Guild Wars 2

Ya then nobody will be playing human or sylvari in PvP. Will either be asura or norn not to mention if someone is playing born they will make their height and everything else maxed out and if their playing a sura they will make everything the smallest. Sounds lame. Solution? Take asura out of PvP. Yay. Reason? You’ll only be taking out one race compared to messing up two of them.

I mean I would understand if you didn’t want to target the phantasms. That’s fine but the clones wouldn’t make sense. Not to mention most of the time you do want to kill the phantasm as fast as possible since it outputs most of the damage that the mesmer has to offer.

I understand all of them but the mesmer. The mesmer is supposed to “trick” you. That’s the point of the clones, not phantasms. That’s why they do basically no damage and have absolutely no health. The phantasms are obvious because they deal more damage and aren’t supposed to trick you. You would be destroying the mesmer if clones were transparent and not targeted as well.

If guilds were to be apart of PvP then there should be more ovo elements to a guild. Currently its all over and wvw. Would be even cooler if there was a pvo guild option or a “team” instead of a guild.

There is none.

I don’t think the mesmers are that bad as they only appear when they summon them while in a fight so they arent already there surrounding them and they dissapear after the mesmer is out of battle as well as the fact that they die within 2 hits but the necros minions are ridiculous. Pets with a lot of health is just dumb. And the clutter is bad is really bad when you can just summon them whenever and you’re just surrounded by them and projectiles miss because they have minions/spirits surrounding them.

I think mesmers and rangers like stealth too. And pretty much any memo that has a rogue/assassin/thief has stealth for it. Its their speciality/lore. And I’m sorry but I don’t think you see teams full of thieves like there is warriors or necros. Thieves are good for the role that they have in a team. And I’m sorry but its not that hard to kill a noob l2p thief compared to a noob l2p warrior. Just saying. Now if you’re facing a warrior that knows his class well and is really experienced then all you need to do is know how to play your class well and be experienced and get to a better area. Thieves are best at finding someone alone and by themselves and decapping far and giving minor support at mid from a vantage point with sb. They are not op in the slightest.

Well as its updated I’ll choose thief as my main fav atm because I love annoying far point and being strategic on when and how to enter a fight.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

Windows 8.1
I7 6-core (#??) @ 4.325 Ghz
32GB @ 2.333 GHz (should fix this)
256GB Raid0 SSD (two cards)
TWO nVidia GTX770 4GB (SLI)
1500W PS

1. Windows 8.1 runs MUCH faster with GW2 than Win7 did
2. SLI on/off makes a big difference – GW2 does make use of your video card
3. GW2 uses all CPU cores, it is a multithreaded app

There is so much hearsay and outright incorrect statements about the game architecture and OS.

Graphics settings:
nVidia GW2 profile (make sure SLI is on)
Start max everything, go through each, don’t go by the best drop down setting.
1. Camera shake off
2. Super sampling ON
3. Environment ULTRA
4. Shadows -> medium to off to your taste, this has a huge impact in performance

Essentially shadows is all I will adjust to perk up the frame rate on a heavily populated map, when the frame rate goes below 30.

Usually 50+ FPS peak 120 FPS.

Running on a fifty five inch 1080p @ 60Hz

If I turn on frame rate limiting (to 60), the jet plane fans calm down but I will get some horizontal image warping when moving the camera around a lot.

You’re running two 4gb 770’s? So 8gb total? If so, that’s a little excessive haha. I have heard of a lot of problems with people running sli though. One card is really your best option from what I’ve heard. Correct me if I’m wrong but ive heard of micro stuttering and all sorts of stuff when it comes to using sli for two cards. That’s the main reason why I didn’t purchase a second 770 2gb which I was originally going to.

Silferas.3841:

Spirits are an unbalanced mechanic that is horrible in PvE and group WvW and overpowered in PvP. Here are the reasons:

1) They clutter the screen and protect their master from projectiles in PvP
2) They provide passive as well as active benefits that outperform classes to whom those benefits should be a signature move (spirit ranger having better protection uptime than a guardian for example).
3) Their playstyle punishes active play and rewards auto attack spam, yet provides a level of efficiency which most of other classes cannot match.
4) in WvW and PvE they die too easily
5) they require major trait investment to be even usable

In my opinion a rework of the mechanic itself is in order. Spirits should imo look like this:

Disclaimer: numbers are solely for the purpose of demonstration of my train of thought and could, or in most cases should, be a subject to balancing changes.

Sun Spirit: 1/2s cast time, 35s cooldown, 5s duration, HP reduced by 30% from what it is now. Ground targeted, range 900. On summon the Sun Spirit creates an aura of burning around itself, which stacks 2s of burning every second on an enemy standing inside of it, in addition enemies are blinded in an area when the spirit is summoned.

Earth Spirit: 1/2 cast time, 35s cooldown, 5s duration, HP reduced by 30% from what it is now. Ground targeted, range 900. On summon the Earth Spirit creates an aura of protection around itself, which stacks 3s of protection every second on an ally standing inside of it, in addition enemies are immobilized in an area when the spirit is summoned.

Lightning Spirit: deals damage and stacks debuff on enemies inside of AoE, on 3rd stack of the debuff enemies are stunned. Stunned enemies receive double damage.

Frost Spirit: 25% damage increase for those 5s
Water Spirit: Heals 4k HP in an area on summon (no extra heal for the ranger), heals 1k HP/s for 5s.

in addition the traits would be changed a little bit:
Spirits Unbound – not changed, spirits can follow you
Nature’s Vengeance – spirits create an area of effect spell when they are killed. Sun Spirit – lava font (increased radius one), earth – churning earth, water – healing rain, lightning – static field, frost – frozen ground
Vigorous Spirits – spirits last extra two seconds and their health is increased

Ranger would be fixed in these ways:
no more rewarding of an auto attack spam
no more passive bonuses present almost constantly
no more screen AI clutter
proper counter-play to spirits working in a way in which it was intended
on-demand utility which would allow for active play with spirits
having a direct, visible and immediate impact on the course of fights
reworked frost spirit would make a ranger very likeable for dungeon speedrun parties
reworked traits would make it so that spirits are not useless even in wvw group fights
improved support options and overall ranger viability

I really like these ideas. Seriously, props.

I loved the mesmer for awhile, a long while but it got very repetitive for me and everyone started calling it op and it annoys me when people think I kill them because my class is op rather than my skill level so I switched over to thief just recently because its really fun strategically choosing when to enter into a fight and raining them down with burst as well as people were saying that thief got nerfed horribly and isn’t viable to play but now I’m seeing people starting to post thieves are op threads YET again and its annoying in game to kill someone and have them say “another noon op thief” so I dunno what to do. Why is everything op except for ele?

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

question for all of you who are running Windows 8… does this game actually run smoothly on Windows 8? I heard that because Windows 8 is so similar to an App based system such as Android and the iPhone OS, that it may not be compatible with a game such as Guild Wars 2. Is this true or is there a way to get Windows 8 to run Guild Wars 2? I ask because I would very much like to get an upgraded Computer that runs Windows 8, but not if it means I can’t run this game or another game of my choosing because of incompatibility issues with the OS.

Windows 8 is completely fine for gaming. This isn’t Vista Check this link out, I kinda have this opinion.
http://gizmodo.com/5937590/youre-being-lied-to-windows-8-isnt-bad-for-gaming

Blanger.3162:

Cush.4063:

Corpus Christi.2057:

People still didn’t get it that, unless they’re working on some ultra-new virtual graphic generators ( used by e.g. architects ), they will not need 16 gb of RAM in the nearest future ( a couple of years at least ).

It amazes me, really…

That was the point of building this computer. To make it extremely powerful and to future proof it for a good amount of time. Is there something wrong with that? Especially when ram is one of the cheapest things on the rig.

Cush…

In the old days MBs and OSs could not address or access memory above a certain limit, in today’s world of multi-tasking, multi-threading, multi-core multi-virtuial machine systems that isn’t a problem, case in point, my wife likes to work in photoshop, corel draw, and illustrator all at the same time when working on a project both of the Adobe programs are resource hogs and while Corel isn’t as demanding it isn’t a slouch either.

While running any one of these programs by itself 8g is more than adequate, open all three and try to get anything productive done is frustrating to say the least, granted there are more factors here than just memory pool size, allocation, and usage, graphics program need well really good graphics, quick hard drives (for scratch disks), lots of processing power and a large memory pool, she does do some 3D rendering in Maya which is probably the most intense app she runs which they only recommend 8g of ram also, but open it along side the other products all running at the same time …..well in a 8g system it isn’t pretty or productive unless you like waiting.

Bottom line….I like to play GW2, so much so that I have ran Premier rendering video to Encore and let Encore author a DVD while playing GW2 which stresses my system I don’t believe I could have the processes running in the background, render video and play GW2 on a 8g system without problems but I’ve never tried it either.

As you say RAM is one of the cheapest upgrades you can add to a computer not as cheap as a just a year ago but still if your building for the future (which we all do) why not add in capacity that may not be used today but when Win9 comes out and can address 128g of RAM (hypothetical) you’ll be ahead of the game, everyone who builds there own PC has a goal or objective in mind, software they know they will be running but the demands of future software are an unknown so if you build, built the biggest and baddest PC you can comfortably afford but don’t scrimp on the power supply.

Agreed haha. The reason I only have a 700w power supply was not intentional. I had planned for a much more powerful one in the high dollar range but the reason it came down to this one was because I had just received my first part to my rig (my GPU) and I really wanted to put it in my fathers kittenty PC as he was running with an integraded HD graphics card, old gigabyte mobo, 4gb ram, 300w power supply, etc. You get the picture. I wanted to finally play a game with a better frame rate on a higher graphic setting than very low.

So, that high dollar power supply that I wanted kinda went out the window at that point because I wanted better fps and graphics now. Not later, now :p. So instead of saving up an extra $100 and ordering online I ran over to PC Brokers and got a power supply that was 100w over the minimum for my GPU which barely, and I mean barely by like one more millimeter the GPU wouldn’t fit barely, got it fit into my fathers kittenty PC haha. This has held me over until I finish purchasing everything here shortly.

Now this doesn’t mean I won’t be upgrading my power supply but like I said, I want to complete my rig now and play it now, so I’m definitely not going to purchase the power supply next or before I put all the pieces together and play some games on it but it probably will be one of the first things I purchase once I have it together.

Cush

Lexandro.1456:

CursedPanther.7851:

Ayrilana.1396:

CursedPanther.7851:

Ayrilana.1396:

You have to over clock but it’s possible.

The problem is it’s greatly affected by the number of players in LA. Try it in those most populated servers where a constant of roughly couple hundreds of players are present, it just can’t be done.

It can be done and I see it regularly. I’m far from being the only one too.

Then I should assume you have a godly machine build that can support your claim.

My system I posted above with max graphical settings @1680x1050 around the forge gets between 30 and 50 fps depending on the angle and number of people around at the time. If I turn off v-sync, and reduce player character model numbers a bit its 40+.

Ya I can see that when you’re pushing out 4.3ghz on your processor. Which i7 you over clocking? I plan to get mine up there as well. I read that 70% the i7-4770k 3.5ghz processors can usually be pushed to 4.5ghz and the next 10% can get it to 4.6 while the last 20% can actually get it up to 4.7. Must’ve gotten lucky if they can keep it at 4.7 stable without overheating of upwards of 90c.

Corpus Christi.2057:

People still didn’t get it that, unless they’re working on some ultra-new virtual graphic generators ( used by e.g. architects ), they will not need 16 gb of RAM in the nearest future ( a couple of years at least ).

It amazes me, really…

That was the point of building this computer. To make it extremely powerful and to future proof it for a good amount of time. Is there something wrong with that? Especially when ram is one of the cheapest things on the rig.

I don’t main a thief and even I think the thief changes you request is wrong. You’re just asking for them to go back to Dec 10th and keep the nerfs and have 0 buffs. Thieves don’t need another nerf. If anything they need more complexity and if more complexity is given than I would agree with cool downs instead of initiative. Complexity would be great for a thief imo. Right now it really depends on the weapon build you’re using and its just using the same 2 attacks over and over again and if you’re a better thief its the same 2 attacks over and over again with smart choices on when and how you enter the fight and leave the fight to gain a better advantage and using you’re utilities to save yourself. With more complexity I think thieves could be more less spam my to people because obviously the reason you want to reduce initiative cool down is to reduce spamming like HS. An elementalist has great complexity for example. And tbh I wish all classes were like elementalists when it came combat.

yay, it isn’t working

There wasn’t really any other category in the forums this seemed more fit so I decided to post it here because it’s cool to see what other people are using for Guild Wars 2 and also to see some other people’s specs.

I’m currently running on a crappy computer of my dads but I’m currently building a PC and almost finished. I currently have a GeForce 2gb Superclocked 770 that I put in my dad’s computer in the meantime so I can play the game reasonably with good graphics but what I’ve been purchasing are as follows.

• NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower Chasis purchased
• Intel Core i7-4770k Quad-Core Processor purchased
• GeForce 2gb Superclocked 770 GPU purchased
• ASUS Maximus VI Hero Motherboard purchased
• Cooler Master 700W Power Supply purchased
• Corsair Vengence 16gb RAM not yet purchased
• Corsair Hydro Series Liquid CPU Cooler H100i not yet purchased
• WD Red 2 TB Hard Drive not yet purchased
• Some kind of BluRay player/burner not yet purchased
• Razer Naga Epic Mouse think I’m getting it for christmas
• Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Keyboard think I’m also getting for christmas
• Windows 8 not yet purchased
• A kitten touchscreen monitor not yet purchased

Basically I’m building my dream computer and should have the rest purchased in the next month SO stoked to have it finally completed. Long time in the making. What are all of your rig builds for Guild Wars 2?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

eh the original post is made 29 days ago?

huh? don’t understand why this hasn’t been a big topic and nobody really noticed it, lol. thought this was a current thread. oh well.

Wait what? New game modes announced in a stream that wasn’t PvP livestream? Where can I see this?

If you all think warriors are balanced then do you think other “certain” classes, not all, just need buffs?

Conncept.7638:

redslion.9675:

Yes, he has a bit more hp and a bit more armor than you, but probably won’t have much defense on his own. No point on defense traitline, Endure Pain at most.

A bit? I don’t really agree that warriors need to be ‘nerfed into the ground’ but you need to do some reading on the stats, 4000 HP between a warrior and a thief with the exact same build, and that isn’t even the worst, the Ele has 8000 HP less and has the lowest armor class. And they all deal at best equal damage.

It is completely laughable to say that the stat dichotomy in this game is currently balanced. The idea at launch was that squishier classes would have more defense in their abilities, but this has never been true for certain classes, the ele for example had defense in its utilities and healing in its weapon skills to balance out its stat drawbacks. And then it had every facet of its defense nerfed by nearly a third because they could stack those defensive abilities, and therein lies the impossible problem between balancing classes reliant on defensive abilities versus classes reliant on defensive stats. If you give them enough defensive abilities to have varying builds and methods of defense, they are going to stack them and it will be overpowered, if you don’t then they have nothing versus the inherent and ever-present defense of the stat-dependent classes.

This one mainly

Arganthium.5638:

glaphen.5230:

Yes, no other class has damage that high but every other class has skills that do comparable damage and are easier to hit with.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jump_Shot
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fire_Grab
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Backstab
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mind_Wrack
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Phantasmal_Swordsman
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Maul_%28ranger_greatsword_skill%29
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Whirling_Wrath
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Whirling_Axe_%28stolen_skill%29
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pry_Bar
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Smite
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zealot%27s_Defense
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Well_of_Suffering
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deathly_Claws
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lava_Font
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Meteor_Shower
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Churning_Earth

Wanna know what they all have in common? Mobility, range, AoE, area denial and of course non obvious animations. If a Warrior uses axe all you have to do is stay 301 range away from him and he will never hit you. The only ways he can possibly get close is by using his other weapon set as sword or greatsword. If he uses those he has no cc besides possibly using Bull’s Charge or Tremor mace off hand which both have obvious animations. So all you have to do is be ready to dodge when he switches to axe since sword and greatsword don’t do very good damage besides one or two skills. Sword doesn’t do much besides Final Thrust which has a 3/4 second cast time and he will only use it when you are at 50% hp or less. Greatsword does 0 damage unless you stand in Hundred Blades or the stars align and Rush hits a target.

LMAO WTF

Jump Shot: longest hang time in the air known to humanity, plus it still has a lower coefficient than the the level 2 and 3 Eviscerates (coef of 2.07).

Fire Grab: has an extremely long cast time and an insanely long CD, and it only does more damage than a level 2 Eviscerate if your opponent has burning on him/her (still does less than level 3). Also an extremely hard skill to land.

Backstab: really? Does less damage than a level 2 or level 3 Eviscerate.

Mind Wrack: not even close, even with three illusions (still far away if you have Illusionary Persona).

Illusionary Swordsman: phantasm has one of the most obvious cast times and animations in the game. Also attacks on a pattern. Still significantly less than a level 2 eviscerate.

Maul: are you kidding? Again, extremely obvious animation (massive bear in your face) and still is echelons below a level 2 eviscerate (in fact, it does less damage than a level 1 eviscerate).

Whirling Wrath: yeah, given that usually only three of the 9 projectiles hits your opponent (if you’re lucky) and has a long and obvious animation, don’t know where you’re pulling this out of.

Whirling Axe: unless you just stand in place, this isn’t going to do much damage to you. Even if you do stand in place, most of the attacks don’t hit you anyways.

Pry Bar: not even close, don’t even try.

Smite: really?

Zealot’s Defense: have you ever used this skill before?

Well of Suffering: just a small AoE pulse on a 1 sec interval… And it’s a utility w/ a much longer CD than Eviscerate.

Deathly Claws: it’s an elite skill… On an extremely long CD… That makes you the largest target in the game… That has an insanely large animation… Seriously?

Lava Font/Meteor Strike: just stop trying please.

Churning Earth: literally the most obvious cast in the game with an extremely predictable follow-up and strike time.

This. Nobodys responded on this one it seems.

mini.6018:

No. Just a lot of players that are bad at pvp like any mesmer losing to a gc warrior getting encouraged by other complaint posts into believing they are not the reason they lost.

Warrior press -2 130 range skill ,nothing hapens
Mesmer press -2 invulnerable to any damage
Thief press -2 ,teleport to target,remove condi and immobilize

Should i go on ? You realize how stupid it is to compare only 1 skill?

Lol? Are you really trying to compare the #2 skill with other #2 skills? That’s ridiculous lmao. I don’t understand how warriors think their classed is balanced right now. We’re not asking for a nerf to the ground like eles. We’re asking for a nerf to make it more balanced. I bet a lot of you were people asking for needs on other classes yet you can’t take one yourself and get EXTREMELY defensive about it and your only excuse is that they are bad. I see soooo many warriors in game its ridiculous along with necros. I took a screenshot the other day on a bunch of matches in a row on how many warriors there are because they are op atm. There’s usually 3-4 warriors on a team and/or 2 necros. Just saying. Take the suggestions for once, I know the necros are and have been saying they aren’t happy with the state their class is in right now but whenever a warrior thread goes up (and there are a lot) you all go berserk and start calling people names and saying they suck at the game. Why do you think there are so many threads? You’re getting a nerf, I mean if there isn’t one for you next patch then you can say I told you so but I extremely doubt that. Just accept it and help with the suggestions on where you think things should be and you might be able to put some input in rather than just saying no, everyone is just bad.

This has also happened to me. Where I try to use any if my abilities and they don’t work and I had to die before I got them back. Once I died and respawned everything was back to normal. This has happened multiple times although not too often but it definitely is extremely aggregating when it happens. Your teammates see you and think you’re a scrub and the person who killed you thinks likewise.

I love this idea. I really do. Although I would only cut it in half. So 1 point for every cap every 4 seconds or you can throw in that half point every 2 seconds and just not be able to see it on screen in case 4 seconds is too long to hold a cap for quick fights. Great idea tbh and I don’t know much about how development works but it doesn’t seem that hard to implement. Just change the score multipliers of caps and kills. But like I said I don’t know much about development so it might be harder than it sounds.
EDIT: Not to mention this would make individual scores actually make sense within the game.

I’ve definitely seen the instastomps. Where they stomp you 5x faster than normal. I can’t account for instarezzes. I’ve seen them but I can’t account for someone using an ability to do that.

Romek.4201:

for daily would be rly bad^^ – 80 days to lvl a character?

but no they said nothing bout how you get it after glory is removed but you can lvl in spvp than too – somehow

Tbh, a little short of 3 months isn’t that bad at all. I can get multiple tomes of knowledge a day easily by just playing matches. But I can see it being abused by players that mainly pve. Actually not really tbh. With how fast you can level by crafting combined with everything else a daily seems pretty poor only being able to level up once a day if all you play is pvp. I like how it is now :p.

TheGreatA.4192:

Cush.4063:

13k will one shot people with full health. Certain eles and thieves.

Even with berserker amulet you should have 14k hp in sPvP.

Alright. So 1k health left? Lol.

13k will one shot people with full health. Certain eles and thieves.

SoLeciTO.3490:

A thief can hit you by 13k also with a full glass canon build . . . .

But you hit him twice that xD with a 11k hp pool.

Warriors are too good for so long . . . probably will happen what happens to thief . . .

Nerf them to the ground . . .

Same as eles

I don’t thieves can hit for 13k in PvP anymore. Maybe in WvW but def not PvP. Just wars.

Simplicity.7208:

JTan.1687:
Solo Queue victories: 948
Solo Queue losses: 514
Team Queue victories: 0
Team Queue losses: 0

Obvious photoshop troll is obvious. Learn to leaderboard.

Haha right? Since when do you have EXACTLY 250 of everything and not one extra.

I dunno about you guys but for some reason I haven’t been having that much trouble with this map. And that’s not because I have a skyham troll class at all. I don’t. I just position myself so that if I get feared or knock backed I hit a wall rather than the edge. I just make sure when I’m facing a necro I come at him on the inside wall. Same up at skyham. Or if you’re a thief you can always steal right when you’re about to go off edge which will override the positioning on fear and then use your steal to fear them off. Or maybe I’m just getting lucky. Not sure but all I know is when I first started pvping that I would always get knocked off and now I don’t.

Ya actually I haven’t tried that yet. Replacing it with a bag of the same size or larger yet I mean. I’ve just been trying to toss it or replace it with a 5 slot bag cause its really annoying not being able to deposit my collectibles and compact my items. I’ll try that when I can get on my PC.

Sorry, forgot to mention that as well. I have tried and removed everything from the bags as well and that won’t work either.

I put in a support ticket yesterday but still haven’t heard anything back on it and it’s extremely aggravating. I crafted an “8 slot Oiled Leather Bag” and an “8 Slot Invisible Leather Pack” and equipped them and now I just simply cannot remove them. I’ve tried taking another bad and hovering it over the bag to replace it and it highlights red and doesn’t allow me to. I’ve tried clicking and dragging it out of the inventory window to toss it out and that doesn’t work. The only thing I can do is take a currently equipped bag and hover it over it and switch it spots with it. Please help me out and fix this. It’s really dampering my game and annoying when I can’t compact my items correctly or deposit my collectibles correctly since they are special bags unless I manually move things around to other bags in order to do so and is especially aggravating when I’m full on bag storage and have to do this and would like to upgrade my bags.

Thanks,
Cush

Bsgapollo.5364:

Cush.4063:

If you’re having the problem of browsing the net while waiting for queue and miss it is an easy fix. Just download “Over wolf”. It allows you to browse the internet as well as open TS “INGAME”. That’s right people, there’s no excuse for missing queue. You can browse the net without two monitors in game while waiting for your queue to pop.

Pretty cool program, too bad I can’t add my favourite websites nor change my home website whenever I go to the browser, nonetheless a helpfull stuff.

No problem man. Maybe I should post it in the players helping players section. Its surprising when not that many people know about this program. Its great. I also posted awhile ago on how to change your caps lock key to a control key or to just disable it as well as the windows key.

If you’re having the problem of browsing the net while waiting for queue and miss it is an easy fix. Just download “Over wolf”. It allows you to browse the internet as well as open TS “INGAME”. That’s right people, there’s no excuse for missing queue. You can browse the net without two monitors in game while waiting for your queue to pop.

I agree with you…….to an extent. Like the above poster said a class shouldn’t be able to do everything in one build. Its not right when you see a team consisting of 4 warriors and a necro or the opposite. The game will be balanced when you see a team that can be good with not one duplicate class in it. ie: ranger, warrior, necro, mesmer, thief or engi, ele, ranger, mesmer, guardian.

• Game modes! What are you thinking of regarding them and a map with no cap nodes?
• Nerf warriors
• Buff eles
• Fix hard to catch for thieves as well as some buff
• Have any discussion on having a team on PvP? Like a guild except with only PvP related missions and improvements and such or else add more PvP options to guilds. Also guild progression is primarily focused on the guild leaders server while PvP you play with people on other servers.
• Any news on mass conditions?
• PvP specific gear/legendaries?
• Different team sizes? 3v3 2v2?
• How about some voice integration for groups? Would be able to communicate much easier and matches would be more competitive and fun.
• AI clutter
• 1v1 casual dueling arenas! You get spawned into a small arena after queueing and have the best out of 3 rounds OR right click someones name and click request a duel. I like the first one more but either would be fun.
  Thanks!

Aza.2105:

Ludus Rex.1562:

Aza.2105:

You can get grouped with 4 other players who are good, but that doesn’t mean that one synergizes with them well. As you mentioned its completely random. So in that regard saying that you have to win more than you lose is irrelevant, since you have no direct control over the team composition.

Right, I’ll give you additional variance for composition, but again, the other team has the exact same issue. Their team also may or may not mesh well, based on chance. The only controllable variable is STILL your level of player skill and effectiveness when it comes to the game’s objectives.

The only way for this not to be the only X factor, IE, the only thing that matters over the long term, is by making the claim that a players skill is 100% irrelevant to how they perform in a match, and thus 100% irrelevant to the outcome of the game. Is that your argument? That skill is 100% irrelevant? Because if it’s not, then it’s the only X factor, and it’s what determines long term success or failure.

Let’s look at an extreme example: We could build the ideal team, with the ideal specs, calculated perfectly for group synergy and each with a specific job in the game, then give those characters to a group of 5, six year olds, and then we could have that team play against 5 totally random classes and builds, all in the hands of very good players who know what they’re doing. Guess where I’m putting my money?

Okay, so player skill matters in some regard, right? Can we agree on that? Okay, so your personal player skill is the only variable in Solo Q. It doesn’t mean you’ll win every game, or even the majority of games over a short period of time, but over enough games and enough time, your win/loss ratio is determined entirely by your player skill.

But hey, better to run around screaming at ANET because we got a couple bad match-ups in a row, right? Good times.

Your example is ok because its not realistic, furthermore you are basing your entire idea from a very linear perspective. Which essentially tries to determine predictions based upon mathematical results. For somethings this is good, but for a human being this is not. Factoring in each individual then outside influences such as lag, playstyle, build, class and so forth. There becomes so many variables that you can not possibly try to illustrate it through a completely logical thought process.

Its impossible to gauge the skill level of a soloq player. The system tallies team wins, which in soloq is simply put accidental. So in that respect you say that each players win/lose and current ranking in soloq is completely accidental. It would be better if individual stats were tracked instead of generic win/loss ratio.

I don’t see where he said anything was accidental at all. You’re own rank (long term) is all based upon you and how good you are. And basing it on personal score is a horrid concept. That would make everyone not act as a team and just be tagging players with a single attack while someone else would take them down and just cap a zone and leave to go decap or cap another zone without trying to win the actual game because they would be more worried about their individual score rather than the teams score. No thank you.

exinax.2178:

Umm nope, as soon as someone stands on the point, it stops capping as soon as one enemy player stands on the point. Doesn’t matter if there’s 1 or 5 of your team.

Well thanks for letting me know that >.>…always thought it was the other way around with people always saying to fight on the point when they’re already in it. Goes to show you don’t know everything. I edited my post

Justin ODell.9517:

Lopez.7369:

Three matches today. Three sweeps.

Your matches have been even. You are on the high skill side of the curve and haven’t been getting any new players on any of your recent rosters. Both you and the people you’ve played with have had a stable MMR.

I don’t know what to tell you.

LOL! Somebody was caught in a lie. Feel like most people do this.

So the basics really are

• Don’t stand on home (your closest cap point) when someone else is there and there are no enemies around.
• Your personal score doesn’t matter at all, do not worry about what your individual score says. Its all about your team score and THAT is what gets you the most rank points and glory, not your individual score.
• Fight as a team and be supportive of your team, use team supportive abilities.
• When you’re invisible it will not cap the node so be strategic about when you use invisibility. There are times you must use it to survive but keep in mind that you will not be helping with the cap itself while you’re invisible.

Mesmer Support
People truly underestimate the capabilities a mesmer has to support a team. You have a ton of support abilities especially as a condition mesmer. Chaos field grant boons to you and your allies and conditions to your foes. The elite ability Time Warp grants all your allies quickness with their attacks so they can potentially be twice as lelethal. Null Field in my opinion is your best utility ability. It rips all of the conditions off of you and your allies and not to mention it is an ethereal combo field. As a condition mesmer combo fields are extremely important if you use them right. If you use a blast finisher such as the prestige on the torch inside of an ethereal combo field it gives your WHOLE team chaos storm. In my opinion this is the best combo you have for your team. Utilize it.

Roles
There are specific roles that certain builds and in some cases a certain class utilize the best. As a condition mesmer in my opinion I feel you have a lot of team support and combo fields and I feel you would be best at mid supporting your teammates to win and hold mid. That is an example of a specific build role, a specific class role which there aren’t many but thieves usually do best harassing far and decapping as well as taking down the opposing teams treb or using your teams treb and protecting it. There is a couple great videos dictating roles and how to play certain maps here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Guide-2-is-up-Veteran-moves-guide/first#post3359317

Hope that helps!

Thedenofsin.7340:

Corian.4068:

If you had two people standing next to you at the treb, were you really helping the situation by remaining there?

You can blame your team all you want, but you’re a major part of that team, and if you sat there arguing about how you should take the treb with them you didn’t help any.

And if they truly didn’t know how to play, then help them figure it out. This again is on you. You make this community hostile and inaccessible, then new people won’t come to it, and you won’t have people to play with. You make them feel welcome, they’ll tend to stick around.

I’m just saying, if you’re gonna go around assigning responsibility to everyone, assign some to yourself as well. We all need to be taking responsibility for the shortcomings of GW2’s PvP, because the players are a major part of that too.

That’s an extremely presumptuous statement, considering you know nothing of the games I have played, the situational context, what I did to support the team or what direction I provided.

That’s beside the point. The second part of the post is what really matters. The more noob’s the more players imo. Do you just want to play against the same people over and over again? I think if the PvP community is getting bigger than more noob’s is good. Not to negate the fact that I dislike losing a match because I was the only one on the team that knew how to play it well but when I click that solo q button or team q button and I get an instant match every time cause we have a lot of people playing instead of waiting 10+ min for a match its a lot more fun than only getting a couple matches every hour. I think that in this point in time you gotta look at the good before they implement the new leaderboard system that will fix all of this cause its going to be fixed and enjoy playing more matches consequtively than before. Just my train of thought =\. Communicate with them respectfully and tell them how to play.

LOL. Someone is kitten because their little warrior is being talked about being nerfed. Your checklist was even full of maybes and not that bads. Face it. Warrior is OP and I’d due for a nerf, check.

lol it seems every thread on these forums ends up with at least 2 people arguing their intelligence with another. But thanks guys! I appreciate it. I also won’t be bothered if anyone else has other ideas for builds as well.

There is definitely more time invested in team q if you get a team together because you have to get a team together first. Not only that but its more competitive while solo q is less competitive. And yes, mmo’s are hugely about being social. I’m guess I wouldn’t mind if rank points for solo q were upped but I understand why they aren’t and I like the fact that getting a team and playing as a team is rewarded a lot more. And it should tbh.

Nah. Teams is more because it forces you to actually be social and get a team together and THAT is fun. Is your own choice not to get a team if your gonna solo in team q but it also leaves the option open so you can if you want to. Just get a team. Talk to people. That’s one of the big points of an mmo

Yet another one of these threads? Please. It’s your own fault. Don’t do it next time. You’re the one who decided to queue. You didn’t have to.