Guild Wars 2

Xae Isareth.1364:

Well, how else would they handle it? If they just have you your elite spec with all the traits and utilities, why would anyone bother with the hero point challenges?

If you had all the useful masteries unlocked off the bat, why would people do events?

The matter of fact is that non-sandbox MMOs have always been driven by the carrot in front of players and GW2 isn’t a sandbox.

Map Completion.

Due to fact that you earn HP through WvW, could introduce NPC which is trading HP for various goods, both in PvE and WvW.

Problem lies within Anet wanting to do it.

I expect Anet soon to start creating new armor, weapons and trinkets generation with each patch. Just like other MMOs do it.

Skyhammer and Spirit Watch are the best Conquest Maps ever made.

Shame they’re not used in WTS.

Lel, features that only Failsoft would implement.

Good job.

Those Hero Points in Heart of Thorns are utterly bad.

5min for killing a champ solo which not only hit like a truck, also CC and heals up or stealth.

100% Hero Point in World Completion pre-hot made it like ~50% of Elite spec, and now it’s gonna take few days till finish it up for solo players, because they need to group up for those stuff.

Hero Points where NPC standing to it says “You’re not worthy” and implies that you should come later when you prolly get better masteries – rofl.

Anet, you were told many times – don’t use NCSoft cards.

Yet just like always you never listen to customers.

People are choking with this system and you believe people have fun – so you’ll state it in the end as well.

Instead of locking us out this way from Elite Specialization, you should rather focus on making more masteries for wider content.

Why not making Masteries for PvP players who are ranked 80?
Such that give access to various NPCs with various good etc?

Why not making a special Masteries for WvW?
Like buffing surrounding ally NPCs – like Dolly Event etc.

Well, congratulations on implementing NCSoft Grind thing that Koreans love so much.
I’m sure muricans and Europeans love it.

Aren’t you guys happy?
In WvW you have PU Dire Mesmers.
In PvP you have Chronomancers.

Balance!

I kinda find it funny hearing “creating a dangerous power creep”.

Especially from zerk medi guard which is known for yolo downing anything.

Too bad that Masteries are Account wide – not Character bound.

And also increase each stat value to 600.

Hundreds of players are jelly of my HoT Glider.

I paid to win people’s jelly belly.

What is this?

Beta phase has ended?

Anet’s didn’t develop the game with such thought I believe.
Unlike Square-Enix and their FF XIV which on DX11 on max settings is smooth in crowded areas and works on PS4.

After 3 years Anet hasn’t yet settled down with MacOS problems, so going into Console hype would be pretty much like showing a middle finger to Apple owners.

Tonight’s Heart of the Mists.

Wonderful~

NeXeD.3042:

Tao.5096:

LF gain should be nerfed with Dagger.

It’s too fast and easy.

Lololololololol

Don’t laugh.

It’s a very serious and delicate matter.

Look how Warriors have it tough compared to Necros.
Necro’s LF doesn’t decay while Warrior’s Adrenaline goes poof almost instantly.

This is wrong. Super wrong.

So, Anet should do this:
- nerf LF gain from Dagger #1 skill
- implement the same decay system to LF like it’s with Adrenaline

Now this will be balanced and no complains~

/solution based on feedback from experienced and veteran players across whole board in the time of one year

LF gain should be nerfed with Dagger.

It’s too fast and easy.

Get ready before usual
“Connection error”

HoT update gonna be hot in this case for sure.

Never played Meta build.
Never will.

Is Anet going to fix internal server lags and packet losses?

Some feedback:
http://i.imgur.com/i8KwGuw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MOj1Jb7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DpJO6p8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/HeccbjH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FAz9oSt.jpg

It’s quite disturbing that for over 6 months you’re unable to fix this and it’s kinda gamebreaking as well.

Any precursors as reward for hunting exploits and bugs?

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Holding points involves fighting off players that come to capture those points, as well as defeating players currently occupying a point.

Both of those situations require battle.

Unless I’m insane, PVP is strictly about pvping.

Not really?
Thief can run from one point to another in circles(even lord if needed), caping points and so on.
Guardians for example can sit on point and tank for as long as they can.

I already had such matches, where enemy team was rekting my team pvp wise, but because my teammates were sitting on point for however long they could, we still won 500/350.

Same things happen in ESL tournaments.

Arenas are about capping and holding points for however long you can and that’s the key to win, not fighting, chasing and stomping.

illenos.5134:

Tao.5096:

In WvW on the other hand, thieves shine if played well.

Really? I guess in GvGs. In pugs you are one of the most useless classes and while roaming, you’ve got one option: d/p and stealth long enough to run away from any other roamer with a similar skill lvl…oh I forgot about perma stealth condi trapper! xD

You would be surprised.
In organized raids, a good thief is a very strong card, because disabling enemy’s Necro or Ele even for 3 sec gives a window for your Raid to push hard, because there is less damage to mitigate.

If it comes to roaming, another surprise.
There are a lot of Thieves running builds which have no place in Arena.
D/P, D/D, P/D, S/P, S/D, Venom.
Even Thief Trapper can be found in WvW.

Same thing is about every single other class.

What’s more, due to greater and better stat distribution, people aren’t as squishy as in Arena.

I wrote couple of times already, that Anet rekt PvP Arena mode, and it’s their fault the state it is by now.
Because even year ago, we had greater population, more experienced population and more enjoyable time in PvP than it is now.

I’m not against changes, but I’m against changes that cripple and show middle finger to players.

Other posts got infracted and deleted, we’ll see for how long this one will hold.

Shadowstep.6049:

Everyone thinks thieves ask to be Op in 1v1. All thieves ask for is to actually have some chance vs some classes. Right now as thief gameplay: there is enemy? Run away.

People don’t do pvp to spend entire match running away. Players pvp to experience play vs player COMBAT which developers decided to deny to thieves.

Once HoT comes out, revs will completely shuit down thieves and no sb5 in the world will keep them in pvp. Best part, according to votes on reddit, this class was rated worst in EVERY area of this game.

Yes, thief is playable if you are REALLLLLYYYY good at it and you have REALLLY good team that you can rely on. They don’t have you as thief to help them, they have you as a pet that can help to increase the score difference. That is all. As thief you actually have close to no influence on match outcome if your team is not destroying enemy team already. You think this is fun? Do you really think it is fun to be a worthless pet?

There is one wrong thing in your post which kinda breaks your post whole.

PvP Arenas aren’t about pvping – they’re about holding points for as long as possible.

You don’t have to kill or engage in battle even once, as long as you’ll cap points.

In WvW on the other hand, thieves shine if played well.

Edit: Wrong tab ><

Well, it’s good for Rangers no?

They’re crippled quite well vs other classes.

Give them some window or two.

bliss.4305:

*ironic ’cause nobody knows/cares to exploit the existing counterplays to stealth or thus needing a “hard counter” like reveal.

-_-

And what kind of counterplay for example Necromancer has against Thief, stealthing every 3 seconds with ability to teleport god knows where?

There is no indicator for hitting stealthed player = 0 counterplay for almost all classes.

Or perhaps mindlessly with crossed fingers dropping aoes everywhere around is a kind of counterplay to it?

Even blind spam on D/P is less cheesy than stealth spamming and Backstabing all the time.

vezon.8901:

I didn’t call anybody of cheating. I sad I feel like I am cheated. Its entirely possible that is my incompetence, but as u sad its hard to burst 25k.
@Tao u don’t have to point out that I lack knowledge, I already sad that.
But, I’m not really want to talk about cheating.
I want to focus about the REPLAY SYSTEM. Is there any discussion about it, plans or anything

You have Breakdown system already to list skills and damage inflicted by them.

But replay? Use some application, record your matches and afterwards analyze them.

Since there are hundreds of such apps out there, then I see no reason to even implement something like that in game.

2k Armor is like double layer paper.

Player who can withstand the fight against 3 other barely taking damage?
Can be done for example by Cleric Guardian, but whatever.

You lack knowledge and experience regarding Class mechanics and builds.

Thief already has a high sustain and has a lot of defensive abilities.

Just ‘cause it requires skilled player for it, doesn’t mean there is a need to buff it further to fit within bads cap.

L2Thief

Sigmoid.7082:

Both maxed at the same time yes because vuln gets cleansed but reaper, when built right ,is one of if not the fastest class at generating might on self in the game. Also I wouldn’t day it’s the weakest class in a 1v1 on unter at all.

You forgot to add – without blasts and fields.

Plus, 90% of people neglect cleansing Vulnerability and leave it, because you know gotta save it for – bleed, torment or burn.

huehuehue~

cakeonroof.7385:

Thanks for the kind words friend but I’m mediocre at best. The d/d ele outsustained the reaper. I must note that it fought a gs reaper so I guess he’s a power build and d/d eles beat every power build necros. If they pop Lich, we just run away and come back when it’s over.

Good for you.

I for the other hand, don’t use DS skills to kill celeddele at all, and they hardly bring me down to half.

You know why?

Because celeddele is the most predictable build and class from all.

What I mostly do – bait condi cleanse → grab all burn stacks, send to Ele and watch him getting downed.

Of course it doesn’t work in wvw, because they often disengage and use necro’s mobility problem, but still, it’s not like killing them needs some kewl skills as necro.

Also, I dunno why you’re saying that you fought GS Necro and outsustained it.

GS in 1v1 is a terrible weapon for necromancer.
Perhaps it would work as replacement for Staff, depending how one does handle Necro, what he want to achieve and thingie with sending conditions.

But GS as primary dps weapon?
Oh god, I can only imagine those free stomps.

Well, that’s based on my experience and adjustment to enemies I face the most often.

Gw2 is a funny game.

- I’m always better than someone out there, and there is always someone who’s better than me.

Jayne.9251:

EoTM does nothing to affect WvW scores.

Devs have already said, over and over and OVER again, that bodies in EoTM do NOT count toward the active WvW population.

It’s written in War window under EotM join button.

Progress made in the Edge of the Mists does not count toward the Mist War score.

So there is no need to even ask search/ask for dev statement.

Dardamaniac.1295:

Its ridiculous to defend burning guardians at the moment imo.
Its a instant kill and its unfair..
Ofc and i bring cond removal but dont you find the irony into suggesting a player keeping any active cond removal for the moment they face a burning guardian. Or picking a bunch of cond removal skills, traits, sigils and runes just to be prepared to fight a guardian that will apply you 14 stack of burning the moment he takes a glimpse at you..
Its ridiculous to ask players to build around countering a single class cause other way you are dead for sure…

As Necromancer with double Plague Signet – I see nothing wrong with Burn Guardians, Elementalists. Torchtrap Rangers or Burnbow Warriors.

Hence, I request increase in damage output for Burn.

So those silly beings can die faster.

princode.2750:

Nerco is the worst 1v1 class any class can counter it..hell even reaper sucks for 1v1 but weird enough nerco/reaper shine in 1vX.

Reaper will be a free kill and will have barely any damage.

Not like perma 25 Might and 25 Vulnerability on enemy will be significant for damage enough to kill anyone.

Right?

messiah.1908:

range attack of any kind will kill any necro
necro doesnt have range weapon – staff
so thief with SB and burst at the right moment with blind spamming can counter it
ranger LB etc..

the main idea for the necro is they are good point holder with DS second health pool. so if help comes in time it will be hard for you to take them

if you going melee than go warrior with lots of cc. but other than that dont or spam blind

Weapons:
- Staff(1200)
- Dagger(600)2nd and 3rd skill
- Axe(900)
- Scepter(900)
- Focus(1200)Offhand
- Warhorn(600)Offhand
- Dagger(900)Offhand

Death Shroud:
- Life Blast(1200)
- Dark Path(1200)
- Doom(1200)AoE
- Life Transfer(600)AoE
- Tainted Shackles(600)AoE

Utility:
- Corruption(1200)
- Signet(600/1200)
- Spectral(900/1200)
- Well(900)
- Minion(Close/900/1200)

Elite:
- Lich Form(1200)

So, what did you say again about Necro not having range weapons and being easily killed by ranged.

Warrior with a lot of CC? You mean Hammerbads?
DS stunbreak every 7 sec + 1 stack of Stability.

Sorry to break your bubble, but to roll a good(not top/best w/e) Necro, you’ll need 2 Hammer Warriors who know what to do.

Or, Double Rampage.

Well, that’s until Friday of course.

And almost forgot – don’t say silly stuff like Blind spam is a counter to Necro.
Blind spam counters every class.

Feel free to visit any other MMO and refine stacks of materials there.

Then you’ll realize that Gw2 craft speed is like a hax.

princode.2750:

Nerco is the easiest class to counter. If you cant counter nerco its mostly a l2p issue.
let’s break down the most common build

signet, corrupt boon build—-this build is good against heavy condi build
power well—— this build is extremely strong when fighting on point
power well bunker——this is the bunker version of power well build
standard powe nerco——low sustain but high burst in ds

all the build have common weakeness
1. Range….just cc and range by the time they reach you half hp gone
2. 0 disengage ability—— the only class tht have 0 disengage skill
3. Spike damage———nerco is bad against spike damage cause they don’t have block, etc
4. Stability——-class that have near to 0 stability

Stun break and Stability every 7 sec is niche on Necro.
I’m sure Hammerbads love it.

Not sure @Alekt.
I don’t play trapper build and not many people in wvw do either in T1/2 anyway.

Met Trapper thief 2 days ago and that’s what I noticed.
Sound isn’t 3D so it’s bothersome, but spotted little dust popup when thief in stealth was setting traps.

So either I could avoid them or grab them all and Plague Signet thief after :DDDDD

Anyway, there are lot of sound bugs…………would be nice if Anet would fix them on HoT release.

Alekt.5803:

What if the trap is placed through stealth?

You still hear it?
Dunno about Rangers.

Thieves have little dust animation and trap setting sound even when stealthed.

In 1v1 it’s spottable and if you focus you’ll follow up.

But in Xv1 scenario – forget it xD

Alekt.5803:

Themistokles.1238:

Ok, Trapper Rune will maybe not be a problem for higher PvP. But for SoloQ and even lower Tier PvP this Rune will destroy alot of fun. All the Condi Specs are annoying like hell allready. No need to make it more annoying.

To Keep Dire and Perplexity out of PvP is good. No need to buff Condi Mesmer.

All this started with the Idea of adding more Amuletts and now we get more Runes and other Crap.

Higher MMR PvP is not that much different. There is absolutely no way to know where the guy could be in stealth with superspeed, the vector of search is simply too wide. And in High MMR, we’ll surely have some “innovative cheesers” managing the traps to fit against High MMR.

High MMR are not gods, guessing where are the traps is tiresome and very annoying. Simply said, hitting 1 trap can result death.
Walk in invisible thing —->Knock-up —--> Aids —-> Binding roots —->RIP (What a nice play pattern.)

It’s not about guessing.

Traps have animation and release sound upon placement.

Thing is, you have to pay attention to floor more often.

If Burn was op as you say, then I’m sure Anet would nerf it.

Just like they did nerf Dhuumfire in past.

witcher.3197:

More and more engineers are taking the reveal trait in tools, also Heralds will get a reveal skill they can’t un-equip even if they want to, and it has ~20 sec cd.

No surprise, because PvP arenas are small anyway.

But WvW wise? Where revealed is 3 sec unlike in PvP?
And Mobility is needed even more than in PvP?

Well, it shows that Anet’s approach isn’t good anyway.

And knowing them, more Forced Reveal skills/traits will come with a choice where you have to give up on something good.

Like I said before – we need an indicator when we hit stealthed players/npcs.

messiah.1908:

also i think ppl forget about reveal trap/mechanism which will be add soon

guardian can reveal, engi can ranger can. so more stealth will bring more reveal tactics to the game

also p/p thieves may use the trapper runes and gain stealth abilities
and guardian with traps can be intresting to see

Are you serious?

So far no reveal skill is being used neither in PvP nor WvW for a single reason – you have to sacrifice important skill for that – mostly survival one like stun break, condi removal etc.

If Anet won’t rework Revealed system and properly adjust it to current skills, then it’s a no go.

MMR is working.

Just play right class with right build.

And SoloQ is yours~

My Carrion TorchTrap Ranger will enjoy this.

Good job anet, because balance no?

uhohhotdog.3598:

If most of the players are custom arena players then they’re not contributing to rank/unranked. Therefore losing them doesn’t matter.

Filling the pvp lobby with people standing around not contributing to ranked play isn’t a reason to keep rewards for custom arenas.

So, first Anet makes them leave Ranked/Unranked, makes them move to Custom Arenas and now they should be removed entirely?

Cool logic.

But on the other hand, yes, it would be great if Anet did this.

I would watch with pleasure the downfall of PvP Arena and Gw2 eSport caused by ignorance from dev team.

witcher.3197:

Tao.5096:

Remove PvP dailies and rewards from Custom arenas.

So only ESL players will be present in HotM and that PvP thing.

Finally this thing will die and there will be a reason to delete it.

huehue~

Yeah because there is nothing between a farming ground for PvE players and ESL tournaments /s

Let’s not deny that ~80% of population in HotM is Custom arena Daily/Rank farm based.

Let’s also not deny the fact that Ranked and Unranked had much higher playerbase in the past because PvP was actually fun unlike now.

Remove PvP dailies and rewards from Custom arenas.

So only ESL players will be present in HotM and that PvP thing.

Finally this thing will die and there will be a reason to delete it.

huehue~

Jiggawattz.2697:

I play a lot of burning condi classes and a necro, and I still think burning is ridiculous. It is by far the most damaging condition in the game and it is way too accessible. They almost INSTANTANEOUSLY nerfed necro because dhumfire could apply 8-10 stacks of burning from various sources, and yet… burn guard, burn engi, and hell even a kittenty condi ele can apply 15-20 stacks with ease. Don’t defend the condition, there is literally NO REASON for it to be 3-4 times the damage of bleed… every other condition is based on bleed damage, torment bleed damage at rest 2x bleed while moving and it is much harder to stack. Confusion, 1x bleed, 2x while casting…. you don’t see a pastern here? Burning 4x bleed but, requires no attribute to do extra damage, it is literally just superior, and in the case of several classes easier to stack. Anyone that defends it does not care about the actual balance of the game and it just looking for cheese wins.

What if I told you, that bleed, torment and poison are fodder based on Burn and their purpose is to cover Burn from Condition Cleansing?

>:3

Burning in sPvP isn’t that hard ticking.

Go WvW and you’ll see what a real Burn tick is.

P.S – Anet should buff Burn.

Shaogin.2679:

Tao.5096:

Anet is becoming more and more NCSoft like.

Keep going, then even f2p won’t save you.

I love this. You guys realize they’re just doing this to balance it out with the key drops that PvE players get from living story right? You know, trying to make it more fair instead of leaving out PvP players that have no desire to PvE? There is no conspiracy, no attempt to persuade you to buy more from the gem store, just Anet trying to be nice. I swear you people will find literally anything to complain about.

But it’s the overall behavior, decisions and actions which were taken.

You don’t expect me to say this only because of some silly key path which I have abandoned after doing three times in the row, don’t you?

Anet is becoming more and more NCSoft like.

Keep going, then even f2p won’t save you.

risa.1382:

Not every search engine and OS does it. And just because others do, doesn’t make it right. I swear every time I see that argument, I just see lemmings walking over a cliff one by one.

There are in fact plenty of ways to protect yourself, they’re just beyond people who are willing to give up because “well everyone else is doing it so whatever…”

Lemmings was a good game – not everyone were capable of playing it.

Also, it’s disturbing how people feel nothing while sharing their personal information for free and allow others to cash out on this info.

witcher.3197:

Laraley.7695:

What is the point of these threads when HoT is coming out soon and the balance will be broken anyways? There will be stronger and weaker specs, maybe wait a bit to see how things are? There’s no need to overnerf ele.

Also, your problem with stacking 25 might should go to the nerf specs who can do so, too. But why aren’t you complaining about those?

Do you seriously want a situation where wtih HoT new builds will be created that can beat DD ele and Anet will say “oh nice, nothing to do here, problem solved itself” thus making the powercreep skyrocket?

I wouldn’t want to play a game where the current DD ele is considered “fine” or even weak. It would be just unplayable.

Because it already doesn’t skyrocket, right?

Wannabe eSport and balance methods are the same as always.
Not single pig given about anything and what experienced players have to say.

They even removed Profession Balance forum which somehow had a decent impact on balance and communication was so-so.

After F2P launch I expect them to give even less care for such stuff.

And with this they do not deserve even a nickel.