Guild Wars 2

Awesome to hear about all the stuff that is coming. Definitely looking forward to all of it.

One question though:

What about the future of tournaments? Are we going to see something like 8-team tournaments return or more Arenanet-hosted tournaments?

FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. LADDERSSSSSSSSSSS. I needed to add some emphasis so I added extra letters to “finally” and “ladders”.

DisfunctionaaL.2504:

So I am very new to gw2 and am wondering what i will get out of the mesmer and ele in pvp in terms of
-mobility
- damage output (burst or sustained doesn’t concern me)
-utility
-entertainment (fun to play?)

I have a level 16 mesmer and am wondering whether to change to ele because they look more fun, however, i am open to other classes.

Thoughts?

Don’t play a class based upon how viable or strong it is, as that will always change with future updates. Play what is fun for you. Ele and mesmer (and eng) have the highest skill cap in the game in PvP. Other than that, you don’t need to know much else. Just go play them and decide which is more fun.

I think that will be addressed in the blog post that is ‘supposed to’ come today.

Why would you need a 5v5 guild arena? Tell your guild to go to the Mists and buy a server and do it that way. That’s what private servers are for.

noobftw.9654:

0 20 20 30 0 warrior, Inspiring banner, settler jewel, undead rune outheals p/p thief unload without doing anything, don’t even have to drop the banner and not even using the doyak rune, just sit and watch the thief unload on you. Oh don’t forget to laugh.
Anyone want to feel the joy, can test it on the pvp arena dummy thief. That dummy dummy hits really hard even on a guardian. This is so hilarious.

You can only assume that if you build as tanky as you possibly can, you won’t do any damage and you won’t take much either. Hmm. Makes total sense. Not sure what the complaint is for.

You said “Many healing skills are useless. what are your ideas to fix this?” and then all you do is talk about the three warrior healing abilities. Good post. Sarcasm.

DarthDragonVanquisher.6912:

Please give me some insight on the upcoming changes.. I’ve been out of the Gw2 pvp Scene for a while due to work and my fiancee.. Greatly appreciate your guys opinions and the information you can provide!
As always stay classy!

Just because you’re #1 on the team queue leaderboard doesn’t give you the right to know everything, Darth.

no

Pyriall.5027:

Divinity.8041:

Since there are no rewards, what is the incentive to coordinate a 5 man team vs other people, when you can just play YOLOQ instead?

Why try to schedule practice times etc. Most good teams/players have quit or disbanded.

For a game that is literally brand new, the player base for PvP is awful….

Discuss.

#esportslol

The game isn’t brand new…it’s over a year old. In terms of gaming it has already seen its best times. Six months to a year is where you see whether an MMO is going to be sustainable or not. I think we have our answer as it relates to GW2.

It took WoW at least 3-4 years to take off with Arena.

Bsgapollo.5364:

3 auto attacks from hammer and almost every ele is dead. Not even kidding.

A good ele won’t allow a warrior to get 3 attacks in general.

DiogoSilva.7089:

tichorum.2415:

This is a horrible QoL improvement. Team coordination? That’s PART OF THE GAME that you have to communicate. You’re just making it easier for teams to NOT talk and call out numbers because you see it on the map yourself now.

Teams almost never communicate in solo queue. This feature is a better than nothing QoL improvement that adds more strategical depth to solo queue matches.

Who cares about solo queue? I’m talking about team queue. Team queue should be priority over solo queue every time.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

It’s not my place to be giving design reasoning behind changes so I can try to get one of the guys to give a statement on this but the way I see it is that this change helps lessen the gap we have in player skill level. It’s an awesome quality of life improvement to team coordination and it’s going to help matches remain more competitive across the board. Team’s using voice comms will still have an upper advantage but I think that reducing the amount mal-rotations happening is a positive change.

This is a horrible QoL improvement. Team coordination? That’s PART OF THE GAME that you have to communicate. You’re just making it easier for teams to NOT talk and call out numbers because you see it on the map yourself now. You’re making bad teams better from doing this and even more confusing because you see 4 mesmers on the map and can’t even see your own teammates icons on the map because of it.

Titles for top 100 like you used to do with QP please. We all want it..

Define “Bunker”.

This leaderboard MMR system is bad itself. My whole team was like 15, 16, 20, 21, and 23. We won like 5 matches and they ALL moved up aside from me (who was 21 before the move) who moved down to 22 because our guy that was 23 replaced me at 21.

That makes no sense at all.

kirito.4138:

infantrydiv.1620:

In addition, I think giving the option to 1 team to resign if they are more than 200 points behind is completely reasonable.

Been in many matches where the game difference was more than 200, and a comeback win was achieved.

Justin ODell.9517:

Better quality can mean what ever you want. E.g. only one or two warriors at most.

If you have an opinion on what a good match should look like, please share it.

I play on both NA and EU. EU queue is a bit faster than NA. However, I am already waiting 5+ minutes for a match now. During offpeak or non-prime hours it will be 10-20min wait or longer.

The higher up on the leaderboard you are the more likely you will sit this long for a match. The system seems to try it’s best to find a matchup but eventually gives up and gives you much lower ranked players after a set amount of time or whatever people are available.

I’ve watch twitch stream of people queuing and see them getting into matches before I do even though I queued before them while watching their previous match.

Don’t think you can improve the wait time unless leaderboard is fixed. The top 1000 is filled with inactive players or people just sitting on their positions with occasional games to reset any decay.

Agreed.

Justin ODell.9517:

Personally, I think we can get there.

It’s awesome that each day I get to help move things a little bit closer to that goal than the day before.

Agreed. There are A LOT of good teams in the upcoming GF tournament with a HUGE prize pool. Also can expect lots of viewers. Those that doubt esports are upset that can’t compete in it.

Josh Davis.6015:

@Tichorum – Things change on a daily basis. We’ll be able to release details on the system when we have everything finalized. Releasing the information sooner than later isn’t going to make the update come any quicker.

That said, we’re working on a blog post to explain the upcoming changes.

Thank you for your patience.

Okay, makes sense. Obviously releasing information isn’t going to make the update come sooner, but it will stop the kittening about what is coming and will give us something to look forward to rather than wonder about for the next three months.

Justin ODell.9517:

tichorum.2415:

1) What the new reward system will consist of
2) When the new reward system will be released

1) I don’t know. I’m busy writing servers, I haven’t read up on all the latest details. I’m also not sure if we are ready to discuss the details yet.
2) See #1. I don’t know if we’re rolling it out in phases or as one big drop.

dDuff.3860:

Is there any plans on implementing “check” system to prevent 4v5 matches?

In the long(er) run, very likely. In the short run we’re looking at ways to improve the situation, and speculatively been searching for bugs that may be related.

Then why don’t we get someone who actually knows what’s it in to write a blog post? Not ready to discuss the details? Why not? Because the details have been in discussion for 14 months and aren’t ready yet?

Dear Justin,

If this is how I can get your attention, that would be awesome. Your hard work is very much appreciated as is all other dev work.

However, what will waiting for revealing the upcoming reward changes do aside from anger the PvP community even more? You are being asked two different things:

1) What the new reward system will consist of
2) When the new reward system will be released

What harm is done in telling us what will be coming?

Your Beloved,
Tichorum.

What about fixing the leaderboard?

Butter.3024:

Let’s be honest watching GvG is 1000x more fun than the boring capture points. If Anet really wants esport that much then they should implemented this. It’s not even that hard to create just make a room and let people fight each other to death.

I don’t see why Anet wouldn’t want to do this

Watching GvG is not at ALL more fun than watching tPvP. It’s all zergs with no coordination at all. You can’t shoutcast it because even the players don’t know what the hell is going on.

If you want your 15v15 go to WvW because that’s all it is. Zerg vs zerg and the only “coordination” there is is a commander telling you when to portal bomb go flank left or right.

Pyriall.5027:

Amaterasu.6280:

What’s done with these botting reports? Because I’ve reported it multiple times in game, but I’m not sure how the process works?

Nothing is done with them. I’ve tracked people who have been reported for teleport hacking (recorded them as well and provided). They were still doing it months later after the reports.

With the pacing of this game, don’t expect the report AFK feature any time soon:
It’s on the list.
It requires back end programming that takes alot of resources.
They’re having discussions about having discussions about it
They want to let the meta settle
They want the “BIG” tool tip changes to settle
They’ve known about the issue but don’t want to hurt the players afking too harshly so they are being very careful with potential fixes
It’s part of the glory rewards update, but first they needed to fix how glory was distributed within game modes they they are hypothetically testing which may or may not be released with the next 2 or 3 years.

I’m sure I missed a few more reasons, maybe someone can help me out.

This was actually funny…

It’s on the horizon though.. no really.. it is.

Lordrosicky.5813:

SpehssMehreen.5897:

a t s e.9614:

Wtf? Nerfing S\D so much would destroy the thief class . Maybe you want all thieves to go D\D free kill suicide mode? They should just redisign alot of things in this game that are a complete disaster . You also forgot necro’s death shroud duration is ridiculous .

the OP cant deal with it, therefore needs a nerf, makes sense right?

I have 4 accounts (some free trial), with a 70% win rate in solo q over about 500-550 games. Have had 3 accounts in the top 50 at times before decay. So I can deal with it. But I dont want to. Because it is lame. If you want to tell me to l2p then prove your individual skill and go and win 70% of your solo q games (at high rating) over 500 games then come back.

Solo queue? You’re basing your skill off solo queue? lul…

Lordrosicky.5813:

Here is a list of things that you should nerf:

1, Dhumfire – icd
2, Doom – duration
3, Signet of Spite – duration
4, Healing signet – heal
5, staggering blow – cast time
6, Automated response – 90% not 100%
7, Healing turret – cast time
8, Zerker stance – 90% not 100%
9, pin down – bleeds
10, combustive shot + cleansing Ire – radius
11, Spirit of nature – health pool
12, spirit of sun – passive proc
13, Inf Strike – not moving people to somewhere without line of sight
14, Larcenous strike – remove evasion from flanking strike
15, feline grace – add 10s icd
16, Shadows refuge – cooldown
17, mark of blood – 1 less bleed
18, necro scepter auto attack – lowered durations
19, emphatic bond – 20 second icd
20, critical infusion – 15s icd
21, incendiary power – 20s icd
22, Lyssa runes – 60s icd

I am sure there is more. But this would be a good start.

The logic would be to reverse the power creep which made everyone quit, and to actually add skill and FUN back to the game by not having as many builds which are frustrating to fight against because of passive bs or because of uncounterable things like cc chains, mass evasion and Ai spam.

Problem = most of this stuff is things you actually buffed. So you need to have the guts to admit you made mistakes and reverse alot of these changes.

I’m glad you could gather a list of 22 things that you can’t overcome/beat.

People QQ about healing sig and then QQ about only pressing 3 buttons (in reality, a good warrior uses their utilities as well as their 2nd weapon which involves more than 3 buttons). If you want 3 buttons, go play a S/D thief because literally all you do is his 2, 3, v, 3, v, heal, v, 3, 2, 3. (v = dodge, obviously)

Sigil of Para was fixed; helped a lot of the stun issue.

You play a thief? S/D only removes ONE boon now…still has 338568238628712985986326532963240960434098760428923523068094782052982986583023762304923609487430698430905834232863209823086936 evades in a row, so no QQ from you is allowed

Who counters warriors?

Magic Toker and Mesmers.

If warriors are op and need fixing, then fix thieves too please. Thanks.

Sol.4310:

when did warriors start using trait points.

When spirit rangers were able to use their spirits whenever they wanted to and still win 1v1s.

It’s rather unfortunate that Deku has had to part ways with us for life, but that is that and cannot be reckoned with.

vVv Gaming is searching for a talented spirit ranger to fulfill his role. We are looking for a temporary or full-time replacement. If we like what we see you will be offered with a temporary spot. This means until you can further prove yourself, you will continue to be temporary and until that time comes where you show us you are one “hell of a” spirit ranger, you will remain temporary.

We want a full-time ranger, but you have big shoes to fill.

Requirements:

- Able to play anywhere from 3-5 times a week anywhere from 7pm EST to 1am EST (these times are TBD)
- Excellent* communication skills
- Excellent dueling skills (ie. homepoint 1v1s)
- Rank 40+ (We want someone with a lot of experience)
- Tough skin: take criticism well and listen, talk, and learn (and change builds when we ask…)
- Excellent communication skills

Yes, I put excellent communication skills up there twice. It’s what we want. If you’re the best ranger in NA but have bad communication skills, don’t try out.

Send me a message in-game or mail and we’ll talk.

I look forward to seeing patches..but then there’s nothing about PvP. So I get sad.

A thief can hit a warrior for 9k easily…even if you’re a bunker.. you’re going to lose 200g because AK does it..all the time..and it’s dumb

I’m confused..he didn’t kill you and died…and you’re basically saying they need to be balanced. You wouldn’t make a thread about this if you didn’t think so.

Yeah I thought it’d give people a laugh. Also show what kitten he is

Okay..it’s funny..but he’s also an kitten. Thought I’d post this so other GW2 players can back me up that Guild Wars 2 nights are the way to go…

Here is the stuff he tweeted about me playing Guild Wars:

“Wow my roommate is off guild wars before midnight? oh no everyone the apocalypse is coming. get your perishables ,etc”

“My roommate just kicked someone from his guild wars team. sounded brutal.”

“All weekend my internet was fine and now that my roommate is back it sucks again so obviously the fault is his guilds wars” (there’s over 30,000 people on my campus; I guess I affected HIS Internet)

“My roommate just called himself “clutch norris” so theres that" (MY NAME IN GAME IS CLUTCH NORRIS…)

“Sometimes i think my roommate is more concerned with how his guild wars character looks than actual gameplay” – WHO THE kitten ISNT concerned with their look in-game?

“My roommate is “practicing his choreography” for guilds wars and if that doesn’t tell you something…"

And the list goes on.

I am PROUD to play Guild Wars, but this guy is an kitten. I guess his “Tumblr, Netflix, turret defense, and Twitter” nights beat my “Guild Wars 2 With Friends” nights.

Over 900 right now. I don’t see any GvG streams over 10. Not sure where you’re headed with that argument.

Watch it!

Yes! Watch it!

The Good:

Everything Ken (OP) said.

The Bad:

Everything Ken (OP) said.

The Missing:

Competitive play features. Tournaments rewarding QP’s & gems. Weekly tournaments. Monthly tournaments. The original “plan”.

NOTHING happened to thieves. S/D is totally broken.

+1 to Sen

1. Rewards & Progression
2. eSports Tournament play (INCLUDING Qualifier points, 8-team tournaments, etc)
3. Balance

BurrTheKing.8571:

cymerdown.4103:

Unless you can convince me that there are solid team comps that aren’t Guardian Warrior Ranger Thief X (where Warrior is a good choice for X), I don’t think balance is in a good spot just yet.

Wait…so your idea of balance not being a good spot is where you can have 4 different classes and your choice of w/e you want?

Shouldn’t that be “balance” itself? Allowing to have teams formed around what classes they want to play with the spec they want to for different team comps, rather than having to play a specific class because it’s a must-have in a team comp.

Right now there is variety with team comps, more-so than there was a month or two ago. But there is a lot of room for improvement.

cymerdown.4103:

Unless you can convince me that there are solid team comps that aren’t Guardian Warrior Ranger Thief X (where Warrior is a good choice for X), I don’t think balance is in a good spot just yet.

Nah Ken. I thought this patch was a step in the right direction; and in the midst of all the anger posts, I thought I’d post about what I think it did well.

The weakest links (ele and mesmer) are still needing a fixing IMO.

Leuca.5732:

tichorum.2415:

I edited it a little. I didn’t look too deep into Rangers. They’d been changed significantly in a previous patch and not a lot was done aside from improving Sic ’Em greatly and some significant pet changes.

I don’t think Rangers needed much? Spirits are still viable and work well; power Ranger works decently.

Sic ‘Em still bugs out when combined with other skill activations, meaning it’s literally only used for the reveal now, and no person with common sense is going to use a power-based ranger competitively.

You don’t think Rangers needed much? The entire game needs much from a PvP perspective. This patch was unacceptable to fix the issues that are currently in place.

Well don’t leave me hanging. What do you think needs fixing?

As for Rangers, at high level play they do well and aren’t broken, nor are they to the point where they aren’t useful. Spirits are obviously the best build for them and seeing more viable builds would be nice, but I think that’s what ArenaNet is working towards.

Ryld.1340:

Elementalist: Just a lot of changes in general to support ele support. I’m unsure of whether or not they’ll be viable, but I think you’ll see a lot of testing with them and in general more gameplay (for tournaments though? That’s up in the air and will really be determined by what Demise and other ele’s think).

After playing for a bit, I can tell you that pretty much nothing has changed. Staff Ele’s still have an overwhelming weakness to Warrior/Ranger/Necro. Quite a few things about Staff were actually nerfed. I was really excited for this patch in hopes that more would be coming besides just the Unsteady Ground change, which is great, but so much more is needed. The Water Blast wasn’t a buff, as it literally does near nothing in damage and radius so it won’t be used. Earth Shield so far has been neat, but I really really hate having to drop my ~20 skills for only 5. What they should have done was let the One with Air trait ignore immobilize too, which would’ve fixed one of the biggest weaknesses to staff.

I haven’t gotten around to playing it, so perhaps you are right. I just watched the video and read patch notes and putting that into my head it looks like a lot of support was given to the staff ele. Perhaps I’m wrong on that, I wouldn’t be the best one to ask; it’s just what I grabbed from all of the notes.

Kwll.1468:

All I read here is I’m a pro you are just qq’er everything is fine type nonsense that is rampant on these boards from a few people. It usually comes from people that do nothing but run in organized groups and win all the time so what do they care. Go do a couple hundred solo q matches and get back to me.

I’m unsure of where I said “I’m the best and better than you”. I run with an organized team, but we don’t win all the time because there are other good teams.

I do solo queue when I have time. Ranked 95, best rank is 1. Unsure of where solo queue comes into this equation though. I’m stating what I believe the patch did and how I think it benefited PvP.

Edeor.9720:

tichorum.2415:

I just want to post this so I can see how many QQers reply with their complaints about what they can’t beat; because right now there is no “one” “God-Like” class that shines above all else.

Yes, everything is ok, there is only a small problem with the condition build (high damage, bust damage, and high resistance). But it’s ok.

Let me guess, you are using a condition build, right?

No. I am not using a condition build. What do you mean high resistance?