Guild Wars 2

Simple answer: don’t go for ascended armor, it’s not worth it.

Some numbers to back the claim.

1) The gain in stats is absolutely absymal – the primary stat gets boosted by +14, while the secondaries by +11 (for a full set armor, ofc). This means that, on a naked toon (i.e.: just the armor equipped and nothing else, not even traited), the primary stat gets boosted by a mere 1.14% (from 1231 to 1245), the secondaries by 0.96% (from 1140 to 1151). If you start to add weapons/trinkets/traits at the picture, the gain % in stat is just… well, I said it, absymal.

2) The gain in armor rating: absymal too. If you have a toon which doesn’t use Though anywhere on the equip (which is your case, except for the 300 in SA trait line), you go from 1980 armor to 2034, +54, which is a +2.72% boost in the armor rating. If you add the 300 thougness coming from the SA line, you go from 2280 to 2334, so a gain of +2.37%.

Now, if you compare the cost of a full ascended armor to its effectiveness, you can easily see that it’s not worth it. First of all, for the price in itself, second of all because when you put runes in it you know that they’ll be “lost forever” if you want to change them in the future (no one will ever salvage an asc armor just to get back the runes).
And about the cost: just the cost of damask to make the 6 insignias required is about 18×14.5g=261g. Throw in the rest of mats, and you’ll spend at least 400-500g to make a full asc armor set (if anyone wants to chime in with the exact cost atm, pls do ).

So, tldr: stick with exotic armors, and just get ascended trinkets/weapons.

warriorjrd.8695:

Post your IP’s in a public forum, that sounds like a great idea. It’s good to know this is how Anet deals with game related issues. Don’t private message the dev your IP, post it in the public forum, that can literally be viewed by anybody. ._.

LOL

They’re asking the for server ip, you can get it by typing /ip in game.

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Lachanche.6859:

necromancy is not allowed.

But it’s even in the game, how can it not be allowed????

I just gave up playing pvp since 2 days, for me it’s not the d/c but the almost constant skill activation delay, it’s literally killing me.

Sidenote: I’m having delays in WvW too (probably even worse than in pvp), in pve apparently there are none (but I play seldom pve, just 20-30 mins a day to gather some mats). Coincidence? I don’t think so. (conspirationist tune on)

LightningBlaze.4913:

In competitive environment like spvp and wvw you will always have players that are exactly that, competitive.

Since when competitive = offensive?

L2B!

Chaith.8256:

@ OP I hope that you resolve your latency/bandwidth issues asap.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/MASSIVE-lag-spikes

It’s not just the OP.

We have currently 4 traits that activate when a certain threshold of health is hit.

Pain response: useful in theory, in practice most of the times it just goes on CD giving only the regen buff and maybe removing one of the 3 conditions.
Hard to Catch: random teleport at random moments, bad since day one.
Last Refuge: we all know about this too.
Instinctual Response: no one has ever used it I think, and for good reasons.

Now, why can’t we have the activation of these traits decided by the player? It’d be a lot better, it’d promote more active gameplay (not just relying on passive abilities which procs nmw), and there’d be not a lot of work to do.

3 of them can just be binded on a specific key (let’s call them F2-F4), and their effects remain the same as they’re now: as soon as the trigger is hit, the skill is usable by the player, and, if used, it goes on cooldown (the duration is the one of the trait). If the skill is not used, and the health goes again over the threshold for any reason, the skill isn’t available anymore (but doesn’t go on CD).

The other trait which maybe should allow us for some more control is Hard to Catch obviously: just make it a ground target, instead of being ported in a random place.

We could maybe have another restriction, in order not to “save” the trait skills for too long, i.e. a window of use of 4-5 seconds, after which the skill is disabled, it doesn’t go on CD but it’s not usable until the trigger is activated again (so we need to go up over the threshold and then down again to have it usable).

I think this modification would make those 4 traits much more useful than they’re now, and mostly less a liability than anything else (Last Refuge, I’m looking at you!).

Acrisor.8097:

This is what happens when you play SoloQ and Hotjoin instead of TeamPvP with voice chat for proper team coordination.

Nah, yesterday I lost a match for the same reason: Khylo, we were up of about 10 points, 475-465 (something like that), we had mid and home, I shouted in caps in team chat “just defend home and mid”.

After 10 seconds, I got zerged at mid by 3 enemies, and I was alone. We lost the game 501-500 lol.

GOSU.9574:

You do realize these “Leavers” are also forced to leave and join their queued match, right?

If you don’t want leavers, bad autobalance timers, spectating win-jumpers, hoppers that force an autobalance so they can join the win team, etc., then maybe oh……..tpvp?

Are you able to read at least the subject of the thread? Apparently not.

spoiler alert: this is a half-rant, with a proposal at the end. You can skip the rant and go straight at the proposal. Or read the rant the same, just to have a good laugh at me.

Start of rant

T’was a beautiful day in the Heart of the Mist for me today.

Not a single time I had to play on Failhammer.

Oh, the joy.

I was so happy about that, that I didn’t care too much when I lost a match.

I was so happy about that, that I didn’t care when I died three times due to 2-years-old-now immobilize bug.

I was so happy about that, that I didn’t care when I got stuck twice, during two different matches, in the wall between the stairs and the graveyard in Foefire, forcing me to logout and login during the match.

I was so happy, like a kid that, for the first time, it’s tall enough to look at all those ice cream in the trays behind the counter without the help of anyone else.

But all good things come to an end. And in the utmost and unbearable form of the LEAVER.

The first time, I just shrugged – “it happens”, I said to myself. Not knowing what would happen next match.

Another leaver. “Oh, well, bad luck I suppose”, I said to myself. Always the nice guy, I was.

And then, again for the 3rd time in a row. “Mhmhmh, well, 3 times in a row it’s really annoying, maybe the streak of bad luck will stop here”. So naive.

Because the unspoken horror never warns you before revealing itself in front of your eyes. But when it does, oh, the HORROR. Gazing at Azathot and Nyarlatothep having wild sex, surrounded by the chaos flautists playing and dancing their obscene tunes, would have been better for my mental sanity.

4th match, leaver.
5th match, 2 leavers.
6th match, leaver.
7th match, leaver.

In a row. My mouse hit the wall, the keyboard was swung like a Guardian swings his greatsword during a Whirling Wrath. All of which, I did in mystic silence.

Leavers, I hope you implode in a cloud of confetti.

End of rant

And now, the proposal:

Anet, do you know of the existance of a very simple idea called “team balancing”? It’s used even in small games (community wise) like Natural Selection 2. It’s so simple it’s mindblowing: when a team has 1 less player than the opposite team, when one player of the opposite team gets killed, he doesn’t respawn, he stays frozen in a limbo, waiting for another player of his/her team to get killed so he can respawn (thus, creating a simple respawn queue).

Why, in a game mode which is supposed to be played by single players (so with no control at all, even future retaliation, against leavers), isn’t this active yet?

Team comp doesn’t matter, it’s already random at the start. So if you keep a single player waiting for the respawn, you don’t unbalance anything in the game, indeed you give the team that had the leaver the possibility to try and win the game.

Really, is that hard? For a game that wants to be an “e-sport”?

Or maybe we just misunderstood what you meant as e-sport: except-sport.

Another thing that hasn’t been mentioned in this thread: knowing how to “play” properly downed state when in a 2vs2 (or more).

I saw a lot of good WvW roaming type players failing in playing the downed state, for example when you’re in a 2vs2 on a point and the teammate + one of the enemy is down – most of the times the result is that the teammate is killed and the enemy is rallied. They lack the knowledge when to stomp the enemy instead of rezzing the teammate (or viceversa), based on classes downed/still up, the hp of the enemy still up etc.

And this is another thing that makes a huge difference between helping your team or letting them down.

Jugglemonkey.8741:

They might be faster than us in a straight line, but we can then just sword port/shadowstep back to where we started, leaving poor bolt waaaaaaaay over there :P

The problem is the opposite: not fleeing from them, but catching up to them when they flee. It can be done, but it’s soooo kitten long to do it (and sometimes you can’t even catch up to them).

Jugglemonkey.8741:

On the plus side, at least we can run away better than any class still -.-

Usain Bolt wars disagree with you.

CobOfCorn.6352:

Instead of a cooldown, initiative can not be recovered for 5 or 10 seconds might work, so a thief would need to be careful but would still have options.

WTF!!

No ini regen for 5 seconds – “still have options”? If the options are “die now” and “die in 4 seconds”, ok. Cause there’d be no other options available.

Suprah.5076:

I think I miss-understood it then, they are putting a 0.5 cast time on corrupt boon, actually instant cast , in what it is a buff ?

No, as it is now CB is casted instantly but with a 0.5 sec aftercast (so it’s not properly an instacast).

After the patch, CB will have a 0.25 casting time and 0.25 after cast.

I’d gladly accept as a thief a drain of 1/2 ini from Power Block, only if we can get two separate ini bars, one for each weapon.

Not very much, it’s difficult to get wool/cotton/linen, and the TP prices reflect that.

One of the fastest way to get linen (or money by selling it if you don’t need it) it’s this: go to Lionscout Tunnira ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lionscout_Tunnira ) in Bloodtide Coast, just outside the portal from LA; buy from her the Cloth Footguards (in multiples of 4), then throw them in the mystic toilet, you’ll get back cloth items that you can salvage for linen (and sometimes cotton, albeit it’s very rare). This method is really fast as to get linen, the only “downside” is that you need to spend karma to buy the footguards from the NPC, so you’ll need to spend quite some karma on it.

Steel Courage.1250:

I am wanting to be a thief with high damage in and out of stealth with evade stability or tankyness to it.

Anything else?

Maybe a rocket launcher? Or a nuke? Or both?

DeathPanel.8362:

I have already covered this in my former post. I explicitly stated that it will be hard to tell those ranks apart and then it will at that point come down to skill.

I explicitly stated that even in the worst case scenario under my system it will still give certainty enough to filter out the complete newbs that won’t know what they are doing. (ie rank 10)

And are you telling me that you can’t tell that a newbie/troll comm with rank 10-20 is such by just following him/her for more than 5 minutes? They won’t have knowledge of the maps, siege equip, what to use/when, etc, even the routes that they use will be a fast indicator of his competence (or lack of).

And your proposal will create more unnecessary elitism, in a perverted form: most people will follow brainlessly the highest ranked comm most of the time – and we all know that, apart from very few cases, EotM comms will have higher ranks than regular WvW comms.

So, in order to avoid a newbie comm with rank 50-, you’d create a much bigger problem. And due to the actual state of WvW on most tiers (except T1 and maybe T2), we need new commanders with not-so-high ranks (i.e. 100+) that are willing to learn, with the help of more experienced players (there’s no shame in tagging up and being helped by players that are following the tag).

DeathPanel.8362:

Your argument still doesn’t work since even in the worst case scenario (eotm farmer) someone with a ton of points earned that way will still be a better com than someone with like 10 rank points. (ie someone who’s completely new) This is because they’d still have more knowledge of how various siege machines or zerg battles work than someone completely new.

So even in the worst case scenario my idea would still work as a filter.

Not at all. The problem is not comparing a Rank 10 with a Rank 1000, the problem is comparing a Rank 500 (made only in EotM) to a Rank 250 (made only in WvW). The latter will have, on average, a much better understanding on how to command in WvW compared to the former.

Just two tips.

1) Remember that you can backstab even by flanking the enemy (no need to be exactly behind, just not in the 90° arc in front of the target);

2) Do it over and over, with experience you’ll learn how to position yourself quickly at least on the flank of the target.

;)

BrunoBRS.5178:

and please don’t forget there’s a cap of 5 stacks at a time for most duration conditions, 3 for immobilize (IIRC). so if your whole team uses devourer venom at once on the same guy, you just wasted your venoms.

The cap is 9 stacks atm for duration conditions, except immobilize which has just a cap of 3 as you correctly pointed out.

But apart from this, I agree with everything you said – imo a venom share thief in party is, most of the time, a subpar choice if compared to other builds (thief or not), with the most notable problem being the inability to avoid focus from the enemy party.

khani.4786:

Or the blog post is intentionally vague and doesn’t actually tell us how the additional colors will be unlocked, or if they’ll be a gold sink, or what….

We’re also happy to announce that once you are a commander, you will have access to a variety of colors. Choose from red, yellow, purple, or classic blue to customize your commander icon!

As it’s worded, it seems pretty clear: you become a commander → you can choose any color.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-are-coming-to-the-commander-system/

I can’t see anywhere the fact that we have to buy each color separately. Am I reading wrong or apparently they did change from what was announced in the video interview?

Tryxtr.6295:

So, is this right?

If I buy a commander tag today it’ll cost 100g and be for 1 character, but automatically be made account wide with the update, but if I wait til after the update to buy one, it’ll be 300g…..?

Correct. But if you buy it now, it will only blue!!1!eleven

Susulemon.3204:

When I look at GW2, I can’t see what my opponents’ build, so that’s lacking counter play. There is no way to make adjustments during game to fit needs ( like building different units, or buying different items to fit the need)

It’s real time skirmish like counter strike, but it’s random like… random.

In GW1 GvG you couldn’t see your opponents’ build either. And yet it is (stille now!) one the best PvP gameplay ever conceived.

Amen to this.

/15

Apparently it’s Adrenal Health, but with the name and description “bugged” for some reason.

Proof:

Amelia Knox.9362:

Need anwser the feedback is pretty straight forward, Anet u can even say, we’re thinking about it will let you know in few days is fine that, but we need to know that we’re atleast being listen to it, even if you don’t agree with us the player base

We will know the details the 20th. But I would not keep my hopes up.

lilz shorty.1879:

Yep and the top guilds 1-100 had ways of showing exclusivity by just pvping as well. Trimmed capes…..Gold, silver and bronze.

My main point is that rewards (of any kind) should be consequent (and only consequent) to a well designed ladder system. If we don’t have the latter, it will always be a mess, with bad matchmaking (no one has fun in steamrolling/being steamrolled when paired to a team which is far away in points from his/her).

Trying to address a team ladder with personal scores is always bad, so we should have a teamQ with a ladder, with positions tied to guilds, and soloQ with scores based on single characters.

It wasn’t that hard to gather a group of 8 players in GW1, why should be a problem to gather only 5 players in GW2 to enter a teamQ match?

You’re not alone.

But apparently we’re in space. And you know, in space no one can hear you scream.

Again and again, the solution is the usual: a ladder with position tied to single guilds, exactly as it was in GW1 GvG.

We didn’t have that many rewards, even for the top teams, but all players were playing just for the sake of playing and trying to climb the ladder. And top teams were playing a lot the same (War Machine, Last Pride, Idiot Savants, Reno, and a lot that I’m forgetting at the moment).

So: ladder, ladder, ladder.

Murth.5637:

Commander tags are also used outside of WvW.

Who cares?

Branden Gee.2150:

While there are some arguments to have this available in all PvP formats we want to see how this new feature is used by the high-end, skilled players at the top tier of PvP before considering rolling this out to the more broad PvP user base.

What do you mean by “how is this new feature used”? There’s not a how, it’s pretty binary: you use it, or you don’t. So it is just a “how much is it used”. And I’ll bet it will be close to 100%.

And, apart from this, who cares how much (only) teamq will use the feature? This has been asked since a lot by so many (not only teamq) players that it’s astonishing and appalling that you will let the soloq players wait for its implementation more time.

PvE people, pls go back to where you belong. This is PvP, not FvF.

Especially the guy who repeatedly calls “noob” players who haven’t spent X000 golds on their appereance. This should be a competitive game, not the new version of Second Life.

Zui.9245:

As for why I’m guessing you can’t use it anywhere except Team Q and custom arenas? Legendary weapons. Couldn’t have people not be forced to see their particle effects, now, could we? =/

Well, no, first of all it’s just an option, so if you don’t want to use it, you don’t.

Second, it’s about standardizing enemy models, not your teammates’ or even yours, so legendaries kitten will still see their glittering particles spam.

We’ll see how this Tournament of Glory will be handled.

It’d be so straightforward and easy to do something like this:

- Quarterly regional ladders (EU/NA/CH)
- Top 8 team at the end of the quarter will play play-offs, to decide the team to send to the Beijing live competition (or maybe 2 teams per region)
- Grand final live in Beijing.

Ofc this system should be tied to single guilds, exactly as it was in GW1: single guild/single ladder score.

After the grand final, reset the ladders. Job done without worrying about subscriptions etc.

Chase.8415:

The only potential issue I see here is that it is a full model replacement, which means they will be using generic armor. If you want to show your armor to anyone in PvP, you might as well roll human otherwise no one except your teammates can see it.

They said that armor models will be replaced too, by standard-per-class models.

Internet crowd: you can never please ’em!

Apparently, and finally, we’ll get it in the end.

Except… why the hell only in team and not in soloQ? Why? It doesn’t make any sense at all, you should leave the original models just in hot join.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Is-Tiny-really-fair-in-PvP/4272532

But I bet you can find a kittenload of other threads about this very specific argument. Nothing ever changed since start. Not even a single dev answer about it.

GOSU.9574:

SoloQueue is almost like RA was in GW1. I don’t get where you expect pro teams to be randomly assembled.

Pretty much this.

Want a more skilled/less random environment in which to play? Gather 4 friends and go tPvP.

Or stick to soloQ and try to teach new players how to play. The usual “go before in HJ” excuse isn’t of any help, since in HJ you really almost never learn anything about the game mode (with all the stacking/spectating kitten going on).
So being silent all the game, while seeing other n00b teammates moving randomly on the map and then just saying after the game is lost “l2p” it’s of no use – if someone wants to learn to play he needs to go soloQ.

Niels.5396:

That is not the case for people who just reached level 80. For them it is fast and easy money

For fast and easy money there’s EotM, you can’t even think to compare that to SoloQ for farming money/items/whatever.

Sure, the problem it’s there, people afking are a real issue, but it’s not about the money for sure.

No SB, so where’s the mobility? I mean, in a close environment of max 5 players, I can’t see how this build would justify the presence of such a thief instead of other classes/builds when we drop the mobility down.

Edit: the 7 slot is still empty; reserved for SoS maybe?

I can understand what anet is trying to address: the 100% probability of hitting (at a cost of 5 ini) with the highest damaging (+boon stealing) skill in the S/D set. Imo it’s not really at all a problem related to the amount of evades that we get from S/D + Acro.

I can understand less how they’re addressing it (as usual with anet). The solution should have been this:

- Ini cost of FS+LS: same as now.
- FS: it opens no matter what the LS, as it is now.
- LS: leave it as it is now, but remove the unblockable part of the skill (or maybe lessen the ini cost to 1 instead of 2).

I say this because FS is a kitten long and telegraphed skill, which can blocked/dodged very easily, so I can see Amo point regarding the fact that S/D dps will get down the drain against almost everyone.

Sure, with the actual proposed change, we’ll have more dodge uptime, but even on a cap point in the end we’ll have ini problems and with a lot less damage done on the other player, and this is bad, since evading a lot but not putting pressure (as in: make damage) will let us give the cap to the oppo.

Hitman.5829:

When you interrupt them, their skills do not go on a cool-down and their initiative is not drained.

How did a thread that has already in the very first sentence of the very first post such a huge fail become 3 pages long?

Thaelias.7432:

Galandil has an excellent point as asurans just use human male armor models.

I wasn’t even thinking about armor models.

My point is that, at least in PvP, we should have a simple option to scrap away all that shiny/glittering/fashion stuff for enemy models. It’s PvP, not Fashion vs Fashion mode.

A game that now is 15 years old like Q3 made you choose via a config file which model you’d want to see for enemy models (Keel/TankJr with green acid color ftw!) and which model for friend models. I’m astonished that this game doesn’t give us that option yet.

This should a competitive environment, so everything should be done in order to help players enjoy the gameplay, not let them lose some diopters in order to understand wtf is doing that little asura.

A simple solution to this problem (and I say this as a player having the main character as Asura) is to put an option in the game that lets you load standardized human models for all the other characters in the match instead of the actual ones.

And I wonder why after almost 2 years Anet never put this option out for PvP.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Pretty sure we updated targeting some many months ago to tighten up the vertical selection distance (on level 3). The goal was to better allow selection over/behind people’s heads and selecting people on geometry like bridges. The change was very slight though, so I doubt it would impact your experience.
If you’ve been away for extra long, there’s a new option to disable right-click interact which helps prevent deselects.

The problem is not in deselecting targets with right click.

The problem is selecting target with left-click which sometimes doesn’t simply work at all, we need to click twice moving the pointer in a slightly different position on the target model to get the target. And moving the pointer horizontally does the trick, so I don’t think that it’s caused by a vertical selection problem.

In PvE it’s not really a problem, since targets are almost always static, but in WvW/PvP it’s a major annoyance, especially when playing with classes which needs in some instances fast actions (for example, using port skills with thief in order to disengage rapidly targeting a far away enemy, etc.).