Guild Wars 2

Mrbig.8019:

GhOst.4019:

What you don’t get, is the + points on the leaderboard for winning or an increase in MMR. You still get the win though.

and that’s exactly what i’m talking about.

which is the “missing details” I was referring to… we can’t guess what you’re talking about, that’s why it’s so important to write precise and detailed OPs, rather than going for “style” points by being flippant.

that’s like saying that farm systems ruin pro sports

you can’t have a competitive scene without an entry point

then you’re not talking about wins, but rather ladder ranks.

Mrbig.8019:

Thx to anet u don’t get the win anymore if a guy in the other team leaves and doesn’t reconnect in 1 minute.

This is simply not true.

perhaps some details are missing in your story?

It would go under LFG abuse, depending on the situation.

Though it probably takes a few reports against the same person to trigger an investigation.

Vepo.4208:

However; these children don’t understand that anyone has the right to remove someone from a group for no reason.

This is false.

hitsauce.1075:

You guys ever thought of implementing a combo system to proc some abilities or boons?

how is the current combo system not meeting this demand, exactly?

eithinan.9841:

Why should I give up a laurel/day if I dont have to?

You’re not “giving up” anything.

You’re not entitled to those laurels.

Laurels aren’t mandatory either, and there are other ways to obtain them.

the DB daily is an extra bonus.. it’s not replacing anything.

Custom Arenas allow you to have all the 3v3 and 2v2 you want.

Humphrey Bear.2698:

I knew someone might ask me that i got to lazy to add all NPCs but guards since its pretty obvious which NPCs am talking about since i made it clear there was no reason for them to interfere .

not obvious at all since you probably meant “mobs” rather than “NPCs”.

Assuming that is what you meant: if mobs are interfering with your fights, you chose the location of your fight poorly.

what do you mean, exactly, by “click an orb”?

at first I thought you meant grabbing the Orb in the Spirit Watch map.. but that doesn’t really make sense with the rest of the statement (ie: “.. to take the middle base”)

that level of complexity in a physics engine would be absolutely crippling to performance in an MMO.

Unseenstrike.2971:

Achievement points are an important part of the game

the points and the achievements themselves: yes

the leaderboard: completely inconsequential.

Counting what?

we already know that any of the guild related changes discussed in the CDI that get implemented will be packaged in the HoT release along with the guild halls.

megaserver isn’t a reason to lower the transfer price, it’s a reason to lock out transfers entirely.

Knighthonor.4061:

The fact that Anet didn’t even share their plans with the community before adding such badly designed change to the trait system, also shows how bad the communication is.

Except that they did share their plans with us before pushing the changes.

They posted info on it weeks before the release.

kirito.4138:

I’m a hardcore PVE player and tried PVP for the first time. I don’t get it.

Not sure what you think is gained by lying about this…

but if you’re going to do that, you should probably remove the link to your twitch stream from your signature. Especially since the link brings you to a bio which states “Started playing GW2 1.5yrs ago. 99% of my time is spent in PVP. "

I wish obvious troll accounts like these would simply get banned from the forums.

If you’re not here to contribute, you don’t need to be here at all.

You don’t have to see icons on a map to see a cool structure in the distance and simply walk over to it.

stop viewing exploration as a checklist, go out and actually explore.

I feel like this would be the most requested features by rank/daily/etc.. farmers.

they could fake matches at an even faster rate!

I don’t know how often they respawn, but I can’t recall a single time in 2.5 years where I walked by their areas and they weren’t up.

Jim Hunter.6821:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Trapper rangers are extremely vulnerable to chain cc.

More so than other classes?

Absolutely. Trap rangers have to sacrifice their stun breaks. Even with the trapper runes to provide stealth a trapper ranger will always die to an equally skilled player in a 1v1 fight.

lots of other builds don’t carry stun breaks either.

I don’t think that this criticism is wrong, I just don’t see how it’s specific to Trapper Rangers.

as for your claim that they “always” lose against equally skilled opponent .. that’s nonsense.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Trapper rangers are extremely vulnerable to chain cc.

More so than other classes?

Nate.3927:

eotm cannot replace a BL for the simple reason that the spawn for each side is already within a keep. If you want the eotm map to become a BL map, then it needs to be changed first.

what? the spawns are definitely not inside of a keep

Vague Memory.2817:

Junkpile.7439:

Thief of course.

I’m curious as well, why no one has mentioned thief, probably the strongest solo roamer.

They generally don’t do well 1v1 against non-glass-cannons and they probably have the hardest time solo-ing camps/towers. They mostly shine when they can harass enemies that are already engaged against other players or NPCs.

my vote for strongest solo roamer would probably be Trapper Rangers right now

The only thing worse than “I will play how I want” is “you should be playing how we want you to play”

Mighty Assasin.3816:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

ex: the other team has 3 necros so i’ll switch to my anti-condition build,

There is no such build that can counter 3 condi necros in terms of condiclear.

Diamond Skin with a high vitality build would be a pretty solid advantage in that context.

it’s edging out diversity in favour of versatility.

Zypher.9536:

Is there any way you can be convinced of introducing a race change, yes or no?

No.

Race and Class are what primarily define a character, if you change them, it’s not the same character.

If you want a new character, just create a new one.

Darnis.4056:

“Being able to re-actively toggle builds on the fly is horrible for meta diversity.”

You didn’t actually bring any data to back up your opinion.

It’s logical that removing gates from content makes that content more accessible.
The easier it is to switch builds the easier it is to play different builds, This PROMOTES build diversity.

Every game which has allowed build templates I’ve played has allowed me to try new things fast easier and without hassle.

The reason it actually kills off build diversity is that it pushes the meta into rock-paper-scissors of hard counters.

ex: the other team has 3 necros so i’ll switch to my anti-condition build,

the problem emerges because not all classes have access to as many hard counters, making the classes that do much more prevalent.

Also, by allowing players to quickly toggle between builds in reaction to the battle, you remove the opportunity cost of having chosen one build.. you decrease the strategic elements involved in making a build.

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there’s a bunch of other issues related to it but this has been discussed quite thoroughly in countless threads before.

Darnis.4056:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Dartanian.9623:

Why has this not been done, a long time ago?

Because being able to re-actively toggle builds on the fly is horrible for meta diversity.

It would have to be limited to HoM(and the Citadel for WvW)

What?… You’re blatantly wrong.

No. It would have to be limited to pre-game ready period. Just like now.

such certainty should be followed by actual reasoning.

ie: if you think I’m so wrong, you could at least explain how I’m wrong.

Dartanian.9623:

Why has this not been done, a long time ago?

Because being able to re-actively toggle builds on the fly is horrible for meta diversity.

It would have to be limited to HoM(and the Citadel for WvW)

Lord Kuru.3685:

There will be a bump in population when the expansion comes out and that might even out things

not likely, judging by the large number of “Hey I’m new and I want to join my friends on Blackguard but it’s full, how do I get in?” posts on reddit this week.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Nah my new solution is the best!

In order to make the game fair and balanced, everyone who tries to join any map is entered into a queue.
In order to get onto the map one player from each of the other 2 servers must also be in a queue.
This guarantees that the number of players on a map are equal for each server on each map.
No more outnumbered, no more complaining about zergs cos if the enemy has a zerg you know you have an identical zerg on your map somewhere.

The end.

So what happens when someone logs off? do you randomly select another person from each other server and kick them back to queue?

I don’t think they’re gamers apart from Felicia, and she never really got into it.. pretty committed to her existing MMO Guild :P

Laarn.7014:

We told them it was organized. They did not care one bit.

they have no obligation to care, you don’t get to call dibs on an entire shard.

your commander isn’t any more real than the other 4, your fun doesn’t take priority over theirs, and lastly, the zone doesn’t belong to you just because you are “organized”.

Macee.8015:

The “new” Mursaat

The word “inspired” no longer means what it did 20 years ago, today it translates to “plagiarism”. Dragon age was spot on with their horn design, it looked cool and unique, copying that style will not slip by so easily.

The “new” Mursaat helmet design is based on the “old” GW1 Mursaat design, which not only looks a lot more similar to it than what is in Dragon Age screenshot, it also predates it by 4 years.

If you make the assertion, it’s up to you to present the proof.

But since I have kept up with the forums, I know that you’re full of kittens.

which is why you’re keeping it vague and why you won’t make any kind of response that includes factual information that backs your statement up.

Amaterasu.6280:

When dhuumfire came out, that thing was nerfed to the ground in literally 2 days.

What? what do you mean by “came out”?

The Dhuumfire nerf happened almost 2 years after release.

XGhoul.7426:

we have 0 communication between changes that happen now and when they are released (what is transparency?)

Not really sure what you mean since “happen now” and “when they are released” are the same thing. A change “happens” when it’s released, no?

Anyway, the balance changes that were part of yesterday’s patch were announced in detail (and with an explanation) weeks ago.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Yes it is better than nothing, but this was promised 2 years ago.

Still waiting to find out what was promised 2 years ago…

Veneratio.1980:

So if you do not like the specialisation for your class you are stuck with the same traits/skills/weapons as you had before? That doesn’t sound right.

I’m not sure what else you could reasonably expect.

You are offered a new option, if you don’t like it then that’s that. the same would be true of anything else they add in.

Nekroseth.5186:

and what i say less true.

yes, it certainly is

ArrDee.2573:

Arenas aren’t deathmatch! Arenas are arenas! Deathmatch would be like Courtyard aka terrible! Arenas are small fights on small maps! Small fights prevents too many people focusing down one target to automatically win the fight! Small maps prevents long, drawn out kiting and running away like in WvW!

How are they different, specifically?

IMO: Courtyard is pretty much a perfect example of “small fights on small maps”

ArrDee.2573:

• Arena queue times will be shorter!
• Arena games don’t last as long which means more games which means more rewards!

what are you basing these on?

ArrDee.2573:

• Arena is a PvP game mode with an emphasis on PvP and not standing on point or PvE lord rushing! PvPers want to PvP! It’s crazy logic but it makes sense if you think about it!

so here’s an analogy: conquest/stronghold and other objective-based modes are like football or baseball, whereas deathmatch style PvP, is like playing catch.

it’s fine to enjoy both kinds of activities, the problem is when you keep trying to frame the discussion around deathmatch being the “real PvP”.

SkylightMoon.1980:

The reason I don’t think this is a problem if we stacked on 3 tiers is that yes, the population would be stacked as hell, and maybe one server may have twice the population as another, but after a certain point in population, it makes no difference in WvW. Thats because after all servers have a certain population, they have constant queues, or near constant queues. Which means the fights are even almost all the time because the bl’s are queued and all have roughly the same amount of people on all sides.

The problem you’re ignoring is that not everyone enjoys max capacity fights.

many of us prefer smaller battles where individual contributions actually matter.

Mostly everyone can agree that near-equal population is ideal, but that’s not tied to a specific population size. And even if you disregard preferences in encounter size, it’s pretty obvious that the ideal way of attaining that is NOT by making everyone deal with queues.

lorddavito.2395:

Comparing this patch’s ‘balance’ to earlier patches… confusion in PVE is way to powerfull linked with the Perplexity runes.. Strength runes may give might still, but this confusion.. Maybe anet should take a closer look once again

Confusion is barely worth using in PvE, it’s one of the most underpowered effects in the game.

yanipheonu.5798:

I recgonize that a big part of why we aren’t spgetting new races is that adding their content to the New Player Experience would be a bit hassle, with new voice acting and race specific content and so on.

Those elements have nothing to do with the NPE.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

We can block ‘noobs’ from unranked right after we block anyone over rank 20 from joining practice mode.

And what happems when a rank 21 wants to learn a new class in pvp?

fine, make the limit per-class once they’ve won 25 games with that class.

the point is that players new to PvP need a relatively safe space to learn the mechanics of the mode, and figure out semi-effective builds. If you want to block them from unranked so that they don’t ruin the experience of the more advanced players, it stands to reason that we offer them an equivalent area safe from “elite” players looking to farm and abuse noobies.

Crius.5487:

Are they constantly outmatched within their own tier?

Ding!

T3 has been a mess for 2 months because there’s basically 4 T2 caliber servers and each week one is forced down against two servers that have about 10% of the coverage/population.

We can block ‘noobs’ from unranked right after we block anyone over rank 20 from joining practice mode.