Guild Wars 2

I have some constructive feedbacks and suggestions for Anet that I would like to throw it out there for everyone to discuss. If you think some of the ideas are worth spreading, please leave a comment.

The problem with any fixes, is getting ANET to believe that anything is really broken.

Replace Devon Carver with someone who cares

I like the methodical and analytical way in which you determine the problems and accordingly the solutions. I agree with most of them, but I think more drastic changes would be necessary to avoid 1] Lack of Server Balance 2] Blobbing (aka. PvDoor) 3] Night-Capping.

A few other things that make WvW a less fun experience:

• Ascended armour unbalances the real competition, Pay to win
• Upscaling low levels makes them about as strong as an ambient creature, takes about 1-2 critical hits to kill? Instead, make everyone as strong and make special 3-stat armour that doesn’t have a rank, like armour in SPvP
• Bloodlust is horrible
• Skill lagg seriously needs a fix. High end $3,000 pc, you win?

King Amadaeus.8619:

The problem with any fixes, is getting ANET to believe that anything is really broken.

Exactly… It just doesn’t feel that the game supports you in WvW. It feels like only we the players put effort to make our WvW time better. In my opinion though WvW needs expansion type refinement, not just patches.

Sirendor.1394:

I like the methodical and analytical way in which you determine the problems and accordingly the solutions. I agree with most of them, but I think more drastic changes would be necessary to avoid 1] Lack of Server Balance 2] Blobbing (aka. PvDoor) 3] Night-Capping.

A few other things that make WvW a less fun experience:

• Ascended armour unbalances the real competition, Pay to win
• Upscaling low levels makes them about as strong as an ambient creature, takes about 1-2 critical hits to kill? Instead, make everyone as strong and make special 3-stat armour that doesn’t have a rank, like armour in SPvP
• Bloodlust is horrible
• Skill lagg seriously needs a fix. High end $3,000 pc, you win?

I did not get exactly what you said:
*Ascended armour pay to win = how? you dont spend real money to buy it infact it has not yet been implemented in game atm.
*Upscaled low levels is the player choice to play wvw tbh. Let us say they dont up level and how better will they become than an ambient creature. Although the only problem here is that one upscaled toon in a blob fight dies very fast and rallies half a dozen of enemies that were in downed state turning a winning fight into a loosing one for the whole blob.
*Agreed bloodlust shud be related to dolyaks speed carrying supplies and not any favours in stats.
*No it is not. Skill lag is due to anet servers and not due to your internet service provider or your PC. It is their inefficient servers.

Here is a better option: Not have the Leagues at all given most of you here cry and whine about them so much as it is.

In short, no matter what Anet implements as it regards Leagues or anything else for that matter, there will ALWAYS BE THOSE THINKING THEY KNOW BETTER or will simply CRY AND WHINE about anything and everything. =.=

LiSensei.4016:

Players who are not in a Commander’s Squad receives a penalty on the amount of WEXP they receive.

And why you should force ppl to join a squad ?
I hate commanders and I hate to follow a commander that doesn’t represent me.
ATM: blu icon = stick – 1 1 1 1 tons of points with 0 effort.
Reward must be inversely proportional to the number of players

Daendur.2357:

LiSensei.4016:

Players who are not in a Commander’s Squad receives a penalty on the amount of WEXP they receive.

And why you should force ppl to join a squad ?

1. For supply count.
2. Taking advantage of squad chat which helps when a commander tries to coordinate with players who don’t use teamspeak.
3. Stop squad members from following the wrong commander tag.
4. Encourage more commanders to turn their tags on.
5. Force players to follow a commander rather than running off doing their own things.
6. Join Squad has been there since the beginning, commanders find it hard to get people to join their squad.

LiSensei.4016:

Daendur.2357:

LiSensei.4016:

Players who are not in a Commander’s Squad receives a penalty on the amount of WEXP they receive.

And why you should force ppl to join a squad ?

1. For supply count.
2. Taking advantage of squad chat which helps when a commander tries to coordinate with players who don’t use teamspeak.
3. Stop squad members from following the wrong commander tag.
4. Encourage more commanders to turn their tags on.
5. Force players to follow a commander rather than running off doing their own things.
6. Join Squad has been there since the beginning, commanders find it hard to get people to join their squad.

1. /supplyinfo — displays the supply carried by players near you.
You don’t need to be in a squad to know the supply carried.
2. VOIP eliminates need for most chat.
3. Target commander, anyone can do this. You don’t need to have the tag up any more.
4. We sometimes run tagless, so spies don’t know where we are. If you don’t know where everyone else is, ask in map chat or VOIP
5. There are tools inside and outside the game that have gone way beyond the limited Join Squad mechanic.

LiSensei.4016:

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sorry wrong question. the right one is:

why would you force ppl to follow a commander ?

I like your commander solution, the rest, not so much.

Rigel.3092:

In short, no matter what Anet implements as it regards Leagues or anything else for that matter, there will ALWAYS BE THOSE THINKING THEY KNOW BETTER or will simply CRY AND WHINE about anything and everything. =.=

Sure, there will always be those people, for better or worse. Every game has them.

On the flip side, a lot of the complaints coming from a large portion of the WvW crowd are not necessarily of the “I know better” mentality. They’re more of the “I’d love to play your game Anet, but you’re making it more unplayable every two weeks” mentality.

Conner.4702:

Replace Devon Carver with someone who cares

Conner.4702:

Replace Devon Carver with someone who cares

he probably cares, but just has absolutely no idea what he is doing and does everything kitten -backwards.

so yea, replace him with someone who knows what they are doing

Swamurabi.7890:

LiSensei.4016:

Daendur.2357:

LiSensei.4016:

Players who are not in a Commander’s Squad receives a penalty on the amount of WEXP they receive.

And why you should force ppl to join a squad ?

1. For supply count.
2. Taking advantage of squad chat which helps when a commander tries to coordinate with players who don’t use teamspeak.
3. Stop squad members from following the wrong commander tag.
4. Encourage more commanders to turn their tags on.
5. Force players to follow a commander rather than running off doing their own things.
6. Join Squad has been there since the beginning, commanders find it hard to get people to join their squad.

1. /supplyinfo — displays the supply carried by players near you.
You don’t need to be in a squad to know the supply carried.
2. VOIP eliminates need for most chat.
3. Target commander, anyone can do this. You don’t need to have the tag up any more.
4. We sometimes run tagless, so spies don’t know where we are. If you don’t know where everyone else is, ask in map chat or VOIP
5. There are tools inside and outside the game that have gone way beyond the limited Join Squad mechanic.

This is the issue, everything that fix the problem is on client side while Anet does nothing. No incentive what so ever, it is always the players that make the WvW experience better, not the devs.

Swamurabi.7890:

1. /supplyinfo — displays the supply carried by players near you.
You don’t need to be in a squad to know the supply carried.
2. VOIP eliminates need for most chat.
3. Target commander, anyone can do this. You don’t need to have the tag up any more.
4. We sometimes run tagless, so spies don’t know where we are. If you don’t know where everyone else is, ask in map chat or VOIP
5. There are tools inside and outside the game that have gone way beyond the limited Join Squad mechanic.

/squadinfo will show the names of players in the squad and the amount of supply they are carrying. This command only takes squad members into account. Squad members don’t have to stack on the commander tag for the commander to check supplyinfo.

Good luck getting pugs to get on VOIP and into the same channel you are in. Most pugs are lazy and hopeless. Players on BG, JQ and SOR are used to using TS, this is not happening on other servers.

I GVG a lot with my guild and we are good at running tagless in WvW. We also hate spies, trolls, under levels and rallybot baddies that ruin good fights. Just like you said, players managed to get around all the problems. Having more in-game features that benefit gameplay will still be a bonus!

meep.2601:

Conner.4702:

Replace Devon Carver with someone who cares

he probably cares, but just has absolutely no idea what he is doing and does everything kitten -backwards.

so yea, replace him with someone who knows what they are doing

I like to believe that Devon both cares and knows what he’s doing, but like so many us, has someone above him that doesn’t know what he’s doing and only cares about his pockets.