Guild Wars 2

Oh I’m not talking about matchmaking or if it is skewed, just generally. Winning by a mile or losing the same way will happen later on aswell, so I’m afraid this sense of “screw it, imma go home” is gonna stick, and if it is it makes some matches just a waiting game if you manage to get a big enough lead.

Ok, after playing a few matches, some wins, some losses, I noticed that the match proceeds in one of 3 possible ways.

1. The match is very even and everyone tries their best until the very end, this one is very rare.

2. My team is significantly ahead in score, so the enemy team just stops playing because trying from that point on is no longer awarded in any way.

3. Enemy team is significantly ahead in score, my team stops playing because, once again, trying any more is useless.

NameUnknown.6417:

I guess what I am really trying to sort out is which class is more likely be wanted for dungeons and raids?

Dungeons are still pure direct damage so optimal team comp is still likely ps warrior, 2 eles, thief, and depending on the dungeon either mesmer or rev

Raids are more complicated since you need condis(Engi is the king there) and someone with slight tankiness, for this pretty much any class will do tbh. so you need to, surprise surprise, think about other things than just pure dps

Interestingly enough at the moment things are pretty much as they were pre-HoT.

Assuming optimal situation where the player doesn’t have to kite any mobs or play defensively in any way. Elementalist in full berserker gear using staff is top dps if we’re talking about aoe damage. If there is only one thing to attack, a good thief, once again in full berserker, is slightly better dps.

This is of course talking from a perspective where the player is alone. In a proper team composition other classes do more damage than either one stated above would do alone. So maybe best to stop thinking about just your own dps and broaden your wievs to “What team composition has the highest dps” since solo dps is pretty irrelevant.

Please please please make anet notice this… There’s only a handful of staves that look like you’re supposed to hit stuff with them and don’t look crummy and outdated.

Personally I thought that they’d release more skins for Daredevil with HoT but no.. Mostly just more magelike staves that look like they’d shatter if you try and bash someones head in with them.

ps. The range cowards already had Bifrost for their mage stuff, why did’t they make the new one more melee, or even something in-between.

Nothing wrong with Kudzu, but with Dreamer yes. I generally get that there is and probably even should be these gag weapons in the game, but why must they be legendaries? Of course talking about Moot and Quip in addition to Dreamer here. I know it cannot be affected at this point but generally it was a horrible design choice to make them legendaries and not, I don’t know, excessively expensive Mystic Forge weapons.

I guess we can just hope and pray that the devs have made the rest of the new legendaries atleast somewhat believable and not something I’d expect to find in my 3-year-old nieces’ room.

pfff, mine just patched itself automatically after a week or so of the horror of being without it. However you might want to try just reinstalling overwolf and hoping for the best.

Piejoe.7268:

Please, no more backpack wings. It makes this game look like all these cliché free to play MMO’s. They’re hideous, obnoxious, cheap, generic, childish and they don’t fit into the lore and the game. My friends came back to this game after a long break and the wings were one of the reasons that they quit within one day.
Enough is enough.

I am glad that these wings are glider-only like all wings should be.

There’s a million things in the game that don’t fit into the lore, that’s something we have always dealt with. As for no more backpack wings, I agree, but sadly it seems it’s the only thing the devs are able to do. Could someone be interested to tell the devs that there was this garment people in the olden days used to use, called a cape?

yeah RNG is a thing here, also magic find has no effect on anything other than rare drops(yellow name). And yes they do drop still, and yes weirdly better drom pvp than from anywhere else(go figure).

You can create multiple characters across multiple classes and learn to adapt. Case Closed

LordOtto.2650:

That won’t happen in season 2, until they realize the trolling and MMR “control”, it will be season 3
If you can loose divisions to, 80% of players will leave pvp … are u thinking?Rayden.3695

I know it would take an impact to the pvp playerbase. But I think Anet should also consider the fact that no one is ever going to take a league system that’s as flawed as theirs seriously.

LordOtto.2650:

How should people loose pips if afk-ing, when they just simply have 0 pips?
In season 2 in ruby or diamond tier, with 0 pips, somebody afk-ing to lower their MMR?! What then? It will happen….
What about if I want to quit in the middle of the game, then I quit, it’s my choice, I don’t care about others pips, they don’t care neither when they do whatever they want on ranked games, and we loose because of them… When I see my team is not worth my efforts, I quit, I don’t care, now why should I be banned for that? They should be banned to, because they are not so good players?!

Easy fix, make losing divisions possible aswell, the whole system is flawed as long as people can lose an infinite amount of matches without losing progress because of it.

yeah would love to see that. But as per usual anet is not interested in our opinions I guess, unless they release a gemstore item enabling this, something along the lines “Upgrade your winged backpiece to a glider skin, only 1000 gems”

yeah they should just make it so that if one player in your team is not doing anything for atleast 1/3 of the match just make it impossible to lose pips, for the people playing. and just make the afk person lose pips, that way it wouldn’t punish the players still playing but only the afk one.

I must say I am at a loss, you use the wording “world completion rush” but it more or less looks like slow mode of world comp. Other than that I support the idea of being in a party should make all players contribute towards, and that way also finish, a renown heart together.

Disregarding the running animations on aa sylvari, agreed they are awkward: play as though the game story doesn’t exist and be a nightmare court member, enemy to all

I even have a suggestion to this end. I know that ELO-rating is not ideal in a setting like this because it is mainly designed to function in a 1v1 setting. But maybe have each player have their own rating, and have the system set up the teams so that the average rating on both teams would be about the same.

Just a thought thought, not an expert in this area so can’t say if that would be good or not but would seem more fair than the current system. Also don’t know if it’s a rumor or not that the system tries to set up people with a 50% win-ratio or not, but seeing as the median for players is almost exactly 50% it seems probable. So that could be chucked out the window aswell and let the winners win and the losers lose, with that I could live with even if I were to lose.

Guys, I know you tried… And I really hope you tried to actually make it work, but the matchmaking is still horrible. I honestly suggest throwing the current system in the bin and starting from scratch to make a brand new, better, system.

ps. a quota of 12 matches, of which 9 losses might be something to do with this opinion.

f2p can participate apparently, you just can’t get the full experience without having HoT(hint hint, buy it)

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Rayden.3695:

HoT will probably be never available via gems. This is because unlike LS2 content or Heroic/Deluxe edition of the basegame there is no other way to access the expansion content. Basically selling HoT in the gemstore would give Anet minimal income because players can convert gold to gems.

By that logic they should charge new players $100+ for the base game+HoT like they did to older players.

Thing is, charging 100+ for a game is bad business(looks at EA), and would not bring new players to Guild Wars as the current system with F2P and 50$ account upgrade/expansion has done and is doing. And honestly, I really don’t mind paying 50 bucks to get an expansion to a game I’ve played for 3 years, even if it is a little sub-par.

HoT will probably be never available via gems. This is because unlike LS2 content or Heroic/Deluxe edition of the basegame there is no other way to access the expansion content. Basically selling HoT in the gemstore would give Anet minimal income because players can convert gold to gems.

Umm. I’d like to point out the following. I myself am running around with mastery rank 161, this is because I have unlocked every mastery barring Spirit Vale masteries. I did not use the dungeon grind in the core game or mob farming in HoT to achieve this.

As far as core game goes the exp came from 1 full world comp(rev) and farming sw events for loot.

And as far as HoT goes it came from doing the Meta events in each map to achieve items towards collections or just personal interest items.

The mastery points for central tyria I already had because of pre-HoT achievements. The HoT mastery points I got by just doing the events, adventures as I came across them and map completion.

So please do not label all the High mastery people as exlpoiters

Edit: Also note that I’ve had that mastery rank for the last month or so.

Honestly, less than a party doesn’t really even count as a guild. But that being said, yes the amount of materials needed is rather massive, but with time even a couple of people can do it. Just because larger guilds can advance more quickly does not mean you even should be able to. Just take your time and don’t rush it.

PS. If you’re hell bent on getting stuff that large guilds now have access to, like armors or weapons, join one or don’t complain.

Not sure, but just start doing DS when the map opens up and you should be fine

Also, a handy timer: http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/

Neat idea in itself, but the thing is that Thanksgiving is a strickly NA holiday, and as such would look weird if it was in the game in the EU. Other holidays that are presented are more international and are not tied to one Region only.

Allthough I do despise this kind of action atleast the following:

Ancient Golem HP in Auric basin(near the falls), Lean technicues is enough tho.
Burnishers Quarry HP in Auric basin, Nuhoch wallows work also.
Spider Queen HP in Dragons Stand, can also be reached by leap moves via back route.

Not missing anything really, and there isn’t any specified “goal” after you hit lvl 80, unless you set one for yourself. Just try out a little of everything and then just do the things that are to your personal liking. Do note that you can combine these things, like gathering material for asccended gear or a legendary while doing world comp and so on

The logic is as follows: Arenanet launched HoT without playtesting every single thing in a pvp setting, what followed was the community creating the most efficient builds based on what Arenanet had released. And that is how we ended up with this “Bunkers! Bunkers Everywhere!” – meta

Also I put this in the wrong category >.< could someone move this please

Hello fellow PvP players!

I understand that the metagame doesn’t support playing thief, but personally I am still going to do so. So do make sure you understand a few things when playing with a thief in your party. First and foremost, thief is not a nodeholder, the fighting style simply doesn’t allow keeping the point, so please do your job and let me do mine, which is roaming and helping teammates in even fights to finish them quickly. Also, unless the match is ridiculously easy, do not try to force a triple-cap, constant pressure at far node makes it impossible for quick decaps as the enemy team is forced to keep someone at immediate vicinity. I also want to thank all the veteran players that understand this, and hope that the new players will come to understand this aswell.

So do your best to have fun, and try to keep your aggression to yourself instead of flaming in chat.

They’re just run of the mill collection items, and therefore you can just chuck em, unless they expressly say that they are a crafting material.

It is, don’t let all the salt here on the forums scare you

Khyan.7039:

The legendary fractal bp isn’t wings.

You must have a very uncommon definition of wings.

Well yeah, advertise all you want, just make us able to mark that screen clutter as read and make it disappear. I don’t even want to imagine how bad it is for people with smaller or 4:3 monitors. Like I don’t glue the adverts I get in the mail around my apartments walls, would be redundant, I’ll read them if I want to and then discard them.

And moreover forcing us to read that thing always when we’re online is not going to make me more interested, rather make me despise the content just because the words are starting to annoy me.

Burtnik.5218:

azizul.8469:

yeah..wait another 2 month, and complain again if none presented….

New legendaries should come in january..3 months.

They should at least show us how they look like if they have them done. So far both axe and staff are fugly and pistols is something i dont use at all.

As if we didn’t have ugly legendaries already? Atleast Astralaria and Nevermore aren’t inherently ugly like Quip and Moot. Also It really is a matter of taste, I don’t think they could make one that would please everyone.

Okay, normally I wouldn’t post here because of this issue but since the support portion of the website is not working atm I have no other choice.

So starting from today whenever I enter wvw I get disconnected within 15 minutes of playtime whereas hours of pve does not cause this. After disconnecting the game shuts down and then I try to log in but the game is not able to reach the login server.

I’m currently running the 64-bit client, build 55960. The error code I get is 42:1000:7006:1230

Funnily enough I do get inside after a while, might take 30 minutes, might take an hour, but still.

Would be greatly appreciated if I could play, national holiday and all so everything is closed. And I really really promise to not tip my toe to wvw to avoid this issue again

“something good” lol, but anyways. Seems highly improbable because people who play a lot have an abundance of bloodstone dust, dragonite ore and empyreal fragments, so it’s understandable that anet made a gizmo to get rid of some of it. The odds of enough players with 300% mf, which is the cap, is so small atm there’s really no incentive for the devs to implement such a device

Do note that this is just my personal opinion in the matter.

Yeh thief in PvP is a bit “meh” at the moment, but PvE content is in my opinion the most interesting as a thief, well staff daredevil to be exact. And Thiefs “having no damage” is proper carbage, it’s just that you need skill to be continuously dealing damage, if you can do that there is not really a class that can compare to your damage.

If anet implemented hotkeys for inventory items it would be awesome, but if you were to implement one yourself by using for example a macro it would be considered “cheating” and there might be some ramifications towards you personally.

Don’t know if it would really be considered “unfair” towards other players tho, maybe in wvw but in general pve it would make no difference.

Fallen to death… no… Faceplanted a million times with ~100 health left… yes

silverwastes all the way, simply because the amount of champ bags and other loot you get simply stomps tarir meta to the ground.

Pretty hard to give good advice via forum so throw me a whisper when you’re ingame

You get the backpiece skin, end of story

The huntich nags are not limited to 5 parts per bag, but can drop as much as 100. Also I seem to recall that chests that you get from killing champions, like a legendary wyvern give parts(the one above the minimap).

yeah, the instanced maps with a ~150 player cap does create an illusion of not so many people playing. Also that might count also the asian region(China) which is separate from NA and EU and probs has atleast as many players.

It happens, and sadly there is no way to recover the item after salvaging it. So have fun farming

Ofc there are, otherwise people would just use the custom arenas to farm rewards infinitely.

you can’t lvl up masteries in wvw, not yet atleast. And they don’t even function there so it kind of makes sense that you can’t. The Elite spec however can be acquired from WvW, you get these new items, I forget the name, from rank up chests, 10 of those and some badges of honor and you can complete one random Hero Challenge in the HoT maps, 25 of those and you have your Elite. It’s slow and maybe not the ideal solution but it does free you from doing Pve.

Yes definitely more nodes, currently you are lucky if you get enough quartz for one charged crystal per day, and are thus forced to pay rather obscene amounts for them in TP.

yeah, other than avoiding certain parts of autoattack rotation and avoiding later parts of certain skills, such as thief d/p 3, there is really no valid reason to stow after every single cast. Then again outright blaming these people for macros and exploiting is pretty unreasonable.

Also some people believe that you get ooc faster if your weapon is stowed, that is however not true.