Guild Wars 2

yea this game needs 3vs3 deathmatch.

its too hard to organize 5 ppl with the same skill level/dedication to be online at the same time. everyone i know has gone back to wow arena, and i probably will too soon if something doesn’t happen.

and this game needs a dueling system aswell.

Paid tournys are dead outside prime time american times, what do all us asian/oceanic players do? This game is dieing so its hard to find 4 other players dedicated to play as much as you that play in the same timezone who are also online whenever you want to play.

I realize how this game wants to be ‘different’ so has gone away from what has worked in other pvp mmo’s (bad idea but won’t go into to that) but using wow as an example (most played mmo so biggest sample size) 5vs5 arenas failed, 3vs3 and 2vs2 were the most popular/fun and also 3vs3 became the eventual e-sport platform. You could log on at any time and find 2 people of any skill level and get nearly instant ques no matter what rating you were.

And if that failed you could always go outside either major city and find an abundance of people of every skill level to duel and learn your class/test new specs etc.

Also paid tournys are a monopoly with only a handfull of teams winning every tournament(qp ladder proves this), I have no doubt if it was 3vs3 arena deathmatch this would not be the case as there are many skillfull players who cannot find 4 other players equally as skilled in the same timezone with the same dedication/availability etc.

these guys are beasts.

As your title says “1vs1 arena”, thats exactly what the small servers are, nothing more annoying then going to an empty server to duel someone and mid fight someone jumps in and kills you.
Every time i join a server with 2-4 ppl I always ask if they are dueling, if they are i will ask for a duel, if not i will cap some points and 2vs2 etc.

If these players abused you for no reason then that is unnaceptable, but i have a feeling their anger stems from the fact you killed 1 of them as they were halfway through a duel without asking. (it is quite obvious that they are dueling if 2 players are fighting and the rest are looking on from the sides)

TBH i have no idea how a ‘pvp’ game could be released without a dueling system or an a 1vs1,2vs2 or 3vs3 arena/deathmatch feature.

For us not in the US can we get an ETA on when patch launches..? like a specific time.

“Cry of Frustration”’s Confusion lasts only 3s and not the 4s indicated in its tooltip.

also

+Condition Duration is not working correctly on Cry of Frustration. Master of Misdirection +33%, Nightmare(4) +10%, Lyssa(2) +10%, and 30 Domination +30% on a character results in “Cry of Frustration” to only last ~5 seconds instead of 7.3 seconds.

just fix cry of frustration and condition mesmers will be somewhat viable.

cry of frustration is bugged atm, only giving 3 seconds confusion instead of the stated 4+ seconds.

Yea, condition shatter Mesmer’s relying on a ability that counts on enemy’s using abilities is just unreliable, let alone when its main ability is bugged. In 3 seconds most enemys will cast just 1 or 2 moves if any, each ticking for 700ish with a full 4 shatter combo with stacked +cond.
Compare that with a power mesmer who can mind wrack for a guaranteed 4 × 1-2.5k (upto 10k)..and mind wrack is on 15 second cd compared to 30 sec CoF.

“Cry of Frustration”’s Confusion lasts only 3s and not the 4s indicated in its tooltip.

also

+Condition Duration is not working correctly on CoF. Master of Misdirection +33%, Nightmare(4) +10%, Lyssa(2) +10%, and 30 Domination +30% on a character results in “Cry of Frustration” to only last ~5 seconds instead of 7.3 seconds.

These 2 bugs currently make Condition shatter builds totally unviable in sPVP. When you look at the point distribution in the trait trees and the traits it is quite obvious that shatter builds were designed for condition specs yet due to these bugs all shatter mesmers are currently forced into Power/crit burst builds (combined with the huge burst of mind wrack) .

just spent another 15min testing it and its definately still bugged.

“Cry of Frustration”’s Confusion lasts only 3s and not the 4s indicated in its tooltip.

also

+Condition Duration is not working correctly. Master of Misdirection +33%, Nightmare(4) +10%, Lyssa(2) +10%, and 30 Domination +30% on a character results in “Cry of Frustration” to only last ~5 seconds instead of 7.3 seconds.

These 2 bugs currently make Condition shatter builds totally unviable in sPVP. When you look at the point distribution in the trait trees and the traits it is quite obvious that shatter builds were designed for condition specs yet due to these bugs all shatter mesmers are currently forced into Power/crit burst builds (combined with the huge burst of mind wrack) .

Arheundel.6451:

They can rotate between illusionist duellist/bersker/rogue at the death of each one and have still 3-4 clones for shatter -_-.

Wtf do you dodge if the shatter clones daze you everytime? Those shattering clones come from all directions and you get crippled/dazed in the meantime by the real mesmer…but let’s stop here, good luck to you trying to teach a champion magus/wolf rank how to play ele….auto-attack spamm on dagger/dagger ele?..lol yeah sure..NEXT!

…everything you said is wrong, mesmer can’t have 3 different dps phantasms up at once, also phantasm rogue is a downed state ability lol…also mesmer can’t shatter 4 clones(they can only have 3 clones/phantasm up at once). Phantasm mesmers will not use shatter, and shatter mesmers will not spam phantasm’s.

also shatter clones don’t daze you everytime, one of the shatter abilities is daze and its only 1 second and doesn’t stack regardless of how many you shatter and does NO damage(is the weakest of all the shatters).

its obvious you have no idea how mesmers work, so its no wonder you have no idea how to fight them.

mesmers are simple once you understand the class and stop being bad, if the mesmer strafes,backpedals,dodge rolls,jumps, uses any ability other than auto attack..then thats the real 1…just train him and he will die.

“they can summon 2 phantasms every 8s -_- on top of 3-4 shatter clones and going stealth” – that just shows how little you understand the class.

no they cant summon 2 phantasms every 8 seconds aswell as 3-4 clones, infact they can’t summon 2 phantasms every 8 seconds by itself(even fully traited), and they can’t summon 4 clones at once by itself let alone both together.

you realise gear has 0 effect on damage other than runes right? and you’re wearing the highest dps amulet in the game.

“2200 for blurried frenzy without the gear (scholar) or 4k with the scholar.”

your scholar runes increase your damage by nearly %100? …lol cmon dude

scholar rune increases your damage when you’re above %90 hp, how often were you above %90 in those duels? good for hitting target dummys and thats about it.