Bazsi.2734

> @"JusticeRetroHunter.7684" said: > In Guild Wars 1, The observe mode was essentially a recording, that went live after the match was already played. GW1's Obs system was just superior in every way to the current obs system...I don't understand why they couldn't just do that for Gw2, but whatever at this point it's just too late...they had a decade to implement the system and they gave us this one instead. Thats one of my biggest problem with GW2 aswell, there were so many things that GW1 got right that could have been just copy-pasted into GW2... yet basicly nothing made it into the sequel. Sometimes I feel like this game should not even be called Guild Wars 2....the game is not about guilds, certainly not the guild wars, and it barely borrows anything from GW1. "Adventures in Tyria" - sounds lame and fits perfectly. Sign my petition and togheter we'll achive... NOTHING!

> @"UN Owen.2794" said: > raiken and ito wintraded obviously and there is proof from multiple sources that has been sent to anet yet nothing happened and they are recieveing their titles. there is literally not a single person checking reports anymore so feel free to wintrade as much as possible from now on But they might punish you for mentioning it. Because wintrading is just as "illlegal" as calling out other players by name. So we might end up with cheaters who keep their titles but people talking about them getting silenced. Good system. (A-net please prove me wrong, I'd absolutely love to be wrong on this)

> @"Falan.1839" said: > Only 6/10 Revs from the 2 mAT winning teams of both regions, I think we can do better than that. > > @arenanet Maybe reduce Glint Heal to 20s CD or give Ventari more Knockbacks. Could also sneak a few more dmg reducers into Retri Traitline or Dwarf Stance. Your forum avatar is misleading, you're clearly a necro main. 2018 thread back to life just like that, holy cow.

> @"Eugchriss.2046" said: > **JUST LIKE REV'S LEGENDS ARE LOCKED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE XPACS, PETS TOO SHOULD BE LOCKED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE XPACS. PERIOD** This is an interesting idea. It could totally work with a balance pass on most ranger pets to make them actually useful for something.

I just got flamed for playing Deadeye, because it does too much damage and needs to be nerfed. I hope this thread grows up to be a nice holder of cringe over the following days.

If we judge the patch on whats in it, not what it's missing, it's actually a pretty awesome one. It only hit things which deserved to be toned down, the only change where I am unsure about this is the fullcounter daze reduction. Now if only we got these every 4-6 weeks right after the february patch... as we were originally supposed to. The toning down of overperforming leftovers is almost done, we are already seeing sustain nerfs. I expect one more round of nerfs on guardian sustain and some other stuff(trapper rune, pls delete), and after that i hope EoD will be close enough for the pre-patch. If not, god save us all. Anyway, stop crying this patch was good.

> @"Crozame.4098" said: > > @"Bazsi.2734" said: > > I was expecting DH to be nerfed in some way, but I'm actually glad that it didn't happen. The problem isn't with DH, it's clearly Rune of the Trapper. CMC please! > > I still do not understand, after such a long time, ppl still have faith in CMC... CMC might be good at PvP, but how you know that he understand all the classes and can balance properly? It's not that I have faith, he's literally the only one who sometimes works on PvP balance. There is noone else to ask.

Try playing PvP again. 1-2 years ago means before the huge downscaling patch last february. That patch changed everything, builds gatekept by the oneshot meta were finally viable, not to mention they did not tone down everything equally. So yes it is absolutely a problem. It wouldn't be without trapper runes, but in this current slowed down meta on demand bursts of _**stealth&superspeed**_ are insanely powerful.

I was expecting DH to be nerfed in some way, but I'm actually glad that it didn't happen. The problem isn't with DH, it's clearly Rune of the Trapper. CMC please!

This is what happens when you force players into PvP in order to get something PvP players have absolutely no use(and care) for. All PvP could lose on this would be some of its prestige but... what prestige? I say go get your wins.

You're wrong! (i'm just doing what you asked).

> @"Ogwom.7940" said: > There is no game mode that I use hammer on my guardian because there seems to be no use for it. > It doesn't feel rewarding to play. > I would hope they could address it one day. > > What are your thoughts? On game release the protection you got from the autoattack chain was uselful for dungeon speedruns and fractals. Even when raids came out, sometimes I was asked to roll hammerguard and prot the baddies in team who cannot dodge. Since PoF came out, the powercreep indeed left the weapon behind in PvE. It's still good in PvP though. If you enjoy landing the one hit that decides duels/teamfights, go play hammer mediguard.

I see one problem with that picture. Why are YOU not playing guardian?

> @"Shao.7236" said: > https://clips.twitch.tv/NaiveWildCakeItsBoshyTime-YvPoUYOAa7QqxLa7 > > And that kept going and going endlessly. Please at least fix this. If the usage of this exploit really starts spreading, and there is no hotfix for it... this is pretty much it for me and this game. We'll see.

> @"Stand The Wall.6987" said: > > @"Leonidrex.5649" said: > > > @"Stand The Wall.6987" said: > > > i'm pretty sure being able to get shroud before match start has always been around and is not a bug. > > > > yes yes, clever use of game mechanics :) > > the shroud reset before match starts is cosmetic :) > > yeah well necros are a free kill with out shroud so idc about this qq Shroud is reset when match starts. That indicates that necros should not have any life force when the game starts. Getting life force from a skill cast before the reset is basicly an exploit. This is not a question of whether a necro is hard to kill or not, its a question of do you want your game to be consistent or not. It's a question of do you let people exploit bugs in competetive mode or not. I expect the PvP team to give full attention to this issue. I'm sure all 0 of them will work on this relentlessly until nothing happens because they don't care, there is no PvP team anymore.

I find it ironic that doing both at the same time would be the bare minimum to maintain this gamemode, yet the poll is about choosing one.

> @"Xentera.4560" said: > > @"Bazsi.2734" said: > > > @"Xentera.4560" said: > > > > @"Bazsi.2734" said: > > > > > @"Xentera.4560" said: > > > > > Defending a flawed system doesn’t necessarily mean you agree with it. You are putting words in my mouth there which is the definition of the straw man fallacy. Now that’s an objective fact. > > > > > > > > > What I wrote is just rephrasing of what you've said. You tagged my comment then talked about "fanboys defending a flawed system". You conveniently do not tag what you're answering to now, but I get it, shifting the goalposts is hard work. Obviously you don't want those contradicitons right next to each other. > > > > > > > > > Having the system as is will continue to drive players away ( as evident by how low the current population is), and would make the already very low pvp population problem even worse. How is preventing further decline in the population not helpful? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Preventing further decline would be nice. Now only if you'd present something that would do that! > > > > > > > > > And yes I’ll take long queue times over faster one sided matches any day. > > > > > > > > Most of us wouldn't. If the queue becomes too long I'm just not going to bother. 6-7 minutes is already pushing it. I'm here to play, not to wait. > > > > > > > > > > Final thought: if the top stats are so worthless and yet they announce them at the end of each match and make them part of the dailies, then they need to rework what constitutes top stats. > > > > > > > > The topstats are just there for those who like statistics. Things like healing yourself after making a mistake can be measured, kiting and not taking said damage can't. If you want to base any mechanic (like a rating loss dampener) around topstats, at first you'd have to suggest some metrics to be measured that do correlate with contribution to your teams victory. There were numerous attempts to come up with something, you could be first to succeed. > > > > > > > > This is how your OP looked to me at first read: "I don't wanna lose rating for losing matches REEEEEE". And guess what, after engaging with you for a while it still looks like that. You can rant and let the steam out without suggesting things that would ruin the gamemode. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Simple English continues to be a struggle for you. Defending a system doesn’t mean you’re agreeing with it. Just benefiting from it. Try not to “rephrase“ what I say in the future. > > > > As if there is a way to benefit from the current matchmaking... mind you I'm plat 2 who's forced to hardcarry and have a surreal winrate to climb any further. Your simple english is indeed "continues to be a struggle" for me. > > > > > > > > And fixing what’s causing major frustration among the PVP population to the degree they are quitting the game is what I suggested as a solution to the small PVP population problem. Maybe you should give it a moment to sink in. > > > > > Maybe that was your intention, but as I detailed it above, it's easy to get most topstats while throwing the game. Therefore your suggestion can not work. Maybe give it a moment to sink in. > > > > Again, you avoid responding to the point that you misquoted me to create a strawman defense. Defending a system does not mean agreeing with it. You can hardly be a "fanboy" of something you disagree with. I mean... maybe YOU can, I can't. You're not making sense here. Just admit you misspoke lol. > And you gave no valid argument against why reducing player frustration to retain a bigger PvP population is not going to work. We were talking about your suggestion, not reducing player frustration. Why would I be against reducing player frustration? Soon you'll have enough strawmen to keep local crops safe just on your own. >The current system literally discourages people from playing out of fear they may lose an ungodly amount of rank points if the MMR decides to put them in the wrong team. Yes, that harsh punishment is what supposed to motivate you not to lose. If you are actually demotivated by that, there are many other things you can do with your time. I myself are not getting 120 games in during ranked seasons lately either. Lack of players or balance patches make the game unappealing. > Unless you have an actual counter point to make, you should probably give it a rest. Whatever you do, do not scroll back, do not read the previous posts I've made. Because then you saying this would look really silly. I mean what can I do, after making my point you just go "you made no point though"... I'm not going to type it out again. If you actually want to engage with it, it's there. Was fun talking to you, gonna stop responding to this though.

Whats the difference between DPS and roamer? In PvE you get to freecast, so classifying an offensive build as DPS makes sense, but in PvP - especially with roamer as a separate category - I don't get what role this would be. As far as I am concerned, the roles are: **Roamer** - as fast and as offensive as possible, not meant to survive prolonged focus. Roamers can often oneshot each other. Rotations and +1-ing fights is its job. **Bruiser** - this is what you called duelist. Mostly holds down a sidenode, its durable in a fight, and has some gimmick or deals enough damage to force others offpoint. **Support** - basicly a bunker healer. Some builds have more healing, some have more utility, point is it's mpossible to kill without focus, and has tools to keep teammates alive aswell. Whatever class you're playing, you take its toolkit and try to bend it to one of these roles the best you can. This is what gives builds variety. Everything is just an attempt at being a roamer, a bruiser, or a support. The best attempts (ease to play also plays a role here)are the metabuilds. Learning the metabuilds is useful, Metabattle and godsofpvp are both useful sources for that. Also people are most enslaved to the meta in middle tiers. People below that don't give a hoot, people in the highest tiers can pull off whatever they feel like playing. So dont go thinking every warrior is a healbreaker, don't assume every dragonhunter is condi (you can eat an 10K true shot), etc. Most of them are, but when you face the odd one out, you'll get stomped pretty fast.

> @"Xentera.4560" said: > > @"Bazsi.2734" said: > > > @"Xentera.4560" said: > > > Defending a flawed system doesn’t necessarily mean you agree with it. You are putting words in my mouth there which is the definition of the straw man fallacy. Now that’s an objective fact. > > > > > What I wrote is just rephrasing of what you've said. You tagged my comment then talked about "fanboys defending a flawed system". You conveniently do not tag what you're answering to now, but I get it, shifting the goalposts is hard work. Obviously you don't want those contradicitons right next to each other. > > > > > Having the system as is will continue to drive players away ( as evident by how low the current population is), and would make the already very low pvp population problem even worse. How is preventing further decline in the population not helpful? > > > > > > > Preventing further decline would be nice. Now only if you'd present something that would do that! > > > > > And yes I’ll take long queue times over faster one sided matches any day. > > > > Most of us wouldn't. If the queue becomes too long I'm just not going to bother. 6-7 minutes is already pushing it. I'm here to play, not to wait. > > > > > > Final thought: if the top stats are so worthless and yet they announce them at the end of each match and make them part of the dailies, then they need to rework what constitutes top stats. > > > > The topstats are just there for those who like statistics. Things like healing yourself after making a mistake can be measured, kiting and not taking said damage can't. If you want to base any mechanic (like a rating loss dampener) around topstats, at first you'd have to suggest some metrics to be measured that do correlate with contribution to your teams victory. There were numerous attempts to come up with something, you could be first to succeed. > > > > This is how your OP looked to me at first read: "I don't wanna lose rating for losing matches REEEEEE". And guess what, after engaging with you for a while it still looks like that. You can rant and let the steam out without suggesting things that would ruin the gamemode. > > > > > Simple English continues to be a struggle for you. Defending a system doesn’t mean you’re agreeing with it. Just benefiting from it. Try not to “rephrase“ what I say in the future. As if there is a way to benefit from the current matchmaking... mind you I'm plat 2 who's forced to hardcarry and have a surreal winrate to climb any further. Your simple english is indeed "continues to be a struggle" for me. > > And fixing what’s causing major frustration among the PVP population to the degree they are quitting the game is what I suggested as a solution to the small PVP population problem. Maybe you should give it a moment to sink in. > Maybe that was your intention, but as I detailed it above, it's easy to get most topstats while throwing the game. Therefore your suggestion can not work. Maybe give it a moment to sink in.

I hardly ever played PvP back then, but when I did I just spammed all my skills on cooldown, and still got the highest scores in almost every hotjoin match I ever joined. Nobody knew how to play back then. If we were transported back to that time, the most distgusting oneshot meta would emerge within 2 weeks.

2 man premades already make ranked unbalanced. Enabling larger premades would just turn it into an even bigger joke. Noone cares if solo players have the biggest rating gains when solo players never win vs. full premades. If you allow 5man premades, thats basicly making them mandatory. The top 100 spots would be occupied by those who can affort to have a static. Making a ladder like this 6 years ago would have been interesting, or a good start... but this is 8 year old game with a shrinking playerbase. I can tell you if ranked required me to invest in a team all of a sudden I would just quit. I imagine many others would do the same. Having a 5 man static takes time and coordination, and since GW2 has been really casual for most of its existence, the playerbase is not the kind that would just reorganise its whole daily routine to make statics.

> @"Kuma.1503" said: > > @"Bazsi.2734" said: > > > @"Kuma.1503" said: > > > So based on forum posts we should: > > > > > > - Remove Trapper rune to balance DH > > > > > > - Remove Resistance rune to balance Herald > > > > > > - Remove Speed rune to balance Renegade > > > > > > Should we throw Soldier rune in there? It would hit Tempest, Healbreaker and Core shout guard in one fell swoop. That aught to tone down sustain. > > > > > > The game will be balanced in no time at this rate. Runes can't carry builds if there are no runes left. > > > > The problem is how th 6th bonus of some runes are absolutely broken OP. Just compare the 6th bonus on something like Rune of the Water: AoE (small range though) condicleanse after using a healing skill on a 20 seconds ICD... to 3 seconds of stealth and superspeed on trap usage with no ICD... what? They are not even in the same ballpark. Not to mention trap is a type of skill that guardians have access to... which of course fits perfectly. The brave defenders of Tyria, using the powers of light, justice and stealth. > > > > Rune of Speed turns swiftness into superspeed. How do you justify an easy access 66% speedboost when some classes are designed and balanced around being slow? Even if it's not broken currently, I don't want a necro running around with a 66% speedbuff. You want to play necro? Deal with being slow. > > > > I don't see problem with the rest though. I mean Resistance and Soldier runes are actually useful(unlike 90% of the runesets we get to choose from), so I get why some people are whinging about them, but they are not over the top. > > > > My point is, sometimes removal of a thing can be a good thing. Especially when the studio is working on the next x-pac and can't be bothered with reworks. > > Removing something **can** be a good thing, but it should always be a last resort. > > Imagine if doctors treated patients the same way Anet does balance. > > "So doc, I stubbed my toe this morning... I think it might be bruised." > > "Yup, that's gonna have to come off" > > "I beg your pardon--" > > "Nurse, grab the Gilgi saw!" > > Whether they're busy or not is no excuse for poor balance. It's a large corporation not a small indie dev team. If they wanted to devote resources to PvP they could. 1 or 2 people spending 1 day out of the week work over PvP issues would more than suffice. Balance would be slow, but they could at least ensure patches were of higher quality. > > > > > > When your little finger has a cancerous growth, taking time to weigh your options puts you at risk for metastasis. Trapper Rune is not a bruise, it's one of the main reason players leave the gamemode in drowes. If you take too long to balance, there will be no point in balancing. You're not operating on a dead patient. Also them working on EoD is not an excuse, it's a reason. I abhore how they just let the MMO with the best combat system rot away like this, but hey, I'm not the one giving the devs next months payckeck so... all I can do is **casually** boo from the sidelines.

> @"Kuma.1503" said: > So based on forum posts we should: > > - Remove Trapper rune to balance DH > > - Remove Resistance rune to balance Herald > > - Remove Speed rune to balance Renegade > > Should we throw Soldier rune in there? It would hit Tempest, Healbreaker and Core shout guard in one fell swoop. That aught to tone down sustain. > > The game will be balanced in no time at this rate. Runes can't carry builds if there are no runes left. The problem is how th 6th bonus of some runes are absolutely broken OP. Just compare the 6th bonus on something like Rune of the Water: AoE (small range though) condicleanse after using a healing skill on a 20 seconds ICD... to 3 seconds of stealth and superspeed on trap usage with no ICD... what? They are not even in the same ballpark. Not to mention trap is a type of skill that guardians have access to... which of course fits perfectly. The brave defenders of Tyria, using the powers of light, justice and stealth. Rune of Speed turns swiftness into superspeed. How do you justify an easy access 66% speedboost when some classes are designed and balanced around being slow? Even if it's not broken currently, I don't want a necro running around with a 66% speedbuff. You want to play necro? Deal with being slow. I don't see problem with the rest though. I mean Resistance and Soldier runes are actually useful(unlike 90% of the runesets we get to choose from), so I get why some people are whinging about them, but they are not over the top. My point is, sometimes removal of a thing can be a good thing. Especially when the studio is working on the next x-pac and can't be bothered with reworks.

> @"Shao.7236" said: > Honestly all those DH underpowered claims. I guess Meditrapper never was a thing? I remember playing it, I still see people playing it. (Mes afaik) Was decent and fun. > > An ICD won't kill the build but make decisions something to value upon. > > Meditrapper was a thing in an entirely different meta. It was one of my main picks during the late HoT era, I remember how PoF dropped midseason (yes they released a whole expansion in the middle of a PvP season) and that was the last time meditrapper was meta. Scourge took over the area denial role, and there was excessive amount of stability and stunbreaks flying around. Not to mention reflects became common because of deadeyes. DH currently is underpowered. Go ahead and play power DH with Lynx rune instead of Trappers. It's definitely possible, but it's like playing staff ele or core engineer... of course you can but why would you? Do you hate yourself that much?

> @"Xentera.4560" said: > Defending a flawed system doesn’t necessarily mean you agree with it. You are putting words in my mouth there which is the definition of the straw man fallacy. Now that’s an objective fact. > What I wrote is just rephrasing of what you've said. You tagged my comment then talked about "fanboys defending a flawed system". You conveniently do not tag what you're answering to now, but I get it, shifting the goalposts is hard work. Obviously you don't want those contradicitons right next to each other. > Having the system as is will continue to drive players away ( as evident by how low the current population is), and would make the already very low pvp population problem even worse. How is preventing further decline in the population not helpful? > Preventing further decline would be nice. Now only if you'd present something that would do that! > And yes I’ll take long queue times over faster one sided matches any day. Most of us wouldn't. If the queue becomes too long I'm just not going to bother. 6-7 minutes is already pushing it. I'm here to play, not to wait. > > Final thought: if the top stats are so worthless and yet they announce them at the end of each match and make them part of the dailies, then they need to rework what constitutes top stats. The topstats are just there for those who like statistics. Things like healing yourself after making a mistake can be measured, kiting and not taking said damage can't. If you want to base any mechanic (like a rating loss dampener) around topstats, at first you'd have to suggest some metrics to be measured that do correlate with contribution to your teams victory. There were numerous attempts to come up with something, you could be first to succeed. This is how your OP looked to me at first read: "I don't wanna lose rating for losing matches REEEEEE". And guess what, after engaging with you for a while it still looks like that. You can rant and let the steam out without suggesting things that would ruin the gamemode.