Guild Wars 2

Valkyriez.6578:

Who said this game was unbalanced as it is?

Now that ive switched to Mesmer, feels balanced to me.

+1 QFT!

Or to use the Chess analogy from earlier, you’ve switched from Pawn to Queen…..

I made my mesmer just to see if they really where that brainless to play in spvp.

I was correct.

When I play my Mesmer, it’s just drunken button mashing (because if I’m not loaded, I need more of a challenge) and i win just about every battle that way. It’s just that easy.

The only people that agrro the world unintentionally are the people that are not good at pet classes and simple micro management. Period. I can’t recall a single dungeon in which my pets aggro’d stuff unintentionally.

Yes, the pathing can be a lot better, but so can you.

Protip:

1) If your pet aggros the world, let it fight, run farther away, swap pet. Profit.
2) Stow your pet before running past mobs. If you are bad, or can’t dodge through aggro’d mobs and get hit, see rule #1.

How about taking all that time that could be spent on making awesome new quiver models and using it to make pets that don’t suck in all types of PVP?

I vote for that

^^ THIS.

We don’t need some BS extra stat weapon nonsense

I see a lot of complaints about theif and mesmer, but what people don’t seem to understand is that these borderline Downs players need those crutch classes. If you wreck their easy/skill-less professions/builds and nerf them into the ground, they will have nothing to do but the following:

A) attempt to convince Mom to call A-net, after a long tantrum, and revert any nerfs to their training wheel professions

B) learn to actually play a class that requires some degree of skill to play, which will lead to even more crying on the forums because the other classes “ain’t as cool brah”, or “this actually requires a brain and a degree of strategy to play well…I don’t like it..no Sir, not one bit!”

C) Anet listens to the cries of the special snowflakes and begins to dumb down the rest of the classes to the thief/mesmer level and then the game is really wrecked.

So no…don’t touch thief/Mesmer…leave them exactly as they are. I like to know who the bads are, just by seeing the profession they brought and it gives them a place in the game that they otherwise would have stopped playing long ago, due to skill requirements.

1) You will not do high burst damage on par with any of the real burst damage classes…you are a ranger
2) You will do moderate sustained damage…you are a ranger
3) If played and traited correctly, you can out last any other class and then make emotes on their bodies in triumph for using your more difficult class in victory
4) If you want to win 3v1, 2v1 and always 1v1, go for a BM bunker build, if not, see #5
5) see #1

Canines. Only Canines in PVP/WV3 – Specifically, the Eternal Battlegrounds wolf (with fear) and the Fernhound (with AOE regen)

*Do you want free knockdowns on a 12 second timer, plus 2 seconds of quickness and a pet that never dies ? Yes please.

*Do you like timing a pet swap for a knock down and quickness when the enemy is about to heal? Yes please.

As a bonus, they do good damage…but mostly they are knockdown machines

I think the OP was mentioning more about the fact that he’s sick of AFK’s.

It’s perfectly understandable that some times RL things happen and you need to step away for a few minutes…and that’s what the timer for AFK kick should be …a few minutes. If you can’t make it back from your RL engagement in a few minutes, the TEAM should not be penalized, it is YOU that should be penalized, regardless of what your RL issue is/was. You are NOT a special snowflake.

As for people that outright quit a tourney, they definitely need a 15 minute lock out of Tourney play.

He doesn’t know good music. Maybe you can put out an alternative version with Kattie Perry or something….

Gratz on doing well with that horrible combination of weapons though. nicely done.

I’ve beaten every class and every common build 1v1 scenarios in Wv3 and tpvp on my evasion tank ranger. Sure it takes a while due to the Ranger class complete lack of any real burst, but knowing your terrain, anticipating your enemies next move, and paying attention to THEIR cool downs as well as your own will serve you well (this will require you to spend time playing every class in the game in pvp to a degree). You can out evade/dodge even the most acrobatic of theives with sword/dagger and traits that give you a lot of vigor and such.

While i know that the Ranger class is full of bugs and has a lot of really bad/useless utilities, it is far from broken or unplayable. The Ranger profession can absolutely dominate in the right hands.

/edit
The reason the Ranger is my main pvp choice is the challenge of it. It’s extra satisfying stomping a BS theif or a mesmer on my ranger. Bonus points when they whisper me for my build. Extra bonus points when they ask about runes/sigils/utilities. Extra Extra bonus points when they call the class OP. If I could save those tears in a jar, I would.

If I get too drunk to play well, I just fall back on my Mesmer or BS thief and go easy mode.

What’s my age? 42

Follidus.8027:

Rangers are pretty much limited to traps.

False. I run a sword/dagger regen/evade spec in tpvp and Wv3- don’t need no stinkin traps.

Once you start running, you get the shortbow up the rear.

I think the better question is: Why would anyone PAY to play any kind of bugged PVP? Fix the class issues, then we’ll talk.

edited my original post

1) Keep it’s duration as is
2) Make all allied team players within its AOE subject to +50% incoming damage TO THEMSELVES
3) Disable healing within time warp AOE for all ALLIED team players

How to solve Time Warp, keep it useful and make it “fair”:

1) Keep it’s duration as is
2) Make all allied team players within its AOE subject to +50% incoming damage TO THEMSELVES
3) Disable healing within time warp AOE for all ALLIED team players

Problem solved.

/edited for the special people who don’t “get it”

Beyond the balance issues of 8v8, there are a few things that would dramatically increase the “structure” of spsp.

1) Make the capture points give personal and team points for actively defending, even when no one is around.

2) Decrease the amount of glory gained in direct relation to how far away you are from a capture point. BAM – no more idiots fighting miles away from the capture points. That would basically force morons to learn how capture point maps are supposed to be played.

3) Limit the amount of X class per team. This one might not be too popular of a suggestion, but it would certainly make pug matches much more enjoyable for everyone involved. There are enough matches going on for those left over thieves and mesmers to find a place to play….I promise

SAtaarcoeny.8476:

so this is not a complaint about the moa change but it does suck that it does force mesmers to be a 1 elite pony.

Gratz on having 1 elite that doesn’t completely suck then?

You know the easiest way to tell the bad mesmers from the decent ones? The bads use Moa instead of Time Warp.

Moa will never win a match, but TW certainly can and has turned the tides of uncountable amounts of matches.

I’m thinking more along the lines of coding Target of Target, Weapon swap mods (out of combat, for when you want to bring a different weapon to a specific fight without fumbling through your bags of crap) – basic quality of life things that should be in every MMO (but for some reason, are not in this).

You could code a mod that helps you find POI’s (that were previously found on other characters), for example. This game is not conducive for “whack-a-mole” mods, simply due to the way that the combat/class system is built, so saying GW2 would turn into one is just silly.

At a minimum, a requirement of approval via ANET would solve ANY issue regarding their vision of the game and how a particular MOD would effect it. That nullifies every argument against this idea outright. I would be fine with something like that (think the way Apple handles user made apps that they put up on the store, etc).

Give us the software developers kit Arenanet. There’s a whole community of people who would be ready, willing and able to build mods to improve the quality of life in game for all players. There is zero reason not to do this. I’d even be willing to pay for an SDK and submit mods to anet for consideration if that’s what it took.

0/030/10/30 for WvWvW and I’m running the full Zho’s set with Flock runes. Prior to that set, I did OK in 1v1 scenarios and would be toast in 2v1….but after the full Zho’s set, it takes 3 or more people to kill me and I haven’t lost 1v1 yet (power/toughness/healing). I don’t see big crit numbers, but I outlast any class in 1v1 now (shortbow/horn/sword..running Fernhound and Wolf with fear).

Hope that helps.

I’m playing a Warrior longbow/rifle ranger build at the moment and it’s everything I ever wanted out of the ranger. Fun in PVE/WvW/sPVP. FOR GREAT JUSTICE/longbow AOE/Rifle picks off what is left. Very efficient and fun and the best part, no broken pet to deal with !

I just wish that someone told me this was possible 80 levels ago.

Ranger will eventually be fun, once they fix it..in the mean time, I’m enjoying the heck out of my pew pew ranged warrior build

I’d like to offer my services as a Project Manager to Arenanet. I manage projects worth millions of dollars every day of my life. I know what pressure is and how to deal with it while balancing the triangle of time/cost/quality with problematic (and yes, sometimes childish) customers breathing down my neck. It’s obvious that ANet could use some quality project management in their company and I’m here to help in what ever way I can, pro bono.

To the rest of you: Chill out. This isn’t some life or death situation for you. It’s a game. I challenge each of you to look back at your experience to date with GW2 and not admit that it was worth the $60 of entertainment you purchased. It’s a fun game, with a lot of fun options.

I like the Ranger class a lot and still think it’s fun. I’ll continue to play the Ranger class in sPVP, because it’s still fun. If I’m having an off day with it and desperately need to feel more viable in sPVP, I’ll play a mesmer (like the rest of you probably do) and faceroll through a ton of wins. There’s options. Many have stated they are rolling Warriors. Good…..roll a warrior. They are fun as well. Do what is fun, but for pete’s sakes stop putting real money into something if you are not satisfied with the end product. Nothing gets a company’s attention faster than lower profits, because in the end, they are not making the game just because they love making games….if they were, they’d do it for free.

Haya jii san.1978:

@Eurantien : A troll right there !
“Damage: I win 1 on 1s 95% of the time” Well unless we don’t play the same class, link build otherwise this is 95% a huge pile of … right there!

[You know Energy sigils do have 9 sec inner CD ? You know all professions do have access to 2 dodges and heal as well ? You know that invulnerability has 2 min CD for you and the pet (also requires 30 points in power trait build), which is a huge chunk of time for spvp and tpvp standards ?]
“I only play ranger and I am consistently the top player on my team and usually have top kills to go with that.”
“Squishier: This has to be a joke. I know i am one of the hardest things to kill in pvp.”

So to get this straight .. You are the best dps around. Apparently, you are the most survivable thing around … Right Hulk ? Either link you build, including pictures with your spvp / tpvp stats or you can take your “stuff” elsewhere …

@monepipi : “…,but they are still very viable in PVP.” What role do we fulfill ? What profession would you discard in favor of the Ranger ?

It’s not hard to dominate on a Ranger in spvp….it’s just harder than doing it on thief or mesmer. Some people are just better at certain things than others…it’s a fact that many in our society have been trying to mask for a couple of generations now. You are not a special snowflake. Some people can do things better than you. No, we’re not all winners….

That said, if you are having trouble with doing well on your ranger, go play a glass canon elementalist for 10 ranks (like I did), then come back to ranger and enjoy dominating people, while wearing training wheels. If you can do well and stay alive on a glass canon ele (read: non-bunker), you will absolutely scrub the floor with people on your ranger, because you will understand the importance of timing dodges, stuns and stun breaks, terrain, distance to closest team mate, etc.

If Anet would release the SDK, the mod community that would surely use it to improve the game would make a MOD that does exactly what you describe, because it’s a good idea.

^^ You’re joking right? Almost impossible to stomp? Really?
The old downed state was one of the worst things in the game for an Ele and a guaranteed stomp for any decent player.

Well, the easy answer is Team Fortress 2, the current high water mark for team based PVP. Maybe you meant which MMO…..

Since most MMO’s do the aiming for you, none of them require actual “skill” in the form of actualy having to …you know..AIM your attacks and such (save the Engy grenades, obviously)…but as far as MMO’s go, this is one of the better ones. Once the classes actually get balanced, it should be far and away the best MMO PVP, as in theory, the fact that it isn’t a matter of who’s got the better gear, but who can play their class the most effectively.

Sadly, right now it’s more about who brought the right professions to the tournament….but that will be fixed….in time…

…..

…..I hope.

Dagger is great with the Sword, as you have 3 evades. Depending on the team, I will swap the Horn for the Dagger. I basically use that set as an evade set and a cripple…I don’t use it for damage, since the sword is broken currently for DPS. In fact, that’s the set I run with from point to point, as most people will try and burst you at the start of a fight. I evade with sword and dagger until their burst is finished, then swap to shortbow to plow through them.

Nothing is sweeter than out evading a thief with this set up.

There there……someone misses his free stomp…
/patback

Here’s an idea! Don’t waste time DPSing a downed Ele..force the Ele to use his/her escape immediately, then enjoy DPSing down (or stomping) one of the lowest health pools in the game.

If you are looking to roll Ranger for PVE, do it. It’s super simple/easy to master.

If you want to roll Ranger in sPVP, do it…but only after playing a NON-BUNKER Elementalist in sPVP for at least 5 ranks. That will force you to anticipate what other classes are going to do, get very good at avoiding damage, learn to deal with sub-par burst and garbage healing and how to use the map environment to your advantage just to stay alive.

Once you’ve got the above down on an Elementalist, roll a Ranger in sPVP and you will feel like a god.

Also, use the Shortbow + 1h Sword&Warhorn. When you are running from point to point, always have 1H sword and Warhorn equipped. Do not expect to use the 1H sword as a damage weapon, as the #1 auto-attack skill is broken and roots you in place. However, you have 3 actions with the 1H sword that work as evades. Use them when someone runs at your Ranger and begins to unload their opening bursts (I’m looking at you backstab theif/100b Warrior). They will blow their wad trying to burst you while you are evading all over the place and you will still have 2 dodges left to use. Hit the warhorn abilities, swap to shortbow and unload with QZ, then /laugh on their corpse.

While this beta test setting does a bit to enhance vertical FOV, it does nothing to solve the issue I have with the game in terms of feeling too cramped. Horizontal FOV still is far too narrow and thus far, the only way I have to “fix” Arenanet’s poor horizontal FOV settings is to play in a squashed windowed mode. The new vertical FOV setting does help in squashed windowed mode a little bit though.

It’s like getting to drive a Ferrari, but only getting to see out of 60% of the windshield….and the Ferrari gives me a headache after 20 minutes…..

would adding a /fov command line variable really be that hard….on a PC game?

There should be some attack/defend objectives style play. Make it a tiny, tiny version of WvWvW, not unlike many other games already have.

Team Red has to breach and destroy objective A/B/C before time expires. Team blue defends. etc

Ifrit.7296:

I love the current setup. It feels like a perfect merger of an FPS style gaming with MMO depth of class mechanics.

This is exactly why some people don’t like it. Some folks simply can’t do well in PVP without a distinct advantage over other players and they are willing to grind forever to get that advantage and guarantee wins due to out gearing their opponent. This is also why you see so many theives/mesmers in spvp.

Personally, I LOVE that there is no gear advantage and would stop playing if there was one, as there is no challenge when I out gear someone, or if I’m playing a profession that is clearly better (see: theives/mesmers).

Sure there needs to be more Maps and game types, but i think that will come in time.
The more like team Fortress 2 that they can make PVP in this game, the better.

Pssst…. (Bad link)

There’s Candy Corn though…

Dear GOD….did they….did they fix the Ele downed state?

I…I….I don’t know what to say…..

defektive.3540:

Edit: D_i_c_kinson. Oh dear.

THE Bruce D_i_c_kinson?!

One of the more funny one’s that I have seen : Ow Capwn

Most unforgettable sPvP moment: When a Warrior with a rifle out DPS’d my Ranger with a bow and killed me/took the point.

Most unforgettable WvWvW moment: Being one shotted on my Elementalist by some invisible ghost.

Yeah…well……. I am awesome with the chopsticks

@BSsquared.

I didn’t say I didn’t use auto attack, I said I don’t have it bound. Why would I lead with the worst attack we have? And yes, they pretty much all suck.

I noticed the OP didn’t mention Elementalist in his post and is complaining about downed state balance. This is very amusing to me.

Kid spends 400 hours playing game- complains that there’s nothing left to do one month after games release. News at 11.

The neat thing about this design is that (once all the bugs are squashed) they can drop in DE content in where/any time they want. The possibilities for things to do are endless then.

I also do not agree that people play MMO’s for progression. We play them for fun. Progression != fun. Sometimes progression is fun, but I (and many others) do not find raiding 3 nights a week for 4 hours at a time, a fun thing to do in the same way that I do not find mowing my lawn once a week fun. I do it because I have to to keep my yard looking nice…..or my gear up to par with the latest blah blah expansion.

GW2’s basic premise should be the new paradigm.

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Zonzai.2341:

This is all assuming that they will move at the same speed in GW2 as they did in GW1. The up side is that everybody playing an ele in PvP now will be god like once they are actually brought up to snuff.

You can be Godlike now. Roll a Mesmer in sPVP

I don’t even have the Ele #1 bound to a key….that’s how bad it is with every weapon and every attunement (except scepter/earth for the bleeds..that’s the ONLY decent one)

I’m just going to leave this here…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/A-different-form-of-currency-for-siege-equipment/first#post461765

I think that Siege equipment is one of the most fun parts of WvWvW, but its cost is something that turns me off. Would it be game breaking to have a different form of currency for it, other than gold?

1) What if there was a way to earn points for siege equipment that was specifically given to players for accomplishing certain objectives?

2) What if there was a cap to how much currency you could earn for a particular objective (so people aren’t doing the same thing over and over to farm it)?

3) What if you could also use this currency to pay for repairs?

4) What if you could also convert that currency into other forms of currency (gold/karma)?

5) What if owning all 3 orbs reduced the amount of currency per server so that it made it easier for the opposing team to fight back (while still retaining their other buffs)?

6) What if……

Hello Friend! How are your opinion of destiny of golds?

I think, as silly as it may sound, having a better /emote menu would actually help in starting conversations. If I’m soloing somewhere, as simple /wave tends to go a long way in terms of getting to know who’s playing near me.

Also, in sPvP, I think it’s great that /map chat is heard across both teams. I’ve met a lot of people this way. Being respectful to people goes a long way as well.

If you’re in a DE and someone saves you with a heal (while you’re standing in the bad, eating a sandwich), thank them for the heals….or tell that Guardian that he/she tanked well (oooh, dirty word I know). Be helpful and be respectful. The issue in this day and age is that most kids are neither. It’s not just the game at fault.