Guild Wars 2

Solo que is going to be filled with afks and 4v5s just get a 5 man team together and que team arena..

I warned that the dishonerable buff would be so easily circumventable it wouldn’t work on even 10% of the people akitteng, no one listened, here we are again.

Tournament play needs an incentive..

Imho 50s would not be too much for 8-10 minute on average matches
You could get 6 times more running a dungeon.

@skyhammerfarm
Implementing any rewards into hotjoin would be a serious mistake.

People solo que team arena………. I do it once in a while for a challenge

This thread again?… this question has been debated since release ; IMHO terrible decision.

Off topic but where’s the Asuras are OP thread ? Real Pvpers play trees.

It’s a good start… It’ll eliminate 90% of the leader boards though.

All they have to do to leaderboards is take the Qualifying games number from 12 to 50.

Sounds like it’s …. Random

No in all seriousness I think they intentionally up the chances for the purposes of testing. Then later say something like “Temple of the silent storm is bugged”

Yea the solo que rating is completely unforgiving, you lose to the wrong person who was randomly shuffled into a vVv sync’d group and you can fall like 100 spaces in one go.

4v5s are brutal and plentiful, but that’s expected because it’s solo que. If you don’t like it que with a full team.

Just forget about it, enjoy the good fights and if anyone ever tries to brag about their solo que ranking just know that they’re probably a wvwvwer or something.

It would be silly to cap a point in stealth.. you can even summon thieves or phantasms without breaking stealth all the while contesting a point?.. Completely broken.

Stealth is an escape mechanic.

Mesmer greatsword is of course the noobtube/AWP of guildwars it’s good when you’re on a ledge, far away and your opponents are relatively glassy.

It’s the dev’s way of giving new mesmer players a chance to kill high level/skilled players if they screw up. (especially mes vs mes)

but really imho pales in comparison to the staff and s/p..

Longbow/Rifle Warrior new meta

Try it out
Greatsword is mesmer’s noobtube very strong at range 2k auto attacks
duelist is out of range and can shoot for 3-4k at 900-1200
Berserker can hit very hard too. plus ranged stuns 1200 and Late game mindwracks can do some serious damage..

Can even take Mantras for extra burst/interrupts, Interrupt damage.

Engineer/Mesmer makes for a great perch class.

Engineer has Grenade kits for Aoe, Rifle spam and turrets Could be great at mid/long range.
Mesmer has Greatsword/Staff strong ranged capabilities..
Any of these can be strong ranged classes…

Thief Shortbow does some pretty ridiculous damage…
You might also want to add engineer/mesmer to that list.

1200 is probably a fairer assessment…. and we have been bleeding players..
I wonder if things will change around october 15th…

I still play at night when I don’t have any work to do, and as long as pvp stays fun for me any my friends we’ll keep playing.

Before I’ve spammed forums with requests for devs to publish some numbers on player pop but right now it might actually be a terrible time to do that..

I played around 10-15 Team Que matches last night…

Listen if you’re just going to be negative with no evidence to back up your stats I’d suggest you refrain…

Where’d you get 400 from? Just hotjoin servers probably have that much,
20 full hotjoin servers are not an uncommon sight at primetime.

This makes sense… it’s a common sense change…

But I would like to see some twohanded weapons toned down slightly
if they’re getting this buff.

Mesmer Staff Greatsword
Warrior Greatsword Hammer
Necromancer Staff
Ranger Shortbow

Are the first to come to mind… I don’t really like the idea of giving these weaponsets an extra 5% damage(as the worst pick) for no real reason.

This is the best change to Temple that could have possibly been made.

Bigger space for better positioning.
No lame underwater combat.
Easier to catch runners/jumpers.

I love these new Pvp Ghosts and Non-pvp players who come into this forum and say that pvp is dead.

After patch growth period; people are coming back and I’m getting insta ques; can’t wait till balance hits on the 15th.

Evan for President!

skyhammer heroes are rewarded while players who don’t enjoy hotjoin are left in the dust; this change will be great when you get around to it.

Thanks for the better salvaging system.. any chance for 25 or 250 charge kits ?:)))

The build you posted Jportell is probably not the build that zetus encountered; He probably encountered a Countless condi bomb Mesmer.. 10/25/10/0/25

Why is this build good?
Solid 1v1 ability
Good AoE condies (Not as good as Necro)
Solid Sustained damage
Solid surviveability

Why’s it bad?
Meh Burst damage.
Hard-Counterable by Well Played Condi-Warrior.
Relies on Condition damage, even sometimes confusion damage mistakes
in anti condi-meta.

It may be a small sample and not statistically significant still;

EVERY team had a Guardian. It has been like this for some time since beta really
Not one profession can replace the guardian, this needs to change.

Only One team did not run a spirit ranger,
The team running two spirit rangers almost won the tournament.

Two Classes Rangers and guards take up the meat of the graph 43% together.
Almost More then Five Classes; Elem Engi Mesm Thief Necro combined 44%

Yes that’s totally different though…

No banks/BLT in my mists please :/

Thank you arenanet

What they need to do is to add templates..
The coding required isn’t as simple as I thought, look at how long they took to remove ranger pet exploits..

Skyhammer is extremely fun, and no one cares about your precious solo que rating…
Not even anet; look at all the troll trial accounts in top 100

Patchnotes …incomplete?.. or did devs scrap buffing warriors?

Cool thanks for this.

This sounds cool
lots of organization required…

how come no one says these mean things to me in soloQ? :/
I play mesmer full time…

Anyone have any place where I could check Comps , win/losses just general stats for the recent tournaments?

Would be much appreciated

Well another spvp thread murdered by moving it to a dead class forum
Can we give you credit for this Daecollo?
Congratulations
I bid this thread Adieu

Med.6150:

Darnis.4056:

Lachanche.6859:

Darnis.4056:

Blurred frenzy for instance does not count as if you’re capping a point

This was recently changed, you can’t use blurred frenzy to avoid the cannon in skyhammer but now you can use it while capping a point.

A Recent undocumented change apparently.. Just tested :/

This was very much documented and not so recent of a change either.

My fault I haven’t found the change in the patch notes yet;
however I did find the change to making BF not cap points.
It’s strange they changed their minds.

I think it’s cool that duel servers have their own sets of rules that’s interesting, it would be really cool if there were tools implemented to enforce these rules…

Like say you could actually ban abilities from being put on skill bars?

This just in; LoL forum community better then Gw2 forum community.

This isn’t a thread about warrior balance it’s a thread about duel servers,
Duel server discussion has nothing to do with warrior discussion forum.
Learn to read.

Mathias.9657:

And what forum is as bad as GW2’s? 90% of this forum is against ANet.

I have no seen so much hate on a gaming forum, even WoW has cleaner forums and half the playerbase there are nothing but trolls.

I’m sorry but if most your forum is littered with people telling you what a crap job you’re doing, there is something wrong. It’s not merely a “let’s hop on the hate train because yolo!”

League Of Legends.

Remember when the spvp forums were good?

spvp forums were never good.

The only time you’d ever run a PU/phantasm build is if you’re in a duel server,
it’s ironic that duel servers banned that..

Duel servers are in themselves silly, and that will never change as long as people keep bringing things like PU mesmer P/d thieves.. etc… etc..

The thing is this game is not balanced for 1v1, and even if it is, mesmers still beat most warriors running HSignet.
Just because everyone uses the same heal does not mean they’ll nerf it too, Mesmers have only one real viable heal too for instance.

And yes nerfing evasive arcana was a big hit for Ele especially d/d

Lachanche.6859:

Darnis.4056:

Blurred frenzy for instance does not count as if you’re capping a point

This was recently changed, you can’t use blurred frenzy to avoid the cannon in skyhammer but now you can use it while capping a point.

A Recent undocumented change apparently.. Just tested :/

Healing signet needs a shave and everyone except devs seem to know this..
I expect no changes in future patch

The problem with evades in conquest isn’t that they’re so strong that they’re completely OP it’s that they don’t all work the same.

Blurred frenzy for instance does not count as if you’re capping a point, but a ranger/thief can dodge around on point all day.

Invulnerability/MEGAblock/evades should all work the same way and decap the point under you.

I am also extremely interested in the comps for the tournaments but not actually interested in watching… some text based resources would help immensely

Haha
Wvwvw Balanced
15v15 deathmatch not a clusterkitten
oh wow
Hilarious troll thread; Hilarious Video
Please continue I want to hear more about the alternate reality you live in.

How many mesmers were at MLG ?

Yea I can’t wait till shout buffs for banner bunker warriors.

@Awe if this was PVE, yes Arenanet would handle it in hours, it’s not PVE.