Guild Wars 2

Hunter.4783:

Meta has never been the most balanced. For the first time i see EVERY class in both ranked and unranked.

I stopped reading here, cuz rangers and engi. And necro too, even if there’s still a somewhat viable bunkerish build for them.

I can’t log in aswell.

I’m in Italy, Padua, EU. Had this issue since 17:00 GMT+1.

EDIT: all of my guildies have this trouble too.

As the title says. Post your bad matchups streak. Having lost the match is not a necessary condition, bad things can happen to those who win too. I’ve had one right now:

• First match, waited 15m+ in queue cause the last one didn’t accept for FOUR times in a row.
• Second match, 1 disconnected and never came back.
• Third match, 1 afk at the beginning, he comes back, another one goes afk cause we had already lost 200 points.

I’m looking forward to my fourth match to extend the list.

NeoSpud.7523:

AMR might be more useful if it had a buff indicator like Speedy Kits has.. would be good to know if it was ready.

Just like IP, CS and a LOT more traits in the game

AMR with 10s ICD was surely overpowered. AMR with 90s ICD is disheartening. It was probably the only trait making A.E.D. worth taking, togheter with gadeteer.

I suggest either reduce drastically the AMR cooldown (something like 60s seems “ok-ish”, even though I’d prefer it to be even less) or buff A.E.D. (again, 40s CD seems a little bit too much considering it’s outstandingly risky to use).

Just don’t let engi become the new ranger in SPVP. Nothing works in the high tiers, atm. Zananan being forced to use Soldier amulet to be somewhat viable makes my heart bleed.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Yes, as was said above, linking does give you the three points. Just make sure you have at least one of the base GW1 campaigns and EOTN. HOM is currently disabled as they create/test/implement a fix for a big bug that happened a few months ago that gave people HOM points when they didn’t actually earn them.

So those 3 points actually are enough for me to get the reward I need.. but I’m thrilled by GW1, should I play it (to also get more points)?

hello guys! I’d like to get 3 HoM points (for the heritage chest) in the fastest way possible. I read that just by linking a GW1 account with a GW2 account gives you 3 HoM point, can someone confirm me this? Would I just need to buy Prophecies + EotN, create an account and then link it to my GW2 account to get my 3 HoM points?

Also, what is this story about HoM being “on halt”? Would this, whatever “this” is, affect what I intend to do in any way?

Thanks in advance

dominik.9721:

Rampage the only semi-reason to take a warrior in a team but sure let’s nerf dis

Even if I would like Rampage to get nerfed, I think that you are right. Rampage is so overpowered that the entire “meta” warrior build relies on it. Nerfing it we wouldn’t see much warriors anymore. But I’d prefer it to be nerfed and other warrior’s toys to be buffed instead.

Just like the engi Nade Barrage: it’s very broken, and the “meta” build relies on it. Once it’ll be fixed, I don’t see many reason to bring as many engi as before in tournies. Still, barrage NEEDS to be fixed.

silentnight warrior.2714:

• block – yes
• blind – yes
• go out of sight -yes
• reflect – no, its a melee transformation while lich is ranged
• use the terrain properly – yes

Almost the same counters.

• block? No. 1 very quick autoattack and the block vanishes.
• blind? Same as before.
• go out of sight? LOL nope. Rampage warrior con surely outrun a centaur AND you.
• terrain? Not really. As I pointed out before, the gap-closer + the permaswiftness easily help the rampage getting to you.

I find somewhat manageable to cojnter it with mediguard, but even assuming I havent wasted any of my 3 blinds, 4 block and shelter, the transformation lasts enough to let him kill me.

See, when the only solution to kill a rampage is another rampage I pretty much think theres something wrong.

So yeah. The reasons for which Lich-Form is balanced are that you can:

• block
• blind
• go out of sight
• reflect
• use the terrain properly

I agree with all of them. But then, then there’s Rampage. Transform elite skill on 120s CD, which does 20% more damage, has a tremendous amount of CCs and most importantly, it deals TONS of DPS.
By using rampage you gain: access to a lot of powerful control abilities, insane DPS, mobility, immunity to CCs, something very close to immunity to immobilize/chill/cripple, permswiftness and on top of that, tremendous HP pool. So, what are the counters?

Reflects? Nope!
CCs? Nope!
Soft CCs? Nope!
Dps? Nope!
Stab? Nope!
Well then, maybe I guess I can outrun him? You guess, it: nope!

Yes, I am asking for nerfs, in case you didn’t notice. I consider Rampage an “I-win” button. And what’s most irritating is that there are NO counters. Not even run. Just hope to survive thanks to aliens or something.

I main engineer and I DO NOT WANT to play engineer because of this game breaking bug. It’s like there’s no difference between a veteran engi and a new one.

Hey guys, did you alredy receive your additional character slot as “pre-purchase veteran” bonus? Because I know I haven’t and I’m starting to be a little bit worried. Should I send a ticket?

Lishtenbird.2814:

CONDI, tough, vit

and

CONDI, pow, prec

please?

lol no please, I just witnessed burning ticking 5k with condiguard…

I love these changes, even though I’m a bit worried by the new zerker amulet. The new Valkyrie is gonna be sweet!

I mean, I surely do NOT like facing premades when I’m a soloqueuer and most of my team is composed by soloqueuers aswell, but I guess that’s life. No big deal, just wait for the storm to pass.

What really kittenes me off, though, is when a WvW guild premade vote for courtyard and just steamroll everything. My match has just ended, me and my team just went afk through it cause they had, of course, a better comp, communication, and on the top of it, they were prepared for it. It was not nice. We had not fun. They probably didn’t enjoy it either. It was just a waste of 5mins of our lives, except for people who actually care/haven’t done yet all the champion’s titles.

I strongly support courtyard, since it is a very nice map. I do think it would have a lot of people queuing for it, I’d be one of them once in a while.
BUT PLEASE, give it its own queue.

EDIT: Just popped another queue. Another time courtyard. Another time versus the very same WvW guild. Twice in a row. It’d be funny, if I wasn’t crying.

EDIT 2: the guild was very polite. Since this was even a 4v5, they just made one of their member go afk. But then, when they were losing 200-0, the 5th decided to join and the steamroll begun.

Sunshine.5014:

Frenk.5917:

witcher.3197:

Currently the best tactic is to avoid any PvP interaction and fous on NPCs 24/7, by spawning, escorting and hunting skritt down. It’s basically Silverwastes with worse rewards.

So much this.

Spawn skritts.
Resupply.
Spawn more skritts.
Resupply.
Spawn more skritts.
Occasionally check for the Hero.
Resupply.
Spawn more skritts.

Enemy team defending? Waste of time. Too many skritts.

Every time I see this, I have to ask: do you use the treb in game? It kills the whole groups of npc in just a few hits.

Once I had a teammate of mine using the treb to kill the skritt: I thought that was a good idea, cause I recalled reading something on the forum about trebs oneshotting doorbreakers.. then he got annihilated cause the other team pushed with 5 players.

I’d also want to add that I have had like 3 (or even less) in the past 2-3 months, and just today I had 2.

witcher.3197:

Currently the best tactic is to avoid any PvP interaction and fous on NPCs 24/7, by spawning, escorting and hunting skritt down. It’s basically Silverwastes with worse rewards.

So much this.

Spawn skritts.
Resupply.
Spawn more skritts.
Resupply.
Spawn more skritts.
Occasionally check for the Hero.
Resupply.
Spawn more skritts.

Enemy team defending? Waste of time. Too many skritts.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Because it’s a game, and I’ll play what i enjoy.

Fair enough. I also think like that when I queue with classes I don’t really know how to play (trying to learn mesmer here, and it’s very tough with all the celes/thieves/medguards around) but I can’t help but to have the feeling I’m not contributing that much.

Simple question. Why do YOU not run meta, if you do? Are you aware you are crippling your team? Do you think that you are NOT actually crippling your team?

Just a random question, after 3 matches with/against SD engi, Fresh Air eles, GS warrior, healing necros (this one actually surprised me so much I took me more than a few moments to understand it was not a normal necro) ecc.ecc.

Wargrave.4936:

I been holding home hole game.
Random engineer with 1/2 my points start trash talking me.

I totally understand why he was mad. If you don’t, you should consider get more experience in rotations.

Currently, when I click and hold my right click I can basically turn around the view, but at the cost of my cursor not showing anymore. In Phantaram’s streams, when he clicks and holds his right click his cursor becomes “blue-ish”, so that it’s still visible.

Is this an ingame option I haven’t seen in 2.5 years? Or is it a third party program? Is it allowed?

Moreover, is there a way to make the cursor more visible? Sometimes I can’t keep track of it due to the clusterf*** of animations.

Thanks in advance.

What were the brackets for the WTS? Updated with the “losing brackets” etc. etc.?

I wish Gaile to see this!

She’s usually very nice, so she could actually tell us wether or not some of these wonderful ideas (I love the lore tab, I’m exactly one of those players who do not know anything about the background of GW but wish to know more) could be implemented by Anet.

Crystal Reid.2481:

The designer behind the Vinewraith was Lisa Davis. You might remember her from such releases such as the Marionette, and Super Adventure Box!

Wait, she did BOTH marionette AND Super Adventure Box???

I want Heart of Thorns to be enteirely designed be her! Marionette, SAB and Vinewrath are/were the best bosses/features ever released in PvE so far.

Hunter.4783:

No class besides a D/D (almost equally as OP) stands a chance vs them, and even then, turret engie takes the cake.

A part from the fact that D/D ele is not a counter to Engi Turrets, I think that Necromancers, Engineers and even Rangers (all of them built for condi damage, of course) are a perfect example of counters to Turrets.

That aside, I believe that the build is indeed OP. Not because it’s an insta-win (it is not, and there are many ways to outplay Turret Engis) but simply because a completely new-to-the-game player can pick it up and compete at higher* levels that the ones in which he should be competing instead.

*please note that I said “higher”, not “high”.

Exedore.6320:

You could tell it was fake because some of the changes were ripped directly from the forums.

This.

Plus, “Immobilize: Getting immobilized while in the air will no longer cause you to be stuck in the air” this is not going to be fixed anytime soon.
It’s been so long this bug exists that removing it would be like removing an annoying old friend.

If there’s competition, I really enjoy watching the live streams. If there are like 3 teams for EU and 2 for NA then no thanks, I’ll do something else.

SPVP just started getting a little bit of love, thanks to the E-sports thingy. Historically, though, PvE has seen much more updates than SPVP: while, in fact, PvE has been getting new content every two weeks with some breaks in between, SPVP has got new “content” only every six months.

Moreover, while PvE content is actually fresh gameplay (arguably, I know, but for the sake of the discussion let’s not be too picky), wether it is new zones, new events or even both, SPVP patches has been mostly balance updates or interface reworks, so nothing actually “new”.
To put it in a simplistic way, SPVPers have been doing the exact same thing over and over again for the past 2 years while PVEers , currently, have new gameplay that didn’t have before (just to mention some: Tequatl, Triple Wurm, Fractals, Southsun Cove, Drytop, Silverwaste, LS1, LS2 and all the various updates in between which include SAB, Zephyrite, Dragon Festivals, Queens Jubilee, etc. etc.).

I’m not saying that PvE gets a LOT of content, but it certainly gets MUCH MORE content than SPVP.

P.S.
I used to be a WvW-oriented player, and I am well aware that WvW gets even less content than SPVP does.

Akuni.8604:

That’s a trend you started with the reward tracks – I say it was the wrong decision: Content should be available in all gamemodes so you can choose whatever playstyle you want. PvP should have all the rewards like dragonite ore and items that PvE can farm but nothing exclusive. This is the whole PvE has everything, PvP get’s the short end of the stick thing reversed.

PvP should be as rewarding as PVE (it is NOT, currently) and it should havesomething exclusive just like PVE has something exclusive (fractal, for example). I am not willing to exchange my glorious hero armor for your fractal skins, because, from my very personal pov, my glorious hero armor has an additional value attached to it.
If it was obtainable for pve players, it would lose all its attractiveness.
The same logic can be applied to fractal skins, of course.

Chase.8415:

lilwizz.5783:

Fine let’s ignore the Laurels but I still can’t get the 10 AP. I had two classes that I don’t have and don’t have place to make. What am I supposed to do about that? They could make instead of 2 classes daily, only one, so that we can actually finish it if we don’t have that class.

As I said before, there is always 2 classes available a day, and you get 4 slots. If you had made 4 different classes, then you can complete the daily without purchasing any character slots. ( because there are 8 classes in the game… 4 slots x 2 = 8 )

I don’t understand anything of what you’ve written.

Let’s assume that there’s Guardian and Necro daily matches, and assume also that I have 6 character slots in which I have all classes but Guardian and Necro.
Under these conditions, I wouldn’t be able to complete the Daily PvP.

Ranger: Dunno. Does Eura stream? EU hasn’t had decent Rangers since Battosai left.

Kenny.

Nah, there would no more be NA vs EU discussions, which are actually interesting, and the meta would not be split anymore thus leading to much less interesting world-wide eventslike WTS

felivear.1536:

This is kind of an odd analogy, but it makes sense to me:

Imagine the ranked queue as college football (USA!). In college football, sometimes you have the top ranked school in the country playing unranked teams, or teams in lower divisions. All parties involved are well aware of this situation going into it, and leaving it. There are certainly moral victories if Grand Valley State plays well against Alabama.

However, in GW2’s current system, you potentially have Grand Valley State going against Alabama; but, before, during, and after the match, neither team knows it. This leaves the underdog walking away dejected and not understanding why the were just annihilated.

If they have to go with this system where sometimes really good teams play far inferior teams, they have to make it readily apparent to all parties involved once this occurs.

P.S. – Now that teams queue together straight from the party system, can’t the game put an icon of some sort next to the player’s names that joined a party together (ala Call of Duty). This would provide a little insight into what you can expect during the match.

Nice analogy. I’m not from USA, but I still understood it (so Alabama is good, huh?).
I’d prefer though that such icon showed only after the match finished. Just to not to let these kind of things demotivate players.

Chaith.8256:

Can’t happen. Queue times need all the lubrication they can get. Split the people in queue and you have some pretty unacceptable waits.

Why does chaith always have to make sense?

Thank YOU for the amazing effort you always put in place. I always enjoy your shoutcasting

I want the photos of the teams

I don’t care if NA > EU or EU > NA, I had fun watching those matches, they were all really close and thus “healthy” for the game. Still, I do believe the drama is also healthy. It provides additional layers of competitiveness.

I am more interested in watching Chaith eyebrows ehrm, victory speech and OE’s belly dance, and chinese dancers winking at ROM, to be honest.

Justin ODell.9517:

Ranked arena is using whatever MMR you had before in team arena.

Did you compensate for decay? I was rank ~500 in Team Arena just one week ago, but then I stopped playing because my team had issues and I fell to 98%. But my “real” rank shouldn’t have been 98%, right? As soon as I played a match, I should have been back at rank ~500.

Because I’ve won the last 5 matches of today 500-100 or 500-200. It was like I was really 98% and I was against new players. Even if I won 5 matches in a row they were not satisfying at all

glock.6590:

I think they said match making is disabled until dec 16.

So basically ranked = unraked until dec. 16?

From time to time I still write in /t “ok gusy lisen plan 1 close 1 animal 1 far rest mid” when I play on Forest :,)

Just to know: OP, what’s your leaderboard rank?

Knowing your rank can help us understand the data better and could let us infer more about players preferences at high-medium-low rank.

No offense intended

What if they are not as good as your team is?

I agree with everything OP and Mr. Fancy Eyebrows ( <3 Chaith) said, especially Strider’s defense change.
The only thing that left me a little bit unsure is the “Improve damage on Maul”, whch I believe is already a very good source of Spike Damage, especially if used in combo with GS#5.

Am I the only one who understood exactly the contrary (“less than one thief equals to insta loss”) because of “1>thief”?

I’m actually trying soothing wave + soothing disruption, it’s actually not bad at all.

STRanger.5120:

Do you have 4 or 6 points in the water?

I have 6 points. I run the standard 0 0 2 6 6 D/D Cele build

Hello! I’d like to know what you guys think about the combination of these traits:

Cantrip Mastery (-20% cantrip CD)
Soothing Wave (gain regen when hit, 10 secs ICD)
Soothing Disruption (cantrips give you vigor and regen)
Cleansing Wave (AoE condi removal when attuning to water)

I personally am thorn between Cantrip mastery+soothing disruption and soothing wave+cleansing wave. What do you think?

Chaith.8256:

BlackBeard.2873:

@Sizer, watch a stream of actual top teams where you can hear their team comms,

I laughed. You know Sizer is competing in the WTS 50k tournament, representing Europe, this is in less than 2 weeks.

That Sizer is not this Sizer. I believe they are two different players but with the same name. Unless Sizer switched to NA and rerolled Ele and Engi, or unless he just wants to troll an entire community (wait, that might actually be true :P ).

Peureki.3647:

You really have to time everything perfectly to get two effects of blast in water fields or fire fields.

Not really. Water #2, Fire #2, dodge roll into the firefield while in earth. There’s even time for Fire #3 to maximize DPS.

Also, the simple fact that you can Water #2 —→ Water #3 without needing to switch to other attunements would be extremely powerful. You could potentially blast three times into Water #5.

To be clear: I’d like for this to happen, but I believe we have to think about the consequences.