Guild Wars 2

nerf condi guard

Justin ODell.9517:

Evan and I were literally just talking about this (leaving players on the scoreboard). We would both like to see this, and it has other benefits beyond just what we present on the scoreboard.

I’m not sure when we would be able to do it, assuming there are no technical reasons why we can’t, but this definitely seems like a worthwhile QoL change.

While you’re at it, can you add different keybinds for the various interactions (stomp, pick-up, channel, etc.)?

CMstorm.8679:

YourFriendMarvin.4127:

Time to finally open all these chests. The amount of tourneys that I have done, and this is how i’m rewarded. The amount of magic find, dyes, and carpal tunnel will be strong. Thanks Arena Net! I don’t even have the Ravager Title, and i’m almost Rank 71. Rank Points from won tourneys do not count. Here I go, wish me luck! =^_______^=

Holy mother of god. idk how any1 can even manage to save all their tourney chests…doesnt it bother u with them sitting there, just waiting to be opened?

Doesn’t it bother you to open them all and get a load of garbage from it?

Archaon.6245:

Did…they…buff….hj….rewards? SERIOUSLY???? What the kitten do you want sh farmers back to business? Are you kittening kittened?

That’s what i was thinking

Seriously… it’s not like 60 silver per tPvP win is a huge amount anyways – just give us more G for this transitional period.

DoYourBestBear.6810:

Part of the maintenance patch is making sure all players do not get frustrated. Everyone gets a loss.

I think you’re the glue that keeps everything from falling apart. Thanks, Bear!

Juan Ignacio.8903:

i want to press a buttom and talk to my team mates like any other game in 2014

nobody uses those in mmos tbh

So you just blindly burst people without minding what boons they have? Sure, DPS and support guards can have almost perma retal but you can’t possibly say it’s overpowered. If you play a mindless burst spec (pistolwhip I assume?) without paying attention to things like retal then you deserve to get melted by it.

is this late-night madness

rofl wtf is this

NewTrain.7549:

As bad as PvP now is in GW2, I wouldn’t consider TESO to be any competition. It’s honestly the only MMO beta I’ve played where I was bored within an hour.

i watch TESO gameplay videos to fall asleep

Justin ODell.9517:

They still drop because you can still use them. Not everyone has a huge stack of them.

Most people that play PvP somewhat regularly do, though. Unless you’re targeting entry players, then it’d make sense. Kinda

wow
much rank
very glory
such boost

I couldn’t agree with him more. +1 for you Tron!

Lordrosicky.5813:

Nah dps guardians don’t counter thief. I have played with several very good dps guardians and they stuggle vs good thieves like anyone else. They melt worse thieves and can survive better vs thieves in team fights. But there is no chance a dps guard has an advantage vs a thief. Thieves have an advantage vs everyone. In 1v1s thieves are maybe worse (although still the best). In team fights, a pistol whip thief is just dominant. Completely dominant. The most OP spec in the history of gw2

I have gone against top thieves and it’s still really hard not to get destroyed by the burst, though i usually came out on top (treb fights and such). It just takes good timing and some good ish dodges to avoid the burst then try to lay some burst down once they’re out of stealth

Narcarsis.5739:

DPS Guardians are extremely effective against thieves. They have ample access to blinds, blocks (Aegis/Shelter/Focus O-H), burning, retaliation, counter-burst, sustain, invulnerability, and a decent amount of mobility with meditation/Great sword leap. It’s a very unforgiving match up for the thief.

I play DPS Guard and I approve of this message. Thieves are cake vs dps guards mwahahahahahaha

DPS Guard/Power Necro here

+1’d please no suspend i lov

Someone needs to spread the word

hory shet clownmug i lov u too <3

I find it unnerving to hit esc twice accidentally while trying to untarget someone to leap away and whatnot. Why not include a stop-targeting? And maybe a stop-casting one as well

Acandis.3250:

I think if they just made it so every consecutive cast of the same skill costs + 1 (Eg. Cast 3 heartseekers in a row will cost 3 + 4 + 5) it’d go a long way towards the blind spam of the same skill.

Would also be nice if chill affected initiative regeneration.

But hell, I’m only a player with top competitive background, leave it to the bright minds of the balance team to dig us out of this meta.

I like. It would limit HS spam as well as the ridiculousness of PW.

JinDaVikk.7291:

I will be playing teso when it comes out

Isn’t that right around time of the super mega ultra pvp patch they’ve been hiding from us?

Drafigo.4690:

. . . And I am still having fun I still enjoy killing the Kitten out of someone and hoping they are crying to their mom that some guys cheats or what ever . . .

Thats me!

Drafigo.4690:

. . . All this made me stop and think that I should just relax and have fun till the upgrades come and if they don’t keep having fun . . .

And that’s what I should do

gesho.9468:

Nabbo.2845:

The population is super low, which is probably why this happens

pop is low, but why this should happen? these ppl queued, even after putting first couple of players on each side, it was obvious that one side was skewed. why now correct at third, fourth, fifth player. this is completely blue sided queue.

i dont see any explanation to this but flawed mm sys. i would very much appreciate red comment here.

I’m guessing that if there are low ranked players vs high ranked players it’s a matter of not having sufficient people of the same MMR to be put against. Maybe if the system was more complex it could avoid going as far as picking up a Rank 1 to go against players who are on top of the leaderboards.

AlbertoUlkesh.4517:

OIIIIIO.7825:

Nabbo.2845:

Someone needs to implement an instructional videos (discussing strategies and such) for noobs entering tPvP for the first time. And they should be forced to watch it.

Like This?

Guild Wars 2 – Team rotation guide – Forest of niflhel
http://youtu.be/ZczwwJFVcMI

I just rewatched this video. I don’t think this will help new players much. The main point of the video is “… if this happens, tell your team… communicate to your team… ask your team.”

Not gonna happen in Solo Queue. If people ping the map there, they’re highly communicative.

So I’m not sure, this is really that helpful to a new player.

Just bake it in with the tutorial to give players an idea of how it works. Geesh, can’t be that hard for the team to put something up like that.

sPvP feels like it’s still in alpha mode

gesho.9468:

i would like to hear what is anet mm algorithm that ends up in this comp. what could possibly be an explanation? each player on red team is outranked by player on blue team. timing? but that is though entire comp.

mistery…

The population is super low, which is probably why this happens

Yeah I fought Buck Ditt and his team. Needless to say they got completely annihilated.

Kharr.5746:

Nabbo.2845:

Someone needs to implement an instructional videos (discussing strategies and such) for noobs entering tPvP for the first time. And they should be forced to watch it.

There’s a stickied official post on these very forums that has a huge selection of guides, top PVP builds, and links to top PVP streams: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/New-to-PvP-Start-here

The problem is a lot of people don’t read the forums.

Problem is that casuals or 90% of the playerbase won’t go on forums. It should be integrated in the Mists tutorial.

Someone needs to implement an instructional videos (discussing strategies and such) for noobs entering tPvP for the first time. And they should be forced to watch it.

Not true. I get irritated over people playing like complete kitten s. When that happens (i.e. 3 run home at the beginning) I try to communicate with the team via /t but it doesn’t really work.

Blackwyn.8127:

I’ve received it like this before as well. I don’t remember if it’s at x9 or once you reach 30,40 etc though.
However, you don’t get both chests, you get to choose one. In your case, you can choose between the tiger chest or the bear chest. If you don’t choose one, it will default to the lower tier chest, which was tiger for you.

Is that really how it is? I didn’t see any option to choose like you see, for example, after finishing the tutorial area for a character (choose one weapon or another).

Plus, why would anyone choose the lower tiered one?

Erm, when did this get fixed? I reached rank 49 a couple days ago

Pretty much as title reads. Hitting rank x9 will give the player 2 chests: one of current finisher (in my case tiger), and a chest for the next finisher (should’ve been bear). When I ranked up I saw the two chests in the initial reward pop-up, but I never actually received the bear chest; the chat-log only displayed 1 Tiger chest received. I believe this happened to me going from 38 to 39, but I can’t quite recall as it was a while ago.

Anyone else find this issue?

I can’t even click “Play” on my character screen sometimes and I haven’t been able to play a match in the past couple hours due to this severe lag/crashing. People in map chat are talking about the crashing every time I manage to get into the mists.

Just happened to me

MIrra.3604:

I vote (1) New Maps.

A new game mode is just stupid.

wat

All I can really say is that DPS Guardians feel a bit lacking in terms of mobility and landing damage:
-Revise Sword #3, make the projectiles increase in speed (and perhaps accuracy) after 200-300 range – because it hits nothing past that.
-Add a way to cripple foes, maybe bake it into GS somewhere? I feel forced to use Sigil of Hydromancy on it.
-Because of the lack of gap closers/cripples/chills, it is also hard to land attacks such as Shield of Wrath, given its tiny explosive radius.

Except for these really minor problems I think DPS Guard is in ok shape

I think a better idea is to have a point requirement set per class, something along the lines of 2000-3000 rank points.

This way the player will have to get used to a build of some sort within each class, giving him and others around him in soloq/teamq a better chance at winning.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Chopping up maps for smaller team fights is an option. The water in Spirit Watch or the center point in Foefire are examples where players already do this with custom arenas. However, unless we needed 6 TDM maps ‘RIGHT NAOW’, we would still prefer to make a new polished experience and let players with customs arenas keep doing what they already have been.

I am fairly certain a lot of players wouldn’t mind having these “chopped up” TDM maps – no more conquest pls

Thoth Divine.8642:

If you haven’t read the (2 months old) new, yes, they are moving away from a rank-based system and going for a ladder-based system. We’ll still keep our ranks though, but they won’t be as meaningful as they are now.

The latest latest news is that they decided to keep ranks, so this problem should be addressed.

Archaon.6245:

Malediktus.9250:

Yes average pve hero who is almost rank 49 without farming hotjoin

You’re so cute….r65 with 4.5k+ tournaments and playing only pvp since beta here…so? Going tpvp while lagging and knowing you can dc and leave your mates 4v5 just for stupid achievements should be punished..probably dishonor is not even enough for ppl like you…if you want to farm achivements pve and wvw are there for you. Even if since 2 months i only go pug in tpvp i always play for win no matter if my team is bad or not even if we get terrible matchmaking vs premades…if ppl want a competitive game they should always play for their team and for win otherwise they could delete tpvp already…no wonder why competitive side in this game is almost dead..

You sound like a kitten tbh

I don’t understand how you can actually complain about something like this!

Hello all,

I have been extremely frustrated with playing matches for the simple reason that people just won’t communicate. I use the mini-map to signal incoming players, I type out incs, I update players on my position (useful since I roam between points a lot), and so forth. But most of the time it’s pointless. There’s always the 1 dude that rushes far – and fights the bunker while it’s already capped, the 2 guys capping home at the very beginning or even people in between bases at all times. Attempting to coordinate where we will be going at the beginning seems to have effect about 1/10 games.

So I was wondering: Do you communicate with the team? If you do, awesome, and thanks, but if you don’t – why don’t you communicate and why do you even que…?

I definitely see the issues with classes being OP but I can’t agree at all with you saying that a less-skilled player can beat you just because of AI. There are ways around those builds!

Necromancers because I have the most hours in one so they’re much easier to counter than others

I’ve just been wondering whether it does or not!

The reduced cast time on Litany of Wrath is actually one of the changes they’ll introduce for guardians in the upcoming patch. It will be either 1/2 or maybe even 1/4 sec.

Can we all please give this +1? I remember this being a problem with WoW – players had to stick to a kittenty meta and deal with MONSTROUS classes. And it would last months. This isn’t the way to go about balancing, because you won’t ever achieve it. Especially since there is no PTR.

This has been said a million times on the forums! Of course it’s logical so it doesn’t happen