Guild Wars 2

Rythgar.2896:

To be honest Danto, this is pretty much Exactly what you and the rest of the “top players” said about the new ress-timers. You raged, claimed the competitive scene dead etc for a week or so, then you all magically turned around and ended up praising it in the GW2guru broadcast with Jonathan Sharp.

So forgive me if I don’t lay much trust in your sheer theorycrafting conclusions and early hand experience. And no, I don’t consider you top players having the right and obligation to decide what changes/balances will be done. You are allowed your opinion and due to the amount of time you spend in competitive (eh, as close to competitive as one can get with barely any ptPvP community) PvP you might more often than not be on the right track of things, but that does not make your opinion the rule of which to follow.

Just want to end my rather harsh post by saying that I think some of you top players seems like nice guys, and surely are good players. Better than me by a far stretch. But I am getting fed up with this “we top players” talk.. GW2’s top players just seem to fall short in my eyes. Out of all the e-sports/really competitive games I’ve played I must say that GW2’s top players is amongst the most arrogant and inflated ones. Take it down a notch please. I don’t mind hearing your opinion, just the part about how it is your divine right by playtime/experience to decide the development of the game.

TL;DR: No offense but get down from that horse of yours, chillax a bit before making rash doom conclusions. Also, this might be a balance for the worse, I am yet to decide my opinion on it. Although I really see where Anet wants to go with this. And I think the ramifications you mention is a bit on the extreme.

1. There was no rage from any of us about the timers. The only thing we wanted to point out was that it would make it a lot harder for newer players to get into the game without spawn waves, which is true.
2. This new feature will severely damage the PvP streamers and their teams.
3. This feature will prevent any “big plays” scenarios, which are partially what fans would be attracted to.
4. The game will become a lot more boring, to play and to watch.
5. There is an inbalance with and without this feature, but the gains from not having this feature are better than having it. For some professions it’s a good thing, for some other it isn’t in both cases.
6. Nobody is on a high horse here, we are just very alarmed.

<em>“Free and Paid tournaments now have a new build-locking feature. When the countdown timer completes, players will no longer be able to change weapons, armor, skills, or traits until the match is over. This will prevent players from abusing build-swapping between fights.”</em>

As the title says, this new feature will just destroy the game as it is right now. There will be no room for the Top Players, there will be no room to improve our own gameplay and most importantly there will be no room to make a “show” off of this game.

You most certainly cannot consider “skill” the part where you chose your weapons and utilities before a game and then are stuck with them for the entire match.

Skill is the part where you switch to a key Utility to save your team from a tight situation (non combat condition granted), skill is allowing EVERY profession to have some sort of mobility to move around the map; consider Necromancers for example, they will be stuck with no swiftness, no worm, no nothing.

Same goes for Guardians, they will have close to no mobility to move around the map, it will make the game boring and snowbally.

There will be no chance of good play comebacks.

The game will start and end before the 8 second timer finishes because the team that got the best set of utilities will win and that’s just ridiculos. The current meta will be around who was the luckiest to counter pick the other team.

Let’s not even talk about teams that will be streaming, they will expose their whole gameplay cause of the simple fact of streaming their utilities. Is this even acceptable?!

Me and many other Top Players are against this new feature, and we all think that we have the right and the duty to prevent this from happening. We play this game more than everyone, we know this game inside out and this new feature is as bad as it can get.

I request that every Top Player that reads to sign this “petition” by replying with their name and a short description of why this new feature is counterproductive for the game.

Sincerely,
Danto

P.S. GW2 streamers, please use this image on your stream in show of protest against this new feature: http://i.imgur.com/dxJ7x.png

Infinitus.3712:

MindlessRuff.1948:

aydenunited.5729:

MindlessRuff.1948:

Shukran.4851:

what about “learn to play”?
what about “theorycraft more and test more before starting a tourney”?

how can it be making the game more simple? forcing people to use their brain is so difficult?

Actually it is taking the thinking OUT of the game, I highly enjoy taking the right tools for the situation, why not lock runes, utilities, and trait selection when you load into the map too? Just make a build and be hard countered the whole game while being able to do nothing about it.

I disagree. It forces less thought, more fast clicking, because you can take EVERY tool into the game you need, rather than having to choose.

Exactly, instead of having all your tools available to your class, you are now severely limited, creating less diversity, which is the opposite of what Arena net said they want.

The diversity is there, it’s just that it means that you have to actually think about what you want to bring to the team, which in turn shows skill. Also do you think that the bunker or glass cannon meta as it is at the moment more diverse? I don’t think so if anything this should make people actually think about there build before entering a match.

I for one am please to see this change and it is good to see anet take a set in the right direction. Little by little we may actually see a well rounded game.

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Run away.. look for a place to hide and never leave it until the game is over..

I think it introduces a new way of team gameplay, a boring one. The skill in the new timers will be to just kill people at different times during a teamfight and that’s kinda “meh..”. I would say that this system could even work if they shortened the time from 20 to say 10 or something, but this way it’s a easy win for the team with the first teamfight win. It all comes down to who can zerg better.

Also, to quote Powerr, those random DCs, the loading screen bug and the massive and random lag spikes are making this game stupid. Losing to random teams cause 2/3 people get chain DCed is not cool ANet.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Danto.6748:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Danto.6748:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Well that’s not right… Will take a look at this. Thanks for the report!

This was reported by a lot of people a few days ago..

Apologies for not catching it. The last post I found about it was buried over the weekend.

I was talking about ingame game bug reports, but yeah w/e.. at least now you are looking into it.
Btw question, is the lag gona stahp now that the Lost Shores event is over?

I’m going to go find out why the bug reports didn’t get filtered down to our team.
As far as the lag, I don’t have the ability to check those metrics. I’ll see if a server-dude can help out.

Half of my team (with 100 up/down Mbps) is having some major lag issues and we thought it was the weekend event.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Danto.6748:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Well that’s not right… Will take a look at this. Thanks for the report!

This was reported by a lot of people a few days ago..

Apologies for not catching it. The last post I found about it was buried over the weekend.

I was talking about ingame game bug reports, but yeah w/e.. at least now you are looking into it.
Btw question, is the lag gona stahp now that the Lost Shores event is over?

Evan Lesh.3295:

Well that’s not right… Will take a look at this. Thanks for the report!

This was reported by a lot of people a few days ago..

Guys.. guys.. we have 2/two/2 people working for the future of our PvP.. might as well switch to another game while we’re in time..

Naito.5693:

http://i.imgur.com/lSaG6.jpg

Am I famous now that I’m in that screenie ?! >.<

Ok, I’ve recieved my first email as well (after 3 days) and their reply astonished me.

“I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re having with your team right now. So we can get a better look into this and investigate this more thoroughly, you can do us a huge favor by submitting the bug report in-game. This will send detailed information about your character and your position directly to our Quality Assurance team.

To submit a bug report in game, simply bring up your “Game Menu” located in the upper left hand corner, and then choose the lifesaver icon for “Support.” From the “Support” menu, you can either click “Report a Bug” or just go directly the Ladybug Icon in the support menu to enter your submission.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us."

I have obviously submitted numerous bug reports and to be honest I explained my problem pretty well in the email I sent them.
I don’t think we’re gona play tournaments anytime soon.

Great job Tots! It’s been 3 full days now that I can’t play any tournaments whatsoever and this is affecting my team as well. I’ve sent multiple bug reports and emails without getting any replies yet. This has to stop!

Yeah exactly, this is really annoying not only for me, but for my team as well. QQ

I want to bump this thread! Currently it’s been over 2 days for me that I’m stuck in Roster and can’t leave nor join another. Any chance we can get some help on this matter since it’s preventing me from playing the game ?!

Hey, I’ve been stuck in a Roster for the last day and a half. I cannot leave this Roster, the leader cannot kick me from the Roster and most importantly I cannot join another Roster. I would very much appreciate some help on the matter since this is keeping me and my team away from our practice schedule.

Regards,
Danto

Hey, I’ve been stuck in a Roster for the last day and a half. I cannot leave this Roster, the leader cannot kick me from the Roster and most importantly I cannot join another Roster. I would very much appreciate some help on the matter since this is keeping me and my team away from our practice schedule.

Regards,
Danto

1. I think you might mistake the block bug with Shelter heal.
2. The block bug is random and can happen once (at best – if not intentional) per game.
3. Why focus guardian?
4. Mace is the best main hand weapon if you want to be a support Guardian.
5. The block bug is only 4 seconds, after which the Guardian will be dead if you know what you’re doing.
6. What team are you representing ?
7. GL HF

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