Guild Wars 2

DH sustain needs to go down, traps are fine (except the heal)
-Maybe take a look at Monks Focus

Rev is fine

Ele needs more reliable damage options, dagger abilities don’t do enough damage, staff is not good for anything other than team fighting, and scepter abilities are horrible.

Necro is fine if guard gets hit with a nerf bat

Mesmer is fine

Thief is fine, but could use an ICD on Pulmonary Impact

Druids need more active gameplay, and maybe a longer CD on Staff 3

Engi is fine

Warrior could use a small shave on Adrenal health

A tone down on “Teleport to” abilities would reward kiting more and help separate the average from the slightly above average

Erm no. GoB is what gets people into WvW like the backpack got people into PvP. If they did that then we would have to add the backpack to WvW and PvE, which would take the prestige away even more

Hey guys! As the title says, I got a bit bored with gw2 as of late and am re-playing gw1. If you need help with any parts of the story, going for HoM achieves, or just wanting someone to party with, hit me up!

Note that I don’t currently have gw2 installed on my computer (and won’t be able to see in-game mail) so just send me a pm here on the forums!

+1

Getting sick of seeing tons of traits and utilities not even worth taking. When was the last time you saw a turret engi, glyph ele, or shout war. There is so much potential that could be used, and instead of buffing things that dont work to achieve balance, they buff things that are already mandatory. Like Lead Attacks on thief, for example. That only pigeonholed them more into the Trickery trait line, while they could have put it on something like Critical Strikes, for instance.

Phaeton.9582:

This is all rubbish.. Balance is irrelevant when Elite specs are simply too easy to play and have lowered the skill cap by an insane amount.

Name one class that isn’t 1000% easier to play after the expansion. Theif is the only contender and even that’s a ton easier unless you’re going outside of the meta.

Rev, wasn’t around pre expansion

Hahahahahaha I win can I have a cookie?

Agreed, I personally like the stowed weapon version more. The other one looks like it would get in your face while you’re fighting

HoT pets / Moa / Adrenal Health allowed?

Seems legit

Jitson.6051:

I’m a genius. Make it so that you get rank points for kills, objective captures/defends in a match etc. E.g. when you get a kill in a match currently you see the +10 +5 when you kill the player. Why not turn those +10/5 into rank points? And better yet why not double or QUADRUPLE those points, so that you’re getting 40 rank points per kill? You mentioned players have nothing to fight for, there they have something to fight for instead of afk or quitting. Increase the things that already give rank points across the reward then BAM, you get 3 or more reward track items just for readyup and losing a full match in 10minutes.

In GW1 you got faction for kills in pvp, so why not in GW2? Points on the scoreboard literally don’t mean kittens in GW2 like Madman mentioned. You can win a game and still be bottom scorer and still get same rewards as top player. So why not actually turn them into rank points, so they actually mean something!

PvP isn’t beyond fixing, it’s still a joke, but there are obvious ways ANET could improve it.

Would result in double capping or zerging (if people cared about rank points) and those that don’t care (the majority of the PvP playerbase) would continue to afk / leave anyways. I don’t think that there is much that can be done, except make the individual lose 2 pips instead of one (that ignores pip safeguards such as tiers or divisions).

They said that they will release an alternate means of getting it after the Leagues are over.

But this is the last season you can acquire it normally, otherwise you’ll have to wait

Shoot, tell me when and where

Screw the prize, I just think it’d be fun

Played with my friend the other day

We counted to see how many games in a row had 3+ Dragonhunters on the other team

It was 3 in a row, broken by a match with only 2 of them

DH is dumb because of all the cc and sustain of the build. I can send my pet on to a point (thank god) and he’ll be cc’ed 3 or 4 times just for existing in the wrong spot. Its dumb af.

Same friend and I are trying out a dh for our team comp, and he LITERALLY spams all his abilities off cooldown. And he kills my friend over and over again (who takes pride in his skill and kills ESL players).

tl;dr

DH is faceroll and IS ruining S4

Okay, so the problem is that you can get the normal title in servers (aka Hotjoin) which can have extremely lopsided and stacked matches. So that is why the champ title is only accessible through ranked / unranked and the normal title needs more games.

Actually it happened early game so we lost the advantage, and we would have won had the game not been defective (500-467). No lag, no warning, just bam crash. Getting annoying AF because this has happened on multiple occasions. Anyone else getting this issue? I would rather not let my team mates down because anet can’t keep a game running

Later Aero !

Thanks for being part of the community and it sucks to see you go

No, I tested this earlier by spamming it on a golem and it is bugged

While we’re talking about skill comparisons….

Mass Invis is WAY better than Sneak Gyro

Forgot https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spectral_Grasp

Sazukikrah.5036:

To me though it seems like they nerfed the dmg and sustain but didnt give anything else out in return to at least still make the class fun and enjoyable to play.

The classes are still pretty fun to play

The reduction in sustain and damage is how they reduce powercreep. Aka, they require more skill than before. If you play pre-HoT and June 23rd you got used to it

Xillllix.3485:

Wow, sounds good for some 10v10 GvGs, maybe we should try that instead.

You can in a custom arena

Hey guys! A while back I posted another thread to get a competitive team going. Here’s the update:

We have a Druid, Engi, and a Thief / War. We aren’t sure how the meta has affected team comps yet, (so class doesn’t really matter atm) but we are looking for people who can commit to two practice days a week (Right now it is Thursday and Sunday at 9pm est). It is highly preferred that you have reached legend at least once to show that you’ve worked in a high pressure environment. Must be open to criticism. Anyways, as a team we’ve made massive progress. Even with 3 people (and normally 2 really bad pugs) we’ve managed to hold a 90% win / lose ratio for about 3 to 4 weeks, even against ESL players.

Hit me up @ Topher.5631, and I’ll see you in game :P

Besides the cleric removal I think everything feels more enjoyable, especially being able to que from anywhere and the reinstatement of ranked

kdaddy.5431:

see and the funny thing about that is thief loses to DH (not usable in Pro leagues other then tage) engy, mesmer, rev and for the most part necro.

For reference thief eats necro / mesmer / rev alive.

But in reference to the skill, the skill needs a larger telegraph and less unique condis inflicted. Daze duration needs to be reduced

^^^^ Talked to death

If DH were overpowered we would see them in all ESL comps

-> Which they aren’t
-> Because ESL players know how to dodge
-> Has been clear since S1 that DH is a l2p issue

kamedin.4698:

I would just go back and play gw1. Great game for lore reasons and also as a place to waste time until Anet makes good content again.

^^^^

Great choice, gw1 was infinitely better for pve than gw2 ever was

serj.8214:

Afkers\Leavers should pay by 1 tier or even a division for afk\leave.

Then those that d/c on accident would be punished instead. Though they could probably do a bit of code to determine if the number of packets going in / out declined instead of shut off all at once (to determine that they actually did d/c)

Reaper Alim.4176:

Not only is PvP it self is broken but the enoth of breaking the rest of the game and the real Player vs Player mode WvW, by balancing everything off of this crap people calls sPvP in GW2. The way I see it now in WvW all “Elite Specs” are balanced to each other.

If they are not balanced in PvP say Scrapper and Druid, because sPvP is Node/Babysitting then deal with that. Stop Nerfing the classes game wide because “Near Brain Dead GW2 sPvPers” can not adapt their play-style to over come such challenges some of us already had, in sPvP.

Just no to any more nerfs to the game via sPvP near brain dead populations problems of adapting. WvW is fine I can play all my Elite Specs except Dare Devil, but that’s a L2P issue that I have not sorted yet. Do not nerf my WvW small time fun because some noncompetitive kids in broken sPvP land can not adapt to other players, so they come on the forums to cry “Bloody Murder, and Nerfs” because them themselves are near brain dead.

Actually for big example while sPvPers are crying for more Game Wide nerfs to classes such as Scrapper and Druid. Those two classes actually needs a buff game wide to be able to perform their roles in WvW and PvE.

TL:DR

Please Anet do not apply anymore nerfs to classes that are already simi weak in WvW and PvE, just because a few kiddies can’t wrap their minds around building counters for themselves and not relying on meta——-.com because they can’t think for themselves to develop counters. If any thing ANet just continue to remove or add “Amulets” to balance the kids corner that is sPvP. If nerfs must happen keep them contained to sPvP land.

Also lets nerf dragon hunter because “Near Brain Dead WvW Zerglings” don’t know how to use stab, and lets change the way stab works game-wide to make wvw players happy. Oh! and lets give walls a limit as to how many they can stop just so all of the necro minions can waste all of its uses.

Okay, so a problem might be:

-Attacking the mobs
-Attacking a rev when he has his glint heal up
-Not focusing the target

Those are the only ones I can think of :/

I think:

Ele-Less team support, more self support. A bunker should be just that, keeping themselves alive, not making everyone else around them a bunker.

Necro-Fine except for the Scepter AA boon corrupt. That is not skillful and should not be rewarding as a result.

Mesmer-Fine as is

Engi-Needs less reflect uptime and gyros shouldn’t self-destruct on expiration

Thief-Remove evades from weapon sets, we have enough as is (looking at you Vault and Death Blossom spammers). Give impacting disruption an ICD.

Ranger-Fine as is

Revenant-Fine as is

Warrior-Mace F1 nerf and small adrenal health shave

Guard-Fine as is, especially if all of the above get nerfs

Revitalize alternative weapon sets (Engi shield, ele staff, necro dagger, mesmer OH sword, thief OH dagger, ranger warhorn and axe, war OH sword, guard scepter)

Great place to check out teams that are looking for players

Engi needs:

-Less projectile hate

-Less defensive hammer skills

-Less passive boon generation

-a Bigger icd on the Elixir S proc

-Gyro self destruct when destroyed nerfed

-Function gyro needs a small cast time

Of course, this is assuming all of the other E specs are nerfed in the same manner

lucadiro.4519:

Deathmatch 10v10 in my opinion would Force even more tanky spec. I would prefere something like capture the flag, where mobility and dps could be more relevant.

ctf = spirit watch

+1

I would definitely love to play Rifle Engi or S/D thief again without having to worry about the amount of reflects or wondering why my damage is too low.

If Anet wants f2p players to buy the xpac, they need to have fun.

That won’t happen if they are being destroyed because they are using a core build.

Gonna call it, OP is playing the only thief build that can 1v3 unless you’re playing against ambers.

cough Condi thief cough

Wolfric.9380:

Topher.5631:

Faux Play.6104:

Imagine how hard the game would be to play if every weapon set was viable for every profession in sPvP. The sheer number of combinations you would have to be aware of would be too high for the vast majority of the players to be effective. Certain weapons sets and skills work better for certain game modes. People need to be reasonable with their requests.

Oh how dreadful if we saw every weapon set a profession could use. I for one love less options. One build per class is the best thing Anet ever did

On a much more serious note, knowing what everyone is running before the match starts and not seeing any variation would be (is) really boring and not fun to play, even if you do win the games

Diversity is key for a MMO. One build per class and rest garbage is like a death sentece.
GW2 is not a pure PvP shooter/game where a fistfull of premade characters are enough. If trying to compete in this departement wirh other games like OW it will loose. It has to be diffrent and this means allow build options and unique characters.

’twas merely sarcasm haha

Faux Play.6104:

Imagine how hard the game would be to play if every weapon set was viable for every profession in sPvP. The sheer number of combinations you would have to be aware of would be too high for the vast majority of the players to be effective. Certain weapons sets and skills work better for certain game modes. People need to be reasonable with their requests.

Oh how dreadful if we saw every weapon set a profession could use. I for one love less options. One build per class is the best thing Anet ever did

On a much more serious note, knowing what everyone is running before the match starts and not seeing any variation would be (is) really boring and not fun to play, even if you do win the games

He is known at the higher tiers and has played in AG multiple times (if I remember correctly). He is not an amber.

I don’t get the point you are trying to make in the OP though :/

Pre-HoT > Post-HoT. Hands down.

Before HoT they came out with something new every month. After HoT they came out with a new raid (which targeted a very specific crowd of people) once every 3 months.

Pre-HoT WvW was great because of the people you ran around with and the different playstyles available. Post-HoT you had to run with one build to be decent and all your friends are gone.

Pre-HoT PvP Took skill and coordination. Post-HoT gave everyone spammable skills and passives which didn’t separate the good from the bad.

The core PvE game has remain unchanged for the most part.

100% agree.

They did a good job with stronghold (though I personally don’t prefer the game mode) but they really need to add new maps / mechanics to the pvp scene. As much as playing a whopping 7 maps is over and over again, it would definitely generate more interest in the game mode if there was something new.

Bump

/15chars

Pretty much bumping is all I can do at this point lol

Good idea, but 5-10 uses is WAY too generous lol. Maybe 3-5?

1) Sounds cool, and a new twist to the normal conquest
2) No, that is a pve idea and should be put in as a pve activity instead
3) That sounds annoying, maybe something less movement-hindering, like blind or vulnerability
4) Could be fun
5) No, that would result in double capping, zerging, and trying to 5v1 mobs. Also the real heroes (bunkers / roamers) wouldn’t get the credit from the game mode, even though they were the better players
6)Sounds fun, as long as the condi / boon swaps between pulses
7) I don’t quite get what you are saying
8) That could work, but that would just be a huge teamfight which determines matches anyways
9)That would be pretty darn awesome unless you are running ele
10) Sure, why not

tl;dr

PvP team probably won’t put the time into developing this

Agreed, I can just click that and not have to worry about a stomp going through. The very minimum increase its ICD or remove its stability so there is more counterplay. Or give it a small cast time.

Bump

/15chars

Kicast.1459:

One must be a thief to be biaised in such a way.

Or an engi that has more stealth than the stealth class

Bump

/15chars

Even in unranked. WTB decent matchmaking

Yeah lets make legend even more of a joke than it already is

Oh wow, great place to move the thread. Now we can try to let people know in a place that no one ever looks!

Not directly, but you get tomes of knowledge from reward tracks. Those level you up and everyone who does a lot of pvp has more than they need

StickerHappy.8052:

Topher.5631:

This is really good if you are stuck in “mmr hell” because it allows you to find buddies at your skill level and have the same issues. Getting to where you want > Not asking for help and staying where you are

ewww,, topher as a coach? hahah. jk

XP

I’ve helped a bunch of players and they often tell me that I helped their game play haha