Guild Wars 2

salluks.6017:

Supply is not on par with others,

Very little benefit for too much investment.

Yup. It either needs to be cut in half (total points required) or increase the amount. It was the only thing I was looking forward to, just to find it’ll take forever to increase and you only get a measly 5 extra supply. I was expecting at least being able to carry double normal amout…

I guess it would be fine if I ever saw the Supply Capacity buff up (or it was on every keep/tower), but I never see it on my tier/server

It (supply) does seem pricy for the benefits.

skullmount.1758:

I guess it would be fine if I ever saw the Supply Capacity buff up (or it was on every keep/tower), but I never see it on my tier/server

I always cringe when I see it up on keeps/towers. Encouraging taking supply from them is just bad form.

MarMaster.6241:

It (supply) does seem pricy for the benefits.

Being able to build siege twice as fast seems pretty strong to me – a lot stronger than anything else offered.

Blaeys.3102:

MarMaster.6241:

It (supply) does seem pricy for the benefits.

Being able to build siege twice as fast seems pretty strong to me – a lot stronger than anything else offered.

Its only twice as fast if you have both the full passive skill and the guild buff, otherwise its only 1.5. Which, like I said, I never see the guild buff up, and even if it was up, it doesn’t help when taking supply from a camp.

300 ranks for 5 extra supply is just ridiculous, that costs as much as maxing everything else combined. Either lower the cost substantially or raise it to 10-15 extra supply.

Wow, Yea I thought I screwed up after buying ballista line, I thought that supply would stack up +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 =15 +10 Base =25 Total supply carried.

If it is indeed only +5 there is some miscommunication somewhere; +5 at 300 Wxp is way out of whack.

Seeing how miniscule 5% more and 5% less damage is the least ANet could do is combine the two Guard lines and make it like the Merc line that has the two stats combined.

The only lines worth it to me are the two that seems to be the only lines with any creativity applied to them and that is the Ballista and Cannon lines since they add new abilities to the weapons.

Outside of that I am not motivated at all to earn WvW ranks.

is there a link the the names for each of these ranks?

Edit: found it
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_Experience

If I hit a guy with an upgraded cannon, does it remove his boon before applying the damage?

Supply is that expensive rightly so because new players with the ability to carry more supply can be destructive and also 40 organized players with 20 supply is going to be pretty ridiculous as is.

RunForItMarty.6875:

If I hit a guy with an upgraded cannon, does it remove his boon before applying the damage?

I would love to this the answer to this.

Is there any chance for World XP to become account bound in the future? Since the ranks require a significant amount of effort to get any benefit from them, it’s ill advised to use more than one (or two) characters in WvW. Since different professions might want to aim for different bonuses first, each character could have available points to use according to the account rank.

Kaitani.5423:

Is there any chance for World XP to become account bound in the future? Since the ranks require a significant amount of effort to get any benefit from them, it’s ill advised to use more than one (or two) characters in WvW. Since different professions might want to aim for different bonuses first, each character could have available points to use according to the account rank.

They had mentioned this and said that they had meant to keep it character based instead of account based so that we could have different builds.

Matt Witter.6982:

RunForItMarty.6875:

If I hit a guy with an upgraded cannon, does it remove his boon before applying the damage?

The cannon will apply the damage, then strip a boon.

Ok thank you, good to know.

Do Experience Boosters work with WXP?
And if not, will WXP Boosters be introduced at some point?

Do pets and summons receive the boosts, such as those from Guard Damage Bonus, as well?

Does Siege Bunker only work on you or does it apply to the siege weapon you’re manning as well? (I kinda expected the second one, but the wording is making me doubt)

Other question : Is it possible to reset your WvW abilites and then to spend all your points to get something else (just like traits) or are your WvW abilities acquired once and for all? If it’s the second one, will we have the possibility to change our WvW abilities someday?

Are there any plans to let people potentially show off their ranks in game to our own server? I know the leaderboards will do this to some extent.

Matt Witter.6982:

Wanze.8410:

Do Experience Boosters work with WXP?
And if not, will WXP Boosters be introduced at some point?

No and yes.
Experience Boosts will not increase your World XP rewards and we do have intentions to add a World Experience Boost in the future.

Why not increase functionality of the existing Glory Booster to boost WXP, and possibly rank gain as well?

I already posted about making WxP account bound last week. Not only should they be, the points should be refundable. Essentially our time in WvW, no matter which alt we’re on, should be validated by being added to a shared pool of WxP. Then we can add points toward traits lines of the character we wish to play. Then recover those points when we switch to another character. Thus still retaining specialized traits per character. Also, allowing us freedom to specialized traits for how we wish to play that day.

Account bound WxP would:
A.)Making WXP alts friendly.
B.)Titles would show our true accomplishments in WvW. Not diluted down and punished for loving alts.
C.)Refundable if we don’t like a particular trait. OR, to be used on new skills we’d much rather have when they become available.

I could list more but, these are the basics of a fair and balanced system. With WxP being as hard to come by and already thousands of hours required to accomplish the existing traits, it only makes sense to rethink the structuring.

We should be able to earn WXP for escorting dolyaks to their designated location like the towers/keeps/smc.

^ I completely agree. Though building seems to go against the maturity level of the designed game play. As an adult whom understands the value in rewarding patience and building, this game does not cultivate such ideologies. To the point of going out of it’s way to engineer in rewards for the more selfish tendencies of humanity. But, this is another, much longer, topic I could write pages about

The supply one is where it should be, everybody wants it because its worth the most, so it should be hard to get.

When cannon mastery is upgraded, at least past level 2, cannons seem to do LESS damage to siege targets than before. It works against players normally, but the reduction in siege damage is a very substantial loss, as it is one of the biggest reasons to use a cannon. Is this being looked into?

Would be very cool if we could see the ranks of our allies instead of the enemie´s only.

Thanks

Does guard killer increase condition damage against guards? Or should condition builds stay clear of this tree?

I was really looking forward to the supply passive, but… only 5 extra supply? For 300 point investment? That is incredibly extreme.

I think the supply upgrade requirements is fine as it is. If your fellow guildies have upgraded supply, you could potentially be capping towers twice as fast with the same number of people when you’re running small groups.

To me, this seems like a case of bad design.
Why do runes, among other things, which display stats, display the bonus of the respective investment, while the world xp bonus displays the accumulated bonus?
Can you ask your devs, why they made that decision?
How they can possibly think about using two different approaches for the same thing within the same game?
rune of divinity:
(1) +10 all stats, […]
(2) +10 all stats, […]
(3) +10 all stats, […]
(4) +10 all stats, […]
(5) +10 all stats, […]
(6) +10 all stats, […]
—————————————-
total: +60 all stats

world xp supply bonus:
(1) +1
(2) +2
(3) +3
(4) +4
(5) +5
——————-
total: +5(?)

Also, no way to refund, unfriendly for alts, etc, etc, …
Do these guys even work?

Sorry devs, but I seem to miss something. As it is now:
- The ranks show for enemies
- The ranks don’t show for allies

Doesn’t that kind of make the rank system deficient?
So what happens: you show your enemy you’re a “kitten”, making them more wary of fighting you.

On the other hand, the people who have a lot of experience in WvW, and have a high rank by this, can’t show they actually are this much more experienced than others and can’t take command as a consequence of that, without buying a tag for 100g?

Can you justify this other than saying it’s a huge gold sink for Anet and ranks are a try to hide that fact?

Does the dolyak looting bug (sets your supply to 10 if you have more than 10 supply, from a +5 guild bonus) also affect you if you’ve got extra supply from the rank bonus?

I’d like to see Revive bonus added to the Abilities list.

Revive fallen ally 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5% faster

I would like to see cultural upgrades be introduced through a historian line.
T1- Asuran electrified gates. Allows the purchase of Asuran electrified gates through quartermasters which give all gates inside a structure Shocking aura. [This upgrade will help to reduce servers just massing a huge Zerg and dps’ing down gates]

T2- Sylvan Cannon armour. Allows the purchase of cannon armour (like the glassy viney effect used on warden weapons) which increases cannon health by 20% and pulses 1 second stability and protection to the cannon operator every second. [Helps to make cannons more usable when the enemy are at the gates]

T3- Charr mechanisms. Adds mechanical aids to mortars allowing them to fire and turn faster. [cooldown between shots stays the same]

T4- something related to humans

T5- something related to norn

Lol

Dear Anet, you have less than a year before ESO gets released. May want to double your WvW efforts starting yesterday. And if you have done so, congrats. Dont blow it like Mythic.

-Your Fan.

Where are the world ranks in the “World Ranks” thread?

Also ESO will be a cop-out like SWTOR. But maybe it will encourage a less regimented weapon system in GW2. Adaptation will probably be the next thing in MMOs. Eventually MMO veterans will be tired of lather, rinse, repeat and want to think and strategize scenarios and want tools to work out those scenarios. 5/5 weapon slot options is very restricted.

So far everything done for wvw is worthless.

Q: when we can reset our points putted in masteries? after patch devs added new ranks. but dont resset points

A: Likely after each patch where they changed the the capabilities of a mastery:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Update-on-Arrow-Carts-in-WvW

The world ranks are good, but siege might and siege bunker, or guard killer or guard defender abilities don’t interest me, a lifetimes effort of 100 ranks or something just to get 5% more damage to guards or more damage dealt with siege honestly isn’t worth it, and i would rather take arrow cart/ballista/cannon mastery.
Supply increasement is a good idea but costs way too many points :/

I noticed that in this upcoming patch well gain an extra reward from gaining world ranks, will previously obtained ranks prior to the patch be rewarded?

Matt Witter.6982:

Q: Do multiple levels of 1 ability stack together?
A: The only 2 lines that persist are the Cannon Mastery and Ballista Mastery lines. This means that if you purchase 3 levels of Cannon Mastery you will strip a boon from players, increase your damage, and apply more bleed stacks.
The other 6 lines replace their previous versions. If you purchase 3 levels of Siege Might you will have a total of 3% increased siege damage, not 6%. We are looking into the messaging of these two types and will improve it in future builds.

Does this mean that the 8th rank of Defense Against Guards only grants Retaliation but overwrites the defense bonuses earlier in the line? The descriptions of these ranks still needs major improvements. Based on the descriptions, it looks like the damage reduction from guards is the only thing that does not stack.

You quoted an old explanation of the world xp ranks. It is pretty logical what stacks and what doesn’t.

Then am I correct to assume that everything stacks that doesn’t say “total”?

If the info is outdated, this should maybe be unstickied.

I like the above idea. PvP ranking seems to be account based. I believe WvW shouldn’t be any different.

Also just a question with these rank up chests. Can they give a guarantee of 3 items? Eg: badges, blueprint and chance of an item from that list?

When ranking up my mesmer 3 levels all I received was just badges and nothing eslse.

When will rank be account based so I can play all five of my characters instead of just one? Forcing people onto one character to compete for a high rank is really bad game design. This isn’t a matter of opinion when one takes the time to think about it. The rank title also needs to be able to be selected to be worn like all other titles so wvw players can show it in lions arch. <This is a no brainer. So please fix these atrocious wvw design flaws so you wont force people to leave in droves for other upcoming games who have a chance at not doing really stupid things like the rank and title mess up. Yours truly, a player who’s motivation to wvw and therefore play gw2 is hanging by a thread at this point.