These divisions until Ruby will tell you only one thing; who plays more PvP. I can do 100 games and win 30 pretty easily because I was carried if I was a bad player. Now getting past Ruby where you can lose whole tiers would be hard for that bad player because they wont consistently win enough to get to the next division.
Are we playing the same game? This is definitely bunker. We have full healing rangers, most classes running durability runes, most classes don’t actually do much damage. The most damage is coming form condition revs right now, and even they are pretty tanky. Mesmers are running soldiers amulet and durability in a lot of cases to be able to soak up any extra damage they might take between evades and blocks..
Oh I totally get the irony. The only thing outside of the “bunker meta” right now that is very viable is the condi revenant, which is stupidly OP right now. Playing really OP stuff is boring. And before you say it, no I don’t feel that the ele is really OP right now, it feels well balanced and it isn’t invincible, small mistakes will make you lose a fight against just about anything.
I also want to point out that I can go play unranked and not run into this insane bunker meta issue that I see in ranked, its like everyone there is in full tryhard mode lol..
The thing is, its who capped a point first, then they can just sit on it forever. These super mobile rangers and mesmers get to a point and if they can cap it before you get there, they can just hold it indefinitely. Or if you get into a situation where its more than just a 1v1, its really hard to sustain. I play a cele d/f ele and did before this whole bunker meta lol. I can win almost all 1v1 fights, but they take forever against most of what I am seeing recently.. Then if someone jumps in on the fight, I might be able to sustain the 2v1 for awhile, but in reality it is just wasting time if I am fighting on their point..
Anyone else tired of the bunker meta in ranked? lol.. Essentially everyone in unkillable but also can not kill you.. Its really obnoxious…
First world problems lol… Pretty easy to lower MMR when you solo queue, I get paired up with people who don’t even know how to play the game and lose matches because I can’t carry hard enough. I pretty much only solo queue, occasionally duo if my friend is online. I win about 30-50% of the games I’m in with solo queues, which is fine – the games are still fun until I get up against full premades who zerg points with 3+ people every fight.
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I think there should be different kinds of PvP. Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest are very fun PvP modes and Isle of Conquest and other maps have siege elements. WvW is a nice game mode (could use a radical overhaul in its current state though it’s empty) but lacks structure and is more like open world PvP. Big sPvP maps are needed where armies fight each other 40 vs 40 and hold chokepoints while the opposing team tries breaking through and ends with the defeat of the opposing PvE boss.
I also think there should be achievements for 1v1 deathmatches and raw 5v5 PvP with a complete lack of PvE elements.
Part of being skilled is how to recapture those points. If the opposing team has the advantage it’s time to apply some defensive thinking: how to neutralize their advantage. I prefer runes of the eagle in all game modes on DPSers because if I have an advantage I know there’s a credible chance to lose it, but with 6% extra damage if the opponent is below 50% makes the defender’s task of recovering even harder.
Agreed with all. Adding this as a game mode for PvP would be really nice.
Just because they’re complaining doesn’t mean they’re not playing the game. I am complaining – doesn’t mean I won’t log in later after I get off work lol..
Are we even reading the same forum? It isn’t 5 people making a thousand threads across this forum, there are hundreds of people making threads about their problems with the expansion.
Oh and please tell me more about how I am the only person who feels this way about this expansion that I spent my hard earned dollars on. Go look around the forum, there are thousands of posts like mine.
Doesn’t have to be a “dev”, but a representative of the company at least. Customer service is a requirement of any company that has customers. If I buy something from Amazon and I’m mad about it, I tell them and they reply to me and try to rectify the situation.
What makes this company different? I pay for a product, I expect said product to be supported by some form of customer service and there is none to be found.
Yeah I mean, reading is really hard I guess since I did say I’m not qutting lol. Just annoyed, and I have no stuff to give even if I was quitting. All my stuff is account bound, my 10 full ascended sets about 30 ascended weapons and 2 legendaries between 15 level 80 characters.. Which is the real reason I’m not quitting, I have a bit too much time and money invested and I feel that as a good customer, I should be taken care of as such. My opinion should be heard and I think I at least deserve a response if nothing else.
And I should mention that I was primarily a WvW player that ran small 5 man groups or less before my game mode was ruined when HoT came out. I’ve been playing PvP pretty much every day since and these are things that irritate me about the game mode.
Winning doesn’t matter anyway, I am just in it for the fights, just wish the fights mattered more since its supposed to be players vs players, not players vs players+pve.
I think outplaying the opponent is beating them in a fight. That is what PvP should be about. Not necessarily Courtyard deathmatch style, because that map is just chaos in one place at all times.
I do understand what you’re saying, I just get annoyed when I have the beast in the Forest map down to almost no hp then one guy comes along and puts a condition on it, literally hits it once or twice and gets credit. Mechanics like that are just broken and either need fixed or removed.
Spirit watch orb mechanic gives way too many points for a score – if you’re going to leave it, at least drop the points to 10 if the point is owned by your team or 5 if it isn’t. Zerging the orb and taking it to far and having one bunker sit on home is dumb but works 99% of the time.
I personally think Legacy is set up well, but the lord should only be worth maybe 50 points, definitely not 150 points. A match can get so close and then its a race to who has more DPS to take the lord down anyway. I can go to the lord on my dragonhunter, drop my traps then pull everything and kill the lord in about 5 seconds by myself and gain my team 150 points – fair? Nah.
Battle map, trebs just deal too much damage, if they insist on keeping it, the damage should be halved or more. I get into a fight on mid there where its 2 people vs me on my ele, I am winning because I can outsustain them, I get one downed, second one is almost down, then out of no where – treb shot that takes half my HP or more while I’m already at 1/2 to 3/4 hp in this fight, so now I am downed and then another treb shot hits me while the guy who is close to down hard rezzes his buddy. Now I am full dead and I would have taken less damage had it turned into a 3v1 where the player on the treb was actually fighting me lol. And I know, send someone to the treb, I got outplayed right? I suppose so, ANet out played me by putting a mechanic on the map that is just too strong.
Skyhammer – don’t even get me started. The hammer mechanic is idiotic and hits too large of an area for way too much damage, what more can be said? Bunker mesmer or a high power dragonhunter sits on the hammer and you’re not going to stop them from having it..
Each of the maps PVE mechanic is broken. If they insist on keeping the PvE mechanics, at least fix them so that they’re balanced.
Until they fix WvW or just restore the maps to what they used to be, I’m not buying any gems. They already completely killed my ability to play as a small guild, we used to run 5 man WvW runs until HoT, now guild catas cost twice as much supply and aren’t as obtainable, we can no longer use the guild buffs that we earned before, instead we have to try to reearn them with 5 people… Just unreal how cheated I feel by this expansion..
This topic is not about feedback for expansion, it’s not about your guild or about WvW. This topic is about Black Friday and it’s offers. Please try to stay on topic.
This topic is about Black Friday and its offers, I’m stating my reason why I won’t support it. By complaining about me being off topic, you’re going off topic. Eat logic bro.
No I want all of that stuff removed because what does PvE content have to do with Players vs Players?
In a boxing match, does a boxer get to go up to a dog and kick it to gain more points? No, they don’t, because it is a player vs player kind of match..
Currently, PvP means Points vs Points for me. Players vs Players hardly describes it because a group of 5 skilled players can lose a match to a group of mediocre players that play bunker mesmers/ele/etc and sit on points pretty easily.
So here is the solution to make PvP actually mean Players vs Players.
Remove PvE elements.
The beasts, lords, orbs, trebs, communes, etc. Get rid of those completely, a PvP match should not be able to be determined by PvE elements such as lords worth 150 points or beast creatures that are broken that are worth 25 points, I’ve ran up on those beasts while the enemy almost had them dead and hit them 2 times and got credit – why is that even a thing?
Change what captured objectives do.
Instead of the team gaining 1 point every second (or whatever that is) for holding it, hows about making player kills worth 2 points more for each point held? So if I have a team 3 capped, my team get 11 points per kill, 2 capped 9 points, 1 capped 6 points. Keep the objective defender and assaulter rewards in place. That way, your team is still rewarded for capturing and holding points which will help to spread them out more.
I want this game mode to be more “players vs players” than “points vs points”, I am sure a lot of people would agree with me.
I know, everyone is probably tired of these posts of “Screw you guys! I’m quitting!” Well, I’m not quitting, but I am an unhappy customer.
I’ve enjoyed the new class specializations, but they don’t make up for how cheated I feel when it comes to my guild and WvW.
I ran a small guild with 15-20 members, usually no more than 5 of us online at a time and we used to run small man WvW groups. The guild system the way it used to be made it kind of hard or semi-expensive for us to build up to being able to have WvW guild buffs and the ability to create guild catapults. The ability to be able to claim a camp for +5 supply and the ability to build a guild catapult for 25 supply was great before.
Now, I can no longer +5 supply even though I earned/paid for the ability to do that before because I don’t want to put in an insane amount of PvE hours and TONS of money to upgrade my guild.. To add insult to injury, they upped the supply cost for guild catapults to 50 supply, which then made the price of my guild catapults worth 1/4 within hours of what they were before patching to HoT…
Wanna know what put the nail in the coffin? These over-sized WvW maps. The new maps are beautiful, but they’re too big. It takes forever to get from one place to another, the keeps are bigger than Stonemist castle on EBG by probably 3x the size, towers are the size of keeps on EBG. Also, if you’re going to have a map with that many cliffs and huge falls, why not add in the gliding ability? I would be perfectly fine with those maps if gliding was possible there, it takes too much time to walk around all these huge cliffs…
All in all, they did what they’ve set out to do for a long time, they forced my WvW guild to move to being a PvP guild. We’ve completely quit WvW which was our favorite game mode because we were forced to, we don’t have the option to just adapt being a guild that typically runs 5 people..
The class specializations are awesome, I’ll give credit where it is due there – I am very impressed with those and I’ve greatly enjoyed playing my Tempest, Chronomancer, Berserker, Dragonhunter and Herald in PvP.
Whoever worked on those class specializations needs a pay raise, whoever worked on WvW and guild changes needs fired. If it was the same people, they should be sensible enough to fix the problems they created.
I don’t understand how any company can be ran and not care about their customers. I’m not the first person to present these complaints, I know I won’t be the last either. The fact that we’re being ignored just makes me want to never do business with you guys again.
Until they fix WvW or just restore the maps to what they used to be, I’m not buying any gems. They already completely killed my ability to play as a small guild, we used to run 5 man WvW runs until HoT, now guild catas cost twice as much supply and aren’t as obtainable, we can no longer use the guild buffs that we earned before, instead we have to try to reearn them with 5 people… Just unreal how cheated I feel by this expansion..
I’m primarily typically a WvW player. Since they’ve destroyed the ability to roam in WvW, I’m also now primarily a PvP player. I’m not upset with them about it, I do miss roaming in WvW a bit but over all, PvP is pretty non-stop action, which is very fun.
I do not like PvE generally and I find the new maps pretty fun and beautifully designed. I’m actually not even upset about the PvE it is taking me to get the specializations completed, but I do wish that it took less hero points..
I’d give it an 8/10 fun factor.
Those Heroic things should be account bound, not soul bound. Please fix this, our ranks are account bound, why wouldn’t these be since they’re a reward of the rank up?
My only big complaint is that it is harder to +5 objectives so I can carry 20 supply again.. I’m pretty unhappy with the Guild Catapult changes too, but its whatever, they killed roaming anyway so why not kill the roaming siege along with it. Go play PvP if you like small many stuff cuz #ESPORTS.
Roaming paradise?? The only place roaming is even viable now is Eternal. The new maps are beautiful, but you walk around for 20+ minutes before you even find anyone, and half the time you find anyone, its too many people to kill as a roamer lol..
Also, I used to solo towers on the old map, I can’t do that anymore since tower lords have been buffed. I also can’t do that anymore since it is harder to claim camps for +5 and they’ve made guild catas cost 50 supply.
They’ve done a lot of changes in this expansion to ensure that if you want to roam, you are going to PvP instead of WvW. I’ve personally adapted, I play PvP mostly now then run with the bigger guild I’m in when they’re doing WvW raids. I don’t roam anymore..
Elite Specializations & Hero Point Feedback [Merged]
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Josh XT.6053
I personally like the expansion and have very little to complain about. I’m not a PvE player, I mostly play WvW and PvP. Even I have been enjoying the new PvE maps and I generally hate PvE lol.. They’re beautifully designed and have a lot of fun aspects to them.
The new WvW maps are massive, a lot more places to fight and a lot more room to travel. Defending is made easier which is something that needed to happen. I love the automatic upgrades, but I think they should be slowed down, they upgrade too fast.
Only a few things I would change personally:
1. WvW objective should upgrade slower.
2. The amount of hero points needed for a specialization is too high, being a primarily WvW player, I had to go through all the PvE land maps and get all of the hero points then go to the new maps and get a lot of hero points. It was a ton of work to get my Chronomancer and Berserker specializations done, it took up my whole weekend of grinding PvE to do it..
3. Gliding should totally be possible in the new WvW maps. That is the best new mechanic in the game, it would be so cool to see it in the new maps and maybe even EOTM.
4. Solo players in the new maps are punished for being solo too harshly, most of the new hero points are impossible to obtain if you’re alone. I spent more time waiting for help to get hero points than I spent finding them lol.
5. The WvW Heroic rewards from ranking up are soulbound, these should be account bound. I have to be versatile on the classes that I play in WvW, I can’t always play what I want to play, since my rank is account bound, I think anything coming out of the chest should be too.
Otherwise, I must say kudos to Arenanet. I had my doubts but I think my money was well spent. The new specializations are a blast to play, the new maps are beautiful, the PvE is more fun than it ever was in the old maps.
Sure there are bugs, its a huge new patch – it is to be expected. There are some things that were “by design” that should be changed though.
While you’re at it, can you make those things account bound instead of soul bound? Your ranks are account wide, I think their rewards should be as well…
The heroic notary person in WvW is saying that the content has been disabled.. No notes about this in the patch notes – whats up with this??
Same problem here, taking forever..
PLEASE ADD A TRAIT THAT GIVES PASSIVE 25% MOVEMENT SPEED!!! After this expansion, Guardian will the be ONLY class that does not have this. Please be fair here..
We’re aware of and investigating the return of an old issue with siege bundles disappearing while being carried. Thanks for the details provided on where and how this has been encountered.
What of the 20g+ lost for a lot of people in siege that we were unable to use? I’d like to have my siege returned that was lost due to a bug..
Tier 3 NA is fun for roaming in EU time mostly. Maguuma has a few small man roaming guilds (including mine.) My guild roams 1-5 people pretty often and we have some fun fights.
You broke it, I am losing all of my siege now for no reason at all… I’ve put in a support ticket. I fully expect to be reimbursed for my lost siege as well, I kept track of what I lost last night.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Losing-all-my-siege-in-WvW/first#post5450507
Yes it was very random for me last night. I lost 12 Guild Catapult blue prints, 15 Superior Flame Ram blue printers and 5 Ballista blue prints last night for no reason. Some times they wouldn’t even show the blue print in my hands before it just disappears from my inventory.
I submitted a support ticket, I suggest anyone else does the same. I fully expect to be reimbursed for my losses, I lost about 22g worth of siege due to this last night…
Last night I was commanding in WvW and the game was just eating my siege… I would go to put a blueprint in my hand and it would just disappear – it wouldn’t go on the ground and it did not go back in to my inventory. This is a huge problem and I would like to be reimbursed for my losses… Guild catapults are NOT cheap..
I lost 12 Guild Catapult blue prints, 15 Superior Flame Ram blue printers and 5 Ballista blue prints last night for no reason. Some times they wouldn’t even show the blue print in my hands before it just disappears from my inventory.
I’m also submitting a support ticket, this is just my personal losses, several other of my guild members attempted to put down siege because I could not and they all lost theirs too…
As a side note, you guys need to add that in to tell people that it will take up to 72 hours to get the gems BEFORE they submit their payment for the ultimate edition. Had I known before purchasing it, I would have just paid for the $50 version and bought $50 worth of gems separately…
That GM replied back to my ticket informing me that my account won’t be disabled – that was just worded poorly. I’ve decided to keep it even though my Gems still haven’t arrived – 6PM EDT today will make 72 hours for mine. I’ll miss out on all of the sales thanks to this stupid delay though..
Yes but when I went to purchase this, it said nothing about waiting 72 hours to get my gems until AFTER they took my money. That is a huge part of my frustration. I’m missing out on sales which is the reason that I even paid for the ultimate expansion instead of the regular one…
None of that helps the fact that we paid our money and are going to miss out on sales that we paid the extra money for the expansion to get in on..
“If you registered the code, all features, including game access, will be removed.”
Including game access will be removed. The code is automatically registered to my account so what I am reading sure does sound like it.
It’s been over 48 hours now, still no gems…
From GM Jayhawk:
“We can look into refunding your Guild Wars 2 HoT Ultimate Edition purchase. Please note that the code that you are requesting a refund for will be permanently disabled. If you registered the code, all features, including game access, will be removed. If you haven’t used the code, the code cannot be registered.”
Since the “code” is automatically registered when you purchase it, your account access gets removed – aka banned.
I’ve been waiting for Silver-O-Matic to come back and boom there it is. 22 hours left on the sale, still no gems from HoT purchase. I may have to buy a few gems with gold as a last resort.
Not me, I’m boycotting gem purchases at all until they give me what I am owed.
Yeah I told them in an e-mail that if they can’t get me my gems faster, they can refund my $100, they said that if they do that, it will disable my account…
So I haven’t seen anything from this purchase and yet somehow I’ll get banned to get my money back. So basically, I am just stuck waiting for them. I have no options, they have to be the worst company I’ve ever done business with at this point.
It’s their payment processor who got stung too many times this week, so until they give ANet the okay it cleared, which may take up to 72 hours, you are SOL.
They maybe Anet needs to get a different payment processor. There are plenty other companies that could do a better job.
I just checked online and I still don’t have my gems. I have the felling I am going to miss the sales on what I want.
Yep I’m going to probably miss out on the sales too, not that Anet cares. They got their money from me already and there is nothing that I can even do about it. If I file a claim with paypal, Anet will ban my account. So really, they can give me zero warning that I won’t get my gems right away until AFTER they have my money, and there is nothing I can do about it except be angry and tell all of my friends to not even try this game out.
It’s not ANet but their payment processor who is taking their time. Huff at them. But by the time you hear back from them it’ll be 72 hours.
That is idiotic. I can buy $100 in gems right now if I want to and I’ll get them instantly, not 72 hours later. So it isn’t their payment processor.
They need to take care of their customers, it should NOT take 72 hours for me to get what I paid for.
That is a load of crap, several people in my guild go their gems right away after purchasing. Then there are a few others who are stuck waiting like me for no reason.
You’d think they’d be able to determine a purchase that for sure isn’t fraud – like someone who has used the same paypal account on their good standing account for YEARS… I could understand on a newer account, but mine is almost 3 years old and I’ve given them a lot of my hard earned dollars.
If I had known I would not have gotten them immediately, I would not have bought the ultimate edition.
I just bought HoT Ultimate and wanted to use the gems for the sale ending in 2 days. So now I read that they will give me the gems 1 day after the sale ends. Great.
I feel your pain. I purchased HoT ultimate edition last night and I don’t have my gems. I’m going to miss out on the wings sale and other items because of this delay.
#WhyDidISpendTheMoney
Yep, I’m pretty angry about the fact that I spent $100 and have nothing to show for it. I’ve spent a lot of money in gems over the past almost 3 years with the same paypal account, it makes no sense that I should have to wait 72 hours when they didn’t have to wait to get my money.
Oh and over the past almost 3 years, I’ve made many gem purchases with the same exact paypal account. It makes no sense for them to even consider my account to have a fraudulent purchase at all.
It took the money out of my bank account already. I can buy gems any time and get them instantly, so why 72 hours for this? Makes no sense. I also paid $100 and was told AFTER paying that I wouldnt receive them for 72 hours. Thats crap, they need to tell people that BEFORE they pay..
This is lovely too, support replies with this:
“As for your concern. Unfortunately you have to wait up to 72 hrs because your gem will be processed to your account. If after 72 hrs you didn’t receive the gems please reply to this ticket.”
Why should I have to wait 72 hours to receive my gems that I ALREADY PAID FOR? Can you give me $100 and maybe in 72 hours I’ll give you something back? That is not fair at all.