I think your top 3 choices are Ranger, Guardian, and Warrior because of their downed skills. These allow you to recover out of downed state more easily.
There’s also the fact that major services previously available in LA are not available in Vigils Keep but are available in the airship if you want to pay for it.
Also no more free waypoints in Lion’s Arch with this new patch.
If you don’t have PVE zergs in Queensdale or Harathi Hinterlands on Sea of Sorrows then I suggest guesting on Jade Quarry, Blackgate or Tarnished Coast to see if there are any groups there that just go around farming champions. Otherwise, follow the schedule of Dynamic events…. Frozen Maw in Wayfarer Foothills, Fire Elemental in Metrica Province, Great Jungle Wurm in Caledon Forest, Shadow Behemoth in Queensdale, Slay the Shatterer, Kill the Dredge Commissar, Kill Inquest Golem Mark II, etc.
Sea of Sorrows meh it’s ok I guess. I don’t suggest server changes unless they’re heavily on sale (discounted) or free. You can always guest on another server in your region NA or Europe.
and would like to know if people’s opinions have changed on when to stop farming Essence of Luck? It seems most people advised stopping within the 100% to 200% MF range. Any new suggestions?
PAX was a good start. Hopefully ArenaNet can have more official tournaments with nice rewards like in Guild Wars 1. To me it seems like some people quit or are taking a break because they lost the prelims which is understandable.
Not everyone’s going to win the grand prize. Congratulations to winner Car Crash and runner up Team Sync. Enjoy the money!
If what you say it’s true, then CC isn’t eligible to access PAX final, cause they played in a rigged tournament, and got favoured by it. (See what I did there?)
Sax to be a fanboy, doesn’t it?
Nah, ArenaNet probably already bought the plane tickets for Car Crash and they’re in the mail.
Car Crash members are shopping around for clothes and luggage and going to look their very best for PAX. Go Car Crash! Can’t wait to see all the nice pictures from PAX.
Yes, TP beat Car Crash in 3 out of 5 matches but it counts for nothing because they broke the rules and got disqualified. By the way, Car Crash won 2 out of the first 3 matches.
And also, Car Crash beat TP in several more pre-tournament practice rounds. Those don’t count for nothing either.
Car Crash won the prize. The other stuff was just minor bragging rights and mumbo jumbo.
You are asserting that Car Crash lost but that’s not the case. They were fighting a team with ineligible participant(s).
To win the tournament, you must play by the rules. Car Crash respected the rules. TP did not. So Car Crash wins. If you want to know what happens to players that don’t play by the rules, just take a look at Lance Armstrong, you get all your prizes stripped away.
The only thing I “asserted” was the the words in italics. From the very beginning you framed my words, and put meaning into my words, that I never stated anywhere. I can apparently waste time defending things I never said.
Armstrong used a (several even) performance-promoting stimulant; how on earth can you compare that to this. That is like comparing a rodents and a dolphins forage habits based on them both being mammals. Last I checked, being a UAE-citizen isn’t in itself a performance-promoting variable.
You don’t seem to get what I am saying: CC lost to a team (TC/TP) on even terms in 3 out of 5 matches, where they all – to the best of my knowledge- gave their best. No one were using any means to promote their skills. To my knowledge, they all had the impression, that they played about a place in the finals. In other words: to everyone that watched and the players, it mattered – to my knowledge.
What I am baffled about, is that it was resolved so late. From what I read, TP/TC did an effort to figure this out earlier (in case you can’t read this properly, I am not blaming anyone here). For the sake of the games popularity, I find the way things have unravelled unfortunate (not blaming anyone, again). Is this clear enough?
You can talk TP/TC down all you want with your “mumbo jumbo”; it seems to me to be a bit of a crusade for you? Why is TC/TP such an issue for you?
TP/TC lost because they were disqualified.
But you’re coming here and claiming that they won fair and square. No, they had ineligible members so they shouldn’t have even played in the tournament in the first place. That means all those matches where you saw them “win” should never have happened because they made Mist League believe they were eligible and submitted registrations for players that were obviously ineligible.
Many people complained on the forums on how TP seemingly ignored the eligibility rules. I see this ruling by ArenaNet as justice being served and a warning to future teams that might try this shady business. It’s not going to work. You’re going to get caught and disqualified.
Again, it’s team that got disqualified and had no business being in the tournament. They lost. They’re not going to PAX. They should have read and followed the eligibility requirements.
However, we must disqualify the team based on the stated rules and to be fair to other teams who complied with our eligibility requirements in forming their teams.
It is our goal to make events like this open to as many players as possible; however, we must adhere to the fact that every country or state has unique legal requirements and rules for running tournaments and awarding prizes that apply to their citizens.
Yes, TP beat Car Crash in 3 out of 5 matches but it counts for nothing because they broke the rules and got disqualified. By the way, Car Crash won 2 out of the first 3 matches.
And also, Car Crash beat TP in several more pre-tournament practice rounds. Those don’t count for nothing either.
Car Crash won the prize. The other stuff was just minor bragging rights and mumbo jumbo.
You are asserting that Car Crash lost but that’s not the case. They were fighting a team with ineligible participant(s).
To win the tournament, you must play by the rules. Car Crash respected the rules. TP did not. So Car Crash wins. If you want to know what happens to players that don’t play by the rules, just take a look at Lance Armstrong, you get all your prizes stripped away.
They had the same time that everyone else did to find eligible teammates. Car Crash formed up relatively recently and almost won outright so of course individual members are replaceable and you don’t necessarily need months and months of practice to win the tourney.
Almost winning is still losing, right? And that is in no way meant degrading towards CC or anything … they were great. But they still lost, no matter how you coat it.
I think it is fairly safe to say, that in competitive sports it takes a long time to build up a team. I have some (a lot even) RL-experience in high level professional sport to back up my view. I can’t see how this is different, but maybe you can? From what I know TP/TC have known each other for along time … that would not exactly make it easier, would it?
I do believe the game benefits from having visible, constructive players who have given the community a lot in the finals. For several reasons I think it would be even more the case if they have been a team for a while.
No, Car Crash ultimately didn’t lose in the end. They won the trip to Seattle via disqualification. You heard about that U.S. swim team that just got disqualified for jumping the gun right at the world championships. They didn’t win; they lost.
Car Crash won the prize, the trip to Seattle, and the opportunity to win $2500 or $7500.
TP lost via disqualification so they get zero, zilch, zippo, nada, just like the U.S. swim team.
I wonder if the folks at team curse are regretting their decision to rebrand TP now.
Maybe a disqualification from PAX is like ARod getting suspended.
Well we don’t really know where the GW2 PVP scene is headed after this so maybe TP/TC has time to recover for future tournaments. Seems like a big blow though.
They were disqualified not banned. If they follow the eligibility rules next time, maybe then they could claim a prize.
It’s not baffling at all for ArenaNet to disqualify them and to enforce the rules.
Teams should be responsible enough to inspect their own members and make sure every single member is eligible to play in the tournament. What were the other 4 members of TP/TC thinking to take on the HUGE risk of having a possibly and now clearly ineligible teammate.
Other teams made decisive cuts and dropped underage or otherwise ineligible team members and TP/TC should have done the same.
What you are talking about is basically saying “replace Mogwow if he were ineligible with someone else”.
And it’s a meaningless reply because by the very nature of the long term involvement of these players in their respective teams, it’s not a simple case of replacement. Maintaining teams is as much about the chemistry and relationship between the team members as it is about bringing someone in with good performance.
Replacing Xeph WILL have a considerably negative impact on them considering for how long their team setup and dynamics have included him. It’ll take months for another player to ease into the same quality of dynamic.
They had the same time that everyone else did to find eligible teammates. Car Crash formed up relatively recently and almost won outright so of course individual members are replaceable and you don’t necessarily need months and months of practice to win the tourney.
They were disqualified not banned. If they follow the eligibility rules next time, maybe then they could claim a prize.
It’s not baffling at all for ArenaNet to disqualify them and to enforce the rules.
Teams should be responsible enough to inspect their own members and make sure every single member is eligible to play in the tournament. What were the other 4 members of TP/TC thinking to take on the HUGE risk of having a possibly and now clearly ineligible teammate.
Other teams made decisive cuts and dropped underage or otherwise ineligible team members and TP/TC should have done the same.
Interesting idea. I think they should also dispose of the minor/major trait system and just let people pick 2 traits per tier. That way we can turn off those “bad” minor traits.
It’s really sad Guild Wars 2 has emphasized PVE much more than sPvP (or WvW even). GW1 had much better PVP support imo. Skyhammer was supposed to be a fun new tournament map but then they took it out because of a few complaints. Boring.
Mesmer has been and still is a must-take in every tPvP match because of its utilities. In the current meta Mesmer didn’t survived because of not-so-good condition removals. After you’ll bring again Mesmer in the meta, it will be again a must take in every team because of portal, IoL, Moa/TW and so on.
What a joke. No teams as far as I know used a mesmer in the NA tournament we had yesterday and today. Mesmers are weak and have been overnerfed and many of their utilities and weapon skills are just trash.
I can’t help but laugh that if the original rules were followed and the finals were best of 3 in both the EU and NA tournaments, we would have two completely different teams at PAX.
Some issues were raised about the best of 5 finals giving an advantage to the Saturday winner but that clearly wasn’t the case today! Go SYNC! Comeback kids!
Completely rework the mesmers, scrap the shattering mechanic and bring back the “illusions” from GW1 with decent spells such as Arcane Conundrum, Wandering Eye, Signet of Clumsiness, Clumsiness.. or atleast alter Polymorph Moa so the opponent you hex doesn’t actually get stronger by becoming a gigantic bird.
Interesting idea to bring back that “increased cast time” mechanic from GW1.
Great matches today! The last two matches for AL was the true test. Hopefully AL can keep going.
A lot of the matches today we’re very tame compare to EU matches.
If you think that was a true test, wait for them to play the winner of the bottom bracket… it’s stacked.
Yeah, today’s matches were mostly lopsided and I don’t think I saw too many close matches in the 400-500 range. Hoping tomorrow’s will be more exciting.
Tournament Organizer said in twitch chat that Two Teams were no shows in Round 1!
Frozen Throners [LeeT] and Kuroko NO Basuke both teams bailed out and took spots other teams could have used! So Really Nice Guys got a bye in round 2!
Lol I think you are exaggerating the situation somewhat. I think CC has cooled off mostly but their complaints of the handling of the EU tournament definitely should impact the NA tournament.
No more of that Bo5 baloney for the regional finals. And scheduling of matches should not give one team a “well-rested” advantage.
Funny thing is in that bracket the Finals are listed as Best of 3. And it has TP winning over CC by 2 to 1. That clearly ISN’T what happened. (It was 3 to 2.)
Bo3 to Bo5 change favors teams that are good with Forest of Nifhel and Legacy of Foefire while giving a disadvantage to those that have practiced on Battle of Kyhlo.
Yes, the brackets are incorrect, but it was also made clear before all of the matches that it would be a BO5. Members of both teams have already shared their thoughts on this matter and (most) members have owned up to the events. If a team isn’t good at a map then they should practice it more. It seems like you’re just trying to find excuses now. Are you trying to reason on CC’s side? Because Forest of Nifhel isn’t an advantageous map for TP. Both teams gave amazing matches and there’s more tournies to come anyways. The tournament organizers can learn from their first official tournament in order to better the upcoming ones.
Finding excuses for what? For the tournament organizer breaking their own rules? I’m not on TP or CC and CC seems to have accepted their loss. However, ArenaNet needs to lock down this issue with their partners for future tournaments.
It seems that the shoutcasters bullied the teams into the Bo5 setup which favored the team that was less tired. CC got tricked by the shoutcasters so of course I’m going to sympathize with them and slam the shoutcasters and TO for their deceptions.
Funny thing is in that bracket the Finals are listed as Best of 3. And it has TP winning over CC by 2 to 1. That clearly ISN’T what happened. (It was 3 to 2.)
Bo3 to Bo5 change favors teams that are good with Forest of Nifhel and Legacy of Foefire while giving a disadvantage to those that have practiced on Battle of Kyhlo.
Those are all fair points, but you MUST put it in the rules before the tournament starts. As a TO you cannot change the rules mid-tournament if you want this to become a popular thing as it will completely undermine any trust in you as the TO. In a competitive setting the rules are absolute, and if you as the TO is not above breaking them you cannot expect the teams to follow the rules either.
Agreed. You don’t just change the World Series to best of 9 or best of 5 or best of 3 just because you think it will “add excitement”. World Series is best of 7 and that’s final.
Rules are rules and they should have been followed. Hopefully, they will be next weekend.
Players who engage in unsportsmanlike, disruptive, annoying, harassing or threatening conduct or violate any rule, gain unfair advantage in participating in the Tournament, or attempt to obtain winner status using fraudulent means, including, without limitation, cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair practices, in Tournament Organizer’s sole discretion, will have their team disqualified. Players must abide by all rules and regulations of the Tournament and must comply with all requests and directions of Tournament Organizer. Tournament Organizer reserves the right to disqualify any Player from participation at any time and for any reason.
It does seem a little deceptive to say Bo3 in the rules and then switch it to Bo5 in the tournament. The rules also say both teams are pretty much forced to comply with TO instructions or else they’ll be disqualified.
