Guild Wars 2

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WuGzaGenius.5684:

GhOst.4019:

Sube Dai.8496:

You have to be in top 250 I think it is, to see your rank.

Top 1000 and you get a number. Before that you are 99% and down from there.

lmao, what percent is considered good?

None right now since the LBs are no indicator of skill.

The team isn’t necessarily associated with AG. I created AG (with Karma, of course) and decided to just take the name with me to make a team for ESL cups. I believe in the future there is a possibility the name will be changed to better suit the entire team once a roster has been established.

DoD is a very strong team and we both had subs for those matches. I don’t think they got lucky, I think they just played better and hopefully once both have our full rosters there will be some good games between us!

S: Eng, Ele
A: Warrior, Thief, Necro
B: Ranger, Mesmer, Guardian

Not only me but a lot of others in PvP have been taking on major lag tonight and even the past few days. ANet?

If I’m not mistaken it was a one month test rather than a full season.

Chaith.8256:

tichorum.2415:

So? Who cares? It’s a violation of the rules, therefore anyone breaking the rules should be punished. IT’S A RULE. Why have them if they aren’t going to be enforced?

You aren’t being disagreed with on the grounds that ‘rule breakers shouldn’t be punished,’ it’s more… ‘are they actually breaking the rules by using stow weapon?’

Getting additional sustain out the stow weapon feature is confirmed as unintended, but there’s no mention of the stow weapon feature being unintended for things like damage increasing Spatial Surge, or avoiding the Warhorn aftercasts. Heck, on D/D Ele you can avoid the aftercast on Ring of Earth by using Magnetic Leap after.

You can save time and aftercast on a sizeable list of skills by intelligently cancelling or stowing at the right times.

Banning players for weapon stowing sets a precedent that tournament admins can’t enforce.

IE:

“Oh and the Engineer on the Red Team used weapon swap to circumvent the intended big leap backwards from Acid Bomb and get unfair time to cleave the downed body, and it’s ALL OVER, Red Team Disqualified” #esports.

It’s a bug. Something that is not intentional by design that happens while in game, aka using a mechanic, is a bug. Abusing bugs is stated to be against the rules. Therefore it is punishable if ESL admins want to enforce their rules against this.

I’m not doubting there are other bugs that are being used that are punishable by rule, but this is the biggest issue at hand.

Cynz.9437:

tichorum.2415:

ArrDee.2573:

lol if the game is broken, how can you expect people to not abuse it especially when there are no rules against it! Remember the Mesmer Chaos Storm fall damage bug! Good times!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Incorrect.

http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/go4guildwars2-northamerica/monthly-final-december-2014/rules

3.8. Illegal Actions
Any actions that result in an unfair advantage are illegal. This includes bug abuse of any kind.

they won’t bann anyone for that heh or they would have to bann every single ele in tourneys

So? Who cares? It’s a violation of the rules, therefore anyone breaking the rules should be punished. IT’S A RULE. Why have them if they aren’t going to be enforced?

kdaddy.5431:

Ran into a problem yesterday where alot of people on my teams kept running far to fight the turret engy and lose and they would do it again. I find that the biggest problem with that build is that everyone complaining about it either knows there build cant beat it, havent practice against one and refuse to go against the meta. Worst part is they complain about it in map chat and name calling because there a turrent engy.

I ran some practice runs on what i thought would be a turret engy and i found lb or shortbow ranger it was pretty easy to kill him. Also necro also easy even when i ran a scepter focus. Just for fun we tried a zerker warrior who used stances. A 6-2-0-0-6build, lol that worked sometimes. I personally also ran into a thief who wiped me 3 times in 1 game and he was the only theif to even drop me on my turrent engy and he killed me each time in under a minute which i found amazing.

I checked some things cause i saw people on here calling them op and saying how do i beat one. I personally feel most people dont want to run anything that isnt meta because there are alot of toxic players. I wished i would of print screened it but i had 2 mesmers 2 rangers and me on my ele and we beat a 3 engy 1necro and 1 ranger team in ranked. All im saying is that if you feel your seeing to many people log in to engy you have to run a build which you know can compete with it. I literally dropped my friend with my shortbow condi ranger in about 30 sec with rune of the krait. I know its not a meta build and most find it unplayable vs other builds because it isnt as good for team fighting. Just throwing it out there that there are alternatives and you dont have to play the same build as everyone else in the game. i honestly find the biggest issue is people in this game dont know how to play in there lane. Everyone thinks there dps thief should be able to kill anything in 3 hits and there bunker guardian shouldnt die in 1vs fights. The community is failing to come up with other builds because the best players in the game dont struggle and stay in there lane when it comes to fighting these simply builds.

The problem with this is that you’re saying there are “X many builds like X and X can beat turret eng”, which the majority of people don’t play because they don’t do well against any other classes. To go into a match with one of those banking on the fact that there’s a chance the enemy team will have a turret eng is not wise. There needs to be more counterplay to something like this.

I’m not joking when I say a turret eng could be watching netflix, see an enemy come to him, insert his head into his keyboard and do relatively well. The turrets do massive damage to light and medium armored classes.

This is a very discouraging matchup for less experienced players.

ArrDee.2573:

lol if the game is broken, how can you expect people to not abuse it especially when there are no rules against it! Remember the Mesmer Chaos Storm fall damage bug! Good times!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Incorrect.

http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/go4guildwars2-northamerica/monthly-final-december-2014/rules

3.8. Illegal Actions
Any actions that result in an unfair advantage are illegal. This includes bug abuse of any kind.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Seriously wish people would stop going on about counter play.

It is so exceptionally dangerous to add things like cast time/tell to dark path (necro death shroud fear).

How do you add a ton of counter play to stuff and then expect anything to die. Imagine hitting a perma vigor/extra dodge thief or a perma vigor engi/ele with massive healing when they can just dodge everything.

Then on top of this people want to add counter play? Counter play buffs dodging and blocks and other such things. It is all very complicated….

I.e. I am fine with adding counter play but there needs to be counter play to heals like healing turret/ele signet/feline grace/withdraw etc etc etc

This is coming from the guy who makes at least one post a week about another class that’s not named “Necromancer” being overpowered.

I don’t think this is a matter of exact numbers or an argument about whether Ranger or Engineer autos are better.

And auto crits do hit for over 1k, jsyk. ^^

Good points all around.

I do want to point out that I do not believe everything in this game should be counterplayable, however, there is way too much that is unavoidable. Once random fear from a Necromancer can mean certain death if you had to use your stunbreak for something else in a team fight. A good Necromancer will continue their fears off of the original instant-fear and condi-bomb you to death.

Obviously there’s plenty of things that are not telegraphed in this game, but that is one of the more annoying/well-known ones.

They should make it like $10 or $20 to PvP and they can purchase an add-on (PvE) on the BLTC for the remaining amount.

There will be no weekly 5v5 tournament this Saturday, 1/10. Plan on them starting again next Saturday.

Karma happened to be ill and it was not streamed due to this.

We are putting in a new rule in which any suspicion towards players using alt accounts will result in an automatic disqualification from that event and a permanent ban from all other future AG events. This will be taken very seriously without any second chances. All players that are associated with the rule breaking are also banned due to their knowledge of who they are playing with.

I apologize for that. I was told only a few hours before that Karma would be unable to make it and was struggling to find a suitable host since my stream wasn’t doing so well in terms of my Internet.

I will be sure to update it in the future if it changes!

Guild Wars 2 is the most well-rounded, well balanced MMO out there. Not to mention has the best combat. Won’t find a better MMO.

We had to host it on Ferox’s stream tonight as Karma was unable to make it and my Internet was a bit wacky when streaming.

Don’t forget to sign up for this week’s cup!

Eura hardly plays anymore. Any other ranger doesn’t compare. Kizos is probably your best bet.

We’re still on the search for more! Feel free to let us know if you’re interested!

LegendPlayer.2418:

Is it only for NA?
:(

That is correct. We are currently only on NA servers but do plan on expanding to EU in the future.

We get you’re mad about celestial amulet, OP. I hate using it. I hate the amulet. I don’t make 10 posts about it.

Happens sometimes. Sometimes it doesn’t.

Read the entire article. It says if a team has already qualified and they get 1st or 2nd again, the next team in line (ie. 3rd place) qualifies.

Thank you all for the support! Be sure to sign up for Saturday’s tournament!

Ranger, warrior, and guardian are the most basic and easiest to learn.

@Silentshoes & @Chase

So you think the more games you play the higher you should be?

Firebird.8324:

Mike.4830:

SobeSoul.6910:

This leaderboard is silly. It’s a measurement of who can spam the most games.

However, the leaderboard shouldn’t be about rewarding top players stacking themselves into one team to farm unorganized pugs or lesser teams.

If you’re a top player why are you dodging other top players by teaming with them?

Lol, no one is “dodging” anyone.. There are about 10 players that are top tier in NA, these 10 players make up the two best competitive teams in North America… These two teams beat every other team in the game.. These teams are not scared of fighting each other, in fact they welcome it. However it requires all 10 players to be on to play each other… Which unfortunately is quite rare.

So “super pugs” form where 3 players from team A and 2 players from team B join up since the rest of their team is on//

You guys exploit cele, once it gets nerfed, we’ll c.

Exploiting and “using a lot of” are entirely different meanings.

It isn’t about luck.

It’s about the most games played. They added a GOOD factor into the leaderboards while destroying most of the other good factors.

The good thing added: players who quit for months cannot come back, play 1 game, and be in the top 20 anymore.

The worst part about this leaderboard is that even though you cannot play 1 game and come back to the top of the leaderboard (which is a good thing), you will have to play hundreds to get back there since it’s entirely based on the amount of games you play.

As I’ve said for the past many, many months.. we need the system League of Legends/SC2 has. We don’t have tens of millions of players, so give us Bronze, Silver, and Gold leagues. From there, we don’t even see our MMR, but work up a total points system, similar to what we currently have, to qualify for the next league. Then, the next few matches (3 or 5) we play, we must win 80% of those to be promoted.

Anyone who has played LoL ranked will know what I’m talking about. You also don’t see 67 million LoL players complaining about the ranked system, so it obviously gets the job done.

Aaron.2413:

what are your thoughts on lich and war banner?

I….actually..agree with…Backpack? Wot.

If cele is being nerfed, mercy runes and lich auto attacks should be as well.

ABOUT ACADEMY GAMING

Academy Gaming (NA) is a new Guild Wars 2 PvP guild dedicated to building up a competitive community by bringing the game weekly tournaments, in-house PvP training sessions, tournament betting, and so much more. Working with KGG and GW2 Lounge, we will be bringing new teams into the scene as well as great prizing for our weekly tournament contestants.

We are not only a tournament organizer for Guild Wars 2 PvP tournaments, but are also wanting to bring in new players that are seeking out people to play on a team with, get better as an individual player, and just have fun. With many PvP veterans in the guild, we always have an abundance of people for newer players to ask questions and get help when needed.

If you are looking for our post about our weekly tournaments, the link is posted below.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Academy-Gaming-Weekly-PvP-Tournaments/

CURRENT SCHEDULE

Note: None of this is required.

Monday: Bi-Weekly Randomized 5v5 Conquest Tournament | 8:30pm Eastern
Wednesday: In-house PvP training sessions | 9:00pm Eastern
Saturday: Weekly 5v5 Conquest Tournament | 8:30pm Eastern

Currently we are only on the NA servers but will be expanding to EU in the near future. We also have a dedicated Teamspeak to our cause and would be more than happy to have any and all members of AG on there with us.

Message one of the following for more information or for an invite to the guild.

Tichorum.2415
Watch_out_or_bleed.3068
Grimjack.8130
Vidrick.6318

Lux.7169:

The preview tournament was a lot of fun. I couldn’t believe how fast you got 100 people to agree to do a solo Q / free agent tourney so fast.

The free agent tourney was a blast and the teams were pretty evenly split for fun games. I hope there’s more that I can sign up for!

Thank you! It was 50, but even so, we got 50 people involved in a solo queue tournament and on teamspeak within 90 minutes. It was amazing to watch and something we plan on doing bi-weekly.

We’ve got some other exciting things on the way, so spread the word!

All tournaments are free to enter. I just updated the post with this.

The amount of positive feedback we’ve received from doing this is more than I had anticipated! Thanks for the support, and hope to see plenty of teams on Saturdays!

Acandis.3250:

BLUna.7928:

For anyone that was in the chat room for the entirety of yesterday it was a lot more than just making fun of players. In general people were being incredibly toxic toward each other to a point where it was almost kittening me off. Everyone knows Twitch chats during large events can be bad, but the only time I have seen Twitch chats get that incredibly toxic toward each other was during other GW2 events. It’s even worse considering some high tier players are the ones instigating it in certain cases. At this point I’m just considering flicking the sub mode switch on during those events.

Or you could just ban bkpk…

Acandis.3250:

SlothBear.9846:

But once somebody missed a queue because they were in a loading screen, so that makes it okay.

Yea but there’s an easy solution to that. Drop them from the queue, and don’t give them dishonor. There should seriously not be a dishonor stack for missing the queue. Am I expected to hold my kitten til I see the queue pop when it could be anywhere from 10s to 10 minutes?

Honestly. What is wrong with holding your kitten?

Relentliss.2170:

Justin ODell.9517:

Relentliss.2170:

Justin ODell.9517:

Silentshoes.1805:

Is it a coincidence that the PvP designers have relaxed the matchmaking, favoring team formation and strongly hurting the solo experience?

Yes. We do not intend to ruin the experience for people that queue solo. Matchmaking was relaxed overnight because I would not be available to monitor the servers to prevent queue times from growing too large.

This is NOT something any of your customers asked you to do. Just your small team forcing a particular playstyle on your players.

I’m confused. What isn’t something our customers asked us to do?

No… I don’t recall any long thread where people posted saying hey please delete soloq so that I am forced, if I want to have fun, to make a pvp team. Where is that thread? I went back 5 pages and I don’t see it.

This is the problem with your team. You just make decisions based on your own personal preferences and then force them on us and say that they are ours. There was absolutely no reason to delete soloq. Soloq was created for a reason and you forgot what it was… to separate the serious pvpers from the casual.

I was quite happy to get home from work and have a few soloq games. It was fun and relaxing. I’d plan to play 3 and often stay on for 10. If a mate popped on… cool… we’d do a few teamq.

Now I log in and have to force myself to play the 3 games it takes to do my daily. I sometimes force myself to play a few extra but tbh I don’t really enjoy them.

I don’t recall anyone asking you to remove soloq. It was something you decided to do on your own and has a negative impact on many of us.

This is what YOU think. Not everyone. No game company can please everyone. That’s why there is more than one MMO…each one can’t have everything. There’s too much.

I personally loved the change. The matchmaking is a bit off right now but I think in time it’ll get there. I love having unranked so I can queue with people I normally wouldn’t and not get stressed over it.

And by the way, it IS something a LOT of their customers asked them to do. We can still solo queue. And we can do it in unranked. It’s perfect.

GhOst.4019:

Ya and who told you that? Not true. The streams and the tournaments start at the same exact time. Also when one of them got downed yesterday he instantly jumped into twitch chat to blame it on the other guy that was downed right after him..(not mentioning any names). The chat was as it was happening mid game. I highly doubt there is any delay at all. This happens as well when the Dev’s stream WvW tournaments and kittened off the Servers getting streamed because everyone else knew where their zerg was non stop.

If there was a delay then how come some of the Shoutcasters answer chat questions right when they are asked. Wouldn’t be possible if there was a delay. Chat is instant and if a delay was happening with the “Live stream”, the questions would be loooong off the screen before they say anything.

You are seriously mistaken. There IS a delay. It may not be 3-5 minutes, but there is one to the point where it doesn’t help a team out. If I push far and the enemy is watching the stream, they’ll see I’m at far way before they hear/see it on the stream. The amount of information gained from watching the stream is extremely minimal.

Nerf the celestial amulet. It’ll knock back eles, engs, and cele wars.

Aereniel.7356:

Ranger: Dunno. Does Eura stream? EU hasn’t had decent Rangers since Battosai left.

Eura isn’t playing right now. And other than that..no good rangers that really play.

This.

Elxdark.9702:

I can’t stand Backpack, he’s so disgusting to see.

btw who the hell has enough time to make this lmao.

He’s 17 and still in high school. What do you expect? Immaturity is all you will get out of people like him.

Silentshoes.1805:

Kitt.2567:

lol win% 46% guy is top#1 gg anet nice job done

You don’t understand how that player could actually be the best, eh?

You should read up on how GW2 rates skill.

You see, it’s a team game. The top players are the best team players.

He is so good that he improved his teams performance the most. So he is the best GW2 player.

I’m really not sure if you’re joking..

I have been on my Engineer in PvP and twice in the past two games when I am jumping in the air and get hit with the Ranger elite Entangle, my character gets glitched/stuck in the air and I cannot move or use any skills. I am stuck in the air.

It’s mid-jump, not dodge roll.

Justin ODell.9517:

Blackmoa.3186:

http://i.imgur.com/Jt0uVNm.png

So how exactly can this happen?
So i was on 8 wins, played 2 games (won both) and now i am on 2 wins?
I think something is not quite working correctly

This could have happened because while testing the ladder we’ve reset the data several times. It wasn’t suppose to be visible to you guys until the 16th.

On the 16th, we will reset the data one more time and then the beta season officially begins.

So all wins/losses and rank on the new LB will be reset on the 16th?

I think you misunderstood. Let me rephrase.

How can I see/determine what my odds are of winning against my opponent?

Looking at the amount of points awarded or lost…is there a way to see or determine the odds of you winning a game?