Thanks Stephanie, now I’ll have to call you this forever! I’ve read over these resources & I guess I’ll just have to keep hoping much more information will be eventually available through v2
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AngryJoe Interview - HoT Questions for Devs?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: docMed.7692
Great questions so far!
I’m really excited about the event empowered by you guys! The event will be on Tuesday and ill return on Wed, but most of the stuff will be embargoed for a tiny bit after.
That’s funny you’re Joe as the other day I was re-watching your review of Guild Wars 2 again since I last saw it well over 2 years ago and thinking about the path the game has taken compared against what I initially expected. Since the game has certainly had it’s ups & downs I would be really interested to hear what ArenaNet thinks their biggest successes and failures are. Likewise, of course interested in what their future plans entail in particular to both PvE (e.g. more and more details about new, challenging, small group related content) and what their balance cycle for PvP is going to be post HoT (hopefully faster!). If anything Joe, ArenaNet feeds us a lot of over-hyped pieces - would be very interested to get your realistic take on it all. Keep up the good content
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I would bet that almost every single person queueing solo is willing to wait longer for queues if it means not facing premades all the time.
How are we having this discussion again? This is literally a two-year-old discussion for this game. It’s why you guys added solo queue in the first place.
lol, this was my exact thoughts. Talk about full circle, huh?
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Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets?
Rly? Apart from all these changes being pretty sweet, there are quite a number of them too. Don’t be so negative. I think this opens up some build variety. There are a lot of possibilities if you look past the longbow changes.
Yay you zerg runners will finally be able to sit in your zergs and be helpful. It doesnt change anything for spvp ranger. They will still get destroyed. This isnt anything to celebrate. Wait till all the other class buffs and changes come out and ranger will be right back in its useless spot.
I think you’re very confused.
Eh show me a ranger being viable in spvp with longbow or gs and i might change my mind =D
Hi, My name is Eurantien.
To be fair, I don’t think anyone would place glass/power Ranger as a top meta build w/ any weapon set. That being said, still a fun build that can do fairly well when in capable hands (just like any build in this game technically).
I don’t consider them viable yet, but if these changes go through I can see them being vey scary in pvp. We will have rangers loaded up with very high ranged damage and and soft cc.
Condi is getting a minor buff, but probably will be passed over for LB/GS.
Yea, I was kind of thinking they’ll have some good options on the Carrion/Valk/Knight sets. Glass (Zerk) will still probably be pretty rough, but it should allow for some high power output builds while wearing a decently defensive trinket (I think). We’ll see
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Hey Shotzo I’m glad you found it useful.
I roll docMeds build in wvw (KS’d him with it more than once xD) you gotta be very comfortable running a glass cannon. But if you have to chops to handle it, its a blast!
Oh and he has KS’d me at least as many times as I have him.
Power is just so much more fun than any type of meta-sustain warrior/stance build amirite?
Well you can wipe everything from your memory you’ve read here so far, up to my post of course.
I run GS/Rifle both in PvP and WvW often (2,000 hours+ just on my warrior alone) and have a ton of fun with the build + blow up many targets very quickly (crack shot (impacts rifle 1-4), rifle 5, & sigil of fire are all multi-target abilities that can be put out by the rifle).
In formalized PvP, any good player should be able to kill a rifle warrior as long as they are simply paying attention (long animation for killshot, fairly long CD on rifle 5 (rifle butt), glass build, etc). That being said, I still run this build often in soloQ/teamQ and sit anywhere in the top few hundred or so using just this build.
In WvW, I drop people all the time with this build becuase it’s fairly easy to roll up on someone and get the 1500 range animation off without them noticing and I still have great roaming/positioning capabilities because of GS mobility.
Below are numerous highlights of this build and you can find the finer details of the build under my section on http://www.teamriot.org/builds.
Full broadcast from the other day (lots of kills):
http://www.twitch.tv/teamriottv/b/549141947
Some highlights:
http://www.twitch.tv/teamriottv/c/4597767
http://www.twitch.tv/teamriottv/c/4509887
http://www.twitch.tv/teamriottv/c/4097157
http://www.twitch.tv/teamriottv/c/3850640
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So, cool story about every class being able to do this and skyhammer not being aids; please convince us more.
1. See Skyham pop, relog as engi. Problem solved.
2. Hotjoin, TeamQ or PvE so you don’t have to Skyham.
3. Harden up, know your role, know your enemy, stay away from edges, play better and have fun.
Um, I’m a top 100 soloQ player running Warrior GS/Rifle (lol!). Trust me, I have an idea of how to PvP on skyham even with a build that is terrible for the map. Thanks for the feedback though. I, along with many others, simply do not enjoy the map - I win on Skyhammer all the time.
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Deadnight; if you get switched automatically to the opposing team, no matter what happens - if you simply stay in the game, you get an auto-win. They already thought of the lameness of a win/loss in those scenarios. That being said, if you get switched to the losing team and are simply frustrated because the losing team is getting stomped on, that is a different issue. Nonetheless, it’s just hot-join, you shouldn’t be too upset in those scenarios, just view it as a challenge to claw back in.
Let’s just agree on what we have known about this game for some time now, the devs have missed the mark on a majority of patches/features and this development cycle/content implementation is generic/a failure.
You not liking something makes it neither generic nor a failure. I won’t agree to it, because that’s simply an opinion. We don’t even know if it’s a majority opinion. A lot of people I talk to really seem to like the new content. Certainly it gets enough upvotes on reddit.
Failure implies something very specific. You can say you don’t like something. You can say it’s not fun (for you). Calling it a failure is simply misusing the language.
Let’s see; twitch views are low, forum post views/comments are the lowest I’ve ever seen, pvp tournaments barely get 200 viewers (used to be 4,000 summer last year, a lot more before that), ArenaNet releases no figures supporting ’active playerbase’ (just sales over the cumulative period since launch - which a vast majority is from the early launch period and these figures hide the actual active player base), servers were ’merged together as a feature’, many implementations have been forgotten about (take for example guild missions), problems with bots (such as nerfing ’fast farmers drop rate’) have yet to been effectively addressed, no new legendaries, pvp queue system remains broken, same pvp game mode since launch, no significant new dungeons/etc. I’d say all that is quite a good support of my comments above. Nonetheless, sorry you don’t agree with the clear opinion I painted that also happens to be significantly backed by the large amount of dip in both viewers, forum viewers, and forum commenters. Sure, some people don’t visit the forum, some don’t view twitch, etc - I still don’t see how a significant decrease in these numbers is not a clear indicator of a depreciating community & in turn a representation of said communities’ dissatisfaction. Cheers. You’ve been a fan-boy since day one, which is fine; I don’t agree with your opinion either
Bots? I haven’t seen any bots in a long time.
Just because someone doesn’t agree with your opinion, they are not a ’Fan Boy’. You have just taken your argument to the FOX News type of argument - which is condescending and generally non-productive.
You’re right, I haven’t seen more than 1 or 2 bots every so often over the past month or two. However, did you know there is an anti-farm mechanic Anet implemented to stop botting? If you kill mobs too quickly, do you notice that suddenly your drop rates decrease significantly? ArenaNet implemented this change to stop botters, but it just hurts hardcore-no-life-farmers. That is what my comment was pointed at, Anet has actually done a good job at catching botters in my opinion, it just sucks that their solution drastically impacts actual players legitly trying to farm mobs (say for example drops of blood).
You obviously must not know who Vayne is, I’ve seen his consistent comments on here for years; he is definitely a fan-boy - nothing wrong with that though, I’ve asked for actual facts (like I provided) to back any opinions here though (crickets). Nonetheless, the actual values I provided to back this is hardly a ’fox-esque’ logic. Those are actual values and a drop in both viewership/community subscribers (reddit) and forum goers is a direct correlation to the state of the game; Or do you think LoL has 50-100k viewers regularly because it is an unpopular game? What about launches of MMO’s that start out with massive viewers and then a drop in viewership? It couldn’t possibly be because the viewers stop being interested and stop playing the game (look at ESO view numbers, averages around 10-20 if you think otherwise). Either way, not saying GW2 is done or even a bad game, I’ve enjoyed my time with it, but in my and many others’ opinion the devs have and continue to repeatedly drop the ball on many of the implementations/improvements that should have simply been included before they even launched the game.
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Let’s just agree on what we have known about this game for some time now, the devs have missed the mark on a majority of patches/features and this development cycle/content implementation is generic/a failure.
You not liking something makes it neither generic nor a failure. I won’t agree to it, because that’s simply an opinion. We don’t even know if it’s a majority opinion. A lot of people I talk to really seem to like the new content. Certainly it gets enough upvotes on reddit.
Failure implies something very specific. You can say you don’t like something. You can say it’s not fun (for you). Calling it a failure is simply misusing the language.
Let’s see; twitch views are insanely low, forum post views/comments are the lowest I’ve ever seen, pvp tournaments barely get 200 viewers (used to be 4,000 summer last year, a lot more before that) - not to mention ArenaNet’s own Guild Wars 2 channel barely supports 1,200 for major content review (such as a balance patch), where only 6 months ago it was around 10,000, ArenaNet releases no figures supporting ’active playerbase’ (just sales over the cumulative period since launch - which a vast majority is from the early launch period and these figures hide the actual active player base), servers were ’merged together as a feature’, many implementations have been forgotten about (take for example guild missions), problems with bots (such as nerfing ’fast farmers drop rate’) have yet to been effectively addressed, no new legendaries, pvp queue system remains broken, same pvp game mode since launch, no significant new dungeons other than a TA path nobody runs and some fotm paths which were recycled from previous content (drop rate/random loot table is still a terrible implementation). I’d say all that is quite a good support of my comments above. Nonetheless, sorry you don’t agree with the clear opinion I painted that also happens to be significantly backed by the large amount of dip in both viewers, forum viewers, and forum commenters. Sure, some people don’t visit the forum, some don’t view twitch, etc - I still don’t see how a significant decrease in these numbers is not a clear indicator of a depreciating community & in turn a representation of said communities’ dissatisfaction. Unless you think twitch is suffering in general from a lack of viewers - would that be where the dip is coming from? The internet is deciding to visit gaming streams less? lol. Cheers. You’ve been a fan-boy since day one, which is fine; I don’t agree with your opinion either. But which facts did you want to provide for me to back that both Guild Wars 2 continues to be a success and that it is a growing and thriving community? Or that patches themselves have been successful and driven back in new players, etc? On a side note, you realize that in order to agree with something usually involves parties having differing ’opinions’ - correct?
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romek; I think you forget that people don’t always have people to team queue with. If they really want to force soloQ’ers into teamQ though, they should just place a daily cap on gold/etc in soloQ - not aids plague us with skyhammer.
would be toooo obvious
And can you tell me just 1 other reason why skyhammer and spiritwatch in soloQ and not in teamQ?
Ah, ArenaNet can have many reasons for keeping the map (lazyness to remove it, perhaps they plan to eventually improve it, maybe they don’t want to give it up because of the level of effort it took to create the map, maybe they think soloQ is not competitive so who cares (just like they look at WvW)). Either way I’m in agreement with you, but if their goal is to drive us in to teamQ... there are so many better ways.
So did a match happen between tM and RIOT eventually?
Yep, its the screenshots in his video description, theres 2 of them. [RIOT] lost pretty badly in the wvw vid 2x and the spvp match it was terrible also for them losing 300 - 500. Sadly, they were all nothing but talk and didn’t have any skill to back it up. Then again it was to be expected when fighting against -tM-
Re-read this entire thread; I asked multiple times to just simply pm me and we’ll play. They came back with excuses and it died there. Also; we came across 3 TM + 2 randoms (no clue if they were TM or whoever) with 1 of our tPvP teams and we won the first match, lost the second, and then 2-0’d them easily. I have screenshots on my home computer as well.
Also pretty funny how as soon as they lost they dropped tags/etc to try and hide their guild, lol. Either way none of us even run conquest on any serious level anyways, let alone have participated in tournaments, nor have ever claimed to be great at this mode. We do run a pretty good death match team though.
This whole thing is pretty entertaining nonetheless and Sanny said it best (see his post). This is just a jumbled mess of a thread and story, with a nice circccle jerk on a youtube vid and claims that apparently we ’look down’ on lower tiers (although if you look back at our previous threads we’ve always been excited/intersted any time we’re matched up against other tiers... it’s actually more a zerging mentality that looks down, not the small-man roaming groups - we could care less).
It looks like tM accomplished their mission though, but fell short in generating any outside attention that cares. They got our attention - the actual core RIOT members showed up to discuss (not just some random members they beat, including Israel who hasn’t run with a RIOT group in months not to mention isn’t even in RIOT), and then the topic died. /snore. I would have at least enjoyed some 5v5 deathmatches. Oh well, on to TESO - check out our stream for some fun beta action.
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Proposal Overview
+ GW2 Ladder & Season Proposed Format
+ Supporting System Changes
Goal of Proposal
+ Competitive system that encourages players to queue and progress towards high rank and rewards; along with the eventual ability to compete in an end of season event. Majority of system benefits are available at easy to obtain ranks (90%), with a small amount of unique/awesome rewards available at high ranks (10%).
Examples of high-end rewards: unique dye that causes a glow effect, unique title/finisher/skin, something on a player’s account interface that shows his/her achievement
Example of normal rewards: skins/titles/gold/etc
Proposal Functionality
How players are ’ranked’:
+ Continue to rank players based on a MMR-point system within each 20-man ladder league. Implement actual slow-decay system (remove false decay) and improve (reduce) overall volatility of MMR.
Ladder Rankings:
+ Start with base MMR, play 5 matches to determine ladder group. Hardcap ’high-end’ ladder group placed with [1/2 x highest rank].
+ Ladder Groups consist of 20 individuals all ranked from highest to lowest based on ’group-points’. Similar to how LoL allows you to rank up or down (i.e. sit at top long enough, win placement matches, move up; fall to the bottom long enough, lose matches, pushed to lower league). Likewise, hard-cap bottom end of "Quaggan" leagues (i.e. a player can only lose X amount of MMR before he can no longer lose MMR or an insigificant portion).
+ Ladder Leagues (High to Low):
- Dragon (challenger league)
- Ascended
- Black Lion
- Mystic
- Quaggan
Ladder Types:
+ Solo/Duo Queue (combine Solo & Duo together)
+ Team Queue (Solo can still queue in, same functionality as before)
Season Length:
+ 3 1/2 months
+ 1 week for ’season warm-up’
+ 1 week for ’season conclusion’
+ 4 months TOTAL
Season Completion:
+ 2-week ’Dragon League’ tournament.
+ Those that qualify with Dragon League placement have the ability to compete in a massive tournament (ideally most matches would be broadcast/hosted by Anet).
+ Winner is placed onto headstone; announced on Anet website & GW2 launcher and VoD of final match made available. Top 10 teams receive gems (or cash!), with the most gems going to winners.
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Changes outside of ’Ladders & Seasons’ that MUST occur to support this system:
+ Remove the ability to swap characters in a match (huge revamp on the system end, but required for a true competitive match)
+ Develop U.I. Queue/Load-In Screen. For example; think LoL loading screen (it shows you all ’champs selected’, their ’abilities’, also provides some tips/etc). I think this just adds more to the ’a match is starting’ type of feel.
+ Develop more game modes
+ Implement queue’ing as a ’registered team’ (i.e. Team Rank leaderboard truly reflect ’your team’ not you as an individual and how you fair in ’team rank’).
+ Implement an actual ready check on match making that re-queues the group if someone does not confirm!
+ Implement a better broadcast system that does not require active ’authorized’ broadcasters to get into.
+ Add more announcements to the Guild Wars 2 launcher that features the latest in PvP and either VoD’s of matches or Delayed ’Live matches’ for viewers to check out.
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Associated Risks
This would be all positive for the community, but overall the risks here would simply be ArenaNet Development Time (i.e. cost) vs Effective Output & Community Impact (i.e. benefit). With ArenaNet’s development time, this system might also take 2-3 years to develop.
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