Guild Wars 2

Azunai.5974:

Quick question – of either gender, which do you think have the better animations?

My vote goes to females.

Female. Biased opinion.
I am a guy, don’t want to stare at another guys but all day

Role Play. As a descendent of The Lord Richard I from guild wars 1.

Eternum.1706:

TGSlasher.1458:

I didn’t actually do any of the OPs mentioned before lol.

You have used RTL with Autotarget on, went flailing off a bridge into 6 scales (super regen at low levels yay) and their drake friends (losing half hp for your troubles).

This is actually the reason I decided to turn off Autotarget.

Sylvari bridge? in the Sylvari starting zone? I though that after I did that on my ranger in the beta I would know better then to do so on my ele. Turns out I did the same stupid thing on the same stupid bridge

Vena.8436:

How does one fix “people who were just killing and not holding points etc”.

One does not simply walk into “people who were just killing and not holding points etc”. You need like wizards and ninjas …. ninja wizards.

Oh and bears with laser eyes.

Comedy aside:
There needs to be more reward for playing conquest and less for playing team death match

rfdarko.4639:

What’s the ETA on the tab targeting rework?

+1

What is your stance on NPCs in PvP. Did you intend for the PvP to be PvE without loot? Do you intend to tone down the number of actors in an area (1 necro vs 1 Mesmer can be up to 10 actors on a point) or is that a part of the current game design?

I used to play D/D 0 0 10 30 30 at around release. Then switched to 0 10 0 30 30 for a bit, then moved to my 0 15 0 25 30 build zerker and doom sigil. That build could defeat D/D bunkers. Then I went to auras and S/F, could still beat D/Ds. Then the versatility patch came and now everything feels off. I can take on some of the builds eles have trouble with (engineer bomb / grenade condition – tie, neckro condition – easy). Though skill have trouble with a few of the FOTM builds.

S/D Fresh air seemed strong, though it was do or die, being so frail thakittens not funny.

zencow.3651:

TGSlasher.1458:

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

9s and 8s? Wish I had a naga mouse :P

I don’t have a Naga. That’s me shift clicking (out of habit really) skills on the bar then trying to continue attacks.

I have a Corsair M90?. I have attune swap and heal – 8 bound to it. Though some of the buttons are a bit awkward so I have shift 1-4 as backup

EDIT:
Sat there watching Invulnerable Invulnerable Invulnerable Invulnerable Invulnerable above your head and wondered why thieves aren’t punished for bad play.

Lachanche.6859:

TGSlasher.1458:

Lachanche.6859:

There would be rage even if the game was balanced, probably less that’ s for sure but people have been mean to eachother on the internet since forever.
One thing that really gets on my nerves though is when people play absolutely wrong builds.
I can understand them playing bad with good builds but playing bad with bad builds is simply pointless.
If you don’ t even take your time and look for a viable build before entering the queue for a tournament (which is something that takes commitement) you’ ll have to bare with my disappointement (aka me telling you “omg noob go back to hotjoins”).

I play a sub par / bad build, in soloQ.

As long as it is bad in a “not optimal” manner, for example playing trap ranger instead of spirit ranger, i am perfectly fine with it, it’ s a matter of suiting your playstyle.
What i am not fine with, however, are builds that are bad in a “completely useless” way.
Take for istance thieves playing with 30 shadow arts 30 acrobatics and soldier amulet who pretend to be bunkers, that’ s not a kittening bunker spec for kitty sake, by the time you join a tournament you should already know that stealth makes you lose control of a point. Then the match turns into a 4v5 because such a thief does nothing useful but surviving and the team chat turns colorful.

Lol true. Though I do play a Ele with S/F as a roamer which is very counter intuitive. But the day I have <100ms will be the day I give Daggers another try.

Kodiak.3281:

I recommend you contact ARM.3912

He would be the most useful in this scenario.

Oh god, you could write just a story on the endless quest of how bad he thinks eles are.

How does the balance team go about balance in general. For example:
Do you believe that a character running a Power based build should be on equal footing (have tools and skills available) to be able to hold its own against a condition class, or does the condition class get preference for the advantage (see boons that prevent raw damage and don’t effect conditions).

Are there any plans to make extra weapons available for PvP (EDIT make current weapons more viable). For example, Staff and Focus for the elementalist. Currently the focus has seen some more use but dagger is still the desired weapon. This is due to the /d having much more available in its skill set then the /f does, offering damage, movement, defence, sustain and control. Whereas the focus lacks movement, sustain and damage, only gaining a few (though good) situational tools.

Lachanche.6859:

There would be rage even if the game was balanced, probably less that’ s for sure but people have been mean to eachother on the internet since forever.
One thing that really gets on my nerves though is when people play absolutely wrong builds.
I can understand them playing bad with good builds but playing bad with bad builds is simply pointless.
If you don’ t even take your time and look for a viable build before entering the queue for a tournament (which is something that takes commitement) you’ ll have to bare with my disappointement (aka me telling you “omg noob go back to hotjoins”).

I play a sub par / bad build, in soloQ.

I get hit during my dodges (endurance is spent in this instance) and can do 2 dodges at the exact same instant (2x endurance spent for effectively 1 dodge, unless playing a thief as you get 2x cantrips).

I also get “stuck” from time to time, unable to move my character, I originally thought it was from teleporting skills but I don’t use them atm and I’ve seen it happen to other players as well.

The law of MMO power (mainly found in Korean games)
The more powerful an amour set is, the more it reveals.
Totally lore friendly (sarcasm)

Wryog.5073:

Cancelling Tornado? That was definitely nice…
It does say a lot about the transform that it got thrown away the moment that you got the 1 boon from it.

I’m talking about when Armour of earth would last for 10-15 seconds with boon duration. So free Armour of Earth and util armour of earth. Add tornado cancel on top

I had a similar idea, Cauterise Wounds, Remove Chill and bleeding and heal.

Shift clicked a utility whilst trying to use Shift + 1 (change attunement) and that utility in the next attunement resulting in your death and chat filled with !!!11###23@@@##########99998888888%%%%%%%#333

WTB shift click no longer links stuff to chat

Sophea of Elements.
Back Story
Sophea was brought up as a noble in the court of Divinities reach. As a child the stories of the Hall of Heroes reached Sophea’s ears and one day she knew her destiny, to fight in the Mists, enter the Hall of Heroes and become the Champion! “Shopea’s team has won a battle in the Hall of Heroes” echoed through her bones. While other kids dreamed of being keg ball winners, and played through matches in their heads, Sophea played through battles with other contenders and envisioned earning the favour of the Gods.

After her basic training in the ways of the Elements (donning the title “of Elements”) Sophea set off on her adventure with 1 goal in mind, Reach Lions Arch, travel through the Portal to the Mists and engage in battle, become the Champion of the Hall of Heroes. Along the way she ran into some old friends, Slasher Sladorian and his sister Sophea Sladorian, two Charr she grew up with. Her family had taken the two refugee cubs in and raised them in a human manner. Her team had reached three, two more were required and would be found along the way. A Ranger, Warrior, two Elementalists and a Thief would make the final composition.

Fighting many a foe, winning and losing matches along the way, Sophea was disheartened that the portal to the Hall of Heroes never opened. Whilst a little set back, she still fights to this day, hopeful the portal to the Hall of Heroes will open.

Willing to Duel? Sure, though the outcome will be that you will win (I hate mesmers, mainly their tactics :/)

Willing to answer a few general questions? Yup

Know something about GW2 lore? Some, but I mainly play PvP

Edit: BTW, I’m form Australia, so time zone differences will be in play. The weekend might be the best time

I remember when I could stack 30+ seconds of stability. Good times

Interesting ideas, but Burn and Chill counter, while realistic this would remove 2 of the Elementalist conditions, us eles don’t like being forced into changing but its they way our class was made. Also a few of our skills (utilities) apply burning or chill in all attunemnets (not to mention auto burning on crit)

Others are good ideas

No still 300MS+ delays on all abilities.

Korean … I hate Korean MMOs. Usually unbalanced, usually get the cheese grater out and go hard at your face. The once you have no face left … you can now 1 shot anyone else in the game gg. Not to mention the fact that stronger armour = less physical clothing, because that is lore friendly.

I have sheath/draw weapon bound. It stops attacks (not just auto)

Bind this to whatever key you wish

Darnis.4056:

Mesmer/Ele Downstate is the best in the game.

In fact Im happy no one plays ele anymore cause their downstate is OP as ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Really no need for buffs here.. but I’d take em if they come

That ele downstate …. teleport finish.

If you down an ele in 1v1, then you’ve won anyway (unless thy run silly builds like me, where I do much much more downed damage then when I’m up).

Team / Random arena, specifically TDM and kill the priest

Continued:
-Build up the Player base. Offer a PvP only version of Guildwars 2 for 10-20$ Comes with x character slots and can be upgraded to full.

-Perk type levelling systems. Levelling systems can be fun, however, it is much more exciting to unlock a whole new play style through ranking up (such as CoD and War thunder where levelling up offers new weapons or planes respectively). Here levelling only offers Visual effects. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could take your Dragon Rank and summon a Dragon to fight with you (PvE), or command nearby Wolves / Doylaks / Bears to fight with you (using your /rank)? While again this ties to PvE, its hard to come up with fun ideas for a strick pvp environment. (Cannon and Treb fire dragon fire balls instead of their respective ammunitions, visual effect only)

-Although probably a bad idea, tie together PvP, WvW and PvE to make them a 1 requires the other system. Remember Favour of the Gods? What about a new, Warriors of the Mists, the god of Balthazar is happy with the battles taking place in the mists and has “opened” the doors to his palace, defeat his warriors to stand side by side with the god himself. etc. etc.

Further E.G.
Boons to profession based on profession numbers in the mists (only applicable to WvW and PvE).

My Pretties: The Doylak has earned you the right to parade your armour with pride. You may were Doylak ranked gear in PvE and receive all its effects, open the achievement panel to access this gear. This is PvP level locked, so PvEers wanting the gear should still prefer to do the PvE way of getting it, but pvpers wanting to adventure into PvE can do so with shiny new gear.

Glorified Advancement: At each rank you receive an experience Tomb, this will level your PvE character level a certain amount depending on PvP rank. Can only be used once. Additional Level Tombs can be purchased from the appropriate vendors and costs a lot of glory.

-And for the love of all the is High and Mighty a Stone Statue of the top PvP players of Solo Q (top 3 or something) and the number 1 team. This statue will be somewhere everyone goes and will see it … Lions Arch. Each capital would be cool to see the top player of that race immortalised in a statue.

-Another idea I had before were global announcers spectate-able matches of top rated teams duking it out for a place in the top of the leader board.

That’s all the ideas I have right now

Conquest and Rewards
We all know the game was built around the conquest game type. I mean, anyone seriously thinking of team death match should consider the lack of Healing classes in this game and the meta of, spike the targeted foe to win.

Back onto conquest though. As it stands, you can currently get more reward for following the zerg and killing other players then for actually doing the conquest objective. There have been matches where I have the “top every stat” (e.g. top neutralizer, assaulter, defender etc) bar killing and still not even make it close to the top of the score board. This raises the question of: “Why do I want to play conquest if I don’t get rewarded for it?” and “What is stopping me from going to the forums and requesting Team Death Match, after all it is what happens in conquest anyway?”

The reward needs to match the system in play. If you can “TDM” in a conquest game type and come out on top, over someone playing “Conquest” why would you want to play conquest?

PvP Rank
To add to this issue is the long amount of time it takes to lvl through the pvp ranks. The general gamers types (categories of players if you will) that are generally catered for within a game system are: Socialisers, Killers, Explorers and Achievers. Achievers want to achieve and will usually take any path to complete that goal. If that means ruin everyone’s day in Conquest playing as a Killer (as this seems to grant higher reward then playing conquest) then that is the path they will take.

Suggestions
As with negative feedback should come the proposal of solutions.

-Grant greater rewards to attacking / defending points.

-Place an event to for the opposing team to earn extra points by capturing an enemy point that has been in their control for a long period of time (hotjoin)

-Spread kill points over killers. So if 8 people gang up on 1 enemy those players will receive 1/8 of the points each. This could help to reduce Zerging

-Implement a system that players want to strive to win. At the moment the hot join games are casual and players want to beat each other up rather then strive to a goal. This relates back to “fun”, some players will have fun curb stomping others while some will want to play the game type intended. This one is would be hard. GW1 where you could ascend through your games and unlock a dungeon was cool, but combining PvE and PvP here would be not so fun.

E.G. Winning teams can be thrown into a match with unique maps where extra rewards await them (gear chests, other suggestions from people for currency etc, unique skins to say you are the best, hotjoin hero and seasonal champions from team/soloq)

Dagger water to focus water and vice versa. Revert RTL CD.
Change cd for Fire Shield (or do something else with the skill, same cd as frost aura and the latter is much better).

I didn’t actually do any of the OPs mentioned before lol.

You have used RTL with Autotarget on, went flailing off a bridge into 6 scales (super regen at low levels yay) and their drake friends (losing half hp for your troubles).

Leuca.5732:

We should create a thread to brainstorm alternative effects you can gain from investing in Arcana, because Arcana’s necessity will never cease until we have a fixed attunement cd. On a different note, I’ve considered removing Evasive Arcana and moving the dodge effects to minor/master traits across the lines, while increasing their effects.

Stop Drop and Roll also heals you but no condition removal (same as EA heal minus condition removal)

Azunai.5974:

What I think Anet should try is to remove the cdr per attunement traits and just add traits that reduce skills for a weapon.

Nice thought, but what tree would it go into? Arcane … forces us down there further.
Fire? Not many use it.
Air? Good for GC but not bunker.
Water? Good for bunker but not GC
Earth? Similar to fire

Wish they would update the wiki for the 50% coefficient to healing ripple. Doesn’t bother me though, I’ve run zerker ele for the last 8ish months. Wiki seems to be the only place to get decent info on skills without having to go through all the old patch notes.

Neither
/15 Blood Legion Chars played poker at the local tavern. The only human won, the char couldn’t stop fighting for more then 10 seconds. Can we have 15 char removed at all?

Add a Veto option?

The map will be ……. Temple of the Silent Storms
Veto
Play

Veto will reroll the random map and exclude Temple of the Silent Storms (or whatever map was vetoed).

HPLT.7132:

Sarcasm

Simple: Matchmaking also considering achievement points because he is probably a pve god mmr thought you could learn something from him.

Sarcasm

after about 300 solo q matches I reconise how this system is working. For example teams are build before searching for an opponent. This is the reason why you face the situation : low lvl team against a high level team so kittening often.

Great job…

I could have told you thakittens the same as when you solo qued for pre soloq. It throws you in a team (which you could see before) then searches for the opponent

Must be bad to be in EU today, though I don’t really know what good con feels like with 300+ all the time

+1 for skyhammer

gesho.9468:

random question: what is that green checkmark on scoreboard about? stimes ive seen multiple

That’s the ready button. If you press it you get a green check.

Pro tip, if everyone presses ready the game will start (both teams) instead of waiting 3 minutes.

There are a few issues with the character Icons on the minimap I though I would bring up.

1: Downed, it is hard to see if an ally is downed as the character icon covers that player.
2: Ping, it is impossible to ping (shift click) the map where an icon is location (any icon, including points etc)
3: Friends. Previously party members showed up as blue dots (other players as green dots). This is more required for Team Q / Hotjoin. Team Q so you know where your teammates are without having to ask (in the case of 3 or 4 man teams + 2 or 1 add) and hotjoin to see which is your friend through the see other other players with the same class.

New minimap should have been this:
Toggle: centre on character? [ ]

If (centerOnCharacter)
{ minimap.position = character.position; }
else
{ do nothing; }

This would allow you to move the map as you wished and not have it centre on character when the option was not selected. When selected this would function as previously.

Why? If your guarding home point you want a good look at far and mid, so you could position the map over far and mid.

The current implementation, while lacking (even though it seemed like a simple fix) is a good step, other then the icon bug.

I don’t know why it wasn’t implemented as a toggle. Personally I haven’t had the time to get on and check it out so don’t know if it will affect me or not. I do finally like the idea of knowing where everyone is without having to move my map ever 2 seconds

Doesn’t the game force you back into the tourney if you leave it (force crash / logout)?

felivear.1536:

I have 3 monitors.

Middle Monitor – Guild wars 2

Left Monitor – Forums

Right Monitor – twitch.tv/guildwars2pvptv

I only have 2, Left = GW2 playing spirit ranger, Right = watching anime, usually Ruroni Kenshin

Since when has GvG been 20v20? Did anyone play guild wars1? 8v8, kill the enemy lord using your guild hall (the pre Faction ones looked cooler) as the battle ground.

I play spvp with only 10 points in arcane.
Though there are a few times I wished I had the shorter cds.
EA isn’t as good for sPvP as it is for WvW

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

TGSlasher.1458:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

TGSlasher.1458:

Are those new runes available in spvp, haven’t been bothered to check yet.

Nope, neither of them are.

Lame … I also wanted the Altruism rune for pvp, better luck next time I guess

I was talking Perplexity and Tormenting no idea about Altruisim though, but i THINK its not – thats the Might buffing one right?

Yea, they brought it out at Christmas time. Give might and fury on heal from memory. As well as 15% boon duraiton

Ryld.1340:

Healing Ripple is halved as well.

Is that new? Still heals me for 1+k (no healing power)

bombula.2940:

Azunai.5974:

I just wish people would stop using anecdotal evidence as their basis for argument.

Saying that you 1v3’d some people out of the blue and not even providing how you won or why they lost and then throwing everything behind it is just pure idiocy and egoism.

I’m sick of people like LightningBlaze cluttering up this forum.

That is probably because for PvE players 1vs3 means fighting solo versus some dogs kittens and lizards. In pvp, some times you can’t even run away from group of players. RTL is a joke, imo.

I found this Hilarious.
For WvW it is because 1vs3 means they beat up 3 lvl 1 up ranks. I don’t know why the nursery lets high school bullies in, but stomping 3 newbies is easy apparently.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, 1vs3 actually means that they can fight 3 people indefinitely never dying and never killing. Boring. I’d rather run a D/D destroyer build then some crap d/d fight 6 guys fore 8 minutes build. It was funny to watch the d/d eles die to me (pre nerfs), good old copy paste builds.

Rskin.4901:

What annoys me the most though is the cooldown of churning earth and fire grab. It’s ridiculous.

What annoys me the most is that the cool down on Fire Shield (focus if you didn’t know) is the same as the cool down on Frosty Aura. I don’t know if you know this or not but the frosty aura is pow(10,1 million); times better then the fire shield. 10% damage reduction, applies chill when a foe attacks vs 3x 1 sec burn and 3x might.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

TGSlasher.1458:

Are those new runes available in spvp, haven’t been bothered to check yet.

Nope, neither of them are.

Lame … I also wanted the Altruism rune for pvp, better luck next time I guess

GoatCheese.2704:

Agreed some of the nerfs were unneeded. RTL for example. Keeping the CD at 20s would have been fine imo.

However, despite having a low health pool, we are very SUSTAINABLE, which isn’t something every class can do.

If you think I’m crazy, look at the healing values of Evasive Arcana when you attune to water and Healing Ripple. 1302 healing with a 1.0 scaling on healing power. That means every 10 seconds you get a 2.6k heal, which scales 2.0 on healing power. WITHOUT USING A HEAL SKILL.

Yes, our autoattack damage is terrible, but we have 16 other skills to use. If you run scepter, you can blast a target with a bunch of skills all at the same time. And scepter is meant to be comboed as its burst potential is INSANE. If every Phoenix or Dragon’s Tooth landed, scepter would be overpowered.

Give sPvP a try, say goodbye to 50% of your EA healing.