Every time I play it these days I wonder why as well.
The metagame has always been poor, but the combat used to be alright when you could find remotely even numbers. That’s gone now, so I find myself sticking to PvE most of the time.
Well roaming is still fun. I never liked zerging. Freedom of playing what I want and flexible gearing is enjoyable. There are some too powerful things (e.g. dura rune, condi crono in dire/trailbalzer) I would prefer WvW goning lower scale fights more. Running as duo meeting 10+ 80% of the time is bad.
Well i am not playing much anymore, because of broken condi low skill, this is boring me very fast, game is ruined for me.
Same here, playing less and less lately. I can last about 10 – 15 minutes before getting totally disgusted with the current condi crap. Worst state the game has ever been in IMO.
The reward tracks are great to replicate Dungeon loot when you don’t enjoy pugging for dungeons. I wouldn’t have even tried WvW if I hadn’t needed the Gift of Battle for my legendary, and now I spend a lot of my free GW2 time there, joining in roaming zergs and blobs.
Every other game instance feels static and I’ve done it all many times besides PvP mostly.
WvW actually changes with builds/ tactics as the meta shifts and also different people who cycle in and out. And it’s pretty amusing when for ex a troll comes from an opposing server and team chat lights up with people kitten talking for an hour or so.
After that you find a tag to go roll over some kittenty condi huggers or find a few people kittening around taking a tower or whatever. It’s a lot more interesting than running around DS 5 times a day.
This week has been the best matchup I’ve played in since joining TC. We’re having even groups duking it out for 10+ mins/smaller groups coordinating to take down much larger groupd and its just amazing. Great fights every evening this whole week.
This week has been the best matchup I’ve played in since joining TC. We’re having even groups duking it out for 10+ mins/smaller groups coordinating to take down much larger groupd and its just amazing. Great fights every evening this whole week.
Agreed.. I’m on CD and it’s been quite a fun week for a change. At least this week we don’t have one of the huge servers sandbagged down to us… and some real fun fights. Roaming/havoc has even been a lot of fun
Because I occasionally need to be reminded how much I hate PvP and how apparently bad I am at it.
The WvW/sPvP crowd is really good at making me aware of that fact.
“If half as many people were half as brave in real life as they were online…
… The human race would never have to worry about be oppressed again.”
I think trolls should have their computers smashed. ’Its all part of the game. U mad bro?’
I’d worry more about Mark Jacobs scam with Camelot Unchained mainly because Mark Jacobs is involved (never forget Trials of Atlantis or disastrous direction of Warhammer).
Crowfall is in a good spot with all things considered (not optimized, no persistence yet and still runs/feels pretty good while being in Alpha but has a playable client). But who knows where it’ll end up as funding seems to be the recurring issue over there. Crowfall could really take off or just be another MMO dud.
Crowfall is just in a unique spot since if you want to get hands on with QA/player testing months in Alpha, it offers a very different MMO development perspective experience.
GW2 doesn’t even offer that unless you are hand chosen.
That’s about it, otherwise its completely boring and the match ups need to be fixed. The imbalances of world populations and linkages across the board are insane.
I take periodic breaks. Right now I’m back in the game due to wanting to spread my particular brand of madness again, hang out with friends and get into some good fights. I’ve been enjoying my return against HoD and CD.
Leader of Goats of Thunder [GOAT]
Tarnished Coast: Bringing the Butter to you (no pants allowed)
I play it because it’s fun and my server is hilarious / pub-friendly / good enough to win fights. I also really like the triumphant armor skins and it’s way better than PvP S6.
[VZ] Valor Zeal – Stormbluff Isle – Looking for steady, casual-friendly NA raiders!
I play it because it’s fun and my server is hilarious / pub-friendly / good enough to win fights. I also really like the triumphant armor skins and it’s way better than PvP S6.
Kinda hoping we wind up against SBI. Woo! Could have we have a server marriage ceremony inside the garrison of the other server we are against? Those are the best.
Leader of Goats of Thunder [GOAT]
Tarnished Coast: Bringing the Butter to you (no pants allowed)
Kinda hoping we wind up against SBI. Woo! Could have we have a server marriage ceremony inside the garrison of the other server we are against? Those are the best.
Looking at the weekly projections we could see each other as early as next week! We haven’t been opponents for years now since TC’s original climb to T1. I’m sure we’d find time and ways to mash each other and our opponent up in all sorts of places.!
[VZ] Valor Zeal – Stormbluff Isle – Looking for steady, casual-friendly NA raiders!
Well i am not playing much anymore, because of broken condi low skill, this is boring me very fast, game is ruined for me.
Same here, playing less and less lately. I can last about 10 – 15 minutes before getting totally disgusted with the current condi crap. Worst state the game has ever been in IMO.
Ahka, I sent you a PM. Just have a curious question.
with the server im on this bs is once again making me want to quit the game when you see your server getting tag teamed constantly when your server get little to no help at all .
I was on your server. The problem isn’t server linking. Your server won the last few weeks. It is your server’s lack of enough guild organization to support the militia. Your server had FOUR guilds leave in the last month or two. And it won’t change anytime soon since the server is Full.
If you want to have fun again in WvW, I recommend finding a guild to run with and possibly transferring to a lower tier server.
Chaba Tangnu
Founding member of [NERF] Fort Engineer and driver for [TLC] The Legion of Charrs
RIP [SIC] Strident Iconoclast
I play because I actually enjoy it. There you see that new invader over there, you wave, maybe bow then JI into them and get 10k burn ticks while they panic and hit all the buttons. That always make me happy.
Skjold Pjod
I am “That” guy you have all heard about.
1,073 precursors forged and counting.
Sometimes i play full bunker druid and i build ballistas and arrow carts in camps, so i can kill things with my full minstrel full bunker herald of immortality druid.
I TOLD YOU SO
Inverse to Apple: SBeast is the worst yet.. jurl jurl
I’m all in for Team Irenio!
Roaming in groups less than 3.
Solo roaming.
Fights.
Duels.
Fights.
Spawn camping.
fights.
Going balls deep on a zerg alone and seeing if I can down someone and escape.
I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
I liked the combat in BDO. If it wasn’t such an endless gear-grind, I’d probably be playing that. Although, I heard it has its own balance issues in WvW-style gameplay.
I liked the combat in BDO. If it wasn’t such an endless gear-grind, I’d probably be playing that. Although, I heard it has its own balance issues in WvW-style gameplay.
That game didn’t have balance problems at all.
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Seafarer’s Rest EotM grinch
I liked the combat in BDO. If it wasn’t such an endless gear-grind, I’d probably be playing that. Although, I heard it has its own balance issues in WvW-style gameplay.
That game didn’t have balance problems at all.
I’m assuming sarcasm doesn’t translate well over the internet…
I play wvw because i love the RvR aspect of the game. There is nothing else out there at the moment that promotes this type of play. Also whenever i go back to another mmo it becomes apparent that they can’t top the responsive combat system of gw2 so they always seem clunky. So even with all their flaws in this game mode, they have still beat their competition.
I play wvw because i love the RvR aspect of the game. There is nothing else out there at the moment that promotes this type of play. Also whenever i go back to another mmo it becomes apparent that they can’t top the responsive combat system of gw2 so they always seem clunky. So even with all their flaws in this game mode, they have still beat their competition.
It’s true. For all its flaws, GW2 still has the best system going at the moment. It manages to be tactical (combo fields, aoe and terrain abilities like walls, conditions + boons) while still being fast and fun. It still feels like an action game where you dodge and reposition to win.
I liked the combat in BDO. If it wasn’t such an endless gear-grind, I’d probably be playing that. Although, I heard it has its own balance issues in WvW-style gameplay.
That game didn’t have balance problems at all.
I’m assuming sarcasm doesn’t translate well over the internet…
eww, well they nerfed the aoe there cause was to easy to stack damage, still guilds there could or can make wizards ivencible by a guild “as in protected character”option avaliable.. yeah pvp… i quitted when noticed my guild was doing that…
1st April joke, when gw2 receives a “balance” update.
After many hours of both playing WvW and browsing the forums, I’ve pretty much concluded that I’m in the minority for this.
I don’t care about score. I don’t care about winning, fights, PPT, KDR or otherwise. I don’t care about defending or capturing or what ever else.
I enjoy WvW because I enjoy socializing with server and guild mates. I enjoy that I can roam, I can scout, I can zerg, I can do what ever my heart desires without anyone or anything to tell me to do otherwise. I can play what ever class I want, I can play what ever build I want, I have nearly total freedom.
There are things in WvW that frustrate me, sure, but I don’t expect it to be perfect. Much like I do with a lot of things in life, I take WvW for what it is and I look on the bright side. What’s the point of always being upset? If you have constructive criticism, give it. Make a thread with ideas and be sure to consider all the variables. Your thoughts may or may not be heard by ANet but if it slips under their radar it doesn’t mean they hate you, they hate WvW and they’re not listening.
People are such drama queens. Yes, WvW has problems and yes, ANet doesn’t do a very good job at maintaining balance or keeping our interest. But at the end of the day, it’s still just a video game and it isn’t here to be a substitute for happiness. Enjoy it for what it is and give feedback where necessary instead of pouring your hopes and dreams in to a better future for the game (and probably your life) then getting mad with ANet and the world because things didn’t pan out the way you imagined they would.
This. I completely agree. Pretty much the same reasons for me.
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I play wvw because i love the RvR aspect of the game. There is nothing else out there at the moment that promotes this type of play.
Yes there is, ESO. Its RvR system is superior to WvW in fact. However its combat is not as fluid as GW2 though. On the plus side it has far more dev attention paid to it than WvW and has senior devs working directly on it.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I play wvw because i love the RvR aspect of the game. There is nothing else out there at the moment that promotes this type of play.
Yes there is, ESO. Its RvR system is superior to WvW in fact. However its combat is not as fluid as GW2 though. On the plus side it has far more dev attention paid to it than WvW and has senior devs working directly on it.
This is what I’m going to be checking out this weekend, it’s free to try until april 18th. It’s funny was watching some videos last night of builds for zerg busting, and there are aoe bombs in the game that allow a small groups to ambush and demolish big zergs with the right timing.
I play wvw because i love the RvR aspect of the game. There is nothing else out there at the moment that promotes this type of play.
Yes there is, ESO. Its RvR system is superior to WvW in fact. However its combat is not as fluid as GW2 though. On the plus side it has far more dev attention paid to it than WvW and has senior devs working directly on it.
This is what I’m going to be checking out this weekend, it’s free to try until april 18th. It’s funny was watching some videos last night of builds for zerg busting, and there are aoe bombs in the game that allow a small groups to ambush and demolish big zergs with the right timing.
Honestly doesn’t look too bad from the video. Anyone played ESO? How would you compare it to gw2 wvw?
Its factionally based rather than server based, this allows multiple campaigns with different rulesets, for instance 1 campaign is only for players not at max level, some campaigns run for 3 months, some run only for a week.
A campaign is run on 1 huge map much bigger than any of the WvW maps. The map is lattice based so each objective you take adjacent to your other objectives mean you can waypoint to it. If you take an objective behind enemy lines you can’t waypoint to it directly but you can set up mobile waypoints (which are bought like siege) for dead players to respawn at.
You have a home campaign but you can guest to other campaigns.
There is siege but there is no supply so you don’t build it, you just set it up and use it and it can get damaged and destroyed. Siege is much harder to use against individual players than WvW siege, its made to be used against objectives and other siege, as it should be. Siege is bought using gold or the pvp currency alliance points.
Combat is less fluid than GW2 and the combos are less easy to use. Combat is generally more chaotic than organised GW2. TTK is generally much shorter you have to really watch yourself and spec the right way.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Honestly doesn’t look too bad from the video. Anyone played ESO? How would you compare it to gw2 wvw?
Its factionally based rather than server based, this allows multiple campaigns with different rulesets, for instance 1 campaign is only for players not at max level, some campaigns run for 3 months, some run only for a week.
A campaign is run on 1 huge map much bigger than any of the WvW maps. The map is lattice based so each objective you take adjacent to your other objectives mean you can waypoint to it. If you take an objective behind enemy lines you can’t waypoint to it directly but you can set up mobile waypoints (which are bought like siege) for dead players to respawn at.
You have a home campaign but you can guest to other campaigns.
There is siege but there is no supply so you don’t build it, you just set it up and use it and it can get damaged and destroyed. Siege is much harder to use against individual players than WvW siege, its made to be used against objectives and other siege, as it should be. Siege is bought using gold or the pvp currency alliance points.
Combat is less fluid than GW2 and the combos ae less easy to use. Combat is generally more chaotic than organised GW2. TTK is generally much shorter you have to really watch yourself and spec the right way.
^pretty much this :\
Gw2 siege gameplay isactually very weak, its just Alliance Battle from Gw1 with walls arround the shrines, u cap a shrine ppt starts counting and u leave to another shrine, it could be way much better.
WvW needs to envolve to something.
1st April joke, when gw2 receives a “balance” update.
preferably the Maguuma thieves
.. yeah pvp… i quitted when noticed my guild was doing that…