Guild Wars 2

jamesg.7128:

Warriors will no longer be restricted in any way. They can take 30/30/30/30/30, use all weapons and skills from other professions and can now fly.

Omfg this LOLLL

Kaos.9162:

Honestly, I think it would be better if they made a full set of new legendaries, and only gave them out to the winners of tournaments like this. It would give them meaning, but the amount of QQ on the forums would be insane.

Could you imagine the outrage? People seem mad now but oh man I but they would be furious, especially if we could sell them on the TP.

Then you’d have pve players literally begging and crying for pvp’ers to get legendaries as a prize and make the new unique skins accessible to ‘all’ players.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

I just don’t understand how they honestly expect the format to develop without proper support. At least create a Queu system for it and incentive to win (it doesn’t even need LB to get rolling).

Coldtart.4785:

Even the players that are going to get humiliated in the first round of this tournament will have spent over 2000 hours of playing pvp.

Exactly, almost everyone I am teaming with has over 3,500 hours in pvp (I have 4,200) and we have no chance of beating the top NA teams but we are still entering just to be a part of the experience and enjoy ourselves. I think for players outside of our pvp realm it’s hard for them to fathom how difficult and unforgiving the system is.

a 16 team tourney on the weekend? I would anticipate noon PST for the NA tourney

I’m sure we’ll get more details when registration opens.

Charrizard — Charr ele that only used fire attunement.

Allie Murdock.8152:

Constant.7498, These questions can be answered in next weeks Ready Up.

This is the RU I have been waiting for.

SO EXCITED

maybe

Mastermavrick.2439:

Just wow….. saw this on the front page now I am intrigued the spvp community finally gets something but /shrug do they even care/want a legendary?

This is mountain times better than anything we’ve ever gotten outside of the PAX tourney.

99.99% of us are so excited for the .01% of us that get anything.

Wow, some really great suggestions here. I hope the devs take a look.

Orpheal.8263:

For me personally these rewards are unacceptable.
Way too rewarding for doing just over the course of a few days some few minute battles and gettign rewarded with something, that takes other players that are mostly no pvp’ers like an eternity to get….

Plus this gives those winners a huge financial advantage over other players, if these rewards should be sellable in the TP.
These rewards will be only acceptable, if anet makes legendaries before of that tourney finally unsellable in the TP by changing legendaries into accountbound items.

Good thing you didn’t play gw1 or you’d be appalled at the $100,000 tournament series every year, or the TRP system.

Arganthium.5638:

Can we get details on who will be able to enter the tournament? I wasn’t able to enter PAX last year, and I’d be pretty disappointed if I couldn’t enter this this year.

Otherwise, I’m glad that ANet is giving PvP’ers real rewards.

This being an online tourney with no need to travel and no ‘monetary’ prizes I am 99% sure it’s open to anyone over 13… since you have to be 13 to be ‘allowed’ to play the game.

Looking to join or form a team for the upcoming legendary tournament.

I am on NA and am one of the best thieves on NA. I don’t really play on teams except when pugs randomly invite me, but am still consistently top 200 team/solo Q.

Not necessarily the most orthodox thief since I run a different set up than almost every high-end thief, but that adds to my kitten nal of diversity and I can make it work.

I’ll gladly vs any thief using basi and I won’t use my elite in a 1v1 duel to show you I can make my build work, even with the disadvantage of no elite.

I have all forms of communication (ts, vent, mumble, etc), and always play to win. I use very aggressive tactics but am willing to help develop a strategy for maps and match-ups.

If you want a high-level thief who is going to play his best to win as many games as possible for this tournament let me know. My technical skill is extremely high on NA compared to most other thieves and my mindgames are even higher.

I will join a team or help form one, let me know.

That being said I am playing to win and am looking for other high-level players.

I am rank 65 and my win% in solo and team/yolo is above 60% with over 6,000 games played (over 5,000 being thief).

Kyhlo and Legacy are also my best maps. I’m sure my win% on those maps alone are both over 80% in solo Q and over 70% in tQ.

Pifil.5193:

Lux.7169:

Pifil.5193:

Super.2749:

Car Crash [CC] Will be back for this. Great Idea. Also to all the pvers who are whining.there are many pvpers who spent over 2000-3000 hours of gw2 and guess what, not a single nice skin to show off.

I would have thought that your PvP locker was pretty much full after 2000-3000 hours of playing?

Full of items you can get for 30 mins of pve play.

How about we trade you guys rewards. You get our pve lockers, we’ll take your legendaries. Deal?

Really? 30 minutes? Where can I do this? Surely if it’s only 30 mins then there’s no problem for you either? Regardless, that deal sounds good to me.

PS I don’t have a legendary and relatively few nice skins as I don’t have time for multiple dungeon runs. Also I don’t mind this so much despite it excluding non sPvPers from a chance at the reward I just fine the idea of someone having no nice skins after 3000 hours to be ludicrous.

I meant the pve population as a whole. And I do have tons of pve sets from dungeons, all of which were substantially easier to get in pve than in pvp.

So let’s take all the legendaries you pve players have, create a ratio to downscale it to the pvp population and distribute legendaries to XX% of pvp players.

Now you pve’er can get our 5 legendaries from this tournament.

Oh, and we get your weapon skins exclusive to pve as well.

Sounds legit.

We’ll also trade you our gold and glroy for your gold and karma.

I would love if PvP got exclusive weapon skin sets on par with the current “pve legendaries”

Thoughts?

butch.8136:

And what about the more casual players? I’ve put about 1000 hours in pvp without much of a reward.

supposedly the upcoming reward system will rectify this.

Pifil.5193:

Super.2749:

Car Crash [CC] Will be back for this. Great Idea. Also to all the pvers who are whining.there are many pvpers who spent over 2000-3000 hours of gw2 and guess what, not a single nice skin to show off.

I would have thought that your PvP locker was pretty much full after 2000-3000 hours of playing?

Full of items you can get for 30 mins of pve play.

How about we trade you guys rewards. You get our pvp lockers, we’ll take your legendaries. Deal?

Spurnshadow.3678:

I’ve spent almost 6000 hours in this game

So you’ve literally spent almost 10 hours every single day on this game since it was released?

I think your issues go beyond Arenanet offering 5 legendaries as a prize for the highest level of tournament we’ve seen for nearly a year.

Allie Murdock.8152:

Malediktus.9250:

Really? A legendary for winning a single tournament while others have to farm 100s of hours for one? Disgusting. Guess Anet only knows extremes with rewards, either almost nothing or precursors/legendaries lol.

The players who will win this tournament SURELY have spent 100s of hours perfecting their craft and strategies, without earning legendaries for it in the process.

We are tipping our hats to those that have put the time and dedication into PvP, and have earned this as a reward.

We’re not just handing them out.

Our hero!!! salutes

khani.4786:

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

khani.4786:

After working my tail off since pre-launch to be able to make two legendaries myself I’m pretty disgusted at them just giving away a legendary weapon.

TIL BEING THE BEST TEAM IN THE kittenING GAME ISN’T EARNING kitten.

Best team in the game….right.

Best 5 people in the game that decided they wanted to PvP.

Please get your pro pve/wvw’ers and enter the tourney. We’d love to show you how bad we are at this game.

Malediktus.9250:

Lux.7169:

khani.4786:

After working my tail off since pre-launch to be able to make two legendaries myself I’m pretty disgusted at them just giving away a legendary weapon.

I bet everyone over rank 50 has pvp’d more than youv’e pve’d and we have almost nothing to show for our efforts in this game.

Anet finally shows a shed of love to less than .1% of the pvp community with a decent reward and people are already whining about it?

Classy.

Thats no excuse. You can play 1000s of hours PVE too if you do it wrong and get no legendary. I know people with 10k+ AP with no legendary.

I have 4,200 hours in pvp and I’m not nearly the most played. I could have killed things in queensdale that long and gotten a legendary.

So you’re saying everyone in pvp is unworthy of a legendary? Because that’s exactly what the state of pvp is. PvE players can mindlessly grind out a legendary in hundreds of hours in dungeons. But winning a legendary in one of the most competitive tournaments the game has seen means that 5 pvp players should not get one? PvE logic….

Vol.7601:

khani.4786:

After working my tail off since pre-launch to be able to make two legendaries myself I’m pretty disgusted at them just giving away a legendary weapon.

You make it sound like they are giving it away to everyone.

They’re giving it to the 5 best players in the tournament, so they’re rewarding it to the most skilled.

You don’t understand, Vol. 5 of the best pvp’ers are unworthy to receiver a legendary. They are not worthy unless you join champ zergs for hundreds of hours. That is the only way to be worthy of a legendary because others are not good at pvp kitten kitten kitten kitten .

khani.4786:

After working my tail off since pre-launch to be able to make two legendaries myself I’m pretty disgusted at them just giving away a legendary weapon.

I bet everyone over rank 50 has pvp’d more than youv’e pve’d and we have almost nothing to show for our efforts in this game.

Anet finally shows a shed of love to less than .1% of the pvp community with a decent reward and people are already whining about it?

Classy.

Looking for team whisper me!

Lordrosicky.5813:

It isn’t team death match. It is just a map with no cap points for hotjoin with no current plans to make it a tournament queue.

It is the usual. This is no change to GW2 because hotjoin is inherently inbalanced. This is a game mode for wvw players.

I’m just quoting the devs. It is team death-match. If you don’t like the way they are implementing it, that’s your problem and you can voice your opinions. Regardless it’s a small map with the objective being: kill enemy team to win.

Oh snap…

-Color Coordinated sites
-Pillars for Line-of-sight
-Inner and Outer Ring
-Multiple entrances to the arena from base to avoid spawn camping
-Custom arenas only

What do you guys think?

My question is (and I’m sure we will find out in the RU livestream) if this map will be an independent game mode or if it will affect the current ladder and Q.

Meaning… if I enter tQ, will there be a 4/5 chance of a conquest map and 1/5 chance of a different format of pvp?

or will this strictly be a hotjoin map. Oh the questions…. and all of the answers are less than 24 hours away, probably.

fishball.7204:

Just because you had no use for it didn’t mean the rest of us didn’t…

I was pretty happy with the leveling tomes, cheap 18 slot bags and dyes I could make.

Especially as something to bide time until the new reward system is actually ready.

Until then we’re waiting an indefinite amount of time for a reward system they haven’t even progressed enough to talk about.

8 months ago, back when they said what to expect in 2013, they said they would release info on the new reward system and pvp legendaries when they made some progress on it.

No comments from them on that yet, so everyone expecting the feature patch in the next 3 months..? lol…

Aberrant.6749:

I’m spending most of my time watching RP.

wat

Venus In Furs.9756:

Lux.7169:

gw1 RA.

Surprisingly there are more people there and the rewards are pretty fantastic XD

Ughhh, so jelly. To this day, I regret giving my account to a friend. RA was too addictive.

I can’t believe how many skills they changed in gw1 o: a lot of the classes feel completely different based on what they changed. Really interesting.

and LOL I was doing a hotjoin today to see how it was and saw THREE players over rank 55 that I know tourney constantly. SO WEIRD. hotjoin = new competitive arena…. trolololol

hooma.9642:

Lux.7169:

gw1 RA.

Surprisingly there are more people there and the rewards are pretty fantastic XD

balthasar points to spend on nothing cause there is nobody buying zkeys or using zkeys to open for more useless skins u dont need? srsly i see no difference related to rewards to actual pvp.

1) for the daily / or to fill my locker with the rest of glory i have
5) age of wushu

There’s actually plenty of people buying zkeys. If you want to put it in this perspective, though, anything pixel related can be interpreted as meaningless. Your comments basically lead to any time spent playing a game is a waste of life, when really people just do what they enjoy and gw1 GREATLY compensates its pvp players ten fold more than this game does.

They even released purchasable cape trims in that game. I’m looking for a seller, actually. You know, with the zkeys and gladiator strongboxes no one is buying that I converted into ecto.

By the time they release new game modes there won’t be enough people to start a match in any mode.

I think the people who think it’s coming out in April are hilarious.

When has Anet ever given us a 1 month heads up for a feature pvp patch. After we learned about leaderboards it was 6 months until implemented. After we learned about Solo Q it was 6 months until implemented. I would go on, except we haven’t had any more feature patches besides those two.

Unless you count them removing the automated tournament Q we used to have.

So at best we’ll learn about whats coming ‘sort of’ in the next 3 RU’s and then we should expect to see the first “part” (which is usually the only part) in about August/September if we’re lucky.

Thedenofsin.7340:

This patch has made me consider uninstalling this game for the first time.
I’m seriously considering it, not because things haven’t been fixed yet, but because of the removal.

I think it speaks volumes about the company: removing gameplay incentive from their players, for any duration, simply states they don’t care about keeping you engaged.

Didn’t you quit pvp back in like december?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/I-m-Done-with-PVP/first

Drafigo.4690:

Wasn’t this fixed a few patches ago?

And now its back!

they fixed the ability to destroy/damage the treb. But you can still reposition it.

Similar to this you can program the skyhammer for your team before the match starts.

gw1 RA.

Surprisingly there are more people there and the rewards are pretty fantastic XD

Pretty sure you can still reposition the treb after the guy starts announcing that the game is starting. It was during the same timeframe that you could glitch kill the treb before the match.

part of the new update we have to make it easier for newer players to enter the pvp system. If they see too many marauders they will be intimidated.

Right?!

I asked so many players in game and you wouldn’t believe how many love this current reward system.

The forum is full of uneducated players whose voices do not reflect the majority.

I conducted an impromptu poll of almost all players on various servers and skyhammer is actually a highly desired map. Many even want to see it in tQ!!!

Never listen to the people on the forums. They do not know what they really want. Trust random data ok???

been in the game since release.

I got my maurauder title (the one you’re supposed to get at rank 50) at rank 62 because I tourney too much.

style.6173:

True.

At this point, I am pretty much open to anything that isn’t conquest!

honestly with the way gw2 is set up with no monks it would make GvG REALLY interestign with the variety of splits and ganks that would arise. I would LOVE to see that format in gw2.

style.6173:

Sounds fun. I like the idea of killing the guild lord to determine a victory. I don’t really like the idea of other NPCs than the guild lord though.

The NPC aspect was fun because it didn’t allow teams to go straight for the lord. If you wanted to push the lord you had to clear npc’s, so if you made an agressive push to the lord the other team had NPC support to push you back. If you could clear the base though you’d have the advantage in VoD.

If there weren’t any NPC’s it would just be a pure rush to lord which honestly wouldn’t be fun. With NPC’s a team could defensively turtle at lord and defend it. This also allowed for ganks and really unique splits.

Although, it’s more of something you would have to have experienced to appreciate. At least that’s my impression from having played it.

style.6173:

So, I never played Gw1, but what game mode is this? I can’t really tell from the video and if they are fighting NPCs or other players.

GvG

Think of legacy of foefire with more NPCs and if you killed the guild lord then you win and that’s the only way to win.

It make me sad to watch this =\ I wish we could have had something like that…

pretty sure it has something to do with the enemy team killing the treb while someone is actually using it.

They specificaly mentioned that when they were further along with ANYTHING (I think the exact words are "when sufficient progress has been made) they would release information about it.

In the past they’ve usually give us a 3-6 month timeframe to expect it AFTER they’ve released information on it (see: leaderboards, solo Q, balance updates, PAX).

I think it’s safe to say we shouldn’t expect to get anything for quite a while considering they have not given us any solid information regarding new game modes or the reward system.

My hunch is that we’ll get the next feature build in August/October based on them hyping up the talk about telling us info on the future updates, but not actually giving us info on the future updates. They’ll probably announce what’s coming in the next few weeks via the RU’s like Allie said, and then we’ll get a more solid time frame which will be 3-6 months from when they release that info.

Rank bonus is confirmed to be active. I just did a match.

Terrorsquad.2349:

Though, does this only counts in Team Arena and Solo Arena or also Hotjoin?
That would be nice instead of waiting 15-25m per solo Q at this hour ^^

Last time they did this the rank bonus affected both Team and Solo Q the same. So theoretically if you win a team or a solo Q you will get your normal rewards + 750 rank points +150 glory points.

It did not affect hotjoin or custom arenas last time they did this.

Iason Evan.3806:

Lux.7169:

It should be 750 rank pt and 150 glory pt bonus. That was my impression, they said they would post more deets later.

Thanks Lux. Did they give a time of start or is that part of the more deets later? Anyways, thx for the response.

Haven’t logged in yet to check, but my understanding is that it’s not quite in yet but will be tonight. Again that’s just me speculating

It should be 750 rank pt and 150 glory pt bonus. That was my impression, they said they would post more deets later.

Thoth Divine.8642:

So I guess it’s over? I guess I’ll have to watch it when they upload it…

you can watch it here http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/511039860