Guild Wars 2

This is a great idea! Anet please implement it.

I personally would also like to see rewards similar across tiers. In other words, last place in each division should receive the same rewards. That might help with the stacking of certain servers. Imagine T1 if all players knew the loser of the 3 way match up would receive the same rewards as the 24th ranked server. It would add so much more to the competition.

Wow, great matchups. Maybe ANET will realize this and keep it going vs starting the leagues.

meep.2601:

anyone notice that devon hasn’t been seen on the forums since the GvG/dev fiasco?

and anet said they would be reprimanding said dev…….verrrrryyyy interesting.

I doubt it was him. I think he probably doesn’t come on here right now because the forums are pretty much against his ideas. He can argue them, but there isn’t a lot of value in that.

ANET has a vision and will implement it. Forum users said the ruins would be a fail. They were right. I’m sure that’s another reason Devon doesn’t want to come on here. It’s hard to admit when you are wrong.

It will be interesting to see how the leagues go. I think most people on here say they will be a fail. Hopefully not, but we will see.

Too much damage? No. Of course if you try to hero it against 20 enemies you will die fast as you should.

Or maybe just maybe, the whole league idea is a fail

I think everyone who plays the game knows that T1 needs its own league.

Really the question is whether ANET realizes it, or if they need the league to fail before they make a change.

Come on ANET. Do the right thing here.

There is no fair. The only thing I do is if I see a 1v1 going on, I don’t engage.

Yes please! Unfortunately, I think ANET needs for the leagues to fail before they learn.

I think the leagues are fine. Just the idea of the top 6 is a bad idea.

In NA, 1-3 need to be in their own league.

Well, you have to remember. ANET had a really fun game. The manifesto was fantastic. At some point, they decided to go down the route of a more grindy MMO.

My guess is that it is because PvP is a fail and so they needed to introduce grind in order to keep people playing.

Sanduskel.1850:

Latinkuro.9420:

Ranger
Sick ‘Em will now apply ‘Revealed” to enemies they target. We want to introduce some counter play to Stealth (players have asked for that for a while), so we thought a pet “catching your scent” might be a cool way to insinuate some anti-stealth into the game.

You cannot introduce anti stealth for just one class !
how about 2 classes, imo engineers are much better suited for stealth detection, hello ! they use technology, which makes more sense than a stupid pet having stealth detection

Agreed, since too many scrubs use permastealth, giving my class a bad name. I don’t rely on that exploit.

Too many scrubs complain about too many things.

Gesamtkunstwerk.6590:

A little background… I’ve mained an elementalist for over 6 months. Over that time I’ve played a considerable amount of casual and competitive pvp (currently rank 45). Yes, I’m frustrated with the state of the profession in this area of the game. Yes, I think it’s a real problem and that anet is largely at fault. And yes, I don’t think they take our criticisms very seriously. I’m not sure if this is due to a lack of experience or interest on the part of the devs, or if it’s the intricacies of the profession itself, that are hindering a proper response to this issue. But the ele is most certainly not ok. This upcoming patch, and surely the one to follow, will do very little that I can see to improve this state of affairs. All I can do is suggest a few changes, informed by my own experiences, and the experiences of those I’ve played with. I have zero expectation that any of this will ever happen.

Staff

Fire

• Fireball: Decrease cast time from 1 to 3/4 second and increase the velocity by 20%. Lower base damage slightly.
• Lavafont: Add an eruption immediately after casting and/or apply 1 second of burning per tick.
• Flameburst: Add a burst effect within a small radius (90-120) for aoe damage.
• Meteor Shower: Increase impacts between meteors (make it closer to firestorm) and/or increase base damage.

Water

• Water Blast: Increase aoe healing impact radius to 360 and increase velocity by 20%.

Air

• Chain Lightning: Move this to the #2 skill. Increase base damage to match a 6-8 second cool down.
• Lightning Surge: Move this to the #1 skill. Increase cast time to 3 seconds and turn it into a channeling skill.
• Gust: Move this to the #4 skill. Rather than push foes in a line, it releases a cone-shaped aoe knockback. Increase cool down to 40 seconds.
• Windborne Speed: Move this to the #3 skill.

Earth

• Stoning: Increase velocity by 20%. Decrease weakness duration from 3 to 2.5 seconds.
• Shockwave: Increase immobilize duration to 2.5 seconds. Increase bleeding from 1 to 4 stacks. Increase duration to 40 seconds.

Scepter

Fire

• Flamestrike: Decrease cast time from 1 ¼ to 1 second.

Water

• Ice Shards: Add 20% projectile finisher.
• Shatterstone: Make it explode after 1 second rather than 2. Increase radius from 180 to 240.
• Water Trident: In addition to to healing it also applies regeneration. Increase radius from 180 to 240.

Earth

• Stone Shards: Increase bleeding duration from 6 to 8 seconds.

Dagger

Fire

• Fire Grab: Make it easier to land this attack successfully.

Water

• Vapor Blade: Increase vulnerability duration from 6 to 8 seconds. Increase base damage.

Air

• Lightning Touch: Add a 2 second daze.
• Ride the Lightning: Increase range from 1,200 to 1,500.

Earth

• Impale: Increase range from 300 to 600.

Focus

Fire

• Flamewall: Double the effective width of the flamewall.
• Fireshield: Grant an additional 3 stacks of might when cast.

Water

• Freezing Gust: Increase base damage.
• Comet: Make it easier to land this attack successfully.

Air

• Swirling Winds: Add aoe swiftness.
• Gale: Increase knockdown duration from 2 to 3 seconds.

Conjured Weapons

General

• Remove charges.
• Make conjured weapons a secondary weapon set.
• Allow them to be cast instantly (like engineer kits).

Wow. You must have fantasies of the days when eles were insanely OP.

Tarinis.6054:

High survivability, excellent damage, wanted in groups all the time. Really no cons

haha. You said excellent damage.

Send all glitcher pictures to ANET so they can be banned. I doubt any of our servers want that kind of trash playing.

Sounds like a good tactic if it works

Gasoline.2570:

Post best servers to bandwagon to please, DB is royally destroyed. Bonus points for maguuma appearance!

You are on a server that was nicknamed dragonbrandwagon and now that people are running away from it, you are surprised?

If you think it is bad now, wait for the leagues. There will be a lot more blowouts then.

I don’t use these runes simply because they kill people too slowly. For me, they aren’t very good. That said, I can imagine that newer players have trouble dealing with confusion and so they would be upset.

Gamadorn.2659:

Great job….grade A for moving 4 tiers with TC!!! Congrats!!!

Huh? Who is moving 4 tiers? TC and SoS are in the T2 where they should be. DB is playing in T2 when they are ranked as T3. FA is playing in T3 when they should be in T2.

Again, who exactly is moving 4 tiers?

Polismassa.6740:

KOPPER.1458:

At the same time it’s really pointless and boring to have T1 bracket of 3 servers. Sadly no solution in sight.

IMO not really, I have never had a more boring week than when we were roflstomping 2 T2 servers, and even though the T1 matchup gets old after a while, there are still fights to be had all the time. I’d be far less likely to quit because of tier stagnation than I would be because of things changing for the worse.

As a T1 player we need our own league there’s no reason to have us face off against even our closest non-T1 rivals, it’s just a blowout every time.

Completely agree. This gold league is not going to be fun for anyone except for the 1 week when 1-3 and 4-6 play each other.

This is great! Nicely done and I look forward to seeing more.

As I’ve said countless times on this forum…. scoring needs to be adjusted to take into account population differences. A server should not win simply because they have more people.

It depends what you want to do.

Zerging:
Warriors are the strongest class, followed by guardians. Mesmers, eles, and necros are really important. The other classes aren’t too important. Should engis get aoe stability as rumored, they will immediately jump to crazy OP.

Roaming:
Thieves, mesmers, warriors, and eles are the best.

Chris.3290:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

My personal research has Maguuma being placed in 5th after league play is over, right behind JQ. I hope we get some cookies for this.

Fort Aspenwood has taken a few on the chin, but they still have a sizeable Oceanic presence.
Unless you have heard something to imply that UA and the others are leaving FA, I think you are becoming delusional.

Also to think that JQ, after stacking even more ridiculously, is going to lose to TC is borderline insanity.

and especially since TC has lost a number of guilds, including some people to JQ. Ranks 1-3 are already determined. I don’t think anyone can say who 4-6 would be at the moment. Either way, 4-6 is going to have a very not fun 7 weeks.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey folks,

The addition of the bonus WXP for laurels/badges is simply intended to give WvW players an additional option they can spend their laurels/badges on, it is not intended to fix any issues with alts and WxP.

We’re aware of, and actively discussing the amount of progression we’ve added through WxP and the difficulty for playing multiple characters as a result. When we make changes to help address alts/WxP rank, we’ll make sure to specifically call out the change is to help address that issue.

Thanks for posting. I reeeeeally hope ANET removes the concept of soul bound from virtually every part of the game.

Well, it will be interesting to see if ANET figures this out and puts T1 in its own league. No server 4 to whatever can compete with 1-3.

As it stands now, it is going to be a boring 7 weeks for 4-6. There will be some decent fights here and there, but for the most part, it will be a blowout.

ANET would also be really smart to move T1 into their own league. Let’s be honest. The whole point of the league is to get PvE types to try WvW. If the matchups are not fun, they won’t come back.

Traxien Cion.9261:

TC does not want this. Every match up we’d have would be a 100k+ stomp that’d kill our server.

I’d like to see a matchup of TC, FA, and either SoS or Mag this coming week. I’m not convinced that TC is as strong anymore with the various guild moves and breakups.

I don’t think the current scoring system is the answer, but I don’t like eliminating PPT either. You have to remember that for a lot of players, defense is boring. They want to open field fight, or roam, or attack targets. A different scoring system equally rewarding any game type would be ideal. The system also needs to reward lower ranked servers to compensate for the population differences

Ostricheggs.3742:

Marcos.3690:

JonPeters.5630:

Sept 17th = no balance
Oct 1st = yes balance

Hello

FYI this is why they don’t tell us what the patch notes are. If people like you are going to nit-pick at a single discrepancy which was already publicly addressed then how the hell do you expect them to release a fluid set of notes subject to change?

They said the patch will be on the 15th. Chill the kitten out people.

Well said. +1

I like healing signet as a concept. I’d just like to see it adjusted a bit.

1. Lower the base heal amount
2. Increase the scaling with heal power

In other words, if you are a zerker or PVT build, you will heal for less than today. If you mix in more heal power, you will heal for more than today.

This really just illustrates a point: there needs to be two modes for new content. There are both hardcore and casual players in the game. Each should be able to enjoy the new content. The hardcore types want dungeons or content that are even more challenging than what has been released. The casuals want to experience the new content without the same level of difficulty.

ANET is trying to play in the middle of both groups but that just makes everyone unhappy. It would definitely be better to have two different difficulty modes with different achievements or rewards. Everyone wins.

Profano.9514:

Disagree. Ruins are nice against blob power. Good job Anet, imho.

Actually, they are irrelevant to blob power. They are a killer for GvG and for smaller roaming groups. Those smaller roaming groups are hit the hardest since an increase in stats has a much bigger impact there.

Chris.3290:

Avariz.8241:

I don’t know. Looking at the points and the standings SOS is assured of the 6th place in the golden league. There is no reason to put that in to jeopardy by requesting a 2 week rematch with the other equally strong contenders. I am surely missing something here.

Surely TC has not had their transfers so long that they can’t remember just a few short months ago when they still had close matches with FA and DB?

The only time we get a good fight is with those two, and with all of us running for 6th out of server pride, it’s only right that we should have a showdown to fight it out.

I don’t want to get 6th with never facing SBI. Maguuma doesn’t want to coast into 6th simply because they got DB the week they completely fell apart.

Let us have a battle royale and the server that is truly the best can take the prize.

Right now, it is impossible to tell how servers 4-9 line up. TC and FA both had a lot of bandwagon jumpers head to T1 recently (TC was hit pretty hard). They are not as strong as two weeks ago. A silver league of 4-9 would be exciting at the moment.

Why would any server want 6th place? Wouldn’t the rewards be better for winning the silver league than losing the gold one?

Martin Kerstein.3071:

I would like to update you on the current issue with WvW.

We have identified what is causing the problem and are currently working to resolve it.

Once we will reactivate WvW, the matchups that started last Friday will continue with the correct score.

Please note that all objectives will be reset to their starting state, and all siege weapons that were deployed will be gone.

I currently do not have an ETA for when WvW will be reactivated, but we will let you know immediately once it is up and running again.

Once again – apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Reset objectives? Sounds fun. It’s like a mini reset.

Scorpio Spork.9568:

Okay. You’ve convinced me to try Withdraw with my P/D setup. I’m afraid without Centaur Runes Withdraw won’t be as nice, but there’s no harm in trying.

Very nice video, excellent gameplay.

You aren’t going to like it as much. The whole point of using centaur runes with withdrawal is to get close to permaswiftness. Without the centaur runes, I wouldn’t use withdrawal especially if you rune 30 in SA.

Doomdesire.9365:

Axle.5182:

Wolbryne.4037:

Lol bg’s new blob commander beatrix getting so kitten over constantly getting wiped that he has to pull an entire map blob to lag out the entire eb and cause massive rubberbanding. hilarious. his agenda to get revenge on us after he emoed out has gone down the drain. he’s getting smashed in 1v1’s. he’s getting smashed in 2v1’s. and now this map v 25 ? lol you’re funny dude. the level of hurt butt that dude displays is epic. keep up the good(?) work. we’re getting so much loot that we have to stop and empty our bags ever 10 minutes lol

Havoc squad reinforcements en-route looks like we got ourselves a blob convoy to de-rail

Did not know you guys came over. Welcome as well!

Yeah, a lot of bandwagon jumpers to T1. It would probably be smarter for the bandwagon crew to go the the 7th ranked server right before leagues. They would have a much better chance of winning that.

The top three servers in the gold league are definitely up for grabs at this point. 4-6 will just take a weekly beatdown and be happy about it.

This is the most OP skill in the game at the moment. It is easy mode. If you are an ele, use it.

infantrydiv.1620:

It’s a nice vid and good gameplay… but also a textbook example of why perplexity runes are overpowered.

More likely a textbook example of people posting on the forums when they have no idea what the runes actually do.

Ascii.9726:

http://www.twitch.tv/gw2ascii

Livestreaming WvW havoc and general roaming’s!

Nice! Fun to watch.

@OP. The way it currently works is fine. It adds strategy. Not sure why everyone wants to dumb down the game.

@OP:

You need to remember that a lot of people enjoy larger scale fights. Stop trying to change the game to meet your own play style.

@OP:

Be very careful here. You have a strong consensus that it should be a different game map. The worst thing that could happen though is that if ANET makes this into a PvP gamemode. The gear choices are too basic there and would take away a lot of strategy.

Andrew Clear.1750:

Johje Holan.4607:

selan.8354:

really just put the t1 in 1 league. i was on fa since the start and dont wanna move because we are forced to fight t1.

Honestly, this would probably be best.

League 1: BG, SoR, JQ
League 2: #4-#9
League 3: #10-#15
League 4: #16-#24

Dumbest idea. This would just benefit TC. Suck it up and be in the 1-6 league.

Man, you all complain too kitten much. Either participate or don’t. I don’t care if I get stomped during the season, I am still gonna play and have fun. And I do believe that getting stomped is more fun than doing the stomping.

If you believe what you say, then why is this a dumb idea? Your logic is flawed.

As for any of the 4-9 servers… They have all lost a number of guilds recently to T1. I have zero confidence in the current rankings. The only thing we know for sure is that servers 1-3 are stronger. Let them play each other. 4-9 would be a lot more interesting right now then you think.

No league that includes T1 can be even. Here is an idea. Remove T1 from the league, and let them fight themselves for the seven weeks.

4-6 isn’t that strong anymore since a lot of guilds from those servers recently moved to T1.

It is also an incentive for people in tier 1 to transfer to a lower tier.

It’s not that big of a deal. 20% or 40%. If someone wants 100% duration, they can get it. Nothing to see here.

DevonCarver.5370:

I’d just like to make a note of one thing that I think people aren’t considering when they transfer to stacked worlds. You will not, repeat will not, be able to receive the reward based on overall world place in the league, unless you achieve the meta achievement for the season. If you aren’t able to get into WvW much, you won’t get the rewards. So it is absolutely taking a risk to transfer to a world that has a large WvW population.

I like this. As other have mentioned, T1 servers (and others) are buying players at this point. I reeeeeeeally hope that the new achievements bring a lot of PvE types into WvW. That will cause all those T1 bandwagon jumpers to get stuck in queues. Fantastic.

DevonCarver.5370:

leviN.4390:

Hey DevonCarver, us bottom tiered server would like for you and your WvW decision buddies to join us over the next course of 7 weeks of WvW fun.

And I mean for you guys to actually participate. Not looking at stats and numbers from data collection. Join one server, a week and actively participate

Then actually get back to us with a written report on how fun it is

Sincerely

All bottom tiered servers that has kittenised by league

I will be on NSP throughout the duration of the season. And I will be getting the meta achievement.

Here’s to hoping that there are not any big rewards coming from the leagues. I like the achievement idea though.

Forget the paid part. Just suspend server WvW for a period of time. Instead allow everyone to sign up for one of 24 league teams. a floating cap would force all servers to be pretty close to even people wise.

This allows for competitive matches and guilds can all still sign up for the same team.

Works for everyone.

Yes please. This would help a lot. In addition, reset day is the most fun day of the week in WvW. Those first few hours after reset are the only time the three servers are balanced. I’d like that to happen 2x a week.