Guild Wars 2

If u spectate hotjoin, for some reason it appears as if you could change ultilities, if you try to your game crashes.

Skype logs , just a small set, he delaying this kitten intentionally for weeks now!

[24.09.2014 22:38:56] Helseth: ill announce it on monday
[24.09.2014 22:39:04] Helseth: just gimme date and time
[24.09.2014 22:39:05] Helseth: for then
[24.09.2014 22:39:08] Helseth: and ill announce it
[24.09.2014 22:39:13] Fixi: what i said
[24.09.2014 22:39:18] Fixi: [Mittwoch, 24. September 2014 22:38]

Fixi:
<<< aprox 21:00CET subject to change depending on tog stream
Sunday, 05.10
2014
[24.09.2014 22:39:36] Fixi: “so come after u watch the tog last match blabla” – helseth @ viewers
[24.09.2014 22:39:52] Helseth: k

[today, 30.09]

[19:18:22] Helseth: wtf
[19:18:23] Helseth: i told u
[19:18:25] Helseth: we’d do it next week
[19:18:40] Fixi: no we said this week monday u do the announcement
[19:18:45] Fixi: and this weekend we do it

[cut out due to personal info]

[19:20:47] Helseth: oh
[19:20:48] Helseth: sorry
[19:20:49] Helseth: i was too tired
[19:20:52] Helseth: dw
[19:20:53] Helseth: next weekend
[19:20:54] Helseth: we’ll do it

To anyone who was looking forward to it, looks like helseth decided to not get bodybagged on stream and dodged. I’m still thinking about what to do with my text, which I didnt finish completely yet.

- casters arent oblligated to listen to the teams are they? I’d just cast them without consent, does more good than evil to the scene
- I doubt this feature will be available to the general public in the near future: anet showed that they have trouble with these mechanics (putting in delay isnt that easy, same concept as replays)

Sputti.8214:

Fisalq.2087:

the Biggest Esports games allow it and we all saw that in the worlds champion ship tournments i dont want to mention the company cuz i dont want to get myself trouples

You mean League of Legends? Thats not true, Rekkles was not allowed to play Tournaments and Worlds last year, because he was 17. So Fnatic played with him online, but pushzu had to replace him in every offline Tournament

Not true, Rekkles was not allowed to play, because he was 16!!, he would have turned 17 during the group stage or so, so they decided to go with puszu for that world championship.
In LoL the age is 17+, not sure why exactly 17, but it is.

personalities+skill 11/10

One saving grace for warrior it seems.

@ mistlague: thanks; ill check that out
@ acrisor: the quote doesnt say anything about seasons and ladders, only that they will keep the ranks which were discussed in a different fragment of the blogpost.

So, I was checking the PvP Roadmap Blogpost from last year: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/player-vs-player-rewards-roadmap/
It seems like we have gone a long way and most of the discussed features are in the game.
But one of the things I was looking forward most to, namely seasons or skill based rewards, didn’t make it in yet.
I’d really appreciate an update on the current development process.

Very good post, i hope this gets more attention. I actually wish this was taken straight from anets “to do list”.

Looking again, top comment updated

Grouch is working Quality Assurance and we get pvp updates and a direct communication link to the devs.
Grouch works Event Manager and we get Gamescom and 50k tournaments.
I see a pattern here.

Hey!
A lot of the “passive trait procs” are very annoying to use, for both, the user and the opponent. I’d like to suggest a buff/debuff for every passive trait with a cooldown.
Whether to show it to both, yourself and the enemy or just yourself is subject to discussion. I’d suggest showing it to both.
You could place it above from where the boons/conditions are shown.
Clustering the bar to much isn’t a problem imo, most speccs dont have more than 1 or 2 of those traits.
Pro’s:
- Strong passive procs lose viability and weak procs gain viability!
Unviable ones right now are too unpredictable to be used, e.g. shatter recharge at 50%, maybe “hard to catch” and similiar stuff. This change would make it more predictable.
The strong ones right now usually don’t need to be played around by the user, e.g. Incendiary Powder. which leads me to:
- More counterplay:
Giving players, who face players with these “use and forget traits”, the ability to see when they could proc, allows for more thoughtful play and thus, ever so slightly, weakens those traits.
(On a sidenote) For Incendiary Powder and similiar traits on other professions I’d suggest introducing the ability to miss it, giving yourself an icon when you proc it, like with the flamethrower toolkit ability. They might need other buffs to compensate, but for the sake of counterplay, I think it is worth to consider.
Con’s:
- One could argue it decreases skillcap as currently you could count the cd in your head once it proccs
- GW2 vision of its combat was to do as much as possible with animations and as little as possible with icons, this would slightly move away from that idea

I might have missed examples of traits/Pro’s and Con’s that don’t apply to my argumentation, if you come up with anything like that, I would appreciate if you added that to the discussion, since I didn’t take a lot of time with this post.

It is kinda funny how clueless most na players are about eu (I guess it is the same for eu/na).
Sizer streams alot, but currently he is in Austria (dunno for how long) and he doesn’t have good internet there, so he streams really rarely, also im sure he has past broadcasts.
You can probably find VOD’s of the TOL 1 finals, where he played for TCG.

Near every time when I log into a character the first time that day I DC immediatly. This started quite recently, maybe a couple weeks ago.

Grouch told me in chat that its Thursday/Friday/Saturday, but i cant gurantee for the correctness of thsi information

If this isn’t Helseth writing on Tage’s account, I will eat a kitten.

Would be weird/time consuming/impossible. You wouldn’t ask everyone you know if they want to join your team either. I know lots of people, and I don’t even have everyone I know in my friendslist, so couldn’t find them, but everyone who looks for someone will probably check here, see and ask me.

Looking for team just for TOL 2 (and some time beforehand for pratice). Playing s/d thief or d/d ele or ezmode warrior.

Its happening https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/68751/1367433923196.gif

Came here just to say gj! Didn’t know some of those things.

Other esports events (most ESL stuff like IEM) take 6-12 months to get the prize money where it belongs, fortunately it is pretty fast in gw2 for comparison, because most prizes are just gems/ingame stuff.

Question as above, lately didn’t hear much from the devs in regards to what they are working on atm.

I’d like a tryout if possible.

looking for a top team again, playing d/d ele or thief/warrior, please don’t message me unless we know each other.

wow, Rom looks like helseths brother

removing the rank was a good change

Bump, did your stance change after 6 months and the recent dc issues in ToL? Maybe we can get this on the list right after the season/high tier reward system.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Bring-pause-to-GW2-for-event/first#post2942656 2 dev responses ragarding pause feature.

Not a common build, first time I see it in a tournament.

never saw anyone playing this

To clarify, i mean pressing the button while in the jumping animation, not casting and then jumping while the bar is filling up.
@ The gates assassin: Not all instant casts can be used while in the air, e.g. lightning flash, signet of air, frost armor, arcane blast (just some examples from quick test on my ele).

Q; Why can some skills be used while in the jumping animation, and some can’t be used? Is there a rule for which can be used and which can’t? It seems to be mostly instant skills that can be used midair, but not all of them, it’s also not limited to stunbreakers, or ultility slots. I can’t find any pattern, seems to be random.

Powerblock seems to interrupt and put a 10sec cd on a whole lot of things that it shouldn’t.
Stomps, rezzes, thief attacks. Didn’t test it myself, but that’s what people told me.
Edit: Nvm, bug fixes from this morning
“Power Block: Fixed an issue that caused this trait to set skills with zero recharge on 10 second recharge; namely auto-attacks from creatures and players, as well as thief initiative abilities. This trait will no longer trigger through stun immunity effects such as Stability and Defiance.” Not sure if this includes rezzes and stomps doe.

So u want a prechange berserker amulet (why would they do this, they changed it because they don’t want this combo)?
The knight change is fine I guess, but doesn’t rly matter, if people would want to use your suggested change, they would use it now as well, with the might stacking combo, not having power as the mainstat is totally fine.

Gonna repost another explanation from similiar thread

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.ronpierce.2760:
They did what needed to be done. If you use it properly without spamming it, aka using it to dodge an attack rather than avoid all possible incoming attacks) and watch other people’s attack movements, they won’t b hitting you in that .3 second gap becuase they’d be missing with their attack you evaded, and by time they got off a new attack that .3 sec frame would be over. Just adapt and use the ability a little better now and it’ll work just as well as ever. In teams, evades already scaled too well against numbers of people, of you’re being swung at by 5 guys so e of those hits should land. Sorry you can’t perma evade against an entire Zerg anymore.
Welcome to everyone else’s world. :T

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Except, u know, all the instant stuff, ds fear for necro, mesmer daze, anything another thief does, ele air spikes, offguard meditation burst, hell even an auto attack from engi can kitten you easily with the burn proc being so strong now ( any thief can confirm how hard it is to win vs bomb/nade engi), in meele even a hambow could initiate a stuncombo via hammer 4 and you’d be dead. You are not considering the fact that evasion is the primary way of surviving as thief. I agree that shortbow 3 needed a nerf, but this is not solving the problem, just shifting it.

ronpierce.2760:

They did what needed to be done. If you use it properly without spamming it, aka using it to dodge an attack rather than avoid all possible incoming attacks) and watch other people’s attack movements, they won’t b hitting you in that .3 second gap becuase they’d be missing with their attack you evaded, and by time they got off a new attack that .3 sec frame would be over. Just adapt and use the ability a little better now and it’ll work just as well as ever. In teams, evades already scaled too well against numbers of people, of you’re being swung at by 5 guys so e of those hits should land. Sorry you can’t perma evade against an entire Zerg anymore.

Welcome to everyone else’s world. :T

Except, u know, all the instant stuff, ds fear for necro, mesmer daze, anything another thief does, ele air spikes, offguard meditation burst, hell even an auto attack from engi can kitten you easily with the burn proc being so strong now ( any thief can confirm how hard it is to win vs bomb/nade engi), in meele even a hambow could initiate a stuncombo via hammer 4 and you’d be dead. You are not considering the fact that evasion is the primary way of surviving as thief. I agree that shortbow 3 needed a nerf, but this is not solving the problem, just shifting it.

KarinaCO.6948:

Erwin.5603:

I would not call it a window of play, more like a window of unability to do anything as thief cause u are stuck in the animation(ports excluded). Seems like a useless skill to me against a decent player once people figure the timing out.

Learn to use stow weapon. You can cancel the skill animation once the evade happens.

Unless im missing something critical, no, it doesn’t work.
Edit: Upon further testing im not sure anymore if it doesn’t work.

I would not call it a window of play, more like a window of unability to do anything as thief cause u are stuck in the animation(ports excluded). Seems like a useless skill to me against a decent player once people figure the timing out.

Questions as above, thief trash tier now.

Ok, you wanted to bring PvP in line with PvE (btw this answer seems like you just don’t know yourself why someone decided this is a smart idea), but why didn’t you just remove the level restriction from shoulders? Don’t tell me that requires backend work or some kitten like that, just remove it, it doesn’t have a purpose anyway.
Edit: Same with helmet.

I don’t get the point of the test, also I dont really understand what you did to test it.
You don’t need to test anything, all the numbers are available and you can clearly see, when its gonna be more effective and when its gonna be less effective, to be a bit more concrete: there is a cutoff at some point. It depends on how long it’ll take you to hit a lifeblast, which depends on your opponent obv.

Afaik a season system with appropriate rewards and deathmatch as a gamemode is next on the list.

Ostricheggs.3742:

Erwin.5603:

I am not sure, if the way you imply that it is gonna happen, is the way it is actually gonna happen. Maybe a Dev can clarify.

read the thread that I linked in my original post.

Evan Lesh.3295:

You will only get a chest per rank to 81. You will not get more than (81 – current rank) chests.

Its more likely that he merely wanted to state, that the rank up awards aren’t given out when ranking up beyond 80/81 (they stated you can rank up further like in pve).

I am not sure, if the way you imply that it is gonna happen, is the way it is actually gonna happen. Maybe a Dev can clarify.

Keep the cynical kitten going, maybe the increasing post count makes a dev aware to give me a real answer!

I am currently rank 54 with less than 1 bar filled, I’d like to know how much I need to farm exactly to be rank 80 once the feature patch goes online, or If I am already there. (mid 50’s is to vague for me).

Completely agree! I really hope Anet lets us change their minds about this.

Custom Arenas = Hotjoin /Thread

Will the Critical Damage change on April 15th change the damage of e.g. berserker speccs in PVP at all?