No the system should be kept as is. The leaderboards already show who has the best win percentages and ranks on the leaderboard are based on player rating so it’s fine.
Emotes however should remain earned through time spent on the game. It was the same in Guild Wars 1 where the players that played the most got the better emotes.
Team stacking is a huge problem in hotjoins. I see people switch to the winning team every single match. I also see people camping spectator mode to see which team comes out ahead in the first few minutes and joining that team.
It’d be nice if we got GW1’s random arenas as an option for hotjoin. Random team, random map, no team stacking. The dishonor system from GW1 would also be nice: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dishonor
It’s surprising that so many of these features are missing from GW2.
I agree, very disappointing how Gw1 had perfectly made features and Gw2 doesn’t even bother with them.
Exactly. GW1 had 1-click random arenas. Theres nothing like that in GW2.
Necromancers are very strong now yes but they did need a few buffs because before the patch they were trash in PVE. Now they can deal a nice amount of damage.
Their healing skills could be reworked though. Maybe increase the recharge on consume conditions or limit the amount of conditions consumed to 5. Or how about making summon blood fiend viable in PVX lol. Or they could just nerf Fetid Consumption.
ArenaNet gave warriors 2 ranged weapons and several traits to go along with them. Don’t try to pigeon-hole warriors into a melee-only role.
Warriors are better with rifles than engineers in PVE and their longbow is ok I guess (I don’t personally use it).
But I do agree warrior’s melee options need to be improved, especially with sword main-hand and off-hand, shield, and mace main-hand.
Thanks to all the engineers that signed up. Hope to see you all there at the tourney.
Current signups: 5 starters + 4 bench.
Engineer Starting Squad
Name: Tiny Koroshi US
Account Name: sirkoroshi.5920
Rank: 9
Name: Atoma
Account Name: PWNcakesAndROFLs.8263
Rank: 25
Name: Eubulus
Account Name: Isaac.6041
Rank: 12
Name: NÖvahkiin/HemophiliÄ
Account Name: NovaScience.1096
Rank: 30
Name: jo bee
Account Name: dan matthews.2736
Rank: 10
Bench Squad
Name: Malchior
Account Name: Malchior.5042
Rank: 4
Name: il egineer il
Account Name: harold.1074
Rank: 6
Name: Prydein
Account Name: johnpoc.8732
Rank: 8
Name: Johnny Ram
Account Name: Hammerguard.9834
Rank: 22
Warrior team looks OK atm but they could use more help on the bench squad!
Current signups: 5 starters + 2 bench.
Warrior Starting Squad
Name: Deany Kong
Account Name: robocafaz.9017
Rank: 16(?)
Youtube channel: youtube.com/robocafaz
Name: Kaga Konikora
Account Name: Kaga.7629
Rank: 25-26ish
Name: Olrun The Blade
Account Name: OlrunTheBlade.1486
Rank: 27
Name: Ferrum Blacktide
Account Name: Viking Jorun.5413
Rank: 15
Name: Tempest Behemoth
Account Name: Chimerael.2361
Rank: 28
Bench Squad
Name: jacawannabie
Account name: loseridoit.2756
Rank: 26
Name: Parmesan Stick
Account Name: Oreoginal.1580
Rank: 19
Guardians look OK, there’s still time to sign up for the bench squad though. Tournament starts today at 4pm Pacific 7pm Eastern
Current signups: 5 starters + 2 bench.
Guardian Starting Squad
Name: Uturunku Yana
Account Name: Blasino.3128
Rank: 12
Name: Kharel
Account Name: Kharel Arhew.1437
Rank: 7
Name: Devils Choice
Account Name: Devils.3679
Rank: 14
Name: Spritana
Account Name: FightJ.2958
Rank: 25
Name: Lycarous
Account Name: Emf.1240
Rank: 15
Bench Squad
Name: Mr Mobos
Account Name: Darek.1836
Rank: 22
Name: The Bee Gee
Account Name: saucedinho.1085
Rank: 15
Come on necromancers and sign up! The tournament is TODAY at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern. With all the necromancer changes in the patch, this is a good time to play necromancer!
Current signups: 4 starters + 2 bench.
Necromancer Starting Squad
Name: Sparthir
Account Name: Nighthawks.7946
Rank: 17
Name: Kharne
Account Name: Ahriman Tomb
Rank: 26
Name: Robin Thorun
Account Name: robinoz.3958
Rank: 16
Name: DiV Woozchah
Account name: Woozchah.6258
Rank: 20
Bench Squad
Name: Maestra De Muerte
Account Name: Bhawb.7408
Rank: 18
Name: Vainbird
Account Name: Vainbird.1264
Rank: 27
I feel like necromancers are better now in pve with the new Dhuumfire trait etc. I’ve retraited to 30/30/0/10/0 and it seems a lot better than before killing trash mobs. Gotta do some dungeons and fractals though to investigate further.
This still appears to be broken for me.
20% more damage while under 50% health. Who’s going to be taking this? Is the risk worth it vs the reward?
I suggest Guardian or Engineer. They both synergize well with warrior. Or just stick with your Mesmer.
If the viability of several builds of a class depends on ONE or TWO traits, then something is completely wrong with this class and it should be reworked.
Exactly.
I think ArenaNet should try moving IC to a Master Adept Trait or Minor/Master Master Trait instead of pushing it all the way to Grandmaster first.
The current change is too big for a lot of players.
The BIG nerfs are that Berserker’s Power and Heightened Focus are being moved to Grandmaster traits while other more useless traits are being moved down.
30 10 0 0 30 dual axe build now dude.
I was thinking the same thing.
An alternative for greatswords I think would be 30 30 0 10 0 with the new empowered trait.
I’d be thoroughly interested, would like to know what time it’ll be hosted in GMT 10+ if possible
Currently rank 20
IGN: DiV Woozchah
Account name: Woozchah.6258
(in game mail is a much more viable method of contacting me)
16:00:00 Wednesday June 26, 2013 in GMT-8 converts to
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My Mesmer never used Illusionists Celerity anyway.
I used to think traits that reduced cooldowns were really good but I think the game is supposed to be balanced around NORMAL cooldowns.
If you can’t play the game with normal cooldowns then that’s a problem.
If this is true, then we will get screwed over by Last Refuge 33% more often…
I agree. Last Refuge needs to be switched with Slowed Pulse or something like that.
Turrets are ok in fractals. I used healing turret on the champion grawl shaman boss. The healing turret didn’t take any dmg from the burning. Cool.
Ya this elixir R change doesn’t make much sense. The recharge on it is already too long.
I was never one to complain about buffs but from the unofficial release notes, it looks like almost every class is getting a ton of buffs and it’s a little disturbing.
Yes, ArenaNet in the past has nerfed many skills to the point of uselessness. But this patch seems to be going to the opposite extreme of making everything overpowered.
You can say no problem we all needed some buffs, but just remember the monsters will probably be buffed too.
Since I have an 80 of each class I’ll have a lot of new stuff to play with if all these changes are made. Hope they don’t make the game worse in the long run though.
Engineers are not bad in PvE imo a few of these grenade engineers can really pack a punch in fractals.
Name: Eubulus
Account Name: Isaac.6041
Rank: 12
Who says the new matchup system doesn’t give fun and balanced matchups. On the NA side, Tiers 1 4 5 6 7 all look balanced to me.
Yes there are 3 blowouts. But the same thing happened before the new system was introduced with the old and stale matches.
From May 25 to June 1 we had blowouts in Tiers 4 5 and 8.
This week we have them in 2 3 and 8.
At least the new system gives us some variety.
We ran into this problem last week where one guild already had the guild rush we were assigned activated with like 15 min left.
Our plan was to wait it out and let their timer expire before we activated ours so we could have the full 30 min for those that are slower with guild rushes
However some of my members went on to do the other guild’s activated rush and they got their commendations and chest. They claimed they did not accept the reward at the end but someone must have accepted the reward and then in our guild log it said guild rush completed.
So I had to build another rush. Upon activating the new rush, we find the same situation, another guild has already started a rush over there. So we just said screw it and do this rush that the other guild started to get our commendations.
It’s a small problem right now but it could become bigger with more guilds doing missions and having to share bounties/challenges/rushes/puzzles.
It seems ArenaNet should implement some sort of “do not take credit for other guild’s activated missions checkbox” to avoid this type of conflict instead of giving EVERY guild member a prompt at the end of the mission. The prompt that is currently given should only be shown to guild leaders or officers with the mission control checkbox.
Yes, I’ve seen this bug before. I’m not sure if intentionally failing that part of the puzzle resets the broodmother or not. That might work for now.
Yes, this happened 3 times to my guild last week doing the Blightwater Shatterstrike – Blazeridge Steppes guild challenge.
On our first 3 tries, we finished the challenge very quickly like 3-4 min and none of the crystals regenned to full health.
On our 4th try, we dragged it out a little, broke a few crystals early let them regen and whittled them down again and finished with 10 min left out of 20.
We finally were awarded merits on our 4th try.
Well my guild tried to do crab scuttle the other week on an overflow shard. We did manage to get all 15 rushes in VERY fast I might add. However, we were not awarded the merits. I guess it was because we did it on an overflow shard instead of our home server.
There’s also another problem I’d like to address in a separate thread of sharing guild missions with other guilds. It seems to be becoming a bigger problem.
At the moment, guild puzzle feels very close to a raid or guild raid.
All that’s missing is a big boss to kill and maybe some more trash mobs and sub-bosses.
And loot that isn’t limited to once a week.
If guild raids (or advanced guild jumping puzzles are introduced), hope we can get daily rewards from them at least.
If you want guild commendations later today after reset, join us.
With Commander, you get some more people that will listen to you and follow you around.
Is it worth the 100 gold?
Yes, for sure, if you’re not scared of actually using it.
This means you buy it with the intention of having the commander icon up most of the time. And you don’t let other people bully you into turning it off when having it on is perfectly fine in most situations.
Any historians know what have been the closest WvW matches in history.
This match was pretty close (not over yet for 30 min):
Crystal Desert 208 244
Yak’s Bend 202 545
Kaineng 200 724
Casual players enter CoF regularly. There are sites like gw2bear.com that show you when the entrance is uncontested on which servers. If you can’t be bothered to use sites like this and gw2lfg.com to help you enter CoF fast, well that’s your problem.
Hi, my guild Evil Angels [EA] on Crystal Desert (North American server) is offering temporary memberships to players in need of guild commendations. All that we ask you to do is participate in the guild missions.
Here is the current mission order on Saturday reset time:
Guild bounty, guild challenge, guild rush, and guild trek. Guild puzzle is currently being built and we expect to have it finished later this week.
If you like to be a more permanent member, then just represent our guild for promotion.
Contact me Isaac.6041 in game if you are interested in a temporary/permanent membership. I will also be making postings on gw2lfg.com and advertising in Lion’s Arch for assistance with guild missions.
(edited by Isaac.6041)
My guild just did the Blightwater Shatterstrike guild challenge three times and the guild system still didn’t give us credit for the completion. We finished it successfully all 3 times. What gives? Is there a delay before our completions are recognized? Do we have to keep repeating it over and over until it awards completion/merits?
The only servers that deserve free transfers are the bottom rung below 1000 ratings points: Vabbi, Fissure of Woe, Eredon Terrace, and Ferguson’s Crossing. None of the other servers should have free transfers unless their rating points also fall below 1000 rating points.
Sounds like some server is losing and wants to blame their wvw population and Arenanet must come up with a solution for them.
That’s not ArenaNet’s responsibility. You want more wvw population then you must draw more people to your server.
ArenaNet only has a few ways to help you: give your server free/discounted transfers, change the name of your server, mark your server as “medium/high/very high/full”, promote your server on their home page.
Most of these things wont work because they will lead to accusations of bias. And they certain will not autobalance the servers in terms of population or force players to be on servers they don’t want to play on.
They gave free transfers to Medium population servers a while back; a few people still got angry. You’ll probably see less of these promotions now.
Nice picture. It looks like Dragonbrand worked hard for their points.
2. There were plenty of interesting matchups this week.
What a nice matchup
Mos currently shows that Gunnar’s Hold and Arborstone are GAINING dozens of rating points by losing badly on points in these matches.
So they really don’t need to worry too much.
Wow what a letdown. Hopefully, they can fix the issues before the reset.
Rangers and thieves are not the lowest of the low imo. They have some pretty good dps when built right.
Worst imo is necro. Their ranged attacks are awful. Axe is ok but the range is often too small.
All the guild missions are kind of like dungeons. Especially guild puzzle.
Assume all fractals are speedruns unless otherwise stated. Most players want them done fast.
I agree with your comments Bright. They are always quick to fix ‘exploits’ but very slow to fix or address real issues brought up by the community.
And if it is not obvious by now, then it should be. They do NOT care about our complaints. Bugs will be reported for months, and when a dev finally makes a comment concerning said bug it is only to say that it is working fine. Meaning they don’t even know that it is broken.
Players have documented bugs, given proof of bugs, and yet still no action or acknowledgement by the powers that be. They act like they don’t know the bug exists and keep on smiling. I really don’t know what it will take to get them to address some of their bugs.
How about adding pointless changes like the icons to the aquatic fractals or adjusting the mountainside of the snowblind fractal. It took them some time to make these very minor changes. How about fixing some real bugs instead like the party ui issues.
It looks like ArenaNet mixed up the code for crude salvage kits with master salvage kits.
I remember a thread a while ago that showed that crude salvage kits return ecto at a rate of 50%.
So now master salvage kits are overpriced pieces of junk. Buy crude salvage kits all the time!