Guild Wars 2

MMR has a rating decay so if you played lots of games 2 years ago it will barely make any difference.

I like the idea of profession locking if profession MMR is applied and match making ensures no class stacking (ok maybe allow 2 of a class but not 2 pairs of classes, eg 2 thieves allowed but not 2 thieves AND 2 necros in a team)

ThePahkage.2684:

alternative suggestion:

allow profession swapping, but block off any view of the opposing team

swapping profession to accommodate a team’s make-up is paramount to making a PUG competitive with a pre-made

if swapping was locked-out, then PUGs would end up having a lot of toxic whiny kittens crying from the beginning of the match over team makeup instead of playing the game

But the reason why someone would want to swap profession is to compliment his team comp while simultaneously taking into account enemy team comp. Allow profession swap but not allowing to view enemy team is practically worthless.

Yasi.9065:

If there were only one build viable per profession, maybe.

At Non Trash tier level of play there is only 1 or 2 good builds to play for each profession.

Allowing players to log and change classes after the teams have been chosen is the easiest way to game this match making system. I dont think it will be as infrequent as you think it will be.

Lock out class changes and be done with it. As you say then MMR can be class specific instead of account specific which will greatly help matchmaking and encourage players to test new classes.

fost.9167:

What about defender runes+shield (I saw that build floating around forums and was pretty decent).

Disclaimer: I abandoned warrior a while ago so probably a stupid comment

Defender runes are not available in PvP. At least the last time i checked. For WvW yes they are very good.

Not sure i would use CoP if there is more than one necro on enemy team. That boon corrupt right after cleansing is gonna hurt.

Rome.7124:

Spartacus.3192:

lol why would people delete level 80 toons? Dont you know its the “circle of life”. what is underpowered now will be OP at some point? I certainly did not delete my level 80 war and thief when they were underpowered last season.

not all classes are made the same nor perceived the same by Anet and the PvP community. Both warrior and thief class have been in meta longer than quite a few other classes.

I actually got my thief to level 80 after HOT release (so when it was complete cr8p in pvp) i liked playing something different and it was fun in HoT maps.

lol why would people delete level 80 toons? Dont you know its the “circle of life”. what is underpowered now will be OP at some point? I certainly did not delete my level 80 war and thief when they were underpowered last season.

Choppy.4183:

Spartacus.3192:

gee thanks ANET

At least they buffed hammer i guess.

How long do you want?

5-10 seconds would be impactful. Not sure 2sec really does anything

Starting today.

“Thieves, Thieves, Everywhere!”

Staff is gonna own so many more people now. lol

Classic example of lets make a new profession make it OP, get everyone to buy HOT and the nerf the crap out of it….oh well cant say we didnt see this coming a while back

gee thanks ANET

At least they buffed hammer i guess.

Mogar.9216:

Basically I wasted over 1 hr playing those matches because what I did or didn’t do made very little difference at all.

Almost makes the case that AFK’ers were right all along.

Just kidding but you know what i mean. This 50% W/L thing is BS.

Cynar Valdyr.7854:

Phaeton.9582:

big thanks to Josh for fighting the good fight

heavy handed but clear results

the only thing left is what to do about elite specs vs regular specs

As much as I’ll agree that they’re far more powerful than the average specialization line, they’re supposed to be ELITE Specializations, not just another specialization… Elite specializations should be the meta for their class across the board, much like using an elite skill in GW1 was meta, even though you could opt not to… When there’s more than one choice of elite specialization things will diversify a lot.

Thats not what ANET said when they announced the specs. They said it would be an alternative way of playing the class.

Zintrothen.1056:

Ah, a game with 4 other pugs! Perfect! Now I’ll leave and punish them for not doing anything wrong! Hey, maybe they’ll even win still and not be rewarded for winning a 4v5! kittenolol lololol lololol!

Hes talking about people in your “party” not team. So if you duo/triple queue and leave mid match then you and your party members lose pips. The solo queues (pugs) in your team will not lose pips.

Sunshine.5014:

Spartacus.3192:

1. Anet should increase the cooldowns of every Skill/Utility by 10%-20% for every class (except maybe thief and warrior).

2. Reduce the uptime of every boon by 10%-20%

3. Reduce the uptime of every condi by 10%-20% (well maybe not this one)

That could be the first pass just to bring the power creep down. Then go deep and look into balancing better.

PvE players will cry lol, so it won’t be implemented.

99% of PVE is pretty much AFK easy so i don’t really agree. (raids are an exception)

displacedTitan.6897:

Hammer and Sneak Gyro are both OP. To pretend otherwise is either ignorant or disingenuous (depending on your knowledge level).

Hammer should not have both the best defense AND strongest offense in pvp. There is no reason that I should be hitting people for 6-8k with rocket charge, 6k with electro whirl and 3-4k with my block, in a row, through a stun (from hammer) while stacking vuln for funsies.

Sneak Gyro at 20 second CD makes you unkillable, for real, if you die as a scrapper you are a bad player. You can endlessly reset fights by popping sneak, running away a little ways and healing up and going back in. Between broken hammer, dura runes and sneak gyro Scrappers are fully OP in both damage and defence.

Dura runes are going away next week. Sneak Gyro CD doubled…. its a pretty big hit on Scrapper.

Rickster.8752:

PowerBottom.5796:

Can’t w8, I really wanna see them too! I’ve been theorycrafting about a possible new meta and builds for hours now, but it’s hard to do somewhat accurately without the full notes!

Let me do my homework in advance ANet – pleaaaassssseeee!

The build system is so streamlined it will take 5 minutes to work out every build on every class. Really. Its not complicated.

HAHA so true @Rickster. The build system has been dumbed down so much since the June update, it will take less than 30 min (and that’s way overthinking it) to know what build is going to be decent. Then you need to test in matches and fine tune after that.

1. Anet should increase the cooldowns of every Skill/Utility by 10%-20% for every class (except maybe thief and warrior).

2. Reduce the uptime of every boon by 10%-20%

3. Reduce the uptime of every condi by 10%-20% (well maybe not this one)

That could be the first pass just to bring the power creep down. Then go deep and look into balancing better.

I would also prefer splitting the amulet stats into 2 or 3 choices so we choose armor/weapon/amulet….

Now assuming ANET doesnt want to do the coding/work necessary for this then having 5 stat amulets would be better than nothing.

Saying it would be “too confusing” is an insult to the PvP player base. As mentioned above players already know how to customize stats since we have to do it in PVE and WvW anyway. Or is ANET insinuating that dedicated PvP players are dumber than PVE/WvW players?

Padd.1479:

I really hope not all those people who complained about thief and switched classes come back now… Wouldnt like matches full of thieves at all.

I’ll give you one guess what all those Eles and Mesmers are gonna reroll to…..

I liked smite condition on my meditrapper anyway and they made it better…LOL what the heck ANET…fix stuff that is broken ….

Frankly im speechless. I really hoped i could play my warrior again but this preview was just so underwhelming.

To The Limit heal increased 40%

Adrenal Health will also be increased by 15%

Woopdeedooo Healing signet will heal for 20hp/sec more….

gee thanks

Rocket Chg CD going from 10s to 12s

Stealth Gyro CD going from 20s to 40s

Thanks!

/15char

Anyone know when those details will be announced? Is it a specific stream or post time?

Thanks

Malediktus.9250:

Well lucky me, I am in diamond now. Hopefully I get less of the “i play ranked games just for fun” people now

Nope…now you will get the diamond players who need their other class wins for their achievements.

Game caters to casuals who want an “I win” button

Remove all the AOE CC/Condi/Boons/everything that literally people can spam almost with Auto Attacks or passively through traits.

Manuhell.2759:

Imho, unless they properly split pve/pvp/wvw balance, they will never be able to get good results.
There are just too many differences in those modes to keep them under the same roof.

+1 i agree. PVE/WvW/PvP really should be split. Some skills are fine in pve mode but become broken in PvP. Some skills are broken in WvW but are fine in PvP.

Sarlack.4096:

Agreed, I ONLY play my Ranger Ochit in PVP and am somewhat proficient on it. I am only missing the Achievement for winning 5 matches on second class and I REFUSE to drag down my Team with my sub par play on another class…result is practicing in Hot Join and unranked on a class I have no desire to play in order to not drag down my team.

Last 3 days painful and ZERO progress as I practice on a Guard I have never played…

Worst is people talking trash when practicing in Hot Join when your on a class other than your main and you know full well you would decimate that individual if you were playing on your Main…

That achievement is problematic

Holy smoke. Unless you are playing in Diamond/Legend division how can you possibly not progress playing guard (i assume you are playing DH). Its one of the easiest classes to play in lower tiers. It harder in the higher tiers if its not your main.

I understand your view but my take is that to be “Legendary” at pvp a player should be able to play more than 1 class well. And lets be honest how hard is it to get 5 wins on a profession. The cheese meta builds make it so easy. I just did my 5 wins on Engie. Made a level 2 engie. Copy/Pasted Meta marauder hammer build. A couple unranked matches and i was good to go into ranked and got the 5 wins pretty easy. I never felt like a liability to the team.

And i’m a casual player. Any good player would have done it in half the time.

Shirlias.8104:

allowing elites to f2p would be the best choice.

But that doesnt make ANET any money. So very much doubt that will ever happen.

1. Lets remove people without Elite spec from ranked. —-—>
2. Lets now remove people who are not running meta elite specs —-—>
3. Lets now remove people who are not playing the meta elite specs used in ESL (so go away daredevil, berserker and DH) —-——>
4. Lets now remove people below a certain MMR because we dont want noobs in our teams even if they are playing the meta top class builds.

See where this is going?

SMH the OP post is just plain ridiculous.

Locuz.2651:

Spartacus.3192:

Leave the poor soloq players a chance to play without getting farmed by abusers. Thats what this “amber shopping” patch is supposed to fix.

You want easy pips u mean?

Dude what are you smoking? I want fair challenge. Diamond teaming with an amber friend who was on an alt account was the one getting easy pips….

This was blatant manipulation and was rampant in season one. If you dont believe it, im sorry but either you are really naive or just salty because you benefitted from the Amber shopping abusers.

DutchRiders.2871:

Either they step up, split or go unranked the solution is easy. Lemme ask you this, if you play with a group of friends mainly, how is it possible 4 are Amber and the other is legendary? Clearly you did not play that much with them. As such I would suggest to the legendary to do what he did most of the season, group up with different people or soloq.

+1 This. whenever i hear of a Diamond/Legendary player saying “oh no now i cant q with my Amber friends in ranked anymore….ANET is not letting me q with friends”

Well they obviously didnt queue with them that much before otherwise they would be Diamond/Legendary by now or at least ruby. You’re not fooling anyone.

So go play ranked with your “usual team” or go unranked with your friends. Or they need to accept the price of playing with you is harder matchups in ranked.

Leave the poor soloq players a chance to play without getting farmed by abusers. Thats what this “amber shopping” patch is supposed to fix.

i just had to lol at QQ starting early…..hahah

Ranger
We’ll be looking into some of the ranger’s less used traits and increasing both defensive and offensive options while giving a few specialized traits a bit more allure. In the first quarterly update, we’ll also be improving the ranger’s shout utility category, giving them more unique utility. In the future, we’ll continue to explore ways to improve on the ranger’s ties to both their pets and nature. We’re still looking at the druid’s viability in group scenarios and will continue to monitor its overall effectiveness, making changes where necessary
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Ive resisted playing Ranger in pvp up until now but if DH, Rev and Scrapper (my current 3 pvp toons) are going to get nerfed, no prizes to guess which one i will be experimenting with next month. FOTM ftw! haha

My DragonHunter’s looks are based around a Knight in Shining Armor, so Celestial/White Gold etc. So i would go with Sunrise (if i could be bothered to do Map Completion, which interests me about as much as it does getting a root canal done)

But yeah if your armor is dark go for Twilight

actually i totally agree with this. ANET should allow players to Q outside of HoTM so they can farm PVE while in Q.

Josh Davis.6015:

lighter.2708:

and when will this be?

More deets on that tomorrow.

Did i miss the deets?

Evan Lesh.3295:

The change to long queue times went out last night, so this is the result of that. The search range is clearly expanding too much, so we’ll reconfigure it to be a tighter search again.

Evan Lesh.3295:

The change to long queue times went out last night, so this is the result of that. The search range is clearly expanding too much, so we’ll reconfigure it to be a tighter search again.

@Pyriall

Mcrocha.3891:

Spartacus.3192:

yes and Anet while you’re looking at True Shot please take a long hard look at how hard Ranger Pets hit…..

If you make guard LB weaker than Ranger LB can guards also get some kind of Pet that does mega DPS in pvp. thanks

ITT: People who are salty because rangers actually have burst now.

Actually it seems the rangers are Salty because Guards have decent ranged damage.

Eiffel.8937:

please take a look a dragonhunter longbow skill trueshot too, that skill does so much dmg while on ranger the only dmg skill is on a long channel so it is much more easy to avoid its dmg
at the moment the dragonhunter is the much better ranger
not only are its traps much strong the bow is also stronger as on ranger
oh and of course improving some AA on ranger would be nice too as it does not even do as much dmg as current thief autoattacks

yes and Anet while you’re looking at True Shot please take a long hard look at how hard Ranger Pets hit…..

If you make guard LB weaker than Ranger LB can guards also get some kind of Pet that does mega DPS in pvp. thanks

Thanks people

/15chars

Meh…..its a never ending cycle. After balance patch, people will move to the new FOTM and QQ will begin again. I just wish they would split PVP/PVE so my mob killing traps dont get kittened up so much.

Exedore.6320:

Josh Davis.6015:

Aside from skill adjustments, another way we can adjust balance in PvP is by looking at the runes/sigils/amulets that are available for use through the customization panel.

Amulets
Split the amulets into three items using the existing combos (recommend 40/30/30 split). This gives much needed stat customization. In particular, it allows for a proper mix of vitality and toughness (less all of one and none of the other) while maintaining a healthy balance of power, precision, and ferocity, which is holding back a lot of potential builds. This lack of stat customization is part of what is contributing to celestial being so prominent. Further, if any particular combos seem too strong (Minstrel, Viper, etc), they can be restricted to one or two of the slots.

+1 THIS!!!

Give us a selection for stats for Weapons/Armor/Amulet using the current selections so we can have varied builds. Not extreme DPS or extreme bunker!

Dont insult your player base by implying they are too dumb to be able to handle choosing 3 items. It would actually be a nerf to cele without even having to remove it.