Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to create an account with 0 PvE achievements and dive straight into sPvP at level 1? I’m thinking of starting a new PvP only account, I think it would be neat.

Also are there any level 1 helms that you can transmute? Merchant only sells lvl 10 helms.

http://strawpoll.me/1744327

What are your thoughts?

Dwaynas Avatar.1562:

Yuogtar.4892:

L2P

Shame on me but I play decap engi, if Skyhammer shows up. Never lost skyhammer anymore after creating one.

Way to prove why Skyhammer is unfair and imbalanced.

Seriously, delete this map. No one except people like this enjoy it. People who learn to abuse it.

I’d like to join a guild that does quite a few sPvP Team Arena runs. I’m not looking for some top tier hardcore guild, just good PvP fun.

I primarily play a bunker guardian. I’m on Yak’s Bend.

I don’t care for WvW but will do if guild has an organized run.

This is stupid

I finished a match and when the next round started, people who haven’t even played the last match got priority and I got booted to spectate.

What kind of logic is this?

Why is it some matches I join, I can join the fight right away and others I have to sit and spectate the whole game?

I’m surprised they’re adding megaservers for the lowbie zones. They’re the ones with the most players typically.

It’s the zones in between starter and end game that require these, they’re ghost towns.

I’d be in favor of removing the underwater combat mechanics completely instead of removing this map. GW2 underwater combat was a terrible decision, virtually NO ONE likes it.

Guild Wars 1 out of the box starting from Prophecies had Random Arenas, Team Arenas, Guild vs Guild and Hall of Heroes. Later with Factions we got Alliance Battles and a couple of ‘battlegrounds’ like Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry.

So here we are a year and a half after launch with only 2 modes of PvP. sPvP and WvW

Can we PLEASE get more variety with PvP modes? Since there is hardly any end game content on the PvE side, the PvP ought to be more enticing.

Updated my gear looks

Please bring this back

Human T2 Helm
Inquest Shoulders
Vigil Chest
Vigil Leggins
Heavy Plate Gauntlets
Inquest Boots

Human T1 Shield
Sylvari/Asura T1 Mace

All transmuted of course

Pic related, my favorite. Lornar’s Pass.

Warmaster Jofast hasn’t appeared for at least 4 days now and everyone in map chat says it’s been bugged. Please reset

After playing guardian for the past couple of months and getting up to 80 and exotics, I was happy to get most of the gear I’ve wanted (Cleric).

But I get some backlash from the elitist types who like to run full berserker thru runs and say I gimp their group.

Are guardians really not meant to play their class roles in dungeons? Something obviously isn’t right when people say anything but pure dps is not viable. That’s one issue you have when you remove the holy trinity.

Not saying I prefer the tank/healer/dps combo, but I was getting flak for using a mace in between weapon switches because “0 dps”

Personally I’d love to see Shiverpeaks with one. I love Frostgorge so much but it’s not worthwhile being there compared to Orr (Straits) as an 80

I was being sarcastic.

But not everyone runs dungeons with full berserker/rampager gear

The most frustrating thing is the constant need to break crystals and ressing when the group isn’t stacked. Otherwise you can try dodging all his attacks and the fight will last a half hour

Worst boss fight ever. AOE’s and can’t always evade attacks even when stacked. Large hp pool for no reason.

An instanced mode vs NPCs that grant you nothing? Yeah sounds awesome.

Hi, I’m thinking of switching from my server of Sorrow’s Furnace.

I can’t help but feel as if I’m playing a single player RPG because the town chat is usually dead, I see few people around and the cities are extremely lifeless (except Lions Arch). I hardly see anyone out in areas with dungeons recruiting either.

Anyone know of a highly active/densely populated server?

I have a 74 guardian and was wondering if at 80 would it be worth it to balance ALL attributes? I feel like guardian is the only class that could pull it off, to be the jack of all trades since you can heal, tank and dps all decently.

Not to mention you could save yourself the trouble of switching gear/builds

Personally I really like Lornar’s Pass

I was wondering if a friend and I made characters with the same race and backgrounds that if we both do the same personal story in the same instance, will it reward both of us for its completion or just whoever’s party leader?

Archonis.7249:

Rich, you are aware that the point of the clones is to confuse you. That is why they SHOULD have nameplates and guild etc.

Yeah but it seems the mesmer dps is too high for having such a perk. While I’m running around trying to find which is the real one (and usually getting bombared with AoE’s in the midst of battle), by the time I find the real one, I’m downed.

Look, many people are complaining about the class. Based on those posts and my own observation and experience of the game, it seems broken.

I have to agree with OP, the downed state really hurts the PvP system BADLY. No other good MMO has this feature, and it’s best left for PvE.

I’ve already quit PvP all together because of mesmers. The fact their clones have the exact name tags and guild tags makes it extremely broken, and their dps is thru the roof.

Instead of addressing balance issues, Anet decides to improve underwater combat and decorate Lions Arch for Wintersday.

Obviously they don’t take their “e-sport” game seriously, nor will anyone else.

Seeing how engineer turrets are weak and underpowered, I think a good start to buff them would be to have their skills activated constantly instead of you activating it. No one is going to avoid using them when they’re out anyway, and turrets are just plain weak when their skills are on CD or not used.

Not to mention a single AoE in higher level content wipes them out completely. It’s a joke.

Cooldowns on the turrets are too long as well.

Well just so you know, race doesn’t matter in PvP. You can’t use racials, nor would you really want to since the racials aren’t even worth a spot on your skillbar. Really disappointed that Anet decided race should be for aesthetics only.

GW1 PvP was better in almost every aspect.

From my experience so far with GW2 PvP it’s mainly an AoE spamfest where you faceroll all your cooldowns and dodge AoE’s only to delay your inevitable death.

All maps are forgettable and the game mode is stale. They should have attributed each map to a specific game mode.

Also, PLEASE ANET bring back Random Arenas for goodness sake. And while you’re at it, Team Arenas too. You left all the staple GW PvP modes OUT in favor of your generic “capture 3 points and hold” mode.

I really liked Soule’s music over the years but I felt Guild Wars 2 was his weakest work. Some tracks are good, but all too much do I hear repeated music in different zones and some of them are just too uppity and cheerful.

I know Guild Wars 2 isn’t necessarily a dark game but Soule produced some really mesmerizing and deep tracks for other games that I just don’t see in this.

In GW2 it just sounds like your typical sword and shield fantasy adventure tunes.

Edit: I also think GW1 had a MUCH better soundtrack

I don’t even know why this isn’t implemented. This game would have much more satisfying PvE if the players in a party could both share progress done for heart quests (as long as you’re in the same area).

Dagins.5163:

Learn to PvP, and I guarantee it will be fun. This is not GW1, nor LotRO, not even WoW. This is GW2, just another game, and your problem is you can’t adapt.

About downed state – every stick has two ends. You can use it correctly to gain advantage, or never bother and fail. For example, when I get downed, in 80% cases I rally back to fight, while about 80% of my targeted enemies somehow never manage to do so. How is this possible? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0yQg8kHVcI

I’m sure it’s fun when you use broken class mechanics, just like any other MMO with PvP

Also the lack of variety for PvP in this game is really what kills it. I’d love to see small scale matches like 2v2, 4v4, TEAM arenas, etc. GW1 originally couldn’t have small scale matches because of healing and certain builds working in conjunction with each other. It should be find to do so this time around.

Honestly after having played 5v5, the zerg isnt as bad (unless you face mesmers), but the downed state is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in a PvP MMO. Leave it for PvE

First I would like to note that I have played Guild Wars since its release in 2005 and played throughout the years up until EotN.

I tried PvP’ing last night for the first time can don’t plan on doing so again. In my opinion, the PvP in this game is pretty terrible. Class imbalances (particularly Mesmer, I’m sure you all know so I won’t bother explaining), and trying to be utility almost seems like a waste.

I tried a healing guardian, which seemed to work somewhat decently but usually my team couldn’t provide enough dps so all my efforts were in vain.

I tried a turret engineer which turned out to be a joke. A few good AoE’s and they’re gone. The turret dps is garbage even with traits improving it. Also tried grenade builds and that turned out to be extremely unreliable with the point+click because by the time my grenade landed where I wanted it to the enemy players dodged or strafed away, even if I tried to aim ahead of where they’d move.

The objectives were what I expected, capture and control. The maps seem alright. The problem is every match I was in just turned out to be a zergfest. And in the midst of a huge zerg, I can’t find the real mesmer player apart from their clone because their clones get the same name and even guild tags.

Lastly I find the downed state in PvP to be irritating, after all my hard work to kill someone in a huge zerg group they enter the downed state and are revived because they’re surrounded by their teammates while I get pummeled and finished despite my efforts.

Overall, I think the game would be better if they introduced small scale PvP. That was what I preferred in GW1 especially if you’re just playing with random people.

Why not bring back Random Arenas and Team Arenas? 4v4 would be great now that monks are out of the picture. It is Guild Wars afterall, why not bring back some old GW1 modes?

DigitalKirin.9714:

Rich.5371:

glass cannon for PvE solo’ing

Any reason why you’d want to build as a glass cannon for soloing?

I find the playstyle fun to kill really quick and to kite/dodge around. Makes grinding faster too

Does anyone know which profession has the highest dps to be a glass cannon for PvE solo’ing?

I’m looking at strictly precision and power.

I was thinking of trying out a Charr engineer with grenades and stack precision as much as possible.

I want to try a build where you have as many summoned allies as possible, utilizing the profession’s skills, racials perhaps, and runes/sigil combinations. Any ideas?

You could even make 5v5, 4v4, 3v3 variants, etc.

Adding Team Arenas for 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, etc. variants as well

This would solve a number of things:

-Variety in sPvP modes
-Grouping with friends
-Bridging the predecessor with its supposed successor (Guild Wars TWO)

Variety would be nice, and it would be nice to hear Anet confirming something in the works

WoW allows people to enter BGs together and I never heard a complaint regarding it. Using Rift as an example is a weak argument.

Dezert Stormz.7248:

They Should Just Make Speed Boosters that boost ur run speed for like 30min , those are already in the game but only from Black Lion Chest’s. this should be sold in or the Gem shop or just at some NPC’s for gold or karma.
But Mounts….. nty.

There’s food in the game that gives you a chance to gain swiftness after you kill an enemy just so you know

Agreed 100% with topic

Guild Wars 2 so far has nothing in common with Guild Wars 1 pvp wise. Why even bother calling it Guild Wars 2

Mounts ruin the aspect of exploration. Look at the flying mounts in WoW, it’s a joke.

As said above, mounts have no place in this game. Do you really need a mount when there’s already tons of waypoints in the game vs a single flight path like in, say, WoW? Didn’t know people could be that lazy

Not having to repair at all would be ideal. I see literally no purpose for it. Just something they shoe horned in to be more like WoW or other MMOs

Kolache.3964:

Anet understands PvP so much better than other MMOs. Their design decisions are common sense and vindication for people who have been pointing out how stupid and unsustainable PvP is in failed games like RIFT.

Games like Rift failed for reasons other than PvP.

Also, they should really just add different sPvP modes that allow grouping, or a filter to join games with grouping allowed. That way the players on both sides of the spectrum (well honestly, I think it’s just Anet on the other side) will be happy.

People are complaining about the lack of variety for sPvP. I would like to see the return of Team Arenas and Random Arenas since they were staple GUILD WARS game types. It would make sense to bring them back for the sequel.
(my personal gripe, feel free to tl;dr) As both a former Guild Wars 1 and WoW player, I must admit the sPvP just feels like Arathi Basin. I would love to see something similar to Fort Aspenwood/Alliance Battles come back into play, because the whole capture the node and defend type gameplay is fine if there’s other options included. Where’s Hall of Heroes? GUILD WARS 2 doesn’t even have GvG… (which I know is confirmed to come). Personally, I loved making different builds and trying them out in Random Arenas. It was a great mode to get in and go, and in GW2 without healers I feel it’d be a greater hit (end of my personal gripe)

They need to bring back Random and Team Arenas. Imagine how much better they’ll play now without monks ruining everything

I know many people thought Anet took a sort of communist approach to this game. Sure it’s fun and this and that, as long as you do it our way. That’s basically the merit

Is it possible at level 80 to jump into PvP with PvE acquired armor? Or is that not possible?

Is it possible to acquire PvE gear that’s equivalent to PvP gear stat-wise?

I liked how in the first GW you could acquire equivalent PvE armor to the PvP armor and have a nice distinctive look vs those without them. If you can’t do that in this game, that’s extremely disappointing.