[Nerfing Magnet]

On 5/25/2024 at 12:41 PM, N A T E.3108 said:

I finally manhandled some poor balance dev too hard and now he's qqing because he got pulled without an obvious animation.

This probably actually happened Lol.

On 5/25/2024 at 1:07 PM, WhoWantsAHug.3186 said:

It will require playtesting 

 

In other words, 2 full seasons worth of PvP 😄

[DUO Q Makes the game at LB levels unfair]

On 5/23/2024 at 7:51 AM, porkchopMCgee.6193 said:

Sheesh, when will people learn 

1)don't take the game serious

2)don't take the leaderboard serious

3)stop worrying about what other people do

4) if you can't do any of that, I recommend not playing spvp.

I feel there's a level of disconnection that borderlines autism when you give these type of replies. And I don't mean that as an insult, unless you really aren't on the spectrum.

1) Players don't like the feeling of being cheated, especially knowing Anet can do something about it.
2) Leaderboards are quite literally the only measurement we have for a "skill" amongst random players.
3) Other players, screwing over other players, for their own personal gain on a leaderboard that "no one should care about"... yeah, this isn't an issue at all. What were we thinking?
4) We shouldn't be promoting oppression here. You've been preaching this nonsense since 2023 on that account.

[Next up for nerfs]

On 5/21/2024 at 10:32 PM, Paradoxoglanis.1904 said:

Guard. Nerf Renewed Focus. Or maybe buff it.

Lol you don't even know what you want! Are you my ex?

[*blinks in Lock On nerf*]

11 hours ago, magickthief.6492 said:

I like this because it literally proves how many "pvp engis" there are compared to pve engis

Did you reply to yourself because you, ironically, hold the comment for most confused face reactions in this thread, so you decided to double down? 😂

[Tournament system might need some changes? What's up with some player's psychology?]

50 minutes ago, DarkK.7368 said:

Context: we get someone that afk's for two games, doesn't answer, then leaves before third game.

They never intended to participate in the tournament. They just wanted the participation trophy. IIR they can leave and still get rewards as long as the entire team doesn't disband (correct me if I'm wrong).

If you want to take tournaments 1% more serious and want to avoid afk's, then you're gonna have to find a group of friends to do ATs with or join a guild.

[duo q is healthy for the game]

I want to know why "Guildteam" is part of the matchmaking algorithm. There's an option to be part of a "guild team" amongst your guild and when added, you have a 50% chance to be placed against (or with) other guild team player(s) that are also queueing for a game.

[Fighting thief feels like you're fighting a hacker]

13 minutes ago, Daenxi.4530 said:

You say that like it's unreasonable

It's extremely unreasonable. You're telling everyone to only play 3 or 4 professions out of the 9 this game has.

[Fighting thief feels like you're fighting a hacker]

5 hours ago, Daenxi.4530 said:

your critique is invalid - .....continues to talk about another MMO game as a counter argument.....

I remember your previous posts now. You're the guy that thinks all the high skill ceiling/floor/walls/4th dimension classes should be meta 100% of the time and refuses to acknowledge the "easy to play" specs in the game. When ever we talk about QoL issues with a class such as Thief, you always come back to that same underlying argument of yours. "other classes are ez. dis class is hard. Teef should win cause hard."

I think most of the people in the thread steered the conversation to, just QoL changes, but not a direct nerf to thief. DH trapper runes wasn't even meta in higher tier games but their stealth got removed completely anyways. Because other players hated playing against it. I feel changes to thief/DE or giving players better reveal options, are inevitable.

[pvp and match manipulation, very philosophical question]

1 hour ago, Taco.1428 said:

question does it count towards match manipulation if you hide your real rank from players like saying youre bronze player while im actually gold  or vice versa 
this is very philosophical question 

 😄 

what does arenanet count towards it ? manipulation is  VERY VERY HUGE topic 

Does it matter? You're in a match made by Anet's ELO system. At the end of the day, they were the ones who decide who loses rating. Everyone else plays the system they were given to them. You can call yourself a unicorn to other players all you like but what does that matter?

[Guardian Focus 4 and 5 need to be nerfed]

1 hour ago, Skary.8956 said:

Make a Core G, Knockdown Signed, Save Yourself/Stand Your Ground, Valk Amulet, Ranger Rune, Relic of the Fighter(prot grants you 10% dmg), Click V1 and click F4 on a light armor target dummy or enemy thief.

A Core meme Guard burst build, let me guess, the Guard was also using Mace/Shield too I bet? Man. How can we possibly counter this extremely slow core spec that only has 1 port utility outside of swords...? If only there was a way.
 

1 hour ago, Skary.8956 said:

I swear its viable

You got owned by Guardian's Focus and swears there's no counter play to it. At this point, i'll have to say that anything is viable when you're rating is Gold1.

[Fighting thief feels like you're fighting a hacker]

2 hours ago, Gotejjeken.1267 said:

Right, but how do you die to thief on Guard? 

I always find a way. Always.

[Fighting thief feels like you're fighting a hacker]

4 hours ago, Gotejjeken.1267 said:

Can confirm, as a ranger a thief might be the least scary class out of literally all of them atm.  An extremely well played DE is another story, but there's like 3 of those around.  Even then too, Sid was having a time trying to kill a SLB in the April mAT--so even at a high-level ranger still mostly counters thief.  

Bruh, we all have issues killing a ranger... thief included. This doesn't exactly help the cause especially when Rangers are meta atm.

[why is smurfing allowed?]

1 hour ago, shion.2084 said:

I know siayan runs an alt, but he tries on both accounts.  Just one he's more anal about, the other he plays looser to have fun with.  Sometimes his alt is higher than his main and vice versa.  For him it seems legit to me, because to do well you are disincetivzed to play too much, so having an alt account lets you actually play the game more.  But the key difference is, he isn't abusing MMR to help a duo get better match placement... he's actually just got one account he can play continuously throughout the season and another he picks the right times to play and minimises play on when it makes sense to for ranking purpose.

Appreciate the backing. People see the word "alt" on my other account name and immediately assumes I'm "throwing matches"... If I was doing anything shady in regards to playing that top 50 mini-game every season, I wouldn't have named my character, "Saiyans Alt" lol!

That said, I'm thinking of spamming ranked games now that Champion Brawler is our first color title. I only have 3k Ranked games to win.

[Thanks to ArenaNet ​ 😍 ​]

7 minutes ago, Antho.7831 said:

Bonjour à tous, je suis très satisfait de la futur mise à jour, je remercie ArenaNet 👍🙂. @Fire Attunement.9835

Translation:
"Hello everyone, I am very satisfied with the future update, I thank ArenaNet"

[Player vs. Player Updates (Discussion)]

20 minutes ago, Endorphin.9147 said:

I guess fortunately for me. Gives me a reason to rep my Champ Brawler 

I want the color to be either a HOT Fuchsia because I'm extra af, or Blood Red to match my enemy's periods.

 

 

[Which specs do you think need buffs?]

On 4/23/2024 at 11:11 PM, Myror.7521 said:

I would take an unpopulair point and say. Nothing realy need buffs. There are just 3-4 Builds that are Perform slightly too good but thats just it xd

Not a hot take at all. Let's remove the three or four Titans in the current meta and pretend they didn't exist for a moment:
Rifle Mes Supp/Mace Untamed/Vindi/Staff Spellbreaker

Every other class, Mesmer/Guard/Thief/Engi/Necro/Ele and their respective specs are honestly "not bad" in retrospect. You're not going to see a post about how "OP" any one of these classes are (except for DE I hope it gets sent to the quantum realm along side Kang the Conqueror).
 

On 4/23/2024 at 1:24 PM, Vyseman.2947 said:

Guardian -> Pistols needs for sure a longer Burning Duration.. That 1 or max 2 second is a joke tbh.

As some one who has mained condi guard up until Willbender's release, it would make more sense to keep low duration burns while increasing the condi damage per burn stack instead. The average timeframe for a condition to be removed is around 2 or 3 seconds unless you continually stack burn alongside other conditions. In the past, long duration burns for Guard simply didn't work and when it did, Anet nerfed Permeating Wrath's burn durations alongside Zeal's Burn on Hit spirit weapon trait. Anet just doesn't want burn Guard to be meta.

Me who has moved past condi guard builds, I personally don't want guard or any other condi class to be meta... perhaps Necro and Specter should be the only working condi specs but that's just just 2 cents.

[The tables have turned?]

42 minutes ago, Dadnir.5038 said:

A few years ago, there was someone claiming that it was a condi meta because most meta build were applying weakness and vulnerability...

This is why we things can't have nice.

[[PvP/WvW] Another Pistol Thread... buffs?]

A balance update is around the corner and I really hope Pistols gets some buffs, or QoL improvements.

The QoL side of things: I don't mind the requirement of needing to about-face the target in order to activate P2 and P4 (if you're not facing the target then it just goes on cd) except, the damage isn't really there to warrant this skill factor.

Damage: Currently, a single Trueshot on LB does more damage than a single fire of P4 + P2 put together... the overall damage of Longbow is ridiculously higher than Pistol/Pistol and that's troublesome. 2x usage of P4 can potentially dish out 8k damage which is impressive but a single 3k (if that) on P2 is laughable. The damage just isn't there for mainhand pistol.

I like the mechanic of P3 but it has the same issues as all of our other symbols does... no one is going to sit in it for the damage to work unless they're an NPC. Ever since Honor's symbol healing and Symbol radius nerfs... Guard symbolic builds basically died.

Anyways... I think Pistols has unique mechanics to be picked over other 1-hander weapons, they just need some number adjustments overall.

[The tables have turned?]

18 hours ago, Flowki.7194 said:

I remember when condi was considered "cheap" or "low skill" becuase such builds often came with passive sustain/mitigation. But now, looking around, power builds in general have never been easier to lay down damage, and multiple power specs are absolutely crept in sustain/mobility, on par or more than such condi builds. Yet they are hard ridden as "good specs" becuase they are power,  isn't it slightly ironic?

That's a lot of words for, "we're in a Power meta".

[unplayable rating differencce]

31 minutes ago, Last Crab.6054 said:

he said legit, 0/10 wins is NOT legit

I'm curious about the extent of how bad "bad luck" can get you. People grieve and quit after the first mid wipe, people never join games, etc.... sure, low Gold1 or Gold2 because Placement matches were trash. BUT you should still not land lower than G1 even when performing the bare mechanical map plays, right?

Perhaps a person thinks they're better than a thief when they're just a core warrior, using 2 out of 3 skill trees, just running around decapping a node and avoiding players. Silver 1 after placements right? They start asking questions, realize they didn't even use traits, finds a meta'ish build, hits silver 3 or Gold1 during the season...

But Bronze 1-2 during MID season = literally turning your screen every 3 seconds and hitting 2 abilities. They play in first person mode. They stare at minimap for 10 seconds to see where to go, but then get sidetrack about a NCSoft game notification on their Apple tablet that has Play Doh in the charging port, while their mom is asking what kind of happy meal they'd like from McDonalds at 11:45PM. They go afk for 6 minutes before realizing they're in a map. This continues for 50 games straight.

Bronze 1 - 2 are bots, or 4yo's that somehow get farmed by bot throwaway accounts.

[New dual pistol mechanics request]

On 5/3/2024 at 2:55 AM, SoulGuardian.6203 said:

Could to tweaking. 

Should be faster and more powerful. 

As you said.

Suggestion.

Shoot a light sphere so powerful that knocks you back.

The sphere explodes on impact causing massive damage, and you can continue shooting whilst on the ground.

Get up by pressing any directional button.

You just added a downed perk from Call of Duty lmao. Bro, your suggestions for Pistols are absolutely WILD.

(pvp talk)
The pistols in terms of design, are some of the most unique weapons we have. It honestly just needs some number changes to make them feel more rewarding. For PvP/WvW, Pistol#5 is only used as a knockback because that is all it is useful for; in 1v1 roaming situations, as well as blob fights. No competent Guard player would ever charge Pistol#5 over... uh, literally anything else that's available unless they're memeing.

P5 has to be rewarding. Give it Blind + Immobilize instead of a knockback that passes through people while doing a condition damage that'll be immediately cleansed. A quick P5 can be used for a fast knockback if kiting, but a charged P5 AND detonated correctly, can be used as an engagement when roaming or during an actual rotation. It becomes a utility offhand that can be used with all 1-hander weapons. 

[Willbender WvW]

6 hours ago, wolfer.7945 said:

The problem is not that is h

Of the classes you listed, none do it in the same time frame with out major setup or has a major counts. And I would place a bet you were taking out more then "less experienced players" .  The item I would flag would be how many hits you get. Both the double hit sword, and spins.  Getting past blind, blocks, and aegis.  Along with good access to stability. you are almost impossible to stop the chain.

At this point I have to ask exactly what class you play and what build it is... I can list multiple classes that can 1v1 WB consistently and I'm talking about the 1v1 roamer WB spec.

[The "glass cannon" concept doesn't exist in this game [Merged]]

I'm convinced that if DE was deleted tomorrow, everything would be better.

The meta would settle and all 9 classes would be "meta" on metabattle.
The pvp population would suddenly return.
GW2 would enter Esports again, surpassing the Superbowl in viewership.
CMC gets promoted to CEO because he convinced the devs to delete DE. Every quarter, he flies overseas to have brunch with Kim Taek Jin.
GW3 gets announced with a release date of June 2025.

[unplayable rating differencce]

6 hours ago, Leafstorm.1349 said:

You would ironically still get a -40 in gold 3. The rating system that is currently in place no longer works for this game. It needs to be revised and maybe be based on % rates or something. 

I was being facetious like that Wendy's meme, but yeah I 100% agree with you and Endo lol. This isn't the same match quality we had back in February, or last year for that matter. New games have released and PvP players have quit. That's just the by-product of an older MMO game.

The ELO system needs a dramatic upgrade. Losing -20 or more just because the enemy team farmed your low rated players better than you could farm theirs, honestly shouldn't happen.

[Noob question: how to play vs these classes?]

On 5/4/2024 at 11:07 AM, Alabastrum.9361 said:

Warrior is not always a sidenoder you can also teamfight depending on the build. I am aware that core warrior without elite spec weapons is not meta for either of those roles.

The main problem you face as a core warrior is that it is hard or even impossible to find a build that would not be better if you go spellbreaker or berserker instead. 

I was mostly replying to cam's issue with his core warrior, though, my personal issue with core warrior is, I always seem to have them on my team for some reason lol. It's especially frustrating seeing the enemy team with a spellbreaker and is holding a 1v2 for an obscene amount of time while our team loses a 1v1 at home.

I'm just not a fan of anything that is core with the exception of bunker supp guard.