Guild Wars 2

So to touch on the OP’S post. The game mode, style, and combat is actually not broken….. on the high tier level, most of the time the teams are very uneven skill/knowledge wise in soloq, but the few times where there is an equal amount of high tier players on both sides of the solo q game, it feels like gw2 isnt so bad and is actually very refreshingly fun. There are 2 easy solutions to “fix” or help the unexperienced /mid/low tier solo q/team q games (these solutions have been mentioned countless times!) 1)implement ladders and leagues to fix matchmaking 2)implement more ways of communication through various forms of “pinging” (if you ever played Lol or Dota, you know what I mean). With these solutions implemented gw2 would see a gradually growth, filling in the now enormous gaps between high, mid, and low tier players.

Sry for whatever grammar or sentence structure mistakes you find. This entire post was done by phone.

Sorel.4870:

uberkingkong.8041:

If good players get 1 shotted on Skyhammer, than they are not good.

You look at good players, Euratien and Stunningstyles. They are not getting 1 shotted. They are the ones doing the 1 shots.

Why? Because they know how to make builds, the people being 1 shotted are bad players who are using meta builds that aren’t meta on skyhammer which allows them to be 1 shotted by good players who know how to play the game and change there builds so they can skillfully play on a map like Skyhammer and skillfully 1 shot newbs into ragemode.

Why does Skyhammer need to be on WTS? So newbs can copy meta Skyhammer builds, which today there are none in existence, but if they see what the best use on Skyhammer, they’ll do a lot better copying there builds.

You need to get your facts straight.

This. Skyhammer would actually make a better teamq map than a soloq one. The main problem with the map is that all these soloq heroes have to make a few changes in their FotM build, and use a different strat than in the other maps. The horror! Skyhammer is the closest this game has from a different game mode, and forcing top players to play on it in a major tournament could help this type of players to understand how to play the map. Imagine all the new possibilities in team composition!

Um. What. I swear the day that skyhammer gets put in a official tournament and taken srsly, is the day gw2 loses the last of its high tier players.

Wolfey.3407:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Are there rewards that people would want or don’t feel are earned fast enough that don’t directly generate gold?

Unique Miniatures [Account Bound on acquisition]
Unique Toys
Unique Emotes

Elaboration of the above:
Unique Miniatures:
-Mini Zhaitan, [rare drop from Arah Dungeon Track boxes] (not 0.000000001%)
-Mini Red & Blue Lords [rare drop from Glorious Track Boxes](not 0.0000001%)

Unique Toys:
-Mini Catapult
Costume Brawl toy, allows you to do long range damage in costume brawl
-Mini Sky Hammer
Costume Brawl toy, allows you to do massive aoe in costume brawl
-Dueling Dummy
Spawns a random class doll to spar with you. Can be used any where that allows the use of weapon skills. The dummy will only attack those who attack it, vanishes if player dies with a funny message.
-Fishing Pole, allows you to play a mini fishing game or fish in the open world
All of these can be tossed into a “Glorious Toy Box” track. The final reward in that
track will allow a player to chose one of those items. Track would be repeatable.

Unique Emotes:
After completing the glorious track:
x1
x6
x12
x18
times, you will unlock new emotes. Similar to the ones from GW1
/glorious
would be the command, a shield would pop up with your rank’s animal
emblazoned across the front of it.

x1=Bronze Shield with your rank on it (bunny, dragon etc)
x6= Bronze Shield with 1 sword with your rank on it (bunny, dragon etc)
x12= Silver shield with 2 swords with your rank on it (bunny, dragon etc)
x18= Gold shield with 2 swords with your rank on it (bunny, dragon etc) and a crown over the shield.

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Could even bring the Zaishen Keys and Chest to Guild Wars 2.
Make every end chest contain 1 Zaishen Key. [armor boxs or equivalent]
Zaishen Keys would be account bound, a chest would be placed where the Dragon Totem Vendor use to be. Some loot from the chest can be any of the toys or minis mentioned above as well as any one of the below:

-Random 1 Exotic Weapon
-Random 1 Endless Tonic
-3 Laurels
-10 Obsidian Shards
-Legacy GW1 Endless Tonic (Tonics from the GW1 Zaishen Chest)
-GW1 Envoy Weapon Set

Could we get a dev response to this. All Evan Lesh has been doing on this post is fighting forum warriors. Evan, could stuff like this be implemented pretty plzzzzzzzz. These rewards will be more than enough of an incentive to grow the high tier spvp crowd. The gaps between high, mid, and low tiers are embarrassing wide. I hope you agree with this evan.

@anyone What do you think about in game rewards for spvp?

I personally find the reward tracks to be completely trash.

Chaith.8256:

Most of these NA and EU comparisons in playstyle seem really inaccurate and trash talkey.

EU doesn’t play conquest while NA plays deathmatch, it’s simply a difference in strategies on how to out rotate your opponents.

NA prefers to snowball off of kills, EU prefers to delay with bunkers and use portal plays.

The biggest oversight some EU players see when they look at NA gameplay, ‘omg, nobody even watches their home point.’

That’s simply because with the 5 dps comp, once the 1man advantage has overwhelmed another point, then they send back a player to fight on the neutralized point, in a favorable matchup.

@ OP, cast my vote for Ranger

From playing on a team in NA, that ran EU meta, I highly agree with Chaith. A 5 man dps comp (na) takes the fight to their enemies, while the bunker/dps mashup comps (eu) waits for the fights. The aggressiveness from NA comps can cause EU style comps to overrotate, or miss-rotate (disadvantaged 1v1s, 2v2s or even 3v3s) which would snow ball the entire game into NA comp favor.

VEE WEE <3!!!

CAT ON FIRE BRB AND BUMP

Omg I was thinking the same way about condi mesmer. They keep buffing it. Kappa.

Bumppp

/15char

ALL NIGHT today i have been getting these “lag” spikes, one of them dced me, the other just kept me from activating… ANYTHING. anyone else experiencing this?

Finally something to get good for. Sharks will b ready.

Lmao @ mesmer being OP XD

A good way to improve also is joining a team that has equal skill to you. This way you can bounce feedback off of each other without egos getting in the way. Esports maybe called a form of “sports” but it is also a competition. Having the right mindset for competition at a high level in this game is just as important as learning and developing mechanical skill. As to learn how to have the right mindset, look up real esport player’s interviews and try to imagine your self as that professional esports player as you read through the interview.

Meh. I like the 20 slot bag at the end. It’s actually something I can use. All the other reward tracks are trash to begin with.

I thought you were srs, then I saw

Amir.1570:

… on my Soldier Amulet Mesmer in team fights.

… nice… had me there for abit 10\10 troll.

WHAI ANET WHAI. i cant even see the servers in the server menus…. anyone else? i guess you can join your own server through a hotkey.

So I wrote up a full respectable response to chaith’s response to me, explaining it all boils down to manipulating the rotations of your enemy, but the wifi in my phone failed me and timed me out, thus losing the whole response. So I’m just going to leave this with a last statement: this is just another QQ thread from both sides (against and for). I can’t say I wouldn’t do this if mesmer was the topic (i feel for chaith) about defending my class even if it leads to BM or trolling.

kolompi.1287:

To be fair if you spam grenades at 1500 range, you are doing almost nothing. I’ve seen quite a few engis stand on some ledge happily throwing grenades on a point while the enemy team was just as happily winning the team fight and capping then keeping the point.

And yes, you have to focus the engineer down just like you have to focus a necro or it’ll turn the team fight into a graveyard.

Also you don’t need to b 1500 range away to be put out of range of focus from the enemy.

The best thing an engi can do in a 4v4 is to pop nades into the fight, wait for your target to get locked down by your teammates, then run in with the condi burst. You can’t get locked down by a necro if you locked down the necro first

Btw I’m writing all this on a phone. So excuse the mistakes.

kolompi.1287:

To be fair if you spam grenades at 1500 range, you are doing almost nothing. I’ve seen quite a few engis stand on some ledge happily throwing grenades on a point while the enemy team was just as happily winning the team fight and capping then keeping the point.

And yes, you have to focus the engineer down just like you have to focus a necro or it’ll turn the team fight into a graveyard.

Yes engis don’t bring alot to a 4v4 giant team fight at mid. Their strength is side nodes. If you get caught out of position in the giant mid fight it’s cause the class or spec is not as useful or viable in that scenario. This aspect applies to alot of other op classes or specs aswell.

The funny thing is … All the engineers in here that are defending engi all have the same excuse to why engi is not OP. IF ANYTHING GETS FOCUSED BY 2 OR MORE PLAYERS IT’S GONNA DIE. Why don’t you guys get this (chaith…) The only thing that truly stops a focus fire is invuln….wait…. (elixir s) but but but wat if the engi is caught out of position THEY GOT NO TELEPORTS TO RESET THEIR POSITION QQ… um stealth just does the same amount reset as teleports. Also the meta of engi involves nades which can be thrown at 1500 range! If your out of position in the first place it’s cause if player skill issue.

I think this would be a good step in the right direction, but this would only be really effective for pug groups forming up in map chat. The reason I would like to see this happen would be to show the solo q heroes who the real heroes are when they get paired up or against them in solo q. Right now, you can not tell who is good at the game and who is not. Say a team won ToL, they got their legendaries, but still nothing to show for being the best team in that tournament. As for my experience, my team got into the finals of ToG, regardless of how some of the brackets might have been easier than others, its still a huge achievement to be in the finals of a tournament, but yet the only people that can somewhat show that they qualified are the 2 teams that placed first and second with the new armor that can be mistaken for the “just about” same armor skin in the reward track. There is no titles in this game that indicate a great (excuse the automated tournament ones that are not available anymore) player, there is no ladder that indicates a great player, and there is no rewards for being a great player. SO ANET! why do we want to be a great player? Sure this question can be somewhat answered by the recent WTS tournament coming up, but that’s only for players that can go or won the tournament, even though there are many other great players deserving of that trip. Otherwise, if you can’t go because of age or scheduling issues, or did not win the WTS qualifier, there is really no in game reason to be a great player. The main reason we still have great players around is because they still believe in the spvp scene, and enjoy the combat mechanics over other games that are out atm. This has caused a void between great players, good players, and bad players. The weeklies are just a farm for Nos, Backpack, … etc… there is no competition unless backpack is on the other team against Nos. EU has been getting better lately, as in more teams, more competition, and more teams striving to reach the same level as some of the best teams EU. NA has superpug teams (a few exceptions), as in they get put together right before a tournament, it is not NA’s fault for this, its really ANETs fault for creating a very casual game that lacks up hill progression.

excuse my bad english, writing this at 2 am.

Booms.2594:

Yeah as Elxdark said Abjured is on a completely different level than any other team atm, and that includes TCG. Tbh TCG is the the best at guard/thief/mesmer comp, but that comp is just too weak compared to stacking eles and engis and using a necro to dominate every 1v1. They even managed to get a thief in there for high mobility. Like I dont know how to beat these guys lol.

Yes, Abjured has a comp that really “hard counters” most comps and even rotations. Every 2v2 the Abjured setups on each point (all 3) is a prime 2v2. The second the Abjured takes only 1 of the 2v2s, they can snowball the entire game, and if you do not have a forgiving comp (aka TCG comp) it will be nearly impossible to get back into the game and win it. On the flip side tho, If TCG can somewhat control where the big team fights happen, they can come out on top. Even if a team wins one of the 2v2s, Abjured’s player skill is high enough for one of their celes to tank a 2v1, allowing caed, or someone else to rotate on with fresh cool downs and burn down the remaining life bars of the enemy. All Abjured needs to win at the moment is one 2v2. TCG is going to have to play a lot more conservatively than they have been playing recently, ( 3points), they have to setup a 2v2 win at their home, and win the team fight on the other point.

Josh Davis.6015:

The “Tournament of Glory” event in the top right can actually be clicked and takes you to the stream. I’ll do a better job of making that more clear the next time I get a batch of these implemented. All in all, I think it was a great start and a great test for the system.

The “yellow text” system alert is not something we want to use for these events, as those are broadcasted across the entire game, regardless of if you’re in a dungeon, doing living world, or whatnot. We want it to be as noninvasive as possible. Someone mentioned having an NPC in the Heart of the Mists that shouts upcoming events, and I think it’s an interesting idea. I’ll bring it up with the team.

Thanks for the feedback, I’m definitely listening.

I’m confused on why being “invasive” is bad. The scene is struggling, it helps it when a bunch of ppl show up for tournaments and witness good solid games. So what if it takes up a line in the chat, while in your dungeon, livingworld, etc…. I remember winning HA in gw1, displayed a yellow message while in a dungeon, or other elite zones, and GUESS WHAT, while in pve, it didn’t bother me or anyone else in the party.

Starter logo.

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Welcome!, Ferox here, and as the title says, Hypnotic Gaming is looking for, 4 talented individuals. I started this team very recently due to teams either being full or failing. I love this game, even though it has its downs, theirs a lot of ups as well! Competing in this game at a high tier is an experience that is unmatched when comparing to the other parts of the game. The combat is unmatched in other MMOs. The potential of this game going eSports has been growing recently and I’m sure along with others, we will get there, just gotta stick with it.

I have been playing this game since beta and started out being a “PvE Hero”. PvE was too easy so I ended up joining the sPvP community, and I have been there ever since. I recently made a mark in the scene, when I joined Sharks With Lazers. We were very successful for awhile, surprising many other vets of the PvP scene. It didn’t last as long as I wanted though, as their was a recent fall out, and I ended up leaving the team. I want Hypnotic Gaming, to be my second mark. I want it to be more successful than my previous endeavors, and I’m sure with the right people, it can be accomplished.

How to apply:
-Decide for yourself if you meet the requirements
-Contact me in-game with a mail (masskillerxploit.2165)
-Post here (I will be checking daily)
-Email me (masskillerxploit@gmail.com, make sure to clearly state the title “Hypnotic Gaming App” or it might be missed)

-Post, Email or Contact me In-Game with the info:
How old are you? What is your IGN? What are your mains? Are you able to compete and play in LAN events in the USA and across the globe? Can you play the hours that I have listed, and if not, when can you play? Do you have access to teamspeak 3 and do you have a fully working headset to be able to communicate with? Can you compete in online tournaments on the weekends/weekdays? (weeklies, tournaments) What makes you stand out from other players that will be applying for the same spot you are applying for?

Practice times (can change or vary): 9:30pm-11:30pm Est. M-Th; Fri, Sat, and Sun will be reserved for scrims, tournaments, or extra practice.

Requirements:
-TS3 with functioning headset.
-Age of 18 or older (exceptions could be made).
-Ability to get a passport (if not already have one).
-Live in the NA region.
-Can socially interact with members of the team and “lighten up” a bit at times of stress.
-Has consistent play and cannot be easily tilted or thrown off balance in high pressure matches.
-Good communication while competing.
-Good attitude and can give effective input to the teams shot calls, decision making and attitudes.
-Ability to improve to have strong mechanics and outplay potential.
-Ways of contact outside of game.
-Professional advertisement of HG (Promote yourself as a good player, keep a professional attitude while competing, do not give HG a bad rep, NO BM, NO RAGING towards other players or teams; have a problem with another team or player? keep it in the private TS channel, not “Map Chat” or public TS)

After App submission, I will be contacting you In Game and will invite you to Team Qs, or sessions in a private arena. I will be looking at each player that applies, then I will test the applicants with communication, game play, conquest mode knowledge, decision making skills, consistency skills and other small attributes that build up the individuality of each player. I will then decide who got the spots, here in this post, with the complete roster (so keep checking back here!) Also there is no time restraints on this recruitment post (a lot of time to find the perfect teammates, till the next big tournaments). I will be building this team off of good players, not based off of comp. When this team has its full 5, we will then develop our own comp, and strategies.

EDIT: If there are a lot of applicants, I will invite you to Team Hypnotic [THyp] to keep track of the all the applicants.

Thanks!, and good luck!

-Ferox

bluberblasen.9684:

öhm…. easy

bring back " gw1 " GvG with 8-10 man;

bring back Guild Halls for more " home feelings"
bring back new " glory " and new " ranks " ( Champ title ?) for very good players, not for all!
bring back golden, silver capes for Top 50 players
make NEW Ladder/ Reset ladder every month
bring back classic " tombs / HA " ( 8 vs 8 + ghostly hero ) or 8 vs 8 vs 8..
bring back who won a battle @ hall of heroes

bring new features to the User interface! let us customize the interface…

bring a bank @ hotm
make better balance ( often / more patches ) make hotfixes..
bring (back) same health for every class… 15000 HP for all!
remove this kitten " amulet" system -> bring 2 rings, 1 amulet, 2 accessories for more playable builds.

öhm..
make better rewards.. ( zaishen keys for pvp players ? )
make good pvp players richer than 24/7 pve player.. like gw1
make more esport..
bring back /resign .. dont wasting time if we lose..
bring back /roll

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remove 3 point holding maps.. 90% dont like that..
OR
*remove 4 vs 5.. -_-
*remove the " live " observer in hotjoin.. make 20 -30 sec delay
*remove " changing " team in hotjoin -> only auto join
*dont lose your team in solo Arena -> make it more like old Random Arena in gw1 ..
remove skyhammer!!!!1111111111111
remove spirit watch ( or change it )

If you implemented everything on this list, or some of it…. just think about how popular this spvp scene would get. Just think about it. Push your management to implement this PUSSSHHHH! , for the sake of the spvp community!!!!

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

Option 4 – Play with Acandis. Kill self as he inevitably throws every game.

shots.

I’m kind of shocked anet didn’t implement this from the beginning. Like those “500” viewer tournaments can turn into 1000 viewers or more with just an in game message when a tourny is about to start.

Moa is normally regarded as a troll skill just because of the animation involved. It actually can be a game changer in high tier pvp. Moa is hard counter to invulns and passive trait procs.

Amonatory.2453:

masskillerxploit.2165:

Yeah Sunday is gonna be awesome….. Also Rough Boyz with the free win lolol.

Why are you starting kitten again? Everyone’s over it bro, I’m saying this as a friend, stop starting edrama and move on. You’re comment was unneeded and you had no reason to post it. #justgetoverit

Wait you guys are gonna show up? I thought Sharks was gonna get DQd, cause of no one showing up to the match. I did not mean that Sharks sucks so much Rough boyz will win easily. Way to take it out of context. Yeah, I am the one who started this edrama, lol /sarcasm. Also this may be a big suprise!:

Yeah Sunday is gonna be awesome….. Also Rough Boyz with the free win lolol.

Yes plz.

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Eurantien.4632:

How do you rate your shatter mesmer play?

I’ll pm you, when I get home.

Most of this content was inspired by Olrun. Ty bro.

As indicated above, I am looking for a team. I used to play Mesmer for Sharks With Lazers, and as some of you already know how that ended :/. Mesmer recently, along with bunker support Guardians, have run into a couple of problems in the meta, that only an experienced, well rehearsed team will be able to overcome, because of the growing meta of “Skirmishing” Cele comps that focus on prime 2v2s/3v3s all over the map. I personally dislike this meta of “Cele” but it’s kind of refreshing from the traditional comps that we had since the start. I am willing to tryout other classes if a team requires me too. One of my strengths is the mental part of the game: Staying positive, map awareness, rotations, comps, splits, etc… I’m a good team player, and I want to be successful in the upcoming Tourneys.

-About Me: I’m always looking at the big picture; I look for details; I am friendly; I support new things; I’m always wanting to improve; I want to be the best; I work well with others; I want to win; I have good communication; I give good constructive criticism; I’m dedicated to the team; I have good synergy with teammates; I need to work on positioning.

Why I am a good pick up: I have adopted a professional and competitive attitude towards this game, and I have greatly improved who I am as a sPvP player since my last team. I know a lot about this game, and have a optimistic goal of being a significant player in the NA scene.

-The Dream (goal): To join a team, and not only be a good player, but an asset to that team, while being very successful in the upcoming tournaments.

I hope this post, gave some teams a reason to pick me up, or dropped any doubts to teams looking to pick me up. Thanks for reading! and you can contact me In-Game or respond to this post. My play times are pretty flexible, as I do not work atm, and attend college in the morning. I’m also eligible for traveling, sponsorships, etc. As I am 19 years of age, and possess a legal passport.

OMG VEE WEE! NOOOOOOOO.

U gotta teach me the gadget way. Senpai Gadget Vee

I would like this as a feature.

+1 OP’s post

/15char

Booms.2594:

To this is the first time I’ve ever raged at Ferox or even one player specifically. I’m usually just upset at our teams play in general but this match it was only him that played poorly. Things you should note if you watched the stream
Enemy thief never touched Ferox because of peels
I ran off point to try to peel as much as I could but me and gorn truly were 3v2 on point
Ezra was literally solely peeling for Ferox
The only person even targeting him was a d/d cele ele

Like we understand this comp requires us to protect our Mesmer and that’s just bout pushing the limit to how much we can do it. If he’s still complaining about too much focus after that much coordination to save him then obviously I’m gonna be pised

Just to point out. If you watch the game, they didn’t peel off (yes cele does damage) anyone but the theif. You don’t understand the comp. You don’t understand how to be a team (obviously). Anyway GL to whoever fills the last for the team, your gonna need it. This will also be the last time I look at this thread.

Wtf…..

/15charr

Cele amy has created a weird “skirmishing/kitten” meta that atm, is better than traditional meta comps, and by a great margin. Also Eles, and Engis will not be “nerfed” with a cele touch up, sure, it will bring some of your stats down, but with the changes made to the actual mechanics of the ele/engi, you guys will be fine.

Sry for the bad english, writing this late at night

~Ferox

Jhughes.8341:

Where is mime? and stunningstyles? wut. Anyway I don’t consider myself among the top 10 but if no one else is going to put there name on it, I might as well get my 15 minutes before someone knocks me off :> throw me on there!

Stunning styles LOL. He doesn’t even main a class it seems…. maybe guardian idk. Mime and me should be tied for first

Where is me on that list….

With 50k at the end of this road. I woudnt underestimate any team in this tourney. This tournament finally has something to really try for.

I just beat kronos in the dueling server, he was on warrior, and i was on engi, i dont even main engi. so best dueler? no, didnt dodge 1 thing.

thrackit came back. ty for everyone that tried out, but we feel stronger with Thrackit originally. just had to get over edrama.

Since the meta is going to be shifting soon, we are opening this LFP post to any class.

I love the changes to clone on death. It provides a counter play to the currently un counterable clone on deaths traits. As of right now, you can’t block, dodge, or invuln through clone on death. This change is going to separate the good mesmers from the bad, so I understand all the QQ about these changes.

PS: I have mained mesmer from the beta.

Nice try.

/15chars