Guild Wars 2

With so many vigor, passive endurance regeneration, active dodges, sigil of energy, etc. it’s impossible to track your enemy dodge bar.

You cannot predict target’s dodges and you cannot plan your bursts, which makes the pvp in gw2 very simple. Right now it’s: do your bursts and pray that the enemy doesn’t randomly dodge.

tldr; there should be a bar below the target’s HP that shows his current endurance
yay or nay?

also: cast bars would be good too, but I understand that you can just look at the animations

POLL: http://strawpoll.me/788586

Romek.4201:

there are reasons why not many play teamQ

there is nothing to win so the effort to get a team and traininggames and … all the stuff just wasted time

and there are a lot reasons why people dont watch tournament streams – cause you see nothing than only effects

and for me personaly – since i stopped watching streams the game makes much more fun again^^ + i dont care for E-sport, more for the fun

IMO, no one watches tournaments because there aren’t teams worth watching. Only cheese comps

I think dps builds should keep 10 points in arcana: CD-wise and also the fury on swap is a must-have!

no

50% reduction would be fine

Shabzorawr.4586:

Hello, I played GW2 on release, but I quit after a few months. I came back a week ago and noticed the change to the arena and I am confused. I recently tried this new arena and won the first 3 matches and lost the 4th and I didn’t seem to get anything except glory and rank points. Please enlighten me about how the chest reward system works now.

there is no real reward other than skins, beating enemy and improving in the ladder. I think new rewards might come in next patch

Tyler Chapman.1832:

My highest was #2 in Solo Arena. Was before gwshack updated its site though so it’s not really logged. Guess it didn’t happen! I sat 100-200 most the time when I did get the chance to compete. Playing TC specs doesn’t help your rating however /excuses

I’ll be able to play more once the Dec update hits.

2 as ele?

jmatb.6307:

I climbed out of MMR Hell to top 300 and can pretty safely say that if you’re not playing against higher tier players you have no idea what ought to be considered for class balance. I haven’t been playing there that long, but I’ve reached the point that I know I will be there and potentially higher for as long as I play the game. Rotation, building, class matchups… etc.

Mini, I’ve seen you trolling around enough to see that you are like I used to be before I woke up and learned how to play better. If you 1v1’d Lord I’m pretty sure he would kite your Warrior and fear chain you into the fetal position b/c nobody gets to the top 100 on LB and stays there without knowing how to play their class

When you consider Rock Solid-Ether Renewal-Diamond Skin its pretty obvious that Ele is not going to lose a 1v1 against a Condi build. It’s an easy way out of dealing with Ele’s problems and will make Ele the next class that goes from challenging to easy mode. Add that to blind spam, instant burst with Fresh Air, and some of the best healing power scaling in the game.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll throw it out there again – Condi builds are gonna be teamfighters only nobody in their right mind is gonna put a condi build on sides with Warrior and Ele being able to easily deal with condis 1v1.

Edit: Symbolic I disagree on LB because being at the bottom shows you how TERRIBLE most players are. Especially on NA lol. You’ve never been there so you haven’t had the “privilege” of having to stare at your monitor and shake your head at the kind of things lower tier people do.

You are describing a 0/30/30/30/30 elementalist lol

here:
http://i.imgur.com/V0ZR2Os.png

Ezrael.6859:

A Necro with Rabid Amulet and 916 Power using a Scepter hits over 1000 direct damage during the second chain of Scepter auto-attack.

Average non-critical hits ~ 149 + 149 + 227.
Average critical hits ~ 273 + 273 + 454.

Average damage after 1 chain = 811
Average damage after two chains = 1585

You’ll be fine, but we know you’ll still whine.

Entitlement kids these days, playing the most mindless condition spam class in the most that has been buffed multiple times over the last year to be given 2 extra damage conditions, a buff to Weakness which significantly impacts any Power build they face both burst and bunker. Yet still they whine about how hard it is to play Necro.

The threads of this forum are hilarious really.

Conditions are fine! ~Signed Necro, Engineer, Spirit Ranger.
There’s too much condition removal! ~Signed Necro, Engineer, Spirit Ranger.
Diamond Skin will be OP! ~Signed Necro, Engineer, Spirit Ranger.
Berserker Stance is OP! ~Signed Necro, Engineer, Spirit Ranger.
Engineer Automated Response is OP! ~Signed Lordrosicky.5813 Necro.
Necro is hard to play and completely balanced with passive condi procs ~Signed Necro.
We aren’t in a condition meta! ~Signed Necro, Engineer, Spirit Ranger.

Lordrosicky.5813:

mini.6018:

Wintel.4873:

Holy knee-jerk reaction…clueless about Ele traits/builds much?

Diamond Skin is a 30-point Earth trait. EARTH. The condition damage tree. If you see an Ele with Diamond skin, they have already put themselves at a huge disadvantage against almost every meta build.

Currently there are NO decent builds involving 30 Earth because “condi ele” is something that barely exists. Necro and Engineer have superior condi application in every way. So you will still see most Ele’s going 30 Arcana + Air/Fire (burst) or Water (defensive).

What is wrong with people lol…

That is exactly what i was telling people when they introduced damage on boons trait on warriors but everybody has this ideea of 30/30/30/30/30 builds for all classes and they scream op op op op kitten(funny the screamers were mostly eles), even if in fact picking these traits actually means nerfing yourself.Just lol.I do hope however that they will qq as much about eles as they did about warriors.AGAIN and they will , the ammount of bad in players these days is “trough the roof”.

What are you on about dude. Yeh I am so bad. I couldnt find you on the leaderboards for team q but solo q you are 514th with a 59% win % over around 100 games. So you dont team q and have 100 games at a low level of solo q. Honestly, if you are so inexperienced/bad then why even post in balance threads? You cant have any understanding of the game. I dont go on fractals threads and tell them that a fractal boss is op cos I dont have a clue about it.

LOL. Teamq leaderboard position doesn’t mean anything. If you play 2 weeks an op class you can be top 100 even if you are the worst.

Lordrosicky.5813:

mini.6018:

@op.Anet should definetly go with this and preferrably make it an adept trait.Necros stop qq i have a tip for you.Your pets do 5k damage in one autoattack.Diamond skin would be funny on warriors though.A 30 k hp war is still just 3k damage you need to do.What you need to hit an ele with the insane ammount of ………
1000 DAMAGE to get them at 90% ? Hard to do i know with eles insane inate armor and necros highly telegraphed and obvious weapon skills.

Just 1 q.If you can, t do 10% damage on an ele how exactly are you dealing with engineers?

No, if you run a condition build you cant do 1k direct damage. It simply wont be possible. I cant kill an AR engi sitting there on 100 health an regen. Regen alone > my direct damage. And hybrid necro is horribly bad because scepter doesnt scale at all well with power stats outsies of scepter 3 which only does really when they have condis on them – which they wont.

So ye, you cant deal 10% damage. Rabid engis will be the same tbh.

And AR is not nearly as bad as this trait. At least with ar engis every build in the game has some chance of killing them but condi bombing them at 30% health. There will literally be no way a rabid build can even interract with such an ele. And tbh, same even for a carrion build on necro. They still wont be able to hurt the ele.

Like I said, the evidence is in this thread. A while back there was a thread about anet listening to the wrong players. It is time to see if that is truely still the case. You have experienced players lining up and saying this is a very very bad change to the game. And you have inexperienced players defending it for illogical reasons. This is such a simple thing for anet to see. I hope they dont kitten it up with this trait, which only effects pvp and not pve.

Sorry but a build that can’t deal 1k damage without condis is pure mindless spam and shouldn’t be playable in a serious game. Stop this nonsense thread.

new game mode: heart of the mists parkour

mini.6018:

@op.Anet should definetly go with this and preferrably make it an adept trait.Necros stop qq i have a tip for you.Your pets do 5k damage in one autoattack.Diamond skin would be funny on warriors though.A 30 k hp war is still just 3k damage you need to do.What you need to hit an ele with the insane ammount of ………
1000 DAMAGE to get them at 90% ? Hard to do i know with eles insane inate armor and necros highly telegraphed and obvious weapon skills.

Just 1 q.If you can, t do 10% damage on an ele how exactly are you dealing with engineers?

The question is: Can you deal 10% damage to an ele without acccidentally killing him?

This thread is very funny. Many of the users against DS are the very same users that back in the day created daily topics about the ele OPness. They asked anet to nerf eles every patch (nerfs were never enough) and in the end we got an unplayable class.

Ele hasn’t been playable in competitive PvP for many months now, and when it’s finally receiving some buffs the same users complain. One more time.

To this guys: there is a counter to diamond skin. Just deal 1-1.5k damage and the immunity is over. This trait, while passive, is good because it stops the mindless condi spam many classes are used to. I’m looking at you necros.

Acandis.3250:

I don’t think the trait is as strong as you guys think it is. In my opinion, we will only see this trait be very strong in bunker builds where a large HP pool along with large amounts of toughness. It will help glass cannon builds a bit, but the fact that you have to go 30 into earth for it makes it a bad option since you’ll drop a lot of sustain that keeps you I’m the fights when you are not above 90%.

It’s a bad addition to the meta, but it’s not overpowered like many of you seem to think that it will be.

this.

Erwin.5603:

I want my mesmer vs ele 1v1 matchup back !

good old times :’( mesmer close point, ele far point.

The outcome of an intense duel deciding games

I was afk in the mists at 23.40 when I saw something falling from the sky.

http://imgur.com/5CVG7W9

He gave no loot

note: look at the beauty of my textures

then place the current button in the middle of the screen so no one forgets to click it

imo, people is overreacting with diamond skin change. It’s not that strong at all

@Lordsoricky

Do you realize all eles have 12-14k HP and a 10% is 1200 or 1400?

1-2 Hits and the diamond skin is over

fixed an issue with multiple option checkboxes

I made this quick survey regarding some of the hot topics in the PvP community. It includes questions about PvP game modes, class balance, future, tournaments, etc.

All of the questions are optional so feel free to skip as many as you want.

Hopefully this unofficial survey will help the devs to understand the playerbase main concerns. I think it’s a very useful tool for the community, so I hope everyone participates and keeps this topic in the front page

• Link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qMF6Ch0FJqQx8nlaU-8ErHrLbA7ye_Jb8IskCHJ5kVY/viewform

• Link to the results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qMF6Ch0FJqQx8nlaU-8ErHrLbA7ye_Jb8IskCHJ5kVY/viewanalytics

I hope we get many answers. Spread the word (and the link)

Note: Please forum mods, don’t delete/move this topic to linksville

eles say no

I think arena and encampment are king of the hill

cannon dodgeable

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I don’t PvP, it just seems too scary…lol…but, I wanted to say I really enjoyed the livestream. It was very informative, and both Devs were a pleasure to get to know a bit better. Keep up the good work! =)

It’s not that scary, try it

Josh Davis.6015:

Bringing the game closer together is something we’re actively working on accomplishing. We’ll be able to spill the beans on everything early next month. (I feel like a broken record at this point.)

But seriously. Beginning of December. All shall be revealed.

reveal it NOW dont toy with us!!

Josh Davis.6015:

BenKenSven.4256:

Probably the best livestream i have seen so far including, pve and wvwvw streams. Simply awesome.

Glad you liked it. The PvP team is currently putting together a new show that will take place a few times a month on the official Twitch channel. Should be a cool way to keep you guys in the loop on development and anything else that comes up.

Thanks for watching, and we look forward to doing this more often!

something similar to state of the game? I miss these shows

check this
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Lagging-in-sPvP-Report-it-here

BlackhawkSOM.6401:

1. Before starting a match you choose what role your playing: Bunker, DPS, Hybrid, Support, Ect. This gives a way to add extra points to doing things like ie. standing on a point for a bunker= + 1 every 3 sec …+4 every 3 sec with 2 people on it..ect.

2. Three time a week tournament system where there is a new currency you can obtain to buy new skins. Also this tournament is on going at a specific time interval so you can queue back in. Should be an alternate way of advancing your mmr considerably then team queue.

3. Don’t just give out awesome skins to everyone through a cheap RNG system. This is discouraging because atm their aren’t any skins which show you are a good pvp player.

4. Legendaries should only be obtainable by a bi-weekly tournament that everyone can take part in. If your team is 3rd-1st place you have a chance of selecting your own legendary.

Interesting

- Ingame PvP announcements: X team won Y, Z tournament is being played check twitch, etc.

Ryan.9387:

20 people minus the 10 playing, so 10 remaining spots for spectators.

Currently 0

Make your own list. With all the possible responses I’d love to make a poll.

Here is my list:

- New game modes: deathmatch & GvG
- Spectator mode to ranked games
- Daily automated tournament
- Season system with unique skins & titles
- Visible MMR ingame
- Balance
- Level your character and gain gold through PvP
- /duel command in Heart of the mists
- Remove/improve Skyhammer

Ryan.9387:

The reason this isn’t in is because of technical reasons on anet’s part. The tpvp matches are the same as hotjoin in that there is a 20 person cap. They allow shoutcasters in because the small number can fit into the server. If anet decided to change this I’d imagine the effort would take away from other content that players want more.

IMO, a 20 person cap is good enough for regular rated matches.

to be honest, it was a huge mistake from anet to separate the WvW and the Spvp community in two.

The character, level, skins, achievements, rank, etc. should be the same for both modes.

Kharr.5746:

Anet has said it many times now: They are aware of this and are completely reworking sPVP rewards. It will take several patches to implement. Hold on to your tights until then.

Yes, they are changing reward system but dont forget it’s arenanet. The new system may be worse than the current.

They should allow anyone to spectate any match with a 1 min delay

soon

Nabbo.2845:

I’m seriously wondering what the fixation is with Warrior’s regen. I switched to guild wars 2 from wow and I remember the warriors 2nd wind ability (heavy regen at 25-30% hp) being a horrible game design flaw, with warrior’s out-healing hybrid classes just by having that passive ability.

I understand that warriors are basically the symbol of stamina and longevity in battle but kitten ! Random immunities to condis and CC on top of the DR-less hammer smashing or absurd bleeding and burning damage just make it awful.

Is it that hard to (at least this) change the values a little bit in the regen?

Lol so true, warrior signet = warrior 2nd wind.

Such a bad design and every game has it

Change it to: when you use your elite skill, you lose all conditions

(you dont get any boon)

This sounds like a l2p issue dragonkain

If the game is about to begin and one player didn’t join, the game is cancelled.

If someone ragequits midgame and his time loses, each of his team mates lose 50% MMR they should lose and the ragequiter loses his 100%+ eachteammate50%

Justin ODell.9517:

You do know we have multiple teams working on all aspects of the game concurrently, right? You can’t compare the output of one team to the sum of all output from every other team.

I mean, I’m good but I’m not that good.

Sure, it would be nice if we had more bodies working on PvP. That wouldn’t really get things to you faster, but could increase the number of things we’re getting to you.

I’m not blaming the devs that work in PvP. I’m complaining because costumers were promised a good pvp and anet isn’t puting enough resources

kittening yes. Most unbalanced map ever designed, only fun to classes that have an advantage

felivear.1536:

Darnis.4056:

We’re the last part of the human centipede that is GW2 Development.
I’d post a bad speedpaint comic I made but probably would get infarcted again.

You show me yours and I’ll show you mine!

LOL

The arena is already designed. Just add a heart of the mists instanced version and let us play 5v5 or 3v3 deathmatch already

http://imgur.com/a/vhi1I

Also: Why is WvW getting so many features that have been asked for PvP since betas? It was leagues first, now a Deathmatch arena, what’s next?

Michael.7382:

a t s e.9614:

Allow people to use their PvE skins in the mists . I think many people dont wanna start from 0 in terms of looks . In gw1 we were allowed to bring whatever we wanted in separated PvP

lol no way. Some pve guy after year of pveing comes to the mists looking x100 better than me, altho i pvped since year also? It would work IF it was like this from the begining, not after over year and time ppl invested in pvp that gave no rewards.

So you want to look good in an empty game mode rather than have fun playing with people?

Seems legit

KingClash.3186:

I find it a bit funny that this is posted in the sub forum that has the most front page developer responses.

swiftpaw.6397:

It’s cool OP, swing over by the dungeon area sometime and check out how many dev posts are there compared to the pvp section.

Pve has updates
PvP has forum responses

Id love if it was the opposite

Wintel.4873:

Even taking a Churning Earth to the face really shouldn’t matter considering how much healing and condi cleanse/immunity warriors have.
As an Ele it’s entirely possible to run into an AFK guardian/warrior, go absolutely butter-nuts bringing them down to low health, then they wake up, heal-up and it’s game over for the Ele thanks to pathetic sustain.
It’s either go all into glass and risk getting one-shotted, or get survivability traits but end up being as much of a threat as a toddler armed with a water pistol.

Dec 10 changes seems to be more of a nerf to Ele survivability (yes you read that right, a nerf to Ele survivability) than truly opening up build diversity. ANet is failing to realize some very key things that need to be addressed with that class, like having the lowest base health combined no passive defense/evasion mechanics (compared to what Mesmers and Thieves have), and mandatory Evasive Arcana + Cantrips which will be just as mandatory after Dec 10.

Playing Ele is just one big ball of frustration.

Wait, but if they nerf ele survivability even more they will die to gravity force right??