Guild Wars 2

pugster.9378:

Also, I would like to know how can you get ascended weapon/armor chest now? Thanks.

Do you have access to a time machine?

Why does nobody ever quote the very next part of John Smith’s post?

John Smith.4610:

Is the intention to deincentivize dungeons
Yes

Is the intention to reduce targeted liquid gold earning, or are you putting that liquid somewhere else thats targetable?
The intention is not entirely to reduce liquid gold earning, we’ll be using up the slack we generate in other locations

What type of instanced content do you see offering marketable rewards that players can take part in on a regular basis?
Fractals

I feel like this is really clear. “Right now people run dungeons for gold. We’d prefer they run Fractals for gold instead.”

I salvaged two accessories from LW rewards and got zero dark energy, just some +1 agony infusions. I stopped after that.

I’d salvage ascended armor if it still dropped through Fractals, but with the new mat costs and lower drop rate, that seems like a bad idea.

Feel-bad system feels bad, man.

Gendrike.3601:

10/10 before
3/10 now

In regard to that part of the game.

Here’s a fun idea: just choose not to unlock stuff until you have extra hero points. You can still self-kitten your build.

Serious question: does anybody think they spent however much time figuring out that Level X = Fractal Y + Instability Z, but will now quickly add new Fractals within the existing levels, removing some of the Level X = Y + Z sets they just created?

My guess is that we don’t get new Fractals for awhile, at least a year and possibly not until the next expansion. I very much hope I’m wrong, but I just don’t see them changing it up in the next 6-9 months.

Where are the new fractals?

On a table somewhere…

timmyf.1490:

Kanebrake.6192:

Bump.

Everyone welcome but we have a need for off NA prime coverage for WvW

I’d love to see more small skilled roaming groups/havoc, guilds like KoM or tM. I’m trying to put one together myself and there’s definitely room for more.

Our kill-death ratio is already best in our tier, but I’d love to see it even higher.

This dummy forgot Voxel! I love those Voxel guys too! :-D

Kanebrake.6192:

Bump.

Everyone welcome but we have a need for off NA prime coverage for WvW

I’d love to see more small skilled roaming groups/havoc, guilds like KoM or tM. I’m trying to put one together myself and there’s definitely room for more.

Our kill-death ratio is already best in our tier, but I’d love to see it even higher.

Thanks Beer and Xivor. And thanks for applying, Gina! We actually have an inside joke in the guild where I say, “Oh my God, have you guys heard the new Taylor Swift album? IT’S SO GOOD.”

I don’t know where this started. I think it had something to do with me really liking the new Taylor Swift album. I mean, seriously, have you heard it? It’s so good!

Is there a reason this is almost all for hotjoins?

Thanks to everybody who has applied so far! If you have any questions or want more info, you’re welcome to ask here or just PM me.

They could make Vitality more useful on gear by halving the base HP on every profession and increasing the scaling of vitality to HP. Would that make the game more fun or interesting, or would it just be a balancing nightmare that forces players to take a bunch of Vitality to survive?

Hi everybody!

Super Mega Happy Fun Time [MEGA] is a Northern Shiverpeaks-based PvX guild. Our guild does not specialize in a particular type of content and we welcome players of all levels of experience, time investment, and skill. A player who is a good fit to join MEGA might have this internal dialogue…

I enjoy this game, but I feel like I’d enjoy it more playing with friends. I’d really love a group of people I can join up with for dungeons, Fractals, WvW, the new story stuff, whatever I feel like doing. I just don’t want the hassle of required activities/raids, 100% rep, or the drama that comes with a large guild of strangers.

Or this…

I’m not the best at this game, but I’m always looking to be better. I love learning, I love helping, and I love teaching others as well. I want a fun, laid-back environment where I can grow and I can help others grow and succeed as well.

This recruiting round, we’re primarily looking for players in EU Prime through Late NA times (think about 2pm until 2am Eastern US time) who play regularly, ideally for at least a couple hours/day for 4+ days/week. We want players who want to be part of our community – joining us on Teamspeak, going content in-game with us, and even occasionally doing out-of-game stuff too! (We do Hangout nights on Saturdays!)

Our guild chooses to be a small-to-medium sized guild with a target online population of 15-25 throughout those time zones. We feel that’s about as large as we can get while maintaining a friendly “everybody-knows-everybody” environment. If you’re looking for a huge list of names you can spam to fill parties, we’re probably not a good choice.

We have a recruiting site set up – http://www.getunicorned.com – with a video, our Guild Charter (rules and rank information), and a link to our recruitment application. If you want to know a bit more about us, you can see videos and stuff on our YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/c/supermegahappyfuntimeguild

We expect significantly more applications than spots we can offer, so while we’d like to reach out to everybody who applies, limitations to the in-game mail system make that unlikely. Please know we do read all applications and very much appreciate the time and effort you guys put into them. <3

Good luck!

-Karaoke.

Hey, what if the MMRs of each team (without player names) were put in Game Messages after games? So we can help debug? Something like…

Red Team – 1500 Average – (1600) (1500 1500) (1450 1450)
Blue Team – 1580 Average – (1650) (1600) (1550) (1800 1300)
Expected Result: Blue 500 – 350 Red

This way we can see the actual teams, MMRs, etc and know for sure it was a garbage match?

Kitiara.2706:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Mewling Kittens.7965:

Noob question… what’s MMR?

It stands for Match Making Rating. We use the Glicko 2 algorithm to assign a number to each player that represents skill level in order to match similarly-skilled players together.

Details here:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system

So, just a quick question……. Is anyone looking into the Glicko rating system for WvW? Could we have the same bugs on our end, will this fix you did affect us, too?

This wouldn’t affect World vs World. It’s not a problem with Glicko, it’s a problem with the way the system uses Glicko to create teams.

Emtiarbi.3281:

Mewling Kittens.7965:

Noob question… what’s MMR?

I think is Matchmaking Rating?

Yep. It uses a system called Glicko (soon changing to ELO) that assigns a number based on your performance. We can’t see our MMR right now (but hopefully that will change) so people tend to guess a lot about how good they are.

I’d really love to know the raw Glicko for myself so I can compare it to top players. Even if it were just through the API. Anet plz.

As somebody who often 4- or 5- queues with his guild, I can tell you we get stomped as often as we stomp the other team. We 5-queued last night and had a match with full solos that we lost 500-100 or so.

Not every 5-queue is eSports. A lot of times it’s casual PvPers, WvWers, or heck even PvEers dipping their toes in.

Bad matchmaking should be fixed, but solo vs premade isn’t the only (or imho even core) problem here.

Amy Mason.9845:

Nsp is in great shape these days for wvw. Many different guilds you can join or work with.

Speaking of, we should put together a guild contact list broken down by timezones or something. Hang on, will yap about that on our amazing website that people actually use.

Let us all take a moment to thank Anet for not including Dire amulet in PvP.

The basic problem is that a bunch of scrubs see “red” and think “enemy” completely ignoring the part where we’re all just players looking to have fun. “Destroying the enemy” is pointless: there are waypoints.

Work with the other servers instead to create the most fun possible and we all win.

(That doesn’t mean ktraining, you EOTM cheaters.)

If you’ve never made a friend on a competitive server, you are doing it wrong.

Your weekly position is based on your Glicko +/- a random number… up to 100, I think? Maybe it’s smaller, that seems too big.

So, for example, Ebay’s 1489 glicko could have been adjusted up to 1564 making them blue for the week.

You’ll notice the randomization take effect more when you’re closer in glicko to other servers. Since Ebay is ~50 behind NSP and about 80 ahead of DB, they’re not switching much.

Ehmry Bay desperately needs more roamers.

I get this every so often and one of my guild members gets this A LOT. He has to leave party and rejoin to get the correct instance.

I noticed another weird bug that might be related: sometimes a party member will create an instance above their own personal level (thanks to a higher-leveled member in party), but the instance will be created at the member’s personal level, not the (higher) chosen level.

Clarifying example: party is made up of personal scales 50, 50, and 34. Personal Level 34 player opens a 50. Instance reverts to 34.

Weird bugs lately.

Hey guys. I was talking with guild members about my disappointment that ele gets this cool elite that reduces skill recharge by 25% – a HUGE reduction if you time it right – and Mesmer is stuck with Alacrity which seems… underwhelming?

I get that Alacrity is the anti-Chill – it speeds up recharge rather than slow it down – but in the small amounts we’ll have access to it, it just doesn’t seem like it’ll do enough to pick all the traits for it. (At least not in PvE.) And anyway, Chill doesn’t just slow skill recharge, it also drastically reduces movement speed. That’s really powerful in certain situations.

That’s when I thought… if Alacrity is the anti-Chill, what if it made you go really fast? Like… Super Speed fast?

So here’s my suggestion: Alacrity should give a +33% movement speed boost in addition to the reduced skill recharge. The Temporal Enchanter trait should be updated to give 2s Alacrity instead of 2s Super Speed. (Thematically, Temporal Enchanter giving Alacrity makes sense as well.) This would technically give non-Chronomancer Mesmer access to Alacrity, but I don’t think that on its own is a huge concern. (PvE Mesmers will still probably be stuck in Domination and Dueling, so they won’t be able to bring both Inspiration and Chronomancy.)

Thoughts? I feel like this is more interesting than simply buffing Alacrity.

BlazeQ.1095:

AdaephonNA.8162:

timmyf.1490:

BlazeQ.1095:

Bump, Still looking for people who aren’t afraid to get in the thick of a fight. Especially when out numbered.

Alternatively, looking for people too distracted to see the fight come up on top of them and too stubborn to run away.

So you mean like me then? Oh wait I’m already here :-P

Exactly like you! Push hard, push fast She likes it like that! <3 Mega!!!!!

haha, I made a video to showcase how bad we are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPOsd9usBrk&feature=youtu.be

Purple Miku.7032:

There’s just that certain crowd of players who are bitter towards anyone that plays with berserker gear and look for any reason to trash talk them.

What people fail to understand is that on every game there will always be people that try to maximise their output on games.

Some people play to win, because that is how they have fun.

Somebody, maybe you Miku, used the phrase “roleplay builds” earlier. I think that’s a better phrase than even Play How I Want. Some folks just have this idea in their head that they want to X, even if X isn’t particularly effective.

I can understand that.

What I understand less are the people who refuse to play anything considered meta out of… spite? “This is popular, so I hate it!” Hipster builds?

Julie Yann.5379:

timmyf.1490:

Mmm. So if none of that is support, what is support? Just healing? Ventari tablet woosh woosh and PvE is magically fixed?

I didn’t say it wasn’t support, I said that in the current state of PvE anything outside of more DPS, wall, and occasional stability isn’t needed or isn’t meaningful and the I hope things will change with HoT and builds other than pure DPS will have more importance.

Oh, sorry. I was just ignoring the part where you incorrectly asserted that none of that was used.

Also, I forgot vuln, weakness, and occasional poison.

Mmm. So if none of that is support, what is support? Just healing? Ventari tablet woosh woosh and PvE is magically fixed?

Julie Yann.5379:

timmyf.1490:

My opinion differs, Julie. I prefer bursty damage I have to avoid by working with my team. It requires more attention and knowledge of enemies and mechanics.

Edit to your edit: support and CC are of vital importance now.

CC is pretty much useless except for a very few encounters. Support other than might stacks and the occasional wall or stability is also not really needed. PvE as it is now is pretty boring especially once you memorized the fight. Nuking a boss in under 30 seconds is not what I would call engaging.

This is true if you pretend that fury, aegis, dodge, vigor, evade, blind, CC-to-strip-defiance, banners, Spotter+Frost Spirit, projectile denial, and the occasional protection don’t exist.

I probably missed a bunch too.

My opinion differs, Julie. I prefer bursty damage I have to avoid by working with my team. It requires more attention and knowledge of enemies and mechanics.

Edit to your edit: support and CC are of vital importance now.

I’m not going to reply directly to Rym because that post is likely getting deleted, but I’ll say those: the meta isn’t “only DPS.” It’s DPS gear, but the weapons, utilities, traits, and combos used are a mix of DPS, support, and control.

You know, the trinity we were promised.

Julie Yann.5379:

Rym.1469:

2. Neither you or me know anything about HoT PvE.

If Revenant is any indication of things to come, PvE is going to get quite interesting.

I wouldn’t call spamming a button to move an in-game rock through the party to heal them interesting. On the plus side, if these forums are any indication, there’s plenty of folks who want to do the boring work of healing.

I’ll never understand how people are so against doing damage in a game built around an incredible combat system.

4 trait lines without anything good for high-level PvE in this game… We knew that weeks ago though.

Let’s cross our fingers for Shiro and the elite spec to be awesome.

Also super lol at telling Miku l2p and all the badsplaining in this thread from people who think support only means healing.

As if being brazen about it weren’t bad enough, now people are using LFG to ask for help exploiting.

Not all opinions are equal. PvPers who play at a high level for 8+ hours a day should be giving more input than Random Rabbit Rank on the forums.

I have no problems with devs working alongside important PvP community members to work on balance. In fact, I think it’s a good thing. When I saw that spreadsheet, I shared it with my guild as a “look! Don’t worry! This stuff is definitely getting handled” thing.

Also: not why Wildstar flopped.

It’s not negativity for the sake of negativity. Your design ideas have huge issues. For example, fitting all five trait lines might work on 1080p monitors with small UI size, but what about 768 px with large UI? Would that even fit?

Build templates are an obvious suggestion, but why just three in the UI? Also, GW1 had build sharing, your system makes no indication of it.

I could list some other criticisms, but my negativity is a response to your attitude.

Ragmon.6350:

I’m no programmer, but I’m fairly sure these changes can be made fairly easily if you know what your doing and what you want.

…

PS: If your hiring, long distance consultants, I’m wouldn’t mind the job (not joking).

This sums up these forums nicely:

• I have no relevant expertise in this field
• But you’re bad at it
• Consider paying me to jot down a few notes and scribble on a screenshot in MS Paint
• (Will not take the time to gain the necessary work experience, visit your careers page, find an appropriate job opening, apply for said opening, accept the position, and relocate.)

Siphaed.9235:

Extreme.8350:

If u glitch a boss kill it in a way its impossible to fail can u get banned?
what if u get a team who kick if u dont agree? just leave? :/

Yes, you can get banned for “glitching a boss it in a way its impossible to fail”. That is the very sum definition of EXPLOIT. You are exploiting the boss in a way not meant in the design of the content to defeat said content for the rewards. That is against the terms of service.

And if you get a team that is trying this, LEAVE THE GROUP. Don’t be a part of it or you’re risking a ban yourself. You know it’s wrong. They know it’s wrong. The thing about it is to be a better player and not do what’s wrong just because “shinnies!”.

Sadly, these exploits have become so common people ADVERTISE that they’re using them on LFG. I’ve seen “AC 1, 3+2” more than once out there.

They’ll miss out on elite specializations, the new story, the Revenant, and some maps.

Not the end of the world.

BlazeQ.1095:

Bump, Still looking for people who aren’t afraid to get in the thick of a fight. Especially when out numbered.

Alternatively, looking for people too distracted to see the fight come up on top of them and too stubborn to run away.

The real improvements dungeons (and Fractals) need are exploit fixes. It’s basically impossible to pug half the content without your team expecting you to exploit.

Hell, I even see LFG posts like “AC 1, 3+2” nowadays. Crazy.

Turkadactyl.5308:

As someone who transferred to NSP not too long ago, I can honestly say it is the best choice I have made in-game since GW2 was released. A fantastic community server with a lot of variety in guilds and events, and we’d love to add your guild to our community too!

It’s been really fun the few times I’ve gotten to play with you guys as well! My schedule’s kept me off the battlefield lately, but hopefully we can run together more in the future!

jihm.2315:

timmyf.1490:

Liewec.2896:

aslong as people are still picking skyhammer, i’m still quitting!

This is why we can’t have nice things. One player can ruin the experience for nine others.

the experience is already ruined when you pick skyhammer or courtyard

I’d choose a 5v5 on Skyhammer or Courtyard over a 5v4 on Skyhammer or Courtyard.

In fact, I’d choose a 5v5 on Skyhammer or Courtyard over a 5v4 on any map.

style.6173:

timmyf.1490:

Liewec.2896:

aslong as people are still picking skyhammer, i’m still quitting!

This is why we can’t have nice things. One player can ruin the experience for nine others.

I think you mean… Why can one person who votes for skyhammer ruin the match for the other 9?

I wish people wouldn’t vote for Skyhammer either, but if you’re too much of a child to play a map you dislike for 10 whole minutes, you deserve a 24-hour ban.

Liewec.2896:

aslong as people are still picking skyhammer, i’m still quitting!

This is why we can’t have nice things. One player can ruin the experience for nine others.

BlazeQ.1095:

Did they mention we have beer?

We also have bourbon for those with stupid auto-immune disorders like myself. :-/

Neox.3497:

Knighthonor.4061:

Trinity may be in use for Raids after all. :-)
http://i.imgur.com/hvILOhL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7gcwS3i.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NwlPRuD.jpg

Prepare for some rage.

The trend seems to be “people try to do bad things, people get upset that bad things don’t work, ArenaNet buffs bad things so people aren’t upset.”

Ventari legend healer, you are the new Longbow Ranger.

I made three Legendaries. Now I just spend a lot of time crying in a corner.

I don’t think anybody arguing for raids, at least not most people in this thread, are asking for a trinity. We talked about this a bunch on the Raids CDI. Here’s a few ideas for mechanics that I would consider useful…

• Bosses with different attacks that require active use of skills. For example, a boss with that has a devastating (dodgeable, unblockable, unblindable) attack that is only used when the boss does not have weakness.

• Bosses that require splits of the party by requiring that they be DPSed while other party members stand on pressure pad/fire laser/defend NPC/whatever. These should be tuned so that really good parties can get through them by only letting a small number of players DPS the boss and exceptional parties can run the secondary mechanics with fewer players, leaving more players for DPSing the boss.

• Integration of puzzles and combat like in Fractals.

• Encounters where timing becomes a factor for things other than “dodge the red circle.” The break bar will help this a fair bit, but I think there are other creative options out there.

You can have MECHANICS without having a TRINITY. By having more than 5 players, your mechanics can be more complicated and allow for different solutions/splits.

I think having a Leaderboard Rating and Matchmaking Rating that are related though different is fine, so long as we can see and sort by both on the Leaderboards. Meaning, if I really want to, I should be able to view MMR rankings directly by re-sorting the list.