Agree and all, but You know. Guild Wars is name taken from wars of guilds – moment in history from before first campaign in GW1 and have nothing to do with player guilds or GvG (not even PvP). It was more about ascalonians fighting with krytans and so on. Lore stuff.
where’s the downvote button….
What, You didn’t know that? XD
Down vote all You like
If you’re going to demand pet fixes that screw rangers, we have to get some fixes our way.
On the opposite I think. Rangers are buggy like hell after last update. For better and for worse. Pets are even more buggy – I hate when rangers are using those bugs for their advantage, and I hate when my ranger (when I play one) is messing up wrong way. Why fixes should screw rangers instead fix them? Taking exploitable bugs and fixing hurting bugs ain’t screwing at all O_o’
Did you know that 40-50% of the times the pet won’t even rez you because the terrain you’re in is not perfectly plain so he’ll just teabag you? You probably didn’t, you just stomped him thinking to yourself “what a noob he didn’t use his OP rez”
That’s what I’m talking about. One of the issues to fix.
Pet’s chase is a class mechanic, if i put him to attack you, for what reason wouldn’t he follow you until the end of the world?
For same reason it’s hard to warrior or guardian to keep up with running enemy. Now pets can be kitten fast, go far beyond bound that link ranger and his pet. Like last time, when I was fighting with cat in Altar on Temple of the Silent Storm map, while my teammates killed only ranger on map close to Ferocity. That was fun (not that it was more than slight annoyance)
Don’t be silly pets don’t outclass warriors, if you want to make a real thread with real complaints don’t put this stuff.
Pet over warrior jokes is new thing in community. If You play a ranger as a main PvP class, switch to warrior. You will see that yeah, that’s only jokes, but what makes them funny is fact they are not so far away from truth…
I remember seeing a thread where someone said that skill queuing ruined his game and that he would never played guild wars 2 anymore. Overreact much?.
I don’t understand Your surprise. Skill queuing is gamebraking addition for PvP players. Heck – it killed me twice in WvW already. Guys make valid point, that it should be erased or just we should be given option to turn it off. While give no answer, people go ragequit. That’s the internet, it’s PvP – it’s what (unfortunately) to be expected. If You add something gamebreaking to Your game and try hard not to acknowledge it, it will upset a lot of people. And only 2 classes I can think off that should have no problems with skill queuing is ranger and necro (not sure about necro – didn’t play him after patch yet), so heh. I think it doesn’t concern You much, but I understand why people go berserk about this.
Do you guys just make this up as you go?
I have NEVER seen a pet solo a treb. Ever.
Nope. After patch I’ve seen thing like You know – dead people
. Nah, never seen pet soloing trebu, but it wouldn’t surprise me after last update. Before, I’m sure it was impossible, but now? I love exploiting things like this with ranger, but still I know it’s bug and not pleasant one on top of that (tarantula or other big spider depict it great)
Honestly i don’t know how ANET puts up with this crap. This is probably why they aren’t posting anymore. You guys get a tiny issue, and you make it like it’s the end of the world, while completely disrespecting ANET employees.
Completely agree with that ;D.
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All the components needed for each gear requires salvaging other pvp gear to gain the dust, core/crystals/slivers, and the rank/tourney tokens. Hey there. This link should give you the info you need.
Thank you for reply, but unfortunately i couldn’t find a recipe for the PvP Long Sword. If you could tell me where i should look for it exactly, would be very good.
P.S. And i know how to craft pvp weaponsCheck in the locker what is pvp name for your sword
That is the name, I looked it up to make sure.
My bad then, I was thinking You were referring to other sword
All the components needed for each gear requires salvaging other pvp gear to gain the dust, core/crystals/slivers, and the rank/tourney tokens. Hey there. This link should give you the info you need.
Thank you for reply, but unfortunately i couldn’t find a recipe for the PvP Long Sword. If you could tell me where i should look for it exactly, would be very good.
P.S. And i know how to craft pvp weapons
Check in the locker what is pvp name for your sword.
Why? I need another legendary? XD Just joking, still I’m some mats shorts to finish my twilight
And that’s exactly my point! Daily become grinding and if You are serious PvPer blah blah blah. If You are really serious about PvP, You don’t care about daily. Except for 4 maps, You’ll do everything on the way in tPvP, not even noticing. On days like today, when I spend time with my friend on tournaments, I did daily requirements dozen of times. This yet become problem for players who play as Anet design game – some PvP, a bit of PvE, jump to WvW to help Your server. You know, the whole deal. It’s great with daily guidelines, but horror with daily chores. So it’s “great” design when You stretch the lowest achiever rank, to time sink of such efficiency that most of causal daily players sign off. Monthly is for longer, more extensive grind which makes sense. And what is funny – this and last month PvP monthly is some kind of joke (I actually don’t remember what was before XD). You can do it in first day and wait another 3 for daily counter part. I can’t understand daily grinding the same way, I can’t understand lack of any grind to make monthly. If the daily would be design in monthly fasion, we would have 1 game to play, on half of map, with 2 enemies seen, with one node in sight distance that have been captured. It should be other way around.
They need to make it like other evens. I mean if you need to kill a champ in PvE then you don’t need to to 100 percent damage. Should be enough to stand 1 second at the point.
Good idea. One tick of caping should be enough to get point for it. And there is still no recognition for all the stuff that actually win a lot of games (staling etc.). I understand why there was no when game launched (hard to grasp such elusive tasks in numbers), but hey – it’s more than a half year later and there was no even slightest attempts to change the situation.
Before game launched, Anet stated they are looking into competitive PvP as a opportunity to make new e-sport and they gonna treat PvP very seriously. Since launch PvP players didn’t experience any signs of that attitude. Balancing aside, PvP had what? Added daily placeholder, that was months later replaced by daily chores. 2 new maps, that I actually like, but can’t honestly say they are best thing around. If anything they’re make zerging easy, so the daily can be finished with as little effort that is possible. Anything more? Ah, yes. New navigation system to hotjoins, mixed with spectator mode. I understand necessity of spectator mode for some, but I don’t care. New navigation is confusing at first sight and clunky when You get used to it. And there are changes to tournaments (1 match instead of 3 wining strike, etc.) that swing in good direction, just to be hit back by poor daily changes (flood zergers and intensification of AFKers and leavers tied to this).
No love for PvP. Good that I’m mainly PvE player
Team mate rezz is an easy top stat even if you get only matches where you are outnumbered or other team is much stronger and the people from your team are better than you.
You only need to rez 1 downed and hope no one else is doing this(often nobody is helping).
Yeah, but not as a daily – everybody will do that every time someones goes down. And it probably won’t be rezing 1 guy for day – taking on account Anet new course (20 kills, 10 takeovers) it will be like 10 rez if not 50. Why start small, when You can go big? ;P
Yeah, but I don’t understand why people are convinced that none of new content will stay with us.
Because that’s what we were told. Remember the Karka event? Anet told us exactly what was limited time and what wasn’t. And it was all true – and then some for the limited content.
They’ve told us that everything would eventually go away, the first to go will be the dungeon. The only thing not likely to go away will be the materials, but we don’t really have a means of obtaining Azurite Crystals/Orbs outside of the dungeon, afaik.
Saying “it’s gone” is not an overstatement since that’s what we’ve been told.
And about your line about the “previous living stories” – fun fact: Flame and Frost is the FIRST of the living stories content. The Lost Shores was simply a content update, not part of the living stories. The rest were holiday stuff, again not Living Story content.
Actually I didn’t seen any info stating that all content would be gone. Yep, the Dungeon is limited time offer, but I’ve never seen any information saying that no content will be left behind. If that is true, then bummer- it’s bad. Because the put world on loop without static progression and regarding on how they actually “fix” bugs (yeay for server reset, to bring back events to square one) it means that not much will be going on, above flavor of the month. But still – I don’t believe it to be the case. The whole idea is to bring events to Tyria that will change it and shape it a bit. It could be minor, but something like molten alliance is going to stay – I find it hard to believe that it will be erased day after, like it never happened.
About F&F being the first living story – gimme a break. It’s first one called LS, but it works like all before, made by more or less same people that made previous updates. It’s nomenclature. In matter of speaking Living Story is nothing more than a content update – so the difference between F&F and Lost Shores is only in name. And holiday stuff are part of GW world, like they were in GW1 – no LS needed.
Another same thread, and yet again – I agree.
New daily is stupid. Someone thought that more to do will bind more players to the game. Well, it’s opposite.
Most of my friends left GW2 PvP after 1-2 days of trying new daily. Because they are not hardcore enough. And You know – if You’re trying everything in game – PvE, PvP, WvW, crossing one out is one step out of the game. Yeasterday WvW had repairs – it was another stupid, irritating thing to do. It’s like GW2 is geting blows on every side and not from competition, but from it own devs…
I got the jetpack after doing the dungeon 4 times. one of my friends got two jetpacks so far. from doing it 10 times or so? … I know a LOT of people who got it. dont think the droprate is that low. I dont know :P
I hate You. My friend hates You. My imaginary children hates You.
But still – GZ!
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Some of the content stayed for good – You can check what left of Lost Shore event (southsun cove map) anytime You want (lvl 80 preferred). Lost Shore didn’t have dungeon, just one time event chain and probably is a lot better in our memories, than it was in reality. I remember I hated it, now I think about it warmly
(past is past).
And yeah, I wish F&F dung will stay with us, maybe as a fractal, or maybe with added 3 explorable paths. That would be great.
The chance to bring back old content is close to none, but still possible in some ways (as a fractal or maybe bonus mission pack like in GW1 – wich personally I would love!)
I think you are misunderstanding the scenarios.
The living story continues endlessly…. the FaF story arc ends on the 12th.
Hope this helps
As for where it continues, please read my thread on the FaF forum area for some cluesI think you are misunderstanding the reaction to the “scenarios”. Only building temporary content might be good to keep money flowing in (and provide a “hook” to keep people buying gems) but the overwhelming reaction to temp content is: Its awesome, why is it gone?, I miss it! Or it is: I didn’t like it and I’m happy its gone.
Both reactions are valid opinions, but most people would like to see something added permanently to our menu of “what can I do tonight”.
Yeah, but I don’t understand why people are convinced that none of new content will stay with us. Remember the Karka event? It was temporary but it left us whole new map, new materials, slight changes in LA (light tower) and the Consortium. F&F maybe won’t leave such material legacy, but I still think some events and upgrades will stay with us. Sentinel’s Insignias/Inscriptions? Maybe something good will come for players from Braham village. I think Anet is still trying to find good mix between temporary and permanent content in the updates, so saying “it’s gone” is overstatement. Not all is gone from previous living stories (except Halloween/wintersday/Aprils Fool – I think that supposed to be themed one time in year only parties), and probably not all will be gone from F&F.
Dailies are a whole different topic. I hated PvE dailies since game’s launched, later I got tired even of PvE monthlies. I don’t do any of them, but I still play PvE for the sake of companionship and camaraderie with a friend, so it’s fine.
One smart thing they did was giving laurels in pvp dailies, understanding people have different priorities and can play two or three different things at a time, and that dailies basically cut their already limited time for each activity.
Current hot-join daily is matter of spamming hot-join matches, because that’s easiest, almost painless and in general player’s comfort zone. Problem is, it’s no longer a 15-minute activity like it used to, and as you said, it still promotes bad play by stacking a point.
At the same time, if it was awarded for wins in hot-join matches, people would say their effort goes to waste and daily is elitist, because participation alone is not enough to complete it.
If you’re asking me, I wouldn’t have introduced dailies and monthlies to this game at all. Instead, as a developer, I’d rather people didn’t clutter up unnecessary bandwidth, and only played when, how and what they want – meaning, no compulsive-obsessive behaviour to log daily and do your daily, among many things. But that is getting us slightly offtopic.
Personally I treat PvP as a form of “sport” that is goal-oriented and merit-based, and believe that people on all levels should adapt a correct attitude and see defeat as opportunity, not punishment. It’s slightly baffling how people get defensive when someone suggest getting chest for not running or failing a dungeon, but get up in arms and give popular support to whoever says PvP is elitist because it rewards winners. Winner’s victory is his own, it’s not your punishment.
More often than not, your sole source of defeat is your inner conviction of not making a difference, not making progress and having no chance to go at it … all the while competent players, even in the name of sportmanship, learn to spot their own and enemy errors, to improve upon own faults and kindly remind their enemy they won’t win if they don’t want to. So the question is, do you want to win?
My answer will be – no. I want to have good time. So in matter of speaking, yeah I want to win, but not match. I don’t think that winning/loosing game is binar with my feeling of fun. In matter of fact, whole daily till 2 days ago was just the marker, where to go and what to do to seek fun. That’s why I think it was way better that this one now. Few kills in 3 matches, some points to get – it gave me a lot of freedom that I can use however I wanned. Now I feel boundaries of my free time. For the first time since release of GW2 I see I can’t get all I want, no matter how good I am, or how hard I gonna try. It’s not like something is too hard, because this 2 tournament wins are matter of time, good team and a lil bit of lottery. Same with capture points – but now I don’t do it because it’s fun… I do it because I want to have it done before I need to go to work and I know later in the day, after work I won’t have time, because I will play with friends. The time is factor – it’s like spending it with beautiful girl. Sometimes more time is better, the challenge rise and everything is great. And sometimes You meet girl with personality so annoying that You can’t appreciate more than 15 minutes with her. GW2 PvP is for me the latter. The girl have her beauty and I want to enjoy it. But to spend hour with her? No way! And I’m sure she doesn’t appreciate my charm and old jokes for more than 30 minutes either.
If it were up to me, glory would be awarded only for winning the game. Nothing for losers, and nothing for “minor objectives” which don’t reflect, promote or help shape competitive play and teamwork.
While I agree with Your logic, that will definitely herd more people into PvP. I see billions of noob, that PvP veterans can train and shape on their own similarity. Yeah. Like that is going to happen.
You need to give “something” to people, or they won’t invest their time into game. You know – small candy, to let the feel how this works.
But still – I agree with logic. The looser/winner reward should be better for winners. And none for AFKers. None at all!Well, at least the recent patch fosters some more community interaction outside running tPvP matches. Yesterday I’ve spectated a hot-join game and inspected Warrior players. At some point I decided to give gear advice to one of them, which later turned into a discussion and whole host of gameplay-related tips. By the end of the day we recruited that player into our guild and rolled a bunch of tournaments together, gaining a new active PvP player for the guild and game’s PvP community alike. Win-Win situation, I’d say. Example has been set, more have to follow if we want a thriving community.
Well, at least the recent patch fosters some more community interaction outside running tPvP matches. Yesterday I’ve spectated a hot-join game and inspected Warrior players. At some point I decided to give gear advice to one of them, which later turned into a discussion and whole host of gameplay-related tips. By the end of the day we recruited that player into our guild and rolled a bunch of tournaments together, gaining a new active PvP player for the guild and game’s PvP community alike. Win-Win situation, I’d say. Example has been set, more have to follow if we want a thriving community.[/quote]
I don’t say situations like this doesn’t happen, because we both know they do. The problem is that changes like this push away players who don’t aim in elitism and while it can be great to all player that love their elitism, it’s damaging whole game in long run.
Today I did my tournaments in 2 games, with pug – that’s great. We even had r10 guy in our ranks – great. But the other team was made by r2-r18 guys. And I can bet 4 of 5 won’t be back for more.
Same with WvW – 2h to get repairs daily achivement, wich can be translated into PvP 5 guys retaking one point. I understand what You mean, but still. Anet is trying to get more players into PvP – at least that is what I understood from different sources. But they make changes into daily, that favors zerging, using non tactic at all and playing badly. Do You really think that is what people like? Peeps magnet? I know that You can do whole daily 10 times faster if You are actually good in this – thats the top line, but bottom one is that, players won’t get to that lvl of skills, because daily grind fest build a wall between what they do and what they should/can do. It’s like moving factory to china. We’re going big, numbers gonna roll. Quantity over quality. So we have more achievements to do every day and a lot less to search for in PvP.
If PvP is Your main (or even only) thing GW2 – that update doesn’t change much for You. If PvP is one of things You do in game (or God forbid – minor activity), change is dramatically bad. And to take into account that some strange people have something called “life”. Well – if someone have life, why do s/he even play?!
It’s as I see it. Instead having friendly startup for community, we have this sick elitist attitude – “if You can’t be best, don’t try at all!”
If it were up to me, glory would be awarded only for winning the game. Nothing for losers, and nothing for “minor objectives” which don’t reflect, promote or help shape competitive play and teamwork.
While I agree with Your logic, that will definitely herd more people into PvP. I see billions of noob, that PvP veterans can train and shape on their own similarity. Yeah. Like that is going to happen.
You need to give “something” to people, or they won’t invest their time into game. You know – small candy, to let the feel how this works.
But still – I agree with logic. The looser/winner reward should be better for winners. And none for AFKers. None at all!
Dailies/glory should be mainly attached to winning, people would play smarter.
Bad idea. While PvP is teamplay game, ataching any achivement to wining is a bad idea – like daily tournaments now. I need to do things I really don’t like – like hang out with some PvP guild (personal taste – I hate 100% of those I’ve been joined, not my kind of crowd), just because doing tournaments with pug is some kind of sick lottery. And after few days, when the charm fall off, weak daily runers will fall off, wich leaves me with choics – “join pvp guild” or “don’t do daily tournaments”.
1 win a day? not hard to achieve even solo quing.
It’s 2 wins :P. And I’m talking about bigger picture. Now we have crowd of players that are used to do daily PvP. Within the week they will realize, that they waste a lot of time and mainly are farmed for points by better PvP players. The best will stay – good isn’t it? That PvP will get another hit of leaving playerbase. The new daily doesn’t encourage peeps to play PvP, their daily routine is. And the routine will get broken as soon, as they’ll do the math – as far as I see, it’s 3rd day and around 25 of my 50 friends who did daily PvP, done the math already. Neat, isn’t it?
We can joke around or tell lies to ourselfs. A lot of PvP playerbase was there just to catch “fast daily”. If you ask me, it’s around 50% or more, but it’s my counting, no proof to that. Since there is no shiny to chase in PvP, better – there is no even shiny related thing (titles aside) You can use outside PvP to get in PvP and “fast daily” was taken from players – You think how many will stay for good?
TBH, as a player with limited playtime, I don’t care a bit for improved rewards.. I would just like to do my daily in 30 min like I used to ; ;
Yeah – and it’s not like I want to resign from doing daily PvP. It’s fun in small chunks and enrich overall experience. New daily is doing exactly opposite
Not that old 15-30 minutes PvP run was great, it had it’s flaws. It’ was like a quick shoot, to start a day with game. But now it’s a pain in the skritt. A really ugly one on top of that.