Guild Wars 2

Fumo.8735:

This is a feature that is in GW1 but not GW2.
Why?

http://prntscr.com/5zp699

We have a costume piece that already resembles one, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
So why don’t we have more variety? Where are our capes?

Asuras are boycotting capes, because they refuse to pay same price for capes like Norns and Charrs while their capes are 5 times smaller.

HipposWild.7185:

You can claim bugs all you want but I don’t believe it for a second. I’ve seen guardians with access to multiple heal skills (at least litany of wrath and shelter), I’ve seen people cross the entire map in a split second, and people who have permanent stability without the boon… It’s not bugs. The by far easiest and most likely answer is that people hack the game.

Video?

Hello Kitty Theme approved.

Ouroboros.5076:

I don’t think that it’s healthy for the game to have such a heavy influence on a match in the hands on a -let’s face it- completely kittened build.

What influence?
I’m attacking engi while focusing on him. Attacking turrets is a waste of time.

hashed.1269:

i can’t believe that this is true. the server doenst manage the player-position? please tell me from where u get this information. playerposition, damage, cooldowns, complete movement must run on server-side. the client just sends to the server that he press “2”, the server now calculate everything and sends back to client.

If everything would be server side, then the only way to cheat, would be to send dumb packets and fool server.
Obviously not everything is server side.

I mentioned Frankfurt, because that city is a kitten for routes.
Roughly ~30% packet losses and high ping spikes.
That still doesn’t mean that’s the sole reason behind your lags.
Can be also one of the nodes in Germany, especially from Telia’s infrastructure, since they’re not really into fixing anything.

Change it?
VPN server straight to France.
At least it works for me – sometimes.

Blackjack.5621:

my team mate from sweden and me from germany suffer from unplayable lag too, i cant attack anyone. People port around, i get ported around aswell.

I feel sorry for you if you’re routed through Frankfurt.

Gw2 is unplayable for me every evening.

Rieselle.5079:

But 50% win rate means the matchmaking is working perfectly? That’s how matchmaking is supposed to be….

No, it doesn’t. There is a thread where Justin said that this system only group people by rating, and that’s why I gave an example with rating problem.

Both sides have equal chance to get newbie players, as well. So your opponents are in the same boat. Since you have 50% win rate, quite likely that you’ve been on the other side of the equation before too. But I don’t see you mentioning those “unfair victories”, huh princess?

Win rate alone isn’t a problem.
I don’t mind when my kitten get whooped by players who outplay me or simply are better. I rarely consider anything from skill sets to be really unfair/overpowered, due to my habit to test those stuff myself and always try to figure out the advantages and weaknesses of those skills/attributes.

In a low-population game like this, it’s foolish to expect that you’ll always have a bunch of equal players available at exactly the moment you’re queuing for a match. The only way to guarantee that is to form a party.

Gw2 isn’t low populated.
Anet refuse to give exact number, or even rounded one.
But I tend to remember people I play with/against in pvp, and I can tell, that there is a vast amount of players who play PvP Arena.

imaclown.1628:

He even admits he is only here for the rewards…. and admits he wins 50% yet is still unhappy….

Let’s be straight.
What I refer to be frustrating, is when I’m put in match full of newbies.
I’m dragged to their level, meanwhile I want challenge.
I alone cannot contribute much for my team, because they behave like bots, scatter around mindlessly, fail to kill Mob with 3 people without dying to it, and when they decide to go with 3 people to enemy Home, they even fail to neutralize while wiping and wasting time.
Addition to it, is that they mostly refuse to accept the fact that they’re newbies and don’t listen to simple advices – language isn’t a problem, since flaming with Caps Lock is something they have mastered quite a time ago.
It’s only a russian roulette in such matches, either, your team listens or enemy does to someone who’s actually experienced and knowledgeable about current map.

This is an issue with Rating Matchmaking.
I don’t believe that newbies shouldn’t be allowed to enter ranked or go to custom, as some people demand, but there should be a line drawn, which separates experienced players from newbies.

And yes, to make such matches, which happen quite often, to be less frustrating and irritating, I’m simply lying to myself that even due to such pathetic matches and loses, I get some rewards from Tracks.
Because if not those Tracks, then I would simply stop going to PvP Arenas, to get kittened off by unfortunately, not really good matchmaking system.

I had a team made up in ranked who had Rank 10~30, meanwhile I’m 50.
Got owned like 500:150.
I pretty think that majority of matchmaking threads are about putting high ranked and experienced players with beginners, because of some silly rating – newbie gonna win 3 matches in a row and his rating is already high.

Thanks to such system, I’m around 50% win chance and it’s pretty much frustrating getting such people in team, because it puts a newbie equally with me who has behind hundreds of matches.

If Dungeon Reward Track didn’t exist, I pretty much wouldn’t even appear in HotM.

Iris Ng.9845:

Mesmer Daily FTW!

In my case, they lost though.

Obviously.
You had Justin Bieber in your Team afterall.

Absinth.6917:

Tomal.7516:

These Speedhax are called swiftness or frenzybuff and these porthacks are just lags from the servers or you/your enemy

So the necro that out ran my whole team had swiftness and frenzy? Ok got it. Thing is he was snared twice. But it must be lag yes?

Please…

Video?

DS is a spectral form not a transform.
L2read.

Excalibur.7603:

Whats the main different between a axe/warhorn staff spectral build necro and a dagger/warhorn staff spectral build necro?

Personal preference.

Yamsandjams.3267:

I’ve never really understood why it destroys the minions in the first place. I think the reason it doesn’t touch turrets is because the game handles them in a different way.

Because turrets are stationary, mechanical and semi-independent things that have 5min duration.
You can summon them at your spawn point and run to another corner of map w/o them disappearing.

Ranger pet and minions are creatures that have a “bond” with caster.
Despite minions work in similar way like turrets, they still need to be in certain caster’s range.

Challenge accepted.

;)

I have a feeling that OP has a habit to step on “mines” on sidewalks too.

Bedlam.3562:

Anyways still wondering where to report these cheating kittens?

Police or Interpol.

oneply.9586:

Tao.5096:

But problem is, that certain classes, such as thief, warrior or mesmer have high in combat mobility.
It’s not about swapping weapons or few traits.
So in melee, they can’t win against someone, so they’ll get out of combat but stay in sight, and with simple click go for full condi spec to unload right after catching up.
Only few classes will be able to do it, and especially those which have the handful access to Torment.

thief is a different story, personally i think the burst and stealth potential is out of balance with the rest of the classes. mind you not OP just not balanced.

and this pretty much sums it up:

All it does is encourages fair fights and you fighting at your best. Makes fights more interesting because both players are ready to fight.

Darnis.4056:

It’s logical that removing gates from content makes that content more accessible.
The easier it is to switch builds the easier it is to play different builds, This PROMOTES build diversity.

There are 3 classes that have very high in combat mobility.
It’s Thief, Mesmer and Warrior.
What’s more, those 3 classes are pretty much very strong Condition wise due to ability to apply multiple stacks of Torment along with other conditions.

I’m predicting a scenario where those classes abuse mobility to get out of combat and swap to condition spec or melee spec the moment their current spec doesn’t work vs their opponent or they have hard time to deal with.

I encourage fair fights and vast builds for each pvp mode.
But without proper adjustment for WvW, it’ll become discouraging for roamers and will create much bigger gap in balance between classes in WvW than it already is.
I’ve experienced similar option – macro set change – in other games, which became cheese gear swap which nullified the skill ability of opponents. It made that personal skill, knowledge and experience mattered almost nothing, where what mattered the most, was a proper counter set.
And I’m trying to avoid that.
My proposition is to use template swap, 10 seconds after combat ended + 5 sec stationary cast time for WvW.
This way, in my opinion greatly lowers opportunity for all classes to create countergear method in 1v1 fights, like I’ve mentioned and yet allows people to switch whole builds as they wanted.

But problem is, that certain classes, such as thief, warrior or mesmer have high in combat mobility.
It’s not about swapping weapons or few traits.
So in melee, they can’t win against someone, so they’ll get out of combat but stay in sight, and with simple click go for full condi spec to unload right after catching up.
Only few classes will be able to do it, and especially those which have the handful access to Torment.

As Necromancer, I don’t give a single pig about people swapping to condi spec from melee and vice versa.
But other classes won’t really be able to stand much of a chance vs such feature.

Well, it’s in Anet’s hands. If they want WvW to be a blob-only zone, then they could also remove World progression from there, just like there is none in Eotm.

Darnis.4056:

Arenanet’s stance on WVWVW is it will not be balanced and has followed through since Beta, why does it matter if builds get switched in an environment that isn’t meant to be a balanced in the first place?

So, you believe that Anet should put the final nail in the coffin for roamers who have fun in WvW?
If it is so, then for people who enjoy it, it’s another reason to quit.

oneply.9586:

Tao.5096:

in WvW that template function should be disabled.

why?
i shouldnt be allowed to have a zerg, roam, and solo template saved?

because that function would be abused by high mobile classes where they could swap entire builds(phys<=>condi) with one click.

in WvW that template function should be disabled.

Novuake.2691:

6 more months(probably a lot more) of me LIKING the fact that I can face turret engi’s and have easy wins as a result…

EDIT : Oh wait, you were sarcastic?
I am not being sarcastic.

After 200 matches as Turret Engineer I can say, that majority of people in Ranked arena and obviously on forums who complain about this build, are autofollow bots.

butch.8136:

And WoW is solely an ‘esport’ because they have a huge population.

Some people don’t understand that if a game has 10+ mil subscribers and you’ll throw a pvp towel with no matter what mode and call it eSports, it’s going to be legit anyway.
Because that’s all there is to do with eSports – participants + viewers.

Lord of Madness.2603:

Tao I feel like you have not read any of the previous posts. If someone is exploiting and they kick me and 16 other people from their arena within seconds of joining its pretty suspicious. also i dont understand the part where you say to make my own arena. Are you suggesting that because i got kicked from an exploiters arena that I make one and that i also exploit because thats the right action to do in this situation?

It’s not a rocket science that if you spot someone cheating or exploiting game mechanics, you’re supposed to notify Support by sending them a ticket with as much details as possible, so they can punish that person and maybe forward issue to be fixed.

What I don’t understand is you in every single post of yours, mentioning that you were kicked out from arena.
The only one who can kick you out is owner and he doesn’t have to explain to anyone why he did that – he paid for it, he does what he want.

So I suggested to you, that if you have a problem of being kicked out, then simply create your own arena and move on.

And if you believe that they’re exploiting, then report them like I did mention in first part of my post.

style.6173:

Tao.5096:

OP
L2P.

/ • Message Body length must at least be 15.

hahaahah. Turret engi who doesn’t want to admit the truth.

Totally. Especially when I mostly play warrior or necromancer.

zapv.8051:

The problem with turret engies(and to a lesser extent some warrior builds and MMs) is that the skill to reward ratio is way too high. Extremely low skill builds shouldn’t ever be good when compared to a normal skill build. I’d be fine with turret engies if there was way more micro involved. For instance, what if turrets didn’t auto heal, but instead healed when their abilities where activated. Also, the base damage needs to be lowered a lot and the active abilities effectiveness increased, but with obvious animations on the turrets.

Turret Engineer is a low skill vs bots.

Aedrion.6483:

You had nothing better to add? I don’t get people who spam this message and assume that explains everything. I play a turret engie. And it’s not fun nor balanced.

So?
Because it’s not fun for you and you believe it’s not balanced, then it require a nerf of some kind?

Yes, in your case and alike, there is nothing better to add than “L2P”.
You know why?
Because something you can’t deal with, automatically become OP or “non balanced” and all you can do is “ask” for nerf.
Nope.
Turret Engineer isn’t either easy nor hard to kill and it’s not OP or immortal.
It’s annoying till some point, but blame yourself and others who think like you and can’t figure out how to deal with that build.

Peutrifectus.4830:

Right, but when a player is being a full blown kitten, and being verbal about it in, "afk now, worst team ever, all of your mother’s will die of aids you’re that bad!’ or something like that… When you’re only 100-175 or so…

Yeah, you can call verbal on this…

It’s not about verbal alone.
It’s about anything that stand alone allow the one who solves the ticket, to grasp the idea of situation. In that Report system, the vital point is chat log.
If chat log has nothing, then ticket will be closed and case won’t be solved.

So, I advise to use website Support Ticket system while providing screenshots/video instead of ingame report with nothing vital in chat.

Mouseheart.8672:

Treb is so powerful in Khylo because of the node system. Basically, go to treb, hit one point (usually mid), profit.

Great profit.
No difference from being afk.

OP
L2P.

/ • Message Body length must at least be 15.

I like to roll with elite players.

oneply.9586

maybe if youre playing the most nub teams in the world.
you have to fight your way to the bomb site, plant the bomb, and then fend off the other team from disarming it. same with hostages, you have to fight to get to them and then fight to get them out.

if they made it so there was no points to cap and you had to defend/kill the lord and that was the only objective it would vastly improve the game.

Does it matter?
If Anet want to play their eSport stuff, why not?
Are you participating? Not?
Why do you care then? – it’s not pointed at you, but at people who bash about it the most.

Someone already said the reason why Gw2 will end poorly in eSport.
Because Viewers are only few compared to top games.
It’s not because of mechanics, modes or w/e else.
It’s lack of interest from people who could watch it.
Why is that?
Because they simply don’t know what Gw2 is.
I surf the internet for years.
And I have learned about Guild Wars 2 from few friends who told me about it, that’s a sequel to Guild Wars 1.
If not them, I wouldn’t even try googling it or type the URL in browser.
You know why?
Because ArenaNet doesn’t even Advertise their product.
I constantly see WoW ads, LoL ads, Dota ads, CS ads, SC2 ads.
Each time I get on steam, I’m shot with Dota advertisement.
I’m on youtube, then I’m shot with WoW or LoL or Dota ads constantly.

But for past 2 years, since release, even pre-release, I have not seen even a single one Guild Wars 2 ad.

ArrDee.2573:

Tao.5096:

What does Lord Rush and conquest have anything to do with being esports or not?

My thoughts exactly! Anet is trying to make conquest esports! Possibly stronghold too! This will fail! In fact if you go by twitch viewers, it’s already failed! It’s hard to watch on twitch! It’s boring to watch on twitch! It’s a PvP game mode where the primary objective isn’t PvP! It just doesn’t work!

That’s not what I meant.

If we’re focusing so much on esports then:
Counter-Strike
Since I can remember, CS was always about
- plant Bomb = Win
- save Hostages = Win
You don’t even need to kill anyone from opponent team.

Now how different is Lord Rush amd Conquest?
Lord Rush gives you 1/3rd of points to win.
Conquest is slower.

Compare it to MOBA?
Why?
MOBA is balanced?
So far as I know, those eSport MOBA games have their chars which are walking Gw2NecroLichForm.

Adding, 2v2 and 3v3 arenas would be fine.
Focusing on TDM maps isn’t good as well.
It’ll only narrow viable builds for those modes.
Mostly, go full zerk or tank and go after marks.

If you guys read carefully and properly regarding Right Click report then you’ll know, that support won’t do anything.

Screenshot for silly nabs.

P.S. – L2Report.

There is nothing to exploit.
Owner of that Arena kicks you out, because he doesn’t want you there.
Problem?
Purchase your own Custom arena.

What does Lord Rush and conquest have anything to do with being esports or not?

Treb is overrated.

Give us Ballistas and Arrow Carts.

kittenahe.3108:

Arenanet, this is serious people will quit because of this period. You need to do something and that’s fast. The game usually freeze and can’t do anything for 10-30 seconds and DCed shortly after. I’ve been playing since beta, and this never seems to get resolved. What are you doing seriously? I’m not only mad but disappointed aswell. Cmon you can do better then this. I just came back to the game and i get this warm welcome back? Really swell THANKS GUYS

As always.

No Kitten given so far.

scerevisiae.1972:

When you can post vids of your spirit weap guardian, trap thief, glyph ele, siphon necro, glamour mesmer team owning it up in high-level PVP, i’ll agree with you.

At the end of the day it’s been >2 years and there’s still tons of traits and skills that are universally recognised as kitten. Anet has 300 employees, it’s not like they’re short of resources to tweak these skills/traits, they just don’t give a kitten.

Well, I know some skills aren’t viable(Death Blossom) and some are even broken (scorpion’s wire).

But even if you’ll pick up the rest of the builds and remake them, still gives you a good amount of builds.
It looks like every class has a full set of skills that aren’t working properly or are not viable.
Like you’ve mentioned, Mesmer glamour skills, Thief’s Traps etc.

I’m not going to defend Anet, since I know that despite having such team, and given multiple reports over such trivial things as Scorpion’s wire etc, they haven’t fixed it.

but it’s not like you also have 2 or 3 max strict solid builds or it’s a no go.

Icaruk.5401:

“Stealing the glider idea from Archeage – Kappa”

Aion says hi.
And probably some older game says hi too.

They should add Windstreams as well for those hang gliders.

:v

Ranger with staff….

Honestly.
Some stupid ideas were given a birth.

Anet so far didn’t fix and make viable previous weapon skill sets along with utilities.

Latest support and development of the game will force me to reconsider purchasing expansion.

Since I was constantly rekt from Login server yday evening, I checked the route and it’s performance.

Loads of packet losses across EU.
:v

your guild chat creeps me out.

Want me to snuggle you? x3

each day I’m doing around 10 arenas.
1-2 of them are against some premade teams, in at least 3/5.

If this is what makes people rage quit, then I can honestly say, that they’re wrong.
They quit because they’re terrible and don’t want to improve meanwhile blaming system that kick once in a while.

Events such as:

• Frozen Maw
• Karka Queen
• Great Jungle Wurm

Are poorly optimized and will drop fps no matter what hardware setup you have.
Kitten happens.
It’s fine with the rest events.

I run dungeons with necromancers.
Because I’m not buttkitten about our run being 1 minute longer than usual.

Healix.5819:

It doesn’t matter where you connect from, it matters what route you’re actually taking. If you’re in the heart of the issue, you’re going to have the problem regardless of what you do. You will want to verify the routes using tracerts through the VPN, and you should post them in that EU thread.

Oh, I did trace the routes through VPNs.
That’s why I was checking different locations in each country to avoid same nodes on the route.
Posting all of it won’t do anything.
I am not alone or only few people who have such problem.
So I found a quite nice solution to it.
ArenaNet ignore connectivity problem, I ignore Buy Gems button.

Evan Lesh.3295:

As for the random damage, it’s only a visual bug with floaters. I see it occasionally, but it doesn’t put me in combat.

^this

Happens to me too.
And it’s funny, because it does give sound + number, but no damage and no combat.