Guild Wars 2

AzureWolf.9150:

Serenity.6135:

VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig.3618:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

We will be adding a new currency that is similar to Proof of Heroics that will allow you to buy new sigils, runes, recipes, and hero points from PoF.

so all the hero points I have done despite having maxed everything will be worthless? I really do not want to grind through all of PoF just to max out the elite. THAT is a horrible, thankless, boring grind.

You don’t have to grind all of PoF, this will work the same as with HoT which is good. This way you can still get all this stuff done through wvw, and nobody can simply have immediate access to everything which would be unfair to those with many thousands of Proofs of heroics.

So banked Hero Points on characters will or won’t work to buy skills for PoF? In which case, what use would those banked Hero Points be when you’ve already maxed out all your skills and the first elite class?

from what it seems, there will be a new way to distinguish one version of hp’s (e.g. gold/yellow) vs another. So, the ones you have now will not work.
So, if you grinded HP’s or bought HP’s after maxing out HoT then they are no longer useful (just as they are not useful now.)
Sucks, I know. That should have been communicated from the start so people don’t invest hard work into a currency that would be easily assumed to still work.

just make one ranked for soloq and a separate ranked for teamq = yayyy, everyone happy

Ashen.2907:

Hmm, I can still level a character doing pretty much anything I want.

PvP has always been affected by who had the more powerful build. Perhaps post HoT meta has taken the OP’s preferred build from one of the top spots? I can understand it being frustrating to (perhaps) have been one of the OP few farming others and now to be the farmed.

I think he is saying that you HAVE to have a HoT build to even compete in pvp and when you use it you have to use it a certain way to actually help the team. How many use ele for anything other than healbot? That is just one example.

3 thieves on one team because of daily while 3 necros on the other due to daily

I would like to see daily AP only able to be gained from unranked arena so there aren’t skewed matches just for someone to get their match in for a day on a class they rarely play.
Also, if they are queuing with so many of the same class how hard is it for Anet to say..hey, lets put 2 on this team and 2 on that rather than all four squishies on one team?

Anybody seeing the forest creatures getting insta-killed in those matches? I know it takes about 1 second to spawn after timer runs down but then BOOM gone from mini map.

OriOri.8724:

Aenaos.8160:

A class that has one of the highest hitting condi spikes and can spam both confusion and torment and has access to retaliation,is bound to be over performing.
No class or build should have access to both of these conditions to the extent that Mesmer does,and such a high hitting class/build that can also avoid damage through blocks,evades ,and invulnerability,certainly does not need retaliation to top all the op ness off.
Same goes for Warrior,and to be fair,all across the classes of the game it is apparent that class balance is not only non existent but intentionally absent.
It’s just a selection of over performing builds that were designed to be that way.
This is the epitome of class design that is bound to produce imbalances and power creep.
And a low PvP population,because after the gold rush for loot wears off,all you are left with is a pile of poo poo so badly designed that you now need a fundamental class and trait redesign in order to make it right.
GW2 PvP will never be balanced the way traits and trait lines are set up.
Traits that are absolutely normal for some builds,like retaliation on base Warrior or Mesmer,become contributors to a class’s op ness when combined with a elite spec.

Our access to retaliation is 100% RNG. But I do agree that mesmer has ridiculous access to confusion and torment

That
You stand still = ur screwed
You move = ur screwed

lol, nerfing chests now.
who came up with this change? just awful

Daroon.1736:

Nordom.3485:

Daroon.1736:

A very reasonable request.

Why anyone should object; other than the fact that certain posters believe everything Anet does is beyond criticism, is beyond me.

What anet does is criticized multiple times a day in these very forums, what you’re suggesting is that every criticism is beyond discussion which is practically against the very concept of a forum

I believe that the concept of guilds was to band together towards a common goal and beating missions that would be otherwise impossible; and as time passes your guild grows and you can do more and more, therefore progressing and leveling up your guild.
Allowing 2-3 people to clear this content would make guild missions lose their meaning since everyone could just make his own guild and solo them whenever he pleases. It’s like asking raid content to be cleared by 1 person and still yield the same rewards, it’s counterintuitive.

What I’m suggesting is that some players actually need to read the posts and take time to understand and then critically analyze what is being discussed before going into ‘everything is fine’ ‘I love Anet’ mode.

For instance, you state “Allowing 2-3 people to clear this content would make guild missions lose their meaning” yet the current requirement that the OP is discussing is already 3 players.

Daroon is right, everyone arguing with him is just making his point more and more obvious.
People argue just for the sake of argument these days and feel like its whimsical or enlightening when they should just K.I.S.S.

Birdack.6714:

I’m with the Skritts! Defend their rights!!

what about skritt children?
do they get rights? If not, child labor and sweat shop standards for all skritt labor until proper I.D. is provided

Glass Hand.7306:

Nobody wants to come out and play on it so if you are red it’s going to be a long losing week.

I don’t know who voted for this but it was a really bad idea.

The guy said please in the thread title and for me….that’s enough. Down with the DBL!!
And the reason its back is due to Jeknar and his 12,000 accounts all voting

Hovercar.1702:

Seriously though, every weapon on my mesmer clips through the skirts that they are forced to wear (aside from the 2 pants currently available which, let’s be honest, are pretty awful).

Why does the design team insist on all light armor being some kind of dress, skirt, skirt over pants, dress over pants…? How about, you know, some actual, cool looking pants for once?

Pants, please. That is all.

How about a pants-suit?

Jana.6831:

Isn’t it one month?

I believe it was voted that way, changed to 2, and then when we complain we are told we voted that way

Xenesis.6389:

Pfft dunno why people complaining, game looks balanced.
Also thief needs a buff please, stealth skill should be hitting harder.
Thank you.

lol, at least they can’t perma dodge, that would be annoying, right?

but yeah, game gets a little worse month by month. You keep hoping the next patch will address it, but it doesn’t, and your inner voice says “well, i told ya so, dummy.” They talk to you on the forums for 1 month and disappear for five. The white knight’s defend them because they play trailblazer/dire condi mesmer and still find it challenging? fun? dunno.
At this point tho, I am not sure post HoT GW2 is fixable. If it is, i have yet to see the person/dev that is capable of doing it…have you?

ok, you take the necro one, me and biff will take air
the world will be ours!!!!!
wait, you are the enemy now…nvm, just leave stuff alone for now

Ann Jay.2950:

Honestly it’s just a matter of wanting to be as cool as the PvE and PvP kids. I play WvW rather exclusively, and while other’s are hopping around LA with their diamond and legendary ranks for PvP, and others are sporting their level 5000000 in PvE, I’m lookin’ like a total newb with my PvP emerald, PvE level 54 character. But I’ve spent days on end in WvW. My rank may not be the most impressive, but it took a lot of work to get it. It would be so cool to get a title to display in normal game play. As of now, the only way for others to see your WvW rank, is if they are on an opposing server in WvW. That’s great and all, but It’d be fun to have some bragging rights. Amirite?

I think you are right

Rotteny.8743:

Akkeros.1675:

I use the primers for wvw but sometimes i if I am waiting on reset, crafting goods to open up storage space, standing in divinity’s reach, LA, pve etc… I tend to go afk and my primer (i think secretly) diminishes to nothing. If I could buy a wvw specific primer, that only ticks down in wvw that would fix the issue as well.

If you log off to character screen the timer freezes.

yeah, i know, but loading screens are so long sometimes it lulls me into a deep sleep and I start dreaming about convenience and pop balance….so i wake up and am like “kitten ”……..

you can still take all the keeps fairly easily with 2 people…maybe 1? never tried. I know all towers are solo-able except (for me at least) that kitten necro/minion kitten .

I have anywhere from 8-14 queen jennah’s, super bee dogs, super _, and super __, (can’t remember their names), mini owl, mini ravens, mini hawk. That’s about 70 unusable minis that can’t be sold, can’t be forged….if you fix ’ol Jenny can you hit the button on all those other ones too? Thanks

RodOfDeath.5247:

I honestly think once you’re down, its over. The stealth res can be annoying, especially when you are winning outnumbered against another roaming crew.

But I could see duelers having an issue with this, maybe introduce duel mode, you lose but never get downed. Or make OS strictly duel mode I guess.

or the interesting “feature” where some people can get up from downed state at full health without rally, stealth rez, etc…
that is my fave

I use the primers for wvw but sometimes i if I am waiting on reset, crafting goods to open up storage space, standing in divinity’s reach, LA, pve etc… I tend to go afk and my primer (i think secretly) diminishes to nothing. If I could buy a wvw specific primer, that only ticks down in wvw that would fix the issue as well.

last longer and stack duration so I don’t have to look all the time

every time I see PSA i always think of prostate specific antigen.
ohhh, the internet lingo, what a tangled web you weave.

The quad server is what messed t4 up to begin with. It showed ANET’s utter inability to link servers properly (which gave the impression that putting servers together was a bad idea overall). It also gave a single server too much credit and will likely screw up the next linking because of that.
While glicko can take much of the blame….at the end of the day it was 100% ANET’s absolute laziness and fault that allowed such a bad move to persist while they should have been examining more data.

Jeknar.6184:

Akkeros.1675:

Jeknar.6184:

RodOfDeath.5247:

The DBL will be the cause.

People still think DBL is a problem? You’ll still have 2 ABL there and I bet my left arm there will be several servers holding the outnumbered buff in these maps.

oh, here we go again…Jeknar and his DBL
They might not be the nail in the coffin, but they sure are like salt in the wound…they certainly won’t ‘help’ the situation.
It’s like being a psychic watching a train wreck…it hasn’t happened yet but you know its gonna be bad

-greenland turn
-ehm c hammer

I’m sorry that nobody ever came with a convincing argument about why the map is bad. For me, there is too much unjustified hate directed to DBL. It was terrible prior the april changes, sure. But it was much more enjoyable after these changes that I felt a shame that they threw back that 4 year old BL map in the game.

Well, you know where to find me after tuesday.

I think because of the old saying about “first impressions are the most important” on top of watching lots of wvw server-mates leave because it was so awful at first on top of lots of HoT changes which were not so popular….buy yeah, i am just giving you a hard time. I will be sure to send Biff to find you if we are the red borderland though….i just can’t let it go I am getting old and grumpy.

Back on subject….do something to prevent fair-weather transfers +1

Araphelbliss.4016:

Huh. I had no idea this was a thing. I’ve noticed the lack of info in the combat log before. Doesn’t take long to realize the 2K amount of damage that is showing isn’t what killed a toon.

lol, well yeah, that is the issue.
There are certain times when you have lost all your health for no “apparent” reason and if you did not see an animation nor anything that justified it in the combat log AND everything in the combat log you do remember seeing and accounting for…..then, there is a problem
Its hard to be specific about something you never saw and there is no record of but it still killed you.

Joseph.7213:

While we believe this issue is important to both us and our player base, there are other things coming up the pipeline that require our foremost attention. Let’s circle back to this issue once we’ve solved the pressing matters of repair hammers and mobile cannons.

lol, and perhaps revamp the shatterer again, just for good measure

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Hey everyone,

The walls not appearing correctly allowing some to walk through is a known bug that will be fixed in the next release.

Also, the Wildcreek and Rogue’s Quarry changes were deliberate.

Was it also deliberate to make the walls the most dangerous place to stand in wvw? Maybe a good way to get rid of excess siege blueprints?

Jeknar.6184:

RodOfDeath.5247:

The DBL will be the cause.

People still think DBL is a problem? You’ll still have 2 ABL there and I bet my left arm there will be several servers holding the outnumbered buff in these maps.

oh, here we go again…Jeknar and his DBL
They might not be the nail in the coffin, but they sure are like salt in the wound…they certainly won’t ‘help’ the situation.
It’s like being a psychic watching a train wreck…it hasn’t happened yet but you know its gonna be bad

-greenland turn
-ehm c hammer

i agree with you. there are some definite bugs in combat. with no lags, nothing unusual going on graphically I can be at 2/3 health one second, go in for an attack or back up to reset then …..boom, dead. No retal, no animation from the opponent, nothing that equates in the combat log to my health loss….just buggy

HoDbay…………

lol, right?
I meant our solitary 10 minute queue on reset night until we find out which t3 server we are facing or if it is the t4 megaserver arbitrarily named CD anet got mixed up with pve—> wvw

Hmmm, this does give me an idea though. Why not make Ebay a new eotm?
no no, not the map, but a place to go while you are in queue for a blobby tier.
You can have a choice, queue up for 2 hours in T1 or fight the injustice of t4 matchmaking. I know which one I would chose

I think it was made much worse whenever they tried to fix rev hammer 2’s going through walls, castles, your computer screen, etc….
which is kinda back, btw (at least the walls part) yet random obstructions haven’t been fixed
In this case, having a little high ground is beneficial over your opponent (unlike walls which actually put you at a disadvantage over your opponent)

it seems most updates appear to follow this order:
add stuff you don’t care about or play
add gemstore items so you can match the stuff you don’t play
add a bug
fix the bug but add two more that are worse
ignore those two
rinse/repeat

Indeedio
Plus, our queue’s are much much much shorter

Why?
We need people
We are drama free
We can’t pay you so you won’t feel guilty for transferring for the wrong reasons (pretty altruistic on our part if you ask me)
And lots of other good reasons we can’t tell you until you come…but, one huge one is we have inside people that know about the next big……………

This has been a public service announcement from the Justice League

- Greenland Turn

It makes sense to me Bifficus. Plus, I hear that guy likes the desert bl’s…That alone puts him on the suspicious list.

There is, and was, likely an agenda early on to appear to appease the crowds with surveys and input. Most people answered the surveys under the impression that linkings/other options would be handled with care and accuracy (e.g. how often pairing changes occurred). Then, once things were skewed (especially evident in 2nd pairing) they let it sit and rot. This would give the indicator that player input was not beneficial to the overall health of the system (which ofc would be untrue mostly).

Now, they have a crowd willing to do anything for change and a scapegoat in that they did things based off the surveys. Thus, they can reduce cost (servers) and increase income (gems) until enough negative feedback starts to hurt reviews.

xzzx.7408:

Grav.3568:

- Free transfers to the lowest ranked pairing of the week.

A free transfer to a bad server isn’t going to entice anyone to move. They need to offer a reward to active WvW players that make the switch. Offer some gems or something else of value to the players who help balance out the population. Make it worthwhile to switch.

How about both?

Gudradain.3892:

@OP : Here’s a good and simple ranking system that would fix the issues :

http://coveragewars2.com

SBI would have moved up last week with the system I describe.

William of Ockham agrees with this post.

Hexalot.8194:

Sort of feel your pain. I’ve been running Berserker Warrior for a while now in zergs (was getting bored out of my skull on Rev). And while I don’t actually get kicked out of squads, I still have to put up with snide remarks such as, “I hope all you Warriors are running banners. You’ll need it to rez each other !”

Ah… how the mighty have fallen, LOL.

Its just the nature of the beast that is WvW that some classes (mainly those with little support utility or aoe damage) are simply unwanted. And unfortunately Rangers are right at the bottom with thieves and Engineers, with Warriors (front line) being merely “tolerated” at best.

And yet we can dive into the boonshare-ball dish out more damage than half their blob, down 5 people and rotate out only losing 12 health to their ultimate survival package….yet the can rez their fallen because the group you are running with is too scared to push. Long live the rangers and warriors! Forgotten heroes

Why is nobody moving to Ebay or DH?…you want a challenge?…move here and help us against the blobbage.
Its actually kinda fun. We were literally under constant siege at garrison from 10:15pm-12:30a.m. reset night fighting off 2 sbi zergs on both north and south fronts with an sf zerg hitting the ne or nw walls and held them off the entire night until everyone went to bed. Ultimately we will lose the matchup but those moments are why I still play the game.
So, if you wanna make a difference, come to the forgotten servers of T4, one or two new guilds can literally make a huge impact.

Thank you,
-this has been a public service announcement from the Justice League
-Greenland Turn

but i think the asuran companies get a tax break, isn’t that fair enough?

Hexinx.1872:

But that house in ebg now o.O … I hear that tenant has some cookies buried deep inside the building.

as silly as that is…it actually probably took the most time to do (wvw-wise) in the patch. I’m guessing 6-9 minutes?

sarcasm is anger’s baby brother.
You know, the one that hangs out with the cool kids.

Indie.4129:

baseline venom + more ratwells + buff condi meta = Durability Runes

Durability runes = HoT required

HoT required = more money

Illuminati

confirmed………..

Right?
Reading through the patch notes I noticed nothing had really changed (except for the ele’s) and thought to myself…wow, how long til the next one again?

the combat log does not seem so accurate as of lately. There has been two occasions in WvW roaming where I have been at either half health or slightly greater and I have been downed by some magical force. I go back and look at my log (all 1 million lines) and the last damage done prior to down-state was for maybe 2k…yet my health was around 10-12k. It makes no sense.
I know at one time things like life steal or leaching wasn’t accurately showing and I know lag has become a problem in WvW lately but the gross disproportion of what is showing does not match up.

The patch was great from a LS and fractal perspective.
I did not see much on the WvW end and balance seemed lacking in regards to vanilla vs specialization.
Are there any significant changes still on the very near horizon?
Also, is there any talk about giving laurel refunds back for the amulet changes? I have about 8-9 extra wvw infusions with no place to put them and have no real desire to put any enrichment infusions in a necklace.
Thanks

Ashen.2907:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

I just think that a lot more people would buy keys if there was not so much RNG.

That certainly seems possible. Likely even.

The question is, would they buy more keys than they do now?

Now that’s the key question and point

My background is in neurology so I kinda get the analogies used with gambling and lottery and it all follows a principle of random reward postulated by Skinner. Any game/company/marketing device that has a prize or “drop rate” or RNG (as things are called here) employs this basic concept. However, the reason I posted on this thread was not due to a lack of understanding of what was being brought or how it is set up….simply a desire to improve the situation without affecting the goal of ANET to entice spending.
Thus, I found it somewhat stimulating to watch people clamor to produce reason why not to improve a situation that would globally change, thus also improving their own situation (i.e. they argue to keep a situation less ideal). It creates self-fulfilling prophecies (so to speak) of any chance to get someone to listen to any reasoning for altering a feature. I believe this is seen in all threads on these forums where a global desire for change gets hung up do to all minor details being argued and everything gets placed in the to-do-much-later pile while people hash it out amongst themselves.

Serious mode off.
Yup, more cool stuff please….less lame stuff. Thanks

p.s. I loved the nest concept stated by the comp-sci discipline response to my RNG joke…which i assume was not that funny. But I actually find that very interesting, so thanks to fine lad that posted that.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Akkeros.1675:

… At OP, do you think that by having some other method of using these things dropped in chests it would be “as bad” or would it irritate you more if you had 9 of them but needed 10 to actually trade them in, lol?
Again, i totally know what you mean. I only play wvw so the rez orbs and teleports really have no value to me. But if they do to someone else, by me having stacks of them…it seems so wasteful. It would be nice to trade them to other players or trade them for other goods of equal or lesser value.

What about instead of even having any of the items drop in the chests, they are all removed completely and replaced with a BLTC Coin that can be traded for any of the common items in the chest?

So to be clear, what I am advocating is for all of the below to be removed and the same chance to gain a token which is tradeable for any of these same items.

Bank Access Express
Trading Post Express
Merchant Express
Teleport to Friend
Tome of Knowledge
Unidentified Dye
Transmutation Charge
Black Lion Claim Ticket Scrap
Revive Orb (2)
Large Crafting Bag
Medium Crafting Bag
Black Lion Salvage Kit
Toy Miniature Egg

That way you can choose what is useful to you and not just put the ToKs you got with the other 1000 you have. I really think this is a good idea that solves all the issues.

you have just become my hero….great idea!
it would please everyone (probably even those that argue that their black lion chests are suppose to have unusable junk in it and they like it that way)