Guild Wars 2

lol gw2 lost to ESO

that’s how you know that website is trash and everything on it should be ignored.

I have not been playing for terribly long, but if I saved up all my gold since the day I started, I would probably have enough for a precursor.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

The daily achievement rewards for individual fractals (the ones that drop research pages) can include weapons and armour very rarely. Since one of the daily achievements is for a 1-20 fractal, that means that even at the lowest levels it’s possible to get ascended weapons and armour. There is no difference between the daily achievement chest for a 1-20 fractal and the one for a 21-50 fractal, the two chests stack.

There is a difference between the “complete three fractals within the difficulty range” chests, of course. Those ones don’t stack.

So the “exotic” fractal reward chests don’t include weapons/armor? That seems a little backwards

Problem is, many MANY solo queuers already know these things.

They just refuse to do them.

Call it diffusion of responsibility, but really it’s just laziness and ADD. Everyone wants to be the solo queue hero and push far even though mid and home are already capped.

Sitting still is really hard for some 12 year olds.

So they full cap far and usually lose the other two points in the process. And then while trying to win the other points, they lose far and get 3 capped.

when I watch LoL the only thing “exploding” is my brain cells and my desire to stay awake

What the hell is up with kittening reddit nowadays?

The same kitten is happening in WoW. Devs are ignoring forum posts, but the split second the post is linked on Reddit they get a response on the battle.net forums.

What the hell is so special about Reddit?

I’m guessing It’s because of the tournament. “Esports”.

The devs are aware of the balance issues. But changing kitten up during tournaments throws off all the teams and a lot of their hard work / practice goes down the drain.

Unfortunately the rest of the playerbase has to put up with an insufferable meta till February.

As to why they are so silent, it may have something to do with the obligatory dozen threads people are posting daily that are full of anger and QQ and “kitten you Anet”… Just a thought.

Yep, Gw2 is starting to feel like WoW PvP

These new elite specs have caused many profs to lose their individuality

I’m praying that the February balance patch calms things down a little.

Omg, a bunker class that excels in organized teamfighting isn’t that good in kitten a kitten pug groups?

Someone call Huffpost.

If LoL and all the other trash Mobas / RTS games are what passes for “esports”, I’m kittening happy as all kittening hell that Gw2 isn’t esports.

kid has never faced a halfway decent sentinel bunker chrono 1v1 in his life

butch.8136:

So metabattle only copies ESL games now? Lol.

It’s funny because it reinforces that meta. It goes from pro league to metabattle to the players.

DH and reaper are more than great.

Lol. Maybe in hotjoins.

DH and Reaper are both insanely easy to kill. Unlike the 5 builds mentioned in OP.

Reaper especially. A little bit of CC/lockdowns and they drop like flies.

Remember we’re talking competitive PvP, organized teams that know how to focus 1 target. This ain’t solo queue where you can expect some pug thief to run face first into a dragon’s maw and die instantly.

No, it’s not selfish. The problem is mainly that most Thieves are trash and don’t do their job.

Instead of taking advantage of their mobility and decapping points most solo queue thieves strongly prefer to go to mid and shortbow auto-attack from a distance then steal into a DH trap and insta-die. I guess that’s more “fun” for them than being useful to their team.

This is why they suck. This is why having a thief on your team is a guaranteed loss. And this is why I semi-afk at home point whenever there are two thieves on my team.

Picking a thief is not selfish. Playing a thief selfishly is selfish.

Abjured runs double Rev pretty often. Toker only goes Thief if Thief shines against the other team’s comp… I can’t fully respect any team that has used double rev.

It was still a great match and they played well.

has there been any acknowledgment from devs yet? This has been happening to me randomly since I started playing 2-3 years ago I’m surprised it hasn’t been fixed…

From Gw2 Wiki:

Details: "The old daily reward chests for fractals no longer exist in Heart of Thorns. There are daily achievements for fractals which give rewards, but the in game description for those rewards does not indicate whether or not they drop ascended armor. Completed masteries may be required first, or Armor chests may no longer drop at all. This is not yet known. "

Confusing. As. Heck.

A guild mate of mine just got an ascended chest (boots) from Fractal Level 5.

He can’t remember how it got in his inventory.

Could someone explain to me how it’s possible?

He said it might have been the “Daily” chest. But nowhere in its description does it allude to the possibility of ascended gear.

Almost every post in Rev forum calling for nerfs, and the majority of the posts on any given day in the PvP forums doing the same.

Yet not a single word from Arenanet. They really, really don’t want to nerf their fancy flagship HOT class. Their arrogance is ruining PvP for everyone.

Look at the thread title. It’s not causing team imbalance. That’s my point. Revenant is.

DH is only causing imbalance in hotjoins, which are irrelevant.

Seems like most of the people in here are QQing about DHs that wiped them in solo queue or hotjoins. Zerker amulet ^ ? Are you serious?

This is not competitive PvP. In coordinated team based play, DH are severely lacking. They are fun for wiping scrubs that are dumb enough to stack up and eat traps, that’s about it.

Top ESL teams have almost no interest in Dragonhunters. They’re running two revenants.

A meta where top teams are forced to run two Revs is not a good meta.

DH is all about landing burst. It’s easy to counterplay but with an organized team that can set up burst properly it can definitely be scary and wipe the kitten out a team that’s unprepared. It’s still a boring gimmicky class to play. I would love to see some changes to traps and some buffs to other DH builds to make it a more versatile and interesting class.

Is it broken? Yeah dude, it must be broken, that’s why top ESL teams don’t run them (or run 1 at most) and run 2 viper Revs instead right?

Anyone that thinks Revs are fine knows nothing about the state of PvP.

Talk to any of the top ESL players and they will agree. Viper Rev is broken. Top ESL teams are running two of them in a meta where NO OTHER class is able to rock an amulet with zero defensive stats without becoming a free kill.

Seriously, stop commenting if you know nothing about PvP, you come off as a kittening idiot.

Insane AoE condi burst on (pretty much) zero cooldown. 5 Heals (2 legend heals + shield block + auto shield block trait + shield 4), short cd invincibility with UA, quickness, resistance, boon ripping, almost-guaranteed rez of downed players, zero cd dodge that refills endurance, the list goes on. And nothing about them is gimmicky like DH traps.

If you think this is ok, you really have no hope at ever understanding Gw2 PvP.

DH is far from broken. I’d say it’s one of the better balanced elite specs however it’s boring as heck to play. Would be nice if it was less trap-reliant. I would love a slight nerf to traps as long as we get something else in return. Make some other DH builds viable please. I can’t remember the last time I saw something besides DH trap or burn guard. Yawn.

Revenants are the REAL problem. Insane AoE condi burst on (pretty much) zero cooldown. 5 Heals (2 legend heals + shield block + auto shield block trait + shield 4), short cd invincibility with UA, quickness, resistance, boon ripping, almost-guaranteed rez of downed players, zero cd dodge that refills endurance, the list goes on. And nothing about them is gimmicky like DH traps.

I can’t believe anyone is complaining about DH. Have you even been playing this game? DH is the least of our problems. BunkerWars2 is the problem. Viper Rev being the most broken spec since beta is the problem.

Zero acknowledgement from ArenaNet that we’ll see a good balance patch soon. Very disappointing.

Would seriously like to hear from someone at Anet on when they are planning to balance Revs out.

Currently they are kittening kittened beyond belief.

Just want to say Thank you for addressing concerns Evan! The radio silence in the PvP forum was really upsetting.

Now please tell me when you’re nerfing kittening obviously kitten overpowered kitten as kitten Revenants

Just tank your MMR and farm the PvErs

You guys are wrong, lol

I have gotten a kill while standing on a point and not gotten credit for this, many times. And I have gotten credit for it when I landed a kill off-point.

Fortus.6175:

I think the biggest offenders are brokenants, signetper (also called frostfire reaper) and engis in general. Add to that that everyone and their mothers who arent condi are going bunkers, and what do bunkers use as damage? You guessed right; doom/geomancy, which devolves into even more people having to trait even more condi cleanse, cuz otherwise bunkers who should have no killing potential would win the attrition war if left long enough.

At least reapers can be focused down easily due to zero mobility not to mention only 1 heal spell and no blocks. Engis don’t seem that bad. Marauder scrappers are strong but they don’t feel “broken”.

Revenants have 3 heals, on-demand quickness, the ability to all but guarantee rezzing a downed ally, stability out the kitten, a dodge roll with no CD that refills endurance, the longest block in-game as well as unrelenting assault for temporary invincibility, and just as much condi pressure as frostfire Reapers.

That my friends, is kittening broken. Anyone that thinks otherwise is in denial or just plain kittening stupid.

Chiuvitas.8946:

Viper isnt the problem

Revenants are, they are the only class able to utilize viper without being completely weak

PvP is trash atm. Do yourselves a favor and don’t participate. If ANET sees participation go down, they can’t sit there and pretend like everything is fine and dandy.

BunkerWars2 is kitten.
Revenant is braindead and broken.

Revenants are the godkitten problem.

… Have you seen WoW’s F2P model? You can’t even go past level 20.
It’s a trial for people who are considering buying the game. That’s all. If you’re annoyed with solo queue, don’t solo queue. Get a premade team.

Gw2 PvP is team-oriented. Setting up plays and coordinating. It’s not meant to focus on individual skill.

Agreed 100% on Revenants. Arenanet is being shortsighted here. Using the expansion hype and ESL hype (lol) as a poor excuse to allow this broken class to continue turning PvP into a joke.

I love PvP and yet I feel zero desire to compete this season. Playing solely against Bunkers and Revenants is not – kittening – fun.

Seriously, I hate not being able to spectate the matches!

But that’s only half the problem.

BunkerWars2 is the problem. Saw a necro running Settler’s in one of the games. If that’s not an indicator GW2 PvP in it’s current state is absolute trash I don’t know what is.

We need a new PvP mode that isn’t complete garbage. We need 3v3 and 5v5 deathmatches. Anything really. Spice it up. Add more maps. I’m bored.

Definitely agree, either remove immobilize from the game or fix it. As it is now it’s seriously game breaking, esp for classes like Thief/Mes/Ele, who all have BLINK-like moves to break immobilize, and all of which are currently working AGAINST us when used.

Whenever I am immobilzed on my ele, I use Lightning flash to escape it, and almost every time (maybe every time) without fail I get stuck in some kind of immobilze “limbo”, sometimes it lasts a few seconds, sometimes it’s permanent.

Very frustrating and serious bug in PvP that should be addressed immediately. I’m not sure if lightning flash is normally supposed to remove immobilized regularly or not, but that doesn’t matter here, it should absolutely NOT cause you to be permanently immobilized.

Let me add that when “immobilize limbo” happens, I do not have any visible conditions and the immobilize marker is not visible anywhere on screen.

Is this happening consistently to anyone else? Noticing it in PvP. Often.

My enemy target is maybe 300-400 yards away and I’m getting an “Out of Range”.

Other times my shot is “Obstructed” when there’s no obstacle. Nothing in the way, yet my shots don’t land. Pretty expensive bug considering I’m condi spec and Pin Down is on a 25 second cooldown.

Lost plenty of fights due to this bug. Might be a lag issue, since enemy Pin Downs always seem to land on me…