Guild Wars 2

@kirito when you button smash…is that why a portrait of male genitalia appears in map chat?

The only thing that has kept me playing this game is the combat. Pve and wvw do not interest me…as of late I find myself playing 2 matches and quitting because they are usually terrible. I feel I am getting grouped when I solo with people way below my level…I am not saying I am top tier but when I am capping a point alone and a teammate comes from no where to sit with me…well you get the idea.

The hate for skyhammer wasn’t about the additional mechanics…it’s about the fact that some classes have a distinct advantage over others on the map. “Go forth and knockback”. The only complaint about the map I have now are the crappy camera angles.
I would love to see some other tdm maps but as far as other game modes…I don’t see them going very well. Balance at this point is “ok” and throwing another mode out there for them to try to balance around will only cause more problems imo. That’s why I am guessing they have been reluctant up to this point.

I agree with lux and his statements have been made for a long time. There are 0 pvp related rewards which means there is no incentive to improve or keep playing. There should be scaled rewards such as special skins for each tier of the playerbase. Highest tier should have something making them stand out while the lower you go in tiers the less luxurious the reward.These rewards should not be based off of leaderboards but rather your mmr.
Even if they made pvp as profitable as farming mobs in pve I believe that would go a long way to bringing in new players to pvp. But as of right now, there is pretty much no reason but an easy daily for most people.

I agree with op. When you drop a crate you should get entangling roots that hit your opponent first and then the net turret should cast after causing immobed stacking. Also, all turrets that drop should be unblock able and undodgeable. You should be able to pick up all turrets and carry them across the map, adding a new tool belt skill called “nuclear blast”. When activated all turrets use their abilities and then explode on opponent. This is the only way you will fix the broken elite called supply crate.

New patch coming “soon”. They are aware of the issues and a fix will come “when it’s ready”.

If they are in toolkit they will be holding a wrench if they are in grenade kit their hand will look empty if they are in flamethrower they will be holding a flamethrower if they have elixir gun they will be holding a big ugly stick. Not to mention the hobo sacks look different.

Turret engie is no where near op. If you use ranged attacks and aoe they will die easily. Stay off the point and use los to your advantage. If you can’t do any of that…rotate to a different point and let them sit while you +1 a fight.

Top tier players should get capes and other visual stimuli to set them apart from the average player. I am in no way top tier but IMO top tier players should have exclusive pvp armors, weapons, capes, etc. There is really no way to know who you are dealing with unless you know them by name. This goes for all 3 genres. Pve elites, wvw, and pvp should all have items exclusive to top tier players. They could also break it down to low and mid tier items for us scrubs. These should be awarded, at least for pvp, through tourney wins, not leader board rankings.

I proposed anew rune about this very subject to the deva and they did not take me seriously…
Rune of the Oeggs: instantly drop supply crate on crit. If you die yell an explitive in map chat.giving all allies 3 might stacks.

@Uber they actually did have a message that was displayed where your monthly and dailies are displayed. If you clicked it, it would take you directly to twitch which had the time and date posted.

My favorite is when you pull and they fly up in the air…but yes I too have noticed this skill failing a lot as of late. I just figured there was some small dip in terrain or a pebble I didn’t see stopping them.

It’s called screening. You know when you see people go on tv and are asked questions?? Most the time they are screened. They say " here are the things I can talk about and ere are the things I won’t talk about." That’s how most business keep their image. That would answer #2. #1 Question: what game modes for pvp are currently in development? You could say : we are testing multiple game modes for pvp all different from conquest. We are not taking anything off the table and are trying to did the best option. Hell, maybe even tell us what modes are even options. Instead, once again they leave us in the dark while putting their eggs into one basket. The words " I don’t know" is what I am picking out because in people’s minds when you say those words, they don’t think you know anything. That’s what I am pointing out.
As far as that post goes, that is the political non sense I am talking about. There is nothing different there from what has been said multiple times. Get someone who can actually say something about the direction of your game. They clearly must have an idea of where they want to take it, they don’t go in everyday and say " you know I think that I would like to make an exclusive armor set for pvp." And then go it alone. That was discussed and thought over for a long time and then produced. Yet, we had no idea it was even in the works. Just a small bit of info can go a long way and can bring them a lot of player feedback.

I would also like to add…why would I join a duel server if I am waiting for my queue to pop?? It doesn’t take an extreme amount of time for me (granted I usually play around prime time). Also if I went into pve, what should I do? I am lvl 80 with full gear. I have no interest at all in pve actually. For wvw…once again I play on blackgate…so to get into maps I probably will have to queue up there too…sooo now what?
Excuse me while I jump around the mists.

Yes. Hotjoin is an abomination. Pve is a joke and wvw…well it’s wvw. You would rather someone have to take their money and open a custom server just for dueling when they could use it for something else? For shame!!!

I would rather jump around this mists than do any of the things you just said.

Hello everyone,
I want to be clear that I am not trolling, but after watching the guild mag interviews I have to say that the communication between arena net has left me in a bad spot.
First of all, it’s not just the devs in this interview that do these things, it’s pretty much all of you. Your vagueness and the amount of " I don’t knows" and " I can’t say anything" all togethor frustrate your community more than anything. You guys need some serious improvement on this front.

1). Cut out the " I don’t knows". In ANY business the last thing you tell a customer is “I don’t know”. This is an absolute no. There are no ways around it. You as a company need to come up with a better phrase because this one is completely unacceptable. When you say it, even when you truly don’t know something, it still makes you come across as ignorant or shady. You can tell us " it’s to hard to implement " or even I don’t believe we are doing that " but never I don’t know. If you don’t know, why even do the interview??

2). Having people talk about parts of the game they don’t even work on is a mistake. For example " we didn’t put first person view in because of our combat system" (paraphrase). I personally don’t care about this at all because I pvp only and really this is more of a pve/rp thing. But the dev who made this comment is a wvw dev. He has nothing to do with this at all. Secondly, do you think we are so dumb that we would even attempt to use this in wvw or pvp?? Please give us a little more credit. I understand he was attempting to give a better comment than saying " I don’t know" but in this case it would have been better to leave it where the first dev did.

3). SAB- once again I don’t care about this content but basically having 2 people who have nothing to do with it say what they said about it makes no sense. This atleast was an honest answer that left the possibility of it coming back but not right now. Once again, having people who don’t even work on that project announce this was not a good move and has created a lot of backlash

4). " we took underwater combat out of pvp because it was hard for people to understand" (paraphrase pretty much). This…is a flat out false statement. You took it out of pvp because it was broken, unbalanced, and everyone hated it. Underwater combat does not belong in pvp. Please stop blaming your community for just flat out bad ideas on your part. This comment probably kittened me off more than any other. Once again, made by a dev that has nothing to do with pvp.

Finally, I would just like to say, you can be real with us, and most of us will really appreciate it. But I don’t like it when someone speaks for 10 minutes and says absolutely nothing to me. You are not politicians, you are game designers. You are the only ones who know what the next steps in your game will be and how they will roll out. We are just along for the ride. We can backseat drive all dy but you have the wheel. Just an idea of the future destination is appealing to most of us, and we are tired of driving at night with no headlights.

To summarize: stop the " I don’t knows" and political banter. You will ALWAYS have people dissappointed no matter what you do but even more so when you don’t tell us anything until you release it. We want this game to succeed as much as you.

Plus don’t delete k thanks

I would rather see duel pits than a jumping puzzle.

Why make a secondary chat area for map pings?? Let’s say you are bunking home, you ping the map to let your team know you need help. Maybe a text should pop in the corner there that says " your home point needs help" this could be applied to all points. Let’s also say of I ping on top of myself it could say “boink needs help” now I know this could be rather annoying because people would probably ping like crazy…but even with some kind of scrolling text to choose through I don’t think it should be displayed in chat because usually when I read chat it’s after the fact or the window of oppurtinity has passed.
Pinging mini map is a good idea but has flaws. For one I have noticed that when the map gets pinged either no one responds or everyone does. How about when someone pings a part of the map you get a clearer view of what’s going on there?? Currently if no one on your team is in tht area you can’t see who’s capping the point. I say if you hold the point or it’s neutral why can’t we ping it to see who is there capping and make a judgment call on who to send.

I wouldn’t say pvp I poorly designed, there are a lot of things about pvp that I like and I think are good all around. That being said there is a lot of work to be done.
First, skyhammer needs to be removed from arena rotation and placed into hotjoin where it belongs. The bugs, poor camera views, and the troll builds it creates are unacceptable for a ranked match.
Secondly, the lack of any kind of goals. Once they bumped everyone up in rank they pretty much took away any goal that you could have for pvp. Rank was a bigger deal because it showed at one point how much dedication you had to the game and your time and effort. ( yes, rank farmers ruined this too). Reward tracks are pretty much anything but rewarding. The amount of money you make from pvp is laughable considering it can be done in pve in about 5 mins.
Third, kind of goes along with goals a bit. But there is no way for you to stand out at all. If someone wins a tourney, I am sure getting a legendary for free is great, but lots of people have legendaries…there needs to be more titles, unique weapon and armor skins, and or finishers for the elite while still adding things for the more casual players to build towards.
Lastly, the lack of communication and updates for pvp in general. If you didn’t know any better you would think these guys are running for political office in the way they can speak for 10 minutes without saying a single thing. The amount of I don’t knows and we can’t say anything about that is very frustrating. If you can’t say anything or have no information why even bring it up or why even take the interview???
With the recent crapstorm that came from gamescon I can understand a lot of the anger. Anet had 2 debs talking about things they don’t work on or have any idea about. Even the interview with Evan was very disappointing. Honestly, if history tells us anything, none of this will change…sadly

Finally someone at the top with some sense!!! I am by no means a top player I will admit I suck. But as someone tht has played many different games over the years I feel I can weigh in here.
The problem with gw2 pvp is that their had never been any incentive to keep going. I don’t mind losing to a good team who is clearly better than me but it hurts a little less to get some kind of reward or atleast build towards one. It’s called a goal. In life you have obstacles and overcoming them is a great feeling, one could call a reward. If I were on a team that beat a very good team, I would feel good but really have no other benefit than that. There is nothing to work towards or even a goal to set. I don’t want pve rewards because I only pvp. I don’t want gold because gold will only transfer to gems, and I already pretty much everything I want on the gemstore.
Overall more goals for all tiers of players is a very good thing. Atleast this is one step in the right direction I guess.

Buy a mirror, look deep deep into it, you shall find it’s not just the “noobs”.

@mooty try getting this map 3x in a row 4v5. It’s not fun. I play guard on this map for the banish Lols but I got to say playing 4v5 all the time on this map takes all the fun out for both sides. It wasn’t nearly as bad before as it is now. It has gone past the point of ridiculousness where one can expect that atleast one person will drop out. For that reason alone this map should be removed from solo q rotation.
Want to add that I don’t “hate” the map. It makes me laugh a lot. But I do hate playing in a 4v5 even if I am the one on a full team.

Hey arena net…
Thanks for leaving skyhammer in the solo q rotation, the 4 v 5s that I constantly end up in make this map even better. It makes me feel even better after the 2 4v5 skyhams in a row that I get temple…and it’s a 4v5 too. Maybe instead of playing ping pong in the break room you could take some time out of your busy days to fix this problem.

" go forth and knockback"

Nothing better as a guardian landing that banish and watching people fly over da edge. Makes me laugh so hard!!! But seriously, this map needs removed from solo q. K thanks anet

Not trying to troll or anything but thi is why a lot of people want hot join removed. I don’t agree with them, because I feel it’s a great spot to test builds out before going into a ranked match…but even for that it’s not great. A lot of things tht work in a hot join zerg mess do not work in solo or team arenas. The fact that you go into hotjoin at this point and expect anything other than an unfair or a bullkitten match up is laughable. Hotjoin is supposed to be the place for you to basically pop in and play around for a bit an leave. It’s not really the place for you to have a competitive match.
That being said, they could make it a lot more enjoyable for people that want to live in there by:
1) removing the ability to switch teams after the match starts.
2) auto placing you onto a team upon joining the match. This would keep people from creating a stacked team. But, this would hurt those wanting to play with friends.
3) make hotjoin a better place to learn how conquest works. There should be a better system in place to teach people that zerging is not good and will lose you the match in ranked ques most of the time. Currently for someone just starting pvp you pretty much join the mists and have no clue what to do. Even the builds they start you out with are kitten.
Seriously, not trying to troll. But I have played for over a year and the same thread keeps popping up about how hotjoin is unfair. The best advice I can give is that if you are looking for a more competitive match up is to get into rank ques. Unfortunately, even they can be kitten a lot.

No one knows how to use the elements against you better than Captain Planet.

Ele op cause dey keeled me wig a staff in 2.5 sec. No fair. Warrior must chop chop yo face yet ele just cast den run away. How dis right? I should be able to 1 2 ko heem but nope.
:(

All other issues with this game aside you can’t say that advertising tol through out the game is a bad idea. The more it’s advertised the likeliness you will have more people participate or even prepare for it. They didn’t announce the first tol soon enough imo and a lot of people who would have watched/participated didn’t know it was going on. The entire game should know Exactly when TOL is.

Yes I know that I am saying it should be posted in game in the pvp tab for people who do not come here and read the forums which arena net has established is a majority of their playerbase. It is a more direct form of communication to have it posted in game rather than their website.

Hey arena net
Why is it that everyday I am blasted with mail for pve content while I never once hear anything about any pvp tournaments or tol in general in game.
There should be a page in the pvp tab that has TOL info:
-upcoming tourney date
-direct link for sign up for TOL
-tournament bracket
-general team list
-twitch link to whoever is streaming
I would think you would want to advertise TOL a lot more to pull more players back to the game and from other game modes to pvp. It’s astonishing how little info is actually in game regarding TOL. Info should be blasted all over the game considering it’s an Anet event.

The illuminati are attacking our currency!!!

As much as I value your opinion I would rather have a dev response than yours :P

Really because one of the biggest complaints was that time spent in pvp had no reward for the rest of the game types. It’s not about efficiency for me its about convenience.

Yes but for someone who has zero interest in doing a pve grind for levels it would be a lot nicer and easier to just buy my levels..

That’s annoying and not a very good feature :p

I am saying the rewards are kitten compared to what I could be getting piping on my 80

I hate auto correct!!! I meant tomes of knowledge

Hello
As the title says…we should be able to use gold or gems to purchase times of knowledge. If I use my alt in pvp that is only level 10 I am pretty much hurting myself. Yes, times drop from reward tracks but you don’t acquire near enough. I liked being able to use glory to buy these as it opened up a door for me to experiment with different classes not only pvp but wvw and pve.

Maybe they need to get ahold of eharmony to figure out how they do their matchmaking.

There isn’t one because there can’t be one!!! There is no possibility of a meta in soloq because you can’t decide what your team comp is or what builds people are running… Write it down, take a picture….I don’t wan to repeat it a fourth time.
“Run a yoloq with 3+ bunkers ", your logic is just amazing to me. Because I disagree with you I am instantly a scrub… No elitist mentality there what so ever

Wow dude…you sure know how to drag out a conversation.. How couldn’t their be a power meta when all you saw were power builds…same for condies…and now you see it in the bunk meta. Your little link means nothing when my own 2 eye balls can look at someone’s weapon set and I can tell you what build they are running.. There has most definately been a condition meta and a power meta…you live in denial e sports. If I can’t use your own words against you, who’s should I use? You say there is no meta…which is wrong. You never said that there is no possibility of a meta in soloq…you just said that their isnt one.

Swap weapons /dance or another teleport does the trick.

You said there isn’t a meta…not that there could NOT be a meta. There is a difference there. I read some of your previous posts, you are pretty wispy washy on this subject but I can see your elitist mentality showing

You can’t have a meta in solo q and hotjoin because you can’t control your team comp or what everyone else is running. That still doesn’t say there isnt a meta in Tpvp. Which you denied.

We had a power meta because everyone was running a power build…we had a condi meta because everyone was running condi…we have a bunker meta because everyone’s running a more bunkery build. Sorry I had to spell it out for you! Maybe your talking about the 3 “top tier” teams that exist in na and yet all I’ve seen in everyone of these tourneys is meta kittens!!!

I think its a good idea to remove rank because people used it as some judge of skill instead time played. Now I will agree there’s a difference between rank 10 and rank 50 but at the same time how do you know that rank 10 is not a good player on an alt account?
Also with all the pve scrubs coming in as shark bate, they probably felt pretty bad getting paired with or against someone a lot higher rank, because where they are from, that number actually matters.

Bring on da skyhammer!!!!!!!
Truthfully I laugh the entire time on this map with my engie, I think its great. At the same time I don’t think it should be in any tourney rotation for a couple reasons
1) it creates a lot of drama because a lot of people just flat out hate the map and feel they are at a disadvantage.
2) I have had more 4v5s on this map than any other because when people see skyhammer they will just not even attempt it.
3). That skyhammer has no counter!!! It should be like the treb on khylo….make it so we can dodge the kitten thing.
This is a hotjoin map. Nothing more. I honestly like Capricorn better and think if try just removed the water it would have made a great tdm map. We don’t need any more content removed from pvp, we need what we already have to be improved.

So we had a power meta…everyone complained. We had a condi meta…everyone complained…we have a bunker meta…everyone complains. See a pattern?
Is also like to point out that most teams run theif not only for dps but because they can port around every map so fast…if you don’t bring a theif and the othe team does you are at a disadvantage.

You guys don’t like dragons that shoot fireballs from their eyes and lightning bolts from their ass????