Guild Wars 2

style.6173:

Anyway, as others have said, the achievements carry over season to season. As long as you can make it to Ruby, you’ll be able to complete the backpiece by the end of season 3.

No, in order to get it at the end of season 3 you need 2 Rubies + 1 Diamond (10 division thresholds). ^^

Eolirin.1830:

If that’s the case, then the achievement text needs to be changed, because it straight up says ‘in one season’.

That’s the case, devs stated so. In the end, one needs only to reach Ruby twice and Sapphire twice to get the precursor during all the 4 seasons this year.

So, yes, the backpack is pretty much grindable and that’s it, the League system was thought out exactly with that idea in mind (that’s why the “not-losing-pips-every-rank” system is on up until you hit Ruby).

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Galandil.9641:

Why don’t you inform yourself before?

The achievments are NEVER reset.

I wouldn’t say that. They have, and do, archive versions of achievements and ‘restart’ them for some content. There isn’t anything saying they will for the PvP achievements related to the league; however, given that this is the first season, anything is possible. Considering how acquisition of the back piece is structured, I wouldn’t think they would, but wouldn’t be the first time I was wrong about what I thought they’d do.

I insist on informing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3vocj9/psa_the_pvp_legendary_backpack_does_not_require/cxqgqbv

Why don’t you inform yourself before?

The achievments are NEVER reset.

That means that in order to get the precursor, you’ll just need to hit twice Ruby and twice Sapphire during all 4 seasons. That’s it.

Anet designed the system in a way such that ALL players, even the worst 11111 pve hero, will be able to get it just by farming PvP.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Galandil.9641:

SlayerSixx.5763:

This is all good and well, but what’s stopping a diamond tier group of friends from having one dude make an amber account? I’ll assume that you’re also changing the pip rewards then, making it so that it doesn’t matter if there’s a tier 1 amber with a clean MMR on the winning team.

Someone please clarify.

This is exactly the same thing that I was thinking while reading that paragraph.

If the pips loss/win depends on the higher div player of a team, than this change is good. If not, it will still not prevent some kind of abuse.

Match prediction is also based on the highest division player in the party.

Good, Evan, that’s what we all wanted to hear.

SlayerSixx.5763:

This is all good and well, but what’s stopping a diamond tier group of friends from having one dude make an amber account? I’ll assume that you’re also changing the pip rewards then, making it so that it doesn’t matter if there’s a tier 1 amber with a clean MMR on the winning team.

Someone please clarify.

This is exactly the same thing that I was thinking while reading that paragraph.

If the pips loss/win depends on the higher div player of a team, than this change is good. If not, it will still not prevent some kind of abuse.

Evan Lesh.3295:

To clarify, the player isn’t actually amber. It’s a UI bug. We do not make matches of players more than +/- 15 to 30 points away (depending on wait time).

I am fixing the UI bug right now.

Inb4 all the premades with an amber in party “it was just the bug”.

RonDonJonVanDam.1289:

I would rather have Venom Share thiefs on my team than any warrior.

“Ouch, that had to hurt.”

ImdA.4701:

Im solo Legend too. And I enjoy the game well better without the pip loss pressure.

Ah, and get it in ~400 games (95% of them were solo, 5% duo id say).

So around 1/3 of a pip per game roughly.

How much ram do you have? Is your paging file active? If yes, how big?

I’m curious: did you track exactly how many games you played from amber to legendary?

Ithilwen.1529:

The one and only effective fix I see is to force everyone to solo queue for tournaments. Unfortunately ANET has this weird thing of believing that teams are the Holy Grail and everyone wants to team. I miss GW1 and STO style with my npc krewe.

Are you aware that the only competitive mode (with prizes etc.) of GW1 was GvG, which was ONLY for 8 players premade teams?

NightClaw.4758:

Thanks for the information, I suppose I won’t be coming back to GW2.

Come back checking around February, when this first, patethic Season is over.

Maybe they’ll change things for good.

But I’d give my hopes up.

NightClaw.4758:

Are elite specs dominating the field?

Yes.

Does anyone still play the normal specs now?

No.

Is critical damage / chance (zerker) still the only way to play warrior effectively?

Irrelevant (see below).

How is Warrior’s balance now? Underpowered? Overpowered?

Worst class of the game.

Reroll to Scrapper.

Cynz.9437:

I bet OP is the same guy that was moaning all match that i was playing thief, threated to afk, spent more time actually talking crap than playing and asked everyone to report me for botting because i was playing a thief. At the end we won and that guy got reported by our team for verbal abuse. Moral of the story? Shut up and play.

Let me guess: was he the DH?

Supreme.3164:

It’s a snowball map meaning that you keep mid, it’s very easy to snowball in either direction, the layout of the map allows bunkers to kite way too easily, making them near unkillable, the map is not suitable for the current balance and gamemode as it favour premade vs soloers

This.

Graveyard is too big to try to hard-cc/aoe a bunker out of it for some seconds, it’s braindead easy to kite inside of it.

Archon.6480:

Oh, I really want those glowing wings and you need to get to legendary to have them.

Not at all. You just need 2xRuby and 2xSapphire during 4 seasons to get the precursor. Hitting legendary rank will just shorten the path, but in the end, everyone will be able to get the precursor.

It happened to me more than twice however.

Once the enemy was an asura scrapper, the other times a rev.

chibbi.3706:

Every melee class except thief has option against DH. Actually, DH is the only 1v1 matchup I can consistantly win with my warrior.

There, fyp.

Shirlias.8104:

Delete a character to aim for an achievement.

To me, it’s stupid ( i have no slots free no reason to delete capped characters with mc ).

A default account has 5 character slots. You need to play with at most 3 different classes for the achies. What’s the problem? Even with 2 different characters of the same class, you have 3 toons with different classes.

SolarDragon.7063:

The second tier is for 3, so I assume the top tier is for an absolute minimum of 5.

No. Tier II+ require always 3 classes achievements, it’s just the number of wins required that increases (5-7-10).

Btw, I noticed one thing and I’d like to know if it just happened to me so far or to someone else too.

The thing is this: I never saw anyone blame the (sadly) most underperforming class of the game – War. I never, ever saw in team chat “War reroll/useless” or the other usual blamings that thieves receive when things go south.

Once I played (and lost) a game while playing engie, cause we started with me and another guy with thief, I switched to engie and that other thief was absolutely amazing, he played it very well and still got blamed for the defeat (ofc I defended him since the one who was blaming the thief was the worst player in our team, he played all the match just trying to accumulate the higher personal score by tagging downed opponents etc.).

But if there’s a war in team, and you lose, no one says a word about his/her class.

I guess that “The sleep of reason produces monsters” is still a thing.

They sure are transparent. Like the vacuum.

Do your job on teef → blame teef
Don’t do your job on teef → blame teef

Usually by the same n00bs who run nobrain builds like DH trapper (so hardcore), or still double cap, or go for beast at start on forest, or try the lord in foefire when they’re winning 350-200 with 2 capped points, all die on mid and they start to go back on mid one by one, etc.

1) It’s not bugged, click it and it will tell you which one you miss apart from the League Professional one.

2) Yes, in Part II, III and IV you’ll need to complete 3 class achievements, in Part II you need 5 win per class, in III 7 and in IV 10.

Aktium.9506:

We have had a dev reply to this. They want to avoid skill splits between modes as much as possible so as to not confuse new players.

And this answer was (actually, it still is) complete bullkitten.

It’s just that splitting skills between PvP and PvE means more work for the devs.

Oh, look, a druid! Who would have thought?

Berry Pun Pup.6904:

Wii Sports??

That game required more skill than actual GW2.

nacario.9417:

Im on ruby atm and the achi i need says gain 3 divisions during a season, meaning when im diamond ill have it checked. Since i most likely wont go for the grind ill wait till next season, where the last tier wants me to cross 4, which means ill need to get to legendary in that season or if diamond again i need emerald in 3rd season. Thats how i read it tho, i could be wrong.

Yeah, as I stated in my edit, the only doubt about it is if the achievement is reset in-between seasons.

For example, you reach diamond in season 1, you complete Part I and II and get 1 on the Part III. You stop playing and wait for the next season. If the achie is not reset, then you’ll get the Part III achie completed just by reaching sapphire, etc.

Well, based on how it’s written (i.e.: “Cross X league divisions during a PvP season”), to get the Part III achie you need to reach ruby during one specific season, and for the Part IV you need to reach diamond during another specific season.

Ofc, you could get both Part III and IV during one single season, by getting Legendary x3 (it’s 7 thresholds).

It should work this way, if anyone has more and/or different infos, I’d like to read them.

Edit: unless the achievement isn’t reset between seasons, in that case you could get all of them by just reaching ruby during 2 seasons and sapphire during the other 2 (10 thresholds passed overall).

Not by a long shot honestly.

1) Auramancer
2) Scrapper
3) Druid/Revenant

SamTheGuardian.2938:

enjoy the winter

Winter it’s freaking cold, there’s nothing to enjoy!

Except 10000 eggnogs, maybe. Or maybe not.

Sunshine.5014:

They made the rune with PvE in mind, not PvP. It’s actually balanced in PvE.

Only the rune?

MithranArkanere.8957:

That along their broken builds, they can do things like ‘tank’ all the way to the lord in less than 1 minute in stronghold and take it down without anyone being able to do anything, as their broken builds literally have no viable counters.

How is that possible? Genuinely curious.

Caedmon.6798:

The animation does start and completely finish for me, for every stomp i make atm i wait an extra 2 sec even…And alot of times just nothing happens.Im not lagging at all btw,my ping averages 30-40.

Well, then, I hope you’ll never encounter the other bug, it’s so nice to stay there, spam F like there’s no tomorrow, and nothing happens.

Red team was indeed a rainbow team: 6,5,4,3,2 div players.

That must be the diversity Anet promised.

It happened to me a LOT of times, vs different classes AND while playing myself different classes too. Quickness or not.

Oh, and btw, I don’t know if it happened to you too, but sometimes the stomp animation doesn’t even start at all.

[ ] Espurtz.

Dat 8 hitting Vault tho. OP, plz nerf.

When I use the thief in PvP, I always go Staff/SB with DA/TR/DD lines.

The biggest issue of Staff vs D/P is the disengaging, since with Staff you don’t have a lot of means to get into stealth on demand opposed to D/P. But by judging the right moment, you can do it with staff too.

StickerHappy.8052:

You can’t control someone shooting you for no reason, If you are a jerk, and rude to that somebody he might just do it.

Leaving your door open and someone abducting your kid is something you can control or prevent.

That’s the big difference.

Your post is a logical non-sense.

If you can’t control someone randomly shooting you, you can’t control someone stealing from your house/abducting your children.

If you can try to prevent in part someone from stealing from your house/abducting your children (locking the door), you can try to prevent getting shot by a person (wearing a kevlar vest).

You just decided that you can lock a door but you can’t use a kevlar vest. Which is clearly highly illogical.

In both cases, the burden of the crime is on the burglar/shooter/abductor.

choovanski.5462:

considering moral often do not correlate to the law

It’s exactly the opposite, historically, and actually too (on a country basis, ofc).

choovanski.5462:

what? that’s not even a similar situation.

stealing is illegal. partying with people who are lower rank is not illegal, nor is it forbidden at all. sure it is ‘abusing the system’ for easy matches, but it’s not only not agaisnt the rules but it is an intended consequence of anets system. anet want partying with lower ranked people to give you easier matches.

in regard to your moral point, homes. morals are not real. they are made up nonsense.

And now, ask yourself, why stealing is considered a crime in almost all code of laws all around the globe since thousands of years.

Hint: you’ll find a correlation between “legal” and “moral”.

Regarding the fact that “morals are made up non-sense”, I suggest you to dedicate some time to some 101 philosophy before diving yourself in such an argument without having an idea of what you’re talking about (which is clearly the case looking at your last reply).

What would be the point? Especially vs DH traps who are so quickly casted AND the DH could pull you inside them so easily?

Being able to DISABLE traps, on the other hand…

StickerHappy.8052:

This right here is the problem with this generation. Too much entitlement. Sorry for the term but its better to use some common sense next time.

So, if you left the door open in the middle of the night and your kid was inside, and gets abducted, it’s not your fault?

Wow. Some double standards we have here.

This is what I call the playing the “point your fingers game”

Are you seriously so brain-damaged?

Your reasoning (lol, it’s not reasoning, you don’t have the capability to understand correlation, causation, not even simple basic logic, but let’s call it “reasoning” the same) place the burden of fault on any person who gets shot in the chest “because he wasn’t wearing a kevlar suit”.

Seems legit.

NOT.

StickerHappy.8052:

Actually, yes its your fault.

You do know that burglars exist in the first place then why leave it open?

That’s why there’s a “leave the door open” crime punishable by any law and not a burglary crime.

Oh, wait, actually it’s the opposite. Are you over with the bullkitten?

choovanski.5462:

anet allows this behaviour, and its their algorithms that’s create the match ups. blame those who create a broken system, not those who abouse it.

So if I leave the door of my house open, and you get in and steal stuff, it’s entirely my fault that I left that door open, not yours that you committed a burglary, eh?

The ways you all try to spin this patethic in-game behaviour is appalling.

LordOtto.2650:

It’s a game, ppl choose to play how they want, and if I choose to sit down, then I sit down… If you don’t like it you can argue in chat, an say “good things to him/her”, like I do..
Sometimes I am the troll and just quit, seeing that my team mates from solo queue are St- id.

This is one of the most idiotic thing I’ve ever read on this forum. Top 3 ainec.

sephiroth.4217:

@OP:

Aren’t you the guy who was in my team raging at everyone because we didn’t like “3 home 2 far” then rage quit when someone told you they were gonna jungle?

No. I never ragequit any game, nor I go afk, I always play until the end even if my team is losing 450-10.

BTW, I never advocated a 3 home 2 far strategy (sometimes I suggest 3 far 2 close based on team comp).

I guess you must have mistaken me with someone else. Are you playing on EU or NA btw?

Ross Biddle.2367:

Pro Dev team

There’s no such thing.