Why is there no Public Test Servers in this game? Every single major MMO (except gw2) has PTS for their players. It starts to feel like current patches are not tested at all or if they are its only tested by few players / devs. Especially when you are bringing balance patch it would be good to have players testing it to see how its gonna be in action. Some of the bugs are so obvious and game breaking and could probably have been prevented from going in the live patch. We had public test for EOTM why not have it for every patch?
I didnt find any topic with official responses so im hoping maybe this will get one?
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lags been for like 2 months now, its random but happens every single day.
are you sharing servers with wildstar or something???? on a side note i notice this happens in pve maps also.
WvW and Spvp are pretty much in “open beta” so i wouldnt expect this. And the amount of trolling that happens in this game is pretty high so this would be abused so much.
i almost fainted from these news. i was about to quit the game but i heard about these big changes and changed my mind. im sure after 1 month these “big changes” still matter to anyone except their new fail-nades that will destroy WvW, or atleast the PPT part of it.
i wouldnt have known when was the actual games played if i didnt randomly check twitch streams.
As said before the promotion for this event was horribru.
Complexity? Nope. Every team is the same, everyone uses the same meta builds, every build is spam 1-2 skills to win.
Are you suggesting that in other game modes there are more than 1-2 skill needed to win?
Think about what you are saying .. How is that PvP specific? More hyperbole garbage, parroted by people who seem to think PvP is easy, but almost always have very little mastery of ‘1-2 skills’ themselves.
Im just saying how things are… When was the last time u saw something “new” in a streamed tournament? How many pwhip, spirit ranger, bunker guard, hambow teams u see during these tournaments (i’d say 90% if not all). U rarely see anything too unique or new because nothing else works against these cheese builds.
PvP is too messy for complete stranger to watch. If u dont know alot of the game the fights only look like bunch of aoe rings and particles popping all around, its not really entertaining.
Complexity? Nope. Every team is the same, everyone uses the same meta builds, every build is spam 1-2 skills to win. Only complex part is how the teams decide to rotate around points and thats just about it. This game would need so much more diversity on builds / team comps to be interesting to watch.
So you want people to build so many ac’s that rams can only take that damage for about 3 seconds and never be able to cap anything? No thanks… Siege is already overpowered enough. Just learn proper placement and how to use them for different situations (unless its omegas they are hard to counter.)
I dont think its really great idea to put healing signet to scale more from healing power atleast on warriors current state. As a warrior your skills have almost zero synergy for healing power , shouts yes but its value is minimal compared to other possibilities.
You cant be “real” bunker as warrior so getting healing power just for the signet is not worth it (unless it has insane scaling but then it would be even more op :P ).
Unless you want to nerf it just for the sake of nerf and make it useless. What could be more useful is to tune down longbow and base damage of hammer autos / number 2 and 5. But this would make hammer greatly imbalanced in WvW / PvE.
Lower tiers go even lower populated and higher keep growing. I doubt they are gonna change anything since all they care is that they will get money from transfers.
WvW’s been the same since start so people get bored of it eventually.
As for Eotm, i think its only pretty looking map with champion farming u cant call that WvW. I cant say anyone that i know ingame that actually likes eotm. Maybe all this work could’ve been used to improve current maps and systems.
So please anet… Players want real content not masteries that imbalance the game or changing letters from A to B.
I only play WvW and Spvp. Went into this map 2 times, not planning to go back ever again.
It looks really nice but the whole map has no meaning. Only reason i would play it is if i needed dragonite ore or such. All this hard work could’ve been used so much better by improving current maps or something… I was hoping for much more but the map is not funny for me, its only square shaped sentries and champion farming.
Another terrible armor for charr. Its just armor wrapped around charr model and thats it. Helmet looks like its head of a chicken or something. Past couple new armor sets have been horrible. If it doesnt work, dont release it…
To asnwer fenrir : Your thoughts on pets? all that support and condis! Looks nice on paper but in use its not. Pet wont survive more then 2 seconds during the fight .
Ranger support. Yeah warhorn buff is nice thats true. Precision trait is also nice. Spirits? Nope they die in 2 seconds. Fire fields from torch? I heard eles can give that too with only 5 seconds cooldown.
Ranger damage. Axe autos 300-500dmg i cant really call that is good damage.
Traps wont work because the conditions u get will be cleansed in matter of seconds.
Gs somewhat good autos i guess because u get that evade with it.
Axe off-hand has long cast time and high cooldown and its static skill.
Ranger CC. As i said entangle is nice but with VERY high cooldown and it can be blinded / dodged / dps’d down.
Traps. Small fields and the CC comes with long pulse not instantly so thats a no.
Ranger tankiness. Yes u can go full regen ranger but u wont deal any damage except single target conditions. And the regen u get wont be high enough against 5 or more guys.
Thats my thoughts. Ranger is not good for zerging. Perfect for duels / small scale. I have played ranger for 2000 hours and probably over half of that time is in pvp so i think i have somekind of image what ranger is good for.
Ranger is bad, ranger pet sucks, ranger doesnt support, ranger cant damage, ranger cant control, ranger cant eat damage. Only good skill is water field which is your heal (bad, eles give it easier) and entangling roots (long cd, warrior does it with 10x less cd . ). You can always say “you just gotta learn to play ranger”, no its wrong. Ranger will never be viable for <5 man groups, unless they revamp the class and remove their pets and give more powers for the class itself.
Likes
1) GvG (both open field and organised)
2) Open field fights
3) Roaming (>5 players)/ dueling
Dislikes
1) Siege too overpowered (Ac’s too strong when stacked with many, trebs on rams.)
2)PvE content at open fields (for example. Scarlet stuff to north from NW tower.)
3)PvE nerfs / buffs that effect WvW balance dramatically.
I also noticed all these new exciting features during our raid. Sentry capping event had better looking flag (the old one was terrible and needed immediate change!). New sliding event messages on the side ! Events have this nice gray line between them now. And ofc we have these metal scrap piles or w/e. they are called for the living story event.
Nice job balancing the game around PvE. Im sure we are gonna have nice e-sports and balanced PvP!
Those risen in arah must be really mad that u can kill them so fast.
Same here. had alot of packet loss (sometimes even 100%). contacted support i was being told that i need to try running the game with proxy. Didnt really do anything for me, but im not experiencing this anymore so it seems to be better now. I also had ping for around 160-170+ during dc’s. And im pretty sure this wasnt on my ISP’s side since i checked if i had packet loss towards their side and i had 0 after couple hours of testing.
same. started this evening, i get connection lost the server message and kick to character select every 5-10minutes. i can still type in chat but nothing works. During this im still just fine on the internet using browser / teamspeak. I see alot of these posts here and reddit, no official reply from anet yet?
E: i ran that Guild Wars 2 Diag and i had alot of packet losses in there (from 20% raising up to 100%.). I did the same for my IP and i had 0. If i understood correctly this issue is not related to my ISP?
Every other class does things better. Ranger’s pet is close to useless during zergs. Ranger doesnt deal good AoE dmg(or actually damage overall in zergs.). Ranger doesnt bring good enough support. Ranger cant tank (yes u got ur signet but its not enough.).
Only thing that can be useful is your water heal / binding roots. But then again other more useful classes provide these already.
List probably could continue pages but heres the reason why i dont like rangers. I used to main ranger for over 1000 hours so i know what i talk about. And i assume you talk about zerging and not small scale roaming.
The matchmaking gets better as you get higher ELO. The first 10~ games you will be matched with utter noobs. As you get higher you get matched with people who actually know what they are doing.
Im sorry but this is not true i think even Anet doesnt know how their matchmaking system works really. I see level 1-10 players regulary (im around top 200-600 yolo queue leaderboard.) in games.
There is absolutely NOTHING to do apart from running good ol’ karma train (and that wont probably be even that good compared to other maps or PvE.). This map needs somekind of meaning before its gonna come out, if u have played it u have probably felt “what to do” in there. I cant see myself roaming in this map just because all the PvE and jumping around. I really do hope anet fixes this before its live. But it looks pretty i have to give that.
TL;DR : in short, at its current state its not gonna be fun for long.
I totally agree with Azure Power. Current “new” content has just been something like this, “Let’s swap from left to right and turn it upside down! Now we can call it new content even though its still the same old!”.
I’m just going to point out that league of legends is a rip off of DotA1, which was a rip off of 3 Corridors (3C and DotA 1 were both Warcraft 3 custom maps). If 3 Corridors ripped it’s concept off something else, let me know.
So please rename this hilarious thread and all associated names to WvW3C for accuracy, your stolen idea is more like 3C than DotA 1 or LoL anyway.
Gooby pliz… Point of this thread is not whats the origin of dota type of games….
I think there will be alot of population problems with this, u will never have enough players on lower servers.
i will go team queue as solo until they remove skyhammer from solo queue. That map is just disgrace for pvp. Anet needs to listen their players and remove that piece of kitty from tournaments.
except their new fail-nades that will destroy WvW, or atleast the PPT part of it.
i think even Anet doesnt know how their matchmaking system works really. I see level 1-10 players regulary (im around top 200-600 yolo queue leaderboard.) in games.