Guild Wars 2

I’d love to be part of this and even input some of my experiences as an elementalist!

Infectious.4836:

Or they could at least split solo and team que.

That is another problem which needs to be fixed; but merging all of the servers in HOM would be an easy fix to many other problems which we seem to be facing.

The alliance chat would be quite a mess if people are in different guilds talking to each other.

To other people it would seem like a one sided conversation which could also lead to misunderstandings when people think that someone responded to them when they actually responded to something they don’t see.

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I know quite a few active PvPers who are extremely social but they don’t like repping guilds for their own reason.

Kind of silly for A-net to limit their own income rate.

I’m quite sure that they will implement better ways to get glory as the game evolves towards an end-game playstyle.

I’ve personaly stopped watching my bar and every time I get close to ranking up, it is a pleasant surprise rather than “FINALLY”.

My recommendation to everyone is to stop worrying about points and start worrying about the game; this would make the game-play seem much faster and make it much more competitive and entertaining.

AlexRD.7914:

I agree with you, two guys stomping someone doesn’t make it any faster, so why should two rezzers? Having one person rez while the other one interrupts and protects his ally requires more skill than both pressing F for 2 seconds and rezzing someone that was critically injured.

Also, i think stomping takes too long. It was just like the wolf’s f2, 2 seconds cast time felt way too slow while 1.5 seconds felt just right.

Since the above changes would make stability stomping too strong, then i suggest all interrupts while downed bypass any form of force stomping. That would remove the unfair advantage some classes have to prevent stomp (Thief, Mesmer and Ele).

As a ranger, i feel that the pet revive is too strong and needs to be toned down a little.
The thieves teleport should also have increased range, as i’ve seen thieves die countless times even though they teleported. Mesmers too.

Almost all classes have some kind of stability stomp. Agreed some are harder to get to, it just means that he should play the part of interupting ressers while a buddy invuln stomps.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Mash Hog.5672:

Yeah, it will take at least a year or two of farming for someone to get up there!
That dragon finisher better be kitten!

Who even stomps anymore. It is all about dps

What about /rank in HoM/PvE? :P

mbh.8301:

Mash Hog.5672:

I think it’s good; it gives /rank a method of showing off because these ranks are not easily gained.

You don`t get it.
If there was a way to get massive glory via unquestionable demonstration of skill, then yes. As it is now, tournaments are commonly accepted as a better indicator of skill, but it gives far less glory than hotjoining. Praise your hotjoin farming overlords.

I never said it is an expression of skill, but it is something that needs work to achieve no matter which way you spin it; achievements like these still deserve to be displayed with pride.

Dest.7410:

Funny how PvE leveling curve is (almost) the exact opposite

But being maxed level is nearly required to enjoy the “end-game” such as fractals and dungeons.
Having a high rank in PvP doesn’t allow you to do more things.

I think it’s good; it gives /rank a method of showing off because these ranks are not easily gained.

Yeah, it will take at least a year or two of farming for someone to get up there!
That dragon finisher better be kitten!

Thanks for the support guys,
I seriously believe that this would be a massive change which would drastically improve the PvP State of The Game

It kind of goes both ways because you’d be able to do the same with your team-mates.
Furthermore; a few more semi-advanced methods like interrupts and invuln/tele stomps are strategies which counter such a strategy.
Having 2 guys ressing another guy is equivalent to having both members standing around and makes them very vulnerable and you’re able to do massive AoE damage on the spot and end up downing all 3 enemies if you are able to manage enough DPS on that spot.

You need rank 80 for it:

/wiki PvP Rewards

I only play elementalist (1.8k hours logged on it).
I always enjoyed playing my elementalist before the nerf.
I still enjoy it somewhat… but the entire playstyle feels a lot more clunkier and I’m finding myself stuck on cool-downs a lot more for some reason.

You’re looking for the Kodan weapon set!

In my experience I’ve noticed that the staff is not a very “involving” weapon to play with the elementalist. You stay well away from the mob and blast it with fire skills.

Looking back (I have long since abandoned using the staff)
Most of the source of DPS came from my fire attunement.

Sources of DPS on the other attunements are seriously lacking.
That said, I highly encourage looking at other builds with your staff; you can go less defensive with staff and go more glass cannon cause you are able to maintain your range.

I could be interested in doing this if I don’t end up doing anything with my guildies.
If I do end up coming I may end up bringing a few of my guildies with me! :P

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I’ve been running zerker gear with the 0/10/0/30/30 build most of my GW2 Career and I’ve had no issue with it.

I’ve just had to be a lot more careful by what I get hit by and co-ordinate my healing and cooldowns but the trade-off is a great feeling when you pull off a 6-8k churning earth on those squishy squishy thieves.

This would help!

If you actually look at how retaliation damage is determined, you would see that the damage is determined is based on the power a character has.
Therefore someone with a super bunker build with little or no power would also in turn do low amount of retaliation damage.

I think it’s good that he’s not giving up to that “Rank-One” nonsense. With the current system in place people with high ranks are encouraged to not run tournaments unless they’re running them with the best possible group.

I don’t think it is a good strategy for a game to encourage its members NOT to play it!

So I log into the game as I’m reading through the forums and I see this post.
Once I’m in game I decide to whisper you… but strangely enough the whisper goes to the person standing right in front of me…
I thought this was a glitch so I left click this person and find out your username and it turns out it was you!

You were the one person in Heart of the Mists standing in front of me the second I log in!
That was wierd!

Anyways I’m the leader of GASM on Dragonbrand and we would love to have you!

I agree that would be an issue, I just hope they do come up with a system which may do it fairly cause it sucks having a no-show.

I wonder if they will implement a method so that the people left in a team after someone leaves won’t get punished for the one person leaving…

I ran into this issue as well.
It just goes down to who you played with and who you played against.
Being a guild group, we invited people who were new to tPvP to join our group (low rankers).

These low rankers lowered our group average and made us face opponents which were too easy to beat and we won well over 80% of all our games.

The other people’s rankings were too low to positively effect our ranking while the one team that did beat us lowered our ranking significantly which is the reason I did not show up on the leaderboards.

This is a matchmaking issue which needs to be fixed!

deracs.1762:

Kaleban.9834:

Wow, just wow. The massive number of posts that show responses from people who clearly can’t read is amazing. I’ve seen several responses along the lines of “removing caps makes AoE classes uber powerful.” Seriously? Is everyone high?

Removing the AoE caps introduces a choice, much like a Mesmer’s Confusion in sPvP. That choice is to ball up in a big zerg and be very vulnerable to AoE, or spread out into smaller spread out groups who by the nature of being spread out and small are less vulnerable to big AoEs.

It seems exceedingly simple to me, yet I can’t fathom how so many people seem to keep missing the point. Removing the AoE cap isn’t going to make AoE-centric professions super god awesome, its simply going to force everyone into the choice mentioned above, which means logically people will spread out to avoid AoE.

As to those who argue that removing the cap would mean AoE would have to be nerfed, why? A player who doesn’t stand in a Meteor Shower, Barrage or is dodging through Wells takes zero damage. Lava Font could do a gajillion damage, but effectively does zero if no players are dumb enough to stand in it.

And that’s the main problem with people arguing against cap removal. They don’t see the issue, they just see numbers on skills that in their arguments assumes an automatic hit. GW2 combat is much more mobile and twitchy than most MMOs, which means part of the game balance must be on player reaction time and skill, which ANet can account for but should not put training wheels on.

Ironically, unlimited AoE would make melee professions more powerful. Why you ask? Its simple, now the hard hitting single target professions become the hard counter to the AoE professions. A Meteor Storm can hurt a big group, but a Warrior can knockdown the Ele and crush him, eliminating the AoE threat entirely. Where melee becomes powerful is in their ability to quickly remove the threat. A small roving band of Thieves and Warriors can function as an assassin squad, taking out the artillery barrage being conducted by squishy casters.

In this way, removing the AoE cap gives professions a more defined role in WvWvW, makes the map and mode more interesting, and probably makes the whole thing a lot more fun. At the very least it would cut back on the mindless zerging. But it would require the players to re-think their roles, strategies and tactics, you would of course have the obligatory whining about needing to nerf AoE from players who kept standing in red circles expecting lame game mechanics to save their stupid hides, but they would probably be the minority as the rest of the playerbase would get used to the much more dynamic and challenging WvWvW combat.

I guess I am high, since I disagree with almost every point you make. First is the actual AOE that is in this game. There simply is far to much to start with. For many classes their AOE is actually their highest dps ability and is used for single target or multiple (gaurdian greatsword as example) so, no… they will not start re-inventing themselves to be assasins

It will do nothing to stop zerg action, it wont even stop the stacking that we all see happening right now. What it will do is force more people to take retaliations and stack even tighter. It will also start to force people to have specific builds, from forced range AOE specs to forced retaliation/heal specs. One of the truly good things about GW2 WvW so far is the lack of this “you must use this spec or get out of my group” mentality that exist in so many other games

The only thing removing AOE cap will do is allow small groups of ranged AOE to cause a lot more havoc in specific choke point situations (like ramp leading to lord in tower). It will simply increase the insane AOE that already exists

You want less zerg and more small groups. Maps must be increased in size with more objectives that force the giant zergs to split up or they simply will not be able to cover enough. Bigger maps…. more small groups

There is nothing wrong with zerg action! It’s more of when the zerg becomes a bunch of brainless sheep following around the commander which is what I have a problem with!

Increasing the AoE cap will make WvW high risk and high reward system which will make the more skillful/planned commander stand out. People will not be required ball up into groups because it takes less effort and people and more co-ordination to wipe those groups out.

The high-risk, high-reward system would really bring the spice/strategy back into WvW and it might make me come want to get back into WvW.

Rizzy.8293:

Pantsdragon.5703:

I actually like the idea, but it would probably hit a lot of roadblocks.

Like proper speech recognition.

Not at all

the way other games do it.
They look at the punctuation on your sentence.

If theres no punctuation or its ended with a period, its just a normal gesture. (already inside the game if you look at npcs)
If theres an exclaimation mark at the end, they do a shout gesture (Already inside the game, warriors shout)
If theres a question mark at the end, they do a shrug. (Already inside game, remember mad king says and the floating griswirl)

Lip flap doesnt need to mimic whats actually being written, they just need to flap your lips.

Sentence length just determines how long your lips flap.

I like this idea and I think it could be one of the “little things” that A-net adds to their games to make it amazing!

But do you really shrug every time you ask a question? shrugs
The same movements done by the same people could start to get a little dry and repetitive and make the game look ugly.

It is a pain having a system which has you take up multiple inventory slots to store the many different kinds of tokens that A-net has provided us with. I would be much better content with a kind of “Merit” system in which whenever you get are supposed to get tokens you instead get “X- amount of merit” towards the current group of people you’re working to help in the dungeon. The NPC’s in Lion’s Arch would allow you to purchase using these merits (which are account bound and internal). It would be a much more reasonable method than trading 100’s of Eyes of Zhaitan.

For the case of recipes requiring certain amounts of tokens, you can just make replace those tokens replaceable with an item which you can buy from the NPC for the same amount of tokens, much like those bought with 500 Fractal Relics.

swinsk.6410:

My problem with the orb is that it favors certain classes because they have better movement/hp/damage mitigation.

The biggest imbalance is that certain classes like guardians can pick it up and negate tons of damage while using it. Warriors have great movement abilities to cap. Ele’s have RTL and mist form.

Thieves are terrible orb holder because they can’t stealth it and have such low hp and nothing else to negate damage.

My suggestion would to make it harder for people to continually cap this. Keep the hindered effect of running the orb. Still allow movement skills to work, like warriors leap attacks and bladetrail. Thief heart seeker, etc.

Remove the ability to use any kind of ability that give you any kind of immunity. RTL, Mist form, any invuln.

In exchange give the orb holder a boost of HP/toughness.

Basically the “idea” is to make the orb holder a slow punching bag that can’t move very well and can’t mitigate damage. This would require having your team help you cap it IMO.

Don’t remove the skills from the bars just display a “Immune” message like when a thief tries to stealth with the orb or use swiftness.

There needs to be less movement and less damage mitigation through skills while holding the orb. Just increase toughness/hp when doing so that they can take more hits while the team defends the orb runner.

RTL does not give any damage reduction.
This could be my own RTL obsession talking but I personally think that this map is fine. Every class needs to play to it’s strengths (though I agree some things are currently overpowered).

I do hope to see certain classes as better orb runner than other class because it does provide each person on a team with a certain role. You wouldn’t really expect a thief to bunker (though I’ve seen it).

I also believe that thieves need to have some kind of method to run the orb a bit better, currently whenever I see a thief running them, my elementalist smiles as I RTL over to them for a free orb!

There is also a pretty important issue in which if you kill someone holding the orb (or your ally who is holding the orb dies) it is very difficult to pick it up because “Finish Him!” or “Revive” keeps popping up on the screen instead. It really is frustrating when you DPS an orb carrier down inches away from the node and then his buddy picks it up and gets knocked down into the node!

I personally like Spirit Watch, it requires a different kind of gameplay and contains a very strong and potent secondary mechanic.

If you’re going to stand under a bunch of flaming meteors don’t you deserve to die?
Taking away the aoe limit reintroduces situational awareness to WvW and may lead to smarter, more competetive WvW.

I remember reading somewhere that A-net wants to minimize as many UI’s the a player has to deal with. They made a reference to WoW where you see numbers popping up all over the place and you have no idea what they are and they wanted to avoid that.

Besides when you punch someone… you have no idea how much harder you’ll have to punch them till they get knocked out do you? :P

It looks cool!
It would be nice to have an option for this for videos and such but this would not/could not be used for serious game play which is why I doubt they’ll implement this.

It’s obviously teaser for a new class!
It uses the shield in the main hand and a sword as off-hand!

If Ride the Lightning is Nerfed I also encourage you guys to look at the other strategies that other classes use to move the orb faster and to get the orb off the pedestal.

I am sure that a couple of leap skills are not affected by having the orb at all.
There are many rangers who are able to run the orb a lot faster than the elementalists.
Engineers also have a couple of skills which allow them to cap the points extremely fast.

Another thing I have noticed which no one has mentioned is the fact that there are skills which allow people to pick up the orb while being under fire.

The Mesmer can use distortion shatter to pick up the orb while still being hit.
The Guardian has a skill which blocks attacks which ensures that they are the ones who get them. That skill with the bunkering skills of a guardian makes it quite game changing.

I’m sure there are many other skills which are like this and I do not know if they are like this by design or as an oversight but I would like to see a response to these strategies and A-net’s stance on them.

Josh Foreman.8250:

No no no!!! <:o Not this month. At an unspecified time. Certainly not in the next month.

Josh said it’s not coming in the next month.

Moto Refuses to sell the Super Adventure Fun box, so it would probably require some sort of quest line or something to make him want to give it up.

They’re not coming up anytime in the coming month.
The box is due to close April 30th and then IF they decide to re-open the box, they will re-open it with new maps and new weapon skins!

Based on the large amount of positive feedback from the forums, chances are it will make a return sometime in the new future.

There are only certain times when you can target the boss.
When the boss looks left/right is when you can start targeting him and after he gets up from being whacked at you will have the option to target the amulet but NOT him!

Funny how the people in the sPvP forums are saying the exact same thing about WvW.

You have 4 elements to switch between for your different needs and when situations get a little bit too awry you can always conjure. (I’ve never needed to conjure ever in my 1k+ hours of being an ele except for certain dungeons).

Other classes have to make do with a lot less than we do.
I consider ele’s the most versatile class in the game.

I’m a pretty experienced d/d elementalist who has been regularly PvPing and WvWing.
I have around 1.5k hours logged on my ele. The first 500-700 hours were me playing with staff.

I have been doing more tPvP lately… whenever I saw a staff ele I would smile and feel bad for them as I wrecked them with my mobility.
There have been times though when a staff ele has completely worn me down and taken me out 1 v 1.

I would love to learn that build.

We already have over 2x the amount of skills other classes have.
When combined with the conjuring there are a LOT of em!

Not a good way to start this thread, we’ll use kthik’s
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/1-4-13-Maguuma-Borlis-Pass-Devona-s-Rest/first#post1146413

Okay! I want a good clean fight. No hitting below the belt! No name calling!
I’m looking really forward to this match!

Good luck and have fun all

The character from GASM who was using the exploit/glitch has been recognized and kicked. Thank you for your cooperation and help in maintaining our guild rep!

Vistal.2906:

Exploit is a exploit. People get sick and tired of Servers who brag and exploit, so i guess we will see tons more coming from servers who are against it. Isnt the saying a EYE for a EYE? Well guess what ? DR has a bunch .. not a few like 2-3 more like 15+ who been exploiting for 2 weeks now. Guess its the other servers turn to exploit right back.

The whole saying is an EYE for an EYE leaves the whole world blind.

The people who used “An EYE for an EYE” were the Babylonians and they have long since died out.

And I don’t see much point having Exploit Wars 2. Might as well report them and hope they get banned. None of us like this.

dunnberry.2964:

Glad AR is already playing for 2nd, sad…

Or maybe they’re trying as hard as they can to get as many points as they can?
I don’t understand… are they just supposed to give up or something?

Junkhaus.4301:

Npac.3476:

As much as it pains me to say this…props to you PRO guys this morning. Had some great fights with you (many we didn’t walk away from). Keep it up, was refreshing to fight some really tough opponents!

Also to the big guy with Twilight, you have officially been dubbed captain legendary by my guild….aka the first target we set

Hope to see y’all out there soon!

Hi, I have a Twilight. Could it be me you are talking about? I “saw” 2 identical looking [paxa] thieves come out of their dust cloud before my screen turns gray. I’ve been out there on NSP bl all night until we finally lost a fortified Hills keep, that’s when I followed PRO into AR.

I’m the max-sized norn spamming the shouts trying to stay alive in a sea of NSP. I “feared” a small group of you NSP dudes off the cliff just outside the hills keep in your BL last night, that was the highlight of my night. I’m enjoying these fights immensely.

When the zergs from [Meow] are laughing over my corpse, know that I am here laughing with you, too.

Laughing with thoughts of what he’s going to do to each and every one of you.

Singlemalt.4021:

good job on pick the lowest population server DR….

“Lowest Population Server”

You had 40 people taking Stargrove to the north and 40 people taking Green Tower to the south.
AT THE SAME TIME

I’m pretty sure you had no problem fielding enough members in your borderlands tonight.

Oh and lets not forget to mention the “Lowest population server” was green when we came into this tier and was second place last match up.

That is why GASM decided to show up to your borderlands!