Guild Wars 2

jcbroe.4329:

Because literally almost every other game ever, especially most “triple A” titles, that have node capture game modes teach players that stacking on the capture point decreases the time it takes to capture it.

You don’t even have to look to other games.. every other capture mechanic in GW2 works the “classic” way where more players in the circle makes it cap faster. Players get used to it in WvW and assume sPvP works the same way

Try reading the hundreds of other complaint threads about it.

I’m a level 420 Tailor, trying to make Exalted armor pieces.. but for some reason the discovery window doesn’t see the 5 Celestial Intricate Gossamer Insignias I have.

I’ve double checked that I haven’t already discovered either of the recipes that I’m trying (pants&coats).. so what’s the issue, has the recipe been changed? is it a bug?

Nick.6972:

however I’ve heard and read that Conditions are absolutely pointless/weak in PvE.

This is only the case if you mostly play in large groups(or in small groups with other condition-based builds) because the way that conditions stack reduces your overall damage contribution compared to direct damage.

If you mostly play solo, it’s a non-issue.

alanis.6094:

There is much more variance to a hybrid build than what is in the video. For instance, his trait selection is terrible.

Additionally, getting 50% crit (while it might be solid and work for some/many people), makes the build very squishy for others preference.

Have you watched the whole video? because it doesn’t seem like you understand what this build is trying to do or how finely it’s been tuned.

50%+ crit is essential to this build, it’s what drives the synergy between the power ‘half’ and the condi ‘half’.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

i am guesisng you didnt read the rest of the posts.

I did, I was just surprised to find out you run such a sub-optimal build and decided to poke some harmless fun at it.

Jaymee.1560:

I have the Digital Deluxe. It’s $49.99, yes? Yep, good okay.

Buy it off the Trading post for 2000 gems, but wait, whoa, hey! That’s only a $25.00 gemcard.

$49.99 vs $25.00 in Gems Hmmm… ~ponders~

The 2000 gem option is just the upgrade, not the full game. you have to have already bought the game to access it.

so it’s 42.99 vs 25.00+29.99 (based on current holiday sale prices)

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Furiousbeard.7602:

You’re a necro.

well seeing as i am MELEE i would be doing alot less damage if i was at range…

melee necro? I think we’ve found your problem. :/

hooma.9642:

well how about looking for already existing guides?

The problem with pre-existing guides, especially video-based ones, is that they quickly become less relevant over time as the game gets updated and the meta shifts.

So there’s always a need for new guides (and/or frequently updated ones).

If someone is willing to put in the time and effort to make new ones, I really don’t see the value in discouraging them.

how do you check for actual guild participation/effort?

If all you’re counting is claimed objectives over time, that’s not really a representation of anything… anyone could’ve claimed it regardless of who actually took it, and the claimer could leave right after, never to return to the objective after claiming it, while others stick around to defend it.

turning this into a leaderboard would just push ppl to rush claims.

flow.6043:

There is no general stat sweetspot, if that’s what you’re asking…

There actually is, in the case of this specific build. It’s governed by hitting the 50% crit chance while still maximizing cnd dmg AND crit dmg.

The video covers it all very well, the only real variant is using traveler runes instead of celestial, which means slightly tweaking your trinket choices.

Lambros Augustus.6594:

Quiting “Tournaments” should be an option.

It already is, no? what’s currently stopping you from quitting anytime you want?

My imagination only sees all the ways this could be abused.

Your idea shares the same flaws as all the other “night capping prevention” suggestions that have been made over the last year. They all break down because it’s way too easy to exploit them and they generally encourage players to not play.

think through what your suggestion would actually mean:

“Hey guys, they’re about to break through our Bay’s outer gate, everyone switch maps”

Rob: I guess I’m just having trouble reconciling “the guy complaining about the matchup forum getting locked” with “the guy that took pride in how quickly the matchup thread got locked every week, and that would complain about ppl needing to step up their ‘game’ because it was Wednesday and the first thread hadn’t been locked yet”.

your OP doesn’t feel genuine at all to me because it’s 100% contradictory to your own behaviour in those threads for the last year.

it’s like the arsonist standing in front of the 20th building that he’s burnt down, turning to the firemen and going “guys, can we have a serious, mature discussion about fire safety?”

this has nothing to do with reports of exploits/bugs/hacks but rather the rampant accusations.

-a post describing a problem with the goal of helping the devs diagnose and fix the issue: productive

-a post stating that all the big guilds on maguuma hack or that commander xyz isa griefer: not productive, only fosters animosity in the community.

Straegen.2938:

In contrast, capping a camp is reasonably rewarding, counts toward the score and has a much better chance of finding a fight.

Because unlike the ruins, the camps don’t uncap themselves. Once you’ve captured it, it stays captured until an opponent comes to change that.

with ruins, you can be alone on the map, going around in a circle all day recapping the ruins over and over and over.

attaching any kind of reward to that would just turn it into the newest karma train

The problem is that difficulty(or lack thereof) in taking objectives doesn’t scale to server rank/tiers.

if you make T3 keeps harder to take based on the size of the average tier2 primetime zerg… then it’ll be impossible for a t5 morning crew to take.

it’s not that ppl want “easy play”.. it’s that ppl want achievable objectives, regardless of their server/timezone.

there aren’t any really as they just have overlapping shifts

Why would better prizes for the losing team motivate them to stay in the fight.. it would have the opposite effect.

No one would play at all once they’ve qualified for participation.

Delta.2093:

It’s about caring or not at all, and even sabotaging your “teammates”

Where do you draw the line between “sabotage” and “that person isn’t playing exactly how I want them to play”?

players are free to play in a suboptimal manner.

otherwise the games devolves from “don’t claim if you don’t have buffs” to “don’t man this siege if you don’t have mastery R5” to “rangers suck, play another class or else you’re wasting one of our player slot”.

thefinnster.7105:

its buy them or fall behind

fall behind who/what? who are you racing and what are you racing them to?

It’s possible that a large portion of your server guests elsewhere for those PvE activities.

with the LFG tool active, there’s no reason to stand around at the dungeon door, making it impossible to tell how many ppl are actually doing it.

thefinnster.7105:

its like your unable to accept that unless its pvp then its imposible to be a p2w scenario

It has to be pvp for there to be a winner; without a winner, there can be no p2w.

there is no winning in pve, just relative degrees of success/time, therefor pve-only elements can never be p2w.

isn’t the skin the only real difference between “ultra rare” exotics and regular exotics?

if so, you can transmute that skin over to your ascended equipment, that’s what I plan on doing for my Anomaly

all 9 of them eventually, but I’m in no hurry.

Chris.7251:

Would I get banned if I started offering gold to anyone on the enemy team that agrees to afk?

fixing games is against the ToS.

Mindtrick.5190:

havoc groups might just have to become real killers and not yak slappers

If no one has to come out and defend the camps and yaks, there will be no one for the havoc/roamers to kill.

or did you mean “parked at an AC on a keep wall or driving golems around” when you said “real killers”

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Character collision.

even if you ignore the massive performance issues this would bring, the griefing possible with body blocking would render the game completely unplayable.

This already exists btw: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Power_of_the_Mists

But he’s not grinding mobs for 8 hours for money: he’s playing and enjoying the game for 8 hours, and gold happens to be accumulating.

Maybe you just have an unhealthy approach to the game… the size of your gold pile is not an indication of how much you’re “winning”.

Aeonblade.8709:

It’s very pay to win. Grinding an hour gets you what? 2-3g on average? Or I can go to work for an hour, buy 800 gems with lots of money left over, and be 5 times richer, in game and IRL.

That is the purest definition of P2W.

What are you winning in this scenario?

He got to play the game for an hour while you were at work.. seems to me like he’s the winner.

Johje Holan.4607:

I would say each server has between 3 and 6 servers that it could be matched up with and have a reasonable matchup.

our definitions of what a reasonable matchup is must differ quite a lot.

not having at least one map with deadly edges would be a huge waste for any game with push/pull mechanics.

thefinnster.7105:

that being said this gem store bought item is going to allow those who buy them to get use out the infusions they are building and continue upgradeing them at a faster rate than those who refuse to pay

How does being able to retrieve infusions allow you to upgrade faster?

the last 15 months of WvW have proven otherwise.

manual matchmaking wouldn’t change anything since there aren’t any servers that have more than 1-3 servers they can have a balanced match with. So either they fight those servers, or they get “variety” in the form of blowout matches that no one participates in past Monday.

not everyone hates skyhammer, btw

Decrypter.1785:

Bring back skill plzz n stop this nonsense bunker/condi/AI nonsense

so basically you don’t want any Necros in the game?

selfi.8709:

Oh I didn’t know you don’t capture faster with multiple players capturing that’s important info I guess.

It’s very counter-intuitive since that’s how every other capture mechanic in the game works.

The only real problem I have with the state of Necros in sPvP is life force.

always starting at zero puts a huge damper on early round play and it doesn’t really make sense compared to other classes.

the easiest solution would be to throw in a few ambient creatures in each spawn, not enough to fill the meter but enough so we can at least have something before our first fight.

Since it doesn’t stop anyone from ordering upgrades.. and that you’ve been holding garrison for 3 days straight even without any guild claimant buffs.. what exactly is the problem?

Seems like OP is just sore about not being able to put his/her guild emblem on the wall.

variety or balanced matches, it’s one or the other.

the season was a period of variety>balance, it’s nice to go back to balance>variety for a while.

If you’re a MM, you simply have to be more careful about walking through packs of mobs or fighting near them.

I wish there were chickens in every sPvP home base so Necros could fill up their lifeforce before the match starts.

No thanks, do not want mounts.

Lorelei.3918:

If they do, then why do they state that they don’t care about class balance.

Where have they ever stated that? Maybe you’re confusing class balance with their statements about server population/coverage balance not being something they can control.

Lorelei.3918:

Secondly, if they care about WvW, why doesn’t anet make WvW as rewarding as PvE for the time spent playing it?

That’s what the leagues’ season was all about, trying to give more PvE style rewards to the WvW crowd.

It was horrible. WvW works best when it’s not about the rewards.

It’s problematic because often it’s not doable due to factors outside the player’s control.

compared to the other WvW daily objectives, there’s a lot more involved in being in a situation to progress on it. depending on the server/tier/timezone… it’s something you might not be able to do for weeks/months.

To be fair, this is a change that would have serious impacts on balance across the board.

They probably should’ve started with two slots, but adding an extra one at this point could really mess things up. We’re just barely starting to recover from several months of a hammer dominated meta, do we really want to just give them an extra proc?

these complaints are especially funny given how you have to go out of your way to even get to the toxic elements in WvW.

in fact, the ONLY way you’d encounter this content is if you were going to the “PVE” corners in the first place.