Guild Wars 2

Huttunen.8309:

The weekly 175-ticket cap is total nonsense with the current prices. This update did almost nothing to reward the already existing veteran WvW players, only by making the weekly WvW playtime a bit lower. I really want to play more for my rewards and I do not want to get them instantly, but the thought about playing timegated stuff for 20 hours/week for a year to get the rewards I would have achieved 50 times already during my WvW playtime really kills my morale. I think that they should either increase the ticket amount you get per week, add tickets to the repeatable chest so your pips won’t go to waste if you are high ranked or make the prices more humane.

Also the fact that the backpack requires a low rank of 350 tells nothing, since even if a new player only starts to play WvW for it, it will require him to play 30-40 hours a week for 17 weeks in a row, or play the gamemode for a year if he doesn’t want to make the game a second job for him. By the time he will have enough tickets for the backpack he will most likely be around rank 1000 already. In my opinion this already proves that some aspects of this update were not really well thought out, especially if they really thought that r350 people will get the backpack. This might obviously prove that only dedicated players will get the rewards, but what about the players who already dedicated thousands of hours for the game mode? Why are those players still timegated to hell, even when they are given big pip boosts to reach the diamond chest faster?

The rank 2000 is fine for the armor btw, don’t touch it

I’m with you broski, I finished diamond within 24 hours of patch, they gotta stop with this timegated kitten. They gotta stop with the “everyone gotta get it simultaneously” mentality they have, If wvw is my go to gamemode i SHOULD get it before everyone else. Even a small number of tickets like 5-10 would be enough for me. That would incentivise me to continue playing after i hit the limit we have today.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

You still get the same sort of rewards you got before the new stuff was added; isn’t that sufficient, given you were playing for only those in the past?

I came back from a hiatus for the legendary and the armor, a small number of tickets on the repeatable chest would motivate me to continue playing after i reached the now 175 weekly limit.

Nightshade.2570:

You play because you like wvw, the loots just added benefit.

Ye of course, but adding a small number of tickets on repeatable chest would motivate me to continue playing. If it wasnt for this update and legendary i would still be on a hiatus.

Veterans like me already finished the diamond chest and thereby gotten my 175 tickets, theres no real incentive to play wvw til next matchup so adding a small number of tickets in the diamond repeatable chest incentivises veterans to continue play . Not everyone needs to farm wvw ranks to be eligble for the rewards.

And why would anyone take this game pvp serious when theres no soloq

This game is old, people grow up and get a job/family, that happens to all games.

I used to play alot previous seasons but I havent touched this season, I’ve played the placement matches on both of my accounts but I will not touch the season again and my 850 decay will keep going up.

Boring meta
No seperation of soloq and teamq
kittenty rewards
Overall low population

i rather have hambow warrior than the op annoying kitten called warrior now

Who cares, still stupid af

People ask why less people play pvp and why people afks, no kitten when people who just wants fair matches against random players get matched against full premades. What a joke.

I mean why? this is an example, I queue solo to meet other players solo for an even and fair match http://imgur.com/09zKu29 if you not gonna bring back seperate queues leave the current queue and bring back soloq only as an alternative. Everyone knows more people plays soloq then teamq, why do u favour a minority and ruin the experience for the rest.

This game is a joke aslong as queues are not seperated. Everyone knows pvp is dead and that more plays soloq then teamq. Just make soloq a better experience and let the tryhards sit in teamq for hours.

Brockolosso.8316:

TalleFjanten.7159:

mrauls.6519:

The only good thing about this season is that it started off with a requirement of a minimum # of games played to be on the leaderboard

1. and #2 on EU is a duoq who only plays together with 20 matches and 20 wins atm, what a joke

How is this a joke? Oh I forgot, youd easily rek them if theyd soloqueue

Its a joke because you are at a advantage duoq and they prolly queueing at offtime for easy matches. So much of a leaderboard when u have duoqeuers playing daily matches to prevent decay to stay top of leaderboard. Why even have a leaderboard when soloq and duoq gets matched together.

mrauls.6519:

The only good thing about this season is that it started off with a requirement of a minimum # of games played to be on the leaderboard

1. and #2 on EU is a duoq who only plays together with 20 matches and 20 wins atm, what a joke

Queues takes forever

Meta is bad and nothing has changed

Rewards are trash

No mist buff

No hype

Still no soloq and teamq

Aizza.4950:

I don’t believe it should’ve been included from the start. From someone who plays PvP every day I’m in game, it’s stupid that we could even get ascended or legendary things in PvP. Stats do not matter there. They matter in PvE and WvW. We should get them there. PvP could’ve made new skins to buy, that’s fair. The wings of ascension SKIN. Not a legendary backpack. It’s kind of stupid imo, but oh well. People will always complain. “Too easy” “Too hard” “Too much” “Not enough”

Why shouldnt there be ascended rewards or legendary rewards? who would thought not everyone sits in pvp all the time and actually plays other aspects of the game. You need ascended for fractals/raids and everywhere else.

Just add a gold fee instead of shoving crafting down peoples throats

Why is this still a thing, just seperate them already. I know pvp is dead and that teamq queues would take hours but deal with it and soloq like normal people.

I know you dropped the ball on the rewards but why is the buff not active?

Got placed in platinum at 1803 rating after 10 matches with my alt account, not gonna tryhard tho because i only play for rewards and u get pips for losing so idgaf.

Fleckzeck.4673:

I like the changes and want to see them ingame.
Will the new Sigills be craftable for WvW/PvE?

pvp only

Why would they make new maps knowing what this games community is like? looking at your desert borderlands, skyhammer

zinkz.7045:

TalleFjanten.7159:

No, desert werent empty, in fact it was more alive than wvw is now,

If he plays on EU, then he is right, the game is at low point, though that has nothing to do with the maps.

What do you mean, arent all players murican and what is EU~ murica

Maybe not entirely, the matchups are stale but alpine surely is not helping.

Yes, t1 EU.

Q:
If I remember correctly, some desert maps replaced old gw2 wvw maps. Sup with this?

Hello there! yes they were, the map had some flaws at release that they fixed. Being kitten like the wvw community is and unable to adapt to changes they started crying on forums about how bad the desert border was. Anet obviously listened to this vocal crying minority and they brought alpine back (oh god why, alpine killed wvw prehot and surely will again) , last week there was a poll to mix alpine and desert and the option: yes, have 2 alpine and 1 dbl won by 70%, but being Anet they againt went for the vocal crying minority of 30%. No, desert werent empty, in fact it was more alive than wvw is now, wvw is a bleeding gamemode and surely will die with this stale alpine borderland weve had for 4 years

TLDR: typical crying wvw community, anet listens to minority, rip wvw.

SquidONE.2908:

I’ve played 108 games so far this season. An astonishing 28% win ratio. Yay! No other (“e-sports”) game I’ve played had put me trough such a misery and raised my frustration level so high to make me vent on forums.

In more than half of the games I’ve been teamed up with parties made of sapphire and amber players against full sapphire enemies. Apparently people think it’s cool to team up with amber players to play ranked against former diamonds/legends. And the system thought is cool to place me on their side every time.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/PwQ2JCM.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/xfOD0Ln.jpg[/img]

50/50 you say? not even close.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/rjG7E3g.jpg[/img]

close matchups? only blowouts.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/seZITYq.jpg[/img]

My PvP story:

I finished in ruby 1st season and diamond in the 2nd. I may be the worst player that got into diamond and I’m fine with that. I don’t care about legend. I care about the wings.

This season I’ve been placed straight into sapphire. Played a match and got my rewards, one step closer to those wings. Played some more. 9 games in a row lost playing guardian. Switched to necro and revenant till I won 20 games out of 50-55 games played. (40% win ratio not so bad taking into account I’ve been playing against former diamond/legends).

Switched to warrior to get the league profession elite achievement. 10 more wins I say. How hard can that be? 20-30 games more and I’m done with it. Turned out to be another 50 games.

8 more days and I’ll get the last achievement. Never again will step foot into PvP area after that. Never again.

P.S.: Save your “l2p” and “git gud” reply’s. I don’t want to cross another division. My nightmare is over.

wow, 108 games, thats quite some work.

VitisVinifera.2834:

If that’s true then once you complete all the Reward Tracks the only way to get Memories of Battle is through TP.

You can repeat most of the reward tracks, the triumph reward track rewards you with memories of battle, and is repeatable

LittleAussieMozzie.7425:

yeah.. I absolutely refuse to play the Desert borderlands.. I have never experienced such a slow paced BL with 0 roaming and only zergs ktraining objectives…

They definitely need to balance the desert BL’s somehow, hate to be forced to play the DB BL, Wish there was some way to choose, maybe elect to fight either on a DB BL map or just play alpine..

You do reliase its easier to k train on alpine right?

I personally think its ugly, but then again I dont use shoutbow on either of my toons so couldn’t care less. Why would they release a legendary weapon that only thief/ranger? use.

Conski Deshan.2057:

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Today I sold an SAB instance and the people were all really nice and there were no issues. Personally I think selling services is perfectly okay, it’s been a part of the game for a long time (like selling dungeons, JPs, LS achievements,…), it was even approved by Anet.

Why would the people being nice be relevant? , This situation is different, selling was not in possible and was actively being prevented by an instance kick, which people circumvented.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Yes I do agree that this diminishes the value of these acc-bound skins (and the aura) and allows players who wouldn’t normally be able to do it to obtain them. But honestly the problem is not as big as you’re making it out to be.

I have a problem with it though, 90% of all the games items can be bought in some way with gold, there needs to be some section to reward players actually playing the game well that can’t be matched by someone dropping 10,000$ on the game. Otherwise there is no point in playing.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

First, not all the people who buy services are noobs who can’t play the game. Sometimes they are actually pretty skilled players who’ve been hoarding a lot of gold over the years and just buy stuff they cannot be bothered to learn (even though they could do it if they wanted).

Unless you implement a way to separate those two groups it’s still an issue. I wouldn’t have an issue if it was only people who had solo completed all tribulation modes that had access but that’s not the case.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Second, you underestimate the amount of gold people have to pay to get all the skins. If they want both auras, it means they have to buy each zone of both worlds 16 times, which amounts to roughly 400g. Sure it’s not too hard to get this money, but don’t forget it also does take some effort. Do you spend 40 hours doing SAB or do you spend 40 hours doing some other activity and just buy the tokens? Doesn’t make much difference to me.

25 euro, 400g is roughly that. It brings 40 hours down to 62 cents an hour… not sure about you but my times worth nearly 100 times that if we were just talking pure gold.
Plus it’s a game you’re meant to do specific activities to get specific rewards, to prove you can, to compete in the game, It shouldn’t be all reduced to farm gold.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Third, you have to look at it from the other side. This aspect of the game enriches gameplay and allows more skilled players to make money in an interesting way. If someone is so good that he can run trib mode in a very short time and sell it 40 times a day, he sure deserves that gold.

More skilled players shouldn’t have to be resorting to this, if the game was balanced correctly they would have moved beyond the economy by now and anything they want would require content completions or achievement completions. The fact this is being given as a reasoning shows there an issue and that gold is speaking more than skill.

Tarasicodissa.7084:

Also, trib mode isn’t really all that hard. I’m sure most people who buy it were just afraid of even trying it because they’ve heard how crazy it is. In reality, if they took a few minutes to look it up and try it, they would realise it doesn’t take some crazy skill and would hate themselves for buying it since most people can finish it with some patience. I watched my friends who aren’t good at jumping doing trib mode. Yes they’ve struggled and it took them quite a bit of time, but eventually everyone finished every zone. It’s not hard.

It’s a gate, thats generally the idea, A fair amount of people won’t run Arah because it’s the final dungeon so clearly it has to be impossible even though it’s not. It’s not what they could do it’s about what they have done.

Look basically it comes down to this, if everything in the game can be gotten for gold then it has wasted my time and is not worth playing, it’s not what I signed up for and it’s why i have an issue with this and will continue to fight it.
I play MMO’s to collect rare items and prestige items. Not to have all my time outdone by someone using their wallet.

“Look basically it comes down to this, if everything in the game can be gotten for gold then it has wasted my time and is not worth playing, it’s not what I signed up for and it’s why i have an issue with this and will continue to fight it.
I play MMO’s to collect rare items and prestige items. Not to have all my time outdone by someone using their wallet.”

Maybe you should collect stones or somethign in real life instead, that sure as hell is more prestigeous then some skins in a videogame.