Guild Wars 2

people need to learn to play this game really. Look what happened to turret engies nerfed to the ground killing a build completely, top players didn’t even have problems against turrets, anet should stop listening to the casual crowd.

GS on guardian is lacking some real CC, the specialization could really change the PvP scenario and not to mention the extra mobility and also I could see a good condition build arising as well.

You’re asking for a nerf on GS rush? Do you know how badly GS has been nerfed already. Rush is also an attack asking a nerf to rush would mean a nerf to GS damage.

Are you kidding me DPS guardian and guardian in general is probably the most balanced profession in the game. DPS guardian is a risk rewarding play style how its meant to be and they actually use berserker amulet for main offensive dps unlike the other broken celestial dependant professions.

It would attract a lot of wow players so why not do it, specially how awful wow pvp is right now at it’s current state. I don’t get anet’s filosophy of doing things sometimes.

I agree with lucos, a lot of bad rangers. I think the main reason its simply because rangers seem to attract a lot the casual crowd, the play style is very casual friendly or at least the main builds. On the other hand theif is being played very wrong by a lot players, in the right hands theif is strong.

ronpierce.2760:

Saiyan.1704:

Projects like the Leaderboards shouldn’t take three semesters to complete. If Anet’s “lets promote a grindfest leaderboard” craps-out, which it will, then they’ll likely revert to the latest MMR Algorithm firmware; aka patch 2014, that’s collecting dust on their desktop. Hopefully they’ll have a “Collaborative Development” page where they’’ll actually hear the community’s ideas.

Who ever is the PvP Director for

• Class Stacking Dailies
  *The Type Of Leaderboard (must cater to high mmr players in the 400games mark.
• Not wanting 2v2/3v3 Competitive Arenas
• Limiting PvP Players by keeping them in Hotm
  Needs to re-evaluate things because these are bad management practices.

b.o.t: See you in the next patch Blu

The only reason 2v2/3v3 doesn’t exist is because they don’t want to “divide the pvp community any more.”

AKA, they don’t want Conquest to be barren and show just how awful it was as a primary game mode. If they were REALLY that concerned with splitting the community there are already ways to condense it. Not to mention the player base Arenas would attract.

They should have made conquest something like wow arathi basin a big pvp map and focus on other game modes. Let’s be honest conquest doesn’t need that many maps we have way too many conquest maps. They could be using their resources and time on something else. Population might not be enough for 5v5 but for 2v2 and even 3v3 yes it is.

If you’re having trouble killing some players then you’re playing warrior the wrong way or simply the class isn’t for you and need to switch maybe to something more faceroll like a dps guardian. Also look up at some of the top warrior streamers and see how they play.

Now that they can’t sit on a point and watch porn while the turrets do the work, they will probably re-roll to bunker guardian or bunker warrior or just quit the game and go back to wow.

I Find frenzy+rampage very strong on GS specially with berserker amulet.

50k hp? maybe the OP means when they go into rampage.

I’m already liking this over conquest there is so much more to do

I would recommend watching at some of the top warrior streamers and see how they play. Personally I love GS/LB but is not very noob friendly thou, hambow would probably be a good start for you if you’re starting out.

Guardian is actually the most balanced profession in the game if you look all the way at launch. While all of the other professions have either received big nerfs or buffs guardian always seem to maintain it’s status. The problem isn’t meditation guardian, they don’t have to rely on the kittened celestial amulet, so no in between like the other broken professions. The problem here is warrior needs a big rework on it’s mechanics that’s all.

Now we need the community to start supporting this system and attach rewards to it like gems or something probably thinking too much already but I just don’t like the current leaderboards I rather support this.

Same thing happened to me and it was with an ele as well, tried to use banner to revive him but he went away in Vapor Form to enemy side just to get himself killed.

GS/Longbow works fine, I’m a fan of the GS playstyle as well. Is not as faceroll as the other builds you actually got to know what the heck you’re doing.

The current Leaderboard doesn’t make sense.

After playing with this build many games as a soloq player I’m actually liking this build much more than the meta medí one and the reason for that is simply because the current meta medi requires much more coordination which won’t happen with pugs, being too risk rewarding, while this build works very well if you join solo, you can fulfill multiple roles or at least try. I haven’t tried this in a team composition, right now I’m really enjoying it as a solo queuer.

medi hambow confirmed!

I’m having a blast with this build as well on valk amulet, but instead of putting sigil of hydromancy on the hammer, I’m using it on the GS, I just feel GS #2 is too easy to miss, I can get a few extra hits with this variation.

Because anet won’t fix matchmaking so we the players have to make the choices and take our own actions I mean just imagine three thieves on a team vs turret engies working as intended.

The Meta did have a change on pure bunkers to more hybrid celestial tanky builds with more damage output. Guardian bunkers are still good but not as what they used to be, dps guardian is becoming more popular these days in the high tier specially hammer guardian. You can’t go wrong with any of the classes maybe rangers but they seem to be getting there little by little.

Get into a pvp guild that constantly practices.

What would be the playstyle in tpvp? Looks very interesting keep it up.

From a spvp perspective, my main used to be guardian but after playing with the warrior I like it more one thousand times better that it became my new main now. With guardian I either have to be meditation or bunker which people don’t want anymore, at least with warrior I can go non-meta build and still do decent.

I would say play all of them and see which one you find easier to understand doesn’t hurt since you can do pvp right away without leveling. For new players my advice would be to stick to the meta builds once you’re an advanced player you can go and play non-meta ones and test builds.

Leaderboard farming is the equivalent of Hotjoin rank farming so broken pretty much full of turret farmers who never sleep.

I’ve been trying Tarcis build for the last couple of days and build is very strong, the damage is actually quite good with great amount of attack power, you can’t hundread blade often anyways so sigil of intelligence is the way to go on these type of setups. I agree berserker is meh on GS. After all the might nerf I’m actually liking Rampage more. Very fun build with tons of potential.

As a pvper I don’t see any motive in buying the expansion, stronghold will be courtyard all over again in a same queue with other conquest maps, guess what the final result will be yep Anet will keep insisting with conquest to the end and stronghold will end just like courtyard two game modes which once had a bright competitive esport future but anet never cared about.

MarkPhilips.5169:

Supreme.3164:

I want to apologise to the GW2 community, in advance, after watching the recent ready up and after some consideration, I have decided that in the future whenever I will be forced to play Conquest, I will automatically leave the game, no exceptions.
I want to play Stronghold and no conquest, that’s it. ….Again I’m sorry, but I really hate Conquest, reason why I’m not playing atm.

Probably you won’t be alone

And the sad story is if they share the queue, we’ll have a LOT of leavers after the map selection, and this break the system they made to avoid leavers at beginning (force us to stay in the mist, waiting for queue).

Not a smart decision, basically no sense at all.

Sadly I will be one of those constant leavers, I won’t care about any punishments to my rank, leaderboards are a grind anyways, I just want to play stronghold like everybody else.

Getting stuck in Skyhammer is the worse nightmare I can have, lucky I’m stuck in Legacy

Great video love your editing very nice and crisp easy to see.

Shiyo.3578:

Eurantien.4632:

This is a question that can only be answered by first asking, who does Anet wish to balance for? The reason I say this is because ranger is a relatively low skill floor class that can be INCREDIBLY effective when it’s two new players facing each other. It can do good damage from range or be almost unkillable with close quarter conditions all while this AI that uses its skills on its own is hitting surprisingly hard. That being said, ranger has a skill ceiling just as high as any class. We flash forward to the top tier and all of a sudden ranger goes from being super good to non-existent. Players learn how to stand behind terrain and how to dodge so they don’t eat rapid fire after rapid fire. They learn how to cleanse conditions at the right times and how to time their skills at the end of the ranger evades that leave them vulnerable during the after-cast. They learn how to dodge the pet skills and how to keep moving so the pet autos go from landing 18/20 to 1/20. All of a sudden, the ranger is at a disadvantage and is required to take his play to a whole other level that he didn’t have to before. The ranger has to learn to master his terrain, be in places that his opponent can’t get to easily. The ranger has to learn to skill cancel his pet in order to guarantee his CC lands. He has to learn when to use his pets and when to use EVERY cool down efficiently because if he doesn’t, he will lose the fight. When in a 2 v 2 the ranger can’t just AoE cleave both people on the node, the ranger has to swap target over and over and over to interrupt that guy, damage this guy, pet cc the other guy. There is a reason there aren’t rangers at top tier.

So, is ranger overpowered? Are you a noob? Yes? Then yes. Probably everything is overpowered then.

Is ranger overpowered? Are you good at this game? Yes? Then no, you might need to learn to be better.

So ranger is overpowered in 99% of PVP situations, and in order to counter some ranger rolling their face on their keyboard you need to a be top tier tournament player.

Sounds fair to me.

Well balance should be done in cooperation of high tier tournaments and good players. If balanced was done just to please the casuals this game would never be balanced, look how wow ended.

even better find a top players and duo queue with him, duels aren’t 100% balanced in this game.

Well all the good players left the game long time ago, just be friendly to the new wave of new players and teach them only solution until they become good and population grows.

Yeah don’t know why anet threw in this map with a point system of kills, map should be deathmatch just like you see in blu streams.

piffdaddy.8014:

Justin ODell.9517:

ronpierce.2760:

But think about the potential income of PVPers! We could take part of the population from WoW’s arena base who would love this type of freedom and skipping the leveling process. And bring back old GW2 players and convert at least some PVErs. I thinks a bit short sighted to just think it’d be fracturing the player base, when in reality you could just be growing it. Bringing in more players and ex players could do wonders for both arena AND conquest populations at once.

It isn’t off the table, and we have most of the tech for it. I expect at some point we will do it, just not now. I don’t know when either.

Edit: This isn’t a promise we’ll do these type of arenas, just my opinion based off of previous discussions with the team. We may never do them, or we may do something like them. Nothing is planned at this point.

Amazing response, and hopefully someday it will be implemented. I too agree that it will attract a LOT of players, and not really divide the player base. Many people are very very bored of WoW and only play for the arena aspect. Anet could snag a lot of them with a gladiator style 2v2,3v3 arena (where each person has 1 life, last team standing wins)

Second that, I heard WoW’s pvp was going downhill, really this is the time Anet should take advantage but instead we get the answer that it will divide the player base. I know people who are willing to come back if arenas are implemented.

I can speak from a spvp perspective, warrior are in a good spot right now. I remember at launch when warriors were one of the easiest targets in pvp, yes they were bursty as hell but they were the weakest specially to conditions, now they are a lot stronger. Only problem is how too good Longbow is to let go, so many strong builds rely on it.

How can someone with almost a 35% win ratio be in the top 50? It is a grind fest, losing games should never give you points period.

wow type arenas would suit this game very well and the reason for that is no dedicated healers. Dedicated healers to me belong in pve and don’t get me wrong we still need healing but In pvp what we need instead is more support builds. A best of 3 round annihilation would be the best format, that way it compensates for the lack of dedicated healers, makes matches longer, and makes it more interesting giving teams the opportunity for comebacks.

Rush is so kittening awesome now

Amazing we need this!!!!!!!! dude you have talent

It’s been good for me as well, some great matches, I do see improvement.

No skyhammer for me since the patch, closest vote in favor were 3 for skyhammer at the most, crossed fingers and lucky it didn’t went through. There is always one person who votes for skyhammer, which I don’t mind, I guess it doesn’t hurt to play that map once a month and keep the variety going.

If population is the problem then make the spvp side of the game free.

Can someone tell me what’s going on, why am I facing so many bad players? Will this only occur at the start because of the mmr but after things will settle as we play more?

The problem is not the map but the kittened respawn time, just make it 3 round annihilation, problem fixed. At least WoW did some things right.

1. Take away the respawn time and make it a 3 round annihilation.
2. Map is too big for 10 players, so make it 2v2 and 3v3.

The people’s 2v2 tournament was very great in my opinion with good amounts of come backs, having a lot of matches go into round 3.

example vid.
http://youtu.be/Q1RiNo0Hb2Y

This is what the courtyard should be, fixing this map shouldn’t be a problem for anet. If they decide to keep it 5v5 at least take away the respawn and make it only annihilation, it would add more tactic into the game and actually worry about not dying and surviving.

MarkPhilips.5169:

Zephyron.7081:

MarkPhilips.5169:

I think it will be always 5vs5

They did post a CDI for sPvP game modes. I’m still waiting to see what has come from that discussion. 2v2 arenas were widely asked for by many, many players, as well as other popular game modes like moba, etc…

So far, we have a GUI update and a match making update with a dishonor system. Wow, I really hope there is more coming soon…

I just wish the development didn’t move at such a snail’s pace….Anet, please at least give us more of a timeline for sPvP updates…a ballpark road map with the disclaimer that nothing is set in stone, maybe?

I agree with you, i really like arena 2vs2 or 3vs3, i suggested this mode many times in other my previous topic..

But i think in this patch, everything will be set for 5vs5 with the same matchmaking rules, so if people vote for Courtyard, there will be a 5vs5 DM no 3vs3 or 2vs2.

At least is what i guess, i hope a dev can give us better infos.

2v2 and 3v3 would be too good to be true in this coming patch which makes me believe it will just be 5v5 from what I’ve seen so far. At least im glad they are taking courtyard into consideration, it will give pvp some variety for sure.