Guild Wars 2

aha! screenshots of my name and trash talk! .. that’s gotta be defamation of character right?.. right?

Ugh .. where’s the downvote button?..

This guy is pretty funny… am I not allowed to share personal experiences with ultra tanky regen warriors which still manage to deal good DPS with GS/MaceShield and stunlock?…

I’m personally talking about stunlock warriors with high hp regen :/
disgusting damage from something so tanky.

Pickles.2908:

Darnis.4056:

I did, saying “IN B4” really doesn’t matter to me sorry.

Ok you arn’t making sense but i will try to explain more for you.

I am suggesting we add more competition to the pvp system by including options that allow us to face equally ranked teams and increase rewards by allowing betting.

please put on your glasses and read again before you reply, thank you.

Okay You weren’t making sense asking for the addition of features that were already in the game so I guess It was my mistake, please check what’s already in the game before making posts, thank you.

I did, saying “IN B4” really doesn’t matter to me sorry.

Oh you have to own the custum arena or have it scheduled at someone elses’, no that’s not how it works at all little feather.

We have that; Custom Arenas.
And Team que, for the second part.

New PVE runes seldom get added to PVP.

I think this is a great idea for Mesmer Elites
1.Reduce cool down on timewarp to 120 from 180.
2. Increase Duration +10 seconds

Carrying is not impossible.. Im around 300-500 right now.. but Leavers and afkers lower any chance of winning considerably.

Yea a cumulative strike thing like everyone strikes one map or atleast one person per team strikes one, and which ever gets the most votes is out.

Edit; Adding just.. more maps would fix everything I guess as the chances would be considerably lower..

Tell me about it.. skyhammer 3 times in a row.. :/ With almost identical teams.
Maybe there needs to be a map lock out, maybe a little LESS “random” then it is now.

This is how it used to work in beta, and no it is not optimal..
Comparing item mechanics to MOBA is plain silly as that is an actual mechanic of gameplay there…

It’s probably annoying to balance 1000 different stat combinations neither is it intuitive for newer players.

You can switch around your jewel if you want a “unique combination”

Having at least some standardization in PVP is good…
If I need a tankier build I just swap a talisman and Voila! Presto Changeo.

I honestly do not wanna see ridiculous Tough/vit/healing power talismans..
Nor do I want to see Condi/Vit/Tough..

So honestly there’s really not many other combos left.

Rank isn’t important the only thing you can really say is those players did not know they could go out the other side of the base.

You probably made a mistake with the name.. check the other stakitten …

ESPORTS do not have to stop.

Game Balance Should NOT be dictated by Esports Events.
You either run a Lan with an Older version of the build or you make the Prozzzz Adapt.

you can duel in duel servers… this problem has been effectively solved..

I honestly believe a 10-15% Vitality buff is in order for all pvp classes. Even guardians.

No one reads this forum anymore, it is where posts from Spvp go to die…

Thanks Evan
Also ;First DEVpost in the pvp subforums in the past two days!

That is the law apparently, I do not agree with it but is the law..
One of the Warrior threads I was posting in was moved to warrior forum I thought this move was done to stifle discussion, but that if that is how it will be then it should apply to all threads in the PVP forum which is 30-45% class-based threads.
Dura lex Sed lex.

Helseth threatened to kill people AFAIK..
These types of people should not be given an open forum.
But whatever Helseth2013

Also his rants are over-rated and boring to listen to….
He makes a good point once in a while..
but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
(Most of the time it’s something that’s been posted 1,000,000 times on the forums already though like Asura animations)

1.Fix Hot Air Balloon Souvenir in PvP Lobby.

I think Warrior/Thief would be disgusting, One Stunlock from shadow refuge
WILL ALWAYS result in death
Auto winning most 2v2s.

Mesmer/Thief Could be strong as ranged Stun/dazelock can be just as good but no eviscerate is meh.

I just want my hot air balloon to be useable in PVP or atleast lobby…. Please fix this anet.

@King Slacker
I don’t play cookiecutter.. (well mostly)
I run an interrupt build which is pretty unpopular
Look at Countless’s pvp mesmer build, I could never play that but he plays it well,

There are skill ceilings which exist which have not even been reached yet probably…

When you’re starting out low skill floor plays seem like optimal plays
but really they’re not. E.g; Nerf phantasm thread in this forum; no one who has reached a good rating plays phantasm mesmer.

I don’t think it will work that way now, maybe the zoom broke the player icons in some way like the scaling of the images or something…

So they tried to fix it by eliminating zoom but still managed to keep the player icons broken?..

Again I have a huge problem with fixed point losses due to possible exploitation by pve’rs awayfromkeyboarding. their way to rank 10.

My map works fine 59% of the time… I don’t know what you dudes are talking about.

Not really, the reason for this meta is that necromancers/engies/Spirit Rangers(before it was beastmasters before that it was traps) were unoptimal,
FAST FORWARD TO RECENT BUFFS to necromancers
FAST FORWARD TO RECENT BUFFS to spirits
FAST FORWARD TO RECENT NERFS to phantasm mesmers
Now with dhuumfire and torment buffs Necromancers are sitting in a great place, they see more play therefore “Aoe Condi Meta”

I don’t play these so called “ai” specs because they take no skill whatsoever to play, NOR are they in any way effective at even mid tier levels of play.

Condition damage needs more soft counters, when that happends
AND IT WILL FOR SURE AFTER PAX
The meta will shift back slightly to mesmer..
But never again like it was before when Mesmers were a superior master race.

I’m not saying that we should or should not improve the aoe damage..
I’m saying if buffs of any sort were to make staff viable we’d see a lot more aoe damage in an aoe damage meta and I’m not so sure I want that :/

Quick do the dev summoning dance!
The end of pax is so far away, is anyone even watching?

Every patch is a big patch.. I mean they’ve added a lot of things…
Yoloque
Matchbreaking
Custom Glory Farms
Hotjoin Hero TV
Spiritwatch!
Temple of the Silentstorm
Failhammer
Temple of the Silent storm Random Map rotation.

All the features players have been asking for really..
Still no +P+V+P+B+A+N+K+ Though.

Especially right now when you can just glory farm so hard in custum arenas it’s not even funny.

I don’t get that though, I play pvp not to grind if I wanted to grind I’d go play pve it’s much much much better done the grind doesn’t even feel like a grind!

I think Mods were too busy dealing with the heavy fallout from the QQKARMA train yesterday to post in the Pvp Forum.

Someone broke r70 I heard.. so ..next year I think if he doesn’t run out of steam or just Korean Taxi’s it to 80 we might see it sooner then you think :P

Most people are like r40-50 now it’s the most average rank.

I feel bad for staff elementalists but then again I don’t want to see more AOE splatter everywhere..

At least unlike necro splatter it gets effected by retal…

Everybody referencing how easy mode Phantasm mesmer is you’re literally one patch cycle too late.

ESPECIALLY CntrlAltDel who obviously has not even touched the game in months or even a year. Most represented class in pvp?
0 mesmers in Pax, 1/10 mesmers most tournament matches.
THIEF EVEN MORE REPRESENTED? Are you kidding me?
Theres usually 4/10 necros in most matches 2-4/10Rangers and 2-4/10 Warriors.

Yes it WAS an ezmode faceroll build, There have been Nerfs.
No one even plays phantasm mesmer outside of hotjoin(As it has always been)
No it’s not a reason for completely unjustifiable classwide nerfs to the mesmer class.

I don’t play a phantasm mesmer because it’s boring and low skill ceiling.
I use Phantasms because EVERY WEAPON IN THE GAME FOR MESMER
has phantasms on it.

Phantasm mesmer goes to stealth? .. Kill his phantasms. Most classes can oneshot
aoe them.

If you have two duelists out AND a berserker your opponent has been doing nothing for around 20 seconds.

Would it though? People have been crying for a leaver debuff…
Has that helped ? :/ Number of leavers/afkers seems to have increased…
Why wouldn’t they stoop to farming afk match glory?

I’d wager it’ll have the same effect people will be afk grinding glory at 75 per match..

I like how the glory system is set up that you only get points if you do things… this does of course hurt close point bunkers.. but I guess it’s a small price to pay for not allowing people to afk farm karma..

You are in essence calling for Negative changes to the mechanic of the mesmer class
You sure aren’t calling for buffs for the mesmer class.

“https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/mesmer/”
Mesmers are magical duelists who wield deception as a weapon. Using powerful illusions, clones, and phantasmal magic to confuse and distract their foes, mesmers make sure every fight is balanced in their favor and their opponents can’t believe their eyes.

The mechanic works fine, it is a l2p issue, sorry.
No changes you/others have suggested sound even plausible.
They are for sure all Negative changes(Nerfs) so you can stop saying
you’re not calling for nerfs.

The problems with this really start when people start akitteng matches for their 75-150 loss bonus..

I agree Winning team should get 300 and losing team should get 125 though..
To match current scheme anyway.. I mean everyone already gets 120-250 + 150 when they’re winning

I guess it’s cause you beat .. no one?
Maybe the game added a negative number to your rating somehow because there were no other players?

Save it all man..
Who knows? They mentioned some “legendaries” Coming to Gw2 PVP, so maybe they’ll use glory as a component..

I’m guessing the recipe is going to go something like
250 Arcane converters ( At 1k a piece, 250k glory)
250 Arcane Slivers
250 Weapon token (200 a peice so 50k)
250 Arcane Dust*

Someone told me they might use Pvp_Unidentified Dyes,
I thought that’d be way too sadistic but considering PVE legendaries, maybe?
That bumps the price of it up
250 Slivers 250 Orbs 250 Consumable tokens and 2500 dust.

So save your stuff you may end up needing it later..

Volrath.1473:

well until A-net learns to balance the professions (there was a time when i though they had nailed did but they broke it again 2 month later…) there will always be a profession that will be dominant.
Since in PvP everyone has the same lvl and gear, there is very little effort to reroll, some players will always reroll the op class or at least make an alt just to see how fun it is to faceroll other players that chose to play with their “main” character"

If everyone could only enter PVP after lvl 25 although ppl will still roll the OP classes, the number of players that do it would diminish drastically i believe.

the other solution would be class balance (lol)

Class balance over band aid changes which ultimately cause gangrene please.

This is a nerf mesmer thread, whether you intended for it to be or not.

You can dodge the attack of the phantasm and you can even mitigate the summon with blind/block, yet you are not satisfied, you think that it isn’t fair;

Can you dodge any of those pets/spirits/weapons/etc being summoned? No ?
Can they be blocked/blinded out of a summon? No?
I guess the fairly recent mesmer changes may not be as fair as they seem to be, why aren’t you asking for those to be reverted to be in line with every other profession?

Grenade kit is a fine damage source;
Turrets deal aoe Damage;
Guardian Weapons deal damage.
Spirits ARE very much a damage source (burning)

Not all phantasms are purely damage oriented; take for instance the torch phantasm the phantasmal defender phantasmal disenchanter Phantasmal warden.

You’re asking for a nerf to all mesmer weapons.
You are asking for a nerf to all mesmer specs too.

Changing phantasms to be dodgeable on cast, would be effectively neutering all mesmers the most under represented class in pax (zero) and high/low end Tpvp play.

Eh I like the pvp in this game.. it could be better, but if I had to rate it against say wow warhammer aion or rift I’d say gw2 is pretty much just better.

Im really surprised that anyone is dumb enough to complain about mesmers right now.. you hardly see any mesmers at all I saw like 1 other mesmer in 3 games, and I’m a masochist and for sure not fairweather..

TL;DR Hotjoin bads calling for nerfs to least played profession in Tpvp atm.

1.Balance
2.Matchmaking
3.Game modes.

If a change like that would go through you’d be crying the next day I guarantee it.
In fact it was a hot topic back in the day.

Anet specifically nerfed CDs on phantasms MULTIPLE TIMES
(Think we’re up to 3 now) because they want you to have to choose whether to drop them let them dps more then once or allow them to be killed by enemies.

It’s this fact that leads me to believe that they WANT people to rely on phantasm damage/uptime.