Guild Wars 2

The reason why i play bunker build is because of the amount of skill spamming. I’m a big fan of zerker pvp build (shatter mesmer, staff ele, medi guard). I stop playing these zerker builds because zerker build can’t sustain, can’t deal with all skill spamming. Even a bunker can kill a zerker because they will out sustain zerker

Good Luck getting their attention ^^

It been 2 seasons yet not much was done to the core spec. I feel like at first Anet tries to make Elite spec better/stronger than the core spec so people would bandwagon and buy the expansion, make money for the company ( I’m ok with this, business needs to make money somehow). But now, the plan backfires, the game lost its big streamers, players are upset and yet nothing is being done about this powercreep issue.

What to do after backpack?? ohh easy. I stop playing pvp ^^ and play other game mode. Balance/ no build diversity destroy the game for me

I used to tell my friends, hey you should play gw2 with me, the game’s pvp system is kittening awesome, it’s a skill based and reaction time pvp, not gears dependent like some korean MMO. After HOT, I’m ashamed for promoting the game to my friends because pvp scene is becoming so frustrating, it’s not enjoyable anymore.

My goal for this season is to get to diamond. Since i got to diamond 2 weeks ago, i don’t even bother to play the game or pvp, i just log on for socialize and daily reward ^^. There won’t be any changes until next quarter balance patch SO SUCK IT BRITNEY !!!! >;o jk <3

I remember i used to enjoy theorycrafting build so much. Now, i don’t even bother to cuz i know no matter what i come up with, it will never be as good as the meta build. so RIP gw2 build diversity

Stand The Wall.6987:

lack of build diversity makes this game boring as hell

GIVE THIS MAN A COOKIE !!!

MethaneGas.8357:

How can you lump all Reaper specs into one and just call it “Chill Reaper”… ofc every Reaper uses chill, that doesn’t mean it’s all one spec.

In PVP, what is other build that necro have other than meta condi deathly chill build ??

I just recently get to diamond. From what i see, each class only have 1 viable build
Chill Reaper
Trap Medi DH
Healing Power Tempest
Condi Chrono
Brusier Scrapper
Mender Druid
Some Maradur DD, and Condi Berzeker

Don’t yall think it’s getting boring ??? Remember Pre-HOT where each class has at least 2 or 3 viable builds to them instead of just everyone running the same build.
Power/ condi Necro
Power medi Guardian, bunker Guardian, burn Guardian
Power shatter Mesmer, condi Mesmer, and PU
Cele ele, zeker staff, fresh air Ele
P/P or P/S condi Engi. cele rifle Engi
LB/GS Ranger, A/T & S/D condi Ranger, Condi SB
Power/ Condi thief ( I apologized I’m not familiar with Thief and Warrior)
Shout Warrior, GS/Hammer, Ham/bow, Ham/GS…

After HOT, majority of these build just reduce down to 1 build for each class. Don’t ya see what’s wrong with Elite spec??

Please Fix The Game !!

AivenPrimus.9184:

Correction,
All Condi builds (or Condi damage in general) is rather overpowered.

+1 there’s barely any counter play to condi build

PvP league is just big grind fest. With the current division lock system, giving enough time, a completely nubie amber will be able grind him/herself to ruby then ruby once again become amber. PvP league is skilled? NOPE. Just alot of grinding, it isn’t any different from PVE

I would like to see a condi elite specialization for guardian

I run medi DH with GS & Sw/F. I agree with 100% that Sw/F is extremely awkward to use. I used Sword cuz of the #2 for teleport, the rest are just filler for me. Focus is for the #5 with GS and judge’s intervention burst and #4 is just filler….

It depends on the build
Sometimes, i run zerker DH, my HP sits at 12k. F2 heals for 4k, trap heals for 6k. It’s the same effect with thief because of our small health pool, it seem like we heal for alot.

On the other hand, I also run mender medi DH, my HP is sitting at 17k and 1k healing power, each medi skill heal for like 2.5k, F2 heals for 5.2k, shelter heals for 5k+2.5k from the traits and Renewed Focus which reset F2. The amount of heal is crazy but it’s more of a sustain build.

Quadox.7834:

Mightybird.6034:

I’m with you. Similar backstory, played gw1. Played gw2 since beta.

So burned out, with this season especially. I want to play, but after one game I just want to facepalm. This season has gotten even more toxic than the last somehow. On top of just no competitive-close games. I feel punished for playing basically.

Same, especially since i play shatter mesmer. Sometimes it feels like a job to play PvP and thus i currently have the game uninstalled.

Thumb up +1 /clap

Matisse.9356:

johnyboy.3614:

Nope the problem is there is no F’N matchmaker. from what iv seen and seen on the form’s is that if you lose more then win at all it can be a number of factor’s from bad teammates too maybe just plain messing up or whatever float’s your boat your MMR goes down and for the winners well it goes up.

what the matchmaker is doing is pairing you with players of similar MMR but the useless matchmaker dose not make you fight a team of similar MMR, so if you start haveing badluck I.E loseing maybe 15+ your kittened for a good long time

plus new players have a base middle range MMR so if mine waz there and and i waz a decent player but got the FN luck of those kids in my team and lose game’s (kinda like playing the lottery) im just going too eat it over this.

once your in this hole GFL, GG Anet well played i F’N hate you, people want a Matchmaker that give’s them fun games with people with similar skill both sides not this lottery train that just ends in 80% of the people trying and quitting after 2 weeks because they’er MMR hit the floor and see players that cant even kill a paper bag,
then people wonder why im so salty

i seen this day 3 the fact that its unforgiving and that i got snowballed by premade’s day 1 too just get F’N owned by a MatchMaker that dose a garbo job, wow GG Anet a F’N monkey can do your F’N job at this point

PVP Matchmaker needs 3 things too make this work

1# Team/solo ranked ques, i don’t give a F’N care what other people say, Fact

2# MMR based pvp, Pips are kittening useless never wanted them, that mean’s (me the player’s will have teammates with similar MMR) and (me and my team will play team’s with similar MMR)

IE (1000 team MMR= 5 players at 200 base MMR) not (1000 team MMR = 1 player with 300, 2 with 200, and 2 with 100 or some garbo like that and it need’s too make it fight even MMR team’s

3# how MMR is scored (not just based of win/lose) IE high damage, kill’s, death’s, cap’s, damage tanked vs death’s, top stat’s award’s ECT

sure takes a little too balance out but like many have said you can always make people do a qualifier

FACT’S get over it Anet or fail

This. So. Much. This.
Why did they even start with such a pip-based league.
Leave the MMR as it was, assign leagues to MMR range, done.

I could whine and rage and I am admittedly salty, but this season is just really, REALLY frustrating. And I am speaking as someone with three years and around 4k matches experience.

At least I hope to learn something about myself, as I am still playing a game I don’t enjoy anymore and I have yet to figure out why.
Maybe its emotional ties after investing so much time in it for about three years.

Then again, maybe they canned Colin as they are aware of the downward spiral they are in and he had to take his hat for that.

I feel you, my brother. I have around 6k games, i invest alot of my time in mesmer. When mesmer was OP in s1, i didn’t bother to play it cuz it’s bunker and it’s boring. Now in S2, i feel like if i’m not playing reaper, rev, scrapper, or ele, it seem like i can’t win. I feel betrayed, i invested so much time in my mesmer but yet it just doesn’t pay off….

Ithilwen.1529:

The divisions are locked because the stomping and exploitation would otherwise keep many players in Amber. Those players very likely wouldn’t come back.

It’s all well and good to have a psuedo objectivist attitude ( ala’ Ayn Rand.) But it’s not going to work in actual practice.

Stomping and exploitation? I know there are exploitation back in S1 but i havnt heard any from S2, and how do you know it’s not going work in actual practice?

Anomaly.7612:

godsie.2864:

Anomaly.7612:

godsie.2864:

well I’m trying but cant

I highly recommend watching pro player’s streams/vids of those that play your class and watch how they rotate, what skills they combo, the people they tend to fight, etc.

The only way to get better is by emulating those that already are.

I have watched lots of the pro videos online already in preparation
cant do any more than keep trying and hoping one day….

A LOT of this game is watching rotations and being mindful of where your team is at, where the other team is at, and what’s going on with the map like, buffs/lord/beasts/etc. Also being mindful of how many enemies are alive and where they’re at. How many are rezzing, and when they rez, they’re probably going to try and take home/far, so someone should be back capping/watching. That kind of stuff can help you to carry matches in the division you’re in.

Also, playing a class that can carry well is good too. Mesmers and Revs are the best at it right now. Mez because of ports and Moa. Rev because they’re just so self sufficient, but die to condi really easily. I’ve been playing Rev and enjoy it, but I also really like playing Mez as the ports/clones are just so much fun. Mez is much harder to play than Rev, though.

Im dying right now, did u just compare mes to be as good as rev ? the only reason mes is still somewhat viable is because of portal and moa. Mes is underpower compared to rev.

@Ithilwen
You make it sound GW2 pvp league tournament is exciting,
I agree with you that if you put time into improve yourself, you should get some sort of reward. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with League of Legends ranking system, it goes from bronze>silver>gold>platinum>diamond>master, you need 100 points for each tier and 5 wins streaks to go to the next divion, and u can go from bronze to master and drop from master to bronze. The reason why people don’t drop from master to bronze is because there’s skill involved.
In Gw2, from amber to ruby, there is no skill involved, it’s just a grind fest. Giving enough time, those amber players will grind themselves to ruby, then ruby will just turn into amber.

Ithilwen.1529:

The problem with pvp now is the excessive punishment. I’ve seen 30 loss streaks. If you increase the punishment by dropping divisions, it becomes worse.

I don’t think there would be enough players left to support the next season. This system doesn’t reward skill. It favors one group of players over another.

Truthfully, a grind based system is the better option. It will preserve the player base and along the way people will get better.

If they lose 30 games, well don’t you think it might be the match-making problem or personally skill issue? I’m in Ruby right, i see so many Primordial Legends that just stand still and hit with their AA, no kiting, not even try to dodge, they are obviously not supposed to be in Ruby. At the same, i know couple of decently skilled player who just stuck in Emerald and Sapphire.

Right now, from Amber to Ruby it’s just a grind fest, you grind enough you will get to Ruby. Ruby is where skill get involved. Anet need to remove the lock division system, from amber to emerad, that’s one lock, from emerald to sapphire is another lock, from sapphire to ruby is also another lock. You can’t mix grind players with players who actually know what they’re doing.
Make it so you can lose tier and pip at every division

Blackjack.5621:

The strongest elite in the game, utterly broken , on a 50second cd with f5 and alacrity.

It was already broken with the regular cooldown. Just arguing its hard to land when you can just lock people into a cc with sword/shield doesn´t justify a skill that freekills someone even in a 1v1 withing 5 seconds , on a stupidly short cooldown.

No counter, no fun, completely broken.

They fix if they like it maybe in next quarter balance, so … complain all you wish no changes will be make until then.

I’m not going to lie if i play ranked games, i want to win, having someone play a weird, awkward, low performed build kind of ruin my chance of winning. I understand that’s not cool to tell what people to play but Anet destroyed the build diversity. PLEASE BE UNDERSTANDING!

It’s Anet trying to remove zerker meta. Totally work!!

Amineo.8951:

geekilo.8512:

If they ever start pro pvp league 2 with this messy pvp balacning, ima laugh. They tried so hard to push esport, it’s sad…

They are going to stack Necros and Eles I bet.

What a surprised :O

If they ever start pro pvp league 2 with this messy pvp balacning, ima laugh. They tried so hard to push esport, it’s sad…

I just started picking up guardian recently, i would classify myself as a newbie guardian. Here are some of the problem i see with guardian.
Weapon
Sword- 3rd chain on AA is a projectile, and #3 is also a projectile skill, and i rarely be able to land any hit with it and i don’t think it does its job as projectile blocking very well.
Greatsword- IMO, overall it’s a very good weapon, but why does #3 have projectile on it ?
Hammer- AA is extremely slow
Mace- All of the skills need a speed up
Scepter- My only complain about this weapon is that #2 is so ugly >.<
Shield & Focus- I think shield should get block instead of focus
Torch- I think it’s a condi weapon – no comment on it

Guardian vs. DragonHunter (Virtues)
F1 – Virture of Justice/Spear of Justice – I’m not sure what purpose does the burn serve here. SoP has lower CD and better than VoJ, adjust the CD.
F2 – Virture of Ressolve/Wings of Ressolve – Once again same problem with F1. WoR has lower CD and heal more than VoR. Add 1s of evade to WoR.
F3 – Virtue of Courage/Shield of Courage- VoC should have its CD lower, since SoC is out perform VoC, VoC + aoe block = SoC

OP is right about gw2 is pure spam lol

If they actually start pro pvp league season 2 tournament crap again, ima laugh. The game is in such a mess

Let’s me get this straight, Anet said they will do quarterly balance patch. They usually come after pvp league season, does that mean they refuse to do changes (buff/nerf) during the season because it’s not their schedule to do so?

I agree with Messiah, everything have stability nowaday, there is no point of running lockdown build and portal is a must ;o

Anet did some uncalled for nerf on mesmer without any compensate. They nerf mesmer directly and indirectly. I stay with the class because i love mesmer, i have a little bit of hope, anet might get their kitten together and fix mesmer. Little hope because Anet was known to be a huge kittened-up.

Hopefully, some changes come in next tuesday x.x or not…

Naurgalen.2374:

- Explaining balance changes would help A LOT to calm down people. Because even if you dont like why the dev did something to your class at least you can understand it and even give better feedback about it. Most competitive games are doing this allready: dota, lol, hearthstone, starcraft…. it doesnt matter the genre and it doesnt takes devs that HUGE amount of time.

I will pass this along. We had a lot of balance threads a few months ago. Maybe it’s something that can happen again, if time allows. I can see the benefit of it, and I hope that the forum community will enjoy them and the opportunity to provide constructive feedback if such posts are offered.

Gaile, I think this is a great idea. I would like to know why Devs decided to buff/nerf current things, i think it would ease many players’ anger, and especially mine.

I’m just waiting for anet to gutted everything like they did with mesmer lol

When is the next balance patch?? This is “so balance” right now.

Exedore.6320:

Welcome to Heart of Power Creep.

+1 lol heart of power creep !!!

I think the problem is at balancing. Right now, scrapper and reaper are strong, every ranked game i go into there always 2 reapers, and 1 or 2 scrappers…. it’s very obvious they are the stronger classes out of the 9. Everyone want to win so they take them that’s how class stacking become such an issue. BALANCE GAME PLEASE !!!

Season 3 LOL are u seriously? After season 2 end, they gonna buff the kitten out of something, then refuse to balance before S3 start, then it’s a whole cycle again…. PVP is no fun

Themistokles.1238:

I dont say that Rev is balanced in general. I just say that its not allways a good idea to ask for nerfs. What is the point in bringing Rev down to a Warriors power? What will happen to the Meta? You can nerf Rev down. So maybe thiefs will take the spot. Then you have no Heavy Class that is good in higher game.
I think that the sustain from a full DPS Rev is to high. But the Damage can be countered.

Who want to play spot the Rev main !!

Themistokles.1238:

Just Great Vid man. Im so bored of all people screaming Rev is op. A good played Rev is strong. Against some classes extrem Strong. But the Damage and the skills that do the damage can all be countered. Its just that people cry for nerfs without asking a single time how they can counter a skill.

LMFAO this guy thinks Rev is balanced. I can’t, too funny

I bet Anet won’t gutted out necro like what they did to mesmer LOL

Shadelang.3012:

The reason for this has been explained in a dozen threads now. The general consensus is let the kitten league sort out. We KNEW this is what would happen. Nearly every PvPer that asked for exactly for this system knew this would happen. The issue is alot of those people didn’t realize where there skill level actually was. Now that were being partnered by tier instead of by Win/Loss ratio people are getting harsh wakeup calls.

Let the max tier people get where they need to go. It won’t take the much longer to spread out. But making rage posts cussing out Anet for giving us EXACTLY what the vocal portion of our community asked for is not exactly bright…nor is it fair to Arenanet.

+1

+1 for superspeed ignores cripple, and chill !!

I’m ele?? what ??

I’m not talking about the matchmaking. I’m talking about build diversity, and top tier OP classes – reaper, revenant and scrapper and then everything else are trash. It’s not fun to pvp anymore and yet Anet failed to see what is wrong with these top tier classes.

:(

Is there any possibility Anet can make a 1 time legendary exchange of the same gen?
I used to main engineer, i made Quip and Predator for him, but now i main mesmer. Just curious, is there any possibility Anet can make this 1 time exchange happen???

My Quip and Predator, I can’t really delete them because they are legendary and expensive af, i can’t really use them on any other classes, so they are just sitting there….

Clandestinity.5147:

Don’t worry. The minor balance tweaks are coming Soon™

By soon, u meant the end of season 2 ? LOL Anet strikes again