Guild Wars 2

After midnight things are getting nice.

I can solo T3 tower with ease while drinking my tea.

When you’ll come online OP, feel free to retake it and upgrade it again.

>:3

ReaperJr.5967:

Lol its funny. When people run 4 ele, you cry op, ok. When people run 2, back to the old meta, you still cry op.

So if people run it in esl, it’s op? That would make many classes ‘op’. It’s good, no doubt, but not op.

If nobody runs it, it means it isn’t good. Aka underpowered. So if the only way to convince you that ele isn’t op is to have teams run none of them, you can remain unconvinced.

You can expect from those “pro” Meta wannabe posters as much as you can expect from balance team.

i.e – Nothing.

Haralin.1473:

Dopamine.7502:

As topic says. BETA testing has no place in WvW. Use the new BL tests to test WvW for beta characters. BETA characters are unbalanced and have no place in WvW matchups.

No they must be tested in WvW, i tested the Scrapper only in WvW, cause i want it balanced and where can i test it the best? In a live situation where i can see how it works and what the class maybe need or what is too op.

You can test it best in PvP arena.

And would be better if Anet would make a specific Beta Test Arena queue for that purpose where Beta Testers at the end of Beta Weekend would be rewarded for contribution to Beta Test.

This would also increase the amount of Beta Testers.

Hexed Outfit was pretty much a freebie during last year’s Halloween.

By freebie I mean it was super easy to obtain it.

It’s rare for me to see organized blobs using gate ways to get out of the towers or keeps.
Another thing is that – one scout can put like what? One trap?
Even with unlimited supply you can put 1 trap(maybe 2 for disruptor).
To be efficient here, you would need around 10 scouts who are organized. And that doesn’t mean they’ll pinpoint stealthed blob.

Regarding a tower which has a counter and that upgrade can be built faster than SMs fountain.

Well, Tower can be flipped by one player. SM – hardly.

Anyway, I didn’t mean that it kills Scouting.
It’s simply first coffin nail, and I expect more to come.
Knowing of course what Anet is capable of.

Nocta.5274:

You’re not really familiar with what Betas are for I guess.

You’re not familiar with what Anet Balance team can do.

Jayne.9251:

I actually think it will make scouting more crucial, and response time/coordination more challenging. Good scouts will adapt to use tools to thwart. it means it will be crucial to have eyes everywhere, or at the very least monitor spawn.

Hrm, I wonder if they can stealth and jump maps?

Scouting won’t be crucial.

Even if you’ll follow 80 people blob into SM who will get stealthed, you have no idea where they will go, because you can’t see them.

What will you do next? Pop revealed on them?
I doubt you’ll manage to avoid all CCs and bombs from ~10 people.

Despite that, you won’t follow them anymore, and next scout won’t be so sure if those 10 are exactly the ones who are with the blob or not.

Pretty much, if that 2min stealth is true, then it means that Anet has plans to coffin nail Scouting in the future.

Dawdler.8521:

We complain about arrowcarts, they buff their damage.
We complain about dps overwhelming defense, they buff dps.
We complain about stealth, they buff stealth and give us more of it.

Come on, you cant say they arent consistent.

Of course not.

They prove that they’re working for NCSoft.

Astralporing.1957:

Tao.5096:

It’s not an easy task to do such upgrades.

I never said it was.

Apparently it was a sarcasm.

:|

Astralporing.1957:

Godmoney.2048:

That being said acting like Gw2 is ancient or somehow bad tech is a real jerk thing to do considering NO game has DX12.

It’s not about DX12. GW2 just runs on a badly optimized dx9 engine, that has problems in utilizing more than one processor thread, and (due to it still being a 32bit application) is capped on the amount of memory it can address (capped below what it actually can require, at moments, which results in OutOfMemory crashes on high-end machines). Which is no wonder, seeing as it is based on the GW1 engine and wasn’t really upgraded since before launch.
It is antiquated now

It is very hard to upgrade an engine and add features that would help in future developing of the game.

Fixing problems such as random dcs caused by server(not routing) is also very difficult.

Skipping the graphic quality which is nearly impossible to increase, the so called performance isn’t something that will be achieved easily and without enormous costs and development time, which still doesn’t guarantee the success.

I understand Anet.
It’s not an easy task to do such upgrades.

Godmoney.2048:

No game currently uses DX12. ARK is trying to be the first though they were supposed to release the DX12 patch at least 6 weeks ago. They have said they’re waiting on Nvidia to update their drivers.

Very very few games will actually use DX12 any time soon though we should start seeing the very first DX12 games coming out this spring and I assume within 2 years from right now DX12 will be in almost every new game made.

Gw2 could update to DX12 but it’s a massive project that isn’t happening any time soon and I’m skeptical they would do it in the first place.

That being said acting like Gw2 is ancient or somehow bad tech is a real jerk thing to do considering NO game has DX12. Just goes to show you how little people know about computers.

Build your own so you learn.

I’m playing FF14 on DX11 max details on decent PC, and I keep stable 50~60(sync) even in most crowded places without turning off the character models(dunno if there is such option).

I’m pretty surprised how optimized Square Enix have made FF14, since it’s very hard for me to recall any other game where I do not have to limit amount of Character models in my area. Even on DX9.

Perhaps another one will be BnS, since I had rough 100fps in crowded places without turning off char models in area back in it’s CBT2 in China.

It means simply that’s up to developers and how they utilize engine they’re working on.

Tux kitten inguin.3049:

Its even worse than the engi granedes have been xD
I think Anet will fix this. Never seen a oneshot to a beast before o.O

Yeah.

Anet will fix this.

/inb4 thief/ranger nerf

And what is the problem?

It’s not like loading times are slow on HDD enough to feel crippled in any way.

Shen Slayer.3058:

Tao.5096:

If you can’t afford crafting Bolt of Damask then what’s the point of trying to craft Ascended?

Exactly. Exotic armor is fine, the extra 5% is negligible, you can play just fine without them. Besides, if you are at the point of crafting ascended, you should have enough golds and material already in storage. The only problem you should have is the gated material, it’s tough waiting out the days to get everything. But hey that’s part of the fun and when you finally craft it, it would be so gratifying.

There are multiple ways to achieve that.

Simple Gather -> Sell -> Buy makes you skip the time gate and contribute to market double time.

Also, let’s not forget that now people(especially newbies) can toilet ascended gear and weapons and reroll their stats – something we didn’t have when we were dropping Hronk’s or Leftpaw’s armor/weapon boxes and so alike.

Looks like people have a problem now, because they jumped the F2P bandwagon or whatever from other game and find it difficult to adapt to Gw2’s crafting, market system and choose an efficient way for themselves to make money.

Checked, Google.com – it’s working.

Increase Precursor drop for Beta chars by 500%.

For Insanity!

Dawdler.8521:

Tao.5096:

Your suggestions only put a nail in the coffin for Rallybots.

Rallybots don’t want that.

No, no, they don’t.

Then smack my kitten and call me a rallybot, because I’m not so sure I would want that.

Do I think that ressing in combat is tad too easy and too fast? Yes I do think that. Do I think it should go away? Nope. Because it still create, maintain and prolong fights.

People in WvW are strange sometimes. On the one hand, everyone is yelling PPT noobs, real men fight. On the other hand, they often seem to want to take all the joy out of fighting and make easier to completely wipe groups because… reasons, I guess? When those 10 hardcore super mega souped up elite specced people roll over 50 noob zergers with ease due to half a dozen new rules on the battlefield that says you’re not allowed to zerg, how long do you think it will be before those 50 become 40… or 30… or 20… until said hardcore group start whining that they have no one to fight.

Sometimes ressing kitten us up. I know. Been there a thousand times. But looking back at these 3 years… Doesnt GW2 combat still work? Just saying. Because going by Anets finetuning of WvW, these suggestion will only lead to arrowcarts getting 50% more damage. Dont ask why. It just will.

I meant those who actually get up 3-5 times as Rallybots.

And that pretty much should get a coffin nail.

1 Rally with like 30 sec cooldown, as a chance to fight.

At least roamers would have it easier in matter of fighting a group or something.

atheria.2837:

I would bet the majority of players feel the same way you and the OP feel.

Wrecked by revenants without being able to find those builds anywhere is more than frustrating when the Ranger traitline also being given out does squat for damage when roaming and that’s what 80% of us do, very, very alone.

If this thread is locked, the devs need to be here, not the moderators.

Gw2 is on the wrong path for a long time already.

Devs do not communicate with playerbase.
Balance team doesn’t invite regular players to test skills, passives and other abilities to find synergy and balance builds in as close to 1:1 Ratio as possible.

No, it’s better to throw a meat, which turns out to be bad and keep fixing it for next months w/o care for playerbase opinion and experienced player advises.

And it’s not like Devs and balance team are beyond a really casual PvE themed player.

Serious.7083:

I have already said in another thread the Ranger has real problems going 1v1 in WvW.

It would probably be better if the new masteries were be excluded from WvW. Otherwise it will be a pay to win mechanic, penalizing those who don’t buy the expansion and upgrade.

Shortbow is nice in 1v1, but it’s a Condition weapon and Longbow is viable on good distances.

Regarding p2w.

No, it won’t be.

Game is F2P, and you can play it for free and you have no right to complain.

But, here’s a big plus to situation.

Anet has already got used to F2P theme, which basically means, no giving a single pig about community and playerbase, so they can ignore us all whenever we’re not happy with whatever they throw at us.
They have trained well for past months at ignoring us – true F2P hype.

Amazing~

If you can’t afford crafting Bolt of Damask then what’s the point of trying to craft Ascended?

Scrapper an ele 2.0?
Rofl.

No other class can be like CeleDDele.

Heartseeker should always crit with 300% crit damage.

HaxTester.9816:

Arenanet’s trademarks; Soon™, When It’s Ready™, Balance™.

That’s actually NCSoft’s.
Anet just adopted it.

Your suggestions only put a nail in the coffin for Rallybots.

Rallybots don’t want that.

No, no, they don’t.

It doesn’t have anything with purchasing HoT.

Anet simply changed their development of combat.

Instead of “skill, experience and knowledge” will give you an advantage which was previously is simply brought to the level of “passive will do everything for you”.

We’re going back from Action combat to Target Combat, where passives are the so called “Jack of all Trades”.

All you’ll have to do is take 2 steps on the right or left.

/inb4 my post will get deleted for hate/rude/racism

And what about this build?
Getting kitteny due to some silly build will still make your opponent stomp you with Rabbit finisher.

It’s nice to see some hate for roamers.
Especially from those lemmings permanently sitting inside of the zerg.

I’m sure this salt comes from when they’re alone or in a group of 2-3 people and get stomped.
Therefore they get a heavy crash with reality and how good in wvw they are with class they play.

One of the reason I never block salty flamers.
After Llama finisher there is always a time to read some pink flame in chat with a cup of good tea.

Anet should implement 5 sec CD on #5 Thief Shortbow.

Ragnarox.9601:

So when they are gonna buff guardians dmg to do 10k mightyblows and ww in pvp? it’s about time to do that to be on pair with other classes.

Guardians were bursting like that for quite a long time with Meditation build.

So, it’s nice to burst someone, but getting bursted is bad?

If you’re talking about Guardian going to be on pair with other classes, then surely you’re asking for some nice nerfs then.

Ranger will finally be in Meta.

I smell rollback.

CGI studio which also makes Trailers and other animated videos(Diablo3) for Blizzard games so far is the best studio in matter of script and animations.
Look at Star Craft Trailers – even recent one, Legacy of the Void.

Or Cyberpunk 2077.

btw, Polish studio – CD Project RED – after Witcher 3 release that they’re focusing now on Cyberpunk 2077. :P

Anet’s Point of View:
Promoting Guardian as a class with Shield.

After 3 years Guardian’s Shield is still useless.

What does Anet do with it?

Anet gives longbow to Guardian.

Anet’s logic is top kek.

Sorel gave me a good laugh today.
Basically, we have such o’great devs who have similar mindset as him and voila – current matchmaking + leaderboards.

Joey.2769:

Lol only update they will fix quickly in WvW because it directly affects the economy, but forget QoL fixes like the game breaking lag.

I like my 10 second casting time on wells, marks etc.
+1 Anet for it.

Junkpile.7439:

Maybe dying should cost something. Put 50 silver death penalty in obsidian sanctum and whiners can blame these idiot farmers.

Your idea isn’t smarter than Anet’s current solution.
But at least you have tried.

People go to Obsidian Sanctum to farm kills for Ultimate Dominator achievement and title.
Anet’s answer to issue – disable loot in Obsidian Sanctum.

/facepalmoftheyear2015

Because Leaderboards reflect skill of players alone and it’ srs bsns.
Some people should be prohibited from creating threads.

+1 for OP

Ranked Arena Queue Requirement:

• IQ Test 120+

P.S – it’s not to offend anyone, but it’ll decrease heavily qq on forums regarding ranked and certain builds. It’s for the good of us all.

You got outplayed by better player than yourself.
Deal with it.

Blackjack.5621:

Ai builds shouldn´t have any place in pvp. Even tho this build is too passive to be strong on a competitive level, it is just too rewarding and too strong for the effort it takes to play it. No unexperienced player can outplay this build and even for veterans it is hard in some situations. This just encourages more and more people to pick up this playstyle.

Good luck surviving due to AI alone.

An easy build like that can´t be that strong that it rewards bad players and give them such a huge advantage over those who play active builds/classes.

Don’t tell me that it hurt your pride that some random engineer roflstomped you.
Was it Rabbit Finisher or Deer?

Time to switch from p/p engi to turret engineer with cele amulet.
Record some funny “skilled” pvpers.
Maybe make even a troll video.

I agree with OP.

Remove Longbow and Shortbow from Ranger’s weapon set.
It’s the only way to fix rangers.

Zenith.7301:

Except conditions do damage you through distortion, and you have no clue what you’re talking about.

For example, go to the Grenth temple event and try to distortion/blurred frenzy the falling crystals the priest of Grenth summons. You’ll still be one shot.

Don’t move the goalposts, berserker stance makes you invulnerable to condition damage while it’s active and endure pain makes you immune to physical damage while it’s active.

Invulnerable does not have to mean immune to CC’s. That’s your convenient definition used as apologia for OP stances.

It’s not like the class that in the pvp manifesto was declared as intended to be weak to conditions and needing help from allies to remove them suddenly has become the best class at countering conditions alongside the elementalist.

No one cares about PvE in PvP forum.
Give now an example to PvP CC that work on Invulnerable player status.

ronpierce.2760:

What class do you play? You make such blanket statements but I can guarantee you, not all classes can handle things equally. It might be “fine” for people with a lot of teleports or re-placing stun breakers (lightning reflexes) but some people do t have that luxury and it can be rather painful. I wouldn’t consider it necessarily “balanced” and just a “pay attention” issue.

P/P Engineer
D/D Necro
A/T Ranger
PU Mesmer
Custom War
D/P Thief

I only don’t play ele and guardian, because I kinda cba to learn rotations on both of them, and therefore I suk on them.

Engineer (specifically meta builds) have enough CC to root out some breaks, and OCS has a low cooldown. All it takes is minimal baiting and an OCS or even a nice net shot and it can be pretty well gg for some set ups if they take full advantage of it. More so in real team pvp. Itd be like if guardian could cast a hammer ring around you that was only like 50u in radius right on you and instantly that would knock you down even if you didn’t move. It’s really not “fine”.

Like I have said it already countless times.
Why do you people always just throw pros for each class/build?
Where are the cons?
Why won’t you say also, that Engineer has no stability?
In most cases it has only 1 utility slot for skill of personal choice, which in almost all cases is limited to utilities with stun break?

And so what about guardian? Yeah, you’re kded only when you touch the borders of the ring and so what? You’re locked in a box where one dodge roll ends up on the border and even if you won’t, you’ll eat anything guardian throws at you.
I personally see no difference in both cases.

But yeah, it’s not always just a L2P issue. Engjneer have enough low cd CC to make strong use of slick shoes in many cases. Obviously it’s more powerful than people are willing to admit, or they wouldn’t have hard switched from the long-running elixir utility.

There are other classes who are given much more CCs, along with fairly low cd.

Engineer’s only mobility is swiftness. This class is heavily vulnerable to all hard CCs due to lack of stability and limited stun breaks, and all soft CCs like cripple, chill or immobilize, due to limited condition cleanse – and that’s caused also, because you choose between stun break, or condi cleanse.

So slick shoes are perfect for running away and now, even more against classes with high stability upkeep.

Summarizing, it’s not always l2p issue, but very often it is. In this case, it mostly is. Slick shoes pattern is very easy to notice, and with one stun break you can easily follow engineer without getting down due to oil again. Matter of practice.

Healing primary HP while in DS?
Use Unholy Sanctuary.
Problem solved.

Jasher.6580:

I think it’s a step in the right direction…

No it’s not.

Ladder will stay kitten as it was previously as long as soloq and teamq are in the same matchmaking pool.

Rising Dusk.2408:

What I’d prefer is that Slick Shoes can only knock down a single target once per cast, never more. Everything else about the skill in its current incarnation is fine, although I also think a cast time sort of like Caltrops wouldn’t be unwarranted.

I stepped onto Slick Shoes only twice so far, and that alone was my fault for being a lazy bum and “picking in nose” while running after engineer.

People need to start looking at what’s around them and what they are running into.

There is no reason to nerf a good and working skill in order to adapt it to bots who mindlessly auto follow even in circles their targets.
There is also no need to create a mentality that you have to work hard to land something on someone. There is a Dodge roll to avoid it.

If not, then redesign game, add Accuracy and Evasion attributes which will partially fill the “cba” part of lazy players.

150 Ranked wins for each class I play.
When done I gtfo from Ranked until they fix Matchmaking.
And I haz kitten to enjoy Skyhammer, Spirit watch and so on.

Ravenmoon.5318:

Also yesterday I met 800 AP guy that completely wrecked the enemy team in 4 games. One would guess that he was inexperienced but kitten. So don’t underestimate and by all means don’t just blame your teammates. Sometimes you are as much as guilty as them.

I have 2nd account and, when I’m on my main then it’s like
- ooh, we can win this, we can win this. We have exp and gut peepz.

But when I’m on my 2nd account then it’s like
- rofl, afk, 300ap scrub, gtfo

Because AP = Skill.

P.S. – even if someone does only pvp, then AP gain is utterly low compared to PvE gain.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Everyone hates slick shoes. it is pretty much universal at this point.

Speak for yourself.

I remember those Warrior threads, where jelly wars complained about Necro’s Life Force not decaying while they were idle.

Now turrets? :v

Thief’s initiative shall be next?