Guild Wars 2

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dont stop #believing

I dont think so

Colin: Our focus right now is making a game type that is easy to watch and understand. That is one of the things we have accomplished so far and we want to keep that concept. This doesn’t mean we won’t introduce new game types in the future, we are playing around with a lot of game types right now. Some of the game types in GW1 we took them and applied to other areas in GW2 – i.e. WvW, minigames. A lot of GW1 game types are empty right now because we have too many and we don’t want that to happen. We want to support WvW and sPvP even more than we are right now and if we go add another game type it is at the cost of WvW, sPvP, PvE. It is something we have to becareful.

FlamingForce.6389:

Perhaps having a terrible meta for months along with a tournament casted by people who were pretty much making fun of their own game was all a big conspiracy Anet cooked up in order to get rid of us nagging, non-profit pvp folks.

I’d put a Kappa face here if I could.

Today it was so clear that they dont give a kitten about pvp. Anyone who watched the Q&A will understand what I’m trying to say.

Leave this sinking boat now that you can, because it’s clear the devs don’t have any idea of what’s going on in the heart of the mists and they don’t plan on spending more resources into it.

The current state of the game is bad, and the future of it is even worse. Today we saw the highest pvp event gw2 will ever have and it was a bad, one-sided, boring tournament. They spend 10k $ and they only got bad publicity, I doubt they ever repeat this.

Conan.8046:

Engineer’s and Elementalist’s have highest skill cap by far yet neither were involved. They should surely be the best when played by the best….due to being hardest to play.

It was very crap to watch.

In 30 minutes the farewell to pvp

Mod jon_peters: you have to actively react to all the passive things going on Mod jon_peters: so its still very reactionary and there is still a LOT of skill in spirit ranger

bubberducky.3420:

Anet should just come forth and say there is no PvP team.

they could hire a french guy to pretend he is the pvp dev in the table

Big pve announcement
Big wvw announcement
Avoiding pvp questions

Anet, 2013

ALSO

Mod jon_peters: you have to actively react to all the passive things going on Mod jon_peters: so its still very reactionary and there is still a LOT of skill in spirit ranger

sad state of pvp

butch.8136:

He asked can we expect more sPvp-wise referencing to GW1 pvp. Then very awkward moment on panel who should answer that because GUESS WHAT no pvp dev on the panel. Colin then dodged everything and gave the same answer like always.

etiolate.9185:

He basically asked if PVP would get a new game mode and why there isn’t the game modes people loved in GW1.

Colin jumped on the grenade, dodged, and smiled.

thanks

yep, this event is clearly showing that they dont care about pvp at all.

I’m thinking about dropping the game, tbh

i heard the answer but not the question, what did he ask?

Give us pvp seasons omgg

Anet:

3v3 deathmatch arena

doit

hahaha made my day

any dev post

ahuba.6430:

No just no. They cant make changes to “make elementalists and mesmers viable again”. We cant have situations like what happened to necro and ranger again. Mesmers and eles are fine, necros rangers s/d thieves are broken. Please dont touch eles (offensive ele) and mesmer. Please dont. Its partially our fault that this game is where it is, people kept crying that necros are up (when they really werent that up) and rangers were bad and look what anet did.

Ele vs warrior : warrior wins
Ele vs engi: engi wins
Ele vs necro: necro wins
Ele vs ranger: ranger wins
Ele vs thief: thief wins

“Eles are fine”

Ask anet what do they think about the elementalist current state

Lachanche.6859:

Rerroll.9083:

Ive mained ele since bwe2 and i do share this idea:

Having an ele in your team puts you at a disadvantage
Having 2 means you lost

How long have you been thinking that ? Because eles used to be godlike, you know.

And now they are the worst. Whats your point?

There’s no possible trait combination to make ele worth playing in its current satte

Reikou.7068:

From what I understand, SotG in its previous incarnation is not going to be coming back as Grouch, the host, sold us out and is now working for the enemy.

In order to fill this void, GuildWars2 PvP TV will be hosting a similar “State of the Game”-like program in the very near future called “State of the Mists.”

Please tune into Guild Wars2 PvP TV at
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2pvptv

Really sad news

Will you invite devs at the state of the mists?

give us sotg naow!

Tyler.3451:

@Reroll….um…prove it. If you can go 0% to top 1000 as ele only I honestly would quit MMORPGs altogether lol.
@Master of Timespace: I thought it was pretty clear that I didn’t want to reroll?

Actually I can prove it. Because of a random bug my leaderboard was dropped to 0% check this link https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/NOT-FIXED-Leaderboard-position-crazy-bug/first#post2691720

the picture in that post clearly shows I was 0% 3 days ago.

I’ve been playing a bit and after 25 wins 9 loses I’m currently ranked 83%. I expect to be top 1000 later this afternoon and I’ll update this

ps. I’ve been playing ele since BWE, it’s incredibly weak atm but if you know it well you can make it to the top 300, 400.

However, if someone can make it to the top 150 soloq with an ele then he deserves my respect

temple>>>skyhammer pls no skyhammer thx

1) Elementalist is really weak

2) Even if you are an ele, going from 0% to top 1000 is possible

good thread, devs pls dont send it to linksville

I was also dropped to 0% after winning 1 game.

now im back in the top 1000 and it has been one of the worst experiences of my life lololo

savov.3712:

It’s not random bug. Looks like their rating algorithm is broken when it comes to “empty” matches, where you play alone or with only 1-2 more players.
I got something similar to starcraft – had joined a game, but midgame got an update. After the restart I was 2v3, so I lost and dropped from top~300(to wich I got with ELEMENTALIST in this kittening meta!) to the 80%s in a single game. After that it just snowballed to 60%s because I got 6-7 bad matchups in a row…
Hope for a fix, but doubt they will do anything about it, so I’ll have to reroll some meta build and carry the r20 teams i get…

what build do you play ?

starcraft zergling.1962:

Sum up of the situation with a suggested way to solve the problem:

The server crash caused a glitched game to come, where there was no opponents and no allies.

The rating calculation for this glitched game made the rating return a value of 0.

Fix the consequences:
Watch in your database for people who complained about losing all their rating. Manually set this value to what it was before by using the value you find in your backup database (prior game crash).

Fix the cause to avoid future problems:
Have a programmer look at the source code where the rating is calculated and let him do his job.

^good post

I can’t believe it takes so long to restore 2 users rating :/

I’ve already reached 40% (from 0%) and I may work to get my old position back. But I don’t want to work through this hell to see my rating destroyed again by a random crash now that i see you guys cannot fix it

Luvboard.3567:

You all scared her off!!

+1 Rerroll.9083

Too bad my posts are not “constructive” enough to survive till tomorrow

sigh

dreztina.4820:

I get so tired of Allie’s posts. All she ever says is ’that’s not our fault’ or ‘we can’t control that’ or the ever cute ‘oh different people are saying different things so I guess we just can’t do anything!’ I see a red response to a post, and it gets my hope up, and then all I see are excuses.

I’d also like to know:

Why are pvp players treated as second class citizens?
Why every single patch of the game since release had pve content while only 1/3 of the patches were adressed to the pvp community?
Why do we have to handle 2 months with a broken balance?
Why do we have to wait 1 year for new pvp rewards?
Why is the rank system so stupid (3 years till rank 80)?
Why are the qps we got useless? Do you realize people paid gems for paid tickets to see them removed suddenly?
Why are the leaderboards and matchmaking broken and without any reward?
Why do devs laught at people saying temple is poping too much and later they recognize their mistake?
Why is the class balance based on 10 people playing a pax tourney no one cares when they aren’t even the best players (at least 5 of them)?

@Allie making questions is really easy. Now work in the answers.

Allie Murdock.8152:

It’s completely your choice to use hyperbole and not be constructive, but don’t expect us to read your mind or understand how to fix the issue if you don’t give us any detailed information regarding it.
Yes, there is constructive feedback. However, if we get 1 constructive post out of 10, how do we know that it’s a real issue if those 9 posts don’t actually give us any information?

You posted a lot but you didn’t say anything worth it. Just random questions and bragging to the guys that try to help this game grow.

All gw2 players, as a community that spent time and money into the game, deserve an update on this sad state of the game we now have. You have had awesome constructive feedback since release and it’s not excuse that we now complain. Right now the game is boring. Some classes kill by spamming, others can’t do anything even if they do their best. This is unfair, repetitive, unbalanced, uninteresting, and boring. The game turned into a condition & dodge spamfest.

We deserve a balance patch asap, before or after the PAX tournament. But work on it and keep us updated, you should post the patch notes before the patch (liKe every other game) to have decent feedback. And we need a good balance patch, not like the last one (which broke the game, imo).

It’s sad that certaint classes like mesmer and ele are being ignored by top players who reroll to FOTM classes like ranger and necro. Players that have been playing ele/mesmer since BWE are switching to necro/thief. They do suck at these new classes, but they are getting better results. This hurts the game more than anything. I’d like to see real data about the classes being played in the top 200 leaderboards. I’m 100% sure it won’t be balanced at all.

tldr; less bragging in the forums and more work. Customers are always right and they have paid a lot of money and you didn’t deliver good content. Bad feedback is not a good excuse. You should be doing your work. Since your balance team is clueless, make a balance patch every week until you get it right. Anything is better than 2 months of broken meta.

I know my posts may infract some forum rules. But understand players have been ignored for too many days (literally no dev posts in the pvp forums) and we deserve some answers instead of random complains because “feedback is not good enough”

Feedback is not good enough.
Feedback is not good enough

Really?
Really??

not fixed yet, :S

any news? :8

Darnis.4056:

Thanks Evan
Also First DEVpost in the pvp subforums in the past two days!

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Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Just gonna copy this.

A map that favors certain professions is not a balanced map and thus shouldnt be expected to be on rotation for a competitive leaderboard Queue.

My only problem with Skyhammer in SoloQ is that benefits some classes in detriment of others.

Right now, not even in a PvP-mapwide analysis every class is balanced, they are not. And having a map aggravate this issue is just bad in my opinion.

Let’s say you play a Necro, besides being at the top of the food chain currently, if the map happens to be Skyhammer you get an added bonus on top of it, and that’s not okay. When I go SoloQ I want to play my class regardless of the Map that is generated and not be punished by it. Currently you should reroll to a Guardian or Necro if you happen to get Skyhammer on SoloQ as it significantly increases your chances of winning. You should be rewarded for playing your class right, not by switching to classes as the maps require.

A map that favors certain professions is not a balanced map and thus shouldnt be expected to be on rotation for a competitive leaderboard Queue.

Current Meta is bad already, we don’t need a map that makes the crap we already have even worse.

I have no problem in feeling like I got outplayed and learning from that mistake and positioning myself to prevent that from happening again .

Problem is there are clearly apex predators in Skyhammer.

Lets do the comparison in Guardians vs Thieves, who is rewarded the most by its positioning?
I’m pretty sure it’s the Guardians, more access to skills that can move the enemy and aegis/stability than Thieves results in more easily “outplaying” the enemy.
Even if the Thief went as far as stacking up some stealth before sneaking in on the cap point and trying to surprise the Guardian, that is sitted on point, by pulling him into the glass panes, the Guardian has passive Aegis and that means you have to blow an attack before doing the pull, thus giving away your position AND intention.

Do I like the map? Yes.

Does it need to balanced/polished? Definitely. And it shouldn’t be on a ranked rotation until such happens.

All Im saying is, ArenaNet, take Skyhammer out of the SoloQ rotation and do some meetings about where you want to go with the design on this map, and balance and polish it. After thats been done then they can put it back in rotation.

I really, really wanted this to be a L2P issue, unfortunately this is simply a case of bad design.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/PvP-solo-arena-from-r150-to-7-in-one-win/first#post2672011

this guy is experiencing the same issue. An update on this topic would be nice

starcraft zergling.1962:

Hello,

I was queuing a solo arena match while the game server crashed today. When the server got fixed, I loged on and I instantly got a match.
In that match, I was alone (1v0) and well … won it.

After that match (win), my rating droped from around top 150 (don’t remember exactly) to … 7%. (but it still counted as a win in the pvp panel and I got the reward win chest)

I already sent a ticket to support, I’m just posting this on forums to have another chance to have this problem resolved, and it might have happened to some others too.

Needless to say that 7% games are uninteresting games with total beginners from rank 1 to rank 9 (I tried a match once and yea … won’t ever do it again lol)

You were lucky. I got from 700 to 0% in one win.

0%

0 %

0 %

0 %

if you are experiencing the same support this thread
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/NOT-FIXED-Leaderboard-position-crazy-bug/first#post2671631

thanks, grouch. I hope you guys can fix this asap.

edit: imo the issue was caused because I was queued for solo arena when the EU log in servers crashed earlier.

1) Class balance
2) Automated daily tourneys (spectable)
3) Deathmatch game mode

Sol.4310:

Hawatak.8049:

Do not compare Dota2 with GuildWars 2 :p. One game is still in alpha tests.

Dota 2 isn’t in alpha test anymore, you should see how bad the match making is there now with massive flood of newbie’s joining, you get team’s where players don’t even know what there doing.

gw2 is in alpha =)

I played 1 single game and lost it (everyone is clueless at 0%, this is a nightmare to play really). And I improved from 0% to 10%. This is crazy.

If you guys can’t fix this please restart my position to none, i’ll glady play from scratch but not in this % hell. It’s a really gamebreaking situation for me, since I only soloq.

Josh Davis.6015:

Thanks for the report, Reroll. We’re investigating.

Thank you grouch, any chance my ladder position is restored?

I was 700 in the soloq leaderboard.

After logging into the game – A game I had not queued for pop’d. I joined and I was alone in skyhammer.

No one in my team, no one in enemy team. So I capped the 3 points to win fast, because I couldn’t leave the game

After winning I checked the leaderboards and… surprise.

The game counted as a win HOWEVER I got this new ladder position: 0%
please fix this mess

tldr; after 1 game I won I lost all my positions and now I’m 0%

edit already talked with a dev

Really good channel

You can’t.

So go to character selection and delete your ele

glory != your good