Guild Wars 2

kitten.5862:

what’s wrong with condi mes and condi engi

I allowed condi mes and Condi with some restriction after reconsideration and more inputs from people

MrWhisper.4306:

This mesmer bans is almost everything except normal power mes lol. Rip

You are right after reconsideration I allow Condi Mes HOWEVER Not allow inspiration if you run condi mes

I KNOW LOT OF PEOPLE WILL WAIT TILL LAST MINUTE TO SIGN UP BUT PLEASE SIGN UP ASAP SO I CAN MAKE A MORE BALANCE BRACKET

Please allocate about 3 hours minimum if you are signing up for this tournament

The Tournament will be hosted on Twitch.tv/xkratosz around 5 Central, depend on the number of sign-ups I may stream the Outter brackets instead of just the Top 8 – The quality will be a little bad since I cannot find anyone free to host the tournament but it will still be watchable.

There will be some changes to the rules (Ex. Necros are allow to use Plague, Definition of 1 minion only does not include the Elite Minion)

START SIGNING UP NOW MAXIMUM SPOTS ARE 48 SINCE THERE ARE ONLY 2 ADMIN
Signup will be close On 4:00 CST ON SATURDAY 27TH
Players will be whispered by Admins to show up to designated arenas.

There will be giveaways for viewers on stream – Sponsored by twitch.tv/JoinJess

Viewers Giveaways Include
400 Gems (JoinJess will buy what you want)
Bloodstone Skins and Other Skins
100g
And mores

After taking more inputs from people I decide to change the rules set and ban list slightly. This will be the main post that will contain all the information of this tournament that will happen on: August 27th

I have lot of gems from winning AG and idk what to do with them so I am giving back to the community (LUL). This tournament is host in NA but EUs feels free to make a F2P account or transfer over and play if you want. A battlefly website will be posted here soon.

Rules
Only these amulets are allow: Viper, Zerker, Marauder, Destroyer, Assassin, Seeker, Sinister, Rampager and Carrion
If a duel last longer than 3 mins both players will be put on zerker amulet
NO REVS IT A VANILLA TOURNAMENT. So don’t ask me if Rev without the Elite is allow, that cancer Came with HoT and is NOT Vanilla

Prizes
1st: 800 gems (I will buy anything from gem store for you with my gems as long as it under 800) & 300g + Bloodstone GS Skin
2nd: 200g + Plasma Sword Skin
3rd: 69g69s69c + A Pack of 3x Finishers

Format
All Duels before Round of 8 will be BO3. Players may tweak their builds as they see fit between each set.
Round of 8 and Semis will be BO5
Finals will be BO7

Sign up and Rules

https://battlefy.com/non-hot-1v1s/end-of-summer-vanilla-1v1-tournament/57b3d2f6b84759200cfb12eb/info

Courtesy of Caspian

As the tourney go on if the moderators perceive some thing as AIDS it will be ban on the spot.

Casters and Dank Guests Casters
Jeff and Kralle From NL
Aerodynamique
Kenya
The Legendary Autistic Forever Second Best Ranger NA (Kappa), The One and Only: THROWNY

Maps

Vote for what map you want the duels to happen here:

https://strawpoll.de/fdfc54f

Info’s on Battlefly website will be update soon. There will be some minor build bans added so keep eyes on that

Updated Prize Pool

ArthurDent.9538:

xKratos.4758:

Cannot pick both Addrenal health and Passive endure pain at the same time.

Adrenal health is a minor trait in the defense line which is the line that passive endure the pain is in so, this would just make passive endure the pain completely banned

I realized this sound very kittens however if I do not implement these rules Warrior 1v1 will just take forever and not fun to watch.

Fluffball.8307:

Banning ranger LB seems really arbitrary. Friggen staff does more damage on the auto and can’t be reflected.

It a Non-Hot Tournament so Staff ranger is ban right off the bat. Also changed it to quickdraw is ban if you use LB

Updated the rules and dates

Saiyan.1704:

Not sure how to trade Gems but I have 300 to donate for this tournament. May donate more as the date progresses.

Just convert the gems to gold and mail it to me. I will either put it toward second place prize pool Or if more people donate I can expand it to third fourth fifth places etc.

Exciton.8942:

probably easy win for warrior because of adrenal health.

Like I said there will be restrictions on certain traits and builds. There will also be a strawpoll so people can vote on what builds and trait they want to ban.

Skittledness.5106:

Yo wazzup Kratoast can I play?
(Jeff here o boi )

Donate to the prize pool and I’ll let you in. Let say 100g minimum

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

Non-HOT tourney, ready to dust off stances. Let’s go.
Actually I feel like non-hot balance favors warrior a lot at the present.

There will be restrictions for certain classes and aids build. For warrior prolly will be something like “If you pick Adrenal Health then you cannot use Heal signet and endure pain Passive” or “if you pick Passive endure pain then you cannot use Adrenal health and shield” etc just giving examples. Gonna see if people gonna actually sign up and play or not first.

Hi, I have lot of gems from winning AG and idk what to do with them so I am thinking of giving back to the community (LUL). Since enough people told they they want to play in it on forums and in-game. The tournament will happen on: August 27th

A battlefly website is being set up by my friend Caspian so I will link it here for people to sign up soon.

There will be restrictions on certain classes and traitline. This is because due to patches some vanilla specs will be a guarantee win if you roll them. Ex: Warrior with their defense traits. So some restrictions will be place on certain class and some specs will be ban. Also, to clarify, Revenant is NOT allow. Amulet and Runes introduce after HoT is allow. Below is the outline of what are ban. This is not final and more will be add later so feel free to give your suggestion on what should be ban and what not.

Ban list for classes:

Necro: No Minion Mancer build, No Lich Elite
Thief: Shadow Arts Trait is ban
Ranger: If use LB then you not allow to take QuickDraw and Taunt Trait
Engi: Elite Elixir is ban
Condi engi is ban unless you take Battle Ram, Bomb Kit and Rocket Shoes 4Head
Guardian: Bunker and Burn Guard are ban
Ele: LUL
Mesmer: Mantra and Condi Mes is ban
Warrior: Rampage is ban
If pick addrenal health then Heal signet is ban and viceversa
If use shield off hand then passive endure pain is ban
Cannot pick both Addrenal health and Passive endure pain at the same time.
More rules for warrior will be add since the class atm is very overtune.

As the tourney go on if the moderators perceive some thing as AIDS it will be ban on the spot.

Prizes:
1st: 800 gems (I will buy anything from gem store for you with my gems as long as it under 800) & 200g
2nd: 100g

That all.

So I can boost ambers to legend with my squad for ez gold again since it gonna be harder now? Kappa JK don’t ban me plox EleGiggle

Joking aside idk what the fuss for at this point in the game if you at the top getting legend is trivial. Same thing ever season. People complain but still get it in the end. It so easy

RIP my nigguh aerxoe another Yellow brother bite the dust.
Also agree on the “of of people deserve ‘kitten status’ but cannot get it” Kappa

At least come hangout in the dead twitch section with us bois sometime bby.

Another 1v2 on diviner rev
https://secure.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/81243986

Since the forum is fills with QQ and salty threads atm. I think we should start a fun thread for once. Post your eSport MLG 420NoScope PogChamp PoTG moments here in either twitch highlights, GIFs, Youtube vids, etc. for funzies. Kinda like the OW reddit thread where people post nice Potg moments.

Here is my recent PogChamp moments.

Winning 1v2 in 15s: https://secure.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/81062692

Winning 1v2 on Diviner Amulet Revenant: https://secure.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/80929388?t= (The other guy came in near the end but he didn’t even touch the last guy so it a 1v2’d)

Elitism in GW2 PvP? No wayyyyyy gasp

If we bragging can i show my esport casual 1v2 on diviner amulet for trolling? 4Head

http://www.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/80929388

Don’t abuse PT like the other guy said, use it for depend on situations, the abusing thing was true till they nerf it.

I dont stream much but you can watch my vod if you wanna see mechanics and how it should be done. This is me casually 1v2 on diviner amulet

http://www.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/80929388

Inb4 they remove Diviner amulet cause 100% boon uptime Kappa . I did 1v2 casually with 16k hp on diviner though so i guess Amulet is OP eh 4Head

Proof: http://www.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/80929388

OR follow me on twitch and watch an actual good player Kappa . Here is me casually 1v2 a thief and rev on Diviner revenant 4Head

http://www.twitch.tv/xkratosz/v/80929388

Meanwhile I am winning 1v2s vs “Elite OP specs” and win or stall most of them on Vanilla GS/Hammer warrior and troll 1v3s while keeping neut on a ghetto weaker version of condi warrior. Granted the people in unranked play like bots but still 4Head

Ranger is my worst class 4Head

Topher.5631:

He is known at the higher tiers and has played in AG multiple times (if I remember correctly). He is not an amber.

I don’t get the point you are trying to make in the OP though :/

Just wanna express my disappointment with the Matchmaking since as you can see in the picture even when playing my worst class on non meta build with 4 thieves on my team my games mostly super easy where I just afk most the time.

Also, I saw you around the PvP reddit thread trying to help newbies. Props to you for still trying to help people get better.

I never bother posting on forum. But people who PvP a lot at high MMR bracket know who I am. Just wanna show this screen of my typical unrank/rank game. Even when I actively throwing by playing marauder druid i still win. I have 18 games total on ranger as of this post.

Alright. This is my third pos on this forum in my 3 years of playing. First post was a troll second post was a kitten post about HoT pricing but whatever. To the eDrama issue since I feel like this worth some time to type a paragraph over.

Actually kitten a paragraph, just evoke those 2 dudes challenger or whatever league rights, give the rights to the 3 original members who got kick, they can find 2 replacement and practice b4 the thingy. Easy.

Hi, this is my first post on the forum ever, I do not often come to GW2 Forum since it tend to be the place of hate and toxicity. And I was right. Putting that aside, I want to voice some thoughts on the issue that is raging across Reddit, GW2 forum and all the big maps in GW2 atm. HoT price. Please keep in mind if you gonna reply to this thread, be mature and present valid argument, not just blind hate or fanboi loves. And before I even started I want to make it clear that I DO NOT support either side since I think both sides are in the wrongs.

Now, let talk about the people hating on the expansion first; mostly the veterans who been playing the game since launch. I, myself, am a veteran too. I have been playing since beta days back when the mini map was round and animations were crappy, etc. I also bought the game really early and later upgraded to DELUXE version just to support the developers. So I do understand the frustrations and disappointment the core players have on ANET. However, I do not support the entitlement some players think they have. At the end of the day, no one force you to buy the expansion. The price is indeed audacious, and voicing your opinions is cool and all but also keep in mind, ANet did provide us with 2 years of free contents with no sub fee. And yes you can argue that the season 2 you have to buy if you missed out on the 2 weeks period, but then you would be wrong. Because you CAN get it for FREE by converting gold to gems. So yes, the moment you bought GW2 you can literally get anything for free, provide you put in some time to grind or just play the game and let it happen naturally.

Now, to the white knights and fanbois. While some of you present valid argument, some of you fail to put into account that lot of people buy games based on the content and value they provide. And HoT DOES NOT have a value of $50. You can say that there will be more content available in the future, but the practice of asking players to preorder without even a release date is just insulting on ANet part. I will use GW1 expansion as an example, even the most recent expansion of GW1 which is like 7 years ago, priced at $39 still offer more value than HoT. And before you say “But you need to take into account the inflation of the dollar”; mind you, the dollar actually have more value than it does 7-8 years ago since the economy is stable now. (Source: Economic Minor 2nd year, Did a Currency Evaluation and got an A- for my project last Spring) So, please justify to the players who dissatisfied with the audacious $50 price mark that HoT has more value than GW1 Expansions which come with 2 Free character slots, a minimum of 8-10 new maps, 2 professions, etc.

Now, the damage has been done. ANet will never revert the price and the best we could hope for is for them to add a free character slot at MINIMUM to the standard pack. Since the fanbois already preorder so reverting the prices is not possible and will be unfair to them. That my thoughts on the situation, everyone got their own opinion, just respect them and move on with your life. Steam summer sale is going on and GW2 is not the only game in the world. If you feel like $50 is not worth it, I got some recommendation that will be well worth that $50:
+Dark Souls series which is on sale atm will get you a minimum of 150hrs for just $30.
+Witcher 3, best RPG game I ever play in my life. And I have play all the Elder scrolls game, Ultima, Baldur Gate. Logged 197hrs into it already (Spent all the time off works playing it). And that just within 1 month. While it took me 2 years to logged 700 hrs into GW2 so the value of Witcher 3 far surpassed GW2 for me atm.
+GTAV will give you a minimum of 100hrs guarantee.

I could go on but you got my point, do not buy the expansion if you think it is unreasonable and just move on with your life. Stop hating on everything. Devs gotta eat. Is $50 reasonable? No. But that the price ANet decided that their product gonna cost. And ANET has 10000 times less class than CDPRED so do not expect them to listen to the core players like CDPRED did since they have to answer to the big daddies upstair too, so understand that for them. And if you decide to buy the expansion, thank you. You keep the game going.

hannah mee.7925:

Draknar.5748:

Coldtart.4785:

There is always a correct sequence of input to do anything in pve, so it could be done by a bot if such things were allowed. Anything a bot could do is automatically not skill.

A bot can do practically anything…art, math, finance, precision manufacturing, etc.

I mean…what can’t a bot do.

A bot can’t tie my shoes. Maybe someday, but not today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XrA7DR0u0uI

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/look-unbelievable-robot-hand-tie-shoe

BOOM!!! Youre wrong. There is a robot for literally ANYTHING. I am working toward my Doctorate in Nanotech so I cannot contain myself for proving you are wrong.

GET REKT!!! Trolololol