Guild Wars 2

Tyler Bearce.3427:

We haven’t forgotten about this issue, even if it might seem like that. Most of the work for the fix has been done now. Though it probably won’t make it for the March patch.

will you fix it before 2014?

if i remember right there will be no solo que? They said something like “you are so good in solo that you will get matched vs premade”

first you need to fire the guys working at Anet and replace them with ppl who actually have a clue about e-sports and pvp

Amaterasu.6280:

You really can’t pull up a vid from October and say that someone is the best thief right now…If he were to try to use that build right now, i bet he wouldn’t get very far.

Thieves were MUCH stronger then than now…esp with dagger offhand. That was before the 50% dmg nerf to dancing daggers + 15%(or more?) to c+d? Those were true instabbing days where sin signet did 50% more dmg on the backstab.

Plus, people play with stunbreakers now and all sorts of ccs. Pvp has evolved since October for sure.

if he played that build now he would kick kitten and shine like the brightest star in the night

How did everyone forget Auron?

DDog.4350:

MarcusGood.5270:

If all these people complaining about losing to premades care so much about winning why not form your OWN premade… ..

^This.
Join a guild or something, play with friends, whatever.

yea because it’s better to just ignore the problem and make a group?

where is me and my friends?

daydream.2938:

People need to consider that the devs aren’t entirely free to say what they would like, there higher ups place limits on what they can discuss. But ask the questions guys. I mean i know you cant bust there nuts about it, but you can ask.

@ the devs, in case they read this thread. Figure out something up and coming that you CAN talk about, and have that ready.

if the policy is “we talk about stuff when it’s ready” = that is bad for them and bad for community…

2 bad state of game is useless if they just dodge important questions

Fire.7459:

For me this game need LADDER NOW…for a very high competitive match

ladder wont help when there is no players

milo.6942:

is it just me or is the audio super low?

yea low

stuff like this has been said since beta, but PvE > PvP

Arken.3725:

Usually if it’s a true pug vs. pug, then strategy is thrown out the window but I see what you’re saying.

so it’s just normal 5v5 hot join? sounds like fun… i think i will continue my break

Laserbolt.6731:

Low population makes for bad matchups. Wait till prime PvP time for your server.

so i will have to w8 forever?

all they have to do now is remove hot join and free tournaments and we are ready for some serious action

best esports in the WORLD

every patch is the big patch so no

free trial would just hurt the game more…

Psyco Flipside.1936:

I’ve been off since Jan 28th for obvious reasons (no new features, people quitting, etc).
I thought the game population had improved a lot because of new tournaments, matchmaking, etc… and all I see is:
-90% of my friend list offline (only the Curse guys are on)
-Good teams disbanded and those players quit (Fearless Team, Devils Inside…)
-Other good players quit (Lekira, Kirei, Tokyo, Tedsie, etc…)
-Best teams are not playing that much (Onibawan, CN…)
-People stopped streaming

Can someone explain me what has happened? O_O

Anet ignoring community and doing pve stuff

Darnis.4056:

What?.. No more gems no more rotating maps ? Y u do dis anet…

because they want to test maps and see how other professions do stuff better in some maps…. i guess they had something better to do in beta :P and dunno why remove gems, but hey if you win a tournament now you get silver chest!

game is still the same… not worth it to come back, but please come again after +12 months ^^

no matter how you promote this game it’s still bad and not worth playing

if you can’t figure out how to balance classes around 5v5 conquest you might as well try 3v3 arena

this pvp does not favor casuals or HC player… there is NO reason atm to play tournaments or hj… it’s sad that this game had so much potential

my team stopped playing back in late november and i just patched the game and looking at all these changes and after few tournament games all i can do is /facepalm… are you even trying ANET?

there is no reason to play paid(no ladder with rewards and no tournaments) so will just faceroll pug in frees all the time… if you want to get in to gw2 pvp get used to it

JonathanSharp.7094:

We will continue to listen to your posts about balance.

well if we look at the last patch you guys are not listening

there is no way to push GW2 with no tools for it in game

Suzu.4193:

Syeria you do not understand what im posting about and it seems you have no idea what your posting your self LMAO.

Anyways here are the facts if you are that challenged.

LoL launched with a Ladder and ranking system i.e the ELO system

Gw2 does not have a competitive ladder system [the qp thing is just abysmal does not count]

LoL has a matchmaking system making the fights not completely ONE sided

GW2 does not its just a random jumble of players fighting each other [i.e. pugs vs premade fiasco]

and Syeria sweetie i never compared gw 2 directly to LoL just saying if you had to wait that long to enter a match that your either going to DOMINATE or get DOMINATED every ones is going to leave.

So i am asking what is anet going to do about this problem?

P.S. please read and think about posting before posting RANDOM things that do not even have anything to do with the original post

so you are saying GW2 is F2P and not B2P?

Syeria.4812:

Suzu.4193:

Syeria LoL is a F2P game and its sole income is generated from an instore game so it NEEDED time to build its player base.

GW 2 is F2P But at the cost of a initial 60$ fee, 2 MILLION people purchased the game, yet the pvp population of this game is almost non existent.

I didn’t make the comparison, you did. You claimed that no one would play LoL if the queues were 10-20 minutes. The fact is, LoL became what it is today despite the fact that queues were significantly worse than that for a very long time.

ofc everyone went to LoL… it’s the most casual friendly moba out there

Suzu.4193:

GW 2 is F2P But at the cost of a initial 60$ fee, 2 MILLION people purchased the game, yet the pvp population of this game is almost non existent.

it’s called buy to play

Nilvio.7941:

Sanis.1096:

i guess you dont know what casual friendly mean…

obviously if top players own you, then game is not casual friendly Makes sense right?

hahaha…

Teabaker.9524:

People saying that LoL is casual friendly are wrong. Top players will own you so hard in lane, you will ragequit.

The only reason League of Legends is played so much is because it’s incredible balanced for such a complex game (GW2 isn’t at all), it has an amazing Elo-system (this removes a lot of noob-stomping), a good progression system (GW2 has an awful progression system with the RNG skins) and because the champion (and item-pool) is so large, every match is different (While GW2 is always the same).

i guess you dont know what casual friendly mean…

Sad Swordfish.9743:

Archaon.6245:

Mainly because games requiring no skills attract more casual players. Simple

A skill based game like Counter-Strike and Starcraft 2 still has a large following, right?

dunno about CS dont really care about FPS, but SC 2 has gone down, but i guess numbers will go up again when Hots is released

Oozo.7856:

We can let the mods decide on that. I think anything which speaks to class balance goes here. I doubt the PvP class balance devs even read the WvW forum.

like they read these forums… if they actually did read the last patch would be totally different

Sad Swordfish.9743:

I thought LOL and DOTA2 and all MOBAs are very hardcore and not casual at all? dont you get destroyed in seconds in those games?

dota yes, but lol maby after +2000 elo -.-

and there is nothing to watch if you see top players stomping scrubs

-Dota/LoL is more viewer friendly
-Easier to get in to… especially LoL
-Dota/lol is way more fun to play(imo)
-LoL is so noobfriendly that everyone who cba to learn dota/hon goes to LoL

Anet wants you to do some PvE so you dont get OD’d by all the esport this game has to offer

you know there is no point asking when they dont talk about stuff that is not ready and why would you want answers? do you really think they mean what they say? look at all the stuff they have said and what they have done

GankSinatra.2653:

Sanis.1096:

did you try “play now”?

lol, did you?

yea i did… works fine

Ace of Spades.6325:

They owe us an update on their esport agenda, there are people who invested quite a lot of time/effort in this game because of Anet’s empty promises or esport.

asking for update = asking for someone to come here and say “we don’t want to talk about it before it’s ready”

did you try “play now”?

it’s the new and exciting twist in TPvP

Why is there no option to ignore events/mail you get from PvE stuff if you are in the mist?

xiv.7136:

Coopers.4376:

Why run anything other then D/D when it blows every other combination away?

Warriors are a top tier pick for dps.

No they are not.

http://www.gw2league.com/rankings-spvp.aspx

Top tournament classes:

Guardian 8
Mesmer 7
Elementalist 6
Thief 6
Engineer 4
Necro 3
Ranger 1
Warrior 1

why link something that is like 50% done and dont even have all the players in it?

why would you want that new map in tournaments? it’s like asking “hey please add capricorn to tournaments”

I want to see some sick tournaments… Jonathan Sharp HELP!!!

xiv.7136:

5v5 hotjoin

pvp daily

small steps class balance changes

this is the right way to start

small steps in patch they said would be huge with 5 pages of pvp changes?

2 guys balancing esport = sick