Guild Wars 2

Interesting facts so far:

• 28% of the people that plays pvp have never been in a team. Maybe they didnt find any incentive to join one?
• Only a 12% of the people is in a team. Again, more incentives to join one or more content for solo players
• 44% of pvpers play less than they used to. 18% quit.
• The answer most people agree in the whole survey (59%) is the opness of ele. While the 2nd one (58%) is the weakness of warriors
• only 1 person thinks more conquest maps should come before other features (0,2%)
• Amount of trols is 2%, they picked “option 9” lmao

thanks to the 347 people that answered so far
you are awesome!

Same happens with partner positions in the minimap. Right now, if they are far, you cant know where they are

guza.6170:

Nice survey but i wish u wouldnt put the which class is the strongest/weakest in but instead ask us to rate each one on its own, forcing us to choose one isnt very accurate.
Also on which feature should be first priority u should add incentives.

Apparently now it’s too late to edit the survey. You’re right about the incentives topic, I knew I was missing something.

About classes: well I wanted to make a fast to answer survey and I thought percentage of votes would rate the opness of classes

Jacobin.8509:

If a PVE game claims to be an esport run the other way.

Did PvErs pay more for the game? Why do they get 10x attention?

1.6k On state of the game. But not more than 50 people watching pvp gameplay

At the moment 16+4=20 people watching pvp

Lordrosicky.5813:

Honestly if you guys think balance is bad on gw2 wait till you play smite. It is dying almost entirely because of balance issues. And the company has no track record of balancing previous games. Seriously smite’s balance is so game breaking.

Dying? Today it had 8k viewers.

Gw2 has 40-50 pvp viewers in its best days

you can rewatch the sotgh here
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2guru/b/377719641

SOTG Link:
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2guru/b/377719641

I didnt like the balance discussion, it was too long and not very interesting, since no one plays competitively anymore.

Id have liked more talk on whats coming in the future tbh

whats the time for spain/france? 21.00?

Ill play the drinking game with glory boosters

Xeph.4513:

I will also take part in this game!

you can’t now retract!

milo.6942:

wvw culling was a major issue for anet. they probably devoted the lion’s share of their programmers to it. now that a fix is coming out this month, there will be more people able to work on spvp. ergo, we will see faster development of spvp infrastructure. exactly how much faster is anyone’s guess.

made my day lmao

Wolfgang Michael.8217:

Rerroll.9083:

Really depends on the role you want to play

Bunker? Dps? Something more balanced?
Scepter dagger (mid range) or dagger dagger (melee range)?

Dagger dagger is what I am liking atm. I know that they got nerfed with this last update but I am still willing to give it a try.

Then air I is a must. GO for 10 air, 30 water 30 arcana (semibunker) or 20 air 20 water 30 arcana (dps)

Really depends on the role you want to play

Bunker? Dps? Something more balanced?
Scepter dagger (mid range) or dagger dagger (melee range)?

In before haters criticize because enemies dont dodge churning earth:

Really nice movie. Few videos are worth watching from begining to ending, and this one is (along with another type of vids i wont talk about hint hint)

2 good pvp movs in a day, I like where this is going

Muy currado !

The lag is insane in desolation Hotm too

^ +1

15 chars

please, give some incentive to pvp…

Sanis.1096:

sure smite has more features compared to gw2, but gw2 is still 10x better than smite

That’s my point. Why a b2p game, with way better gameplay, more content, etc lack some of the basic features i described

I dont get how can people criticize this. This guy clearly put a lot of effort into this video and he succed at making it interesting and fun to watch.

Sure fights are not balanced, sure he might play noobs, but who cares? Do you really think this game is going for esports fights? Ill give you a hint: No.

So whats the problem with someone making a good, entertaining video? Should he afk in the mists instead, like most people, trying to protect his invisible MMR? Please dont make me laugh.

The vid was good, it was fun to watch and shows newcomers how dangerous it is to stand still vs a warrior. Probably this can do more for our almost-dead pvp than writing wall of useless text on the forums (I include myself here).

So please, next time someone contributes to the community be more respectful or move to another “pvp best suggestion ever” thread

Really nice movie, remembered me of maydie! (that’s like the best compliment from a former wow player)

good job

Lately im not playing much gw2 so i have been trying other games I never played and I realized how many things GW2 needs to have some serious pvp.

Let’s compare it with a f2p moba game with mmo-style combat, from an average budget company. Nothing as close as LoL, dota or hon. The game im talking has a cheap design and doesnt look very polished, yet they have way better features than gw2:

• Player stats: all kind of stats, records of kills/deaths, gold from every game, many info on all the characters I played, summaries of my games etc.

• In game EU and NA ladders + a working and visible elo rating

• In game twitch.tv! (really awesome)

• An official twitch channel that is on 24/7 with top teams playing on it. It also broadcasts the tourneys the game have.

• In game guides to every character.

• Duels

• Host custom games

• Watch your replays and top players replays. Ingame.

• Games for newbies to train vs AI bots. You can also test builds there.

• 1 Competitive mode (like we have) + 3 fun game modes. The fun game modes are not balanced but it doesn’t matter because they are fun to play. They are also really easy to implement because they are spin offs of the main conquest mode like an arena map where players can play deathmatch.

There is also one game mode that changes every day, its an arena where players can only use 1 stated character. Eg: a deatchmatch arena where everyone has to play, lets say, warriors. Again, the fun game modes are not balanced and they dont need it.

• Penalties for afkers & leavers

• Solo and team queues

• A queue system where every team has always 5 players. Always. 100% of the times. People have to “accept” when the queue pops, really basic stuff.

• Some kind of weekly/monthly tournaments to qualify for a bigger one

• Voice Commands for people not using TS/skype

• If you are alt tabbed when game starts, there is a pop up that warns you

Now, imagine gw2 had half of the stuff I described.
Nothing else to say.

Random map is a must

If they dont know how to make it happen (jesus christ) then change the map every 12 or 24 hours

they have lied to the pvp community again and again and again..

I also think that boons are the real problem with balance:

- They are very strong
- They are very easy to get
- They are impossible, for most classes, to remove.

Spirit watch or kyhlo

Ryil.2106:

1- When will a proper matchmaking system come out?
Since the join solo queues are quite dead, you get matched with the only people joining, that’s why you get a rank 43-27-11-30-15 team. You also get often matched against premade teams, who are probably on TS, Vent or such. That is extremely not fun :/
2- When will spectator mode come out?
New guys joining sPvP for the first time get destroyed by more experienced players in Hot Join, and they feel discouraged. A spectator mode would help them learn to use their classes, and learn how to counter their enemies.
3- If the answer to any of the above is soon/we’re working on it, do you still think GW2 can be an e-Sport?

Thanks

This game won’t be an esport for sure. Gw2 so far has done everything wrong to be an esport.

It can become a good pvp game with some money rewards for sure, but not as big as an esport is.

Why is people asking about pve & wvw?

Miku Lawrence.6329:

14h00, Weekday

You said it!

135 people playing in Europe

In any other game 135 would be sad for a single server, but im talking about a whole continent.

If you think that’s an active population, then gg

The game is pretty much dead. Atm in europe (14.00):

• 3 round dont pop
• Only 15 of 325 hot join servers are being used. That’s a 4,6%. And half of this servers have 2 people. (So that makes a 2-3%)

The 999999 thread complaining about the lack of solo queue, and still no official word from anet

I do think nodes with a hole would be interesting, they would counter bad eles easily, giving importance to dodges & stability builds

mbh.8301:

Rerroll.9083:

Id rather see a a node where you could knockback enemies down a hole or smthg

Downside: players would be even more restricted with what weapons they can bring.

Engineers could no longer play p/p
Mesmers have to bring a greatsword
Elementalists would have to use a staff? Maybe they could get away with /d
Necromancers would have to have miraculous fears
Guardians would probably play scepter/shield + hammer
Warriors could no longer…be picked?

This is assuming that the reward for knocking someone down a hole is good enough to be worth all this effort, otherwise players will just ignore it and keep doing whatever’s been working.

Just make it in close point, so mesmers can knock bad fotm eles.

Id rather see a a node where you could knockback enemies down a hole or smthg

Larynx.2453:

A big problem currently is that the viable builds are also ones which are able to support themselves. That is, they don’t require another team mate in order to be effective. For these same reasons warriors and necromancers aren’t desirable, since the hold handing isn’t worth it when a perfectly fine replacement can be used.

In other words, the complexity and coordination that would be involved in a small scale team death match (ie. 2v2/3v3) wouldn’t be a very sustainable spectator sport, and would be fairly boring to play as well.

If the independence of certain professions/builds was nerfed, then we might see a bit more interesting fights. Regardless of whether or not arena is ever implemented, it’ll definitely improve conquest.

Once they implement custom matches, depending on how it is done, at the very least we’ll probably see some player hosted arenas. For the near future, that’s all anyone can really expect. ArenaNet is incredibly hesitant to add anything other than Conquest (for the wrong reasons imo).

On a related note, I’d be interesting to see the sort of meta that TDM creates. Condition Necromancers are really similar to WoW Affliction Warlocks, yet warlocks are (at least when I played) one of the most desirable casters in the game. Yet they were immobile and required constant support from the team. Just like necromancers. Maybe the fact that there’s really no solid peeling class? or maybe it’s just not worth the effort when the fight takes place over a node? Just some thoughts.

Good point, probably thats what makes the ele op

…you promised

thanks

players have talked

http://poll.pollcode.com/ya9faa

Thanks for your time

His points were false and qq
Mine is objective

nerf the ele stacking & bunker build, not the class itself

If you fight vs rank 20s and you dont win enough games, sorry but you dont deserve a higher rating.

EaGrimdarK.7849:

If you get used to hitting 8-10 buttons instead of 4-5 buttons you could play an Ele and: .

8-10 buttons -> false

*Never die if you dont want to

in a 1v1 maybe, in every existing situation? nah

EaGrimdarK.7849:

*Get tons of glory

As far as i know eles dont have increased glory :/ so again false

EaGrimdarK.7849:

*Feel better than everyone else

Is it a passive ele skill? I didnt see it :/

EaGrimdarK.7849:

*Use one of the many pre-thought of builds floating around every forum
*Be useful in every match

Only points you are right, but they also apply to other classes (guardian, mesmer, thief…)

EaGrimdarK.7849:

*Never die if you dont want to

Wow, you like repeating yourself dont you?

EaGrimdarK.7849:

They call it “skill curve”

They call it QQ

One ele is not a god like you fail to say
The OPness comes from stacking many eles in a team because they can do every function required.

Also, very important one:

-When will we have a random map rotation? Instead of 1 map whole week?

1) When will we have the ladders
2) When will we have the custom arenas
3) When will we have spectator mode

Once they make 1 round foefire for 1 week everyone will play 3round again.

Right now spirit watch is funnier

Game needs indeed, more boon removal.

97% yes
3% no

Need more votes

Do you guys think it should be #1 priority? Or maybe after we get the ladders?

felivear.1536:

Rerroll.9083:

They wont add gem rewards to a free to join tournament.

Then something else, but you get the point. We need something to separate rewards between the tiers. Your MMR in itself is 1 incentive, but seeing Cognito the thief in Gear that looks like it was molded to his body by an alien life form, that will really push your motivation up another notch. Right now, basically you can be a terrible player at the bottom of the MMR and beating other terrible teams and still get geared out. Gear is far less important than the MMR rating, but just another little thing to add to it all.

I would add a coefficient (k) multiplicating to the rank/glory points players gain.
Rank/Glory points = k * PointsWeGetNow

Top 1 player in the ladder could have a k=2 and worst player a k=1
All the other range of players could be between those values.

The pros:

• Rank is not a hotjoin grind anymore
• Good beginner players have a way to reach other players that have been pvping since launch
• r40-80 are a pain to level, it would be awesome to see the rank points gain increased