Guild Wars 2

Thanks for watching today, all. It was actually kind of refreshing just getting to talk a bit of shop for once! Reminded me of the old State of the Game days (RIP).

Hey all,

Sorry for the late announcement, everyone! Today I’ll be riding solo in the studio, but I’ll be joined by Sizer, Denshee, ROM, and Blu via Skype. I’ll be talking with the guys about last weekend’s European Tournament of Legends, as well as making some predictions on the outcome of this weekend’s North American version.

Feel free to respond below if you have any questions you’d like me to ask ROM/Sizer/Denshee/Blu about their comp, strategy, builds, thoughts, favorite food, favorite movie, etc, and I’ll try to get them answered for you.

You can catch the livestream here: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2
Time: 12PM PDT (May 2nd)

Thanks for the post, Blu.

Stickied.

Congratulations to The Civilized Gentlemen for winning the European Tournament of Legends!

First Place: TCG

• Helseth
• Tage
• Denshee
• Sizer
• ROM

Second Place: 55HP Monks

• Niah
• Aldemiri
• Maylo
• Misha
• Shad

That last game on Khylo was a blast! Really great showing by all of the teams involved in the tournament. Don’t forget we’ll be running another Tournament of Legends in June/July!

Big thanks to Blu/Sireph, the Authorized Shoutcasters, DPS, our ESL admins, and everyone else that helped out with the tournament this weekend.

We’ll see you next weekend for the North American Tournament of Legends.

Day two of the tournament is live! http://twitch.tv/guildwars2

Day two of the tournament has started! You can find the livestream (and the giveaways) at www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

Thanks for the kind words, Tellerion. Blu and Sireph, all of our Authorized Shoutcasters, the entire Mistpedia crew, and Mid-Atlantic Kombat (admins) put a ton of work into making this tournament possible, and all of us at ArenaNet are extremely humbled and appreciative of their dedication.

Thanks for watching, and hopefully we’ll see you tomorrow (and next week)!

#llamaprophecy

Stickied.

@ToL teams – make sure all of your teammates read this!

Including announcement of a second Tournament of Legends sometime in June/July.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/tournament-of-legends-update/

Belenwyn.8674:

The cosplay sounds interesting. I am going to watch it.

I think I stand to learn something as well. A bit of a different segment than we normally do!

Also, you guys should take this poll about the EU Tournament of Legends.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GW2EUTOL

Hotjoins are technically Custom Arenas, just hosted by us. The Reward Track progression limits apply to hotjoin and player-owned custom arenas. You can still jump into Solo Queue or Team Queue to progress without limit.

Sorry for the confusion.

Alright, I’ve added Wolf and Zell, and links to all of the missing Ready Up episodes.

I’ll start updating all of the build links once the build editor sites get updated.

@Lord Hammer Hand – Thanks for taking the initiative. Not everyone is going to want to learn, but that shouldn’t stop us from wanting to teach!

Hey all,

I made a few quick edits to my New to sPvP? Start here guide that is stickied at the top of this forum, trying to make it a bit more current. If you have any suggestions for topics that might be helpful to cover for new players, or any tips for new or old players in general, feel free to reply here and I’ll try to get the guide updated sometime this week. I could definitely use some updated PvP builds, especially with the new trait system.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/New-to-PvP-Start-here/first

If you guys would like me to add your streams/youtube guides to the post, feel free to respond below with a short description and a link and I’ll check those out as well.

We have A LOT of new players trying PvP out right now, and the best thing we can do as a community is to help guide and teach them. This is our community – let’s make the best of it.

Grouch

Regarding grandmaster traits Harmonious Mantras and Empowering Mantras being swapped – this is intended. Apologies for the missing release note.

Confirmed this change with Karl – the swap is intended. Our sincere apologies for the missing release note.

Evan Lesh cleared this up on the PvP forums:

Evan Lesh.3295:

There is a reward track progression cap in custom arenas, but none in solo or team arena. Unfortunately this isn’t clearly messaged. We’re discussing ways to resolve the confusion.

Out of curiosity – are you still getting gold for completing matches?

Are you playing in custom arenas, ArenaNet hotjoin servers, or tournaments?

Good morning mesmers,

Going to touch on a few items that are still being reported as issues post 4/15.

• Portal: This utility was given a skill-fact for range (5000). I personally like the suggestion of mini-map markers, and I’ll bring it up with the team, but I don’t think that was ever planned for this release. Sorry for the confusion.
• Illusionary Elasticity: I’ll have this looked at again.
• Illusionary Warden: We made some changes for Illusionary Warden for 4/15. Can you guys elaborate on how its behaving now?
• Illusionary Counter issues with MS/IC: These issues are still open in our tracker and did not make it into this release.

That’s all for now. Feel free to respond with any additional issues you guys discover post-patch.

Thanks!

To be clear: before tomorrow’s patch you should open all of your tournament chests, spend all of your glory, and use all of your PvP crafting materials.

Think X armor doesn’t fit your character’s appearance? Craft it anyways and put it in your locker.

:)

Pyriall.5027:

Josh Davis.6015:

Pyriall.5027:

Let’s see the balance team’s pie charts!!!! Grouch, you don’t count.

Had my image ready and everything.

I feel bad now…UPLOAD AWAY GROUCH!!

Yay!

Pyriall.5027:

Let’s see the balance team’s pie charts!!!! Grouch, you don’t count.

Had my image ready and everything.

Confirmed! I’m pretty excited for this.

You will need to run the dungeons in story mode AFTER the update to permanently unlock the tracks.

I’ll have Evan Lesh (PvP Programmer) and Hugh Norfolk (PvP Designer) on Ready Up today, so we’ll try to get some of these questions/concerns answered Q&A style.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pvp-reward-tracks-and-gear-unification/

So, here’s a question (purely for discussion):

If you had to choose one, would you prefer RANKED Solo Arena, or UNRANKED Team Arena? I’d imagine unranked team arena would still allow you to queue up by yourself or with 1-4 friends much like the rated version does now.

Thoughts?

Surprised it took this long for someone to notice!

The idea about the enrage timers is fairly interesting. This map is going to play a lot differently than the 2v2 or 3v3s you see in Forest/Foefire. There is a lot of terrain to LoS on, and it’s fairly easy to disengage and reset. Tyler Chapman and I have had some extended duels on the map, but there’s definitely more flavor in it than just going head-to-head on a flat plane.

When it comes to feedback (after you guys have had a chance to play it), I think the scoring is going to be an interesting subject. Is this going to be a one-life type of deal, or solely based on timer? First option gives you much more of an arena feel, second is more deathmatch. Good news is you can replicate a lot of these options with the existing custom arena settings.

Anyways, I look forward to seeing what you guys think once you get into the map. I’m sorry to hear that you’ll be gone for training, Cheri. We’ll see you when you get back.

As broad as some of the suggestions have been, I’m seeing a recurring theme echoed in this thread and the other ones that have been linked. I think I’ve got what I need.

Thanks, all!

So, let’s say we wanted to look into decap engineer, where would we start? I’ve heard a few different opinions on the topic, and I have a few opinions of my own as someone who has played against decap in top 100 rated solo/team arena games and also played the build myself.

In the same way that it was difficult to look at the September ’13 Hambow warrior and point out a single specific key to its strength, I think decap engineer is much the same.

I think it’s important to understand the areas in our game where decap engineer is strong, and then go from there:

• Conquest
  • Situations where communication is difficult (solo arena)
  • Against teams that have difficulty rotating appropriately

So, with the above in mind, what are some ‘low-hanging fruit’ type of suggestions for changing the way decap engineer works, without affecting existing builds unrelated to decap? That is to say, suggestions that would not require significant amounts of development time to implement.

We’ve already seen a few threads on PW, so I’ll focus on decap for now. ^^

Proven.2854:

It’s being run by Mistpedia and Blu is involved. If it doesn’t get livestreamed it’ll be because a meteor landed on him.

This made me laugh out loud. Very true. ^^

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-tournament-of-legends/

Larp? Nay, I say! I shalt not be convinced to doeth so against my own will!

Use up those glory boosters!

D I V A.6018:

I always wondered why Anet finds it appropriate to stream some random match worth 75% of a stream‘s time?

People are desperate to know more about the upcoming “feature patch”.
Anet is best advised to talk more about it to prevent a disappointed comminity once again, because right now many are overhyped again.

Relevant post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Next-RU-questions-for-Allie/page/2#post3750702

I like both ideas, Thedenofsin. I’ve actually been talking with someone in the community about bringing SOTG or something similar back – I hope it works out.

Volrath.1473:

I got a question.

What is the purpose of Ready ups?

Good question. I’ll take this one! Before I was hired at ArenaNet I ran show called “Guild Wars 2 Guru’s State of the Game”. Aside from the forums, it was one of the main bridges we had with the developers behind PvP and balance. Unfortunately for the show, last summer I was hired on at ArenaNet and had to shut it down.

I know we can’t always talk about extensively about what’s in development, but ideally we’d like for Ready Up to fill that gap, even if we’re just goofing around on stream a bit, playing some casual games. Ready Up happens twice as often as State of the Game did, and we won’t always have things to preview. That said, when we are finally ready to show something off, Ready Up is going to be the place you’re going to check it out.

The topics for each show are posted prior to each episode – allowing you to choose if the show is worth your time or not. They’re not mandatory. Even if we’re not talking about balance or features, etc, I’d still love to have everyone come hang out for an hour every two weeks. If you’re not interested in watching scrims, or whatever else we happen to be doing, then we’ll see you at the patch previews.

Hope that helps.

Edit: If you have suggestions for segments or topics for the show, outside of “tell us all the things” feel free to post them. I don’t spend as much time working on the show as I did when I was on the PvP team, but I’m all about improving where we can, and I know Allie feels the same way.

PS, Hi PvP forums, I missss youuuuu!

Josh Davis.6015:

We’ve mentioned a few times prior that we’re looking at rebalancing the top-end of ranks to make them more attainable. We came to this decision after player feedback persuaded us to leave ranks into the game, rather than cut them.

The amount of rank points needed to hit 80 is too darn high.

The maintenance build is not the same thing as the feature build.

Hope that clears things up.

Prysin.8542:

y u no Power Ranger?

I’m not mighty morphin’ enough.

Like I mentioned here, I play everything in PvP, but I spend most of my time on engineer. On the PvE/WvW side, I have two level 80s – engineer and thief. Everything else is level 1 (original gangster) or level 2. I have 16 character slots so I have multiples of some professions loaded with different specs.

On engineer, I tend to stick to bomb/nades (or nades/TK/RBoots in WvW), running either 30 5 0 20 15 or 30 0 0 30 10 (no AR). For everything else? Zerk lava-tomb icebow staff ele, shatter mes, spirit ranger, condi or bunker war, condi nec, bunker guard, d/p thief, etc.

Hope that answers your question!

I know that feel, bro. In WvW I look like I’m rabbit rank.

I think you’ve raised fair points, tangatalaga. I’ll work with the team to see where we can improve our communication if/when we do the bonus weekends in the future.

Thanks!

^ Don’t forget about Ostrich!

Thanks for watching, everyone. I had a lot of fun. I hope we weren’t too ‘relaxed’ for you all.

Edit: Shoutout to Kensuda for being on stand-by for the stream.

I try to dabble.

Edit: In before Powerr comes in and makes us all look bad.

Edit2: For the record, almost all of those QP are from when it went to 1 QP a win. =p

Malchior.5042:

Put all my money on the Devs!

I love the content WP, MattVisual, Blu, and whoever else produce…but if they gotta fight the Tylers, the Jons, or Grouch…they’ll get wrecked :P

Put Teldo on the list!

Why isn’t Grouch or T-Bear in the lineup to represent Engi Master Class?

That’s because Chap and I will be busy providing glorious gameplay commentary…

or something like that.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I think we have a pretty good idea of what we want to offer and where we want to tweak existing sets.