Guild Wars 2

People love to grief others on reset night by dropping BL merchants and tradeskill stations. Please stop allowing people to place these items within interaction range of the portals in LA.

huh.. never seen this and why does it stop you walking through a portal or in the case of WvW, clicking your little castle on your top bar?

Bloodstealer.5978:

huh.. never seen this and why does it stop you walking through a portal or in the case of WvW, clicking your little castle on your top bar?

Players spam the mists portals to beat the queue on reset night,unlike other portals mists portals require you hit f key to access the portal

i usually avoid going to la for reset because of griefers. i usually go to hom and go from there

Yeah, tonight was particularly bad in FA. We had merchants placed in every portal so that people were unable to get the prompt to enter. Can we just get a range around these portals so stuff like that cannot be placed. I’m sure people wouldn’t be too upset just to ban placement on the raised dias where the WvW portals are.

Use the user interface instead of the portals.

Problem solved.

The user interface is slower, and when you’re trying to get into a BL on reset night, seconds count. The merchants on the portals meant that several guilds couldn’t get their commanders in.

When WvW resets there is approximately one second where the interface is reloading. If you are at a portal you can hit F and start loading into WvW right away. In servers like FA that one second loadtime can mean the difference of getting in or sitting in a queue for hours.

if no one can use any portals, then wouldn’t every one have an equal chance to get in? through the secondary entrance through the wvw panel. So, you wining cause you can use a 1 sec advantage over others to get into wvw? and here i thought we all wanted balance and equal opportunity

The fact is, it’s a griefing opportunity that shouldn’t exist. One person should not be able to potentially ruin the night of every other person looking to use that portal. This makes the portals completely unusable for as long as they choose to continue.

Yougottawanna.7420:

The user interface is slower, and when you’re trying to get into a BL on reset night, seconds count. The merchants on the portals meant that several guilds couldn’t get their commanders in.

I find it to be faster. Once you see the xp bar in the window, you can then work on entering the BL.

Works for me lately. I haven’t been stuck in the queue on reset night for awhile now. Although our commander didn’t make it in last night.

How about not stacking on servers so you don’t have to deal with ques?

We had this issue on IoJ Sepiroth. Maybe you don’t remember.

umm… I just look for the travel icon. If it says talk I move a little to the right or left. I hope this helps.

That’s what we normally do as well. It just that this past reset someone placed a BLM in the center of the portal and then personal golem bankers or party boxes on either side preventing full acces to the portal. The only prompt people recieved was Talk or Interact. Not Travel.

denimdan.8642:

if no one can use any portals, then wouldn’t every one have an equal chance to get in? through the secondary entrance through the wvw panel. So, you wining cause you can use a 1 sec advantage over others to get into wvw? and here i thought we all wanted balance and equal opportunity

Those in overflows can still use the portal, in fact I suspect that the merchants are placed by people in overflows (or possibly people guesting from other servers). It doesn’t remove portal gamesmanship, it adds an additional layer.

sephiroth.4217:

How about not stacking on servers so you don’t have to deal with ques?

I’ve been on the same server since beta. What’s more, nearly every server has queues on reset night, not just stacked ones.

This merchant thing is obvious griefing, everyone. It should be fixed, not dismissed with snark. The fix isn’t even complicated.

Sounds like you are against my rights to place merchants wherever I want. Maybe they aren’t grieving just wanting to sell before reset night. Innocent until proven guilty

lol….first time i hear people saying going through portal is faster than using the user interface….

I’d agree that this is incredibly annoying. But. It’s kind of a symptom of the fact that queues are borked right now. I’d rather that be fixed than anything.

That being said, most annoyed I’ve been on reset was when someone dropped their Sanctum event cutscene thing on the EB portal RIGHT when the scores reset. We were lucky enough to get a commander in, but he was with like 5 guildies because the rest of us had to exit the cutscene than attempt to find the 5cm of space that weren’t occupied by clickable items, lol.

The easiest thing to do would make wvw portal interaction take precedence over anything else in the area if a player doesn’t have something targeted. Target the merchant, or sanctum model, or tradeskill station and you can then interact with it normally.

I never knew… Always used the ui interface. Never had an issue.

well, thanks for bringing it to the forums and letting all the rest of the servers know that they can now temp transfer and drop merchants in front of your portals and then transfer home to play wvw.

Tibstrike.2974:

When WvW resets there is approximately one second where the interface is reloading. If you are at a portal you can hit F and start loading into WvW right away. In servers like FA that one second loadtime can mean the difference of getting in or sitting in a queue for hours.

Cry moar. I feel horrible you jumped ship to stack a server and now can’t get into WvW.

Mike.5193:

Tibstrike.2974:

When WvW resets there is approximately one second where the interface is reloading. If you are at a portal you can hit F and start loading into WvW right away. In servers like FA that one second loadtime can mean the difference of getting in or sitting in a queue for hours.

Cry moar. I feel horrible you jumped ship to stack a server and now can’t get into WvW.

We did this on IoJ too Mike. Maybe you weren’t playing at the time but we still had queues on IoJBL and EBG on resets. It was the only way to beat the hordes into the map so we could get our entire guild inside.

Tibstrike.2974:

Mike.5193:

Tibstrike.2974:

When WvW resets there is approximately one second where the interface is reloading. If you are at a portal you can hit F and start loading into WvW right away. In servers like FA that one second loadtime can mean the difference of getting in or sitting in a queue for hours.

Cry moar. I feel horrible you jumped ship to stack a server and now can’t get into WvW.

We did this on IoJ too Mike. Maybe you weren’t playing at the time but we still had queues on IoJBL and EBG on resets.

In the 3 months I have been on IoJ, I haven’t had an issue getting in on reset night. I go from the mists and listen on TS when they say it is live.

if someone drops stuff in the way they do not have any “advantage” on getting in. They still have the same methods of entry that you do.

Watch the wvw interface and as soon as the scores start to drop start spamming the BL that you expect to be the least queued.

theres also a key binding option that separates the objects you can click on that are stacked together, i believe its default binded to ctrl and called next ally