Guild Wars 2

For the love of the game, change the way waypoints are contested so that one player cannot keep a waypoint contested for hours out of the day by simply breathing somewhere near the general area of a guard. It is beyond annoying and sadly been part of the game since beta.

Yep…it was annoying before hot. But hot just made a mess of waypoints. Whats ironic is one person tapping a guard will consistently contest a keep, but 2 zergs fighting inside it, wont…gg anet.

The whole waypoint being available immediately change needs to be removed completely and building waypoints should be part of an upgrade. Hell you cant even use the waypoints on fire/air keeps on your own bl, but it becomes instantly available to your enemies…gg anet.

Not to mention emergency waypoints being part of guild upgrades….What a godkitten ed mess. Its broken, and any guild that doesnt have it build and put on a claimed keep puts your side at a disadvantage now since you cant port in between contests. And then if its on public activation, someone pulls it to early, well your kittened again…gg anet.

Would it be appropriate to complain here about how easy it is for stealth classes to go undetected in the wide expanses of WvW? Or about how stealth is much more powerful than in PvP since capping points isn’t the focus? Can I ask about rebalancing stealth classes to have less stealth than PvP but better direct combat or something in return?

Please?

Sviel.7493:

Would it be appropriate to complain here about how easy it is for stealth classes to go undetected in the wide expanses of WvW? Or about how stealth is much more powerful than in PvP since capping points isn’t the focus? Can I ask about rebalancing stealth classes to have less stealth than PvP but better direct combat or something in return?

Please?

If you want to discuss stealth as a mechanic and how it fits into the game, you will want to post in the general discussion forum. If its about how stealth fits into pvp, the pvp section. If its about how it fits in wvw, then yes this section. If its about stealth and a certain profession, then post in that professions individual section.

I’m talking specifically WvW. Basically, given that stealth is essentially a non-combat mechanic, it doesn’t translate well between the vastly different game modes. The same can be said for invulnerabilities to a lesser extent. I wouldn’t want to change it in PvP/PvE because it might fit there—in WvW, especially now that the map isn’t a flat plain with visibility for miles, stealth is a get-out-of-jail free card.

If the user can’t kill you, they can effortlessly escape and run off to cause mischief elsewhere. Chasing them down is nigh impossible since the heavy stealth classes are also the heavy mobility classes. If you leave them be, you lose objectives. Stealth traps are a thing but are way too expensive and still require guards all over, not to mention multiple traps.

There’s also the combat aspect where the ‘guessing game’ is much harder in open space, but I think someone else could speak to that better.

Id recommend you start your own thread, you can actually get infracted for taking another thread off topic.

I figured it was relevant because stealth tapping is only possible due to the aforementioned C&D bug and ample…well, stealth. It’s the problem behind the complaint.

But, I don’t think it’s something that deserves it’s own thread. It’s probably been aired well enough here already.

A Dare Devil needs zero stealth to keep a waypoint locked up indefinitely. Their mobility is vastly more important than stealth. If it was only stealth, a stealth trap might actually work. However, an acro/dare devil thief is all but impossible to catch.

Add in the teleport hacks running by a guy on BG ([Pink]) and well you end up with the YB WP locked up for over half the day every day. A dozen people cannot catch that guy and no matter how many times it is reported he is hacking, still here after weeks. To rub a bit of salt in the annoyance, he has frequently teleported into the keep and destroyed siege.

One dude trolling a server and apparently Anet doesn’t know how to stop it. I feel like I need the Sword of a Thousand Truths.

Thats some pretty bad hacking there, we have an issue on BG with a YB ranger constantly, and I mean constantly all day every day contesting eb keep and trash talking anyone who kills him. And no matter how many times he gets killed he just comes back over and over, and hes been doing this for a very long time.

That gets back to the point 1 guy/gal plinking arrows at a keep is no threat and should not contest the WP… Why anyone would want to waste more than 5 mins doing this I have no clue…..

The sad part – the people that just want to fight lose fight time because of the longer run back time of the enemies…

Exploiting and hacking are another matter – wish they would go the way of the bear bow bots – remember how many of those we use to see…..

Who needs stealth to contest a waypoint? Just taunt a guard and you are done nowadays. Don’t even have to run all the way to a gate to tap it. So yeah this could get a “fix”.