Guild Wars 2

Nike.2631:

I think its hilarious people are pretending Ferocity is somehow the LAST step that will be taken towards shattering the stranglehold the DPS Role has on gameplay .

Stranglehold… really? What the heck is that even supposed to mean? What is this, some form of prejudice of my damage vs your damage??? Because if that is the case, then the next change should be armor reduces condition damage.

What I haven’t seen spoken about is character effectiveness. Because after these changes, characters with Celestial items will be weaker in comparison to other power builds. They’ll be especially weaker toward condition builds.

The percentage of a pool of points matters. The maximum crit damage percentage is only around the 120’s. Thus, 6 points is about 5% of the total pool. Because Crit Damage is a multiplier, every point into the pool is stronger than the point before. Making Celestial items somewhat character effective because they add additional crit. Now an additional 6 point in power, which has a pool well of 2500, is only adding 0.25% to the pool. Which is statistically insignificant.

I simply can’t see how adding such a miniscule amount to the base numbers is somehow equal to the character effectiveness Celestial items are right now. Which is already not very much!!

To the OP, power creep is a serious issue. Beyond power output, sources of condition damage and the amplitude of condition damage has increased too. Which we neither have additional clears or condition armor/toughness to cope with. What we require is a global toning down in damage vs defense. Hence more nerfing is required, not boosting.

quercus.9261:

Anet cares about keeping the dollars rolling. In order to do this they need to keep as many people happy and playing the game as they can. If there is an obviously OP class setup it will kitten off the other 80% and bore the 20% playing the OP class.

An example is Archers in DAOC. At release archers were rediculously OP: one shot kills from stealth at max range. They were killing RvR participation and kittening off everyone else. The archers were one-shoting everything and it was boring. What the devs did was nerf Archers so hard they were unplayable for an entire year. It probably saved the game.

If you are playing an OP spec enjoy it while you can because you are heading for a nerf.

Not in this game! They’ll always be an OP spec, it’s in the design. In PvE, balance really is of little concern. For WvW though, I honestly believe the Dev’s create a couple of Meta builds of either burst, stealth, or both, so roamers can troll other players. I also believe rage is apart of the games core design. When a Dev uses the words “tears” he loves to troll and creates the capacity to do so in game.

It takes a week, at most, to spot a Meta build emerging after a patch. An example would be Perplexity Runes. They nerfed confusion on Mesmer’s because it’s a very powerful condition. Yet, made perplexity runes to compound the issue.

Another example would be thieves as a profession. Which has been complained about endlessly on the forums since launch. Yet, every nerf they do to them is really only a give and take. The end results is still too strong of a profession, due to scaling, in WvW.

To me, combat shouldn’t last only a few seconds. There’s no skill involved in a fight lasting a couple of seconds. Thieves instagibbing macro, I’m looking at you! A fight lasting under 10 seconds, to me, is still a failure of design. Nerfing crit damage will do little to change this aspect of the game, as a couple of condition burst builds will simply take over. Which of course only a couple of professions have so there goes profession balancing out the window.

It’s imbalance and trolling by design. Because the only way to stay safe and subsequently happier, is by staying together. It’s like creating a school of fish by dropping a couple of sharks in the tank.

Lord Kuru.3685:

A big part of why EoTM massively failed is because of all the NPCs.

Pfft… probably more players in EotM then on the BL’s. Don’t know how you are quantifying failure?

Nerelith.7360:

So the champion train suffers? and this is a bad thing how?

Yes yes, you hate champ trains. No one should have anything in game but you. Uh huh, we’ve read it already. You obviously don’t seem to realize the champ trains are run by players equal to you. They deserve a place to play as they want.

I’m also going to point out, how many times have we not been able to do a World Boss due to getting stuck in an overflow? We’ve been asking the Dev’s to fix this issue. The Mega Server is a fix for a lot of players whom miss the dragons often.

These are WORLD BOSSES not guild bosses. In my opinion, no one should have ever created guilds just to do them. And, I think that is the complaint in a nutshell, the Dev’s removed a big reason for such guilds. Though they also have removed the need for LFG websites. And now, going to remove the need for timer websites and node websites. So don’t feel bad about it as a lot of our “work-around’s” are getting removed.

I’m more ticked off about the ever changing resource nodes. I normally don’t use resource node websites like Colin Johanson said he does. I simply remember where they are and go back to them. Which now won’t be possible unless I perma park an a character on a particular zone to keep it open indefinitely.

Luckily, accounts are on sale right now

I’m certainw they have the statistics on when the greatest population of players is playing. They choice of times was not random but, intelligently chosen. I’m sorry if it doesn’t fit in TTS’s schedule but, I view it as the majority of players are more important.

Reverence.6915:

jojojoon.8607:

Master Farkha.1857:

Prior to seasons BG was getting their kitten s handed to them every week and they rarely cried 2v1.

I’m not sure if you’re trying to troll or if you’re new to wvw. You do realize BG was trying to tank intentionally months prior to season. Why would they complain about a 2v1 when they pray everyday for a 2v1 against them to ensure they lose big every week to help with their tanking.

Don’t lose that tin foil hat now.

Excuse me, no ones buying the spin. You tanked to help you with recruiting. You did it before season one too. At least there’s one BG honest enough to not deny it.

This thread is obviously going to be closed or outright deleted as soon as a mod see’s it. Anyway, for all the QQ talk, you do realize this thread was created by a TC’er and many TC have come to QQ as well, right???

This must be in sPvP. I was just on my Engi in WvW, whom has 2.5k armor, and was instagibbed by a D/D thief for 17,532 dmg. The ole’ Steal, cd, and backstab macro. Nerf’s can’t happen soon enough.

Yeah, I just gave up and logged. Sitting at #1 for almost 2 hrs. Working as intended, pfft

I queued at reset at #5. It’s been about an hour and fifteen minutes and I’ve been sitting at #1 for over 20 minutes. Meanwhile. my other acct I queued about 20 minutes afterwards at #72. It’s now counted down to #8. Something breaks and screws up the queue. It’s not FIFO.

If anyone knows what does this or some best practices to Q’s, please post them

To the OP, your world caved and was working with BG not even 48 hrs into the match. We’ve been referring to your world as BG Jr, BG lite, and BG+. Thus, if some of us on JQ decided to poke at you, it was just because of that. If BG was following OJ’s like vultures to peck at our scraps, it was not organized or intended.

Agree’d that non organic 2v1’s are what makes WvW bad. Even if guild tags were removed, it’s easy enough to look at your contact list and see if “Commander X” is playing atm. Players and Guilds are too entrenched and the whole thing needs to be upended to make it interesting again.

How about having our contact list affect our map placing? Or, give us the ability to join more guilds, please?

pretty much every fight starts with, “Map blob inc!”

The faster you get all zones onto the Mega Server system the better. Also, please add additional stability to World Bosses and resource nodes. I noticed lately the zones are refreshing daily. As if some “Mega Server” functionality is already in place.

A few players, for immersion sake, have asked for more randomness in PvE. BUT, for some of us, PvE is our only source of income. There aren’t timers on Dungeons or Fractals that say “Sorry, come back later.” Nor do the entrances to them teleport all over like Peter the Lost. We should have the same assurance and stability. Please keep this in mind while rolling out the Mega Server.

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

Please consider fixing.

It’s not broken so…. there’s nothing to “fix”.

GG, can the handful of people whom want this stop spamming the boards about it every week? Just making us despise the idea more and more.

Get off my nice quite zone! Darn kids….

;)

I’ve said it last year, the hierarchy of worlds is slightly flawed and inefficient. It also leads to a lot of negativity between worlds. As long as I’m able to play with those I wish to, especially in WvW, I’m really happy with this. I think EotM showed them it works.

rhamnosia.7692:

building up catapults to destroy and rebuild the bridges for achievements.

Umm…. I’d just pity them for there is no bridge achievement this time.

Kincaidia.3192:

With multi-hour queues, I would really appreciate being able to level up an alt or do something meaningful on another character. Right now, switching to another character makes you leave the queue.

Wait, aren’t you a fellow Quarrian? Beside reset night, when and where are these queues? There’s 1 person waiting to get in EB right now, that’s it. Though regardless, I’d love to see this quality of life change.

Coming in to get another thread locked, I see Zeke?

BIMBLE.7952:

As you can see this week, we’ve decided to spank you

And, let it be known, the “we’ve” he’s referring to is both TC and BG. For Queue’s on JQ, we only have 15 on one map right now. If you like to play during the time you made this thread, we have plenty of room for you in WvW on JQ.

ExiledDiclonius.1653:

Give us CAPES, backpack’s

Backpacks? My Engineer complete disagrees with you! #NoHobo2014

:)

Light_of_Dwayna are NOT Angels wings! If they were twice the size maybe we’d be happy with them. I’ve been asking for Angel Wings since launch.

Grok.6714:

Uh…is that how an open WvW battle between 2 guilds on a top NA server looks like?
What is going on there…shooting lazers at each other from safe distance?

Unfortunately, yes.

Zeke Azul Falcon.5176:

DeWolfe.2174:

Zeke Azul Falcon.5176:

in short you lost morale and balls.

Sure, how many hours have we wiped both of you in Garri LR since reset? It already got boring fast. You weren’t even dropping WxP anymore. Thus, your simply not worth the time. EotM is a way better investment as the profit’s are so much more lucrative.

i laughed so hard at this, is this April fools day joke? so tell me again how you big boys are wiping us and tc left and right?

Sorry, I figured you’d know about the LR battles. But, then I noticed you main a thief and wouldn’t know anything about such things. I’m certain you could ask any of the hardcore WvW players on your server and they’ll tell you about it.

For me, it activates when you enter a new zone. If you close the client and log back in, it’s normal again. If you are doing something instanced, then it can’t be turned off. So I’ll grant that that should have been able to be toggled.

Zeke Azul Falcon.5176:

in short you lost morale and balls.

Sure, how many hours have we wiped both of you in Garri LR since reset? It already got boring fast. You weren’t even dropping WxP anymore. Thus, your simply not worth the time. EotM is a way better investment as the profit’s are so much more lucrative.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

snip

It’s called experience and the knowledge that 80 cannot defeat 160. We’re enjoying all the loot from the PvE’ers in EotM though

digitalruse.9085:

If you have a box of chocolates… use #5…

OMG, I do and wish I was still in Big Head Mode

Ezekiel.1985:

Keanu Reeves is sad.

What is Sad Keanu sad about?

He is losing this outfit on the 15th. I hope you’re happy ANet. Keanu was already sad about his sandwich. Now this.

THAT’S AWESOME!

For everyone wonders what this is for, check the wiki

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page

Don’t worry wiki, she’s a good owner and will treat you well. She’s owned us for a couple of years now and been a good master.

Big head mode, engage!

That bobble head is awesome!

Dusty Moon.4382:

I am on TC and the number of overflows, even for areas not normally populated is large.

WHA’…????….. GG on JQ (a full server) we’re lucky if we over flow Gendarran during NA prime only. What are you stacked sideways on the server?

Curtis Johnson.8456:

Narthexia.1836:

will there be individual mix and match pieces in future releases? Or will they all be complete sets?

We will continue to release mix and match armor skin pieces

TY Curtis! Hey, for whatever it’s worth, please don’t take anything we say personally. If anything, take it with a bit of pride that we care THAT MUCH about the appearance side of the game.

For mix and match, the question we’re all waiting for is to find out WHAT is going to be made into armor or not. Because Anet would be Blunderbussing themselves in the foot if they made everything into sets. I have no doubt Curtis you are way ahead of the rest of us on knowing that.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

thanks to Evon that we’re able to equip ourselves with the tools needed to win.

My Ascended gear didn’t come from the likes of that filth peddler!

[quote=3837066;Smooth Penguin.5294:
John Smith confirmed it[/quote]

Pfft… he’s nothing but a paid lobbyist for Evon. Just look at all his post constantly promoting Evon. No true Tyrian should believe either of them anymore.

^rp’n

Latinkuro.9420:

you’re forgetting all the tomes of knowledge PVP players got from the millions upon millions of glory most of them have, getting to 80 for them is a matter of clicking 80 times.

Both sides have pro’s and cons

But……

invalidating my PVE progress is NOT cool !

Especially when there was a map where people could go to earn obscene amounts of glory, cough cough. For everyone that learned about it after the fact, ugh.

Stompy.1387:

I play D/D when I want to go around laughing at how I just instagibbed that guy

TY for being an honest thief! Love that you put it as instagibbed since most on the forums won’t admit it’s just that fast.

Evernessince.8035:

DeWolfe.2174:

Sentry.3691:

The results will look something like this:
1)2.5K steal
2)5.5k c&d
3)8k backstab
[…] a couple auto attacks for 500 each
4)10k Heartseeker
DEAD x_x

The combination of shadow stepping, stealth, high evasion, extremely high spike damage, and no cooldowns due to the initiative system results in a very, very broken class.

Amen! Sometimes, after getting ganked by this utterly non skilled/ op rotation, I’ll take a screen cap of the combat log. I really don’t want to spend the time to look but, I’m certain this rotation is an extremely high percentage of my deaths in WvW. It’s also VERY macro friendly which makes it very bad for the game. This rotation needs a 50% damage reduction. And, I used to say 20% but, as time and power creep continues, I keep upping the nerf.

To the Dev’s, don’t you EVER say you are working towards build diversity when you don’t touch the most spammed rotation in the game.

C&D doesn’t hit for 10k unless you’re almost out of health + glass + cloth. On that note, the above combo can be broken pretty easy. block/dodge c&d. If you’re a necro, put some wells around ya. Mesmers can hide in clones, engies can drop turrets, guards can block/protect. Warriors have enough block/mobility to do what they want. You really must have no idea how thieves work if that combo is giving you issues. There’s a thousand ways to counter it.

All those suggestions are very good, except they take time. Most WvW thieves can burst down a player in under 3 seconds. Even if you were to dodge, blind, block, and whatever else, the thief will just reset the fight. Coming back in a few seconds to wipe you while everything you have is on cd. Take Staff Ele for example, most of the skill animations take longer than it does a thief to burst you down. Kinda broken, no?

I understand no one wants there advantage to be diminished but, we should at least be more honest about it. Especially when my complaints mostly come from WvW. Where power scaling makes thieves way too much to handle for pretty much all builds.

Duke Darkwood.4237:

I cannot in good conscience support a move like that.

For myself, it really boils down to the ruched shirt, khaki shorts, and the boots from either the chef, wintersday, and witch, costume. If those were made into combat skins, a lot of us would be happier. Because if you noticed, a lot of people have copied my look. /ohyesIdid

Conncept.7638:

DeWolfe.2174:

when anyone with any profession can pick them up.

Are you serious? Look at that sentence again, and think real hard about it.

Everyone being able to get this is the problem, because now everyone is required to. A build with a 25% speed boost has an enormous advantage against one without, and the only way to get on an even playing field is to do likewise, preventing anyone from choosing any other option. And the build diversity which would come from having those other options is gone. Ipso facto, these are damaging build diversity.

And….. how many professions have a 25% trait/utility or access to swiftness???

Acinonyx Rex.8609:

DeWolfe.2174:

ok, I know I’m just waking up and all but, what is “hom”?

Hall Of Monuments
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hall_of_Monuments

It’s a special place which links GW1 and GW2 accounts.

OH! ty ty… I just couldn’t figured out the abbreviation.

Hamfast.8719:

DeWolfe.2174:

Probably my fave town clothing mix and match

Wow!

Why do I have this feeling that she’s actually made of liquid metal?

I will not mess with that!

It’s all sugar…. really