Guild Wars 2

Better: Guild Wars 1 – Based on the fact that they were once built on there ability to interrupt targets and high skill play.

Worse: WoW – Kitten Game

Cynz.9437:

i don’t really want capes and i think it would be problematic wit the way game coded currently but some kind of backpieces would be nice probably

It may take a little bit to work in the code but i’m sure there is a simple solution out there without a doubt.

Cynz.9437:

don’t agree with guilds though

what if guild does everything or wants to do everything? should they just make 3 guilds and keep hopping for certain rewards? cmon now

It may seem like more work for the odd guild that does everything but keep in mind there are almost NO pvp guilds at the moment – something HAS to be done

My Ranger <3

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Poll-Capes-Guilds/first#post3310345

Rednik.3809:

aussieheals.6843:

tichorum.2415:

HOTJOIN is getting gold? Lol this will be good.

I think I like the idea. People farming rank is a medium priority for Anet, people farming gold can cost them money. I’m assuming hotjoin farmers have seen the end of their days…

So you are assuming what cutting rewards for basic and most popular sPvP mode and patting tPvP players (0.01% of total GW2 players) is good for game health? Wow.

I should of said rank farmers rather than glory, I quite enjoy the old hotjoin but hate the system being abused

John Corpening.9847:

So here are some questions for you.

Would you keep rank acquisition the same as it is now?

If not, what would you do to improve rank acquisition?

Thanks again!

John

1) Leave rank
2) Change glory boosters to rank boosters.
3) Remove all pvp rewards from rank progression add them in your new system as intended except for finishers.

tichorum.2415:

HOTJOIN is getting gold? Lol this will be good.

I think I like the idea. People farming rank is a medium priority for Anet, people farming gold can cost them money. I’m assuming hotjoin farmers have seen the end of their days…

Dam you guys work fast!

[img]http://i.imgur.com/iojqPXM.jpg[/img]

As requested, latest spvp build. Played solo queue and team queue with it on Sunday. 8 wins 1 loss when I had a player leave.

Video with a few tips for those starting out in Solo Q and Team Q. Thought I would only put a few in not to overload with information. Some of it may seem basic but even some of the best lack in these few areas.

Release of my latest dual sword SoloQ Ranger Spvp build included in description.

I love the coming changes but they are obviously going to require A LOT of thought and work to be implemented. So I thought I would make a post about the two things that are simple solutions to A LOT of problems.

A) Capes

Capes were a ‘stand out’ item in Gw1 and were an integral part of recognizing the best of the best as well as giving you the ‘team feel’. ArenaNet would hold big tournaments for guilds and the winners and runners up would have access to a cape trim color (The edge color of your capes). I.e. Gold, Silver Bronze. These couldn’t be bought, grinded or transferred from pve.

Additionally, capes can be integrated into other sections such as some new and existing achievements.

Example:

• New player ‘Jim’ has the standard white cape, white trim and red arena-net logo.
• Jim goes on to get 5,000 kills and unlocks a duel dagger icon for the cape.
• Jim now has also killed each class 500 times and has unlocked a black background for the cape.
• Jim participates in the quarterly tournament with his team and wins so he unlocks a Gold trim for his cape.

Jims cape is now black with a gold trim and duel daggers providing a very easy way for players to see Jim is a pro thief.

B) Guilds

Any game I play (and i’m sure I speak for a lot of people when I say this) is a LOT more fun with friends! The idea of having multiple guilds is great BUT it needs to be limited to 1 guild per area of the game.

I.e. – 1xPvp Guild, 1xWvW Guild, 1xPve Guild

This would bring players together and build community. The guild rewards would be specific to it’s respective area giving players a reason to be part of a guild and community. This may be irrelevant for pve/wvw but its a hole in the heart of pvp.

I would love to hear the communities thoughts on these ideas, so please vote and/or post a reply

http://strawpoll.me/812452

<3 Aussie,

P.s. I have posted some of this in the ‘official’ CDI thread but thought to expand on that.

aussieheals.6843:

Shriketalon.1937:

3) Capes.

For the love of Melandru’s magnificent melons, make cape physics work and PvP will flourish. You want people to look cool? Capes are cool. You want people to want to climb higher in the ladder? Rank based capes will make them climb. You want people to care about prestige? CAPES!!!!!!

YES! For those of you who didn’t play GW1 capes were the greatest! The best of the best players were defined by unlocking a special color trim for there cape which couldn’t be bought/crafted etc! I.e. Gold, Silver, Bronze. It’s a way of showing off prestige without cluttering the screen with a tacky glow and its passive.. aka you don’t have to type /rank to show how good you are and it won’t be confused with the pve players capes even if they have our Armour!

The reason (I believe) they are not currently in is because of the cape physics as mentioned above (Stupid Charr) but i’m sure this could easily be implemented.

To add to this, you could easily add achievements / achievement rewards that are class and pvp specific.

Basic Example

Plan cape for new player – Has Arenanet logo, white background, no trim

New player plays thief –
1,000 kills with the thief unlocks a dagger icon for the cape.
2,000 kills with the thief unlocks a duel dagger icon for the cape.

1,000 kills in pvp unlocks black cape background

Player wins tournament –
Cape now has gold trim with duel daggers and a black background showing he/she is a beast thief

Give me a reason to play other classes please !

Shriketalon.1937:

3) Capes.

For the love of Melandru’s magnificent melons, make cape physics work and PvP will flourish. You want people to look cool? Capes are cool. You want people to want to climb higher in the ladder? Rank based capes will make them climb. You want people to care about prestige? CAPES!!!!!!

YES! For those of you who didn’t play GW1 capes were the greatest! The best of the best players were defined by unlocking a special color trim for there cape which couldn’t be bought/crafted etc! I.e. Gold, Silver, Bronze. It’s a way of showing off prestige without cluttering the screen with a tacky glow and its passive.. aka you don’t have to type /rank to show how good you are and it won’t be confused with the pve players capes even if they have our Armour!

The reason (I believe) they are not currently in is because of the cape physics as mentioned above (Stupid Charr) but i’m sure this could easily be implemented.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again! Kangaroo!!

f2, box ability like the town boxing gloves. Or even a leap knockdown

We still have more than enough evade, I guess we all just need to fine tune when to use it rather than mindlessly spamming it.

And if your a full blown power build you should still take defensive traits or suffer the consequences.

As for the person complaining about not enough evades with a trap build, are you serious?????????????????????????

Also, its kind of pointless pointing out this nerf while not incorporating our other survivability buffs.

Greatsword buff is awesome! Can finally drop the warhorn and run with more defense and poisen with Greatsword / Sword, Dagger. New OP Greatsword video INC but I feel this new one is going to be a viable tournament roamer.

As for the other changes, THANK YOU for sooo many options!

Do you all agree that Ranger Greatsword is the funnest weapon in this game!?

Thought you might want to see – http://youtu.be/pnhVcRXhhJI

Sorry, we need kangaroos first

Enough QQ I want to see action! Show me your builds that defy the current Meta! … or are just flat out fun to play

Botanical.7032:

Awesome stuff. Respect.
It’s nice to see someone actually enjoying this profession rather than bashing it because of their own shortcomings.
Anyway, I must ask, your elite skill keybind is M5? What exactly is that? I have a skill under M3 (center mouse button) but I just can’t figure out what M5 would be.

Why thank you! My mouse has a lot of buttons, https://ebgames.com.au/pc-152715-Logitech-G9X-Gaming-Mouse-PC

Darnis.4056:

….is this………. is this real? :/
Most of this is hotjoin as far as I can tell; some soloque thrown in too I think..
Does it work against strong players though? I didn’t really see any b-list guildwars2 celebrities…

Certainly does, a lot of the builds were as I was testing, but you’ll notice the build I finally reveal actually has hardly any points in the power and crit trait lines but still outputs the same dps with new found survivability.

Hard to come across your ‘well known’ players during my available play times atm

Follow my journey as a search for a viable power build and come across something borderline OP

(Best experience played loud!)

Final build displayed towards the end.

Mist League (First Guild Wars 2 League) launch on the 6/15 @ 11:00am PDT (6 PM GMT – 10:30 PM GMT)

We want to invite the Wvw and Pve community along for the day! Our sponsor MMORPG.com are providing 40,000 gems to give away to the viewers during fun filled mini competitions! See the link below for more details!

http://www.mistleague.com/mist-league-launch-40000-gem-giveaway-615/

Mist League (First Guild Wars 2 League) launch on the 6/15 @ 11:00am PDT (6 PM GMT – 10:30 PM GMT)

We want to invite the Wvw and Pve community along for the day! Our sponsor MMORPG.com are providing 40,000 gems to give away to the viewers during fun filled mini competitions! See the link below for more details!

http://www.mistleague.com/mist-league-launch-40000-gem-giveaway-615/

We understand that finding a guild and/or recruiting players can be quite daunting! So we have developed a system to help you easily find players and or guilds for pvp

With our new LFGuild tool you can search for the exact player your looking for with ease, take a look for yourself!

Guild LFPlayers Tool – http://www.mistleague.com/looking-for-guild/

Players LFGuild – Use the above tool and also search through guilds here – http://www.mistleague.com/guilds/

Welcome to the class! Rangers are alot of fun!

1. The build is purely off power and crit, if you look at the amultet critical damage is increased by 20%. It’s not just the high precision I wanted but the extra 15% fury duration (20%+ crit chance) and 20% longer swiftness duration (mele needs to always be fast to hit, also great for its main role of the roamer)- might is power condi -

2. Sigils do not cancel unless they are on the same weapon set. Because my crit chance is high, it isn’t a risk to remove the condis.

3. Range damage is there, the throw dragger is actually a cripple then you add your perma swiftness from the runes and the leaps from the greatsword and sword, being close to the target isn’t hard.

4. Safety from cc is definately in the build a) signet of stone b) pet fear c) greatsword block + knockback d) sword dodge evades even if your locked down e) all the condi removal f) quickening zeph is a stun break

5. The spike dmg on a single target is actually very high. The hidden utility of the jag is while in stealth it has 100% crit chance. If you send you pet in first, rampage then jump your target as your pet hits its no problem doing a 10k opener. In the video I only had 2 hours practise on the build. Once they are spiked you can then immune, stability and stomp

Hope this info helps!

mongolianmisfit.8350:

I guess I have different taste. Aside from the kudos I will grant for editing, I was not impressed with the music nor the game-play footage. I stopped watching after the first minute because fighting in hot joins and showing footage against inexperienced players is boring. I don’t understand your rune, sig, or utility choices, but I guess it is “fun” to play with all the evades and leaps…nothing more than that though.

Thanks for your honesty bud! Launching Mist League has left me with no time to compete so I decided instead to run into outnumbered situations with a weapon and build that isn’t used or even thought about. I did the same thing months ago with my trapper build when every one said rangers were underpowered. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9vHzWzKQko -

I take offensive runes because when your running with raw power players have the ability to heal too much unless you ‘spike’ them. The rangers defence often comes from his abilty to dodge, protection from dodge, traits and ease of access to vigor (dodges) so armour and hp aren’t high on the list for runes while running power or traps. The sigils you may of noticed remove conditions, those 2 + my utility combine to remove 3 conditions every 10 seconds leaving me without a weakness. This is especially essential in these current times as the META is based around condition damage. You may of noticed when I fight the necro I hardly lose any HP.

The utilities are signet utilities are traited to affect me as well as my pet. Stone makes me invincible for 6 seconds. When you are a highly ‘target-able’ glass cannon, immunity from another classes burst is great. There is the shout I could have opted for with a lesser cool down but it means my pets will die which is a massive hit to my damage.

In conclusion, it’s soooooo much fun to play but if it was to make an appearance in serious pvp it would fill the role of a roamer/spike caller/ and great team rezer with the immune and pet fear. Its basically a 100 blades warrior sacrificing a little damage from ALOT of survivability.

P.s. I know alot of people prefer entangle over ramapge for the elite, but when you fighting 3-4 players on your own stability is essential. It’s also great utility in team play for stomps. Entagle is too unreliable, it’s a long cooldown to risk a miss and can use its 5 charges on necro and mesmer pets

Here is a bit of info for anyone wanting to join the montage comp:

Programs Used
*Adobe Premier Pro
*Adobe After Effects CS6
*Fraps
*Adobe Audition CS6 (Wasn’t used for this but it is great)

For some great tutorials for after effects we highly recommend this guy – http://www.videocopilot.net/ – he’s hilarious and the tutorials are made so easy yet they are so advanced. We actually used one of his tutorials to make the Mist League intro.

As for music to find some unique stuff I just googled AMV – Make sure you have permission to use music before you do or your account could be flagged!

Post any other questions you have and I will gladly get back to you asap!

Shalla.3967:

Enjoyable to watch. Good work.

<3

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

I’d be glad if I were able to edit as good as you did (even when this is just basic-editing).
It looks actually pretty interesting.

Thanks mate

Hi all! I’ve posted a sample montage for our 100g competition! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka7i0sYc9J8

For how to enter the competition please see our original post here – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/events/Mist-League-Update-and-Contest/first#post2141472

Sorry for the lack of editing we have been quite busy!

Tundera.7956:

For those of you who played guild wars 1 on release, I was in a guild called The Morning After. For a brief time we were rank 1 in the beginning of GvG taking down the likes of Esotaric, Frost etc. I gotta say Guild Wars 1 GvG was the most incredible gaming experience I’ve ever had, and for a competitive gamer that’s saying a lot. I know GW2 is in kind of a slump right now, but I want to get the ball rolling for a competitive scene. It’s not enough to expect Arena Net to do something about it.

A great example is League of Legends and Riot Games. Riot was a tiny company that created a MOBA that people started to enjoy. The PLAYERS started forming tournaments, leagues, ladders, etc. Solo Mid was the new place for players to go for competitive League of Legends advice, guides and tutorials. Riot saw this, saw the viewer numbers and went crazy, eventually forming league seasons, the LCS, Worlds and now sponsored salary pro-gamers. The thing that sets League of Legends apart from a normal e-sports game is the accessibility. You can download the game for free, and boom, you get to jump right in.

This is where Guild Wars 2 shines as well. Aside from the cost of the game, you get to jump RIGHT into the action in any pvp you want, and play and learn and be competitive. With Guild Wars 2 having that kind of accessibility, I see huge potential for a competitive scene. The problem I see right now is the casting of tournaments, and lack of prize pools. It takes people to step up to do this sort of thing. People don’t want to watch tournaments cast by people who don’t know spell names, or who cant use the camera properly.

On the other side of it, the way that Guild Wars 2 works is hard to cast for, so I think for future player-held tournaments, we really need point cameras on the streams, so that you can see all 3 points on the stream plus whatever action is going on. Then, the casters would have an easier time seeing whats going on and commentating as such.

I want to get the ball rolling because GW1 was such a huge step in the right direction for team-oriented competitive MMO PvP, I want to see GW2 flourish. I need a few like-minded people to get things going. High-level people who can start streaming, taking donations and using the donations to fund properly held tournaments. GW2 isn’t going to take off if the viewers aren’t as passionate about it as the players are, and you don’t get that without solid streams and casters. So if you’re interested in helping me set up what I think could be a pretty big thing let me know! Get a hold of me, reply here and lets get things started.

On the other side, lets get a discussion going. Why do you think GW2 hasn’t taken off? Give me some ideas so we can set it up the right way.

Hi, firstly I just wanted you to know your the reason we decided to do a beta release. People were begging for the features and league/tournament we are going to provide and we simply needed more help as it is such a big task! We have posted the official release thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Official-Mist-League-Beta-Release and the promo video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bu37X1ZEDA . We look forward to seeing you all there!

We have upgraded our servers to a dedicated server to handle all of the traffic! This will take a maximum of 72 hours. Site speed should also dramatically increase and will never crash due to the amount of traffic we are currently receiving.

What is Mist League?

Mist League is an organization by the players and for the players. Mist league seeks to become the driving force behind the global effort to launch GW2 into an eSport. We are also striving to be the #1 source for GW2 PvP information and tools.

Wait, what?

This is a video which was tweeted not too long ago by the GW2 Team. Run to Youtube to check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bu37X1ZEDA

How will it work?

The typical Mist League season will consist of 10 weeks of gut cramping competition. Participating teams will acquire “League Points,” or “LPs,” based on participation and performance throughout the season. Each season will be topped off by the Mist League Season Championship – a money tournament with a $10,000* prize pool.

You can find out more on our Campaign Page http://www.mistleague.com/campaign/

Where do I register?

http://www.mistleague.com – our home page. You can register your team as well as yourself in order to participate in the community. Registration is free.

How can I help?

Currently we are running 100% on donations. So far we have had very generous support by excited competitors just like you, but we still need your help in order to achieve our goal as a community. If you would like to contribute, we have placed a donation link at the bottom of our campaign page – http://www.mistleague.com/campaign/ You can also contribute with your video, sound, or image manipulation skills. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

We would like to finish this announcement by thanking you for your attention, thanking our current contributors, and thanking our donors. We encourage you to join us in this pivotal time in eSport history.

Cant do anything better? A 15 second cd on 3 traps that devestate an area with pets that crit 3k+?

like the idea friend. add me to 1v1’s and paid tournies NA. Ranger of course

- Aussie Archer