Guild Wars 2

Duel or not I will never understand the cowardice of someone who runs from a 1v1.

Maybe we need two concurrent tournaments with different scoring systems. Kind of like playing in the English premier league and FA cup at the same time.

One based on points and the other a knockout.

You could also incorporate the 1v1v1 aspect where one match up is your points competitor and the other is your knockout competitor. Even if you lose to one you still care about the other.

Jebus, give it a rest BG.

Donari.5237:

At least there are -some- viable, realistic sized ones. Cobalt and Ebonblade and Kymswarden are the best.

I’ve also done a lot of fencing, when much younger, as well as reeanactment from Vikings to Victorians and beyond. Any time a game offers me armor and weapons that actually make sense, I’m full of joy.

If I ever EVER do a legendary, it sure won’t be one of those bizarro giant slabs that are the GW2 greatswords.

Could not agree more

I think its worth a test at least. The matches might be closer for those servers nearest each other in terms of coverage.

uknortherner.2670:

Sube Dai.8496:

Living story was a colossal failure, even in revenue terms.

Presumably you have data to back up this “fact”?

Obviously I don’t but the gem store items available during LS were only available to a limited amount of players, for a limited amount of time.

Those items could/should have been available to any player when they have the time to play that content.

Name.9625:

Sube Dai.8496:

Living story was a colossal failure, even in revenue terms. They should have just worked on new, unique zones that players could work through at their own pace.

They still could have had gem store items unique to these zones too, and players buy those items if and when they need them.

As it stands I missed most of LS season 1, and I can never play that content again. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

Wait, do you seriously request that they will put the entire game on hold, just because they didn´t know you weren´t playing? And that way you want them to work against a core part of their philosophy, which they used to advertise the game with?

They told all of you that it was a living, changing world. And even if i missed huge parts of the story as well, they listened to players like us and introduced ways of discovering that part of story and lore as well.
And honestly, how strange would it be if we could walk into Kessex Hills these days and still enter the tower of nightmares? Scarlet´s dead, but nevermind, here you go and she´ll trick you once again?

There´s no way they will implement an expansion anywhere soon. Simply because it would make no sense for them to launch an expansion, while a large amount of chinese players haven´t gone through the core game. And they wouldn´t want to be called a discriminating company for launching content only in the EU and NA. Excluding the chinese people now could really break their necks over there.

Who is suggesting they put the game on hold? I’m saying that rather than do updates every two weeks for 6 months they should have released 2-3 new zones that people could have either played at release or any time in the future.

All builds that are easy if you kill the AI’s first…

My power ranger was weak but fun pre-patch, now it is completely useless.

Enjoying my condition build tho.

1v1 wvw could actually be a really good idea…think about 1v1 matches on a promotion/relegation system. It would lead to some really even fights.

The maps would feel pretty empty tho…

Living story was a colossal failure, even in revenue terms. They should have just worked on new, unique zones that players could work through at their own pace.

They still could have had gem store items unique to these zones too, and players buy those items if and when they need them.

As it stands I missed most of LS season 1, and I can never play that content again. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

Why would you create something only a portion of your player base can participate in, rather than something everyone can do in their own time?

I thought stacks from the higher condition damage players override that of weaker players, once you hit the cap. So it is always worth taking one condition player, but nothing more.

Yeh selectable megaservers would be a good addition, which is really just the gw1 system isn’t it…guess they should have done that in the first place.

I like it.

/15 char

If you are only playing to get a legendary, you will so stop playing after you get one. So you might as well just quit now…

The meta needs some time to settle. People are discovering new damage combos and in time counters will be found for those as well.

Its too early to say at this stage.

It would obviously solve ppt which I like. But it would also mean you can’t find a nice quiet BL to roam on either. I quite like being able pick both heavy zerg warfare and quiet roaming when I want.

Leave it as is for the karma trainers. Give wvw the real updates.

Nothing wrong with that.

I wish Yaks and SBI would help us double team HoD more…

Yeh I’d hardly call a one off payment of 5g for a trait a gold sink either…

This patch was awesome, and it addressed a lot of things that players have been asking for since launch. Sorry if you don’t realise that…

That’s a pretty old chart. The current thinking is far less carbs and fruits.

They should restart the chart/human war.

The stats have nothing to do with it. Previously you could get your runes back by transmuting, and now you can’t. We need a solution for this.

Not seeing it in wvw.

I only played for a bit last night but it seemed to me that pets would use their f2 where ever they are standing, even if they are not in range of the target.

And I though previously that the would move themselves within the skill range first.

Can anyone confirm the behaviour here?

Intelligence is great on the great sword for the 5/2/3 combo. But the crit damage nerf has me doubting power in general.

Cogbyrn.7283:

I killed a level 80 Zerker Thief with Dark Pact, Reaper’s Touch, and 1 Life Blast.

You can proc Sigil of Air, swap weaps, then immediately proc Sigil of Fire. And get the 50% endurance from Sigil of Energy.

I’m so totally not concerned about the changes right now. I lost 30% off of my critical damage as well, but if it’s adding any additional attacks to the fight, I’m not noticing.

I’m holding my breath till I see how the sigil situation plays out.

The Ranger forum are already referring to this as “the sigil meta”.

My guess is a lot of the damage can be made up elsewhere.

I agree with Op. They should allow salvaging of badge items to get the runes.

The item can still get destroyed, and give no materials, but the upgrade should be accessible.

I raised this before the patch but there was no response from ANet.

Prepare to see Melandru runes go through the roof…

Yes well we all want to be loved don’t we.

Locuz.2651:

It pigeonholes all ppl who care about winning in to a select group of servers, while destroying the wvw community on other servers.

Its purely meant as a cash grab. It doesnt do anything good for the community and competetion in general.

I thought people were asking for free transfers before this season?

azizul is right though, they needed a cooling off period so things like the HoD situation would have become clear.

As it is HoD has destroyed my will to fight…

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

One of the earliest ideas thrown around was “server specific borderlands”, in keeping with the theme of the server. It never happened.

I think it never happened because of the balance argument.

But after 18 months it should be painfully clear that a few differences in terrain would be nothing compared to coverage when it comes to balance.

so lets get some new maps!

I’ve found mainhand axe the quickest weapon for clearing WvW camps with a power build.

And that is because it doesn’t require line of sight for its AOE (so its better than bows), and the range means you stay away from the guard’s blinds (so its better than swords).

You could arguably call camps a “better designed PvE encounter” though…

Balance should mean that every class has a niche role, and that niche is required in all forms of combat be it PvP, PvE or WvW.

Given that there are 8 classes that is probably too many mechanics to create/manage, so some classes should simply perform the same role as well as another class does.

For PvE specifically, the enemy encounters should require all of the said niches/mechanics in order to be completed (starting to sound like a trinity…). That is not the case at the moment, as the only thing required is direct damage and one condition class.

I certainly would not want to be moved un-voluntarily, even if I was outnumbered.

People need the freedom to move where they want.

There’s just too many of you kitteners

I think #2 is very important because that was my exact experience. I only started proper PvP recently because I was totally fed up with wvw…

Hayashi.3416:

If I had a gold for everyone I see in WvW who stops attacking the moment a thief goes into stealth…

This.

And to those who think power rangers can’t kill thieves…

This.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Sube Dai.8496:

Speaking from a power ranger’s perspective, I can easily deal with conditions. In a single build I run:

18k HP
EB
SoR
Healing Spring
Melandru Runes
Lemongrass

As you have alluded to however, the problem with this is that I don’t have enough damage to kill all other classes. In my case it is Guardians and Warriors. Every other class is fine but I don’t have the raw damage to beat the heavies. Obviously condition classes don’t have this problem.

I don’t see this as a problem with conditions necessarily, its a problem with power builds.

I see this actually as evidence of balance. You specced a bit more into dealing with conditions, so you have to lose out somewhere. In your case, it was damage that suffered. You still do all right against everyone else, but high armor targets are a weakness for you.

Every build has, and should have, weaknesses (though some have more than others).

Yeh that’s a fair point. I guess is there anyone in this scenario who is not balanced – are their classes who cant kill anyone if they run Melandru+Lemongrass…?

Cecilia.5179:

One issue I have with conditions is that there are fewer ways to defend against it than direct damage. Both Vitality and toughness help mitigate direct damage, while only Vitality helps against condition damage. Sure, you can get -% condition duration food, but oftentimes, the enemy is running +% condition duration runes and food, while with direct damage, one could use protection and weakness to defend themselves, Although vulnerability and might could overcome these two active defenses, it is not easy to do, and you still have both toughness and vitality passively defending you. Also, many would not consider it sensible to run Melandru’s and -% condition duration food because you lose too much damage potential by doing this (this is true for both condition and power builds, though certain builds still benefit more from -% condition duration than additional power). One could also say it is not sensible to go out of your way to get weakness or protection, but even without those, you still have two built in stats (vitality and toughness) to keep you safe from power-based damage, aside from only vitality protecting you from condition-based damage. Also, every character has an option of several built in heal skills. Among those, only one, for the most part, will remove conditions. On the other hand, almost all heal skills (except the really bad ones) can take care of power-based damage without the fear of the healing being completely negated in a few seconds (unless fighting outnumbered, or against a full zerk build). I personally think the way toughness and vitality works needs to be improved so that it actually has meaning in PvE and can more reliably fend off conditions. In addition, while I find every class to have many options to deal with power based damage without too much sacrifice (except for eles, who only have a few, but they’re too busy traiting to counter conditions to make use of most of them), a character may have to invest into traitlines, runes, and/or food that only lowers their damage, which hinders them further when trying out-damaging the common tanky condition builds (excluding warriors, who are blessed with cleansing ire to deal with all damage). Not to say conditions are broken, though. I think with enough experience, one could learn to beat any foe condition or power, as long as they have a few defensive tools to use against both.

I tried to make this as clean and self-proven as possible, so as to not get my head ripped of by peers. XD

Speaking from a power ranger’s perspective, I can easily deal with conditions. In a single build I run:

18k HP
EB
SoR
Healing Spring
Melandru Runes
Lemongrass

As you have alluded to however, the problem with this is that I don’t have enough damage to kill all other classes. In my case it is Guardians and Warriors. Every other class is fine but I don’t have the raw damage to beat the heavies. Obviously condition classes don’t have this problem.

I don’t see this as a problem with conditions necessarily, its a problem with power builds.

Just thinking about it, its really built for dueling over roaming isn’t it…

Flipping camps would be painfully slow with no crit %.

Benjamin.8237:

Most full Zerk ranger builds run signets and are extremely gimmicky and spammy. I wouldn’t recommend them whatsoever however if your really want to play a power build (you will struggle vs high ranks) then try this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vMAQNAR8XnMqQLL2KI+rAXLGIaP4k5xE7B/T0ieFmVBbqA-TsAA0CnIuSdl7KzVyrsXNEZBxmDA

This build is hard to recreate in PvP so I chose the Valkyrie amulet but the build has decent healing/condi cleanse and more importantly high armor and power. It builds crit damage over crit chance because of Moment of Clarity and Sigil of intelligence. You can play defensively and then interrupt them with great sword, then switch and use axe 4 which will hit twice and pull them. Moment of Clarity gives +150% to the first hit and intelligence, from my testing (but I may get lucky and be wrong) effects both hits.

But don’t get to down if you can’t play amazingly as it is a ranger power build.

I like this concept. I haven’t tried high crit damage with low precision before. Would you mind posting your WvW version of it?

I’d say the question now is how much duration increase do we need?

If you are running axe/dagger the durations are already quite long, so it would be nice to run lemongrass instead of pizza.

If they are a minion master kill the minions first.

Read this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Reasons-for-competitive-player-disinterest

It would be hard to implement but I think its a good idea.

Yeh its a shame the whole game is not one giant racial war where you get to pick sides. WvW included.

I’d kill all non-humans for sure.

Warriors are fine in PvP, the problem is how to balance them for WvW…

Player Character.9467:

So what you want is for dire gear to already have +100% condi duration built in and not even need food/traits/runes? Yeah, cuz that’s definitely the direction conditions need to go >_>

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