I will be heart broke if the Mad King and the Labyrinth don’t return. I will also be upset if Scarlet upstages him. Mad King was my fav event last year and to date is my fav event since the games release. Maybe the Mad King will kill Scarlet!
I have to agree here. My last 5 matches where all 4v5 and it was such disappointment that I haven’t done much this week in solo tourney matches. Seem as if this happens more now then it did before the patch where they addressed people who left. bummer really!
Love the idea they have by doing the living world updates every two weeks. I know there is a few people who play all day long and complete everything in 1 day. However I am not one of those players. I would like to see them maybe slow it down just a bit. Im not a casual player I play every day and every night however I do work so I don’t pay 24 hours straight. I also very rarely finish each event 100%. If I go out of town or on vacation I miss enough contact that I don’t even bother trying to complete it. Finally many of the events I don’t care for. Some of them are not as appealing to me as some of the others. Adventure box being an example of one I don’t care for.
I really enjoyed the Halloween event last year! Loved the Mad King. The labyrinth was great I hope they bring that back (maybe drop the silly candy corn mobs and add something a bit more scary like Zombies or other undead) I don’t care for jump puzzles at all but maybe thats because I play Charrs and well they can prove to be difficult challenges for us. Over all last years events where cool I hope they tweak them a bit and add to the story they started last year.
Would be sweet if you could earn them separately in pvp by collecting crystals and other materials that we all have stock piles of because you end up with he same loot over and over again. I am only level 40 in pvp but i have a huge collection of weapons and armor including items to craft armor in the forge. I would like to see pvp only weapons and armor skins that you can only obtain by earning those items and breaking them down into salvageable items that can be collected and turned into other weapon types in pvp. Rewards in pvp are garbage but creating some items that we can craft in the forge by using the raw materials that we break down every night would be nice. I would also like maybe some back pieces that are pvp only designs as well. just some thought!
For the record this is one of my fav maps and I played it more then 15 times yesterday and did not have any of the issues with lag that you all are describing. However I have has an issue with signets on my thief in just about every map. The signets all have a passive ability that runs until you actually use the ability. The passive ability is not working for me. Bad thing is the tickets in game require me to screen shot it and stop what Im doing to submit. I hate losing so I can’t ever figure out a time to submit it because Im in the middle of a match. but no lag for me.
If you want to farm Karma events are still the best way but its a bit slower then it use to. Also you have for successfully complete the events to earn Karma. You do get Karma potions from doing PvE Dailys ( got one last night worth 600 Karma). Running around last night for 3 hours in level 21+ zones just completing hearts and beating events I got around 50K Karma and got two levels of Magic find breaking down all my armor drops. Not to bad but Im sure Orr is still a better event chain.
I hate it and like it. But it should stay, this was designed so everyone could rez without there being a designated healer. I believe Pvp is all about team even in hot join and being able to pick up a fallen team mate to rally for the win is great.
Thanks Shar! I see what he means. Not a single win since May! lol
Maybe the formula was intended for more games/ players. I don’t know the number of the EU servers and they may just not be enough games played to level out like it appears the NA servers have. Not sure. Not a perfect formula for sure.
Kultas- not sure what you where looking at but I don’t even see you in the top 275. Maybe I am missing something. I watch the boards regularly and I have seen what looks like it balancing out after the initial push. Looks pretty legit other then some go weeks with out playing and keep top 25 spots with no game play. but thats as fair as it gets really.
I was just able to catch up on some forum reads and found this one. I understand this game is not perfect and I also understand that there are only so many hours a day for the GW2 team to make it better. The best part about this game is the communication. Now some will cry and say I never got a reply to my post, well as stated there is only so much time that can be spent on replying before you take away from the progression forward to this game. So I wanted to take the time to say thanks to Jon for posting and providing the Pvp world an update like this. Keep up the good work team and can’t wait for the post you promised yesterday about upcoming PvP fixes and such! Thanks
Still seeking and doing research on guilds to join. I don’t want something that will be dead in two months. there are some fine guild above the leader being the one posted by synthetix. Still searching however. I have family members that play that want to follow as well however there not as willing to pay for a new server. All takers welcome please post link to website. This process is taking longer then I expected but I hate switching and want to pick a winning team really where I can make some new friends long term.
As a Minion necro in Tpvp, I am usually stopped by the Mesmer Moa. Moa Currently makes all your minions disappear causing your build to be useless. I am killed fast without them. Good tactic I thought in combating an minion necro build. Not sure if this is as in tended but dose work well.
Thanks again for those who have replied. Bumping this to see what else it out there before I contacts someone or switch servers. I will gladly pay to change servers for the right team. I would love to find a group that wants to run 5 man TPvP and run around in WvW and steal camps or something. I am hoping to make a decision by the weekend. thanks everyone!
Yeah, loved this map. Now back to the same boring garbage, more bunker builds and no teamwork just the zerg from point to point. Exciting stuff really!
I thought this to be one of the best maps for Tpvp. Tpvp is not all that good anyways because all the maps really have the same objective. Capturing and holding points is becoming real boring. This was a fun little map and made you think of ways to win other then holding points. Most of the time the team that held the cannon won. Great work on this map guys some of the matches the last few days where epic. I would really like for this game to step up the pvp. Need some more variety for sure. I really like the idea in Neverwinter for a three stage pvp match. I have played it and really enjoyed it. However GW2 is my game of choice. I wish there where more variety in tpvp/ pvp in this game. Everything from different styles of tournaments to bigger and better maps. Queuing for one match at a time in tournament is boring and time consuming. wish there was still an option for 3 match tournaments along with some fresh Ideas. I have many great ideas for this and should post more of the. but really wanted to weigh in on the Skyhammer map and how much I enjoyed playing it. Does it need some fixing, Sure! but its a top 2 or 3 map for sure.
I have played GW2 since launch and recently took a month break. I really like most parts of this game and I am looking for a guild that does it all. A well rounded guild that doesn’t do just one aspect of this game but enjoys them all. I do spend more then half my time on this game doing pvp currently and would like to start doing more of other stuff but its a bit hard without some friends. The pvp stuff comes natural for me coming from such games as DAoC and WAR. Great games for their times and great experience. I ran with the same group of guys for almost 8 years now however most now have kids and stuff and don’t play much. We started a guild where I currently am on Mag server. However I need some better friends to enjoy the game. Not sure what else to say. If you have a guild that you think is what I am looking for let me know and I would love to check out your web page or answer any questions.
I also wanted to show off my first run tonight in the new pvp map. Nice close game, I was top score for the red team. (Braumell)
The PvP leaderboard is ordered by PvP rating. At this point, we’re not exposing the actual rating formula itself, but the leaderboard provides a way for you as a player to see where you stand in the hierarchy. We want to keep you as up-to-date as possible, so we’re going to be updating this leaderboard multiple times per day.
The PvP data is all based on single-round tournament play, so three-round tournaments and public matches that you enter via the in-game match browser will not count toward your position in the standings. In order to minimize how much players jump around the leaderboard, we’re also requiring that you take part in 10 matches before you can appear on the leaderboard.
Here’s a breakdown of the different metrics:
Rank – Current position in standings based on PvP rating
Wins – Total ranked PvP match wins
Losses – Total ranked PvP match losses
Win Percentage – Percentage of ranked PvP match wins out of total ranked PvP matches played
This is what is in the new section of the leader boards. However I do believe Demonsoul and Vandal are right about losing or beating higher level players. These leader boards are really not that good and need some work I believe. would be nice to be able to see how you or others made it to the top 1000. Right now everyone guesses. Some players who haven’t played in a month still rise up the ranks. I have seen this more since the paid tournaments are now highly populated among low rank players. Last night when i played about 10 matches and seen many sub level 10 players in the tournaments. Would be good if they improved the leader boards but I would prefer they added new tournament content first instead of the one round matches in free.
Let’s have other objective type pvp maps, but getting rid of the holy trinity is one of the best features GW2 offers, and it ruins PVP in games that have it IMO. Ever play a healer in PVP? It’s horrible being marked and targeted 1st constantly.
Good point here and I forgot to talk about it. I like that there isn’t a dedicated healer class. Makes thing feel balanced. One of my favorite things about GW2 pvp as well!
I agree with you twoforty. I love GW2 and I am a huge pvp fan. I have spent years playing pvp and have always done very little pve. Right now the tourneys are just the free one round match and they are good but they could be so much better. I would love to see some more variety. DAoC has some good ideas to, I loved the battle for a mini keep inside a pvp zone where you had to gain access to the keep and then hold it. There are many other ideas floating around out there. I am sure we are far away from the end game in pvp/ tpvp. I hope that there are better things to come in the future. I hope soon because I feel like the pvp population is dropping especially among good players. Killing noobs is fun but I really enjoy and good battle with skilled pvp players win or lose.
theres been a real influx of bad players in tournes.
Bane- I hear you there. I have seen so many sub level 10 players most of which are new to tpvp and are not good, they run around aimlessly. This is why its more important then ever right now to group up and create a pre made. Solo queue is tough right now.
Ingame name: Drafigo.4690
Main Class / Potential Classes (Incase team requires): Guardian/ Egineer
Region: NA MST
Practice Times: any time after 7pm pacific time.
Experience:10+Years of pvp experience. Starting with DAoC, Rift and many more pvp titles.
Other (Anything else that you would like to add): Would love to get a static group going every night. I have a build and fully geared toon for every class except the thief. I am willing to switch anything up as well to round up and team. I want to win! I will be on tonight so shoot me a tell and lets get some wins!
Hexs- had some great matches with you last night. You where not the issue with the team. We had some great players but we communicated poorly. Thief’s was defiantly not the issue especially yourself. Problem was the other team communicated much better and they assisted on the points better then we did. I not once got help at the gate from anyone other then you and by the time we figured out a strategy and made a come back it was too late. I remember that one game where we where down 97 t0 300+ and finished the game 470 to 500. We rocked it at the end for sure but it was to late. Keep up the good game play.
