Guild Wars 2

Arheundel.6451:

Shukran.4851:

if the main purpose of pvp (and esport lol) of this game is 5v5, it must be balanced around 5v5 environment. it doesnt mean that 5v5 = teamfight 24/7, but it means that some class, some skill, some trait works better in a “not-1v1” fight

Yes it’s ok to have trait/skills that works better in team fight, but you can’t always hope to stay in the back spamming aoe, sometimes you need to get your hands dirty in order to stay alive, but take a look at the ele staff, all attack skills are aoe and therefore slow to cast , therefore you become useless in a 1vs1 situation

ele staff is quite awesome in tf.
it seems you are confusing strategy with balance.

if the main purpose of pvp (and esport lol) of this game is 5v5, it must be balanced around 5v5 environment. it doesnt mean that 5v5 = teamfight 24/7, but it means that some class, some skill, some trait works better in a “not-1v1” fight

JonathanSharp.7094:

@ Mesmer: We’ll be addressing the current Mesmer build that’s spiking for insane damage. Sorry that change got through – it is something we’ll be fixing.

@ Macros: Macros are against the user agreement. You can be banned for using them, so use them at your own risk. I would also advise against using them, because in live tournaments, you won’t be able to use macros. So it makes little sense to learn “bad habbits” you’ll just have to retrain later.

We adhere to the same “one keystroke = one action on one character/account”, which is used by a lot of MMO publishers when defining botting/macros.

Just wanted to clear that up – be careful w/ those macros, they can get you banned.

what about if i use something like this in live tourny?
http://www.razerzone.com/it-it/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-nostromo

can i use it as long as i keybind: 1key = 1 keystroke?

only a ladder will tell if all that said was true.till that day, gl hf

i dont like womeone who can talk that way about himself.
i think others should

they are valid for tpvp and paid?
it would be very nice if some streaming dedicated team would try to use them in paid to see the effective power. and maybe to diversify the meta

Thirsty.2875:

Shukran.4851:

what are the advantages payed customers have respect to the new f2p players that will come later?

in term of pvp: what do my 50€ give me more than f2p players?

if it is only pve, how can i get my money back?

You have a huge PvE game and WvW and were able to PvP for a long time before the game became F2P if you just play PvP.

F2P accounts will probably only have 1 maybe 2 character slots to start with. Also, they could make glory only obtainable in paid accounts and have PvP armor skins in the gem store.

and?
time played doesnt mean skill acquired. there are players which are playing pve part of the game since release, doesnt mean they go in tournament and pownz everyone.
i bought gw2 because of pvp, so i can deal with having only 2 slots, having no skins (you know, skins don’t make you a better player).. so please, tell me how can i have my money back if pvp become a f2p part of the game. thx

just for the record: in gw1 pvp you started with 8 custom skills unlocked..playing pve or more pvp u could unlock every single skill of every progfession . anet after some years decided to sell a pvp clinet only for pvp and a “pvp booster” which unlocked all skills. it was good.
but here in gw2 unlocking skills is instat in pvp. there are less skill in gw2 than gw1. so i don’t see how me, a paying customer, can deal with this f2p client.
sorry for bad english and rant

let’s make a deal:
every thief can not stompe while in stealth, but..when thief stomp he is vulnerable ONLY to CCs. thief take NO damage while stomping.

ok?

because you know, a thief which is stomping infront of enemy can be downed by downed autoattacks, opponent’s teammates attacks, cc, conditions..and every thief is supposed to play cannon glass .
if you can’t mengae to be stomped by a stealthed thief, let’s see how can u deal with this idea.
let me guess…QQ rage spike in 3..2…

what are the advantages payed customers have respect to the new f2p players that will come later?

in term of pvp: what do my 50€ give me more than f2p players?

if it is only pve, how can i get my money back?

Divus.3175:

Is it only me, who thinks, that saying that necro can use stability is a little bit wrong?
There’s stability on one trait, and you cannot stomp being in ds, so you just have to turn on and off immediately.

I’m not saying here, that something is op, or not. I’m just saying, that comparing stealth to necro’s stability is not smart.

question is: when should a necro stomp? btw necro can blind opponents. blind blocks antistun skills.

qp are just there to make stop qqing the players who wanted a for of ladder.
but a ladder should allow “gain/lose” position, while here is just a farmfest for dedicated teams.

Israel.7056:

Snip.6138:

Posts like this only perpetuate disproportion of class to class strength.

Perhaps there is no disproportion and you’re just as biased about this issue as I am.

You obviously don’t agree with the changes and I obviously do agree with them.

Luckily it’s not for either one of us to decide. I would hope that Anet developers don’t use the forums to determine what to do with their game.

However, in the off-chance that the developers actually are reading any of this and taking it to heart, please Anet don’t listen to the forum qq and leave shattered strength as it is.

this post, after the tons of threads about QQthief op make me sad.

if you steal a ranger and use F1(the blue tree), hitting blasts do aoe healings. tell me it is not usefull-

moba + mod for fun = apple

mmorpg + fail = pear

FluffyDoe.7539:

Explain how so.

your title +
your initial statement +
taking in example a moba to explain how a mmorpg “fails” +
taking in example a mod that riot made just for community, not for esport.

FluffyDoe.7539:

Shukran.4851:

you can go play lol.
btw lol is a moba, dominion is a mode asked by community (you don’t say).

if i only care to play with a team…. i would go play fifa..

Oh yea, this is totally an Esport material bud. What’s that J Sharp said about building this game to Esport?

Are you telling me that the community requested this to be the currently main game mode for GW2’s PvP after they said GW2 was Esport bond?

And bro, fifa has no ability skills, no classes, no points to capture…. so what-jur-point messi.

my point is you are confusing apples with pears

CnD: stab your foe and vanish in stealth..

it is really so..

spvp/tpvp : i think HS does a little too much damage above 50%, hence everyone spam HS(+haste often) to kill. i don’t like spamming skills with thief and i would prefer something that discourage spamming HS but still make it competitive.
and i would like some kind of revamp on #3 d/p .

guess you are rank 1-15 max

Hockmed.9417:

My point is that all top pvp was viewable by the entire player base if they chose to watch it. You had a reasonable idea of what the teams you were likely to face were going to be running. The top teams didn’t win by secret, they won because they knew what they were doing, build-wise, team-wise, strategy-wise. Everything was built to work together and cover as many voids as possible (short of gimmick builds).

stick this statement please anet. and force users to read it everytime they log in “structured PvP” section.
thx

tOss.9024:

Shukran.4851:

ask your team why u dont use.
as thief i use them everytime i can find one. if none is found. sometimes i use my poison to aoe weakness. usually it works against guardians.

How many blast finishers do you have

by myself i can spam 3 blast with a pool of initiative.
engi can spam a kittenload of blasts.
ele have a quite few.

guardian and necro have a lot of nice combo fields as holders.
go gw2 wiki and try to learn combo effects.

you can go play lol.
btw lol is a moba, dominion is a mode asked by community (you don’t say).

if i only care to play with a team…. i would go play fifa..

s/d ele? wow switch earth.stun and tons of dmg.
switch water aoe dmg
switch fire phoenix & co.

Zenyoga.6910:

Mammoth.1975:

1 is a really bad idea. It’s already a nightmare trying to kill double bunker mid on map 2, let’s not have even more points like that.

How is it the size of the point makes it harder to kill double bunker in mid?

more space to move and dodge without pulling them off the point

ask your team why u dont use.
as thief i use them everytime i can find one. if none is found. sometimes i use my poison to aoe weakness. usually it works against guardians.

see you next patch. best wishes.

Dahkeus.8243:

Wow, blast from the past. I remember seeing iQ a lot back in GW1. I wonder if “Your Math Teacher” is still around…

some of them write on forum, so i think they are here…wondering if they play 4 rangers 1 necro

Danto.6748:

Also, to make things clear, I like the current change where they only lock weapons. I think it’s good that they allow us to swap utililies for now.

don’t want troll or what, but the thread title is ‘’No weapon swapping hurts competitive play’’ . so you are changing your mind?

then

before patch you could have an ele in party.
against condition you could use cleansing fire if needed, if a lot of conditions you could swap at staff to be helpfull for the team. now you must decide before starting what is your role and during fight your team strategy should adapt to opponent’s.
and it will force you to decide before the tourney which will be your team—>balanced—>diversity

ofc it is a bad example, but i hope you can see through the mere (bad english) words and understand my pov.
otherwise peace.

fact is: if you are being stomped by a stability one, you have no chances to block him.
if you are being stomped by a stealth one, you can simply pull him off or stun him to prevent its stomp.
it is only a visual effect bu stealth DOES NOT GIVE any other kind of buff. stealthed ones can be hit, can be killed can be CC’d.

Archaon.6245:

Clones deal stupid dmg…only phantasms have a decent dps…..

You can stand there and find the real mez just looking for skills, dodges, hp bar, bleeding ticks and so on…..there are many many ways to spot the real mesmer, you can easily stick to him clones or not…..and once you stick to the real mesmer he’s going to run away 80% of the times…

depend what class you are playing. as cannon glass i have to make him waste his 3clones blurred frenzy spike once, while not wasting too much initiative, to have upper hand….and while fighting on a cap point sometimes, it is quite difficult. you must pay attention.

J. Sharp please, lock also utilities!!!! it will help in balancing a lot!!
and it allow more build to come out because there will be no more a universal composition of 5 professions which can swap everything when needed.

u must rank up to get better skins.

i played gw1 but if you use wrong words, i can’t read your mind.

shortcut? really?

rank max needed

death log?
or i didnt understand what u mean

Khayn.6475:

….

this is what every “wanna be pro” should have written just after patch in every QQ thread.

bewcause of “balance” reasons about any kind of lame build you could use

wow that way —>
bai

they are testing honestly. they have thousands of players testing stuffs in this late beta client called release. fact is we are not so good to report bugs.

because i prefer if they focus more on equalizing glory earned after each match for all team member like:

(∑ points earned player1:player5)/5

obviously it needs some more rule to prevent afk farm, maybe only in payed tourney… but it could be something

afaik no.
blablabla message error

you are supposed to find a team. i am not sarcastic and i feel your pain.
you are not wrong about matchmaking..but right now my answer is the most polite/smart answer you should receive.

1 ok
2 please no
3 ok

Mrbig.8019:

Yeah, and that’s the reason why tPvP has a huge and dedicated fanbase, and streamers have tons of viewers all day long.

/endfacepalm

i would like to know how many viewers had league of legends when he was just released… and look !!! it is a moba!!!
gw1 should have had no viewers at all because except few offline tourneys, every other MAT & co. was in observer mode.

Jonny.9370:

Shukran.4851:

agree op…but honestly..what can they do to fix this kitten?
i should roll an asura too, but i hate that race.

Racist…

i hate it because i like to see all armors details and asuras are very bad at it.
but i feel my norn thief should be used only in pve at this point…will see..

KnarleyMarley.6937:

Anyone who’s using the initiative system as a way to justify and explain away skill spam needs to really think about some things. First of all, just because you have so many points of initative (like an energy resource vs a mana, typically the energy has a much more limited resource pool, albeit a faster replenishing one.). That doesn’t mean your logic is still exclusive to just initiative, if you where ‘forced’ to spam something just because it’s resource effective, then by that logic anyone who uses a resource system (mana, rage, etc…) should be doing the exact same thing, but most of the time they aren’t. This is because effective class and skill design should discourage this by making certain skill much more situationally effective than others but also, making more of your own skills work in synergy in order to get the most out of your class/dps/what ever. Getting the most out of something in a game should never come down to simply spamming one thing. Using a resource system as a scape goat is also stupid, you’re not the only one with a resource system and the resource system is not new to the thief.

you should try to fail just one CnD, or be forced to fight after 2 infiltrator’s arrows to feel the weakness of initiative system.
then try to avoid any other class’s skill and you will see the difference.

agree op…but honestly..what can they do to fix this kitten?
i should roll an asura too, but i hate that race.

anet stick Kyzen.7452 post for beginner’s tips.
thx

simple tournament format:
no need for best of 3. one match, who win take a prize. welcome ladder