[How to know when you're the baddie?]

At some point it just boils down to experience and learned routes. Doing what works against certain playstyles by getting owned at your own and trying different things til it works against the people you originally lost against. 

[Its time for Guardian Ports to get cast times.]

2 minutes ago, Eurantien.4632 said:

Somewhat just a meme. Anet doesn't balance based on feedback. But guardian is the only class with an instant cast teleport that goes through LoS (besides thief but I think that's fine for thief). Merciful intervention is probably fine.

So does deathstrike, its insta cast, the difference is you have to be facing the cam properly to ever land it, so no one cares about that one. Maybe if the instacast teleports had an internal cooldown of a few hundred ms or every tele had an obvious tell, because yeah I feel you on teleports being touched upon in several ways. No valid path being the most annoying one. 

[Anet some day fix his queue system in ranked?]

You'd be waiting a very long time in between games. I'm talking 15 minute ques for p2 and 30 for p3, then I'm not sure 1800+ would be able to play at all. 

[Duo Rank]

Are you na or eu? 

[does anet ever ip ban players]

No, and they'd be absolutely stupid to ip ban someone that paid for 40 accounts. 

 

The only people that have gotten a sort of hardware ban have been the mat sellers, anet just doesn't give a kitten. 

[Remove identical runes (stats)]

Eagle has more crit strike chance. 

Ranger crits higher.. They're not identical. The 5 &6 line are typically where seemingly similar runes differ. 

 

I typed this out backwards, but it's still the same. 

[Hint: Treb can win games]

There's 3 points and 10 people on the map at any given time. 

5 people on each team. There's audio and visual clutter that allows you to know that there is a treb strike on the way, it's telegraphed and easy to avoid. 

The game is now a 4v5 where the objective is to contest nodes, if treb say gave 50 point on a kill, it could potentially be worth using, but as it stands it's one of the worst mechanics in gw2. 

[Anyone else notice PvP now has a downstate invun?? [Merged]]

Someone wanna test what happens if you kill someone with a skill like impact strike or banner on down?

[An example of why balance this way?]

• Relic of Resistance: This relic now triggers when using a healing skill instead of when using an elite skill. Reduced the resistance duration from 5 seconds to 2.5 seconds. Reduced the cooldown from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. The resistance from this relic is now only applied to the user instead of in an area around the user.

This does nothing to make the relic viable, in pve or pvp, in any aspect of gw2.. 

 

So why? I'm not even trying to be a bad guy, just genuinely curious. Like there was no trade off, in fact I'd argue it's in a worse place now.. and it wasn't used before? Just make it make sense. 

[Afk'ing is a valid strategy that mirrors Anet's blatant disregard for pvp]

Only time I'll afk is when there's an absolutely toxic person on my team being toxic. Depending on who's on my team I'll leave the game so the others won't lose rating, but I'm not about to try for a gw2 drill sergeant.. kitten that lmao. There's nothing to prove and trying to win promotes their behavior. Gotta draw the line somewhere. 

[Roam/Decapper Style Players]

I personally would keep sa for that sweet superspeed. DP is in a pretty solid spot rn, i'd just practice rotating(keeping your team in even fights, plussing a stray fight on roads), figuring out where to place yourself on the map and you'll win most of your games. Now mechanically to get better at thief just 1v1 a mirror or fast paced builds. 

[Remove Unranked]

1 hour ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said:

Put all 100 pvp players in one match.

Free for all style. 

Last man standing won pvp and we can delete the mode.

There'd be a thief running shadow arts and thieves guild that wins because gw2

[DH traps could be nerfed by 50% and still do too much damage]

5 minutes ago, Sweetbread.3678 said:

Pretty much every problematic mechanic in pvp could be cut in half and it would still be insanely good; it's pretty absurd how overtuned everything is. Like yall know it's possible to have burst damage that isn't 100-0 in under a second, stealth that doesn't last 20 seconds, less than 50% uptime on iframes, and mobility that doesn't cover the length of a football field right?

Don't tempt anet to cut everything in half. We'll be playing bunker wars 2 next season. Now if the only gamemode wasn't conquest ppl might diverge a bit lol. 

[Guardians are just not fun to play against.]

I've been accidentally killed by one too many dhs

[Guess pvp really is abandoned]

I shan't be buying another ncsoft/anet title that claims to have pvp. I just hope they stray away from the ip guild wars, as it's completely a lie in 2024. Fashion Wars would probably sell better to their targeted demographic anyways. 

[Why is NA top 250 so low]

I'd like to know the comparison of bot quantity in EU vs NA because bots can absolutely be a cause.. and anet doesn't ban. 

[Why isn't this bannable?]

It might be unranked.. but honestly, you'll get nothing outta finishing high and chances are if you aren't already you won't on a meta build.. 

 

So play off meta in ranked, be a for fun Franky, not a tryhard Terry. 

[What proficient / elite that you think is overperforming in PvP]

All of the above, because as much as I dislike the direction of the game, everything has a counter due to the nature of conquest. Change the dynamic to tdm and I'll reconsider. 

[Why is PvP the worst behaved community in GW2]

Because anet doesn't care to address persisting issues, people devolve without authority.. etc.. toxicity is called toxicity because it spreads, and when left unattended it'll eventually fully corrupt. 

[.... And you people wonder why we have alt accounts......]

The only thing I regret is owning alts hehehaha

[Anet if u want pvp popularity to skyrocket.]

I'm just gonna wish them luck and hope they somehow manage to turn it around. Suggestions fall on deaf ears. 

[December Monthly Tournament Date]

Darn looks like I'll be missing my 150th mAT

[So For Those Who Think Matchmaker Works...]

20 hours ago, Sahne.6950 said:

i said it a million times, ill say it again: ELITE QUEUES.

Once you reached the top 10% of players, your queue gets separated.  You can only match with other people that are also in "ELITE".

SSBU is already doing it and it works great.    Yes the Queue times are ALOT higher...    but you actually have fun and engaging battles, and you dont ruin the fun for the other 90%.

Yeah, you're not wrong. The emotes are from people that can't compete there I'm sure. 

[Don't match beta builds on non beta builds]

33 minutes ago, Saiyan.1704 said:

This is what, the 3rd Beta weekend Anet has released and they still haven't fixed the "exploit"?

It's not even an exploit. They left the door wide open and told everyone to, "Enter with your non-beta characters but you can change into your beta characters once your inside... much as how you can change classes during AT."

I don't recall Anet telling players to not do it. It's a feature, not a bug.

I guarantee you they saw the bug and was like "not our problem, filthy toxic pvpers"

[Why can you still play beta characters in ranked?]

It's funny because this was a problem with the last beta. You can't teach an old anet new tricks.