Guild Wars 2

This matchup is not thrilling so far. :| Maybe NA times will be better, but so far there’s been virtually zero solo/smallman action. Plenty of people, but they’re all in blobs.

This has gotten extremely annoying. Several times now I’ve gotten hit with bas venom, popped armor of earth, and stayed stunned for full duration. Was this some new change? or did the idiots at anet break another ele ability?

Wow. The number of SBI on right now is insane.

So… if your MMR is such that you are matched with people like this frequently enough to be upset to the point of making a post, the problem might not be the people you get matched with.

Tots.3056:

Daily broken, Maguuma killer not working.

[Bags] guild is looking for 5v5 or less gvg’s.

[DDLG] is looking for 15v15 gvg.

Good luck everyone

Ohh kitten. I was going to lament not getting matched vs. EB, but forget that, I’m coming for you Tots.

It’s pointless. There’s no correlation between overall population and wvw population. This will do absolutely nothing to fix imbalances in wvw.

Allie Murdock.8152:

So, our programmer looked into it and says that Skyhammer is actually one of the least played maps in the last 7 days. Looks like you guys just hit random.

They probably didn’t get it much more than other maps. They just hate playing Skyhammer so much due to it being an absolute piece of unbalanced kitten that it stuck out in their minds every time they did.

It’s still horrendously bugged. It doesn’t work probably 80% of the time I use it. Nonstop out of range/obstructued/straight missing even when they’re standing directly in front of me. However, I think I prefer it now (at least if it anet cared enough to do bug fixes). It was a decent mobility skill before, but a ranged immob does a lot for an ele.

I don’t want more healing. I want my mobility back so I can be the hyper mobile mage assassin the d/d kit was obviously meant to be.

NevirSayDie.6235:

dreztina.4820:

In the over a year this game has been out, how many things can you think of that anet has done in response to community feedback?

Paid/free tourney redesign, solo queue, random map generator, ele nerfs, necro/warrior buffs, 5v5 hotjoin, custom arenas, spectator mode, one-click salvaging, off the top of my head for PvP. Probably quite a few others I’m forgetting.

For WvW, more significant roamer/small group contributions through bloodlust buff, culling removal, more variety in matchups, and probably a million others I don’t know about. I don’t play a ton of WvW but enough to keep track of a few of the changes that have been suggested and implemented.

Oh and new hairstyles and endgame content for PvE. Haven’t really done any of that for a year though, so I don’t know what people have been asking for.

Paid/free rework was inevitable. It was a horrible cash grab gone wrong from the start.

Was solo queue in response to the community, or in response to the fact that every other game in existence has it?

Ele nerfs? Ya, they nerfed eles alright. Sadly they completely ignored every suggestion given them for how to nerf eles while keeping them viable, and now they’re virtually nonexistent in high level play.

Necro/war buffs. Sure, they buffed them. But again, did they buff them in the ways the community was asking for? Nope. Instead we got torment, burning, and warriors turned into Irelia just so that there was at least something that could fight necros.

Custom arenas? So what? They left out the most important feature everyone was actually asking for. Until they let us turn off nodes, custom arenas are little different than old hotjoins, except that it gave them a plausible excuse to delay putting /duel into the game.

As for what you listed for wvw, are you serious, lol? Have you even read the wvw discussion board lately? No one wanted bloodlust. No one wants their kittenty league system. No one wants any of the crap Devon is shoving down our throats. The only potential one there is culling, and I don’t know if fixing a massively broken, hugely embarrassing problem that shouldn’t have made it out of beta really counts.

But ya, I guess there are a few things anet has done in response to the community. Sadly, they are dwarfed by the things they completely ignored, or just partially ignored and ended up doing completely wrong because they didn’t listen to any of the specifics players gave.

The problem with transparency is that it would take away Anet’s excuse for ignoring feedback. In the over a year this game has been out, how many things can you think of that anet has done in response to community feedback? How many changes have been made that were the complete opposite of what the community was asking for?

If players were able to give feedback on patches before they came out, anet would still just ignore everything that was said; they’d just look worse as a result. It’s a lot easier to keep everything secret and say ‘well gee we just didn’t know people would react that way!’

oZii.2864:

I bolded that for you! I didn’t name a specific person cause I don’t remember his character name. Maybe he reads it maybe he doesn’t are you his lawyer or employed by SWAG or something?

I posted a long blah blah on the forums? That’s long to you? LMAO

It’s definitely a bit long, for someone who hasn’t seen many of your posts.

The insults themselves weren’t bad, but I once dueled another elementalist a bunch, and after every fight he’d start calling me names, win or lose. I don’t think I’ve ever been called trash, kitten, noob, etc. so many times in such a short period. May wonder why I kept going, but the fights were good, and I can put up with a bit of teenage angst to get some good competition.

Elementalists are the jack kitten of all trades.

Lachanche.6859:

This game wasn’t designed with 1v1 in mind, runes of perplexity are the perfect example of that.

Runes of perplexity are a perfect example of lazy, stupid developers who don’t give a kitten about how their actions affect pvp as long as the pve crowd likes it.

Dr Acula.3496:

dreztina.4820:

Rough night for roaming. Only people running 1-2 are hugging the island, where GF and friends are sitting and waiting to add on every fight they can.

I didnt know roaming meant running in and trying to kill my necro, almost dying, then running off into the sunset like a wounded animal.

Not sure what you are referring to, don’t remember running from necros yesterday. Died to necros plenty. But if I did run from one, I don’t feel particularly bad about it. Will see how things go if anet ever releases another balance patch.

Rough night for roaming. Only people running 1-2 are hugging the island, where GF and friends are sitting and waiting to add on every fight they can.

This is another problem with Anet’s lazy balancing. They don’t want to have to balance skills differently for pvp/pve, so they are trying to find a middle ground. End result is conditions are weak in pve and absolute god mode in pvp.

Kultas Sunstrider.9218:

dude we already have enough retar— cough cough… pvers doing pvp for dailies. we don’t need more

No pve’ers are doing pvp just for the daily. The laurel can come from the pve daily, the items would be useless, and there are far more achievement points for doing pve stuff. If a pve’er is doing pvp, it’s because they are interested in learning it and getting better.

That is something to be encouraged, not discouraged, and if you are having a problem with it, you should either 1) stop complaining about hotjoin teams, or 2) if it’s tpvp, take a moment and consider the implications of the fact that you have the same mmr as a pve’er who only does dailies.

KStudios.2850:

Legit solo’ers do exist. Those folks that take camps at random, cap sentries, trim zerg tails, etc. They’re also not just thieves either nowadays.

As for dueling, it’s merely an integrated part of the solo’ing condition. You see someone solo’ing, it’s usually a natural reaction to therefore assume they must either be talented in their given class to a certain degree or just highly stupid, and have a desire to discern which. Dueling acts to test that persons mettle openly and safely, while at the same time honing one’s own skill in single combat by personal experience should that person prove to be a worthy or superior opponent. Dueling is a most valuable tool the solo player has been given.

As for dueling and the /bow’ing, lack of spiking a down opponent, etc. I don’t know about you, but I have a certain amount of respect I share for my fellow solo roamers. This varies from player to player of course.

I don’t mind occasional duels, but from what I’ve seen, it’s become almost all “solo” players do now. Duels can be enjoyable, but they are not real pvp. They remove all the thinking from the fight. There’s no element of surprise, no positioning, no choosing where you fight, no worrying about adds, no usage of terrain, nothing. It’s just /bow, start facemashing, and whoever has better mechanics and 1v1 build wins.

I don’t think the duelers actually consider themselves soloers, but I find it frustrating when I’m roaming around and all the people who I would want to fight are sitting on the island bowing at each other instead of doing real fights.

I’d disagree with this for two reasons. First off, this game needs a massive decrease in animations, and anything added is just going to make the current situation worse. Secondly, I don’t want it to be easier for enemies to see which attunement I’m in. That information is available no matter what, but no reason to make it more obvious.

Believeinsteve.9354:

I have plans on participating in WvW season 1 if not more, will that really affect anything, or is WvW really not a factor since its not exactly “spvp.”

Ele is great for wvw. Staff (the weapon of choice for wvw) is a fantastic control weapon with solid dps and support to back it up, and it’s even getting buffed soon. Staff eles are considered essential for many aspects of wvw. It’s true that elementalists have to push more buttons than other classes, but that is actually a plus for many people.

I’m hugely critical of anet, especially in regards towards their handling of the elementalist class, but the fact is, for a casual player who wants to pve and wvw with a large group, the ele will not disappoint. It has a different playstyle which you may or may not like, but don’t let the balance concerns turn you off.

I don’t mean this in a negative way, but you seem like a very casual player. For casual play, ele is perfectly fine. If it’s what you enjoy, play it. It’s only at higher levels of play that the imbalances become a real problem.

It’s really unfortunate that “soloing” has devolved into sitting around dueling and jerking each other off. I don’t know if the problem is that all these people came from WoW and don’t know anything else or what, but it’s pretty sad that everyone who wants to solo thinks a fight starting with a /bow in completely flat and open terrain is the height of pvp.

Le Rooster.8715:

We would like to hear an apology from the dev himself not some other dev talking in behalf of this dev.

That dev is never going to be allowed to speak to players again. Ever.

Phaeton.9582:

dreztina.4820:

Don’t worry guys, conjured weapons are getting buffed next patch. Viability INC.

I’ve been wanting to see earth shield used at high levels since 2012..

Not even kidding

I actually experimented with earth shield for a while. It has potential since it is a fairly strong kit, especially after the buffs, but I ran into the usual ele problem of not being able to spare a utility slot. It may be good enough post patch to finally warrant use, though. Another thing that made me stop using it was the bug with hydromancy killing conjures, but I’m pretty sure that was fixed.

Pinko.2076:

dreztina.4820:

I haven’t been paying very close attention to things, does having three leagues instead of two mean Maguuma is going to be near the top instead of the bottom?

If we stayed where we are, we would be 2nd of the middle league. A lot of us think we’re too big for that, so we’re pushing to get ranked 6th so we can be bottom of the top league.

Rather be outmanned than to outman.

You have my daggers.

I haven’t been paying very close attention to things, does having three leagues instead of two mean Maguuma is going to be near the top instead of the bottom?

Don’t worry guys, conjured weapons are getting buffed next patch. Viability INC.

I really don’t think bringing gvg to spvp is a good idea. I think just about everyone who does gvg prefers pve gearing and food. If anet wised up and brought those things over then maybe, but atm I doubt many would want to make the transition. I think it’d be far better if anet instead worked on a way to integrate organized gvg into wvw.

However, I facepalm every time I see dumb comments about pve gear and food buffs being horribly unbalanced. Remember the whole, worst meta ever, terrible balance, elementalists being nonexistent, and most classes being pigeon holed into one or two builds thing? What balance do you think you’re protecting in spvp? Pve gear and food buffs allow far more customization and build diversity than pvp gear, and is a pretty significant reason for many people choosing not to play spvp.

Cyrtech.5372:

You seem pretty upset that I killed you. Maybe you should spend less time on the forum and more time in WvW.

Actually, anet killed me. You just got the assist.

To the warrior in GF, I hope you don’t think you won that fight heh. Even with the guardian disabling me into your combos, I was perfectly fine until anet decided it’d be cool if when I got knocked down, it never ended, and popping stability did nothing, so I had to lay there unable to do anything until dead.

Sil.4560:

Uh huh. I don’t have time for this.

You don’t seem to be particularly busy.

Edit: Lol. Posts saying he doesn’t have time → logs into game to complain instead.

Sil.4560:

dreztina.4820:

Sil.4560:

I’m afraid that doesn’t mean anything to me aside from the fact that the name is in his signature.

It means about the only time I lose is when there is a massive class imbalance.

So you’re…what, arrogant? Am I supposed to be impressed by this boasting or something?

Boasting? I answered your question…

Jinks.2057:

dreztina.4820:

Sil.4560:

I’m afraid that doesn’t mean anything to me aside from the fact that the name is in his signature.

It means about the only time I lose is when there is a massive class imbalance.

I don’t remember that.

And I remember you winning about two fights and reading far too much into it.

Sil.4560:

I’m afraid that doesn’t mean anything to me aside from the fact that the name is in his signature.

It means about the only time I lose is when there is a massive class imbalance.

To the charr warrior in FTF I just fought, if you’re going to be trash and reset the fight when you’re one hit from death, don’t follow me around and expect me to fight you again.

I can’t even begin to understand how someone would consider that fun.

While I am glad to be back on Mag, I must say, the matchup threads are not as good as they used to be.

Everything about this game is easy. It’s honestly one of the most simplistic games I’ve ever played. So when a build is easy, even in terms of this game, yet is one of if not the strongest available, obviously people aren’t going to like it.

Think the matchup threads handle this reasonably well.

Batmang.5421:

I kittening love GW2.

Everyone here does. No one would put up with Anet if they didn’t love the game. That’s why it’s so frustrating.

Well, first night back was reasonably fun. Had some good fights, but I’m going to need a new computer if I’m going to stay here lol.

I need to farm 80 achiev points for that 5k chest.

I pretty much only play offpeak these days except for weekends, so it won’t be as much of a problem.

Well I for one am sincerely hoping Mag loses this week.

So Mag is in t4 and not crushing? Did something change?

It’s a troll post…

Kolly.9872:

I have not said otherwise. There are other broken runes in sPvP that push the game towards a passive gameplay. This is not a reason for putting another set of runes with a permanent passive effect.
I don’t get why people first want a more skilled game and then ask for such runes to be implemented.
Let’s ask to nerf every passive rune effect instead.
I’m not saying those runes are more OP than other runes already in the game, just that there is no reason to implement those runes in sPvP by now

What runes aren’t passive? Saying remove passives from runes is the same as saying remove runes from the game.

If you’re in a zerg, it doesn’t matter what you run.