Guild Wars 2

Night elf druid does the most dps.

Team Olrun has the most amount of #sweg so I’ll vote for them.

style.6173:

Rubik.7192:

Who cares about solo queue leaderboard? Unless you really need something to stroke your epeeeen on.

How else do you measure individual skill in PvP? Duels would be ideal, but until then….

By simply playing with them. Although some people do carry in solo queue and obtain a good mmr by doing so, there’s a lot of people who just get lucky win streaks and land in the top 50, so not much point in using the solo queue leaderboard as a way to gauge player skill. Also, a lot of the high ranked solo queue players do horribly in team queues.

Sarrs.4831:

Apparently the Krytan box just gives a Ceremonial skin. Not even a weapon- Just the skin.

That’s disappointing

Has anyone completed one of the map tracks (krytan, shiverpeaks, ect) and gotten one of the “unique skins” mentioned in the description? I’m contemplating if it’s worth doing over dungeon tracks since I don’t really need pve gear.

Who cares about solo queue leaderboard? Unless you really need something to stroke your epeeeen on.

KarinaCO.6948:

You were #7 when the leaderboards reset. Now you can be in the “where are they now” tab of the forums.

#wrekt

There’s people like that in every part of the game, big wow.

#MLG #swag #espahts #yolo #pveesports

Allie.9268:

Lotus.1682:

Allie.9268:

It’s really easy to get skill points.

I have 100s on my main without even trying, not to mention all of the skill challenges that are easily accessible.

But that is because you actually take the time to go into PvE. There are a lot of players who don’t venture into PvE to grab those skill points. It seems like the devs are constantly pushing PvE into every aspect of the game. I want to create a lvl 2 character and be able to be on an equal playing field as someone who is lvl 80 and has 500 skill points from PvE. I wish the devs would atleast TRY to mask their gigantic bias towards the PvE aspect of the game.

You can get skill points from a ton of different places, not just PvE (in fact, the vast majority of my skill points are from WvW, Black lion chests & champ bags – which btw can be earned in PvP). I don’t see how it could be construed as a bias toward anything given that fact.

You just contradicted yourself.

Wvw = Pve
Black lion chests = You need to farm pve to buy the keys since making gold in PvP is abysmal.
Champ bags= Pve

Unless the new tracks gives a ton of champ bags or whatever, we’re going to have to pve to get skill points.

Can I get my bear finisher back?

OP is a casual.

/endthread

ellesee.8297:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

If you had trouble killing a useless decap Engi with both Warrior AND Thief, then maybe you should work on your Warrior and Thief skills! Thanks for reading!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Wahoo~!

Black Teagan.9215:

Whirling Axe -> Dodge.

Dodging counters skills, who knew?

Wahoooooooooooooooo~!

Darek.1836:

style.6173:

As I’ve suggested before, make this really easy…

64 teams in the tournament
8 teams are selected by Blu and are the seeded teams.
56 teams are randomly selected and are randomly placed into bracket positions.

and my team gets screwed over after months of practice cuz we didn’t luck out gg

If you’ve been practicing “for months” and you still haven’t attained a spot in the top 100 in a dead tpvp scene, you must be doing something wrong. Just sayin’.

And for the stupid WvW vs Pvper thief discussion, people like Wild Bill run cheesey, shadow art condi thief specced to 1vX scenarios. I recall Wild Bill trying to enter the tpvp scene, getting stomped then going back into wvw. I’ve personally played against him when he was actually using a proper tpvp build and after stomping his group,I’d say Caed + co are miles ahead.

#shotsfired

Wait 7 days……

Juan Ignacio.8903:

meh

15chars

Rezz.8019:

fishball.7204:

Why don’t you guys just seed the teams like GF, Ngi etc and ensure they don’t fight each other in prelims until the top 16 or w/e.

Then you can have prelims where everyone gets a chance.

Why would they not fight each other? Who is to say that GF or Ngi are better than SW or June? I doubt they are. In fact, it would be most fair if they would fight each other as early in the tournament as possible instead of easily winning against all the newbies and get to finals easily. Why would they have a special treatment?

Were you dropped as a child? If the top teams play each other during the preliminaries and end up eliminating each other, we would end up having to watch a bunch of pveers getting stomped in the semi finals. GF and such have already proven to the pvp community that they are the top tier teams through various tournaments. And since you’re firing the shots, I would like to point out (as much as I love karmy and co. from SW) that I have beaten both June and SW core premades with pugs during the offpeak hours.

Well you did solo into a team queue so…

Chaith has the right idea. It’s pretty obvious a lot of pveers are forming up just to yolo into the tournament, hoping to place 5th-8th since there’s nothing to lose. Not only would letting them all play be a waste of the organisers’ and viewer’s time, legitimate teams might end up facing each other instead of against the pveers in the preliminaries while pveers might get lucky and face each other. Worst case scenario, the pveers would end up getting to the 16-32 team rounds and will be streamed getting 500-0’d.

Rezz.8019:

Chaith.8256:

Lux.7169:

What’s your solution to the issue, then? Completely random? First come first serve? Highest ranked teams/players? Reserve spots for 1-2 teams and RNG the rest?

Live with whatever Blu feels is most feasible based on how much energy he intends to invest in this completely awesome and thoughtful event for the GW2 community.

Yeah because you will have a guaranteed spot in it so why should you care.

This has been advertised as a tournament available for everyone, but the way it stands out now it is not. Many many people will just waste their time forming a team, planning, rescheduling their jobs if they have them on that weekend and everything.

Why does someone who wins and participates in tourneys all the time have more right than some newbie who wants to try it out and start pvping? I believe that everyone should have equal chance for this tourney because that is exactly how it has been advertising. So stick to your promises.

They had plenty of time to sign up for other tournaments such as the Mistpedia/ESL weeklys. If they want to “try it out and start pvping”, let them try team queuing and getting ranked before participating. At this rate, we’re going to have a bunch of rabbit/dolyak ranks signing up for a slim chance of some shinies

Zepidel.5349:

Ranger: With bear pet in my experience they are pretty much shake off most conditions ever 5-10.

Bearbow confirmed OP.

/thread, we’re done here people.

glaphen.5230:

Rubik.7192:

The kitten stroking is high in this thread.

Is there something wrong with stroking kittens?

mfw censor

The epeeen stroking is high in this thread.

Who are you again?

Lux.7169:

Amstel Steel.2058:

Lux.7169:

Discuss symbolism in gw2 pvp.

I didn’t ask for a screenshot of the leaderboards…

#wrekt

And here we have another classic display of Anet’s attempt at “balance”.

I want a black lion ticket.

How to make top 500 easily in team queue:
1. Queue up for team queue.
2. Wait 30mins for queue to pop.
3. Win/Lose the bare minimum amount of games to get ranked.
4. Get ranked top 500 because no one team queues.

Then you can start to pretend that you’rr good. Remember to always state you’re top 500 #espahts, especially on the forums.

I know people that like skyhammer.

Decap engis.

l0l

Rezz.8019:

All devs I played with or against are very good at pvp. I don’t think a random community team would have much chance.

You must have very low expectations when it comes to “good”.

If they do I’ll use a decap engi and show them everything that is wrong with the game.

Shockwave.1230:

Justin ODell.9517:

Olvendred.3027:

Then why make a distinction? If PvP can happily go along with players getting 12/13 traits per line, why add an extra layer of frustration and difficulty instead of giving them 13/13 traits per line? It’s obviously nothing to do with easing new players in.

If it were only an additional trait, you’d more of a have a point, but we’re introducing this system with the future in mind. I can’t speak for the Skills and Combat teams long turn plans, but I know I would be disappointed if we stopped with just these new traits.

Olvendred.3027:

Horizontal progression is a nice concept… but it’s one that I’ve never seen mentioned on the PvP forums, only the PvE ones. If you want to get more players in to PvP, somehow I don’t think keeping back build options is the way to go about it.

Horizontal progression is very common, even in PvP games. Personally, I think one of the reason’s PvP rewards seem somewhat hollow is that we have no real progression beyond looks. I think you would be hard pressed (outside one-off games like most FPS and RTSs) to find a successful game without progression. As a PvP player, I love this change (disclaimer: I had no design input) and can’t wait for the 15th.

Ideally someone should’ve pointed out that the horizontal progression can happen exclusively through PvP play.

PvP gives you coin. These new trait books can be purchased in the mists via coin.

PvP gives us a tiny bit of coin. No matter how much you play pvp, you won’t be able to make as much as your average pveer. What’s the point in implementing “horizontal” progression when pveers can unlock the new traits multiple times faster than pvpers?

Anet doesn’t know how to balance their game so they’ll just add another carrot onto the stick.

I’m going to be a WvW hero once my Curie WvW Esport Drive gets enough charity funding.

Who are you again?

JoopFOX.9510:

Oh yeah, well if you make them all into dyes (which you really should now that you have all this) it will take you an hour at least more.

I would but I ran out of glory to buy the consumable token

fishball.7204:

No glory boosters Curie?

Totally forgot about including those, thanks.

JoopFOX.9510:

Well, at least you’ll have around 350-400 unidentified dyes. That should contain some good ones. I got 2 celestials out of around 100 unidentified dyes, that alone was 50 gold.

But yeah, definitely not worth all the unhealthy clicking. Probably took you around 3-4 hours of solid consistent manual labor? No pee break?

Took me roughly 2 hours. 1.5 hours of clicking then 30mins of farming glory to buy more kits.

Although it isn’t a huge amount of chests, I thought I’d share my findings with the forum. I started opening 600 or so chests today, salvaging all the pieces.
Proof: http://imgur.com/a/t3mUU

[2791 Arcane Powders]
[238 Arcane Crystals]
[672 Arcane Orbs]
[247 Arcane Slivers]
[230 Paid Tournament Tokens]
[164 Free Tournament Tokens]\
[99 PvP Glory Boosters]
[83 Unidentified Dye]
[278 Essence of Luck] (10 Luck)
[222 Essence of Luck] (20 Luck)
[25 Essence of Luck] (100 Luck)
[4 Essence of Luck] (200 Luck)
[3 Orichalcum Ore]
[8 Elder Wood Logs]
[Limited-Use Spectre Finisher]
[4 Limited-Use Sanctified Finishers]
[Limited-Use Super Explosive Finisher]
[2 Limited-Use Thornroot Finishers]
[3 Limited-Use Vigil Megalaser Finishers]
[Limited-Use Cow Finisher]
2 x [Elegant Guild Back Banner PvP]
2 x [Savage Guild Back Banner PvP]
Overall it took me roughly 180 stacks of 15x Kits to open these up.

Spvp is very rewarding.

Time for some skyhammer farming.

fishball.7204:

- 5 signet warriors
- 4 signet mesmers

Probably not what you guys were thinking of but these make me think “Are you kidding me????” every day lol.

Cutting it close with your 3 signet mesmer.

Dibs on the crafting mats.

inb4 condi bunker warrior, pu mesmer or some other dueling build people use to pretend they’re good.

As an Australian, I feel left out.

xXDrgnXx.2456:

Who are you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

If you wait an hour at a restaurant for a steak and ended up getting a salad, you’d be pretty kittened too.

So you can get cool titles.

22. The pvp community is so nice and friendly. People like Davinci always make my day end in a smile.

11. The meta buids like spirit ranger and hambow are high risk high reward and require a large amount of technical skills to play at high tier.

Row row fight da powah