For some reason I was thinking a picture of TESO WvW was going to be on this thread.
Turret engy is, one of my friends was playing a bunch of other engineer builds, but when he went turret engy, he told me he won massive amount of games in a row on solo que.
All you do is go far, set up camp, own people, win games. Isn’t that hard to play a turret engy. Normally what this leads to, is you winning 1v1 because most people that go home right away are newbs, and because you have far point the other team starts to get frustrated because they don’t have home and start blaming people. Than eventually they give up and call for turret op, because in reality turret engy as far point attacker is pretty op.
Back then you use to have sumo engies that would sumo for the far point node, and wouldn’t be able to kill you and you wouldn’t be able to kill them. But Anet decided, hey lets make it easier, no skills turrets, you not only get the node but you also kill the person trying to defend it, does good in 1v2 situations as well by annoying the heck out of the other players. Sumo engy required skill, but got nerfed and replaced with a more skilless way to attack far point instead and at higher success rates, the turret engy.
Oh they well get nerfed and balance out, but hey, you mine as well go turret engy and increase your win ratio while it still lasts. Doesn’t really require any skills at all or in depth learning to be good at it. Basically what this is like, a broken questline that gives out too much money that everybody farms. Oh it will get fixed sometime or later but mine as well join the masses of people taking advantage of it. Go turret engy before time runs out and they get wacked with a nerf gun.
Pretty much this. Turret engis might not be effective against a coordinated team, but they do wreck solo queue and at least half of team queue. They definitely need a nerf. Let’s hope with the new change in PvP leadership, we finally see some more frequent balance updates.
Hey there…. just started playing turret engi in spvp…. and I’d like to point out a few things:
I used to always get wrecked by turret engineers until I played as one… and now I make a complete mockery of them on any profession.
If an engineer sacrifices all of his utility skills and traits to make his turrets stronger, he will not be doing very much damage with his actual weapon, and will be doing practically 0 damage without his turrets.
People don’t know how to fight against a turret engineer, and end up losing due to ignorance.
You have to take out the turrets (at least some of them) before diving headfirst onto a point where an engineer has his turrets.
A well placed Elementalist AoE, Ranger Barrage, Necromancer Life Transfer, etc. can easily destroy (if not severely damage) ALL of a turret engineer’s turrets.
If you want to know which turret to target first… its the rocket turret.
Turret engineer is a build that melts noobs, and doesn’t scare experienced players.
Without the turrets, the engineer is a sitting duck, and taking out the turrets should be your first priority.Also…. if you want to complain about something that needs a nerf…. when I was running turret engi, I don’t recall melting faces at 1500 range.
Maybe you should be looking to aim the nerf bat elsewhere.
Boy you dumb,
if you really did play turret engy, you played it wrong dude, you gotta go far, you don’t goto mid and get reckt by all AE dmg.
Thing is turret engy is the counter to those that play bunker, and by going far you counter those bunker classes hard. You mentioned ele doing AE damage??? I’m pretty sure no staff ele is going to bunker home point, pretty dang sure they going to mid and rain terror over there instead.
Also you guys mention thieves owning turret engy? Again, pretty sure no thief is going to go bunker home. Hence why turret engy wins again.
What will happen is that thief or that ele will call whoever is at home a newb to losing to a turret engy and there team will get all heated with one another that they lose the game, hence what happens to most games when a team faces a team with a turret engy that has a clue of how to play.
All in all, those classes that reckt turret engies, wont even be near the turret engy. Turret engies take so much work to kill, that in process of killing them, your team is hurting elsewhere. If you waste your AE damage dealer on that turret guy, the team is going to be lacking damage at the midfight. The only games that the turret engy loses is the games where the other team is clearly better than the team with the turret engy.
You should’ve just joined Jade Quarry when the game started. Its always going to be a top tier server in WvW, and not just that but PvE and PvP. You mine as well just transfer there and be happy because its no doubt Jade Quarry community is the best community.
Also, for those of you that think theres no incentive for people on your server to play WvW and they all play PvE… You gotta realize that before megaservers, your puny servers wasn’t even top in PvE, people guested to the almighty Jade Quarry for PvE play.
To be honest, I saw some thread about it saying all server populations are very high, I still cant figure out why other servers haven’t reached the potential that Jade Quarry has today and has always had, even when there populations is considered very high just like Jade Quarry.
Nope,
Sometimes buying something that is crafted by one person is cheaper or very close to the price of buying all the ingredients to make whatever. Which in all, just saves you time from not having to worry about getting all ingredients and hassle of crafting it yourself.
There’s literally thousands of people with maxed out crafting skills, if you maxed out your crafting you’d literally not be a difference maker at all.
You know, this game would be perfect if it did have expansions.
Thing that gives it an edge over games like WoW, EQ, maybe TESO is that the game is relatively easy to level up in and the gear is so easy to obtain and its primarily a solo game.
I know with EQ and its 21st expansion, it may be tempting, but that game has a harsh past of serious grindage, high difficulty scale in leveling up in. I remember way back in the days, if you died, it set you back far, like days or weeks. Back when rezzing wasn’t as common as it is currently in that game. But getting from level 1 to 105 in that game… Your going to get burned out way before you even come close to level 105. However in a game like GW2, its just so dang easy.
To be honest, GW2 is one of the easiest MMO’s I’ve ever played, its really close to runescape in easeness, I think it easier too, to be honest. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Point is, if GW2 had an expansion the thought of mind would be “awesome, more stuff to do”, when EQ expansion comes to mind its “awww man, lots of grindage to do to get to 105, and 2000 more AAs it offers.”
I kind of think of this game as an MMORPG version of Diablo3, because Diablo3 is relatively easy as well, as pretty much all things being soloable, which leads to the easeness. People with the most money, able to get all the best gear as well. In traditional MMORPG like EQ and WoW, its the other way around, hard work/grindage/dedication gives you the best items. You can goto the TP and be like “ima buy all the best raid gear in the game, because I’m a rich dude”. But in GW2 you can (“I’m got all the legendaries kittenes, been playing this game for 5 days now, I’m gonna let the hatta’s hate on my money cuz I could buy them too if I wanted too! because I’m the million dollar man and YOU CAN BE BOUGHT!”, and I’m pretty sure Diablo 3 is the same way.
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If you plan on staying in Tier 1 forever, than look no further apply for the best of the best Jade Quarry today!
Jade Quarry is truly the best WvW server, PvE server, and PvP server. Cannot go wrong with Jade Quarry.
Thing is, Blackgate made it to T1 with a bunch of random wvw guilds joining them, Jade Quarry is just a natural born talented server full of talent. It has a strong rich community unlike the Blackgate server where not many people know each other because most of the guilds are from outbound servers.
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Time to do PvP reward track completion for the 2nd star!
Could we get a screenshot that wasn’t taken from within the walls? If it’s actually outside the map on that cliff, maybe you could take a shot looking up from the wurm? Or has anyone actually checked the jumping puzzle to confirm it’s not there?
The one screenshot that claims to show the treb is very far out.
This is what I’m talking about. I guess people on NSP cry nerf whenever they don’t know how to counter something and cannot even properly scout it out confirming its off the map as they claim.
All I see is people making screenshots inside there garrison because they too scared some CD player will own them 1v1 style if they lure outside there garrison by themselves and properly confirm from all angles its off the map and not just by posting screenshots from one angle inside there garrison.
With the information they are giving us, its just like saying, screenshot, “the world is flat and not round anymore.” Rather than venturing out and actually proving or disproving the world is flat or round, aka that the treb is actually off the map, which it isn’t because that’s impossible.
Because adding a ready button requires a lot of work.
See what happens is basically, they have a filter thing for the tournaments. Ready up is filtered as unchecked. All they have to do is click a checkmark in that box and ‘viola’, everyone has to ready up.
But big management makes all decisions, and what problem is, is that these developers don’t want to submit paperwork to big management asking them if they can do a ready up system in the game. If there’s one thing everyone hates in life…. PAPERWORK!!!
Big management too busy on vacations to Italy, and snowboarding, and jet skiing, that when they get paperwork they have to read, they get real mad, and developers don’t like it when big management gets real mad at them, so they just end up not doing any paperwork and no changes end up happening.
If anything, find out the emails of big management, cut the middleman (the developer) and start storming his inbox with requests like this, trust me things get done this way.
Turret engy is, one of my friends was playing a bunch of other engineer builds, but when he went turret engy, he told me he won massive amount of games in a row on solo que.
All you do is go far, set up camp, own people, win games. Isn’t that hard to play a turret engy. Normally what this leads to, is you winning 1v1 because most people that go home right away are newbs, and because you have far point the other team starts to get frustrated because they don’t have home and start blaming people. Than eventually they give up and call for turret op, because in reality turret engy as far point attacker is pretty op.
Back then you use to have sumo engies that would sumo for the far point node, and wouldn’t be able to kill you and you wouldn’t be able to kill them. But Anet decided, hey lets make it easier, no skills turrets, you not only get the node but you also kill the person trying to defend it, does good in 1v2 situations as well by annoying the heck out of the other players. Sumo engy required skill, but got nerfed and replaced with a more skilless way to attack far point instead and at higher success rates, the turret engy.
Oh they well get nerfed and balance out, but hey, you mine as well go turret engy and increase your win ratio while it still lasts. Doesn’t really require any skills at all or in depth learning to be good at it. Basically what this is like, a broken questline that gives out too much money that everybody farms. Oh it will get fixed sometime or later but mine as well join the masses of people taking advantage of it. Go turret engy before time runs out and they get wacked with a nerf gun.
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Told you guys before its in the JP. Instead of whinning how about you go inside the JP and get to the top and kill those people. That way you can take a screenshot too to show if its CD or whoever as well.
If CD is really as big and bad as you say them to be, than how come they not T1 with powerhouse servers like Jade Quarry?
No exploits here, just people who too afraid to enter the Jumping Puzzle. All I see is two screenshots facing the JP and people hiding in there garrison like they cant handle combat outside there base, making accusations that its a CD using exploits.
You ever heard of people setting up a treb, trebbing you from the other enemy location, its called diversion, they trying to get you to think its the other team attacking you, so you attack the other team. This is what could be a diversion, since people rarely go into the Jumping Puzzle.
Your rating dropped because others past you on the ladder. Not sure how the mmr system works in this game but I somehow got into the top 1000 with only 5 months of playing and a week of that in pvp, guess I just got lucky.
This answer is so stupid and not how it works.
Like I said its the volatility of leaderboard decay for the vast majority while a small minority don’t see any.
In theory, for a vast majority, you could win 5 games in a row, get to 800 on leaderboards, wait 5 days, win another 5 games in a row get back to 800 and wait 5 days and then next day win another 5 games in a row and get back to 800, and on and on. Than one day you decide not to play for 10 days, and say you go down to 95% if you don’t play for 5 days, now your down 85% for not playing 10 days. Just a reminder you never lost a game, those that are at top 1% of leaderboards don’t get decayed equally as those that are not.
Nobody ever passed you rank wise, because you’ve never been beaten. Also, if this was used like StarCraft leaderboard, you’d appear and stay at a very high rank, due to it giving you a numbered rating.
Next, if you look at the small minority, the 1% of the PvP’ers aka the top 100 or so. There rank hardly ever decays and that number 1 guy can sit there all day if he wanted too for weeks on end. Rank decay affects those guys differently than it does for everyone else.
It’s like rank decay affects vast majority daily, however the minority of people get affected, hmmmm… monthly, biweekly?
Is this fair? Nope. All in all, leaderboard decay is too volatile for vast majority and the minority are having benefits of slower decay.
They need to adopt a different leaderboard system, preferably the one StarCraft, a game that’s been out for 16 years, that became esports through its own success. Also, that nailed the leaderboard system on launch day. They didn’t take years to come up with some algorithm that you could hire a calculus 3 math student to do for you for a few hundred bucks, heck he’d probably do the coding for you too. Don’t take a whole year or two to come up with simple stuff like this. StarCraft did it right, on launch, successful from the get go. They never even intended on being esports either.
You should get another star by your name. Called reward track completions. And if you do PvE completion you should get 2 stars, PvP and PvE.
Anet saw the challenge at balancing underwater… It was too much for them that they just stopped doing anything with underwater. Hence why you never see any underwater type things in balance patches. They balance all the professions so much, but underwater balance, naaa doesn’t happen.
If they aren’t going to balance underwater fighting, chances of having an underwater city doesn’t look too great either.
Skyrim? You want giants that toss people thousands of feet in the air across the map too?
A lot of people are PvE commanders as well, matter of fact some PvE zones I go to there’s like 8+ commanders, for the guild missions. The color coding on commanders would’ve been great in the crown pavilion, unfortunately its gone now.
Team arena gives out best rank xp and reward track progression. Huge incentive for people to pick that over anything else.
I can explain, they built a treb on the JP.
A lot of people underestimate the usage of the JP, some have never known there was such thing as a JP on those maps.
Here is some more good commenting and skill play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIsQ2tKsL8
Just do CoF P1 and other easy dungeons
Custom Arena’s needs a mode called lights out, where people can play in the dark, the game master (GM) can randomly turn on and off lights, or lights go out and on at random times.
Players should just have minimal vision, or just like playing in dark rooms in the obsidian sanctum. Spell effects should create light too.
This game is pretty boring right now, and this idea I thought of could bring spark to PvP and make it actually enjoyable.
Hotjoins is a joke right now, all you do is wait to see which team is going to win, watch them win, then next game join the group of people that stack the winning team and just keep joining there team.
Like somebody mentioned somewhere else, the game needs to get rid of picking your side, and go back to 8v8. They should let custom arenas be special enough (they paid money to be special you know), that they can make the games where if you really want to pick your team you can pick your team.
#GetRidOfTeamPicking #8v8
Did you know Everquest, a 15 year old MMORPG is coming out with its 21th expansion this October???
Still aint dead lol.
Back to the topic, one thing that I thought of yesterday was if this game never releases an expansion it never gets to re-hype the game to draw in the players that left to come back and play GW2. That’s the purpose of an expansion is to bring everyone that left to come back and replay the game. However I don’t think it should make an expansion every year, it should make sure its good and it should be like once every 3-5 years. The purpose of expansions is to rehype the game, not necessarily to bring new content. You have to look at this from a marketing point of view.
Thing is, a ton of people are copying builds like Zoose ele, Ostrich Eggs engy, Hman warrior, Caed thief…. Thing is those guys don’t have a build up on youtube that’s skyhammer build.
Those copycats don’t know how to create there own build to play on skyhammer.
Theres no pvp build option where you can switch builds (promised to us a year ago in sotg when grouch was conducting it, now grouch is in anet, I still don’t see any changes).
However, to play the other side of this story, 2 mins is pretty rough to quickly change builds to knockback if you aren’t very experienced with making builds and what your traits are and such. (So we really do need a build template saver, which was promised a long time ago, not by the people, but by a developer mentioning it in one of the sotg).
I hope they change the hammer to instead of doing damage, its a massive blowout and removes ALL BOONS, knocks you 2000 ft.
This is the only map they get to have fun with, stop listening to these whiners and make the map more enjoyable and less boring like the other maps.
You know why GW2 isn’t esports, because all these maps are boring, if any map would make GW2 esports its Skyhammer. People enjoy watching people suffer. Look at Leeroy Jenkins on WoW, its nothing but suffer for all those people in that video.
If anything this map should be focus team fights at hammer, and 1 maybe 2 people running around decapping and preventing decaps and caps.
I’d say for the most part it is balanced, however there are occasions where the other team is stacked up on good players and the team facing them are bunch of newbies.
Thing is, your never going to win a vast amount of games more than you lose unless your at the top in skill level. Its like flipping a coin, sometimes you going to get crazy unlucky and get the wrong side, however due to the rule of large numbers, eventually you’ll be somewhere in the average, well somewhere where you skill level belongs. This speaking of solo que of course.
Because Anet has the leaderboards being too volatile right now. It use to be the case where the leaderboards wasn’t volatile enough. Anet should just use the ladder system in StarCraft, where it gave you a number instead of ranking for the ladder. Than if they want to go further, rank you based on your number.
Also, another thing anet leaderboard is like capitalism. The top 1% barely even move in spots in the leaderboards, hence those top 25 guys barely even drop a spot, and the rest is crazy volatile.
I prefer the starcraft way. You know why starcraft was a huge success? Because it did everything right. IT didn’t claim to be esports, IT became esports from doing stuff RIGHT!
No idea who this guy is but watching this video I could tell he would be a good commentator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3oBOOKuvQU . Always keeping it positive.
da faq? don’t listen to these guys. Add more glass panels, faq make the entire map glass panels!
Make the recharge on skyhammer faster too!
That comment about johantan sharp leaving and changes happening, I hope its changes that are to make skyhammer more fun, and not adding more ways to ‘not’ fall off the map.
They hired Grouch so there wouldn’t be anymore SotG
Courtyard is a 2v2 map, its has been released for a long time now. Not very popular map so most servers dont run it.
How come theres an option to have afro hairstyle, however in the game theres no NPC asura with an afro?
The raising prices for gold to gem is not Primarily because people are sitting on gems. It is because no one is buying gems with $$.
The cool thing about TESO WvW is that you ride into battle. I’ve never played TESO but that’s pretty awesome. (I don’t have computer specs to run TESO).
I always wanted a kite, but now that I have one they are so annoying and not worth it.
I’m traited that I get 25% to move faster while wielding a melee weapon. Well the kite being 5% isn’t helping at all and only decreases my movement 20%.
Another thing, once a mob smacks you your kite disappears.
Another thing, you cannot use your weapons while holding a kite.
Another thing, cannot be used in PvP.
So, pretty much kites aren’t great movement boosters and poorly designed if you ask me. Its annoying when your chest hunting in the sandstorm, a dust mite throws something at you, your kite disappears, you have to go back into inventory and double click it. Also you cannot use the essences while holding a kite either, which is a huge navigation thing in dry top.
anet should have put a bigscreen TV inside the mist and broadcast the event, maybe then I would have seen or knew about it going on. =]
+1
I think anet thinking of all stars was like the best of the best in the nba go play for the united states world team instead of sending the Spurs to represent the united states team. So GW2 probably thought best of the best NA players, (although, I know of even better players than these current ones, ex. Stunningstyles) to represent the NA team and yes there should have been an option to insert a players name as well.
As for the tournament games, like I said in a different post, I had no idea when they were until I read the forums, also I’m not going to waste my time trying to figure out the difference between my timezone and the CEST timezone is. If CEST is the games timezone it should say the games timezone and/ or both. I know what Zulu time is as well, but if games time is same thing as Zulu time, yet they word it in the European language (those silly Europeans and there metrics and everything), I still don’t know what it is, they should just say Zulu time instead of CEST.
As I said in a different post, its the small things that will prevent this game from being more successful than it currently is. Small things make a big difference. Small things are like, when on an American forum, use American friendly language and not this CEST bullkitten.
Where’s the who cares option
+1
They need to update the NPC professions you fight in HotM.
You should be able to talk to them. Ask for them to do a certain skill. Than they do certain skill until you kill them, killed, or out of combat.
This way people can practice avoiding thief pulls, engy magnet, learn all the animations and when to dodge. Also they should have a treb that constantly goes off too, so people learn how to time the treb shots.
Another thing, there should be broken glass in HotM as well, and 3 NPCs in different locations, so people learn how to play on Skyhammer.
Because you logged out due to bad internet. yes?
You came back to help the team win. yes?
If someone gave you 500 gold to spend, what would you spend it on?
The more I look at it, the more I want to bash my head against a desk for not buying this game sooner. I really wish we got more Necro-themed attire.
You couldn’t buy it, it was a random drop in the mystic toilet. Or random from a chest.
Drop rate was very low too.
Not really many pros because its not like you can send over your charr carvings to another account or your pristine fractal relics over to another account. Theres really no reason to box anything either
Anyone see how many viewers there were? Also what were the scores of each game. Was they even close or just ground pound.
Seems like every tournament game was 3-0. Doesn’t seem that exciting if you ask me.
Roughly 1,1K viewers according to reddit Even the DnT invitational, which was a PVE tournament, had more viewers lol.
The match can be watched here at around 7:40
Yup, I remember the first ToL had over 2k viewers, wasn’t backed by gamescon or anything either.
Commander should cost 100g and COLORS shouldn’t ever cost more than 1 or 2 gold. It’s FOR WvW… it should cost badges which is the real drop there. Stupid to think they expect pvp players to go farm dungeons for a pvp feature?
Or maybe they just want everyone to buy features by trading gems for gold.
It makes no sense at all.
Stop acting like this stuff is only for WvW.
If anything this stuff is more for guild missions and boss events in PvE.
I play on the highest caliber WvW server, Jade Quarry. I rarely see more than 1 commander tag up, unless its JQ BL which sometimes guilds like to do there own thing.
Now when I do missions like Triple Trouble, 3 commanders tag up. When I do guild missions several more commanders tag up. When I do WvW, there’s really no reasons for more than one commander to tag up.
Everyone that plays WvW knows its zerg vs zerg, everyone knows theres spies in WvW and if commanders that are on ‘the defensive’ tag up… Spies know where there at, so its just stupid to even tag up.
So stupid your this is only WvW bickering. Stop your it should be 100g, its account bound, 300g is a discount. Be thankful its not 500g.
Anyone see how many viewers there were? Also what were the scores of each game. Was they even close or just ground pound.
Seems like every tournament game was 3-0. Doesn’t seem that exciting if you ask me.
They need to take a serious look at warrior skills. Especially the longbow burst, I press F1, nothing happens I press F1 like 5 times to get something to go off. All these dazes and stuns and what not is whats affecting it.
Than you got other skills that are broken like heartseeker, if you try to do heartseeker, get stunned, it will heartseek after the stun. Unlike warrior skills heartseeker will que itself up.
Also, longbow 3, it has the same issues as the longbow burst. It will just not go off at times, I have to literally spam 3 to ensure the skill goes off.
Theres a lot more other skills, I’m not sure if its due to lag or what, but I’m having to button smash my skills to ensure they go off, even when I don’t get stunned or daze sometimes they don’t even go off because I dodged or jumped or something. Even when I don’t even do anything but smash that skill. I’m not sure if pressing F1 for that longbow burst twice, cancels the attack.
Also another thing, when doing warrior stomp utility skill, if I move to cancel it or something it goes under a full cooldown even when I didn’t even use it. Other skills are like this and they don’t go into full cooldown, this needs to be fixed so it has short cooldown from canceling it just like other skills. I really hate it when I slightly move and no stomp goes off and I see 45 second wait time.
Also when you use GS 5 at and target the gate in foefire, it wont go all the way to the gate, GS 5 is broken as well, there always seem to be some invisible obstacle not making you run all the way to whatever and the attack never seems to go off. Sometimes your right on top of whatever your targeting and you keep on running and no attack goes off. That needs fixing as well.
Also GS 2, I know with other skills if you move it will cancel the attack, sometimes with GS2, actually most of the times, when you use it, it will not let you move or dodgeroll and your locked into that attack. Very annoying especially when your not hitting anything.
Its account bound. Your getting a 60% discount from the current price of the commander tag. If you have more than 5 toons, than your saving even more.
Stop your whining, your getting a discount.
I have zero problems with people going into tpvp naked, most of them that do go naked are good anyways, if you lost its not because of them either. People that lose always gotta blame stuff on others, they don’t take into consideration of how well they performed themselves.