Guild Wars 2

I feel stupider after reading this.

The fact that it’s acceptable to say “DH is less faceroll than these other profession” speaks volumes.

Another night, another post by Ithilwen

Gecko.1962:

…Scrapper:…Leave the class as a whole alone…

And this is where you lost me.

I’m personally saving them for future years. If they use the same currency next year, you could have a huge headstart on all the league tickets you probably need for the next backpiece or whatever.

Trevor Boyer.6524:

cleshe

cliché*

Ithilwen.1529:

…Do you believe I should not be permitted to play?

Yes. Every time you post on these forums I cringe.

Wouldn’t be a normal day without someone complaining about mesmer, even though it’s out of the meta

CombatEvolve.9238:

A team name does not necessarily mean that it’s a full 5-man either. If I queue’d up with 2 other guild members, we can run the team name and it will show up.

Actually I just faced that group too, and the OP is right, it is a 5man.

@OP: Anet said in their upcoming pvp changes blog post that FIVE soloers wouldn’t face a 5-man premade. Technically they didn’t lie. People assumed this meant “if I solo queue I won’t face premades ever.” It’s still RNG because if you happen to solo queue and get a 2q or 3q on your team, it is very possible you’ll face a 5-man.

I think the speculation that it was only last season came from the name, it was called “Primordial” Legend after all

You can’t just expect to win by showing up. As someone pointed out above, Signet of Fire says a lot.

My theory based on ArenaNet’s phrasing is correct.

It’s beautiful, my friends list is lit up again.

I’m more concerned that it’s gonna make people who don’t PvP queue for matches and then afk.

Lol

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XGhoul.7426:

…You will never face a 5-man team (because of the solo player you pick up randomly can’t face a 5 man)…

I don’t believe this to be the case.

ArenaNet has been very particular in their phrasing with the matchmaking changes. They said a five man premade will not face a team of five soloers. I think this means full premade teams will face any match up where less than five players soloqueued. E.g. a 2+1+1+1 or 3+1+1 or 4+1 or 3+2.

TIL bug fixes = “minor balance tweaks”

Not to detract from their accomplishments, but I fear with the recent news (and repeated emphasis) that ArenaNet have made some changes to the algorithm and seen reductions of up to 4 minutes in queue times, that they may not be looking into this =/

A quick question for all the people kittenponded to this thread asking for gliding in Heart of the Mists: Now that that’s a thing, how much boredom has been alleviated from the lobby while you wait in queues?

EDIT: Apparently writing “who” and “responded” next to each other in a sentence is censored because it could be an attempt to slip the word “vvhore” in.

If they wanted to maximize profits from the gemstore they’d rerelease the skins players have been begging for for years, e.g. aviator sunglasses, bunny ears, etc.

+1 this would be my most used endpoint.

(Hopefully you’ll throw in all contacts, i.e. followers and block list, and not just friends :])

I’ve gotten about 7 boxes since HoT. 2 from the Tybalt reward tracks that were released a little while ago.

Ironically PvP gives more ascended box drops than fractals.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Pyriall.1683:

It’s another terrible attempt at updating skills. There wasn’t anything wrong with the skill as it was previously. This version is over the top.

Well, except the monstrous cooldown.

Transfusion has been doing something similar since June, even affecting more allies on a shorter cooldown, but nobody complains about that.

- Transfusion is in Blood Magic, meaning very few people will take it
- Transfusion radius is tiny, not to mention it’s around the caster, not a minion of the caster

Personally, I and most of my friends have logged out since ranked was closed and only log in to do dailies.

Lexander.4579:

eggplants bear a message for you to man the kitten up and stop queueing as a shameless 5 man premade to stomp solo q players

I started typing a response to this, being that it is one of the most irrelevant, out of place arguments I’ve seen in this forum, but then I backspaced and said there’s no point arguing with idiots.

The guild challenger league rewards came out today.

I’m extremely disappointed with the contents of the reward chests and want to hear other peoples’ thoughts and counter arguments as to why these are acceptable rewards for 2 months of playing sPvP.

I received 1 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze reward chest.

I also received 2 copper reward chests, but those are bugged and no one has been able to open them as reported and seen here on the forums.

Here is the data for the chests I were able to open:

GOLD:

• 20 Eggplants (or ?)
• 20 Elder Wood Planks (or Mithril Ingots?)
• 10 Potions of PvP Reward
• 25 Shards of Glory
• 1 Guild Challenger League Decoration

SILVER:

• 15 Mithril Ingots (or Elder Wood Planks)
• 15 Elder Wood Planks (or Mithril Ingots)
• 8 Potions of PvP Reward
• 20 Shards of Glory
• 1 Guild Challenger League Decoration

BRONZE:

• 10 Intricate Totems (or some other t5 mat?)
• 10 Piles of Incandescent Dust (or some other t5 mat?)
• 6 Potions of PvP Rewards
• 15 Shards of Glory
• 1 Guild Challenger League Decoration

TOTAL (of my 5 chests):

• 20 Eggplants
• 65 Elder Wood Planks
• 40 Potions of PvP Reward
• 100 Shards of Glory
• 5 Guild Challenger League Decorations
• 10 Intricate Totems
• 10 Piles of Incandescent Dust
• 45 Mithril Ingots

I suppose what I’m annoyed with is not so much the contents of these chests, even though I see no possible use for egg plants by sPvP players (hence the title of this thread), because it was relatively easy to make a team, win or lose one match, and place on the boards, so this may be justified.

My issue is with the spread of the contents. Gold teams received 4 more potions of pvp reward than bronze teams. In 2 months, only 24 (2-25) teams in game were privileged enough to be receive 10 potions of pvp reward. Let that sink in. I can get 12 potions of pvp reward from spending 5 minutes doing dailies, spread out over 2 days.

Thoughts?

Can confirm 2 copper chests did not show up in my inventory. The gold, silver and bronze chests did work however.

And builds like that is why no one wants to play the game at the moment

Got the item; Afraid to use it because of the reports in this thread…

I think the whole icon system should be removed and players should get something similar to npc ranks that decorate their avatars: Veteran, Elite, Champion, Legendary.

This would also solve the #1 issue people bring up about the badges, which is that they’re everywhere and are visual clutter. To see NPC rank you have to click on that NPC.

Bump, would like to know as well; Also where is the item support is supposed to be mailing out to fix Primordial Legend? Bonus, when is the next round of llamas/gems being mailed?

Keep your eyes on this as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/42tkwj/oni_blade_mystic_forge_recipe/

I’m fairly certain ArenaNet is just gonna look at the leaderboard by guild name and contact individual guilds that way, not individual teams within a guild. It wouldn’t make sense giving 2 invites to the same guild because they have 2 qualifying teams.

I don’t know about a “results board,” but I’d love to get an infographic or something with statistics, like what John Smith used to do for the trading post people.

ArenaNet have done something cool like this a few times in the past; see attachments.

I appreciate that so many people have commented in this thread but I can’t help but feel that suggestions like "add gliding to HotM, " “add a jumping puzzle to HotM,” or “add dueling to HotM” are almost detrimental to the cause.

• Adding gliding to HotM (apparently coming next patch) will do nothing to solve the issue at hand. So instead of auto running for 15 minutes, you want to glide around? What exactly is that going to solve? People will glide around for 2 minutes and then realize that they’re locked in the same, unchanged lobby waiting out their queues. You’ve already seen everything in Heart of the Mists, what are you gonna find with gliding that you haven’t already seen? Not to mention Heart of the Mists has boundaries that teleport you back if you get out too far.

• Adding a jumping puzzle to HotM will provide at most (and this is being generous) one hour of entertainment. Unless the jumping puzzle is literally Obsidian Sanctum which is massive in scale and is a free for all, adding a jumping puzzle to the mists will do absolutely nothing. Once you’ve completed it, are you going to complete it every day and somehow not get bored? Even if ArenaNet adds a chest to the jump puzzle it won’t be worth it because it’ll be just like every other jump puzzle chest with blues and greens and it’ll only be openable once per day/account because otherwise it would be exploitable and damaging to the economy.

• Adding dueling to HotM makes no sense since they’ve made custom arenas which can be used for that purpose. I imagine it would be take much less work to simply allow queueing while anywhere (such as while in custom arenas) than it would to build an entirely new while-in-town dueling system. It also does not solve the issue of the staleness of the PvP lobby.

RTL also previously went further =/

Exciton.8942:

‘Mesmers have always had practically perfect condition clear’
Stopped reading after this….

I did a spit take myself lmao

Daroon.1736:

Evan Lesh.3295:

While it may appear to work, there are certainly technical hurdles to deal with before this could be a feature. If lots of people were doing this right now, there would be a lot of people hitting load screens and getting dishonor. It’s mostly related to technical jargon, but you’ll have to trust me that people would have bad times unless we fix some complicated things on the back end.

In the 3+ years the game has been out, has dishonor ever been turned on for more than a few hours/days?

Dishonor was turned back on when leagues was released. So it actually is in place right now. Back when I made this thread however, it wasn’t.

Dahkeus.8243:

Valkyriez.6578:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Before there was a ready check there wasn’t a problem because you’d just hop into the match once you finished loading. Of course this meant more AFK players.

The servers were completely rewritten at the end of 2014, and now there more sophisticated requirements to getting the PvP servers in sync with the game servers wanting to pause/destroy your roster when you hit load screens. The more people queuing outside the mists without fixing this, the more likely people will start seeing problems like ‘random’ dishonor.

How much money do I need to transfer to your bank account for you to fix this issue Evan? I has PayPal.

If there was a kickstarter, I’d throw down some $.

Don’t give me ideas :P

I think making a list of additional admins was a major step forward but I’d also like these additional admins to have the power to change the server name/motd/settings in general.

TinyMidget.5814:

i found a bug that lets me q wherever i want. i dont think theres any real technical hurdle stopping this from being in game…

I will pay you 5000 gold if you pm me the details on how to do this and then I’ll never visit Heart of the Mists again -_-

Arguably worse than loading into a match to find your team is 4/5 is when your teammate is actually there but refusing to play. You’re definitely going to lose pips; what does one do in this situation? There’s no report option for “afking during match” or “leeching.” My team reported him for botting but is that the correct course of action?

Ironically we were even winning the match; The necro was upset after he went to an enemy-controlled far point, that was being guarded, and died and was left to bleed out because “the team didn’t support him,” whatever that means.

Go to a daily server.

Quick update…see attached screenshot.

Maybe it’s because lately I’ve been queueing around 2-6 am EST?

This isn’t a QQ thread so much as it is a confused thread. I just got matched like this. Is this working as intended?

What are you talking about?

Prestige 2. League Champion 3/3. Primordial Legend 0/6.

Prestige 2. League Champion 3/3. Primordial Legend 0/6.

I’m requesting that a chat command be added to allow joining different instances of a map belonging to someone in your party, that would be identical to the current system of right clicking on your party member and clicking “Join In [map],” sans clicking.

E.g. You’re in Tangled Depths. You’re in a party with “Player X,” who is also in Tangled Depths. You type “/mapjoin Player X,” and it either loads the map or gives you the world full message.

Ideally we would have the overflow map queue system that was in place at release and looked similar to the World versus World queue, but I imagine that was removed because of mega servers.

Thanks for reading.

I have to agree with Leeto. That screenshot shows a lot of things that are making me judge but in particular that build is unviable in this meta. Pick up a bunker build if you wanna carry solo queues. Personally I did ruby>diamond in one day that way.

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