Guild Wars 2

I played diablo 4 for about 69 hours and I got it free with the annual pass in world of Warcraft.

Guild wars 2 is at 1600 and counting… I didn’t make the wrong choice

The consecutive win system didn’t work out so well in Guild Wars because people would Sync or play when everyone else was asleep and farm pugs.

Just because someone played hotjoins for 100 hours doesn’t make them a better person, believe me there a lot of things you learn in tournaments that you do not in hotjoin.

I like the current system as is.

Maybe if we be more vocal about it they’ll reverse the decision like the removal of ranks

If your ranking is so low that people stand next to you on a treb, perhaps you stop using the treb until your ranking gets better.

Ironically, I don’t see a _1 on your post. Maybe it doesn’t work for question topics.

Skyhammer farming caused it, ArenaNet really had no choice.

Guardians virtually have no mobility, and in tournament play they are always burst spec (from what I have seen) so basically you must out burst them and last all of their meditations and play better than the guardian.

Or you can just work on another target, probably your best option.

Thedenofsin.7340:

Justin ODell.9517:

I know several people would like an option to wait forever for a good match, but I think it would be best to design the system around the more typical use case. If there is still a need for it then we can certainly revisit the topic.

Then why not just put a slider in the queue menu, with a recommended setting? Then users can adjust on the fly to suit their tastes:
(quick+dirty <————x————> long+well-suited)

Unfortunately it’s not that simple, because the queue system is designed off the leaderboards. Making something like this would make the leaderboards really inaccurate, and on top of that this would be extremely hard to code.

You could always use raidcall which is basically Skype and ts3 combined.

Also, have your members donate to pay for the voice subscription if it’s really becoming a liability.

Been suggested hundreds of times, unfortunately its been over a year with no results

Just going to have to make a word document with your builds

It was always meant to be that way, after 30 points its nothing but titles.

Also, getting 50 points gives you 500 achievement points.

Dahkeus.8243:

Chase.8415:

So after the blog, my suspicions are correct. Nothing in the blog is happening this year. Legendaries don’t seem to be coming until 2014. And as I stated before, looks like it’s going to take “many months” at least according to the new blog.

So we got another blog, basically telling us to wait for upcoming features.

So…did you not read the blog? A bunch of these changes are coming December 10th.

One of those changes is that you can level a character in PvE through doing sPvP. That’s huge!

If anything, this blog shows you on how wrong you were with your original post. =P

I suspect like most games, it will be unreasonable to gain any levels just through PvP. It will take like 10 times longer. I’ve been through it many times before when games make it possible to level in PvP.

So after the blog, my suspicions are correct. Nothing in the blog is happening this year. Legendaries don’t seem to be coming until 2014. And as I stated before, looks like it’s going to take “many months” at least according to the new blog.

So we got another blog, basically telling us to wait for upcoming features.

confirmed that you can, thanks for letting me know as I was able to turn a match around

I’ve had the opposite, the matchmaking in this game is the most fair I have seen in any game that is considered an MMO. If you want to talk about broken matchmaking, play a game like world of Warcraft.

Since when did they make them not sellable? Didn’t they used to vendor for like 4 silver?

I just tested this, I received a FaceTime call and had to end my queue at six minutes. After my call was finished, I was still in town as intended.

I would double check to see if you actually left the queue, I do this frequently and never run into issues like this.

And what are blogs are for? To tell us on upcoming features, unless those features are coming out on the same month, don’t get your hopes up. I mean look at the last blog, that was several months ago

Didn’t realize that EU shared the same forums, my mistake

yolosmurf.8052, you’re not telling the truth. You are completely unranked and have never broken top 1000 according to

http://gwshack.info/?page=player_solo_spvp&region=na&username=yolosmurf.8052

I’m really surprised that everyone believed you.

I have a feeling the “blog” post will be more something among the lines on how developing PvP is a hard process on the hardware and developer level and we’re postponing these features announced until mid 2014

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

It’s almost the end of 2013 and most of the plans for PvP have been non existent! the only feature that was implemented in this article was solo queue and that was announced before the blog.

I have huge doubts that anything is coming out this year at all, they would have at least hinted something huge by now.

I was really excited for the legendary part, but looks like none of that is coming this year.

Suddenly this became a problem when people noticed it?

Good luck in getting it changed, in the original guild wars the icons of malaise and wither were incorrectly assigned:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Malaise
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Wither

Notice how wither should represent the withered hand? Coincidentally, shouldn’t malaise represent the sickly human?

They are clearly reversed by accident, and I reported the bug several years ago and they did nothing.

Nonsense, this unnamed dragon has been named bubbles.

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

-sees this thread praising something about Anet-

-sees nothing negative has been posted to try and counter it-

o.O

-passes out from extreme shock-

Was thinking the same. Being that this is in the forums I was kind of expecting to see satirical feedback.

You may have faced me in hot joins

I always like running around and killing people 2v1, especially when they start to think my class is overpowered.

If you truly think they are overpowered, simply spectate a guardian and watch how it plays and then counter it. You have the ability to view everyone’s gear and skills in hot joins.

The most logical thing they should have done was make finishers based of your leaderboard ranking. Other than that, it really takes no skill at all to get to rank 20. I have seen some pretty bad rank 50+’s especially with the farming exploit.

No one is forcing you to do living story content. You can simply ignore them and take a break yourself.

Honestly, nothing really good comes out every 2 weeks. Usually after two or three months a nice content update happens with cool content.

I mean really, what is so exciting about next weeks living story about kitten ,

About 4 Years ago I was as sensitive as you were in regards to this, but eventually you realize people will always do this wether it’s against the rules or not.

The best thing for you to do is to join a gay friendly guild. I believe crystal desert is the gay friendly server, so I’d start there.

Sounds to me you hosed up your computer and it needs to be refreshed. Type Refresh in the start screen and do this, it only takes about 15 minutes and it re-images your computer with all the same files just no programs or viruses.

Windows 8.1 has worked for me in Guild Wars 2 since the preview edition, the only issue I had was alt tab crashing the game, but that could be fixed with windowed full screen.

Solution to condition cap is simple. Every time it gets to 25 stacks, an upgraded condition is transformed from the previous stack of conditions (i.e 1 stack of “deep wound” is equivalent to 25 stacks of bleeding with the damage as the entire 25 stacks of bleeding). They could technically do this unlimited amount of time and in addition it would still be balanced in PvP.

They have records of every rank point each player has earned, so if they reduced the ranks your character would just be a higher level than it is today before the theoretical patch.

The biggest problem with autobalance is the fact the nobody reads the screen during the auto balance message.

If you get drafted over to the other team due to an autobalance, it counts as a win in your stats AND awards win bonus.

It’s not as something simple like an “IF/THEN” statement, if that was true coding would be significantly easier.

It took Word of Warcraft several months, just to randomize defender/assaulter in strand of the ancients.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Can we have an answer for why is this system in place?

I believe the intention was to make it more difficult to get the bauble achievements, part of the super adventure box was to make it like it was back in the early platform days, hence why there is no mini map or any achievements with noticeable progression.

Just because there are more players, does not necessarily mean it’s harder. There are far more bad players then good ones. In WoW, over 80% of the PvP crowd couldn’t even get passed 1600. Once you got to 2000, you were in the top 2%!

It was a complete joke to get passed 2000, mainly because there were so many bad players who were still clicking and running train wreck addon interfaces and spamming cooldowns.

You can have 10 million players, but if 9.5 Million of them are a lost cause, doesn’t necessarily mean it took skill to reach 2400+in woW

Decklan.7540:

I edited my post. I was confused, I saw the post on the spvp forums but it was about the warrior. Just got mixed up in the head because I was so frustrated with how they frequently balance this game based on the whims of pvpers, who make up a very small majority of the player base.

The ones who are actually buying gems to get infinite axes to chop 500 elder logs a day (this isn’t me it’s just an extreme example) are the very players who often get shafted because the vocal minority that is the pvp player base will never stop incessantly whining until their precious “meta” is balanced. Cool, tell that to the guy who just spent laurels and gold to make a rabid ascended weapon. I know it might seem like a minor setback, but to that player it was a lot of time invested, only to then read that their damage source is getting nerfed because the pvp scene is “upset” with condition spam.

Excuse me?

I have spent over $1,000 in this game and I am predominately PvP.

Don’t judge PvP players for not supporting the game because that is a complete lie.

Happyfool.8951:

also, any decent commander would be using a voip, seriously, in the heat of battle, do you want your commander to stop in order to type commands in chat?

I do, because WvWvW isn’t that difficult. Its more of a pain to get 40 people on VOIP than just typing it out.

Siphaed.9235:

hector.2891:

They can check or ask for ip sellers and buyers on internet selling pages and check if they associate with any gw2 account.

IP banning has been a failed concept since 2007ish. This is because dynamic IPs and IP spoofing. Both of these will mean that one banned IP could circulate back into a legit person’s account and get them banned. No company wants to risk such a thing. And yes, I’m aware that a NIC has a single-PC identification ID with it, but those can be swapped too so that the PC can once again be read as something different on a network, bypassing a ban.

You are correct! I.P Bans are non existent anymore, considering how easy it is to change your IP and the fact that it is possible for you to have the same IP as someone else who got banned by random chance.

In addition MAC adress bans do not work either, because they could replace the NIC or simply run a free mac spoof program which changes your MAC address with a click of a button.

The only thing you lose in a ban is characters.

Guardians are fine in damage, all they need is a minor trait in radiance that allows the passive fire to still proc on virtue of justice after using its active (to inflict a blind).

The biggest problem with guardians is not the damage, but the mobility. Too many classes can simply kite a guardian to death without trying, I suggest adding torment to the guardian leap 3 or have it apply swiftness.

God Of Fissures.8627:

Chase.8415:

Never.8571:

Geemo.6018:

The so called next generation mmo uses an old generation 32bit client. So it doesn’t matter if you have 32gb of ram because Gw2 will only use 2gb max.

You do realize the limitation for 32-bit is 4GB, right?

Operating systems take 1-2 gigabytes by itself, therefore increasing the consumed ram would actually break a large group of computers that run under 32 bit.

I honestly don’t even know why Microsoft continues to produce 32-bit operating systems. Most modern processors are 64-bit compatible and everyone should be running 64-bit anyway.

Also I have been increasing in framerate, especially when they removed culling. They’ve done a fantastic job on performance updates for one year.

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They haven’t sold 32 bit computer in a few years at stores, the problem is everyone in the market has a computer that is several years old. A shocking 40% of the world still runs Windows XP!

Games will not adapt until people replace their computers at home.

1. Guesting in a server puts you in the LOWEST priority in overflow, meaning someone can’t guest in and cause you to be kicked out of your own server.

2. The fight is scaled as if there were 80, 65+ players. If there were all 80, the number could be decreased to 50 or less.

3. Many of the mechanics rely on your own self, therefore if everyone does a good job there wont be a need for 80 such players.

4. When tequatil shows up, the entire server will know about it as it will be announced in the living story panel.

5. The dragon drops ascended weapons and other rare gear, which makes it a huge incentive to beat.

6. COnsidering that this is a world boss, many top end guilds on servers will coordinate with 40+ people.

7. There will be a LFG tool launched, which will contain listings for groups to kill tequatil.

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In regards to performance, I run an Intel HD 4000 and can play this game at 30 frames on the low settings, and 40 on the lowest settings.

Don’t sit here and post on the forums that this game can’t run on low end machines, because I run this game all the time on my Macbook Air just fine.

The recent culling removal has literally boosted my framerate by 10 because of the ability to adjust how many models can be displayed on the screen.

It doesn’t matter if there is 800 people, only 12 will be shown on the lowest setting. Stop complaining about the game, if you hate it just quit.

Never.8571:

Geemo.6018:

The so called next generation mmo uses an old generation 32bit client. So it doesn’t matter if you have 32gb of ram because Gw2 will only use 2gb max.

You do realize the limitation for 32-bit is 4GB, right?

Operating systems take 1-2 gigabytes by itself, therefore increasing the consumed ram would actually break a large group of computers that run under 32 bit.

Also I have been increasing in framerate, especially when they removed culling. They’ve done a fantastic job on performance updates for one year.

Use the dye remover and then try dying them again.

The majority of this forum doesn’t know how to play and just agree with the majority. Anyone who can think can know that warriors hard counter spirit rangers.

And here’s the big difference between Guild Wars 1 and Guild Wars 2.

You actually feel like the game is being updated, rather than waiting for an expansion and paying $60 for it. And to top it all off, Guild Wars 2 didn’t charge anything for it.

elcorm.4036:

I really wish I hadn’t deleted my level 5 sylvari necro just to make a human now =/
what a waste of time!

Ditto