prevent honest people from dying who just wanted to get to objective to defend but got there late, idk maybe increase the objectives’ capture bar event radius where appropriate. It would give them time to decide to push for the defense or veer off.

wich such trimmed barriers, i could make a DH or thief and pull my friend on the other server into the wall so he could port his group.
It would be troll exploit at another level… game(codewise) boundry validations dont apear out of thin air, as much i would love it as well.

A middle term aproach must need to be reached, what is the best to avoid mistakes, close to structures,far from structures, limit glidding where?, there was for sure quite some thinking to reach the most overall way to introduce glidding into WvW,

I would say it was one of the most “balanced addons” ive seen ANet doing after gw2 lauch….

The main issue with this game being to much friendly with casuals even the game it has low skill standards to be effective…

HoTmaps were a diferent aproach on how a mmo map could work nothing more… it has nothing to do with casuals, what u guys are noticing is another thing, ive tryed those maps myself i didnt even completed HoT campaing, and it made me quit pve once for all, but that was because gw2 pve is bad, all about aoe spamand pwoer creep gameplay, and hot zones lack players for events..

Ragnarox.9601:

I hope we will get 25% movement speed trait in next xpac so I can experiment with other runes.

5 years on traveler ones.

ive tryed but could only use them when using meditations based builds.

u going to north of tyria or spread democracy to cantha… they are under tirany if i reccall altouuuh south cantha migh have some free people accampments.
But we will see cantha for sure when they will make us visit the Aviccara temple in LA in first place.

TalleFjanten.7159:

Manimarco Devil.1790:

Stand The Wall.6987:

burn guard can apply a lot of vuln and cripple as well.

literally wut? burn guard has no cripple sources from their skills or traits so the only way this is possible is from a sigil. Their only source of vunlerability is f1 if traited to do that which is completely awful and chains of light on scepter which applies 3 stacks.

This is why noone takes the forums seriously.

You are aware that the dragonhunter has 2 traits that sunergies with f1 burn right? applying vulnerability AND cripple everytime f1 triggers. Maybe you should go read up on guard before you comment on this forum.

Even dome shield 5 KB can be setted to criple players …..

wont there be a free beta test event???

Interesting ive been asking for that.. at least in some points,
Solutions:
1. Remove Downed mechanics and Ressurect without skill use from WvW.
-> That would be as thesame to bring the old gw1 rez, im totally fine with that, it would be better IMO.
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2. Remove “Max targets” from all skills,

->I have been asking this for a very long time, but gw2 is a game for bad players its ment to stack aoe spam and numbers, gw2 was designed for players with low gaming skills, so they will ad more aoe spam based skills…

what ive been asking: (contradics ANet design and game balance know how)
Reduce AOE/Cleaves make clever skills usage instead ofthe spamporn we have and improve some AOE spells.

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4. Remove out of combat healing from WvW.
-> Should be removed from the entire game…. whatever mode it is.
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5. Lowering the effectiveness/powerspiking of combo fields.
->interesting
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6. Allowing everyone to Flag up as “raid parties”, just give them another colour icon. (also consider removing commander bonus or make them map wide=highest bonus apply)
->interesting, bug that would make alot of commander to not tag i think.
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7. Bruiser builds vs. everything else rebalancing according to TTK principle’s. (might want to read the TTK part of the p1, first post. I think every gamer should know TTK base concept/idea as it is good for our understanding of balance and design reasoning).
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-> Gw2 is not ment to be balanced towards player skill^^ its gimmick to win based, the bigger the gap that gimmick is more players will stay playing thinking they are extremelly good.

Cant be that way glidders need to bedisabled much before they get close the structures, the way u want to trim the barriers will lead to several ways of glicth into structures, like we had in some places.

Sovereign.1093:

pirate shipping is still here. =)

pirate shipping is fine, but having a game where is impossible to get on melee that would be wrong….very wrong.

these guys need to touch DH :] next and remove the traps for anything else that requires brains xD and fits better with the bow…

they managed to mix 2 things that were lacking to Guardian fire and support

Wards > trap spam …. wards were so kewl even used on GvG, PVE, PVP…. everywhere.

i use(ed) empower for might… not every one uses gimmicks 1111111 crit builds if that is what ur referencing (empowering might trait).

Ragnarox.9601, i had those issues as well once in a while, not only after the latest patch, ive been killed by melee a few times in RF animation as well.
And ive noticed players commenting the same on TS.

Yakez.7561:

None. Hammer/Staff is the most useful combination due to hammer skill 3 and 5, same with staff 3 and 5. It is the main might stacking and cc in any zerg.
Now you just cant 1-1-1 rams and have more downtime on weapon swap.

And if you used staff for lootsticking on enemy retreat instead of hammer cc… well you are just bad teamplayer.

As a mace/shield guard thats the staff 5 function, they need to change staff 2 as the main atack and give a 1 sec dome cast as a aoe skill, with 2-3 sec recharge on staff 2 xD since they borked up SW SoA….even more..since ANet copy pastaDiablo barbarian hammer of wisdom cast…to all SW… wth ANet…

Simboldofswiftness, its useless alone, rev’s have it as a passive aoe pulse, i would request a better simbol, Staff 5 needs to give slow

this would be the simple changes i request for staff….

staff was always a awfull weapon, it was only for the empower rotations that even it clutches players while casting where they could be CC’ed or AOE’ed easilly.

I really hope ANet instead of put staff back improves it after fix the bugs they added to guard…

Any one having issues where SoA shield offhand dome, does nothing, or only absorbs 1 impact and not on its dome duration ????