Guild Wars 2

Eurantien.4632:

I am gonna have to start referring to most of you as Jon Snow, because you know nothing.

Then teach us please oh wise one.

Its hilarious how the risk/reward ratio has been broken in favor of rangers after patch. No profession should be able to spam KBs (Point Blank Shot) from a safe 1200 distance or have so much firepower with a ranged weapon. For trollish classes like mesmers and thieves it might not be such an issue but when you play a melee warrior or guardian that doesn’t use a lame bunker build you literally have no chance of defending yourself or even reaching the ranger (yes they are glassy but you need to reach them first and no, reflects are often not enough to kill the ranger).

A turret engi and a ranger hidden somewhere safe on high ground is the new meta for “do not even bother to decap”. I get it, rangers should be masters of ranged weapons but adding so much power to longbow was a clear attempt to give rangers their absolute faceroll meta just they just quit complaining about how they are not viable. But the problem is that was mostly for PvE. sPvP was just collateral damage. One more reason why sPvP and PvE skills need to get separated.

Scaredycat.7153:

Adding any addition privileges for r80s who put in a lot of time and effort to be cheated of their work would be appreciated.

And also extremelly selfish. If anything is added to the lobby then it should be available for everyone or nobody at all.

Solo queue, Spirit watch, three bunker guardians on enemy team. You can be Jesus Christ but you won’t be able to stop them from taxing orbs the whole match and still hold at least two points. Enough said.

Sins.4782:

Stacks are LIFO, not FIFO.

Stacks are both FIFO and LIFO, depends which one you need. You can call it a queue if you don’t like the terminology but FIFO stacks exist and are commonly used.

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Better to wait 8-12 minutes in queue and have same classes than 20-30 minutes and be different!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Depends on the view. I would gladly wait 5-10 minutes more if it means solo queue gets more diverse teams. If you insist on having full control over team composition (which includes bandwagon teams full of the same profession) you can freely do tPvP.

I also made an appeal to devs to at least reconsider adjusting the matchmaking algorithms for hotjoin/solo queue to prevent profession bandwagons.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Only-one-distinct-profession-per-match/first#post4409510

Here is a proposal how to solve the XvsY issue which has been lately plaguing sPvP.

My proposal is to implement a FIFO (“first in first out”) stack with a variable length which would put defeated players at the end of the stack. If both teams are even respawns happen as usual.

However, if there is a 4vs5 situation the stack size (number of allowed active players per team) is reduced to 4 and the moment that fifth guy in the bigger team dies he or she goes to the end of the stack (waiting line). When someone else from his team dies he will be the first in team to respawn.

If a more serious situation like 3vs5 happens all the above rules would be applied the same. Basically whenever you die and are part of the bigger team you go to the end of the waiting line (stack).

I am serious now. This meta profession ganking has to stop. Fighting three turret engis on Skyhammer with a team of squishies in SoloQ is ridiculous. I don’t honestly care how absurd others find this idea, there needs to be a mechanism that prevents multiple profession of the same type in a single team. If that means longer queues, so be it.

The worst part is this is not even incompetence. No one can be that much incompetent. Its clearly disregarded in favor of whatever is cooking in their gem milking factory. I can’t even remember being so kittened off about anything in the game like I am now.

Four weeks… It has been four weeks and sPvP could not be worse in regards to how it works. You honestly expect people to fall for the whole eSports BS after this embarrassment?

That’s the new game mode called “Man mode” in which you need to prove your worth by beating your enemy to death

Imho Deep freeze isn’t that much of a problem, its similar to thief venom. What I am more concerned about is Ice storm which allows two players to literally obliterate a cap point in a matter of seconds (Ice storm covers the whole point and there are two Ice bows per ele).

I found out what’s the problem. If you have the lights turned on in the preview window then there is no glowing displayed. That means in order to actually see it (no matter how much the glowing color is obvious) you need to click on the “Toogle Lighting” bulb and turn the lights off o.O

Not very obvious if you ask me. I am going to use another Total makeover kit and skip over my complaint but it would be really nice if this “feature” was more obvious to people which customize Sylvari. After all its 350 gems per kit.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Could that be the sylvari glow? You can set a color and a brightness. It affects the hair, as well as any “skin” (bark?) that isn’t hidden behind armor. Makes designing a sylvari more time consuming (and more rewarding).

The problem is it wasn’t visible in the preview. I don’t even know what a Sylvari glow is o.O

I used a Total makeover kit to change how my character looks but after confirming my choice what I saw in the preview window and what I actually got was different.

I am specifically aiming at hair color which for some reason still displays orange although if I use another Total makover kit (just use it, no changes made) it displays what the character was supposed to look like. The hair is supposed to be pitch black like in the Total makeover kit preview.

Screenshots attached.

EDIT: Even weirder the hair is actually glowing orange. Going from pretty dark to very bright orange. Nothing of that was displayed in the preview window.

More and more people are coming back to GW1 so you won’t lose anything by investing into buying at least the Triology. Though EotN gives access to dungeons and a lot of other nice stuff.

A clean win ended as a 400/500 loss because from 350+ points forward I couldn’t move or activate any skills. Not only that but I didn’t even get the points I earned at the end just a juicy DC.

It’s no use. What is supposed to be fun turned into a nightmare. Will get back to sPvP only when issues get resolved.

Zietlogik.6208:

I have yet to have any lag issues in sPvP over the past 3 weeks, it may be more localized that you may think, only effecting a select few.

Its NOT localized. Look at the twitch streamers, ask in sPvP lobby. The game has been absolutely destroying gameplay in the last couple of weeks. For ranged classes it might not be a problem but I mostly play melee warrior/guardian and it kittenes me off when a well timed burst fails to connect and the game goes on a 5+s timeout instead. Not only that but I feel the lag and how sluggish my character reactions are to skill activation.

I would understand a couple of days but the problem has been going for weeks and has even escalated about two weeks ago.

If you are unable to resolve timeout/lag issues for three weeks then please shut sPvP down until you do find time.

Vayne.8563:

I’m with you on the Eve Online thing. Thank goodness that $90 monocle didn’t work out, huh?

It was a $60 dollar item and CCP learned their lesson when the “incident” happened three years ago. The whole story got blown a bit out of proportions because a lot of people actually make a living out of playing Eve online and selling characters with high amount of skill points. Combined with the fact that unlike GW2 Eve online has a free in-game market the whole monocle story would have influenced a lot of people. That’s actually the only reason why community reacted.

B2P (“buy to play”) is essentially nothing more than clever marketing. It tries to clearly distinguish the product from the over-saturated and often hated F2P market by rebranding it but B2P has been actually around for ages. Every game you ever bought was and still is B2P but when you say “an MMO is B2P” it sounds classy and better. And that’s the whole point of the marketing strategy for games like GW2.

What exactly is GW2? It’s B2P but only for the initial content you get served once you buy the game. Everything after that follows a clear F2P model which aims at keeping players in-game for the sole purpose of giving them more incentive to use the Gem shop.

“But, but, but… In Guild Wars 2 you get free content!?” Well you get free content in F2P games too, don’t you? There are literally dozens of F2P games which have regular patches and content additions. So how exactly is B2P superior to the F2P model? It is superior, but only for the publisher which not only gets all the benefits of the F2P model but also earns an extra bit with putting a price tag on the game itself.

Is it wrong to do it then? No. The content you get when you purchase the game is clearly worth the money. However, people do need to realize that after a couple of months they should not consider the game as B2P anymore because it starts to show all the characteristics of a classic F2P.

P.S. Subscription based games do have their share of advantages. I.e. if you play Eve online once you log in you will actually feel like a first-class citizen. Nothing is withheld from you. You don’t have to buy anything although you have a choice to use real money in order to get some vanity stuff (which almost nobody does anyway). And that feels great. Additionally developers have a steady income of money which they can use to regularly release new patches and expansions. You don’t feel like playing or get bored? Simply pause your subscription and resume paying it once you feel the need to play.

I would have to agree about “Endure pain” because other classes like thieves are also prevented from capping if they go to stealth but still get influenced by damage if they get hit or take conditions with them. This is coming from someone who mains a warrior in sPvP.

As for “Combustive shot”, no offense, but I can only say its pure wishful thinking from someone who probably never played a warrior. Yes warriors are currently trapped with CI/longbow but with so many ways to successfully interrupt bursts (most notably blinds and fears) its the only reliable way to cleanse conditions for warriors. Berserker’s stance can be helpful but once its used it goes on a long 60s cooldown and a fight is usually over in 60s. Additionally its pretty hard to come up with full adrenaline bar in 7-10 seconds unless you decide to trap yourself by wasting trait points into some pretty sub par trait lines. Warriors will become even more dependable on CI/longbow once the new patch arrives because otherwise they will be again eaten by conditions like it was when the game first launched and warriors were considered a free kill.

The game (at least sPvP) in it’s current state is unplayable. Timeouts last up to 10 seconds. I am out until the problems have been resolved.

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Josh Davis.6015:

Not to mention every match has 10 players and there’s only 8 professions. 4v4, anetpls.

I think you misunderstood me or my wording wasn’t as exact as it was supposed to be. What I meant to say is only one profession per team not per match. That would prevent teams having 2+ players of the same profession.

P.S. Changed the original post to make it a bit clearer.

tanztante.6532:

i regularly cc and kill single bunker guards carrying the orb with ele or thief.

Then you haven’t met a good bunker guardian.

Precursors can drop from sPvP reward tracks? o.O

Oh the joy, rank farmers will be thrilled

Why not simply add a (team size – 1) vote requirement to kick someone? With a five people team it would require at least four players for a kick which is in my opinion a pretty unanimous decision. There should also be a timer for every kick request (i.e. 20 seconds) during which every voting player is presented with a YES|NO option which can be changed until timer runs out.

The whole party leader sounds so wrong and no single person should have that much power in a party. Instances are about team play not leadership.

nastyjman.8207:

Spirit Watch is a good map, but I have heard that it’s not balanced. I believe one lane has a shorter distance compared to the other lane. I think it would be an interesting map for tournament settings, but until it’s balanced, it’s kittened.

A single bunker guardian can carry the orb to the left most capture point. I’ve witnessed a situation in which four players attack a guardian carrying orb and he still manages to reach it.

The suggestion is pretty simple – allow only one distinct profession per team in a match. I don’t know exactly what wizardry is hidden behind the current matchmaking algorithm but lately I’ve seen a huge increase of matches in hotjoin and solo queue where one of the sides had 3+ players of the same profession. Today alone I had a match against a team of 3 eles and right after that against 4 rangers.

I know it might impose even more restrictions to the already small number of matches in sPvP (ranked is almost impossible to organize even during prime time) but I think it would at least promote a much needed diversity and role based play.

Dude, you owe me at least 20s of my life back. When I saw the title I thought “it can’t be, an expansion to GW2!?!?” Don’t play with people like that

Anyway, its a pretty decent birthday present.

P.S. Would still like to get a random mini for the next birthday :P Minis are for some reason pretty underused in GW2 compared to GW1

Blix.8021:

You can eat your own cake as long as you don’t already have food on

Hm, seems about right But, its kind of weird for the gun to be unable to remove previous food. I.e. you just ate a 1h food buff but then decided you want to do a dungeon run. You will be unable to replace the food buff with blaster buffs.

saventis.1485:

scrolls are account bound and yes u can eat the cake

Yeah I know that but I doubt that a majority of people which reached their second birthday have any characters left that are bellow level 20.

I was pretty happy when I saw what stats the birthday blaster provides (15% to magic find, XP and karma) but then I realized I can’t eat my own cakes

So essentially in order to benefit from those stats I have to find someone else to give me his/her cookies. Is there any chance you could alter this behavior because I often like to solo stuff on the map and crying on the map chat for someone to spawn cakes simply isn’t my style.

P.S. I was really hoping for a random mini this year like in GW1 :P

P.P.S. Not sure how useful the Experience Scroll is to someone who reached his/hers second birthday.

The problem with titles is you can display only one of them at a time. In Eve online, for example, you can choose to publicly display your certificates (something similar to titles in GW2) and everyone checking up your public profile can see them. What level of certification you got for flying ships? Do you have special certificates for negotiating with merchants or other people? Did you manage to specialize for Interdictors or Titans?

Its a beautiful system and it’s a shame someone from ANet didn’t pick it up and implemented it in GW2.

The request is really pretty simple – bring back the way downed state worked in water before. The new system will simply lock players in place even if they reach land so defeated state is guaranteed. What’s the point of downed state in water then? Before if you managed to reach land you got an instant rally which actually made sense.

This change will transform warriors into one weapon slot profession because longbow will now be mandatory for sPvP.

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

The theory is that people are less likely to leave if they have to be in the game anyway. Personally I agree with it.

I left because of an kitten, not bad internet connection. If someone is calling me names which exceed a very high threshold like this one did I am leaving the match, ranked or hotjoin. When I logged in with the same character I got returned to the match just for this guy to continue with his show.

The game should not be forcing me to continue to play something I don’t want to play anymore. Yes, I left on purpose but I was fully aware to accept whatever punishment there was for that (Dishonorable system or whatever, never left a match before).

Essentially I think solo queue should be removed completely. It has no place in competitive play and it only promotes some of the worst aspects of the game. What’s even worse hotjoin feels way more enjoyable these days even though it has its own share of problems.

What’s the idea behind forcing me back into a ranked solo queue match after I’ve logged out and in again? If I leave a ranked match then I was obviously fully aware that I am getting flagged for Dishonorable status but I don’t want to get forced into a match where some of my team mates are wasting 100% of their time on calling others names and even insulting them? I logged out on purpose (my first escape from a ranked match ever). Give me Dishonorable but I don’t want to get forced into resuming a match with people like that.

Lately I’ve found myself simply muting ingame music and listening to movie/game soundtracks. What I am listening to depends highly on the situation.

I.e. if I am supposed to do Mystic Forge related I am usually listening to “Inception – The Dream is Collapsing” >:D

Every single one of those suggestions has already been chewed on these forums for the past two years.

Mrbig.8019:

They’re invulns, and the main reason why warrior is so braindead AND effective.

Warriors are making the game extremely boring, along with thieves.

Berserker’s stance is a gamble because you need to use it before conditions get applied to you in order for it to be effective. It doesn’t remove conditions, just prevents new ones from being applied in the next eight seconds. After that there is a 60s cooldown during which that skill is just dead weight.

Endure pain? I don’t know any experienced sPvP player that is willing to waste a slot for a 4s invulnerability followed by a 60s cooldown. I personally main a warrior and can’t remember the last time I used it.

Three AC runs (45min) and you already get enough gold to buy 7-8 clusters if you need them for the backpack. With the current drop rate collecting them is no where near my favorite (or worthwhile) ways of getting gold.

nicknamenick.2437:

Pve…

Not just PvE, GS is perfectly viable for sPvP and WvWvW too. In sPvP it can be used for ninja attacks on far (excellent mobility) or providing good damage on crippled/immobilized/knocked down/knocked back targets. In WvWvW it is usually a weapon of choice if sword/warhorn is not used for providing swiftness/mobility/condi removal.

Auto-attack (#1) is pretty decent if you aim your gear toward DPS. 100B channeling (#2) is a pretty good risk-reward mechanism for an attack that can crit for 40K. “Whirling wind” (#3) can be very good for inflicting damage to stacked mobs and it provides one additional evade. “Bladetrail” (#4) is perhaps a bit slow but it cripples all the targets on its way from and back to player. “Rush” (#5) is simply great for traversing long distances, can be considered an additional evade and a peeling-off help. The most important thing people forget about GS is that “Arcing slice” (burst) can sustain perma Fury with only two bars of adrenaline spent every 10 seconds.

From all the weapons there are in GW2 I’d say GS is one of the better designed and thought out. Trait your warrior for GS damage and reduced cooldown and its almost perfect.

Honestly hotjoin feels way more fun and competetive than soloq these days. You enter soloq you can expect the majority of players to follow meta. It becomes really boring with time. In hotjoin however I’ve seen people using all kind of builds. Yes they might be bad sometimes but at least you can excpect the unexpected.

Ryan.9387:

Please don’t derail the thread.

Look = check the leaderboards.
Think = who is really good at x (streamer/forums/gameplay) that plays a certain class.

I prefer people to make an effort to validate their clams before they post misleading information.

There are 27 people in the top 100 with win rates above 60% and over 100 wins. Without knowing classes it is safe to assume that the majority of the 8 classes will be represented in that group.

No offense but the current Leaderboards system is not a very convincing argument about anything. Today I had a 2/10 win/loss ratio in SoloQ. Does that make me a bad player? Maybe, but I bet it also has something to do with AFK people and leavers (4vs5 or even 3vs5 matches). In the current state only Team queue Leaderboards are somewhat representative although even those are now full of teams comprised of pugs (same story as with SoloQ).

sPvP in GW2 has become somewhat of a gamble unless you have a team of five people willing to play 24/7 with you (even then its a gamble if the opposing team might lose a pug or two).

So I am the only one that gets a waypoint displayed inside the lay line cavern when double clicked on the seed? The whole procedure aside, why am I getting a “Item not found in your inventory” message when I try to do anything with it (aside from transferring to bank and back)?

You can double click it and it will show you where you need to take it in order to make it usable for the Mystic Forge (backpiece). The first time I clicked on it the map opened and I was shown a place in Dry Top. I think it was actually where the Taimi part of the story happens but I can’t find the exact spot.

After temporarily depositing my “Mysterious seed” in the bank and retrieving it I can no longer double click it to see where I am supposed to use it. I keep getting the “Item not found in your inventory” when I click on it but the item is there.

The map itself is good however the lack of ways to prevent dying from falling down isn’t that great. If the map is highly dependent on CC then there should be a way to also counter CC spamming.

As I originally proposed there should be a stability buff on that small hill right bellow the gun which would grant 30-35s of stability but would require uninterrupted channeling (4-5s) and have a cooldown of lets say 20s.