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Ranked Queue Never Pops

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Are you NA or EU? I’m EU and while it’s bad enough here it’s never that bad, I’m wondering how different it is there.

How's pvp right now?

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Right now? No. It’s in a really bad shape and people are giving up on it. In general the MMO genre isn’t doing all that well when it comes to PvP nowadays, but GW2’s falling from grace like mad in this area more than any other title imo.

Let's do away with forced 50/50 match making.

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Hi there,

A player may have a high-enough MMR to put them in the top 100, but if they’re in Sapphire they’re only going to get matched with players that are in or around Sapphire. Season 5 will use the entire pool of players for creating matches – this should help the system create more balanced matches and improve queue times.

But.. doesn’t this change amplify the biggest problem with s1 matchmaking which pits high MMR vs high MMR and low vs low in every division, making people with good ratings to struggle even in amber? This would just promote MMR tanking even more, right?

Moa - still no proper animation

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With signet animation do you mean that the signet appears above the head of the mesmer?

Yes.

Moa - still no proper animation

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Years ago Moa was changed into a signet, but the animation was adjusted poorly. Currently it looks like a mesmer with alacrity casting staff autoattack with slow (which makes it easy to miss in any fight larger than 1v1), and the signet only shows up above the mesmer’s head after he’s done casting, not as he begins.

It’s a gamechanging skill in a game with only animations to rely on, can we ever expect it to be fixed?

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pls allow -1 and +5 pips

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-1 to +5? So you’d take an already carebear system and dumb it down even futher, nice.

Either -5 to +5 or it’s a joke of a suggestion.

did you even read what i wrote ?

- 3 is stupid because some players in your team may have a much higher MMR than they deserve, and they drag down your team and causes your team to lose horribly, how would you feel ? -1 is for any loss is fine.

+ 1 for a win is stupid, especially if you fought against a team with higher MMR players.

there should be more pips won if fought and won against teams with more higher MMR players.

So if I tank my MMR whenever I hit a new tier/division I’ll get free 5 pip wins? Sounds healthy for the game.

pls allow -1 and +5 pips

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-1 to +5? So you’d take an already carebear system and dumb it down even futher, nice.

Either -5 to +5 or it’s a joke of a suggestion.

GW2 PvP is Dying

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I don’t go to pvp because pve provides more gold
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I don’t go on the beach because austria has more mountains

You don’t play pvp to grind gold little man

If Anet wasn’t offering more and more money for pro players do you think they’d care to compete? They aren’t really doing much to keep the competition alive on any level below pro league and it shows. Rewards are important and they are kitten in PvP.

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What exactly is "Match Manipulation"?

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Paying someone to go afk, syncing premades against each other with a predetermined outcome, or even joining “red team wins” custom arenas could be considered match manipulation. It’s not like Anet will do something about any of these so don’t bother.

GW2 PvP is Dying

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Enjoying Capricorn, fast queue pops, queuing outside mists, and faster pace killing in casual play. Compared to last patch, the casual game is 200% more fun even without a ranked season.

If you wanna be negative, yeah, MMOs are dying from the minute they’ve launched but the timing on this post is weird

MMO companies that listen to the “plea” of a small minority are destined to die quickly, you may not be aware but currently GW2 has the same PvP population of GW1..after 8 years from its launch, after 3 years from its launch GW1 had 10x the number of active pvpers

-GvG Matches had like 2 million viewers?
-All classes have always been relevant and with multiple builds?

When you actually gonna see these numbers in GW2?…hmm I think NEVER

The small vocal minority will ofc be happy of seeing professions they don’t play out of the competition..no more a serious threat, but hey..yours is a pyrrhic victory.

For how long do you think NCSOFT will be happy to pay for your 3k viewers tournaments?

This is so disconnected from the reality of the past that its laugh out loud funny.

2 million viewers for GvG? Really? So its larger than The International and LoL World Championships, which get play on ESPN and yet no one could tell you what GvG or Guild Wars 1 OR 2 sPvP looks like outside our fandoms. I would also love to see where you are getting these 10x player counts 3 years after GW1 launched.

Three years after that game launched it was limping along like it had always been. Balance was a rotating wheel with each new patch (just like in GW2), population would ebb with releases then go dormant again (just like in GW2).

TL;DR: Guild Wars 1 was an extremely niche game, Guild Wars 2 is an extremely niche game. Nothing has changed.

I think he means the youtube mirror, the factions tournament had 2 million + viewercount before it was taken down (the reuploads don’t have much).

What do you mean “nothing’s changed”? Arenanet lost almost all of the GW1 PvP playerbase with GW2 and to this day they couldn’t recover from it.

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The Plague of Nerfs [MUST READ]

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Everyone agrees on 2 things: we had more build diversity before HoT, and elite specs are way stronger than regular ones, right? Use your brain and put the 2 together, we lost build diversity because a selected few builds are so kittening broken they don’t leave room for others.

By nerfing them you create build diversity. Nerfs aren’t the problem, in fact we don’t have nearly enough of them, the problem is Anet either removing things instead of balancing them or providng decent alternatives, or only nerfing half the stuff while leaving others untouched/even buffing them.

Removing Amulets will NOT Solve the Problem [Merged]

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Mender has no toughness, which makes you lose health faster, has a lot of vitality to make it harder to heal up and has lower healing power to make it even more impossible to reach the now much higher max HP. It’s worse in every possible way than Cleric for a support role.

It is worse in every way (sans dealing damage). However, that’s kind of the point. That build was far too strong and created a lot of problems with the meta. It was a well-targeted nerf.

Why is it a well targeted nerf to remove something other classes could make good use of and not be completely OP just because 1 build on 1 class was broken?

Removing Amulets will NOT Solve the Problem [Merged]

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Why not try the same D/F Auramancer build but with Menders?

Mender has no toughness, which makes you lose health faster, has a lot of vitality to make it harder to heal up and has lower healing power to make it even more impossible to reach the now much higher max HP. It’s worse in every possible way than Cleric for a support role.

Removing Amulets will NOT Solve the Problem [Merged]

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Stop covering up balance issues by removing amulets, it’s not going to solve the core issues but it’ll certainly remove what little build diversity’s left in this game.

Worth comming back solely for pvp ?

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Just keep in mind that the learning curve is quite high. More often then not your gonna keep asking yourself, “How did I just die?” “What in the world is even going on?” Or “Wow, that class is super op!”

That’s not learning curve, just the spammy, passive proc plagued nature of GW2 which got even worse with HoT.

Just know that the balance right now is actually pretty good.

So HoT specs kittenting on every build that existed before the expansion and having 1 viable build per class that operate on the same level or insanity is “good balance”?

To the OP: don’t even bother with it.

How many are keen for S4

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Unpopular opinion: Despite the numerous issues, I am still looking forward to the new season.
Maybe it disappoints me (and I end up quitting), maybe it turns me on. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Wait and see what? They confirmed changes won’t come at least until season 5, and it’s not like they know how to fix it, otherwise they would’ve done that years ago.

Hope you won't buff DragonHunter....

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Whoever says that DH is weak and needs a buff should take any non-HoT spec and see if they stand a chance.

DH is very strong, but unlike other HoT specs at least it has some minor flaws. Instead of buffing it to the sky and slowly pushing this game off a cliff Arenanet should nerf every elite spec including DH.

Balance Predictions and Meta Change?

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So many people afraid of nerfs, rofl. That’s not how Anet operates. If something is broken, they’ll just buff other things to be even more broken and the cycle continues.

What keeps you from watching pvp on twitch?

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Mainly because there’s no one to watch. Everyone’s gone. PvP representation on twitch is at an all time low.

why doesnt Anet just come out and say it

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Leeto got legend on power gs reaper solo queueing. Wtf are you talking about.

https://www.twitch.tv/leet0

That’s more about the playerbase being really bad as the PvPers quit the game and it’s mostly PvE guys farming the backpack than GS reaper being good.

Huge lag spikes

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Windows updates, tend to do that, force your machine to update and see if u have some to do.

I don’t think these are related. Haven’t had this issue in any other game, or even in PvE/WvW, but the moment I get a ranked match suddenly the game becomes unplayable.

Huge lag spikes

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Yes, I’ve been having this for 2 weeks now. Made me quit GW2 until it’s fixed.

Automated Tournaments

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GW1 did it and it made too much sense. Won’t happen.

Should Profession Balance Utilize Polls?

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It is clear that the devs listen to what people ask for on the forums

That is precisely why we are at an all time low.

Season 3 with 2500 viewers on Twitch

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If Anet is wasting money, I assure you they will change tactics. They have tons of data.

Let’s be real here, does the marketng department of Anet make the impression of a competent group? After seeing the gw2 taxi, player pledge, the live “action” trailer, and other cringy attempts?

It’s more like “we have no ideas, we don’t want to work either, let’s just throw money at it and hope for the best”.

Push esports harder, what can they do?

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First of all we need a skill based combat system, which went out of the window when Anet decided to discard GW1 to create a game aimed at casuals called GW2.

If Anet was to fix the braindead AoE/CC/condi spamfest that is GW2, PvE/casual players would explode which they can’t afford.

Splitting skills could be an option, but the changes would have to be so massive that someone coming over from PvE to PvP wouldn’t even recognize the game. Plus it takes effort, releasing gemstore skins are easier.

IF they are even half serious about esports they should be pushing GW1.

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Mesmer tears..

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Patch is a joke. Just slap on a wanderer amulet and you’re as good as ever. See you in season 4, when hopefully Anet guts this aids.

u can try destroyer and dolyak with old build mb

Destroyer is a horrible idea in general.

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PVP : Free-for-all

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You mean “last DP thief standing”? After the first day you’d have matches where everyone is trying to hide in stealth while others fight it out, but as everyone is doing the same matches would go to timer all the time with barely any action.

It’d get old very quickly.

Official Map Changes Feedback Thread (Spring Quarterly Update)

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Few people loathed Skyhammer more than I did, but I must say the changes are amazing. The map’s really good now, it feels like sPvP rather than some minigame.

Spirit Watch, idk, there’s just something about it I can’t like, probably the layout of the entire map.

Still waiting for mesmer nerfs.

Why am I not aloud to win a pvp match?

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It’s not your fault, the MMR is random is biased against low MMR players. I know the feeling,

First step, stop blaming the matchmaking. It’s almost certainly the player’s fault. This week we got a pug complaining that he lost like 15 in a row and matchmaking sucks, then he proceeded to throw the game by losing to classes he’s supposed to counter, wiping under 2-3 seconds in every fight. He singlehandedly ended our winstreak of 25-30.

If you have a lose streak bigger than 3-4 matches, you’re the problem, and denying it won’t help you climb.

State of the game (yo guys it ain't that bad)

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Yeah rewards are sooo good, I got ~6 eggplants and 20 mithril for being in the top 25 on the guild ladder. In fact rewards are so bad almost nobody from season 1 bothered to touch the guild ladder in season 2.

Hell this week on one of our alt teams we lost the first match vs the rank 1, and became top 100 with 0-1, rofl. Very healthy population indeed.

Expect season 3 to be a wasteland now that many of us already got the legendary backpack, there’s no reason to play s3, maybe for the first week or 2 for the title. kitten rewards, kitten balance, but don’t worry devs are reworking skyhammer! What a clown fiesta.

New Guardian Build, Excellent!

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I dont get why people keep coming in here and make fun of it.
It might not be the best build or the best description of a build but its playable.
If this person comes up on their own with something that used to be meta, that is impressive. Coming up with new builds and having the bravery to go public with it should never get this kind of feedback.
Either you are wrong and others can help you to correct your style. (not just ridicule you)
Or you are right and make a way for a new meta. I remember not too long ago, during this season, elementalists and mesmers were thought underpowered, it was only because someone tried out something new, that they belong to the confirmed ‘op’ stuff now.

And finally Ive seen people say a lot, literally a lot more stupid things on the pvp forums and they even get support…

we’re making fun of the OP for grandiose over the top claim of a ground breaking discovery on a build that has existed since probably long before he even first stepped foot in a pvp match, a worse version of the burst burning build at that

Thats my point. The op ‘came up’ with a former meta build, obviously without knowing that build existed. Thats not bad at all.

Except it’s a really really bad version of burn guard.

Balance team: Don't buff warriors

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+1, yes please. Even warrior is OP by 2015 standards actually. If Anet keeps increasing the powercreep the game will literally be unplayable by season 4 or 5.

Please make SAB available more frequently

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Anet please don’t.

Skyhammer Design Discussion

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Remove jump pads and glass panels.

But honestly, the map doesn’t have a single decent aspect to it and you’d be wiser to direct your attention elsewhere. It’s a valiant effort, but I can’t think of anything that could fix this map, only make it a bit more bearable.

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Cleric guardian

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Tempest has more condi cleanse, direct heals, boons, damage mitigation (50% from enhanced protection + frost aura), anti-projectile, invuln, mobility, everything.

Helseth's build ?

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This one with Dueling and decoy instead of the signet. But if you’re new to the build you should probably stick to Inspiration for the sustain. :P

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Now people are getting PvP legendary backpack

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You can totally tell that the devs only care about PvP, and are addicted to it, by the fact that they spend the vast majority of their time and resources on non-PvP aspects of the game.

How could they be “adicted to pvp” if they don’t even play it and have no clue about what’s going on in the game? “Balance” attempts reflect their lack of understanding of even the most basic things.

Now people are getting PvP legendary backpack

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300 000 dollar wasted on E-sport tournement. I don’t call that ‘ignoring pvp’. They are addicted to pvp.

This is the biggest misconception ever. GW2 is 99% PvE content, but advertisements and events are ~80% PvP. It’s easy to believe Anet’s PR bullkitten if you don’t actually see what’s behind it – there’s literally nothing new content to play in ranked PvP since 2012, only stronghold which nobody cares about.

PvP development is a joke and devs couldn’t care less, they just love attending tournaments and hope that throwing money at things will magically fix problems so they don’t have to work.

Where can I find the builds of pro players?

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Right now the Finals are going on, where can I find the engineer build that the pros are using? They are using Bulkward Gyro, so it’s not the one on metabattle.

It’s the same build. Elixir B/Bulwark gyro can be swapped around.

Guild Challenger rewards are infuriating

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What are you trying to say?

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For the first time in GW2 history, PvP guilds actually had a reason to exist, the members finally had something to play for as a team. Guild rewards kept everyone going.

Until now.

2 months of PvP, and this is what we get? 20 shard of glory? That’s vendor trash. Eggplants? Can’t even sell it. Mithril ingot? Can’t bother listing it on the TP (which by the way, is broken atm). Meanwhile we still can’t get any of the high tier HoT materials from PvP. But thanks for the mithril, I guess.

You know what, I’d be willing to forgive all of it. But then I saw the trophies. Did we play in that horrible meta for 2 months, just for some egg plants and tiny glass panels with some paint in it? “Underwhelming” doesn’t begin to describe it.

Couldn’t even hold a candle to the PvE trophies, despite the fact that only a limited amount of PvP trophies are being distributed per season.

How does Anet expect us to take PvP seriously when even they don’t?

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Guild Challenger League rewards

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Is this a joke? The trophy is the kittentiest looking one I’ve seen, 0 creativity, 0 effort, 0 kittens given. The rewards are even worse – eggplant? Shards of glory? Mithril ingot?

PvP Season 1 End Time and Challenger Cup Info

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So, last day of leauges my guild did a 3 man and got 24th place when season ended, do I get platinum Guild Challenger Reward since it starts at 1 and gold is 25?

also when do I get these rewards?

I think they were pretty clear about it: rank 1 is platinum, 2-25 is gold. You’ll get gold.

PvP Guild Trophy Tokens???

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These are coming, we’re postponing the distribution while some other guild bugs are fixed.

I just hope you guys turned off the decay so teams don’t drop out while we are waiting xP

ETA on guild ladder rewards?

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Any info on when can we expect these?

Give chill the alacrity treatment

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+1 to this suggestion.

Upcoming Changes to PvP Runes/Sigils/Amulets

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kittening love you guys, great change.

Spvp team make ups without the expansion pack

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It might work up to emerald but don’t get your hopes up unless the balance patch actually fixes things which I doubt.

1 or maybe 2 vanilla specs are ok, but 5/5 is impossible.

Burn guardian is hardcountered by every single meta spec, it just does no damage at all.

Best sPvP Rev build for SoloQ/DuoQ

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Condi (except if the enemy is stacking lots of eles/necs, then go power).