Guild Wars 2

Your character should have an actual name, not something like talon glovepaw or beef hardstew. Those sort of names are the ones the devs spend 3/4 of a second conjuring when making the game for speed reasons. You should at least spend 60 seconds looking up cool names. I personally like crusader names.

I don’t even know what i’m doing as dh and i’m averaging over 500k dmg a match.

Not a huge deal, the wings of look pretty good themselves

Kuya.6495:

Cool bro, now what class are you using to fight these blocky healy DH?

All of them

XxsdgxX.8109:

As long as ANET keeps GLOBALLY balancing classes around PvP (messing with PvE and WvW) players will keep hating on the Esport scene.
Remember that the PvP population is by far the smallest one compared to PvE and WvW.

Just split the the balance rulesets. Gw2 has the best mmo pvp RN and it’s not worth attempting to compete with wow/bd pve.

This game doesn’t have potential to be a huge esport, and that’s not due to anything they are doing in particular. Wow arena isn’t huge either.

There are lots of fps games 8 times as good as csgo and overwatch and they aren’t as big. There’s no point in making gameplay sacrifices to gain even more viewers.

Use clientside (in game) promotion of the September finals you’ll get a smite size tournout, good enough.

look at the barrel now it’s clearly bent. Ammunition may not even be able to exit the weapon without destroying it.

DH is pretty much the entire pub meta atm. You get two in the average match and 3 occasionally. I can’t do anything to them as condi mes solo q, what build should I swap too?

Mes without illusions + moe is very bad. Most pro teams dont even run mes. We had this issue with zerker last patch with rampage.

I honestly hate this about fighting games. The salt gimmick only goes so far… when MKX tournies use a menu exploit to reset matches you know something is up.

SF5 tournies are absolutely kittened in this aspect. The devs wanted to make sure they crowd sees alex humping the air for 7 seconds after a match instead of the next match starting.

Overwatch had something like this. Play of the game always went to some 12 year old that pressed q and you had to watch it before stats showed.

LunarNacht.8913:

Balance this game…. remove the HoT powercreep and put in thought why some skills had longer cd, activation time, limited effects…

I honestly like powercreep. It’s an explosion of overly complex elements. As long as everything is equally broken, it’s the best type of balance you can do.

I think another expansion would be better for now. There isn’t enough of a difference in new technologies since 2011 to justify making an entire new engine and game from scratch.

Capes yes. lovely things.

On weekends, there should be small open tournies with just small rank and gold rewards.

You can have a guild sign up 5-6 players (backup) and the system would have the matches auto run every weekend. This differs from pubs, because there is a garauntee that a stack in voice will be fighting another stack in voice.

You don’t need huge rewards for it either.

please! especially for next legendary wing.

I’m new, here’s what I think are the class matchups

mes:
kittens on rogue
pees on necro
gets pooped on by DH
has a very bad matchup vs (skilled) condi warriors, but can win
gets pooped on by engi
would fight ele for eternity
slightly favored to win against rangers
equal against mes
Not enough unranked revs

I don’t know the 1v1’s for other classes as well, help me out

Aktium.9506:

Engi is a lot harder because there’s a kittenload more of stuff you have to aim and lead.

It’s around 7 times as easy to win as engi as staff ele, and three times as easy as d/d ele

Idc about pay 2 win. My problem is choosing two trait trees instead of 3

Well you’d see people complaining about DH on conquest maps and people complaining about mes on kiting maps. That would only work if you had to choose a single class to play a season with, which could be interesting, or 2-3 characters to play the season with.

So long as you can play every class, map based balance won’t change anything, since there would always be bad classes on certain maps.

Without a point to fight on you’d have a lockdown/kiting meta no?

It’s a dark age when choosing skyhammer is considered honorable.

I can’t do anything to DH guardians on my condi mes.

low skill cap doesn’t always mean under powered. If somebody had 8 long range, unblockable uninteruptable instakill spells with a 1 second cooldown they’d be low skill and OP.

But yeah, more skill is more fun, although you can kinda salvage skill from easilly counterable characters, as against very good players they take lots of mindgames and patience.

I’m new to mmo pvp (quitting fps.. the good games are dead), and it looks like gw2 pvp poops on wow pvp.

Let’s see here;

(29mins, 30s)

https://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/82279493
(42 minutes 50 seconds)

I can already name many of the core skills of the WoW meta and I have no idea what the kitten is going on in the gw2 matches.

Well I did yeah. Still goes to show how important a single element of the game is.

Jourdelune.7456:

Sorry… BUILD > Skill in this game. Sad, since it was Skill > Build before the june 2015 patch.

Is this a kittening joke? I won matches as ele by rolling my face on the keyboard.

You keep everybody together in one que, but soloq has a different rank than team q. Very simple.

Smite has ranked 1v1. It’s only okay since the game is balanced around 5v5.

I personally like 1v1 balance a lot more myself, but you would actually be lowering the skill cieling, since knowing rotations/+1’s and team utility is part of the depth(although this kinda doesn’t exist in pubs, gib mic support plz). It’d be a long while before you’d have that depth back.

Saiyan.1704:

Back to back, I’ve been having a combination of Thieves, Mesmers and Engi’s who gets obliterated vs DH while i’m over here trying to carry as I 1v3 far for 20s.

I’ve seen these classes do well on a given comp vs DH but… there’s just so many players who can’t rotate around a duo DH zerg, who eat preplaced traps on point, or burst a DH when he’s has full health and F3 easily accessible. Simply put, players are having difficulty reading fights.

It’s nothing but a matchmaking issue at this point.

Sort of. DH is also the best duelist in tournies atm, but pub DH won’t be doing nearly as well as them so they should be an easy clean up.

DH is not as good as rev/druid/engi in 3v3, but they are still arguably the top pick of the tourny since they are solid at teamfights and maybe the best 1v1.

Zelulose.8695:

You forget what it was like pre HoT it was so balanced that people only quit because it was boring.Every op thing was not viable in Tpvp and only viable 1 vs 1

Uhhh no. I remember the mes/ele cancer very well. Ranger was garbage.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Conquest

rune of vampirism on engi is hilarious

12 seconds of god mode if you take alchemy

F2p isnt an automatic success. There have been plenty of failed f2p games, its an over saturated market. Just being able to make a game, advertise it, and result in sales is huge, and devs should be doing that while they still can. F2p is always there as a last resort.

Knighthonor.4061:

In this league feature, the same thing will happen. PvE discrimination of classes and specs that arent meta…

It takes 30 seconds to switch classes, and you can pvp with full gear from a lvl 11 char.

Im pretty hype, though need to know more about ladders.

They have reputation and they are on arguably the best possible end of b2p, f2p would be kittening away money and therefore development resources. I don’t want to have 1 min shorter que times so I can play with 12 year olds who can’t afford the game.

This is the best use of resources. Solo que requires advertising and other things to rake in more players otherwise it’s breaks q time.

Lol spvp gets a single addition from hot and we get accused of hogging resources immediatly.

tobascodagama.2961:

EremiteAngel.9765:

all the chrono haters, just learn to interrupt the F5.
its more L2P than an OP issue.

GW2 players obviously don’t want to learn anything, though.

I want to learn to play mesmer.

lan or below is ideal, 80- is standard, 120-is the worst you can really deal with unless the game has some broken lag comp. 340 is very impaired for pvp.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

Chronophantasma? Destroy phantasms when they cluster together and stool there in daze.
Continuum Shift? Destroy the weak rift.
Slow from GS? Why are you giving him chance to spam GS auto on you?

Is this a parody or something? Allow me to use all the revs extremely interruptible aoe burst defensively so I get kitten d less quickly by the enemy mesmer. Also, go play revenant and find me a way to deal with gs auto.

SkylightMoon.1980:

Ceratin thing son revenant are really strong and in a good place. Like hammer. Hammer gives revenant the potential to easily compete with other backliners like eles and necros. In terms of sustained damage, revenant hammer has more than either, probably on par with a staff ele.+

we’re talking spvp

@khaar
Sure the burst potential is insane but you melt under focus fire, (you can also combo the thief blink with the jade aoe), and you are punished hard for using skills to escape that offer waaay worse escape than other classes(rev easilly has the worst in the game, below necro)

Also again, it’s very easy to drop the rev offensive burst combo with interrupts and boon stripping. Even if you are landing sick mlg blinds the thief has interrupt spells that can be fired several times during your attack animations.

How is it playing out for you guys so far? We know the class isn’t done yet, but benchmarking can’t hurt anybody.

I think it works as sort of an artillery class. If you can get fury stacks and the healing stone up after sucking your allies condis, you can lay down some hardcore burst while also blinding and healing, even from afar. However, it’s incredibly easy to stop the combo. You don’t even need to mention the weakness to boon stripping since you only have a few sources of fury, I can only find a little bit of stability in the dwarf stance and 0 stun breakers(correct me if there are any). I’ve held a positive w/l in solo unranked but against a good mesmer or thief the engagement is as competitive as a cow versus grass.

I think double moa is physically possible to deal with and therefore perfectly balanced.

Also lol, let’s give it “some time” to “see how it plays out.” The idea of free wins for a few months doesn’t actually sound that bad, time to roll mes.

nvm, 20 sec cooldown

bumpo

/15char

Whoa whoa calm down. Suggesting the game be casualized to retain players when it doesnt have proper ladders a d other basic types of affirmation is insane.

neither does energy expulsion or natural harmony

Competition only shows for scrims and tournies. Lower the ESL prize to 10,000 dollars and pay some smhuk 40 grand a year to balance the game?

Saiyan.1704:

If you don’t have the looks then you best be working out.

Or you could just be like me and make money and never marry

Play ele now and it’s hilariously faceroll, mostly due to healing per spell cast. I have to choose between stone heart and diamond skin based on enemies every game and that’s all I change. but maybe 5 games in and i’m feeling stronger than my main class.

@amir that’s kinda a bad way of putting it. Ideally all classes have multiple viable builds that all take skill. If you always nerf the most viable class it’s and endless cycle.