Guild Wars 2

Ratings were reset with the patch, when we split the ratings for 3 round and 1 round tournaments. So as people play more games they’ll start to settle again.

Khronos.7283:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

All of the structure PvP maps have a fixed time of day. So some are always day and others are always night. This is why in some maps your weapon will glow, and in some it will not.

the thing is; the weapon was glowing in mists the other day but it doesn’t glow today so i wasn’t talking about the maps but thanks for the info..

I just looked into this, and found a minor bug with the way time was flagged in Heart of the Mists map. Time was being locked, but it locked to whatever time it was when the map first starts. So it would either be permanently daytime or permanently nighttime.

This could also be the case where you joined solo, a roster was automatically formed, a leader of the roster was automatically assigned and the leader left the roster before your team was matched against another team. In this case the roster will disband, removing you from queue, and there isn’t any real messaging for this yet, outside of mousing over the PvP icon or viewing the PvP panel to see if your roster is still submitted.

All of the structure PvP maps have a fixed time of day. So some are always day and others are always night. This is why in some maps your weapon will glow, and in some it will not.

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This has been fixed with the latest patch. Spirit Watch back on.

We have a hotfix coming for the issue where players aren’t able to revive at waypoints in the new Spirit Watch map. In the meantime we’ve temporarily disabled it for Hot Join and Tournament play.

If you are carrying the orb and use a mesmer portal, you immediately drop the orb before you go through the portal.

We field a team every Friday evening for tournaments. So if you are queued during that time, and on NA, you might just face us!

There is no matchmaking in Hot Join (PvP Browser) matches. Matchmaking only exists in tournament matches, and it is based on your rating (a hidden value), not your Rank.

Soryuju.8164:

It sounds like they had big plans for November-January, but the reality is that those months had very little to offer for PvP, with Temple and the new Paid system being the only really notable changes (invisible matchmaking to a lesser extent). They’ve said numerous times that making new maps is relatively easy, meaning that Silent Storm/Spirit Watch can’t have sucked up that much of their development time. So where did all of their plans go? What exactly interfered with their schedule when visible changes have been so rare?

Custom Arenas were taking longer than our original estimation, so we temporarily postponed the feature to get the Ratings & Matchmaking system in. While I won’t say how close the Custom Arena feature is to release. I will say that we are back to working on it, as well as Spectator Mode – as hinted at by Colin’s “Guild Wars 2 in the Months Ahead” January announcement.

Nice post Folly. I agree with your points overall, though I’m going to speak primarily to your points about communication, community involvement and transparency.

The trick with our communication, is to find a good balance, on multiple levels.

First, we have to be conscious of the balance between how much time we have to be posting on the forums and writing blog posts, with how much time we have to be working on actual development: bug fixes, profession balance, designing new features, implementing new content, etc.

Next it’s important for us to be conscious of the balance between saying too little, leaving people pessimistic about when things are coming out and guessing about how those things will work, and saying too much, harming our ability to later change, postpone or abandon something that we’ve already publicly committed to.

Finally we need to consider the balance between relying on community feedback too heavily, where it’s super time consuming for us to process and leaves us feeling unable to make a change without first asking for a community vote, and relying on community feedback too little, where we might miss some key information that could impact the success of our future releases.

Hopefully we are getting this balance pretty close most of the time, and if not, it’s always something we are working towards improving.

Anyway, keep up the good, constructive posts!

In the upcoming patch, there will indeed be changes to paid tournaments, however the addition of gem rewards is not one of those changes. Stay tuned for more details.

That seems pretty unlikely. There are several reasons, one of which is that it would hurt clarity. You’d no longer be able to glance at a guy in heavy armor and immediately he’s a warrior or a guardian.

Lordrosicky.5813:

After the week for the new map (which is a good idea ) is there any chance we could get a random rotation of maps?

Everyone I know gets sick of the same map after about 4 days. We love all the maps. They are great. But too much of anything sucks. Give us rotation!

The current tournament system doesn’t support random maps yet. Though we recognize that players would like more variety, so we might either rotate the map more often, or offer multiple 1-round tournaments, so you can queue for a specific map.

I just looked into this. The problem is that you currently only earn the sword if you have exactly 10 HoM points. It might be too late for us to get a fix in for the Feb 26th build, but a fix will be coming.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Gallrvaghn.4921:

Question: does Paid matches start up simultaneously? like, does it wait for a certain number of teams formed (obviously an even number) or a specific countdown before matching then pops up. Or does it pop up as soon as there are at least 2 teams formed? XD

I think it is an instant matchup. We have been in ts3 with two teams that que up within 10 seconds of each other and instantly matched against each other.

This is something we are working on improving.

Yeah, we’ll make Spirit Watch available in tournaments on patch day.

We’ll be rotating the Paid Tournament map tomorrow. The next map will be Legacy of the Foefire.

We’ve been updating these every Tuesday. Next map is Legacy of the Foefire.

Hey, I just wanted to pop in and clarify. The orb does indeed drop if the carrier becomes downed. There is a 15 second window at that point where it can be picked back up by either team. If not, it resets back to the altar. Whether or not the orb should drop to the ground, or reset back to the altar, was something that came up during our internal play tests and discussions and I think there are good arguments for going either direction. Ultimately I think the pacing is better when the orb is constantly being scored, rather than if it’s deadlocked because neither team can make it all the way to a capture point before they get downed. However this is something we’ll keep an eye on once the map goes live, and is something we can easily go back and revisit if it becomes a real problem.

Walorx.5129:

If it’s a commune to get the buff, have you fixed the thief/Mesmer teleport commune bug that was a major problem in TotSS?

Yep!

The thing that’s fun about the orb, was that feeling of being chased and using all your skills to narrowly stay alive. The fights that break out when enemies are trying to bring down the orb runner, and allies trying to keep the carrier alive.

The thing that isn’t fun, is when the orb carrier is rarely in any real danger of being caught or stopped. When the other team doesn’t even bother trying to chase, because they know there is no chance to catch the carrier.

Yes, we fully expect that some specs are going to be better than others at running the orb. However, the goal was just to make sure that none of those specs felt unstoppable. Sword rangers actually make excellent orb runners.

Ride the Lightning does not drop the orb. Attempting to stealth or being combo’d into stealth does not drop the orb. The stealth just fails, with IMMUNE text.

While carrying the orb, the orb is considered a buff. You can indeed use invulnerability skills while carrying it (Mist Form, Endure Pain, Elixir S, ect.)

Shadowsteps are considered teleports. Infilitrator’s Arrow, Lightning Flash and the like will all cause you to drop the orb.

Leaving counts as a loss for your rating.

It’s a bug. I have a fix in for it.

I’m working on fixes for these types of commune related Temple issues. Though they won’t make it in until the next major patch. In the meantime, we are rotating Temple out of the paid tournament rotating, tomorrow.

We are going to rotate the map tomorrow.

These weren’t on the vendor. Fixing this.

It’s real. It just requires very high rank(70+) to loot or craft.

In response to your feedback, we will be reducing the ticket costs for this week’s Paid Tournament event from 3 tickets to 1! In addition to the other tournament rewards, winners will receive 1 tournament ticket back. Thanks for your input. Hope to see you in game!

A number of people have asked what the star icon, underneath the new Daily Achievement UI, in the upper right corner is. The star is related to the week long paid PvP tournament change, but wasn’t supposed to be displayed. It will be fixed in the next patch.

It is not intended to be able to switch characters mid-match, in tournaments. This is on our list of things to fix.

This is still a known issue. We recognize that this impacts some of our players heavily, so we definitely want to remedy it. However, the fix is rather involved, so we don’t yet have an ETA on when this will be fixed.

This was supposed to go out with the Wintersday patch, but part of it went out a little early when the patch was delayed.

It is intended that you can’t swap to new weapons, skills and traits during tournament matches.

My team only took 4th

This should be working now.

We’ll look into this and see what’s going on. Thanks for the heads up.

leashmaygoss.2140:

I only transfered once, it’s in EU but I am switching it to NA tomorrow so might as well put that on NA

I don’t recommend transferring from EU to NA yet, because we still have the issue where you’ll stop earning tournament rewards for a number of games afterwards. It’s stickied in this post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Tournament-chests-and-transferring-between-server-regions

We only recently added the logging for QP, so if your last 1st place win was before the logging went in, you won’t show up on the list until you earn another qualifier point. It will then update to show your total points.

Checking. Are you EU or NA?

I wouldn’t jump to buying a new account just yet, I’d say it’s pretty likely that this will be fixed within 48 hours. Possibly even right now!

Hi Mathog, are you able to fix your world map by zoning into a different map, or relogging? Or is this a permanent state for you now?

Thanks for the responses. I’ll let the team know, so we can investigate.

So to clarify this a bit-
It is intentional that if you switch to a new home server, you will temporarily stop receiving the WvW server bonuses. As for duration, it’s disabled for the rest of the week long match, and I believe for the duration of the next matchup as well. This restriction exists to discourage players from switching servers. That said, if you’ve never switched servers, and your server is far enough along in the matchup to have a bonus, and you still aren’t getting the bonus, let me know.

Nope, not intended. Thanks for the report, we’ll get it fixed.

This is intended. Other skills that give temporary invulnerability work the same way.

Yeah did notice this. Since about 3 days now I’m receiving my tourney chests. WHat gonna happen if I transfer back to my old EU server now? will I have to earn more tournament chests then I did on the US one now to get them again there?

More or less, though your previous EU wins still count. So if you had 10 EU wins, then started earning chests on wins 11-15 on US, then switched back to EU, you’d need to win 6 tournaments to start getting chests again.

I’ve made a response to this issue in this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Tournament-chests-and-transferring-between-server-regions/first#post382353