Guild Wars 2

don’t worry, you’ll still be able to queue with 1-2 friends and get kitten d by full premades, nothing will change.
This time, however, you’ll probably end up with someone like you who queued with 1-2 friends as well, instead of that r1 newbie who just bought the game.

dude, chill
This was not supposed to be a balance patch.

I gave up on this achievement long ago, not going to bother asking people to let me get it…that’s not how achievements should work.

absence of gear grind is the best thing about gw2 pvp, skill-less gear grinding MMOs are that way —>

there is no such things as “a lucky roll that saves them from all my burst omg”
when you want to burst someone, immobilize him or count his dodges, or bait a dodge with a fake-cast

dodge and vigor are fine.

Yiyojin.3241:

Your point is such a political answer….. That in end of the line doesn’t tell or solve anything.

Simple as that. There is 1 thing to do in “pvp world” Go tourny…
SImple as that… If there would be a open world for us… Like WvW has would be a different story.
You could go tourny only when full team of friends is there, but like this you are “forced” to go tourny if you want to do something xD because is THE only thing to do in “pvp world”
I have no idea why is this game so not evolving for pvp…
+ They took paid tournyes and Gems rewards…

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Another point is that there is no way of making money or gems in pvp.
A pve-er when comes to pvp has more ( skins, dyes, itd…) then a pvper…
Now when the custum arenas will be out in the gem shop.
Only pve-ers will be able to buy private arenas.

I know it’s a political answer, but it’s the only answer you’re gonna get for now, since A.net never gives precise ETAs on features unless they’re sure it’s going to be live (like they’re doing with 11th June patch)

I also would love to have a solo queue (since I’ve been without a fixed team for like 2 months now) and I’m ruining my rating just to keep in shape and not get rusty, but for now we soloers have to buck it up and endure it till they release solo queue/leaderboards

I know it’s frustrating, but there is nothing we can do and no amount of whining/making new topics will change it :S

Btw, you can make money from pvp by creating dyes, it’s not a lot and you have to be lucky with the mystic toilet, but it’s better than nothing :P (since you don’t need glory for anything else…)

there is nothing left to nerf in daggers, both MH and OH -.-

ask those teams with a custom arena to scrim against you :S

Daecollo.9578:

I have another idea!

Make all there abilities do good damage and worth using instead of just 2-3!

they’re all worth using and all thieves (not just good ones) would notice that if they were forced to use them due to either cd or cumulative initiative cost.
Maybe just pistol mainhand kinda sucks (unless you want to use a troll p/d stealth spam build)

people pug/solo join tpvp because hotjoins are boring and useless and just a zergfest

that being said, it’s pointless to keep whining about matchmaking and stuff, arenanet knows that there are (a lot of) problems, they’re working on it (on 11th June they’re patching matchmaking and rating improvements, then real solo queue will come next), and opening new topics every time is not going to make them patch faster

also, since you (all players) know that you’re going to face premades or have afkers in team, the moment you join solo you’re accepting all the conseguences. It’s like saying: “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”

cheers.

invisible bags are your friends

Sleel.8365:

Shar.3402:

You can’t actually call an achievement something that is based on other people’s dumbness, and not your own skill
Not changing it after all the feedback I’ve read on this forum, is pretty fail.

Actually, you can. My guildie did it by playing the game till she managed to get everyone rolled over. Took her hours and hours, but she likes this stuff. I hate it. Listening to her taunting ppl in voice chat was far more fun then playing it was.
More of an “achievement” then hitting “f” at a few npcs at the resort is.

An achievement is completing a JP (like the halloween one, I loved that).
An achievement is clearing all explorable dungeons.
An achievement is killing X people in WvW/PvP (It shows effort at least)
An achievement is NOT hoping everyone is dumb enough to follow you in a straight line with a giant karka ready to roll you over. Or asking people to let you get the achievement.

So, someone immune to fear should still take damage from traited fear?
makes no sense, and it’s actually the pve part that acts strange (probably because mobs would always be immune to terror if it worked like in pvp)

long story short, it’s working as intended, if you want to deal damage with terror, remove stability first.

this thing is actually just as stupid as a guardian whining that corrupt boon counters save yourselves -.-

You can’t actually call an achievement something that is based on other people’s dumbness, and not your own skill
Not changing it after all the feedback I’ve read on this forum, is pretty fail.

+1, remove culling from HotM (or the game in general actually, since it’s been removed from WvW I think), please

kostbabis.8791:

^but if the ranged damage of scepter is one of best ingame as in its all you need to do something more than tickle ,then why focus is bad?.It offers more defence when you consider that you are in range .
I always thought and feel when i play that s/f is unviable cause it heavily reduces your damage out of proportion for the survaivability it offers.But s/f damage is s/d ranged damage.So i guess the way people here define “viable range damage” makes scepter fall short..Without firegrab,ring of fire earthquake and id even bring ce into the mix i dont think you can consider yourself a serious dps threat.Phoenix requires close range aswell for max effectiveness!
I personally couldnt care less since im in love with d/d atm ! But im pretty sure that air 2 eath 2 and air autoaattack cant kill anything at all alone :P
edit:of course i mean the above combo in repeat ..i dont expect earth – air to even come remotely to 1 shotting people ..lol

because Ring of Fire and Fire Grab >>> Flamewall and Fire Shield, because Frost Aura and Cleansing Wave >>> Freezing Gust and Comet, because Ride the Lightning and Updraft >>> Swirlwing Wind and Gale (seriously, this one has longer cd and is single target…wtf), because Earthquake and Churning Earth >>> Magnetic Wave and Obsidian Flesh (in a team situation of course, these are actually the only decent focus spells)

that’s why you use dagger offhand, more damage, more healing, more cc

I’d rather wait 5 minutes being sure that I’m gonna fight 5vs5 instead of waiting 2 and ending up with 4vs5
But maybe that’s just me.

I don’t think they’ll change (or nerf) Zephyr’s Boon, but rather they’re gonna improve some useless/underpowered air trait
examples: One with Air and Grounded (this could actually be fine if it worked with updraft)

The only reason to not take powerful aura as an elementalist is if you run solo (since you have no one to share your aura), but if you run with a group, that fury+swiftness+ either stun or chill (and -10% damage taken) is pretty useful.

No cast bars, every race normalized as human in rated play.
Please.

Meglobob.8620:

^About this vid

The trait that shares auras with your allies is UTTERLY USELESS…

I tested it in WvW and it gives you the auras, plus possibly one other person if they are stood on top of you…really the 30 point trait is BROKEN…

Also just to be extra useless there is only 3 auras, 1 on main dagger, 1 on off hand dagger and 1 on staff, all on different weapons and in different attunements…

Finally, they last for a few seconds, not long enough to do much really…

Really, the only powerful part of the dagger/dagger build is the 3 cantrips/traits around them BUT of course you can use them with ANY weapon set…so why dagger/dagger? Just so you can die more often probably by being in close range, rather than at 900 or 1200 range with alternative weapon sets…

I so am NOT a dagger/dagger fan…

Powerful Auras is a great trait -.-

leaderboard decay should have been there in the first place, so for me it’s a welcome addiction.
I mean, there are people who never played since leaderboards got introduced, and they’re still there XD

I salvaged 2 rares and got 2 ectos (1 each), so I hardly think they did something
Try using master salvage kits instead of crude ones

swinsk.6410:

I main a thief and swapping from wvw to spvp is clunky. I always die a few times coming back from wvw and when I go to wvw from spvp I don’t take full advantage of it for a while.

4s revealed killed d/d. Only noobs or condi builds run it, with the exception of rare burst builds that are for hot join lulz.

I really think the 4s should have been reverted everywhere. There never was a problem with thieves stealthing.

D/D was killed by D/P being simply better overall.

lol, just lol.
you have to farm for the legendary, but we won’t let you farm (cit. A.net)

with all the alt accounts for solo queuing, you can’t really be sure if that rank 1 is just a n00b or a pro using another acc for solo queue
that being said, matchmaking sucks XD

in hotjoin, there is a “wave” respawn mechanic every 20 seconds (x:19, x:39 and x:59 if I remember right), so if you stomp someone at x:37, for example, he will respawn 2 seconds later

Worst. Achievement. Ever.

considering D/D spec (0/10/0/30/30) and S/D spec (0/20/0/20/30), considering off-hand skills are the same for both sets, you’re left with the 1-3 skills

S/D got much higher burst (hurl + switch to air + lightning strike) than D/D (burning speed is the only real burst spell that weaponset has), and it’s so much easier to land/harder to dodge (it’s instant)
Dragon tooth is also great in team fights in small points like Niflhel’s Keep or Kyhlo’s Clocktower, you can’t dodge forever you know? and you can still rely on your team mates for CC…it’s a team game after all
Also, you can’t really run with double arcane as a D/D (you can afford maybe to run with arcane wave and 2 cantrips, mist form and lightning flash), you die too fast in competitive play, so that’s ~2k more burst for S/D ele.
It’s also easier to fight mesmers and bm rangers as S/D ele, since you can fight them at range.

D/D aurashare double arcane elementalists died when they nerfed evasive arcana, vigor/regen on cantrips and fixed zephir’s boon fury/swiftness duration, deal with it.

Also, S/D is so much better at bunkering (trident >>>>> cone of cold every day, plus you get +250 toughness from scepter earth 2, and you get 2 blinds…)

S/D is superior to D/D, period (and both are superior to staff in tPvP, but that’s a given). But, by all means, keep playing with the now inferior weapon set, I’m sure all those elementalists in good teams are just crazy for playing S/D now, and hot-join heroes are the real pros.

S/D eles > D/D eles anyway, and warriors are the most UP class right now (even necros are probably better and can fill some niche in teams)

also, Endure Pain is 5 seconds, makes you immune to damage….but a necro or an engi or whatever can still apply conditions on them (you can’t apply conditions to an invulnerable ele or engi), so yes, warriors need a bit of help.

Fishbait.6723:

To the one that said in combat, l2p.
So, what do you do when someone/thing is hitting you from range, you`re stuck on a ledge?

/facepalm

To the one that said four attunements, wow, clueless….

I close range with ride the lightning, that’s what it is for :S
Or just use vapor blade
Or go away and let him come, and then charge at him

If he’s on the keep ledge on Niflhel, swap to earth, stick to the wall and hit it while he can’t hit you….

seriously, l2p :S

Zenith.7301:

Just so you know, on BM bunker, once those conditions are cleansed as they usually are, the entirety of the ranger’s damage is on the pet.

If you’re taking damage from the pet, that damage needs to be transferred to the ranger, because at the moment someone with regen and offheals like the ele will completely outheal any damage you do yourself as a ranger regardless of what you do.

Rangers have no way to deal with boons, and their condition application is on splitblade at point blank range (no range) and slow projectiles like throw torch and crippling talon. Their autoattacks do not inflic conditions, and Ricochet is bar none the worst auto in the game damage wise.

I also hope that if you’re going to take their only good use, which is a bunker with damage, you better give them the team utility guardians and eles have. If you remove the damage, there is no incentive whatsoever to take a BM bunker over an ele.

P.S. My pets don’t reliably hit people when they don’t have to sit on a point like WvW, and they certainly are not sustainable in WvW zergs. And a damage nerf to pets will drive the ranger into worse of a state than they already are in PvE where nobody wants them.

as a bunker ele (with shaman’s amulet, like ranger bm for an accurate comparison), my auto-attack hits for 250
as a bunker guardian, my auto-attacks hit for 250
and so on…

all these classes don’t have a pet hitting for 1k damage

see the problem?

WAR died 15 days after release, what are you talking about lol
there is a reason it was called failhammer, worst mmorpg ever (before swtor came out, of course)

garethh.3518:

Scryar.2954:

The premade team has so many advantages from the beginning of the match that it is just stupid to allow a mixed queue.

What the kitten is up with people???
Gladly willing to destroy premade queing just so they have a more convenient time playing the game…
You do realize that premade ques would just turn out like paid tournies did, right?

The issue is quite obviously in a different place and it KILLS ME to see so many people screaming their heads off for a split que, something that would obviously also hurt the game, when quite obviously its an issue based around there being no divide between ranked and unranked play. Oh and being qued with similarly glorly-lvl’d players for the first 20-30 ranks would help.

Anyways, other MMOs had ‘so many advantages’ for being a premade, you had the right amount of heals/dps/tanks and high geared as well as skilled players.
In GW2 build diversity won’t utterly make or break a pug game.
In GW2 there is no gear gap.

GW2 is near entirely an individual skill based game.
The worst divide between premade and pug is that you can avoid the kittenty asz queing throwing bad players on your side.

Scryar.2954:

There is nothing more important at the moment then splitting solo and premade queue (like the vote on the other thread showed)

The masses are great at pointing out that there is a problem.
I mean absolutely wonderful at it, if they have issues they will let anyone and everyone know.
BUT they are terrible at pinpointing the specifics and suggesting fixes.
That’s just the way it is.

A few centuries ago everyone believed that gods sat on clouds and erupted volcanoes on people, like a person vainly smiting ants with a magnifying glass.
People are fickle and love jumping to easy answers.

are you kidding?
first of all, the majority of the game (ANY game) is made up of casuals, if they don’t hurry up splitting queues, you’ll be left with 50 people playing pvp (even less in NA, probably). Also, when I still had a team, I hated playing against soloers, easy games are boring.

Then, in this game entering as a premade has so many advantages: voice communication, team setup (good luck trying to win with a team made up of 3 thieves and 2 necros against a team with 1 bunker 1 off-bunker and 3 roamers, for example)

<Player looking for a team>
Ingame name: Shar Teel
Main Class: Elementalist
Region: EU
Practice Times: Everyday 9pm-2am (CEST), weekends included (unless something comes up, will give warning at least 24 hours before)
Experience: been playing MMORPGs for 12 years now (started with Daoc/UO, played pretty much every big MMO). In game currently r43, 117QPs, personal best rank in our wonderful ladder was 125 (currently out of top1000 due to useless solo matchmaking XD)
Other: I’m looking for a good team to challenge those teams in top 100, and maybe partecipate in tournaments/scrims :p I hate ragequitters and like to record and analyze matches/streams

fixing matchmaking should be number one priority for any pvp based game (same priority as balancing)
but let’s fix spectator instead, those 40 people playing in player-driven tournaments are mor important than the other 1000-2000 that gets screwed by facing premades (people not even in top 1000 facing rank 200-300 premades, are you serious? XD)

No, just no.
We already have double the weapon skills other classes have during tpvp, we don’t need quadruple the amount. (and it would be hella unbalanced as well)

yes please, let’s remove counters from this game.

/facepalm

rating system kitten es me off
2 wins 1 loss → 108 positions lost, lol XD

Pyriall.5027:

we’re going to NOT reward you for sticking around.

This. I can understand removing stuff from the gemstore, since it’s not RNG….but removing loot from victory chests without introducing a recipe to craft it? bad bad decision.

worst achievement in gaming history.

achievements should be based on your own skill or effort, not rely on other people dumbness.

1) Solo/Duo queue
2) Random map in rated matches
3) More weapon skills to chose from for each weapon set, instead of the fixed 3/5

be careful what you wish for
flat damage reduction on weakness would make classes with easy access to both weakness and protection insanely OP (hint: d/d elementalist)

I guess new recipes and/or more people levelling up Chef because they dropped said recipes

gl finding your 5th

Asomal.6453:

What I’d want in PVP:

-More skills for the same weapon set. Maybe 15 skills per weapon, and you’d chose how to build it. Like, you can either pick support / condition / burst / dps / mix oriented skills…
- More weapons for every class, overall (maybe not so soon)
- More options for amulet stats
- Split said trinkets into 6 minor pieces, more balanced builds (and not that min/max bs)
- A 4th utility slot

And finally (for what i can think for now)
- Better/more useful traits
. Elementalists for example, could have a ‘Cauterize’ trait in the fire line. “Cure 3 conditions whenever you swap into fire attunement”. A defensive trait in a offensive trait line!
- Get rid of trait levels (make stat lines more valuable)
. Make any trait pickable at 10/20/30 point. No more adept, master and grandmaster, you’d invest for stats.

1) more skills for each weaponset is a good idea, I hope they’ll do it sooner or later

2) if you don’t see a stat combination on amulet, it’s because it would be broken (like, vitality/toughness/healing power, immortal bunkers ftw). And in the earlier betas stats were split among all jewelry slots, it was confusing for new players and still led to min/maxing anyway (it’s called optimizing your spec), it’s much better this way.

3) classes are (more or less) balanced around having 3 utilities, a 4th one would break some things (imagine a bunker ele with 4 cantrips, or a bm ranger that can afford to use fire trap or another defensive CD, or a warrior that can use both endure pain and balanced stance in his 100b build, etc…)

4) some traits are indeed useless, but most of them are either situational or in trait lines that you can’t afford to take (like fire line for elementalists, there are some good traits there, but you simply can’t afford to spend points there)

5) also in earlier betas, you could take every trait at every level…it was broken and umbalanced as hell. Can you imagine an elementalist with evasive arcana at 10 points in Arcane? Or a mesmer with Illusionary Persona at 10 in illusions? Or a thief with Executioner at 10 in Critical Strikes? I do, it would be hell.

vicious.5683:

Shar.3402:

ranger’s pet should account for half the character dps
a bunker ranger should deal the same damage any other bunker “insert class”…I don’t recall guardian bunkers bursting for 5-6k with drake/bird.
pet’s damage has to be toned down, A LOT (same goes for rock dogs, or elementalists’ summons, thieves’ guild and so on…everything should scale according to character’s stats, not be a fixed value)

nobody complains about necro minions =(

they take up utility slots, and don’t burst like ravens or drakes or whatever anyway :p

still broken…is it too hard to put dodge OUT of skill queing? the game was perfectly fine before the patch…If it works, don’t change it, it’s like the number one rule of programming -.-

ranger’s pet should account for half the character dps
a bunker ranger should deal the same damage any other bunker “insert class”…I don’t recall guardian bunkers bursting for 5-6k with drake/bird.
pet’s damage has to be toned down, A LOT (same goes for rock dogs, or elementalists’ summons, thieves’ guild and so on…everything should scale according to character’s stats, not be a fixed value)

where is the -1 button?