Guild Wars 2

WE DID IT!

“Before I forget, you can also now queue for structured PvP without having to be in the Heart of the Mists – hallelujah!”

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You don’t like veil and portal so anet should remove the skills?

Lol

Absolutely no idea what the point of this thread is lol

Chaith.8256:

…it’s not about what the developers can do to to fix help only those that massacred their MMR by grinding 400 losses on safe-pip spot solo queue in early season…

The shade of it all, lmao

Malediktus.9250:

No.

sPvP players do not need to unlock skills, WvW player got such a feature because they need to unlock skills similar to PvE players.

This^

Hero Points are not used in PvP and as such should not be attainable through PvP

You don’t really need an API for this…

Fractal dailies are on a 2 week rotation (at least the tier 1s-4s):

Week 1
Sunday: Swampland, Aetherblade, Mai Trin
Monday: Urban Battleground, Underground Facility, Snowblind
Tuesday: Cliffside, Molten Furnace, Mai Trin
Wednesday: Urban Battleground, Solid Ocean, Aetherblade
Thursday: Swampland, Cliffside, Volcanic
Friday: Uncategorized, Thaumanova Reactor, Molten Boss
Saturday: Aquatic Ruins, Solid Ocean, Molten Furnace

Week 2
Sunday: Urban Battleground, Snowblind, Mai Trin
Monday: Underground Facility, Cliffside, Aetherblade
Tuesday: Uncategorized, Snowblind, Volcanic
Wednesday: Aquatic Ruins, Molten Furnace, Molten Boss
Thursday: Solid Ocean, Thaumanova Reactor, Volcanic
Friday: Aquatic Ruins, Swampland, Uncategorized
Saturday: Underground Facility, Thaumanova Reactor, Molten Boss

BrotherBelial.3094:

They said it’s not going to happen, because as people have said, if you queue for pvp you should play. Not cancel because you want to finish what you where doing.

I’m still waiting on your source on that- where they said they absolutely will not fix queueing outside Heart of the Mists.

Everyone else, feel free to bump my thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Queuing-Outside-of-HotM

I think it’s broken for everyone. I deleted my .dat and reinstalled GW2 two days ago for unrelated reasons and can confirm Obsidian Sanctum still looks like a disco ever since the patch a few days ago.

As Faux brought up – I totally forgot to mention that all of my alts from last season were bumped to Sapphire this season – So smurfing down that low is even less of a thing than you think it is.

It’s just a shame. Last season when you came on these forums and asked for help and advice Ithilwen I thought that would make you stop with the daily thread blaming the game and/or others for your experiences. But here we are again, season 3, and another day, another Ithilwen thread.

Queueing for ranked requires rank 20 so I don’t think the OPs claims are as common as she thinks.

I was legendary on 4 accounts last season- none of which were f2p. Granted one of them doesn’t have HoT – which is another thing f2p accounts would have to deal with.

I’ve been lobbying for this for a year now: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Queuing-Outside-of-HotM

mrauls.6519:

It says right there you deserted

Are you saying this is working as intended? I crashed before the game started because as anyone who uses the mac client will tell you, it’s not that great, loaded back at score 50-something and proceeded to win the game (and was there when the game ended hence the screenshot); am I supposed to lose a pip?

It seems this bug is back? Does anyone care to explain how this happens?

Agemnon.4608:

Why do you say it’s “archaic”? You get far superior control with a mouse over keys. Keyboard turning is used as an insult for good reason.

The purpose of this thread is to advocate for an option to turn off double mouse button character movement, not to argue about what is and isn’t “archaic” or play styles in general.

That being said I prefer to move forward with my keyboard and use my mouse buttons to pan or change direction. That isn’t keyboard turning. What I’ve just described is the exact functionality you get out of holding down both mouse buttons at the same time but the difference is it doesn’t make guild hall decorating difficult. I assume this feature exists to facilitate some degree of one-handed gameplay but it does nothing for me so I’d like to be able to turn it off.

This has been driving me absolutely crazy while trying to decorate the guild hall. You right click to turn your camera, you left click to turn your decoration, and sometimes you click both mouse buttons during the transition between the two and your character runs forward and screws up all of your positioning. Please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD give us an option to turn off this archaic default control that moves your character forward when using both mouse buttons simultaneously.

(If it is already possible to turn this off and someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.)

Forestnator.6298:

This thread made my day.

+1 LMAO

Season 1 bunker mesmers in nomads … can you imagine? I would literally have been God.

@OP: Feel free to read up and/or bump my thread- https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Queuing-Outside-of-HotM

Speaking of the challenger cup, has ArenaNet announced the second challenger cup teams yet?

As someone who has done fractals daily since 2012, I think fractals loot is the best it has ever been right now.

Honestly I’m surprised aviator sunglasses weren’t a part of the recent month-long sale. They were requested a ton in that dev-replied thread asking what we wanted in the gem store.

It was the only thing I wanted =/

Bliss forgot to mention that if you don’t like Beyoncé, [KnT] isn’t for you.

Thank’s MashMash for making this thread… It’s definitely an issue that’s been going on for a few days and I was going to write a support ticket yesterday but I never got around to it.

I’ll bump this thread if the issues resurface today at reset.

Changing skills that are attached to character models like Glint may be a bit much, since you can usually clearly see who is activating it, but I agree with the overall idea here.

It would be nice for certain skills, such as Feedback or Portal to be the color of the team it belongs to. Would be great for PvP where there’s no comms and WvW too.

Remember to include in the poll: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Queuing-Outside-of-HotM

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Substance E.4852:

Power.2957:

This is a cool idea. I’d also like to see a home instance airship cargo. Airship parts are the worst to obtain.

???

How? You get them out of the cargos. They are all over the map in VB and the map events just give out crowbars like crazy unlike the Keys or Chak Acid. Airship parts are the easiest currency to acquire by far.

Well me hating airship parts may be an opinion but VB is unique in that the map currency isn’t awarded in map/event participation reward chests. For e.g. in Tangled Depths I can get up to 200% participation and literally go AFK then soak up participation chests. In Verdant Brink those chests reward keys (crowbars) instead of map currency which require me to actively seek out and open treasure chests (airship cargo). As far as I’m aware, the other map treasure chests don’t even reward currency, just loot and materials, meaning opening chests is optional while VB forces you to do so. Combine this with the the fact that airship parts are used by many more things than the other map currencies and my opinion that the VB meta is the biggest snooze fest and that’s why I find airship parts the worst.

Source: Have over 20k leyline crystals, 20k aurillium and less than 150 airship parts.

This is a cool idea. I’d also like to see a home instance airship cargo. Airship parts are the worst to obtain.

Hilarious. Another “nerf mesmers plz” thread and this time from someone who LITERALLY REFUSES to even TRY playing more than one class .

Ithilwen, are you EU or NA?

I will make a deal with you (NA only): If you stop posting on these forums for a period of 1 year, I will personally carry you to at least diamond this season. One caveat though, you have to be willing to take direction.

Qualifications: I have two accounts at legendary and one at last tier diamond this season.

While we have your attention Hugh I’d like to point you to a thread with a similar suggestion for sPvP titles: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Suggestion-New-Titles-1

Akachi.1352:

Evan Lesh.3295:

This is a really great analysis. I appreciate all the work you put into this. We recognize the problems that the season 2 matchmaking is causing and are looking into solutions that will provide a good experience and satisfy our goals for the league system.

abolish mmr and just match people randomly within division? Can’t be worse than it is now

Hell no. There’s nothing I hate more than having bads on my team.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Power.2957:

Feel free to bump my thread on the issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Queuing-Outside-of-HotM

They have already said why they will not do this, accept it and move on.

I’ve read all the dev replies on this topic and not once have they said it isn’t happening. So a citation would be nice.

Feel free to bump my thread on the issue: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Queuing-Outside-of-HotM

OP has some strong ideas.

+1

I think something can be done to slick shoes too. Either make it end when interrupted or make it only hit targets once.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Power.2957:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Fizwitz.8240:

1. Tone down Reaper, Revenant, Scrapper, Druid, Tempest (support), and Chronomancer (elites and utility), buff Dragon Hunter, Daredevil and Berserker. Balance all the classes to make them all optimal picks and more variety for builds.

2. Add more maps to conquest, death match and stronghold (mainly conquest)

3. Add a queue option for Death match (Courtyard) at least In unranked, and if courtyard is not ranked, neither should stronghold.

4. Map mechanic changes to existing maps such as making Ferocity more useful on Temple of the Silent Storm and making lord have more health and/or a downstate in Legacy of the Foefire.

5. Add more stuff to Heart of the Mists such as mystic forge and crafting stations, and making it look a lot better and/or letting us queue from outside of Heart of the Mists.

In response to point 5. ANet have said(in the recent reddit AMA) queuing out side of HoTM is not possible dew to tech limitations.

And yet we could do just that until ~a year ago when they turned it off.

Really? I remember things differently. I don’t ever remember being able to. Since launch the game has always told me I’ve had to go to HoTM to queue.

That means you are either very forgetful or didn’t start PvP until recently with it disabled.

1. Allow players to queue outside of Heart of the Mists.

2. Bring back Raid on the Capricorn (at least to custom arenas) and allow custom arenas to host activities (such as Keg Brawl) which are technically a modified version of PvP.

3. Fix the immobilize bug (since 2012) and the stuck bug (showing up a lot more since HoT).

4. Make PvP rewarding- and I’m talking about liquid gold. There is no reason PvE players should make gold exponentially faster than PvP players.

5. Come up with a new system to distribute gems earned from community tournaments. There is no reason people should wait 2+ months.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Fizwitz.8240:

1. Tone down Reaper, Revenant, Scrapper, Druid, Tempest (support), and Chronomancer (elites and utility), buff Dragon Hunter, Daredevil and Berserker. Balance all the classes to make them all optimal picks and more variety for builds.

2. Add more maps to conquest, death match and stronghold (mainly conquest)

3. Add a queue option for Death match (Courtyard) at least In unranked, and if courtyard is not ranked, neither should stronghold.

4. Map mechanic changes to existing maps such as making Ferocity more useful on Temple of the Silent Storm and making lord have more health and/or a downstate in Legacy of the Foefire.

5. Add more stuff to Heart of the Mists such as mystic forge and crafting stations, and making it look a lot better and/or letting us queue from outside of Heart of the Mists.

In response to point 5. ANet have said(in the recent reddit AMA) queuing out side of HoTM is not possible dew to tech limitations.

And yet we could do just that until ~a year ago when they turned it off.

Crinn.7864:

Power.2957:

The reality is mesmer has been nerfed so many times since release I can’t even make a comprehensive list because at this point I can’t remember all of the changes.

You can make a similar list for every class in the game, and make every class look victimized.

Oh you mean like guardian where for a long time it was a running joke how every patch buffed guardians in some way?

The champ titles since release have long since lost their prestige (at least in my opinion) and for people already done with the Ascension, there is nothing really to spend league tickets on, and not much point in playing because there’s nothing to work for.

Why not create new titles, similar to the champ titles but with higher game counts, so people have something to strive for. E.g. “Legendary Magus” for 1000+ wins in a rated setting as an elementalist, instead of 150.

Let’s see… In no particular order…

• Cooldown added in between shatters so they can’t all be used at the same time.
• Portal given a maximum range.
• Portal given a cap on how many uses it has.
• Blurred frenzy evades instead of causes invulnerability and can now be interrupted.
• Mirror blade bounces reduced (meanwhile precision strike is one shotting bads).
• Continuum split duration cut in half (during previews/beta it was 3s per clone).
• Maim the disillusioned torment stacks cut in half (used to be 2 stacks of torment/shatter)
• Alacrity effectiveness cut in half (33% instead of 66%).
• Well of Precog absolutely destroyed to the point where it will never be used in any game mode (won’t even bother elaborating). In fact it should get a name change to something like “Well of Protection,” because “Precognition” suggests a powerful effect.
• Shield block duration cut in half (meanwhile Revenant and Engi can block for days).
• Deabilitating Dissipation trait removed.
• Crippling Dissipation trait removed.
• Veil duration cut in half.
• Mimic function changed 3 or 4 times.
• PU duration cut in half.
• Mantra recharge nerfed.
• Well damage toned down (meanwhile mesmer has never been the highest DPS class).
• Quickness effectiveness halved.
• Quickness now doesn’t work on most actions.
• Slow now doesn’t work on most actions.
• Resistance duration from traits reduced.
• Chaos armor now doesn’t blind.
• Chaos armor changed to not provide protection on use, but can now be traited to act as it once did without traits.
• Power mes currently unviable in ranked because of the sheer amount of passives in HoT specs.

Oh but wait…

• Feedback is ground targetable now!

Can confirm, mesmer is OP, please nerf. (This is sarcasm, for the unintelligent.)

The reality is mesmer has been nerfed so many times since release I can’t even make a comprehensive list because at this point I can’t remember all of the changes.

The only time mesmer has ever really been meta was last season when bunker mesmer was God. The only reason you’ve seen mesmers in matches any other time is because there are people like me who are dedicated to the class, and would rather struggle with the nerfs than faceroll the next fotm spec like condi reaper or power scrapper.

Do you honestly believe at this point you’d see mesmers in tournaments if it weren’t for the new no class stacking rule?

I think they should just rate limit whispers. No real player is whispering 30 other players in the space of 5 seconds.

Goodness you will complain about anything Ithilwen.

-1 this idea. Masteries do absolutely nothing for sPvP and HoT specializations are already fully unlocked.

Save em to get a head start on next years backpiece :P

YourFriendMarvin.4127:

Oh, I should have done the timegated dailies earlier then. :p

Yea the timegated dailies are cancer. Kicking myself for not paying them any attention for like the first 2 weeks and some random days last season -_-

P.S. did anyone actually read that guy’s essay a few posts up?

Nope, many have made it. But congrats nonetheless :P

http://imgur.com/a/iZRmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNE0p43xW40

Honestly the people in diamond right now didn’t solo queue it all. If you’re above average you will make it to legendary eventually. If you want to progress faster then by all means find people to party with.

Today 2 of my threads on this forum about completely unrelated topics were deleted and I received infractions. Why? Because in some of the screenshots my chat box was being spammed by the Heart of the Mists gold sellers.

Rather than do something useful, like rate limit whispers in game (or delete the offending screenshots), the outsourced forum mods strike again.

TPMN.1483:

That seems a bit silly considering the amount of smurfing which was going on.
Looks like Primordial Legend this season will be harder for many individuals.

This season the title is “Exalted Legend.”