Guild Wars 2

SneakyTouchy.6043:

The benefit from communication that team chat provides never outweighs the disadvantage that comes from the time and effort it takes to write and read it. If you disagree, you may have a serious issue with your ego. The thought alone that you can coach someone during a match with a typed out sentence disqualifies you from coaching. If we want to use ESL players as an example, they review and analyze video. They don’t ever type as a method to coach each other during a match. If they did, it’s exactly why they lost.

This is like, pulling out your driver’s manual while rolling down the street.

Voip is the only beneficial form of communication.

Maybe he ment coaching/chatting directly after the enemy stoped him?

MeatHugger.5768:

Ithilwen.1529:

PvE animals would be appropriate in Coliseum. Perhaps released by a team as allies. This would be an interesting buff.

Yes! This would be sweet. Instead of the having buffs on both side, have a lever or something on one side that releases some veteran tigers into the arena.

Are you not entertained?

Agree! Some Raptors, Tigers and asura enhanced sharks with lasercanons on their head!

(The laser sharks come only if the match needs a lot of time as last buff)

I am normaly a conmon ruby soilder (except this season because time problems) and when i go in unranced it is nearly all the time a guatanted win – and it isn’t uncommon that i have to remind my team to fight on point.

I hope mmr doesn’t count or i would have a horribly low one!

Woof.8246:

A debuff that takes your Win/Lose ratio of your character and if it is too high , then you get a extra pentalty in your MMR lose .
The more you win rate , the bigger MMR lose
You have to complete a 20-match-to-do list , such as collecting non-combat objetives , such as the side ones or heal/rez yourteam8s per game , otherwise the debuff stacks (if you keep winning)

A MMR penalty for wining would increase the win ratio, since you face players with worse mmr instead of a better one, pleas restart your sarcasm, it seems malfunctioning

…or Arenanet could take a look at the statistics and see “hmm those classes are often stacked, seems like we need a nerf”

Rink.6108:

Add new and dyable underwear to the gemstore. We would rarely be able to show them off, but I am sure it would be a welcome present for friends and foes (swimming pants, borat-suit, full-body-suit, toddler-sleeping-suits, diapers, sleeping dresses, bikinis and tasteful lingerie for women etc.).
The asuran nappies really aren’t acceptable. If you want us to be able to show them off more often, give us more diving googles in public places. Plus add a public “pool” in Lions Arch near the mystic forge where you automaticly change to your underpants when you go swimming there.

I would love that! The equip bresks, everyone gets frustrated because of the permanent whipes, but we try the achiefment/fractals/whatever anyway – now the first one is nude… yeah – the second one is bude – can we still do that? Frustration rises up – bow the charr is nude, revealing electro-pink underwear – suddenly the frustration goes and laughter comes

A scar – chest skin!

Big ugly scars! Maybe topless, maybe with very little clothes or even with compleath clothes that just look like they are destroyed in a battle!

You know how well the face-scar skibs sells and how well the missing leg/hand pirate skin sold – a scar chest piece would sell similar!

Become “sick”

Dip down into the earths crust, swim in the magmar around earths core and go up on the destination – way easyer for a dragon than actuall digging – he was just way to deep inside the earth!

Dragons absorb magic of dead dragons, that means the more we defeat than stronger they will be – except we have a dragon of our own. We could use that dragon as cleaner after a dragon was defeated that the other clearly evil ones don’t do it. And that’s just the most obvious tactical advantage

Not compleatly true, if they asked in this forum, only PvP players would vote (same if the poll would pop up ingame before/after a PvP match) but the way they asked, every player will vote! PvP, WvW, PvE etc

Zynt.5769:

MissCee.1295:

A few thoughts & concerns regarding this proposal. (haven’t been able to vote on the poll because it is not working for me)

• Ranked season is not the time or place to be testing things. Anything to be tested should be done in Unranked & preferably during off-season

• Eradicating teams from Ranked play (even if it turns out only to be one season) is madness. The entire concept of Conquest is based on 5-man teams.

• How does Anet propose to encourage team progression to ESL if teams are unable to compete in Ranked?

• I can see no reason why there can’t be solo/duo queue AND team queue. Have it as a settings preference similiar to Conquest and Stronghold.

It’s like watching Homer Simpson trying to stop the nuclear power plant from blowing up isn’kitten

Homer managed to stop that multiple times! May it be because of a straydog that pushed a button when he sleept or because his fat kitten got stuck in a radioactive gas tank when he became extremly fat

Amaimon.7823:

Tiefsee.3647:

Amaimon.7823:

Tiefsee.3647:

Since team play will (hopefully) still be there, will there be 2vs2 maps?

Either deathmatches or normal matches without mid (only far and close)?

Or does A-Net got a new map, designed for 2vs2?

I mean A-Net can’t be serious about removibg the 3+ teams without beeing prepared, right?

they can, and if the vote passes, they will.

For a big chunk of players, the pvp league has a barrier that says ‘only teams from here on’ preventing them from getting over the third tier or so. Only pro players who carry teams can soloQ beyond that.

Some people just don’t have the people for premade teams. And they’re feeling left out, and now anet wants to change that to give them a fair chance as well.

Everyone can form a team, season one and two showed that, there teams had a big advantage and therefore teams everywhere.

And i hope you are wrong, why do people demand and vote for obvious wrong things that destroy more as they could fix?

Democracy, only god can save us now.

But seriously though, pug teams can NEVER weigh up to premade teams. thats just the bad part. this whole vote is because premade teams dominate pvp, thats pugs and solo’rs don’t even stand a chance

Let’s hope the Charr don’t start killing gods again. And my Grenth save us!

And solos can win against teams, if the matchmaking takes solos with a much higher MMR as the team… but that leads to less teams, and those teams that stay are only extremly good teams that know exactly what they do

And that creates the illusion that only teams can win – except “my” teams because my teammates are bad! Leading to less new teams, that could learn how to play together

Amaimon.7823:

Tiefsee.3647:

Since team play will (hopefully) still be there, will there be 2vs2 maps?

Either deathmatches or normal matches without mid (only far and close)?

Or does A-Net got a new map, designed for 2vs2?

I mean A-Net can’t be serious about removibg the 3+ teams without beeing prepared, right?

they can, and if the vote passes, they will.

For a big chunk of players, the pvp league has a barrier that says ‘only teams from here on’ preventing them from getting over the third tier or so. Only pro players who carry teams can soloQ beyond that.

Some people just don’t have the people for premade teams. And they’re feeling left out, and now anet wants to change that to give them a fair chance as well.

Everyone can form a team, season one and two showed that, there teams had a big advantage and therefore teams everywhere.

And i hope you are wrong, why do people demand and vote for obvious wrong things that destroy more as they could fix?

I like it – not sure about the number of playerd but maybe something like;

You get 3 respawns, if you die, the game is over.

And when one player used all his 3 respawns, a new one could come into the existing map

Rewards are given calculated on the number of players you killed and the time you survived

Since team play will (hopefully) still be there, will there be 2vs2 maps?

Either deathmatches or normal matches without mid (only far and close)?

Or does A-Net got a new map, designed for 2vs2?

I mean A-Net can’t be serious about removibg the 3+ teams without beeing prepared, right?

Red, because my skins look cooler in red, except ele tjere i prefer blue, that looks hot!

nerovergil.5408:

when bored i always choose the map peoples hate the most

That would be the colloseum – it’s just slaughtering the enemy after the first fight, i hate thst map – i never choose it but i am forced by other players to play it….

I hope as well that it get’s seperated from the other maps – at least as long as there are achiefments

Sure, everything you need to j6np is teleport proof – not only in PvP – there has to be a way – but on the other hand, it doesn’t matter how long the way is

True, rarely…. but ar least put that guy in charge of the design who made Orr!!!

I know we already got 2 skar skins for the face and two new amputated skins, but how about some more skar skins? Something as chest piece? Either without clothes and really big & ugly scars or some fresh bleeding scars or normal cloth skins that are ripped apart revealibg scars on the skin! (Optional withe cloth with red blood)

I don’t know if this is a good idea, but it sounds like fun

Crystal Black.8190:

Hi,
1. Fix the unportable places. Playing this map with a class with teleports is a pain because they fail quite often and there are so many places you cant teleport to.
You cant teleport to the two higher areas around mid point and so you cant escape with teleports or punish ranged attackers that are standing there.
Increase the high of the pillars and ledges surrounding the wooden constructs. You cant teleport there either. Make them cover not places you can stnad on while denying teleporting to these places. Teleporting through the walls between mid/sidepoints mostly fails if you try to port from side to mid. Fix this caus it usually works the other way.

The mesmer blink works well, always blink on the edge of the higher places, that way you can avoid long walking discances. Not behind the edge, exactly on the edge.

As mesmer i like it, a blink here and a reflect there – great map!

cursE.1794:

Masochism ^_^

:(

Solo Q on a winstreak, i see ;)

MissCee.1295:

Tiefsee.3647:

MissCee.1295:

From what I see there is a lot for existing players to be hopeful about. There is also some consideration in making it more attractive to new players. What I don’t see is any mechanism or idea proposed to help educate new players.

Today I visited the “PVP Instructor”, all I was shown was a few circles on the map directing me to NPC’s. How that “instructs” a new player on how to play is beyond me. Point in case, match earlier today one of my teammates bunked far on Foefire the entire match because they thought it was home.

Newbies need some basic education before they are thrown to the wolves. It may be too late for this to be considered or included for next update, but it must be made a priority.

If good players would be lowered in their rank, they could teach new players – but they would expose this mechanic for winstreaks and reward tracks

But if new players get rated higher, when they team up – they have to learn really quickly!

There is no simple solution, one option could be a lanista ( http://m.tribunesandtriumphs.org/gladiators/gladiator-schools.htm ) a trainer for the new PvP players.

The system could work this way; when a good player joins a team with a bad player, both play in the higher tier – except the better player activates the lanista modus. He won’t gain or lose ranks, the PvP track is way slower, but they both get ranked in the lower tier of the new player.

Maybe trow some achiefments in there as motivation;
- your pvp student earned pvp rank 30
- your pvp student became diamond
- your pvp student had 100 rated wins
- you got 5 pvp students that gained 10 levels

You got the idea…

A basic tutorial would be a good place to start

Let’s be honest – who uss a tutorial anyway? But if you could learn with your guild members or even get a reward for teaching….

I tried to teach some out of my guild and it worked in the first season when they lowered the average MMR/Division – but after they got ranked up in my division/MMR…. yeah… (note, i am not even a very well player, just a common ruby soilder – there are ton’s of me – and even that was enough to skare my guild member away, i had hopes that i could teach the fun in PvP – but when we are forced to play solo or lose because lack of training/skill on one of my team… yeah…)

MissCee.1295:

As always, the few ruin it for the many. Possibly the algorithm could be adjusted to not team you with blocked players. I don’t mind killing them, just don’t want to be on same team.

Actually that could be the solution, if the 10 people are gathered for the game, the blocked ones will be on the enemy team.

That way nobody would block good players.

Also if a player is blocked by 6 man, therefore can’t be in the enemyteam because math, those blocks will be ignore who block more (eg player A blocks 2 guys, player b blocks 200 guys, player B will be ignored) that way people won’t block to much

MissCee.1295:

From what I see there is a lot for existing players to be hopeful about. There is also some consideration in making it more attractive to new players. What I don’t see is any mechanism or idea proposed to help educate new players.

Today I visited the “PVP Instructor”, all I was shown was a few circles on the map directing me to NPC’s. How that “instructs” a new player on how to play is beyond me. Point in case, match earlier today one of my teammates bunked far on Foefire the entire match because they thought it was home.

Newbies need some basic education before they are thrown to the wolves. It may be too late for this to be considered or included for next update, but it must be made a priority.

If good players would be lowered in their rank, they could teach new players – but they would expose this mechanic for winstreaks and reward tracks

But if new players get rated higher, when they team up – they have to learn really quickly!

There is no simple solution, one option could be a lanista ( http://m.tribunesandtriumphs.org/gladiators/gladiator-schools.htm ) a trainer for the new PvP players.

The system could work this way; when a good player joins a team with a bad player, both play in the higher tier – except the better player activates the lanista modus. He won’t gain or lose ranks, the PvP track is way slower, but they both get ranked in the lower tier of the new player.

Maybe trow some achiefments in there as motivation;
- your pvp student earned pvp rank 30
- your pvp student became diamond
- your pvp student had 100 rated wins
- you got 5 pvp students that gained 10 levels

You got the idea…

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

Ross Biddle.2367:

First: We acknowledge the problem-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

You saw right through me haha. Though throwing them away or consuming for no reason is just as sad as piling them up.

Thanks for the advice guys, I just need to remember key farm every week I think. Any idea on what ToK worth if I plan to sell them, or just free market/cheap price?

Wait until halloween/christmas when you open the chests, maybe they add a gliderskin again

Sell them to guilds who need them, delte a character and make it new instand 80 and do the story for lion chest keys

The problem is simple, if there are 4 bad players, it doesn’t matter how well you play, you always lose – but if you are in a team with 4 decent players, you can either improce or decrease the outcome of the match – therefore show where you belong….

…besides, do you want that the new players start to learn from the bad players instead of the average ones?

In case that would be made, it should contain all 3 skill trees, the amulets/runes and the weapons

One free slot for one character should be there for everybody – and for those who need more, for a resonable price in the gemstore (cheaper as a new character slot but still high enough that arena net will implement this)

P.S. maybe you make it for PvE/WvW as well (including equip change) that way more players will be happy and a-net earns more money for continuing improvements in the game, everybody wins!

The solution is rather simple, give the team with disadvantage an extra pip if they win/no lost pip if they lose – like in season one – but unlike season one SAY IT!

EG;
1 extra pip because your enemy had an way higher MMR
1 extra pip because 5 solo player won against a 3 man premade
1 extra pip because you won even with 2 divisions difference etc

Nobody is angry because of loses, nobody is angry because of close matches, afk, class disadvantages etc etc – they are only mad because they lose a pip – that’s all they see and care for – including me!

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

In case it hasn’t been suggested yet…

… a flock of birds with strings tied from them to a harness on my character….

….because, reasons.

~EW

As mesmer i have to disagree, bad idea!

…but change the birds against butterflys and it’s a different story…

Simple question

Fay.2357:

Carighan.6758:

Uh oh. Queue the PvP brigade, yes all 30 of them, who will tell you that it’s one of the best #2 skills because reasons.

And you’re trying to argue that downed state is valuable in PvE because…reasons?

Lets face it, if you get downed in PvE, you’re either bad or in a situation where your downed skills don’t matter because your team should be reviving you. Downed state only matters for PvP, and mesmer downed state 2 is absolute top tier for PvP.

The only people that think mesmer downed state is bad are the ones that don’t understand how it works, how stomping works, or how PvP in general works.

In that case i must be a bad PvP player and don’t understand that skill – pleas explain me how i get a teleport that sends me out of the stomp range of my clone and not direct under the enemy – i am willing to learn

tobascodagama.2961:

I mean, in PvP the stealth on Downed #2 actually is really good.

The only problem I have with it is that, unlike Thief Downed #2, it’s totally random. Which isn’t a big problem in PvP but makes the skill essentially useless in PvE, thanks to ANet’s overreliance on persistent damaging ground effects to create fake difficulty.

Uhm in PvP the randomness is a problem as well, sometimes i am far away even on the other side of the wall but most of the times i am just a few meters away and killed because of that – if the invisibility breaks, the stomp get me there as well and if the invisibility doesn’t break, most use AOE and don’t even try to stomp, i am dead as well in that case…

Thanks @ everyone

To much pve in a pvp and nearly no chance to flip the table when you are on the loosing side in my experience

Most of the time i am a PvP player and therefore didn’t really need an Ascended equip, but times change.

Therefore what stats should i take? (in case i want to run Raids) Full berserker, Condi or something else?

Also should the weapon be the same? because it influences the damage different?

Lord Rex.4261:

Tiefsee.3647:

Lord Rex.4261:

Tiefsee.3647:

Lord Rex.4261:

Tiefsee.3647:

Lord Rex.4261:

Wargameur.6950:

Why is that thread in the pvp section ?

You can’t treat all Chinese as if they all agree with Mao.
You can’t treat all American as if they all agree with Donald Trump.
You can’t treat all Asuran as if they all agree with their council.
You can’t treat all ANet devs as if they all agree with the balance team.

AHAH I liked that !

Because we do Daily PVP in Ranked Arena to save Asura.

are you saying, asura can’t even survive in a PvP match without help? Poor rats….

Nope. You get it all wrong.

We are doing our daily PVP in Ranked Arena, because it is a blasphemy in the eye of the snob PVPers. If we do it this way, they get angry, they rage quit, etc. So in short it has an impact.

This is our way of demonstration in order to highlight the situation of poor Asura kind. This way Tyria will know about the situation.

Sure it is because you are an asura and not because you are a player who should stay in unranked?

You are just trying to brainwash the readers of this topic.

… but yes, I am an Asura.

Brainwashing would contain seperating from the group, giving a new name, demonising the outside world and praising the inside/our world, normaly done in small steps and this is just the most blund version of brainwashing – and i am not even trying any of those – i am just sad that a self proclaimed asura doesn’t know that, sure you aren’t a skritt?

You know, one of the many sentient creatures asura used for deadly experiments, – sorry, i meant cute experiments…

Well, that blabbering of yours above is the perfect example of the brainwashing. Questioning my Asuran identity is also a great part of your brainwashing endeavours – however let me express my respect in that matter to you – I sense that you are a fellow Asuran, and you just want to takeover my organization.

Well, nice try. I do really appreciate it. However I’d suggest rather to cooperate with me instead of insisting your own ideals.

Thanks!

Asura? Pleas don’t insult me, i am a pround Sylvari – and a sylvari can never truly trust the asura kind, after all, the first thing asuras did was murdering many innocent sylvari – and that hasn’t changed since then; Scarlet was also driven into madness by an asura experiment, bevore she started outsmarting asura kind big time – so no, keep your organisation.

And cooperating? Defendly no, there are way better ways of suicide as cooperating with an asura!

Lord Rex.4261:

Tiefsee.3647:

Lord Rex.4261:

Tiefsee.3647:

Lord Rex.4261:

Wargameur.6950:

Why is that thread in the pvp section ?

You can’t treat all Chinese as if they all agree with Mao.
You can’t treat all American as if they all agree with Donald Trump.
You can’t treat all Asuran as if they all agree with their council.
You can’t treat all ANet devs as if they all agree with the balance team.

AHAH I liked that !

Because we do Daily PVP in Ranked Arena to save Asura.

are you saying, asura can’t even survive in a PvP match without help? Poor rats….

Nope. You get it all wrong.

We are doing our daily PVP in Ranked Arena, because it is a blasphemy in the eye of the snob PVPers. If we do it this way, they get angry, they rage quit, etc. So in short it has an impact.

This is our way of demonstration in order to highlight the situation of poor Asura kind. This way Tyria will know about the situation.

Sure it is because you are an asura and not because you are a player who should stay in unranked?

You are just trying to brainwash the readers of this topic.

… but yes, I am an Asura.

Brainwashing would contain seperating from the group, giving a new name, demonising the outside world and praising the inside/our world, normaly done in small steps and this is just the most blund version of brainwashing – and i am not even trying any of those – i am just sad that a self proclaimed asura doesn’t know that, sure you aren’t a skritt?

You know, one of the many sentient creatures asura used for deadly experiments, – sorry, i meant cute experiments…

Lord Rex.4261:

Tiefsee.3647:

Lord Rex.4261:

Wargameur.6950:

Why is that thread in the pvp section ?

You can’t treat all Chinese as if they all agree with Mao.
You can’t treat all American as if they all agree with Donald Trump.
You can’t treat all Asuran as if they all agree with their council.
You can’t treat all ANet devs as if they all agree with the balance team.

AHAH I liked that !

Because we do Daily PVP in Ranked Arena to save Asura.

are you saying, asura can’t even survive in a PvP match without help? Poor rats….

Nope. You get it all wrong.

We are doing our daily PVP in Ranked Arena, because it is a blasphemy in the eye of the snob PVPers. If we do it this way, they get angry, they rage quit, etc. So in short it has an impact.

This is our way of demonstration in order to highlight the situation of poor Asura kind. This way Tyria will know about the situation.

Sure it is because you are an asura and not because you are a player who should stay in unranked?

Lord Rex.4261:

Wargameur.6950:

Why is that thread in the pvp section ?

You can’t treat all Chinese as if they all agree with Mao.
You can’t treat all American as if they all agree with Donald Trump.
You can’t treat all Asuran as if they all agree with their council.
You can’t treat all ANet devs as if they all agree with the balance team.

AHAH I liked that !

Because we do Daily PVP in Ranked Arena to save Asura.

are you saying, asura can’t even survive in a PvP match without help? Poor rats….

I hear a mouse somewhere? I should be carefull where i step or my shoes could get bloody…

Curunen.8729:

Time to transmute to plain skins and dye yourself brown camo.

If dying would work – the enemy sees me in red/blue anyway (except i got an undyable equip)

Not compleatly true, clothes also matter – it doesn’t matter what kind of clothes you wear, but if you don’t wear them, it changes your stats – don’t fight nude!

Mesmer, i loved bunker mesmer when it worked well, but that’s a long time ago

After finnaly getting my backpiece and playing some games with it, is it just me or does the Ascension make me just a big walking target mark for the enemys?

Stiofan.6720:

Ragion.2831:

it would be really foolish if they make the Ascension available so soon after the reward track has expired. The major thing about the track was to complete it within a certain time to get access to the backpiece. If there was long period of time where it was inaccessible (2 years at least) it would hold some value for the people who grinded for it.

In an mmorpg an items value is everything, thats something Anet still doesnt fully understand yet

To answer the OPs question, no its not worth it this season, no real rewards for it.

Make it unavailable for 2 years? What a horrible idea. Thank god u don’t work at anet.

I didn’t go thru pvp hell that everybody else get that back on easy mode a few years later, i agree 2 years is to short!