Guild Wars 2

Still not released. I’m sure a whole lot of people are kittened now.

I don’t wanna hate, but watching D/D eles is as boring as it gets, but maybe thats just me.

Neither of them, as I got Infinite Light. Tops any other sword skin.

I never really understood ANets balancing philosophy behind not letting us daze/interrupt downed enemies. It is one of the major reasons why downstates are so incredibly imbalanced, imo.

You can’t really blame the players for this, as competitive games always comes with some banter. If you’re that thin-skinned and feel offended by some trashtalk you better stay out of PvP completly. The only one to blame for the toxic attitude is first and foremost ANet and to some lesser degree the PvP Noobies / yourself.

Even back in the old rank system people trashtalked you sometimes for having a relatively low rank (<45), but it was also a hint how much effort some1 put in PvP and how experienced some1 is. With the new rank system and the removal of showing ranks at the end of the match, theres basically no indicator that tells you how experienced some1 is. The rank system was completly ruined by skyhammer farming and giving away r80 for free. Theres tons of r80 that obviously have no clue about rotations at all. It’s tiring having to play with these players and of course makes veteran players angry

Personally, I’d say that the majority of toxic players are newbies/ pve players that rarely even know the basics of PvP, but then blame others for their failure. These people are simply learn-resistant and will flame you if even if you’re a far more experienced pvp player. So, to some degree, you brought the toxicity upon yourself.

Not to mention that the matchmaking seems to get worse and worse and you’re being punished for having a good mmr rating. High MMR players should never be matched up or even put in the same team with complete newbies to even out the MMR average, but thats exactly what ANet is doing atm, so I stand by my word, its not the communitys fault.

So, is ANet going to pretend this never happened or not supporting XP users anymore? It’s been over a week that people came up with this issue and we still got no reply from a Dev that they’re aware of this problem and are looking into it.

I’m sick of playing windowed mode and if you guys are not going to do anything about it anymore, you might aswell state that XP is no longer supported. I might consider switching over to win 7 then.

Demanding constructive feedback whilst each and every suggestion is utter bullkitten. Some people should really have their posting rights revoked, especially those crying for nerfs to a class that they have no clue about at all.

Move along, troll.

Bump & updated. : 3

Still not fixed. Can a dev finally post that they’re aware of this?

Calm down guys, this is yet another whine thread by the notorious and pityful whiner Lordrosicky, who’s been crying on the forums to nerf every other class than necro for more than 2 years. To complete this whine orgy, we also managed to hire ronpierce, his footboy.

Can ANet do something like forum awards once a year? You two will certainly get my vote for the whiner of the year award.

If this gets “hotfixed”, Mesmer GS cast aborting also needs to be fixed. It’s one of the few glitches that I’d consider balanced. It alows for chasing sb down but also locks you into position. Wouldn’t want to see this one fixed.

LuciusEsox.7645:

Hi there,
I tried what you said but no luck as any full screen mode caused my machine to crash and go into the graphical loop (the flashing screen) I also tried changing my desktop res but that didn’t help either,

My bad, only seems to work during character selection, but once you load into the game, I get the same problem. Still no answer for XP users from ANet yet though.

I haven’t fully tested this, but interestingly enough, the game seems to not freeze when I’m using low/non native resolutions, but once I try to play with my native resolution, the flickering starts again. Maybe it has something to do with the transition from Desktop resolution to Ingame resolution?

Only tested this with 1024/768 & 1280/1024, can any1 confirm?

A lot of people seem to have this Problem (Me included). Initially, I also thought it has to do with Windows XP, but the OS in the vid clearly isn’t Windows XP, unless he’s using style XP or something similar.

Just for the record: I’m on XP aswell (XP Pro SP3)

Lady Vlad.6390:

I get to the char screen… hit play, the load screen comes up and runs for a second, then suddenly I see my desktop and the screen is flashing.. I can still hear the load screen music in the background, But the comp is frozen and all I can do is shut it down. I have tried 4 times,.. I even tried switching chars to see if it was a problem loading in the pvp zone.. but same thing happened. Help!!

Similar Problem. I can load the client, but once I hit play, my desktop gets stuck in the loading process and the game just keeps flashing. I can also hear the music, but it’s frozen and needs to be shut down.

They haven’t changed the on point fightability of any class, so what you’re saying is complete bullkitten. How many teams still run Mesmer + Thief combo? Pretty much only 55HP Monks and there are also a couple of teams that don’t utilize thief mobility at all.

Some people’s hate for thief is ridiculous.

I don’t wanna start whining yet, as there is a chance this all is fake, but Basilisk Venom will be even more useless if it doesn’t ignore stability.

Just revert the rank change to its original requirements. I’m pretty sure a vast majority wouldn’t mind the old system, especially those that used to play Guild Wars 1. There were ~6 (?) Dragon Finishers in the whole game and this guy Starcraft needed like 6 years to get there.

This way the rank wouldn’t be completly irrelevant like it is now. I admit I was happy with the change for a while, but looking back at it now, I’d much rather see the old system back. The Rank finishers would actually show dedication then.

If this turns out to be true, I’ll lose all my hope in ANet. It has already been tested not too long ago and everyone hated it. I cannot fathom how they want to compensate the classes with such a nerf. No buff in the world could make up for that.

Sagat.3285:

laquito.5269:

Just shave the celestial amulet by cutting off 30-50ish points for each stat. Celestial Builds are ridiculously sustainable, so I wouldn’t even mind if they only cut off on the defensive stats, but they need to be squishier/less sustained than they’re now.

They still go into the sustain lines/traits so celestial is not enough sustain alone. Why do I keep seeing nerf defense but never offense??

Because cele damage output is fine, they just have too much sustain. No build should facetank a zerker class for a prolonged period of time, unless your skilled for bunker. Of course you could always nerf the traitlines of Ele, Eng and Warrior, but I’d guess the whine to be a lot more than just flat out nerfing the amulet without touching class balance.

No matter how ANet plans to go on about the cele issue, celestial builds have to be nerfed to make them on par with other (meta) builds. Nerfing their offense would render celestial builds pretty much useless, but nerfing their defense just makes them a little bit less sustainable, as they’re specing into defensive traitlines anyway (as you already mentioned).

Just shave the celestial amulet by cutting off 30-50ish points for each stat. Celestial Builds are ridiculously sustainable, so I wouldn’t even mind if they only cut off on the defensive stats, but they need to be squishier/less sustained than they’re now.

ANet should realize that these class dailies are responsible for the majority of bad matchups, rage threads and toxic atmosphere. Please remove them already.

As said above its probably a fresh air ele. Did the same to some poor thief yesterday. 16k damage in about 1s. You don’t really need macros for it, once ur used to the build it is very much possible.

The problem still lies in the celestial amulet. Nerf it and every celestial build will be back in line. The thing that bothers me the most is the ridiculous amount of sustain each of these builds have.

Low on health? Wait, lemme just spam some kitten. PLOOP Back to 70-80%, have another try.

Pretty amusing to read this bullkitten when every profession is more or less viable atm, depending on the team setup. Are you sure you don’t rather wanna quit the game alltogether? Don’t need more pseudo D/D Ele’s & Engis.

Honestly, from the current ‘meta’ builds, I’d say that only Mesmer, Thief and Necro take a certain amount of skill to not be a burden to your team. Any other class/build is pretty much straightforward/forgiving enough to make up for mistakes.

Turret Eng is probably the easiest carry build in GW2, we’ve ever had.

Same kitten, different day. High latency + lag spikes again. Only happens during primetime, it’s tiring.

Harbinger.8637:

It’s an Adept trait, while Vigorous Precision and Critical Infusion are minor. This means eles have to choose if they want it or not, so they have to sacrifice something in order to gain it. Guard and Mesmer simply just have to put points in that trait line, and don’t have to make any decisions regarding their builds.

If it was a minor trait they would have probably shaved it just like with VP and CI.

Thats still no real justification. Thief has a similar, presumably even worse trait, that gets us vigor on heal (adept trait). It got nerfed from 8 to 5 seconds a long time ago, so why exactly should Ele be allowed to keep theirs, keeping in mind that they’re one of the two most powerful classes atm?

I started lagging again at EU primetime, constantly having 1s+ delay – even during the ESL cup. Not that it mattered for the result, but theres no point in playing thief with this lag, as it’s basically a 4v5.

Tao.5096:

I’m more surprised that German law doesn’t favor customers in that area and people simply do not sue ISP companies, and ISP companies won’t sue infrastructure owners for lack of support for paid services.

Germany is possibly the worst country in whole EU when it comes to internet. Rather slow internet, technical disturbances, more than 60% of Youtube blocked etc. Another problem is that a single provider basically has a monopoly on the whole internet infrastructure, so that other providers are forced to rent their lines. The ones that do own their own, are too local, so they usually can’t compete on a country level. It’s getting better, but we just need ten times longer than any other country when it comes to internet.

Its common courtesy to not complain about seemingly little disturbances in here, therefore people usually just suck it up. Sueing companies is not an option because of our bureaucracy. We’re also not the US, where you can sue anybody for anything. Of course you could always change your provider, but chances are high that you’ll end up with the very same connection, just under a different company.

TLDR: Our internet freaking sucks.

Its probably the backbone in Frankfurt that is clogged during primetime, because of all the internet traffic (imagine it like a huge jam). Frankfurt has the biggest internet backbone in the world. Its also the most used routing point and therefore produces the highest traffic (roughly 480 Provider / 50 Nations use it). I live somewhat close to Frankfurt and have been experiencing these problems for about 3 years already. Some servers (mostly those located in/routing through Frankfurt) will just timeout randomly or give you ridiculous high latencys resulting in lags timeouts and dc’s. Theres not much you can do besides locating servers in less accessed areas/datacenters or ISP’s not routing through Frankfurt (which is unlikely). EU datacenters, specifically Frankfurt just can’t deal with all the traffic that is produced, therefore people are lagging.

I agree, Lord Rush is just not risky enough. Theres basically no disadvantage to it, as long as you got atleast 1 point capped/neutral. Legacy also encourages zerging, but thats a different issue. I’d still say its the best/2nd best map we have.

It may work, but it lacks the utility of the trickery traitline. If double sigils were nerfed, I could see it as an alternative, although I much rather see the old S/D build coming back then.

Hi people, I’m Mina and I’m searching for a team to play competitive again.

- Thief/R80/GER + ENG speaking
- Playing S/D, know how to rotate & make calls, but I’m always up for improvements
- Been Top 80 in the old teamq LB, so I already played against some of the better teams
- Last teams I played with were Fourtwenty Experience [Fe] & Realize You Got No Real [LIFE]

I don’t care about your LB Rating, just be good, be experienced and know how to rotate, because I wanna participate in ESL cups etc.

It’s a plus if I already know you / know who you are or played with you before.

PM me here or ingame: Legendary Mina / Mina Sentina

Morwath.9817:

Soon Wild Justin will appear and tell you that only 10% were blowouts xD

It would at least be interesting to hear what he defines as “blowouts”. Personally I’d say any game with a 250ish or more point difference is a blowout and the majority of my games have definitely been like that. I think it’s getting better though.

Just in case: I don’t want anything changed, Justin. ;P

Almost all of my matches have been blowouts (I’d say 80 – 90%) and usually end 500 – 150ish. The few times that I lost (by now) was usually against a premade team of known pvpers. I don’t really understand how I still get matched up with/against people I have never seen before, but hey, I won’t complain about winning.

I use the same keybind, but why would that be problematic? It’s annoying, I agree, but it’s not exactly problematic or game breaking. It doesn’t really matter off-fight and perfectly works infight, once your weapon swap is on CD.

Deserves a nice team, gl!

How about no…?

I don’t even know why people don’t use hotjoin 4 it. Last time I checked , you could also do it via hotjoin without putting your team at a disadvantage.

It infact is for those who had a 70 – <80% winrate before the leaderboard change. Hell, I was around 62% winrate before the update and I’m now sitting at 75ish (ranked + unranked) and thats with mostly solo’ing and occasional pugging. This system is just flawed atm.

Wat? Mesmer needs good positioning unless you want to be a freekill. Thief naturally isn’t as dependant on positioning as other classes, as they got superior mobility.

I don’t really see how Thief and Mesmer are easier to play than other classes, thats the typical whiner attitude.

Another thief. It’s the 2nd worst class in terms of class stacking, only topped by mesmers.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this won’t ever be introduced as it could be abused easily. I’d just block every scrub / random I come across and only leave those unblocked of whom I know that they are good players. A whole new dimension of carrymode.

Why are solo vs premades still a thing? I had a 6 game winning streak yesterday, which was ended by a (full) premade team of ~top 50 LB players. I normally wouldn’t mind losing, but this led me to stop q’ing. Not only do I have to play vs. premades, no, I also lost ranking points because we got roflstomped by them.

Solo vs. premades should – at least – always result in no ranking loss for the solo side even when they get roflstomped, because the current system simply discourages solo q’ing.

Lagging and Rubberbanding again. Every kittening day during primetime.

Duh… ~1.1k on thief

Your woodservers are lagging terribly again. I’m sorry but this is ridiculous. ISDN felt smoother than this, and its been almost 15 years since then.

Germany
December, 9 20:30CET
Arcor AG

BLUna.7928:

Edit: Deleted my opinion on the debate. It’s somewhat pointless. Gr8 b8 m8s.

Actually, I’d really like to hear your opinion on this, being one of the more influential and known persons around here. I wouldn’t mind receiving a pm if you don’t want to say it openly.

tichorum.2415:

People judge the value of ‘eSports’ by the fanbase. Both LoL and Hearthstone are the most popular video games being viewed on a daily basis… both being dominated by NA as of late.

Do you seriously consider the amount of viewers as an indicator for the competitiveness / esportness of a game? Following your argumentation, I could look up the most played games and call them esports with the alikes of WoW, Diablo and Minecraft?! A bit narrow minded, eh? It takes more than that to call a game e-sports and you’re obviously completly neglecting the esport’ness of games with smaller communities, eventhough some of them are/were/have been more competitive than GW2 currently is. Also: Hearthstone definitely isn’t a e-sport. It’s just a digital version of Pokemon training card game/magic/yu-gi-oh.

I don’t know your gaming background, whether you come from MMORPG or FPS games, but I’ve played several FPS (semi)-competitively (Q3/CPMA, RTCW/ET & CS) and it’s always been the same with Americans/their teams “bigmouthing” and then falling short to Euro teams.

I honestly don’t know whats wrong with some of you guys constantly needing to draw comparisons to the Euro scene/Euro teams and putting them down/talking kitten. Why are you desperately seeking for acceptance and admiration from us? It’s an image that can also be found in reallife, as the average Johnny-Boy will almost always ask us what we think about America in general or poltical decisions they make. It’s just funny how the most powerful and influential country in the world seems to be so concerned about the image other countries have of you instead of not giving a kitten.

Okay too much offtopic, but here’s the deal: Euro’s usually simply don’t care about the NA scene, because why should they? In GW2 e.g. your PvP scene is practically dead. Lesser teams, no real competition, dead Leaderboards etc. Euro scene is where most of the stuff happens and it’s the same way in other games, especially in FPS. Euro’s would probably completly forget about the NA scene, if it wasn’t for your constant stitches on the forums. You’re basically just a mosquito.

Confidence is always good, but kitten some of you are way too full of themselves, eventhough you haven’t yet proved anything competition wise. Thats is why many of us just laugh at NA scenes.

/walloftext

tichorum.2415:

If we’re bringing up things that don’t correlate to the comparing of GW2 regions, take a look at 2014 Worlds. Not a single EU team made it to the bracket stage. NA had three. How ’bout that.

2014 What? Just take a look at the major competitive games, it’s mostly Euro teams wrecking. CS:GO, LoL, basically any major e-sport.

America is the leading force in many things, for better or worse, but e-sports definitely isn’t one of it. If u disagree ur simply delusional.