Guild Wars 2

5. add a ready button to prevent most 4 v 5

i got two idea my first would be alliance battles from gw factions (with slight changes like once a team got 500 points the enemy gate openes and you can channel the enemy respawner which will lead to a 12 v 12 deathmatch if both spawners are shut down)
surely you could do this with any amount of layers on each side if you have a big pool of maps to choose from depending on the players playing
i think this game mode is highly entertaining since capping points is important holding as well..not letting your enemy getting these points also

but ..
if one team (experienced wvw guild) always keps on zerging and the enemy team reaching 500faster ..but the wvw team not dieing..
it could become ..interesting since you need at some point to win a fight.. otherwise it wont end well for you xD

second idea fort asperwood
5 v 5 able
hot join.. meh not so much
you would have to wait like in gw1..

“fort asperwood is unfair always attackers/defenders win”
just make it 1 attacker round and 1 defender round…

if its in the 15min time frame depends on how quick the turtles (dolyaks) move how much hp the gates have
how easy you can repair the gates
and how much hp gunther got
also if dolyaks were attackable attackers in the defender team and defenders in attack team would be usefull.. (good for “hot” joins)
which means a balanced team (with high mobility if u want to repair) would be necessarry for tournaments

the team that killed faster / dfended gunther for longer (which will be the same team)
will get the winner reward

i dont know i think a moba style game would be fun..
but a truly nightmare to balance
just because the classes are so different to each other
even if anet tries to ONLY buff/debuff the ingame moab equipment buffs foods and so on …it just wouldnt work out i think

however the general idea is something i like

not the idea of killing getting money and experience to become so strong that no player has any chance against me..
i like the idea of npcs rushing into each other and you help your npcs to progress thus supporty builds would become a bit more viable
i dont know if u still can call it a moba gameplay if u have no buffs or anything u unlock..
well.. there could be a couple of buffs on the way …but not too many at max 1minute +25 on each stats
you will most likely only get it if you have pushed your enemy faar away back to his base so your team does make progress..
or have even killed him.. which would mean great progress
(instead of killing gives +5 killing could give the whole team 1minute +25on each stat actually.. )
the questin is who would win if after 15minutes no lord goes down?

depend it on kills?
on buffs collected (if u choose to get one with some minor buffs +100toughness / vitality would be possible as well)

i just cant see gw2 become a moba style game fitting on compettitive niveau
it surely would be fun though..

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

you have failed to understand the purpose of the topic. we are not seeking out hearts. it adds to the immersion of the game. please provide evidence that this was intentional. it’s most likely due to laziness and rushed development time. what if anet suddenly removed dynamic events and only had a single open world boss fight and dungeon? wouldn’t that suck? thats how i feel with hearts.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

SpeedFiend.4521:

Zones without hearts/vistas/skillpoints/POI and all that other jazz feel incomplete.

I don’t expect hearts in the new zones. The game has fewer and fewer as you progress through the higher level zones intentionally. They are only there in the lower level zones as a marker of sorts, a “hey check around here for events” training type object. By the time we get to the top level maps we should be actively seeking events, not hearts.

rushed development time lazyness…
yeah sure i totally agree with you programming a heart is sooo complex and needs so much time
dynamic events pfh more voice over more skaling issues
in some cases a route that has to be done.. in general dynamic events are more complex!!

things like press f here and walk there to speak to heart quest guy and u got it are reeeeeaaally easy..

however…
i would like to see some hearts in lvl 80areas
not as many as in starter zones
in cursed shore i would probably only place about 2 – 3 hearts

why?
dynamic events are nice.. but heart quests tend to have some text..

i mean id also like if they would add a few more books or things we can interact with to guess what has happened and… so
i know im weird ..but i liked quests in gw1

even if it was mostly really easy stuff like collect 15 things go there.. kill him…
..mhmh..

we will see how the new are will be..

they did this update partly to allow us to retrait anytime were not in combat
to test out stuff without being punished…
well.. partly its working

after creating a nother twink and leveling him up..

ive tested out stuff that ive not considered using be4…

the thing is once youre 80 you are either forced to buy the traits or do pretty much a whole world completion

and then u can test…

testing out and the stuff that is good and pretty much overused not getting instantly may be a good idea…

but if this leads to less people will try out stuff becasue they have to pay for it… mhmhmh..

i thin kthis needs some sort of overhaul

by just rewarding players with adept trit charges (or something like this) except of unlocking an adept tier trait

would be against trying out underused traits

so i dont thin kthis would be the prefect answer either…

well.. i hope its going to change and anet got some plans how to improve the current state of getting traits

its in an area where we could expect anything from 20 to 60
its not even next to a sterter zone.. its next to a zone after a starter zone

cough and even starter zones can lead into lvl 80 areas.. cough

karka island is lvl 80 as well
and if they handle it the same way
then during the event youre going to be upscaled
story is instanced anyway..
and after the event is over youre not going to be upscaled

at least i think its going to be this way
(if they add a new area remember maybe they just make brisban wildlands a bit larger and add a event that will in a few weeks be the pre event to enter the new zone..)

something like 45-60 would e nice..
but i think its going to be 80

pretty fast is actually searching a gold boss blitz pavilion hitting each boss for about 10k damage then going to next
you will get 6event rewards for killing bosses 1 for event compeltion and 1 for spending twice one silver

but dont you dare and really do that!!

people will hate you for doing such things

well youre just slowing all others down and reducing their gold / time

id highly recommend edge of the mists
a lot of events easy as kitten since you just have to follow commander
and u will get some not too bad stuff on the way

yeah rewards are better in crown pavilion..but dont you dare…!!

arena starter kit.. no.. but a couple of time tokens would be nice.. like 15or so

unlocking (account wide) all traits and stuff for 80 seem pretty reasonable i think as well

or something like pvp rank 50 all adepts account based unlocked
65 all master traits unlocked and 80 all grandmasters

its just frustraiting to create a new character to play pvp with a team full of “captain niveaus” or " Illl Il Illll " s and then u need to unlock some stuff that cost u quite a few skill points..

for a new character to get a nice armour using transmutation charges.. is okay since were getting plenty of them through pvp

but reaching 80 should really unlock osmething like this…

i mean reaching 50 65 or 80 in pvp should proof that we know at least one class
(maybe tie it to champion legionaire unlocks all warrior traits for your whole account and same for other professions.. to not reward skyhammer farmers..)

but something like this surely would be nice!!

remember that to the left of lions arch is some dominion of winds as well

maybe the map will get updated once we “explore what really is there”
the map as we see it is basd on the knowledge the land looked back then about 100years ago
the capital could be directly next ti lions arch and down in hte south the starter zone which got a bit more land than it looks like?!?
i mean orr was completely udner whater until zhaitan rose
maybe something rose there as well…

remember southsun cove pretty much sudenly appeared as well…

there as nt even a little island be4 if i recall it correctly…

so there is enough spcae for a captial and a starter zone

they surely could also make a new map that is not level 80

however i doubt it will come with this update since a lot of events heartquests armours need to be changed and without the tengu being indroduzed to us …i highly doubt we will get them as a playable race

if a tengu would join kasmeer rox and the others however….
(if ..then probly later than the sylvari…some say canach….)
that will take some time xDD

with the upcoming living story journal we could implement something like
achievement points gained within the living story (from two onwards)
it is repeatable and will be purchaseable in the future
and it is going to be with some difficult challenges as well

i think this might do the job better than most other suggestions xDD

sure there will be thousands of people on first place after he first update
but if anet comes with different difficult achievements with complete other ways to beat them
eventually the first place will only be with those who get the difficult
(please no its hard to get because its pure luck)
things every time
yeah… no clear first place… but still a good idea.. i guess..

even better bandits want to ruin queens jubelee nr3 and we fight side by side to liadri and all those others..
liadri just oneshots champ bandits

i think this could be really fun

psizone.8437:

I did a quick google to see what kind of pets we could look forward to (searched for Maguuma Jungle wildlife) and one or two caught my eye.

Obviously, the warthog was in the trailer but it is already a charmable pet, but on the old guild wars wiki it mentions a “Fevered Devourer” and a “Jungle Skale”

Now, the Devourer had an elite called “Virulence” that could be slightly modified to cause torment, poison and weakness on an enemy that has a condition on it (torment to replace the original “disease” effect) for its F2 ability. (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Fevered_Devourer)

The Jungle Skale could be fun, too since it’s active would most likely be a boon-stripping attack in place of it’s enchantment stripping original attack. (http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Jungle_Skale)

On the talk of skale, if they let us charm that one they could easily open up the other types of skale wandering Kryta as pets.
(http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ridgeback_Skale , http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Brackish_Skale , http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bog_Skale , http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skale_Blighter)

i highly doubt skale will be tamable
there are wildcats dogs drakes bears etcetc… no skales
neither do i think they will be there since it is not as it was back then in gw1
much less water…

however new pets would be awesome
i could even think of a new pig..maybe some dog…but since we already have hyenes.. im not so sure..
lions would be nice or krokodiles (both were tameable in gw1) both fit into the desert and lion => cat krokodile => drake fits quite well..
lets just hope for the best^^

probably it wont count towards map completion..does southsun count to map completion? i dont know but i dont think actually..so there shouldnt be a problem

i didnt even think of MOX ..i loved him in gw1…
great idea i hope we will see him again

.. why do u even think its dry top?
sure it looks like it but a couple of years have passed sicne gw1 and if u look on the map there is much previous planted now orange wasteland rocky..stuff
also.. dry top was by far not the only area with this style in gw1

i think dry top ! might ! be some kind of hill with a point of interest
maybe two events around it and a boss on top but thats it

rembmer that dry top was one of the smallest ares in whole gw1..xD
there cant be much if its even going to be mentioned ^^

well its not on 99%
it is on 100% capped
just because the symbol of the point still shows its neutral doesnt say it is like this
its actually exact this contested symbol which is bugged..

but this bug is quite old actually..

happens quite often

but it would be nice if its going to be fixed some day…^^

Dezert Stormz.7248:

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Sythus.2396:

I’m already hyped for this. The sandstorm environmental effect looked incredible, can’t wait!

agreed, those long coats everyone has been complaining about may come in very handy there haha.

Good thing my ranger has Mist Walker Armor, with Hood, so she’s settled for any sand storm!

you sure are lucky…
my fancy niely polished metal plate armour will be full of dirt sand and scratches… : (

Blaeys.3102:

Im pumped. Great teaser.

It raises more questions than it answers, but that is a good thing. I like experiencing the big ticket items in the game for the first time instead of on youtube.

The big questions for me right now are, who attacked the Zephyrites and will we get to provide aid/help them out in any way? Aetherblades make the most sense, but they aren’t the only possibility (A dragon, Tengu, or even Evon Gnashblade – as revenge for supporting Kiel maybe).

And a new desert area will be fun – not sure if we’ll get to go there on July 1 (video makes it look like were just prepping/dealing with threats in Brisban), but I hope the gates actually open and we do.

Regardless, it looks great so far.

well id much rather guess bandites

but we will find out soon
just what did anet mean exactly by take water and buff food against conditions..
buff food s pretty much clear…
did the water just implement maguuma wasteland?
or will there be some way in litterally taking water with you..

we could seens sand storms so why not bottled water as well.. u can only have 5 at max in your buff bar and while the time passes by it slowly goes away..:D

we will find out

just one more week…. >__<

ProtoGunner.4953:

10 man parties would be nice. I’d appreciate that. Many forget, that GW1 had a similar aggro system which the ‘tank’ was more body blocking instead of tanking with aggro. Same were with the earliy Urgoz meta with 8 or so Rangers with pet, to body block the huge amounts of enemies.

Only those 10man groups are boring. It would work. I heard the ‘stacking 10 isn’t any different’-argument. The point is: just make the mechanics interesting where stacking isn’t possible. There are numerous encounter already in game where you can’t stack.

I see the possibility to split up 5 an 5 player groups to fight a twin-boss or fighting on different levels. At least we could have a little more epic fights with 10 people than with only 5. It’s just a bit boring. Anyway, at least I hope they will add new dungeons/raids…

well to not allow stacking they could add some sort of debuff like every 5 seconds a firetooth appears above your head
(10 players id say two groups of five who should work together)
and every team member gets a different timing so that every second a tooth will come down…
without massive protections or continous moving ball the players would have to split.. or the times of each group make duos so that two fire toths appear at the same place the whole time and they only have to doge onse in 5sec..or use aegis a block or something.. xDD

another way would be a constant fire aura around everyone so that if your aura touches an allie (and his you) you both get per half second 1k dmg (more if glasscannon) and 1.5second burning
or something like krit sigills players that are closer than 200 get struck by sigil of air every 3seco.. nah lets say 0,5seconds muhahah ..we dont want them to stack and thats how we educate you not to stack^^

make sure to only proc when players are nearby
it would suck if all the summon sigils traits builds runes….. everything would cause you to die a horrorible death xDD

in general i think anet should go back to gw1 there are a lot of ideas they can bring to gw2
like two teams of 5 (in gwfactions 2 teams of 8 ) fighting through missions
also groups who split up vizunah square + deep..

urgoz the deep or other areas where you have different chamber effects
i dont mean add chamber effects..but you could make a whole dungeon with such an effect so that you have to build specially for this dungeon to not buff your group if enemies corrupt your boons or steal your boons and use them on their own..

btw please add some mobs to make something like aoe boon to condi transfering
i know im kinda sadistic…. a bit

also more bosses with stability
u know that thing that u can corrupt.. steal and everything and then can knock the boss around until he gets stability again..
like 20sec duration 15reload time
same for regeneration and a reaaalllly high healing power stat (probly protection as well)
so that if u want to kill the boss you would need 5ascended berserker top ..blablablah and still a lot of time…
or.. you would just remove regeneration and knock around so that he wont start regeneration again
such things is pve really missing
your edge of the mists creatures do have some interesting feaures like no dmg from the front (i love that)
please more of this currently pve is waaay too boring (and forgiving)
and still rewarding…^^

Edit:
cc boon removal and condition dmg too underused in pve
the evolved worm has shown that you have your ways to bring us dmg resistant enemies where you should use condis do something simillar for cc and boon removal as well now.. and more of it

most of the skins are actually really nice

the problem is theyre not account bound
they should have been

but a precursor or even a legendary for the story???
No!
waaaay too extreme
sure legendarys would still be desireable…
but as expensive as they are now everyone if he wants a legendary would just run the story again instead of buying it the prices would drop for sure
also everyone you see or at least 80% will walk around with a legendary…
the point that there are more legendarys than guys with green /yellow weapons is…
N0!!!
like 5 exotic inscriptions so u can make half a ascended weapon of choice if you do the rest on your own one ascended weapon..
would probably be still too much but it would fit much better….
but precursor..
same thing even if its account bound noone would buy precursors anymore
to drop one somewhere wouldnt mean much…so the actal crafting would be the central thing… even if legendarys drop in price.. this could make things better.. in some ways..
or simply do not change a thing since anything around precursors is at a high risc…
if anet is still working on precursor crafting however…
we might need to do story 100% for one part of the precursor… thatdbe nice

combination auras sound interesting but
what should anet do if the bring us some new legendarys
i dont even know if theyre still working on new legendarys but if they do they would have to match 1sword with 2pistols 2 swords(u can have twice the same sword) 2torches 2warhorns 2mazes 2axes 2pistols 2shields 2daggers 2fokuses (or whatever several fokus… are) … a lot of combinating auras and that was just ONE sword if theyre working on new legendarys…

if teyre not itd still be 10combination auras for the sword (if double blitz looks differently than just one

and then there are also combinations like axe shield… a lot to do…

so i doubt this will happen

however if enough people request shinier onehanded legendarys
or request funktions like show the aura of by offhand weapon instead of the default mainhand legendary
that are things they could probably change

(remember they made two handed legendarys alongside some 1handed shinier in hte past because they werent shiny enough why shouldnt they do it again )
btw i think they are fine so i wont submit a suggestion like make legendarys shinier

the idea to show offhand legendary aura however…
is something i would like
(or maybe also allow you to colpletely toggle of aura or legendary if u so desire…)

i do like the general idea but that would be too much gold flooded into the system i think

great idea with average score

40silver for rank 80 which isnt that hard to get to… really..
another 40silver for being top 100 in leaderboards? ..mhmh

id probly prefer 20silver for top 100lb which means 2.5silver each 100th
and 1silver and 25 copper for every ten ranks you achieve so only 10silver more

and ofc only give these rewards in case you win

id like it it would encourage players to hold their rank in the lb (even if the leaderboards are in some ways often pretty inacurrate)
which means more regular playing teams…good for pvp

EDIT: and as some wise man once said : “what is good for pvp is good for the whole game” (which i actually dont really think is 100% true but… anyway..^^)

nice idea but i doubt this problem has high priority

also sylvari engineer placing his plant turrets + his racial turrets
some engi friend some other race and others escecially in pvp this could be quite not nice to learn which turret looks which way

currently u know how th turrets look like and simplycharge at them in case of flame rocket or rifle turret (not if engi is on 5% ofc..)

however an option to toggle turret skins on and of would be nice

ZudetGambeous.9573:

lunyboy.8672:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

How is endure pain not an immunity?

Can’t apply direct damage: Check

Can’t apply condition damage: Check

Can’t fear him out of the point: Check

He is 100% immune to any and all attacks for the duration of the ability with no counter play available.

You CAN apply both Hard CC and conditions (soft CC included), you just can’t do any direct damage, as it’s all reduced to 0. This mechanic allows you to crit and proc crit sigils or traits, and otherwise generate effects like boon removal, or condition removal/transfer with sigils.

Incorrect. I face warriors every day. Condition applications require the direct damage component to “hit” the target to apply the condition. This means warriors will continue to take condition damage they already have, but you can not apply new conditions to them during the effect. Additionally since necros only form of CC is fear and this is a condition you can not CC a warrior as a necro either.

sure u cant fear a war while berserker stance but u can while endure pain
if he uses both…both is on cd in a couple of seconds and you should really waste all your fear into berserker stance
especially for necro it is reallly important to see if your target got stability or in case of the warrior berserker stance as well
and if he does just dont cc…

the only thing i would do is buff rangers invulnerability since it does only make you invulnerable to direct damage without stability or condi reductuon and still does not allow capturing point
i think warriors stances are fairly well balanced
in comparison with other classes invulnerability

the problem lies with rangers invul which is clearly weaker than warriors and all others

source?

i highly doubt it

Meglobob.8620:

Why do so many PvPers have bad attitudes?

Around 10%.

Why?

Because I have found no matter what it is your doing in life, 10% have a bad attitude about it…its one of life’s constants.

I do wonder wether its by and large the same 10% of people or if it varies depending on the subject at hand.

But 10% of all people in the world have a bad attitude…might be genetics…who knows?

id say about 25%
in my team we got one always raging in chat like … well.. something that rages a lot..
i never rage in chat always try to be calm and explain it what they shouldve / couldve done better or where to go (im usually the guy who rerols to guard in solo q as well so.. yeah..)

the thing is when were via voice talk
i…kinda… rage sometimes…a bit xDD
i dont know why and im not raging when there are strangers just my team who is used to mee get to hear me raging
but yeah..

i really like the idea o swapping out sigils infusions runes
but
changing stats should ONLY be possible for legendarys

changing sigils and runes for exotic.. they dont even have infusion slots so yeah..

and then the change to ascendet would still be greater than it is now since ascended gives you more of an advantage
and legendary would be even better since theyfully benefit from every viable sigil our there since you can change the stats to condition damage like mesmer zepter or different sigill and stat combo usefull for direct damage..

yeah i think i will really like at the end of one release still missing one or two achievements friends asking me to come pvp cause they are 4/5..
and i can say yeah sure ill do these achievements in halv a year.. i got the story so i can do it whenever i want

well i will still play the new content on the release day (assuming there is nothing extreme that hinders me from doing so)
just because i dont want to fall “behind” in the story and get spoilered by… anything

its going to be great if it will turn out as we imagine

lets just hope it will turn out that way..

Liewec.2896:

Prophet.6257:

Nope.

It’s called “stat padding” and in the end it’s meaningless. They will be high rank and getting stomped out by average players. If they are doing it to farm loots… well they are wasting a HUGE amount of time that could be spend elsewhere on a far more efficient farm.

indeed that they’re wasting their time farming, and its sad that these few farmers are the reason anet claim for the hotjoin daily progress cap that punishes us all >_<

it doesnt really punishes me

im not so much into hotjoin…xD
if i want to do some pvp i either go with my pvp team (or ask in my friendlist if we need a replacement)
go into soloq
or just do some little training in or password locked arena to get better at 1v1 1v2 2v2 2v3 and 3v3 situations (well yeah we could also train surviving 1v3 as long as possible but that should never happen if you keep an eye on your opponents so…yeh)

if u hit that daily hotjoin cap then try out some soloq
its really not that bad
sure afks some matches are unfair but.. unfair matches end just as quickly as hotjoin matches with better rewards and fair matches sure are great as well..^^

i had the optinion of permanent would be awesome be4 reading all this but…
seasonal would be great so that players dont loose interest
something like 2times a year for a month each would be great
were waiting for months now..
if you are not done with a complete new world.. then so be it just give it back to us as it is
no achievements because no new world?

cant u just add a couple of achievements every time
like play world 1 and 2 in normal mode
possibly some hardmode achievements
(srry dont know the name since im not playing the game in english >__<)
and so be it

the story around moto in rata sum can have some progress as well

really easy stuff

just give us the SAB we have been waiting for too long : ((

seasonal!! twice a year!! thanks

ive completed the rave several times (roundabout 7) within the first week of this event but never one skill failed me
either it was me klicking “do the ligning jump into some gust!”
or it worked perfectly well
sure u cant just the wind jump if you are midair….
…anyway

naming it something else idk since it got elements and the feeling of guild sprint
something like sprint or race fits quite well

and since its over in a couple of days i doubt they will change its name…

ah and also even if the position u land on doesnt effect anything..
the fact that u can race with others and enjoy being the fastest or start the same time like your friends do… (which makes it much more fun) lets it name shine in a new light

if it was part of the story (but id much rather say its an sidestory id pick the SAB sab back to school was soo much fun
a cuple of hours of trying how to get through these damw flowers ice spike …DEAD GRMFGH and the satisfaction to be the first two of our guild who made it

also these account bound colourfull weapons
cant fait for next SAB

in general i reeeeeaaaallly dislike the idea of oneshot skills cince that encourages to use zerker stuff since if oneshot it doesnt matter if you have close to 4000 toughness or 2000…

but some kind of punishment for simply autoattacking from far would be nice

for close range every 20sseconds a 3second fear
and for range above 1200 (up to 2000) every 20seconds 3stacks konfusion

or to make not all bosses have the same skill others could have some pull(or teleport) up to 25players into a orb (like liadris) and then a high damaging(not instakill) long lasting aoe that pretty much kills everyone who does not move (ie autoattack)
note:this aoe should not be able to spawn in mellee range of boss!!

or simply some retaliation phase the boss gets every few seconds.. (even if i dont like that method since this does not allow attacking at all whilst others let you attack when u do it right..)

moving bosses couldprioritize players that did not move for the longest time a bit more (even if i doubt its be that easy to program..)

overall i think they showed us quite interesting mechanics in hte crown pavilion
like retaliation on ogre
healing turret..(i didnt mention that..xD)
the pirate who lays a ton of aoes around him/her idk that are dodgeable and really fun..sure there is an afk option if lured to the side…. but the mechanic itself is nice

boss porting from here to there.. overall there are a lot of things anet can do and starts to implement
cant wait for living story season 2

but i do hope that they buff some of the world bosses who simply are afk loot..

i like it that they are easy if theyd be medium difficulty theyd still die as often

its just that it would encourage players NOT to go afk

unfortunately the lazyness of people wants to go afk and get nice rewards whilst afk^^

im not sure but i think ive ehard something like it will be obtainable in the future per similar content so it will probably (if its true what ive heard) be given at tournament of legends 3
also i do think u can win some minis in the chat of the streams
(i guess.. if its like last time like the finisher)
and yeah id like a exclusive reward nice but 1. for only the first win?!? naah 2. why a minipet.. u cant rly do much with them and since there are soo many nice ones out there… mhmhm itd be difficult
my suggestin a finisher for the top three maybe some gold silver and bronce (whatever) things..
which you can only obtain at tournaments of legends
these would be a reaally unique and nice reward

or at least some sort of title (again just for top 1 team top 3 or top 8 everything else… meh..)

even if i will never get any of these..
that would be something worth training for

haviz.1340:

Zord.6130:

Lol no, Ele, if focused, is far better at handling pressure than a Warrior. Perma vigor, Burning Speed, RTL, Lightning Flash+Protection and mistform are all great escapes. A warrior will NOT last more than 3-5 seconds more than a Ele ON point, but he has no means of disengaging, while Ele has a lot. If the Ele sees that he’s been focused, he can move away easily and only a thief can chase him down (but even then it would take quite a while and if this happens)

What about endure pain and berserker’s stance coupled with cleansing ire?

these stances combined with more toughness and vitality make hte hambow really tanky
but eles mobility is much better

and also most of the eles buffs and heals do heal everyone around him

me bunker guard and a d/d friend of mine win 2 v 3s on far quite often .. sure it may be the others who suck

but even if the 3s are strong they need a lot of effort to get gurd + ele down

DDCarvalho.2071:

I always like to imagine ways to implement the wishes of some of the player base without impacting the rest that think that “it’s fine the way it is”.
The thing I imagined was a “Legendary Mode”, which would work kinda like Hardcore on Diablo.
Players that, on character creation, chose “Legendary mode” for this character, would have the “Legendary” title and even the purple character frame for that character, and would enjoy something like 500% magic find.
If they were able to complete Story Mission (or some other equally distant objective) without dying, they would be rewarded with a Precursor instead of the weapon that is currently the reward for completing Story Mission.
Also, some achievement points would apply for the people that chose to play on this mode when they reached a milestone.
And LFG could have an option to limit your search to Legendary characters because their play styles would probably be much different from the normal playerbase (imagine a bad kite on a dungeon, could ruin 80+ hours of game). And also the option to keep those players out of your “normal player” search, because of course there would be a lot of people using this to try to farm Precursor and using “normals” as shields to avoid risking their precious Legendary characters.
(Oh, maybe the Legendary character could choose to ressurect on death, but if he/she did that, it would lose the chance to precursor, the magic find bonus, and the accolades. And would have permanently the title “Disgraced hero”. Nasty!)
In summation, great rewards and a lot of recognition for the ones that choose that path, and strictly optional so the people who prefer Theme Park Wars continue happy (like me! I play this for fun…).
Do you guys and gals see problems with that idea?

i actually do

a lot of things had to be changed like tomes of knowledge cant be used u cant equip equipment that u havnt found with this special character otherwise itd be waaaaay too easy
story line no party members can join up and “help you” without scaling the whole instance (or rather just disabke this function)
the storyline itself would need some sort of remake because it is too easy for such a reward
many precursors would swarm the trading post (unless you make it account bound on aquire)which then follows in less players want to buy them from trading post thus prices still drop…

i think thats it

however i really like your idea
and just to make something like that and once youve survived the storyline or something challenging…
getting rewarded by a few achievement points and a unique title would be enough i think
like gw1s survivor title (was)
if your char dies you still got your chra u dont need to delete him
but.. you cant get the title…
later they changed it so you can…
they could pretty much bring exactly this back..
i think
would not be much but would be another target players could set themselve and would try to not die
also it shouldnt be too difficult ^^

Liewec.2896:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Stop using Barrage

^ good luck with that XD, once its fired its fired, if a guardian puts retaliation on his whole group you’re in trouble :P

that being said there are very few skills like Barrage which can’t be stopped,
so anyone taking ridiculous amounts of retal damage probably deserves it for mindlessly spamming aoe.

i love getting group retaliation when i see an off-guard porting to us and starts whirling around…

especially guards who dont have much basic hp
die sooo quickly to this

well.. you could change liadri so that not four directions are full of aoe but 4/6 is aoe these aoes deal damage so if u get hit by one aoe u are down if zerker if tanky u will hvve about 30%left
also the spead of the aoes increse so that the player has to keep the same speed in order to not get hit

i think that would
make not full zerkers a bit more viable since as it is currently
zerker is thebest option due to the time limit..
and not getting many advantedes out of vitality or toughness since pretty much everything oneshots you..

but i hope with the upcoming permanent content hardcore achievements
there will be less things that require a short time thus a high dps

if they do want this oneshot emchanic they could take other ways to go around zerker / tanky specs even classes

just make these hardcore achievements like the event chain in the sylvary starter zone where you get transformed into a crab moa drake or something

even if that would not feel like liadry anymore since the finding the “best” skills weapons etc for the class becomes pretty much irrelevant..

im sure the upcoming hardcore content
will not all be the same

there are a lot of things anet can do

also hese achievements stay there forever when im right
so no more maah i cant do it with this class and i dont have a engineer..it costs me soo much QQ ….

we’ll see what these will be like ^-^

Matisse.9356:

From my point of view (as I have already mentioned in various other threads), the main reason for the somewhat toxic environment it admittedly currently has is that new and veteran players are thrown together. This just doesn’t work out.

The matchmaking needs rework. E.g. mixing a rank 10 with a rank 80 is just not right and most likely a bad experience for BOTH sides.

The way it works now I feel that the only thing that keeps players from moving away from pvp (to a large degree) is the rewards.

i wouldnt count ranks i would check how many tournament games played
not hotjoin
not glora/rank farm
only tournaments since it is a tournament situation and if two players does not have any tournament experience they will most likely screw the whole team up
letting mid / far freecap resing whilst just one more hit on target would secure it all and such…
all things that you dont know necessarry as lvl 80 but my guildies
(some even udner 10 which i play together via voice chat as 80 )
learn steadily
they know how to play their class from wvw
but map overview and stuff is something that you have to learn either way

i think it should be possible in teamq to be matched with 2level 8 2level 13 and one level 80 against 5 level 80
but in solo q it should be changed to players with less than 50games(tournament) played CANT be mixed together with guys that have played 500games
same goes for people with less than 200 cant play with more than 1000
above the 200tournament games played id remove any limitations since by then they should know how it should be done

i thought you would wish for something to filter out the “ugly” skins out of your wardrobe when i first saw the title..^^

then i thought abour dyes and how anet could .. probably add a favourites skin tab to find the ones you like or want to use later more comfortable..

well this should probly go to the suggestion thread then…

ascended armors… i do like most of them to a certain degree

they dont look that well if u wear all the parts since it looks like head and legs are made by one person and shulders + boots from another

but the parts on their own do often (i just dont like some of them) look kinda nice
and you could surely mix them into some armours

you can transmutate your armor now easier than ever be4 and get the transmutation charges easier
so if u cant stand a single piece…change it

EDIT: i do like the heavy armor set ^-^
the sunglasses however..meh but i dont need to get them.. so i just let them be…

EverythingEnds.4261:

@ Chilli
I think you didn’t understand Dee Jays Thread.

He complains about all “regular” Hot Join Servers being full.
So, you “Join Now” makes you enter a Custom Arena, from which a big part are “Rank-farm Arenas”.

Because the overload of Hot Join, players who wouldn’t usally play on Solo and TeamQ start playing there, without having proper experience.

I think, ANet rly needs to react quick and increase the amount of Hot Join Servers. There are so many new players, that a lot of them get pushed into some 10 vs. 10 custom zerg arenas, where you don’t learn anything.

if id work for anet id probly lower the daily limit you can get through reward chests for quite a bit ( 5-15 ) .
to drag the players to tournament pvp
sure more noobs in the tournaments but the other teams will have noobs too..
80 loss ratio in team que well yeah it sucks starting alone in teamq get together with noobs and then a premade team (ideal with voice chat) to fight against…
then go solo q!!!

soloq is fair in that regard

(sure a few matches are favored for the on team other for the other team but because there is so much randomed who will be in which team its fair overall even if only 50% of the matches need to be played since the others are decided pretty quickly…which is good since that means god guys win faster newer players see that the loose more often than win and ask themselve why and will improve…at some point in the future…hopefully)

a fractal reward track that gives you some token in the last reward and 10 of them can be traded into a full fractal weapon this token would ofc also implemented into the daily reward chests 50
would solve pretty much all problems and would give pvpers access to fractal weapons (as well as rising the fractal weapons people get from doing high fractals)
i dont like that there are so less people that run 50 because the reward is the same if u go 49 or 50 just that 50 requres 70ar and ar is somewhat expensive..so why even the bother…
well with these fractal weapon tokens youd have a guaranteed fractal weapon after doing 10 times fractals 50 which would ecourage some pvelers to get ascended armour weapons or the higher tiers of agnony resistance infusions..

whilst pvplers would have the option to get fractal weapons as well..

(ofc you could change it t u need 20tokens u get 1 through reward track and 2 through 50daily chest…. )
or something like this

or add u need to have personal fractal level of 10 to actvate fractal track so that even pvplers with exotic gear had at least 1 time felt agony
without making it tooo hard of a grind

i do think even 10 might be too high since therefore u need to do 9 times 4 fractals
which is clearly longer than ANY storymode dungeon..

the necro with minions dies to aoe dmg he cnat heal himself that good and all the minions die

guardian got not so much vitallity health pool is quite low
but toughness and healingpower will make him the class you are looking for

i thought that backpiece would be account bound… wtf
wheres even the purpose in making this reward track and a backpiece that u can ONLY aquire by doing pvp if you can also buy it from the trading post?!?!?
….
why???

we want account bound skins !!

the reward tracks in general are okay..
transmutation charges and all that stuff on the way that so many players oversee…
i like it!

but…
WHY?!? please anet tell me why u didnt made that backpiece account bound >__<

i havnt seen any of these thigns in pvp yet but on teamspeak ive heard of guildies who had seen someone using more than two different kidn of weapons and.. they do know how the warriors sword longbow hammer and greatsword differs

but i doubt we will see anything like this in the tournament of legends since the upper rounds (and maybe some more i dont know) will be shoutcasted and the risk would probably be way to high

i do like the idea of condis doing their part but ONLY CONDIS DO DMG?!? is a bit too harsh
i think you should always have the option to restart if you fail
however you will take much longer to succeed
like guarding the npc while hes running fro mcheckpoint to checkpoint (long distances each with a boss at the end) and if the npcs dies group wipe which means fro mcheckpoint onwards
like the npc walks with a determined speed so that you would need enough dmg to kill him quickly but resistance against crit there fore doubled incoming condi dmg or something so that a group variety is at least helpfull
and ofc attacks that oneshot glasscannons but not oneshot soldiers clerics etc
maybe two shot zerkers.. so that magi would be usable as well..^^

bosses that aquire cc like he needs to be immobilized stunned or knocked down in a certain area to dmg him (like in fractals) just with the difference the boss would be some greatsword quickly moving whirling and rushing warrior

there are a lot of things anet could do
id like some kidn of high end dungeon as well
fractals wer emeant to be that but .. theyre not that challenging overall..
however there are some nice bosses in the fractals just have trust in anet they maybe bring something like fractals or just add some more fractal levels above 50 that get really challenging (but give extra rewards.. )

well we get for our transmutation stones charges
the armour you currently wear in pve.. will still exist…^^

and the armour youre wearing in pvp.. u get one charge for each pvp rank
which means u will most likely get 6 charges if you already got an full pvp armour ..xDD

well if du defeated him after a 2min fight (during this time the point ticked for the enemy) then u did won against him but it was a noobish move to attack a point that is captured from the enemy in the first place

if u defended it or kep far neutral however…

i cant see why its bad

wvw roamer u say…

something with invisibility ? because inspvp u dont see that much invisibility its in 1v1 fights verrry usefull but u wont capture points.. you loose them

if you kill your target in a fw hits its oka cause then you can recap the point quickly enough…

did u make yourself invisible to stomp and let the enmy with that capture the point??

there are a lot of possibilities xDD

doesnt the reward trakcs go faster with solo and team tournaments as well?!?

if not ill probly hotjoin my kitten off
mhm.. idk probly not

simply reducing the rewards in hotjoin would already be enough i feel

mhmmh id much rather put it into the bug section

balance issue sounds like its allowed and just a nice trick you can pull off..^^

crit immune with conjure ..seems not tooo bad xD
i might think about it

i thought about this trait like
okay u need good reactions then a pistolwhip thief is about to burst u quickly switch..
but kitten .. conjure weapon could work quite well… xDD