Guild Wars 2

If you only got 40 points as a thief, you are definitely doing something wrong…

ArrDee.2573:

Leavers!
Second set up leavers into 2 categories! We can call them early and late! If the game is a 4v5 or less within the first 3 minutes, then everybody is free to leave and join another game as soon as they leave with no effect on rank or leaderboard or whatever! After 3 minutes, you are free to leave and play another game but the outcome of the match will affect your rank and leaderboard status and whatever!

People will abuse such a system. They will cycle who is going to leave this time, and who next time.

What will happen in the following situation:
Person A has a disconnect in the first minute. Person B decides not to play 4vs5, and leaves the match right before person A reconnects to the game. So A is not the leaver anymore since he is back, is he now able to leave the game without a punishment too?
Person A might just have been unlucky to get a disconnect in the first minute, or he might not wanted to play against the opponents, and forcing a 4vs5 in the first minutes on purpose, with the intention to come back later.

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

You replace the Paralyzation sigil with it, since that only affects Earthshaker. Knockdowns and Knockbacks aren’t affected by that sigil.

That’s what I’m talking about, this variation was NOT on metabattle.

Quincy.2198:

As we’ve said it multiple times, it’s a community project. Found a mistake? Take 20 seconds to correct it. The one in the shatter build was a typo, thanks for noticing. The ROM build sigil was fixed way before your post, for your information. The rest you are saying is on the wiki list as variants.

Does not work to change it myself. I posted the error message for you.

And no, it was not fixed “way before”, I checked again during writing the post.

Maybe you really need to change your attitude?

Quincy.2198:

This site is made by the community, for the community. If you see any mistakes (which I doubt you will find in the PvP section ) feel free to log in and propose changes on the discussion page.

not really….

… you do not have permission to create this page.

A few of the mistakes I found at the first! look at the meta tpvp section:

1.) Mesmer Shatter TPvP Meta Build: Helseth is defining this meta, take a look at his build. This means in Illusions number VII and not VIII,

2.) Guardian TPvP Altruistic Healing Build: From Tage in Valor Number V over VII

3.) ROMs Hambow includes Sigil of Doom.

4.) Meta-Build Axe-Sword/Longbow Variation with 2-0-6-0-6 missing.

5.) The build from Hibify (Cheese Mode) is missing (he was using it in the TolQ4) http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkrtbxELseNCbBNyx8GRuxq85IEgkC-TJRHwAFuAAAeAAk2f4YZAA

6.) One of the current ranger build variations: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAV8YjMq0savKusQ0aADhq9JEslAzAodd+DDxIiC-TpBFwABuAAKOCA12fYxBBAaZAAPAAA (used from Azron, Team Cheesemode at the TolQ4)

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/events/gamescom-2014/

tichorum.2415:

You can’t legally win money unless you’re 18. Amirite?

No you are not.

BTT: Yes, for legal reasons.

“As this functionality is intended for high-end, skilled players at the top tier of PvP, this option will work only in Team Arenas and Custom Arenas that allow Tournament Commands.”

Please include this option in SoloQ!

SoloQ is a good place to practice and get ready for TeamQ , and that is only possible if you face the same conditions as in TeamQ.

/signed
I feel the same. Thank you!

Sylvari.6083:

Hey!

I have been working on a Guild Wars 2 based website for a while now. It’s basically list of all meta builds for the game, collected from different sources. I haven’t managed to collect all the build since I don’t play ever profession but I am expanding the lists everyday. Feel free to report any issues/suggestions so that I can improve the website and make it more user friendly so that everyone can take advantages of it

Website: http://www.metabattle.com/

Reference list: http://www.metabattle.com/disclaimer.php

Maybe someday. Currently too many mistakes / errors / wrong information.

Yeah, going afk is not only allowed, but also encouraged. If you do, you might also get invited to the gamescom like some of our all-star players!

Unfortunately the list contains players who are flaming and / or leaving SoloQ matches on purpose. Why should such a behavior be sentenced, when we could also reward them right?

… all is vain …

Ronin.7381:

Just be patient and let the sandstorm pass.

Yeah, not everything is a huge deal breaker, just wanted to place my little rant here to feel better afterwards, and it worked

Sorry, need this little rant, to let my steam out:

• Dry Top lags hard.

• I don’t want to get ported out of the inquest part, when I’m next to the lama. just because the even failed.

• The sandstorm influences my sight too much. Don’t care if it feels more “real” that way. I want to be able to find my way through the jumping parts without any interference.

• Swiftness + Being in Combat are influencing the high of the air jump -> not ok

You are not playing bad, and the build might be good, but unfortunately we can’t realize that via the video.

If that opponents you are facing are the average top 500 players, than the na is a worse state I’d have every imaged.

Edit:

from unranked to r77

you are forgetting the decay.

Xaylin.1860:

(Traited) Glamours could apply 1-2 stacks of Confusion per second to 5 people within the Glamour instead to people who pass through.

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So… you just tagged 5! people with a utility skill… That’s a single auto attack for a guardian. Glamour skills have a way too long cd, and should be used as a utility to support your group or weaken the enemy, but not to tag other players.

The problem is really where to implement more AOE, without too much negative impact on the rest of the game.

In the ideal case it is just something you either

• place somewhere to tag enough people (f.e. like ‘Lava Font’ or ‘Mark of Blood’) or
• that you can just spam your auto attack (every melee attack or ‘Wave of Wrath’)

Some core problems I had with the discussion:

• The balance philosophy was too much focused on per profession, and not per spec.
  F.e. Warrior sustain vs burst: depending on the spec.

• Hard counter: Single utility to counter a specific action is NOT what hard counter are about. The thing was about whole specs being able to dominate other specs like S/D Thiefs over mesmer or necros over other condition classes.

• “should a certain profession be stronger, since it is harder to play?” – yes and no.
  In the comparison profession A vs profession B: no
  Just because the skill floor of the ele is higher than other, does not mean, he should dominate every 1on1.
  In the comparison spec A vs spec B from the same profession: yes
  A warrior using stances should be rewarded vs a warrior only using signets.

Xaylin.1860:

While they said that they won’t lift it up to the level of Elementalists I feel this is a reasonable limitation.

I think we should use this chance, and discuss this point further.

core problem ‘tagging’ people in a WvW Zerg fight / PvE Zergs
It’s not fun to run with a zerg, supporting the zerg with your utilities and not being able to gain enough loot.

vs Elementalist
in WvW you will never compete with the elementalist due to his water fields and his Static Field.
Ele is the whole package, large aoe damage, aoe support, aoe CC.
Mesmer has: aoe support, a bit of cc

tl.dr.
It’s not about damage number, we just want to also be able to ‘tag’ the enemies for loot, f.e. similar to the guardian staff.

Low defense against high burst damage

TPvP core problem: Dying too quick
The problem is NOT dying to backstab in WvW, the problem is dying to a good S/D thief in TPvP.

My first impression:

All matches will be hosted on the weekends, with qualifying matches beginning in July.

I hope we can participate, without having to be available every weekend of July.

Josh Davis.6015:

In your opinion, what should the strengths and weaknesses of each profession be? What’s your profession’s kryptonite?

Yes, every profession should have strength and weaknesses, but non of them should hard counter one another. In my opinion, if a profession has a kryptionite, there need to be adjustments.

Hard counter / kryptonite: You’ll loose, even if you play better.
This does NOT mean, that you’ll lose every of those matchups.

Current examples for hard counter:
Average S/D or D/P Thief > Good Shatter Mesmer (but still Good Shatter Mesmer > Bad Thief)
Necro (due to Condition Transfer) > other Condition Professions.

jebro.6370:

Last weeks ESL weekly cup gave us 8 teams, the first time in a few months now tbh.

The reason people feel its dead is maybe they see a lot of the top end players have left or arent playing as much.

The teams which participated in last weeks ESL have always been there, just because the really good teams left, so that they now see a chance at getting some free gems too.

When you play a SoloQ match, in which a top 10 player AND a %-player are in the same team, you know something went horribly wrong.

The achievements will be much more difficult to complete than those traditionally found in Season 1, and are intended to be challenging achievements for skilled players to overcome.

Best statement since a long time. I really hope this will be true!

Really? I like the R80 finisher far more…

We can still hope, that KongZhong takes balancing feedback more serious, and then tells ArenaNet what to change.

Personally I’d prefer to NOT be able to personal select the map pool, but ask the community which maps should be available in the map pool.

Why should the map pool be the same for every player?
Player A will play f.e. Kyhlo, Foefire and Nifhel; Player B Skyhammer, Spirit Watch and Temple → They will never meet, why should we then put them on the same leaderboard? We can never tell who is better. Even if you are only able to deselect one or two maps, it will still increase the chance, that you the two players can dodge themself.

Our priority should be to get a good reliable rating system f.e. league system.
Mostly in SoloQ the current leaderboard is a joke, and I know player who player 3-0 to end up in the top 3. I simply don’t trust ArenaNet to implement a Map Selection Option, and not destroy the upcoming rating system with it.
(TeamQ is a different story, I don’t mind the current leaderboard there, since the top teams are comparing themselves during f.e. ESL or ToL Tournaments, and therefore the TeamQ leaderboard has a different position / importance compared to the SoloQ ladder.)

Personal suggestion:

• Players are able to select their top 3 maps.
• THEN the 10 players who are going to play together are selected depending on their rating.
• AFTER THAT, the system selects the map on which the 10 players are going to play, but takes into account the preferred maps.

Allie.9268:

Did you even read what Rym posted? He said he likes the map, then you say that the community doesn’t like it?

You realize it’s hard to take your posts seriously now when you blatantly disregard what others are saying, right?

Did you read his post?

Instead, our PvP community likes[…]

He himself realized, that the community (my personal guess 80%-90%, no evidence; I asked through my guild and friend, but there I got a 100% rate of not liking the new map) does not like the map.

Have you ever taken a look at the EU-SPvP Server? There are a punch of 1on1 servers, but the big ones are all still running forest of nifhel. This fact alone speaks volumes.

You don’t have to take my word, just check for yourself.

Rym.1469:

Eh, Courtyard is an awesome design and map. It’s only the players who can’t understand the importance of LoS, don’t desire to play with it. Maybe the two smaller pillars could be higher.

Instead, our PvP community likes smashing their faces on keyboard and playing on totally open spaces. Their, not designers’ fault.

I personally really like the centre of the map since wise usage of LoS can totally change the tide of play and avoid being focused to death with no escape (Necro).

There’s no tactic and brain invloved when there’s just flat area.

You are totally right, that it has some good ideas, but does it matter, if the community does not like it?

ArenaNet is not oriented toward the market. How much do you think your product matters if the marked / players don’t like it?

Am I wrong? – well, take a look at the number of players still playing TPvP, and you’ll get your answer…

Not to mention courtyard is a fail design again.
There is a reason people choose to 1v1 on the beach of nifhel or 3v3/2v2 on the big mid-node on foefire → a lot of open space, not a lot of terrain to kyte around.
With courtyard we just got the opposite… Thanks for listening!

Evan Lesh.3295:

Are you suggesting an equal random between the top voted maps? What happens in this situation:

1. 9 Khylo
2. 1 Sykhammer

No, just delete Skyhammer, nobody wants it!

Branden Gee.2150:

The first being to scale all of the asuras up to be larger and scale down the charr and norn. The second is to turn everyone in the match into a human.

Scaling of the asura is NOT an option. Not to mention, that we don’t want our char to be displayed differently. Only the opponents in the pvp match should get a different display.

Currently I see three options:
1.) Best option: Including an option to turn every ENEMY into a human with generic armor and appearance. Similar to the option to change the cloth color.

2.) Fix the Asura animations (probably a lot of work, and may still be a problem in the end, because not every animation can be the same, and therefore people will always be annoyed/cry).

3.) Least Favored, but maybe as a hotfix till the implementation of the first option: Force everyone to use a human-tonic to change the appearance.

I think that there are a few things worth mentioning. The ‘generic humans from WvW’ are not like other character models in the game. They have a smaller animation set which would be unable to properly display all animations, which is exactly what the original problem is.

We know that, but we have no insight how that effects us. We don’t need exactly the same model as the generic WvW char models, since their purpose is to be easily displayed for slower PCs.
You have already managed to change the cloth color in PvP, I believe in you, that you also manage to change the whole physical appearance to be the same character model (at least human with same size, if the char model is able to change f.e. depending on gender and hair color, that would ofc be much cooler).

Just compare the ‘price’ you get to PvE or WvW loot. You can simply zerg around, miss every step, get rezzed over and over again, and you will still get your loot. Same thing just also applies to SPvP now. Not a big deal, since the reward is not good anyway.

lordkrall.7241:

It is funny how all those other games somehow manage to keep people playing for 6 months without adding anything, but as soon as GW2 have a gap of a month or two the game is doomed.

Do you know a single game except wow, that manage to do so?

A gap of a month or two? The last content release was 18th of March.
Festival of the Four winds is not new content, except the master crystal hunt I have already finished the rest (including special liadri with 8 orbs) last year.

The population in GW2 is far from small. I still see massive amounts of people around (both in PvE and WvW).

Do you really think so? Only seems to be more due to the mega server. On the prime time we currently have about 10 (Borderlands) to 60 (Eternal) people queuing.

Would you rather have them rush releases so that you can complain about how bad it is due to too little time spent on it?

As long as I have something to do, I’m fine. Currently this is not the case in gw2, and unfortunately not the case in the next month.

1. July? REALLY? Not a mistake that they meant first of June?

I can not find any nice words describing how I feel about this. How do you want to keep people playing? Do you just want to kill the remaining small population of gw2?

You have already killed tpvp, are you now continuing with also kill the living world?

Lalocat.6793:

I’m having problems with targeting her. Seems like the champ auto target doesn’t work here,

Set a mark on her, and target her with the mark.

The first phase is ALWAYS the same. Just like a little ballet dance. The only difference is where the round eye-thingis which pull you are spawnig, but the timing is always the same.

means taking more damage from her auto attack while you wait.

They are all projectiles. Reflect them, block them, or simple strife-move away from them (two steps to the left, two steps to the right, and the projectile will miss you).

Watch some videos. If you want to cheat disable post-processing for better visual.

Killed her on the third try (without any bufffood, but ofc did her back in the days, and needed a lot of tries for her 8 globes achievement), was really disappointing.

I expected some more difficult bosses, but same casual kittens as before.
Still no better reward for liadri with 8? globes, but a pet and now the title for liadri without anything… meh. Did I miss something?

I’m really disappointed

Evan Lesh.3295:

Let’s assume anyone absent from a match for ‘x’ minutes is considered a disconnect and given dishonor regardless of whether they return. What happens to the 9 other people? Are they forced to play out the rest of the match? Should their ratings be adjust still? What about rewards?

The problem is, that a pardon for the 4 remaining people would open up a new option to abuse the system. “Ok, this time I take the hit, and go afk, next time it is your turn.” before they loose the game, or have to play against a comp, they’ll most likely loose.

Personal suggestion for SoloQ: League style system; Ready Check at the start including a notification when you are on the desktop (at least a sound option, we can already enable gw2 sound if it runs at the background, so please give us at least an sound warning); And then if you afk/leave the game early/flame too much you loose additional league points;

TeamQ does not need any of this, it should get its own rule set, it does not need a dishonor debuff.

I’m a little confused here… you used to play thief? Then I suggest you to watch www.twitch.tv/sizer2654

Thiefs are very strong, a really a must-have in every team composition on EU.
Yes, a lot of teams in NA played with double warrior in the ToL, but guess what… EU played with double warrior a half year ago, and we have moved forward – NA will as well.

Butter.3024:

Stop it.

Stop trying to turn sPvP into esport, it’s not gonna happen.

Instead focus on make sPvP enjoyable for players first.

Thanks

That’s the same thing. Only if the sPvP is more enjoyable, it will get more famous. Only by attracting more people it might oneday get to be an esport title (but that’s going to be a long way).

Try to give constructive feedback at what you don’t like, but man up, and don’t qq.

We actually have a lot of “Guardian counter”, and we have already seen TPvP Matches from Top Teams without the standard Shout-Guardian (f.e. one with a shout warrior, and one with a celestrial hybrid burn guardian who was pushing far).

Think the problem here is more, that we have enough player, who want to play guardian in the current role.

I would never ever play a norn. They are too big to see what is in front of you, you will get camera problem in certain areas, and every time you move, it feels like you are really really slow (Ofc the walking speed is the same, but the norn just takes huge slow steps.

If you are going to do some PvP you should consider an Asura.

I really like the new system. I have a solution for your mesmer: Don’t use scepter and torch.

Prior patch I ran around with every pve and pvp weapon in my inventory, now I only have to take one set with me.

Well, unless we can see the numbers behind the MMR system, we can’t say, if the system works fine or not.

If almost everyone around you is inexperienced, you probably just overrate yourself, and you are matched perfectly fine.

This does not mean, that the system does not have problem, it does!
Personally I think the main problem is, that new players start somewhere in the middle, and since their rating is not yet settled, it fluctuates a lot. This means, that if they are extremely lucky the first few matches, they can end up in the top 10, on the other hand they can get extremely unlucky, get some 4v5s and end up at the bottom, having a hard time climbing up again.

This brings me to the next point: 4v5: Too many games are decided that way. Yes, we can’t force people to stay and play, but we can make sure, that at least everyone is there at the start: We need a ready check prior entering the match!^

Some very basic tipps for the soloq:

• Use keybinds^
• Set good targets, don’t start the fight trying to kill the bunker guard.
• look at the minimap and try to count enemys, with that information you know where to support your teammates or if their backpoint is free
• look at the teammates health bars
• Ping on the minimap f.e. prior the temple buffs are spawning to signal teammates to go there
• If there is time, use the teamchat to inform your teammates about the upcoming buff (11:30 upper, 8:30 both, 5:30 upper, 2:30 both again)
• The orb + skyhammer cannon are important. If you don’t have an orb carrier at least deny them to take the orb.
• There is no shame on playing something cheesy on skyhammer
• Copy the build from a top players. Yes, once you are good enough, you should individualize the build, or take something uncommon, but most of the time people just run kittening builds, and think they are good. (F.e. Offguards with staff, Bunker with shield on Foefire or power ranger)

Uhmm.. no thanks? I love my phoenix finisher -.-

If you want to take advise from someone on the forum regarding pvp, I suggest to always take a look at gw2score.com/PvP if they actually have a clue. Therefore: Please don’t take a rifle -.-

Current Warrior Build from Karsaib (Top EU Warrior from Team 55HP Monks): http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJASTjMd0FaZIWhwJagqgCdFEAPg6eoxzhUbAA-TpBCwAAeAAaOCAUuAAx2fQcZgLHCAA

The build is taken from twitch.tv/maylox

Glenn.3417:

and a celestial amulet

This is your problem. Phantasms are scaling from your stats, so you have to use Berserker or at least Valkyrie Amulet. We are not like MM Necros or Rangers who can go as tanky or condi heave as they want, and still have our AI deal direct damage, we have to go as offensive as possible.

Can give you my personal perspective:

I want to play with my friends, but it is very hard to get four of them together for more then once in a while. Most of them prefer to play with their specific friends (f.e. I only play TPvP with my girlfriend), or don’t want to play with each other. So you might find more then four interested players on your friendlist, but to manage to get them together to play is a whole different story.

It’s hard to find people sharing the same attitude towards the game and also fill the “social requirements” / are not a burden to deal with in the teamspeak.

You can only get ~25% per day (can be split among different tracks / paths) from custom arenas / hot join servers.

But you can still increase your reward tracks further if you play SoloQ or TeamQ.

Bad matchmaking or a lot of bad luck.

Once you have played yourself to the top, you’ll no longer have this problems.

Really hope we’ll get the new ladder system soon.

The button is not useless, it is necessary to find a server with a free place. Without using the button no new arena-net-5v5-servers are generated, and therefore all servers will be full.
They just have to remove every non-5v5-custom server from the possible outcomes. Don’t want to land in a 10vs10 courtyard slaughter again.

Currently I have to press multiple time the “play now” button, to land somewhere suitable. (FYI You can open the server browser directly during a match / from the spectator mode, once you realize that you are once again a courtyard rank farm server).

Today it seems to get out of hand. 8 whispers in the last hour, more then in the last month together.