With how people use the custom arenas, they should definitely be more accessible and customizable.
I faced a comp with 4 nec and 1 Mesmer. I was actually fairly intimidated but they were all pretty bad and it was a quick win.
Nah I didn’t say anything to him. He literally messaged me completely unprovoked. I was in a match so I didn’t report him immediately and then later it kept giving me an error saying his name didn’t exist. Regardless, thanks for the replies.
Hey guys, I’m not here to complain about losing to anyone or any class in particular; just to get that out of the way.
I was in a courtyard match the other night with a couple of buddies of mine and some randoms. We got shut the hell out of the game. Our support was NOT as good as their support and they rocked our socks. Now, I realize courtyard is the kind of map that the right comp or the right support can help shut a game out and that’s just the nature of the beast. I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum so no complaints there. We lost. No biggy.
Now after said match, I was treated to what had to of been the most in-game harassment I have ever endured. This guy from the other team whispered me repeatedly calling me names, egging me on and just generally being a real kitten. I kept my cool and eventually he became so worked up it border-lined on comical. He even mailed me packets of salt later on to which I literally cried laughing out loud.
However, this doesn’t mitigate the fact that his actions after the match were completely uncalled for despite being comedic in the end. I just wanted to create some more awareness on this issue and maybe help the community drown these trolls when possible. Ignore is our friend.
Thanks for the read!!
TLDR: Don’t let mean people and trolls get you down. Have fun!
GW2 ranked PvP in my opinion is the most painful competitive online game i ever played. there is no information that shows you are a good player?, why i’m losing?, there is no self-knowledge because you have no information whether you do good or not. no visible MMR.
with all that said, ranked PvP in GW2 generates Dunning-Kruger effect. basically it means thinking that themselves is good player but in reality they are noob. and this is frustrate many ranked pvp player but in the same time people like me won’t stop playing ranked PvP because there is no way i know that i’m a bad player. i just think i’m having a bad luck. my winlose ratio is 55% last week. but now it drops to 53% and there is no way i know what have just happened. also no answer in forum. is the Matchmaking algorithm change? because if yes than let me tell you that it becomes worse.
additional note: Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias. it is the inability of the unskilled to evaluate their own ability level accurately
I always wondered if there was some sort of term used to describe the really really terrible performers on game shows like American Idol. haha
Mine is usually the opposite… I constantly wonder if I could have done better… If I had not accidentally stepped off point for a sec and let it decap would we have won? I just got man-handled by [insert bursty class here], am I a bad player?
Is that the same term? (Somewhat off topic, I know.)
I consider myself to be a fairly skilled player and it doesn’t take me more than a few minutes to attune myself to new mechanics or fights. That being said my AP is super low. Seems premature to boot people for that alone but honestly how else can you tell if someone has the appropriate skill set to complete that content? We can’t inspect each other. I’d be mad but I would understand if it was a random PUG, I guess.
My two cents.
Seriously you guys should offer shirts. Like how Path of Exile did with one of their higher packages! I bought that just to sport the shirt cause I appreciate their hard work and like telling people about the unique shirts I wear if they ask. ( I have more than just PoE’s shirts.)
I haven’t had any issues with my w10 but I’m using i7 with all AMD.
I purchased the bag slot extension for 50% off for the sale. The price then became 400gems for any more than that. But if you go into your inventory after the 50% off purchase, you can click on the extra bag slots to continue purchasing the expansions for 50% off.
Tested it on two accounts to make sure it wasn’t just me. I don’t want to get in trouble so I’m posting this here.
Thanks!
Please. This should already be a feature. +1+1+1
Edit:: Also add this feature to the gem store, too! I want to know what I’ve purchased without going out.
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I don’t really see how you getting 100-0’d by conditions over 5-10 seconds is any different than getting killed by straight burst? I mean… there are quite a few proactive and reactive skills in the game to help mitigate condition burst but very FEW reactive ways to not die to a huge burst spike.
I support this 100%. I want to know when my teammates will need some wiggle room and if I need to support them or change my build without asking how skilled they are at that class.
Awwww that building is so adorable! Haha xD
Yeah I know but I wasn’t here for it. I understand it was earnable and not purchasable haha. I really hope that it comes back at Halloween but in the off chance they might include some of those outfits I thought I would voice my interest!
I would really like, but highly doubt it will happen, that items or outfits from holiday events show up in the up coming sales! Like hexed outfit and such. Just wanted to be vocal about it for the off chance it might come true!
I was experiencing this last nigh but no one else in my house was. We were all connected to the same net and in the same house all playing GW2. Four of us total.
maybe i haven t explained my point of view really good
is not if you think bleed could be stacked better than torment or burn. The point is: if you can stack burn is useless stack other conditions
balance is the keyword, and right now, there are stuffs that are not balanced and theese ruin the game experience, in pvp in first place
could we agree on this?
Yes other conditions need to be better. This is especially true for classes that don’t use burning. I think the next burstiest condi we have is confusion? Bleed isn’t too bad if you can get it to 25+ stacks so it starts to do close to 12 stacks of burning.
I disagree with OP. Burning is fine. Buff bleeding.
Maybe reworking bleeding, for example making it to decrease your movement speed by a 10/15% could help to improve this condi against burn
We don’t need more slow conditions. I don’t know if there are any other unique things they could add to bleeding except maybe make it like torment and get rid of torment. I mean, that makes sense anyway… If you’re bleeding and you make more movements you bleed more or faster. Maybe reduce the amount of time in between bleed ticks? It’s basically just a kittenty burn right now that CAN stack high but often doesn’t in pvp.
@ragnarokda: guy i know, but, i don t lie if i say that 90% of time i died because of burn, with, more or less, 70% of total damage
I’d have to say that 90% of the time I’m dying because of non-condi damage. I don’t doubt that you’re being killed by burning. It’s a great way to kill people with no cleansing abilities on their bar. With as much as people are complaining about burning but attributing it to the prime offender to be elementalists, I’d say that ele will get nerfed before burning does.
come guys.. right now bleeding is useless.. the only condition you wanna really stack is burn.. bleeding has no sense to build around ( more or less deals 40% less damage), poison is more powerfull than bleeding and so on..
i don t like how condi stack right now because there are no more difference.. the only thing that change is the damage formula, and it ’s awfull..
i hope something will change.. stack intensity sucks, 2k dmg per second of burn suck more because has more dps than a “fighter” build, and to be a good damage dealer you need only to increase one stat instead of 3..
burning guard sucks..
ele are: smashing keyboard for the win.. mobility, survability, sustained dmg and healing, 10 stacks of burn, utility.. maybe there is something wrongfor the mesmer, well, i hope will come some nerfs because has more burst potential than a thief with 3 times his survability..
Bleeding needs to be closer to burning or applied in larger stacks. (I know it’s already easier to get bleeding stacks high faster than burn but it’s still not as good.)
Condition burst can be responded to fairly easily with a well placed cleanse or more. Normal power burst is a lot harder to respond to and typically requires you to know it’s coming already.
Damaging conditions need to be dangerous if focused on as part of your build. They have their strengths and weaknesses as a playstyle but for the most part they are no more over powered than normal burst.
Madness.
Sparta
LOL I laughed so hard at the “Counters” section. Truth.
I’m just gonna leave here with a plus one and to also say I agree with class stacking. I think two of any class is fine but beyond that they’re just trying to capitalize on something broken.
I see what you’re doing.
It would be too much burst going out since rifle f1 is like an instant RF
Have you ever tried to hit people with kill shot? Man it’s a kitten.
I think of them like Mesmers. They’re annoying if all of your skills needs a target or can be body blocked. If your build primarily does damage in an AoE then they’re easier to deal with IMO.
Condi cleanse synergy example: Hey I noticeably laid down a spring trap… Come stand in it for a cleanse or two.
Burning still doesn’t kill as quickly as burst specs do and it can be reacted to and mitigated far more easily.
If they let people duel or do small arenas there will be less players queuing for matches, no? I absolutely agree that you should be able to continue with other non-pvp related things while you wait in queue.
A guard has one burn burst to drop those stacks on you…..surely everyone has at least ONE condi cleanse. If you say it was already on CD because you used it on someone else thats not the guard’s problem thats yours. 1v1 against a guard and it very easy to cleanse his ONE AND ONLY damaging condition. Then he has to wait a full 30+seconds to get purging flames and Judges Intervention off CD, by which time your condi cleanse should be off CD too.
I think dying to condi burst because you have no cleanse or it’s on CD isn’t that terrible feeling… Now when I die out of no where to engi burst, big backstabs from a +1 or a shatter I feel like garbage. How can people complain that burning is too much when there are builds that can 100-0 you in the blink of an eye? Burn is fine. Poison should hit harder.
I honestly +1 this. It’s a QoL thing as well as it just makes more sense. I mean, a bow can shoot out that many in less time than a gun? Please. Lol
What happens you will have 2 shatter Mesmers in your team against the comps you stated.
If they are coordinated and open up from Stealth to D/D Ele’s they will instagib him.
So your actual problem is your team is not built to counter the other team and while this is solo queue there is no coordination.
So it is not a META thing but solo queue problem.
You mean something like this(only two mesmers and the necro were in party)
I don’t now what’s more fun, getting instagibbed from stealth or tickling each other to death.
Hahaha I still can’t believe I haven’t run into more matches like this… If I saw that, I would just sit back and enjoy the ride. I mean… How often does this happen? Gotta love that comp.
It’s gonna be fun and it’ll make me want to play thief which I have never stayed interested in long enough to get beyond level 20… After I used an auto-20 book. Hhaha
I don’t know… I’m having a lot of fun still. At least you know that 90% of all those ele are really bad at it. Hahaha
I personally haven’t had any issues facing condi builds. Prioritize your cleanses for large stacks of condi or any other back breaking conditions instead of popping a cleanse every time you accidentally walk through ring of fire. I feel like I’m missing something with this “burning is OP” stuff… Maybe I’ve just been lucky and haven’t faced any condi builds or cele ele that were played well in the last 250 games I’ve played?
Hahaha that’s amazing. Our pets are actually pretty terrifying. I can’t imagine if all the changes people propose for them actually got applied… There’s no way. Lol!
Please post videos. I always hear stories of full teams of one class but I have never seen them first hand. I’m interested!
I would be really frustrated if all of a sudden an irrelevant function of the game became relevant and I was so used to ignoring it, too.
Traps are wonderful for catching scrubs off guard.
Burn is fine. Some classes can apply it too quickly for normal people to react to but other than that I think it’s fair. You should make accommodations for removing conditions from yourself because sometimes even chill could mean your death if not removed. And if you can’t make them in your build then you should be relying on a teammate for cleansing.
If I got one shot by a ranger pet, regardless of current buffs, I would stand up IRL and take a bow.
I never knew about it when I played upon release (if it was even there) because I never cared much for condi builds. But now that I play one regularly I wanted this feature and found out it existed!
I want to post a comment here for my +1 on more sPVP maps. Even if most are virtually the same, the variety would be refreshing.
I play a variation of survival condi trap ranger in sPvP and I personally have had great success with it. Some times I get out played if my opponent is familiar with my build or if their build counters condition based builds in general but, for the most part, with all of the defensive skills I have coupled with my ability to burst on a fairly short cooldown out of no where, I feel like most battles are in my favor. I can even run settlers with spring trap without changing my build much or at all to better assist in group fights or to be more durable in general at the cost of 300 condi dmg and precision (which atm I’m not taking advantage of but don’t want to inflate my health with carrion as I already run survival to counter conditions.)
Also, power ranger LB/GS has to be the most boring build to play in existance. Haha
Are we talking tournament wise or just for ranked/unranked matches? When i run a premade with some guild friends we run 2 thieves. We run 3 bunkers with 2 thieves.
We do a MM necro, Staff ele, and a d/d ele and when we are team speak it goes pretty smoothly against pugs. When we face other premades the matches are obviously much closer but once again this all comes down to skill level.
Thief is probably the hardest class to be good at in this game. With that you have to know there either gonna be great help or be the weak link. You can say the same thing about rangers atm as well.
I agree with this. I have been in at least 3 different games recently where we had 2 thieves and I sighed deeply each time only to find that we won fairly effortlessly. And I play condi ranger so…. Also a side note to this is that a couple of thieves were level 1 haha.
You can consolidate damage conditions in the game options. This makes burning, bleeding and poison each a one number tick instead of a thousand per second.