Guild Wars 2

I got 2 PIPS away from Diamond from Solo Q only…

It’s do-able.

It’s a lot easier for newer players though, they haven’t settled into a 50/50 win/loss ratio set by the system yet, which is why you see so many r40 and under already at legendary compared to all the legendary champions stuck in Ruby.

I use a Blast Gyro on DH traps… Even funnier when they say it’s “not fair” and “unskilled” to do it…

But, truth be told, I’m only playing Engie currently because it’s one of the very few marauder builds that can withstand a DH burst…

Teutos.8620:

Still no league update. How long do we have to wait?

Not long hopefully.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/A-Message-from-the-PvP-Team/first

What ever happened to this?

Match Manipulation
There have been reports of players intentionally losing games in an effort to lower their overall matchmaking rating. The idea is that if they lower their rating, their subsequent games will become easier, and they will gain pips more reliably in future win streaks. Regardless of how unlikely this is to actually happen (read on for why), we’re still not cool with players intentionally losing as this is in direct violation of our Code of Conduct.
In the short-term, our customer support team will be investigating reports of this and punishing the behavior accordingly. Please use the “Botting” reporting option to bring these instances to the attention of our team. For a longer-term solution, we’ll be working on improving the in-game reporting system to better handle these types of situations.

Where is this system? Wasn’t it supposed to be implemented already?

Will Season 2 rewards be added to Laurel vendor?

Will anything new make it to the laurel vendor?

I got nothing to spend hundreds of Laurels on, already have the minipets, tonics and skins.

tym.3791:

I honestly don’t blame ANET this time. How long did everyone scream they wanted new maps??? So they finally give in, give new maps, now everyone is hollering we want the old back.

I used to be hardcore WvW and simply stopped playing. Had my fun with the game. Now its wait for Black Desert.

Sadly gotta agree here, my only issue has been Elites because I remember most of the complaints about WvW..

-People didn’t like fight guilds taking up PPT spots – Well they’re gone, the smaller fight guilds had everything stripped from them with HoT so now we have empty maps.

-People didn’t like groups dueling – People interested in PvP have left (mostly composed of people from fight guilds)

-People didn’t like gold sink – Free upgrades.

The rewards were not enough to keep WvW players interested – Got buffs for WXP level up and so forth….

Attacking is too easy, need more defense – Free siege and cannons + shield generator

The list goes on for ever.

I wonder if people are starting to miss the groups of people who hung out and dueled, or the fight guilds who would scrim daily for an hour or two before all the players did thier own individual WvW play time, or if people just missed having enemies in a combat zone who were interested in engaging in PvP.

WvW is what it is now, find a guild with banner access, run around in a group that never separates and banner everyone to death. Much PvP.

Tomux.8675:

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Wonders happen, even such awful people get to legendary, in case it’s not his second account on which he doesn’t afk and kitten.

Not that a DH could help us a lot in that game.

Holy crap he really did AFK his way to legendary…. I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time by playing!

(also hope OP gets a ban… That trash talk to his team and refusing to help is what causes a lot of people to give up PvP. 1 person REALLY can disrupt 9 other peoples games)

Stronghold is good for premades who PIP farm.

Get an easy 2 PIPs after 3 minutes of lord rushing. Then que for 10 mins to repeat process.

Yes, please bring it back so I can play a tanky healing druid and never leave the water. I’ll never die, just like the old days but even stronger with smarter pets!

#PetRez4Eva

Hayzed.1507:

Wryscher.1432:

Hayzed.1507:

Dodge? Don’t have a banner of your own? Join a guild.

So you are agreeing with the op? He complains about main counter to a dragon banner is, get your own dragon banner. And your witty response is get your own banner?

At least we are all on the same page I suppose.

Is it OP? Sure but its not like you cant have one yourself, if dragon banner helps your 40man squad wreck a map blob then whats the harm in that?

Banner v Banner v Banner.

Sounds like a great game mode.

I’m done with WvW until they level the playing field across Elites..

It’s crap fighting someone fully specced against someone who is not and vice versa…

Give it a template similar to PvP with all skills unlocked or raise the level cap like you did when we had level 2 twinks running WvW so no one without atleast 50% of thier elites can enter WvW.

WvW is a combat zone, and fighting sub-par opponents is just as bad as fighting a green arrow.

I don’t go into the maps unless I’m trying to unlock Hero Points, which makes map chat very angry when I ask for help.

Yuu can also get fireworks in Rata Sum on one of the lower levels… Haven’t been there since they disabled fireworks in WvW though.

Look up a definition to the word “elite”….

You need to buy HoT to keep up like the rest of us

Talzed.4153:

Why was this even a match? and please don’t tell me that the 2 emeralds arent highly ranked players on ftp accounts.

I love it when it backfires. (Legendary + emerald)

IndigoSundown.5419:

Vayne.8563:

Seera.5916:

Vayne.8563:

This is a business decision that’s unlikely to change. While it’s true that we used to have buffs for everyone in the guild, it’s also true we never had free to play players before. The free to play Guild Wars 2 is more of an unlimited demo than an actual full game. Anet isn’t allowing people to be free to play players out of the goodness of they’re heart. The idea is to convert free to play players to paying players. And while some people might think it’s cheesy to do this and not join, more people will likely join.

Usually, I agree with what you say, but this time I don’t.

Guild buffs should not have been something locked behind the expansion pack. Guild buffs should be available to all guild members regardless of whether they’ve bought HoT or not.

It’s not like HoT introduced buffs to the game.

I’m not disagreeing. I’m saying it’s a business decision unlikely to be changed. I think it should be changed too…I just don’t think it will be. This is a call from the suits.

I agree this likely was a business decision. However, I’m not sure anyone at ANet wears suits and they’re driving the bus since they took over the publisher role. I’ve never seen Mike O in one.

There’s a business integrity question that they apparently did not consider worth basing the decision on. Consumers bought the core game. The core game came with certain benefits that not only required purchase, but which also took in-game actions to unlock. Now those benefits have been removed from core, requiring a new purchase and more actions to regain. How many players the removal of something paid for affects is not material to the integrity issue.

Sure, the “game conditions may change during play” clause in the ToS/UA gives them the power to do so with impunity. I’m not up in arms about it. Both guilds I’m part of are basically dead. That said, it was not a decision that inspired trust, loyalty and respect on my part. Rather the opposite, and such emotional capital ought to be of concern to businesses. I doubt I’m alone in that, though I’ve no idea just how many care.

“Game conditions may change” is right…. I used cash to help build one of my smaller guilds up to all the WvW upgrade unlocks then it was taken off me without a refund…

Why do I even bother spending money on this game.

You should add it to the cosplay thread with everyone elses

I log in, play a few games until I get bored of bunker wars, then move onto a different PvP game that’s balanced.

I don’t get the logic in this….

There have been people complaining that MMR wasn’t reset which leaves newer players to shoot through the ranks because they don’t have 50/50 win/loss ratio like the older players…

That means, logically, the people stuck in ruby, are the players who have played PvP before HoT because they have played long enough to have established the 50/50 ratio which would make it even harder to leave ruby…

Unless it’s intended design to have a rank 30 or less shoot through to legendary with a pile of easy match makings while the level 80’s fight the system that forces 50/50 because we’ve played long enough to be established with the MMR.

This meta is great, once you get a cap point just /sit… With everyone playing a bunk spec, nothing happens without a +3 anyway.

ArthurDent.9538:

For what it is worth there is an absurd amount of stability on everything now a days, so decap might not work so well.

Works really well actually… (Druid is hard unless you use “Mine Field” for boon strip first, even then though it’s a really short window of opportunity)

I’m playing clerics decap bunker for the sole purpose of beating 2 Tempests on point… We can’t kill eachother, but atleast they waste their time trying.

You can /sit once you have the point, let them attack you until you’re really low then full heal because you’re clerics and start saying things in local chat like “almost got me” and “so close!” before /sit on point again.

Like Grim Said…. “PvE or GTFO”

That toddler logic.

If I build it, you play with it.
If you have fun with it, I take it back and it’s mine.
If I hide it, it doesn’t exist.
If you tell me what to do, I’ll do the opposite.
And when it’s broken, you can have it.

PvP – Everyone has equal access to all class mechanics.

Someday.3650:

sephiroth.4217:

Diamond skin is the best, when I have it equipped it means I get 5,000 toughness that stops people being able to hit me for 1,700 damage. THEY DO HALF DAMAGE TO ME!!!!

What’s protection? Oh the Ele can’t spam protection you’re silly! No they don’t have a tonne of physical hit negation or get a buff to protection… It’s definetly Diamond skin thats OP for sure.

You don’t even know which one diamon skin is.

Stone Hart = you wont take critical damage
Diamond Skin= immune to conditions if you’re over 90% hp.

People need to understand that breaking the 10% barrier and dumping a full load of conditions is actually easy. If you can’t see the big letters in red that read “Immune” then you deserve to get pwned. Just do some damage and load the conditions after that. If anything, they should make it clear, with an icon or some sort of animation so people don’t need to read the red word immune.

If you see the icon of a heart, then you know you wont do much if you’re a power spec. Just let your condi teammates handle the ele or wait for the ele to leave earth.

I thought the sarcasm stood out enough lol… Guess not.

I hate these threads…

People who don’t “ready up” are obviously not ready. They could be adjusting builds, having a quick smoke or simply using the toilet after waiting in que for 8 minutes staring at a screen to afraid to leave incase they get dishonered for missing que.

Diamond skin is the best, when I have it equipped it means I get 5,000 toughness that stops people being able to hit me for 1,700 damage. THEY DO HALF DAMAGE TO ME!!!!

What’s protection? Oh the Ele can’t spam protection you’re silly! No they don’t have a tonne of physical hit negation or get a buff to protection… It’s definetly Diamond skin thats OP for sure.

I think Elites should be account bound… It would really help out WvW players who have 17 or more toons.

WvW maybe get a PvP template? Or all Elites unlocked similar to PvP in WvW?

What ever the case, it really sucks being in a PvP environment where my enemies and myself are sub-par because we dislike PvE grinding Elite skills, we are after all in a PvP environment and it makes no sense to punish PvP focused players for it.

(I run Daredevil in WvW, most people I come across are strill grinding elites, maxed out Daredevil vs a Tempest with only 20 points invested is not a fun fight at all for either side)

Passive Wars 2, learn to dodge for 25 might, AoE cripple, stun break, condi cleanse and Blast finisher, git gud.

(not having a go at you btw)

ArthurDent.9538:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

ArthurDent.9538:

dank.3680:

Was the rev running jalis?

That would have to be it:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rite_of_the_Great_Dwarf

Throw in 40% reduced from protection, 10% from frost aura, and another 10% from http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Geomancer%27s_Defense, and you are over 100% damage reduction. Guess he was either missing one of those things or there is a cap so you don’t do litterally 0 damage. Kind of dumb that damage reducing traits stack by adding instead of multiplying like with damage increasing modifiers, but that is the result. Fortunately Rite of Great Dwarf is rarely used, though that may change in the future.

Pretty sure damage reduction effects are multiplicitive, otherwise a Reaper should be showing hits of 0 frequently(Protection 33%, Rise 50%, Frost Aura 10%, Cold Shoulder 10%).

This, though, is some seriously strong reduction. That Tempest had to have the perfect storm of reductions on them at once to get single digit crits.

Pretty sure it is additive, if it is multiplicative, then the total damage reduction for the ele would be .5*.6*.9*.9=.243 so about 75% damage reduction (there is a rune set that can knock that down a bit more but because multiplicative, it doesn’t make much of a difference). So if we assume the extremely low estimate that vault non crit does 1k on a cele with light armor after damage reductions that becomes 243 damage which while extremely low is still magnitudes higher than the 8 vault from op.

Additionally I have heard from other sources that damage reduction does stack to 100%, I am not sure of the validity of that but it would imply additive reduction. This evidence would suggest it is additive with perhaps a hard cap at maybe 99% reduction.

But Diamond skin is the problem lol. Who cares about all that damage negation, I can’t hit an Ele for 1,700 damage because they have Diamond skin equipped…

#amidoinitrite.

Kaleban.9834:

Because MMOs are jobs, not games.

Hey, the hardcore players asked for stuff like this because the game they bought that catered to casuals wasn’t hard enough.

Go figure.

You guys know combat log is buggy right?

On the other hand, I do remember a game yesterday in conquest against an Ele and I complained that “Fire Grab” only crit for 260….

online.1278:

I think this website is what kills the game by forcing people to play only metas (not really forcing but it could be like that way) and most importantly, it kills, “The build Diversity”. Don’t you think so?

If there wasn’t metabattle.com, many people wouldn’t have played current meta that much and abused it, thus anet would’nt get doomed like now, i guess. (or takes pretty longer time to be blamed which gives anet time to fix)

Meta builds is what ESL teams use… Metabattle is the place those builds are openly displayed… As long as ESL players have fanbois, then people will keep using “flavour of the month” builds until a team uses something different and still be successful with it. Then that will become until the process repeats.

What sort of Reaper comm uses flesh wurm?

Spectral Wall on a push is much more useful, followed up with corrosive poison cloud to stop projectiles and Rise to help tank damage and soak up AoE.

Sounds like you had a troll comm, he probably would have waypointed in combat if he could.

Zoltreez.6435:

Shovel Face.4512:

Zoltreez.6435:

are you telling us that diamond skin is fine ? and a good design ?

I think so. From my experience, tempest protects and heals can be interrupted. Bunker mes however can’t because it is on all the time basically.

a single trait alone should NOT counter a whole build
even if it has counter play its still not ok.

If you played Ele enough you would know its not Diamond skin that causes the problems…

I wonder if condition builds would find fighting an Ele easier if the Ele didnt have protection spams and -67% damage negation from physical hits. I wonder if that would make it easier to hit an ele for 1,700 damage to drop below the DS threshold.

Just a thought.

LordOtto.2650:

It’s a game, ppl choose to play how they want, and if I choose to sit down, then I sit down… If you don’t like it you can argue in chat, an say “good things to him/her”, like I do..
Sometimes I am the troll and just quit, seeing that my team mates from solo queue are St- id.

What I want to say to you has too many kittens, so I’ll post a GIF.

I liked zerker meta back in the day… All classes were viable atleast.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

I don’t know if it’s protection or other culprits, but i can easily say this – if i go on full power reaper vs a diamond skin ele (so in short i crit every hit) and still can’t make a decent dent, then something’s indeed wrong here.

In terms of tempest… The protection buff to 40% ontop of traits/runes you can negate 67% physical damage and be immune to conditions. Earth trait has a -10% damage just from being close to enemy, frost aura another 10% and so on….

Oh and tempest can maintain 15s+ protection uptime from aura spams.

Hey I would like to say a big thank you to the team…

I have played this game mostly in WvW for 3 years now, I have been apart of some great communities, some great moments and even better fights with my enemies.

As a WvW player, I was never great with farming gold as opposed to your average PvE player, which led me to buying Gems weekly/fortnightly to support my sieging, commanding, upgrading and build crafting addictions… After time, this actually became a very nasty habit…

I would find myself, having gold, items, food and everything I need, but still putting $50 or more into your game a fortnight, just to save for maybe a weapon skin or something… After a while I acquired most of the skins I needed/wanted.

So what else to spend money on… I know!!! Character slots!

So for a while there, the only thing I did was grind PvP for tomes, the moment I hit 60 tomes I would put some money into the gem store for 25 transmutation charges, character slot, a bag slot, convert the rest to gold to buy gear, food, sigils and runes.

I repeated this process until I got to 17 characters.

Now HoT has released…..

All 17 characters need to learn Elites otherwise I’m sub-par on the field and will die a lot… I manage to get 2 done…. In this whole time, 2.
2 out of 17.
just 2.

Naturally I have given up, abandoned WvW all together and now reside in PvP on a messy but even playing field (in terms of class mechanics unlocks)…

With all your changes, you have actually made buying character slots and spending money on the gem store as a WvW player a punishable action. I have never aqquired more than 60 tomes, but now I have a full stack + more to give you an idea.

So here is my thankyou.

I thank you for my new Blackwidow Chroma keyboard I purchased yesterday on Boxing day sales, that money I saved over the last 2 months was a real eye opener on how much time, energy and effort I have spent in vain with this game.

RIP WvW.

Redfeather.6401:

Azure Prower.8701:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Maybe you should look at that before you say too much about the Guild Wars 2 cosmetic selling store.

The Guild Wars 2 gem store is far from just a “cosmetic” selling store.

Bank tabs. Bag slots. Time saving items. Upgrades. Quests items. Extractors. Unique and valuable items hidden behind gambling mechanics.

Yeah, stuff like the repair canisters, revive orbs and teleport to friend items are pretty questionable things to sell in a cashshop if you don’t want the game to give the impression of being pay-to-win. Even though we can get those items from login rewards every week, it still iffy.

Revive Orb: Revives you if you’re bad, once revived, a sneeze will kill you if the timer hasn’t run out… So useless if you die in a mob.

Repair Canister: Repairs armor if you were bad and died. Puts you back on optimized gear like everyone else, again, no advantage.

Teleport to Friend: Teleport to a friend in your party, this is pay to win, you win a waypoint you were too lazy to do yourself.

I wouldn’t call it Pay2Win, I would say Pay4Convenience because I’m too lazy to waypoint to a repair agent after dying and too lazy to run back.

They also said they would customize the old map before bringing it back…. Now look at the new map.

@OP:

Aren’t you the guy who was in my team raging at everyone because we didn’t like “3 home 2 far” then rage quit when someone told you they were gonna jungle?

Doggie.3184:

Yeah, Kids everywhere will now believe drinking 10k bottles of alcohol over one holiday season is perfectly safe and even be rewarded for it.

Just like how kids run down a street with a rocket launcher blowing up cars then having a good sleep to evade the police and heal all wounds..

Yea, Ok. Manson caused Columbine too.

Just bring back solo q.

RedBaron.6058:

WvW is dead…RIP.

Why kill Baldrick? Don’t you at least want to hear his cunning plan first?

Your suggestion works wonders if you’re in a 3 man Tempest party…. (pretty sure tripple tempest push is meta now with trap DH on defense?)

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Next, someone is going to make a post complaining about eating virtual sugary sweets in a video game and how it’s disrespectful to people with eating disorders.

It’s not real alcohol being drunk by real people. It’s pixels being clicked on by other pixels. If pixel alcohol bothers you that much then sit at home and read a book or something. (Don’t watch TV or read the bible. TV has alcohol ads and the bible talks about drinking wine).

It’s unfair to Diabetics. All that candy.

Khisanth.2948:

sephiroth.4217:

You need the actual wings I believe, and not a wardrobed version.

Unless those wings were handled differently from every other back item that is literally impossible if you have to be wearing at the same time as well.

Well this post reminded me to do my wings, I was wearing white ones but it gave me black feather glider…

Apparently I transmuted my black ones to be white and my white ones to be black, so I’m positive you need the actual one (if you own both anyway).

Edit: Added a screenshot incase it’s a bug and Anet wants to see.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

The system is perfectly fine except for the fact that you can’t lose divisions.

Everyone makes it through amber, emerald, and even sapphire if you play enough.

Once you get to Ruby, you can’t rely on getting lucky any more and you actually need to win more than you lose in order to progress to diamond.

The problem is that….. since everyone can make it to ruby just by grinding long enough…. and ruby is the first division where not everyone can progress…. all the horrible players get trapped in ruby forever and ever and ever.

They can’t down rank back to sapphire no matter how many times they lose…. and they will never make it to diamond since they are not skilled enough for it…. so they rot in ruby all day long, due to a flaw in the system.

This not only causes a problem for those players…. since they will be losing a majority of their matches for being in a bracket that is too skilled…. but it also causes headaches for legitimately ruby skilled players wo keep getting matched with braindead teammates who don’t belong in ruby.

Can’t agree more on that… Really sucks almost getting out of Ruby as solo q just to hear a team mate doesn’t care about losing because he’s bottom of ruby and needs to “tank” MMR to progress…..

Ontop of the system forcing 50/50 w/l ratio, it’s rather tiring. It’s also annoying to see a bear rank finisher hit legendary then rub his “skills” in my face because he only just started doing PvP for rewards.

You need the actual wings I believe, and not a wardrobed version.