Guild Wars 2

Mrbig.8019:

Not enough.

these runes should be deleted.

They’re basically what they were before they got buffed.

When can we expect brackets by?

Let’s face it. Everything that you can’t kill is OP.

Hue hue hue

I second this.

BLUna.7928:

Freeelancer.2860:

Would you guys share with us the total number of NA/EU team applications?

I’ve got to clean up the form as there were a lot of duplicate submissions, but as of right now with those duplicates in play these are the stats I have. Ill give full stats once Ive gotten some time to clean it up.

Total Signups: 411 (Probably closer to 380 once cleaned)
Total EU Signups: 241 (~59% of total)
Total NA Signups: 170 (~41% of total)

Also as a bit of an aside, EU RSVP Emails are being sent out first thing tomorrow morning.

Nearly 2000 (assuming 380 is the correct number) players signed up for this tournament for NA and EU combined. Better than ever before. This is great.

You think ranking up is slow now? Should’ve played pre-April 15th patch, then, lol.

leungctm.1362:

almost no one plays gw2 pvp anymore because is getting repetitive and skills balance is awful. which is a huge shame

What an ignorant thing to say. I still get queue pops every night against good teams. I suppose if PvP is repetitive than all other MMO PvP and all MOBAs are repetitive, right?

style.6173:

Top rated GvG matchups also pull in 700+ viewers.

Unfortunately, PvP in this game is fun to play, but it is really boring to watch.

And GvG is more fun to watch? It’s 40 people running around with their heads cut off while spamming abilities with no clue of what it’s actually doing. It’s very easy to do because if you are a bad player and mess up, no one notices because there’s 19 other people on your team that can make up for your mistakes. In sPvP, it’s very punishing if you mess up because it’s a lot more difficult to make up for your mistakes.

The OP doesn’t know what he’s saying. That tournament had like 50-60 viewers. Even the Mistpedia Weeklies get a couple hundred.

Naturally, all might stacking QQ gets put on Warriors.

Black Scoutsman.5830:

tichorum.2415:

You don’t just stand still and dodge though. You use your own abilities. You can’t avoid everything and win 100 to 0.

You Can kite. You Can use your abilities to CC.

please explain to me how to kite around a point that has a burning field in it’s entire width like 50% of the time? Burning that does significant dmg even when the warrior has 0 condition dmg in his gear because his 20 stacks of might bump it up for him? The problem with hambow is not necessarily the build itself. The problem is that hambow is literally the Perfect build for fighting in a small confined circle. There are simply too many powerful and perfectly effective moves in this builds aresenal for fighting on a point. Yeah, I can dodge a couple, maybe get lucky and get a pushback for a second, maybe blind/block him once or twice, but the fact of the matter is, while i’m doing these things he still contests the point, regens health passively, and has 2 or 3 skills queued up and ready for me to run out of dodges and defenses. That’s why you really only see hambow in pvp, because in ANY other setting, its really not that strong. But when you must fight the warrior in a small little ring, its a terror of a build no matter what the opposition brings to the table.

Okay, I see what you’re saying. But you need to adjust your playstyle.

A Warrior needs to fight basically-on-top-of-you to fight you. They have longbow which has 3 useful skills (aside from blind) that do damage and greatly affect a fight. Aside from that, the longbow attack is abysmal. So when they switch back to melee weapons they are forced to leave their confined area and attack you wherever you may reside.

Because of this you should fight off of wherever the combustive shot lands. Even if it’s off point, that is fine!! If he caps it, okay, who cares? You’ll win 30-60 seconds later and take it back, nothing is lost but some points you’ll easily regain.

As for kiting, every ranged class can kite; go watch Helseth’s video about kiting as a mesmer. It’s extremely informative to even myself who doesn’t play mesmer. It helps you think outside of the box about how to utilize all of the area/space around you to kiting advantages. If you’re melee, odds are you have a ranged weapon.

Playing as a…

Warrior – You have the same advantages he has; outplay him
Engineer – It’s to your advantage to fight on point a decent amount of the time (especially with bombs)
Thief – Shortbow spam the Warrior is able to mitigate your s/d or d/p damage; when he swaps to longbow? Utilize your F1 ability for when combustive shot isn’t down and burst as he isn’t able to mitigate your burst aside from Endure Pain (in which you bail until it’s gone); I’m no expert thief but if you’re looking for more experienced advice about it talk to Caed, Aeroxe, or Toker, just to name a few
Guardian – Most guardians won’t die to a Warrior in a 1v1 in a limited amount of time; usually they have help arrive by the time they start getting weak

I DO agree Warriors are Really Strong, but I don’t think they’re overpowered. I think they’re top tier, but if they are nerfed then so shall Celestial amulet as a whole to affect Engineers and Elementalists (both are just as strong as Warriors right now, if not stronger). Combustive shot got a nerf already, as did Healing Signet. Warrior isn’t at an unbeatable state right now, though.

You don’t just stand still and dodge though. You use your own abilities. You can’t avoid everything and win 100 to 0.

You Can kite. You Can use your abilities to CC.

Wildstar PvP is a joke. There’s no balance whatsoever, it’s worse than GW2 by far.

Don’t be mad because you get killed by a hambow Warrior. Learn to dodge & play.

Well said. GG to the haters.

Avitori.6093:

I don’t really understand the purpose of this tourney, it won’t bring players back, and it isn’t going to keep players interested in playing. The only thing you are doing is giving a few lucky players a free vacation to germany while the game remains to be boring to watch, and just frustrating to play for many. No new game modes, terrible balance, various issues with soloq and leaderboards…the list is so long, but you are giving us something very little of us care about. Stop it with the esports attempts Anet you don’t deserve it, and frankly I find it insulting when you can’t even communicate with us on the forums. Show the pvp community you actually care about us and start implementing the endless feedback and suggestions you’ve been given to improve GW2 PvP.

Fix leaderboards
Give us new game modes
Balance updates more than 1-2 a year? (such a joke really)
New features, weapons, maps (not skyhammer)

I can’t wait to see how the players are going to be chosen for this as well. How are “all stars” going to be chosen when the competitive community is so ridiculously small…

It does, in fact, keep players interested in playing. Tournaments are why I still play..as well at 90% of the other teams.

(NA) Team Blacklisted [Envy] is looking for an Elementalist to fill our last spot for the ToL, Mistpedia Weeklies, and more.

This role would include (but not limited to) playing a support staff ele and D/D celestial ele.

Requirements:

- Rank 70+
- Extremely knowledgeable on game mechanics
- Usage of mic with TS
- Age 18+
- Able to practice nights (3-4 days a week; typically sometime after 8pm EST); Thursdays are a MUST

Bonuses:

- Able to play Warrior

Please have a desire to play the game and get better. Not looking for players who practice WvW every night.

PM in-game. Limited on time.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Well they better make sure they either:
1, Give away some legendaries to viewers.
2, Include some PvE news/panel in the show with the PvP tournament.

Because that is the ONLY way people will watch this game for its PvP. This game has a PvP viewership base of about 200-300 people. So unless they bribe people to watch then nobody will care whatsoever.

The game has a competitive pvp community of about 30 people. Even when the game was popular the competitive pvp community (actual regular teams) was still tiny to say the least.

Winning at Gw2 is like being the best in your family. It is child’s play.

I never see you win. Are you infant play?

Great – Warrior, Ele, Eng, S/D Thief
Good – Guard, D/P Thief
Decent – Necro, Mesmer
Bad – Ranger

So there are 32 team playing each weekend. I’m going to assume the second round and on with be streamed? Meaning 14 total games are streamed each weekend?

If it’s solo queue: pray.

If it’s an actual team: Recognize whether or not you can win a 4v4 / 5v5 team fight. If you believe you can, go for the team fight, win the node, and depending upon the map, play the secondary objective to your advantage to gaining extra points. If it’s too close to game’s end, force a team fight and have your thief/most mobile class run to their point and get a decap and come back to the team fight.

If you aren’t able to win a team fight, split them up. Force a 3v3 or (2) 2v2’s and a 1v1 and win those small fights, ultimately taking advantage of small fights. It’s the way a decent amount of teams play and it is perfectly viable.

Liewec.2896:

its one of the reasons i don’t play tournaments, in hotjoin we can all switch server when that mess comes up.
but if you’re playing tournament then you have no choice but to alt tab and browse the net since you all get punished if you leave, it really ruins the flow of your pvp night.

You and people like you are the reason GW2 solo queue sucks. That attitude is the reason you get Skyhammer and I am glad the PvP Map Gods give it to you all the time.

Justice has been served. Go AFK in PvE where you can still contribute while being alt-tabbed.

Good to hear! Any word on the release date of the first bracket and/or teams signed up?

Perhaps Mistpedia should encourage teams to sign up for the Mistpedia Weekly for people to evaluate their play and determine a suitable Seed for ToL #2.

The consequence of not participating in the Mistpedia Weeklies (or at least 1 of them)? Receiving a poor Seed due to failure to compete.

By all means it is a team’s fault if they fail to get noticed due to their lack of drive to compete in a weekly tournament at least once over the next 1-2 months before the ToL qualifier they are participating in. Sometimes a “no-name” team will show up in a Mistpedia Weekly and I am sure Blu will remember that team and put them above all who did not even attempt to participate.

style.6173:

Any warrior that is tough to face uses it. What’s worse is they get 2 endure pains from the trait and the utility.

The reality is that warriors are going to get nerfed. The change at least only impacts PvP and doesn’t impact their offense at all.

Anyone who uses double endure pain is playing Warrior incorrectly.

style.6173:

While under the effects of “endure pain”, a warrior should not be able to contest or cap points.

If that one change was made, I don’t think anything else needs to be adjusted.

So they should be invulnerable? That would also make them immune to conditions and CC while still allowing them to attack; ultimately making Endure Pain 1000 times better. Your petition would make warriors even more scary. Rethink this, perhaps.

I’d like to know how many teams on NA & EU have signed up thus far.

I hope more people put that they signed up so others can read it like it makes a difference as to whether or not they’ll sign up.

Their captain is pretty active as well. Wouldn’t be a bad join! ;P

I wonder…

Bohab.7825:

When I started playing GW2 at its release I got into the game and entered heart of the mists never looking back. I have done no PvE and only have done sPvP.

I took a few months off from the game and I return to sPvP post this April 15th patch… My world has flipped outside down and I am not sure how to proceed.

I treated sPvP like any other player vs player fps game like CoD or w/e. I jump on the game when I feel like it and I join matches and proceed to have fun. Log off when I like, no strings attached sorta thing… My rewards were gaining ranks, reputation and building up my sPvP locker.

The other night I decided to jump on the game so I downloaded patches and logged on my character. I had NO idea what had happened to sPvP and I was lost as to what to do. All I wanted to do at the time is join some hot games and play… I could not do this and it was very disappointing. So I started asking a few questions in the mists and players told me I had to now unlock gear and skills. Gear and skills that I had access to over the last 2 years that I’ve earned 50+ ranks with. I played Gw2 sPvP for quick games. The ability to jump into the game and play against other players with the same gear as me is what I loved about the game. Is this not what sPvP is now? If I have to spend large amounts of time to “unlock” skills and gear in order to compete then this game is rather dead to me.

Perhaps this isn’t true and I can easily and quickly return my character back to the state it was before I left. So my question… Are there any guides out there as to what has changed and how to go about getting back into the fun quickly? I’ve read the patch notes but the amount of changes listed just left me lost as to what to do now…

Thanks!

The game isn’t dead. PvP isn’t dead. PvP actually got a boost of activity after the first ToL and I suspect it will only grow more with the next one.

Rentapest.6503:

Everyone is a bunker build now (except me because I think it’s stupidly lame and refuse to stoop down to that level) and it’s ruining PvP.

If you play Zerk, you can forget killing a bunker. Because you have no defence, they’ll just nuke you while taking NO damage at all. It’s basically godmode.

If you’re stupid enough to play bunker, then you do no damage, but can survive stuff. It’s boring, stupid and ruins PvP.

The amount of games I sit afk in the base because I’m bored of being killed by ppl I cannot even damage below 90% is rediculous. I’m posting this while in a game actually, my 3rd afk match tonight.

Anyone recommend a good afk botting program for me please? This is so boring. :\

I read this as , “I’m bad so I afk.”

gesho.9468:

good luck to you all ppl.

but frankly i dont have sympathy for anyone in spvp, but those who pvp for pvp’s sake. i dont care about top tpvp teams who cry for cash prizes “to have some incentive to play”, nor i care for pve crowd who asks for shiny goodies “to have incentive to play”. the only guy i care about is the one who plays to practice and know he can outplay the others.

good luck anet catering to dozen different sorts of whiners, couldnt care less.

Have fun in PvE & WvW. Grinding mindlessly and effortlessly for nothing.

Weakness on lich = gg

Rentapest.6503:

I had it in my head that this game was “balanced” in pvp because there’s no gear advantage, no healers to ruin things etc.

But that’s just not the case at all. I’m now in the 3rd game afk again. With the 15min waiting times as well, this really is a waste of time! You queue all that time only to spend the next few mins afk anyway.

What I’d like to see is REAL balance. Get rid of these bunkers, give everyone the SAME survivability and damage. Make it about dodging, countering etc. Not trying to get the current pet-class and cookie build to win.

Look at other MMO game’s PvP and tell me GW2 is unbalanced.

This is what you’re saying: “Make all classes easy and balanced with the push of a button so anyone and everyone doesn’t have to practice to get better.. Make every class have the same abilities and health and just call it the same name. Give it all to me so I don’t do anything.”

I want paid tournaments. How about those?

Another retirement post. Only this one isn’t someone we know in game.

You and I have entirely different views of how PvP goes. You win some. You lose some.

Killing a bunker 1v1 is doable in a respectable amount of time, so having three people on one bunker is a bit out of proportion.

It’s a bunker for a reason. If you’re playing against five bunkers, you should never die (meaning, you should kill them before they kill you…), ultimately winning every fight and out rotating. If you’re failing to do either, or both, of these, then I believe balance is not the problem in which you are encountering.

However, it is solo queue (I assume).. so there are a lot of issues that everyone deals with. Team composition. Players AFKing. Players failing to communicate. PvErs. The list goes on.

Arkimedes.8730:

This has been going on for at least six months now. These days it’s every single game. I can’t take it anymore, it’s more tedious than dungeons. It’s like watching the same 30 second longbow animation demo every single game. The only guarantees in life are death, taxes, and that warrior will be using a godkitten longbow.

This is funny. I’m also tired of fighting against X class that has X weapon. Why is a warrior with a longbow picked out? I agree 100% with Rar. I’m tired of fighting d/p thieves. I’m tired of fighting rifle engineers. And those, my friend, have been around far longer than 6 months.

JinDaVikk.7291:

I love people who complain about silly issues.

For starters lets get this out in the open,

1 : Turret push back trait makes turrets HURT when they explode. Quite a bit. For starters don’t stand next to 3 of them when you kill them.

2: Next off turret engi has with healing turret only 2 condi’s cleansed every 15 seconds. That’s not good. Any HALF DECENT condi engi or necro can beat them. If you are an engi or necro and are complaining then get out of denial cause you need to l2p. Really bad.

3: get over the stand on point non-sense. Any hambow can use longbow f1 ( don’t give me the crap about reflecting it learn to aim. the radius is ridiculous) and arc arrow to do major damage. ( maybe AI turrets should be affected by conditions like spirits and spirit weapons etc….)

4: THEY HAVE NO STUN BREAKER.

5: limited to no damage if turrets are dead. Like really really bad.

6: Points tick once every 2 seconds. If they full cap and live for say 20 seconds they scored 10 points. Cool they were effective except they are on spawn for 15 seconds + 15 seconds to come back to point. You got 5 for killing them and 5-10+ by full capping ( how long can you hold the point?)

7: THEY HAVE 0 STAB REMOVAL the only reason the old decap was viable was massive boon strip. This build is crap because a bunch of noob engis thought due to old success this may still work. It doesn’t. Use stab for gods sake. Or learn to dodge/evade/blind ( seeing as he has 0 condi removal blind powder/smoke bomb work well)

8: Get a team mate to help you. With 2 people ( or if you actually bothered to run condi engi or necro) it isn’t hard. Don’t expect fairness in this game I can easily roll a 1v1 build and with some skill roll your back point repeatedly. Hell I can argue shadow trap is far worse offender. Quit complaining.

They’re so tanky that they don’t need to kill anyone. They just knock you back and easily cap the point. The engi’s job isn’t to kill but to sit on the point while CC’ing them off.

Try WTFast. You will probably notice a difference.

Rezz.8019:

I find tpvp enjoyable too.

However, for any “esport” warriors have to be fixed.

qq about what you can’t beat

I lol’d at “Heal Blob”.

We have a good amount of people trying out right now. Closed. Thanks!

Mindx.9610:

Choose your words carefully, who are you to say what anything should look like? Talentless? Riskless? Don’t bother to mention NO ONE changed builds after losing to apex or kpz. If anything pvp in this game should
have constant build switching to better deal with your opponent, introduce counter play via build swapping but no one does this they just rather fail repeatedly and then blame the opponents comp on being cheese.

Surprisingly… I agree. The game isn’t in a competitive enough state to make players do this though. The best teams in the game don’t practice 6-7 days a week like professionals in other games do and we sure as hell don’t take it nearly as seriously. This is because the game isn’t rewarding enough right now. I think when more tournaments roll out and there is a reason to practice more and stick with the same team for more than three weeks, then you will see teams get more serious.

a t s e.9614:

And warrior’s longbow is what keeps them alive in a 1v1 situation. Without longbow warriors would be free kills for any thief/mesmer/engi and even necro with minions.

Without stealth or evades thieves would die.

Without stealth and evades and a good portal or two, mesmers would die.

Without the ability to recover significantly in fights through their healing, engineers would die.

Every class has a way to stay alive. So take away longbow so they can’t? Doesn’t add up.

You don’t restrict classes or builds from 5v5 tournaments, that’s just silly. It forces people to find a way around a particular comp that seemingly dominates everything. People found their way around spirit ranger, I’m confident people can find their way around other builds.

It’s doable.

infantrydiv.1620:

Phaeton.9582:

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

It’s not OP, just very easy to play.

infantrydiv.1620:

vincecontix.1264:

Yes its a viable build for wars but its not really over the top. Other classes can bring just as much to the table and strength runes are available to all classes.

No, strength runes are not ‘available’ to other classes since they don’t have firefields and blast finishers on a 7 second cooldown.

Elementalists have waaaaay more than soldiers axe, which is a better build IMO.

Elementalists also have to rotate properly, and dont have complete immunity to damage periodically.

Yes they do. Focus 5 with earth. Mist form.

I think hammer is too strong right now with how long the CC is. Warriors don’t have 3000 toughness and if focused correctly can be torn apart, especially by conditions. Conditions after beserker stance is the death of a warrior that is just loaded up by them.

SlothBear.9846:

tichorum.2415:

Jamais vu.5284:

Sorry, Anet, but you can’t artificially generate interest in this game’s sPvP.

Yeah only 2,500+ were concurrent today. No interest.

Just out of curiosity sake I googled “league of legends twitch channel” opened the first one that came up, it was just some kid playing the game in no special tournament or anything and it had 34,000+ watching.

3000 (which is what I saw it peak at) for the biggest event in awhile with really expensive item giveways is indeed pretty much zilch in terms of interest.

As long as everyone is playing a midget whose attack effects don’t actually show what they’re hitting, particle effects flood every fight, the game still disconnects everyone randomly, a “top” team cheats and then ragequits, a game in the finals includes someone getting stuck in geometry, and the commentary is gibberish (“they’re like walking into a brick wall while sitting the wrong way”) when it isn’t flat out wrong (how many times did an ele mist form and the caster said he was down?), I don’t see this changing.

Oh and fix the balance so that pvp has actual fights in it. Watching a bunch of bunkers play whack a mole with their own hp bars isn’t exactly edge of your seat stuff.

League is popular because it’s simple. People can understand simple games easier so they get more involved and invested in them.

Sunshine.5014:

This bunkers and asuras problem really kill the mood for ToL.

When I watched the ToL EU, it was fun because of all the rotation and fun combat.
On ToL NA, it’s just a bunch of people poking each other. They don’t win by rotation (which is fun to watch). They won using bunkers and asuras.

Such a shame.

P.S: this game has no dismissing return for CC. 2 hambow is too strong.

I agree. Snow Monkey did beat KPz on Forest due to rotations though.

I think hammer on warrior either needs longer cds on the 5 and 4 or decrease the knockdown time. I think ele’s are over the top right now. They’re virtually unkillable in 1v1s. I think they need an increase on their cd’s.