Do you actually realize how much effort would this require? We’re down to 1 legit balance patch a year and skill/trait splits consist only ofthe occasional minor CD change (before they eventually merge the 2 versions again in the next patch), they can barely care about balancing this game now letalone after a change like this.
The whiteknights on this forum are unbeliveable. I swear if Anet had 1k employees people’d still say “it’s a small company” and would claim at least 980 are artists/management/janitors which means we should be glad that this poor small company has enough resources to at least keep the gem store going.
400 is probably more than WoW has. At the time of GW1 Anet had ~60-80 employees total yet were capable of dishing out 3 campaigns and 1 expansion in 3.5 years with regular balance patches inbetween. Granted it was a somewhat smaller in scope (no gliding, masteries, achievements, etc although there more content to play), but still. Stop making excuses for them.
solo que wuth duo option was the best thjing that could happan.
Totally. Almost all the content creators, streamers, and people who took this game seriously left, but I’m so glad that we’re now left with a mere shell of a community. /s
But at least people like you can now get to gold, which is nice I suppose-
The “people overhype stuff too much so we’re not saying a kitten thing” is the single most kittened policy ever. Do you know why the bits they threw out were hyped up so much in the past? Because there was barely any communication so when we got anything we assumed “oh, so that’s where all the effort went!”.
So now they “learned their lesson” and communicate even less? What kind of backwards false sense of logic is that?
With nothing to look forward for months then getting a patch that’s a hit or miss followed up by another 3-4 months of silence I almost completely lost interest in this game. I check the news, but don’t log in anymore and that’s sad.
This may be my inner fanboy speaking (Or the 5k hours cough cough) but the game is definitely worth 60$.
Playing through all 4 campaigns will probably take you at least 100hrs. (150-200 if doing some side quests) And that is with one character only, no hardmode, no titles, no friends to play elite content and dungeons, no farming for some nice looking gear and no PvP (okay this one is basically non existant these days)
That being said though I really wouldn’t mind them putting it on discount to get some new players into it who maybe haven’t seen it yet. And it’s not like goldsellers or bots could get any worse…
I’m with you on that, but still. The game is indeed a decade old and might not get any content updates in the future plus there is no trial – it’s a blind investment that doesn’t sound all that appealing despite the game itself being awesome.
I believe the free trial still exist: http://gw1101.gtm.guildwars.com/freetrial/ <—-this link maybe wrong, do more research on it first. But there were several times there was a free trial for Guild Wars.
This may be my inner fanboy speaking (Or the 5k hours cough cough) but the game is definitely worth 60$.
Playing through all 4 campaigns will probably take you at least 100hrs. (150-200 if doing some side quests) And that is with one character only, no hardmode, no titles, no friends to play elite content and dungeons, no farming for some nice looking gear and no PvP (okay this one is basically non existant these days)
That being said though I really wouldn’t mind them putting it on discount to get some new players into it who maybe haven’t seen it yet. And it’s not like goldsellers or bots could get any worse…
I’m with you on that, but still. The game is indeed a decade old and might not get any content updates in the future plus there is no trial – it’s a blind investment that doesn’t sound all that appealing despite the game itself being awesome.
I believe the free trial still exist: http://gw1101.gtm.guildwars.com/freetrial/ <—-this link maybe wrong, do more research on it first. But there were several times there was a free trial for Guild Wars.
The anniversary is coming up in less than 2 weeks, it’d be nice if ArenaNet could do a sale for GW1. I know a lot of people who’d be interested (mainly because of HoM points and lore) and there’s a good chance that thousands feel the same way, but the game costs more than HoT which can be a bit discouraging.
A sale could do much for the game (it still has a growing community!) and would turn some extra profit for the company with no effort.
There’s no official GW1 forum so excuse me for posting this here. Not doing a sale would be a huge missed opportunity in my opinion, what do you guys think?
If you think this will change anything, or PvP won’t keep getting worse then you’re either new to the game, super naive, or haven’t been paying attention.
Rewards are the same but harder to get, builds are more or less the same as they were a year ago, top players have already quit, lot of matches are 4v5s and nothing’s being done about it. I don’t see why anyone’d try at all. I’ll play a couple of games a week maybe but that’s it.
The things have change since the beginning of HoT.
Yes, thngs have changed. If you hadn’t noticed already, most of the things that made cele OP haven’t got nerfed at all (Anet is only toying with amulets when it comes to pvp balance).
Actually, in many cases the healing power scaling was buffed (druid, mes, rev, probably others too), so Cele could be stronger than ever.
DH would be fine if F1 and F3 got nerfed. F1 should either take longer to cast, be on a higher CD, or be blockable. F3 needs a duration decrease, show me one other block in the game that doesn’t need to be channeled and lets you do your full burst while its up.
F1 is fairly easy to dodge in a 1v1,2v2 setting. There’s also a theme of unblockable skills in HoT so that won’t get changed.
F3 is completely fine as it is. Its arc is pretty small so you can still attack them by moving to the side or going behind them. You can’t escape with it (back turned) because it virtually does nothing to stop attacks.
F3 covers everything except attacks from behind (so 75%) and it’s kinda impossible to get behind the DH in 1v1 and 2v2. “you can’t escape with it” that’s not the point of the skill. Nothing should make your nearly invincible while applying the same amount of pressure as always except now unhindered.
All you need to do is set up an aoe, make sure the DH is in it, then port behind him and it’s gg.
That wouldn’t work on trash mobs letalone players.. what keeps the DH from turning around taking maximum 1 hit from the AoE?
F3 makes Dh way more tanky then it should be on a dps build, same problem revenants had before being nerfed into the ground.
DH would be fine if F1 and F3 got nerfed. F1 should either take longer to cast, be on a higher CD, or be blockable. F3 needs a duration decrease, show me one other block in the game that doesn’t need to be channeled and lets you do your full burst while its up.
F1 is fairly easy to dodge in a 1v1,2v2 setting. There’s also a theme of unblockable skills in HoT so that won’t get changed.
F3 is completely fine as it is. Its arc is pretty small so you can still attack them by moving to the side or going behind them. You can’t escape with it (back turned) because it virtually does nothing to stop attacks.
F3 covers everything except attacks from behind (so 75%) and it’s kinda impossible to get behind the DH in 1v1 and 2v2. “you can’t escape with it” that’s not the point of the skill. Nothing should make your nearly invincible while applying the same amount of pressure as always except now unhindered.
DH would be fine if F1 and F3 got nerfed. F1 should either take longer to cast, be on a higher CD, or be blockable. F3 needs a duration decrease, show me one other block in the game that doesn’t need to be channeled and lets you do your full burst while its up.
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Majority of the game focuses on one class and does not swap even when you feel they should. Therefore if they went with yee, the majority of the game would not notice a difference except having a lot more balanced matches and the ability to having ratings for each profession.
I don’t see how voting ‘Yes’ would improve matchmaking? Because improved matchmaking can be done regardless of lock.
Looks to me that majority of people imagined there’s more to this poll than it really is. There are arguments thrown left and right in this whole thread which are neither related to ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and most of these arguments and changes people seem to ship exclusively with voting for one option, but can be done regardless of end result of the poll.
We got consulted. They asked us our opinion, directly, just like with solo-duo. It does not matter what hidden conspiracy there may be behind it all, the act itself of asking us is nice. I voted YES. I want MMR based on profession, because it will provide developers with an insanely strong feedback regarding what is overpowered (or mostly used) and what is not.
I congratulate ArenaNet. Possibly this is not one of the most important topics regarding balance, but they made an effort of asking us our opinion. I appreciate that, even if it’s not helping me that much, but it’s helping them for statistics and profession MMR. Anything is better than nothing, any change is better than no change at all through a boring game. I like diversity, so I voted YES.
So are you suggesting that if the highest skillcap build that also has a nice payoff is very prevalent in the top 50, and an absolutely noskill braindead spamfest build only dominates the top 150-250 range of the ladder then Anet should nerf the skillful build and buff the braindead one? Or should they not care about the top of the ladder and just balance around bronze/silver metrics because that’s probably 80% of the playerbase?
Also Anet has no idea what builds people are running, let’s say you see “necromancer: 30% of the top ranked players”, what do you do? What do you nerf, Power? Condi? Bunker?
Tfw it’s almost 50-50 and Anet can’t just shake off their responsibility instead will have to embrace that they’ll royally kitten off half the playerbase.
I voted Yes because I do not view stepping out of a match to pick up a different profession as being very competitive. No competitive game that I can think of allows players to do this mid-match. There have been matches where players just continually swap in and out after they die (on both teams) desperately trying to counter each other and honestly it felt silly. This would make profession win achievements a bit harder (I swapped for wins on a few of them, hypocritical I know) and increase queue times but I personally think it would be worth it. If we truly would get balanced matches out of it that would be excellent.
That’s not what Yes means. Anet is going to lock people into their pick after the match starts regardles of what you vote, this poll is about whether you should be allowed to change before the match starts to get a better comp.
You DO know that soloq was removed BECAUSE of people in teamq crying about queue times? Thank yourself for the state of the games we got.
I hope you don’t seriously believe that. Soloq was so bad, I remember people rather risked facing premades in teamq and play solo there because match quality was so kitten in soloq, and it hasn’t improved one bit.
It was the playerbase that gravitated towards a mixed que not some crying premades.
If free to play player is in platinum, then he has the skills to be in platinum. Dont blame others for your loss or lack of skills.
Quoted for truth.
Maybe, but more often than not that’s not the case. A new player can luck out in placement games, go 6-4 and get placed in platinum. Worse yet, sometimes they get matched with platinum/legend players while still doing their 3rd ot 4th placements.
I’ve had several of my matches ruined by kitten like signet staff eles in platinum because they were just doing placements. This season is just as big of a joke as any.
All these people saying “it doesn’t take away resources!”.. Could you please explain how 200-400k $ are nothing? They are spending almost all of their advertisement budget on a PvP scene that’ll never take off when PvE is what carries the sales.
If you’re marketing your product to the wrong audience then yes, it’s a problem. Stop pretending there’s nothing between cringe taxi ads and e-sports.
Personal score never really indicated anything, but at least gave us confirmations – player kills, points captured, etc and we no longer have that.
For example yesterday 2 enemies were down, they got stealthed and one of them got rezzed, the other one just disappeared, we assumed he also got a rez and disengaged as he did multiple times during the match so one guy went to check on close just to be sure.
Turns out the 2nd guy didn’t get a rez but disconnected, of course we didn’t realize because nobody’s going to check the scoreboard every time someone stealths.
Playing without HoT is like playing CS:GO without the ability to use an AWP. You’re at a disadvantage but you can still compete.
Please remember that that forums ridiculously exaggerate everything.
Since expansion launch not a single non-HoT build was played in tournaments, not even in amateur ones. Just pure coincidence I guess. If you want to make it past silver without getting carried you have to play an elite spec.
I love the hammer itself now and the map is better, but the jump pads still don’t belong in ranked (especially because they bug out A LOT) and using teleport skills is a coin flip of whether it bugs out/finds no valid path or works because of how it’s designed.
Better than it was, but will never be good enough for ranked.
OP if you want to improve first get out of the mindset that you are pro and innovative. Your weapons/sigils are bad but you think it’s superior and you dismiss the input of more experienced players, that is why you won’t get better.
It’s actually interesting man mathematically if I am sitting there attacking a dummy out of Force, Air and Strength with let’s say 70% CC which of those Sigils would give me the most sheet damage?
For example here, you approach it as if you were creating a PvE build. Enemies won’t stand still in PvP, they move, use skills, fight back that is why air and blood sigils are better as thief is a hit and run class not some consistent melee dps.
Oh so it was you who lobbied so hard for elementalist overbuffing ?
My sample size is the size of EU PvP lobby mapchat which is still smaller then your scattered EGO that required to overbuff 1 class and make it FoTM (like DH and Necro previous one)
Lol please link this miracle ele build that’s killing people so hard. DPS ele is still trash.
This is the least original, least contructive, least funny, most cliché response ever. Seriously, what reaction do you actually expect us to give? It doesn’t even count as a joke and contributes nothing to a thread, and ending it with an exclamation mark is like laughing at your own “joke”.
lol i was serious, its hard to earn gold just pvping. if hes quitting the game, is there a problem if i ask for some gold?
The guy took his time to prove some valuable insight going into details why he (and probably many others) left. Discussion and coming up for a solution can be vital for expanding the playerbase.
But every time there is a thread like this there’s at least one obligatory “lul u left m8 then give me sum gold XD XD” guy who adds nothing to the discussion and kittens on what OP was trying to do while thinking he’s dank. It gets irritating after a while.
This is the least original, least contructive, least funny, most cliché response ever. Seriously, what reaction do you actually expect us to give? It doesn’t even count as a joke and contributes nothing to a thread, and ending it with an exclamation mark is like laughing at your own “joke”.
Which is why PvP is a dying failure in this game ^^
And to answer OP’s question yes, it’d be cool to have, but anet decided that the only way to go esport is to ban teams from the game because that’s key to nurturing a competitive scene LUL
