Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, I’m mostly a PvP player. You know, from the totally forgotten step-children community.

I just wanted to say that Living World doesn’t exist in PvP. Basically, no expansion = no hope for new gamemodes or other important lacking features. Pvp development is near to non-existing.

Also, in GW1 we had a content to play and after the content we could usually get a weapon for free. Now we don’t have content but have RNG boxes that can drop new skins. PvP players earn 0 gold, can’t afford these things.

Basically, we can’t even have the new skins from PvP. Nor the champion reward skins.

ArenaNet is becoming well-known for doing the total opposite of anything that is logical and the community wants.

#believeinexpansion

Oraith.1732:

I agree that this gift did not take into account people who bought this game for the pvp elements.
1.Level 20 exp scroll:Don’t care, only do pvp
2.Birthday Booster: Only one of the five stats boosted actually pertain to pvp, and even that is useless. (Glory is useless, everyone has 300k+ of it anyways)
3. Mini Queen Jennah: Minis can be used for fun in the mists, but why does this character mean anything to me if I don’t pve enough to know anything about her?(Can’t even sell her to get me some nice dyes or something)

WHAT I SUGGEST: Add in another gift right now called “Pvp Birthday Gift”. What will it have it in? A choice between THREE of the 34 new champion skins for pvp. That’s right, the same champion skins that aren’t available for pvp at all! (Skins: http://dulfy.net/2013/08/06/gw2-champion-weapon-skins/ )

I want Crystal Guardian and Entropy so hard.

google.3709:

lol this is sooooo sad jajajaja Anet couldn’t even bring the birthday system from gw1 …. I wonder if someone else owns the right to gw1 and Anet will get sued for using anything good about gw1

Makes sense.

Btw who needs a glory boost, i have 250 boosters and 310k glory i can’t spend on anything.

This way they would actually admit that GW1 exists. That won’t happen. ArenaNet hates GW1 and the people who were playing that, because the bar was so high they didn’t even try to jump that.

You can easily split the community into 2 parts: the ones who accept everything with a big greedy smile because ’IT’S FREE GYZ LUL’, and the ones who played GW1 and has common sense and got used to quality.

Vayne.8563:

Gandarel.5091:

Congratulations Arenanet, you disappointed almost everyone who played GW1, this birthday gift was the final nail in the coffin. You forgot us, time for us to forget you too.

I don’t know where you get your numbers from, because a good portion of my guild played Guild Wars 1 and most of us don’t seem disappointed. Why not speak for yourself, instead of trying to claim a majority without proof?

Maybe most of your guild is fine, but except for 5 players, every single guild I knew or I’ve been in and almost every single PvP guild stopped playing GW2 1 week after launch.

Maybe yours is fine because you are totally PvE oriented, but time to meet the other side.

Korsbaek.9803:

Narcemus.1348:

I don’t know why everyone thinks the Cathedrals need to be torn down because of Zhaitan’s corruption. We’ve cleared out and removed enemies and cut the temples connection to Zhaitan many times, plus the magic of the land itself has started the process of cleansing, thus most likely the Cathedrals will eventually be cleansed just like the rest of the land.

zhaitan corrupted the land yes and the land will be uncorrupt agien but the statues are magical and the magic is corrupt so we need to remove them(from the main temples) as all we do is cut the connection between the statues in the world from the once in the temple so the once im the temple is clearly corrupt and magic thats corrupt cant be uncorrupt so far.

I have 2 questions:

1. Do you speak English?
2. Are you watching any reasons or you are just making up your arguement out of charr fanboyship?
3. Did you play the game? The statues can be cleansed.

Bushido.2184:

Gandarel.5091:

Exactly. That’s totall what’s happening. This PvP wants to be too competitive thus giving no content for casuals to play, and the competitive scene is too small to have impact because the game isn’t appailing and ‘fun’.

Starcraft. Dota and LoL. Counter-Strike. Those games are truly ‘too competitive’, with a priority of balancing for the 1% and the competitive scene, yet still are played by massive amounts of casual players that still deem it fun.

I miss the point where these games are MMOs. It’s a totally different gametype with totally different desires.

Even FPS games got different gamemodes, actually many.

Strategy games are about personal, ndependent strategy, but here we are locked to 3 cap points all the time, we can’t play as we want to.

LoL has hundreds of ‘builds’ to play with (aka champions), there that gives the fun and diversity factor.

Rufy.6093:

A level 50+ necro feared my spirit ranger and I died in 5 seconds unable to cast a thing. Maybe you aren’t fighting skilled players? But yeah I forgot, spirit ranger is op period cause noob spirit ranger can kill noob whatever else.

Sorry but if you can’t kill a spirit ranger in a stun/fearchain, you are pretty much dead. And not everyone has 5 sec fearchain or a 5 sec stunchain. A mesmer sweats blood and dies while your so skilled profession is pressing 111111111 without basically doind anything else.

urdriel.8496:

Bad players >>> Builds

Pls anet delete ranger class, im tired of cryer.

PD:delete skullcrack warrior, holder engi,holder guardian,condi necro,terrormancer,bunker/spike ele, evade thieves, etc…or¡¡¡ L2P¡¡¡

Angry spirit ranger incapable to succed with anything that needs a little bit of attention, spotted.

Lux.7169:

Burjis.3087:

I kinda don’t have a problem with the price of the custom arena starter kit, nor the price on the time tokens, I just have a problem with the grace period before the arena you’ve paid so much on is deleted!!!!! :O
Can’t they just hide it from the server list after a certain period of time after it runs out of charge? Why delete it? I don’t want to buy another arena just because, let’s say we didn’t play in that arena for a month!

Arenas get deleted if you don’t add time to them within a certain amount of time? Seriously???

Yeah, the second most expensive gem-store item destroys itself without warning about it before purchase, if you don’t add time from the gemstore max every 2 weeks.

There ARE living Orrians around, but they hide their heritage due to Orr being the source of the risen who brought so many suffering.

Anyone who says charrs have a right or will try to claim, know nothing about what’s going on and are incapable of logical thinking.

milo.6942:

Allie Murdock.8152:

Ok, now which is it? I have 3 different people saying that fun means 3 different things. This is what I meant when I said fun is subjective.

To some people, it’s fun to knock people off the edge of skyhammer. To others, it’s fun to be matched up against equally skilled players. To even more, it’s fun to feel like you’re great at the class you play.

if you try to catch all types of players, you will end up with none

Exactly. That’s totall what’s happening. This PvP wants to be too competitive thus giving no content for casuals to play, and the competitive scene is too small to have impact because the game isn’t appailing and ‘fun’.

Ostricheggs.3742:

Well, they revived the competitive scene from literally not a single team out there to something far better.

They balance the entire game around us.

The released spectator mode and made live casted tournaments possible.

They continually balance the game and keep it going in a good direction (it’s always a work in progress, this takes a lot of time to do properly)

They’re sponsoring a full 10k prize pool LIVE tournament…

Perma-finishers

While most of these things are geared for high-end competitive players, it’s kinda hard to ask for much else.

What I’d expect to see in the future:

Duo/trio/quad queues somehow made possible
Improved UI
Improved rewards (I’m 90% sure this will be coming, it’s been asked for too much for it NOT to come)
MUCH better balance
New (competitive) maps
More things to improve the new player’s experience

I honestly cannot believe they’ve done so much for us considering how small of a segment of the population that we are. Asking for MORE than what we’ve got is insane… I’m not too sure what else could be on the wishlist of a current player outside of a new game-mode (not gonna happen ladies).

Balance isn’t perfect, but they know what’s wrong as well as we do and it’ll get there.

PAX and torunaments and prize pools are cool, but what about the other 99,99% of Pvp players? What did WE get? A spectator mode to follow PvE guys stomping each other in a mini-wvw?

We can join in 3 different formats to play the same gamemode. I don’t even know what else should I ask for.

Permanent finishers are nice, but not content to play. They didn’t make any steps forward to make this game appailing PvP wise.

Pvp community is small, because if you get bored of conquest, you can leave or do PvE. If they don’t invest money, work and resources to improve PvP, why would the PvP community suddenly start to grow?

We were spoiled with 15-20 PvP gamemodes in GW1, I agree, and GW2 is the total opposite of what we were used to, and now we have conquest, which wasn’t even considered PvP back then. 90% of GW1 PvP players left after launch. And that 10% still gives at least the 30-40% of the PvP playerbase. They should start to care about their veteran-base or just provide content overall. Maybe they don’t have any kind of reasources, and Arenanet upper-level ones just keep askin “are we e-sports yet?”.

PvE gets something new every 2 weeks, we basically haven’t got real content since release. We got 4 maps, all of them are conquest and many players refuse to use 3 out of 4. We had to wait a half year for soloque and random map generator, all of them bugged.

Congratulations Arenanet, you disappointed almost everyone who played GW1, this birthday gift was the final nail in the coffin. You forgot us, time for us to forget you too.

Ascalonians are proud people who usually think of themselves as the ‘heroes of humanity’. Adelbern outcasted Rurik because he couldn’t accept Ascalonians to live in the shadow of Kryta, which is actually happening atm. A part of the Seraph called Fallen Angles are taking over the barracks of Ebonhawke while putting on pressure to push Ascalonians forward the treaty.

Kryta helps them a lot nowadays, and they are grateful for the asura gate and the treaty (mostly), but none of them actually likes the presence of Kryta. They aren’t hostile, but they clearly not 100% fine with that.

But I think some of them would even like that there’s someone who, after decades, is not leaving the fortress but is moving in. Some may see this as hope for a new beginning or some as Kryta is expanding and absorbing Ascalon. It really depends on people.

Wryog.5073:

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You’re never going to get a GW1 copy with better graphics. Stop asking for it

Actually I bought the game because the devs themselves promised this in their manifesto. Word by word.

Btw yes Pvp balance is terrible atm, but that will pass, but 20v20 will always be a spamfest.

Conquest if full of deathmatch faceoffs.

Btw if they ever going to add deathmatch, please, don’t add rating. people just wanna have fun. Jump in, kill, and have fun.

Totally agree. They are new to the lore, so they force them on us to give them some impact. And they are just plain wrong design.

They are in some cases more annoying than the asura.

What kind of source are you asking for? Only humans are out there in the sea. Maybe some largos and yet unwritten races. And yes it would cause a war for Ascalon and Orr. Source: brain.

There’s only 1 reason the charrs have a semi-legit claim for Ascalon: they call it ‘their ancestral land’. If they would just take the ancestral human land from the humans, wouldn’t they be total ultimate hypocrites?

Moving in to Orr would feel like moving in to someone else’s house while heis away. Full of God teamples, statues. Everythig is about humans and the cores of their religion.

This won’t be contested ground. That just won’t happen.

You can keep reasoning on the base ‘but the could do that’, yes other races could. But won’t.

For some reasons:

1. To ensure other races won’t move in to their lost lands.
2. To not cause a world war. Because not like some others here, they are capable of logical thinking and predicting events.
3. Totally no reason to do so. Yeah lot more resources. Is that worth the risk of exticntion if you already have enough resources?

Yeah, technically monkeys could unite and massacre whole cities to make some wealth. But won’t.

Phantaram.1265:

Most of you have your head stuck in MMO deathmatch. There can still be objectives in deathmatch. Think Halo, objectives galore in the form of power-ups and weapon spawns. I think as long as there are objectives most game modes can work in gw2.

Without objectives people just kinda run around the map like headless chickens and there would be a lot of stand offs because nobody would want to initiate the fight.

Just look at counter strike, it’s mostly just a deathmatch but the objective is needed so teams have a reason to engage each other.

I’m personally not a huge fan of locking people into a small circle room and just having them fight to the death and also don’t think it will work with a lot of the mechanics in this game.

They make the 2 teams spawn in 2 lines in front of each other when the match starts. Problem solved.

This is an MMO, I personally would like it if they would finally treat it like that.

data.4093:

Allie Murdock.8152:

Ok, now which is it? I have 3 different people saying that fun means 3 different things. This is what I meant when I said fun is subjective.

To some people, it’s fun to knock people off the edge of skyhammer. To others, it’s fun to be matched up against equally skilled players. To even more, it’s fun to feel like you’re great at the class you play.

Sometimes on skyhammer I just wait at point C or A looking around the corner with banish ready. And I like players who are better than me since it allows me to become better at my class.

No you are getting better at pressing 4 on a capture point. 1v1 someone better than you while not on Skyhammer. Btw yeah banishing is fun, but nothing to do with how good a player is.

runeblade.7514:

Gandarel.5091:

runeblade.7514:

Charr should want to colonize Orr.

Ascalon is landlocked. If the Charr took over Orr, they will be able to open up ports and begin ruling the seas.

And why would the charr want that place?

I gave you a reason:

Ascalon is landlocked. If the Charr took over Orr, they will be able to open up ports and begin ruling the seas.

And what would they do with a sea? Trade with angry humans in Cantha, Kryta and Elona?

This would definitely start a war for orr and Ascalon.

And about your imigration topic:
Norn is a proud race, which was driven back once, and won’t leave their land again.
Charrs are tied to their Legions, and unless the legions caim Orr, that won’t happen. Gladiums will most likely go to LA not Orr. If they want to set foot in Orr, that’s a Tyrian world war.
Asuras are smart enough to not to do this.
Sylvari race isn’t a conquerror one.
This is an ancient human land, Pact is a bunch of good-doers who always return everything to the former owners. Humans will have it. But not in GW2, so it’s a bit pointless to discuss.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-what-scarlet-saw/

Hah this new GW2 site post about Scarlet came just in the right time :P

That one clearly pictures how Scarlet wants to know too much and the Tree exactly knows what she is doing, and tries to convince her to stop. So it’s more than fragments, it’s the full picture of any Sylvari, and the Tree can speak to them whenever she wants.

Wryog.5073:

“Totally unworthy” lol. Are you actually serious?
You’d lose so fast with the normal sPvP builds.

You never played GW1, I played both, yes I’m serious.

If I’d lose with PvP builds because some of them doesn’t spam AoEs fast enough, then you agree that WvW is a non-coordinated PvE spamfest.

Wryog.5073:

Gandarel.5091:

Wryog.5073:

Leuca.5732:

Wryog.5073:

Do you mind stopping with the “GvG stands only for what we did in GW1” comments?
Let me give you a hint: GvG=Guild versus Guild. Just like PvP=Player(s) versus Player(s). It doesn’t mention amount of players ANYWHERE in the name. It could be 25v25 capture the flag, 2v2 death match or 1v1 duel. Stop with the pointless “GvG is only 8v8 and you’re all bad for calling that GvG”.
Also I know that it’s hard to see what’s going on without listening to the commander of a team. The ridiculous amount of spell effects makes it hard to see anything. It takes a bit of time to get used to large numbers inside a splash of particles but it is possible to tell what’s happening with some practice.

It’s not that it only stands for what we did in GW1; it’s just embarrassing to really compare to two. The GW1 crowd is used to GvG being much more precisely skill oriented.

The mighty GW1 GvGers started comparing them. I don’t see why you’re mad at us.

If I’d be able to make a second account with the name Wryog and would flood the forums with BS you would be fine with it I guess.

Yeah, I would. Because it won’t have my account number, it won’t have my post history and it’d most likely get reported.
But by all means, go ahead and spend your money in a bad attempt to troll me.

There’s a thing in the GW universe called GvG. Calling a totally unworthy thing GvG is just entirely wrong.

i bet if we would actually get GvG in GW2 at some point, 90% of the WvW guilds would get smashed or would never participate because it wouldn’t be 20v20 aoe spam.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

A sylvari has no control over what experiences are gathered. They cannot communicate with the tree in this manner; the Mother Tree is drawing in hundreds of thousands of fragments from her children."

If one fragment is a pretty important plan against the Tree’s goal, that’s enough. For example searing down orr instead of saving the land.

Btw nice found thanks for linking and sorry for cutting the quote.

Wryog.5073:

Leuca.5732:

Wryog.5073:

Do you mind stopping with the “GvG stands only for what we did in GW1” comments?
Let me give you a hint: GvG=Guild versus Guild. Just like PvP=Player(s) versus Player(s). It doesn’t mention amount of players ANYWHERE in the name. It could be 25v25 capture the flag, 2v2 death match or 1v1 duel. Stop with the pointless “GvG is only 8v8 and you’re all bad for calling that GvG”.
Also I know that it’s hard to see what’s going on without listening to the commander of a team. The ridiculous amount of spell effects makes it hard to see anything. It takes a bit of time to get used to large numbers inside a splash of particles but it is possible to tell what’s happening with some practice.

It’s not that it only stands for what we did in GW1; it’s just embarrassing to really compare to two. The GW1 crowd is used to GvG being much more precisely skill oriented.

The mighty GW1 GvGers started comparing them. I don’t see why you’re mad at us.

If I’d be able to make a second account with the name Wryog and would flood the forums with BS you would be fine with it I guess.

The meta has been mostly the same for 2 years now, however ele skills got changed a bit and exhaustion works a bit different. Some guys even run Flare in their builds. Crazy. Dervishes are still in good position but not as OP as they used to be.

Weekend events are now 1 week long events, Heroes’ Ascent is usually filled durning these weeks. There are still 30 teams in GvG tournaments. RA still has some population, Codex is a bit dead.

Maze.5283:

Hello,

I haven’t played GuildWars in a while, I was hoping I could get a brief update on the state of pretty much everything that matters that surrounds PvP.

Hoping for good news!

/Tokyo

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Gandarel.5091:

We know Kuunavang is NOT tied to any Elder Dragons.

That’s still subject to debate, actually.

I’m sure this was stated in an interview.

Ameepa.6793:

Well humans have a habit to harm nature so maybe this time nature is striking back!

Yeah charrs and inquest are ways more echo-friendly.

We did some fun-deathmatches in a CA with 2v2 3v3 and 4v4. All r40-50.

If you don’t think it’s working, gather some friends and test it.

Aza.2105:

sorrow.2364:

What’s the problem about fights lasting a couple of minutes?

In Guild Wars 1, unless you were facing a 2-monks team in RA, fight rarely lasted more than 2 minutes.

I don’t recall any class in gw1 being able to two shot your HP in a matter of seconds.

I present you the AoB/AoG dervishes, and the Invoke/Starburst elementalists.

Allie Murdock.8152:

Ok, now which is it? I have 3 different people saying that fun means 3 different things. This is what I meant when I said fun is subjective.

To some people, it’s fun to knock people off the edge of skyhammer. To others, it’s fun to be matched up against equally skilled players. To even more, it’s fun to feel like you’re great at the class you play.

1 may find conquest fun, 1 may love deathmatch and 1 has a passion for king of the hill.

That guy who loves deathmatch and the other one who would like king of the hill, leaves GW2. The 1st one, who loves conquest, will get bored after a while, because doing the same thing forever isn’t fun, and he will leave too.

GW2 PvP’s future in a nutshell.

I’m exactly avare of that the sylvari race isn’t the Tree’s puppet and that they don1t have a 24/7 connection to the Tree. Not by the means that they are a hive mind.

I’m not telling they are hive-minded, because they don’t have that permanent connection with others. But they have it with the Tree. Where they are, what are they doing, or what information they possess. It’s a passive one-way communication.

The thing is she isn’t giving instructions or tries to influence the race. But she still knows everything and if things will go against her or the Sylvari race’s will, she could forward any message or instruction.
Not giving an order to ‘minions’, just an instruction the race will likely follow. And since the Tree knows basically everything that’s going on, it’s totally up to her.

Charrs and humans can decide about the information they possess, but I don’t think a sylvari can, without cutting itself down’ from the Tree, a pretty drastical thing that i think Only the Nightmare Court would do.

Lord Trejgon.2809:

Gandarel.5091:

Dragons can consume magic. But the gods aren’t items and probably have million times more power than a Dragon. Zhaitan’s fall = he fell down. Abaddon’s fall -> a half continent destroyed. Abaddon’s death -> almost destroyed 2 worlds.

so question is if the dragon have enough spacious stomach for the whole god
I think the don’t

I can see Zhaitan chewing Grenth’s finger while Grenth reacts like “awww so cute”.

As others said, that’s what downed state is for. You can achieve an instant kill, but every class got some ways to escape a burst (distortion, stealth, teleport, Shelter, Renewed focus, Endure pain, “Protect me”, Death shroud, Elixir S, and of course the evades), but if you ‘die’, party members with good coordination can pick you up.

Don’t act like Invoke spike in GW1 wasn’t instant kill if played well. But we had res skills to pick up the fallen. Same happens here.

Deathmatch could work and works every day in a midfight.

And we don’t always need 10 minute long battles. Who cares if a deathmatch is 1-3 mins? I would enjoy. No need to pay attention for 3 cap points + 2 buffs AND the combat. This would be perfect for just doing PvP and having fun.

In a lvl 78-80 personal story, we can chose to summon the Seventh Reaper of Grenth, who in exchange for his help, gives us the task to kill the risen highpriest, because Grenth wants him back. So he is pretty much alive.

Dragons can consume magic. But the gods aren’t items and probably have million times more power than a Dragon. Zhaitan’s fall = he fell down. Abaddon’s fall → a half continent destroyed. Abaddon’s death → almost destroyed 2 worlds.

But why would any race leave their homes to move in to another race’s ancient land that is totally different to what they are used to and is pretty far away.

You can force this for sure… but srsly we know the Pact and the storytelling – bunch of good-doers. They know where Orr belongs to and they will give it back to humanity. Not Kryta, humanity.

And LA was founded by mostly human pirates, not other races moving in after a flood.

We know Kuunavang is NOT tied to any Elder Dragons.

@Ascalon. Like charrs need a reason to star a war. They took ‘their ancestral land’ from the Forgotten/Dwarves. It’s just that they couldn’t accept defeat and wanted to take revenge + their ‘gods’ gave them power to conquer. There is a difference between driving nomads back from where they came from and slaughtering a whole kingdom, women and children, burning them alive. Humans spent at least as much time in Ascalon as the charrs so this is arguable. Both sides have reasons, but Arenanet favors the charrs. As always.

… Order of Whispers? During the Zephyrite chapter, a Sylvari said that the Pale Tree has no memories of this place, so this will be exciting to explore and expand the vision.

Basically whatever they experience, the Tree will know and can reflect it in the dream or forward it to the others.

The Order is a secretive one with a network of spies and keepers of many secrets. There are some high-ranked Sylvaries in the order, too.

The thing is, the Tree knows nearly everything the Order knows and what are they up to. If they want to make an operation opposing the Tree’s ‘methods’, she could just inform a whole race about that. And it is never good for an order of spies if someone knows everything about them and everything they possess.

The Tree is basically behind all the 3 Orders now. She can influence or outplay them. Also, the leader of the Pact is a sylvari as well. The Tree isn’t evil, and seems to be a force of balance. But still… caution is important.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Gandarel.5091:

And yes, I hate that dragons replaced the lore of GW2 and with new writers slowly rewriting GW1’s lore to be all about dragons…

Trouble is that GW1 was all about the humans, their Gods, and the cosmology which existed around these things.

I mean, once you reach Gotterdammerung . . . you’re really out of story to tell concerning gods, aren’t you?

I’m not talking about the gods. I’m taling about rewriting what magic is, how magic works and how dragons are involved, how is the leader of the stone summit is kinda-involved with Jormag, how is Glint a dragon champion (I can still accept this connection a bit), making Ascalon ancestral charr alnd to give them a ‘rightful claim’ so GW1 players won’t have the rightful reasons to agree with the separatists and hate the charr, and how they rewrite the whole calendar with adding 5 extra days and so on.

And yes, to a lesser extent they slowly take away every credit they gave to the gods. There are humans in Tyria who don’t believe in the gods and that is BS.

“Meta” refers to the most common builds that are being used at the time. Currently we have a condi-spammer + spiritranger meta, because 9/10 people out there are using condition builds or a spirit ranger.

If you see “meta is awful” that means people are fed up with the mainstream OP builds everyone is using.

deviller.9135:

Until now, I don’t get it what GvG is. Should GvG always 10 v 10, 15 v 15, or 20 v 20, or 80 v 80 ?

From other game (from MoBA, FPS, MMORPG, etc), the only 1 thing I know about GvG is 2 teams, fighting each others, while each team player comes from their own guild. No matter the size (but its more than 1 of course), it still called GvG.

From this point of view, why SPvP 8v8 in controlled map with strict rule cannot be a GvG (lets say the map Legacy of the Foefire, location of fight graveyard, winning condition point capped or all enemies died (which mean you cannot fight outside of circle too long), respawn type: wave, spectator: on, etc) ? The basic meta ? Almost the same (the different only nerf in some condition and skill). Strategy ? You still need to think how many from each class should I brought, what their build, how the battle should be done, which player should I choose, etc.

GvG is supposed to determine which guild is better, which is the more “skilled”. In a 80v80 or even a 10v10 AoE spam you will get totally random results with no need for tactics, no need for coordination, no need for situational skills, you just go and burst.

GW1 had GvG and that was the hardest part of PvP, in GW2, the sequel, half-PvE guys spamming each other with totally randomness hoping that something will actually happen.. and they call it GvG, asking for a gamemode in PvP where they can zerg each other with spectators!.. kitten es off veterans.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Gandarel.5091:

Arenanet realized that dragons make up for crappy bossfights and players don’t like them, because they don’t have personalities, so the try to save the situation with the LS.

And, IMO, they aren’t doing a good job.

Dragons are more interesting than Scarlet thus far. >.>

Honestly speaking, it’s less of a “living story” and more of a “Scarlet’s story.” A true living story… wouldn’t be focusing on Scarlet all the time. And given how now the Molten Alliance is tied to her, it rather is.

The whole storytelling feels random and rushed. Unknown dangers hop in all the time with unknown new bosses. We just go and smack them, and maybe they will patch the gap of total loss of interest with a website post about some background fairytail as always. if you invest enough time, you can make up twisted specualtions that (in some cases) totally make sense and would be just awesome, but then you face the reality that you get a total plain explanation.

There are so many things that they could build on (from the past). So many unfinished stories to tell. Instead they are making up new and lame contents.

And yes, I hate that dragons replaced the lore of GW2 and with new writers slowly rewriting GW1’s lore to be all about dragons… I still miss them now. They are out there. They are the threat we’ve been united for. And they are just fine where they are, making 0 impact atm, letting people party for months and months.

Another great example of new writers totally ruining what old writers built up.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Nihilus.3015:

It was in a interview, the branded are fighting Joko’s legion.

Can you link said interview? I’ve done my best to follow every one but don’t recall such a thing.

Because it seems very weird that the two forces would be clashing, given how the Dragonbrand ends in northern Crystal Desert and Joko’s forces are in the southern border of the Crystal Desert. Unless Kralaktorrik went and made unnoticed movements, there’s a good distance between them.

The Crystal Desert has the Tomb of the Primeval Kings in its northern portion, so basically that region did belong to Elona at some point.

Joko has total dominance over whole Elona, I guess he wanted to extend his reach to the crystal desert, but then came Kralky.

Btw yes the Brand ends in the northern portion, but that doesn’t mean the minions can’t spread farther south. Risen are showing up in Kryta, Tarnished coast and other farway place from Orr.

It would make up for a cool story, imagine if majority of Elonians think of Palawa as a savior because he is telling them that Tyria fell to the dragons and he is the only person who can protect the south, encouraging the living to fight in the desert.

Fordel.3208:

I can’t comment on the specifics of the current Meta, but generally, games become ‘not fun’ once they are figured out.

Once it’s “Do <Blah> or be inferior, the end”, well, screw it I’ll go do something else.

The problem is we can’t do something else in PvP. Bored of conquest? Go PvE.

New features =/= new gamemodes, you should add that option to the dev priority list too.

Btw tiered soloque? We already have moba mentality devs, don’t give them ideas further in that direction.

Btw since the mountain west to Ascalon Settlement turned into a river in GW2, anything can be anywhere I guess.