but if there is one thing i am looking forward too, its the community this game seems to have. Seems much more mature than what im used to.
Thanks!
THE HYPE!
Lol Probably is one the best communities but it has it’s toxicity. Not nearly as bad as other MMO’s or MOBA’s; but don’t think it’s all daisy’s and ranbows or you will be in for a shocker . GL out there and have fun!
It isn’t even GvG…it is SPvP…. Everyone keeps saying and complaining about the new GvG mode…IT ISN’T GVG. Just because it sounds similar to what it was, doesn’t make it GvG. as they stated, it is a new sPvP mode. Has nothing to do with GvG. People complaining because they can’t represent their guild with only 5 people..lol? Good thing it isn’t GvG. You want GvG, go to OS like everyone else. GvG suggests that you are challenging and trying to beat other guilds…the Q will be random and Solo’ers can go into the game mode too..amazingly it will be the same procces as the rest of SPvP. Full solo teams aloud in new game mode. Want to know why? Because it isn’t GvG. A million useless posts going on right now.
WTF is this thread actually about. So many players just arguing about the viability of the new “GvG” game mode. IT’S NOT GvG!!!! It’s sPvP! No where did Anet say , “Hey here is your GvG game mode”. They brought this to PvP and has absolutely nothing to do with GvG. Technically all sPvP is GvG if you want to go that way, group of 5 players from same guilds competing for fame and fortune……
IMO on this matter, it is just small scale WvW. Not really sPvP at all…. In a way it caters to people that don’t like the large scale WvW and are bored of sPvP; so mix the two. If they really wanted to give us more game modes they could have went with Capture the Flag, TDM ect ect.. Oh well, PvE got all the big stuff, at least it wasn’t totally ignored I guess…
First, your math is way off. Unranked would be faster. Secondly, it doesn’t matter. They OWN the arena, paid for it, and can do whatever they want with it. Those rules are in place for ranked/ unranked arenas. Not sure why they don’t just put a password on the arena and then they don’t have to worry about people coming in they don’t want.
Still trying to figure out why he hasn’t posted his other account name. We would all like to see the data………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
You don’t want to form a team because you will just farm solo’ers? LOL? You obviously have never played on a team OR you play a couple matches a day and 1 happens to be against a premade. From Qui’ing on a team 90% of the time I can tell you that you do not farm soloers. There is maybe 1 out of every 20 games we come across soloers. You just blatantly have no idea how to tell if you are fighting a team or not, or the other 4 in your party are a team; or the enemy is a 3/2 split and yours is a 2/2/1 (fair). So many people sit here and complain non stop, but the reality 95% of the time of the people complaining only play a couple matches a day and just happen to get the 1 in 20 odds of it happening to them ( or they can’t tell the difference). I solo Q 10% of the time and it is definitely about the same 1 in 20 matches I go against a premade. The system has gotten a TON better and teams wait a lot longer in Q for team match-ups. The place you will find a bit worse odds are unranked Q due to the lack of teams that Q in there, someone has to go against them.
Lol? The entire Necro class doesn’t strike you at all? Wells/ marks etc etc all unblockable. You yourself have things that are unblockable. Why don’t we nerf your unblockable skills first. The trait isn’t OP and is fine the way it is. No one uses Krait runes anyway (minimal to matter).
the teams get points regardless who won, but it depends on the your point at the end of the match. Therefore both teams would get at least 1 point.
Correct. They get points according to the ratio and the final points “500”. It will count as a loss for 1 team and +? points. Winning team gets a win with +? points. You can get + pts in many instances from loosing without even scoring 500 pts. Why would it be any different…..
Correct^^. It is never a draw. At that point the team with the highest total personal scores takes the win. It will be displayed on screen as normal (“X Team Wins!”).
Like most players currently in PvP matches, I’m just trying to clear a few PvP dailies, so that I don’t have to do the more annoying PvE options from the limited set available. I don’t want to be in PvP any more than any of you do, but we’re all in this together until Anet fixes the daily system, right? So I thought it would be better for everyone if we could work out a system of etiquette so that we could all get along in the meantime.
Daily PvP Capture: If someone gets to a capture point first, let them have it. There are other points on the map, no point fighting over them. Ideally each team would move en mass to the nearest point and cap it right off the bat, but some maps put both sides nearest a central point to start which leads to unnecessary conflict.
Daily PvP Defender: If someone is standing on a capture point, that means he wants to defend it. Engage in combat for a few seconds, but then leave. Come back later once he’s moved off of it.
I think if we can hold to these fairly simple concepts then we can all get our dailies and get back to playing the game as quickly as possible.
I just came to drop this by. I wanted to make sure you didn’t forget to bring your award with you, when you left PvP.
Changes meh. Made condi more powerful. Nerfed might (good?) but that changes nothing in the spect that it is nerfed for everyone and still leaves everyone in the same boat.
You realise that not every single class relies on might right? Mostly the cele classes that people have been moaning about for so long.
You realize that every meta class revolves around might? EVERY one, Eles stack might fastest, engi stack might…warrior stacks might…and then the 1 or 2 zerker class per team obviously stacks might. It is a nerf to all. Now the Sigil is not used by all so that is really good, but might in general is used by all and therefore a nerf to all.
We did get a 4 month balance patch so I guess that an improvement. Maybe 4 months and we get another?
Changes meh. Made condi more powerful. Nerfed might (good?) but that changes nothing in the spect that it is nerfed for everyone and still leaves everyone in the same boat. Locust swarm cast for Necro from 1 second to .5 so necros can be more mobile? LOL??!! The CD is the same….so you aren’t more mobile. .5 second less cast doesn’t make you more mobile for 1 skill.. Good try though, I guess it’s a start.
Either way, TY Father of Esports for posting the link
I agree, crate is OP; so we should probably buff Lich to counter. Maybe a mesmer/ lich combo? Lich +3 Lich clones. Casting Deathly Claws (1) grants 20s super speed and 20s quickness, stability non-removable, up to 3 bounces and clones copy spell (of course). Reduce cast time down to .10 seconds and we will call it good. This way we have enough clones/ bounce damage to get rid of all the turrets in a timely manner.
I’ll switch out the runes and pickup wall and plague.
Where can you buy exotic berserker gear outside of the TP?
Also I only have two fears correct? Staff #5 and DS #3
Also how do the combos work? Picking up wall gives me the combo field “ethereal”?
Since people skipped over one of your questions. You can buy Zerker gear (Or any gear) for the armor & weapons vendor at the entrance to EBG. The full armor set is only maybe 4 or 5G + 1200 badges of honor? you can get your weapons their too for some silver & badges. The only other way would be dungeon tokens. Couple dungeons have zerker gear. Fastest way to obtain that would be PvP reward track for the dungeon + 1 daily dungeon speed run.
It has been this way since the beginning of time. Content is removed from the game and therefore you cannot finish it; because it is not there. Same with Halloween and every holiday before that. The holiday ends, ALL content is removed.
Mmmmm no. Where did you get that from? Reddit? lol. Yes the thief one would be correct (sorry) but all the rest is just what you “think” is correct. Might is stacked last and will be stripped first. You provide me with patch notes that said it prioritizes might (you won’t find it) or a dev that says it does and I will be wrong; but none of that will happen. Might is continuously stacked and therefore a slit second after another boon applied, might is again the last applied boon. It is not prioritized and never was.
It doesn’t prioritize might. Tired of people saying that. It is just like condi cleanse. It cleanses the last applied. Since might is usually a continuous stack, it will cleanse it first (if it was last applied, aka a new stack).
Nice story. It’s like when a couple my friends laughed at me yesterday when I said solo’ing the silver waste champs is easy. I was busy so I didn’t go show them how easy it is (just takes time) but I got comments from, “hahaha you wish dude” to “come do it then and I will record, then every time you log in I will play your death back for you and laugh”. Silly non necros As long as you don’t eat their big attacks (easy) you have basically infinite health…
At OP. Since everyone else is just bickering. Power necro is one of the hardest classes to perfect. You are not going to get it in a couple days or maybe even a week. If you think it is something you might enjoy you must work hard at it and it will pay off. Power Necro IMO is the funnest class/ build to play in the game. Wells/ Dagger AA is very effect in mele but you stated you had problems with rangers & mesmers. This is where death shroud, LifeBlast (1) comes in. You will hit them so hard you will make them pop any invul they have off of 1 hit. They are normally all glass (90% of them) and you will be hitting them for 4-6k average hits. Mesmers usually go for 6-8k hits (can 2 shot) and then they are not a problem. Just got to be more aware of what is around you and where you need to be. Other classes get invuls or leaps to instantly mitigate damage. Your damage mitigation is your brain. Be aware of what everyone is doing around you at all times and you will reap the rewards. Unless you have a thief on your team, it is your job to take out those rangers, mesmers & thieves; which once you get it down is a piece of cake. LB is your best friend in those situations.
I see nothing wrong with this matchup….is your issue 2 of a couple classes on each team? Since when is 2 of a class a bad thing (besides 2 thieves). What do you want? 5 separate classes every match?
I will just leave this here.
(Not incoherently adding replies to the tally)
Most players do PvE, why? Cuz PvP2Leet
After a couple weeks they still get rekt and instead of trying to get better, they leave.
1: 1/2 the reason of being rekt is lack of knowledge(what they should be doing).
2: 1/2 the reason is bringing in their PvE build and skill rotations to PvP thinking it will be OP (Can be referred to reason 1).
3: See reason 1
4: PvE tells them they have to play a certain way to be good/ viable. Their now new knowledge and expertise in ‘combat’ is not valid anywhere else.
5: See reason 3
6: See reason 5
7: Players then trash talk to them because they did not do their homework first. Aka (See Reason 6)
Can you tone down the hostility please. I’m simply asking a question as the answer given wasn’t entirely clear to me. My loading time was only used for context.
I think in all the ~350 matches I’ve had in the test season, I’ve only dced twice and two others were due to the double queue bug.
More curios than anything. Sorry if it sounded hostile. Max I have ever heard is a minute. Can’t comprehend 2 minute loading. Does it feel that long…most likely. When you go into panic mode on a DC, 30 seconds feels like 2 minutes.
@Solstice, that would be cool but to complicated for Anet to develop now. Besides, only respectable teams would pause the game. You throw something like a mini Llama chance into the mix, and pugs will choose to just wreck you 100% of the time. (Sarcasm on making the mini Llama sound epic).
Could I get a bit more clarification on this please. Loading into the Heart of the Mists map takes about 1min – 1min and 30 seconds for me and then it starts loading the PvP map which usually averages at around 25-30 seconds.
So I get dced, go to char screen and get back in and it starts loading the Heart of the Mists map for me. Is this when the system acknowledges your ‘return’ to the match or when the PvP map that you got starts loading?
You register as connected before you finish loaded, but we can review changing that number if it is too low for a significant number of people.
I think maybe 40 seconds is a more graceful number myself. I do not have connection issues but I think for the majority of the DC’s that people have, 30 seconds it cutting it close. 40-45 seconds is not a game changing thing (Unless this is at the start of the match). A minute is way to long though.
Don’t you think that’s a bit too low? Keep in mind that when someone dcs during a game they have to load two maps (hotm and the PvP map)
I’m playing on a semitoaster and I’m fairly sure I can usually manage to get back into the game within ~20 seconds, but I know there are people with far worse machines than me. I’d recommend that you increase the period to a minute rather than 30 seconds.
Technically you are loaded into the map after about 1-2 seconds. Just because it doesn’t look like you are there yet, you still are. You machine is loading the graphics still but your character is back in the match faster than it looks like. Only takes maybe 10-15 seconds to get back in. The ~20 seconds is just a visual thing for you.
This is correct, and was part of the reasoning behind the 30s grace period.
Could I get a bit more clarification on this please. Loading into the Heart of the Mists map takes about 1min – 1min and 30 seconds for me and then it starts loading the PvP map which usually averages at around 25-30 seconds.
So I get dced, go to char screen and get back in and it starts loading the Heart of the Mists map for me. Is this when the system acknowledges your ‘return’ to the match or when the PvP map that you got starts loading?
What do you expect. Them to raise the standards so that everyone gets back in and doesn’t get punished? Then it wouldn’t even be there. You are saying it takes you about 2 minutes to get back into the match and you want that to be ok? Are you joking? 2 minutes and you lost the game for your team. You should be punished. A 2 minute load in time has to be .5% of the population. It’s not Anet’s fault it takes you that long to load into the match. You running on dial up? Got a computer from 1998? I do not see why it takes 2 minutes to load into a match. That is just absurd.
so if dc starts when u leave map and ends right when u tehnicaly enter pvp map 30s should be ok
Correct. As long as your character is technically still in the match you are not DC’ed. You see that guy running in place for 20 seconds? His screen is frozen but he still in match. Your character only leaves when you get booted to login and you are loaded back in before it looks like you are.
I hope someone posts the pics and colors for the new dew. Unfortunately I used my last one 2 days ago and I don’t want to buy another if I am not going to use it lol.
Don’t you think that’s a bit too low? Keep in mind that when someone dcs during a game they have to load two maps (hotm and the PvP map)
I’m playing on a semitoaster and I’m fairly sure I can usually manage to get back into the game within ~20 seconds, but I know there are people with far worse machines than me. I’d recommend that you increase the period to a minute rather than 30 seconds.
Technically you are loaded into the map after about 1-2 seconds. Just because it doesn’t look like you are there yet, you still are. You machine is loading the graphics still but your character is back in the match faster than it looks like. Only takes maybe 10-15 seconds to get back in. The ~20 seconds is just a visual thing for you.
And is waiting for authorization mail from Anet visual thing for me too?
Anyway 30 sec Grace is better than no Grace clearly.
That is an ISP issue. Or maybe you shouldn’t play during a thunderstorm where you could loose power, resetting your router.
Don’t you think that’s a bit too low? Keep in mind that when someone dcs during a game they have to load two maps (hotm and the PvP map)
I’m playing on a semitoaster and I’m fairly sure I can usually manage to get back into the game within ~20 seconds, but I know there are people with far worse machines than me. I’d recommend that you increase the period to a minute rather than 30 seconds.
Technically you are loaded into the map after about 1-2 seconds. Just because it doesn’t look like you are there yet, you still are. You machine is loading the graphics still but your character is back in the match faster than it looks like. Only takes maybe 10-15 seconds to get back in. The ~20 seconds is just a visual thing for you.
You have to be in top 250 I think it is, to see your rank.
Top 1000 and you get a number. Before that you are 99% and down from there.
lmao, what percent is considered good?
Well since the leader boards doesn’t mean “skill”. I would say none. It is more on “games played” then anything else.
If you want “worst to best” (aka: more games played), then it would be 1% to 99% and continue to rank 1000 all the way to rank #1.
Rank 1000 person has 132 games played. Rank 1 has 763 in past 29 days. (couple below rank 1 actually have more games played, just a worse ratio.
Removing it would be great. Since they won’t, I propose it has to be a win in Hotjoin/ Unranked. Had 2 guys yesterday (ranked) say, “Sorry in advance this is only second match with this class. In here for daily” and the other guy on our team say he just created the character. The matched proved them to be correct. People don’t understand they need to win to complete the daily? You are not going to win in ranked where the more competitive players are with a class you have no idea how to play..
Hotjoin is the FASTEST way to get this daily done. It also effects no one. Easy to join a game in progress and join the winning team. Fast & easy.
New update. 2 of our Ele’s kind of disappeared (Lol). They have leaned more towards WvW and we are looking for 1 solid D/D Ele and maybe a thief. The 5th is still kind of open for discussion but just send me a message in game and we can talk! 1 of the Ele’s is still on sometimes and he will most likely be put in as a sub.
where can i read about this contest where the “top 250” get mini llama? the Search function on the forums are totally useless.
It was GW2 news at start of test season. Can be found somewhere buried in their news posts. Most likely it will happen for sure at the update at noonish.
A friend of mine, undercover agent [name censored for protection] was recently in a HoTM meeting at Anet. Deep underground in Anets lair he managed to take a screenshot during a top secret power point presentation. Barely escaped with his life to bring us these upcoming HoTM changes.
I feel Anet will make all our wishes come true and more! Just sad to see there is not roller coaster.
Well, Since I 90% play ranked, I will just do it in this order.
1: Battle of Kyhlo. The most PvP only oriented map out there and that is what I like.
2: Forest of Nifhlel. Second most PvP only oriented map out there. This si aside for the boss spawn for small amounts of bonus points.
3: Temple of the Silent Storm. 3rd most PvP only oriented map out there (see where this is going). Buffs can be game changers and give you a little extra to do.
4: Legacy of the Foefire. Map is a bit big compared to all the others and leaves the outcome to chance sometimes. Most skilled team (PvP) can still lose with a quick thief lord kill from a lesser skilled team. (To much PvE can swing the map).
That is my order for ranked. thus leaves the last 3 unranked maps in this order(best to worst).
For me its a bit longer: You DC, you restart entire client (because it won’t you reconnect), you authorize login, you login, you start loading back, takes sometimes a bit more than just 30 seconds.
It’s certainly possible that some number of people wouldn’t be able to make some limit, but you also have to balance it against the impact it has on your team’s chances of succeeding.
The longer the grace period, the more potential damage to the teams odds of winning.
Ye it must be balanced. It cannot be setup to ensure every player makes it back and doesn’t lose points. That is absurd. Anything longer than 30 seconds and the impact is too great. 40 seconds I might say is ok…..definitely NOT more than that. Soon as 1 guy is gone it only takes about 20 seconds for the other team to realize and begin the snowball. Triple cap inc. I say 30-40 seconds, no more & no less. There should be a grace period but not a very large one.
If you are taking a minute or 2 to log back in, we already hate you when you come back. That is way to long.
Probably is one the best communities but it has it’s toxicity. Not nearly as bad as other MMO’s or MOBA’s; but don’t think it’s all daisy’s and ranbows or you will be in for a shocker
. GL out there and have fun!
But still! I would like to know what they are lol.
