Guild Wars 2

I’d imagine buffed shout heals + healing signet would be one tanky mother kitten (unless you get poisoned ofc).

I couldn’t tell if OP was trolling, but people are actually having problems with 3 blocks? lol’d

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1o5kgw/colin_johansen_confirms_anet_is_investigating_new/

Almost all the posts I see on the gw2 reddit are about pve/WvW content, but when we get some dev discussion up in here people start to peek into this neck of the woods. This is great thing and I hope it continues.

I just have one question, will other people be able to interrupt the fights, cause if so I will troll the hell out of these fights.

Allie Murdock.8152:

We’ve taken a few steps to address this so far (turning off tournament commands, disabling glory gain if tournament commands are enabled, rewarding glory at the end of the match), and we are continuing to work toward completely stopping this behavior.

Will there be any rollbacks on the people that got tons of glory from this? Atm glory doesn’t mean much but if there’s going to be a glory2gold conversion I don’t want Pve players to get rewarded for doing nothing but purposefully dying in skyhammer.

If some exploit came out that gave you hundreds of gold in an hour Anet would flip their kitten and patch immediately (mostly because Anet made gold mean something). But if it’s glory “lol whocares well fix it when we fix it”. Glory and leaderboard ranking are the only things pvpers have to show for the time they put into this game, but lol whocares.

Mayan.7164:

Anet has great heavy armor designs how you can see in his concept arts. However and I don’t know why, they bring us heavy armors that look medium armor and so horrible, Ascended and Aetherblade heavy armor skins are two examples.

That is epic therefore it will not be added.

Got called a “British cigarette” for using a cow finisher.

No,no,wait lemme think abou-noooope (crap forgot to say no)
So what you are asking is, now let me get this straight: Gain PVE exp for doing PVP?The Pvp side of things are already surrounded by point whoring Pve’ers because they want the titles,laurels, and a chance to say “lol i do pvp all da time guys”. Just imagine if they found out they can level up their alts by doing the ezpz hotjoins. I think ArenaNet’s goal should bring more Pvp players who play for the Pvp, rather than bringing in Pve’rs so they can level their up their characters. Meaning more player versus player ONLY rewards (skins and GOWLD). With all this being said I do agree with one thing, doing jumping puzzles in Pve should give you world vs world xp.

I would like to join in the hunt to slay this ugly fiend!

Don’t forget to troll these rooms folks, grab your engineer and pick up your rifle,ram,big ol’ bomb and slick shoes to break up the farming!

Evan Lesh.3295:

Let’s not turn this awesome thread into an off-topic balance debate :P

no no no you’re not getting off that easy. Your swag needs a nerf bro, cant get ladies cuz of u

Anvil rock, we just don’t get things done seriously. We’d prolly just throw down party kits and say "Fk it, lets go back to lion’s arch)

Condi spamming engi, condi spamming necro, p/d thief, s/d thief, any warrior build with healing signet and stances, spirit ranger (they got a slight nerf but the hotjoin zombies can’t tell the difference). Honestly there’s so many mindless builds for hotjoins in this meta.

I like Engi because it’s just overall really fun plus I love the high mobility 9rocket boots ftw). It’s skill cap is also nice (well if you’re playing a build that’s not mindless like the nade spammers).

Seriously? I’ve been playing since before launch and been sticking around the pvp scene?.GIVE IT TO ME, STOP PLAYING AROUND I WANT IT NOW. My opinion don’t matter bro? Seriously we’ve been asking for this for months stop taking your time and get it to us. No one cares about your manpower/time constraints. RUSH IT. For christ’s sake thats all we want. GIVE ME IT NOW. SERIOUSLY, GET OFF OF THIS POST GO GET IT

The only sad thing about this is that there are still posts about it. Don’t call the game mechanics “Lazy” because you are too lazy to do your research. Devs have responded via forums and livestreams about all of the points made in this topic.

Alrighty , very good job on what you did with turrets, now hopefully I’ll be able to use them in pvp effectively. BUT there’s one reason that I won’t

Net Shot Just fine, does what it should.

Surprise Shot
NEEDS (needs needs) a damage buff. My rifle auto does more damage than it, so why use it?

Rumble
I think it should stun, and do more damage.

1. Rifle Turret needs to pierce targets
Even when it will attack your target, it will just hit something un-intended if you are in a big fight.

2. Turrets need to be invuln for the first 5 seconds they spawn
In group fight scenarios (pvp,zergs) your turrests can explode the second you spawn them because of the amount of aoes being popped. Giving them a short invuln will allow them to dish out some damage before they get destroyed. (more base health needed as well ofc)
3. If you aren’t going to buff the dmg, condense them into a turret kit
The amount of damage they put out doesn’t justify them taking my whole utility bar when I could be using skills that actually allow me to survive.

Super Riceman.8702:

They have discussed a glory to gold conversion in the last state of the game. I don’t think they will just throw one out quickly unless the want to have the same issues they had w/ champion loot bags.

They have not discussed the progress on this idea/what the conversion rate will be but this issue is being worked on, in the same state of the game previously mentioned they admitted that playing pvp is like halting your progress/profits in PvE/WvW and that they want to deal w/ it somehow.

Does zombify even lift?

Super Riceman.8702:

They have discussed a glory to gold conversion in the last state of the game. I don’t think they will just throw one out quickly unless the want to have the same issues they had w/ champion loot bags.

They have not discussed the progress on this idea/what the conversion rate will be but this issue is being worked on, in the same state of the game previously mentioned they admitted that playing pvp is like halting your progress/profits in PvE/WvW and that they want to deal w/ it somehow.

Ah I see. I tend to not watch that due to it being about pve most of the time, thanks for the info.

I don’t care for pve at all, but I do use a level 80 for one reason. Skins and dyes. At the moment, a pve player can farm some gold go on the tp and buy a pretty skin or dye they can then use to their desire. There’s no way in hell I’m crafting in the mystic forge for pvp dyes, I’d rather spend more time fighting them throwing junk into a mystic forge for account bound dyes. The only chance pvp only players have at getting skins (after their gem sale release) is if they are extremely cheap, or were given out for free. Like 50s per team-tourney win or something, I’m tired of playing a style I do not enjoy (pve) just so I can get something in pvp.

Don’t be so sure. Gw2’s balancing since launch has been based around PVE (for the most part), so this recent spirit fiasco also had PVE in consideration as well as PVP. What part of the recent patch actually hurt this class as a whole?

I do agree that PVP needs more long term and short term achieves. I want to feel like my time spent in the game is recognized and rewarded (when it comes to AP, glory is a whole nother’ issue). A PVE player (that has played since launch) has tons of gold, special armors that were worked for, legendarys, and in most cases 7k+ AP from doing nothing but PVE. A PVP player since launch will have none of those things, and anywhere between 1-4k AP. What up with that?

If you are talking about spirits in WvW or Dungeons your build is fine. As long as you don’t put them through large amounts of stress your build shouldn’t be affected in any way.

You guys should name the SOTG “SOTG -VA-JJ”(Video analysis with Josh and Jon).

jmatb.6307:

Here’s an idea Rangers that don’t know your class. There is a delightful little skill that gives you the longest stability uptime in the game called “Rampage as One.”

Now if you are running Traps, many Warriors are silly enough to pop Berserker stance early on in the fight. You can bait them with the weapon skills you have. You get to wait out their burst, laugh at them because they’re not ready for what you’re about to do to them.

Once Zerker is down, you lay the traps, and laugh your kitten off as he eats all that bleeding, burning, poison, chill, and drops faster than a prom dress.

There, your arch nemesis is about to make a QQ thread about Rangers.

Using this strategy would require a train of thought, something the build band-wagoners don’t have :/

Look at all of the children trying to out-wit one another. Stop trying so hard to prove your points, no one gives a kitten about each-others opinion. Make a topic/reply stating nothing but statistics and move on.

“Ermagerd passive y u no carry me anymore now my class is garbage ty anet, wat u gonna nerf next”. Give me a break. You’re acting like everyone in the game is going against some “underground” class that gets picked last during a toddler’s basketball game. Notice how none of the good rangers are complaining? Because their build didn’t carry their skill. Get better at the game plz

I’m sorry but if you can’t play as a ranger because your spirits are on cooldown , then you just suck at the game. Quit while you are down, just give up. There’s no deep thinking involved, if your build requires you to let your passives do the talking and you still suck, just lmao.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Since you called me out by name you get called back yo! Just wanted to point out that quote from PAX about PvP was not from me, though reading the article it sure sounded that way so I can see where it would be confusing

I don’t think PvP is done by any means. We’ve had some great successes this year, the total PvP population has gone up tremendously as the year has progressed and is much larger than Gw1’s PvP ever was at it’s height, which is nice to see since the game hasn’t launched in half the world yet. Spectator mode and custom arenas have opened the door for some really exciting growth and moments in 2013 in particular. We still have a long ways to go to get to where we’re going, but considering where we stood when we launched with almost no features in PvP I think we’ve come a long ways. We are of course always continuing to watch and listen to feedback, things like the addition of solo queue are direct results of that.

As a reminder, we did a blog post back in July that summarizes our major focuses for Gw2 in the 2nd half of 2013, if you scroll down to the PvP section you can find what some of our major focuses are. We told you what we’re working on priority wise already, once we have specific details we’ll share those as well : https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

From that list, we’ve already completed some of those tasks since July. As we said back at the end of July, one of our major focuses is on that sense of reward and progression for the 2nd half of 2013. And since they are game-wide and not covered in the PvP section: of course our skills and balance team will be continuing to update and balance now that the tournament final is over.

Note to all pvp directors, can we get at least some little snippet or word on what you guys are working on? The Pve players get all hyped for 2 weeks straight from the other devs from the streams like “Guess what you guys get!”. Sometimes it feels like we are in the dark and have to assume something’s gonna’ pop out in the future.

~No, no, and 50 more gallons of nope~

I do believe the point of this thread was to say weather or not you are happy with spvp in it’s current state, so my answer is no. I may not be some high ranking in with the cool crowd pvp player, but I am a big FAN of pvp. I love watching the strategy videos, twitch streams, and the (constructive) forum posts. I do play the game of course, but I mainly play for fun and with friends. But thanks to Arenanet and their giant disconnect with the pvp community, those friends that still play guild wars 2 no longer exist. I used to wake up in the morning, log into a group of friends who were willing to spend the day either having fun in tourneys or screwing around in hotjoins but now, I log in by myself wondering why I still play this game. If it weren’t for the combat, I would not be playing this game. Kind of like when you go out with a girl because she’s pretty, but don’t take her seriously because her inner-attributes are mind-numbingly stupid .

1. The pvp devs (from what I understand) don’t have the same amount of funding/staff that the rest of the branches have, resulting in slow work
2. While I agree that “WE WANT ANSWERS!” threads will never get answers, I know that threads like this only exist because Arenanet fail to show the players what their direction is for Pvp. With Pve there’s always that hype, you KNOW that something new and exciting is coming for you every two weeks(skins,lore,items,overall content). Where with pvp you never know what you are going to get.
3. There’s been so much rage on the forums lately (rightfully so), and not one word from the devs. Why? I mean they haven’t even pulled at our chains saying things like “It’ll get better” or “It’s a long process”. Maybe because they discovered that we want RESULTS and we also want PROMISES to be kept and they won’t be able to deliver.
4. No reward. Enough said, you know what I’m talking about.
5 Our pvp system is lacking simple things that even low production games have. Ready checking BEFORE the tourney pop, PVP only skins (come on I got a character to 80 I know this is copy and pasted), in-game leaderboards, currency that you are excited to aquire, and the most important thing of all: ATTENTION

There’s a process for everything though, so you can’t expect the devs (Human beings) to give everything 100% when and where you want it at all times, they have lives too. However, don’t take my understanding as sympathy. We are the PVP community. Without us, making content means nothing, starting hype means nothing, and there will be no point for you to continue this project. Not only was this game advertised as “The Pvp Mmo”, they also stated that the higher ups gave a kitten. So if you want to continue to snuff us out of our dreams of playing respectable and fun PVP/TPVP ( that feels rewarding and cared for), you might as well shut down pvp right now.

Darnis.4056:

Now retype it with less troll, and maybe you’ll get taken seriously.

Now anet needs to make pvp rewarding and immersive, and maybe they’ll get taken seriously.

Gamemodes are the least of their worries. I hope they add in more in the future, but atm their core mechanics are making the pvp scene less than enjoyable. And we’re still missing features that simpler pvp based games even have.

ya lets make condi builds more tanky good idea

The spvp forums are being read!

“the class balance”

Aereniel.7356:

Knote.2904:

I would so love the see the TTK raised, I hate this low TTK crap, EVERY pvp game ends up with it.

I agree completely – time to kill is absurdly short in some situations. Overall damage needs to come down, and active skill use should always be more profitable than sitting on a bunch of passive procs while spamming auto attack. This would make the game both more interesting to play and more interesting to watch, as encounters become more back-and-forth exchanges instead of this spam-zerg we have currently.

I loved the comedic silences when Helseth discussed the ranger. I like the profession a lot, but sadly it epitomizes a lot of the design problems the game currently has (dependence on AI, abundance of passive effects).

This 100-times this! Some people like to justify having massive passive procs, aoe spam,and ai-carrying by saying kitten like “It’s all about timing” or “u ned to adapt bro”. Not true at all! It’s as easy as waiting for your enemies to use their dodge then unload your burst, or in some builds just dodge a kitten ton or spam your evade skills, or even worse let your passives do the talking(you’re beneficial to the team sure, but no thought process is needed to pull this off effectively)! “learn2adapt” is also extremely wrong, because it shouldn’t be the players needing to adapt to the metas that make “viable” builds be “so easy a newb can do it”, it should be the Devs adapting to us!

We can ask for things all we want, but the fact is that this crap is built into the core mechanics of the game. Nothing major will ever get removed/majorly tweaked to the communities liking simply because it’s impossible (unless they want a whole different game)

Spirit ranger is easy and we all know it, move on.

“2: Move or add Ready Check to BEFORE match/map entry. Again, hard to believe this has not been done.”

This 100 times this

HOW DARE YOU. ARENA NET HAS PAID NO ATTENTION TO US UNTIL RECENTLY AND NOW YOU CARE ABOUT OUR POWER LEVEL!? GEEZ OP IS JUST DUMB HOPE4COMMUNITY = 0+0/0*0. IM NOT OP K? IM NOT!<

People complain about balance all the time and I only need to say this: “Not going to happen”. Yup, no further post regarding balance is needed once you understand that phrase. Balance is never going to be achieved in Gw2. There’s no such thing as “perfect” balance anyways, but Gw2 isn’t going to have even “good” balance (it’s just built that way).

I agree that this gift did not take into account people who bought this game for the pvp elements.
1.Level 20 exp scroll:Don’t care, only do pvp
2.Birthday Booster: Only one of the five stats boosted actually pertain to pvp, and even that is useless. (Glory is useless, everyone has 300k+ of it anyways)
3. Mini Queen Jennah: Minis can be used for fun in the mists, but why does this character mean anything to me if I don’t pve enough to know anything about her?(Can’t even sell her to get me some nice dyes or something)

WHAT I SUGGEST: Add in another gift right now called “Pvp Birthday Gift”. What will it have it in? A choice between THREE of the 34 new champion skins for pvp. That’s right, the same champion skins that aren’t available for pvp at all! (Skins: http://dulfy.net/2013/08/06/gw2-champion-weapon-skins/ )

Ones I disagree with (to an extent):
4: Maybe change this for PVE but NOT for PVP. Condis are ruling the current pvp meta and they need to be capped.
5: I think defiant as it stands is fine. Bosses start without it when they first spawn, which (if needed be) you can use to your advantage by knocking them against a wall or interrupting a 1-hit-ko skill. Takes a bit of thinking (making sure your team mates don’t activate it) but hey that’s what dungeons are for. I mean if there wasn’t defiant imagine all the bosses getting perma-stunned in events.
20: Just get a portable banker I’d say.

Other than those (imo), everything else is spot on! Sadly though I can see only maybe a quarter of these being added :/

My dad beats me when my mom isn’t looking :/

" Dude im a pr0 thief I use d/p, trust me :/"

The amount of QQ on this thread is hilarious. Thanks for giving this guy work! (by being troll bait). Bravo Volpe

You can craft 5 legendaries within this time. Gg anet.

Putting a truck and a feather on a scale is far more balanced than this game. Get used to it, it’s going to be like this forever