Guild Wars 2

Jace al Thor.6745:

Stay and chat a while!

I think he already unlocked the team’s achievement for this year’s Mesmer forum dev post.

So basically, you did absolutely nothing to make Power Mes more viable in WvW, and buffed Ghost Thief and Condi Mes.

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Mike O Brien.4613:

This release won’t include a skill balance update.

That’s a nice big middle finger up at the two other game modes that aren’t PvE.

Offair.2563:

It’s usually that charrdian with overdone hair and oversized rucksack.

Has the flag on the back gone out of style?

It used to be awesome. You almost always got something useful from one of those boxes. They nerfed them at some point when they reworked them. Now it’s just trash, box after box.

They’ve lost most of their talent and brains to Amazon Games.

Idk what this supposed “focus on WvW/eSports” is supposed to be about. Class balance is still a pipe dream, the same power creep clown show carries on.

Basically they are producing the least amount of content necessary to buy time until the next expansion comes out with more power creep.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

This is not the right way to bring the issue to the attention of ANet support. See https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reporting

If you can’t use the in-game reporting options, you could consider the email reporting option to request they look into this. In-game reporting is the best way though.

The in-game report tool doesn’t do a kitten thing. It’s just a dialog window with an OK button without an action assigned to it.

Dire for me is just a waste. I am enjoying a mix of sinister and rabid a lot more.

The fact that the game mode isn’t doing well has a little to do with the braindead additions they have made to it, but that’s not really the biggest issue. People keep talking about new maps, new rewards, new this, new that.

None of that matters if the fights are not fun.

The leader of my havoc guild used to make really cool videos from WvW footage, showcasing guilds on our server and so on. She recently came back and wanted to record fights and make new videos. What she found, however, is that the footage was boring as hell because the fights were boring as hell.

There is no balance, no diversity. It’s all particle showers and skill spam. Use whatever is off cooldown and let your passives take care of the rest. There is no push and pull, none of that “he used X so I’ll use Y”. There are no turtle guards who sacrifice damage for survival, instead there’s DH that has both. Or Daredevil. Or Scrapper. Or Berserker. Block block block evade evade evade invuln invuln invuln. 8k, 9k, 12k crits per skill.

WvW is all about the fights. The objectives, the map design, it’s all there to encourage encounters with the enemy. So when the experience of those encounters is nothing but the same condi-passive-block bullcrap over and over and over, is it no wonder that people leave?

The solution lies not with the WvW team, but with the apparently non-existent balance one.

Nikkinella.8254:

Simple answer, because there’s so many condi trash mesmers around. DH has the chance to kill mesmers, so if you dont want to play a lame condi build, play dh. Thats why I play mine anyway, its satisfying blowing up those keyboard turning baddies in dire gear that think theyre actually good.

Oh, the irony.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Only time we have trouble getting people to defend our home bl is when we are red because it’s a kitten map. Never have that problem with the alpine map.

This.

Permastealth condi thief.

Why don’t you just go ahead and uninstall, seeing as you’ve stopped actively playing anyway.

Power shatter…lol. What next, Healway Guardian?

Video unavailable.

It’s hard to say what they know or don’t know when the people who write the actual code are not the ones who decide the direction of the game.

Another brainstorm from the clowns who voted yes on portable cannons.

Kalibri.5861:

Things will improve as the designers get more experience and feedback.

lol

good one

No balance patch, no interest.

I just had a match where we were 3v5 and the other two in my “team” got their cutscenes and didn’t use sups, just rushed in and insta-died. I’m no pro or anything but why after 700 games am I getting matched with these morons? Can’t you match them up with a team of other clueless idiots versus a team of comprising of the same. It’s a complete waste of my time with no chance at all.

Or make it even easier and just have a sticky listing the allowed topics.

I think the problem was that people were having fun in WvW.

Eleazar.9478:

msalakka.4653:

If you think releasing more elite specs will improve build diversity, I don’t need to read the rest of your post.

yes it will in fact I’ve seen alot more class diversity since hot.

Seeing a lot of vanilla mesmers running power phant are we? The only diversity is choosing between condi shatter and power (lol) shatter. This decides your third trait line, since the other two are invariably chrono and inspiration.

however anet has to make sure the next elite specs are not stronger than the hot ones otherwise its going to be the same cycle.

Of course they will be stronger or there’d be little point in buying the expansion.

Like for example lets the next ranger one is offensive so thus you’d have to choose between doing good deeps or bringing support with druid.

Yes, staff druid being known world over for having to choose between damage and tankiness.

If you think releasing more elite specs will improve build diversity, I don’t need to read the rest of your post.

I can’t leave Stronghold. When I try to exit the match, it just loads Stronghold again.

On the other hand, I can spawn all the Archers I want to keep Tybalt and me company.

This was awesome!

Server linking, cross-map team chat, and portable cannons.

Undo them all, please.

Class balance (right now there is none)
Lag
Remove the server link system so we don’t have to “fight” the entire France

Maybe the Equipment panel could just have a utility and food slots where you drag and drop a stack, and it’ll automatically take from the stack and reapply when the duration runs out.

Yeah. I don’t remember the last time they said they were performing maintenance, aside from when they introduced the desert borders.

Don’t leave now, they just introduced portable cannons!

Hello?

Hello??

JustTrogdor.7892:

I’m liking what I see from MOE in this last 10 months or so. I really feel like he is keeping in touch with the players.

Yeah we especially love his contributions in the WvW forum. So much to read.

Well perhaps in another 9 months, when the next nerf patch can be expected.

Until then, the “balance team” will undoubtedly be hard at work creating new elites to maintain the power creep.

Of course they won’t actually talk about any details regarding a balance patch until such time when it’s too late in the development cycle to implement any changes based on feedback.

Not that they use feedback anyway. Just nerf thief and mesmer some more, and beef up revenant, druid, and conditions, and call it good.

Staff druid isn’t roaming, it’s barely even playing.

They turned the class into a joke with the cheesehunter. Went from “hold the line” straight to “come into mah trapz”.

Rotteny.8743:

Taobella.6597:

run trailblazer it all rage ~ lol

Technically Viper do more damage than Trailblazer.

Indeed, but most condimesmers don’t have the skill level for glass, which is usually why they are condi to begin with. Hence Trailblazer or Dire is more common.

Pompeia.5483:

My WvW guild died because dbl was taken away and everything became blob fights

How ironic…

Not only do we get the same unskilled zombie horde servers week after week, but now the indefensible desert map too. Much wow.

Thank you for the detailed info, Fenda!!

If we’re red next week too then I guess it’s time to renew Netflix. It’s enough that we get the same brainless karmazombies and cheese clowns of Deso week after week, but adding the Deserted Boredomlands into the mix is too much for me.

Svarty.8019:

I think that one is a geometry problem, not hacks.

Hence it would be good to know how it’s done and save people the trouble of reporting.

It would be nice to tell how you keep doing this. Flying and standing in the air like that. I don’t play Thief so I don’t know all the cool tricks. Thanks.

I am not the least bit interested in buying any more garbage they sell until they learn to balance the crap they’ve already released.

Your build looks more like some sort of hybrid phantasm build. Persisting Images, Persistence of Memory… GS, sword… You’re all over the place.

You might want to check out some condition builds posted here or shudder Metabattle, use those, and make changes as befitting your play style.

That’s nearly identical to what I run expect I prefer scepter over sword for more block. Sometimes I replace shield with pistol. The defender runes are so good that despite having only around 1050 toughness I don’t feel particularly glassy. Not as faceroll as condi but a lot more fun.

They were going to.

Really, they were. Honest.

But then they had to focus on Tepid Story Part 2817 or somesuch nonsense.

So kinda didn’t have time.

So they posted a bunch of polls about PvE elements and called it good.

It never left. It’s just gotten more popular now that, thanks to reward track nonsense and dailies, we have more pve clowns running around on the borderlands, and since they are not there to engage in person v. person combat, nor could they handle it if they did, they run this garbage.

And since it doesn’t involve the gem shop or spvp, nothing gets done about it.

Enjoy.

Zachary Stiers.1879:

Zachary Stiers.1879:

msalakka.4653:

Assertion: index < m_count
File: p:\code\gw2\game\content\CnUtil.h(99)
App: Gw2-64.exe

I can reproduce this as many times as you want by going to WvW and hovering mouse over the reward track chest icon atop the minimap.

Thank you for the additional information. I’ve now found the offending code and am looking into potential fixes.

Here is a temporary work-around until the real fix is released:

1. Open your World vs World panel
2. Go to the reward track tab
3. Activate a track

This is happening because you currently have no track actively able to receive points and that case was not properly handled.

Thank you, this helps a lot.

Assertion: index < m_count
File: p:\code\gw2\game\content\CnUtil.h(99)
App: Gw2-64.exe

I can reproduce this as many times as you want by going to WvW and hovering mouse over the reward track chest icon atop the minimap.

kandle.2367:

I’ve done everything but stand on my head & whistle Dixie & still crashing. This is ridiculous. Can’t play like this-uninstall coming in near future if this isn’t fixed. How many reports does it take?

The bug seems to only affect WvW players, so Anet hasn’t noticed it. Fractal patches take priority.