Guild Wars 2

Rezz.8019:

Builds and classes might not require much skill, but positioning properly and tactics definitely do.

Tactics? Not sure running to an empty point and standing on it is really skill based

This game takes no skill.

Does anyone want to argue that it does?

The game is based on spamming skills and on abusing whatever is the most OP mechanic. A skilled game existed in the old days before the power creep took over.

Then if you wasted your steal or got caught in the open you would die on your thief. If you spammed all your necro conditions into condition removal then you would have a hard time reapplying them. If you wasted your time warp then your team would struggle to win the fight. If you wasted your warrior burst you would get owned.

Now what?

Bunker guardian – the ultimate skill-less spec. Based around passive healing from AH which just keeps you alive when casting skills. Completely brainless and the ONLY spec that I can personally run at a resonably high level after literally 5 games (and no pve or wvw) on guardian.

Spirit ranger – A close second. Again I have seen people achieve decent things even when they never played ranger or even pvp before when given this spec. You can do alot with a single button (1). And a passive heal of 480/sec on the elite makes this even more broken.

S/D or S/P thief – Previously clueless players have become all-stars with the addition of these sword-thief specs. Any idiot can set up their port out of the line of sight and then port in and out whilst spamming attacks and evades. Absurd damage for no risk and really brainless.

Decap engi – Based around complete immunity to conditions, an easy to use heal and an elite which is hard to beat on a point. This build is so skill-less that it doesn’t even try to win the fight. It is based around dodging around like a fool whilst spamming many knockbacks to get the point neutralised. Brainless and skillless.

Healing signet warrior – Any warrior spec based around signet, zerker stance, cleansing ire and longbow is just brainless and skillless. Another spec which proves nothing. On a point you can kill anything just by chaining a few basic skills. Absurd condition removal, heavy armour and high health with regen that is ridiculous makes this spec ultimately completely brainless and skill-less.

Condi spam necro – Some skill to hitting corrupt boon and sometimes staying alive. But often can be brainless in that a necro can use his worm to just teleport out whenever he makes serious errors. Can have death shroud to eat up health and most of the dps comes from a passive trait and spamming 1 with the scepter. A stupid spec which takes no skill.

There are others that take no skill. Fresh air ele takes little skill. Go into air and ping a guy, get some crits. Yeh not really hard to play. Phantasm mesmer and minion master are two of the most brainless specs also.

So in conclusion. If you want to get a big ego about being “best players Eu/NA” then really I wouldn’t bother. It just makes yourself look like a fool. This game takes ALMOST no skill. The game has been dumbed down to such an extent with all the highly powerful and low risk builds. Those who succeed most are generally people who just try the hardest to succeed at all costs either due to specs or team comps. They have got the least bored with the mindless spam, and so are able to bring themselves to concentrate during matches. In reality winning in this game proves very little with respect to skill. So next time you win a 1v1 or a 3v3 vs some other players then just consider that maybe you didn’t really prove so much and that maybe they had just given up with this skill-less game. Or you just won due to spamming skills.

lol @ this thread. Surely 100% of people say more changes

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

He’s constantly trolling the forums, Aeroxe. Just ignore him. There honestly isn’t any reasonable way to call people like you, David, and I out of touch legitimately. You don’t see him in any tournaments.

Yes because anyone disagreeing with your view of the game is a troll? You are a genius at reasoned arguements well played.

If you are one of the tiny minority who doesn’t get kittened off with the downward spiral that is this game then congrats. But the critical people on the forums reflect feeling in game more than the game lovers. This game gets such abuse in game that it is astonishing. I have never seen anything like it. Go to any other game and type “this game sucks” and you will get abuse and “why are u here then”. If you do that in pvp on this game, either in team q or solo q in the top 1000-2000 then you won’t get many people saying this. Most will agree with you.

When the hardcore players lol @ how fail the game is then there is problems. So it isn’t just the forums. Don’t pretend it is because you just prove yourself to be out of touch when you say such things. And you reinforce what anet thinks. They think we are happy with how things are and the forum QQers are a minority, rather than the truth which is we reflect the majority in game ESPECIALLY at the highly rated level or solo and team Q.

What point is positive feedback when it is unjustified? If something sucks then we should say it sucks and leave all fanboyism aside. The community on this forum does a good job of that. We say it like it is. We call out Anets mistakes. Personal attacks on staff are NOT cool. But saying when they do stupid things IS cool. I would want honest feedback on how I delivered in my work. So should they.

oZii.2864:

Lordrosicky.5813:

oZii.2864:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Berzerker stance is honestly the biggest problem. All builds rely on conditions to some extent. Even if its just blinds and cripple or weakness and chill. Berzerker stance gives around a 15% up time in full condition immunity WITH significant upside of generating adrenaline. Which for a warrior acts as a huge heal with adrenal health AND helps they to cleanse conditions via cleansing ire.

The fact is that the skill was usuable and balanced at around 4 second duration. But they buffed it to the sky because they don’t understand anything

Correction is that they wanted to it be 4 seconds and the PLAYERS wanted it to be longer since they still didn’t feel it was worth it to take. I can get the State of the Game where Chaplin says exactly this if you really want a source.

Then it is an example of them listening to badies as usual. An increase would of been fine to 5/6 seconds.

This balance forum was the worst idea ever because it is full of terrible ideas from terrible players.

I think it went from 4 then 6 before they went with 8. Who are the badies and who aren’t and how do you pick the goodies from the badies based on the forums? SOTG was s/tPvP based and the players on the show where some of the top players in Queues and tournaments at the time.

A very popular “pro” player now is why Ele healing got nerfed in s/tPvP because they said “Ele heals to much”. Check it SOTG from April 2013.

Yes SoTG having influence over balance was a really good thing. And at the time ele healing 100% needed nerfing. That is what they needed to do as well as make steps in the direction of build diversity. But instead they buffed EVERYTHING to the sky. Which made no sense. It is a sign of the absurd and game ruining power creep that ele healing needs to go back to being OP for them to survive. As clear an indication as was needed.

The person who said nerf ele healing was correct. If they had followed that logic of reducing spam and nerfing OP stuff then the game would be way more fun and less cheesey right now. You can’t point out a good change and call it bad just because it didn’t work as intended because they kittened up the game in every other way

KarlaGrey.5903:

Larger points, better designed maps/points (no levelled platforms from which ranged classes can freely poop on nodes), bigger maps in general so movement isn’t trivialized, more team-oriented combat, a shift of focus from capturing nodes to actually (also) killing your opponents (i.e. a re-design of victory mechanics), and many other things have been called for repeatedly since the beginning.

You honestly believe anything will/can still change at this rate?
This thread is an effort wasted.

Anet are so stubborn. Look at everyone calling for new game modes in alpha, again in beta, at release, 1 month into the game, 6 months into the game, to this day.

And yet anet told us we were wrong. 3 years later they admitted we were right when everyone quit. That is some really huge game design mistakes they made. Too stubborn to listen to the community is the problem.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

Lager Points were alrdy suggested since the beginning. But you know, A-Net is A-Net, so things won’t change to a better.

To be honest 15 points per kill would really promote player vs player and discourage as much player vs point.

What good is that decap engi when you can kill him eventually and pick up those 15 points.

Really this would be so amazing for the game. I can’t believe they have never done it lol

Flytrap.8075:

I think the stale meta stems from two main issues:

1). Infrequent balance updates
2). Shallow pool of utility/elite skills

Builds have become stagnant because ANet isn’t doing their job in nurturing change and increased depth. Hopefully the feature patch that is coming up will address this problem.

3, generally 1 runes set outweighs all others – lyssa. Runes and sigils rework is really going to be good for the game provided they do it correctly.
4, The amulet system is incredibly restrictive
5, Alot of classes have trait lines which are fundamentally flawed

Ixl Super Ixl.7258:

Because it makes terrible players who were useless with dagger/pistol look good with it since it takes even less skill than hambow warrior as you can do so many mistakes and still come out alive with 1000000000000000000000000 million evades / shadow steps / dodges.

Yes. It is even less hard to use than hambow, s/d thief and spirit ranger. Which is saying something.

Another fool who wants more power creep to kill the game. Other stuff should be nerfed and ele should stay the same. This won’t happen because Anet listens to people like you who have no idea and then we get massive power creep and a game nobody plays because its not fun playing against immunities, perma evades, massive instant damage, or massive condi spikes. All these things “balance” out but that doesn’t make the “balance” of the game good.

Auto attacks SHOULD be bad. Otherwise you just get brainless idiots able to spam auto attacks and put pressure on people. Scepter on necro is the same. Totally OP. Staff on the necro is an amazingly balanced weapon because the auto attack is not good. So it takes skill to use the weapon set effectively.

It is funny how anet listens to people like you and is buffing ranger longbow auto attack because all the bads in the ranger forums want it to be stronger. That is a horrible idea because then spamming 1 will just dominate.

So congrats dude, you and newbs like you have ruined this game with all your QQ about things needing buffs. The buff group won. They listened to you and ignored those of us who want nerfs. Maybe when you are better at the game you will realise this.

Not that I am attacking you personally. I am attacking the VIEW that people like you have rallied behind on these forums which has ruined the game. It is fine and everyone does it. But please see how your views are killing this game

garethh.3518:

Swagg.9236:

I’d be willing to work with ANet to appropriately adjust bunker-intensive builds and specific super-forgiving active abilities and play-styles so as to make node fights not necessarily all based on a player pressing buttons while running in circles.

And if you’ve fallowed this game at all, you should know that that’s not how this works.

These devs don’t work like that, they balance this game alone and do it through small changes between long periods of time to see how they play out.
That means if they did push out a patch to enlarge nodes they won’t, like there is no chance in hell, that they will couple that patch with adjustments to mobility. It will take them 3+ months to even address that problem and a year if not more to actually improve the situation.

Hate to say you are correct – but you clearly are correct. This thread could save conquest. More points per kill on its own would be huge. 15 points would be awesome. Maybe that is possible for these devs. But I doubt it because they generally don’t like to improve anything unless they spend 2 years of meetings discussing it

Swagg.9236:

CONQUEST RULE CHANGES

• Points per kill increased from 5 to 8.
• Competitive match time-limit reduced from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.

100% YES

I would even say kills should be worth 15 points each. And yes points should be bigger. Lets actually make this game Player vs player and not player vs point. An initial start point for Anet (if they are too lazy to address the issue) would be simply to make kills worth 10 points each. It wouldn’t effect games much and would be a step in the right direction

stof.9341:

Lordrosicky.5813:

And if people QQ about PW and auto attack chain not having much DPS difference then the auto attack should be nerfed because that is also too strong. Auto attacks shouldn’t do massive damage

Yeah, thieves shouldn’t do damage at all in fact.

They shouldn’t do absurd damage if they are also:
1, By far the most mobile
2, More survivable than bunker guardians when wearing zerker amuet (lol)

That is the issue. Fine if you want them to do massive damage. But then at least make them killable ever. Which they aren’t currently. You can’t have a class doing the most damage and then make it impossible to focus that class. It is ludicrous.

Mrbig.8019:

Rickster.8752:

Mrbig.8019:

Aside joke guys at the top playing 1 match every week in order to stay ranked ( our dear pro rickster being so proud about it, not playing for 2 months, doing a game, RANK 1, LEL);

solo q has become horrible.

It’s full of people with no clue at all, it’s like people has literally no idea what to do.

Top leaderboard people mixed with people in the % without any real sense so it’s even impossible to carry.

The more you play the more you’ll win/lose 50% of the time not because you’re matched with people of the same skill, but because the outcome is totally RANDOM so it’s like throwing a coin.

I really don’t see good players playing anymore, and as a pure solo q player doing even 10-15 solo q per day i did nothing but going down and down from top 100 while players are afking at the higher spots.

I’m not even mad for that, i’m mad because solo q players are now totally clueless, worse than ever.

Seriously, what happened to this game ?

lol nice shot at me. Whats up are you jelly?

You really think I want to not play for 2/3 months and then come back to STILL massive queue times because I am rank 1. You really think I don’t want permanent decay so that I can actually have fun with the game. Do you have any idea how long queue times are when you are rank 1 and playing off peak times? Do you have any idea how BORING the games are at these times when it is just complete beginners and you because the system keeps all the rank 50-200 guys together and shoves the top ranked players into a long queue (at off peak times)?

I suck at this game now. Utterly suck. Do you think I even want to be rank 1 and have to perform like I used to in order to have balanced match ups? I can’t carry anymore. I can’t win even many of my 1v1s anymore. I can’t team fight anymore. I lost passion for the game and having not played much for a good while now I also lost skill at the game. And then because the system is broken it is hard for me to have fun playing again because I get shafted by being still rank 1.

I was the best. I suck now. If you think you were better than I was then get a better win % and get to rank 1. That is all there is to it really. The FACTS are such. Not opinions or egos but facts.

So there it is. Don’t really see why you called me out. I really am bad at this game now. I don’t care enough and I lose to everyone as I have lost a ton of skill through lack of activity. I don’t want to be rank 1. I don’t want to have none permanent decay which makes it terrible to play the game.

Why the shot at you ?

Because of comments like this

Rickster.8752:

These forums are a joke. It is so OP. Warrior is a minor issue compared to this. It really is the most broken thing I have ever seen in this game.

And I dont need to l2p. I am rank 1 solo q eu. Rank 1 with best win % in EU with over a handful of games. So I dont need to l2p. Anet needs to learn to nerf this BS.

It is honestly something which I have never seen in this game before. It is the most broken thing ever.

I hate this attitude.

Solo q ranking is a joke and usin it as some form of entitlment is ridicolous.

Sad story is that no one can know if you’re good or if you suck because the only way to be known is via team Q and team Q leaderboard ( aside being another big joke) shows SINGULAR players instead of teams.

LOL.

Because doing something like WoW arena system was too difficult for aNet.

Anyway, here you kitten

so being rank 1 and having the best win % means nothing? If so then you and everybody else should have no problem winning as high a win % as me then. Should be easy for you to carry

Mrbig.8019:

Aside joke guys at the top playing 1 match every week in order to stay ranked ( our dear pro rickster being so proud about it, not playing for 2 months, doing a game, RANK 1, LEL);

solo q has become horrible.

It’s full of people with no clue at all, it’s like people has literally no idea what to do.

Top leaderboard people mixed with people in the % without any real sense so it’s even impossible to carry.

The more you play the more you’ll win/lose 50% of the time not because you’re matched with people of the same skill, but because the outcome is totally RANDOM so it’s like throwing a coin.

I really don’t see good players playing anymore, and as a pure solo q player doing even 10-15 solo q per day i did nothing but going down and down from top 100 while players are afking at the higher spots.

I’m not even mad for that, i’m mad because solo q players are now totally clueless, worse than ever.

Seriously, what happened to this game ?

lol nice shot at me. Whats up are you jelly?

You really think I want to not play for 2/3 months and then come back to STILL massive queue times because I am rank 1. You really think I don’t want permanent decay so that I can actually have fun with the game. Do you have any idea how long queue times are when you are rank 1 and playing off peak times? Do you have any idea how BORING the games are at these times when it is just complete beginners and you because the system keeps all the rank 50-200 guys together and shoves the top ranked players into a long queue (at off peak times)?

I suck at this game now. Utterly suck. Do you think I even want to be rank 1 and have to perform like I used to in order to have balanced match ups? I can’t carry anymore. I can’t win even many of my 1v1s anymore. I can’t team fight anymore. I lost passion for the game and having not played much for a good while now I also lost skill at the game. And then because the system is broken it is hard for me to have fun playing again because I get shafted by being still rank 1.

I was the best. I suck now. If you think you were better than I was then get a better win % and get to rank 1. That is all there is to it really. The FACTS are such. Not opinions or egos but facts.

So there it is. Don’t really see why you called me out. I really am bad at this game now. I don’t care enough and I lose to everyone as I have lost a ton of skill through lack of activity. I don’t want to be rank 1. I don’t want to have none permanent decay which makes it terrible to play the game.

Please give us some indication that you are aware of how brutally broken this thief spec is.

This is why people get kittened. You don’t even let your PvP community know that you are aware of such massive issues.

Please answer this.

Ironically I feel sorry for warriors now. They too have to deal with the pistol whip madness

I remember sensotix posting a thread 3/4 months ago about anet listening to the wrong players.

This pistol whip proves it. I leave the game for 2 months and I come back to find this pistol whip build. I mean wow. I am in shock. It is completely lame to try and ever heal right now as a necro.

Why did they listen to all the baddies on the forum before the last balance patch. They all QQed about the initiative traits being nerfed when the net result was more initiative anyway thanks to the stupid 33% buff to initative regen. They lowered all thief skills cooldowns by 33%!!! Wtf, that is like making “Pin Down” have a 10 second cooldown on average and being spammable at best.

Why would they do this. It is completely absurd. And nothing even comes close to this thief BS. It has shut mesmer out for about 6 months. Same with ele. Conditions aren’t really the biggest problem for ele. Thieves are, and they always have been. Same for mesmers. It is thieves who shut they down utterly.

And despite thieves being the best class for about 15 months, anet spend their last patch MASSIVELY buffing them across the board. And reducing the skill needed to play them (as they dont have to manage initiative as much anymore by using signets or whatever – it all just comes back). It literally makes no sense.

If they continue to listen to the clueless people in the class forums or in the profession balance forums then we will never get a fun game. Even these people will eventually learn they are clueless if and when they improve to a decent level of play.

I just am shocked to come back to this game and the meta has somehow managed to get worse as a result of december 10th. They literally have the worst testing procedures. Having no test server is such an epic fail.

The amount of CC in this game is ridiculous. And all they do is buff CC every patch

BlackBeard.2873:

This is out of control…Even moreso since being given exposure on the forums everyone rushes to play this. I think this is even less risk and more reward than healing signet warrior.

All of the unreasonable things with nothing being done makes my faith in this game wane significantly. Most likely, because we are within 1-3 months of the next patch, nothing will be done about this spec and it will destroy the game just a little more for the next 9 months…Sigh.

If this spec isn’t fixed AT LATEST in the feature patch then you have to wonder whether they are capable enough to help this game grow

From their balance preview post:

Thief:
Much like the engineer, we wanted to take this opportunity to tone-down excessive poison stacking through poison fields.
Choking Gas: Reduced the poison per pulse from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.

How is there no mention of this kittenty OP thief stuff. WTF. It kittening destroys necros in team fights. They jump you and healing is a right kitten. Impossible to heal unless the thief is really lacking intelligence

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Death Magic trait reworks will be happening, but nowhere were they ever promised, or even suggested as being in this coming patch. We know they’re coming, but there is no possible way to say “when” right now.

We need them in this patch because atm having no blocks, no evades, etc etc and light armor and no viable defensive trait line is killing necros in high level pvp.

Death magic should be a defensive trait line with minor traits which significantly help in this area.

We should bump up all threads till anet confirm they know this is a huge issue

These forums are a joke. It is so OP. Warrior is a minor issue compared to this. It really is the most broken thing I have ever seen in this game.

And I dont need to l2p. I am rank 1 solo q eu. Rank 1 with best win % in EU with over a handful of games. So I dont need to l2p. Anet needs to learn to nerf this BS.

It is honestly something which I have never seen in this game before. It is the most broken thing ever.

I hope siphoning is never buffed because it is more mindless passive BS.

Pistol whip is SOOOOOOOO broken. Easily the most broken thing. If this isn’t fixed in the balance patch then OMG. We need to know from anet that they are aware of how OP it is.

We miss state of the game where jon sharp would come and tell us what they were thinking in general terms about what was op

Just so you are 100% aware. Pistol whip is currently the most broken thing that the game has seen in a long time. Even warriors have nothing this OP.

I just want to make sure that you realise this fact. Please community managers like Allie, please make sure the balance/spvp devs are aware of this FACT.

Thanks.

ManaCraft.5630:

Since we don’t even know the full content of the patch at this point, I think you might be jumping the gun here. Let’s at least wait until we can get an informed discussion going.

Serious question: Are you new to this game? If you are then you won’t know how they work. Their “balance previews” are their balance changes almost exactly. The “extra stuff” is always just some tooltip fixes or some insignificant changes. We know what balance will be because they told us. That is all really.

Rapier.3675:

whats the point of risking your only def just for burning?
“uuuu burn time… F1…. ds1… F1… omg got stun, stun, stun…. omfg DS in reuse… dead… wp.” lovely scenario aint it. I wonder how will anet compensate the lost of cond dmg. Remember we already lost bleed stacks in previous patches especially in sPVP. We’ll be even more crapy as we were at game lunch, condition wise ofc.

You wont be able to hit DS1. The cast time is too long, you get stuned as you say. Or they evade (there is alot of evades in this game) or they block and then what. Your ds is gone because you wasted it trying to ds1 some guy 3 times just to get 1 stack of burning on them? That 3 seconds (on average) you spend trying to hit someone with DS#1 will lower your dps if you were just to stay in your weapon sets

MethaneGas.8357:

What….?
Really?
Since when is dhuumfire the only way to go with a Necro?

Since when they nerfed terror and our bleeds

Necro is screwed vs everyone after dhuumfire nerf. Because it lost:
2 bleeds on weaking shroud
1 bleed on grasping
1 bleed on mark of blood
1 bleed on mark of evasion
Nerf to chill of death
Putrid mark nerf – only xfer 3 conditions
17% nerf to terror damage
Terror moved to master trait
Corrupt boon only corrupts 5 conditions
1 bleed on Enfeebling blood (maybe ??) + it gives less weakness by far now

Really necro has a ton of nerfs to make way for dhuumfire which they now make useless! That leaves necro way way way way underpowered vs things like new ele signet, AR, healing turret, healing signet and thief evasion. Necro will be worst class imo.

lol I have to be positive. The powers that me are cracking down on me on these forums. One of my accounts has been suspended and others are under threat so I thought lets go positive !

This thread is for positive thoughts on GW2 pvp.

Here is my list:
1, The combat is fun
2, The matchmaking works well generally
3, No gear grind – everyone is equal
4, No level grind – lower barrier to entry should keep the game alive
5, Downed state – is kind of fun except for things like elite spirit or thief teleport
6, Owning people – owning people is fun

Put more as you like. No trolls please.

The balance patch has one major change to balance – dhuumfire being nerfed into the ground.

Obviously the nerf is very large. And other classes are getting buffs at the same time (or tiny nerfs like warrior which wont matter).

So the only change after the patch which matters is that necros will be horrible/weak.

This is a silly thing to do to be honest. I agree with the dhuumfire change but similar nerfs should come for other classes.

In pvp this change just crushes necro as we are pigeon holed into condi buillds and our condis have been nerfed time and time again to make way for dhuumfire which is now being deleted.

Burning is needed so much, you will realise how weak necro is after the patch

Rome.3192:

The evade frames are by design.

Well if it is then thats even worse

Uhtameit.2413:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs

Do you have nothing better to do than pretend to be a forum admin?

Serious question:

What makes you think the new balance patch will change anything?

Any change would be good right now as people are bored of having to use the same skills and traits. I don’t envisage them changing a ton of the useless traits and skills so I do not think the balance patch will change anything.

Pyriall.5027:

Allie Murdock.8152:

In this particular case, the feature build includes the next major step of PvP rewards. The maintenance build only includes the change to glory that will support the next phase.

And the balance updates? Please clarify, this seems to be where the confusion lies.

There is no confusion. They said the balance is in the feature patch. This is not the march 18th patch but the “soon” patch in late spring/early summer. There is no balance till the feature patch which is likely late april or early may. Possibly later and early april at the absolute earliest.

style.6173:

Yes, it is super easy to carry your team as a decap or a bunker engi. Totally OP right now.

Of course once you break into the top 1000 or so, you actually need to have some skill to do well.

No you really don’t. Nothing in this game takes much skill. Team q or solo q.

style.6173:

They told us March in a previous Ready up, but it seems as if that is no longer the case. An update would be nice.

No they didn’t. Either prove this with a link to the video or don’t say it because I am totally sure you are mistaken. They never said it would be march

You all are silly for thinking it would ever be march the 18th. I posted many times warning people it would be “late spring/early summer” which to me means may time.

But anet fail at community interaction, they should of known people were thinking it would be march 18th back months now and they didnt know/did nothing to reset expectations.

The reason I am warning you is that anet won’t warn you and then it will come out and be a fail and you will all be sad. So get your expectations in check.

My philosphy is whatever good idea there is will be a fail.

New heal skills yes!!! Nope they add a new spirit. New elites yes!!! Nope they add more ai spirit weapons.

Just have no expectations because that is what history teaches us.

JonSnow.5610:

This topic has now turned into a fail troll attempt.

If you guys choose to believe 18th of march is not the balance patch then you’ll be very suprised when you see the patch notes.

I can’t work out what you are saying. People have quoted you factual evidence to say that march 18th isnt the balance patch and yet all you seem to do is say yes it is. You have no evidence for your comments to counteract the evidence provided. Therefore you have completely been owned.

Levis.6137:

jesus christ… why can’t you forum-whiners just wait for the next changes on 18th march?!
just let a-net do their job and if the next changes are not good enough in your opinion you can start giving constructive feedback or either start the kittenstorm.

So if you are not in love with the current state of the game, just FIFO and play other stuff. But stop spam this forum pls with negative flames.

greets

You do realise they confirmed march 18th was a “maintenence build” and that the feature build was early summer or late spring right? So your patch is more like May.

I am almost certain that new game modes will be hotjoin/custom arena only. So don’t wait on these as a saving grace.

This obviously ruins them because to do hotjoin:
1, It is just an unbalanced zerg where nobody cares about winning.
2, If you want to set up a match it takes FOREVER and then it will be only against people you know for ages – hardly true competition and a massive time waste

The fact they haven’t said there will be a tournament queue for these game modes confirms to me that there won’t be one. Remember all these things will be rushed out and half finished just because they have to release this patch before/around wildstar/eso to stop people quitting.

As current rank 3 on the solo q leaderboard, I agree with this post

Justin ODell.9517:

@zilcho.7624: Are you taking into consideration the rating reset that happened about a month ago?

1) It could be that your MMR was reset higher than it was before. This should settle quickly because your deviation and volatility were also reset.

2) Playing during off-peak hours, especially while your deviation/volatility were high, could have caused your MMR to settle somewhere higher or lower than it should be.

Of course, this is just speculation. I will keep an eye on your account and see if I learn more.

There is currently an issue with the queue system. Inviting to roster seems bugged, maybe it is linked?

Dojo.1867:

I agree on the guardian thing and I think biggest part of the problem is Stand your Ground.

Stunbreak, AoE stability and Retaliation on a 24 second cooldown always has been silly.

Yeh possible

gesho.9468:

seems like legit concern.

the change was supposed to benefit 2h builds, but hambow happens to be op and 2h/2h, so…

given hambow hate, not the best time for the sigil change, isn’kitten

nerf healing sigil by 15% (they plan 8% right) and go with sigil change, i’ll say win-win.

It isn’t about that though. It isn’t about hambow being 2h weapons. It is about hambow being on kitten cd with weapon swap. So they benefit too much if they chose to use 4 swap sigils.

Sli Fi.7980:

I can’t believe you’re talking about solo queue… yet you don’t mention bleephammer.

It sucks but at least its only 1 of 6 maps. It changes things up about. Although it does suck. Some might enjoy it so why not let them have fun 1 in 6 times?