Guild Wars 2

I cannot edit my post again (this needs to be fixed Aneeet!!1)

Sgtsarcasm mentions that it gets a 6 second cd if it is interrupted. I don’t know if this is a bug but so far whenever mine got interrupted i get the full 180 seconds CD.

8 out of 10 times that i am moa’ed i found that i survived it pretty easily.

.It takes about 3/4 seconds to cast
.locks the caster in place for the duration
.it can be dodged ,blocked by a shield or blocked by a active/passive buff
.the one afflicted by it keeps all his boons – buffs
.You can dodge while afflicted by it
.has one of the longest cooldowns (timewarp is longer)

I made a mesmer the day before yesterday (my 6th toon yaay) im using a staff, sword, pistol atm. a nice build works nicely in 1v1 and group play , i tired a few builds so far but i have yet to kill someone who i have moa’ed all by myself during those 10 seconds.

I don’t use Moa often. I find Mass Invisibility or even Time Warp tends to be more effective in long runs, due to the massive cooldown the ability suffers.

But then if that is the argument you must know that timewarp has a even longer cooldown.

Milennin.4825:

I play on Gandara and see plenty of people except in the mornings.

Yeah same here. i make groups in the middle of the night on a weekday in 5 minutes and i see lots of people going around even when i go back to the starter areas. So if that is what i and others see happening you have to wonder for what reason some people try to claim that all areas are emtpy.

It is easily diss proven.

Now, it’s more than awful, dungeons are more bugged, can’t be done with a PUG

It took me 5 minutes to get the pug together at 3:00 in the middle of the night a few days ago , we totally wiped on the first 2 mobs that we encountered , we adjusted ….our pug completed the dungeon.

Now tell me again how it is not possible.

Ardelin.9543:

It’s funny how ironic it is to QQ about people QQing, people are kittening because it’s painfully obvious that the classes need tweaking.

Or what is it that you are doing exactly ? The same thing and i am now whining about you whining about someone else that according to you was whining about the whining (yes this adds up correctly : )

I just googled gw2 hack/cheat

if they are not fake and laced with troyans to steal your account then it seems that there are hacks availlable.

i doubt someones account will live for very long though. Either it gets perma banned or hacked.

Baladir.2736:

While others saw you as running, I seemed to see you were giving time for your dots to do their work. I thought that was quite wise. You seemed to be using line of sight to prevent damage and allow your skills to recharge, all the while coming back when players came to you or you circled around, using knowledge of the map, to lay on more dots and direct damage. I think probably many times the other player was surprised to see you again lol.

Not really , i play like how you see it in the video (have to with D/D) and after 1 match they already start expecting you around the corner again but that’s ok. There isn’t much they can do about it anyway.

Lewis Burnell.2493:

I don’t mind that however as that’s the risk I take with my build. You can’t expect to be good against every profession setup.

That is exactly the point, the warrior is just that. No one is complaining about not being as effective against every class but the warrior IS effective against every class. It might not one shot a guardian like it would a ele ,necro ,thief or a engi but he will its HP down fast and force him to use his heal. Even if this were not the case then it would have been effective to 7 ou tof 8 classes which still does not change much

Drivelikebrazil.3279:

@Smackjack
“I get killed in 3 seconds by just one skill but for me to kill that warrior even if he has that skill on CD requires a lot more effort then just pressing 2 buttons i can assure you that it requires a lot more effort for me on my ele which is supposed to be a burst dmg class to kill that so called ‘glass canon’.”

Meh, stupid quote button is gone…

I think your problem here lies in your class. I don’t play one, but from what I’ve read on the forums, Elementalists take much more effort to give out the same beating that others do. That needs to be fixed so as to make the output worth the effort.

And again, I’m in agreement that it’s OP. It’s definitely too much burst, especially for a high base armor/hit points class, and it needs to be toned down. It’s just not so bad that the game is unplayable or even near unplayable, even considering the other OP stuff.

(Side Note: Putting asterisks around your text makes it bold lol)

yeah your right it is the asterixes

I agree though it is not as if it is unplayable i am totally enjoying sPvP and the game as a whole but it becomes so very very very irritating when you are i a row of matches with one of those warriors that does nothing but charge and 100B. I can live with a bit of that but there are quite a few of those , a lot even. Every single time i see them i see them popping charge and 100b then smahs around for a bit and get out running around until their i-win button is of of cooldown and then to make matters worse use chat to say /m noob after each iwin kills. grumps

Warriors should not have a skill that ensures a kill like that , it is a one shot kill really. That is basically the same you get i gear based pvp you see in most other mmo’s , you get outgeared ? then all it takes is 1 or 2 buttons. This was not supposed to be in GW2 as far as i can remember.

DeadlyConqueror.6130:

The question is:

Why i should buy Gold from the Store, when i can buy it from a gold seller for a MUCH lower price (i seen yesterday something like 1.6 € = 4g)?

The price of gold at a gold seller is a little bit skewed. It does cost less money but it also includes the risk of getting your account banned sooner or later and seeing how strict Anet is about things in the game and its forums chances are pretty high, It usuualy does not happen straight away as the purges happen weekly or monthly batches in most mmo’s that i have seen but it is bound to happen.

When your account does get banned for buying gold it will be a permaban. If you want to play again you will have to buy the game again or give up playing so unless you don’t care about playing the game which kind of goes against any reason to buy gold in the first place then this risk should definitely be taken into the prices account as in ,you get what you play for.

Lazarast.6571:

@Erebus:

Maybe yo should watch the video again. The guy at 6 min, nearly kills me but i have really good toughness and arcane shield popped out. I’m sorry but autoattacks don’t kill me. Maybe you use an ofensive build (glass cannon) with zero defensive stats but my elementalist has more than 50% direct damage reduction. Another thing is that I use the teleport while I channel churning earth so they don’t interrupt.

Of corse, it’s gameplay from pugs and some of them don’t play that good, but I wouldn’t call them worst players ever.

I invite you to record a video and demonstrate better gameplay.

Cheers.

@ the vid ,Yep that is how a proper D/D dances around groups. It is so much fun to play it is addicting. i Switch classes around but there is not a day that goes by whe i dont use my ele D/D the most.

I suspect we are running a similar build reading that but i (for now) ditched the teleport and the arcane shield. I swithced the shield for the blind which i like to pop when i stampede into a group ,open the gates of hell and dash out again. Sometimes it is very obvious how they have no clue how to deal with that

I didnt see you make the ‘might’ stack combo ,why dont you use that?

(i didnt know you could use the teleport without interupting the churning cast 0_0 im gonna try that)

Soulwatcher.2604:

I think you guys are missing the real point here. Who in their right mind wants to trade gold for gems when gold is so hard to get in the first place? Even though I am 80 its still not easy to get gold its very time consuming. Why would I want to sell my gold and make less then some one flipping burgers?

I traded gold for gems and got a free extra character slot. Its actually a nice meta game/extra challenge to play, buy everything from the CS without spending real money.

I was dead proud achieving this : 3

instead of playing mesmers just glance at their skills. know they can blow up their images, and know that their images dont move like real people. really don’t understand why all these people cry mesmer op – i don’t believe they’re the easiest class to play either. ah, for the record i’ve never played a mesmer but my brother does and ive watched him play once or twice

at least op is trying to learn though, so one step ahead of the rest.

I see this kind of big talk in every games pvp section and it is always the same argument that goes something like this :

“it is soooo easy to see when class X is about to do skill Z because whenever they are about to do it their little pinky finger glows for 2 seconds it is sooo simple”

well yeah there are tells but then the real world situation hits those very same people that talk like this in forums……Battle

Your in a fight it is 8v8 or 5v5 you are dancing around 3 classes that primed you now dont be a idiot just take the time to study the movements of those mesmers and illusions and you will be fine okay and when you noticed go kill him …

Oops got killed right when i noticed what i think was the real mcoy, darn

Or for instance you have a ranger priming you , just the ranger and you know this ranger will pop his elite snare on you whenever he can. You can avoid the snare and you pay close attention to that one arm that will be lifted just a bit while the elite is casted … You dodge guardian , ninja yourself past a warrior keeping a eye on that ranger and …

..4 illusions kill you in the meantime because you simply could not find the time to single out the real mesmer. such bad players pfff cant even single out a real mesmer lol i go poast in forum how eazy it weally iszz pfff lol.

Followed by the post as seen in here:

just look at their movememt its so easy doooh

Theory pvp in forums singling out single skills and tells acting all superior and skilled…

.. that is easy.

Healingz R Us.7240:

On the elementalist, there is a buff in the fire trait that is supposed to add might for 5 seconds every time you use a fire spell. I ran tests and never once saw any might from it. Idk.

That is a combo between the fire and earth atunement. The field is in fire and the finisher is in earth. I use this quite a lot. At least it is on my D/D ele.

It should be a single skill trigger on the staff i believe.

dan.3618:

when looking at the traits it seems the ele is designed around switching between all 4 attunments and this is the problem for me at least, as its a horrible way to play that requires so much effort and having to stare at your toolbar more than whats happening.

The good eles use all 4 attunments and so it works for a few people but personaly I would like a remake of the traits so that you have a primary attunment with a supportive second attunment and then 2 that are basicly null if not traited for.

And of course remake of skills.

Switching between atunements on the fly is how the ele should be played. If you dont you only use 25% of your DPS (yes i pulled that number out of my aaa like everyone else : ) But it is true enough.

I dont have to ‘look’ at my skillbar anymore on the ele , mere glances will suffice. I switch blindly between any atunement and use its skill apropriatly it is what makes the class so very nice to play , its hard to master ,hard to play (i play D/D btw) but thats just me i do that in every mmo. I take the hardest class they have and stick to it until i get it.

I f they ever make it so the ele can be played with just one main atunement i will get bored with it very soon. I hope they never do that.

And, after the 100b warr charges in and blows you up, he gets his glass cannon face ripped off by your allies because the one trick pony’s trick is now on CD? If you’ve already used up your dodges and defensives, then it wasn’t just the 100b warr that killed you; it was everyone that caused you to use up your defenses as well.

GW2 lets you get too far to the extremes of the damage/defense tradeoffs, leading to things that are frustrating on the individual level (getting insta-gibbed by quickness burst is pretty frustrating), so I feel your pain there, but it’s a bit ridiculous to tell just the one side of the group fight story where you die, but conveniently leave out the part where the glass cannon trades his life for yours or downplay the part where it was because of the whole opposing team that you went down and not the singular warrior.

Burst is definitely on the high side for my taste, so yes, please tone it down, but it’s hardly “unplayable” or unbearable.

Not quit.

more then often the warrior still has enough survivability to get away with it because he is still a heavy armor class. Also ,using a speed buff and charge hardly makes him anything glass whereas i as a ele simply do not survive just that single skill and they always charge from way out of camera view , rarely do i catch them do it until it is too late. I get killed in 3 seconds by just one skill but for me to kill that warrior even if he has that skill on CD requires a lot more effort then just pressing 2 buttons i can assure you that it requires a lot more effort for me on my ele which is supposed to be a burst dmg class to kill that so called ‘glass canon’.

I am not just talking out of my * i took the trouble to make a warrior and also a thief to see how the work and i have mentioned it before on these forums. I leveld the war to level 3 took it into the mist and even without any practise and knowledge of its skill went into a match, i ended up top player in my first couple of rounds and i did not know a thing about its skills. I remember it well as i was on skype with my gf and she was in the match with me and i was laughing my ** of for not having a clue what i was doing but was still killing players left and right without much effort of any kind, i just popped skills whenever i saw fit.

Roll a ele or a necro a ranger or a thief (i cant talk about the guardian i havent made one) and you will be very very hard pressed to get away with button smashing. From that experience i can only say that its a shame to see if only 1 class in there that allows that sort of play.

BUT, i did figure since we basically always see at least 1 such class in every mmo that that is not by accident. I suppose that developers always want a easy class in there to cater to players that would otherwise not perform that well in pvp. I think we all know people who say they dont like pvp and it is for one reason alone ,they just are not good at it.

It is so easy to play i dont even touch it anymore other then use it to see the PvE charr areas since that’s what its race is.

That is not to say that there are no skilled players that have a warrior im sure there are but im also certain that any skilled and experienced pvp’er will get bored quickly enough unless easy kills is the idea of ‘fun’.

I say if your not good at pvp roll a warrior and you wont be feeling so bad.

(Edit : i have no idea why that part got bolded)

My first lines were in regards to
“Learn to dodge.
No, I will not stop saying to use one of the fundamental combat mechanics. DODGE THEM. You can completely destroy a Hundred Blades warrior, incredibly easily, if you dodge. Dodge the Bull’s Rush. Dodge the Eviscerate. Dodge the Bolas. Punish them for using Quickness.”

^Assuming your just standing there and you see the warrior comming at you from 5 miles away each and every single time.

comments like this just show how out of touch people are with the reality of the situation.

Yes dodge is important , if you dont use it or dont use it enough then your doing it wrong. But, ^that description would be fine if you run into a 1v1 with warrior constantly but aaahh thats not very realistic is it? Most of the time i get speed buffing 100B warrior in my back using charge is when im in a group fight and whataya know….i used my dodges already,*gasp *surprise.

Yes yes dodge all of their op skills its easy people !11 (sarcasm, more to follow) It works great even when your knocked down (free kill for 100b speed charging warr)

Fantastic theoretical advice ,amazing! lol

zilcho.7624:

I run with 0 toughness and rarely die. Here’s a screenshot of the last hotjoin match I played. Not a single death in that match or the one before it.
I have no comment on tournament play but it seems the consensus is that the downstate is the only major issue.

Running with 0 toughness isn’t a viable strategy. Also, being first in pick up games doesn’t mean anything. I’m usually first in my games, but I don’t do as well as I can on any other class. On my thief, I can just run around killing whatever I find. On my ele, I have to be very careful what fights I get into.

I’m not sure where people get the idea that ele’s have great support. We have lackluster support in everything but water attunement. And the only reason staff seems good is that people don’t target players at range yet. Once they learn how to counter kiting, they will.

Being carefull what fights you get into is just strategy. It does not signify a flaw in a class. Most people just assume that when they see a fight or a opponent they have to engage but the reality is that in some cases you are just giving the other team free points.

If i notice a oponnent running a build that counters mine just a bit to well i will avoid a 1v1 with him. When im not at full health on my thief or any other squishy class/build i usually think twice before dropping in. If i decide to run off i ussualy cap a point or keep a couple of other players busy somewhere while the rest of my team fights or takes their point.

That in the end nets more points instead of losing them just because i feel compelled to engage every single fight.

Fundamentaly speaking the ele is just fine , i rip using d/d imo it does not really matter what weapon or wep combo you use on the ele , they can all do great damage. The downstate does need adjustment imo but outside of that if i were Anet i would first fix the bugs before trying to buff the class.

I would consider removing the bugs a buff all by itself and seeing how the class performs after the bug fixes would be very interesting since as it stands now i get killed more often because skills bug out then my own mistakes , i can compensate a lot better for my own screup then being stuck in position for 5 seconds like with RTL or being stuck and frozen in autoattack for 10 secondsat least twice per match.

The ele is almost as badly bugged as the necro also it is a lot harder to master and handle then most classes. It took me a little to get adjusted to it but whenever it does not bug out during a match it rips !

Gryz.8376:

The problem is simple:

For some weird reason, game companies seem to allow the design of the “systems” in their games to be done by utter amateurs.

This includes the system on how to make a profit for your company. There is the old subscription-paradigm, which kinda worked well. But everything else I see, seems weird, inefficient, unattractive to large amounts of customers, etc. GW tries something else, but tbh, I don’t understand the details of the plan. Because I don’t see how the B2P paradigm is gonna bring in extra money. But even if B2P can bring in extra money, I don’t how the way ArenaNet does it, is optimal.

The same is true with many other “systems” in MMOs.

• E.g. how are going to do itemization while leveling ? (AoC and Vanguard really messed that up. I think many more MMOs did).
• How are you going to keep people excited with new gear while leveling (tip: buying all your gear on the TP/AH is not exciting).
• How are you gonna make PvP fair ? (tip: giving the best players negative handicap doesn’t make sense (handicap as in golf handicap)). GW does better than average here.
• How are you gonna keep your PvE-players happy after they ding max-level ? (tip: making all your dungeons one difficulty-level, and make them all super-hard, isn’t gonna make your average PvE-customer keep playing).
• How are you gonna keep the best players from finishing all content in a week ? (WoW has the wrong mechanisms. GW is even worse, imho).
• How are you gonna keep players excited about their own progress ? (Removing progress, like GW2, isn’t gonna win you extra customers. Making all content trivial, giving away gear “for free”, and only making the heroic mode of the newest raid challenging is going to upset the middle majority of your customer-base).
• Same with this gem/gold/cash-shop discussion. No system, on consistency, nothing smart at all.

So many “systems” I see that are the same in all MMOs. And in so many games, I so many bad designs and implementations for those systems.

The game worlds in MMOs become more and more beautiful. There are more talented and experienced artists in the industry every day, it seems. I think the majority of the budgets for games (including MMOs) must go to the artists who develop the world, the characters, the animations, the textures, etc, etc.

But why can’t a MMO developer hire a smart guy, with a background in gaming, and a maybe a background in accountancy or economy, to do this stuff ?

Why do they hire some freaky nerdy 35y-old kid, who probably played EQ1, and never grew up, to design the overall system of PvE gameplay at level-80 ? And let whole hordes of customers walk away from your beautiful game ? $50M or $100M budgets, and they let some joe-average design critical parts of their business plan.

It blows my mind.

You make a lot of points and padded them with empty arguments ,that says you know fuzz all really.

You say :

.AoC ,Vanguard and most MMO’s did it wrong.
But thats it , you say nothing more, thats it…just wrong you say

.Buying gear of of the TP is not exciting you say.
You dont have too?

.Dungeons are to hard for level capped players.
On your next point you go on about how the game does nothing to do that challenges you.

.Wow did it wrong GW2 even worse ^.
but then nothing again ….

.Good PvPers are being handicapped you say.
uhm…right..mmyeah……uhm..sooooo? what?

.You say that the cash shop/gem currency has no system and consistency
This one is so LOL it is ‘special’.
it so obviously does have a system , it is a player market and the market just started those thing need to settle. Go back in time and play eve-online to see how things work.

heres a hint: Its economy ,there isn’t supposed to be a set consistency.
A small educational point for you in economics: If market made predictable AKA consistent = people abuse it.
You get that?

Could you at least at one single point detail any of your ‘arguments’ or are you going to armchair everything without busting a single braincell yourself ?

It is tremendously easy to point the finger and say how something is done wrong. Any monkey can and usually will do that but that doesnt change the fact that your post is worth as much as a clunker at ferrari dealer.

I agree and why is there no first person mode available ?

Also one gripe i have is not being able to zoom in or out while i have the right mouse button pressed, why ? :/

Detahmaio.2014:

I guess 80-90% of the community is just horrible while you are the special snowflake that is among the best.

You sound like you feel threatened about something xD
Im sorry for you being part of the 80-90%

Pandemoniac.4739:

My personal opinion is that if someone can’t make their point without so many kittens it’s unreadable, it’s not worth my time to decipher it. I like the filter but I’m not particularly opposed to giving the folks the option to disable it. Please keep it on by default though.

Im not one to avoid cussing but i have to agree with this.

I had one suspention and the message said i could see the how and what in my PM’s however there where no PM’s anywhwere,my inbox was empty so i had no clue how long and what for.

The message did indicate that they use a accumulation of ‘infraction’ points but how many points are needed i dont know. I mention infractions like that because a lot of the ’infractions i received are a bit ridiculous, some were justified but most were just akward tbh. I just received a infraction for pointing out that someone just made a “terrible analogy”.…..is that worthy of a infraction?

The forum keeps switching things around , one moment i can quote a post or edit a post but the other i cannot. In a thread on page 1 i can do all these things but switching to page 2 only leaves the permalink option then when i log out and in and go back to the same thread it is reversed and i can edit and quote on page 2 but not on page 1, its ridiculous.

I dont ever log out of the forum and when i bring up the page again it shows that i am still logged (even after a refresh to make sure that i am still logged in) ok great but then i click a thread and my forum loggin screen pops up requiring me to loggin again.

The frequency of it (all the time) makes me rage every now and then and it shows in some of my posts when that happens.

I have seen this since the start of the forum but why should i have complained about it. I thought i would give it the time to be fixed but now it is really starting to get annoying. Any word on this?

skstylez.1526:

that is just PC rankings.
My person fav this year is Xenoblade Chronicles
I think this game SHOULD win MMO category, and hopefully PC category aswell

G4/Spike is stupid though. They are getting a bit better by the year at least hiring real reviewers/editors..

G4/spike and GT are all about consoles.

As good as this game is … TL2 should be GoTY.
It is supreme quality from a small company.

How does the fact that it is from a small company earn it extra mention and credit towards a GOTY award?

No single person can claim it to be the best or the worst. People claiming it is not or it is the worst suffer from having a little bit too much self importance .

The problem is simple:

For some weird reason, game companies seem to allow the design of the “systems” in their games to be done by utter amateurs.

This includes the system on how to make a profit for your company. There is the old subscription-paradigm, which kinda worked well. But everything else I see, seems weird, inefficient, unattractive to large amounts of customers, etc. GW tries something else, but tbh, I don’t understand the details of the plan. Because I don’t see how the B2P paradigm is gonna bring in extra money. But even if B2P can bring in extra money, I don’t how the way ArenaNet does it, is optimal.

The same is true with many other “systems” in MMOs.

E.g. how are going to do itemization while leveling ? (AoC and Vanguard really messed that up. I think many more MMOs did).
How are you going to keep people excited with new gear while leveling (tip: buying all your gear on the TP/AH is not exciting).
How are you gonna make PvP fair ? (tip: giving the best players negative handicap doesn’t make sense (handicap as in golf handicap)). GW does better than average here.
How are you gonna keep your PvE-players happy after they ding max-level ? (tip: making all your dungeons one difficulty-level, and make them all super-hard, isn’t gonna make your average PvE-customer keep playing).
How are you gonna keep the best players from finishing all content in a week ? (WoW has the wrong mechanisms. GW is even worse, imho).
How are you gonna keep players excited about their own progress ? (Removing progress, like GW2, isn’t gonna win you extra customers. Making all content trivial, giving away gear “for free”, and only making the heroic mode of the newest raid challenging is going to upset the middle majority of your customer-base).
Same with this gem/gold/cash-shop discussion. No system, on consistency, nothing smart at all.

So many “systems” I see that are the same in all MMOs. And in so many games, I so many bad designs and implementations for those systems.

The game worlds in MMOs become more and more beautiful. There are more talented and experienced artists in the industry every day, it seems. I think the majority of the budgets for games (including MMOs) must go to the artists who develop the world, the characters, the animations, the textures, etc, etc.

But why can’t a MMO developer hire a smart guy, with a background in gaming, and a maybe a background in accountancy or economy, to do this stuff ?

Why do they hire some freaky nerdy 35y-old kid, who probably played EQ1, and never grew up, to design the overall system of PvE gameplay at level-80 ? And let whole hordes of customers walk away from your beautiful game ? $50M or $100M budgets, and they let some joe-average design critical parts of their business plan.

It blows my mind.

You make a lot of points and padded them with empty arguments ,that says you know fuzz all really.

You say :

.AoC ,Vanguard and most MMO’s did it wrong.
But thats it , you say nothing more, thats it…just wrong you say

.Buying gear of of the TP is not exciting you say.
You dont have too?

.Dungeons are to hard for level capped players.
On your next point you go on about how the game does nothing to do that challenges you.

.Wow did it wrong GW2 even worse ^.
but then nothing again ….

.Good PvPers are being handicapped you say.
uhm…right..mmyeah……uhm..sooooo? what?

.You say that the cash shop/gem currency has no system and consistency
This one is so LOL it is ‘special’.
it so obviously does have a system , it is a player market and the market just started those thing need to settle. Go back in time and play eve-online to see how things work.

heres a hint: Its economy ,there isn’t supposed to be a set consistency.
A small educational point for you in economics: If market made predictable AKA consistent = people abuse it.
You get that?

Could you at least at one single point detail any of your ‘arguments’ or are you going to armchair everything without busting a single braincell yourself ?

It is tremendously easy to point the finger and say how something is done wrong. Any monkey can and usually will do that but that doesnt change the fact that your post is worth as much as a clunker at ferrari dealer.

I have made lots of players look like amateurs on my necro including 1v4’s even. Its only noobs that think necro’s are bad.

More like a legacy of low dpi mice.

tbh honest ,the camera comming in closer to your toon because it hits a wall or/w/e is something i have seen in every mmo. Unless you want to look at a black screen all of a sudden because your cam is inside a object this is a good thing.

I play the game with my GF and we sPvP a lot. open or tourny doesnt matter. If we enter tourny matches on the same sever togehter we simply have a blast and it doesnt matter if we are on the same team.

I see a whole lot of u here complaining that you want to play with your fWiends and at the same time complain about premade pvp elitezz , you do know that allowing people to get into matches with friends is a perfect system for premades ? Next to that you and your friends become one.

If you want a demo of how such a system will work against you from day 1 then go pvp in rift. It allows 3 people to enter a match yet premades already found a way to use that to get their entire group in,have fun with that.

Anet did indeed make the right call. Given time im sure there will be more viable options added.

As far as i know DS does not prevent 100% dmg.

gurugeorge.9857:

Well, it’s a question of degree I think. If the rate you can get it through official channels is reasonably close to illegal channels, or rather, if it’s enough to get a basket of typical “stuff” in-game, then that’s going to tip the scale for the average punter. They’ll swallow a bit of a loss for the ease of getting it and to ease their moral conscience.

But if there are so many bots in the game as people are reporting, then the scales aren’t being tipped at the moment, and it looks like people are preferring to buy Gold illegally for the moment.

The game just launched the gold sellers themselves do not even yet know if gw2 will be viable for them. Im already seeing a lot less spam mails or channel bots then i did a week ago.

Kindstrike.1962:

Mongo.2490:

Yeah, took me a bit to figure that one out. But setting a trigger button to change the function of one of your joysticks from mouselook to cursor fixed that for me.

So you can’t turn the camera and target the ground at the same time? I’m trying to imagine how awful this would be for a grenade oriented engineer…

Haven’t tried it with an engineer. I think you are right. It would be difficult.
Not impossible, but more trouble than its worth.
You would have to juggle the toggle to switch between mouselook and cursor. Can be done, but would it be worth it? lol. Maybe to some.

That rules out most classes/weps/builds then.

Mongo.2490:

Yeah, took me a bit to figure that one out. But setting a trigger button to change the function of one of your joysticks from mouselook to cursor fixed that for me.

So you can’t turn the camera and target the ground at the same time? I’m trying to imagine how awful this would be for a grenade oriented engineer…

Warrior or guardian would basically be the only somewhat viable ,playable choices in pvp. But dont expect to be leader of the pack at any time.

No matter what you do or how magical you setup a gamepad m/k will always be faster and more precise. Maybe if your bad at pvp (not a insult some ppl just are) it can make that particular part of the game more do able for you but that would be about it.

It does not make you rise above all and remove the challenge of fighting other people which is a bold bold claim even for someone who plays with m/k.

Kindstrike.1962:

Smackjack.5071:

Kindstrike.1962:

Smackjack.5071:

Kindstrike.1962:

In all my years of mmorpg playing I never thought a gamepad would be practical for the genre.

I hooked up my PS3 dualshock gamepad to my pc, and it’s amazing. I would swear it’s like the game was made for it.

Worked great with every class. The actiony combat just works so well with it. I’m untouchable now.

I was a “purist”, but now I encourage others to give it a try.

As a matter of fact, I need you too. sPVP and WvW isn’t a challenge for me anymore. My reaction times are just too fast to feel challenged.

lol

And then someone comes a long that is not challenged by a M/K setup (like most aren’t) and steamrolls over you and your gamepad. It is nice for you that you can finaly handle pvp but you are still at the short end of the stick.

I would agree in any other mmorpg. I always laughed when someone said they were using a gamepad for the game. lol.

But with the limited skills, and action combat. It just makes sense. And those with the know-how can set it up to be ultra responsive.

I get what you are saying. It’s just simply not true for GW2.

In that case i would just loove to see this on youtube and see how well you do with that in sPvP,that would really convince people, more so then some thread.

I’m not flexing my kitten. Let someone else do that.

That is a sudden change of tune there

As a matter of fact, I need you too. sPVP and WvW isn’t a challenge for me anymore. My reaction times are just too fast to feel challenged.

I could have sworn you would be proud to show it to everyone after hearing that claim.

Tomkatt.1684:

I can help with this.

Everything you need is in the document.

uhm yeah thats great tomcat but kindstrikes thread is about a ps3 gamepad, he supplied all there is needed to know for that specific pad already.

Kindstrike.1962:

Smackjack.5071:

Kindstrike.1962:

In all my years of mmorpg playing I never thought a gamepad would be practical for the genre.

I hooked up my PS3 dualshock gamepad to my pc, and it’s amazing. I would swear it’s like the game was made for it.

Worked great with every class. The actiony combat just works so well with it. I’m untouchable now.

I was a “purist”, but now I encourage others to give it a try.

As a matter of fact, I need you too. sPVP and WvW isn’t a challenge for me anymore. My reaction times are just too fast to feel challenged.

lol

And then someone comes a long that is not challenged by a M/K setup (like most aren’t) and steamrolls over you and your gamepad. It is nice for you that you can finaly handle pvp but you are still at the short end of the stick.

I would agree in any other mmorpg. I always laughed when someone said they were using a gamepad for the game. lol.

But with the limited skills, and action combat. It just makes sense. And those with the know-how can set it up to be ultra responsive.

I get what you are saying. It’s just simply not true for GW2.

In that case i would just loove to see this on youtube and see how well you do with that in sPvP,that would really convince people, more so then some thread.

wollie.9751:

Smackjack.5071:

Kindstrike.1962:

In all my years of mmorpg playing I never thought a gamepad would be practical for the genre.

I hooked up my PS3 dualshock gamepad to my pc, and it’s amazing. I would swear it’s like the game was made for it.

Worked great with every class. The actiony combat just works so well with it. I’m untouchable now.

I was a “purist”, but now I encourage others to give it a try.

As a matter of fact, I need you too. sPVP and WvW isn’t a challenge for me anymore. My reaction times are just too fast to feel challenged.

lol

And then someone comes a long that is not challenged by a M/K setup (like most aren’t) and steamrolls over you and your gamepad. It is nice for you that you can finaly handle pvp but you are still at the short end of the stick.

Its not optimal for PvP, but it is for PvE where you auto turn toward enemies anyway. Short of having a mouse with 10+ buttons on it this is the best way to play!

Thats not what the op said.

Kindstrike.1962:

In all my years of mmorpg playing I never thought a gamepad would be practical for the genre.

I hooked up my PS3 dualshock gamepad to my pc, and it’s amazing. I would swear it’s like the game was made for it.

Worked great with every class. The actiony combat just works so well with it. I’m untouchable now.

I was a “purist”, but now I encourage others to give it a try.

As a matter of fact, I need you too. sPVP and WvW isn’t a challenge for me anymore. My reaction times are just too fast to feel challenged.

lol

And then someone comes a long that is not challenged by a M/K setup (like most aren’t) and steamrolls over you and your gamepad. It is nice for you that you can finaly handle pvp but you are still at the short end of the stick.

Seen it ages ago,so how does this fix gw2’s fov again?

Eochaidh.4106:

…what? The dungeon reward system is infinitely better after today’s patch.

Yes but thats no fun to make threads about i gather

Booshbagg.6183:

so to end farmers you make it harder to get items that you need to make things, or things you just generally want….seems legit. time to farm harder guys i want those armors!!! but they made it harder so i gotta farm even harder now! GG…just GG

You get the tokens at the end of the run now with a added droprate next to that. How does that make the dungeon harder?

Unless your one of the speed farmers of course
Now the real goodies you get at the end of it, nothing new or strange about that is there.

they brought a patch to stop speedfarmers,so?

If they dont then ppl wil complain on how speed farmers are given free reign.

Can we preview gear now on the tp?

i dont even know how to find this minigame,how, where?