Guild Wars 2

Colly.4073:

Is Anet actually listening?
Yes to whatever NCSoft tells them

Does Anet really care?
Only about your $$$$$

That build will die to stuns and definitely can’t do much more than selected 1v1s. It’s not even a good p/d build there. You wont even survive the burst of prober gank thief with that setup. Since there is no stun break so you will eat the whole mug, c&d, bs, hs combo. Hell, even s/p should destroy that setup.
It’s not bad build, but I think it has too many weaknesses and is to easy to pin down to be that effective for roaming in wvw.

Daendur.2357:

it is just OP and conditions should be changed in the way they need ad least another stat but condition damage to be effective.

It is op as hell, I know because I’ve been running it the last 6 months. The dire stats make it borderline ridiculous. However, this is not really a thief problem. It’s a general problem of condition builds that allow you to get both high defense and offence.
Ofc, the p/d build is hard countered by a d/p thief or a regen warrior with lemon grass (will be a draw at best), but being counterable does not mean that it can’t still be overpowered.

Errant Venture.9371:

Simple question. Why don’t matches which are 4v5 fill from the queue? As soon as someone leaves/DC the spot is filled. If you DC, well wsorry that sucks for you but it shouldn’t damage your teammates MMR.

Too difficult to code. Apparently. cough

Mathias.9657:

And what forum is as bad as GW2’s? 90% of this forum is against ANet.

I have no seen so much hate on a gaming forum, even WoW has cleaner forums and half the playerbase there are nothing but trolls.

I’m sorry but if most your forum is littered with people telling you what a crap job you’re doing, there is something wrong. It’s not merely a “let’s hop on the hate train because yolo!”

It’s painfully obvious since most the topics address the same exact things.

This.

Some from this evening
hf lil —--
lol so ye ure noname (Noname, that I get called a lot. Given the popularity of this game’s pvp, its sorta ironic)
l2p and then then toxics will be happy ( whats is this even supposed to mean ? xD)

Some of the best ones I’ve been called though, are so racist that I can’t post them here. :S

Hey all!
As many of you may know already, team Denial Esports won the MLG Guild Wars 2 Invitational last Friday. Please join me in congratulating them, it’s well deserved!
Congrats!!

Cool. Now why should I, or any other player of guild wars 2, give a flying kitten?
Sorry for my cynicism, but given the current state of the game itself, I think it’s justified.

Not to mention Eve online. That game has almost no hoarding limits at all. You can have have massive amounts of assets spread all over the several thousand space stations accross the galaxy.

0$ spent on gems. No new real content, no new real money.

silentnight warrior.2714:

Nuka Cola.8520:

i came here expecting some1 to qq about mesmers and this wasn’t the case, impressive. I gotta say one thing i do not compute since game’s release. Why the adrenaline bar isn’t emptied when warrior’s attack is missed or blocked (the F1 attack that is)? We all know how gw2 is aiming for casual friendlyness n all but wtf is up with this? This is a small but important little thing that needs to be changed pronto.

That would be a buff to warriors, you know that dont you? Right now you can avoid the warrior to efectively use cleansing ire to clean 3 conditions when you make them miss/interrupt because the adrenaline stays on the bar. Its a thing called counter play.

And mesmer is also cheesy.

The simplicity of people sometimes amaze me*. Of course you would also change cleansing ire so that it only triggers if the attack actually lands. Duh.

*Though chances are, that this guy just wanted to be a smart kitten .

18 pages of QQ:ing because some anet dev thought it would be fun to troll around a bit? Guys, you can’t be serious…

Excalibur.9748:

well AA has more effective range than #4. if you’re in range to use poison field you’re in range to use cluster bomb….

for tagging I find AA to be safer….i use #4 when someone gets downed sometimes (and there is a chance that he would get res’d).

You don’t really play it like that. Using shortbow #4 does not break stealth so you can run into the enemy zerg and spam 4 before they get wiped. It’s essentially a type of zerg surfer build. Other weapon set can be x/d so that you can surf but I quess d/p could work as well if you are good in abusing the camera bug. Caltrops on dodge is also useful for more tagging as is the caltrops utility.
And yes, using #1 is generally safer. However, during larger blob fights, closing into the enemy zerg and using #4 should yeld more tags should they wipe. It’s a type of high reward, high risk thing, even if I hate that saying.

Strang.8170:

If the leaked buffs are what they´re doing, they´ll still be just a gimmick.

Exact.

That mantra is really terrible, but mesmer has other good stun breaks such as blink and decoy. The cool down on aoe is indeed over the top. It is also absurd that lighting flash does not break stun.

Excalibur.9748:

You tag with the auto attack.

No, you tag with #4. Anyone who runs through the poison field will be tagged.

As for the poster saying tag w/ #4… lol, good luck w/ that low dmg to tag something before it dies from your buddies.

Not much can I say so that. Go ahead and try it out, it works.

Guardian is definitely overpowered, just doesn’t hurt like someone said. Point guard is probably the simplest role in the game as well.

It promotes 4v5 because some people don’t enjoy this map. So they just afk or don’t join at all, happens all the time.

So he trolled you? Too bad. Normally you have someone to take care of the trolls.

icechai.2079:

Doesn’t P/P with ricochet trait tag better? Unload and those bullets start flying, coupled w/ a sigil of fire and I’m pretty sure it tags more than firing that cluster bomb, waiting, detonating, or the 3 bounce of the regular shot. Especially in zerg speeds when enemies get killed by the time you fire off your 2nd regular attack, or prior to a cluster bomb splitting.

You tag with the #4.

Probably not op if its a trait thats not achieved too easily.

VS GOOD THIEF you lose or thief run. No other possibility.

This, though, the thief has to run a proper troll build as well. Also, the trolliest specs will not be able to chase that well themselves.

The phant spec is op in 1v1, so unless if you are traited for duels, just get out if you are alone. Its unlikely that the mesmer is mobile enough to properly chase you.

oZii.2864:

Relentliss.2170:

mrmadhaze.8706:

Problem is not the +40% duration, problem is when people see 1 tick of bleed and they waste their condi removal.
And there is no fix for that..

One tick. What game are you playing? I have conditions running off my screen 90% of the time. In seconds. With perplexity runes, I have 15-20 stacks of confusion applied to me in seconds. There are big issues at play here.

The problem is the Condition casters now apply Fast Damage and are so tanky they can not be burst down. Previously, before Dire gear, perplexity runes, and recent buffs, they applied slow damage and were weaker to burst.

Cause criticals aren’t damage? If you have 15-20 stacks (assume 20 stacks) you got interrupted 4 times in a row(you said in seconds).

The condition classes play pretty much the same and lose dps by going dire gear.

Popular Necromancer Terror build 30/20/0/0/20 you drop your sigil of earth(more damage) everything else is the same. Except you have no more direct damage. You ever seen how much feast of corruption does when you crit in rabid gear? If you go on the necro forums many people still prefer rabid gear or mix of. Mathematically rabid gear provides more dps so anyone running dire gear does so sacrificing dps. Direct Damage builds do the same when they take Soldier Gear.

P/D thief spec never ran rabid gear anyway you ran carrion mostly cause you don’t need crits.

If your a mesmer condi spec you have to run rabid gear unless you don’t care about bleeds on crit.

I don’t know much about rangers condi builds or engineers.

Fact a Rabid Gear condi build will kill you faster than a Dire gear condi build. Why? Critical Damage!

Anyway your derailing here talking about dire gear make a new thread about that this is about food. *

Dunno about 20, but crybar, 1 interrupt and the 4th effect of the runes is already 13 stacks me thinks. Anyway, the runes would be fairly balanced if the confusion duration would be onpair with most confusion durations.

P/D thief spec never ran rabid gear anyway you ran carrion mostly cause you don’t need crits.

You need some rabid for proper sustain if you are to do 1vX. Personally I ran around with about 2800 armor and 15k health. Now more health due to dire.

Fact a Rabid Gear condi build will kill you faster than a Dire gear condi build. Why? Critical Damage

Not necesarily true. The damage applied by the critical hits will be mariginal in a build that doesn’t have power or critical damage. Some on crit effects will however increase damage in some specs. Then again, the dire spec can push harder and play less defensively due to having more health.

Xcom.1926:

Arachnid.4062:

This is probably the worst testament to match making I’ve ever been a part of in this game.

How on earth does anet allow a match to start 0v5??

I don’t get why players don’t understand this. There aren’t enough players queuing so they allow for this unbalanced matches.

Thats no excuse. Make it mix 3v3 or similar if you can’t make 5v5.

Stealth could be just removed from spvp tbh. Leave it for the wvw trolls and duel braggers.

Demonts.4593:

Bsgapollo.5364:

There are some rightfull call for nerfs though. Such as condition damage, stealth, and too many evades are already major ones. Balance should be something on the top list to do from Anet their side.

But what makes you the balance expert? without steath thieves are deleted from the game and evades are one of the main skill factors in the game. I feel like the problem with thieves right now is the boon steal on s/d. Everything else is easy for me to deal with. Again, you did it mildly and kindly, but saying things like this is a huge problem for the game because nobody has an unbiased view other than the devs

What? This isn’t politics with ideologies, it’s a kitten game. I’m not a mesmer or a thief, I’m a player of Guild Wars 2 and I want that game to be balanced and interesting.
Do realise that not everyone is biased even if you are.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Are Anet aware that the solo q matchmaking system appears to work as a lazy copy and paste of the team Q system?

This is how is appears to work in practice:

1, You queue and it matches you in a roster of similar ranked people
2, Your roster then enters the matchmaking system
3, You are matched with the closest roster who has a similar rating

What this results in:

1, At low population times you get very unbalanced matches frequently pitting teams of all 100-200 rating vs a team of 1500-2000 rating
2, Syncing is easy and works almost always

What it should do:
1, You queue and are matched with 9 other people of as similar rating as possible
2, Those 10 people are divided into two teams of 5 – based on equal ratings for each team
3, This would stop syncing and unbalanced matches

Why it is broken?:
1, IMO the system is broken because anet couldn’t be bothered to design a solo q matchmaking system from scratch. So after creating rosters they just copy and pasted the team q matchmaking system over and called it job done.

Leaderboards are also broken:
1, The decay isn’t permanent so people who played ages ago can play again and get to rank 1 easily.
2, This is a problem because the ratings creep downwards over time it seems, so if you actively play your rating cannot be as high as an afker
3, This doesnt reward playing at all, which is counter productive to the game.
4, So the leaderboards are broken and a joke too. There is also no reset meaning they lose more significance.

So, my question:

Why would Anet put in features which are broken and don’t work possilby, and then not say the features are broken or even work to fix them?

I don’t mind waiting for things to come in. I am sure all resonable people understand this. But to add broken things and then never fix them….well I would rather they didn’t even bother tbh

Very good post. +1.

Demonts.4593:

I really think players should try to play a class before complaining about it. What if the other player is just better than you but happens to play a different class? I bet most people still complain. It feels like its impossible to master the game because if you get too good you just get complained about and nerfed… Leave it up to the devs to balance and decide and kitten. I’m tired of hearing about how you want something to be nerfed because you got outplayed. It is ruining the game.

Most people who still go to these forums have played most if not all classes though. Only rookies complain without testing things first.

I’m tired of hearing about how you want something to be nerfed because you got outplayed. It is ruining the game

Nonsense. The devs don’t listen to the gamers, as has repeatetly been shown. Nobody asked for dhoomsfire, spirit rangers or other such “semi passive” bullcrap.

Mystic Toilet is like Blackjack. Don’t play it unless you can count the cards.

No. Would take the power creep at WvW to a ridiculous level.

Really liked the costume brawl middle of LA. Hopefully that’ll be there again.

MMO rule #1:
“exploit early, exploit often”

SoLeciTO.3490:

I did read, it is what i’am saying.

Is like . . . i could really complain about warriors regen power.

You now after one year of the this kind of complains are really a joke.

I don’t mind that people debates if one build is op or not when is a constructive post.

but asking to nerf the main characteristic from a profession is just a joke.

- Take of rangers pet because we others dont have.
- Take away clones, phantoms, shatters because we dont have.
- Take away perma regen from warriors because we dont have.
- Take away mines, turrets, elixirs, tools from engi because we dont have.
- Take away condition spam to necros because we dont have.
- Take away damage mitigation from guardian because we dont have.

Next time if you pretend to come and ask for a nerf make it constructive with numbers or cases, not only come and QQ about it.

You complain about lack of constructive posts and QQ with a post like this. Oh the irony.

Second . . . Tactical strike is a great skill but you have to be very careful because it can dry your ini.

What? I mean, yeah, if you kitten up with #5 when setting up for tactical strike, that drains your ini yes.

the complains from S/D are not for tactical strike, are for the evades on demand it has.

Please re-read my post and make sure you understand it before posting. I mentioned tactical strike simply because I used to play that build, not because it was really relevant to the current discussion. And yes, people complain about s/d because of the evades and also because of the skill #2.

ekleenex.1654:

SoLeciTO.3490:

L2P . . . if you have problems with thieves in this condi meta u r doing something really bad.

Anyways this forum is full of QQ because L2P issues.

- Spirit Ranger OP QQ
- Terrormancer OP QQ
- Warrios . . . all OP QQ
- Engis condi damage OP QQ

Stop with the QQ, learn the mechanics, then come again and say one profession is OP.

Asking a theif to not use stealth is like asking a mesmer to not user clones.

Is a mechanic that makes unique a profession, if you cant handle a simple thief in SPVP trust me, you should play something less stressing . . . maybe the sims?

This, so much this…

I tried typing up a few things but you really already said it… If anyone is having problems countering a thief in this current meta then I really don’t know what to say.

Yeah, glass thief with limited condition removal is OP with all this condition spamming.

You run lyssa runes and have sword #2 and a signet to remove some of your conditions. You can also evade most of the conditions in the first place.

SoLeciTO.3490:

in what circumstances?

is like stun lock warrior . . .

all the people is crying and complaining but for me is very easy to kill.

Man this game have different functions and roles for each character . . . the main problem in this forum is that people don’t get that . . . they want to kill every single profession with the same button spam.

This happen every time when a new hot build comes around.

Is just pathetic to see every day QQ post of people that don’t even have played all the profession a single time.

I quess I can’t speak for you. I play that stun warrior nowdays and it does feel op as hell. I can be very effective, much more effective than on my mesmer, even if I have never played any other warrior build (except troll shot in wvw). Quess I’m naturally talented warrior.
S/d I do not play that much (I used to roam with tactical strike based build in wvw though, like 6 months ago), but my understanding is that (after speaking to people who run it) it is indeed borderline op when used by someone who knows what he is doing. It may not be as easy to pick up as the stun warrior, but op nevertheless.

Mesket.5728:

haviz.1340:

Mesket.5728:

Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.

Having 2400 toughness and getting killed itches you too often?

Random replies are random. I’m far from 2400 toughness and hardly die. But nice try at a personal attack. Keep on trying though.

My previous comment was for the delusional who thinks zerk is something rare and elite when it is in fact the most common build and gear set used by almost everyone. It is indeed the average joe build. That is the main reason why threads like this respawn every now and then.

Of course. Zerg is the good build so most people use it. Personally I sometimes run a mix of berserker, some celestial and condi damage for perplexity runes, but it of course isn’t as good as zerg. Just a diversion.

Someone plays condi necro…

SoLeciTO.3490:

L2P . . . if you have problems with thieves in this condi meta u r doing something really bad.

Think you need to l2p if you don’t find s/d op.

Red Falcon.8257:

Mesket.5728:

Actually, I’m sorry about your wasted sarcasm because I’m all in favor of a more important role for support and boons. It’s the 5 dps and go set up that I find cheap and more appropriate for a 5 dollars indie game than a triple A MMORPG.

Sorry about your wasted wall of text. Keep reading next time, don’t quote in the middle of a thread.

Nothing wasted man, I love to read threads where PvE carebeargods come down insulting everyone and demanding their opinion is considered a fact even though it has no more validating data than the 200 opinions posted before.

I’m sorry but the reality is that most people struggle with endgame pve (aka frac 40-50 and not loldungeons) and actually need a Guardian to Prot them up, reflects, etc – so there is already a lot of use for pieces of PVT/Cavalier in that content zone.
Just FYI normal dungeons can be solo’d, including Arah; they are mid-game content not meant to need more than a 5 DPS casual team or 1 good player.

Why in the world would anyone run lvl 40 fractal? It’s the same maps with just bigger numbers, mehh. Anyhow, the real source of almost all pve inbalance issues is the lack of monster AI.

Vayne.8563:

Nuka Cola.8520:

It is worst. I think they’re using some AI from a game released in the 70’s or something. But then you look at gw1 and that game was better at everything compared to gw2 so yeaah. At the same time, this kind of AI and lag (how many games currently released drop to 10fps?) are unseen for a game that was released so recently.

Everything? Like the marketplace that didn’t exist? The bridge bug where you couldn’t fire arrows at something on a bridge? The lack of crafting (if you like crafting Guild Wars 1 certainly wasn’t better).

Everything about Guild Wars 1 wasn’t better than everything in Guild Wars 2.

Lol crafting. Do you mean that ridiculous mini game that is forced on you so that you would hopefully buy money in order to craft ascended gear?
Before ascended gear crafting was completly useless except for leveling up your character (or very rarely making little money from tp). Now its a crappy, boring mini game that you have to play if you want competitive gear.

The bridge bug where you couldn’t fire arrows at something on a bridge?

This “obstructed” bug is quite persistent in gw2 as well.

Like the marketplace that didn’t exist?

At least it had no taxes. The classic trading system was in a way, more interesting for the casual trader as well.

Demonts.4593:

The only survival s/d thieves have is evades. The only thing they need to fix is making it remove 1 boon instead of 2

Yeah. They totally can’t teleport, remove conditions and stealth. They also don’t have insta cast heal with built in snare removal.

Terrible excuse. If other people in the same arena as you aren’t suffering from lag, it obviously has nothing to do with Arena Net.

They are though.

21 ~ Not a big deal in all seriousness. Quite a few Asura animations are exaggerated enough to distinguish them.

Doesn’t really help when they stand inside a pet.

Cyhann.2609:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Cyhann.2609:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Requiem.8769:

Lordrosicky.5813:

1, Berserker stance – Nothing should give immunity to entire types of classes. no counter play. Very lame. Just make it 90% reduction in condition duration then at least necros can interrupt them

2, Automated response – see above. Losing to someone who is just 100x worse than you just because of a trait they take it total BS. How is this still in the game?

3, Warrior stuns – insane. You literally get knocked around like a ping pong ball by the warrior then die. Interrupt them you say! No you cant. Because they are immune to anything I do (lol)

4, Sword thief evades – way too many evades, teleports, etc on this weapon set

5, Thief feline grace trait – seriously wtf. They get to dodge for less. Anet need to realise dodging and evades = invulnerable. Invulnerable is good in pvp. Seriously.

6, Vigor – most op boon ever. Way more dodges = more invuln = never die = lame. You need to balance this boon. By reducing the amount of vigor gained by certain classes.

7 , Runes of lyssa – seriously wtf is this. Its so OP. Why do you think 50% of people in any game run these. People use elites purely for this rune set. Shows how insane it is.

8, Sigil of energy – dodging is OP. Anet really need to get this or this game will fail.

9, Nature of renewal. So broken and frustrating. Gives you massive advantage in team fight. No counter play as killing it resses anyway. Massive HP. Massive healing. Full condi cleanses. It is just way too good.

10, Ele burst – too high, should be brought down. Promotes macroing and even more cheese. Solution to making ele viable isnt to give it cheese.

11, Signet of spite – why make something so lame as this? it takes no skill to just random land a signet of spite then fear someone = death. I lose to so many bad necros who run this or signet or plague. Enough. Nerf signet of spite durations or increase the cooldown.

12, healing spring – too strong

13, Elixr R – people shouldnt be able to res themselves – come on.

14, Lag – fixing lag matters. Lag is Op in this game. Most the games I lose is because I get dced for 2 mins start of every match. Winning from 3 cap and 100-0 down isnt easy.

15, Emphatic bond – passive condi removal is lame. End of.

16, Healing turret – cast time too short. Cant be interrupted.

17, Healing signet – cant be interrupted so where is the counter play?

18, Shadows refuge – cooldown too short.

19, Stand your ground – get too much for this. Increase the cd.

20, Burning – burning is OP. Nerf it by 25%

21, Asuras – too small. Cant see them for kitten. Lame and should be nerfed/banned

There are 21 things to fix. Get to work on these and people will be happy.

Balance devs, do us all a favour and print this off and put the “To-do list” at the top and then stick it on your wall

So:
Classes:
1) Warriors OP
2) Thieves OP
3) Engis OP
4) Rangers OP
5) Eles OP
6) Necromancer OP

Two guesses as to which class you play.

Mesmer and guardian are OP too. Just slightly less lame, so nerfing them can come later. Although phantasms are still very lame.

So basically you are saying the whole game is lame?

Yeh, pretty much. Do you disagree? Lame stuff must be nerfed before we can move forward. Game was better before the dhuumfire patch which started the power creep.

Yeah, back then when 100% of the rangers and 90% of the necros were fodder, I loved those times.

Unviable class is certainly better than one that completly breaks the game.

Lyssa runes definitely need nerf.

Sword thief evades – L2P, use terrain, LoS and then AoE them down. Could use some fine tuning, but it’s not horrible.

What? Sword 2 doesn’t need los.

I usually have no problem with warriors being strong but the ability to just spam cc is too much. They can just spam it all the time and there is nothing i can do its so op. I play spirit ranger so I have no stun breaks so its ridiculous they can just spam it. When playing against normal people with only so many stun breaks i can very easily predict them and just evade them but the warriors can just spam so much it makes no sense.

Also, thieves are ridiculously overpowered they can just evade everything its stupid they just spam evade. Really a rookie class, just spam evade and win. I think some ranger pet attacks should go through evade to make a counter against evade spam.
Another good change would be to make nature spirit to predicially cause stability to prevent the stun spam.

The devs need to start introduce more maps like Skyhammer and Capricorn.

Do that and enjoy all those people alt tabbing to face book and akitteng through the trash map.

oZii.2864:

Master of Timespace.2548:

Think you are. WvW is more about 1v1 than Spvp ever was. Spvp is all about getting 2v1 or 2v3 on your favor while WvW roaming is all about finding good fights.

You must have skipped the Dueling servers in sPvP(not sure how since there are a ton of them)

Lots of duelists prefer wvw because it allows greater build diversion.

You can do it, just make sure you update gear so that you aren’t free rally for the enemy. Best green avaible to your level should be enough thanks to the upscaling.

Rafahil.2857:

vinceftw.5086:

Rafahil.2857:

5 seconds would have been a good internal cooldown. 15 seems too much.

Are you really defending these runes? They’re the most broken thing to ever enter this game. You see thieves facerolling everyone spamming 4 for the lulz. God, I hate ignorant people that can’t play normally and need a crutch to rely on. I hope these get nerfed to hell. No rune should suddenly make a class that has no confusion the master of confusion. Otherwise I demand a rune that lets me deal 5k damage whenever I auto attack.

It’s not like p/p has anything else going for it. I agree that there needs to be an internal cooldown, but 15 seconds is too long and would render the build based on these runes useless.

I would be happy with a middle ground where we could meet.

The duration of the applied confusion should be 5 or 3 seconds in order to be onpair with other skills that cause confusion…