Guild Wars 2

Nightcapping is something people complained about like 2 years ago. It doesn’t matter really anymore. Most just want to actually find people in WvW. Outside of EB, it is hard to find fights anymore.

Of course ANET is always 2 years late, so they are talking about night capping now.

So, first the nerfs were needed. The whole concept of an ele standing on point all day and living just didn’t make sense.

The problem is that ANET didn’t give ele another viable spec as part of the nerf.

The most recent bunker meta sucked. The only good thing about it is that there were no thieves. On a pug team, usually a thief means a loss.

Vieux P.1238:

1-1-1-1-1…no combo needed 1-1-1…thief wins.. yay… no skill’s required.

Don’t worry. Most thieves are horrible. If you are losing to them, then sorry.

I just thought you got rewards based on your highest ranked team.

geekilo.8512:

After HOT, i feel like it doesn’t take skill to play or out play. It’s sad ….

That was definitely true in the last meta with bunker mesmer and condi rev.

We still need to see what will be meta. People are still trying new specs at this point.

Engi is completely dependent on how much condi is in the meta. Necro is a hard counter for engi

@OP:

Your logic is really bad. No one cares how much effort ANET put into the maps. This is a game. The only thing people care about is whether it is fun. The old maps were more fun.

It should say something when in last night’s reset in T2, we had a 50 person queue on EB and ZERO queues anywhere else.

Zintrothen.1056:

Updating my list, based on theorycrafting and experience playing as and fighting against these professions. Specs won’t be specified but should be pretty obvious.

- Reaper
- Scrapper
- Daredevil
- Druid
- Dragonhunter
- Tempest
- Herald
- Chronomancer
- Berserk

Chronomancer and Berserk might switch places. DH and Tempest might switch places as well. Herald might push just below Druid.

My best prediction at this time for top comp is: Condi Reaper, two Scrappers (at least one as power), D/P Daredevil, and support Druid.

Wow. If you think Herald is worse than Tempest…. just wow.

Herald is still top 3.

Alin.2468:

Anet has absolutely no idea what is coming at them. Right now many many good thieves lay low, waiting for the next season to start (because no balance patch can be made during seasons). When that second season starts, Anet is in for a very big surprise.

After Season 2 starts, I am curious to watch a game designer face in Guild Chat on twitch.tv/guildwars2 just to see how worried they are.

I wish a lot of good luck to ArenaNet, because they will indeed need it in Season 2.

Luckily, there are not very many good thieves, so no need to worry.

The issue isn’t unranked. The same people who were doing ranked are now doing unranked. The issue is that ANET has failed at implementing matchmaking in unranked.

If you feel that PvP sucks, maybe a different game mode or game would be better for you.

Yes, the balance team isn’t great, but the core conquest game mode is fun. Stronghold, however is horrible.

I actually like where Engineer is right now. It is good to see a class that can have more than 1 viable spec in PvP.

Wow. Nicely done.

ANET is the only company that somehow releases worse matchmaking every patch. It is actually impressive in a sad way.

I’ve said before that druid will be the place where all the old bunker mesmers run towards. We shall see.

No. burn damage was broken at that time. Every meta has something that is broken. Just adapt.

Remember, you don’t need to play all game modes. Personally, I find raids to be boring. I don’t like how ANET threw away the gw2 manifesto and now force people to have a tank and a healer.

That said, I know others enjoy it. So they can play it and I’ll play stuff that is more fun to me.

More likely that their broken specs got balanced. Bye bye bunker mesmer

The old mindless ele spec where someone could stay alive forever on point is gone. The fun part is trying new specs. If that isn’t your thing, wait a week or so until metabattle tells you what you run.

We still need a bit more time. I am happy that the no-skill builds like bunker mesmer are gone, but still need to see how more matches play out.

Yes, why do I need to always wait in queue for EB. Give us the old bl maps. The new ones are horrible.

Burn.5401:

“The title should cater to my needs!”

Get a grip and stay on topic.

I know I know. So many people will be sad next season when they can’t rely on a broken bunker mesmer and condi rev to get to legendary. Better reward them now!

A good start. Also channeling should cause a player to lose all boons. I want people to fight over the point, not have the player with the longest stability get it.

I’d rather they just forget about season 1 and look forward. Season 1 was a wreck between a broken bunker mesmer and condi spec for half the season and then of course the cheese mode known as stronghold.

@OP,

You spent the time to come to the forum and post a complaint. You should have come to the forum and read the message saying the league would end at reset on Monday. We’ve known that for at least 2 weeks or more.

Aphix.9846:

Pvt Frosty.6973:

Aphix.9846:

http://i.imgur.com/yPYancp.jpg

Only solo queued necro, got there a little while ago, this is the screenshot after I got legend

Primordial Legend = Legend x2 (not Legend x1)

P.S. even captured a bit of Ziltoid being Ziltoid in my attachment. Good times

Huh ? Clearly not. Primordial Legend is just division 6.

I hope it is legend x2. It would make the achievement mean more.

That tends to rage in matches and goes AFK.

Yeah, I think it is pretty obvious that season 1 was a failure. Let’s hope the changes for season 2 make it more legitimate.

That said, you guys need to understand that ANET doesn’t measure success by having balanced classes, or a fair league system. They measure success by how much playtime the mode is getting.

Essentially if you are writing on the forum in between queues, you aren’t really solving anything. ANET is looking at it as a success since you are still playing.

This thread is funny. OP, I created a tldr for you

tldr; I don’t know all the balance changes yet but I’ll start complaining now anyway.

I think ANET knows their next balance patch will be a fail and is trying to hide it as long as possible.

Zoltreez.6435:

Anet only cares about Esports now it seems.

and they utterly fail even at that.

No, the reason for WvW failure is a complete lack of understanding by the WvW team. They’ve made some attempts, but they’ve all been wrong. I know they have a revamp in the works, but they probably are going down the direction of more gimmicks like they released in HoT.

Ithilwen.1529:

Stream; Mesmer are being nerfed out of the meta, Thieves now OP and looking for ways to make rev OP.

Yes, we know we sold the Chronomancer based on Alacrity. We changed our minds after we got your money though and we’re now giving alacrity to Engie and thief.

End of stream. No preview needed,

You probably actually think that mesmer is balanced right now. lol

Khenzy.9348:

Aylpse.6280:

Fatallion.5389:

Will there eventually be a clarification about title being avalaible only during this season?

I hope not. That means the exploiters and Stronghold farmers will be the only ones with it. Come a time people forget about all this and they will brag about being the best of the best.

Hey you salty boi, I reached legend by soloqing 90% of the time, with a warrior. Shoosh with your mindless generalizations.

Sure, there were some people who made it to legendary legitimately, but there are a lot who got there through cheese.

Personally, I think the primordial legend title should mean more and should only be for people who FINISH a season at legend x2 or greater.

Alekt.5803:

Fluffball.8307:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Don’t get your hopes up, kid.

It’s not polite to refer to people as “kid”, particularly when they’re likely twice your age. The more you know…

Better listen anyway. It’s probably going to be 99% of the changes.

No way. I fully expect you to be wrong. It’s probably closer to 98%.

So, I played a recent game where this happened:

One player on the losing team was upset and so he started telling the winning team where all the players were going. People reported him.

People like that better receive a ban. Otherwise, what’s the point of even having a report function?

It is scary that he is in charge of WvW since I don’t think he gets it at all.

Ramoth.9064:

Because what you perceive as a 2v5 obviously isn’t shared by everyone else.

I’d love for ANET to show stats for how often a 3 thief pug team beats a no thief pug team. I guarantee one of us will be right and it isn’t you.

It’s the downside of a lot of bads making it to legendary. You have to remember that a lot of people got there riding on a broken bunker mesmer + condi rev prior to the minor nerfs. After those nerfs, those same bads moved over to stronghold, cheesed that, and gimmicked the matchmaking by inviting low levels.

Now with the matchmaking gimmick patched, you have a lot of people stuck in legendary who have no chance to compete because they are simply outclassed. Only thing for them to do is AFK or chat after a few minutes. It doesn’t take long for them to realize they aren’t good enough to kill anyone.

Yes, and then it will be a 2v5. Same point still applies. Why do I lose pips for a 2v5 in that case?

hackks.3687:

Agemnon.4608:

The common denominator is you.

Let’s get something straight. You are 1 player out of 10 on the map. That means at best you have a 10% impact on the match and its outcome. If you’re wildly mismatched, then perhaps you could have more impact – for better or worse. But your logic is beyond fail.

Take your common denominator and shove it back where you pulled it from.

Actually your logic is nonexistent if you think all 10 players on the field are equal. A really good or really bad player can have a much larger effect than that.

Why do I lose pips when I am stuck in a 3v5?

One of two things:
1. Broken matchmaking
2. He was in a party with another ruby. In the past, a lot of cheesers would pair with low levels so that they’d get easier matches. Now everyone in a party takes on the division of the highest rated member. It is definitely a good thing overall, but has some drawbacks like the scenario you mentioned.

The banner is just more gimmicks that are not needed in WvW. They need to encourage open field fights and tower attack and tower defense. The key is players. Not siege, not banners, but actual players. ANET has lost focus on that at some point.

Guys…. Every WvW decision by ANET in the last 2 years has been wrong. You really think the overhaul is going to fix anything? All they will end up doing is making WvW more like EotM.

Drizzy.1268:

Yes plz.
As a roamer, in 8 out of 10 visits you would get a fight in the north camp.
And as a small group you could always pretend to attack one of the northern towers to get some action.
That aspect of the game completly died with the new map and i miss it.

Yes!!! This^^

The new maps are just bad for fights. The thing you have to remember though is that ANET doesn’t like to admit mistakes. They aren’t going to take down something they just created even if their stubbornness causes people to leave.

I’m actually really scared about their major overhaul. It seems virtually every WvW decision they make has been wrong for the last 2 years.

Mark my words… Druid will become the new bunker mesmer in everything but high end play. The self sustain is already too high. As a lot of flavor of the month types leave bunker mesmer, this will end up being the place they go.

Watch.

Ara.4569:

Please, stop calling it balance. It is not.

And no, necromancer will be trashed hard. Only active defense they have to survive focus ? Dodge. And they want to butcher energy sigil.

It will be “focus the necro” as usual, only more effective.

So many things wrong with your post.

1. This new patch won’t make everyone happy, but it will be better than the one we currently have.
2. Necro is going to be top 3, easily.

Duke of Thorin.7425:

Wow, this game becomes alot less fun when all your classes get destroyed in one fell swoop.

If you like bunker, play druid after the release. It is going to be the new bunker mesmer.

Thief should have preparedness as baseline, but nothing else should be made baseline. Also, I’d still like to see the evade on staff 5 removed.