Guild Wars 2

You can already do that. The issue is dealing with skill cooldowns, player positioning, etc.

I think what warriors needed was to split Cleansing Ire into two traits. Then warriors either have to choose two of condi clear, defy pain, merciless hammer, or extra adrenaline.

Arcing Slice does less damage than two auto attacks. In most situations, you give up too much to justify activating it. Either you’re full glass 6-2-0-0-6 and you lose Berserker’s Power and Heightened Focus for a period of time that completely nullifies the damage boost, or you are 4 into the defense tree and you’re giving up Adrenal Health. It doesn’t do enough damage to warrant it’s usage in most situations. Also, warrior was not brought on par with other classes. Pretty much every top warrior I know right now has swapped to another class, primarily elementalist.

Warrior wasn’t changed at all? What?! Go home, dude. You’re drunk. The class was gutted. I mean, why the hell did they nerf even greatsword when nobody ran it before the patch?

Warrior – over-nerfed
Ranger – over-buffed
Engineer – turrets weren’t fixed
Ele – needed nerf, got buff
Thief – got bugged (fixed)
Necro – got bugged
SUCH BALANCE

Team Teamwork is still looking for a 5th for ToG this weekend if you’re interested. I’ll whisper you ingame next time I see you.

Graphical. I’ve seen it happen before.

Zoose confirmed hacker Either that, or Anet decided to merge the thief and ele classes instead of fixing the steal bug.

This thread is essentially asking how to beat I Radioactive I. My suggestion would be to spread the fights to three point with good skirmishers. The whole comp will lose 1v1s to good skirmish builds over time. You just have to be sustained enough on one point to give you time to take the others.

kitten, please. I’ll still make it work!

Name of the post: NA ToG Qualifier Teams, Dates, and ROSTERS!
You just kinda needed to pay a little more attention c:

Standardized models will be nice…

Because of the way brackets are set up, you’ll be facing Backpack’s team going into the Semis. Should be a good match.

Increasing the gold from PvP would definitely help him get the precursor faster because not everybody would be getting that boost. I also don’t think it would affect the economy too much because of the relative size of the PvP population. I’d also say it should be more rewarding to Team Arena at a high level than dungeons, but that’s a personal opinion.

Backpack didn’t have any Team spirit, even after I carried him through fractals!

Are we really going into that again? Come on, Bob…

Any way you make the brackets works. Also, Aeroxe, June and Europe and Asia can’t meet in the 3rd/4th match because they’re on the same side of the bracket. Lastly, we want the whole bracket, not just the winners.

The brackets for the first two qualifiers will be posted any minute now.

To clarify, we want the entire bracket for the first 2 NA Qualifiers, not the winning teams for all four. Also, the 1st/2nd match will not be played, both teams just qualify for the finals.

As you may or may not know, the Tournament of Glory starts this weekend! MP and DPS are both excited to run the EU and NA versions of these events. Hopefully you are too. If so, here’s a chance for you to get involved. Toward that end, Mistpedia is sponsoring a contest. Basically we want you to make brackets showing who YOU think is going to win each match for these qualifiers. The first person to post the closest bracket to the outcome will win 800 gems. This post is just for the first weekend, which includes the first two NA Qualifiers hosted by DPS, so post your projections for those brackets. Here’s how it will be scored:

Point for each team placed correctly in the round of:
16 – 1 point
8 – 2 points
4 – 3 points
2- 5 points

For information on the teams and rosters of these qualifiers, check out this post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/NA-ToG-Qualifier-Teams-Dates-and-ROSTERS/

The qualifiers will be streamed this weekend on http://www.twitch.tv/digitalprosports

Post your predictions, win gems! The deadline is Friday at midnight server time.

I adminned a thief duel between Lux and Chronos. Lux won. Lux is not best dueler NA. Confirmed.

>6, A ranged skill so cant be kited easily

It misses like 75% of the time if you strafe properly.

Aeroxe is also a top-tier Commando.

I’d just like to add that Olrun is now also best Elementalist NA.

On a completely unrelated note, your signature bothers me Shockwave.
Race Class – Name
Race Class – Name
Name – Race Class
STAHP

Look at League of Legends. Different champions can fill different roles. The same is true for classes in Guild Wars 2. Ignoring builds because they’re atypical could make you ignore some strong builds.

@GoogleBrandon If we’re aiming for the lowest common denominator, then we’d better delete all the thief builds. Bad thieves are just rally bots.

CoooOOOooommander Quaggan is best Ele NA!

Does this include Commandos?

In my opinion, Killshot isn’t (currently) bad, necessarily. It’s just counterable and doesn’t fit into as many team comps. If memory serves, stuff like that was still posted on PvX. IDK, though.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_Axe/Longbow

I think it’s weird which things it calls variants and which it calls standard, but a/sw lb is there.

Something I would like to point out. Vee Wee is not commenting on the forums from her main account. I don’t know why that is (probably because it’s banned), but that’s why the mails aren’t reaching her (I would assume).

On another note, yes we did talk in game about my issue, and I’m sorry for the misunderstanding. I’ll just post what I think here (even though I said this to you ingame as well). The voting system is inherently going to bring easier to play builds to the top, even if they’re significantly weaker than harder to play ones. Evidence of this can be seen on my Killshot build. Do I honestly think it deserves to be meta? No. It’s sub-optimal. However, you said that all but one person gave it one star. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think that’s more individuals not wanting the build on the site than an actual evaluation of the effectiveness of the build. This is where you mentioned making the Workable category, but how are you going to determine that if people (including the sites own moderators) are giving such inaccurate (in my opinion) scores to the untraditional builds? This really is meant as a serious question that I don’t have an answer to, not mindless hate.

On another note, I think you should keep builds in Testing for 10 days regardless of how many votes they get. New builds (probably) aren’t going to be added too often, so I just think that’s a better idea.

Team Team Teamwork [Team] is looking for 1 more member for our roster for ToG. Currently we have a Thief/Necromancer (Kata), Warrior/Ranger (David), Guardian/Warriorloljkno Nhymx and Warrior/God (Olrun). Here’s some info on each of our players so far:

Kata – Angry russian womanizer. Likes to rage about game mechanics and threaten to leave the game, but really he loves us and would only betray us if someone offered him a Klondike bar.

David – Also known as Not David. Contrary to popular belief his real name might or might not actually maybe be Possibly David.

Nhymx – Likes to play naked and talk about moldy fish or something. I don’t even know. He’s Nhymx. He likes men and make-up.

Olrun – Dubbed by Anas Tarcis as “best warrior multiverse,” Olrun is a god walking amongst mere mortals. His hobbies include role playing as a quaggan and putting fruits where they don’t belong.

All applicants must be WTS eligible (we don’t actually care, this is just to stop Backpack from applying (JK we actually do care, but making fun of Backpack is fun)). We placed Top 8 in the first ToL and are aiming for even higher in the ToG!

First team fight: condi necro. Second team fight: OH kitten IT’S A MOTHERkittenING LICH. No warning. You shouldn’t be able to win like that. I veto this.

The worst part is that they outright lied about the 10-day period. It was three days while I was traveling to Florida, giving me no opportunity to defend my build! And why do I need to defend my build? Placing top 8 in the first ToL with it should be at least enough to avoid the trash bin!

What do I have to do in ToG to get Killshot placed in “Meta?”

Something to note here: in the past, solo queue grouped players into similarly skilled teams before finding an opponent. This resulted in a lot of unfair match-ups. Currently, it locates ten similarly skilled players and splits them into two fair teams. Since teams aren’t decided until after the players are selected, it could be a little more complicated than you’d think to do this.

Nope. It’s hidden. The closest you can get is checking the leaderboards to see where you stack up relative to other players. You can’t see the actual rating, though.

No. You’re supposed to be matched up based on skill level, which may or may not correspond with your rank. There are plenty of bad dragon ranks.

That’s incorrect. The NA ToL 2 Finals start at the same time as the EU ToL 2 Finals.

Question: Why did you make this thread when you don’t meet the age requirements?

Gamescom just happened. That was a LAN tournament. WTS was announced. That’s a $50k multi-region LAN tournament in Beijing, China.

The recent server instability was due to a DDoS attack, which was not active during the tournament. The disconnects were likely player-side issues.

I think Kizos is lying about being shot in the stomach. He really lost his manhood.

Bloodstone Dust come from Champion Bags, which are included in the rewards. You do get Bloodstone Dust from PvP.

Kizos needs to learn not to eat other people’s tacos.

@Fraelin When Blackjack originally approached BLU about the issue, after explaining how it was done, BLU directed him to me for any additional questions. In our discussion, Blackjack said what he thought the seeding should be (1st CM, 2nd 55HP, 3rd TM). Now, obviously, we didn’t go with that seeding. It is our belief that the winner of the last tournament should hold first seed in the following one without significant reason to change that. However, it clearly shows that Blackjack thinks CM deserves higher than 4th place.

On another note, you did not contact us to find out why you weren’t 4th seed. The issue you brought to us was that Team MIST had the 1st seed. You only found out about how it was seeded after you contacted us, so there would have been no reason to assume you were 4th seed prior to that.

In regards to ignoring the situation, that is also false. As I told Blackjack I would, I talked to BLU about the possibility of removing all opinion from the seeding and going with a pure leaderboard seeding. However, we decided that altering the brackets due to pressure applied by top teams threatening to leave the tournament would set a poor precedent. We acknowledge the issue, and that’s what led to the ELO system being created.

As the tournament admins, we tried to make seeds reflect skill as much as possible. Unfortunately that process involved subjective judgements based on observations. If you read what Will quoted me saying, we never did seeding purely based on leaderboards (that would be an inaccurate method as explained in the OP). We did that for teams that we had no knowledge of and made tweaks based on recent performance. We try to make the brackets as accurate as we possibly can.

@Jindavikk There is a lot of misinformation going around about how we seeded the brackets, and I’m not sure where it originated from. From the start we were only using the leaderboards as a base to build from.

@RaZaC I’d like to start off by saying that we don’t have any financial reports because no money is involved. There is no prize money. We are not paid. In regards to the difficulty of setting up clean rules for seeding: past GW2 tournaments have been seeded either randomly or by the opinions of the tournament organizers. The leaderboards weren’t accurate enough for our tastes at high levels of play, but they were a step in the right direction. The ELO system we’re starting up is our next step, and hopefully final solution, to that problem.

@st desnuss Yes, that would have been a good idea.

@Eurantien The way ToL 2 was organized included the 4 qualifiers and then the finals. Because it was semi-random who got into which qualifier (leading to the stacked/empty qualifiers), we felt it necessary to reseed for the finals. Please note, this was the plan from the start, and it’s what we told anyone who asked. The assumption that we had it set up any other way to begin with is false. On another note, the ELO system will only count tournament games. Throwing matches, in addition to only resulting in a worse seed, would also hurt that team in tournament placement.

@Zirith Getting 2nd place in a major tournament is nothing to sneeze at. It’s perfectly reasonable to desire good bracket seeding, especially with single elimination. That’s why we do our best to ensure accurate brackets.

@tichorum We understand the issue of COI. That is why Mistpedia and Team Mist are splitting ways and we are implementing the ELO system. This simultaneously removes the COI and removes the possibility of a COI affecting brackets in the future. Hopefully these changes assuage your concerns.

@Neko The Tournament of Legends was a very unique tournament, incorporating players of all skill levels. With rewards offered at every tier in a single elimination tournament, approximately correct seeding of every team affects the prize distribution. How do we seed teams that we’ve never seen or heard of before? The obvious choice is the leaderboards. However, with the way decay works, current leaderboard rating wouldn’t necessarily be accurate for most teams. That’s why I went for peak. However, most top tier players will tell you that the leaderboards are a joke. I agree that the leaderboards are not necessarily an accurate representation of skill level at high levels of play. That’s why we adjusted the seeding based on performance in weeklies and team queues. Ideally, I would have picked peak leaderboard rating in the past month or two, but I didn’t have access to that information. We never deviated from the system of using the leaderboards as a baseline and making modifications based on recent performance.

@Bhawb There was never any secrecy as to how the seeding was done. We told anyone who asked how it was done. However, we do understand the desire for it to be 100% public. At the time, we didn’t have the capability of making accurate brackets without putting some amount of opinion in it. The ELO system we’re releasing now should fix this issue.

@Keksmuffin CM took the past two weeklies, and it was in the opinion of Mistpedia and parties within the Authorized Shoutcaster Program, who we showed the seeding to before making them public, that CM should have been the second seed.,

If you say so.