Guild Wars 2

Luman.2380:

Will the decay system work correctly , or will it reset people back the the rank they were as soon as they play a game win or lose?

True decay.

In general, these types of issues are something that is best discussed with ESL’s admins, or failing that, myself via email. That said, I have begun investigating this incident and will be in touch.

Locking this thread as no further discussion is needed.

Hi all,

I just wanted to let you know that we’re aiming to activate the PvP League and the Guild Challenger League at 12pm Pacific on December 1 (tomorrow), which is a few hours after the release goes live. We’re introducing a number of new systems and we’d like to take a few hours to make sure they’re stable on live servers before fully activating leagues.

You can find more information on leagues here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-pvp-league-begins-on-december-1/

I’ll keep you posted in the event that the plan changes.

-Grouch

Aztex.4895:

Josh Davis.6015:

Brix.8461:

We have listened to your feedback and been looking at how we could make changes to the format but still follow our schedule and time available.

We have decided to make the Open Qualifiers on Saturday double elimination. On Saturday play will continue up until top 8. Top 8 will then be seeded into a single elimination bracket that will be played on Monday, the 4 winning teams will have secured themselves a spot in the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League. The matches on Monday will also be broadcasted live from our UK studios on http://twitch.tv/guildwars2.

Please keep in mind that this will make the tournament on Saturday run longer than first expected, we’ll do our best to keep delays a minimum and also hope that teams will do their part to have everything run smoothly.

Good luck to all participants

Many thanks to ESL for committing to running a double-elim 32 team bracket. That’s quite the undertaking!

Good luck, all!

Agreed. I’m happy with these changes but I am still disappointed about matches scheduled on Mondays at 18h00 CEST…. Why?!

Good question! There were a number of factors that ultimately contributed to our decision to run Pro League on Mondays:

• All Pro League matches will be broadcast in person from ESL’s Studios – meaning no more seeing Jebro’s dirty laundry in the background of his webcam. This brings two big dependencies:
  • We need a day when Jebro, Heurix, and Storm are all available to cast. These guys are jumping on a plane each week to shoutcast for us and trying to work with their schedule is important when you consider they all have other jobs or school.
  • ESL has a fairly booked schedule when it comes to studio availability considering they’re broadcasting some sort of every single day.
• Another big reason for Mondays is Twitch viewership. After looking at the schedule and viewership trends/data with ESL, we believe we can carve a place out for ourselves on Mondays and make sure we give it an appropriate amount of promotion from both us and our partners. We are exploring the idea of rebroadcasting Pro League on the weekend somewhere so anyone who missed the live cast can catch it. Thoughts?

Unfortunately, there isn’t a single day we could pick that would work for everyone, but we’re certainly trying out best to accommodate as many people as possible. This is why we announced the days that Pro League would take place well in advance of sign-ups – just to make sure people know what they’re getting into.

Pro League is obviously a big undertaking for us at ArenaNet, and we’ll undoubtedly iterate on the experience over the next few months and long into the future. I’m stoked.

As Brix mentioned above, you can find answers to a lot of these questions here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Pro-League-Open-Qualifiers-Sign-up-now/first#post5755165

:)

Brix.8461:

We have listened to your feedback and been looking at how we could make changes to the format but still follow our schedule and time available.

We have decided to make the Open Qualifiers on Saturday double elimination. On Saturday play will continue up until top 8. Top 8 will then be seeded into a single elimination bracket that will be played on Monday, the 4 winning teams will have secured themselves a spot in the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League. The matches on Monday will also be broadcasted live from our UK studios on http://twitch.tv/guildwars2.

Please keep in mind that this will make the tournament on Saturday run longer than first expected, we’ll do our best to keep delays a minimum and also hope that teams will do their part to have everything run smoothly.

Good luck to all participants

Many thanks to ESL for committing to running a double-elim 32 team bracket. That’s quite the undertaking!

Good luck, all!

As Colin mentioned in his The Road Ahead for 2015 blog, cleaning up combat visibility for both actual gameplay (the people in the game) and spectators is a priority for us and is something we’re actively working on. We shipped some changes to address this issue with HoT (such as having hit effects clean-up faster), but we know some of the newly introduced elite specs skills need to be cleaned up, and those fixes will continue to be rolled out in phases. For instance, we’ll be addressing some skills on an individual basis in our next release.

The goal is communicating the important things in combat – not over-communicating them.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Notice-on-Pro-Leagues-and-Region-Restrictions/first

Hi all,

I wanted to inform you that sign-ups for the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League Open Qualifiers will close this upcoming Friday (November 13) at 2pm CET for the European Open Qualifier, and 2pm Pacific for the North American Open Qualifier. Four slots per region are still up for grabs.

If you’re interested in participating in the open qualifier, please sign-up before the above times. You can sign-up for the tournament at the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League Portal: http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/pro-league-qualifiers

More information on the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro Leagues can be found here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-esl-guildwars2-pro-league/

Hi all,

There has been some confusion around Pro Leagues region restrictions and I’d like to take a moment to clear it up.

Over the past few years we haven’t been able to allow players outside of the US, Canada, Mexico, and the European Union to compete in events like the World Tournament Series. With the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro Leagues, all players will be able to compete regardless of the country they are from.

Now, even though we’re allowing anyone over the age of 16 to compete, we will still be restricting the regions these players can play in for the Pro League. For example, a player from NA can’t compete in Europe and vice versa. The newly added countries will be added to a region group based on geographical location and language. For example, players from Australia can play for NA teams, but not EU.

• Regions are defined below:
  • North America: North America, South America, Oceanic countries, Japan, Taiwan, Korea
  • Europe: Europe, Africa, Asia (excluding Japan, Taiwan, Korea)

Passed this along to the team.

Courtyard is no longer in unranked (or ranked) queue. Your options are “Conquest” or “Stronghold”.

Nice initiative. Will definitely be important for people to get up to speed if they intend to climb the ranks in PvP Leagues!

Hi all,

Academy Gaming will be helping you pass the time before Heart of Thorns a bit more quickly next week by hosting a Stronghold Tournament on Monday, October 19th, for both North America and Europe.

Per the usual, we will be awarding 2,000 gems to members of the first place team, with 800 gems going to each member of the second place team. In celebration of the upcoming Heart of Thorns launch, we’ll be giving a llama out to every member of every team that participates, regardless of placement.

Here’s a few things you should know:

• Sign-ups will be hosted at http://battlefy.com/academy-gaming for both NA and EU.
• The tournament begins at 10:30am Pacific (19:30 CEST) for EU, and 5:30pm Pacific for NA.
• The first 16 teams to check-in 60 minutes prior to the tournament will secure a spot, not necessarily the first 16 to sign-up.

The livestream will begin approximately 45-60 minutes after the tournament begins at http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2. Jebro and Brunners will be hosting the EU event, with Storm and Heurix hosting NA.

GLHF!

+1. Pls.

Looks like the other thread got moved over to the HoT forum.

Josh Davis.6015:

As mentioned on today’s GuildChat, we will indeed be adding a slew of new stat combos, runes, and sigils to sPvP with the launch of Heart of Thorns. A small example of what we’ll be adding are trapper runes and sinister stats, but there’s plenty more for you to discover on October 23.

As a note (and to address concerns), we won’t be adding dire stats or perplexity runes to sPvP. We’re vetting and discussing each and every rune/sigil/stat combo as a group before adding them in, with the main goal being improving build diversity.

I’ll also mention that we’re going to be changing the 6/6 bonus on Vampirism. After HoT launch it will no longer proc Mist Form at 25% hp, but will instead cast an AoE lifesteal to up to 5 nearby targets. This will reduce the binary defensive nature of the rune and bring it more inline with similar sets.

There’s going to be a lot of change with the launch next week, and we’re going to be watching balance very closely in all game modes. We will be working to address any emergent gameplay we’re not comfortable with as quickly as possible.

-Grouch

PS, thank you Roy and Izzy for getting these changes in.

As mentioned on today’s GuildChat, we will indeed be adding a slew of new stat combos, runes, and sigils to sPvP with the launch of Heart of Thorns. A small example of what we’ll be adding are trapper runes and sinister stats, but there’s plenty more for you to discover on October 23.

As a note (and to address concerns), we won’t be adding dire stats or perplexity runes to sPvP. We’re vetting and discussing each and every rune/sigil/stat combo as a group before adding them in, with the main goal being improving build diversity.

I’ll also mention that we’re going to be changing the 6/6 bonus on Vampirism. After HoT launch it will no longer proc Mist Form at 25% hp, but will instead cast an AoE lifesteal to up to 5 nearby targets. This will reduce the binary defensive nature of the rune and bring it more inline with similar sets.

There’s going to be a lot of change with the launch next week, and we’re going to be watching balance very closely in all game modes. We will be working to address any emergent gameplay we’re not comfortable with as quickly as possible.

-Grouch

Haha, thanks…or maybe not. :P

<3

Edit: didn’t realize this was locked. Forgive me mods!

Hmmm, new amulets. Aside from zealots, anything else you folks think would be interesting?

Serious Thought.5394:

That is probably the fastest response I have ever seen >.>

How about this one!

Interesting. Shoot me a PM with your alt account’s display name.

The Call of the Mists buff is now active.

Replacing dropped players has come up in internal conversation before – but ultimately I don’t think the solution works for Guild Wars 2. We’ll be bringing dishonor back with PvP Leagues which should help with this issue considerably.

Tune in to the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel on Wednesday, October 14, for the finals of the September Go4GuildWars2 series, where the top teams from their respective regions will clash for the combined cash prize pool of over $3,000 USD. These teams have been facing off every Sunday for the last month to earn the opportunity to play in the finals — come cheer them on!

On Wednesday at 10 a.m. PST, Daniel “Jebro” Littleton will be joined by James “Kaelaris” Carrol for the European cast, live from the ESL Studios in Cologne, Germany. The action continues at 4 p.m. PST (midnight UTC) with Joe “Storm” Nowasell and Heurix hosting the North American Go4GuildWars2 Finals.

Information on the European finals can be found here: http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/go4guildwars2-europe/september-2015-finals/rankings/

Information on the North American finals can be found here:
http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/go4guildwars2-northamerica/monthly-final-september-2015/rankings/

Just want to make sure the “devs” part of this thread was complete.

S Tier
Josh “Grouch” Davis

D Tier
Hugh “Nightmare” Norfolk

Definitely seems fishy. We’re going to have a server programmer check it out this evening. Thanks for your patience!

Josh Davis.6015:

As a note, we’re aware of the odd interaction between elementalist downstate and Vampirism runes and are tracking a fix for an upcoming build.

Rune of Vamp downstate bug was fixed on Tuesday.

Editing for clarity:

This behavior is working as intended. This could of course change in the future, but for now this is not classified as a bug.

Whew, some of that stuff was pretty outdated. I pulled out most of the old content as a start.

Like I said before, if anyone reading this has an idea of some helpful information for our newer players, let me know and I’ll add it in.

T raw.4658:

Josh Davis.6015:

As a note, we’re aware of the odd interaction between elementalist downstate and Vampirism runes and are tracking a fix for an upcoming build.

What about the Overpowered interaction of stack 4 eles?

I believe 4 class stacking is against ESL rules. As for the elementalist itself, we’re looking into it.

So, I can’t go into much detail on things quite yet, but I just wanted to reassure you folks that we’re actively discussing a number of issues that are affecting balance in PvP – including, but not limited to elementalist sustain/damage. Per the usual, we’ll be talking to you folks about the changes once we’ve finalized them.

Sorry I haven’t been that active on the forums lately – we’ve been pretty busy around the office.

“Thanks, Grouch. You’re the worst!”

Edit: Also, just because this is an elementalist thread doesn’t mean we’re only looking at elementalist, and it also doesn’t mean we’re only looking at doing nerfs.

As a note, we’re aware of the odd interaction between elementalist downstate and Vampirism runes and are tracking a fix for an upcoming build.

Thanks for the reminder, Thiefz. I’ll add updating that guide to my to-do list. In the mean time I’m open to suggestions for things to elaborate on/update.

Hi all,

Thank you for participating in the Desert Borderlands Invitational on July 30th – there were a lot of great fights that day, and it was awesome seeing the new borderlands map played similar to how it will on Live.

Those who participated in the three hour event have been distributed the following rewards:

First place (Anvil Rock): 5x Celebration Boosters + 3x Firework packs
Second place (Yak’s Bend): 3x Celebration Boosters
Third place (Borlis Pass): 1x Celebration Boosters

Thanks!

Jasher.6580:

1:00 a.m. Pacific Time?

You can do it, Jasher!

Brackets can be found here.

As mentioned in Colin’s BWE1 announcement blog:

While playing this weekend, don’t forget to tune in Saturday (August 8th) at 10:00 a.m. CEST (1:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to our WTS Championship event, live from the show floor at gamescom. The four top PvP teams from around the world will compete for bragging rights and $50,000 in prizes. We’ll also be announcing the details of one of our Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns features during the course of the tournament live on stream – you won’t want to miss it!

Livestream: www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

Complete event details can be found here.

I’m seeing “no rally” pop-up a lot.

Thoughts?

There’s some cool ideas here, folks. I’ll pass it along to the team.

This restriction has been lifted. You can now Cancel Build on blueprints.

Hi all,

Due to unintended behavior, we have temporarily disabled the ability for players to use the skill “Cancel Build” (skill #2) for all WvW siege blueprints.

You can still place siege sites as normal, you will just not be able to return the blueprints to your inventory once you have attempted to use them.

Thanks,

Josh

Opeth The Great.9251:

Should be a way to “opt in” the newsletters i guess :/

Dont have fast enough internet to download the whole thing in a few hours, so I guess im stuck to watching streams then.

But thanks anyway Josh Davis

It uses the new streaming client, so you don’t actually need the full download. Only about 5-6 gigs, I believe.

Opeth The Great.9251:

I was invited through Shin’s stream but i havent gotten any notifications :S
How do i get in`? !help

If you opt out of our newsletter you probably didn’t get an email. Try logging into your account management page and seeing if the client is available for download there.

We’re on! Go ahead and start logging into the client.

Thanks for waiting!

I’ll have an update of some sort in about 20-30 minutes. Stay tuned!

Hi all,

As we were running through our final checks before today’s Desert Borderlands Stress Test we ran into a technical issue that is currently preventing us from starting on time. We are currently working on a fix for this issue, and I will update this thread with more information once it is available.

Thank you for your patience,
Josh

Let me clarify:

Since the 6/23 release, dozens upon dozens of players have sent me bugs, exploits, suggestions – etc. This particular group of players decided to put their feedback into a document that they could all edit and then shoot over to me to take a look at. It has been particularly helpful in for nailing down a number of balance affecting bugs, similar to the comprehensive lists that have popped up in a number of the profession forums.

So, to be very clear: this list is neither written nor maintained by myself or anyone else at ArenaNet. It is a list of issues (bugs and balance) that players would like to see addressed.

Let me clarify:

Since the 6/23 release, dozens upon dozens of players have sent me bugs, exploits, suggestions – etc. This particular group of players decided to put their feedback into a document that they could all edit and then shoot over to me to take a look at. It has been particularly helpful in for nailing down a number of balance affecting bugs, similar to the comprehensive lists that have popped up in a number of the profession forums.

So, to be very clear: this list is neither written nor maintained by myself or anyone else at ArenaNet. It is a list of issues (bugs and balance) that players would like to see addressed.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Grenadier-Temporarily-Disabled/first

Due to its current unintended behavior, the Grenadier trait has been temporarily disabled until the next scheduled release. If you were using this trait, we suggest you select a different one until the trait is re-enabled.

Wanted to clear something up:

Power Block had its damage unintentionally increased with the 6/23 release. The reduction wasn’t a “nerf” – it was a bug fix. It still does the same damage it did before the 6/23 release.

As for Maimed, we wanted to address it before the build went out but we ran out of time. I agree that it would have been better to have adjusted it before you guys got your hands on the new build, but there just wasn’t time. Sorry about this.

For staff cd trait – conditional recharge is something new we’re trying out. The high cd reduction uptime that we were seeing right out of the gate wasn’t something we felt comfortable with. If it feels really weak after this we’ll come back to it and look at it again.

Anyways, as Peters said, we’re keeping a really close eye on everything right now and things will definitely continue to shift as we discover and evaluate how things take shape across the game.

Hope that addresses a few of your questions.

Night!