Guild Wars 2

I guess this is just ranting but honestly I’m feeling pretty fed up with this game lately, especially now that megaservers were just proudly announced to be on all PvE maps like Anet thinks we should all be excited about this, apparently oblivious to all the negative feedback. Not to mention I’m from Blackgate so there’s no reason to play WvW this basically leaves me with only PvP left in this game. Let me elaborate on this with some suggestions.

First and foremost why are you proudly announcing full Megaserver release when you guys said you would roll it out paying close attention to feedback? If you were paying close attention this roll out would have been a lot slower.

1) Why are cities megaservered? They would have been great places for WvW guilds to advertise without wasting battleground spots and honestly what could POSSIBLY be gained from merged cities? It ruins the experience for guild recruiters and RPers. And who gains something from this? Very few people I’d wager.
2)WvW either do it 1v1 every week or get rid of the swiss-style tournament. Maybe this sounds like bruised ego but what’s going on in WvW at the current time with Jade Quarry and Tarnished Coast is simply making this game aggravating and completely lacking of fun. It will kill WvW outside those two (we’ve already seen major WvW decreases in Blackgate even when we weren’t playing both) and that seems like a lose lose for you guys. The old season 1 system would have prevented this by constantly rotating teams but instead we have this broken system where a clearly dominant server (we stomped all competitors the first 2 weeks and then won again when they weren’t together so yeh it is true) is literally helpless. How could that be fun? We can’t win period. So why bother and why keep playing the game?
3) So every world boss dies in under a minute with the massive zerg fests going on and if I miss that Karka Queen by four seconds (as I did) I’m now out of luck for the next nine hours. Did that really sound like a good idea? And how did I miss the boss by four seconds? Because the loading screen took a solid minute or more to load in since now every server is packed full. Which also leads into…
4) Every map is laggy. I ran Tequatl with these specs on Blackgate primetime with no lag and at full settings. I now experience lag spikes in every single map particularly if I try to do any serious event. So why bother with PvE if it’s going to be frame by frame or look as good as a napkin doodle?

So some suggestions for me are:
1) 1v1 WvW every week, this way it is a fair and accurate representation of every server’s capabilities.
2) Megaservers should be optional. Maybe we can’t find anyone to do an event with us so we can go to the megaserver and experience the rest of the content. Otherwise we can stay in the main server and be able to play lag-free and enjoy immersive elements like the dynamic Orr maps where we can actually feel like our actions have some real effect.
3) Remove waypoint costs. You just shut down half or more (Seriously I have Plains of Ashford a bloody lvl 1 – 15 zone 80%+ complete on my charr and there is but a SINGLE waypoint I can use from outside the map) of all waypoints locked to people outside their maps so we have to waste time waypointing twice. If you MUST stick with this system then remove the cost.
4) Bring back Raid on the Capricorn! Okay this one is a bit of a joke but cmon my PvP guild and I loved our pirate ship battles.

1v1 wvw could actually be a really good idea…think about 1v1 matches on a promotion/relegation system. It would lead to some really even fights.

The maps would feel pretty empty tho…

How about making WvWvW fun instead of musical objectives to see who can score the most points?

EotM is so much fun, I’ve been doing quite a lot lately.

EotM is PVE as a zerg. I don’t find it fun although it’s good that some people do. WvW has been hit or miss. The constant matchup with first and second place holders has been wearing down the less hard core players, but I understand the reasoning.

Valento.9852:

EotM is so much fun, I’ve been doing quite a lot lately.

It gets stale fast. EotM is a WvW Karma and champ train.
I do like when commanders deviate and decide to actually defend or kill opposing zergs though.

Yeah Eotm is alright too but it does get stale fairly fast, largely due to the fact that winning is basically pointless. Although the workshop and wurm tunnels make for some interesting WvWing.

I have done PvP all of twice. Just doesn’t ring my bell much. I like the PvE and WvW in this game….a lot. Especially getting a kick out of WvW lately…….makes me chuckle and smile a lot.

Teon.5168:

I have done PvP all of twice. Just doesn’t ring my bell much. I like the PvE and WvW in this game….a lot. Especially getting a kick out of WvW lately…….makes me chuckle and smile a lot.

Yeh well I use to love those elements too but unfortunately I can’t make many of the world bosses because of their schedule and WvW is pointless for anyone in Blackgate. We are being camped by two zergs at our spawn basically. That simply isn’t fun and what makes it so infuriating is that we literally have nothing we can do. It’s out of our hands so what should we even try doing? We have no choice but to not play WvW.

As for dungeons I guess they are alright but they get old fast and the rewards are lackluster. Same with fractals for me.

Hear ya on the outnumbering in WvW, Shepherd. On Kaineng we have had a couple weeks in the tournament where we have been so outnumbered out there that it has been difficult to accomplish anything…..And yea, have been camped at our spawn point a few times, too. Fortunately, we have usually been able to accomplish quite a bit once the other two servers go to bed in those couple weeks. But yea, I can certainly understand your frustration when your server is massively outnumbered…..

Well the biggest thing is it’s more than standard outnumbering. Blackgate has around the clock support but this is a number issue that can’t be beaten. It’s two servers of players versus our one server. As there is a uniform population cap ( or at least I assume so or else it would be absurd) per server in WvW we can’t possibly match their numbers. I mean we would have the players it is Blackgate after all but the map caps prevent us from possibly matching them, though with two servers versus one it would always be this way.

The real annoying part about it is we know we are better. They do not deserve the win, before they started 2v1ing we were winning… and by a lot. But now there is literally nothing we can do unless Anet were to suddenly change the tournament structure (which I doubt) or raise our pop cap and not the other two, which would seem more than a little unfair to be honest.

EotM is good for leveling toons or getting some wvw ranks, but i would not call it fun.
Fun in WvW in general also depends highly in your personal skill and on what server you are playing.
PvE is mostly a pure zergfest right now. I liked soloing some champs while testing out certain builds. But try that now :/
Most worldboss events are also now pure zergfest (besides Teq and Wurm).
Doing Destroyer with 10 people was fun. With 100+? Not at all.
And for those wanting to do Tequatl or 3H-Wurm. PLEASE take 5 minutes on reading up the tactics on Dulfy. That gives you at least a basis for working efficiently in a certain way, instead of just running around like headless chicken scaling everything up.
sPvP… nah, not that much fun to me anymore. Too much meta going on lately.

P.s. roaming in wvw still is fun, but hard to find.

I thinks the reason for Megaserver is purely technical, since they’ve gone too aggressive about it. Gathering more servers together on overflow maps should lead to less active maps, thereafter less servers running at the same time and, of course, reduced expenses. Less costs on technical, more money to invest on programming (I hope). So, if that’s correct, I support this but at a point. I consider that they’ve gone too far and implemented the system where is not needed, like cities… and this is an extremely big hit for many players, which leads to less players interested in game. They try to win on one side but they loose on the other side.

I would enjoy reading eternal QQing and whining about PVP balance if it didn’t sometimes adversely affect PvE builds.

This MMORPG as an esport is a joke – it is much to fast to commentate on and definitely not spectator friendly. Props to the speedtalking commentator in the “tournament of legends” though – makes me want to go get something on auction.

tPvP is so faceroll easy. I was watching Asura’s Wrath on twitch tv while playing and I managed to get top player in kills, revivals, objective assaulter on the winning team. On top of everything my lag is so bad that when I press a button it takes 1-2 seconds at least to activate for a 1/2 second activation skill. Straight up no trolling.

Btw quickness was so OP that it really needed a nerf and not shatter mesmers at all. Can you detect my sarcasm?

Eotm is the only thing remotely wvw that I can run on my subpar below specs laptop. Lately though even that has been lagging up now really badly.