Guild Wars 2

RoRo.8270:

Ryan.9387:

The playerbase is too small for an esport. PvP must become free to play for esports to even be a possibility.

You do realize dota and league aren’t the only esport games?

An esport needs to be large enough so somebody who doesn’t even play the genre knows the game.

1) LoL – free to play
2) Dota – free to play
3) World of tanks – free to play
4) SC2 – $35

The only one not free to play is sc2, which already had enough of a following from brood war to support a buy to play game. Note that dota and lol came after starcraft, but have more viewers and players.

My friends can say “play lol with me, just a 30 min download.”
I must say “pay $40 for a game you might not like to play pvp with me.”

The playerbase is too small for an esport. PvP must become free to play for esports to even be a possibility.

JTan.1687:

This is a good idea it will seperate the skyhammer farmer and the one who play rank games. And those who are serious in pvp and the one who only play casual pvp

JTan approves. This change is 100% good.

Inevitably shaman banner will become the meta.

Every death of a carrion or rabid by a shaman will push everyone closer and closer to that point.

Rangers won’t have the midfight like they used to but they will certainly own sidepoint as they always have.

Darnis.4056:

Spirit watch is good?

LOL worst map in game other then raid on Capricorn.

Good for small scale. It is a change from the midfight meta.

I think the final score may effect your mmr. So a crushing 5v3 is better than a 500-300.

Spirit watch is good. Some few things need to be addressed like Guardian orb runners. Apart from that it is an excellent small scale map.

I use them to troll my guildies in dungeons. They still wonder where the “tufts of hair” came from on the fractal we did.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Yes get rid of skyhammer.

I know the, but honestly this thread is frustrating sorry OP. It presumes that there is some “known player is pro” thing. This is really false and have learnt this over many many games of solo queue. Alot of players from known teams are very good. Some less so. There are many people who play solo who I would rather have on my team than any known players from good teams. I think this is because to win team q the most vital thing is team composition and communication. Neither of these really are present in solo q.

It isn’t anything like “known player pro.” I don’t care at all about perceived popularity. However after playing with the same people in solo queue for a long time people tend to leave an impression and make a name for themselves.

Take toker as an example here. I don’t know what team he is on (if any) but he has been one of a very small number of thieves to beat me in a straight up 1v1 (which shouldn"t happen). I also have had him play necro on my team where we went 2v3 and won. These things leave an impression.

On the flip side I have not played with backpack enough to be able to judge if he is good or not. I’d be much more worried about someone like leonardo who is painful 1v1 and this engie named woodstock who is running some crazy 1v1 build I can’t seem to beat.

I expect the same happens on EU.

I’d wager traps will win this. I don’t feel like spending money to minimize killtime for a video though.

The one day I don’t queue everyone gets good matches.

The orb resets after a while even if carried. That message is the impending “orb will be reset soon” notification.

A stealth focused mesmer isn’t a bunker, but it also isn’t a build that he allowed.

I don’t like spirit ranger but viability > enjoyment when you play to win.

Ggwp to everyone.

I got nothing. 2000+ and nothing better dropped than the “peasants solution.”

This isn’t really a problem to me. Swimming above water is a nice artistic touch and airborne immobilize is not frequent enough to warrant a fix.

I can see it as decent for some dungeons and world bosses. Unless the active is really powerful it won’t be good enough to beat heal spring in pvp.

Run spirits until nerf.

Keep playing, invite people who impress you to team queue, keep the ones that preform well, and have fun.

Or just quit because you want anet to feed you top 500 pvpers into your matched.

Rar loves fractals.

It happens because anet lets it happen.

Heal spring was not a buff.

Go spirit Ranger for 1v1 then after dec 10th switch to a BM build with drake and wolf. As long as empatic bond exists, it will mandate condi builds to be viable 1v1.

I predict a balance change before December 11 but after December 9.

Balanced comps still beat cheese comps in team queue. You no longer can autopilot to win though. You need to use your head and counterplay well.

If you play pvp to rank up you are doing it wrong.

Your wasd also prevents your character from automatically facing your target

Tbh the best way to do this is to just get really good at looking straight at your enemy.

Probably using some glory/gold consumable.

I’d just save them unless you want dyes.

I find that your best bet is to win 2v1s or to rapidly rotate around the map winning fights.

You essentially have to babysit tour allies because you can’t trust them to win anything. Don’t go far if midfight is a 3v2, you could still lose mid. Never let an ally 1v1 if you can.

Once you get to higher mmr you can let your allies have a little more freedom over where they go. Now pushing multiple points and trolling 1v2s necessary to win. That doesn’t mean to brainlessly push far. You should make an effort to never let your enemies have nobody there.

It is a numbers game. Your capability to let your allies 2v1, 3v2, and 4v3 will often be the difference between a win and a loss.

I’m not sure about ffa. It will favor classes with lots of evasion amd strong 1v1 capability. (Mesmer, thief) while leaving the classes that build pressure behind. (Necro/engie/ranger/guard/warrior).

If you let go of your mouse the skills will track instead of going on 3s cd. It is going on cooldown because you aren’t facing your enemy when you attack them and your character is locked from rotating to face them.

I don’t know how good of an answer you will get. People who know their server tend to not know other ones and can misjudge them because of lack of info.

I’m from BG so I can tell you that internally, there are minor disagreements over small things from time to time (ex. gvg vs no gvg). These blow over after a couple hours and nobody holds ill will towards eachother. There were a few major issues in the past that contributed to some guilds leaving but we’ve matured and grown beyond that kind of bickering.

But please don’t transfer here.

This was old tpvp meta until the power creep killed it.

It still works decently, but you will have to take into account reduced survivability compared to spirits/bm.

Dont step on a lego on your way out.

PS – Looking forward to another “A message you have posted has been moved to another forum.”

Try hitting f3 then f2. Sometimes the pet won’t run around to cast that way.

Rank farmers were the minority. Aside from huge exploiters, I don’t want anet to waste time tracking these people down. At some point we just have to accept that it happened.

Don’t remove /rank please.

Let us have a way to show off our pre-removal rank without having to stomp someone.

Don’t remove /rank.

Don’t do it anet, I beg you.

Sometimes pvp gets too stressful and I like to lean back and roam around with gimmicky 1v1 builds.

aaron.7850:

best addition to the game since release.

its also a nice way to discover overpowered builds, as most people there are running the cheesiest builds they can find to win 1v1. (spirit rangers, condi necros, stun warriors, PU mesmers) etc.

Tpvp is even faster in that regard. Nothing but OP cheese builds.

I hope I speak for a lot of people when I say that the villain at least needs to sound menacing. The cutscene in the tower made me mute the game. It just is unbearable.

People who make confusing those are mistaken in the reason they are losing their matches.

It is the same as the people who consider dodge jumping as the holy grail of pvp skillcap.

If you run bm, bring lightning reflexes and vigor on pet swap.

Chaith.8256:

Ryan.9387:

Darnis.4056:

Hi Jon!
I’ll have to agree with 5G;
It’s hilarious to talk about Clutter when minionmancers/spiritrangers/Phantasms mesmers see play. PETTING ZOO META!

It would not be clutter if you could only see the endurance bar of one guy that you have targeted. Still I would much rather see Casting bars; or both.

Could just watch and internalize the evade bar.

" He dodged, he dodged again, no more endurance. SPIKE NOW"

The problem with this is the fact that Energy Sigils exist, endurance levels are very transient and no, it’s not reliable information to count dodges or see the endurance bar atm until that’s changed.

You also can internalize his weapon swap and sigils. It may be hard but it is high skill cap.

Darnis.4056:

Hi Jon!
I’ll have to agree with 5G;
It’s hilarious to talk about Clutter when minionmancers/spiritrangers/Phantasms mesmers see play. PETTING ZOO META!

It would not be clutter if you could only see the endurance bar of one guy that you have targeted. Still I would much rather see Casting bars; or both.

Could just watch and internalize the evade bar.

" He dodged, he dodged again, no more endurance. SPIKE NOW"

lilz shorty.1879:

JonPeters.5630:

I’m on vacation. I think it is today but don’t know when. Be patient.

VACATION!! This is NO TIME FOR VACATION WHEN PvP IS IN A CRYSIS.

Who needs vacations anyway.

Crisis, not crysis. This isn’t a fps.

Substance E.4852:

Ryan.9387:

Except healspring cures 6 condis, so your heal as one change would be terrible.

Emp bond at 20 will just make me spec that AND bark skin.

6 conditions over 10 seconds. Every 30 seconds.

If you really think healing spring is an acceptable counter to condition spam then you have never faced a good necro or engi before.

Only since you call me out on it. Use Ctrl – F to search my account name.
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Maybe I HAVE played against some decent engies and necros.

Also:
Heal As One (Suggested Change*)
2 condi / 20s CD = .1 condi removed per second.
Healspring (Current)
6 condi / 30s CD = .2 condi removed per second.

AFAIK .2 > .1 so I don’t know where you pulled out the info that your “proposed” change would be better than the current healing spring.

Maybe you should try to learn what you are talking about before you go on calling other people out.