Thanks for always putting in the work to dish out quality gw2 content. I'm just glad someone cares about the state of structured PvP as much as you do. Also watching your hammer berserker-gameplay is very chill and enjoyable. Therefore good argumments, nice video and keep it up, man!
My only issue with gw2 pvp is that I literally came back after a year of not playing. Did like 40 games of ranked and was already top 200 fighting sweats who knows every professionals abilties. I don’t even have time to learn the game mode that I’m already facing the best players with thousands of game of experience.
It's.. kind of sad. I've played since Beta, am a WvW main, and I had gotten my hopes up due to Anet's apparent fixation on the game again and the more it looked like sky was the limit. Now.. now I feel as if they, as it always seems to go upon realizing they're doing THINGS RIGHT, decided to jump ship and say "Nah, we're in a good spot so let's leave it to stagnate and die." Come on Anet.. you still NEED Guild Wars 2 to be in a good place if Guild Wars 3 (If that is indeed their next project if the leak was true) is to be looked at favorably.
Nah bro let it rot for years we have been giving them a benefit of the doubt years without getting anything from the promises they made. PoE 2 is available like many other games focused on PvP, there is no point in continuing to play GW 2 Looking at the transformation of GW 1 into GW 2, I suspect that GW 3 will resemble a mobile game even more 💀
I was really (if not sentimentally) expecting Janthir Wilds to talk more about the White Mantle and the Mursaat, which was actually no less than what was presented in the Bloodstone Fen, but with the arrival of relics, new weapons, repetitive content and ‘balance patches’ they only accelerate the decay of the game. It's sad and shameful how they waste this title.
I took a 2 week break logged in farmed the weekly which put me up to silver chest. I had the option to keep it short and sweet but I chose to continue. It's already too late for WvW this team is not capable of steering it in the right direction. I really hope CMC is fired before GW3 releases. I cannot name a single positive thing they did to the mode in the last year. Siege got more expensive making it impossible to make gold if you are commanding and you are trying to farm lege. If you get unlucky and get a T1 match 2 weeks in a row you might need to spend 18-19 hours to reach Diamond chest or just farm weekly and wait for the next one. Changed the scoring that was a cool experiment but why test it on live At least they nerfed celestial gear with net 1% WoooHoooo. After I played for 22 weeks to keep my grind at 9h instead of 16-20h (cuz I have a fkin life) per week I spent 80-90% of the time commanding. Now I have almost all the tickets but I'm short on like 2k gold because taking an objective in prime time requires cool 30 silver of investment for net loss of like 20-25 silver per objective add consumables, failed objectives, sigils and respecs(if you dont have lege like me) and the gold making is non existent. But you know what at least im not forced to play against the same premade 5s and quads in PVP all the time
well, you can't go in bigger group than 2 into ranked, and unranked is 99% randoms, so there's almost no way to play against 5 stacks or quads in here.
We didn't need to know that the new relics would be OP from testing. The descriptions themselves were enough. The devs just come up with an idea, put it out there, and then nerf things unfairfly into uselessness. This is how it was for PoF and EoD elite specs. Only now they nerf it within a week of release so players put down the toys they had fun with for several months.
IMO. ArenaNet should make a xpac focused on going back to all the old world maps with new things and story. Like across all existing maps and bridging story arcs And instead of new weapons and specialisation, just give us more PvP maps and fractals / raids for such an xpac This will make us go back to the old world maps regularly and not via “return to…” events Like. What’s wrong with having max level enemies on a low level map, provided it’s not part of map complete it’ll give rise to achieving this and bring elements of danger back in the maps This will also give time for actual balance too As a spvp junkie I hear all your points too
Anet let player test weapons during their beta test sessions but they are very picky about feedback. And by picky I mean they will fix some minor detail that doesn't really affect the weapon (small evade frame on auto attack 3 of Engi spear) but the main issue that has been raised that literally make or break the weapon, they just ignore that or pretend it doesn't exist (S2 literally not working as intended). For relics they kinda dug their own grave because Anet refuses to make relics be so different from a gamemode to another. River is good for open world and whatever in group content but even with drastically nerfed stat its good for WvW.
No hope, I don't trust the players anymore either. PvP state is where it deserves to be, and WvW is balance is where the devs want it to be with uncounterable super safe boonball play(Boon strip has been getting nerf after nerf) . I'm just tired of having the wrong things getting nerfed. Happens with warrior all the time. Let it rot.
I'd just go with stop releasing relics 😅 as a wvw player I'd advocate for the pvp balance and stats to be implemented so it would put some control over the crazy and potentially reduce workload for balance team so they can release more frequent updates
I came back to the game after 8 years, notice they changed WvW around. I logged in with no legion and got instant hate for being a "spy" and I couldn't join any open tags. I picked some guardian support and just healed out of party, got my gifts of battle I'll need and never set foot in that shthole again if the community is really like that for non-guild members who are just getting acquainted again.
Did you ever see Trickle-Down Balancing by Uncle Dane? I thought it was a solid fundamental view of how balancing (and by extension, game design) should work in a multi-tiered game. The most frustrating aspect is PvP Ranked, where things must work flawless and the ceiling must be high. From there you can design PvP Casual (such as WvW) and straight casual (Open World), and have divergences. I think Arena should adopt more of this kind of mentality, and probably get some of the top tier players as PvP Ranked Q/A, maybe have an exclusive PvP Top 1000 Ranked testers league.
things change, one thing doesn't change. PvPers complaining games don't cater to them exclusively. Tough spot when you're not the center of attention, right ?
yea i would love if they if just made the same skills for pve and pvp and wvw im tired of the switching. i was playing my support warrior (heal staff and cc hammer) in wvw and was like ok this doesnt work lol
The 2 devs in charge can't prove you wrong, sorry. Indie studios have more people working on balance than this so called multi million dollars company.
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Thanks for always putting in the work to dish out quality gw2 content. I'm just glad someone cares about the state of structured PvP as much as you do.
Also watching your hammer berserker-gameplay is very chill and enjoyable.
Therefore good argumments, nice video and keep it up, man!
I quit pvp cuz of the matchmaking system. Balance i could live with at this point
The Jan patch was so disappointing that I went back to taking a break from GW2
i wouldnt even count that as a patch
My only issue with gw2 pvp is that I literally came back after a year of not playing. Did like 40 games of ranked and was already top 200 fighting sweats who knows every professionals abilties. I don’t even have time to learn the game mode that I’m already facing the best players with thousands of game of experience.
The population has been so small for years that the opponent ranking matchmaking system doesn't work
It's.. kind of sad. I've played since Beta, am a WvW main, and I had gotten my hopes up due to Anet's apparent fixation on the game again and the more it looked like sky was the limit. Now.. now I feel as if they, as it always seems to go upon realizing they're doing THINGS RIGHT, decided to jump ship and say "Nah, we're in a good spot so let's leave it to stagnate and die."
Come on Anet.. you still NEED Guild Wars 2 to be in a good place if Guild Wars 3 (If that is indeed their next project if the leak was true) is to be looked at favorably.
Nah bro let it rot for years we have been giving them a benefit of the doubt years without getting anything from the promises they made.
PoE 2 is available like many other games focused on PvP, there is no point in continuing to play GW 2
Looking at the transformation of GW 1 into GW 2, I suspect that GW 3 will resemble a mobile game even more 💀
I was really (if not sentimentally) expecting Janthir Wilds to talk more about the White Mantle and the Mursaat, which was actually no less than what was presented in the Bloodstone Fen, but with the arrival of relics, new weapons, repetitive content and ‘balance patches’ they only accelerate the decay of the game. It's sad and shameful how they waste this title.
I miss the balance before Janthir, it wasn't perfect but it had broader appeal
I'd go as far as the balance was better before soto and extra weapons/relics.
I took a 2 week break logged in farmed the weekly which put me up to silver chest. I had the option to keep it short and sweet but I chose to continue. It's already too late for WvW this team is not capable of steering it in the right direction. I really hope CMC is fired before GW3 releases. I cannot name a single positive thing they did to the mode in the last year. Siege got more expensive making it impossible to make gold if you are commanding and you are trying to farm lege. If you get unlucky and get a T1 match 2 weeks in a row you might need to spend 18-19 hours to reach Diamond chest or just farm weekly and wait for the next one.
Changed the scoring that was a cool experiment but why test it on live
At least they nerfed celestial gear with net 1% WoooHoooo.
After I played for 22 weeks to keep my grind at 9h instead of 16-20h (cuz I have a fkin life) per week I spent 80-90% of the time commanding. Now I have almost all the tickets but I'm short on like 2k gold because taking an objective in prime time requires cool 30 silver of investment for net loss of like 20-25 silver per objective add consumables, failed objectives, sigils and respecs(if you dont have lege like me) and the gold making is non existent. But you know what at least im not forced to play against the same premade 5s and quads in PVP all the time
well, you can't go in bigger group than 2 into ranked, and unranked is 99% randoms, so there's almost no way to play against 5 stacks or quads in here.
@ I know its just that ranked makes me terminally ill :D
I would say that double duos on ranked is quite a bit scarier than a 5 man premade on normal
We didn't need to know that the new relics would be OP from testing. The descriptions themselves were enough. The devs just come up with an idea, put it out there, and then nerf things unfairfly into uselessness. This is how it was for PoF and EoD elite specs. Only now they nerf it within a week of release so players put down the toys they had fun with for several months.
IMO. ArenaNet should make a xpac focused on going back to all the old world maps with new things and story. Like across all existing maps and bridging story arcs
And instead of new weapons and specialisation, just give us more PvP maps and fractals / raids for such an xpac
This will make us go back to the old world maps regularly and not via “return to…” events
Like. What’s wrong with having max level enemies on a low level map, provided it’s not part of map complete it’ll give rise to achieving this and bring elements of danger back in the maps
This will also give time for actual balance too
As a spvp junkie I hear all your points too
Anet let player test weapons during their beta test sessions but they are very picky about feedback. And by picky I mean they will fix some minor detail that doesn't really affect the weapon (small evade frame on auto attack 3 of Engi spear) but the main issue that has been raised that literally make or break the weapon, they just ignore that or pretend it doesn't exist (S2 literally not working as intended).
For relics they kinda dug their own grave because Anet refuses to make relics be so different from a gamemode to another. River is good for open world and whatever in group content but even with drastically nerfed stat its good for WvW.
No hope, I don't trust the players anymore either. PvP state is where it deserves to be, and WvW is balance is where the devs want it to be with uncounterable super safe boonball play(Boon strip has been getting nerf after nerf) . I'm just tired of having the wrong things getting nerfed. Happens with warrior all the time. Let it rot.
I'd just go with stop releasing relics 😅 as a wvw player I'd advocate for the pvp balance and stats to be implemented so it would put some control over the crazy and potentially reduce workload for balance team so they can release more frequent updates
I came back to the game after 8 years, notice they changed WvW around. I logged in with no legion and got instant hate for being a "spy" and I couldn't join any open tags. I picked some guardian support and just healed out of party, got my gifts of battle I'll need and never set foot in that shthole again if the community is really like that for non-guild members who are just getting acquainted again.
Not only WVW you have the same in raids KP or kick no matter how much experience you have I regret that arena net allows such pathology
Ive played mostly pvp only bc of getting the legendaries. After that im in wvw and i enjoy it way more and havent touched it.
Did you ever see Trickle-Down Balancing by Uncle Dane? I thought it was a solid fundamental view of how balancing (and by extension, game design) should work in a multi-tiered game. The most frustrating aspect is PvP Ranked, where things must work flawless and the ceiling must be high. From there you can design PvP Casual (such as WvW) and straight casual (Open World), and have divergences.
I think Arena should adopt more of this kind of mentality, and probably get some of the top tier players as PvP Ranked Q/A, maybe have an exclusive PvP Top 1000 Ranked testers league.
things change, one thing doesn't change.
PvPers complaining games don't cater to them exclusively.
Tough spot when you're not the center of attention, right ?
yea i would love if they if just made the same skills for pve and pvp and wvw im tired of the switching. i was playing my support warrior (heal staff and cc hammer) in wvw and was like ok this doesnt work lol
The 2 devs in charge can't prove you wrong, sorry. Indie studios have more people working on balance than this so called multi million dollars company.
a man can dream.