Guild Wars 2

Lopez.7369:

Warriors are the best class in PvE as well. Maybe shaving isn’t the best option anymore. How long does the class have to dominate for something to happen?

Warriors have continuously been nerfed. Hammer. Longbow. Healing signet. All have been nerfed. There’s still some tuning to be done but they can’t do it all in one huge chunk. It takes time.

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.

Will there be a VoD?

The announcer is pretty legit.

Just wait.

Mrbig.8019:

The patch has been a success for the most part, but point is, the way how rewards tracks are settled ( cap in hotjoin- no cap in solo q/team q) is obviously not working.

I’ve never seen solo q in such a terrible state ( team q on the other side is feeling good, though no one really wants to compete), people are literally REWARDED for afking ( cuz they wouldn’t get anything by not queing anyway, so who cares, even afking is a plus) and people literally ZERGING and IGNORING any possible strategy.

Currently there’s literally no point in joining solo q unless you already ended your reward cap in hotjoin OR you have no one to play with in team q.

Ye, cuz even duo queing in team q is way, WAY better than playing solo q.

This is kinda serious, pls fix this.

How are you forced? You can go get the same rewards through going and doing the dungeons or another way of PvEing. It’s a way for PvPers to get PvE rewards without PvEing.

Wesley Haaijer.3584:

Hi there,

I’m playing for a year now pvp and what i see lately is that people go bunker their builds. What is fun about that? Always the same builds sorry but pvp is failing. tournament is now 3 to 4 bunker classes.

So this makes PvP dead? It’s more alive than it ever has been since launch.

Indeed.

vVv Gaming is looking for a bunker guardian to fill a spot on the new vVv roster. We will be playing competitively and are looking for someone who is a top tier player or has the desire & skill set necessary to become a top tier player.

Requirements:

- Able to communicate with a mic/headset
- Able to practice 3-5 nights a week and participate in weekend tournaments
- The desire to become a better PvPer and willing to take the criticism necessary to achieving this
- Must be experienced with GW2 PvP; this doesn’t mean being top 10 on the leaderboards, but rather having many games played and time dedicated to PvP
- Preferably Rank 60+
- Able to listen and understand directions
- Age 18+
- Favorite song isn’t by JB

While I could go on for quite a while more about what we’d prefer to have, I will leave it at that.

PM me in game.

I’ve been getting massive lag spikes ever since the patch. I PvP and this is where it occurs. I am on a campus network, but never had the issue before the patch.

I am also unable to log-in right now and it is telling me that “The game client is unable to the access log-in server at this time. Etc…” for the past 30+ minutes.

My internet is not being disconnected as I am on a VOIP server that is working perfectly fine and obviously making a post here.

Thanks.

I like downed state. It makes the PvP more coordinated and skillful play can be used around it. It makes the fights more intense. A reason GW2 might have this is because we don’t have dedicated healers to keep people alive. You can have support, I know this, but there is no “healing class”.

I see valid reason within other arguments, though. So I can see why you want it removed.

Valid reasoning. This is what makes a good argument. Take notes GW2 players.

#NoResponseBecauseTheAnswersCannotBeJustified

I agree with infantrydiv. It was some of the best casting from those two yet and I think it’ll only improve from positive feedback like this thread.

Jekkt.6045:

Zach.3264:

Jekkt.6045:

Still a bad excuse as thief’s signet of malice is 110/hit and ele’s signet is ~200 per cast. Guess what, their active heals suck too but HS is still better…

Here’s the problem with that.
Warrior Signet heals constantly, yes there’s no denying it’s powerful.

Though, Elementalists also get several healing abilities on their weapon sets (every one).
Thieves also get stealth which gives them free time for their CD on heal to go down. Not only that, but in my opinion.. majority of Thieves run 30 points in Shadow Arts. Which cleanes conditions in stealth, procs regen AND heals passively in stealth.

I crafted my Thief to 80, I had maybe 8 hours playtime on it by the time I hit 80. I grabbed a full berserker set and went straight to WvW. Within 2 hours I had it nailed. Since then I’ve still barely died. They have plenty of escape and the survivbility stealth provides with 30 points in Shadow Arts is unreal.

So, in my opinion.. Warrior heal is fairly balanced.

Warrior heal is not balanced at all. It would be if the signet healed for 250/s. Warriors have reliable cleanses blocks and stances. In pvp nobody ever runs 30 in sa as stealth is completely useless…

It would be Useless if it was 250/s. It was already nerfed. Poison on it gg.

Keira Ferland.5619:

Outside of balancing issues, bad players, etc, we have the DC. Someone just dced in a high profile match and guess what? The game resumes. Just look at league of legends and their thriving esports scene; everything is played on lan, effectively eliminating DC, and online tournaments have a pause function.

I can agree a pause function is needed, but bad players? You have to start somewhere and good players will eventually take their spot when the game grows. There really weren’t many balance issues tbh.

BLUna.7928:

tichorum.2415:

You can make predictions? Sweet.

ANet should give out some prize to whoever has the best bracket

Yeah just a little feature im playing with, maybe Ill toss out a little congratulations to the guy that gets it the best or something

Honestly I think that’d get people more involved in the teams and invested in their favorites. It’d be pretty cool! :P

You can make predictions? Sweet.

ANet should give out some prize to whoever has the best bracket

So this is everything to OP has lost to. What a long list.

MM needs to go.

Are teams that you don’t know just randomized for their seed?

He’s referring to “Steamhawke”. Thee Decap Engi.

Perhaps the PTR is private and you, like so many others, don’t realize it.

Lol this is funny.

Someone can’t wake up at 9:30 to fix the servers because it’s a Saturday.

Guess we’ll postpone it 5 weeks.

Immensus.9732:

What the titles says^^^^ It feels so unfair ,me being a warrior and a Mesmer DPSing me hard and i lose only a 5% portion of my health. That`s just unacceptable.

This game has the best MMO class balance of any MMO out there. Go to a game like LOTRO, then you’ll QQ.

The new heal is GG? LOL

Seriously, do you want to know how to counter it and wreck the warrior with it? Stop attacking. GG.

The op has no idea what he’s talking about. You only need 4 of them, it’s just an additional way to get AP or the daily in general.

I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard at a forum post before. Lmfao.

Jastorm.5972:

I actually miss the warrior meta… at least warriors played to take points. Now all I see if thieves glory farming randoms. 7 thiefs and a Mesmer on one team. We went from condition wars with necros.. now we have spam wars with thieves. sigh

What new meta? The top teams set the meta. Solo queue isn’t the meta, bro. This patch has been out for 12 hours.

You’re saying goodbye to condi necro because of one ability an ele can use? lol

Name one perma stealth thief that’s good.

Are you saying goodbye to condi warriors? lol

Spirit ranger? Why? Because their storm spirit is getting nerfed? Now they’ll just go for more team support with signet of renewal or something.

It sounds like you’re an ele based upon how much you talk about diamond skin.

Arganthium.5638:

So, y’all know how these work just remember to consider how different profs will be after the Dec 10th patch

Tier 1- meta or OP
Tier 2- average or near meta
Tier 3- below average or practically unusable

Also remember to order classes by number, i.e. 1. Mesmer is stronger than 2. Warrior

For example, here’s my list:

Tier 1:
1. Mesmer
2. Warrior
3. Necromancer

Tier 2:
4. Engineer
5. Guardian
6. Ranger

Tier 3:
7. Elementalist
8. Thief

And… Go.

Looooooooooooooooooooooool

T3 thief and ele? Oh dear. You are misinformed. D/P thief is BUFFED. Ele is not T3.

piffdaddy.8014:

I think it’s stupid how you allow cheese passive random rez spirit ranger on every team but you ban prismatic understanding Mesmer….the only reason people think prismatic understanding op is cause of random qq from people getting owned when they solo roam in wvw. Ridiculous how only certain types of cheese allowed and not others…prismatic understanding Mesmer takes more skill than cheesy spirit ranger any day…you can literally go down the line of your abilities on spirit ranger 1-5 switch 1-5 again and spam spirits and you will own people.

No skill needed, and don’t even get me started on that kitten elite…0 respect for all spirit rangers

Spirit ranger is easy to pick up, but there’s a fine line between a good one and a bad one.

A bad spirit ranger = good in PvP because it’s not too difficult
A good spirit ranger = incredibly good in PvP because they’ve played it a lot and spent a lot of time learning pet control, not to spam your spirits and use them wisely, etc.

When I fight spirit rangers I can typically immediately tell a ‘good’ one from a ‘bad’ one.

Don’t forget to watch!

Asomal.6453:

tichorum.2415:

Asomal.6453:

tichorum.2415:

Asomal.6453:

tichorum.2415:

Asomal.6453:

Wth are you talking about? The gold income shouldn’t be astronomical as PVE. Otherwise you would see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold, aka afkers and newbies. No more gold for win, thank you

What do you mean “see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold”?

That’s all PvErs do! Farm champs mindlessly!

Plus, we NEED more PvPers, isn’t that a good thing to have more people to play? Who cares if it’s for the gold, perhaps they’ll grow on it and enjoy PvP and make something of it.

You wont get more PvPrs because they won’t be there to help you win or to play at all. All you’ll get is more afkers and people joining just to earn gold, even if losing

Bro, my post is about team queue. I don’t care about the solo queue win earnings. Those are fine.

They’re rewarding players, but they’re not rewarding the people who take the time to get a team together and team queue (which takes more time than solo queue) much better than solo queuers or any PvErs who mindlessly attacking champions for hours straight while watching Netflix.

Even in tPvP, would you like to play against a team of 4 afkers because, lol 70s per lose?

That’s why it’s a TEAM queue. You queue with 5 people, not by yourself. That’s what solo queue is for.

As far as i know, you can join TEAM queue solo

That’s you playing at your own risk if you so choose to do that. That’s not the point of it, so if you get AFKers that’s your fault, not ANet’s because they are giving people more silver for team queue.

Tranassa.4968:

Asomal.6453:

Wth are you talking about? The gold income shouldn’t be astronomical as PVE. Otherwise you would see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold, aka afkers and newbies. No more gold for win, thank you

THIS!

I think the amount fits the purpose, which is for sure not to make us all Donald Ducks! (Maybe come back to this idea for April Fool…)
If you want more money just go and farm champs or play the trading post -.-

You aren’t going to get AFKers in team queue if you use team queue for it’s purpose: team queue. Solo queue if you’re alone.

Oh and for those of you that will say “what if we have 3 people and need 2 more?” Well the LFG tool is available for everyone now and it has PvP in it as well. You can guarantee yourself you won’t get 2 AFKers.

Asomal.6453:

tichorum.2415:

Asomal.6453:

tichorum.2415:

Asomal.6453:

Wth are you talking about? The gold income shouldn’t be astronomical as PVE. Otherwise you would see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold, aka afkers and newbies. No more gold for win, thank you

What do you mean “see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold”?

That’s all PvErs do! Farm champs mindlessly!

Plus, we NEED more PvPers, isn’t that a good thing to have more people to play? Who cares if it’s for the gold, perhaps they’ll grow on it and enjoy PvP and make something of it.

You wont get more PvPrs because they won’t be there to help you win or to play at all. All you’ll get is more afkers and people joining just to earn gold, even if losing

Bro, my post is about team queue. I don’t care about the solo queue win earnings. Those are fine.

They’re rewarding players, but they’re not rewarding the people who take the time to get a team together and team queue (which takes more time than solo queue) much better than solo queuers or any PvErs who mindlessly attacking champions for hours straight while watching Netflix.

Even in tPvP, would you like to play against a team of 4 afkers because, lol 70s per lose?

That’s why it’s a TEAM queue. You queue with 5 people, not by yourself. That’s what solo queue is for.

Asomal.6453:

tichorum.2415:

Asomal.6453:

Wth are you talking about? The gold income shouldn’t be astronomical as PVE. Otherwise you would see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold, aka afkers and newbies. No more gold for win, thank you

What do you mean “see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold”?

That’s all PvErs do! Farm champs mindlessly!

Plus, we NEED more PvPers, isn’t that a good thing to have more people to play? Who cares if it’s for the gold, perhaps they’ll grow on it and enjoy PvP and make something of it.

You wont get more PvPrs because they won’t be there to help you win or to play at all. All you’ll get is more afkers and people joining just to earn gold, even if losing

Bro, my post is about team queue. I don’t care about the solo queue win earnings. Those are fine.

They’re rewarding players, but they’re not rewarding the people who take the time to get a team together and team queue (which takes more time than solo queue) much better than solo queuers or any PvErs who mindlessly attacking champions for hours straight while watching Netflix.

Asomal.6453:

Wth are you talking about? The gold income shouldn’t be astronomical as PVE. Otherwise you would see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold, aka afkers and newbies. No more gold for win, thank you

What do you mean “see more and more people going for tPvP and SoloQ, just to farm gold”?

That’s all PvErs do! Farm champs mindlessly!

Plus, we NEED more PvPers, isn’t that a good thing to have more people to play? Who cares if it’s for the gold, perhaps they’ll grow on it and enjoy PvP and make something of it.

Say you’re doing team queue. You get 4-5 team queues per hour. Assuming you win all 5 of them you get 1.5 gold.

PvErs make 5-10g/hour farming champs in Frostgorge, doing something mindless like that gets them more gold than doing PvP team queues.

This really is an atrocious number compared to what PvErs get. If you’re wanting to make gold the all-around currency, PvPers are going to be extremely far behind because of the lack of gold you’re giving us, thus forcing us to PvE if we want to keep up with PvErs in terms of getting the gear we want to have, etc.

Sure, hotjoin and solo queue gold rates are fine, but you only get 5s more for a team queue win than solo queue win? That doesn’t make much sense to me.

Note: the gold is a good thing, but we’re making absolutely nothing to what PvErs are which needs to be changed, especially if you’re wanting gold as the all-around currency.

Josh Davis.6015:

tichorum.2415:

HOTJOIN is getting gold? Lol this will be good.

I’m not at the office so I can’t look it up, but if I remember correctly, you get more gold for LOSING Team Arena than you’d get for WINNING a CA/hotjoin match.

No I didn’t mean “this will be good” sarcastically either.

I’m actually glad this has been put in. It will actually give some people a reason to stick to hotjoin to learn how to PvP rather than jumping into solo queue immediately (though, most new people do any they are horrible because of it).

Glory isn’t convertible to gold. Where in the post does it say that?

HOTJOIN is getting gold? Lol this will be good.

little.6509:

tichorum.2415:

Sea.5732:

yeah what others are saying, it’s a longterm goal.

feel i may as well start a new game if you take this away =(

They’re introducing more long-term rewards as they are taking this away. Right now you have 1 long-term goal that will take you perhaps 2 years to finish (Dragon finisher). They’re introducing MULTIPLE long-term goals for you to work towards.

If people would actually read the post and stop skipping over things that are said maybe they’d understand. Hell, I’d rather have MULTIPLE long-term rewards than just one. Not sure why everyone is so kitten about it.

or you have nothing in pvp to worry about? maybe if YOU read you would notice that the ranks will be eliminated. SURE I would love to have multiple long term goals but if that means I lose the one that the only reason I played the past year and a half was for, then kitten no. That’s like me suggesting to add more classes into pve but to do that we erase all of your current characters and gear. Pvp rank is all we have had since launch so this is erasing any progress we have ever made. Take all your gear, all your gold, all your level 80’s and present you a finisher. Pretty sure you wouldn’t be happy either.

I said I would rather have more than one long-term reward. I never said they weren’t removing rank.

I’m glad they’re removing rank because in return we’re getting more long-term rewards.

Sea.5732:

yeah what others are saying, it’s a longterm goal.

feel i may as well start a new game if you take this away =(

They’re introducing more long-term rewards as they are taking this away. Right now you have 1 long-term goal that will take you perhaps 2 years to finish (Dragon finisher). They’re introducing MULTIPLE long-term goals for you to work towards.

If people would actually read the post and stop skipping over things that are said maybe they’d understand. Hell, I’d rather have MULTIPLE long-term rewards than just one. Not sure why everyone is so kitten about it.

Necros don’t need a nerf. Warriors are getting nerfed.

If you think this game is bad, go play another MMO and see how bad their balance it. This game’s PvP is incredible compared to every other MMO PvP out there. You can’t argue against that.

You are complaining about balance because you don’t know what you’re talking about. You just say “necro needs nerf” or “warrior needs nerf” and have no facts to back it up. Warriors ARE getting nerfed. Necros already got nerfed. So did spirit rangers. Balance is getting there.

Bring 8-team tournaments back?

More ArenaNet hosted tournaments?

You get skill points at max level from the tomes of knowledge.

hooma.9642:

glory > skillpoints > gold

gg skyhammer farmers

Glory doesn’t convert to gold. All glory farmers get is a title. No where in the post does it say “You can convert glory to gold”.

Tranassa.4968:

Why we need new healskills?

“you’ll also be able to spend glory and gold to purchase account-bound Tomes of Knowledge” I hope this means you need glory AND gold to get this.. otherwise the pve farmers get a nice way to level their chars… Cool pvp update!

Achievements -> more Ap-farmer in soloQ

PvE gear in PvP… no words!

Glory removed and GOLD as universal currency… no words!

Seasons? Sounds good, but lets look how hard you drop during hollidays if you cant play for 2 weeks…

pvp ranks will be retired… no words!

Anet proves one more that they have understand nothing. Why they hate pvp so much? Why they dont remove pvp from the game if they hate it so much?
No word about rank barier for soloQ… No words about new rewards for PVP players… All you do is making gold farming more attractive… RLY? ARE YOU SERIOUS? You all want us to run in circle and farm champions? Is this what GW2 is? Farming? Nothing more? This blog post kills GW2!

Sry for QQ but im so disappointed!
They make a PvP update that tells everyone “Go PvE!”

This blog post helps GW2. A lot of returning PvPers will come back from just hearing about the ladders and new gold rewarding. Who cares about glory farmers, boo hoo.

Glory being removed for gold is the best thing they can do. Your arguments make no sense.

Maybe Quilja can finally have a level 80…