Guild Wars 2

Molch.2078:

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this thread:

Agreed.

I’m also one of those people inspired by WoodenPotatoe’s video to come here and voice my opinion.

Much has been said already, and I agree with all the arguments brought up here in favor of a Cantha expansion for GW2. While it was not my most favourite part of GW1 (that being Nightfall, as has been said before it’s so rare to see North African and Arabic culture being integrated into an MMO or a videogame in general), Factions was still an outstanding game in and of itself. I don’t want to re-hash all the arguments here now, but I too would enjoy jumping puzzles in Kaineng City, roaming around as a Tengu or just watch the scenery in marvel.

The argument that a Cantha expansion might be too similar to Mists of Pandaria is, in my personal opinion, ridiculous. Not only has Factions been an integral part of GW lore way before MoP was even conceived, there is also a big difference of just the style of these two approaches. To say these two might resemble each other too much would be as if to say “Kung F’u Panda” and “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” or “Hero” were one and the same movie.

Also, I don’t see any reason why Cantha should not be plagued by an Elder Dragon. We already have Kralkatorrik knocking on the gates of Elona, so why not the Deep Sea Dragon or even a whole new dragon entirely as the main enemy in the Cantha expansion. Sure, the Elder Dragons seem to surround Tyria pretty much, but why do you have to fight them from the inside, if it would just as well be possible to fight them from the opposite side as well? (That being Elona in Kralkatorrik’s back or Cantha against another dragon.)
Now that I think about it, the Battle Isles would be an awesome setting for the fight against the DSD. Maybe some of the islands have even been flooded by now. An underwater Zaishen temple complex would be an AWESOME area to play in!

Please, ArenaNet, there is so much potential in Cantha. Please bring it back.

Thinking of the “release the prisoners!” scene during the siege of Minas Tirith in Return of the King: could a 1 or 2 sec AoE panic be a viable alternative?

@Gunnars discussion:

Maybe not the right thread for this. ^^ I think we’re all thankful for the kind words we got from other servers, no need to make a huge pit fight out of it.

@Arthurius:

When we got all the website stuff figured out, I think the AG community forums will also be a good place to point newcomers to, at least for a basic theoretical approach to WvW (everyone has to experience it themselves, of course).
Would look something like this, for example, just for starters.

How can they teleport out of a battle? Am I not understanding the issue here, or did you actually meet players who could map travel while in combat? o.O

1.) Thievery Corporation [iSpy]
2.) ~20 active members (and a lot of inactive ones). We’ve previously been up in the 50s during the betas and are looking to expand again
3.) fluctuating. In general, weekday evenings and morning/evening on weekends.
4.) ~10, also fluctuating
5.) Skydda (guild leader), Dekk Under The Wind (co-leader, that’s me), Kira Mason (officer and soon-to-be commander), Kwam Sigma (officer and commander during betas)
6.) working hard to bring you an AG server forum
7.) passionately fighting for AG since the betas.

Oh, sounds exciting.^^ eager to see what you have up your sleeves.
You have [iSpy]’s support!

Also, why not post it on auroraglade.com as well?

Happy to say that AG really got its WvW passion back in the new match up. At the moment, we’re still behind Abaddon’s Mouth and Gunnar’s Hold in points, but we’re holding Stonemist and doing a pretty good job in the Battlegrounds. Finally, WvW is fun again!

Also props to our commander this morning. Arjuna, you’re one of the good ones! ;]

Amen.2630:

its a curse, sorry my fault

-_-

i was in Ruins of Surmia, it died ridiciously fast i moved to a good middle battled server which i tought to be a nice challenge and not OP winning one, i moved to Aurora Glade with my whole guild, and now we get owned there too O.o

so sorry guys its my curse

Only way to lift the curse: stay with Aurora Glade and help us on our way to glory! You have to face your demons instead of running away.

But you see, that’s a whole different problem. It isn’t the server’s fault when there’s an idiotic commander running around. AND in my opinion every player should be encouraged to speak up when a commander issues an obviously lunatic command. That isn’t a problem that’s specific to AG, it happens on every server: commanders aren’t chosen by merit, but by who farmed the most money to get there. So, at least right now, the commander title has to be taken with a good amount of salt and everyone should use his or her own brain when playing WvW instead of blindly following.

Vazeg.3627:

Aurora is dead. Last WvW guilds running from it atm.
To be honest, this situation was obvious from the start. From first days of WvW we had no players during nighttime. people got bored of this “no matter whay you have at evening, you will get +0 next morning”.
No reason in WvW likie this. Spend money on upgrades? defend keeps for 2-3 hours, but they will be taken at night?
People need some kind of motivation in situation like this.
Server is ruined – we have no queues and have outmanned buff at 2 borders of 4… even in our primetime(yeah, 2x outmanned in PRIME time). Kinda 2 late 2 “forge bonds”, no1 left here. And, the worst – people keep running from AG.
So yeah, aurora gonna loose all WvW matches ;p

You have read what the other people have been posting here, haven’t you? Last WvW guilds running from it atm? Who says that? Yes, several guilds have been changing servers, but there are still some remaining (a few of which actually posted in this thread). If no-one is there to forge bonds, who are the people posting here?
Your attitude is what drives people away from the server. It’s not that it’s empty – it’s that people SAY it’s empty, which leads to a large amount of players moving to other servers, which then again actually turns the rumor into reality. “Self-fulfilling prophecy” and all that.

One thing that people seem to forget, though, is: server changing goes both ways. Sure, there won’t be a HUGE number of people or guilds coming to AG, but some of them will. There are even guilds out there actively looking for a server such as ours to build their community there. So not all hope is lost. People will come to us just as others go to other servers.

I would argue that any situation where you use underwater skills for above water benefits is actually an exploit. Only that some situations, like the teleporting unto walls, are more grave than others. As far as I know, underwater skills have been specifically designed and balanced for underwater use only.

Concerning the Mesmer portals, I’d like to know how big that rendering problem is. How many seconds are we talking about? I’m legitimately curious, since I haven’t seen it happen first hand yet.

I can only echo what some other people have already written:

Yes, the situation right now is bad and WvW is on the brink of being unplayable. BUT: the worst thing to do now would be to move to another server. Instead, we should focus on why it is that things don’t work out right now and actively try to strengthen our server and its community.
I can again only urge people to head over to www.auroraglade.com (even though it isn’t quite finished yet) and help us create a strong community. Only then can we start to coordinate our WvW tactics and hopefully catch up to the other servers instead of getting stomped and leaving frustrated.

AXEL.8362:

1.When the hacking will end Anet?
2. Why dont you repair the damage done by hackers? like taking back orbs, or taking points from hackers?
3. Why do you depend on us to report hackers?

1.) Since it isn’t Anet’s fault that there are Hackers out there, I assume this is more of a rhetorical question, correct?

2.) Because they can’t be sure which orb, which keep, which camp was taken because of a hack, or just because of normal players playing the game. Even if several users report that the enemy got their orb because of a hack, Anet can’t be sure if that’s the truth (unless someone actually took screenshots as proof – screenshots that SHOW the hack being used, not just the result). And it would be extremely unfair to take away the enemy’s orb just because another server nagged about it. Imagine YOUR server would lose its orb because your enemies chewed off Anet’s ears that your orb was just hacked and cheated.

3.) This should be pretty obvious. How can Anet know who is a hacker and who isn’t? Through ingame investigation, sure, but they have, what, maybe 200 people in the game? Do you expect those 200 to constantly be on the lookout for hackers 24/7? Even then, they wouldn’t even find 10% of all the cheaters and hackers out there, because – and this is important – Anet can’t be everywhere. They are doing the best they can, and the only reason they ask for your reports is to help them do it. It’s not like they’re saying “We won’t do it, you have to!”. It’s rather “We’re doing our best, but it would work a lot faster with your input.” Suddenly, you don’t have 200 people on the lookout, but 2 million or more. It’s just common sense, really.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m 100% against cheating and hacking in WvW. However, I’m also against just blindly hating against Anet because they’re supposedly “too lazy” to do anything. Of course they care about the negative influence of hackers, why shouldn’t they?! It’s just that they don’t have an ultimate weapon against them yet either.
So: making people aware of the problem of WvW hacking – good! Hating against Anet for doing nothing – bad and false!