Guild Wars 2

What the heck is Arenanet doing? Please reset the locations, not just WvW reset of control. I’m on Tarnished Coast and for FOUR frackin’ weeks in a row we’ve been stuck on the far-western map of the three borderlands. Just reset control now and Tarnished Coast is still stuck in the same spot.

I’m stuck with 2 POIs and 3 Vistas I’ll never get to in order to get 100% explorer done for my Legendary weapons. Been like that for a month.

WvW is so broken for borderlands because we never switch locations. All anyone wants to do anymore is Eternal Battlegrounds, so there’s never enough on any server to do any serious control for the Borderlands anymore.

Arenanet please fix this.

The server locations are based on what place you came in in that tier. 1st place is green, then blue and then red.

I agree completely with you; however, I’ve seen all but 1 PoI taken by TC over the past week across the borderlands I needed (yaks bend). However, you have to be on at the right time, and if it happens once a week, good luck!

It’s seriously annoying, but all I can offer is to keep a frequent check on the area’s you need.

I’ve always wondered how things would end up if location was cyclical instead of based on placing. But then I guess the current situation motivates map completionists to join in if they want their goal.

Go take over the location with your guild.

bighaben.5890:

I agree completely with you; however, I’ve seen all but 1 PoI taken by TC over the past week across the borderlands I needed (yaks bend). However, you have to be on at the right time, and if it happens once a week, good luck!

Aside from the fact that you can swap servers if you really want to get those points, bighaben is right. OP would get a lot more sympathy if the server he is on wasn’t consistently taking over large swaths of the map and holding first place for weeks.

Ask your guild to help you break into the location with those POIs and Vistas. Just last week, my guild broke down the gate of Cliffside with no intention or capability of taking it just so one of our members could get 100% map completion.

Regardless of map completion it really should rotate and not be based on rank. Since in EB the three sides aren’t identical, they all represent different challenges for attack and defend. Those shouldn’t be based on standing, it should be random (unless you want to argue that the lowest standing gets the most easily defendable area. I don’t play enough EB to know)

Just transfer to server wich control it for one week, take what u need and go back or stay if u like. Easiest solution ever tbh

Well when it was us Fort Aspenwood vs you TC, I needed some stuff on Yaks boarderlands (red world) for my completion…it was the same situation for weeks, we were blue. I just grabbed what I needed as I could, made a few mad dashes with some zergs or soloed to get into volatile areas, died a few times, but I finished. It was at times frustrating and I know sometimes you get impatient, but hey all us world completionists had to do it. Consider it part of the game and more of an honor to wear the star next to your name.

Actually, in the early days, world completionists could switch to one of the horribly outmatching superservers, get all the stuff they needed and immediatly transfer back.

I freely admit that’s how my Ranger got world completion – jumped over to Eredon Terrace when it had 99% wvw map domination :p

How my Necro did it is by joining our server’s morning zerg one morning, which gave me all the tower and keep pois and vistas in every area – i just need to run around some to get the skillpoints, pois and vistas outside common areas once i’m a bit higher level and can stand on my own, and then i’m good.

So yeah, see if you ahve any group going for off-hour stuff, or try to organise a few on your own. If the large zergs are occupied with each other at some keep battle, take a few friends for that tower in a corner of the map, nobobdy will notice.
Stuff like that

Genev.2450:

Actually, in the early days, world completionists could switch to one of the horribly outmatching superservers, get all the stuff they needed and immediatly transfer back.

I freely admit that’s how my Ranger got world completion – jumped over to Eredon Terrace when it had 99% wvw map domination :p

Same here. Glad I took advantage of it when I did

Vanive.3804:

It was at times frustrating and I know sometimes you get impatient, but hey all us world completionists had to do it. Consider it part of the game and more of an honor to wear the star next to your name.

And there’s the rub. I really don’t care about the “star” next to my name. What I care about is that this is a required part of getting your legendary weapon. It’s Arenanet saying “hey, too bad, you have to do PvP to get the best end-game weapons, even if you’re here for PvE only”. And that’s a load a crap.

Granted, I enjoy WvW. But that doesn’t change the principle of my complaint. Not only is this PvP element required for legendary weapons, but being stuck on this due to the lack of interest of others to zerg rush a keep is fail. Arenanet can fix this by auto shuffling servers between different borderland zones/colors each week. After all, they reset them anyways, why not shuffle them too?

The problem goes both ways. Weaker servers in WvW are probably never going to control my server’s (Tarnished Coast’s) central keep in the green borderlands. Those people are scr3w3d over too.

Design fail.

Legendary weapons aren’t “the best” though, jsut have more fancy effects than all the others. I should know, people keep telling me im kitten flowers.

Sure, they’ll get automatically upgraded to ascended stats once those weapons come out, but i doubt it will be as time-consuming to get those as it is to get a legendary.
On top of that, what about the people who are purely into WvW, WvW only and nothing but WvW?

It’s perfectly possible to get it all if you really want it, regardless of your server, though it might not happen tomorrow – neither will the rest of the legendary

About needing “pvp” to finish it: If you make the conscious decision you don’t want to play part of the game, i don’t consider that getting screwed over.

You can just transfer and get it, and wait a week to come back if you are that desperate.

And TC fights in the other borderlands all the time, but when the tier is fairly evenly matched you don’t just randomly roll over enemy borderlands and get POIs. If you are that concerned about it and don’t want to switch servers, rally some like minded people and get those POIs the intended way – by WvWing.

I just provoked people to go for the keeps I was missing pois/vistas, took some time but now I have the shiny star in my name :>

I love how people recommend switching servers for a week then coming back to my original server just to get a couple POIs and Vistas. Yeah, like I should spend $50 (1800 gems each way) for this plus try to gamble even more during off-peak time to get back onto my home, Tarnished Coast, which is already busy. Let alone I’ll be isolated from my guild during that time. Yeah, awesome plan. >.<

Would be much easier if Arenanet just fixed it and rotated servers each week instead of having locations based on rankings from the following week. After all, they’re all the same maps, so why even have duplicated Waypoints, Vistas, and POIs in the first place?

As far as im aware transfering is still free?

The other option is getting some people together and hope your server’s zerg distracts them enough so you can sneak-cap stuff

I don’t think ANet is being not fair.

If you’re really the leading server week after week, then…

1) Move up a tier where you’ll probably be last or middle for a bit, or…
2) Take your server’s fabulous skill and take over those borderland areas.

I’m from Kaineng and have managed to get everything aside from one small corner of EB. I did that without taking advantage of the early morning SoS grabs they used to so. If I can do it on a server that’s traditionally last… I’m sure you can do it with a winning server.

cipher.7438:

I love how people recommend switching servers for a week then coming back to my original server just to get a couple POIs and Vistas. Yeah, like I should spend $50 (1800 gems each way) for this plus try to gamble even more during off-peak time to get back onto my home, Tarnished Coast, which is already busy. Let alone I’ll be isolated from my guild during that time. Yeah, awesome plan. >.<

Would be much easier if Arenanet just fixed it and rotated servers each week instead of having locations based on rankings from the following week. After all, they’re all the same maps, so why even have duplicated Waypoints, Vistas, and POIs in the first place?

Server transfers are still free so it wouldn’t cost you anything.

You imply Anet should fix it but who says it is broken? The position of the BL maps is staggered to represent 1st, 2nd & 3rd place so what is there to fix? I still haven’t gotten the SW corner of EB because SoS win every week, there’s no point crying over it though. I will eventually get it when SBI are in 1st place again, whether it be in our current tier or another tier. If I am actively mapping I will jump to WVW and look at the maps to see if we hold any towers & keeps that I need then run to them and grab the poi/ vista. If we don’t hold what I need I will just check periodically during my playtime.

cipher.7438:

Vanive.3804:

It was at times frustrating and I know sometimes you get impatient, but hey all us world completionists had to do it. Consider it part of the game and more of an honor to wear the star next to your name.

And there’s the rub. I really don’t care about the “star” next to my name. What I care about is that this is a required part of getting your legendary weapon. It’s Arenanet saying “hey, too bad, you have to do PvP to get the best end-game weapons, even if you’re here for PvE only”. And that’s a load a crap.

Granted, I enjoy WvW. But that doesn’t change the principle of my complaint. Not only is this PvP element required for legendary weapons, but being stuck on this due to the lack of interest of others to zerg rush a keep is fail. Arenanet can fix this by auto shuffling servers between different borderland zones/colors each week. After all, they reset them anyways, why not shuffle them too?

The problem goes both ways. Weaker servers in WvW are probably never going to control my server’s (Tarnished Coast’s) central keep in the green borderlands. Those people are scr3w3d over too.

Design fail.

That shoe goes on the other foot as well. I have ZERO interest in anything outside WvW. Yet I’m forced to do these ridiculous hearts and pois in PvE zones……

cipher.7438:

I love how people recommend switching servers for a week then coming back to my original server just to get a couple POIs and Vistas. Yeah, like I should spend $50 (1800 gems each way) for this plus try to gamble even more during off-peak time to get back onto my home, Tarnished Coast, which is already busy. Let alone I’ll be isolated from my guild during that time. Yeah, awesome plan. >.<

Would be much easier if Arenanet just fixed it and rotated servers each week instead of having locations based on rankings from the following week. After all, they’re all the same maps, so why even have duplicated Waypoints, Vistas, and POIs in the first place?

The fact that you don’t even know server transfers are free…really makes you look…idiotic.

FireRunner.9481:

The fact that you don’t even know server transfers are free…really makes you look…idiotic.

The fact that you don’t know free server transfers are temporary… well, not going to stoop to your level of name-calling. Because that would make me look “idiotic”.

From the official wiki, it will cost gems at some point, as it was originally scheduled to be a paid service…

Can I change servers?

Yes. You can change your home world. There will be a limit of one such transfer every seven days per account; each transfer will cost 1,800 gems. After a transfer, all existing and future characters on your account will play in the new world.

So let’s see that argument in the future when the transfers cost gems and more people complain about this without Arenanet fixing the problem.

Why argue for a painful work-around or bandage when the developers can fix the problem? Oh that’s right, because people apparently love arguing for the sake of arguing on forums. rolls eyes

I cannot just transfer servers to get 100% since my server is full and if I transfer, I might not be able to get back and play with my friends.

cipher.7438:

FireRunner.9481:

The fact that you don’t even know server transfers are free…really makes you look…idiotic.

The fact that you don’t know free server transfers are temporary… well, not going to stoop to your level of name-calling. Because that would make me look “idiotic”.

From the official wiki, it will cost gems at some point, as it was originally scheduled to be a paid service…

Can I change servers?

Yes. You can change your home world. There will be a limit of one such transfer every seven days per account; each transfer will cost 1,800 gems. After a transfer, all existing and future characters on your account will play in the new world.

So let’s see that argument in the future when the transfers cost gems and more people complain about this without Arenanet fixing the problem.

Why argue for a painful work-around or bandage when the developers can fix the problem? Oh that’s right, because people apparently love arguing for the sake of arguing on forums. rolls eyes

Its not a case of arguing for the sake of it, people don’t agree with you that there is a problem that needs ‘fixing’

Just make decision as whole server, and stop becoming 1. in all matches.
Problem solved…
:P