Guild Wars 2

They really need to separate the skills and traits between PvP and PvE … I have asked for this numerous times. The only excuse I’ve seen is that it would be too time consuming. Granted that was over a year ago and we have a new game director so…..

I’m fine with a range nerf, with the right positioning you can still pull off clutch plays in PvP. With Stronghold, you can still be very annoying by standing off to the side and pulling the lord up to you for a quick res. The same thing can be done with the Lord on foe fire, just by standing a little in the back to rip the lord away from a stomp.

RodOfDeath.5247:

It was me TC……I took your precious rouges quarry. muahahahahh!

Well Done
hands a medal of valor

I’d Rather See:
1) Ranger Shortbow getting a rework. If you don’t own HoT it makes sense to run Short Bow. If you do own HoT it makes more sense to go Axe or Sword /Torch + Staff.

2) Thief Shortbow getting a couple small tweaks, out of the two professions that can currently use shortbow… thief by far is superior. Condi + Evade + mobility + auto cleave.

3) Giving 1-2 more classes access to shortbow. Maybe Ele & Revenant?
Ele could be a fun one,
based on your attunement = chance to deal type of condi
based on your attunement= chance to apply buff to you and X-ammt of allies.

Revenant would be a little complex…
You can’t do Eir Legend for it since her bow is LB and Braham is supposedly a Dragon Hunter.

If you go back to Guild Wars 1 (calm down WoW kids, put your torches down and remember GW2 is based on GW1) you could go back and chose:
-Reyna
or
-Zho

Personally, I think Zho as a Revenant legend would be amazing.

Sadly, I can see everyone jumping to a T1 server to get their flashy symbol or title.

It will just be a “hey i Joined _ and zerged for __ to obtain ____”

I’d imagine intended since all other ones are disabled as well
The Polymorphs from Halloween
The Chakk Egg from Chakk
The Queen Bee from Silverwaste

Ascended:
Recipe: Keeper’s Zealot’s Insignia
Trading Post for 3 gold 50 silver

Exotic:
Recipe: Zealot’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia
Trading Post: 61 Silver
Pact Supply Network Agent: 25,000 Karma

Source WikI
Verified by typing on the TP

My first, was The Dreamer. I was not happy about it at first… I didn’t want the precursor but it was glitched to me. I couldn’t sell it on the Trading Post… So i sucked it up and decided I might as well make it. When I was nearly completed with Gift of Fortune material wise… my account was hacked and all of my T6 was gone…

The kitten precursor was still there though… so i sucked it up again and with help from my guild I finished it. At first I wasn’t impressed with having no foot falls and shooting only unicorn heads… then a couple weeks later ANET updated the effects for it and it had foot falls and shot Unicorns.

Now i really love my Dreamer and I love using it to troll ultra masculine manly man kids in WvW/ PvP.

I Love Staff; However, there are some annoyances with it.

Staff 1: Solar Beam
There should be a chance to apply 1 stack of burning… even if it’s 20% chance. There is no condition option what so ever with Staff and this skill is ideal for burning. This would also allow for interesting groupings such as: Short bow + Staff. Axe+Torch +Staff.

Staff 2: Astral Wisp
I really have no complaints about this at all. I love using this for raids and PvP when a thief tries to get clever and run away. If anything, I would increase the size of the wisp… It’s a little hard to see.. especially in a group setting.

Staff 3: Ancestral Grace
I have no complaints in it’s current form if anything, maybe remove the number of targets restriction or increase it from 5 to 10. Keep the radius of 240 the same. This will help out a lot for raids.

Staff 4: Vine Surge
Only thing I do not like about it is how short the Immobilize is.. Currently it’s 1 1/2 seconds… to me it should be 2 1/2 if not 3. Also, it’s vines… just like entangle I think there should be some bleeding attached to it. Obviously not the same level as Entangle; however, I do think it should apply 1-2 stacks of bleeding.

Staff 5: Sublime Conversion
Like every staff skill so far, I think the range should be 1,200 as well.
Besides that I love it.

skullfaerie.7203:

Jesus. This sure isn’t Anet’s best day. First this disaster of a move (and the associated blow to their rep) and then they also get some person they appointed (and who thus represents them) openly trolling and insulting users on their forums. Lovely.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Guild-Wars-2-Forum-Specialists-Program/first#post4600059

Volunteer with a title that should have been removed a year ago roughly.

Do keep in mind that 2 other Forum Specialists have posted in this forums, one of which posted on the same Caliber as I. But of course, because I have a different opinion then the masses I guess it’s cool to solo me out

No skin off my back. Take your best shot.

Still laughing at the fact that people think I have some special rights. I’m Just a player with an Email address to send reports too, that is it. No magical infraction or delete button or anything. Nor do I represent anet in any fashion. In fact, I can’t take credit for anything I do legally nor can I use this for any opportunities in game or in real life.

Manuhell.2759:

Wolfey.3407:

You can’t have everything, something has to be sacrificed … please do notice how he said suspended and not cancelled.

Given that we paid for them in advance, we should indeed have “everything”.
If they have to sacrifice something in order to do that, they should start with gem store items. Not something we bought several months ago and that has yet to be delivered.

I wonder if this isn’t actually some preparation for an april fools. But well, it ends up being a joke either way.

That’s a fair statement to make and I do agree. However, If something needs to be sacrificed and tossed on the back burner so other content can be finished. I’d rather them do it to something that’s not a major deal.

Legendaries are on Par with Ascended Items

All you’re missing out on is stat switch and effects. Most of which people complain about anyways to begin with. Case in point: Dreamer, Kudzu, and Bitfrost because feminism / nature = bad apparently.

If Legendaries need to be shelved to get Bugs / Broken Content/ Fractal Back Piece completed then so be it.

If it’s just be trashed to finish Expansion 2 as a couple people are claiming, then I agree it’s a horrible Idea.

I do agree that Gem Store shouldnt be getting much new items if Dev work is an issue.

felessan.9587:

People seem to be unclear that “suspended indefinitely” is a very delicate way of saying “cancelled.” Yes, it means that there is always the potential for this field to be picked up and worked on again, but the plan is not to spend any more resources on it. Ever.

“suspended indefinitely” no more resources devoted to it until other objectives are complete. Doesn’t mean that a developer on his lunch break won’t work on it if hes bored. E.g. of Lunch Break Content: Court Yard “Team Death Match”

“Cancelled” Not going to happen period. E.g. : Guild Wars Utopia

Noblesse.6480:

I wrote a long post on reddit but I wanted to convey my absolute despair at this decision with two screenshots. And please note I don’t mean them in the slightest boasting way at all (hell they are worthless now).

http://i.imgur.com/6aHt3B9.png

http://i.imgur.com/D0x6Wo8.png

This is the worst GW2 decision I’ve ever read.

I’d argue that removing Solo Q from pvp was the worst decision ever made…

I’m sure all of WvW would argue that removing the old borderlands was the worst decision ever made….

I must be one of the very few people who actually bothered to sit back and think before typing….

I actually agree with Mike on this one… It’s better to focus on more important issues than more cosmetic options. Every weapon we can use in the game has a Legendary option. Currently, Legendary weapons offer nothing unique except for effects and hot swap stats. There is not even any real lore tied to any of them…. E.g. Who wielded Dreamer for the first time? what amazing feat did he or she do with it?….. All we know is that it’s a play on “The Lover and the Dreamer”.

I’d rather the Dev team focus on things such as :
-Buggy / Broken Quests and Story Missions
-Fixing known Fractal Issues
-Fixing and Releasing the Legendary Fractal Back pack
-Fixing WvW and making it playable
-Making PvP tolerable, the current Matchmaking system is garbage
-Improving rewards for PvP & WvW
-Working on Living Story 3
-Working on a ton of class bugs, such as the druid celestial avatar icon eating half the hp bar cosmetically.

There’s a ton in the Core game as well as HoT that needs to be addressed.

You can’t have everything, something has to be sacrificed … please do notice how he said suspended and not cancelled.

If anything, I’m more annoyed that WvW is still neglected heavily and PvP is still a broken mess.

Collin is gone, let Mike clean up any messes and lets see where things go.

Sadly anet doesn’t know how to read their weekly reports … it’s like I hit send and it goes right in their trashcan. I wonder why i even bother

1. Read the kitten weekly reports…

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lion

Lions are charmable animals found in several places on mainland Elona.
Locations

Core
The Battle Isles
Zaishen Menagerie Grounds (levels 5, 12, 15, and 20, depending on unlock progress)
Nightfall
Kourna
Barbarous Shore (in the southeast corner)
Jahai Bluffs (level 12 aggressive; northwest from Command Post, prior to completing the Great Zehtuka)
Vabbi
Forum Highlands
Holdings of Chokhin
Resplendent Makuun
Vehjin Mines (just outside Basalt Grotto)
Wilderness of Bahdza
Yatendi Canyons
Vehjin Mines (Right outside Jennur’s Horde)

If you want to see the other pets:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Charmable_animal

well someone said Druid is OP
inb4 anet nerfs us into oblivion again lol
What will it be this time? More Pet Nerfs? More Shortbow Nerfs? More WHAO Nerfs? or More Trait Removal/ relocation to lines that can not synergies.

Eir + Garm as a Ranged DPS Hero
Koss as a Support Guardian Hero
Mhenlo as a Healing Hero
Eve as a Minionmancer Necro Hero
Cynn as a High DPS Fire Ele Hero

Spoiler alert it’ called Guild Wars

If you don’t like Guild Wars 1 you really need to go find another game

I think the lords in Foefire should work exactly as the Lords in Stronghold.
They Must be stomped or bled to death while in down state.
They can be ressed.

Add those two things in, and I think things will be a little better.

I don’t know how I feel about this….
It would be nice IF 5 out 5 agreed…
However, chances are you will have 1-2 people who will refuse just to troll or to “punish” the other 3 if they feel those 3 are just bad.

Obviously, there will have to be a pip loss for forfeiting… but maybe add another mechanic or system into play? If you forfeit 3 times within an hour, you are given a 5 minute dishonor?

I can see this becoming a “well we lost mid at the start… everyone forfeit so we can get into the next game” rinse and repeat till you win the mid fight and have a lead.

BuungBuung.2168:

what i’m waiting for ?

1) You are Queued up for Strong Hold, Strong Hold has a lot longer Queue time compared to Conquest. Less people = more waiting

2) What is your Division?

3) What time zone are you and what time did this take place?

2 & 3 would help put this into perspective for us

E.G.
If you’re Diamond and it’s 5 AM US Central Time I would expect a longer queue, even if it’s conquest.

As Jourdelune.7456 nice put it….

Rage Quitting Matches or constantly DCing towards the end of a match does effect your MMR….

There is also the +/- pip rule for this season
If I remember correctly.. it’s +/- 15 pips
E.G. If you’re in Sapph T1 you can still face people in Emerald T2

The way I remember it being explained, is that it starts with your current Tier and tries to find people within the same tier, as time goes on it takes the +/- rule and broadens it’s search.

Some things I’ve done to try and enjoy the season:
1) Look at your Achievements, if the game is spiraling way out of control find something to work on. Do you need Top Stats? start doing something that no one else is doing so you can knock that out. Res? Capture Points? Kill? Healing? Condi Removal? etc.

2) If you’re only playing 1 game mode, try switching things up. If you’re only playing conquest, take a break, adjust your build read up on Stronghold and Give it a shot. Flip things around if you only play Stronghold.

3) Try being a little more diverse. If you’re only playing 1 class and 1 class only.. you’re going to have a horrible time in any PvP season…. I’ve tried my hardest to get ant to remove the daily professions but they wont budge… E.g. If you only play Warrior, you may have a hell of a time if it’s Daily: Ranger, Revenant, Necromancer and Mesmer.

4) Find someone to PvP with. The more the merrier, I’m not saying you should go create a 5 man team… but see if any of your friends want to PvP with you. For me, I find it rather enjoyable PvPing with a friend. I tend to have fun laughing at her if she gets ganked and she tends to laugh at me if i get ganked, or we both laugh if one of us wins a 3v1 at mid.

The perfect situation would be for Anet to swoop in and fix this mess; however, realistic expectations have to be kept in mind. The PvP season is well underway and a few people in NA have already hit Legendary… so the chances of ANET doing a reset and fixing the match making is slim to none for this season… All we can do, is to try and make the best of it…

Give the above shots a chance and see if things brighten up for you
Rage quitting is never the answer, same with AFKing. Just take that time to try something new ^-^ you may find a new sniping spot or be able to have a fun 1v1 duel. The loss of a Pip still stings but ya….

Hubris.7436:

Was in queue for over an hour last night, and ended up getting kicked back to the login screen for inactivity. During queue. Why would you do this

lol ouch….

Can you provide some more information for us?

1) What time zone you are in
2) What time this happened
3) What game mode you queued up for? Stronghold?Conquest?
4) What Division you are in? Sapph? Ruby?Diamond?

If I Solo Queue i tend to go on:
W 1 L1
or W2 L1

If I Queue with a friend or two, i tend to go on:
W2 L1
W6 L1
Depending on the time of day… Off Hours seems to be the best time for me.

NA for those who are curious.

Congrats but not first :P

there are +/- pip rules

Would be nice…
Though I think the other option tossed out (pretty sure it was sarcastic…) is still a reasonable one imo….

It’s not like a majority of Anet uses the forums to begin with when it comes to posting. It’s generally the same 4-5 people every day…..

It would save a lot and resources not having to maintain it….

It would actually match the current expansion / content being pushed out…
sort of sad that the Forums is still using the Default Red theme and Base Logo…
Can’t be THAT hard to recolor buttons to Green and slap the HoT logo up.
Bottom of the page is still using the base game box instead of the HoT box

Just a lot of out dated content being used….

I’m sure this has been brought up before numerous times; however, I think it’s worth revisiting. I know there are other more important fixes that need to happen to the class first but here is something I thought of on my way back from work.

Currently, Ranger is the only class with signets that does not have a healing signet. Ranger, is also one of two classes with signets that does not have an elite signet.

Healing Signet:
Signet of Loyalty
Passive: Heals when your pet lands an attack
Active: Heals yourself and grants your pet 5 seconds of resistance
Cool Down on active: 25 seconds

Elite Signet:
Signet of Nature
Passive: 50% chance on projectile hit to apply one of the following conditions:
1 stack of Burning
1 Stack of Poison
1 Stack of Chill
1 Stack of Bleed
50% Chance on Critical to remove the following conditions from yourself:
Burning
Poison
Chill
Bleed
Signet Active: Applies the following conditions to foes within a 400 Radius:
3 Stacks of Burning
3 Stacks of Poison
3 Stacks of Chill
3 Stacks of Bleeding
Removes the following conditions from yourself:
Burning
Poison
Chill
Bleeding
Cool Down: 60 Seconds

Ranger Projectile Skills that the elite would effect:
Short Bow 1-5
Long Bow 1-5
Axe 1-4
Dagger 5
Staff 2
Torch 4
Spear 4
Harpoon Gun 1-4
Down State 1

Existing trait that would work with these:
Brutish Seals — Activating a signet grants might to you and your pet. Signets recharge faster.

The healing signet I think would be cool since it would give your pet a little more importance and force you to pay attention to their health a little more.

The Elite will give us another condi option and give us that pseudo feel of being able to imbue our arrows…

Katamaranthine.4679:

I mean I paid full price for a barely finished expansion that basically made the PvP scene a complete joke so why not?

I am getting real sick and tired of these maps being played over and over again. This game came out back in 2012 and we have less than 10 sPvP maps? Jebus. Then we have ranked which only plays like what, 5 maps? Lol.

Oh, balance is the Devs’ focus? Well where is it then?

And yes, I do play other games so don’t suggest I play another game instead. :P

It would be nice if other maps were added to the rotation; however, most people refuse to play them and they demand that they be removed from the ranked scene.

E.g.:
-Court Yard
-Sky Hammer
-Strong Hold
-Spirit Watch
-Raid on the Capricorn

Even if they introduced more conquest style maps, you will end up with the same teams complaining that it shouldn’t be in ranked and anet will bow to their demands.

Deathmatch isn’t even an option to queue for which tells me that have abandoned that game mode.

Until they introduce Stronghold into Tournament play there is no point in pushing out more maps of that game mode since it will end up like Deathmatch.

It’s a real shame too.. so many interesting maps that can be done with any of the game modes….

Team Death Match:
-Hall of Heroes (gw1)
-Ascalon Arena (gw1)
-Crown Pavilion (gw2)
-Some Orrian Style map
-Bandits Rest (GW2 Raid) lot of neat places to snipe and hide from sniping, that part of the raid is a nice box shape to begin with. Just need to work out a red and blue spawn section.

Conquest:
-Re-add Raid on the Capricorn and make the water shallow or re-add underwater combat to PvP some how.
- Some orrian style map to where you have 3 altars
-A Jungle style map with 3 ponds

Strong Hold:
-Viziers Glory
One team is done in a style of a char camp, the other team done in a style of the Orrians. Charrs objective is to break their way into viziers tower to kill the Vizier. The Orrians objective is to break into the charr camp and kill the charr commander.

just some ideas ._.

would love for 1v1 best of 5 fights to be added as a game mode. Rather small arena to fight in, add a 5 minute timer per fight. First to win 3 fights, wins.

Feb 23rd is the next PvP Season

Source:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/state-of-the-game-update-q1-2016/

“PvP League Launch
On February 23, we’ll launch a brand-new in-game PvP League season. We’ll be making some changes to the rules and scoring for PvP Leagues, which you can read about here. This season will also include new rewards to earn, a reset of your league badge, a reset of the guild leaderboard, and new guild leaderboard rewards. You’ll be able to continue to earn items you need to start—or continue to build—your own legendary backpack, the Ascension.”

HipposWild.7185:

bbennett.7463:

Its unranked……..So there is obviously more casual players who arent MLG pro at pvp. just enjoy the game m8

Unranked was not nearly this bad a few weeks ago.

Few weeks ago, there was a Ranked option that kept a lot of competitive people out of Unranked. Now all the competitive people are stuck with Casual and semi-hardcore PvP’rs.

MLB
AA
High School

They took out MLB and now everyone is playing in AA.

It sucks that he is leaving; however, on the same token… I am highly curious and interested in what the new guy will lead us story wise.

Bouncy Chest for me and my team mates, nothing inside or anything shown at all. However, another guild team within the same guild was able to get his rewards.

If you’re hell bent on Raiding as a base ranger only.. I think you would be better going down the Condition route >.< … Axe+Torch or Sword+Torch / Short Bow
Vale Guardian → Red
Goresy → Immol Spirit
Sab- > Dunno never seen any base rangers at this point.

For me personally, I wouldn’t take a base Ranger unless their gear is optimized or I know they understand the mechanics of the raid boss we are facing. That’s pretty much the case with any base class though >.< …

As long as you do your research, have Exotics with 1-2 ascendeds on you, Have your runes & sigils set up correctly,have the right food and utilities, and your pets set up correctly you should be fine.

I personally Enjoyed BnS, it was a nice gap closer while I was waiting for the Tuesday Patch. Played it from the 23rd-25th. Hit Level 45 and finished the story line that you were able to play. PvP wise, I managed to hit Platinum within that time frame… I do enjoy the 1v1 aspect of their pvp and their match making system.

The only huge problem at the moment, is that once you hit level 45 there is nothing to do at all.. just achievement grind. Gear is very easy to max out with just a couple of gold which you can make a fortune by just doing daily quests in level 40+ areas.

It was a nice change of scenery for a couple of days, but not something that threatens GW2 or even tickles WoW. If you want to try the game out, it’s best to do so as a free account.

Shark named Donald Trump
Electric Wyvern named Steven Stamkos

Since Day 1:
Sylvari Ranger

Nature Race for Nature Class

Especially with Druid now

to me the ideal Ranger Races are:
Sylvari for the Nature Theme
Norn for the mountain man touch + Raven spirit with Nevermore with pet raven
Human for nostalgia from GW1

Asura and Charr seem too techy to be rangers imo

China will win it all… mark my words… the dragon will rise…..

Now that i lightened up the mood…. Na > All.

kdaddy.5431:

Wolfey.3407:

In my opinion, until the following is done… the whole Esports thing is just a pipe dream.

1) 100% Separation of PvE from PvP when it comes to Skills and Traits.
2) A better match making system. 1+1+1+1+1 v 5 or 2+3 isn’t cutting it.

Number 1 is probably the most vital of the two… the whole meta is based on what is going on within PvE. The whole Bunker Meta and CC craze came with each class obtaining traits and skill to be of use within Raids.

If the next wing requires a ton of Condi and condition traits and skills get a ton of love, guess what the next meta in PvP is going to revolve around? that’s right conditions! Until anet separates the two game modes 100% you can expect PvP to follow what ever is meta within PvE. In this case, what ever is needed for Raids.

A few questions about this and was wondering if you knew.

Why are they balancing around a PvE dungeon? It seems odd when you have Esports and WvW to be focused on such a small group of people to have the right stuff. Even if you based balance around PvP you could change the bosses in raids to match the correct difficulty levels.

My 2nd question is do they talk about build diversity? Like spirit rangers could be great for 1 vs 1 but poor in team fights and power rangers should be good in team fights but poor at 1 vs 1?

Im just really curious, since the HOT release i have felt there is less builds to play and less ways to have a effect on a match. Obviously you might have no knowledge of the insights of the balancing game but im interested if you know anything and if you could share.

Thank You

Being honest and up front (ill probably get in trouble)

I’m not told jack squat from the Developers or other staff members.

My Routine:
Read the forums →Grab threads from PvP → Compile them into a weekly report → throw in my 2 cents → send email to anet → wait 4-5 days for confirmation they received it and thats it…

I do talk to a couple of anet people on a day-day basis but its more of a friendship basis and they don’t like talking about work during their off hours unless they have too.

So i’m stuck in the dark like the rest of you :X sorry.

Nova Stiker.8396:

Wolfey.3407:

In my opinion, until the following is done… the whole Esports thing is just a pipe dream.

1) 100% Separation of PvE from PvP when it comes to Skills and Traits.

I heavily disagree, you can balance the game with all modes in mind. Too bad ArenaNet is absolutely awful at balancing and their decisions are laughable. Just look at the latest ‘balance’, what PvEer would ever bring any boon removal or boon corruption? It was a buff purely for PvP. It just shows how hopeless PvP future will forever be.

Also, Raids is a giant DPS check. It’s clear the developers don’t play many games as they have no clue how to design difficulty.

First priority is removing the power creep, there is absolutely no reason for so many powerful skills having stupidly low cooldowns.

I have to strongly disagree as the game in its current state is a great example versus its predecessor Guild Wars.

Separating PvP from PvE alone would make a huge difference in both game modes. For the PvE scene this will allow “trash” classes to get the attention they need without fears of it becoming way OP in PvP. For PvP, this will allow for Nerfs without trashing the class in PvE or buffing a class in PvP without fears of making the PvE content 100% solo-able in record time fashion.

You really can’t sit there and say with a straight face that Druid was added to the game for PvP purposes…..or for open world PvE lol…. Before the last patch it was barely viable in PvE as you barely got a tag on anything.

My point being, what ever the new big shiny in PvE is, is a direct effect on PvP due to the lack of separation between the two game modes.

E.G.

Raids: Classes received more survivability and CC’s
PvP: Tank Metta and people complaining about too many CCs

then again i guess you could go with the other logic of:
“Anet made the game around pvp” so…..

PvP: Classes received more survivability and CC’s
Anet: Now that pvp has survivability and CC’s lets add Raids!

I like to think it’s the first scenario …

VG isn’t a DPS check… it’s a kitten Barrier
Gorsey is a DPS check
Saby is a Mechanic check
Source: Done em all weekly with my guild.

Rukia.9860:

But gear… really? In pvp? How about just have random skins unlock in your wardrobe, I don’t need all these boxes to click just to click more with a salvage kit. useless, completely useless.

I’d rather a set amount of increased gold reward or a % chance to unlock random skin on victory.

Believe it or not and this may shock you, there is more to the game than just PvP… Some people (wait for it) play PvE or WvW as well.

I’ll let that sit in for a moment….

Back on track, including skins would be awesome. If they are included with a free transmutation charge. Currently. getting transmutation charges from PvP seems a little slower than before. May just be me though.

In my opinion, until the following is done… the whole Esports thing is just a pipe dream.

1) 100% Separation of PvE from PvP when it comes to Skills and Traits.
2) A better match making system. 1+1+1+1+1 v 5 or 2+3 isn’t cutting it.

Number 1 is probably the most vital of the two… the whole meta is based on what is going on within PvE. The whole Bunker Meta and CC craze came with each class obtaining traits and skill to be of use within Raids.

If the next wing requires a ton of Condi and condition traits and skills get a ton of love, guess what the next meta in PvP is going to revolve around? that’s right conditions! Until anet separates the two game modes 100% you can expect PvP to follow what ever is meta within PvE. In this case, what ever is needed for Raids.

Rukia.9860:

Wolfey.3407:

-Zaishen Keys and Zaishen Chest
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaishen_Chest

Adjust the loot tables to be more GW2 aligned

By aligned, you mean just a bunch more crap loot to be salvaged ? Totally pointless. Any type of ‘box’ in GW2 is basically cancer.. just more click bait, never anything worth. At least I’ve never got anything good in the 3+ years I played.

In GW1 at least I could use anything I got out of it, but in GW2 classes are limited by weapon type, stat’s are on gear in GW2, level requirement on gear, etc.

Also we could sell zkeys in pvp in GW1 it was a great way to profit in pvp when you didn’t want to grind pve. Why would you not want them tradeable?

Obviously treats and Alcohol would not be a good reward for players in GW2… Guaranteed Exotic or Ascended tier weapon or armor would be cool. Adding in a monthly rotation of Endless Tonics would be awesome. A Mad King Thorn one for October, a Celestial Animal of said year for January, etc.

Key wise, the only reason I wouldn’t want them to be tradable or sellable is to prevent whats happening in GW1 and that’s by having people sell them for USD. Then again, anything in the game is sold for USD these days anyways so why not.

PvP is really lacking in a lot…..

-Queue times are very bipolar… they are rather very very short or you have enough time to finish a novel or two.

-The Lobby is so huge that you feel like no one is pvping because 50-60 people idle within a very tiny area of it.

-There is no more Team Q and Solo Q … both of which need to return with restrictions on each. No Premades in Solo, no solos in Team.

-There is nothing to do while you wait for your Queue to pop.

-They refuse to add anything to the Heart of the Mists for us to do ((crafting areas, mystic forge, practice dueling pit, what ever else))

-There is nothing new cosmetically for PvP players to purchase, the last finisher we saw that was New to the game was the Revemant Finisher from preordering.

-Balancing isn’t happening enough, not just on classes but on sigils, runes and amulets.

-Rewards from reward tracks are very very sub par and require a great deal of luck to get anything on par of PvE or WvW. Even though this is not the main objective of PvP (to make money) most PvP players would like to save up for content that can be used in all 3 areas of GW2. ((Legendaries, Unique Skins, mini pets, super rare particle infusions like ghostly, Chak, Bee, Polys etc))

- PvP is NOT separated from PVE.. .until it becomes separated, PvP will NEVER be a major esports success. PvP is constantly suffering from what ever content the devs want the players to focus on within PVE. We can see this with the Tank Meta and the direct correlation of Raids.

Some things in Guild Wars 1 that made PvP awesome:
-PvP only weapon skins, something that couldnt be earned in PVE or WvW
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Envoy_weapons

-Zaishen Keys and Zaishen Chest
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaishen_Chest

Would be nice if they made the Zaishen Chest return, put it in the kitten lobby to eat up some of the empty space. Adjust the loot tables to be more GW2 aligned, make winning 3 matches a day in unranked/ranked reward 1 key, and make it repeatable.
Keys can’t be sold or mailed. The Loot in the chests can be sold or traded though.

It’s frustrating when the developers ignore the very obvious and when they forget about all the successful content they had in Guild Wars 1. The PvP issues in GW2 can be fixed and resolved, and the ideas they had in GW1 can EASILY be imported to GW2.

The Problem is in my opinion, is that the higher ups do NOT want to let the developers work on PvP. The Developers do NOT want to separate PvP from PVE since that would be more work for them to do.

The way PvP is ran now, is along the lines of a Turnkey operation…. start a season and wait till the devs have time to balance classes for PVE content and start another season. Rinse and repeat.

Rome.7124:

Wolfey.3407:

Good:
Chrono
Revenant/ Herald

haha, very funny…

Care to elaborate on which one if not both and why?

If you mean Chrono getting ganked to hell by Thieves thats a valid point but getting countered hard by 1 class does not make it a useless class.

My List from What I’ve Seen so far…

OP:
Daredevil
Reaper

Good:
Chrono
Revenant/ Herald
Scrapper

Ok:
Druid
Dragonhunter
Tempest

Sub Par:
Base Classes

Trashcan Baby:
Berserker

From a Druid/ Reaper/Revenants player perspective

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

The class simply falls apart without celestial stats.

Sure after Rangers get a free class change since a certain developer gets carried away with the nerf bat.

morrolan.9608:

Wolfey.3407:

Juba.8406:

After the patch i ve been having the worst match makings ever, while Solo Q as Diamond i was 7 pips away from legend

But since the patch I always face Premades + Legends

AND I ALWAYS BEING PUT IN AN AMBER/SAPPHIRE teams that cant even look in the map.

WHY ???!!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Matchmaking-broken-Not-working-as-intended/first#post5918159

Answered already, it’s a known bug

Read down that thread further its meant to have been fixed by now.

Time Line Issue

The portion you are referencing too is 2 days old,
the portion i linked is 21 hours old.

So The Information presented by Jessica is 100% False
or the Information given by Evan is 100% False

Unless I completely missed what you are talking about o.O

What I saw was:
Jessica who posted 21 hours ago, stating that it’s a known issue and is being worked on. Versus the 2 day old post from Evan.

ISanetyI.4652:

Hi guys ,

I’m a Guy and i don’t think those legendary bows are created for Guy players.
Let me know if you guys like those legendary bows or not.
Hopefully we get a new legendary bow

Hi,
I’m a guy who has a Sylvari Ranger, Kudzu is perfect for me!

I Also have a Male Charr Warrior who uses Kudzu and it goes nicely.

Nature does not = Girly, not everything has to be dark and tormented like a 15 yr olds heart to be manly. :P

Juba.8406:

After the patch i ve been having the worst match makings ever, while Solo Q as Diamond i was 7 pips away from legend

But since the patch I always face Premades + Legends

AND I ALWAYS BEING PUT IN AN AMBER/SAPPHIRE teams that cant even look in the map.

WHY ???!!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Matchmaking-broken-Not-working-as-intended/first#post5918159

Answered already, it’s a known bug