Guild Wars 2

xsquared.1926:

Writetyper.1985:

I don’t. PvE is almost disappointingly easy in this game and it’s obvious because everyone is forced to make their own fun in speedruns and kitten like that. There’s also, as is the common complaint, no PvE endgame. It’s just doing (not remotely fun or challenging) dungeons for practically no reason. How many times can you run Arah over and over again?

More often than i can play Spirit watch or Skyhammer in soloQ

upvoted

I recently made a thinly veiled complaint thread about skyhammer with some other issues thrown in so that it wouldn’t just get merged into the big one. i would appreciate if you upvoted this in return, mystical ricepaper :^)

dominik.9721:

Because you master PvE if you know the animations and if you have good reaction times.
PvP you master if you have the better lame build.

Hold on, let me just try and attempt some sick PvE on a defensive play how you want non-zerker exploit build. Y-yay! this is taking literally 10-20 minutes to bust through some massive massive health sack! I-i’m having loads of f-fun! I love big anet

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

DnT has people in the top 50 of team q and solo q. What more do you want from us?

asuna is a trashcan skyhammer abusing spirit ranger though

#calledout #frizzlyfrazzled #tryinghard

hehehe

hohoho

Pollution.8703:

Writetyper.1985:

Ok, why the kitten did you switch to a necro to try and counter warriors?

What?

Because I can do something with Lich Form at least. I wasn’t getting anything accomplished on my engi.

Trust me, a engi is a lot more set to handle a bunch of hambow heroes than any kind of necro. It’s dodges and vigour as well as poison uptime that you want if you can’t get your hands on the kind of burst a thief or mesmer has.

good stuff nerd

J Eberle.9312:

Ima leave this here. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/GZwMYXtz9eE

Man those are some SICK HOTJOIN PLAYS

EPIC

NevirSayDie.6235:

LelouchViBritannia.3607:

Skyhammer is just an abomination of a map. The cannon would be okay, it’s all the glass plates and cliffs making it a trollfest for classes with lots of knockbacks (so, hammer warriors) and stability and a nightmare for everyone else.

Spirit Watch actually would be a great map if people in soloq would finally realize that you can’t win it if you zerg around at the orb while the enemy team holds all 3 points.

FYI, warrior hammer has only one very short-distance knockback :p They lack boon removal, pulls, and stealth, so they’re actually not very strong in high-tier skyhammer matches. Mes/engi/necro/thief are kings, probably in that order.

The problem with spirit watch is the huge differences in mobility between professions. I do fine running the orb with 1-2 leaps and 25% movement speed increase on my engineer, but I could be roughly twice as fast with a warrior and nearly that with a ranger. Still, I find it a fun solo queue map. It’s somewhat imbalanced but not rage-inducing like skyhammer can be when you get people who really understand the skyhammer game.

Use rocket boots and slick shoes (although that limits you to one kit) and it’s like an instant orb cap every time super speed is off cooldown.

Ok, why the kitten did you switch to a necro to try and counter warriors?

What?

sick a jumping puzzle build

that’s insane

#nice

Ok, at time of posting i’m top 10 or maybe at least front page (decay is very strong) on solo queue leaderboard. This isn’t because I’m good at the game (I’m trash) but because, as far as I can tell, nobody is kittening playing. Every game I’m getting people who have no idea what they’re doing, and it’s a free win to whoever can herd sheep harder.

There are a few outstanding issues that I guess anet thought weren’t major but evidently were. I’m wondering if we could have fixes or comments for fixes on the major issue before solo queue dies completely and becomes a perpetual merry go round of players who probably have some kind of bot set up to queue solo queue and then disconnect (for sick 4v5 action) matched against players who accidentally queued for solo queue instead of lfg’ing CoF. IE: kittenen dead.

maps: skyhammer and spirit watch. Nobody except grouch actually likes them, you can prove this lil hypothesis by hitting the game, waiting for the oh-so-dreaded skyhammer pop that kicks the courage out of lions and then asking “hey is everyone keen for a match of the sickest map going?” only to find “no” being a near unanimous reply. Seriously, I know people who have quit the game cos of skyhammer in solo queue. A simple fix (besides making the map go the way of the capricorn) is to add a Veto system similar to starcraft 2’s ladder: you get to choose two maps (basically kitten tal’darim altar) which you don’t have to play at all before queuing. This way grouch still gets to play games of Skyhammer against himself so everyone is happy.

matchmaking: if I am in the top 25 (deserved or not) why are there people who plainly have no idea what they’re doing being matched up with and against me? I am not talking ranks, I am talking people who just aren’t very good, although there is a correlation with rank. I wouldn’t mind waiting longer for better matches – I really really like tense close matches, even if I lose them. I don’t like herding sheep into pens/points. this game only works when everyone knows where they need to be, otherwise the team with the most experience wins on map control. which is dumb. something should be done, is it the starting MMR being too high? lack of players? Both of those can be fixed, by lowering the starting MMR and removing skyhammer respectively.

third: redundancy/rewards, a lot of people I know solo queue into team queue for two main reasons: first being that they love skyhammer so much and such a pristine experience should be preserved, and the second being that in terms of real game rewards there’s no point. Solo queue obviously shouldn’t have the same glory gain as team queue, but I’m sure it can be a little higher than the pittance we have now. Some people (I honestly don’t care about my team queue rank) want to protect their team queue rank, as well as get fair (lmao) matches, so solo queue has it’s place and we shouldn’t be outright punishing people for playing solo queue instead of soloing team queue.

tl;dr: fix solo queue

please fix solo queue

i’m a nice guy

EDIT: S A D B O Y S

Engineers will fall in like 10 seconds to condi pressure. Heal turret doesn’t cut it if a necro is on your case.

I don’t. PvE is almost disappointingly easy in this game and it’s obvious because everyone is forced to make their own fun in speedruns and kitten like that. There’s also, as is the common complaint, no PvE endgame. It’s just doing (not remotely fun or challenging) dungeons for practically no reason. How many times can you run Arah over and over again?

Can’t agree, all of hammers skills are really high animations besides the fourth one. Of course it’s not an easy task, but it’s for sure doable.

People are very protective about their builds for some reason, so this can’t really happen.

Mosharn.8357:

Elxdark.9702:

Writetyper.1985:

Mosharn.8357:

Or an eles condi burst while being able to heal like no tomorrow.

WUT

switch to water theres the first heal. Hit 5 2nd heal. Hit 2 thats 3rd heal now dodge for 4th heal. You will be at full hp and have removed 3 condis. Switch to earth churn then flash to em hit 3 switch to fire drake breath ring then back to earth rinse and repeat. If they dodge just keep repeating. Condi builds require no brain usage except for the rotation. Find rotation and repeat till target dyes.
You dont even have to pop your heal most the time but if you do most condi eles ether renewal. And you can easily go to air hit 3 and pop heal for a safe heal.

Your drakes breath does 7k over 3 seconds loldmg. You didnt even have to stack might for this btw. datbalance right?

i have no reply for this

Mosharn.8357:

Or an eles condi burst while being able to heal like no tomorrow.

wut

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Writetyper.1985:

So you don’t go up against stacks with pugs?

hmmm sorry english is not my first language but what does this question mean? O_O

It wasn’t a question, it was an answer

5 players solo. Matchmaking puts them up against a coordinated team stack of players who play together, queued together and are probably on VOIP together. That’s why I solo queue instead of team queue.

So you don’t go up against stacks with pugs?

wvw zerglings complained

Romek.4201:

mini.6018:

Meanwhile immobilizing someone still let’s them dodge and move arround.Funny world of Tyria.

but not with this bug (think hes talking bout this)
you can only remove it with weaponswap or typing an emote like /dance

it happens when something interupts a movementspell and when the interuptting spell ends the character is in a broken state and dont know he can move again

But don’t despair! Anet is hard at work fixing bugs like fun map breaking and animation locking with the dance books, and not kitten like this which is actually broken.

It’s a glitch, you could transmute to fractal weapon skins and then use the fractal skin.

It’s fixed now though, which kittenes me off because I spent the last month grinding through the bore that is fractal in an attempt to transmute my Juggernaut. Sucks that that guy gets to keep it :/

Condi necros, condi wars. By far.

because it’s far too kittening spammy, and that’s coming from an engi.

What’s wrong with the 5th skill on flamethrower? also look to improving your LB rating

I am sick to death of people levering an advantage which could potentially tip the match in their favour by destroying key objectives (Treb on khylo, doors on foefire) before the match has begun. These side objectives are often powerful enough to decide the game so it’s only fair that every effort be made to prevent people from abusing them.

Because anet is all about constructive criticism, here are a few solutions until the patch that hopefully fixes it for good:

1) Simply close the doors until the game actually starts, there’s no need to be out there at all.

2) Hotfix the bug which stops destructible environments from respawning

3) let us report anyone who does the bug

This is amazing, shame no amount of guide will make my atrocious mesmer play any better. That shatter vs shatter video for a start is so detailed, and it’s an hour and a half long, kitten . Keep it up supcutie.

Durzlla.6295:

I’m almost positive they made it so you can only swap at the very beginning before the match starts…

Yeah, I thought it was like this a while ago (used to get a message saying “you can only rejoin on the character you queued on”) but it was reverted for some reason.

Kind of annoying because I can be in solo queue having fun and winning on some gimmicky burst build like killshot war, and then someone switches to Ranger to counter me. I would be an advocate of the idea of locking in classes prior to a match as well if that wouldn’t leave you with the chance of getting something dumb like 3 thieves on your team.

The only reasonable place I can see it being useful is in static discharge ubilds because if you get focused you’re not getting around to the second heal turret anyway. Other than that, lmao no

Sirendor.1394:

o_O can’t be serious

it is entirely serious

Side of effect (only for wvw) is that then it would proc Perplexity.

And oh my god would that be one hell of a fight. Necros with confusion. Shieeet.

aleks.5473:

Nerf ele’s are you mad haha. People dont play eles becouse they die in 1 sec.

Dude no this is serious. In that one second eles can kill you, stomp you, and decap three points at once. SRS NERF

This game’s matchmaking is kittened. I was (at about 200 on LB at the time) queueing with some friends of mine (at all roughly 80%-90%), voipless, for a bit of fun and it matched it up against Good Fights. The result of that match was soemthing like 100-500.

After that we matched against them THREE MORE TIMES. You would have thought the matchmaking system would have figured it out at the first. The best part is I know for a fact other teams our level were queueing at the time.

Don’t get me started on solo queue. I’m top 100, why am I getting people that are simply inexperienced/new? Why am I winning games that I shouldn’t win because some new guy on the other team is walking past uncapped points or focusing the wrong player entirely? It’s like herding sheep.

no more documents after this one pls

a better questions is why the hell do you want to play with the poms

Really hope it’s a weapon…

Seconding this.

And it doesn’t need much to make them good again. Hell, I think even a 1000 HP buff would make eles much more common of a pickup – the low HP is constricting a lot of near-viable builds because of how glassy they become.

What we don’t need, is more Diamond Skin nonsense.

league is a horrible game

solid post

15 good cobbers

mini.6018:

Writetyper.1985:

I don’t want to make a new thread so I can I just addend the “who the kitten is this guy” document to this post? I can? Neat.

-Remove Impale from the game. Don’t even replace it with anything. Just a blank square, because that kitten should not even be honored with a tombstone. Kill Impale, kill Imaple’s family, burn down Imaple’s village and salt the lands so nothing will ever grow there again.

that’s my document friendos

Looks like someone facetanked a warrior.

can anyone smell that? it’s the smell of a condi war scrambling to defend Impale. I think I’ve pinned down the issue, anyway

I don’t want to make a new thread so I can I just addend the “who the kitten is this guy” document to this post? I can? Neat.

-Remove Impale from the game. Don’t even replace it with anything. Just a blank square, because that kitten should not even be honored with a tombstone. Kill Impale, kill Imaple’s family, burn down Imaple’s village and salt the lands so nothing will ever grow there again.

that’s my document friendos

Harbinger.8637:

Thanks for the comments, glad you guys enjoyed it. As for the build;

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARWnQElGacIuhwHiCJTRBig2CwPURXPgoIqhA-ToAg0CnIYSxkjJDTSmsMNgY9B

It doesn’t give you has much damage as a typical med build. However it’ll give you far better sustain, which is why I enjoy it.

why do you use that kittenty heal

You need to have played 11. If you’ve won 11 matches (a majority of these needing to be against good players because of the way MMR works) out of 11 then you deserve a good spot, and if you’re a lucky pretender then the next played matches will set you down or decay will take care of it.

kenny.3627:

Writetyper.1985:

If you really want to keep a quality bar, don’t use rank. Rank doesn’t mean kitten. Use solo queue rank – 70% and above, or something.

going 70%-top 50 is easier then r1-40 in my opinion

Difference is you can be complete trash and still be 40 via hotjoin heroism, skyhammer farming or whatever else there is. It’s time/grind based. To be on the leaderboards shows at least some level of game knowledge because you need to win matches to get there. You can also easily check it by looking up their name – rank isn’t displayed anywhere on leaderboards or on gwshack or anything like that.

Personally, I don’t think you should have any rank/skill restrictions at all. People can easily ask for the skill level of players as they please – “LFG newbies”, “LFG Experiecned team queue”, “LFG R40+ guard” etc, but that’s just my opinion.

Good luck with the venture.

If you really want to keep a quality bar, don’t use rank. Rank doesn’t mean kitten. Use solo queue rank – 70% and above, or something.

I kinda like collecting them, I have 4 so far.

I would however think it would be neat if there was a “legendary” equivalent of each unlocked by getting champion. IE “Legendary Illusionist” is win 150 matches while in the top 100 of either leaderboard, after getting Champion Illusionist.

seconded, we need this

#huba

cymerdown.4103:

Superior Sigil of Energy — Now returns only 25% Endurance upon weapon swap, down from 50%.

And just like that, the ken document is the best document.

If you like competitive GW2 matches, blu42 does a lot for this games in terms of really really professional casts and you should check it out. Here’s his youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/DocterBlu?feature=watch

So you can be invisible 24/7. Real useful.

The second one is perfect.