Guild Wars 2

Ostricheggs.3742:

I think that all movement skills should have a target because it mucks up class balance when roam speed becomes a factor outside of basic buffs like swiftness (which make most movement skills better).

I disagree, and since you already mentioned Warrior: Warrior’s ONLY way to try and disengage is to use all his gap closers in the direction opposite to enemy. The change you propose would take away our only escape tool (which can often fail anyway, if we’re crippled/chilled).

Do they need gap closers though (besides bomb builds)?

And whoever loses has to buy the winrar.

Evan Lesh.3295:

I just happen to ninja the easy fixes and steal all the credit.

Sneaky :O.

Small and easy fixes in high amounts are good too though. Keep it up

You should add “And that’s half of the first chapter of my upcoming PvP book.” at the end.

Nice read, agree with pretty much anything.

I think problem with Asuras comes exactly from combat being too flashy, as lightshow teamfights can make them nearly invisible. I’ld fix that problem first and then see how it affects the other. (Read: I don’t want my Warrior made bigger, she’s cute as it is!)

Kinda wish you wrote it couple days earlier, so devs got a chance to read through it before SOTG.

Daaaaamn.

Evan, you are bringer of hope. It’s like 3rd time you pop in some thread, saying ‘Alright, it’s done.’

I’m genuinely amazed.

Reserved for past content.

Well you gotta look for someone else to hate on this one. I’m still trying to collect my jaw from the floor.

Oni.5429:

Why are you belittling people that make pvp content?

It’s not like you’re in a position to talk down to anyone. Right, blaze, the renowned warrior?

I’m just trying to bring a bit of balance to discussion, so that all that love and positves don’t go to OP’s head.

See, before you came to Desolation, we had this guy here, Auron was his name. He started off the same foot as OP – made a couple videos of him killing new players, gained a couple positive comments. Before you knew it, he was self-proclaimed Best Thief EU. There was not a single hour in the mists without him spamming links to his Youtube. Hell, you couldn’t even talk to the guy without stumbling over his Aura Of Superiority.

But he produced PvP content, so it’s all cool, right?
Look at it from new player’s perspective. You go do some PvP, hoping it’ll be cool. Then you’re facerolled by someone who put couple hundred hours into PvP. And you got recorded and posted on Youtube, for all to see how you got stomped.

Would you want more of it? Would you want to be a part of community who enjoys watching new players get destroyed?

I’m not saying it’s a bad video, it got nice entertainment value. And as Panda said, ‘cinematics’ are pretty sweet addition.

In the future though, I’ld skip the parts where enemies are clearly newcomers to PvP.

Wait. Are you promoting yourself by showing us a video of a couple Bullscharge-100b and Eviscerates on r5 people in hotjoin?

Just checking.

We all get this.

There are also horrible lags in PvE too. Ran a dungeon with some friends yesterday, and everyone was constantly getting 5+ sec delays.

Would take like 2 years to develop if they put all the current PvP projects on-hold.

That’s the first time I gave your post +1.

Good one.

Sixe.5704:

@ “Sanis” Well.. I didn’t want this post to be a “cry me a river” kinda thing. I honestly wanted other players’ opinion on how they handle these issues in pvp.

Ignore Sanis, he left game in November and only posts on the forums for troll/entertainment value. It’s his way of showing he still cares and hopes to come back one day.

Pic related.

Custom Arenas.

Coming soon. Or when they’re ready.

Zodian.6597:

The show would be pointless if we just brought devs on to roast them by asking them why their team is inferior to the team that designed gw1.

Oh, but we already know the answer to that.

The company is not willing to spend money on PvP. So PvP team is like… 10 people?
It’s a matter of being understaffed. And well… ignoring about 80% of community feedback, or acting on this feedback way too late.

Same as always. 3 round free tourney.

Capricorn!

/15char

As for recognizing the real mesmer – he’ll act diffirent from the clones – strafing, dodging, moving in circles, backpedaling etc. Also clones only use a single skill, while the real one uses multiple animations.

You see melodyca, basic rule of physics applies here: Your actions will cause proportional reaction.

If I join a server and only see 2-4 people there, with one/none points capped, I immediately ask “Are you guys dueling?”. If they say yes, I just type “Alright, have fun!” and leave. I’ve never met rude behaviour from people doing duels.

If the first thing you do however is run to the point and immediately attack whoever is there, how can you be surprised people are kitten off when you interrupt them?

bomber.1540:

I could not agree more. It is an absolute joke. I’m stuck in the 30s and haven’t had any new armor or weapons for like a month or so cos I got the wolf ranked armor when I hit 30. If I spent the same amount of time in pve I’d prob have a legendary by now and any kitten armor I feel like wearing..

Most likely. By the time you hit 50, you could probably farm 3-5 legendaries in PvE.

But we’re all still friends at the end of day. I can be kitten about some cheesy thief one-shotting me when I’m engaging someone else, and later same day I can still run tournaments with the guy. :P

PvP community used to be much more friendly. Being repeatedly kitten upon by devs though made us evolve into sarcastic, mean bunch you can see today.

Just stop using Play Now button and pick a server manually.

There’s a reason people do duels on servers that are at the very bottom of the list.

@Braxxus And your point is? I defended a camp 1v10 with a thief once, using only the shortbow – people dropped like flies from constant 6k+ Cluster Bombs. Or assaulted a tower solo late at night. Three people + 2 Veterans was a joke defense (Fun fact: I used worthless p/p build)

It’s really not hard to outperform PvE players (most of WvW population) when you have couple hundred hours of PvP experience. Even more so when many of those players are not level 80 – meaning undergeared, with less traits and avaliable skills.

Back on topic – I’m all for splitting stats across multiple items, as long as the total amount won’t increase. I’m also all in for more stats combinations.

You feel powerful in WvW, because it has PvE stats progression. Aka About 50% more stats than PvP. 70% crit chance and 100% crit damage? No problem.

If these stats were avaliable in sPvP, people would die to 2 unloads from p/p thief, 100b would do 30k damage etc etc.

Same as before. You get paid tokens from single round tourney and free tokens from 3 round tourney.

I think they realized PvP is gonna die soon, so they no longer rush any features, and will release them with the expansion, using the media boom to lure people back.

According to rumors expansion is coming in the 2nd half of 2013 btw.

I wish I could share your faith this SOTG will be any diffirent than previous ones.

Part of me kinda hopes they’ll just throw a bunch of ‘when it’s ready’-ies on us. So I can just stop nurturing the foolish hopes this game will come back from the dead, and leave with everyone else.

You can tell PvP is dead when even Soluspise TS is almost empty.

Actually there’s only one soul in the world at 60+. And he’s pushing to r70 now.

My reasons for leaving, in order of freqency:
1. Because I can.
2. Joining game on a team losing 50-400
3. Tourney que pop
4. Capricorn
5. Teammates clearly incapable of using their brains
6. Spirit Watch

I’m more or less ok with rally…

What I’m not fine with is people doing more dps in downed state than when they’re alive. (Thief, Warrior, power Necro, Mesmer easily stacking 5+ comfusion permamently, not to mention the Rogue)

Also the diffirences between downed states are complete BS. Stomping Warrior/Engi/Necro is a joke, just need to dodge the CC. For Rangers and Guards you need stability. Thieves, Mesmers and Eles you gotta chase around.

How downed state should work imo is:
- All classes should have same skills when downed (like AoE CC+Heal+Suicide, that’s it)
- Removal of attack when downed. If you lost the fight while being alive, you should not be able to win it by throwing nuclear-powered rocks while lying on the ground.
- The only way to get up – being healed by yourself or ally.

I get those all the time. Skill doesn’t activate, but goes on cooldown anyway.

Oh well. Get used to it, we’re not getting fix anytime soon.

If we count NA and EU, current PvP community is what, 200 people?

Don’t expect any redesigns to please 200 people.

When considering only the new map, I’ld place Rangers in God tier, since they’re godlike orb runners. (With movement speed signet and GS/Sword+X)

8-10sec orb run? No problem.

There are plenty of ways to bring pvers to pvp:
- Gold
- Laurels
- Unique skins
- Gems
- Black Lion Key rewarded for… something (3 round tourney? daily?)

Will we ever see it happen? Maybe after current PvP community completely dies off and they’ld have to bring in people from PvE to keep PvP alive. (Who needs PvP developers if no one plays PvP?)

Hell with the tournaments. I see same people in hotjoins all the time.

Pyrial.2917:

Outline what ACTUAL resources are available to better limit our expectations.

Look at PvE patches.
Now imagine how much resources they must have avaliable.
Now imagine 2-5% of the above.
Here’s your answer.

@Verisuvalise I think I’m in love with you.

Larynx.2453:

As a warrior, how many viable options do you currently have?

Think about that for a second, then read your post. Then look at every other class, and read your post again.

I can have at least 15 variations of 100b build, each of them can be viable, it depends only on playstyle. In fact, I’m constantly iterating on my current build, and probably it’ll take some more time to find ‘perfect’ GS build.

Actually there’s more build diversity among GS warriors than most other classes in game. Look at shatter Mesmers or backstab Thieves. Most of them run the same, optimal build since like 4+ months.

I can troll around with Rifle or Longbow, which (and that’s quite funny) actually work pretty decent on a new map.

I can run without GS at all, and still make it work.

Options are there. You might not see them, but that doesn’t mean others are the same.

Zinwrath.2049:

developer creating the best possible build and saying “this is what you play, so you can be effective”.

I’ve heard of some builds made by developers. They’re nowhere near ‘being effective’.

milo.6942:

enemies can’t know hardly anything about traits you’ve selected. idk, was just a random rant about traits. :|

Actually that’s not true. If you play the class, you can often notice some details that would give away the traits enemy used.

Or you can just go to character select screen and back :P

So, what you’re saying is let’s dumb the game down to the point you don’t need to think about your build, just take what you’re given.

No, thx.

Sometimes I have it on, sometimes off. But usually still mash the button out of habit.

The only time I don’t mash the button is when playing shortbow ranger. As every good shortbow ranger, I just press it once and go afk – make some coffee, paint the garage, take a trip to Hawaii etc.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Auto attack baits out dodges for warriors attempting to burst.

I like your signature.

Well, I’ve seen couple dozen people quit, but being unable to play with friends was never the reason.

Completely agree about zergjoins though.

Frellin.6318:

mbh.8301:

1. You can play with your friends just fine in everything except WvW (for which you have the option to change worlds anyway, could be worse). Guesting is free, even if it’s way late.

This is a legitimate issue. I completely agree with the original poster’s post. As a member of a guild that focuses on PvP they have all quit with the majority feeling they can’t play with their friends in sPvP. This is just one issue among many that has turned players away from PvP.

Well…

Suddenly everyone loves Warriors…

Great idea, xiv. It’ld actually make a world of a diffirence.

Sadly, the only thing we’re getting in forseeable future are banner changes -.-

What shaolin said.

Soon there will be no one left who could make use of custom arenas, spectactor mode or whatever.

Mrbig.8019:

he had a car accident, maybe he won’t be able to get well in time.

Zoose did not resign, he just got a mail he’s being replaced.