Guild Wars 2

I doubt this game will have ‘all announced e-sport features’ by June/July.
And by then there will be no one left to use them.

I’ld love to be proven wrong, but looking at the state of things it seems unlikely.

Every month same thing. Every time there’s an event going on, PvP becomes completely unplayable. We’re now making bets what’s gonna screw up when we play. Maybe we won’t be able to even make a roster? Maybe the que for second round gets delayed for 30min? Maybe we’ll have constant lag spikes when we actually make it to the match?

Maybe PvP community should just take a break from the game during the events?

Because looking at the developement priorities past those couple months, fix seems highly unlikely.

Well Hammer is one of the worst weapons you could use against ranged classes, too easy to get kited to death. You should use something to make up for its lack of mobility on 2nd set – GS/Sword/Rifle.

Also, mesmers are weak and useless class. Why else would they get ability to stack insane amounts of might in last patch if not to make them viable in tournaments?

How about you guys take your PvE talk outside PvP forums?

Levetty.1279:

That isn’t even going into the fact that you have just put a Mesmers 2 biggest damaging skills on cooldown to get that stack (and their stun break and all their endurance) and by the time Mind Wrack comes off cooldown then that stack has gone back down to 9. Must I teach you how rotations work?

Indeed. You missed one thing though. The second he gets 25 ( or 18, whatever) stacks, he hits Signet of Inspiration to share them with the whole team. This inculdes Thieves, Warriors (who can bring those 18 stacks up to 25 in 1-2sec anyway) and any other high-dps class.

By the time Mind Wrack goes off cooldown there’s a good chance there will be no one left to use it on.

People with cultural armors you’ve seen exploited a bug to get dragon tokens. It’s fixed now.

Event skins are usually unavaliable in PvP (only exception being 3 Halloween items).

denyitbattle.2609:

After watching that Auron video, either it is a joke and he is actually really good or those people who say he is good are also bad, just worse than him.

Nah, it’s just Desolation crew trolling in response to his map chat spam.

Though I gotta admit, he’s been gone for a while now.

Psybunny.8906:

• How do you deal with not using Mobile Strikes? I can’t imagine running glass without that trait.

I’ve been running without it forever :P. Immobilize can be quite productive sometimes. Whirlwind Attack hits almost as hard as 100b when you land whole instead of just one attack. I welcome immobilizes, chills, cripples and nearby walls when fighting someone in meele range.

nerva.7940:

nope, the wheel actually started skipping when scrolling after a few months. cheap parts.

Well, guess I got lucky and got one put together quite well. Or you got unlucky. Depends on what’s the factory standard :P

nerva.7940:

Razer is complete garbage. it’s cheap and breaks in less than a year. while my Death Adder felt great under the palm, it broke after 6 months of moderate use.

Does your ‘moderate use’ mean you throw it every time you get killed? I can’t think of any other way it could break in 6 months. I’ve had the same Death Adder even since it was first released and used it heavily for years, including traveling with it every couple weeks. Still works perfectly.

felivear.1536:

The time different between hitting in a sequence like 1, 9 is a huge different because the travel distance is less than an inch for your thumb as opposed doing it with your fingers.

Who uses numbers above 5 anyway? I’ve bound everything around WASD and works like a charm. 1-5 for weapon skills, Q for heal, R,F,V for utilities, E for elite. Weapon swap and target assist under mouse thumb buttons. Travel distance is less than an inch for every skill.

Before buying mouse like Naga, make sure it’ld go well with your grip. I’m using a variation of claw grip, using three fingers (including thumb) and a slight wrist movements to control the mouse, and I probably wouldn’t be able to switch to a completely diffirent grip style to free the thumb for pressing buttons constantly.

As for mouse, I’ve been using first generation Razer DeathAdder for years and I love it. Right now I’m considering changing to 2013 version, as I need extra mouse for my laptop.

Oh, hell with salvage kits, they cost nothing anyway.

Are tickets fine when placed in the locker or do they disappear too?

Yeah it feels diffirent now. Like the max camera distance was reduced.

Wish you could choose a color setup depending on the team you land on. I keep forgetting whether I’m red or blue now.

Not to mention having teammates with red dyes while being in blue team is kinda annoying.

But overall, nice change

It makes the world of a diffirence. If you get notified that your base is under attack, you might have time to react. But when thief skips the door and goes straight for lord, there’s 95% chance he’ll be done and gone by the time you get there.

Apparently it was supposed to be fixed, wasn’t it? Yet I still see thieves doing this and it’s starting to get really annoying.

Can we at least get option to report bug exploiters ingame?

I once was in sPvP match, where opposing team had:
- 2 Spirit Rangers (4 spirits + pet each)
- 2 Minion Necros
- 2 Mesmers

All on the same point. Now that was some fun.

Most of the questions I’ld like to ask have already been posted, but here’s one I’ld really love to see answered.

- Is ANet thinking on any way to improve communication with PvP community? IMO lack of communication is one of the main reasons PvPers are leaving GW2. I think we all agree occasional post from Jon, Jonathan or Evan plus a blog post once a month is just not enough. How about introducing someone like PvP Community Manager, person who would handle communication between PvP devs and community through all avaliable channels?

Blaze

Vexien.4790:

Right and wrong. Axe 5 has the same target limit as every other AoE skill in the game- it can only hit 5 enemies at a time. However, the fact that it hits 15 times and hits 5 random enemies each time means you spread the love around quite effectively. I agree with what you’re saying, just wanted to clear that misconception.

Yeah, thanks, I was kinda in a hurry when I wrote that

Also, there is one exception to 5 targets rule – Hundred Blades can only hit 3.

Heya, here’s the build I used to level my Warrior in PvE.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAR3XjcO5uJPuQMxBALjiA6ygKmUKa7OA

When using GS + popping For Great Justice & signets you can easily stack 25 Might, meaning things will die fast. Endure Pain is for those ‘oh shi…’ situations and will often save your life.

Axes are great for events, as Axe 5 has no target limit, meaning you can easily tag every mob.

If you want to solo champion mobs, you can go 20/30/0/0/20, pick up Crack Shot, replace Axes with Rifle and kite them to death.

It’s very glassy build, but the point of it is to kill everything before they can do any real damage.

I think idea is good, but the execution you’re proposing is way too complicated.

I’ld be more in favour of system TF2 has – a collection of short messagesyou can send by pressing 2 buttons.

Say you press V – this pops up a small window with messages. Then you press 2, sending short chat&voice message like “Help Henge!”

I once wrote a simple script for Secret World that did something like this (minus voice messages) and judging by it’s popularity many players feel the need for such tool.

Well, you’re not getting any answers this weekend, that’s for sure.
They’re all gone for Thanksgiving.

Got a point there, Defektive.

On the other hand, if glass cannon can burst and finish you, and walk away from it, you’ll be the one at a disadvantage.

I gues we’ll have to see how it plays out.

Sigh.

WvW is PvP (well, a bit). WvW is not STRUCTURED PvP however.
This is STRUCTURED PvP forum. sPvP stuff goes here. WvW stuff goes on the forum below.

/thread

Fun fact: You can achieve much higher stats in PvE/WvW than in PvP. My PvE Thief in full Berserkers got almost 60% crit chance and 100% crit damage (base stats ofc). Single Unload does same damage as full Backstab combo in PvP.

So you can mix in some defensive gear and still achieve stats that only full glass cannons can get in PvP.

epicsmooth.7825:

Common sense, says being on a lvl 60 means you dont get lvl 80 loot

Common sense says ‘expect some unique event rewards, not related to your level’, not legendary materials/named exotics.

RoRo.8270:

Harrier.9380:

Got a bunch of lv 60 trash items as reward.

Wish someone actually let us know “It is recommended to do event on your lv 80 character or you’ll receivie completely useless rewards”

Im thinking if everyone who wasn’t lvl 80 got precursors/exotics the prices would plummet into nothing

I’m fine with that. But wish someone actually mention rewards will scale. I chose to do event with my lv60 Warrior instead of lv80 Thief. If i knew I’m gonna get screwed with loot, I’ld take the other char :|

Got a bunch of lv 60 trash items as reward.

Wish someone actually let us know “It is recommended to do event on your lv 80 character or you’ll receivie completely useless rewards”

That single Warrior on the list is mostly playing Guardian though :P

Anyone with half a brain can say that Warrior is going to pop Vengeance soon. Then it’s just a matter of avoiding/kiting him until he drops. Which isn’t so difficult.

Ofc, I often pop Vengeance and burst people who are in the mid of stomp animation on me. That’s exactly the reason I never try stomping a Warrior who’s been on the ground for ~10s already.

Also, many of us play just fine without the GS. I had a lot of fun & success playing axe/mace + sword/shield. There are many other weapons that do not belong in PvP though: Rifle. Longbow. Offhand Sword. Offhand Axe. Mainhand Mace is very rare. Warhorn is used pretty much only for swiftness when running between points.

Also, Sir, I believe you are in a serious need of reality check. 80% of patches since launch never mentioned Warrior. The remaining 20% were either minor bug fixes (like wrong icons in this patch) or buffs to underwater combat no one cares about. You are free to head to News subforum and read old patch notes for yourself.

Also the fact you see all the other classes being useless/ignored makes me wonder which pararell universe you come from.

EU
Rageina.9436 – Rageina M, Mesmer
framboise.3765 – Guardian (forgot the nick)
BigTeeHunter.4913 – Bigtee, Guardian

raahk.2786:

You’re complaining about very minimal bugs

Again, see Vengeance bug. Or are you implying waiting 30-40 seconds for respawn (two respawn timers) is just a ‘very minimal bug’?

Pretty much HALF of our avaliable weapons is useless in PvP.

Also: http://www.gw2league.com/rankings-spvp.aspx (Fun fact – Fredzw, the only Warrior currently on the list, mostly plays Guardian)

Dariya.9380:

Related bug:
Turns out, sPvP gear is character-bound when placed into your PvE bank. So don’t do it. Due to said limitations, I was trying to remake my character and since there already was an exact item in my PvP locker, I decided to place it into my PvE bank. Here’s the problem though – when I deleted that character and went to pick up the stuff from the PvE bank, I could NOT withdraw the items because they are bound to my deleted character. The items are now stuck in my bank.

I had similar problem, what I did was withdraw duplicate items from PvP locker with another character, then deposit them from a character I wanted to delete.

Burn.5401:

>Warriors complaining that they didn’t get buffs while being one of the two FOTM professions since launch along with guardian

Do you want a 6th signet babbys?

Show me one Warrior here complaining about not getting buffed.

We just want some bug fixes. Waiting up to 40sec for respawn in pvp match is not fun, believe me (aka Vengeance bug).

Sky.1683:

I don’t really understand how Revenge works…
Is it a bug or something? I mean when I use Revenge (3rd skill at downing state) you are on a state where you might die after… Was it 5 seconds? So yeah… I do kill the mob but I still die afterwards… sometimes I have to kill more than one mob. :/
I really really don’t understand that skill haha.
The skill itself is awesome but I don’t know how it works at all.

Gives you extra 15s of moving around. If you get a kill during that time, You might get a rally and keep fighting.

Bug is though, if you get enough damage to die before 15s run out, you will die again, right after respawning.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Jackpot-gems-for-paid-tournaments

As for GS 5(Rush)… Why not just replace it with Ranger’s GS 3(Swoop)? That one works fine.

Also, there seems to be a number of ninja changes that didn’t get included in patch notes. The ones found so far:
- Bladetrail improved, can actually hit enemies on uneven terrain now, or even follow them down the ledges.
- Healing Surge grants full adrenaline now.

ilJumperMT.4871:

Warriors keep getting buffed when they are OP

Making some underwater skills projectile finishers and fixing 2 wrong icons.

Man, we sure got buffed so much.

Or do you mean 10% damage increase on a skill that never hits target from a weapon no one uses?

Psikerlord.2569:

Cheers to anet for this fix (assuming it works, havent played yet). And PS thanks for 5v5 hotjoin woooo!

It works. Not perfectly, but works.
First, you can target enemy, then you see them, and then their nameplate.

Still needs a bit of work, but it’s much better than 1-2s of extra stealth.

Probably due to toying with respawn timers ;P

But at least doesn’t happen every single respawn like before.

I wish Warriors got some bug fixes, but overall I think this patch is a step in the right direction.

Sneaking in loading bug again is not cool tho

I’ve actually just noticed something nice. Bladetrail doesn’t get obstructed as much anymore and actually hits people on uneven terrain.

They still remain stealthed when their attack gets blocked though.

Is it intended, or can we look for some change for this in the future?

JonPeters.5630:

Fast hands only is broken on the very first swap after you turn it on our load a map. After that it works. Fixing that first time bug is extraordinarily difficult, but we think it is worth it to keep the trait.

Hey, thanks for dropping by.

I’m pretty sure I see it more often than once per game… And there’s still a matter of random 5sec cooldown applying even when swapping weapons out of combat (usually after respawn). I agree though, trait is still worth it.

Any word about Vengeance bugs?

@BurrTheKing I doubt it’ld make bow viable in PvP. Without some buff to autoattack projectile speed it’ll keep missing moving targets.

@Smilinreap News forums.
For anyone who didn’t see it yet:

Warrior
Dual Shot: This skill’s damage has been increased by 10%.
Bull’s Charge: This skill’s range fact now properly reflects the actual range of the skill.
Reviver’s Might: This trait now uses the correct icon.
Stick and Move: This trait now uses the correct icon.
Forceful Shot: This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
Brutal Shot: This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
Split Shot: This skill is now a small projectile combo finisher.
Knot Shot: This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
Repeating Shot: This skill is now a small projectile combo finisher.
Triple Chop: This skill’s responsiveness has been improved.

Thoughts?

No fix for Fast Hands.
No fix for double death on vengeance.

But incorrect icons and lack of couple ‘small projectile finishers’ were always no.1 problem with the class if you ask me.

(Please note that I have no interest in PvE, speaking only from PvP point of view here)

Sword (Flurry) – very situational. Low damage, bit of bleeding. The only useful thing about it is AoE immobilize. Can be used as a setup for burst (since you don’t need a full channel for immobilize effect, you can chain it into 100b). It’s hard to catch multiple enemies with it though, unless fighting in a tight place, like Henge or Clocktower. Self root isn’t much of a problem, unless you sit through the whole channel. Overall, medicore skill.

Axe (Eviscerate) – One of the strongest single-hit abilities in game, next to Backstab and Kill Shot, critting up to 10k. Small gap closer makes it a great finishing move.

Hammer (Earthshaker) – Decent damage, stun and a gap closer. Awesome ability, the only downside being very obvious animation.

Greatsword (Arcing Slice) – I completely forgot this skill exists. Completely useless, dealing next to no damage. Couple seconds of Fury is not worth wasting adrenaline on, not when those 3 bars can give you permament 9% crit chance and 12% damage bonus. Not to mention 90% of the time we already have Fury up from Signet of Rage. I agree it needs to be changed. I disagree that swapping it with 100b is a good idea though. GS autoattack is not worth using. Bladetrail has a billion of collision issues, and it’s damage is pretty low (if we do not count bug exploit ofc). Rush is nice single target damage, but very situational. That only leaves Whirlwind Attack as another viable AoE damage skill. Making 100b burst skill would require a serious rework/rebalance of all the other skills. I think simply reworking Arcing Slice would be much easier solution. I like idea of making it a ranged attack, something like Blade Beam from FF7 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEsj2RV9Lq0). Perhaps knocking down/interrupting foes in a line, or creating a combo field.

Mace (Skull Crack) – My experience with mainhand Mace is quite limited, so can’t really say much here. 2 second stun is pretty decent and might work well in a lockdown build paired with Hammer. But on the other hand, if you use Hammer as 2nd weapon, it’s much better to just use Earthshaker.

Longbow (Combustive Shot) – This skill looks nice on paper. Fire field big enough to cover whole capture point sounds interesting, but due to other bow skills being rather weak (and autoattack being completely useless – insanely slow and rarely hitting moving targets), weapon as a whole is not really viable in PvP.

Rifle (Kill Shot) – High damage, long range… That’s it for positives. Long channel, self root, obvious animation… There are dozens of ways to stop this skill from hitting – interrupt, dodge, block, reflect, LoS break, invulnerabilty, death shroud etc etc. As Warrior is usually prime target in tPvP, I doubt you’ld get enough breathing space to fire it often.

I agree, ladder based on QP’s is pointless with only couple teams still playing paids.

Not to mention the list is incomplete, lots of guys that should be on it are missing.
I really fail to see the point in releasing something like this.