Guild Wars 2

i hate to bring up the “WoW” qliche, but their stealth was decent.
you could spot the thief if they went to close infront of you,
and once they hit you they’d have to get out of combat to restealth again,
or use a 2 minute cooldown that let them restealth in combat.

it makes more sense from a realism stand point,
once someones attacked you you’re going to know they’re there.
and it makes more sense from a gameplay standpoint,
because swiping at the air is’nt fun.

he could have been lagging, if someone has lag they’ll appear to “blink” from one spot to another rather than run.
also as stated thieves/mesmers/eles/necros can all teleport legit

ele
attune eles taking down a notch (mostly just having every boon permanently and being borderline immune to conditions.)

thief
Mug damage decreased or stealth reworked to something like wow (once you’ve been spotted you must get out of combat to restealth)

guardian
spirit weapons made untargettable, if we cant damage them i dont want them clogging up my targetting.

mesmer
something doing about severe clone spam, this is PVP not PVC (the stuff gimpsuits are made from)

Engineer
buffs across the board! make things like Flamethrower as good as they should be.

Warrior
buffs across the board, make “Forceful Greatsword” into just “Forceful” stacking might with any weapon.

Ranger
fix the mountain of bugs.

Necro
for the love of grenth, PLEASE change the staff casting sounds!
dont make minions despawn in water (like on crapricorn)
make marks act like traps, staying until another of the same is placed.

my thoughts:
damage: NO class should be able to kill in under a second,
average fights balanced vs balanced should be 15-30 seconds,
glass cannons should kill balanced in 5 seconds tops (with cooldowns and nothing getting dodged.
glass cannons should take heavy damage.

tanking: NO tank should be able to survive vs 2 of any spec forever,
tanks should deal pathetic damage.
2 normal should take under 60 seconds to kill a tank,
a (skilled) tank won’t be able to kill or be killed by a single (skilled) player unless glass cannon.
(who will take more damage but also deal more making the fight like a balanced vs balanced)

right now several specs of most classes violate these rules, glass cannons can kill in under a second making the whole “deal more damage but sacrifice survival” invalid because they can’t kill you if they’re dead before they can even react.
certain tank specs are still dealing heavy damage.

i’d say mesmer, its HILARIOUSLY easy to play greatsword, just spam!
and take the utilities that stealth you.

if theres something you want dont hesitate to buy it,
you’ll be flooded with glory, that being said theyve announced that they want to “make spvp more rewarding for casuals” so save some incase they revamp the way we buy gear

agreed, if theres any area you want to demonstrate your pvp prowess, its wvw
i’m guessing its to reduce the lag though, imagine 50 people all popping their bunny emotes at the same time?

its not half as bad as playing a staff necro though
“woosh woosh woosh woosh woosh”

not for Tpvp but for Spvp i use a longbow build 0/30/0/10/30, stay back and snipe,
i’ve had 325 points in a match using that build, usually always around 200+
its really glassy though,
i use Flame Legion and the amulet with 700+ precision and a nice amount of condition dmg.

remove the spam boons and they’ll be fine,
running perma regen, fury and protection they are not fine.

thieves, attune eles, shatter mesmers.
two words
SMITER’S BOON
thanks.

agreed that glass cannons should expect to die “fast” but not instantly.

i’m curious about the rewards,
since its only 1 round between 2 teams will the losing team get nothing?

jportell.2197:

Stop whining and figure out how to counter.

yes stop whining and learn how to counter an entire team with 10 seconds of quickness.
/end sarcasm

Sand Beagle.9867:

Longbow – a complete joke of a weapon; low damage and slow auto attack, random skills that are extremely situational to the point of uselessness; useless burst.

as a longbow warrior i consistently get 200-300 points in Spvp, the burst has a huge area, hits everything repeatedly, applies burning and also acts as a fire field to throw more burns around.

but i do agree that GS is just a league ahead of everything else.

i’d roll OH mace for the knockdown(its small aoe) or shield for a small stun and a nice block
i used to love popping mace knockdown, frenzy and hacking them to pieces with axe1
i’ve won a 3v1 that way believe it or not!
and the shield is really handy when you see a telltale greatsword warrior running towards you, pop block and totally avoid the bullrush/HB or anything similar, like thief backstab

Chi Malady.2015:

Any kind of bleed warrior is useless in PvP. The warrior doesn’t have enough condition variety and its primary stacks come from its burst. It’s ridiculously easy to cleanse the bleeds applied by a warrior.

Currently, the only real viable warrior build in PvP is Greatsword + Axe/Shield.

not true i’ve been rolling a Longbow / Sword|Shield build in spvp for awhile now and recently got 300 points, i usually always get 200+
stay back and rain down fiery death and reap in the skirmishing bonus

sword/sword though i can’t comment on, i think offhand sword is’nt a very good weap

for single target classes its a pain in the kitten for aoe classes throw as much aoe as you can to melt through the clones, also as stated look for player only giveaways,
such as strafing, dodge rolling, back peddling or using different skills,

also mark the target, this will let you stick on them by hitting T, unless they stealth, then it’s refreshed.

and long channeling skills that focus a target will continue to focus them if they stealth/teleport.

butch.8136:

1. Why are custom arenas a bad thing for you?

private servers = less people populating real servers

new life?
i’d be pleased as punch if they’d remove CRAPricorn from the game,
download the crapricorn data to a USB stick,
blast the USB stick into space,
and then blow it up with a nuke.

no skirmishing points meaning under half the score of other maps,
water combat that just plain sucks for half of the classes,
necro minions despawning and going on cooldown if you get your toes wet,
the midway “no-mans land” point (Clocktower, Gate, Keep, Graveyard) which is usually the highlight of the map has be plonked underwater where noone wants to go.
the cannon can ruin a perfectly fun battle with spam 6k AoEs.

i despise this map…

i find it H I L A R I O U S that we’ve all been wanting thief balances since the game comes out and necros are getting a nerf, wtf anet…just wtf.
i’m starting to think they’re deliberately trolling us.

also its incredibly easy to hit 7(signet), 5(CnD), f1(Steal), 1(Backstab) quickly,
so you might not actually be getting macro’d,
it’s just an incredibly easy and overpowered combo to pull off.
mini rant: and what’s getting nerfed? POWER NECROS.

i think its crazy that gw1 let you have crazy customization freedom mixing 2 professions and was still the most balanced PVPs i’ve ever played,
yet gw2 only has single classes to balance and is one of the most unbalanced PVPs i’ve played.

did they replace the entire dev team?

we could also put spikes on some of their keys to discourage them from rolling their face all over their keyboard! >:-3

i think ranks should be proggresivly slower as they are,
but i also think we need a different way of getting gear, i’m all for the idea being able to unlock individual pieces of gear at any rank using glory, with increasingly higher costs for the better looking ones ofcourse (expect to pay a million glory a piece for cultural t3 (the highest level gear available))

gwawer.9805:

I’ve only found myself raging war extreme raging in the case of being killed by some cheap class build.

the same for me,
this usually ends up with me logging on my cheapshot thief and joining the same server and spending the ENTIRE game hunting them, and only them until they leave.

i believe if there was more balance then we’d have sportsmanship, people would win fights based off of skill, and we could appreciate that we won/lost based off of skill,
rather than “me thief, me roll face on keyboard, you die!”

i believe it’d increase immersion if they added mounts, and more asuran gates and removed waypoints (single click fast travel)
this way you could still get around fast with the asuran gats, but it’d feel more like traversing a world than “switching map”

ingame name change will be great, i find it slightly odd that you can gender change yet those ingenius asura dont have the technology to rename someone!

it defeats the purpose of gender swap if your char is still stuck with a name of the other gender (I.E sexy feme char called BOB. or huge male norn warrior called BETTY)

RaiderZ has done the same thing and its brilliant,
you get “Costume Stones” to convert an armor skin you like into a “Costume Piece” you have a seperate costume tab that was for the look of your character, so as you’re levelling you can put your favourite looking armor in the costume tab to keep the look while having the stats of the mismatched/ugly armor you’re using.

it’s a brilliant QOL change, it saves you from either wearing good looking gear that you’ve far outlevelled or going through transmute stones like tony montana through cocaine!

they’d need to get a solid report feature in place if they were to add gold farming, so we dont get flooded with asian afkers.

“on healing” runes proc from switching to med kit so you can gt their effct as soon as their cooldowns are done

i use fire (since you crit alot its an aoe pretty much every 5 seconds) and corruption for the bleeds/poison/burning spam
(i’m specced for conditions)

if you’re making a bunker you dont want to pick between backpack regen or normal regen, i’d suggest you get both
it all adds up having as many little heals ticking as possible, also keep in mind you can use dwayna runes with med kit every 10 seconds for regen

i’d think you’d want the illusion that takes half your damage right?

bury them in conditions,
i know on my bunker guard the thing i least want to see is a necro, especially a MM, they can spec for their minions to remove boons while the necro spams conditions.

i understand that companies likes to keep hush hush about what they’re coming out with, usually this stirs anticipation amongst the customers,
but in the case of gw2 pvp we could really use a bone here,
its not feeling like anticipation, its feeling like neglect.

be careful too, you dont want to report someone who is’nt actully hacking,
an engineer with Slick Shoes for example can move at +50%,
much faster than swiftness.

i’ve still not seen a hacker which is why i’m concerned that you’ve “seen” 2

2v2 = 2 thieves.
3v3 = 3 thieves.
5v5 = 5 thieves.

think about it, 2v2, a pair of thieves instantly steal/backstabbing the same target, it’d be abolutely instant death, no counter.
then its 1v2 and they can easily retreat if he pops a defensive or just CnD backstab him down instantly too.

arenas would bring to light the broken classes.

i played my grenadier engineer afew days back, was bombarding a point, i got ganked and do you know what the death list said? 10k retaliation dmg…
dealing 10k without even doing anything but get hit? weak?

let me emphasize, guardian stood there, did’nt even attack me and dealt 10k damage because i was hitting him.

that is anything but weak!

what you could think about:
the vid was 2:45 long, they talked about pvp for 15 seconds.
so the total time given to talk about pvp was a mere 9%

as the guy above me said, it felt like they just added the pvp bit in the same way politicians say “and we’ll cut taxes!” but never do, its spiel.

works most of the time if you click really fast,
set filters to hide full and empty and click the first 15/16 you see,
if you’re fast enough you get in most of the time.
but yeah, sucks when you dont and you have to wait half a min for the error.
also i find the games near the top of the browser usually give more full errors,
not sure if thats just a prime area for people to click

i’m counting on a miracle from the febuary patch, as the state of the game is atm, of something like WoW announced F2P it’d DESTROY gw2.

Anet have already said, spammer thieves are “working as intended”…
yes they intend for you to take 12k from heartseeker.

my guard is a feme charr (yes they exist!) and my war is a human

while i agree rather than nerfing they should try buffing but realistically pvp is already the unwanted malformed cripple of GW2 and we’re lucky if we can ask for the few skills that stand out as OP to be bought in line,
rather than asking for everything else to be bought up to match them.

workload for pvp:
nerf less than 10 skills deemed “OP”
or
buff the other 500 skills to be on par.
?

i run the game through Steam so i can take screenshots of my builds and hit a button to bring up the screenshots ingame

staff / mace guardians make pretty yummy healers, i play one both pve and pvp,
sure its not like in wow where you can spam heals equal to 70% of your hp,
but it’s certainly nice healing and not so cooldown crazy,
you can pretty much keep healing.

it IS in the game, a fair few people have it,
it just seems that its bugged for most of us
i have seen quite afew people with them and had them link it,
they got it just as they would any other HoM reward.
this bug was reported right at the release of the game and Anet have never responded.

i’m rolling a condition’s grenade kit build, its pretty sweet
get above where the battle is going on and nuke everything!

its bugged, me and alot of other people with 50/50 in the Hall of Monuments can’t get it, we can get everything else, and FDS in pve but not pvp.
alot of people do have it so the guy above me is wrong.