Guild Wars 2

5v5 tdm – yes

others – NOPE

welshmen.8534:

Are you serious? It got pushed back an entire year? Wow, goodbye lol.

yea, maybe even 2 years. Cya mate

welshmen.8534:

I have absolutely no interest in playing the game until spectator mode is added. I read it was going to be released before the end of the year. Well there’s a week left in the year, and I decided to come back and see if there really was a game company out there that keeps its word. So, is spectator mode in? I don’t even want to bother patching unless it is. And if it isn’t, does anyone have even a clue when it will be out? Thanks!

ETA January 2014.

Spectator mode very strong without players right?

Call of duty : BLACK OPS 2

Veldan.4637:

Looks like you’re missing a proper group vs group fight mode. Same here tbh, I wish they’d just make a seperate game mode that was simply death match or at least something that doesn’t involve splitting up. People may say it’s not fun in GW2, but if people would start speccing for it, I think it could be fun.

yea that would be fun, but i still think that conquest is way better main game mode. I can see that lots of ppl would enjoy that 5v5 TDM. but im kinda seeing it as a secondary mode, just like all mid in MOBAs.

Game mode is not biggest reason for lack of population in spvp. And with new game mode population would just spike for like 2 weeks, and then its back to this crap

Juan Ignacio.8903:

Yep i played aion too it was a fun game i played it a lot, im not saying it was the best game ever but it was enjoyable. Lets talk about dredgion it was like a pvepvp, 2 roads and 3 parts to meet in the middle while u kill mobs and u could use the mobs to kill other ppl, but in the end was just team fight after team fight (gladis kill clerics, dps kill dps, sorcs cc, clerics well … its not hard to figure out what they do).

Sure Aion was fun, but game was terrible tbh. It was mostly instanced PvE, and they totally threw class balance out of window. because who needs balance in mmorpg anyway? Dredgion was basically PvE instance where you are going to have like 2 team fights at start.

Juan Ignacio.8903:

But i think i just think that even L2 pvp was more advanced than this 1 lol.

Oh right clicking mouse 2 and autoattack is way more advanced than this game for sure.

muscarine.5136:

The best warriors i fought 1 on 1 didn’t actually rely on quickness to be effective, they would wisely root me and stun me to death, instead of throwing everything into a quickness burst.

I think it’s sad if you think the only thing that makes a war viable is actually quickness.

How you know that they were best warriors? Throwing everything into quickness burst is stupid, but it can be effective against scrubs. I dont really use quickness on my warrior but i see lots of ppl using it. And i think its quite bad for people that are trying to get into PvP.

FluffyDoe.7539:

This is the complementary laning phase that players find to work well, because “in any teamfight, a team needs a burst, dps, tank, and support”, and the type of lane setup I mentioned above complements these needs perfectly when it comes to teamfights. In addition, it gives a natural understanding to players about “what my role is in lane, and what my role is out of lane/in teamfights”.

yes Im huge fan of Dota 2 too, If you really want to compare roles in Dota 2 and GW2 they are quite similar. Only real difference is that there is no big play skills in GW2 like blackhole or RP. I would love to see stuff like that.

And yeah you didnt say it, But it seems like overall theme on these forums. People really want this game to be league of legends 2 or something If we go there, I really want first person mode, railgun and rocket launcher.

I think its already clear to everyone that LoL is best game ever, and every new game that does something different is going to be crap.

I even stopped playing CS:GO because its nothing like League of legends.

Meow.5794:

I got lag since the 15 Dec. patch :P I seam to be the only one tho :<
but my ping is normal in every other game and on speedtest.net and pingtest.net
-i play on desolation

~Meow

Im having terrible lags too on desolation

blundby.4310:

So after we get nerfed to the ground patch after patch and a really nice buff pops up we should start screaming to get rid of it? Two options: a) You are trolling, not really maining mesmer b) You lack a reasonable ammount of brain cells. And why the hell should everything be balanced on spvp?? That has lead to mesmers being nerfed to hell and back in the first place…

Sure, it makes sense to get 20 stack might and 15sec reta with shatter combo?

THATS JUST SERIOUSLY BROKEN They have to take it back.

Mesmer buff, so i can do 1v5 in tournament

Jumper.9482:

Lack of competitive population is an issue as well. Paids only pop a few hours out of the day. There are only a handful of teams at the moment. Most competitive players already left and went back to SC2/League/etc. after realizing this game wouldn’t be competitive for at least another 1/2-1 year.

yup, because game is lacking ways to practice for future competitive teams/players :P

nurt.5401:

The sense of achievement, progression and reward fulfillment is not there; for new players or competitive players.

Thats exactly what we need. Even blizzard understood it and now they are making changes for Starcraft 2 in Heart of swarm. Its great example how important those casual players are for esports game.

Jacobin.8509:

The main issue right now is lack of competitive population and interest. You can’t have an esport without viewership.

Its not really lack of competitive population, Its more like lack of casuals playing Spvp Even those basic competitive features are useless if game is too complex for casual players.

Dont know about OP, but i like how versatile elementalist is. And other professions need more of that

Thats all!

Ice of Dragons.1637:

What are your thoughts on GW2 being a e-sport ?
What is the PVP missing to be more competitive ?

What are your thought on GW2 being a e-sports?

GW2 is really lacking some excitement. I have been trying to watch steams, but its just way too boring to watch for me. That might be reason for low viewership, or maybe its just me. Im still playing game and enjoying it, but watching is just impossible. I would love to hear more opinions about this one

Other thing is that they really have to make SPvP more casual friendly. I would like to see guidance in stuff like builds, sigils, runes and maybe even just overall gameplay. Making video tutorials about how to counter 100b or BS would be quite helpful for new ppl.

What is the PVP missing to be more competitive?

We really have to get some basic features first before we can talk about new game modes. I was kinda disappointed when we didnt get private servers on launch. If we had that feature on launch, then ESPORTS wouldnt be so bad word

Other feature is matchmaking obviously. GW2 is really lacking ways to practice for middle tier teams. With my team we are stomping Free tournaments, but we are getting stomped in paids. So game is quite boring for us now.

More information after games could help there low-mid tier teams alot. Like if you could see how much damage/healing/condition/tanking each players did, could be quite helpful.

@Nilvio

OGDeadHead.8326:

…is that an intended mechanic?

yes

Syeria.4812:

So, what should Anet do with GW2 sPvP?

Awesome post, Totally agree with everything.

They have to give some kind of free/cheaper option to play spvp. This trial thing is quite nice, hopefully they make more of these after SPvP gets better.

Conquest is fine, just lack of some key features is making game booring at the moment.

Even with multiple gamemodes it would be kitten without matchmaking and custom arenas.

Sanis.1096:

i guess you dont know what casual friendly mean…

obviously if top players own you, then game is not casual friendly Makes sense right?

free to play

It could work, I tried it little bit. But i still like my GS or staff over torch.

alanis.6094:

If your target is out of range, don’t cast an ability.

If you are blinded, don’t cast an ability with a cooldown.

If you don’t have LoS on a target, don’t cast an ability.

Totally agree with this, I really like how you actually have to think when to cast phantasms now. Before you could just cast them with your eyes closed. Now it actually requires some skill.

@Nilvio

Okay so i have been reading this thread, it really got some good points. But its actually really hard to tell if you guys talk about PvE,WvW or SPvP. So if you guys could tell which game part your suggestions are based on, that would be cool.

My suggestions are purely based on SPvP. I really feel that mesmer is still too strong, latest patch was definitely step to right direction.

I dont really have suggestions, but there is few things that i would like to get nerfed and buffed, for example mind wrack, duelist and swordsman needs damage nerf. I really liked how they made it harder to summon these phantasms on players.

At the moment i dont really see mage and warden very viable options in SPvP, So i would like to see some kind of buffs to these.

Sorry if its wrong topic for this, But i just wanted to share my opinion about mesmer in SPvP, And yes if someone is wondering im playing mesmer as my main.

@Nilvio

PvP is cool, but we really need custom servers asap. I think that would make game way more exciting atleast for me.

bump still looking for answers.

After these latest patches, I started having really annoying loading screen problems. Most of times it takes 2-5mins to load heart of the mist :/

I tried already defragging and deleting that local file, But no effect.

It was working perfectly fine few patches ago. And now with new pvp timer at start, Its possible that im going to miss match if im unlucky.

Anyone got idea how to fix this? please share