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Remove Spirit Watch from tourney rotation.

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I would prefer to see the map remain in the rotation even with the bugs. Its my favorite along with Temple. Just fix the annoying bridges and orb imbalances

Ok now you HAVE to do something about leavers

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My word isn’t enough for you?! ;p

It takes two seconds to test, your win/loss is on your PvP tab. Log off at the end of the match and watch what happens, the data isn’t recorded.

I dont think its constantly updated, only a couple times a day.

Your PvP tab in game is updated in real time, and you can easily tell that the leaderboards match when they are updated. It really is a 5 second thing to test and confirm.

Ok now you HAVE to do something about leavers

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My word isn’t enough for you?! ;p

It takes two seconds to test, your win/loss is on your PvP tab. Log off at the end of the match and watch what happens, the data isn’t recorded.

Ok now you HAVE to do something about leavers

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here’s the quote from Evan:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Sick-of-3v5-4v5-and-other-unfair-odds/first#post1543592

“This is a very real problem, but we can only work on so many things at once. I would still place it at a lower priority than Custom Arenas.”

I’d certainly hope that comment was made under the scope of unfair fights.. rather than exploiting their own leaderboard. However it wouldn’t at all surprise me that they were simply unaware of something that most every real player knew was there.

Ok now you HAVE to do something about leavers

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You forced your hand with your own leaderboard by using ELO and displaying Winning Percentage.

If you log out in the middle of a game before it is over, you do not take a loss on your PvP tab. 499 – 23? Log off, quick! As far as I can speculate (since its impossible to know), you also don’t take any hit to your ELO rating. Everybody who plays knew it, but nobody cared because there was no reason to.

Now there is a reason to. Better get on it. The roster should be taken at the START of the match, not the end. Then you fill in the results at conclusion, regardless if the player stayed until the end of the match. Competitive gameplay 101.

Leaderboards... for real this time

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It should be completely obvious to any competitive gamer that it’s based off your ELO rating.

Map rotation is killing my drive to play

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Honestly, I only want to play Temple or Spirit Watch anyway. Completely random rotation in tournaments would suck for me, at least now I can play when I want and avoid the ones I don’t like.

And you can queue for anything you want in hotjoin..

Counter mesmer using heavy retaliation

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Aside from traiting one of their shatters, Mesmers have only one way to get Retaliation; leap finisher through a light field. They have access to one light field on a 25s CD, and two leap finishers on two different weapons. One of them is on staff, which they couldn’t use in correlation with the light field (on focus) unless they weapon swap. Which would be stupid because the leap finisher on their 1 hand sword is a lower c/d than weapon swapping when traited.

I mean really, could there be an easier thing to counter?

Bauble achievements should be changed, IMO

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This thread is not about a counter, but having the boss kill being a necessity for the achievement. That requirement should be removed, or the boss kill shouldn’t automatically port you from the zone. Again just my opinion, but I don’t think a counter is needed.

Let’s try to stay on topic, thanks!

Bauble achievements should be changed, IMO

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I don’t think you should have to kill the boss in order to find out if you got all the baubles, considering that action warps you from the zone.

I’d spend hours looking and exploring if I knew it would pop up when I finally found everything, but having to kill the boss to “check” everytime you find something new is a nuisance and not fun.

Just my 2 cents. It wouldn’t really change the achievements any, but just make them more enjoyable to do for those of us who like to discover things on our own.

Are you going to do something about thieves ?

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HAHAHA, a thief thread asking for buffs. Good one. This is how I see the OP:

http://youtu.be/zBVnblu5BP0

Seriously, Thieves are still very good in sPvP.

Halloween all over again.... good lord.

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Both Halloween and Wintersday let you get the same skins without shelling out any money on the BLTP. This will be no different, wait for the conclusion.

The only people who complained about this were the same self entitled weenies who complained about the JP being too hard. Seriously, who complains about fluff being added to a F2P gem shop?

Spirit Watch Rant.

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You get half the points when you cap it on the enemies node, and it instantly becomes contested. Capping on an enemy node is equivalent to 5 ticks (10 seconds) of the other team 3 capping… and you’re asking what the point of doing it is?

GW2 pvp survey. Thanks for your time.

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I’m surprised i see the 59% Elementalist, when good teams know how to kill an elementalist nowadays.

Said no non-elementalist ever.

Opening a large guild roster cuts FPS in half

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It’s certainly not world-crushing, but FPS drops from a menu should never happen.

Opening a large guild roster cuts FPS in half

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This may be common knowledge by now (?), but I only recently transferred servers and joined a large guild. To emphasize the issue, I went to the laggiest place in the game for me: The Mystic Forge. I figured the lower the FPS is, the easier it is to see (recording at 1200p also helps with that!). Please note that this still happens in the middle of nowhere, however my FPS will go from ~150 to the 70s or so and is not as crippling.

http://youtu.be/UZJjMFTTpZM

FPS is in the top left corner, so you can see the drops everytime I load the guild list. This does not happen with any of my other guilds, as they all have between 20-50 members.

I felt like this did not belong in the Guild System thread as it is a technical issue, but I also did not want to post it in tech support since it is not hardware related.

And They Wonder Why sPVP is Dead

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So, you’re mad you lost 5v4?

Or that the high ranking player from your team never joined the game?

Or that the rank 50s on the other team lost a few matches and dropped their rating?

Or that the low ranks on your team won a few matches and raised their rating?

Or that you were the worst player in the game whilst playing the most ezmode class?

Random maps please.

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Unless your idea of “Random maps” is alternating between Spirit Watch and Temple, then no. Nobody wants the other maps.

I tested the "Join solo" and recorded results

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Here is what happened:

- I got a full set of solo queuers on my team 7 times and the other 2 times I was with a duo/trio and solo queuers
- I got matched against a full premade 7 times, a full solo team once and 1 trio + duo team
- I won my first 3 games and then lost 5 of the next 6

Conclusion – Queuing solo in this game is a nightmare.

Are you kidding me? You went against a bunch a ton of premades with solo queuers and your record was 4-5. That’s as close to splitting as you can get with an odd number of games.

Yet your conclusion is that it’s a nightmare? You won half your games, that proves the exact opposite: the queue system is working and you’re being put in even matches. It sounds to me that you want to be put up against nothing but solo queuers so you can try to carry randoms to victory, which is pathetic.

Mesmer solo's WvW Tower.

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Wrong. Warden absorbs projectiles, not reflects. You have to trait for the reflect.

What replaced Paid Tournament tokens?

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They should probably just rename the tokens and keep looting the way it is. People will eventually figure out where stuff comes from, but having paid tokens with no paid tourneys is confusing. Instead of Paid/Free just make it gold/silver or something.

What replaced Paid Tournament tokens?

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Meh there’s need to a be a database for this kind of thing. Wiki looks woefully outdated.

What replaced Paid Tournament tokens?

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Is there even any difference between the Gold tournament chest from winning the 8 round, and the “Match win chest” from the 2 round?

What replaced Paid Tournament tokens?

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Oh. Well that is certainly confusing haha. The NPC still says “Tell me about Paid Tournaments” too ><;

What replaced Paid Tournament tokens?

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Since there are no more paid tourneys, I assume these armor sets using paid tokens aren’t merely unattainable now.. are they?

Guesting + Guild Missions = personal rewards?

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We have an answer for this yet?

Guesting + Guild Missions = personal rewards?

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Title says it all. You guest on a server and go a Guild Mission. You obviously can’t get the guild buffs that are unlocked, as they are server specific. But do you get the commendation/silver reward if you’re repping that guild? What if you’re not?

Guild Missions [merged]

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To all the naysayers, some of the rewards are ascended items. So how is this even fair to small guilds? This is creating a vast imbalance in the game, so the rewards are not pointless. This isn’t gating people, this is effectively locking them out of content, rewards and this is just the start.

Soon, we’ll be seeing raids or hardmodes for elitist players – Truely, the casual player in GW2 should just quit now.

Hey look, it’s those things you get from Laurels! You know, the currency you essentially get for just logging in every day.

Guild Missions [merged]

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Ask yourself this question: why are you complaining?

All personal rewards attained through the missions are available through other means, and the content itself can be done with a guild you’re not even a part of. You’re not missing out on the experience, and you’re not missing out on the benefits.

What exactly are you missing out on? Well, guild merits for your guild. To do the higher tiered missions you can already do with other guilds, to get the rewards that are already available to you.

The complaining is absurd, and is the epitome of self-entitlement. Not even for rewards or the experience itself, just because. Personally, I haven’t had a meaningful use for influence since Halloween, and I know I’m not alone in welcoming this kind of content.

Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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The mining pick has been nerfed, and now requires level 45 to use.

Right decision by A.net for sure, but I can’t help but roll my eyes here. This went from getting dev endorsement to being completely nerfed in the span of 3 days. Pretty dysfunctional communication if you ask me.

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Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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I’m not currently aware of any behavior that I would classify as an exploit.

I see this as permission to create characters with my my last 3 alt slots, then have them escorted to the rich node by my friend. From there they will never leave, only going to WvW occasionally to drop by the bank and pick up more mining picks from the endless supply of karma on my main.

I will take you to your word, and hope you simply tell me otherwise if your classification changes.. rather than ban me later.

Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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Iron ore isn’t limited to very specific locations on a 24 hour respawn timer. “More people at 80” 6 months after launch… compared to 5? When we’re talking about the very real ability TO MINE THEM AT LEVEL ONE?

Are you being serious right now?

Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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The price has only fallen 11c since the end of Nov. I don’t think a, “the sky is falling” post was really warranted. It’s probably dropped that tiny bit because of the announcement that they’re thinning out the mobs in Orr.

That’ll make harvesting much easier. People won’t have to rely on the Karka Ori. Just wait til the thinning in Orr happens and see where the prices go then. I bet people are anticipating that crash already.

It’s fun to manipulate data to make it seem like no big deal. The price is down over 1s (40%) since December 15th, one month. However if you go back to its lifetime minimum price on GW2spidy its only down a few copper!!

Give me a break. The supply at the end of November was 90,000. It is currently 225,000.

Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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Or it could be that people have discovered oricalcum isn’t the choke point for the things they want (lodestones…) and just aren’t buying the stuff when its utterly trivial to get the all oricalcum you need with casual harvesting in a fiftieth the time it takes to get the other ingredients.

Buy listings have gone up equally with the supply inflation. People are buying MORE than before. The reason for the drop is the increased supply.

Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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Teleporting bots are one issue. Another is every account having 8 level 1 characters parked at the node indefinitely. Another is running new characters to the node repeatedly, with or without teleport bots.

All caused by the picks being account bound, and not soulbound. Whether you think its worth it is irrelevant. Supply is on a steady climb(90k around christmas, up over 200k now), and price is nose diving (3s->under 2s). http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19701

It’s being done.

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Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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Obviously this is about repeatedly running characters to the rich node. You make the character, go directly to lions arch, and port directly there after picking up picks from the bank.

Orichalcum dropping. Here's why.

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mining_Pick

A mining pick usable on level 1s, that mines Orichalcum. Account bound. Bought with Karma.

A pain for normal people to run level 1s to that rich node without an escort, sure. Still worth doing. But for people who can teleport there instantly? An infinite make character->mine->delete->repeat cycle for endless ore.

Now for the golden question. Is this an exploit you’re going to ban people for, or should we start stocking up and escorting our friends to the node? To me, it seems like these being account bound is a major oversight. I’m posting here to either get this fixed, or be given the ‘OK’ to do it.

Thieves kill so fast even the game can't see!

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Hah the typical Backstab/Heartseek Glass cannon thief, i thought those went extinct.

That must be why he’s unknown.

Thieves kill so fast even the game can't see!

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http://i.imgur.com/jEVNz.jpg

Not QQing, just thought it was pretty funny as I tried to assess what the hell just happened to me. Got jumped mid-fight with someone else.

I hope people see this with the humorous eyes I intend, and don’t jump into arguments

What did you do to Legendary Searing Effigy!

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According to dev post, they only changed toughness of crystals. Probably an average level of pug is much higher than it was closer to launch, just recall how many people were saying that AC was hard.

If that’s what they said, they were lying. The crystals seem to die on their own now.

What did you do to Legendary Searing Effigy!

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I did him this evening for the first time since pre-Halloween (maybe September-ish?). Such fond memories of a challenge overcome, and quite frankly he was the ONLY challenge that’s needed to be overcome for me as far as dungeons go.

We didn’t even have to kill a single crystal. He just fell over. What happened!

New PvP Update: Must be more PvP Modes.

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It’s funny, because the Holiday mini-games are infinitely more fun than sPvP just because they’re different modes. And yeah, straight up DOTA/Capture the flag. Whipped up in an instant with cheery holiday music.

Upsets me just to think about it tbh, they seem pretty clueless to what people want.

Kicked from Toypocalypse 5/5 on wave 8..

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What the hell man. I’m in it from the beginning and we’re doing great. My north army is getting skimmed down, so I go around smashing for repairs/etc and get gibbed on a spawn. Nobody else is dead. I wait about 5 seconds into my respawn timer… then all of a sudden it kicks me to a new game waiting for more people.

What a waste of time. This event takes so long to even complete, and its bugged to boot?

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12/14 : NSP | Anvil Rock | GoM

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From what I’ve observed over the past week.

During NA Primetime – 6pm 12am , NSP comes in third with AV and GOM making it a good fight for first.

During the weekend its a very close match, NSP never had a lead above 10k.

During off-peak hours Night and day crews, NSP pulls ahead during the week, M-F.

So right now NSP’s off peak crews are carrying it this match. If AR and GOM want to make a push for 1st they will need to focus on NSP as much as they can to keep their off peak lead from getting out of reach.

Too late for this match but something to think about for next week.

-K

Just found this nifty feature on millenium. I know I’m probably late to the party on this one, but I never bothered clicking on server history before.

Chart data for the week:
http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/43

I love it haha. “NSP wins because of night crew and loses during primetime”, then someone comes in and posts data which shows AVs peak score at 5am daily and NSP dominating the day.

Foot meet mouth.

State of tPvP (Top 10 QP Perspective)

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Its amazing how different the view is from the top compared to the forums, on Mesmers especially. I agree with the OPs sentiments, they echo my own personal experience and what I hear from other top players. Long cooldowns and balanced/easily mitigated burst are what keep mesmers in line with other professions.

As a thief I find them extremely predictable despite my squishiness, and most fights end on the result of “who messed up first”. That’s what balance should be.

Original culling behavior has been restored.

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I’m sorry, but yes. Displaying nameplates regardless of model culling is ridiculously easy, and has been a staple of MMOs since the beginning of the genre. DAoC, Aion, WoW, Warhammer, SWTOR, Everquest, Asheron’s Call, Age of Conan, Tera, Rift, FFXI, FFXIV. I cannot even think of a game in the MMO genre, besides GW2, that does not implement this feature when there are too many players on the screen.

There is no excuse for players being completely invisible.

How Is Shattered Strength Not Broken?

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This was a very educational thread. Pre- patch everybody was whining about Mesmer shatter burst. It was too high they said, dead in a single 16k shatter they cried.

Now post-patch, apparently that burst is gone! People are now living long enough to see Mesmers shatter NINE illusions in less than 10 seconds in order to get a 25 stack of might. And seeing as the cooldown of Mind Wrack is 10 seconds itself, they must be using Signet of Illusions to reset their shatter cooldown and strike at that exact second before the stack starts wearing off. Then, of course, the burst is back.. and completely overpowered when compared to the likes of weak attacks such as Hundred Blades, Kill shot, and Backstab.

I learned so much today.

Original culling behavior has been restored.

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I don’t understand the developers here at all. There are two very obvious solutions to this problem, implemented by every other game on the market:

-If you cull the model, you still show their nameplates. Grats, no more invisa-zerg.
-Give players a slider and default the game to the current settings. Players can leave it as-is if their performance suffers, and increase it if they can handle it better. Instead of YOU telling us what we can handle and trying to balance for everybody at once, let us do it.

Then just continue with whatever optimizations you are doing to the back end.

It’s as simple as that. And quite honestly, it’s pretty unacceptable for these things not to be in the game 4 months after launch. They aren’t exactly innovations.

12/14 : NSP | Anvil Rock | GoM

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That’s everybodies excuse for why they lose.

In this matchup, Anvil Rock usually doubles up on NSP at night.. with NSP clawing back in the early morning and pulling ahead for the day. Repeat x7.

If you're in the air when the JP starts..

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You zone in dead. Pretty annoying! Took me a few tries to figure out wth was going on.